Ready for a Change….
September 23, 2008 – 7:21 pmI am back over at BLOGGER 
http://shutupnoway.blogspot.com
Devistated
August 27, 2008 – 8:53 amSunday evening our friend Lee went to the hospital with a stomach ache. It was bad enough for him to get seen. And he was in a lot of pain by the evening. I got a call at 3:45 am Monday night saying they admitted him to the intensive care unit. He was completely sedated when his wife arrived. His heart rate was racing. He wasn’t doing good. They called it Pancreatitis, and he had a lot of fluid in stomach which stressed his lungs and heart.
She arrived home around 7:45-8 am and with in minutes of being there she got the call he had coded. They were doing CPR still when she arrived. They continued CPR for 45 minutes. They brought him back but didn’t expect him to last the day. Around 1pm he coded again and he didn’t make it.
He gave us some great memories. And some really fun times. Thanks Lee for all the dinners, imprompt to BBQs where you cooked for us. For not shunning us based on our Rockband skillz. Thanks for being our friend and neighbor. You really are a great friend and we’ll miss you.
1981-2008
Some of the bloggys I love….Cause I know these people!
August 20, 2008 – 8:38 amThey are always up to some fun stuff! I have to update my links. If you aren’t on there and need to be let me know!
Mean while…..
Songs that I have found recently that I love……inspired by this post.
Os Mutantes: Mihna Menihna (Don’t quote me on spelling)
My never: Justin Furstenfeld (lead of October Blue) Page 3 of Breaking Dawn Song!! OHHHHHH man… that got me right here!
Hate Me: Justin Furstenfeld (for Twilght fans this was the song that described feelings felt by Edward when he left Bella in the Medow- New Moon. At least that is what Stephanie Meyer said in LA at the book signing)
Knock em Out: Lilly Allen
Sing, Sing a Song: as sung by Daniel Hardin (this guy doesn’t have a CD yet. I am starting a petition for someone to pick him up and offer enough so that he sells right out LOL. I have to have this in my Ipod!)
What are you listening to??
Broken? Nope…..
August 19, 2008 – 5:01 amThing 1 jumped out of the crib of the fish. On his way down he hit his elbow. I swear his bone was popping out of his little skin. I freaked! One clean X-ray and one big monkey bump later we went for ice cream. The whole time he was telling me
"Mama I really don’t think it is broken"
The Car seats haven’t made a full recovery.
Small Obsession continued……
August 14, 2008 – 2:03 pmOk so I never finished writing about Val! Oh poor Val on the night of the book release fell victim to bad information. She is trapped in Tahoe. Without the next installment of the Stephanie Meyer Saga. What does she do? What any of us half-crazed-Cullen-loving mother of three would do……find a book store FAST. By this time it is past 9pm any bookstore would be having a party.
So her search for book stores in Tahoe reveal this lovely little shop….that is right "Rainbow Bridge". (Some may think they know where this is going… oH just wait)
On their list of events they have "August 1st, New Moon Party" so she calls.
Val: "So you are having a party tonight?"
Store employee: Yes a New Moon party.
Val: Don’t you mean Breaking Dawn. …..by Stephanie Meyer?
Store Employee: No "New MOOn". Stephanie Who?
Val: Let me get this straight. You are a book store having a new MOon party, on August 1st and you don’t know who Stephanie Meyer is……Is that right?
Store Employee: (Pause……..)Yes.
Val: Ok thanks.
I am pretty sure the background of the store had beautiful "Singing Crystal Bowl arrangement" in G Minor going on. But Val probably was too busy fuming to enjoy it.
There once was a small obsession….
August 11, 2008 – 9:34 amThis last week and a half has been crazy!
Friday-
Val and I had planned to go to the Book Release party and she was in Tahoe for a week and was planning to come down. Her friend- we won’t mention who- wants to go as well and calls last minute to tell Val she had to have a wrist band and a book on order to attend. (None of this info was accurate) so around 9pm Val calls to inform me. I tell her to come anyways. She was too far to get there in time. She couldn’t make it down…..more about her later.
I dragged another friend who was 24 weeks pregnant! She we joked was the pregnant Bella. Oh how we didn’t know what we were saying at the time LOL. We had a blast. She has two almost three kids and we were in the middle of the fun. Trivia, Raffles, and vampire teeth oh my!
There were tons of people there. ONLY no one over 18 in the screaming and dressed up crowd. I was not dressed up but came to see all those that would be. We saw some cool stuff.
We were sitting and thinking about what would happen in the next book. I stopped to talk to a neighbor that I saw there. Thrilled to see another person near my age I asked are you here to get your book too?
"No, I am here with my daughter" wow where were the Twilight Moms?
While I was talking to my neighbor. While I was there my friend came back and told me I had won the raffle!! OH my gosh I was so crazy excited! I never win anything. Well they totally gave me a "you weren’t there when we called your number prize."
one lovely canister of Colored pencils! and some Breaking Dawn Stickers! I could have used them better if I were 12 and just starting school again. LOL.
Then we got into line and I wanted to get my book and go read. Well we were bored and then found an interesting read on the shelf.
Yes we were in the young adult section.
I just picked it up and started reading from the middle.
It was "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid". It sounded politically incorrect so I picked it up.
The next thing I knew we were laughing, rolling and then tearing. I came close to p**ing my pants. I just looked on B&N website and the age level for this book is 9-12. To sum up…. We had a great time.
Secrets….
July 13, 2008 – 10:49 amLike all good secrets I can’t hold on to this one for much longer. I am going here!! I know I can’t believe the tickets are going for THIS much. Well I blame some people in this. First there is Val. She got the tickets for us. She actually got hooked on the books after I got hooked on the books from this person. I never heard of the book until her post recommending it. And then I read the first 30 pgs and I read the book. I waited and bought the third. Got my neighbor’s husband hooked and now we are all waiting 20 days until the next one comes. Can’t believe we are actually going to LA no kids and no hubbies. WOOT WOOT!
Luckily it is the last book in the series so I don’t have to wait for the next. I have to find a new series.
French Toast
July 13, 2008 – 8:37 amSome days it is really nice to be excited to be awake and cooking. I have a french toast recipe that made me jump out of bed this morning and get the breakfast on before the Band went to work.
Cream Cheese filling
1/4 Cream cheese softened
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
and two table spoons butter
Bread
Coating mixture
3 eggs
1/4 cup milk
and a smidge of sugar.
Spread filling over one slice bread. Place another piece on like sandwhich. Then dip outside in coating. Set in Skillet with butter on Medium High. Brown Both sides.
YEAH DID I MENTION THIS IS HUGE HIGH IN CALORIES AND FAT. But if you add fruit to the dish it makes everything seem healthy. Placing four rasberries in the middle of your toast is awesome. Also covered in fresh strawberries, blueberries, or
I may need to jump out of bed 17 times in a row followed by 50 situps, 25 push-ups and some jogging.
The Dishes…
July 9, 2008 – 11:49 amThey could be about three feet tall by now but they aren’t cause they are DONE. And I only have one load to finish and the laundry is DONE. Then there is the catching up with my former person inside of me that I know hangs out in here but I just haven’t been able to find. You know that person who is carefree, happy, and doesn’t give a rip about what anyone thinks about her. YeaH I am in there I just keep finding that I do care and I am moody, and sarcastic, and down right mean to the people I profess to care about most. So what happened this week?
PMS
Yeah it started out with a migrane on Sunday that made me hurl my guts out everytime I lifted my head. Then I got two INJECTIONS. One in both cheeks! Man am I sore. If I knew that was what they were going to do to me I would have just stayed home an hurled my guts out. One of the shots was for the vomitting. I just thought I had the flu that was going around. NOPE. Migranes SUCK! I slept for almost 13 hours straight. Then some more. And some More. Again, migranes suck!
Well then I have been in this awful, foul mood. It has been like a bad smell of rotting coleslaw settled on my little patch of grass by a tree with a fawn eating on the medow. And I am sick of smelling bad coeslaw….. wait that may just be my car and the slaw we had on the fourth of July. I’d Better go clean out my car.
Anywho! We’ll see what goes on this week! Maybe aunty Flowina could come early so I can get out of this RUT!
Listing and more listing…
July 3, 2008 – 4:49 amWed. July 2nd, 2008
1. Take out thrift clothes
2. Bread run
3. Hang Ikea Calendar (pictures to follow…but if you read this blog you probably know that I promise pictures and don’t follow through
:)
4. Move Thing 1’s room. At least set up his bed:)
5. Crepes for Breakfast.
I will try to post tonight to report.
The Fourth….
June 25, 2008 – 8:42 amThere is a fun holiday that I like to dress the kids up for. In the spirit of that here is some new bling.
The air outside.
June 24, 2008 – 2:11 pmOk we are having bad air days this week. We are stuck inside. The fires that are raging in Northern Cally are really makeing the sky look like a bad 80’s nuclear day after movie. It is weird to have everything look like evening time all day. I would like some breathable air. It just gives me a big head ache. The kids are keeping entertained by "treasure hunts" and indoor fun.
I am just ready to get back into the POOL!
A Shout out…..
June 24, 2008 – 1:58 pmThere are somedays that I love a good chuckle. I got an email and it took me back to the dating era of my life. I am glad to have graduated that epic in my life. But here is a shout out to all the single ladies still out there.
I think somedays this is true for the married women of the world as well. But the good days balance it out.
‘A heart is not a plaything
A heart is not a toy
But if you want it broken
Give it to a boy.’
-Anonymous
No Warning??
June 16, 2008 – 8:56 pmI just watched the entire movie. "Becoming Jane" Now I have to know is it Hollywood or real events? What part was really real? That was too Sucktacular if that is what happened. OUCH! I am still teary.
Physical fitness
June 12, 2008 – 4:37 am1975 Schwinn Ten speed Suburban style. That is the name of the new addition to the bikes in the family. I have been riding to the local store and back for things like milk. We were at 4.45 a gallon yesterday. The van is being put down for a couple of days. My legs are going to be rock solid by the time summer is through.
We also got Pool passes to the local city pools. There are four. We should be tan by the end of summer too. There will be plenty of sunscreen so we don’t pick up a healthy dose of skin cancer.
Book Review: The Host
June 8, 2008 – 9:02 amI would say skip it. I kept reading til the end for that "Big Finish" ending. It was ok. Not great not anything that had me screaming for more ect.
Here are some other books on the summer’s reading list.
Secret Life of Bees
Sabriel the first in Garth Nix Series
Anthem
By August I hope to have a bigger list but August is when the fourth Vampire book is released I need some good literature to get me through. LOL
You Know those friends that….
May 7, 2008 – 8:29 amYou talk to every single day. You live next door so you update them all the time. And then you go on a vacation and you can’t wait to tell them all the stuff that has happened cause you haven’t talked to them in a while?
That is my blog right now. I love it. I do. I just need sometime for things to happen and I can miss it and I can then come back. I have updated too much now I need a little time to get over the colds, find stuff to write about, have an adventure or two. Then come back strong….. or not.
It is time for a rest. So we’ll see ya when I come back. Or not.
Cha Cha Cha!
May 6, 2008 – 11:49 amI am taking a nap. Why? I woke up this morning and my son poohed everywhere. He has had the runs I should have taken it as a bit of foreshadowing. I have been hanging out very near a porcelin amenity in my house ALLLL. DAY. LONG.
Thing 2 has cleared up pretty good now it is just me and the baby left. GEEEZ! I am going to go Nap.
There are some great things out there!
May 6, 2008 – 7:09 amI was shopping for some bulk Laundry detergent. It needed to be cheap and for the best possible stuff. I usually get the same old stuff - tide. I was in the Costco line and I saw a little table with a gentleman that looked like he was giving away samples. I saw the product and saw it was "eco" friendly and all this stuff.
It was cheaper and had a lot of loads. Pretty much it won out and my curiosity was peaked. It can wash 205 loads in an HD washer. But there are some other bonuses. I don’t have to use two detergents for the baby and one for the family. It is gentle and the fragrance is awesome.
I hope it wasn’t just a limitted time offer. Don’t think that I will switch. I love it! I can’t get enough of how soft the clothes are and I don’t even use fabric softener! I have been looking for something like this product for soooo long! It only takes 2 oz of fluid to clean a whole load. I am feeling like doing my own info-mercial
Here is the website.
www.ecos.com check them out where you are.
Buddy Day…
April 28, 2008 – 5:54 pmSo the neighbor asked if thing 1 and thing 2 would like to go to Buddie day at her son’s karate lessons. I like getting out and having the kids do some fun stuff and so we went. I can’t tell you how they loved yelling, kicking, hitting, and did I mention the yelling. I think they would learn a lot if we could afford regular lessons but buddie day was so much fun.
They played a game where the kids had to kick a balloon with their feet until it touched the floor. Thing 1 loved this as well as thing 2.
Any thoughts on the martial arts for the tiny tots?
Ch Ch Ch CHanges!
April 25, 2008 – 9:49 amToday I am cleaning TOP to BOttom. I will spare the before shots. I have to get this place clean! I am working on my bedroom. This is an area that is second only to the "catch all" room we have up stairs. It is horrible. I am glad to turn off the light when it is time to use the room for sleeping.
THIS CHANGES TODAY!
Trip part 2
April 23, 2008 – 10:37 amSo we get there and we have plans to go and play at the park with our family! Yeah I love family time. SNOW! What the %$#@? Yeah that is not what I said but in the middle of April? So we went to my brother’s place where it was warm and had a happy Birthday celebration with my Dad! Happy Birthday DAD!
Here is some of the family that thinks it is funny to take pictures as though they are on their first date at PROM.
Yes ladies they are both swinging single. LOL Contact me by email for blind and or other embaressing dating set ups! (Both will kill me for this post)
If you know me…..
