Tripping Over Cobblestone

Secrets….

    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.
 

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French Toast

    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.  

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Summer Heat Escape 101

    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!  

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The Dishes…

    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!
 

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Fourth of JULY!

    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. 

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Listing and more listing…

    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.  

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Pen Came out??

    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.

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Today’s challenges…..

    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.
 

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Novel on the blog…..Part 3

    Another flash of images came to the horizon. This time I was in the kitchen. Waiting for Lilah to finish the pancakes so I could roll  them with yogurt and whip cream inside and hand them to the crew. All around me were little faces looking up at me waiting. Casie was just eight and wanted to help with the loading so it would go faster.

    She and I were the most alike. Quiet with little to say on a good day. Just thinking non-stop thinking. You could tell when you asked her a simple question by the tiniest squint to her eyes that she diliberated over every word so carefully.

    The air was heated with tension that morning. I can remember staring at the spoon in my hand for too long before Casie put it into the yogurt for me like I was the child. Lilah and Benny had been up all night after he had come home early from work. The amazing company he was working for had just cut his entire department in one solid swipe of pink slips. Six years of security and stability just packed up and left overnight. He was devistated, and like all eternal optimists eager to get back into what he loved doing. Accounting. 

    I suddenly recalled every second that ticked as Lilah picked up the phone.

    "Uhuh. I am his wife."

    I watched the phone drop from her hand in slow motion. Each momemt from there was slow motion. Like being caught in molasses. She slumped into a heap and shook will pain. Someone slowly dimmed the lights like in a movie theatre right before the movie starts. Only there was no anticipation just dimming.

   Weeks, and months passed.
 

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The Fourth….

There is a fun holiday that I like to dress the kids up for. In the spirit of that here is some new bling.

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