Category Archives: Family

Mar24

Take that unreasonable fear!

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Never before would I have slept with the windows open.

I has been a constant fear in my life that someone would creep in through an open window and hurt me. I have suffered through high electricity bills from constant air conditioning or undressed down to my undies while I sweat to death when I have not had the money for air.

Suddenly, this year, that has changed. That fear, in light of all my family has been through in the past year, has been vanquished. I have had my windows open since we got home from Minnesota last week. I haven’t closed them at night.

During the day I have been leaving my back door open so the dogs can run in and out. Even with our privacy fence and locked gate, that has never been an option.

I am not sure what has changed, but I am glad it has! Take that!

Mar20

Day 3 – Photos, the Aquarium and the Trip Home

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It is always bittersweet on the last day of any trip, short or long.

You want to stay and grab hold of any experience you missed, but your bed at home is always calling your name.

So we did what any good Girl Scout would do???? right? We took Old Tyme Photos! Don’t we make good saloon girls?

Then we headed downstairs to the Sea Life Aquarium.

We got to see jellyfish.

We walked under sharks. Eeek!

And saw many other wonders of the sea.

Now we are home sweet home.

Awesome trip, amazing experience!

And I am glad I got to share it with my friends and daughters!

Mar19

Light It Up Blue for Autism Awareness

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On April 2nd, Light It Up Blue to spread awareness for Autism. April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. Change out your porch lights for a blue bulb and support autism awareness. Blue bulbs are available at your local Home Depot. You can also wear blue to work that day to show your support

You can donate to the cause at the following link:


http://www.lightitupblue.org/Markslist/campaign/display/profile.do?campaignId=9604

 

Autism affects so many children, adults and their families. Get the word out and become aware of what you can do to help in your community.

 

Mar13

Oh What a Trip!

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Had an excellent trip to the Mall of America with one of my BFFs and my daughters!

We drove into Minnesota on Friday.

We got up early on Saturday to see the Birthday Celebration of the Girl Scouts at the Mall of America.

Did you know that the organization is 100 years old?

There were more girls than ever imagined! Over 50,000 attended!

 

We did a few of the Girl Scout activities but the girls were quickly overwhelmed with the amount of people.

So we decided to ride the light rail downtown.

to be continued tomorrow……

Mar3

Bananas….

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My son’s third obsession is Bananas.

Kind of goes along with the monkey thing, huh? LOL

For breakfast he wants bananas.

For snack he wants bananas.

For lunch he wants bananas.

For dinner….well you get the point!

The only thing is I can’t buy enough bananas at once to make him happy.

If I buy one bunch, he munches through them like a termite destroys wood.

If I buy two or more bunches at once, he suddenly goes on banana strike.

That s#!t is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

Also. he loves the dancing peanut butter jelly time banana….

Thanks for stopping by!

Mar2

Santa…

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My son’s second recent obsession is Santa.

And yes, this happened after Christmas was over, not during the season.

And…he is not obsessed with Santa the person as much as what Santa says.

Ho Ho Ho!

Which applies to everything white and fluffy.

Marshmallows are Ho Ho Ho.

Bubble Bath is Ho Ho Ho.

Cotton Balls are Ho Ho Ho.

And of course anyone with a white beard is Ho Ho Ho.

Thanks for stopping by!

Feb29

Monkeys?

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SO I thought a good way to work my way back to blogging a bit is to tell you about my son’s current obsessions.

The first one is monkeys.

But not really….

He know what monkeys are and gets monkeys right every time he sees one, however….

He mistakes this for a monkey:

Yes, he calls penguins “monkeys”.

He does not mistake any other animals for monkeys.

But he carries tiny penguins around in his pocket and lovingly kisses them, plays with them and refers to them as his monkeys.

The “monkeys” in question came from this game:

Should I be worried? LOL

Because this:

equals this:

I sure hope not!

 

Nov9

My House is “Man” Clean

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I woke up today two days out from having the worst food poisoning ever (not really, I had salmonella last summer) and on day three of a monster migraine that was helped along by the absence of food and water in my body.

Determined to at least get out of my bedroom for awhile, I tore through my medicine cabinet hoping for one leftover pain pill from something done when we had insurance.

You see, my migraine meds were crazy expensive on insurance and without they are $300 for NINE PILLS. Yeah…sucky, right?

So I came across one tiny pain pill leftover and shoved it in my pie-hole hoping it would allow me to get through at least a few hours in the room with our newly acquired Shriek-O-Matic(aka Bubby).

Ok, he is not so newly acquired but his early jump into the terrible twos means he has decided that every word must end in a shriek. Great for parties and migraines alike! Not so much….

Anyway, the pain pill has worked too well, or at least it has some side effects….it has made me incredibly hyper and I have a need to do something…anything!

On to the point of the story (see pain pill rambling….) my eyes have suddenly been able to open and see my home. My poor home as it has been for the past three days that I have been stuck in my bed trying to still my weak tummy and simultaneously cover my head with a pillow to hide from the shrieking monster’s cries.

