Team Mitchell & Crew

Indian Shores, Fla just north of Clearwater for 4 days. DisneyWorld Resort for 5 days. Beaches and Pools and Tans and Seafood and Cartoon characters!! It was wonderful! Shawna, Scott & Lainie

It's happens in threes. (or if you are me and my week it happens in fours and fives.)

Sunday - arrive home from Vacation. Air Conditioning registering 79*. It was colder outside at 9:30 at night. Part II: CHI hair straightener...dead.

Monday - call the AC man. Frozen unit. $98 to repair. Part II: Wealthy friend of Scott's gives Lainie a huge custom made Barbie Dream House and 4 garbage bags full of Barbie items. 4 hours go into organizing and donating non-keepable Barbie items. The run down: 1 house, 3 covertibles, 2 vans, 1 cruise ship, 1 pet land play store, 1 hospital, 2 kitchens, 16 Barbies, 5 Kens, 11 Skippers, 6 babies, 17 pets, gallon bag of shoes, gallon bags of Barbie brushes, and an entire garbage bag of Barbie clothing. My house puked pink.

Tuesday - Laundry from vaca still not started. Dishes in pile on sink....cuz dishwasher stopped. Laundry and tears started together.

Wednesday - Husband stayed home to keep said wife from looping the noose herself. Buy dishwasher, demand in stock availablity. Husband begins installation at noon. Six o clock comes and goes with a trip to Lowes and a fuming wife. $25 an hour my butt. He says it's me. Huh!

Thursday - Friend from high school drops by. Dishwasher now works. Laundry finishing. Actually break a sweat while cleaning and stashing and chucking prior to her arrival. House and Mommy pulled it off. Part II: Buy new hair starightener. $124. Does Dave Ramsey count that as an emergency? I did. Part III: Lost replacement park to attic latch. Attic door remains broken. Husband thinks it's hilarious!

Friday - Mow 1 acre of 2 week old grass. Oh discovery! 3 out of 4 tires on mower are flat. Drive to MIL to borrow hers. She's out of town and I can't find key. Call Tennessee. No service. Eat her Jalapeno cheese dip...the kind that says "serves 4." Yup. Drive back home to inflate said tires. Car too far away from building. Move car. Run over toy of Lainie's. Crying child. Pump flattest tire. Nothing happens. 30 mins more = nothing happens. Send husband a cursing text. He tells me to go to bed. HA! Nephew calls with news of key location. Drive back to MIL and get mower. Can't get it to budge. Call 16 yr old nephew again. Explain college degrees mean nothing in mowing world, so how do I get the tractor to drive. He describes parking brake. Oh! Stupid John Deere. Load tall red head and 4 yr old dressed as an Incredible on to tractor. Drive through Winchester looking like twit. No sidewalks exist between ours and MIL house. Mow grass. Run out of gas. Search for gas nozzle. Call nephew. He laughs. Under seat. Oh! Damn Deere. Start again. Looming rain. Mow near creek. Tire slips over edge. 100% stuck. Cuss loudly. Eat entire box of Kraft Mac and Cheese while watching 10 Years Younger on TLC.

We're home from Florida - officially at 9:30 last night. We drove the whole day from Disneyworld and only stopped 3 times. Our Garmin led us all the way home and even reported that we hit 117 miles an hour at one point. We love our Garmin, but that seems insane (yes we are speeders, but COME ON!) If you travel by car often and have never had a GPS...oh my my, put it on your Christmas list.

Stupid story...while we we're in the middle end of our trip, I was craving "good home cooking", i.e. green beans, carrots, etc. with no luck. If you want cooking like that at Disney, you will pay a pretty penny. So anyway, the 3 of us went out shopping and we punched in the Food listings to see what we could find. Nothing yummy. I then typed in "Cracker Barrel" into the Garmin. Ta-da!!! In 4.5 miles I would be able to eat my yum yum food! (Angie - quit laughing!) Thank you Garmin!

