I have been really debating this. But I think it is time. I am moving the blog back to blogger. I love this bloggy and I am going to keep writing and sharing. Just in a wee bit more private way.
Email me for an invite over to the old bloggy.
Jd@mommakes.com
There is so much going on right now I am just a bit loony. I need to cut an area out (For now) and this seems to be it!
If you want to reach me I am at:
Jd@mommakes.com
Love ya’ll we’ll see ya on the flip side of this break.
Kindergarten has been great. My little thing 1 is just dying to get there everyday. He is a young five and will only be five here in a couple of months. I was nervous about putting him in with him being so little. He really had a rough day yesterday.
All the little ones lined up and got ready to leave as they waved goodbye to the teacher. I couldn’t see Thing 1. He was still in the class room. The teacher’s aid was there and was trying to calm down my son. Then after the last child was sent to the loving arms of his parents she signaled me to follow her. She said, they were partnered off for a dance they were learning. He had gotten to excited and too silly. (Very typical Thing 1- or any boy lol) Then when they tried to calm him down by switching parners (the teacher became his partner) he flipped.There are two class mascots and they get to go home every Friday and Monday. It went home with someone else, and so he flipped even more!
Luckily for him -and them- it was fifteen minutes before they were all going home. I am praying this isn’t a habit. I am supposed to "help" in his class on Wed. of next week. I am starting to have flashbacks of when I was in the Primary with him and how he struggled to do what he was supposed to while I was present. I am pretty sure he’ll be fine, but my stomach is all tied in knots for him.
This I totally saw in my mind’s eye happening. I was just amazed that it happened this late in the game. We’ll see how this next week plays out.
I guess I never knew how totally persuaded I am by my friend’s product endorsements. If you say it’s good I’ll try it. If you love it I will give it a whirl. I have a friend who can sell anything that she believes in. Because of her I can’t think of shopping anywhere else than a certain store while in the mall because of her ravings about their "return policies" and great customer service. Good thing I haven’t been to the mall in YEARS 
I was swept up again after a phone call with my friend Val. She raved and raved about this product. I went out and tried it and now I am raving too! I can’t stop thinking about this in the mornings for breakfast. All other options kind of pale in comparison these days.
Are my kids allowed to eat this NO it is a Mommy and Daddy cereal. Oh Val what have you DONE???
Good Gracious these are tasty!
This past week has been HAZY. That is Hecka and Crazy combined. I am looking for a clean house and a good book to curl up with. I think I’ll finish "Persuasion" this week. The kids are loving school Thing 1 esp. We are having fun recapping the day. Man I love songs they teach in Kindergarten. And he is totally the singer! I will have to recap later. That clean house is calling me:)
This day is hard. I am conflicted between excitement for Thing 1 and selfish feelings of loss. I miss him and his sister. They are both in school today. I have the Fish still with me. I want to spend some good quality time with just him. We are going to have some fun.
Thing 1 was so thrilled to be there in his class. Sitting on his number he picked out. I am really amazed at how much I stressed about this day for him. I am tickled he is so totally pumped. His teacher is so nice and man it was so hard for him to hear his name as soon as he walked into the class. It will take him sometime to get into the "routine" but I think we’ll have it down in the next couple of weeks. He is so adorable! He has slept three nights with out his Binki. I am so proud and yet my heart is aching for the newborn, toddler, and little man stage he has now graduated from.
His little smile says everything! You are growing up Thing 1 and I love to be apart of watching you become this amazing little person!
Sunday 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
I have been a little worried about the long three hours she is gone. What is she doing? Is she having fun? But this week we had them all come home with Fire Ranger hats. Thing 2 says their her "Power Ranger" hats.
I love that they gave The fish and Thing 1 a hat as well.
That is the distance to the elementary school that hosts my Thing 2’s preschool. In between my house and that school is my son’s Kindergarten elementary school. I am gathering some pennies for a new bike trailor. Then I can leave my van at home and just ride about on my bike
5.44 miles each day. That is 27.2 Miles per week. 108.8 Miles per month. And that adds up when gas is still 3.91 at last fill. And your Pony-yack gets 22 miles per gallon (actually that isn’t too bad)
……….Oh that adds to $19.31 a month…… I may just drive LOL.
