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School Days.....School Days....

2011-08-27T09:00:00.005-05:00

We just finished the First Week of School! I have been blessed with kids who LOVE to go to school!! Taylor (L) started 3rd grade, Dakoda (M) started Kindergarten and Madison (L) started 5th!

Believe me when I tell you I am still shocked that I am old enough to have a 5th grader!!!

Dakoda has been so excited with school starting that she cried the first couple of days because school was over and she had to come home!

Does/have anyone else's kids do/done that?
Or are we just a 'freaky' family?

Hayleigh (R) is going back to Mother's Day Out on Wednesday's and Friday's and I am completely 'kid-free' for 10 hours a week! I know I probably said that last year, but I ended up babysitting a little girl last school year and her MDO was on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

But this year is different, I am NOT babysitting!

Sean doesn't like this 'kid-free' thing so far, because I've been catching up on my shopping that I haven't done EVER!!

Favorite Photos so far this year!!

A New Month.......

2010-11-01T14:26:00.003-05:00

and a New Attitude!!!
Thank you friends who gave me some words of encouragement!!!

I felt much better after my little rant!!
But isn't that why some of us start a blog?
To rant about what we think is bad in our lives at the moment....
or rave about what's so fantabulou s!!

I know that's why I started this!! and it helps me so much!!
I kept many journals when I was younger and I kept writing until I had my second child,
Then after the 4th I started this blog!!
Talk about a life saver!!! And ALL of the wonderful friends I have made!!!

So I've decided to grab this 'bull by the horns' or LIFE as we so often refer to is as.

Thinking back to some or more like most of my posts, I have been so negative and that is not who I want to be or people to think of me as. Since this month we celebrate THANKSGIVING! I want to be more Thankful and Positive!!

Can you believe it is already November 1st???
I still can't!! Where has this year gone? It seems like only yesterday when I posted the GREAT SCRAPBOOKING WEEKEND!!!
Which ended up turning out very well, Sean is not making the 7 hour drive home again, Thankfully! he has a fun weekend planned at home with the girls!! I am actually leaving this weekend for another one and I'm thinking about working on some new crafts for MY ETSY SHOP instead of actually scrapbooking.

So here are some of my positives!!

We are loving are new church, as I have mentioned before!
All four of the girls LOVE, LOVE, LOVE school and are so good at it!!!
My husband has a job!
We have a place to call home!
I just recently started a NEW blog for all of my 'Homemaking adventures' if you are interested it is http://www.littlemissoldfashioned.blogspot.com/ I will still be posting the ups and downs of my life here, hopefully more ups than downs though!!
I'm trying to make more things for my Etsy shop and I really love making cupcakes now, I just wish I could sell those too!! and if there is anything you would like to see made, I'm open to suggestions, I haven't found my niche yet of what I just LOVE to make!!

Thank you my loyal readers and friends!! It's so nice having you around!!! :)

Capital D.....

2010-10-04T16:45:00.002-05:00

pressed!!!

That's how I'm feeling!!

All I know is that I have had a really great past 2 weeks or so and TODAY?? not so much!!!
I guess it really started yesterday, but I ignored it because Sean was home and I did absolutely NO chores around the house! and I took a 2 1/2 hour nap, which hasn't happened in a really long time. I've had a sinus/alergy thingy rearing it's head for awhile now and I guess it wiped me out....cause I couldn't believe I had slept THAT. LONG!!!

So I'm sure that's what led into today. All the girls were home today! #1 and #2 didn't have school because it was 'Fair Day'. I don't know how everybody else does it, I'm guessing they have their fair during the summer? I don't know. But Dallas has theirs in the fall and our school district gets a Monday off for the kids to go to the Fair!

They get 'FREE student' tickets, but we are so damn broke right now, that doesn't even help!!

We are making two trips home this month, 1st for Sean's parent's Retirement Party and 2nd is for my cousin's wedding! and ALL 5 of us girls are in it!

You know? I was super excited about both of these trips back in June when we had the money for them! But now? It's kind of put a damper on things. Don't get me wrong, I have money saved up for the trips, but I just keep thinking of all the other things I could be putting that money towards! (new eyeglasses for me and #1, extra groceries, or just keep it in SAVINGS!!!)

My headache just keeps pounding away as I think about all of this!