April 14, 2008 – 3:57 amYou know that there is a pretty good chance the statement on the top of the sidebar is not usually the case. I whine a lot I just try and not do it here. But if it spills over somedays it’s because I am 100% "Drama Queen" dressed as a "Chiller"
Stay tuned ONE of the funniest people I know is starting her blog! I cannot wait to show you!
The Count down begins
April 13, 2008 – 6:54 amOne out of four! Those are the official ODDS!! I have four "official" enteries. That is if no one else enters! Which I wouldn’t mind they are four deserving gals!
If you want to enter you still can until MONDAY MORNING 9 AM my time. Pacific Standard Time.
Good Luck. For the four that entered I hope no one else enters!
So what do you call them??
April 4, 2008 – 5:03 pmOh I call them "My Friend" a "buddy of mine" and I heard someone that….. Yeah that is how I refer to all the people in the computer that I read their blogs. I am amazed how wierd this is getting. I started this blog a few months after my other blog. I think it is still out there and I am happy because I need some of those pictures off there LOL.
But I have blogged and had some really cool people blog with me. I feel like I know them. I don’t know them. I know their writing that they post into the www. This frightens me sometimes. those that are reading probably feel like they know me too. OH how scarry is that. I am greatful for really cool friends that started their own blogs and now I am not the weird one on the block that talks to her "cyber friends"
Some have stopped blogging. I am ok with that. I really miss them and the things they write about. I miss the updates on the kids and their funny stories. Seriously this is kinda twisted. My sorted tale if you will. I am pretty sure I am envious of them for stopping and attending to their "Non-cyber Lives". The hardest thing was to explain this blogging thing to my family who the blog was originally set up for. Well I guess it is just me my self and my "buddies" lol.
List o’ Quotes: Warning Dry heaving possible!
April 3, 2008 – 11:14 pm1. "Is Santa Bigger than Jesus?" Thing 1
2. "I need to talk on the phone to somebody! JUST TRUST ME!!!" Thing 1
3. "Stop chewing the kitty." ME
4. "NO NO NO! We don’t pee Down Slides!" ME
5. "I hate Hyenas." Thing 1
Being a mom I thought somethings would never come out of my mouth. I have learned to stop underestimating the things I do, say and think.
Today I had one of those I-did-not-just-do-that. Momments.
Imagine big…..Store.
Long line in the checkout area…..Costco. I am there innocently feeding my children some instant oatmeal (I had mistaken it for the easy mac’n cheese sample lady.)
Then it happened. Really fast acctually. I went to put a heaping spoonful into the Fishes mouth…….. rejected……
SCOOP and I ate it!!!!!
My body was on complete auto pilot. Instantly a huge smile comes over my face which started to burn bright scarlet. I am "THAT" mom. I just turned into that mom that eats off the face of her children. The ancient voices of the past come into my head "Well you couldn’t let good oatmeal go to waste now could you?" My smile broadens and I chuckle to myself. And I quickly scan the crowded checkout area. Only to meet the gaze of a 25ish young man buying grilling supplies and beer. He is laughing and smiling to himself.
I say out loud to him. "Only Mom’s can do that!" He nodds and turns to dry heave (I am sure.) I swore to myself I would NEVER and now I can say that I have. I would like to publicly appologize to myself and my selfesteme. You are so fragile and delicate at this time I never meant harm you. Hopefully it isn’t permenant.
Checkeezzeeee! NOOOOOO!
March 27, 2008 – 6:00 pmOh this is just too sad. I need some more time before I post again!
Momment of Idol Silence PLEASE!
Work in progress.
March 7, 2008 – 6:57 am For the next couple of days I will be working on the site. This is the time ladies! If you know anyone who is interested in selling their wares. Send them MY WAY. I am totally up for doing advertisements for your sites as well. I will be featuring a banner page. Have a banner I will wave it proudly on my site!
I declare Delurk Week!!
March 4, 2008 – 9:23 am If you are clicking, reading and laughing at me!!!! Please delurk today and for the next seven days
Well I am taking a step back.
February 21, 2008 – 8:05 pmIn the world of technology there is something called an UPGRADE. The momment that you walk out of the cellular store the designers of the new phone you have is comming out with another in less than six months. I watched a guy who had a "dinasour" head set that used to be called "hands Free".
So where is my Brain Upgrade. I heard a funny thing. That women who have babies have a "12 percent" reduction in mental capacity. I totally agree. I have never been so "out of it" since the fish came along. It is probably the whole balance thing and how it usually takes me a good long while to adjust to another baby. This one hasn’t been so easy.
Don’t get me wrong I love being a mom of three beautiful, intelligent and adorable children. I am just having a hard time finding the balance. I need to simplify. I started thinking about "Fly Lady" once again. I have tried to do her system in the past and I will be making another attempt.
It is time to schedule
February 19, 2008 – 9:09 amThere are some points in life where I am just lost and trying to find something. When I really look it is because I am not following a schedule very faithfull and stuff is not getting done.
I am trying to find that balance that is just a difficult thing anyhow. I need to organize the kids stuff so it doesn’t take so long to get out of the house. I usually have these moments after the madness we know as church days.
This week I am going to figure out a schedule I can work with.
It’s own entity
February 12, 2008 – 9:31 amI am so excited to announce that The Big Trade Off author has finally made her creations available to the rest of us. You’ll have to go check them out!!
While you are checking her stuff out there is a Mom that has this awesome website and is designing a diaper bag. She would like some in put on what is lacking in current designs.
I am so excited for other moms who are guttzy enough to put their heart and soul into their projects and make them available for sale. I have been trying to promote my own site lately and have found some awesome things out there.
Last week I sold bracelets like a mad lady. I am shocked how much of this business starts becoming it’s own entity. It is like it is alive and helps you connect with people in new ways the blog never could. What a fun project. The bracelets are morphing into some cooler, and stronger versions as some have been broken easier than others. (If you have gotten one of these please just send it back to me and I will fix it:)
I finally got the bumper sticker ad on my car. I am just hoping to drum up some local business. It is just so much fun!!
These are the new designs. I am doing some Disney Princess themed bracelets. The second and third bracelet is Snow W. and Cinderella:) I am thinking the first is a Dora Themed bracelet.
Small invaders.
February 8, 2008 – 3:09 pmDoes anyone know what will get rid of ants? Any good ideas? I hate ants!
About Me
February 7, 2008 – 3:00 pmOk here is a wee bit more info for you about me.
1. My favorite color is Blue, Deep RED, and white
2. I am not a fan of Hillary Clinton
3. Somedays I do have a "favorite" child.
4. Walking around my neighborhood is an activity I love A LOT.
5. I want to try cutting my own hair. Like on the Borne trilogy.
6. I love funky kitchen gadgets.
7. I have a long running love afair with ball point pens.
8. I love to write but hate editting.
9. I have three of the greatest kids on the earth today.
10. I want to be tri lingual
11. I have my own business.
12. I love the song on the Mac Air commercial. OH that makes me just happy all day.
13. I love to shop for scrapbook materials. I putting it together.
14. I love decorating.
15. If I had all the money in the world I would only shop at J Crew.
16. I love organizing things.
17. I love chocolate cake in all it’s many flavors.
Super bowl Sunday
February 5, 2008 – 8:11 pmWith all three children with green drippy noses I stayed home from church and did prep work. Prep for the festive snacking. It started with a huge bottom round roast and ended with pepper and some liquid smoke. I made JERKY. Then breadsticks that were stuffed with cheese. I can’t believe how fast the guacamole went.
I have a neighbor. One of those neighbors that you instantly bond with. We will name her "BOMB". She has always been there in times of need. She is here or I am usually over there. Our kids are all one jumble of fun craziness. We laugh. So hard that tears didn’t drip out they shoot out of my eyes.
She has taught me how to do jerky. I know there will be stories lots of them that I need to post.
Things are booming!
February 5, 2008 – 6:01 amI am pretty excited. I have finally gotten a hold of some adorable bags for the website. I have to get that rolling along with some more designs for Easter! Oh I can’t wait to dress Thing 2 up this year. With a matching bracelet and all.
I am looking for more advertising ideas. I already have a Bumper sticker, and some fun sign ideas. I am still looking to break into selling locally. I have had some major success back east but locally, like the west side of the mississippi well that is another story.
These baby bracelets would fly at the local farmer’s market. I think I will do that this spring along with some craft fairs. I am not sure though that the bracelets is really where I want my focus. I really have some big plans for the site and selling the MOMMY goods. I can’t wait for the bags to get here.
I am leaving on a jet plane. Don’t know when I’ll be back again.
January 22, 2008 – 4:56 pmI am not really riding a jet plane, really I am doing laundry. Something like 15-20 loads. Baby bracelet orders. I have to plug through! I must fold put away and wash nearly all of my family’s clothing items. WOOOOOOT WHOOOOT let’s hear it for laundry.
I am doing better on family birthdays. My Sister’s B-day is comming up and I have to figure out something for her. LOL I am seriously thinking about some thing homemade. Only I watched that commercial for Christmas gifts and there was one about cool gifts being homemade and it was only good if you were under the age of 7. I act seven sometimes. I read steamy love vampire novels like a 17 year old. Does that count for anything?
Well, Must take a break. (I keep saying Im going on a break, but that means no pressure to post tomorrow and so I probably will)
Hee HEE!
I may have to withdraw from the war…
January 20, 2008 – 4:14 amI have so much going on I can’t sit at the computer right now. I knew this day would come. I love battling with you all. But I am going to have to clean my house, visit my family, and oh yeah and keep beading. I will catch up next week. Let me leave you with some photos…..
a whole lot of beading going on!
January 16, 2008 – 9:50 pmThis last order is taking a tole.
I’ll be back!
Oh I am so excited.
January 13, 2008 – 9:21 pmSo I am so excited!! I have finally added some really cool stuff from some awesome MOMS!
Check out the new stuff on the site.
The upside….
January 13, 2008 – 7:49 amThe Band is home today and is taking all the kids for a walk. I love walks. We have conjunctivits. Yeah not full on Pink EYE just an eye goop fest. The poor fish. I am hoping we can take care of it before it spreads.
Must find out if beads came in the mail:) the order for 70 is really kicking my southside going north. I have finshed the diaper wipes covers html on the website. I want like one of each of their designs.
Have you ever…
January 11, 2008 – 6:20 pmWell I am ready for bed. I know it is only 9:16 pm and I have yet to put my sleepy little head down on the pillow. I have been looking at HTML code all day and am trying to figure out what I am continually doing wrong. I had it all figured out at one point but no longer. I will be calling in reinforcements.
I am still beading away. And reading the book. MUST keep posting. Must not loose war!
I don’t think I have gone to bed this early in three months. GOOD NIGHT!
Don’t just go through life LIVE IT!
January 10, 2008 – 9:53 pmOk today…. what a weird day. I started a 70 piece bracelet order. I interviewed for a part time job. And took the kids out driving.
We are poor. There is now other way to describe it. When you start using hand soap for your shower gel….. bad news. My band is going to school and we just moved. All government assistance is in que right now and we will be finding out details of what the next move for employment will be for the band on Friday.
So I have put off working for sometime. ALONG TIME. And so long infact I am afraid that I am no longer an employee marketable. But now I have CEO on my resume. And I am "crazy Bead lady" LOL. right. I do run my own business.
I walked around town trying to find "instant cash" about two weeks ago. I walked into a Tai restaruant and talked to the owner. She asked me what I would like to do. I said I didn’t care. What ever there was to do. Well I left my name and number. WOW. Not even a week later I totally didn’t expect a call. She calls wants to know if I can interview with her husband. Dr… something. Then she proceeds to give me directions. Not to the restaurant but to AMCO Transmission shop. Where I am to ask for Dr. something…
I was talking to my brother as I pulled up to this dark lonley street in a part of town I wasn’t too sure of. (I couldn’t make this stuff up!)
I tell you I walk in and this man behind the counter that looks TAi says, "Are you JD" in his ancient language accent.
I say yes I am. And he pulls in a chair and proceeds to interview me. We chatted I told him that I am available to work evenings doing what ever needs to be done. He says there maybe a spot open in the summer once a week at the Farmer’s Market to work at a booth they run on Wed. I told him how excited I was to work. He was pretty funny because He said over and over and over…..Things that are simple if forgotten cost much more than you are to hire. Example after example of people doing things that are common sense to some but hard for others. I had to hold back my laughter on some. Like throwing away the silver ware with each plate cleared.
Then we started talking business. Found a chord. He is a pHD in Veternary Medicine. He is in Research at UC Davis Med Center. He is the guy you call in when there maybe a pathogen between Animal and Human that they can’t figure out. AWESOME. Wait one question! Why are you running my local AMCO transmission?? I guess research doesn’t pay too well.
So I am set for 4 evenings a week thus far. I am excited to learn how to cook… if they let me and get to know Tai food better. So funny I don’t even know if I like Tai food. Everyone raves about it. We’ll see.
I am worried I will screw things up after hearing all those horror stories. Llike not turning on the rice cooker… Not putting the right amount of rice or water in it. I think I can, I think I can…..
it is only temporary right? I am telling myself that. It does make for some great blog fodder.
Four years later… JD COOK TAI! JD COOK TAI real GOOD!
It is 11:16 and my children are still awake.
January 7, 2008 – 8:27 pmOH shoot me now. I have no skills when it comes to bedtime. Esp. when we had three hour afternoon naps. I am just going to say this. The ability to run my washing machine, vacume, and dishwasher worth it. I just found out that there are those in Chico tonight who have been out of power since Friday and won’t get it turned on until EARLIEST Wed. Folks now that is just sad.
The Band finds out if he was offered a new position that would provide more income and BENIFITS!! He has been going to school people. It has been one long starve fest. Ok not really but we haven’t had real benifits for all of us since I can’t even think back that far!!
That should be tomorrow. I am so excited!
OK almost 48 hours with no Power!
January 6, 2008 – 7:07 pmOk I can understand a couple of hours. We did have some pretty strong winds. But come on people 24 hours at the most. I cannot believe how dependent we are on ELECTRICITY!!
