Sometimes ....

These were some arrangements I made a LOOOOOONG time ago. I was just thinking this morning how fun it would be to go play with flowers all day long without having to worry about the kids or the groceries. But I love being a stay at home mom so definately not for a job, just for a day. Today feels like it would have been a good day for making beautiful arrangments for others to enjoy.

My Good Chillins

So this morning Mom put down the decree. No Messes Before Preschool!

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This morning our soon-to-be new realitor is coming to take pictures of the house for a virtual tour so I have to have it tidy at the least... granded I should probably scrub it, but hey I'm too lazy and how much to pictures show of that stuff anyways?! :o)

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Anyways, the kids were fabulous! As you can see, G sat down with a ew books and Missy My decided to take an interest in some of Little Li's toys. I didn't even have to turn the TV on!! (which is even better because there wasn't time to watch a whole movie and our Satelite has been turned off for a while)

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Anyways, just thought that for a change I would brag about my kids rather than complaining ... I do that WAY too much! I'm working on it though!

All my many hair styles.

Really, I honestly think that I haven't had my natural hair color since highschool till now! LOL and I finally decided to grow out my hair before I get so old it looks like I'm trying to be "younger" than I am... and now I'm TIRED of it AGAIN! How do you think I should do it THIS time if I do anything at all? LOL

7 months old

So, the other day I was looking through pictures and wanted to see how my kids all looked around the age that Li is now... so here we go :) cute kids at 7 months old. First G, then Missy, and last Little Li.

My homie :)

So, this is Jer.... he's cold. So he's wearing his hoody with that hood up baby! Which makes him look kinda like a gangsta wannabe :o)

Anyways, most Sundays Jer makes eggs for the fam. This morning is was just for me cause the kids ACTUALLY slept in .... one benefit of illness I guess. Well now, I guess I should be more upfront :oD We actually ALL slept in ... no WAY am I letting that opportunity pass without taking it! But by the time that Jer and I got to breakfast the kids had already had theirs ... so he cooked for the two of us.

And may I say, his egg cooking Skillz definately top mine! :oD

I can't WAIT for spring!

And no necessarily because of the warm weather... though that WOULD be nice about now.

No, It's because of the CRAP that my family keeps getting. First RSV, then colds, now something else (I pray it's not the Flu that the flu shots don't work for... please please please).

I'm tired of my kids faces being covered in snot, I'm tired of them fighting cause they are grouchy because of fever or too little sleep, but mostly .... I'm tired of having to take care of everyone when I too feel like my head is in a vice or worse!

I know I know.... complain,complain. And for the rest of you mom's out there, you know how I feel! Oh, these are the days that I miss being a teenager and being allowed to sit in the tub for hours with a good book. Or be able to take a nap at 10am or 3pm or heaven forbid 7 pm and stay up till 2am without any major hurdles to be jumped.

So, until such a time as my kidlets are feeling better and the weather is good enough to send them outside when they are loud or fighting I will have to settle for a small nap on Saturday or the conundrum of whether or not to take a bath instead while the spouse in home to hold down the fort till I get out. What a good Hubby he is :)

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Ahhhh sleeeeep. Yes, I decided to nap. Good decision :)

Oh No!!! NOT AGAIN!!

G is sick again... fever of 101F

How Lucky I Am

I was talking to a friend today about marriage. How many people I know that truely stuggle with theirs. Who say that so much "work" is involved with marriage that they did not realize before they got married. I find this interesting, because I don't consider my marriage to be "work". Maybe it's just because I enjoy the "work" so much.

Jer is truely my best friend in the whole world. I know that he has seen the worst of me and still loves me. I love being around him and sometimes want to not share him... including with the kids! I know I know... not very "motherly" of me! ... still when I think about how good our relationship is I always wonder in the back of my head... Is something terrible coming our way?? There has to be a reason that we have it so "easy".

And to be honest this scares the CRAP out of me!

Stealing an idea...

Ok, so one of my favorite bloggers does an "Anonymus Comment Day". I think it's a good idea even though I probably only have 3 or 4 people that ever comment here :) Maybe I can get some more to contribute and let my know my blog is read!

Anyways, I think today I will have the topic be... Name something you a really good at! it is so hard not to be down on yourself these days and sometimes feels like bragging, well you can't be bragging if no one knows who you are... right?! :D Comment Away!

