The Oxbow Gang

First Fall weekend

2011-10-02T23:59:00.000-05:00

First of all, please accept my apologies if this post sounds like I'm rambling. I haven't been feeling too well this weekend. Fortunately, I got to sleep late this morning. This morning we all got up with intentions of going to Home Depot to make a Rescue Helicopter, but I got there too late and they had already put everything away. My girls were a bit disappointed but the customer service rep

TGIF?

2011-09-30T10:31:00.004-05:00

Okay, well, I know that I haven't posted anything again ..... in a long time ..... again. But I woke up this morning and experienced some stuff that I just didn't want to forget. So here I am. I got up this a.m. and prepped to take my girls to school. When I started my truck, my "dummy" oil light came on flashing, "Check Oil Level". So, I checked the oil dipstick and saw this.....

Summer 2011

2011-07-09T11:48:00.000-05:00

Yup, I've taken an extended break .... again. There's a whole lot going on in this household. I'll try and make it brief in order to give you all a quick update. Then, I plan to do a daily blog post or something. Facebook has kind of ruined me in that area. Since my last post, I have basically just done ... well, not much. Just trying to keep the kids all together so I don't lose one here

Crescent City Classic 2011 - I DID IT!!!

2011-04-27T15:59:00.000-05:00

I DID IT! I participated in the Crescent City Classic 10K walk/run for the first time ever! My brother had been harrassing me for the past few years to share this experience with him. He had run it several times before. So, this year, I caved...I gave in and agreed to do this with him. On Saturday morning I woke up early (5 a.m.) to hitch a ride with my sister who was supposed to be picking up

I'm Back with some Disney shortsets

2011-04-07T12:44:00.000-05:00

Have I REALLY ignored my blog for 4 months? Whoa! I need to get on the ball! Things have been pretty crazy around here with all the daily road running and chauffering the kiddos back and forth. I really should get me an Iphone or notebook or Ipad so's I can keep up with the online duties while I'm sitting in a parking lot somewhere. Another reason I haven't been on here much is because I've

Cleaning House again

2011-01-03T13:24:00.000-06:00

Last year, I started off with this grand plan to have a clean house within 30 days. (See that meager beginning here.) Now, it's the first Monday of 2011 and it's time to attack the house again. I'm so glad I saved my cleaning schedule!!! That'll help me stay on track once again as I purge the junk and clutter from the recesses of my closets! Pray for me please. Pray that the Lord will

Top 50 Comedy movies to see before you die

2011-01-01T20:54:00.003-06:00

I have this list. I don't know where it came from. I just happend to be searching through my Documents folder on my computer and I stumbled up on this list of comedy movies to see before you die. So, I started reading over the list and discovered that I have seen a lot of these titles already. That's a good thing too because I just don't know if this coming new year will allow me time to sit

The Completed Christmas Projects

2010-12-28T21:18:00.000-06:00

The following pictures are of the gifts I made for my family members for Christmas this year. If you saw my previous post on Christmas Projects to make, then you've seen what I had planned to do. This post is to show you what I actually got done. This went to 6 married couples in the family. It was a certificate, a box of Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate Mix, and some Hershey's Kisses. It is a

My December Christmas To Do List

2010-12-02T00:21:00.000-06:00

Well, here it is. December 1. Only 24 more shopping days until the Big Day! It's been a tough year for us here at the oxbow. Dahlin' hasn't worked like he did last year which made our budget just a tad bit tighter. I'm a little late with the brainstorming, but I wondered if I could possibly do a "buy nothing" Christmas....well, with the exception of purchasing things like computer ink or

My Christmas Wish List

2010-11-23T16:18:00.002-06:00

Every year, beginning in July, while my kids are camped out in front of the squawk box, there will be an interruption of their enterainting little cartoon or whatever for the marketing geniuses to bombard the viewers with commercials of neat gadgets and toys. Every year, each commercial is then followed by a chorus of, "Mommy! I want that!" repeated until they are certain that I have heard and

August Postcards

2010-11-22T12:40:00.001-06:00

Here are the postcards I received in August. LeeWade from China says, "Hi America! I like! This cummer is very hot in Wenzhou, my hometown. I like drinking the photo's water every day." Piet of Belgium says, "Hey, Best regards of Belgium. I live near the town Antwerpen, a very historical city in North Belgium with a very important European harbour." Nina from Finland says, "Hello

Fourth Grade Writings - The Headless Rider

2010-11-22T09:20:00.001-06:00

The Headless Rider in the CityOn halloween I will a headless rider. I will run around a subdavison and shout "I am the headless rider of Denham Springs." Everyone will come out and get so frightend they'll run back in a jump under the T.V., Their beds, couchs, hide in their gun cases and all that, when they come out on the porch they will run back in and start all over again. My Daddy will race

Fourth Grade Writings - The Haunted House

2010-11-21T09:10:00.001-06:00

The hauted house that had a Ghost. One night I went to an old, old, old house. behind it was a cematary. I had a freind with me. It was very haunted. My freind's name is Penny Ann Ballard. Well lets get out of that part. That night we were walking in the cematary. The wind was blowing, "Whoosh" the wolves were howling, "A-r-r-r-r-r-r-r". As we walked we saw a knife glittering in the moon-light. I

Postcards from July

2010-11-21T00:41:00.003-06:00

Card #1 - "Hello all, I send you this card which shows Turku Cathedral in southern Finland. Turku is the oldest town in Finland, founded in the 8th (?) century. The oldest part of the cathedral is also from the same century. My name is Bror, means 'brother' in English, and I live about 25 kilometers outside Turku in the beautiful archipelago." Card #2 - From Astrid in Nederland Card #3 -"Hi

KA-RAY-ZEE Day!