I just don’t think it was fair to loose my own Blogging War over the weather. Can I still Be in it if I post twice today?? LOL
I am seriously having withdrawls from the current of electrical things in my house. I know that reading books was fun. And playing indoor games. And actually being able to cook (thank you gas stove). But man it was a very exhaustive two days. Then the power went on but very weakly. Three hours later it was out again. UHHHG! Then it came on full boar. I am anxious it will go out again. All the laundry that has been hanging out for two days is now being done at 9:50 pm. It is kinda fun having the family all be together as you move from upstairs to down stairs in the dark.
It is just an errie thing to watch the Golden Arches not even have power by the freeway. It was so dark we all saw so clearly the stars that were out through the patches of grey-blue clouds. It was a wierd sight pulling into our neighborhood with all these candles burning in the windows.
Folks we live in California for goodness sakes I thought that poweroutages like this only happened to "other" people. Like those in that place I heard of on "All things considered" in New York state where it gets so cold your car doesn’t start. Not sunny Cali-forn-IA. Maybe I need to take a second look at that one film about Global Warming …. what was it called….. the one with that guy…. oh yeah "Happy Feet". Maybe I can then fit into my mostly lefty loving liberal neighborhood.
So I would like to add somethings to the list in my last post….
1. Power for all those with children and Senior Citizens.
I tried it I liked it…
January 3, 2008 – 11:42 amFor about an hour and 15 minutes my children played in the kitchen at their little Ikea table and chairs with Play-Dough. I tried this recipe for the first time.
2 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1 cup salt
2 table spoons vegtable oil
1 table spoon cream of tartar.
Cook on medium low heat until it hardens and forms a soft dough.
I used kosher salt and it really worked fast. I would recommend disolving the salt in the water first. Then it isn’t so grainy.
The first day.
January 2, 2008 – 6:10 pmIsn’t it funny how when you wake up you have a totally different outlook on things by mid day and by mid day you have a totally different outlook than at 9pm in the night time.
I am a walking zombie by four pm these days. All usefulness I feel I have has really been shot by three thirty. So I schedule some heavy duty tasks by noon or they don’t get done.
I am starting to work out tomorrow on a REGULAR basis. This pretty much is every year’s resolution. I am wondering if it will be like the blogging war. The drive to win has really made me post everyday for the past three days now. Incredible. So regular basis I am going to define as once a week. I just need more energy…. Who doesn’t. Well I can think about once a week and get it over tomorrow. I’ll be strapping on my running shoes. Or biking. or whatever. I just will workout.
Then I will blog about it ….. Wow this could work.
Bunk Beds and Schedules
December 31, 2007 – 1:40 pmDid I mention we put the Things in bunk beds? Thing one is getting to be a big man around here. His age still can be expressed on one hand yet he is getting all growed up.(Just making those english majors cringe)
He and his sister have both been on strike. A nap strike these past few weeks. Which has been intresting to say the least. We do more stuff but there is definately limits in the afternoon. The other night I was cooking dinner around 5:30 and I walked into the living room to find Thing1 asleep on the couch. I was baking cookies and put them on wax paper. Made it smoke a bit. Ok a little more than a bit. All of the sudden I experienced really loud alarms. They were going off in unison. Accompanied by two babies that were scared into a chorus of screaming. Thing 1 ….. didn’t even budge. No twitching no reaction.
I am going to have to scale the bunk bed and fire fighter style rescue that kid, if there is a fire in the middle of the night.
It is ON like Teff-lon!
December 30, 2007 – 8:28 pmI have to begin this post with an apology for that one post that one day. Thanks Soggy Cherrios for the wonderful comment left that day. I couldn’t leave it up cause it was a real "Debbie Downer" momment.
And things have been so good!
So the duel is for sure on and you are invited to fight for your right to POST like crazy computer geeks! Oh wait I resemble one of those. GEEZE! How did I get here? I have now two years under my blogging belt?? Really?
Well nothing says keep it comming baby like a posting war!!! See?
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And the winner is …..
December 18, 2007 – 6:51 pmBeth! Thanks so much for taking a gander Folks. And now back to the regularly scheduled program…….
Secret?? New Site! oh and There is a GIVE AWAY!
December 13, 2007 – 8:09 pmIt is READY!!!! I know that every other post seems to be Baby Bling so now there is a place I can put it!! Announcing my new site…..
This is my my new Baby. It’s the scarriest and funnest thing I have done in a long time. I would love for it to be a place where moms can sell their Crafty Creations. I do have a couple of more things in the works, but if you know any moms that want to parade their wares send them my way. JD@mommakes.com
I have to give a big shout out to my web designer LIANNE thanks so much for the reality.
I have to admitt I stole the first Bright Idea on the site from a Works for Me Wednesday entry from someone I can’t remember. Maybe it was you Itty bitty Frog Ideas. But, any whoooo. The site is up and the BABY BLING has a new home!!
So for the lauch I am giving away a Wee Baby Bangle!! The contest will end on Monday Dec 17th at 9pm PST so I can hopefully get it out to you before Christmas!! What do you have to do?? Just enter a comment with your email address telling me what you thought of the site. I swear I won’t spam ya! It would be sooo nice if you could mention the site on your blogs but is isn’t necessary. Which bracelet you ask?? Cinnamon & Sugar!!
I know, it is one of my Favorites. And best of all I can Get back to blogging!!
Things I love….
December 8, 2007 – 7:00 pmGas Stoves
Garbage Disposals
Drinkable Tap Water
Stairs (Cause baby I need the exercise)
Bunk Beds
Steam Cleaners That wipe out all the Bad nasties in Germ world.
Town homes with no YARD!!
Kids who finally start getting back on a schedule.
DISTASTE
December 7, 2007 – 8:06 pmI dislike: MOVING
Sick Kids while: MOVING
Trying to Dress Myself While: MOVING
Eating Decent Meals while: MOVING
I would Love to say hear and now that I am done moving. But that would be a straight up lie.
There is a secret.
November 22, 2007 – 12:41 pmNext week is a big week for us. Not only moving. But I will announce the "BIG NEWS" for everyone. ( AND, NO MOM IM NOT PREGNANT!) I don’t want to announce it until all the details are complete and I have some loose ends to tie up still. Christmas is comming and Boy are we all excited.
Happy Thanks Giving!
Leaving..
November 9, 2007 – 4:10 pmWe are for sure moving but my mind hasn’t wrapped around the concept yet. I am still in a haze. I have been sick with a good head cold that makes my whole body ache. We are headed South to a little town called Davis. I love the feel of the new place when we have gone down to look for housing. I just am going to have a hard time leaving this place. We have had such fun here for the past 3 and some years.
I usually am ready to leave because I have had some major time to think about the move. NOT so this time. We have really looked and found a place or two, and need to be packing all our booty out of here. I am slow and snail like these past three days because I have had that "out-of -your- body" feeling for that long.
The things are excited not to be thrown in the car at a momment’s notice to go and look at cool places to live.
Comming Down off the high.
November 4, 2007 – 7:32 pmOh I just loved the Fall Ya’ll giveaways. Checking out what people were offering was so fun. I am wondering if I could find those bloggies again that had all the cool stuff. Well back to the reality of life again I guess.
We are definately moving I napped extra long and will be leaving the computer to dig through more stuff in the garage. I am selling so much stuff on Craigs list to unclutter all the stuff we have acumulated over the past four or so years. We are down sizing the amount of square footage we will have and that makes for some fun stuff to junk.
I find it definately matters how much I am willing to part with depending upon my time of the month. Catch me on a good day and the whole house would be empty in three days. Well I have a limitted amount of time and a huge amount of things to get accomplished.
Anyone want to come to the Garage Sale on Nov. 17th?
OH how I need a New Header!!
November 4, 2007 – 1:22 pmYeah it is Fall Ya’ll and there is a free header design!! Check it out baby!
I told you it was awesome and I just want a wee chance to win.
SURE I HAVE MORE!!
November 3, 2007 – 7:48 amIf you love the BABY BLING they are only $4.00 a piece. I can even customize the colors and types of beads for you.
E-Mail me if you’re interested!!
JD@bagitup.com
BABY BLING! Here You ARE!!
November 2, 2007 – 7:38 pm*******NO LONGER Running We have a WINNER!!!**********
Congrats to Michelle B @ OUR FULL HOUSE
I couldn’t miss out on this oppertunity to get rid of some stuff! The Baby Bling of a couple months ago went untouched on EBAY. So Here you go! Congrats to the winner. I will announce the winner on Saturday November 3rd, 10pm. Pacific Standard Time
Want other cool stuff??
Enter and winn!! Rocks in My Dryer is hostin this sha-bang!! She is just one smart cookie is what I say! 
I am addicted to every inch of this Woman’s Site!
October 29, 2007 – 6:46 pmPlease tell me that this is a dream I fell into. All the fun stuff this mom has on her website is amazing! What can I say I am off to the store tomorrow for some of her amazing Ideas. I need to get streamlined if we are going to pull off this move without a hitch.
*Don’t get me wrong but to really pull it off without a hitch is going to be nothing short of a miracle. My Band works and goes to school people for heavens sakes. It will be me, myself and I moving us. That is three children and two adults. None of the children are able to pack their own boxes mind you. Even if they were…. "No way SuZAY." Would I let them. I would end up with some scarry things in those boxes. (That would be a direct quotage from Thing 1 yesterday)
PG. 379 of 498….
October 25, 2007 – 6:20 pmThe answer to all your questions is YES!!! Oh what was the question…
Are you totally gripped by the book "Twilight" ?
AGAIN my Answer is YES!!
Big things big things are a brewing….
October 16, 2007 – 5:11 pmI can’t even think of what to blog these days I have so much and so little time to sit in one place.
Any quick post suggestions. 15 minutes or less? any good recipes you know of?? I am always on the look out for good recipes:)
Catching up….
October 10, 2007 – 12:01 pmWell I’m back and loving it just hanging out with my friend LAPTOP. We are good friends. I never realized how dependent upon him I am for things like recipes, advice, and other such things. I am pretty sad when he had to go for awhile.
So here is the skinny. Cleaning my house got a whole lot easier now that I have lowered my expectations of cleanliness. LOL no really I am still on a deep clean rampage. Only now I have deep cleaned a lot so it is in maintain mode. This is the part I am netoriously bad at. Oh well. It is clean for a bit anyway.
I am so excited for school this week we have had such funny things said around our house when there are six small 2 year olds.
The neighbor’s horses are always a big hit. We were all stunned into silence as we watched them run and a small girly voice broke that silence with….
"Oh I just loved to run when I was a horse!"
I love preschool!! LOVE LOVE preschool.
The Deep Clean.
September 26, 2007 – 2:47 pmI bought new socks.
Threw away a whole drawer full of socks.
The following items were found in said drawer with the socks that were hopelessly mismatched.
- The elussive pair of Nail Clippers
- telephone cord.
- bill fold full of buisness cards my husband collected as a loan officer.
- checkbook.
I love purging stuff. Brand new socks oh they already feel so good on my feet. And I replaced my running shoes. I have had the same ones for uuuuummmmm 8 years. Only pair mind you. Yeah I am gonna get back into some sort of sport. Look out city recreation office I am comming to sign up for some really great classes.
I am noticing a pattern of cleaning. My house is never cleaner than just after someone comes to visit. This is the time I really start noticing all the details I missed in my rush to get this straightened up in the first place. UHHH…. anyone wanna come visit so I can deep clean my house just after you’ve gone?
A friend says goodbye…
September 20, 2007 – 6:53 amMy friend really was suffering with a cancer that she had licked and then returned. I am sad she is gone but happy she is not battling the battle anymore.
May you rest in peace my friend. Thanks for the laughs.
I post therefore I am.
August 10, 2007 – 9:01 amThere have been countless posts with countless pictures to go with them. I have yet to throw together. I am recovering from my summer semester. Hind sight in my case is always 20/15. I have only gotten back one grade and it was an A-. Yes folks an A on my transcripts that isn’t Art or Gym. Ok so… Since I have posted last….
The band has been out of work, the car broke down. I started school with a two month old, two year old, and a three year old. We don’t own a vehicle that is less than ten years old. No AC and some soaring temperatures of 113+.
And…I think I may have done the best semester of school in my entire college (12 Year) career. To sum that up again. I done good. So now all I need is a Katrina Strength hurricane to blow through town next time I take a full load of classes and I think I will pull off a 4.0!!
Currently I am on day four of neglecting-house-work-deep-clean. I enjoy this chore becasue I am reminded every so often of what the carpet color is and what it used to be like. I did find my son in a pile of salt that he was using as sand for his trucks the other day. I love the creativity of these fine youth these days.
This summer’s education brought interesting knowledge. For example, in other cultures there are those toddlers that continually following their parents watching in silence their every move inorder to learn their future duties. They will sit quietly for hours on end just watching the mothers cook, clean and prepare things for the village or home they live in. No wonder I despise learning about other cultures.
Another thing that is getting under my dermis…always hearing that money and the pursuit of it will never bring happiness. I have yet to meet the person with ten dollars left in his/her account that said "Ahhhh.. I have never been so happy in my entire life." I wouldn’t call poverty a good choice of mood enhancement therapy.Oh the lies we tell ourselves to feel better.
Yeah the past couple of months have been spent doing some major balancing acts. School and family are difficult to say the least to attempt at the same time. Like I said hind sight 20/15 for me. I don’t think I will sucker myself into that again.
The title says it all.
June 2, 2007 – 10:21 amI am currently taking a course in "Dealing with Difficult People". It is an education psychology course. My major is psychology but this set of courses are normally taken as a course for Masters Program at the University I attend. Some are offered online occasionally. When they are I am prone to take them. One is called "Intro to Positive Psychology", another is called, "Enhancing Happiness and Life Satisfaction". Those are for next semester LOL. Gaining knowlege is one thing, applying and living that knowlege is a totally different "ball of jelly". As I found out completeing the course titled "Forgiveness and Anger Reduction" LOL.