What would YOU do???

So... now i smell like vinegar. My oldest is daring me to put him up for apdotion today.
Here's what happened....

G's good friend Mr. M comes over to play.

G insists on me giving him some pop.

I say no, G throws major fit.

G gets told to go to time out

G refuses and starts screaming and yelling and grabs banister as mom drags him to time out.

G screams and yells till mom threatens nap and/or vinegar

G takes time out.

G comes out and plays well for about 20 minutes.

After a bit G decides to try to force me to give him his camera (which he lost for the day due to throwing in last night) and starts baggering me.

I count, he starts talking back and screaming

He gets told to go to time out

He throws another major fit

I tell him he is getting vinegar for talking back and screaming

He runs to his room and slams door locking it behind him.

I unlock said door with handy little unlocker thing

I give him vinegar.

He SPITS IT IN MY FACE.

!!!!!! @#$& (Don't worry it was just in my head.)

I give him three spankings and tell him that it's time for him to take a nap.

Down he goes for nap, screaming and yelling (he's not used to taking a nap).

By the way, he's loosing all of his toys for the rest of the day as well... plus because his friend is still here he doesnt get the opportunity to finish playing with him either.

Grrr... at least Missy My and Mr M seam to play well together!

What would you have done???

Finally Better

It seams to me.... that everyone and their dog has been sick lately. Including us. I'm so happy that we are finally feeling a bit better. But while we were all quarenteened I realized that even the toy closet seem to be not feeling so well. It kept vomiting all over the floor.... DAILY! Somehow it doesn't seem to be feeling any better yet.....

I've found that even in the mornings that I don't allow any toys out (the house is on the market and I don't want to take the time hurry and clean up before we take off in 15 min) the kids are always creative and have a fun time figuring out ways to entertain themselves.

I had to hurry and sweep the kitchen before taking G to preschool. They were having great fun playing on the chairs :0)

Shoes

So the other day we got Missy My some new shoes... and for some reason or another the shoes companies see no need to make shoes that are easy for a 2-3 yr old to put on by themselves. Grrr ... now G's shoes on the ohter hand are a dream. They aren't even tacky velcro! Their laces are permenantly attanched and STRETCHY so I never have to worry about having to tie them :)

Anyways, back to Missy's shoes. We ended up having the choice between really gawdy catoonish tennies, really summery shoes (can we say snow?), and cute shoes that happen to be tie up. So yeah, we got the tie up ones figuring I would probably just do a double knot and call it good.

Well, we came home from taking G to preschool and the next thing I know is Missy is saying "I git it done!" meaning undone... lol yeah she figured out those knots in lightning time.

"Don't Steal, The Government Doesn't Like Competition"

Well, I decided today that it was time to think about keeping us off the the governments blacklist.

It was time to pay the taxman.

(http://www.irs.gov/)

I usually try to get this over with far before the deadline because who knows when you wont be able to find some random piece of paper that just happens to have important tax information on it.... such as how much you paid in property taxes last year (which is the one I'm waiting for in the mail... though I was able to get the number over the phone) or when you are going to have to pay and need time to come up with the money!

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The kids were fabulous today with Big G not complaining about going to preschool and using the bathroom before he had an accident and wanting to help me whenever possible, to Missy My not getting out toys when I knew the realtor was coming over to take pictures, and Little Li just being good natured and not getting toooo mad when I put him in his excersaucer for an extended period of time so that I could do figures. None of them even complained when I dragged them all out to the car to go pick up tax info from a couple of places around town!

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So TADA I'm done with the figures at least... now all I have to do is make copies and send the stuff in.

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I'm so proud of us!

I Hate Boogers

G's Pictures

This is me, obviously .... though what I was thinking when I pulled that face is beyond even myself!

M playing with the blind like she isn't supposed to .... mmmm

M's undies. She has been doing wonderful at keeping then dry :) Horray ... less diapers in the house!

Somehow he got her to smile ... all I ever get is horrid faces pulled at me!

The flash is a bit close... but hey, he's 4 right?? :D

A Surprise Phone Call

For those of you that know me well, you know that I'm not particularly close to my sisters.