I have come to a conclusion….”Man” clean is nowhere near “ME” clean. I think my hubby did only what was necessary to keep our home from becoming condemned and keep access to the food for him and my son.

YEAH RIGHT!

My daughters intelligently escaped to grandma’s house at the first sign of Mommy-sickness. Apparently they do not like “Man” clean even if their room stays in a constant state of “Kid” clean.

“Kid” clean I have come to realize is in between “ME” clean and “Man” clean. It often involves lots of food wrappers and toys but no real threat to our health.

In the state of “Man” clean, the bathroom and kitchen stay fairly (I’m using that term lightly) clean, I assume because they are the two most important rooms to my hubby.

However, everything else gets lumped onto the dining room table and the coat rack in the front room for me to handle when I get better. Let’s just hope I never get ‘for real’ long-term kind of sick or the house might fall down around me! :)

Oct4

Ten Things I Love This October

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Ten Things Tuesday

1. Uh duh! HALLOWEEN! One of my favorite holidays! (Read: We are having two ridiculously huge Halloween COSTUME parties) Costumes are the S#$t!

2. Fall is here! Fall is here! Fall is here! My favorite season!!!

3. We get to decorate pumpkins (doing happy dance!) We already glitter spray painted 3 pumpkins and bought the plastic characters to poke into them. We have Vampire Elmo and Cookie Monster on our front step and Yoda is out in the fake graveyard with Mr. Skully. Next up, the real carving.

4. Baking begins…pumpkin pies and pecan pies and pumpkin bread and spice cake! I adore the fall spices!

5. The leaves are turning magnificent colors! Including my lovely little burning bush in the front yard! Grew it from a seed ya’ll!

6. Mr. Skully and all of my other Halloween decorations get to come out and play. We have a graveyard and tons of spooky lights. Massive spiders webs and huge glitter spiders. There also are hanging grim reapers and fake blood sprayed everywhere. We haven’t pulled out the scary stuff yet, I don’t want our Kid’s Halloween party to be too creepy.

7. I can randomly yell ‘Bwains!’ with my BFF and no one looks at us like we are crazy….well they do but it’s the month of Halloween so we pretend they don’t get Zombies!

8. I get to start planning for Christmas shopping (if I am late because mostly I start in July and August…but budget has demanded an October start).

9. The start of all the good tv! The Big Bang Theory is back (FAVORITE!) and my new close second is 2 Broke Girls.

10. I get to make COSTUMES! YAY! I have already finished Bean’s Punk Rock Princess outfit, just working on the crocheted fingerless fishnet-ish gloves. My 1920′s flapper dress is half done, I just need sew up one side and start adding fringe. The Princess is going to be pink Batgirl so I have to get hers started asap! (inspiration for our outfits above)

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Sep27

10 Things You Shouldn’t Say to a Sick Mom with Sick Kids

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Ten Things Tuesday

1. ‘Wow, your house is a mess! So unlike you!’ – this makes me stabby, and you all know my particular brand of crazy, sooo……

2.  Have you tried x-y-z to make yourself better? – I’m 30 years old, I know what does and does not work for me…so I doubt I will purchase the $13 pack of zinc lozenges that cured your cold in 72 minutes, quit hassling me about it.

3. Have you given your kids cough meds/tylenol/expectorant to make them better? – I have 3 of those little monsters, one of which I have had for eight whole years! Amazingly enough, I have given them the proper meds for their illness, they do have a cool mist humidifier in their room and I do know what I am doing. Getting stabby again already! LOL

4. Do you think you guys will be well again to go to ‘The huge spectacular event of mine’ in two days? – No, I don’t. Even if we were, I don’t feel like jumping immediately back into social obligations with still weak immune systems thanks.

5. Must be nice to work from home and be with your kids when they are sick. – No it’s not, they are mean little monsters when they are sick. And I can’t escape the germs, that is why I am so sick too!

6. Don’t you love it when they are all sweet and cuddly when they are sick? – Did I mention my kids get mean? Getting cuddled with is nice but I prefer sleepy not sick cuddles, I tend to dislike get sneezed-hacked-thrown up on. Plus I am sick myself and I am a do-not-invade-my-germ-infested-bubble sick person.

7. At least your hubby works from home and can help out. – Ha! That is all I have to say about that, he sleeps a lot when we are sick, my kids get their sick unpleasantness from me.

8. I know how you feel! (especially when you don’t have kids yourself) – You know nothing.

9. You look like crap! – Thank you for that. After an entire week of holding sick children through the night when I should be sleeping to get myself to get better does make me less than rock-star-ish, I’m glad for the reminder. Now where’s my knife so I can cut you?

10.  Did you know your kid’s nose is all snotty? – Yes, yes I do…and I have given up the fight with it. After seven days of chasing a toddler around with a snotty nose and wiping every five minutes I surrender. The snot wins!

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