I love the course title.One thousand words comming right up…
May 21, 2007 – 7:29 pm
It could very well be that we are having too much fun with the computer. But I will be the first to tell you I LOVE IT!!
Maybe I can relate…
May 13, 2007 – 8:03 amThe other day, yesterday to be exact, I saw a spider in it’s web. My little girl was yelling "Get it! Get it!" Now we usually just put them outside. But I didn’t have the heart to take down it’s cozy little home. It had settled in already. Spent time "unpacking" so it seemed. I didn’t have the urge to squwish or mangle it. I just thought it tried so hard to do one simple thing.
Survive.
I am pretty sure the metephor for me is clear. I am doing the samething on a daily basis. Just trying to survive. When you face the demons that are hiding (sometimes literallly) in your closet you tend to be a wee bit more sensitive. That is what has been going on lately. I am trying to get a handle on the small stuff first.
So what is going on?? So glad you asked….
The Band is finding out where he is going to transfer to finish up his Bacholor’s degree.(Wednesday)
I am starting a full load of online classes. One with the title "Coping with difficult people".(Tuesday)
I just ordered a new laptop.(Should arrive Tuesday/Wednesday)
I would like to start selling things on Ebay. Just don’t have all the guts it takes to start, yet.
We need a newer bigger vehicle. (I am finding myself looking in the rearview mirror at the three carseats side by side in our compact car. Simutaniously, praying over and over "please leave his eyes kids, please leave him his eyes")
The plate maybe full just with those, but no….one of the quirks (demons), I tend to fight, is putting too much on the flippin’ plate in the first place. So I can migrate to my comfort spot- crisis management mode-. I accomplish more, feel the rush, and live my dreams when I am stress to the max mode. Only the dreams I dream are slow developing, endurance requiring, one-baby step-at-a-time dreams.
My new found love is a show called "Rob and Big" on MTV. I am not supporting the wide variety of horrific programing that channel has to offer, but that paticular show has had me in stitches lately.
Last night I watched On-Demand the episode about the trip to the video game makers. Rob visited his family. They were fishing. He said something to the effect that his entire life is based upon the principle of instant gratification and that fishing sucked for him. I giggled, out loud only because I related so well to that comment. My dreams are fishing dreams and my functioning brain works in "got to have it now".
This is why I dearly love being a parent of 3 three and under. I know if I had it to do all over again I would still choose this path over and over. They are constantly going. Constantly doing, creating, and growing. That is the thrill of the game of "stay at home adventurer" or the instant gratification part. Letting go, for me, of the stigmas of "normal", "perfect", and "ideal" this is the difficult part. The part I am finding takes time, requires effort,and is not fast to change.
I love a challenge. Like school, it has provided a challenge for me for over a decade now:) So modifying the approach to the dreams is going to have take place. To dream big, I need to plan big. One chunk at a time. Not to big. Not, too small. Just right…. ahhh.
So Rob thanks for the insight, and Little spider in my house… WEB ON!
Laptop down…..
May 11, 2007 – 8:31 amYes it finally died with all pictures and movie clips with it. Oh I am soooo sad and broken hearted. I am writing on my husband’s work laptop while he takes a nap. I will keep checking for those who would like to get the books I have on half.com for free!
I am getting a MacBook and I am so excited to see what it can do. I am tired of the PC problems. I will be back with pictures of the bath and other things I have been up to.
If you want it you got it!
May 8, 2007 – 12:50 pmI am decluttering the house full of BOOKS! I have so much stuff just sitting around I need to dejunk! I figure if you are reading my blog I can send you free books.
Just take a look and tell me what you want I will send it out De GRACA. (FREE Ninty-nine)
Here is the inventory link from half.com I haven’t sold any for awhile so list the ones you would like and they will be there in a coulpe of days pending you send me your address via email. Check the side bar for my address. Who ever gets their request in first I will send them the book.
Happy hunting!
I will be displaying pictures.
April 29, 2007 – 11:05 amThere was a bit of wonderful news on Wednesday so it has spurred on the painting of the bathroom. I guess I have a funny way of celebrating. But I am not sure who loves it more me or my BAND.
The pictures will come when we complete the project
Until then….
What color should I do the bedroom?
It is all about the Music
April 25, 2007 – 7:49 amSeven songs that I am listening to right now!! Thanks BON for the TAG!!
1. Augustana- Boston
2. Brandie Carlile- Story
3. banana pancakes- jack johnson
4. pop goes my heart- music and lyrics soundtrack
5.My sister kate- ditty bops
6. Bambi Lee Savage- Darlin’
7.They might be giants- The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
So what are you listening to??
1. Stephanie
2. Emma
3. Gabriela
4. DYM
6. Karen
7. Stephanie ( Adventures in Babywearing)
One new coat.
April 24, 2007 – 10:09 amIs the coat you wear different than one that you paint on. I just painted my frount room the same color as I did my other room. It looks pretty good. Slowly but surely we are getting things around here in order. I am now just ahead of the massive title wave that has been thrashing me around lately. Do I love taking on more than I can chew? Yes. So painting until all hours on Saturday night seemed like a wonderful idea. Thing 2 decided to throw up that night anyways so I am pretty sure I am glad I was awake and productive. Besides it makes me itchy to clean when things are nicely painted. Now I just need to replace all the furniture LOL and we are good to go.
We had friends over for dinner on Sunday.
I forget how much I love this recipe until, I make it. It is like a perfect spring summer meal. Not to heavy but very filling. Last night I fell in love with it all over again. It takes me less than 20 minutes to throw all together.There were six adults and two of these babies fed all of us. Just don’t look at the calories, nor the fat amount on the nutrition information. In my defense three out of six of us were breastfeeding so we needed the extra boost in calories.
I did return to church yesterday. My husband was home with the kids and everything seemed to go so much smoother There was just one little boy that is my son’s age. He came up to me and was sitting on my lap when he turned to me and grabbed my "hidden six pack" and with a giddy tone in his voice said….."Oh this is soooooo SQUISHY!!! YAHHHHHH!!SQAUIIISHHHHY!!"
Nothing like a bit of public humiliation to start me on a strict diet of exersise TV on DEMAND.
So this week:
One workout focusing on the abs. (Probably Wed.)
One ride around the block on the bike (Friday)
One walk with the kids at the park. (Tuesday)
Now all I have to do is work on follow through.
Stunned speachless.
April 17, 2007 – 8:33 amOk, so I am tired. So I have time at 3 in the morning to watch Grey’s anatomy Season Two. So I have a life outside of my three kids that includes church……I can handle it right?
Yesterday was church and I am still recovering. I teach the 6-7 year olds in primary( AKA Sunday School). We had to combine with the 3-5 year olds. UHHHHGGG! Doing the math there were fourteen children in the classroom. One of these children was my own sweet, gentle, kind, Thing 1. Who hadn’t had a nap. And was trying to sit in his seat for more than three minutes.
Midway through the lesson he started yelling "NO!" in a freakishly loud high pitched scream. I looked at him and asked him to kindly stop. Followed by "That hurts the kid’s ears". His response was to scream louder and more frequent. I pulled him from the room (exactly what he wanted) and had a firm talk with him. Pulling him back into the class room I started teaching again. He started screaming again.
Here come the threats.
JD:Scream again, and I am going to find your father.
Thing 1: Yeah, I want DADDY!
JD: Scream again, and I will have to put your trains away.
Thing 1: Ok, you can do that.
JD: That is it sit on my lap I have to hold your mouth for you.
The children in the class room: Just ground him for three weeks!!
And then he screamed again………..
That is when I had had it. I just looked at him and I said absolutley nothing. I was dumb founded. I couldn’t even pull out the "I am serious" arrow out of my bag. I had nothing more. He had won fair and square. Exhaustion had conqued his reason, obedience, and logic. For me it conquered rage, warfare, and I didn’t even have the energy to get upset. I just chuckled and kept on teaching.
He didn’t have trains when we got home. I told him he could try again next church day to get those back. I guess I will be exploring the theme of public discipline of tired children until then.
Prayer…..
April 14, 2007 – 9:51 amA few weeks back I had an experience with prayer that really stunned me. My entire adult life I had heard in church the stories of sisters pleading with their Heavenly Father for help and someone rings their doorbell or phone. I never really had a connection with these stories until it happened to me. I reallly have had some challenges in recovering. I am doing much better everyday but there was one day when the frustration of not being totally up to snuff and ready to get to work knocked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the bed and bawling when I remembered….. prayer.
I quickly and earnestly prayed that something would happen. I remember the request being something to the effect of "thou knowest I can’t do this, help me find a way to do it". As I ended my prayer I glanced up to see my husband all ready for work and kissing my forhead to leave.
The next thing I knew five or so minutes had past. The phone rang and my husband answered. He said a friend had called and she had all the stuff I was stressing taken care of.
I couldn’t believe how wonderful it is to know that I was not alone. I had not only a loving friend but a loving Heavenly Father to take care of me. Her timing was perfect. Her heart was ready to listen and act. I was so greatful for a belief system that includes a loving God. I became keenly aware that He knew me and my situation. In times comfort and times of need he knows me. I am his daughter.
I have found that spiritual moments in my life are like an EKG print out. There are some peaks and valleys, followed sometimes by some flatlines of mundaneness. The peaks are what makes my faith knowledge, and gets me through the valleys and leveling off. Since the baby has arrived the sensitivity to the spiritual things has heightened. Humiliation, frustration, struggle, trials in my life have been as salt to soup. They bring out the flavor of kindness, love, hope, faith, friendship, and family.
I am so overwhelmed with gratitude for the small peaks in my life. For the friends who listen to a nudge by the spirit to act. My prayers now are different. I plead that I can be sensitive enough to act.
i love a give away!!
April 2, 2007 – 8:08 am5 minutes for mom is having a give away of the best kind!!! go check it out!!
To contract or not to contract…
March 5, 2007 – 8:17 pmI have just hit the time warp. The one where the past 8.5 months has been in hyperdrive. And now the last to weeks it is like time has stood still. In the past week there has been the question "Is this it?" and everytime the answer comes in the form of "well we’ll see in an hour from now."
No, we have not had sufficiant strength in any of the contractions. Today I did Yoga and a Hip hop workout to get things stirred up again. Nothing but hemroids are causing me any true discomfort. The hemorids themselves have caused me to put myself on bedrest. I do enjoy my two soaks aday in the tub as well. The baby has dropped though. I actually have more of my torso back. It is nice to see such a wonderful display of the breasts I have been bragging about this entire pregnancy. Too bad I have been mostly horizontal so I don’t get to show them to all my friends and family. LOL.
My MIL and sister are here to keep me sane and chase after the kids all day. We have all my room set and ready for the little baby. All the onzies you can imagine (Washed, folded, and put away in their right drawers.) Outfits for the next couple of months followed by wash cloths and baby towles, and socks.
We have had the Fish’s name picked out for so long that the only thing I can think of that is not ready is the car. It is dirty. Tomorrow morning we will have that taken care of. The two babies I have given birth to have been right on time. I should have guessed that this one would be no different and if he isn’t I am hookin myself up to some major Pitocin on Saturday.
I do love the wives tales that are suposed to help labor get going. Got any good ones? The famous one is drinking insane amounts of casteroil.
The Fish
March 1, 2007 – 6:53 pmMonday- OB appointment.
JD: So any guesses on weight?
OB: Mom’s are usually the closest ones. They can usually tell if the baby is bigger than the last one.
JD: Oh this one is bigger.
OB:(looking down at my chart) Bigger than 9lbs. 9oz. ??
JD: yeah, I think so, but I do have that annoying habit of over exaggerating. Should I schedule the C-section now??
OB: No, I think you should be fine.
*on with the pelvic exam.
OB: You are a one to a two. Let’s just see if we can’t stir things up a bit. (strip membranes)
JD: (in a fit of shock and pain forgets to breathe, sits up and starts seeing stars.)
Alright!
OB: Well we will see you next week, if not sooner.
Since then I have been contracting every ten minutes, then twenty, then ten again. For the past three days. Today they changed into the contractions that you say….. Oh yeah I remember now. Only now they are still 20 or so minutes apart.
If I deliver 10 days early I am excited! If not no sweat. We tried. So it has given me a huge kick in the butt to get stuff done around here.
I am excited to see this little guy’s face.
Starting is good..
February 23, 2007 – 8:53 pmI will not whine about being pregnant, I will not whine about being pregnant. I have only a few more short weeks left. I am amazed at how many new stretch marks have graced my stomach. See that wasn’t sooooo whiney.
Thing 1 sitting in the shopping cart at Wally world spots a man with the same build as his daddy, with the same hair color.
"LOoook Mommy It’s DADDY!" Shouts directly at the said gentle man as he passes in the opposite direction.
All I could do as I made direct eye contact with the man was laugh. Out loud. Nervously. It almost sounded like my son was soliciting for a father. I started to waddle faster because I was laughing. There I was pushing a cart with two kids and one very much on the way. And me without my wedding ring.I wanted to say, " Hey, Big Daddy" but my laughter interupted me. Holy akward batman.
There are so many things this child does to make me laugh. Pee a little. And Laugh again. He is starting to repeat the things he hears. And remembers the most amazing things. I brought out an old blanket. He hadn’t seen it in like 7-8 months, but remembers that I made it into a puppet for him and would bite his hand.
He has so much fun watching Cinderella. He has this really loud and very high pitched laugh when he sees the cat Lucifer. I thought that my daughter would like the movie, and she does, but not half as much as my Thing 1.
The Office Obsession
I am addicted, I have to watch. Laugh A LOT. Pee a Little. Laugh some more. This evening’s episode was no different.
Grey’s Anatomy……
Um, can I say Chocolate without the calories. Yes that is what it is like for me. I like it.
Ebay
I know there is something for me to buy, but I haven’t found it yet. And it is driving me a wee bit batty. I can’t commit to anything.