This evening I road to the school. It wasn’t that bad. I broke my flip flop on the way there so I put them in the baby seat. It was pretty funny cause then I was on my way home bare foot. Then I heard the shoe drop from the seat. (they were old shoes).I thought about it later. I would have had a heart attack if I saw something bounce out of a baby seat on a bike.
We’ll see if I can ride each day 5 days a week:) But I think I should have that last 10 lbs worked off by Christmas if I can Just to gain it all back by Jan 09!
They 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??
Thing 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.
Baby Luvies and doll blankets and Pillows
My Favorite Tutu.
My Baby and Baby Bling
Wine stoppers and Night Lights.
Fun Jewlery
Our next one will be in the next month or so. We only had a couple of people come and stop by. But it was a great first run. Now we just need the customers
Ok 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.
This 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.
I can’t believe this summer is almost over! Only three more weeks left and everyone is back in school. Thing 2 has been in love with pre-school since it started. She is always waking up early and telling me it is time to go. I am so thrilled she loves it because it is making Thing 1 totally crazy with envy! Thing 1 is dying to get himself to his "big boy" school. We were so worried about him picking up on the "desire" part but things couldn’t have worked out better for him. Thing 2 will be getting two years of preschool prior to her entering kindergarten. Hopefully she’ll still be thrilled with it throughout that time. I am considering going back to school for the mornings while they are at school. We’ll see but I JUST WANT TO FINISH!
This weekend was a total bust. #1 I started throwing up on Sat evening. Didn’t stop chucking until Sunday evening. The Band had the "cha-Cha-CHA" with the barfs. All three children were fine. I can’t even tell you how much cleaning I have ahead of me today. "Supervised" playtime is a good thing. Our downstairs looks as though their was a toy bomb set off in our house. Everything has a film of stickyness I don’t even want to start cleaning. Thank goodness for friends who come and visit. I will have the motive to sanitize everything before tomorrow evening!
ON August 15th we are having a get together here at my place! Well not my place exactly but we will be getting together and having a rip roaring good evening. some of the of the "moms" from MomMakes.com and some of the local moms. We are going to have an open house/ market. I am excited because the Dove Chocolate ladies said they’d be there! If you are in The Northern Cally area and want to stop by I would love to see ya. We will be discussing "business" and other elite topics I am sure LOL. We are just excited to get to know a bunch of really cool moms. If you need a flier you can always email me. jd@mommakes.com
I have been working like a dog on the site. It will be done soon I am thinking I will finish up tonight!
So posting all the little things that run through my head is impossible. But I would like to write a bit about blogs, friends, and friends in real life. I have talked about this before. Bloggy friends and what do you call them? I feel like I am pretty easy going and therefore don’t do much worrying about what I say and how it is written because not many people come across my blog.
When I started blogging I wasn’t sure that I wanted everyone reading the randomness. Now I know if they know me in real life than they know I am a wee bit nutty. And understand the randomness. If not we’ll eventually probably meet at the grocery store and yes you may understand the randomness then. Like here is my random list of things I did today…I
*cleaned out my car.
*cleaned two of the three bathrooms.
*did four loads of laundry.
*road my bike with the fish and Thing 1 while Thing 2 had preschool.
*found kid music I liked.
*felt really glad to be married to my husband.
*cleaned off Niva Cream off Thing 1.
*got the mail.
*read bloggys.
*parked my car crooked in my parking stall.
*Found out a neighbor was moving.
*talked to my Mom.
*ate chocolate chips.
*Soaked Black beans for feijoada for tomorrow.
*arrived early to get Thing2 from preschool and watched her play.
*Heard thing 1 say, "Cheer for me MAMA!" as he rode his bike around.
Last Monday my sweet little Thing 2 started preschool. I have such mixed emotions about this event. Today I finally got a picture with her brother (Thing 1) as she left the car and totted off to school. They are growing up too fast.
Like 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.
Some 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.
Ok it is a whopping 107 this week on average! I live in the center of Hell? No I just live in a very hot place. So I was talking with one of my girlfriends. We’ll call her Val.
Val gal is keeping cool by "using pools". Here is how her scheme goes down.