I'm sorry... I'm glad that Sean has a job and we can afford the things that we have! But that's even in limbo now! He came home today and said his job is question because of some stuff that's been going on! What ticks me off is that he's been doing more than necessary and he's getting his A$$ chewed for other things! GRRR!!!

I finally finished some things for THE NEW etsy shop I'm going to open, but I'm afraid that's not even going to be enough money coming in and I'm struggling with other ideas of what to make.
I wish I was disciplined enough or smart enough to make money off my blog.

I know this is a complete 180 from my last post and I'm thinking ALOT of it has to do with Aunt Flo arriving in a week!
I think I'm in denial that I have some serious hormonal issues! I have not been to the ob/gyn since my 4 week checkup after #4 was born and she's 2 and 1/2!!! Very bad, I know!!
I just keep making excuses not to go!!

I really need to get off here and fix a meal before I head off to Girl Scouts!!

I know it's bad, and I know I keep saying that, and I know...blah, blah, blah.....

This WHOLE day all I have been thinking about, that makes me happy, is watching HOARDERS tonight!!!

Isn't that horrible?

One day a month......I don't like ANYBODY!!! Not even myself!!!
One week a month....I am the UGLIEST BITCH!! my family has EVER encountered!!! I'm still surprised my husband is married to me!
3 weeks a month......I LOVE EVERYONE!!! I LOVE MY HUSBAND, CHILDREN AND THEY LOVE ME BACK!!! I WANT TO DO THINGS FOR PEOPLE AND I DON'T CARE IF THEY APPRECIATE IT OR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE IT!!

that doesn't look too bad!
only 1 more week and everything will be good again!
I just hope we all make it!!

Things HAVE Changed!!!

2010-10-01T08:07:00.004-05:00

I am no longer such a 'home body'.

I have LOVED being a homebody and did not envy the other mother's who were racing their children everywhere!

Our evening outings last school year consisted of: one night-Girl Scouts (#1 and #2 where in the same troop) and 3 nights later, gymnastics (#1, #2 and #3 had class at the same time!)

Pure AWESOMENESS!!!!
Some may think I was very, very LAZY for doing this! and maybe I was, but my reasoning was, the least amount of time I spent driving in the ol' van, the less money I spent on gas and eating out, because I was always able to make our meals.
AND....... I had a one year old who is hard to drag around everywhere and I just didn't want to be a distraction to anyone.

Now, let's comeback to what's going on this year!!
I. HAVE. COME. OUT. OF. HIDING!!!!

Our week at a Glance!!

Sunday: Church

Monday: #1 and #2 have Girl Scouts
(which I have to be at now because I am filling in as co-leader and I am now in charge of the Juniors, plus this will be my 3rd year as this troops Cookie Mom!)

Tuesday: I have Girl Scouts
(Yes! You read that correctly! I helped out with a GS Recruitment Day and realized I wanted to help out more! That's how I agreed to be more involved in my older two's troop AND signed on to be a leader of a new DAISY troop that was forming!)
So while I lead my Daisy Troop, my 4 daughters will be at AWANA!!
That couldn't have worked out any better if I had planned it!

Wednesday: NOTHING
( Our free night!)

Thursday: Gymnastics
(Only #1 and #2 because #3 decided she wanted to take dance)

Friday: NOTHING again!!

As far as #3's dance class goes?
The Mother's Day Out Program that she goes to offers a class during her pre-k program on Friday's.

I feel bad that I don't get to see her in class but they will be having a recital in January.

I am just very excited about this!!!
Sean thinks I'm crazy, but what else is new?
I don't feel so worthless anymore!

Rainy Saturday

2010-09-25T21:35:00.003-05:00

This morning I woke up to a blink of lightening and rumble of thunder! I snuggled under the covers and I thought I was going to be in for a little 'stormy treat'!
But of course that wouldn't just happen here! It was already 7:30 and all the munchkins started waking up!
I ended up just sitting up in bed and watching the rest of 'Medium' that I had to turn off so that Sean and I could watch 'Supernatural' together.
I'm such a Scify junky! ha!
Sean was so nice this morning. He brought me a big cup of coffee!! and entertained the kids while I watched tv!!
I LOVE lazy Saturday mornings when we have nothing that HAS to be done and we don't have to worry about S getting called to work!