The BABY
I think we have settled on a name. Ahhhhhh. One less thing to have to worry about.
Experiment 1 Results
February 7, 2007 – 7:01 pmI do realize that anxiety drove this experiment, but I am really about facing the fears and moving through them trying relaxation techniques while doing them. Inviting people over to the house has really helped the upkeep of the house. Yesterday night went really well. I am close to the point of not even flinching when the doorbell rings.
I realize I just want some hands on training somedays. Mostly to watch those "my-house-is-spotless-everyday" moms do the things they do each day. Do they wipe down the entire high chair every meal? Do they vacume with the edger every time? Do they mop two or three times a week? Do they ever clean the carseats without previously having some sort of offensive oder accident? Do any of them allow you to shadow them for the day?
Now I understand that when your "Things" get older and can clean on their own you have more help. But my theory these days is "Do what you can, and don’t stress over the rest" This attitude has been the general feeling of untidyness since the teenage years. And often has plunged me deeper and deeper into my own muck. I think the more recent frame of mind is "why shovel snow in a blizzard?" but by days end I am exhausted and tell myself "I’ll do it in the morning". I do run the dishwasher and clothes washer during the am hours pretty often.
If anyone is willing to share the hidden secrets of the spotless home matienance program I would love to learn. Not necessarily implement but for now learn.
New Strategy
February 6, 2007 – 9:19 amSomethings go pretty smooth around here. I am regularly getting out of the house with my church duties and entertaining the children duties. I am pretty sure that my house is in need of a total make over. So I have decided to invite people over at least once a week. This will inspire a swish of the toilet, a mop of the floor, and maybe a toy free living room. This is all in theory stage still. I will probably beimplemting the 70-30 rule of cleaning. The most visible areas are generally spotless. The children’s bedrooms, closets, and my bedroom…..scarry.
Tonight will be experiment number one. I will have two families over for games and family time. We probably will be having way too much fun to notice that the hallway carpet hasn’t been edged yet. Or that the pine needles in the window ceil haven’t been dusted away since the tree left our house a month ago.
I will post on the results of the evening’s happenings.
20 %
February 3, 2007 – 5:43 pmI am wondering why I put off the posts I want to post and then I realize I have children. They are all snuggly in their beds right now. So here we go. The posts I want to post but don’t usually have this much time. It is about 7:36pm an my house is surprisingly quiet. I am sitting on the love seat and the laptop is keeping my legs warm and toasty. I am surounded by small toys, books and a train track that my Band brought home for the kids. The engine is on the top most shelf that is above the back door. It is taking a rest. It needs a rest because Thing 1 starts crying 5 minutes after mommy has placed the wheels aligned nicely along the track. Then it comes off the track as soon as Thing 2 sees the cue to seek and destroy. I believe we will be finding a new place in the garage for the train to take a more permenent rest.
I am craving ice cream with hot chocolate mix spinkled liberally on top. I am wondering how many over due library books I have still in the house. I haven’t been concerned about the fact that in five weeks there is another bundle of joy arriving in our house and I haven’t washed, nor searched for one single blue bonnet, nor do I care to.
Last night I rang my own cell phone 4 times to find it. I started tearing apart my bedroom dresser then bookshelf, then the other dresser, when I finally turned to our baby sitter and said …. I don’t get how it sounds like it is everywhere in here!! She was just as baffled. After the dialing my cell for the fourth time I realized I wasn’t getting anywhere fast and my hand drifted into my pocket to find my keys, in the same pocket my hand found the cell phone I was desperately searching for.
Family last weekend was in town and we all left to visit and eat at the nearest living relative’s home here in town. I happened to glance down at my feet as I was walking and to my horror found two different shoes winking at me as I walked up to the door. Both shoes were of the slip on variety. Then later I was putting my son’s shoes back on and put the first one on the wrong foot. There were a couple of families gathered that noticed and tried to get my attention. When they finally did, I smiled and turned to the shoe mass and showed them my very own selection of shoe wear. We all had a good chuckle.
One of my friends told me that you loose 20% of your brain capacity while pregnant. When I had only 50% to work with this gets pretty ugly, pretty fast.
One of my friends that does the Preschool co-op is moving to the big City just to the south of us. She was worried about finances due to the cost of living these days in that city. We discussed how she could make ends meet and then she paused….."We really have been contemplating fostercare, but we really need to look into it more."
All of my thirty percent brain capacity focused in on what she had just said. Instanly I came to the conclusion she was putting her three children (under three years old mind you) into fostercare to earn some money. At first I could see how she could "save" money but maybe it was just a sintax error that she said "earn". Then I thought it was because she could work and not have to stress about daycare. So my verbal response was in essence "Oh, you could always leave the kids over here until you figured something out. I swear I am not a bad baby sitter and the big city isn’t that far away." We had to end our conversation because our children were creating mahem in their state of freedom from Mom.
Two weeks passes. I then call her to see how things were going and she said great. Then I hesitantly asked her about the idea of fostercare. She said she was still open to the idea only she wanted to get the move out of the way first. To which I responded by saying, "Now really I promise that I am not that bad with kids, I can handle the ones that are smaller than me. If we need to work something out we really can." To which she responded….."JD are you thinking that I am giving up my kids to fostercare??" and from that point on she nor I could keep the conversation going because we were laughing so hard. I was so relieved that I had not told a soul about what she said and how I was interpreting it. Only now I can’t stop telling the story to everyone I see.
20% loss ehhh? I am waiting for my new parking decal in the mail that has a nice blue tint to it…. it kinda looks like this…..
I am pretty sure that the most common misconception is that you gain that 20% back when you deliver the baby….. for me I think it was an unconscious donnation.
Visitors Welcome….But there is a limit.
January 19, 2007 – 9:16 amFor the past seven months I have had a visitor. This visitor has brought on some mood swings, some over indulgence of food, some crying spells when my children do anything cute and so on. Oh and some oversized chest orniments. I don’t generally mind when this visitor comes and hangs out for this long only now is about the time I am sick of the visitor.
Yesterday as I sat on the toilet seat watching Thing1 and Thing2 play happily in the bath. I turned and the visitor started sending what felt like electrical shock waves through my lower back. This was a pain that was to be feared.
Quickly I doubled over and tried to get into a postion that didn’t make me want to die. Muscle spasms were sending me to the floor. I instantly remembered the feeling from when my back went out my freshman year of College.
Lessons learned in those agonizing moments.
1. If you are in the bathroom don’t look at the floor. Many thoughts came to my mind as I looked.
"If I get stuck in this position I will only want one thing….. a mop to clean this gross floor." Followed by …."Is that really how big the laundry pile has gotten in here" and finally "I can’t see if one of my children is drowning the other. They sound like they are having a total blast."
2. Have a cell phone handy. "Only to call someone that can’t come to your aid, because you are totally embaressed of the floor that is in your bathroom."
3. If you start crying in front of toddlers they will ask you what is wrong and want to kiss the OWEEE.
4. Stretch out slowly so the muscles can relax.
5. The word vasectomy has a really nice ring to it.
6. Adoption is a wonderful and exciting thought.
7. Ice packs and hot baths are my two bestfriends.
So pregnancy you can come and visit, but around the seventh month I am not going to be happy to see your face as I drink my morning cup of water. I am giving you a six week notice. After that visiting days are over and I bring out the trampoline, trailer park speed bumps, the old wives tales (except the one about casteroil. Ewe), and fierce dancing to the music "Let’s get it started" by the Black Eyed Peas.
You have been sufficiantly warned.
Angry days
January 10, 2007 – 9:41 amI am pregnant and have many more angry days than I would normally allow myself.
On angry days I……
1. listen to music
2. put my kids to bed early
3. write in the angry journal
4. pout with my scowly face on.
5. take a nap.
6. clean aggressively ( usually am so greatful for an angry day, one day after angry day. I catch up on all my laundry, wash the floors, and finish all the household projects I don’t want to look at anymore)
7. eat yummy food (This could be sad if my metabolism changes from jack rabbit to walrus in the near future)
8. read
What things do you do on "angry" days?
Tagged and loving it..
January 9, 2007 – 4:46 pmOnce upon at time I was taggged.
I would like to appologize to one of the coolest bloggers out there.
1. Three things that scare me:
Heights
Running out of oxygen.
The thought of the My kids getting hurt.
2. Three people who make me laugh:
My Band (While watching PlayHouse Disney.."How do they convince those people to come out of the woods to sing for Disney?")
My Brother (Ladies he’s still single)
Thing 13. Three things I hate the most:
Haters
Fear
Ignorance
4. Three things I don’t understand:
Why you would be a Seattle Seahawks fan when you could be a San Diego CHARGERS fan.
Why anyone would choose 4" pumps over slippers.
What is really happening in Darfur.
5. Three things I’m doing right now:
Putting some finishing touches on the ears, eyes, and digestive system of the baby in my belly.
Typing
Drinking (water)
6. Three things I want to do before I die:
Snowboard in powder in the Canadian Rockies.
Eat Pinapple again in Brasil.
Run a marathon.
7. Three things I can do:
Forget things
Laugh really hard at my own jokes.
Love my Kids
8. Three ways to describe my personality:
Wacky
Loyal
Loving
9. Three things I can’t do:
smoke
Drive wrecklessy
Argue well when really mad.
10. Three things I think you should listen to:
Josh Rabin
The Ditty Bops
The Truth
11. Three things you should never listen to:
Negativity
Bad Rap
Connie Chung sing the blues.
12. Three things I’d like to learn:
To Paint well
360 on a Snowboard.
To Play Rugby.
13. Three favorite foods:
Chicken Enchiladas
Anything Alfredo
Anything at PF Chang’s
14. Three beverages I drink regularly:
Water
Hot Chocolate with homemade whipcream.
Grape Juice
15. Three shows I watched as a kid:
Sesame Street
The Great Space Coaster
Pinwheel
16. Three people I’m tagging :
Steph (At Mom Universe)
Gabriela (@ Living the vida Loca)
Potter Potter Potter
January 5, 2007 – 10:28 amI just noticed I have neglected to update the Potter enteries. I am totally hooked. I just finished the fifth book last week and am already turning the pages of the 6th book. I can’t believe how completely taken with the stories I am. I found Five really good! The Third book was amazing.
I can’t wait until the next book comes out. I am slowly trying to read It is rumored that there is a book release in Canada? and I contemplated a nice little road trip to get my hands on a copy!! I have completly lost it now. I can’t believe I have to wait until May?? or June to watch the next movie!
Can’t get enough of the books. I guess I’ll have to re read them all of Feburary LOL.
This year’s favorites list.
December 19, 2006 – 5:59 amThis is a list I call the new favorites list. This year has been one that is full new discoveries.
1. Favorite Child Phase-Thing 1 Biggest obsession. Has to have the untouched Grahm Cracker.
2. New favorite singers- Joshua Rabin, Snow Patrol, and KT Tunstall.
3. New favorite books- The Louis Lowery stories… The Giver, Gathering Blue, The Messenger, Harry Potters, Pride and Prejudice, and the others I can’t think of right now.
4. Favorite activities with the kids- Reading books, coloring, mommy monster*, making cookies, taking them to the park, Rock jar trips, and digging in the backyard.
5. Favorite new smells- Salt City Candle (Apricot), kid’s shampooed hair, and fresh baked bread.
6. Favorite hair styles- long and curly.
7. New Favorite movies-Nacho Libre, Emma, Usual Suspects (edited), Pride and Prejudice, and there are tons I am leaving out I need to remember more.
8. New Addictions- The Office, Grey’s Anatomy, Everest Beyond the Limit, Lost, and any cooking show.
Tis the Season for the HIPE!
December 1, 2006 – 4:06 pmI have never read the Harry Potter books. I know, I know my bloodlines must have some form of alien in them. But the computer thing is unpredictable so I need a time sucker backup.
So for the month of December I will attempt to read all the Harry Potters. This is nearly impossible considering the speed at which I read however lofty goals are what I am all about. I went to the library this evening and picked up as many volumes as they had. I have to say I am intimidated, but I heard they go fast. We’ll see.
Blog Fodder Where are you?
October 26, 2006 – 8:50 amI couldn’t find any classic fodder. Have you seen it? I has got to be in the garage with every thing else I have not moved in yet.
This week has been eventful. Like for instance.
Thing 2 oddly starts throwing up in her carseat Monday evening 6pm as we box up a small kitty and take him home with us. The barfing doesn’t stop until around 3am then next morning. By noon she has no fever and has held down her breakfast and all meals since then. She is still cranky, but no sign of illness.
The kitty, who has no name, is in training to kill mice. It is already proving to be a nucence so the quicker he can survive outside on his own the better. He has been doing great with the Things.
I am ready to move on to Re-calking the bathroom shower. I am thinking it can’t be that hard. I also had the same thought run through my mind about the curs-ed wallpaper so we will see how that progresses.
BABY PUDGE
October 23, 2006 – 2:41 pmThere is news big newS!!
Baby pudge has had his picture taken!! And there is a determined sex of the wee one that is inhabiting my space.
IT IS A BOY!!
As I sat nicely still with my bladder virtually empty. The lady that was doing the ultrasound was not impressed with my ability to drink 32.oz in the time alotted. (Secret: I never do this) once I got away with it during the pregnancy with Thing 1 I decided to never fill my bladder to ultimate capacity EVER AGAIN. Tee Hee.
I asked her before my husband entered the room that I would love it if she could announce the existance of twins in my belly. She laughed an evil cackle and agreed.
It went over beautifully. He said, "You have to be joking"
I just held my lips pinched and my eyes wide. The band was looking for my "I am just kidding" face. The lady really played it up well. I think he was more upset when he found out it was a hoax.
Confessions, Confessions
October 21, 2006 – 9:41 amI think this blog should be called "The JD Confessional" My children are asleep. I find out today whether the baby is a boy or a girl. And my friend just had a baby boy that is tiny and precious and I just want to eat him up!