Speaking of journey's... I have 3 adoption blogs that I wanted to share out. Interestingly enough, they are three different stages of the process. Optimistically Waiting is my friend Jenn and her quest to bring Avery home. In Seeking Our Silas, Cara and Jason are meeting Silas this week! Finally, my newest found blog The Path To Lillie, is my long time friend from high school, Andrea and her single mom adventures with Lillie who joined her from China in July 2007. The last one will help give any adopting family strength to know that great things are awaiting, in God's time. Hope you enjoy!!! Please pray for these families and they share their love with others!

I have been so bad! I promise my blogging will improve!

On the flip side...I have been reading and watching Dr. Phil like crazy! I LOVE THE SUMMER!!!

Better as a blog than an email.......from Carol F.

1. What is the time?
2:59 p.m. (almost time for Dr. Phil)
2. What is your full name?
Shawna Christine Worthington Mitchell
3. Of what are you most afraid?
Messing Up with anything
4. What is the most recent movie that you have seen in a theatre?
At the drive in - Indiana Jones...Crystal Skull. Not recommend:)
5. Place of birth?
Covington KY
6. Favorite food ?
Italian
7. What's your natural hair color ?
Red
8. Have you ever been to Alaska?
No - not yet
9. Ever been skinny dipping ?
yes
10. Love someone so much it made you cry?
Yes and sometimes I cried when I really didn't even love them. Long time ago.
11. Been in a car accident?
Yes
12. Croutons or bacon bits?
croutons
13. Favorite day of the week ?
Friday
14. Favorite restaurant?
Ruth's Chris
15. Favorite Flower?
Calla Lily
16. Favorite sport to watch?
On TV: basketball
Live: Hockey
17. Favorite drink ?
Strawberry Pink Lemonade
18. Favorite ice cream ?
Cookie Dough
19. Warner Brothers/Disney?
Disney
20. Ever been on a ship ?
On the river - yes
On an ocean cruise - no
On a gambling boat that took into "International Water" - YES and I hated it!
21. Do you get sea sick?
Yes - see #20
22. How many times did you fail your driver's test ?
0
23. Sleep or Eat?
Sleep
24. What do you do when you are bored ?
Fall asleep
25. What time is 'Bedtime ' ?
11:00 summer, 9:00 winter
26. Favorite Cable Channel?
Food Network and MTV
27. Eat inside or eat outside?
Outside
28. Favorite Movie?
Steel Magnolias
29. Favorite TV shows?
Super Nanny
30. Last person you went to lunch / dinner with?
Lunch today! Carol, Regina, Karen S., Karen M., Cindy, April.
31. Park or Zoo?
Zoo
32. What are your favorite colors?
Green
33. How many tattoos do you have ?
none
34. How many pets do you have ?
3: Dog - Brewtus, Cat - Winnie, Guinea Pig - Red
35. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Wasn't around then
36. What do you want to do before you die ?
Bungee Jump
37. Have you ever been to Hawaii
No
38. Have you been to countries outside the CANADA & the USA
yes - Europe in 94, 96 and 98. Jamaica in 00.
39. Weirdest thing to have happened in the last 2 weeks
2 job offers in one week.
#1: to be a PSA in Fayette Co (said no)
#2: to be a Curriculum Coach in Clark Co. (said no)
Weird week!
40. Time this survey ended 3:17

And where the hell is Dr. Phil? Who gives a rat's butt about golf? GOLF!!! UH!

So I got Lainie a library card last week. She is sooo excited!! We go just about every week, always on Tuesday and almost always at 6:15 - 6:30 at night. Ironically this is the exact same time as craft night. Tonight was a guest speaker to kick off their summer reading program. It was Daily the Reading Pig all the way here from Bristol, Connecticut. Lainie was thrilled to a) be at the library; b) be checkingout library books and c) to do it all in the company of a black pot bellied pig. She asked if we could come back tomorrow. I am so proud!!

Very productive day today! Met with 1st grade beginning at 7 AM (who planned that start time by the way?), merged assessment details with K, touched base with Principal at 10 (she caught wind I was offered another job....of which I had already turned down...but still....she felt the need to recieve details, ate a delicioso lunch including lettuce wraps from Sal Good, more meetings, haircut with Lori (so much more excited now about my fro versus the triangle head I was sporting), manicure out of desperation - that and the toes were embarrassed by the fingers, met up with Scott, hotdogs for supper with Lainie (my little gas station princess) and library time with a pig!! It has been a super good day!!