THE BAIT
There are a good portion of old people in Val’s church group. They happen to have all their children gone and grown. Val brings up to them durring a hall chat about how hot it is and how her three children love to swim. This almost always triggers an invitaition from these wonderful folks who love to "offer" their useless pool to those in need durring the summer. Now I have had the offer given and it is almost always a "known" you don’t take up on said offer. Only she DOES! Now she has the Kelley’s on Monday, Weston’s on tuesdays, the Johnson’s pool available on Wednesdays and Fridays, and even her neigbor named Jerry is in on the action! Pool owners are glad the pool is getting some use. And Val and her kids are keeping really cool. Val just added some of her husband’s work friends who offered at a work party. I am savy now for next year. I can buy a new summer wardrobe with the money I’ll save on my season pass to the public pool. And I won’t have to swim near great uncle Ned who thinks his "eurpopean" banana hammock is the new rage this summer!
Val and I are also going to a secret undisclosed location to escape children and husband’s for a while. Details on that adventure comming soon!
They 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!
We had so much fun I can’t believe it is already over.
We saw sky divers, bands, and some good KFC chicken. We were in heaven!
Fireworks were the most amazing thing for the FISH.
I was worried he be scared but he love every minute of it.
Wed. 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.
We are going to continue working on that part. It seems that thing 2’s pair of white shorts are going to take only a couple of washes more. The white/kaki colored shorts of the fish however maybe a loss.
I am looking for an new area rug I rolled up the old one. Ikea seems to have a nice selection. I am just excited for one that is stain free. Even if it is just for one day- or half day. (One rug can only handle so many accidents, this has been 2years worth) and now I feel like my poor carpet in the family room is too exposed! Just waiting for orange juice, urine, popcorn, fish sticks, ketsup, chocolate milk, and rasberries to come and disrupt the happy, little clean living room.
I would love to move thing 1 today into his own room. He wakes up at the insane hour of 6:00am on a regular basis. So much for being my child. My husband can’t claim him either. We just know he is some sort of hilarious alien with a toothless grin.
With him starting school this fall getting up won’t be a problem. I am not sure I am ready for him to grow up and leave the house yet. Even if this milestone is for only three hours a day. I know he will love school esp. if there are toys and things to learn and PAINTING. He is so funny I just don’t know if school is ready for him. He is a bit distracted. And sitting and staying still for any amount of time results in the common phrase escaping his lips.
"Oh come on, this is taking way too long!", something about his small attention span makes me nervous for long school days.
That is just thing 1. Next week, Thing 2 is starting three hours worth of preschool 5 days a week this year. I am excited to have her go. She is so ready. We are going to start a little morning funtime routine. We are all up at 6am anywho! That is two hours of morning funtime before she has to go to school. We can play games, eat breakfast, exercise, and maybe even read some scriptures. I am going to love having the time with the fish and Thing 1. It will only be a couple of months before it is just the fish and I.
So my completely potty trained boy. Stands and takes a pee on the living room rug. I am only ok with this because for months I have wanted to toss the rug and replace it. There are only so many Poooo and pee stains one rug can handle. I am looking for a large area rug today that is Challenge 1
No. two is really rough. Band leaves black pen in shorts pocket. All new kid’s clothes…..dramatically spotted. Someone suggested oxy so we will try that. We will do a photo journal of the progress…..maybe.
Update.
—–Sky is still orangey orange. Not safe for kids to play still out side. I am going to the DYM archives for some indoor ideas.
There is a fun holiday that I like to dress the kids up for. In the spirit of that here is some new bling.
Ok 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!
There 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
The past couple of days have been unbearably hot we are going swimming today for sure. I am loving these bathing suit options.
I 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.
1975 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.
I 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 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.
I 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.
I 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.
Some you know you just keep……
And SOME…. well yeah you know…..
I think it is all over blog land. Selling buying and MOVING. I am not But for those of you who are go here to find out why your move maybe pretty easy. You may have to ready the first couple posts. So when you think that it may be bad….Think again.
I love my bedroom when it is clean and right now it is awesome. I just have to run the vacume and it will sparkle. That is not probably going to last too long since we are sick this week. It started with the weakest immune system child thing 2. Then it hit me. then it went to the Fish. It is so rare that Thing 1 gets anything. So of all of us he is most miserable because it is simply GORGIOUS outside. It is the weather change thing I am sure.
