Team Mitchell & Crew

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!!

I had broccolli in my teeth throughout the whole baby shower and no one told me.

The three people I was sitting with have blog links on this page. "Somebody" & Her Boys?" And two girls with bunches of "Adventures" and a few "Going Ons." Hmmmmm.

I got back to my desk and realized it was there...and thought"Man...I have crummy (or blind) friends.

Me and my snaggle teeth sulked back home.

So my phone is stupid!! As much as I love my phone, it is currently making me really mad.

I have a refurbished phone. Scott and I are big into refurbished things...I mean - why pay more for new? It's fixed - right? WRONG!!!

My little mousey on my blackberry jumps around. My buttons are sticking! My screen doed funny things!! It's nuts.I have now been on the phone for 45 minutes and all I've gotten is a completely erasaed phone. (and yes, I'm calling from work FCPS...pbslttttttttttt. (Bad rendition of raspberry in face!))

Oh I hate this!!! It says it is "scrubbing itself clean" with 77 minutes remaining!!!!! NUTS!!!

I love this time of year!! This is the time of year that I start thinking about cleaning out and purging and selling and getting rid of. I have been working since Christmas on prepping items for my 2008 Yard Sale this year with Kelly C. and the best piece of advice I recieved was from my SIL Vickie to tag the items as you put them INTO the box. Therefore, as I put new items away for holidays in December and birthdays in April I put prices on everything I didn't want to keep and then put all the piles in that back bedroom. That idea was genius!!!! One VERY FULL BEDROOM later....I have all of my items priced for our sale on the 5th of JUNE. Good job Team Mitchell!

I am also working on a committee at Lainie's school for the Victory Heights Kids Consignment Sale. Julie, Jenny, Allyson, Becky and I have met a few times and been working on the PR and advertisement end of the sale that will be held in August. This is being marketed as a "high end" sale similar to "Little Lambs" and "His Kids" sales in Lexington which will be a first for Winchester. If you would like to be a part of our Kids Sale, the details are EASY and we would love to give you a seller's number. Tell your friends!!!

So I have eaten at least 20 of those little Hershey chocolate nugget bites in the last 24 hours and I could easily eat 20+ more. What is wrong with me? I mean....come on. I loose 70 lbs. 5 years ago and all I can think about lately is stuffing my face with insane chocolate luvin'? I like chocolate and all, but it is like something illegal is in those little suckers and all I can do is "hit the fix" before I start shaking all over again. Frankly, I blame Vivian. Vivian is the one who purchased them. She brought them to school, for us. She left them wide open on her desk. She offered them to again and again during our team meetings yesterday and mind you I am in all 6 of those bleepin things spanning close to 8 hours and then she is the one with the most quiet office and then was out of the building this afternoon and I used her office as a quiet work space for my melting headache, continuing to gorge myself on mountains of chocolate. (Have you had the toffee ones? Dear God help me!) As you can see....this chocolate issue is completely Vivian's fault. Thank you again for understanding.