We live in different states and therefore don't see each other often, and the fact that I am 4 years younger than my closest sibling didn't do a whole ton for the bonding experiences growing up. By the time I was in junior high both of them had gone off to college, then when they got married they had other people to worry about besides 14yr old me. So when I say that I'm "the youngest only child", I have at times truely felt like an only child.
There were times when I really did try to become closer to my sisters by calling them once a month etc... but in the end I didn't feel that it really made any difference and that if anything I was simply being a distraction.
For some reason even though I am a grown women with a husband and children of my own I have usually felt like my sisters consider me to be an extention of my parents, that somehow everything that they tell my parents somehow miraculously gets passed on to me. That somehow I just "Know" what is going on in their lives. Besides, there are always the long distance bills to consider.
Now, the same thing could be said of me. I don't bother much anymore with letting my sisters know what is going on with me unless there is something major going on. I figure they have busy lives and could probably do without the play by play of my life and just fast forward to the touchdowns.

Anyways.... onto the point of the post.

My sister Jo actually called ME yesterday! Now, Jo and I's communication in the passed hasn't been that great. Sometimes we just don't "connect" if you know what I mean. So when I answered the phone she was the last person I expected to hear on the other line. How wonderful to hear from her, and for no better reason than "We haven't talked in a while." It was so good to hear what is going on in her life, that her family was able to buy a house, that her girls were estatic about it, that her job is willing to work around her schedule. It was nice to talk about life a little... in broader terms than "today I did laundry" or some other mundane detail that I do almost every day.
I hope that the call didn't cost her too much, but I know that at least for me, it truely brightened my day.

Thanks Jo.

Stuck at Home

Soooo... since we are self quarentined due to RSV... Big G had finally spent some time with the Christmas gift that I thought he would spend the most time with when we gave it to him (they always surprise you don't they?), and I got around to playing with my Christmas Gift that I KNOW I will be spending more time with! LOL I should be cleaning but I'm not letting that stop my fun! Needless to say I've been playing with my photo editing program :)

Clifford Computer Game

G and M's new favorite pass time.... needless to say, G is getting pretty good at the computer :)

Bedtime Dad's Way

If you'll notice while the kids get a chance to each pick a book, dad decides to be creative. Jer is reading the kids 2 books at the same time.

Yup... Mothers intuition strikes again....

So it's official. My kids have RSV.

Little Li was supposed to have his 6 month checkup today but because he was caughing and wheezing a little I had them change the appointment to a regular sick check. Needless to say, he has RSV, which means that Big G most likely has the same thing and Missy My seams to be coming down with it as well.

I'm glad we didn't go to church last Sunday and share all the fun....

Anywho... Li now has to have breathing treatments every 4 hours for the next 2 days... fun fun.... you try keeping THIS thing on or even near a 6 month olds face!!!

(photo from trimed.freeservers.com)

MOST VISITED WEBSITES

Being an admitted News Junkie... My most visited website is Foxnews.com, but since it's my homepage maybe that one doesn't count! So you can blame this one on the News Junkie issue as well... Localnews8.com (It's the local news site since I refuse to pay for the local paper)

What are your most visited sites?

New Leadership

It's been a while since the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has received new leadership. After the passing of Gordon B Hinckley recently President Thomas S. Monson has succeeded him at his post. His two new councelors are Henry B Eyring and Deiter Friedrich Uchtdorf. I'm sure they will fullful their new positions with great determination and a large amount of humility due to stepping up after a first presidency that did such marvalous works.

Sick Kids and Preschool

So Saturday Little Li and Big G started to get a nasty cough.

Sunday L got the boogerfest going needless to say we didn't go the church.

This morning called G's Preschool to let his teacher know that he wouldn't be there. Come to find out that on Friday there were 3 kids at preschool with the same cough. Why is it that some people seam to think that if their kid is not puking all over the place uncontrolably that it is okay to send them to ANY place with other children?

Grrr... I just hope this stuff isn't the dreaded RSV crap... Anyone know how to tell the difference in young children??

P.S. After putting Missy and Li down for naps I came downstair to find the G had put himself down too... in front of Star Wars :)

P.P.S. Big G was so cute earlier. As he was playing with the Friggits on the Fridge he says to me "Mom, whenever I do it like this it has ISSUES" LOL Leave it to him to not be a NORMAL child and say "problems" but instead to take my lingo from my customer service days and use the more politically correct "issues" :)

Lost!

DUN DUN DUN! It's baaaaack....

btw...the picture is from www.tv.com