Katy's Happenings....

Well all is quiet right now in the Moffitt household. Only my bird, Peaches and I are awake. James and Justin were out late last night. Kristina had a friend come over and they stayed up late. I woke up as usual around 7. I have almost the whole place cleaned up from Christmas. I was never one to keep Christmas stuff up after the fact. I think I got that from my Mom. She always took down the tree either the day of Christmas or soon after. Most of the time it was because it was a live tree that had long since had better days by the time Christmas had come around. Yesterday, James worked from home for a while from remote. I fixed breakfast and did some cleaning up. James then decided that we should go Geocaching. That seems to be our newest hobby this year. I really have not gotten into it as much as James and Justin have but I am getting there. We went to Kiawah Island to pick up his new glasses that were ready. Then we went Geocaching. If you are wondering what that is go to: www.ge...

Well, this is the day the Lord has made. We are to rejoice and be glad in it. Christmas 2008 has finally arrived. At this writing it is about 1 in the afternoon. James got us up (us being me and the kids) at about 8:30 i think it was. I got up earlier to put stuff in the stockings for the kids. I dozed in my chair for a while and then finally went back to bed about 7ish about the time that James decided to get up. hehe Well he got out of bed that is, he went and snored in his recliner for a while i am sure. I fixed roast for lunch and later on we are going over to our friend Leah's house after all to eat Christmas dinner. Originally we were not going to do this because of the crowd factor, however it works out economically for us to just fix a couple of side dishes than for me to fix a big meal just for the 4 of us. James went to see one of his dear friends to cheer her up for a couple of hours. She has to work at the hospital so he took her a Latte from Starbucks earlier and p...

Good Morning, I realized today that I have not blogged in ages. I was looking at my daughter's myspace and James' myspace and read their blogs. I then went to mine and realized I have not written anything on here since the summer of 2007. YIKES!! It is Chrstmas break for the kids. Kristina spent the night over her friend, Barbra's last night and hasn't come home yet. Justin is on the other computer playing one of his many online games. James set a computer up for me to use, free from having to share with the kids. It is nice to have my own computer again. I am hoping that I can work on our web site and get it updated. I have not worked on it in over a year. There was a time when i would change it weekly if not daily. Those days are gone but i hope to get it updated with new photoes of the kids. I also have new recipes i want to add to my cookbook I have on line. I need to get off of here and clean the kitchen and go to the store for last minute shopping and get my Chr...

The other night, James and I went to a get together at a restaurant with some of the area bloggers. There were about 10 people that came to the gathering. We actually have more people but some could not make it that particular night. James blogs alot more than I do so i always feel funny about going since I don't blog as much as everyone else that was there. One particular person, has a strong interest in politics. He made a generalized statement about medicaid and food stamps. Well, one of the ladies there took offense to what he said. They said they were not "arguing" but you could have fooled me. I kept my mouth shut. If someone had asked me what i thought...well then of course i would have told them. If i remember my history right, medicaid and food stamps came from the Johnson era. I went and did some research on the origin of medicaid and this is what I found: The federal government's involvement with this issue began in earnest in 1934. [6] In that year Presid...

OH something that happened today that was cool... James and I went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast. When we were checking out they had stuff around the counter you can buy. I happened to pick up a box that had candy from the 60's. One of the candies was Red Hots. Now you are probably thinking.... and your point is? hehe Well when I was about 11 or 12, one of my best friends Melinda and I would have a contest to see who could put the most Red Hots in their mouth without choking on them. They are a very hot cinnamon type candy. Anyway, when i was at Cracker Barrel I saw a box that had this type of candy in it and it brought back some fun memories of what 2 11yr olds would do for entertainment back in the 70's. hehe Course you gotta remember this was before internet, cell phones, computers etc. So we didn't have that much to entertain us with. We had to make our own entertainment. hehe James and I also went to the Flea market today and while he was looking at something e...