But, what I came to write about today is something much more disturbing. I am addicted. I am hooked. I don’t want to let go. I can’t stop watching THE OFFICE. I am trying to analyse my guilty pleasure. Why do I find it so FUNNY? What is it about Dwight that I can’t stop laughing? Why does it send me into complete belly laughter? Why do I find the writing so funny? I have no answers for neither myself, nor you.
I am finding out that I am not a person who covets the material things in life. I break down and covet the brilliant writing that makes this show so funny it hurts me. Steve Correll I dislike your stinkin’ guts. He was the one that entered into the script that Pam should give him a "practice answer of the phone… cause he does so much better on the second try" (That is not word for word) I laughed until I was sore. I really want to know who wrote the skit about when Jim takes the scissors to the exercise ball that Dwight was sitting on.
Onto other obsessions. I find that while pregnant I have fun querks. Like looking up homeless puppies on the internet. I love seeing what is available in my area along with those puppies that are ready to come home with me if I would take a road trip to Kansas. This is a "left over" obsession from my childhood. All I ever wanted for Christmas was a puppy. I dreampt about it year after year. I couldn’t watch Punky Brewster after she had gotten one for Christmas, I was bitter that her powers had brought her such luck. This usually sets in around 8-9 months. I call it my puppy phase. Some others may call it the "nesting phase".
The other day I got on E-bay to find some clothes for the kids. I started bidding on well bid on items. Problem—- I won like four bids. I really thought I wouldn’t win all that stuff. It is pretty cool cause I love the stuff I bid on. I don’t have to buy clothes for the kiddys for a long while now
. I found that my husband’s line of thinking did not follow mine ("winning is everything") when the "winnings" cost you 100 dollars. I have revoked my own e-bay privilages. That obsession ended quick.
I would like to withdraw my last post….
October 12, 2006 – 8:50 amSo when I said caught up….. The last week since we have moved in I have found it easy to keep the laundry up. I have also been wondering where the towles are hiding.
This morning my husband notified me that in the trunck of the car there were still two garbage bags full of dirty laundry from the move.
I didn’t enter the some strange new land of free time and playtime with children. I am back into the pile I am familure and comfortable with. Thank goodness. Can you imagine caught up on laundry?? ME?? I am glad we still live on earth and the sky is still blue. Things you can count on. Like dirty toilets and piles of laundry.
AAAHHHH everything in its place in the universe.
I am almost caught up on my laundry.
October 11, 2006 – 7:30 amSure there are three bins full of unfolded and not put away laundry. But I am thrilled I am almost caught up!
I have been doing much better at the "pick up points" for laundry. Instead of letting it all pile up in the bathroom, livingroom, and bedrooms. I have pick up points that allow me to know where to get my dirty laundry. And more importantly where to drop it off.
What I am a bloggin fanatic??
October 5, 2006 – 7:59 amI am going to do some goals. It is time to get back into the regularly scheduled program.
We are moved.
1. Clean and organize (unpack) the new house.
2. Read something worth while. (Library Trip)
3. Plan a more solid schedule for the kids.
4. Find out how to clean laminate flooring.(purchase special mop)
5. Plan meals for the month.
6. Fix the kitchen plumming.
There are some other things I probably should do like figure out how to set up the frount room but I am pretty much at a loss on that one. I can’t figure out how to make one huge room into two functional rooms.
Oh well Halloween is taken care of at least for now. We have thing 1 going as Thomas the tank engine. And Thing 2 is gonna be a duck.
Thanks Target for that one!!
I tried “Tan in a Can” today.
September 21, 2006 – 6:13 pmI was packing up my "bathroom fluff" and yes I found….. this tanning spray from awhile back. You see there is nothing more scarry than a dye job that is just a wee bit too dark and washes your face out completely. This is what happened to me. I tried to remedy the problem by darkening the features a bit. No good.
Why you ask because I tried some stuff that made me look like the host of Fear Factor. He is probably my same height. I had short black hair at the time. I loved the cut could have gone a few shades lighter on the hair color.
So in my stash today I found some stuff that works pretty well. I guess cause you really can’t tell. It is the placebo kind that makes you just think you are tan. It makes me giggle. Ok you Judge for yourself.
In this shot it may appear I have found some some pretty good over the counter cough syrup, but I assure you it is just "tired", mixed with not knowing where to look to see the camera.
and "baby pudge" is growing nicely.
I am finally getting it.
September 21, 2006 – 11:03 amHave I mentioned that there were no terrible two’s as there two almost three in two months. We are setting new records in
Sassing the Mamma
Hitting others including the Mamma
Screaming until small blood vessles on the neck look dangerously close to popping.
And being an over all terror.
I don’t know what happened to my sweet, innocent, and considerate small boy. I am living with a small tazmanian devil. I have pretty high hopes for the next couple of months. I am hoping we can cure the boy of diapers, nights with out binkis, and screaming in the store for a toy he just can’t get that very momment.
Preschool has been good for him though. He seems exhausted when he comes home and ready for a nap. Today is a totally different story. Here it is 2pm and he is still jumping, car crashing, plane wreching, and just plain not sleeping.
That is it I am taking a shower.
Stress over… all is calm again.
September 15, 2006 – 2:40 pmSo I showed up determined just to listen and make a call on the whole preschool thing or not after listening to the group and what they had to say. I admit I was nervous. Then the coordinator of the group enters the scene. She was in a hurry to get her little one to school.
"Yeah, you know how you had it all consecutive days and all. That way is just not going to work. The reason is that there are months and they coordinate with the holidays and the kids would be missing out on those holiday activities. The math and science is something that the kids don’t care about if it builds on each other so we are not going to worry about it. So we are gonna just continue the way we decided from the begining." She said with authority and love.
The girl was totally chill and took it in stride. She just expressed her concern that there wouldn’t be anything fun to do by the end of the year. Good concern noted. I will adjust accordingly. And I am sure there will be some fun stuff to do and if not we will make some fun stuff up. Ordeal over. We are all just waiting for the next brilliant change she wants to implement.
Unstopping the cork.
September 15, 2006 – 7:05 amThis would be what we call a venting post. I am not upset just need some way to get all the gobbly gook out of my head. If I can get it out then I can maybe make sense of it. Here we go….
Don’t do co-op preschool with those you don’t know. This will make things so much easier I promise. As a first timer that is the lesson of the week. I need to keep telling myself I am just figuring out the quirks.
I did our first week last week well. Here comes week two… There is a girl who is paticular about how she would like this run. It is her week. She not liking the way I did the week decided to change the way we teach. For all six of us. While not consulting any of us. That kind of bugs…..
So now we have to go in and let our feelings be known… Not good. My feeling are not really hurt because what I was told I was doing a fine job. But I don’t want to change the way it is done around. I had my expectations going into the program and those were met until she wants to make the changes that she feels are necessary. UGH!
I just don’t flat out want to do what this person keeps suggesting. The suggestions were comming in the first day. I guess I was slow to take the hint that this maybe a problem.
She is assigning what to teach people!! I am not OK with being told what I can and cannot teach!! It stumps my creative outlet and my child can’t do half the activities on the list of one day with out wanting to pull his and my hair out. Maybe he is too young to start. I would say he is if there weren’t age appropriate things for him to do. But there are. And also ones we can create. SIGH.
I feel bad she is so ready to direct and I am so ready to not take the direction…..I knew it couldn’t be this easy.Oh well we’ll see how it goes at the little gathering. 11am should tell us a whole lot.
Reading and more reading.
September 11, 2006 – 12:05 pmOk I finished some books and really want to chat about them.
Book No. 1 The Messanger: By Louis Lowery,
Loved this book and read the two before it. All ready to read them again. I was shocked how much I got into these books. I don’t love sci-fi and I am not really one to get all exctied about young adult fiction.
Book No. 2 Mere Christianity:C.S. Lewis
Growing up in the LDS religion has been an awesome experience. Reading the "basics" as it were for Christianity has been a total eye opener. I have been so nieve about the differences between my own religion and those of other faiths. I am shocked how simualr and how different we really are.
Book No. 3. Vanity Fair
—- um not done yet. However the first thirteen chapter have got me hooked. I am finding the author pretty darn hilarious. Some people I have read struggled through the first parts I am looking forward to see what the middle chunk has in store for me.
Book No. 4 Isaiah: you know like in the Bible.
Yeah this is a thick and meaty thing for me to take on. I am pretty much loving the fact he is a literary genuis in his writing. I am going to admitt here that my reading of the old testiment is not what I would like it to be. I am repenting and diving into one of the most amazing books I think the Bible has.
Is anyone reading anything I should pick up?? My plea comes from not being enrolled in Fall classes this year. I am thinking it is best to not sign up for school until I have my normal brain back. Even with my normal brain I am only at half capacity captain! In other words, I am not ready for the "911 commission report" yet, but any other suggestions would be very much appreciated.
The block is gone :)
August 29, 2006 – 7:08 amI just don’t want to blog. I know that is a weird feeling. Writer’s block? No. tired of posting? No.
Two weeks ago I went to the salon after a much needed break and had my nails done. It was so hard to type correctly and quickly. The poor computer was the first thing to go. So for the past two weeks I haven’t been checking or posting anything. It is really wierd. I miss my blogs that I check frequently.
I have posted but minimally. I took the nails off baby so I am back. And typing faster than ever before.
Some Days are better than others.
August 24, 2006 – 6:24 pm
United in BLOGDOM!!
August 13, 2006 – 11:41 am
Dear Beth,
I have read your post. I have been saddened by your story. I am posting to see if there is anyone who has any more ideas that may help you and your situation. I have been a major lurker on your blog and would like to tell you My Band and I are still giggling over the Hammer Video.
I know how hard it must have been to post about the struggle. I hope you find the answer that will best fit you and your family. You have a good heart and I know it will lead you to find a good solution.
Sincerely, JD
So if any of my fellow readers have any ideas please send them over to my bloggy friend Beth.
Blah Blah Babble…
August 11, 2006 – 7:22 pmToddler talk has gotten very interesting lately as my Thing 1 has come up with some really funny things.
We are hamstersitting this week. -Sigh- (Anything that is willing to urinate in it’s own food dish, needs to be in the wild and deserves to be owl food.)
Thing 1 sees said hamsters and gets really excited and says: "MONKEYS!" In his defense there is a paticular "Little People" book that show monkeys and are drawn curiously like hamsters.
Driving home fromt the park.
Me: Let’s call Dad and find out what the doctor said.
Thing 1:(Very matter of factly) No more monkies jumping on the bed.
He has been singing songs in his language and it is fun when I start figuring them out. He almost knows the entire theme song of "Bob the Builder" it isn’t in english yet however, I would call it quite close.
This evening was awesome. He came up to me and said, "Mommy go poops in da Poddy! "Then I realized he needed to!! And he was asking. He hadn’t already started any process!! Oh I was thrilled! I told him he was such a good boy he would get two popsicles. His eyes lit up like Christmas, he held up all his little fingers and said "oh three, four, five!!"
Now he has number 2 down. It is number 1 we have a problem with. He has only been successful once in the past three months of "training". But his little bum is so darn cute in the Thomas the Tank Engine underwear, I can’t bring myself to put him in Pull-ups. Sorry kid you’ll get it.
Slickidy slacking and randomness.
August 4, 2006 – 3:49 pm We live by rivers, lots of them in fact. When it
rains it tends to flood a bit. It is ok until it floods a lot. Well
this week family has been in town and we have gone everywhere or so it seems.
Train Museum and the river, on Friday of last week, followed by the
quick trip to Fairfield, CA home of the Jelly Belly. Where on Saturday
we took jelly belly tour with the Things. Then we went to a humble
little city called San Francisco and played in the sand, gobbled down
chocolate, and indulged in seafood. Sunday was church. Monday was a
rest day. Tuesday the river bank to play in more sand and water. And if
we didn’t have enough of the fun we are headed to the county fair to
see a spectacle of 4H splendor rarely scene this far west. (If I can
pull myself away from the blog I will find my camera and post the
pictures)
I have to say it has taken my
mind off throwing up 24-7. I have felt pretty good. The only problem is
the house work. It seems to be suffering. And I am trying to give
myself some slack, and tell myself there are some really happy kids
that live in this messy house. I did break down and scrub a toilet
today. And I only gagged four or five times.
I have found that Key Lime pie and homemade whipped cream can cure any
bad day. This could be bad for my attempt to have a low birth weight
baby. But the French Toast addiction is back too. I am destined to have
a large baby.
Birth history is as follows: Thing 1 8lbs. 10oz. (Not to bad for the first try.)
Thing 2 ringing in at a whopping 9lbs. 9oz.
The difference being one once away from a full pound heavier.
So if I were to follow suit “pudge” here could be 10lbs. 8 oz. So I
think that drinking insane amounts of coffee and smoking a pack a day
could really be a benifit. I remeber waddleing around work pregnant
with thing 1, someone asking how long I had until I delivered.
When I told him 6 weeks he said, “Oh, you should start smoking now.”
I laughed then. Now I am thinking it is a great idea
Christ centered Reading.
July 31, 2006 – 6:03 amOk so how is the study going of the Savior’s life?? Awesome. I am noticing some major changes around here. I have been much more happy lately.
I love that the scriptures can be clumped into two categories. Prophecies of Christ and Testimonies of Christ. There is so much that I am finding in the old testiment that the prophets wrote about that announces specific events that were all fufilled in the New Testiment. I am loving going over these scriptures. Remembering the attributes that the Savior showed us while here on earth. The things he taught after he was crucified, and rose from the dead.
I am finding that I love trying to follow that example, and putting myself in the shoes of the rich young man that asked what he could do to be a follower. Asking Heavenly Father what I am lacking to make it into the kingdom. If I can change the habit, patch the fault, become a little better, I know the my Savior will help and allow me to understand how to make it back to live in his presence. I will never beable to do it with out his help and I understand that more profoundly than I have in awhile.