This past couple of weeks have been a total whirlwind of change. (updates in the next several posts)
The business is going great right now. The details now can be found…… HERE….. I am going to keep this bloggy a strictly "Mommy blog" or "place to vent" or "update central for my friends and family" Or what ever this blog has turned into. Random is what I would call it.
So 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?
Today 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!
There are a couple of things that my children saw that had never been seen before "to them"
One was snow. That is a new concept. They kept looking out side and saying "lOOOK it’s Christmas TOWN!"
So I had to let them go play in the fun five inches or so that they got that week.
Here is our Cally version of FROSTY.
He looks pretty warm and physically impaired! But he is ours!
So 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)
To all my friends that live abroad in the two states that we visited. We are comming back soon! But this time without the BARFS! My kids didn’t get it! But it was going around. My mom being the one with it only days before we came.
Short and sweet verison of what went down….
Delta short flight… SMALL bitzy plane. We circled the airport like 50 times on the decent. I get motion sickness REALLY easily and really bad on planes. So there I am 20 minutes until landing. Talking my self out of hurling all my guts out. You see once upon a time I flew. I was alone and sat by someone I didn’t know. I talked politely to that person, I made small talk, joked, laughed. And then without warning I chucked….. Politely into the bag provided.
Luckily I have never
A. seen that poor soul that sat next to me (nor the stewartess who took the bag and threw it away for me).
B. Thrown up on a plane since!
So everytime I get on a plane I am "Afeared", "terrified", "scared", that out of nowhere I will hurl all the contents of my stomach on the plane.
The smell of the airport….That is where it starts for me. The heaves I mean. I hate the smell of airports. I traveled with my three tiny children. They seemed to be totally unphased! I hate when they are having a great time and I am not. When I am just having a very familuar talk with myself.
It generally goes like this.
"Ok, OK, OK! Deep breath in…….. out. You just need to relax. Concentrate on RELAXING! This will be over soon. Pretend you are flying the airplane so it isn’t so bad. And maybe you could just think that those sudden drops are fun like roller coaster. Yeah you’d better breathe again.
Jen B. At "Be Thou Exhalted" congratulations!
And everyone else thanks for playing along!
You 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!
Yeah this is all of us together. I am shocked that it has been really this long since we all got in one shot. We saw my BIL and his new wife. We love them! It is so hard for us to get these family shots. I think this is our first one! We have so many shots of them single and two by two.
Ok I have been trying to upload this shot and it wasn’t showing until just now.
Nice.
Man I am in my house right now with no TV. and no children awake. It is 7:14pm. I have been trying to set up some form of accounting record, bead, and prep for the local exciting meeting with the shop. It is unusually quiet and peaceful.
Lately I have started to notice how much I need to get OUT. Of the house of the city and of the country. I have a scheduled trip to a cooler place that is fond of Potatoes. I will also be visiting a state where the Olympics were held in 2002. We are going for a short stay but it just maybe the escape I am looking for.
My kids are growing so fast lately. Thing 1 is testing his pedaling skillz out, and Thing 2 is really having a blast riding a big wheel trike thingy. When did they grow up so fast? This fall will be my first experience with school. We registered him a couple of weeks ago. I am going to miss him. I thought it would be great to get him out of here for a good chunk of the day, but we have so much fun and are doing things that we all like to do. It is almost painful to think I have mere months left to hang out with him. Thank goodness for summers!
Thing 2 is so chatty. She is finally getting into her big girl unds. (hopefully that will not attract the search engines here LOL)
And it’s going relatively well. We watched some of the old home videos of her and she was saying some pretty funny stuff when she was little. Like 15-18 months little. My little fish is trying to talk but no dice. He totally understands though what I am saying.
Maybe I should not talk that much
One 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!
(all new posts are below)
It is time for a give away!
Check out our new additions to the MomMakes.com Team!!
Lil Munchkin Boutique (with the cute Hair Clips)
and The Sugar and Spice Boutique (Go Check out the burp cloths, blankets!).
There have been some exciting new things going on! and believe me I have been itching to post!! Especially now
A Bracelet. OF. YOUR. CHOICE.
I will draw a winner on April 14th, 2008!
Rules for entering???
1. Post one of the above buttons to your site. (It can be in a post or on the sidebar.) And it doesn’t have to be there permenantly.
