A bit of catch up!

I've wanted to post so many times over the past few weeks, but I didn't want to bury our lovely dolls until their auction was over! They should be going in the mail today to meet their new families, no later than tomorrow (trying to get car insurance sorted out before I leave the house... it would be my luck).

My birthday is tomorrow! YAY! David's got something special planned :) I'm closer to 30 than 20 now :P



Halloween was a lot of fun. Morrigan is old enough now to go trick or treating, so we dressed her up and took her to the mall where she could run and play with the other little ones and go store to store for candy.

We had such a good time together! I made her little tutu, and we got her wings at the Renaissance Festival last weekend. She was too shy to walk right up to the people for candy, so David and I "flew" her up to each one. She's put her hands up and we'd pick her up and make flying sounds... she loved it :P



I have been such an art slacker recently. Still having a hard time getting things moving. Making another effort today to get some small things done and hopefully give my creativity a kick start.

My exciting week

Last weekend, my parents lost their house to Hurricane Ike. For the past week I've had my two youngest brothers and my youngest sister staying in our little apartment with us, as well as one of my good friends from back home. It's been a cramped week! It's been a lot of fun having the kids over, though cooking for seven in my little kitchen has been a challenge.

I checked online today to see if they would be going back to school on Monday, and no real surprise that they wont be. I called Mom to let her know, and to tell her we'd be happy to keep the kids for another week. The more I hear about the house clean up, the less I think there's going to be much of a house for the kids to go back to. Parents bought an RV so the kids would have some place to sleep, but FEMA has confiscated their generator (I guess it's their job to decide which homeless families deserve power?) So I'm pretty pissed about that.

My youngest brother (10) has apparently lost everything. All of his toys, games, clothes, everything in his bedroom had to be thrown away. My Mom lost all of her clothes too, but she doesn't seem as worried about that as with Tanner having nothing. I'm not looking forward to sending him home to that :(

We're taking them all out tomorrow. They've all been really good, and I'd like to do something nice with them. We have some passes to Six Flags, and most of them have never been on a roller coaster, so that should be a lot of fun.

In art related news, I got a DV cable and a tripod today, so I should be able to start work on the dragon painting soon! I imagine it's going to be slow going this week, but it will be good to get back to work again.