In the day to day I loose the sight of the really important things sometimes. What a great oppertunity we have to read scripture and gain a broader perspective on life.
The taste of Triumph
July 24, 2006 – 8:34 pmSweet, satisfying, motivating, thrilling, delicious, accomplished, dedicated, sureal, resilant, blessed, all these things and more.
This battle with morning sickness will not be long, won’t kill me, can’t last forever. I will survive. Many women have it so much worse. I can live on prenatal pills, soda crackers, and gingerale. Ok, maybe illiminate the soda crackers.
I say this must be a boy. Only boys can give this much pain to us girls! I will Triumph! I will win!
Works for me Wednesday!!
July 20, 2006 – 9:48 amThis is a first for me I have planned this out very carefully. Ok, not really.
Oh my tip for this Wednesday is how to kill Flies.
So to kill all your flying friends at night herd them into the bathroom where there is less flying room. How do you herd flies? Shut off all the lights in your house except the bathroom light. Then swat the little things away all at once.
Good luck and happy swatting!!
Thanks Shannon (Who started the original Works for me Wednesday!)
Photo Journal
July 19, 2006 – 11:28 amThe new things we are doing around our House. These two pictures sum up a whole lot of time and energy taking down some difficult stuff!
A SHOUT OUT!!
July 16, 2006 – 11:19 amThe I recieved a comment from a blogger friend Gabriela. She noted that there are a lot of pregnant bloggers these days. Now I would have to agree! I have checking out some new sites and BAM everyone has a counter downer for their new arrival. So here is a shout out to those who are big, buxom and beautiful with CHILD!! These are the ones I know of if you know someone who is not on the list give me a hint in the comments where I can find their site and I will add them to the list!!
A Mom, her kids, and Random things that run through her head
Now I know there is more and I just can’t think of them right now. I am lending half my brain to the forming of my own bundle of joy.
SO…. here is to swollen feet, hot flashes, crazy midnight hankerings, bulging b**bs & waiste lines, uncomfortable nights sleep, stretch marks, slackened abdominal muscles, kicks to the ribs, mood swings, doctor visits, blood draws, and nine months of planing, preping and naming the cutest things that Heavenly Father gives to his children on earth. BABIES!!
Thursday Thirteen
July 14, 2006 – 1:39 pmBaby Boy Names I don’t hate……Yet
1. Gavin
2. Joshua
3. Noah
4. Tyler
5. Brady
6. Christian
7. Gunther
8. Alexander
9. Donivan (this one is wearing thin.)
10. Ian
11. Timothy
12. "Goober"(just seeing if you are paying attention.)
13. Lincoln
Now these are the names that I like not particularly the ones that are agreed upon by The Band. My gut says the "pudge" is a boy.
Now for something totally random……
Preschool. I have been pretty unenthused about it until someone came up and asked me to be in their "group" of SAHM that do the preschool in their homes. YAH!! we are going to try a program called Mother Goose something something. It is less than 60.00 for and everyday program for six months. We are only doing it 2 days a week so it should supply enough activities for an entire school year.
I will be doing the first week so I can get a taste of what it will be like. I am excited to get one of the Things out of my hair for a two hour period. But I am excited to teach the wee ones every once in awhile. All the supplies and activities are already planned and rationed out. Sounds like something I can handle. I just get to host a small throng of children in our humble abode. I am pretty sure I will be appreciating our decision to purchase a thrity dollar couch
.
Cursings and Pirtates…
July 12, 2006 – 7:05 amOk so I am not a big fan of cursing myself, but here goes. I have felt remarkably well this pregnancy. Sure I am only two weeks into it. Isn’t it about six weeks everyone starts feeling gross. I am almost there. My body is tired but not like it has been in the past two pregnancies. I was nautious all the time with the other two by now also.
So I am either having the worlds’ easiest start to a first trimester or……I have stepped into the twilght zone where all the tests in the grocery store have a positive result. Or I am gonna have the most miserable last trimester on record. I haven’t even made it to the 10th week mark where we could hear a heart beat. So in the back of my mind there is that dreaded possibility of miscarriage.
Basically, I forget that I am pregnant, expecting or other wise until someone says….so are you excited??? I am pregnant. The biggest thing for me is that my drugs are gone.
About a month ago I applied to transfer schools. I was attending via correspondence and online courses the University of Utah. I got my acceptance letter this week to attend Fall 2006 at Sacramento State University. Drugs and school are like really good friends who hang out and get along together. No Drugs and being pregnant information seems to drop into a dark abyss, only to be found in abundance after the exam. LOL
This should be a fun ride.
"Yo Ho! Yo Ho! a Pirates Life for me"
So, it is time ta change things up!
July 9, 2006 – 9:02 amToday I left the Band and the Things at home so I could go to the farmers market. I love fresh produce during these summer days. Summer squash, cukes, the strawberries, boysenberries, peaches, nectarines, and all the green beans you can eat. They are all in a plentitude this time of year. I tried this morning making "basil Butter"
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh Basil
Course salt
Pepper
and Two sticks of butter at room temp.
(This Month’s issue of EVERYDay FOOD!)
Mix all ingredients like it was a Merry stew of flavor. Then take your handy waxpaper or in my case press and seal wrap. Roll into a tube of about 8 inches long and 1inch thick. Then you can cut little pats of butter onto everything.
You can put it on steaks, shrimp, chicken, and of course hot steamy bread. I am going to try it on the stuff I am cooking like veggies.
I got a good recipe for brocolli slaw. And shrimp kabobs. There are so many options for some good summer treats. I promised myself I would eat better. So this week we are combining healthy with just straight up YUMMY.
I have some old and new desert recipes I must delve into. I have to go grocery shopping!! Man what a week this will be!!
Early Morning Saturday Musings
July 2, 2006 – 5:38 amYesterday is kind of a blur. But here is how I remeber it……
-Band: "Honey that test would be accurate now. Just take the test and get it over with."
- Me: "I already found out I am not three days ago. That should have been plenty of time to register the line on the test. I am not pregnant."
-Band: "Do you have to pee?"
-Me: "No, but I will in ten minutes."
-Band: "Just take the test."
- Me: "Ok."
Sitting on the plastic seat. I finish peeing on the stick and stare hard at the little line that isn’t being colored in. -oh- Suddenly a tiny hand comes from nowhere and taps the test out of my grasp. It was precariously being dangled over the toilette while I was examining the result line. Sploosh! Yuck! Without really being fully conscious of my actions…. I fetched the lost item with my hand. Double Yuck!! Just then I look at the test and it is positive.
That can’t be right. It can’t be positive!! Stupid toilette water, who knows what chemicals are in toilette water these days. Ugh.
Ring! Ring!
Band- "Hello?"
-Me: "Yeah, can you stop off and get a pregnancy test? La La knocked this one into the toilette and it says it is positive."
-Band: "Yeah Ok. Did you say it was positive?"
-Me: "Yeah, but it fell in the toilette!! It isn’t accurate anymore!!"
-Band:"Sure I will stop off. See ya."
-Me:" K-Love you Bye."
I took only two more tests until I finally came to terms with the result.
We are officially expecting "the FISH".
Feburary, March, or April?? Who knows! I am just excited to get some B**bies back. I had just started research on breast augmentation for my 30th birthday. Instead I get a baby for being thirty for at least a month!! And some ta-tas that a stripper would be proud of. Leaky ones but hey they are boobies and they stick around for at least six months!! By then I could be sick of them and really want my "nearly A" breasts back.
So bring on the exhaustion, morning sickness, soar boobs, and the mood swings I am ready for it! Well honnestly ready or not it is comming. I just have to give up my morning pick me up of ritalin. No more clarity of mind for me for at least another year or so…..
Why is the phrase "Keep your hands and arms inside the ride at all times" continually running through my head right now??
Oh…. PS
I did scrub the daylights out of my hands before picking up the phone or the test again.
Gathering Place
June 29, 2006 – 10:20 amI have a friend that was in Scouts with me about three months ago. We have changed congrigations -wards. And she is in the new one. On one of her walls sits a block of wood with lettering on it. It said:
Family Home Evening Song Prayer Scripture Lesson Closing Prayer
I am pretty stoked about this idea cause her other wood Plaque says…
The Gathering Place
Around the dining room table. I love this idea.
Still no color chosen for the kitchen I am taking some pent up aggression out today on the wallpaper. Any one want to have a painting party?
Stress and Lables
June 27, 2006 – 9:58 am
The move really has taken a secret tole on my psychy. I am sure there is a whole new crop of white hairs in my already salt and peppered head. There are big blank walls of whiteness I need filling. I am unsure how to fill them. They are like white paper perfectly untouched, beautiful white paper. I don’t want to write on the paper nor do I want to decorate. I do have a health fear of my taste changing and I won’t like the arrangement of frames and the photos I put in them for longer than a two week period. (Any one noticed how many Template changes I have had lately?) I lost count.
SOoooo… Stress. It is a matter of admitting that you are and then taking care of the stress right?? Wrong for me it is a good healthy run in the morning to keep sanity in my firm grasp all the day long. That starts tomorrow. LOL
I started putting all DVDs in a Cd holder. Thanks Works for Me Wednesday I am loving scaling down. And I purchased a real labler. I labled all the CD holder sleeves and slapped those puppies in there!! What a great way to save space. Sure I will be searching for the right pockets for awhile but bam they are at least in a compact space and easy to find.
In the labler there were "helpful tips for household uses" One of the tips included labeling all the areas of your kitchen. UMMMMMM if you are waking up ever morning and reaching for a spoon for your cereal and the conversation you have with yourself sounds like this…..
"Aaaahhh…. Sp….. spoo….spoons. There they are!! Just like the lable says."
Huston there is a way, way Bigger problem.
In other news…….
We are finally over the biting stage with Thing 1 now we are on to scratching. BOOooo!! He is just so darn cute and sweet when he gets punished. We usually send him to his room and tell him he can’t play with La La if he is gonna hurt her. This gets him pretty upset. And he cries. He’ll start yelling
"Sawweee LA LA!"
With in a few seconds we here "Sweet Boy! SWEET BOY!!"
He knows just how to play the right tune of whine and plead.
Here is La La before the move. Such a happy girl!
Late night listing (part 1)….
June 21, 2006 – 8:37 pmI took a stress management about two years ago at ‘the University’ one of the chapters was dedicated to the Music Therapy. This is the list of slap-me-into-a-great-mood songs.
1. Beck -Two turn tables and a Microphone.
2. Jack Johnson & Black eyed peas- Gone, Going (Choreography done by the Band)
3. MC Hammer-2 Legit to quit
4. Summer time- Mungo Jerry
5. Get this party started- Black Eyed Peas
6. Paula Abdul- Straight Up (This has definate sixth grade memories attached to it)
7. The Eagles greatest hits
8. Jack Johnson- Bubbley Toes
9. Gretchen Wilson- Red Neck Woman
10. House of Pain- Jump around (this would always help me to get my groove on at the School dances)
11. Niddy Griddy Dirt Band - Fishin in the Dark (I have lost the ability to do the dance that goes along with this. I am stricken with sadness:( )
12. The Electric SLIDE- by the Gap Band (I do remember the dance to this one!!) "boogie-woogie"
My eyes are blurring must go to sleep…..continue list tomorrow….
The new Place :)
June 19, 2006 – 9:41 amI have some serious hideous wallpaper to take down.
"Oh that looks lovely I would like my kitchen done it that color."
We are renting I know but to wake up and be cheery is almost impossible while looking at this…. 
the latter one is in our bathroom. Making that room not as relaxing as it could be. I am thrilled that what ever we do to the place is given to us in a deduction of rent. Our land lady rules.
So now the question is which color do I select?
The carpet is a grey blue hue. Our couch is sage(more on that to come). and the chairs are green around the dining table.
I am getting sick of green but it is ok. We have only owned used couches. I am ok with that because we use the money on things I like to buy. With this move we knew we’d be purchasing couches again. We had assumed we were buying new couches, only this move happened a wee bit fast so we took the money we had and bought things for the house.
Items on the need to buy list as we moved out….
1. Washer and Dryer -This took presidence over the couch. I am a launderholic.
2. The couch
3. Dining room table and chairs
4. New Matress and box spring
1. I didn’t need new. Just working condition. 150.00 later I have a washer and dryer.
2. The couch was a fun find. Craig’s list helped us out. We found the best comfy couch ever. and we found our third used green couch. 30.00 oh Yeah baby!!
3. The dining room table and chairs is the one that has taken some time energy and frankly has ben a pain in my bum bum. We found a table that was a sturdy "HONEY PINE" and I sanded it and stained it. —No not evenly— not even close. The table top and legs are two different shades of stain at this point. After sanding and sanding…. I called it good and just lackered the sucker. It is a dark in places masterpiece until we can get another real one
4. Still in the market for new matress and box spring. I cannot stomach getting that used. Just. CAN’T. Do.IT.
My Favorites things about Moving
June 9, 2006 – 7:44 amThere is this thing called Craigs List. I am in love with Craigs list. We have been putting off the purchase of some major appliances/furniture items until we were ready to move. The answer is Craig’s list.
It is a local u pick it up and you call to barder on the price. I am shocked how much of the things we need are in plenty in the used area. If you go on the site and only see things in the San Fransisco area just click on the title Craigslist. Then it will pop up all the cities that have a list for you.
Need an item don’t want to pay for it?? Bam!! there is a free list. You can tell how tight for money your city is when there is only FREE DIRT listed on the free list. LOL
Oh my Band asked about the wall paper for me!! Oh yeah baby I get to take it down! Our landlord would just like to preapprove the next selection. We will cross that bridge when we get there.
Oh happy day!! It is moving day!!
In other news, you know you are a MOM when….
- You actually use the phrase."Some days you are the windshield and other days you are the BUG."
- The channel preset to the "Little Einsteins" changes the channel when you are trying to watch the news.
