My girls have no manners. I have been working with my youngest for well over a year and... nothing. They prefer to eat with their fingers, slurp their drinks, burp without an excuse me, forget to say please and thank you and prefer to cry whenever you ask them TO USE their manners. In fact, Honey sent one of them to their room the other night because after three warnings, he'd had it. Thank goodness Pumpkin does not do so bad. But... she laughs and thinks it's hilarious when they do something she knows they shouldn't. What a role model.

You Have Good Manners 76% of the Time

Your manners are quite excellent. You are well versed in etiquette. Of course you have the occasional slip up, but you even apologize with grace.

76%??? That's it???? I am not amused. Oh dear..... Where's Miss Manners when you need her???

Cheers! ~MacKenzie

Well, it's a rainy day here in Maine. That's okay. Actually, we NEEDED the rain. Now, at least I don't have to water my flowers tonight. I admit I was starting to get a little tired of having to do it. I know I shouldn't have been, but I was.



My mom and grandmother were over Monday. Last year my great grandmother's family all got together for a huge family reunion. Mom got a disk that had some pictures on it as well as a family tree. As she does not have a computer, she brought it over here so I could stick it in this computer and they could see it. It got Mom, Nana and I talking. I've heard a lot of family stories before, but Monday I really started putting pieces together. Yesterday I spent a lot of time trying to find things. Of course, I just don't have money to sink into all these genealogy sites so I tried to find free stuff... I got really, really frustrated.

When I mentioned it to Mom C, as she and Little Brother have been doing some of that on their family, she had a subscription to the ancestory.com website and we tried looking some things up.

Apparently, many of my great-great grandparents just dropped out of the sky.....

It was very discouraging to say the least. Some of it, I don't think, will be too hard to find because a few generations of my relatives have lived here in Washington county all their lives. It's just a matter of juggling the kids around and investing the time to get down there, find someone at the county seat willing enough to help me and then pay for the records.

I was thinking about it and if I want to know any of my family's history, I really need to start now. I've always felt sad that I didn't get to know more of my father's family. My Grammie A (Dad's mom) lived in Iowa. I saw her about 6 times my whole life and talked with her mainly over Christmas. I have an uncle and two aunts that I have never met, have no connection with at all. Don't even know where they live or if they are even alive anymore. I have a cousin whom I've tried to email a few times, but have never got a response.

The one thing I do have going for me is that when I was helping my mom clean out her house before it was going to be sold (that's when we moved into the trailer), I came across some of Dad's papers and he had saved his mom's and his Grammie Mac's obituaries. I have them now so at least I have a starting place!!! SOME DAY I'll get out there to do that research.....

But for now, I will concentrate on my Mom's side of the family. It's nice to have a project to do.....



Today Pumpkin has a friend over. FINALLY, the swelling has gone away and she is not having hardly any pain in eating unless it's something like trying to bite into an apple or such. She's really annoyed with me now when every two days or so I check her stitches. Because now that the swelling is gone, there is a space between the stitch and the gum and I don't want food to get stuck down in there. She goes back next week to the dentist for a follow up. Hopefully, with the x-rays they took then, and the ones they want to take next week, everything will show that she's fine. To me, it just seems as if her chin sticks out just a little more. but I don't know......

So that's the run down of the past few days.

Right now, my house smells of raspberry kool-aid and cheese puffs. There is loud screaming and giggling coming from the bedroom with accompanying bumping on the wall. Problems just sort of melt away and I have to admit that at this moment, life is good.

Cheers! ~MacKenzie

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Song: I'm In Heaven (When You Kiss Me)

ATC lyrics

Awwww... Remember how wonderful it is to first fall in love. Remember feeling all warm and giddy as you wait to see your love again. Remember feeling the energy pulsating around the two of you as you lean in for maybe, first, an embrace, and then the look you give each other as you realize that this is it... this is the first kiss. There's only one first and you want to get it right and then maybe you feel their hands on your body, maybe your face, maybe around your waist, maybe on your neck and then you close your eyes and lean in.... and then, there it is, that warm pressure of their lips on yours, your breaths mingle, the heat from their body waves over yours, their scent fills your nose, maybe you feel their tongue asking for entrance, maybe not, but there it is... perfection.







Cheers! ~MacKenzie

PS. Anime... it's not just for kids anymore!!!!

Your Fragrance Profile

The best calming fragrance: vanilla The best fragrance for everyday wear: orange The best fragrance to boost your sex appeal: rose The best fragrance for energy: pine

That's interesting. I wear vanilla during the winter, citrus in the summer, my favorite aromatherpy oil mix is part rosewood and one of my favorite things to do is walk in the woods, partly to inhale the smell of pine.

Thank you all again for your well wishes for Pumpkin. She is now definitely on the mend.


She got in to see her dentist today and he was really awesome with her! He did say that technically, it would heal on it's own but it would take upwards of 3-4 weeks and there was a chance of infection kicking in and really messing things up. So.... she ended up getting 7 stitches in her gums to help increase the healing and help prevent an infection.

The dentist gave her "happy gas", then numbed her gums with gel, then the novicane and then left so it would take effect. She was sitting there in the dental chair and at first she wouldn't look at me. But when I asked, she got a little misty and said she was really nervous about the stitches. When the assistant came back in, we all talked about it and although Pumpkin was still nervous, quite understandable, she was such a trooper and they were able to do the procedure with no problem at all.

I was all ready to bring her back home, even though we had errands to run, but she wanted to go shopping with me!!! So off we went and we had a wonderful time just the two of us.

I am just absolutely amazed at how she is just able to draw what she needs from inside of herself. She's got so much strength and courage. I can't begin to say how very proud of her I am, Honey and I both are.

And tomorrow, a new day begins, one that holds a promise of an average, every day "boring" day. I am really looking forward to it!


Cheers! ~MacKenzie