2. Tell me which is your favorite clip, blanket, or bracelet in the comments.
3. Remember If you refer three orders or purchase three items. You get a bracelet of your choice free!
******** The Most recent Posts will be below this one! Until the 14th**********
The past two days I have been filling out the paperwork and getting to the city, state offices. I am officially a "seller" in California. That means if you are in Cally and purchase products from me…..BUMMER I have to charge you taxes. This sucks but I do get a tax cut from the California suppliers YEAH!
I have an appointment with a local baby/nursing mother store. I am so stoked. She said she loved the idea of making the bracelets at a shower. I am so excited. The bracelet party we had a couple of weeks ago was so fun! If I could just do parties I totally would. That would be the funnest part time job EVER!
My business license and seller’s permit allows me to try and get approved for selling at THE FARMER’S MARKET! I am thinking about setting up a little place where a couple of people can sit down and make their own bracelets. We’ll see the lady didn’t seem too thrilled about my "string of Beads" I have to conform to a theme for the bracelets. I can manage that LOL.
In my new town they are big on two things……animals and saving the enviornment. Being conservative, (ultra conservative for the crowd around this town) animals and flowers were not really my style.I guess I will have some new styles here in a bit. It should be interesting:)
In the past month this hit the e-mail inboxes across the nation. I am pretty fond of the video myself but when I tried to repost it NOTHIN’ so you’ll have link here to get it sorry. It was from a little over a year ago.
This hurt my cheeks I laughed so hard.
Before
After
Here was the excitement of seeing himself with no tooth:)
He loves having no tooth. He had a lysp before and now there is a hole for all the sound and spit to escape:) I love this little face! I just want to kiss it off!
Oh 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.
1. "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.
One of my favorite words is Amazing. I am pretty sure it is one of those words I say as a filler word. I have those tendencies to use some pretty wonky filler words. One is "you know what I mean" or "does that make sense". I am pretty scattered in my sentence structure sometimes I know this about myself and so I will make sure someone is picking up what I am laying down by checking in with my communication reception. I used to do this one a lot. Now I have caught myself and tried to stop myself from saying it so much.
Another random thought that comes to mind when I think of A is astronaut. I was in first grade when the challenger blew up.
I used to have a friend in high school that his nick name was "Akintubby" he was a nice guy. Man we had some really messed up nick names for kids in our high school. "Gup" "Digger" and a whole mess of them.
I can’t remember if I had a nickname in High School it certainly wasn’t that creative if I did.
Jack Johnson is not only good looking but I would have to say one great song writer. I have some fun memories of listening to him in days gone by.
The scene is huntington beach California on a steamy hot afternoon in early May. I was leaving the tanning salon and riding in the car when "Bubbly Toes" comes on the raido. I have the infamous "duck butt" haircut and I am single. I remember the haze around the street lamps when it was nigth time there. I miss the salty air the beautiful cars that lined the streets and traffic. Oh wait I don’t miss the traffic.
Once there was a baby bump.
That had a rough start of things.
And he grew.
He started doing the firsts. That always came as a shock to his mamma.
But the surprises didn’t ever stop there. They kept comming and comming. First cereals, first rolls, first crawl. First laughs and always the smile that has been so illusive to the camera! 
Fishy, Squishy,my little misshy. you are so easy going. Sometimes we hear you squeal, but it is a rare occasion that you are truely upset. I can always find that smile. The smile that squints your eyes, and flashes those wonderful pearly whites. I am stunned how much love you have brought into our little home. You have really been a patient, happy, mellow, ray of constant sunshine.
I am happy you are here. It has been a wonderful first year. Can’t wait to see this little personality of yours blossom and when given words and expression we are going to be partying.
I am already missing you when you go off to Kindergarten. Thank goodness I have four more years with you at home! Happy Birthday little one. You are my little angel. Bless you for being here for me and your Thing 1 and Thing 2.
Oh this is just too sad. I need some more time before I post again!
Momment of Idol Silence PLEASE!
Time for bed has been comming for awhile now. I am dragging. My fingers are still willing to type so…. post I shall.
We have been having a hard time around bed time with the fish lately. He isn’t going down as easy as he has in the past. I am thrilled he is still sleeping through most of the night. But bedtime is getting rough. The three short people in my house all sleep in the same room. Our third bedroom is still looking like a storage unit. I am thinking it may have to become a nursery or "boy’s room" I am not sure if this will solve our "Let’s wake up Sister at 6:30 am" problem or not.