- Showering is a luxury before noon.
- Your purse has binkis in it.(More to come about that.)
- Moving is upon you and you are still blogging!! What the ????
Break Over! Back to BLOGGY world.
June 8, 2006 – 10:41 amThere are so many things I need to catch up on.
FIRST: The Move
This has been one of those projects talked about in the prior post.
We have been living with our wonderful inlaws for some time and now it is time to say ttfn and move our bum to a humble little place of our own. I am going to miss some key things here in this house.
1. Grandma and Grandpa. Seeing them all the time. I have really started to take it for granted.
2. The conversations on child raising, faith, work, school, marriage, that you have with the "more experienced" (AKA old.) Just kidding Pappa.
3. Modleing new clothes bought.
4. Having someone who knows all there is to know about cooking, sewing, and kids.
5. Family dinners out.
6. Family dinners on special occasions, or not special occasions.
7. Working in the Yard.
8. Movies.
9. Breakfasts in the middle of the day.
10. Smart mouth old Irish man complaining about "Bloody Teenagers" all the time.(explanation upon request only)
11. Having a wealth of knowledge to draw from on gospel topics.
12. Walks with Thing 1 and Thing 2 in the wagon.
13. More witnesses to the firsts in the kids lives.
I better stop before I totally bawl.
Why are we giving up all these wonderful things?
1. To walk around naked in our houses.
Note: We are totally excited to get into our own place. The move starts tonight!! I am not sure when our internet connection will be up and running. We will see how the next week goes.
***There is wall paper in the dining room that needs to go. Pink stripes, with flowers is killing the motivation to decorate already. Must hold on to the hope that the landlord didn’t put it in just before we saw the place. I am scared to ask if we can take it out. But, my discust outweighs my fear in this situation. I ask tonight if the wall paper can come down.
Looky what my brother IMed me
May 29, 2006 – 5:38 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
Giggled laughed and enjoyed the nastalgia….
Thrusday Thoughts.
May 26, 2006 – 6:41 amOk This is a writing exercise I found to be kinda quarky. But you begin by just writing what ever comes to your mind –anything for a whole fifteen minutes. This could get really long. So here goes
I am going to focus on cleaning my house today. What part… Um let’s just say my room is cyclone and tornado warning worthy. I have some new fabric softener to encourage my laundry drugery into completion.
Under my nightstand needs a good going through the crap that is under there. I know I need to find a spot for my art supplies and projects. It is something I love to do when I have time. Lately that is a luxury that I am short on.
Thing 1 has been taking his nap like normal but I am waking him up early. He can only have a 1-1/2 hour nap now. He is just waking the household up too early. I would like to believe he could just climb into bed with us. I am pretty sure he would for 5 minutes and then wreak havock on the neighborhood.
My thoughts have been weird lately. In my head I have wondered how to creat my own closet organizers using the shelf and hanger bar that was pulled out of a different closet. So I would have to create some way to fit the wood under neath the old bar and shelf. That made no sense. If I really do it I will take some pictures.
Then I am regressing to not shaving my legs. I am wondering if the hair will actually curl when it grows out. I seem to cut myself more these days than I ever have in the past. That can’t be good. Maybe it is the brand of razor. Bic wasn’t ever known for high quality I guess.
I need to stop eating sugar cereal. Lucky charms, Trix, and Coco Puffs are some of the latest weaknesses. Ready to stop for a good month. I wonder if that will make a difference in my morning jolt of energy.
Mopping is something that will ever escape how I am to do it easily. I don’t like to mop or clean my kitchen floor. I am waiting for a hard wood floor. That is when I will be able to just clean with ease LOL. Mean while I bought PineSol that is smells like oranges. I hope that will encourage the mopping to get completed. Maybe I can get Thing 1 to be a MOPPER kid.
This is a phase I know…… But I am going to milk it for all that it is worth.
This week’s goals..
May 21, 2006 – 8:07 pmThe other week I wrote my goals down.
This week I am continuing.
1. Bike ride 1 time this week
2. Walk with babies
3. Cook 4 meals
4. Bake Bread( this afternoon I think I will check that off)
5. Finish P&P.
6. Take thing 1 nap away. He hasn’t been going down to bed until 9-9:30 and waking up at 6:30am. No bueno.
I am illiminating the Yoga goal for this week. I’ll pick it up next week.
We had a busy Mother’s day.
May 15, 2006 – 6:43 pmThe things I love about being MOM
1. Watching the kids learn new things everyday.
2. Introducing them to new foods.
3. Snuggles before bed.
4. Reading books.
5. Smiles in the morning
6. After bath smell.
7. Soft baby skin.
8. Helping them learn to walk.
9. Messy little faces.
10. Little fingerprints.
11. Baby food.
12. Playing on the swings.
13. All night scrapbooking nights.
14. Pictures ,pictures, and more pictures…..
Mother (part 2)
May 13, 2006 – 9:25 pmList of things I will be post poning for motherhood.
1. Having double B’s (Big Bo*bs) After breastfeeding I was left with deflated water balloon sized….. Well you get it.
2. Going to the bathroom, shower, car, bedroom, garage, backyard, or anywhere really by myself.
3. Eating warm food.
4. Career(this is by choice, not consequence)
5. Dinning out in fancy resturants.
6. Out of the country travel.
7. Going into the FBI. (really contemplated this once in my not so distant past.)
8. Driving like a maniac.
9. Owning a motorcycle.
10. Building my Cabin in the mountains before building my house.
I love being a Mom. I am really excited about the things I get to do…..to be continued….
Mother (part 1)
May 11, 2006 – 5:50 pmNew talents I never thought I would aquire….Thanks to Mother Hood.
-Awaking at any hour of the night and being able to find a binki, make a bottle, or give the correct dosage of medicine. Ect.
-Applying makeup in the car. Sometimes over the old makeup I was too exhausted to take off the night before.
-Breastfeeding. This still shocks me that they feed off my own body!!
-Dressing children for church that starts at 9am in the morning.
-Washing insane amounts of clothes.
-Bloggin’
-Scrapbooking.
-Quilting
-Reading
-Multitasking
-Cooking (Just ask the Band how much I have improved. But I still occasionally burn toast.)
-Bathing when only absolutely necessary(this usually means 2-3pm daily-during naps)
-Being thrown up on and not even gagging. I am not sure anyone else but my children could do this. No I am not willing to test the theory.
-I could play professional soccer with all the practice I get kicking canned goods so they stop rolling down the grocery store isle.
-I can now set a schedule and maintain it with ease.
-Photos with my digital camera.
-Sewing PJ’s, Blankets, and Pencil cases.
-Eating large amounts of cereal Fruity O’s if you must know is this week’s fav.
There are so many more. Notice patience is still not listed. I was cleaning out my kid’s room- The room Thing 2 has yet to sleep in for an week straight - & I came across their baby blessing outfits.
**These are when they are newly born and recieve a blessing in our church. They are customarily wearing white. AND tiny.
Instantly I was hit with the pangs of Baby HUNGER!! The little fingers and toes nuzzled close to your cheek. The way they curl up so softly into a ball and rest on your chest. Infant clothes, Breastfeeding, warm squishy scentless pooh in tiny diapers. The new baby smell. Night time sink baths. The naps. Oh, the many many naps with out fighting. Whispy, tiny eyelashes. Bright blue eyes. Hand socks that prevent them from scratching themselves.
(Distant, faint, growing louder)
Thing 1: "No! NO! NO! La-LA!! MINE!!!"
*And baby hunger satisfied.*
On with the cleaning, organizing, and straightening.
Do they Make a Visine for this????
May 9, 2006 – 10:10 pm
Scene set up: Wal-mart,1 cart, groceries, and odds and ends.
Characters: Myself, two small chittlens.
Shopping have to dos.
1. Place things that can break, crack, or bruise, easily underneath cart.
2. Every five minutes pull Thing 1 out of cart to push his sister ( He referes to this by saying "poo LA LA!!" incesently louder with each repeat.)
3. Watch the ground for things being thrown out of the cart by Thing 2 as I place things into the cart.
Patience and I are not really close friends. Let that be known before I continue the story.
The most dreaded part is waiting in line to pay and put everything back into the cart you just vacated to place on a machanical belt to purchase said items. This is where the begging the pleading and the shouting mainly takes place for my wee chittlens.
Thing 2 wants to vacate the cart like the groceries have. The fear of abandonment is strong with this one.(add Yoda voice here.)Then Thing 1 would like very much to push the cart into as many old people as possible.(We almost lost dear Mrs. Tuddle, death by carting)
As we entered the parking lot I decide that I can hold my son’s hand and push the cart at the sametime. Yes I do have the coordination skills necessary, the attention to detail however is lacking.
We make it successfully into the cross walk, and off into the lane of cars lined up happily at 45 degree angled slots. My son all the while singing Puu LA-LA, PU La-la. When suddenly a major purchase falls from beneath the cart storage area, and lodges itself under the wheels. This jolts my trolly full of goodies to an abrupt halt.
A nice gentleman pulls the box from underneath the wheels and returns it to it’s place. I am trying to now hold my two year old and continue pushing the cart. There is something magic about the age two and my son. He hates to be held for longer than 1.5 seconds (The exact amount of time it takes to plant a big smoocher on his forhead.) And would like to what?? What ???? PUUUUU LAAAAA-LAAAAA!!!
Just then one of the gallons of milk falls from my cart. Not from very far mind you, it was underneath the cart too.(Thing one is figuring out how to pull the caps off and those plastic things that hold them on when milk is new!!) So no harm done, I just have to bend, push cart and retrieve my fallen milk, while holding THING 1. Not good.
Milk - back in the cart next to Thing 2, who now has a gallon on both sides of her, keeping her legs cool. Thing 1 pushing La La.
Now where the HE__ is my CAR! I am already half way up the lane I thought I parked only to find out that the car I thought was mine wasn’t!!
I looked around me to find any vehicle that looked familuar. Still walking mind you. Then I remember I have the "other" car. Spot it three isles down and start the treck. Put the bounty in the trunk, kids in their carseats and …. aaaaaawwwwhhhh I slowly walk my cart back to the corral. Savoring the weight of quiet that hit me. I take a slow deep breath and pause as open my car door. My eyes glass over.
Shopping? Check.
I enter the car. I straighway start dishing out snacky goods just purchased to the wee ones. I am now in my own little world filled with Frank Senatra music and wondering what was next on the list today. As I hear my Thing 2’s voice produce a part-confused-part-frustrated-mixed with one cup pleading, I snap out of it and realize I have stuffed three mini-marshmellows into my own mouth instead of her out streatched hand.
I think it may just be a matter of time before the commercial starts out with the mother having a complete breakdown in the parking lot and the announcer saying "Yes, there is a Visine for that." Hopefully I can get the one laced with a small sedative.
Until that day, my childeren will be amazed when they wake up in the morning the shelves and refridge have all been restocked with food. 24 hour grocery stores Here I COME!!
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"What has passed and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for."
-Big Elk, Maha Chief, From the Common Book of Prose, 1830
I am pretty you didn’t come across the deadly combo of Chittlens plus Wal-Mart, Chief.
Student’s in the Summer.
May 4, 2006 – 9:26 pmI am not taking any classes so I started my summer reading list early. I need to add to it. I love all types of books and would love a long list!!
My recent reads are…..
The Giver.
Kite Runner
The Horse and His Boy
Angels and Demons
The Alchemist.
The Davinchi Code
I just watched Pride and Prejudice for the second time tonight. So today I’m online and getting my copy of the book. We’ll see how that goes.
You got a suggestion stick it in the comments… And thanks!!
Meditation Monday
April 24, 2006 – 8:14 pm
"We are, each of us, angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other."
— Luciano De Crescenzo
Felt like crap??
April 14, 2006 – 5:57 amOh yeah today woke up with some seriously bogus, hanious, precarious, revenge of the something. A swab culture later and wham the whole family has some STREP throat. This is our first introduction to strep and I am praying our last. I just feel bad Cause thing 1 has been sniffling for about a week. Sorry baby.
This time I am not going to post picture of my lovely self illin’. Last time I posted a picture of the burrito I was consuming, and failed to realize until much, much later I was eating off of one of my children’s plates and with the miscilanious camping fork that my band I am sure introduced to the utinsil drawer. URGGH!!!
Being sick is LAME!! I will be declaring myself better tomorrow. Around 3pm when the heavy duty antibiotics kick in.
The tales from the Road Trip.
April 10, 2006 – 7:17 pmLast week we went on a trip. A very eventful trip. I fell in love with as small town where my good friend lives. Called—Lehi Utah. I miss my family and friends terribly. My sister works for a Pediatric Dentist and got us in to see the doctor!! Oh yes he finally got the tooth fixed!! He has gone around with a cavity that hasn’t given him too much trouble but was really obvious. I really wanted someone to do something and not just look at it. The Dentist was awesome!! If anyone needs a great Pediatric Dentist he is the guy. I traveled over 600 miles to see him and I would do it again if the need arose.
The road was wonderful and I listened to "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. It was really good and kept me awake for a good long time.
The roads were not so clear when we had planned our return trip so we waited an extra day and made the journey with clear weather. I missed my bed!! I missed my husband!! and I missed my kid’s schedule.
Some of the shots of the trip included……
On the way home I was listening to Chronicles of Narnia the third book. "A Horse and His Boy" Not bad thus far. I am going to finish it by reading it.
OH So sorry I will be back WED.!!!
April 2, 2006 – 4:50 amI am so out of town for the weekend. It happened so fast I wasn’t able to post!! Sorry about the FLip I am going to do DOUBLE FLIp for next Friday.
I miss your bloggs BAD!!! I will BE home Wed morning and Fill you in on the details!!
THanks MOMRN2 For your comments!! I love when you visit!! I am fine just near a slower connection. BUMMER!!
THanks for the comments too about your querks I am having too much fun reading them!! Take care all of you wonderful people in blogdom.
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