Around 10:30 I was tired of doing NOTHING so I decided to tackle the PLAYROOM!!!
After I got started, I wasn't sure if that was such.......

*hold on, I have to help Sean look for the remote!

Well, I'm back, and after 20 minutes of searching......no Luck!!! 1 culprit is asleep and the other 2 swear they have 'no idea' where it is! (I didn't forget anyone, she's at a sleepover!)

okay, let me reread so I can figure out where I was!

Oh Yeah! Starting the Playroom!
Yikes! Back in July, my mom was here for a visit and she helped me switch the playroom with my craftroom. That switch really didn't go as planned.
My craftroom is in tip top shape, but everything just 'got thrown' into the playroom!
The only playing that's been done in there for the past couple of months has been the girls playing games on the computer!! I'm afraid somebody will get hurt or even worse GET LOST!!!
IT. WAS. BAD!!!! I didn't even take a BEFORE picture of it because it was soooo BAD!!! I DID NOT want that picture haunting me!!

A quick run down of how that went!

I sorted, threw away, put away, picked up, shooed kids out, ate a snack, checked Facebook a couple of times, sorted, threw away, put away, filled GOODWILL boxes, ate a late lunch, picked up, shooed away, picked up again, vacuumed, put boxes in my van, put more toys away. VACUUMED again!!

Around 6:30 I WAS DONE!!!!!
I now have 7 boxes to take to Goodwill tomorrow because I was too lazy to take them tonight!
Plus, I hadn't showered yet and I knew once I did, I was going to be done for!! No driving across town for this chica!!

I didn't even eat dinner, I felt so cruddy and tired!

However, S and the girls ate and then he told everyone to get in the truck because we were going to Dairy Queen for BLIZZARDS!!!
You bet your buns I was ALL OVER THAT!!!!

We got the girls the Minis and we got smalls because we are cool like that!!
Or maybe I was hungry because I didn't eat dinner? Hummm..... Nope! We're Cool!!

I've only been in the Playroom ten thousand times this evening to look at it!!!
Too bad that won't last any longer! The girls don't have school on Monday!!!
So that should be fun!
It will!

Off to bed....
and it just so happens I have to walk past the playroom again to see my accomplishment for the month!!

I have a really cute couple of aprons I was busy on last week! Hopefully sometime in the near future I can get those pics up!! I'm really trying to stay on track here!!

What A Glorious Sunday!

2010-09-19T08:58:00.002-05:00

I thought I would right something really quick before I get ready for Church.
YES! I said church! I am so EXCITED to be going! We have not been going regularly for the past 6 months! Now that I've actually counted that out I am not happy with myself. No wonder I've been in such a slump!
I kind of had a falling out with the last Church we had been going to for almost 2 years. I just wasn't feeling fulfilled anymore. It just felt like there was too much drama going on! And we all know how well I deal with Drama!! I'm just not good at it!

We tried another church 2 times and I thought I would enjoy it but we just didn't have the drive to go back!

A little background to my religion:
I was born/baptized/raised/confirmed LCMS Lutheran. I never questioned anything! I still don't question it.
However, were I am living, there are LCMS Lutheran churches, but you have to drive into the next town over or 2 towns up and I am so spoiled with going to a church that's pretty close to us.

I never really felt a part of the church we were going to this last time because EVERYBODY was from that town EXCEPT US!! We couldn't have 'Gatherings' at our house because, 'Nobody wanted to drive that far'! True quote!

So what have we done?
We are going to a church that is pretty much literally in our backyard! You stand in our driveway and look East and there you have it!!
I HAVE NOT told my mother this. I'm afraid she would be very upset and I want to make sure we like it and will be attending regularly before I tell her.

I know this is the same as if I was lying to her, but I just don't have the drive to tell her yet!

And the kids love it! They are going to the AWANA program and just LOVE it!! #1 and #2 were super bummed that they have to miss 2 weeks a month because it falls on the same night a Girl Scouts. Yesterday I received a text from their GS Leader and she asked if another night would work better for us!!! OF COURSE IT WOULD!! So now the girls can go every week! I have to wonder, would God really open that door for us, if this is not were we are supposed to be?