Wow...it has been since March the last time I blogged. That is way too long! I will try to recap what has happened since March... I went to the Mom's Sleepover with Courageous Kidz Mom's. That was probably my last blog that i wrote in March. I have some pictures that maybe i will be able to post from my camera phone. From Feb to June I worked at the middle school as an teacher assistant in a special education classroom. These children have a mixture of disabilities which include severe autism to mental retardation. This was definitely a learning experience and made me want to go back to school and get my Master's in Special Education. In June, I enrolled online with University Phoenix and started my first class with them. It was a communication class. I did well in there since it has been a while that I have taken courses and since it was only 3 weeks long. There was alot of work to get done in that time frame. The last week before i was fixing to be finished ...

Well, I finally made it to the Healing Hearts Weekend sponsored by Courageous Kids. This is a weekend for Mom’s that have lost a child from cancer. This is not a club I wanted to be in or any of us wanted to be in. However, we are and we come together and support Mom’s that have a recent lost in the past year. I am now considered an ole’ timer, because I have been going to this weekend retreat for the past 7 years. I missed last year because of work obligations, but I was determined this year that I was going to come. It was suppose to be raining really bad tonight and James did not want me to be driving here in my little Ford Escort. So I went and got him with the Durango and he brought me to the house where the ladies are staying. We arrived at this one house, thinking it was the right one, but there were no cars around at all. James was like WOW this is cool, I gotta get a picture of this house. Then I noticed that it was the wrong house! Lol That cracked me up, ...

March 3, 2008/ Monday Yesterday afternoon Justin went with some of his friends to the skateboard park. I hesitated in letting him go because he is still learning how to skateboard. My first answer was NO because he had just gotten a new board and had not used it yet. We then went to the Game Stop and got some movies, that Kristina wanted to get. Then we went by Wendy's and got lunch. We came home and I got a phone call and it was his friend calling saying that Kyle's Dad had brought them over to pick Justin up to go to the skate park. So i gave in and let Justin go with them against my MOM's intuition. (Never doubt Mom's intuition!) Anyway, Justin went on to the park. In the meantime, James came home and said "Hey, there is a dog park at Wannamaker park, let's take the dogs there and give them some exercise." So we loaded up the dogs, and Kristina and went over to the park. We were hesitant to let the dogs off their leash for a while until we could tell ...

I realized today that I do not blog enough! I love writing and I love putting my thoughts on paper but I don't always write stuff down. I discovered today that i have this website that I started back last August. Oops!! I forgot all about it. James and I do that alot, where we join some site and then we forget about it. If you do a search on the web for James and Katy Moffitt, whether it is together or separately. You will find us! We are everywhere on the web! I have been at home for the past couple of months. I am trying to find a job. Short of going to Walmart or K-Mart and applying for a cashiers job, there really has not been anything. Thankfully I am getting unemployment so that does help. James has been on the metabolic diet plan for the past couple of weeks. He has lost about 13 pounds so far. What i have mainly been doing is making more salads and giving him healthy snacks. Also cutting out the fried foods. One thing that James found out when he went...

Thursday, January 10, 2008 I got this from one of my long time friends! These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Instructions: Bold what you have read, italicize what you started and couldn't finish, strike through what you couldn't stand, and underline what you loved. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Anna Karenina Crime and Punishment Catch-22 One Hundred Years of Solitude Wuthering Heights The Silmarillion Life of Pi : A Novel The Name of the Rose Don Quixote Moby Dick Ulysses Madame Bovary The Odyssey Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre A Tale of Two Cities The Brothers Karamazov Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies War and Peace Vanity Fair The Time Traveler's Wife The Iliad Emma The Blind Assassin The Kite Runner Mrs. Dalloway Great Expectations American Gods A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Atlas Shrugged Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books Memoirs of a ...

Well, This is the first weekend of the New Year! WOO HOO!! James went to his usual men's breakfast and then when he came home he had a cleaning bug up his behind... and started moving things around and sweeping the porch...etc... I was in shock.....I mean there are times that James helps clean the house. Usually it is when he wants something found and we have to clean to find something. But today he decided on his own. I know from reading his blog that one of his goals is to be less selfish and be willing to pitch in. I would say he has started off the year great when it comes to this goal. The kids decided they wanted to go to the library to read. So James volunteered to take them over there. They are going to be there for a couple of hours and then i am fixing to go pick them up. Kristina has been on a reading kick lately and loves to read books. I am all for that so we don't mind them going over there. Plus the added bonus is that it will be quiet at home for a c...