Issues

I've never thought of myself as someone to lose their temper. I normally take great pride in that I don't raise my voice or yell AT ALL. This evening, however, I found myself not in the best mood and really had no excuse to accomodate it. Yet there I was, quite upset over something that at the time seemed REALLY important...and...somehow all those "calming down" exercises don't seem to be appealing when you're blowing steam out of your ears! How do YOU calm down when you're about to blow up?

I woke up with a fever blister today. My favorite. And I scheduled my family pictures for this coming Saturday...probably not going to happen now...whenever I get a fever blister, it means that I have a virus. Or I'm getting over a virus. Joy. Not my favorite thing - but then, who loves to have an open sore on their lips? Aside from all that - Tyler wasn't feeling well either, due to a lack of sleeping and an increase in manual labor (no doubt) and he stayed home to rest all morning. We then hung up some pictures on the walls (now I can post some pictures from our paint job!) and it's amazing what a difference that makes! :o)

Shannon gave me two little cross stitching kits and I started teaching Anna how to cross stitch today. It was going pretty slow, but she was interested in it - so she kept at it. I think she did about 12 x's and I was happy with that. I loved to cross stitch as a kid - but I can't remember what age I began? (help me out here, Mom) Anyhow, it's a very patient pasttime, as it takes hours upon HOURS to finish up the project. I thought it might be a great activity to teach Anna some patience. Let's hope it works! Here are some pictures of my past works:

Christmas-themed, of course. I'm thinking of selling them to raise money for our adoption. Do you think these would sell?