Still here, still here

I had all intentions of posting some new pictures today, but the time has gotten away on me.

My goddaughter Madalyn stayed with us all last week, and I was trying my best to spend as much time with her as I could. I took quite a few pictures, and we even spent an entire day at the State Fair, so I have pictures of that.

I have a jewelry show today, so I have been on the computer for about 2 hours doing work related stuff and plan to sign off now and spend a little time with the hubby and son. Katie and Johnny are here tonight before I take them back to the airport tomorrow and so I will hopefully get some updated pictures and a few new posts up tomorrow or Tuesday.

I hope everyone had a great weekend...
we had an EXCELLENT one!

Busy-Ness

Things have really picked up around here at the Fox household.
The jewelry business is C-R-A-Z-Y. It's so funny to think I started this on a total whim, "just to see" how it all turned out. Let's just say I am completely booked up for both September and October with 5+ shows during each month. This month, I'm doing 4 actual shows, and running 3 catalog shows!!! This is NUTS! I had an awesome party last night, and got THREE more bookings. Insane. Truly and totally insane.

I am loving it, but it really does keep me busy. I have Gage in daycare one day a week (um, let's see. 9 AM on a Thursday morning and I'm blogging?? Yep, daycare day!)
I am usually on the computer doing work stuff the entire day. I almost feel that I need another day sometimes, just to keep me part of the family during the evenings, as I feel like I'm working every night some weeks!

I am also leaving for my 2nd and final girls' weekend this summer. I am going scrapbooking at my bi-annual location in Augusta this weekend. I go to the same place in January and August. My mom is going again this year, as well as my friend Karen and her mom, and my cousin-in-law (I should just start saying cousin!) Gina. I am really pumped, but have a lot to do today to get organized. To many non-scrapbookers/crafters, it may sound utterly boring, but it really is a good time, and a fun way to spend a weekend getting caught up on projects that I am working on, and don't have time to do at home. We eat bad, chat, and scrapbook! It's a blast.
I am bringing running clothes this time so that I exercise both days while I'm there. Otherwise, in a few years, I'll have scrap butt. (A.K.A. one big fat butt that results in eating bad and sitting on your rear for 48+ hours straight). Don't want that! (Or, maybe I already do????)

Therefore, I will sign off for now. But I just like to try and post at least once per week, to make this blogging thing worth it! I think I hit two posts this week, which just may result in an all-time record!

Have a nice weekend!

Something interesting...

...and maybe even a little inspirational?

I know I had mentioned that I wouldn't continue to talk about my recent miscarriage on my blog. And although I shouldn't have said that, as this IS my life, and in turn, my blog, I wanted to share something with those that are reading.

I met with my Dr. today for an appointment she called "An Emotional Follow Up". She just wanted to meet with me to make sure that not only am I doing better physically (and I definitely am), but that I'm healing emotionally, taking the time to grieve, and also moving on. In talking with her, I had told her that I am not at all bothered by the still continuing questions from people I may see that do not know I miscarried, and that I even feel bad for the person asking the "How are you feeling?" or "You're still looking good, barely even a bump" comments. I don't get teary-eyed, or wish the questions wouldn't come...
they come from people that do not yet know, and therefore how could they know not to ask?

She reassured me to not feel bad for the other person, and that maybe we are all here to "tell our stories" in the hope that we may help someone someday.

I returned home today to an email I received from someone I know (but do not communicate with very often) that shared with me that she had experienced a miscarriage many years ago. These were her exact words today in her email....
"I think sometimes crap like this happens so someday you can comfort someone else".

I just thought it was interesting that these two comments came to me in the same day...
from two unexpected sources.

Girls' Weekend 2008

I was finally able to join an awesome group of girls' for a weekend at Diana's cabin up north. This annual trip has been happening for about 5 years now, and this is the first year I was able to join them. I must add...it will NOT be my last. I had so much fun, and it came at a time that was just perfect for me to let loose and be wild and crazy. And that I did. Um, maybe I should hope that I will even be invited back?!?!

For more fun pictures, see Leah's site, as well as Mar's.

Marilyn, Leah, Diana, Jaci, Lynn, and Jill

Cabin Trip, July 2008

We spent a Sunday-Wednesday is July at my friends' families' cabin on Pipe Lake in WI. Holly and her husband Mark get the pleasure of spending many weekends on Mark's families' cabin and we were invited to join them this year. We all had a blast. We stayed 3 nights, which proved to be one night too many for Gage...he slept well all of the nights except the last night in which he refused to sleep at all. I think he fell asleep sometime around midnight...

Tim, Gage, and Jazz in the water. This is where we were the majority of the time. Gage loved the water, and it was such a clean lake. Very few weeds, and no algae at all. I would love to live on a lake like this...

Holly's youngest, Aiden, who is about 18 months, and Gage at 2 years.

Holly's oldest, Ben, whose 3 and Gage hanging out by the fire.

College roommate and friend, Jill Bonicatto, came and visited us as she and her family only live about 1 hour away from the cabin. These are her girls, Camilla (3) and Sophia (1).

Swinging the kids in a towel. Sometimes you'll do anything to keep them entertained until dinner is ready.

We were unable to get all 5 kids together at the same time....here are 4 of them that would sit for a moment. Look at the two pictures below and figure out which of these kiddos is the "ham".
Camilla and Sophia (Jill B's daughters), Gage, and Aiden (Holly and Mark's 2nd). Missing from the photo is Holly's Ben.

Showing "muscles".
Um, "flirting"? I don't know, but Camilla does not look too amused!

Gage was fascinated by Ben's John Deere. He spent the majority of our time up there on it...should probably replace a battery for them! These two boys really played well together. There was little fighting or arguing at all. Ben shared his tractor very nicely with Gage

S'mores! Yum!

One of many paddleboat rides out on the lake. Holly and Ben, and Gage and I.

I need to get back on track!

Wow. What a hectic couple of weekends! AH! I feel so behind on everything I want and need to get done, yet I just want to say that it will eventually get taken care of, so I need to stop worrying about it! I'll just say "AH!" again. Okay. I feel better now.

Two weekends ago, we spent Sunday through Wednesday at my friend Holly's family cabin on a beautiful Pipe Lake in Northern Wisconsin. We had so much fun! It was relaxing and just good to get away. You can totally lose track of time when you are a vacation like that. Holly's boys Ben and Aiden played so well with Gage. Everyone got along great and sleeping went great until the very last night...maybe should have headed home one night early, but oh, well. You live and you learn.

This past weekend I spent on another lake in Northern MN...with a group of girls I wish I could live with! (Maybe they would disagree?? Everything in moderation, right?) But seriously, I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long time. I was just a wild and crazy girls' weekend that I badly needed, and it couldn't have came at a better time for me. I just need to rest now to get caught back up!

I will be uploading pictures for this website, hopefully one day this week. I owe pics to the other fellow girls of girls weekend as well, AND I need to get some printed off at Shutterfly for an upcoming scrapbook weekend in mid-August. Now, I need to sign off to clean a couple of toilets and finish up lunch dishes (and the dinner dishes from last night!)