2010-11-20T22:26:00.000-06:00

I'm just feeling the need to vent a little and to share with you what happened to me today. I also want to write it down so I don't forget. Because it was, to me anyway, just that crazy! First of all, I woke up. Actually got out of the bed and placed my feet on the floor at approximately 8:30 a.m. By 10:30 a.m. my dad had come over to stick his nose into whatever I have going on check on me.

Fourth Grade Writings - Honk! Honk!

2010-11-20T09:03:00.001-06:00

Honk! Honk!Hi! My name Cynthia Twenty-two, my freinds names are Sonya Eighty-four and Carolyn Ninty-three. We each live in the country. One day they came to spend the night with me. When we went to the living room to watch "Spiderman" we had to turn it off the very minute we turned it on. We went to bed about an hour later. The next morning we made a plan to go hiking. We packed our stuff and

Date Night, Pt. 2: Bookstore Fun!

2010-11-20T01:32:00.000-06:00

Lately, I have been searching for different things to do on Date Night with my Dahlin'. Frankly, I was getting bored with the standard dinner and a movie. I want to do other things. So, I've subscribed to different websites, such as The Romantic and Loving You, that directly email me ideas. Some of them get my creativity going...others...well, they go to File 13. But there was this one

Date Night, Pt 1: Charlie's

2010-11-20T00:14:00.000-06:00

For our Date Night tonight, we decided to try out a local little hole in the wall place that we've know was there but we just haven't taken the time to experience. So....off we went to dine at Charlie's over in Springfield, LA. If there was a website for this little gem of a place, I would link it. But they don't have a website. They DO, however, have many reviews if you only Google it.

June Postcards

2010-11-19T11:27:00.005-06:00

Here are some more postcards. I modified the sizes so these are a little smaller than the others. I haven't formed an opinion on this particular look, so ya'll please let me know what you think.Now to share the info on the postcards. #1 - features a sculpture "The sorrow of a mother". The composition conveys the sorrow of mothers who lost their sons during the war. A small pool near the

Fourth Grade Writings - The Deadly Cave

2010-11-19T08:53:00.001-06:00

Here's another one. "The Deadly Cave"One day my freind and I went in a cave. We thought it was an ordinary cave so we went in. My freind, Darla, and I Cynthia, were not afraid. But an hour later our batteries ran down. We didn't know but there was a door on the end of the cave. The door shut and we were traped. We were afraid then. We heard some spooky sounds. We went to see what it was. There

Doing the Postcard Thing

2010-11-18T10:22:00.005-06:00

About 6 months ago, I started participating in yet another project here at my house. I joined a postcard exchange program. I'm posting the postcards here to share them with you. I'm only showing you the front of the card, but I'd like to share the backsides too. #1 - "Hello! Greetings from Ulviia West Finland! I love cards, animals, summer, The Bold and The Beautiful, etc.... Anne/Laura"#2 - "

Fourth Grade Writings - New Worlds to Explore

2010-11-18T07:13:00.005-06:00

New Worlds to Explore UndergroundOne of the most interesting discoveries was in Lascaux, France. There, in the year 1940, four boys were walking across a field, as they often did. With them was their pet dog. Suddenly, he disappeared as if he had dropped into the eart. They shouted and whisteled, but the dog did not come. They looked and looked but still no dog. Then at last they found the answer

Fourth Grade Writings - That Burn Me Up

2010-11-17T22:52:00.003-06:00

Here's another of my 4th grade essays from 1977."That Burn(s) Me Up"What makes me made is my sisters and my brother. My brother always hits me, he thinks he's smart. What I do is I take his knife away from him. He tries to get it back and I kick him down and I run away from him. He gets up and follows me to hit me. I climb a tree. He doesn't look in tree's cause last (year) I couldn't climb trees

Fourth Grade writings - My Horses

2010-11-16T21:18:00.007-06:00

I was digging through some old boxes tonight and was excited to find some writings that I did in the 4th grade (many, many years ago). I'm stunned that the paper held up so well! This one is titled "My Horses". Just in case you can't read the photo, I'm going to type the essay here; complete with misspellings, after all, I WAS in 4th grade! But before I do, let me share a thought or two. As I was

Christmas Gift Ideas

2010-11-15T18:40:00.004-06:00

I'm posting some pics of some ideas that I'm thinking of for Christmas gifts. I hope I have enough time to get it all done!! These cute ideas come from You Can Make This.Here are some adorable washcloth puppets. A CUTE Fabric Christmas Busy book. A card game that you make on your own computer! This might come in quite handy for my family since it is soooooo large! The kids only see the long,