Tea Time

I think that I have blogged about Tea Time before, but I'll share again!

Every night at the Morgan house, we experience "Tea Time". It occurs around 8 or 9pm, when Ken gets up from his seat with his computer, and walks towards the kitchen. For several months, he would exclaim "Tea Time!" as he walked through! He puts a mug of water into the microwave for 2 minutes, pulls out a tea bag from the designated canister and may even take a bathroom break. He then returns to his seat and contiues his work for the rest of the evening, allowing the tea to steep and cool and then enjoys it. Sometimes, tea time happens several times a night, other days, just once. But there is rarely a night that tea time doesn't happen! There have been a few nights that it didn't happen until 10p, when he realized that something was missing :)

The other night, Ken went to have his tea time, and he noticed that he was out of tea... Not just the canister was empty, but all the tea was gone!! OH NO!! So the next day, when I was at the grocery store, I picked some up. I normally get the Lipton tea bags in the yellow box. Last time, I purchased two boxes due to a super cheap price. This time, I went an a box was about $4. And the Safeway brand was $2.00. So I decided to pick up the cheaper box. When I brought it home on Sunday, I was putting the groceries away and Ken hollers from the living room "that doesn't look like a yellow box to me!!" Who knew how much he was attached to the yellow box. Then I explained to him the cost, and he was ok. I found it very funny that he was so distraught over the fact that there was no yellow box! Luckily, the tea tastes the same and we can go on having tea time each night :)

Missionary Prayer

When I mentioned our friends Ernesto and Angie earlier this week I had no idea what was happening in their country. Please keep them in your prayers, for their safety and sound mine and an absence of fear. Check out this recent post, for specific prayer needs!

Family Picture book

For Christmas (via Valentine's Day), my sister Beth made a special little book for Finnegan of photos of all of his family so that he can go through and continue to learn who his family is even though they're far away. I think it was a great idea! Finnegan's book is pretty large, seeing that he has several aunt and uncles and 6 cousins. Plus his two sets of grandma's and grandpas and even a set (that are not related) of great grandparents. Finnegan goes through the book at least 3 times a day, and loves to look at the photos. He can already say and identify on his own "Izzie" and "Emma". When he see's the photo of Livi, he copies her and sticks his tongue out. When we get to the page of Greyson, he points to Greyson's paci and says "Paci". He can distinguish between his Mana and Papa (my mom and dad) and Grandma and Grandpa Morgan (Ken's mom and dad). He can even tell the difference between his Great Papa Jack and his Great Grandma Louise. I'm pretty impressed. The photos have also helped him to tell the difference between Tootsie and Oreo. We do continue to work on "Mommy". He does say it more and more but when he sees me in photos, I'm always "Daddy" :) He's getting there!!

Just Chillin --

Hey, Loyal Readers -

Just waiting for the new episode of Lost to begin and thought that I'd stop and say hello!! Here are some things to update you and fill you in on what we've been consumed with the last few days...

• I've really been thinking and praying for our friends, Ernesto and Angie. Ken went to HS with Ernesto and were very good friends. They sold all they had and moved to India in January to be Missionaries full time. What a self-sacrificing life style. In the last 6 weeks, they've both been super sick while adjusting to their new life. They are learning the language and traveling from village to village to meet with new believers and baptizing them. In their first few weeks, they've had some exciting times, but some other scary and unknown times. I would encourage you to check out their website and blog. I would even encourage you to consider giving towards their cause. They don't have a mission group that they're going with... just the church that is sending them. It's crazy... You think of missionaries as being older people, people who have grown children or who have adolescent children. Ernesto and Angie are in their late 20's and are following the call of God. Kind of cool!!
• My friend Megan had a baby 2 weeks ago, and I just came across her new blog post about her new baby... very sweet.
• My friend - well, I suppose she's my friend... I've never really met her, but support her 100%! The family that we got Tootsie (our dog) from in Nashville, are working to adopt their second child... well, the child would be their 5th, but their second adopted child. They are holding their last fundraiser... Here's how you can help!!
• My friend Kelly - lost her husband in Sept. They didn't have any children, but had been married for some time. She works through her grief daily and I often find myself praying for her as she finds her way as a widowed woman!
  