The last two mornings Thing 1 has been up very early. Thursday night was the arrival of the first tooth fairy visit. So naturally we weren’t thinking he would sleep in that morning. He was the one who actually extracted his first tooth. I was so greatful. I could not believe how completely wussy I was when I heard it pull away from the gums. I shudder just remembering. He was shocked and kind of scared. But we hiped it up pretty good so he knew there would be something big the next morning. As I plotted what the tooth fairy would bring I brainstormed some ideas.
1. gift (small toy) wrapped all in sparkley boyish colors.
2. Money
3. Treats
4. Something fun to do a an activity the next day.
I was stumped. I realized this was the first tooth. This was the first tooth fairy visit in our little family. It had to be big. I wanted to follow tradition. So we went with cold hard cash.
Now I have this little tooth that I don’t know what to do with.
The season is upon us! This is our toy bin closet know as the "cubby"
That is 18 eggs carefully placed in a "hiding place"
After revamping the business site I finally got the paypal buttons working right again. So now they return easily to the main page. Ok So I have yet to add some really cool bags. They are still coming. I am waiting to get the pictures "just right"
Here are the details of the update.
1. New Bracelets.
2. New look for the entire site.
3. New site with much more to add. "mamas*little*treasures" She has some freebees eBook patterns on the front page!
We’ll see how this week goes with sales:) I love having such a fun project to work with. I am setting up shop in our local "farmer’s market" too! That should provide some wonderful bloggy foddy
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!
Lately we have been having some serious fun. Saturday we packed up the kiddy’s and went on a bike ride. We live in a community that is crazy about bikes. I really do love this town.
There was a park down the way and we played and went on the swings with the fish. He loves the swings. On the way back or forth he just starts giggling. The weather has been allowing for some good times. We found a themed park around the bend. It was a Pirate park.
Since them my Thing 1 has pulled out his pirate ship and played with his pirates- I know this is a major deviation from the constant playing with the trains. This morning I asked him to pick up said ship and he replied with, "No problem Matey Mamma"
We went to the dentist for a visit. Thing 1 is always chatty in the waiting rooms. He turns to the gentleman next to us and introduces himself
"Hi My name is Thing1"
"And this is my Dad’s wife, JD"
I would have added that I was his mother as well, only I was laughing too hard to tell the guy.
We had a good morning.His tooth will need to be pulled so I need to take lots of pictures of him while he has all his teeth. He will be loosing his frount top one. 
just as long as he is not in any pain or risk of infection I am ok with him having a jack o’ lantern smile for a couple of years.
***The Band has a job interview today for a job that would be paying better and closer to home! If you need a reason to pray please use that one!!
If you are clicking, reading and laughing at me!!!! Please delurk today and for the next seven days
Before……
I know it looks like I just shook out the grocery bags and threw everything in there. Ok So that is really pretty much what I did.
And then. There was Costco.
And can storage and my first "plastic ware" stuff.
it feels so much better…….
Some of this….
Mixed with this (Red contact paper sticky side out Masking taped to the wall)
Usually at our house we are looking for ways to get messy. I found a cool website that helps mix things up around here without the true mess of everything.
You get this….
It was extreamly fun times.
The site I found this one at is www.familyfun.com
My pantry make over is inspired by a fellow warrior. She has some intensly excellent skillz! Good Job!
I went to Sam’s and found those can organizers. I can barely wait to get all fourty cans in one compact and flowing organized spot. YEAH!
Then there are the containers that hold the cereal, and other things I have hanging out in my pantry. We’ll see if I can reduce some space in there. I would do Before and after pictures but I think I am just going to do some WORK. (ok maybe pictures will follow)
In 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.
Today ended in an our first ER visit for any of the kids. It wasn’t serious. I have to get some order in my life. but we just have been not doing so hot around here. I need some sleep.
There is a big Boycott going on and I am pretty much over working with them myself. I have found so many other things that are available on other places. I am currently searching for a place to get my electronics. I am only selling on Ebay to get my business name out there. I have a deal running that if you refer three paying customers I send them a free bracelet. It has been met with some interesting fun.
In about three hours my final listings will end with ebay. I am comfortably going to say goodbye.
There 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.
I 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 neve
