Christmas Eve

Well, here it is. Christmas Eve already. Hard to believe it's been a year already. It's been a hard day so far and I still am at work.
I have this philosophy. Christmas really is for the children and it will be what you make it. I really miss George and there have been several moments through out the year that I have said or almost said George would like this or I need to tell George. I know that George looks down on us and has sent us a few messages from the beyond.
But it's also been a good year in other respects. Brian has flown past his one year marker and is still cancer free! Even though we lost Grandfather this summer, it brought all us kids together for the first time about 11 years! All of us in the same room! It was wonderful. Emily finally got into the school that I have been fighting to get her into since she was ready for Kindergarten and is doing so well!
Work is busy, as we are still growing by leaps and bounds and there is always so much to do!
But there are other things this year that haven't been so good. Things that I don't want to dwell on, but I have to remember to take the bad with the good.
I wish every one a very Merry Christmas and have a very Happy New Year full of blessings!

Update

I haven't posted in forever. I know... I've been slacking. But in my defense, Em went back to school and I have been dealing with a lot getting the house ready for her first communion. It was a great day.... What the hell was I thinking? Having 40 people here was great but it was crazy. It was busy. We hadn't done some of the little things around the house in years, painting the woodwork, etc. We redid the bathroom. That took 2 weekends. Plus the yard. Getting everything picked up and planning the food. Cooking. And of course it was the day after Halloween!
I'll send some pics soon.

Huh?

About four months ago, Brian and I got a new cell phone plan. It has been fine, however, at the time I never thought about how much I would be using my new phone for texting. I have texted before, but this time around I seem to be texting more and more. So, we just went for the free phones.
Yesterday was my birthday and I have been telling Brian I really wanted a new phone for my birthday. So, last night, before dinner, we went out to look at new phones. We are not eliagble for an upgrade, so anything we looked at would be full price. My dream would have been the new my touch from Tmobile, but at $500... well you get the idea.
So, we went to the Tmobile store... well ... booth in the mall. It turns out the phone I was willing to get was no longer carried there and the new version is a bit different and I don't like it. I was talking to the guy and he kept telling me the phone was the same. I was telling him it was different. The new version is sleaker, smaller, thinner and the qwerty keyboard is smaller. Not what I wanted. So, we walked down to Radio Shack.
The sales man there and I talked for a bit and I was going to settle on another phone. He informed me that you didn't need to buy just a regular Tmobile phone, but you could get one of their pre-paid phones and it would work. The savings was astonishing. So, while I am looking at the phone, he took another customer. Brian than runs into someone he knows and we are talking.
The guy never came back to me... stupid sales person. Bri's friend suggests I go to Best Buy. So, I do. There is the phone I want in prepaid for less than half of what I could buy it with out it being prepaid! No brainer in my opinion!!! Brian and Emily went to get the car and meet me. I called him and told him I was ready and that I had bought my cell. It's pretty cool. It has a full qwerty keyboard and some other cool features. The only thing I can't figure out is how to get my music from the memory card to the ring tone section. The manual reads like greek. I'll figure it out at some point.
I will have to post something soon about my experince with the DSL company. It's utterly crazy! But maybe when I am less astonished and upset.

Without Technology

I am finally back online. Not that I was completely off line, as I have some internet on my cell phone and I have a 13 year old computer to check my email and stuff. But being able to blog, check facebook regularly, etc, was not something I could do.
I bought a computer back around Black Friday after my Dell died. I had the Dell for five or so years and after that the port where you plug in to charge to computer died. Since the Dell was more than five years old, and Best Buy couldn't fix it. It would have cost me more to send it back to Dell to see if they could even fix it at all. But at that time, I decided to just get another computer. So, Best Buy had a sale on something called an Emachine.
All in all, I got what I paid for.
I've been thinking about a new one and I picked it up today. I am very pleased with it. The only down side is that I have Windows Vista again. I hat Vista. I wish there was something else.
So, lots of catching up to do!!! Yeah!!!

Waste of time?

Well, it's all over. We came from the hospital yesterday afternoon. The doctor said that what ever was going on is gone now. We had to do a sleep depervation study the first night there. Basically we had to keep Em up until 2 am and then they woke us up at 6 am. Then we had to keep her up for a while. It was worse on me. At least she could take a nap at some point during the day. So, we slept for a long time last night!!!
It feels good to get home and be here.
But, there is nothing wrong with her EEG!!! Everything is now normal. Well, as normal as Emily will ever be!LOL

Anticipation....

Okay, so writing this title gave me the song in my head. Emily started to see a new neurologist last summer. He wanted us then to go for a video EEG in his hospital. We were getting it all set when my loving husband decided that I wasn't paying enough attention to him and he grew a tumor.
So, now, we are scheduled to go into the hospital on Monday. She's all wound up about it. We have to be there a minimum of three days and as many as five. We won't know until we get there.
Em has done this before and she's not too thrilled about it. Neither, am I to tell you the truth. But, at least this time we will be closer to home and I can let my mother or husband stay with her for a while and go home each night for a while. At least to get a hot shower and check the mail and so on. I will be bringing my computer and I am thinking about my scanner too so that I can work on some history things. I guess I need to call and find out if I can do that. Plus, it's so much to carry. At least the scanner is light!
I'm hoping this will be a better experience than the last one. We were in Albany and even though my mother and husband took turns staying, it was rough on all of us. And we were there a week. I hope we won't be this time.
I'm thinking that I'm going to buy her the Hannah Montana movie to watch.... over and over again while we are there.
Boom boom clap. boom de clap de clap.

The Family Co- Historian

I have, partly by volunteering and partly by nomination, have been elected family historian of the Richter Family. It's kinda cool.
So, check out the new blog I created and send emails to the address I created.

Blog: www.richterfamilyhistoryproject.blogspot.com

Email : richterfamilyhistoryproject@gmail.com

Please send me stories, comments, pictures, whatever to these places.

Thanks! Lets make this fun!