Tresemme Commercial??

Has anyone seen the new Tresemme commercial with the model in the hot pink dress?? The commercial is for product that keeps your hair full of body for hours. We don't normally watch TV in the "full" view, so perhaps part of the commcerial is missing, but at the very end, the women is with a man and he pulls her close to give her a hug or to kiss her (she is in the hot pink dress at this point) and it appears to be that he grabs her boob!! Ok, so is this just me?? Or is this what really happens? I've only seen the commercial a couple of times, and beleive that it is a nation wide commercial, so if you see it, let me know what you think?? Is he grabbing her boob, or her arm??

For those of you who haven't seen it and would like to watch for it, here's some points to know you're seeing the right commercial...

• The main character is a long haired brunette who is a "model".
  
• Her hair is long and has a wave to it
• The commercial is a longer commercial and shows her in a "time lapse" and what happens to her hair with and without the product.
  
• The scene to watch for is at the end!
  

Rebate..

As you might remember, Ken got pretty sick while we were on vacation. He spent a night in the hospital and an evening in the men's room. Well, since returning home, I've found out some great news. Once I was home, something triggered my memory and reminded me that I'd purchased travel insurance when booking our trip. I originally thought, that because we were booking our trip so far in advance, and there were so many adults hinging on the trip (18 people total) that it might be smart to get insurance, just in case the economy really tanked and we HAD to pull out. Luckily, we didn't need it for that use, and I forgot all about it. When I got home, I remembered that we had it and began filing the claims. Along with the claims with the insurance company and also began to write letters to the Walt Disney Company about our experience and the items "lost" due to his sickness and our ordeal. About 2 weeks ago, we got a call from the Walt Disney Travel Company in regards to my letter.

Unfortunately, Disney doesn't own the resturant that Ken got sick at, and so the agent gave me the information to contact them. And then at then end of the call, she told me that as a good will gesture, the Travel Company would be reimbursing us for a list of things that I'd listed in my letter that they could put a value to. This was pretty exciting. Ken and I didn't actually think they would do anything for us. I'd found many letters and unhappy customers online saying that Disney responded to them saying that they can't pin point food poisoning and therefore they're not responsible. I was so excited!! So, this week, we got our reimbursement from the WD company. And now, we wait for our insurance check. All of the charges we sent to them were from our hospital stay and bills, as well as meals that were missed. So we shouldn't have any trouble getting those back.

I'll keep you posted :)

Sleep-talker!

It was made very clear to me when I married my husband that he comes from a family of sleep-talkers. Two of his siblings do this, and his brother even tried to jump out a window once in college. So I'm fully aware that the talking, and sometimes walking is possible. His talking started early in our marriage and it wasn't really anything too crazy... he'd talk about dolphins or other wierd bugs in his sleep. On our recent family vacation, it was fun to compare stories with the siblings spouses. One thing was a common thread... they did it when they'd been working hard at something or concentrating a lot.

So needless to say, the first 7 years of my marriage has been FULL of sleep-talking and now sleep-walking stories, because Ken's been working on TWO Master's programs since we've been married (and conquered many video games).

But, it is getting pretty bad. These sleeping events normally only happen about once every couple of weeks and are fairly minor. Sometimes he's getting out of bed for no reason. Other times, he's searching in the bed for bugs or other vermin. But this week, I've had two visits from the "sleeping husband" and it's really weighing on my nerves. I tend to wake up really easily anyway, and now that I'm a mommy, I do even more. And now that I have a husband who is hovering over me at any point of the night just doesn't settle with me. Two nights ago he picked up the phone and was turing it on and off and then telling me he couldn't tell what time it is. Sometimes these things are harmless, but other times, you just never know what he's gonna do. And the word is that he won't be done with this Master's program until June. So I've told him he can sleep on the couch if he'd like, or take it easy on the work. He works so hard during the day at work, and then comes home and takes no down time. Although I'm glad to intercept the craziness, I'm sure it will give me a heart attack one of these days!!