And Sean enjoys it too. He says he doesn't mind were we go since he wasn't raised to go to any particular church. A plus that it is so close is that if he gets a 'trouble call' for work he can just walk home instead of us ALL having to leave!

Now that I've shared this I need to hurry and get ready or we will still be late!!

A Tad Better

2010-09-18T22:21:00.002-05:00

I was only able to get a couple of things done yesterday.
Rediculous, I know!

To argue my case, I will say that I was up at 5:25 waiting for 'the girl' to get here(I guess I need to do a whole post on that story!)
She did NOT arrive until 6:01!!! A phone call or text would have been nice!!
I didn't stay ticked for long. I ended up picking up toys and such off the floor and finished up the kitchen. (since I had felt watching 'Vampire Diaries' was more important then cleaning up the kitchen!)
I took 3 & 4 to school around 9:15 and came straight home to load Bella (my black mini van, I know, I know, so original!) That took a lot less time than I figured! I thought it would be 10:30 before I was ready! I got it done at 10:00!!
But get this.......I came in the house and sat down on the couch for 30 MINUTES!!!! Why? Because I was having SERIOUS ISSUES with taking my stuff to GOODWILL!!!!
I am having serious heart palpatations just typing this!!!!
I know some of you are probably wondering what's the big deal? Is it because I'm not making money on it? Honestly, that has nothing to do with it!!
It is way worse!
I GET SERIOUSLY ATTACHED TO MY THINGS!!!
I sent off clothes that my oldest, WHO IS NINE!!!!, wore when she was a baby!!! and my SEVEN year old wore some of those exact same things!!! and then my FOUR year old wore them 3 years ago!!! and my TWO year old wore them last year!!!

If Sean wasn't the man that he is....we could have a serious HOARDING problem on our hands!!!
I use to brush it off as being a clutter bug, which I'm pretty certain that's as far as it was allowed to go, but the next step after that COULD. HAVE. BEEN. BAD. PEOPLE!!!!

HOARDERS on A&E has gotten me FREAKED. THE. EFF. OUT!!!
I watched the one last Monday night and I made a beeline to the kitchen to get my dishes done!!!
The lady had been Shitting in Wal-Mart bags and throwing them on the stairs for 10 years!!!
That DEFINATELY. WOULD. NOT. HAPPEN. here, but I just had to throw that out here!! It was BAAAAAAAAAADDD!!!!

Okay so if you are still with me I guess I better get back to me sittin' on my butt!!!
At 10:30 I decided I should probably take ol' Bella's load to GOODWILL before I unloaded it all back in the garage!
I blasted the radio during my 15 minute drive. Pulled right into the drop off and a lady came out to get my stuff! *tear*
It took TWO!! YES TWO!! of their big yellow cart things to haul my stuff in!! I was handing that poor lady the second to last box and she looked me square in the eye and asked me, "Is that it?" I said almost ma'am! Here's one more box! :)

I started on my drive back home with an empty van and a clear head! I called Sean and told him that I didn't even cry!! He was so proud of me!!

Then I cam home and got absolutely nothing else done!!

I never made it down to the shop to drop off the custom bow.
I didn't get my floors swept or vacuumed.
I didn't get anything cleaned or dusted!
Instead I started working on a cute little craft skirt I made out of Jean legs, back pockets and a little fabric! I worked on that bad boy the whole rest of the afternoon!
And then I started another one! I'm hoping to get that one done tomorrow!
I would have finished it today but we had to go to that CrAzY A$$ PlAcE everyone calls Chuck E. Cheese for a Birthday party! Then I had to take Thing 2 to a slumber party this evening.
Tomorrow afternoon we have to go back to that place for another party!!

Off to bed I guess!
But first I need to pry the Lakeshore Learning Catalog and pen from my 4 year olds hands because she's circling EVERYTHING she wants for her Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Valentine's Day, Her Birthday, Easter and everything in between!!

Surprise!!! or not......

2010-09-16T21:51:00.003-05:00

A Month and A Day since my last post!!
Maybe I should just make it a habit to post Monthly and I will feel more accomplished!! At least I shouldn't have any trouble meeting that goal!!

I know that I said there would be all of this Fabulous stuff I would get done in the 10 hours a week that I have absolutely no children!! But who was I kidding? Myself apparently! ha!

I've (1st Wednesday free) bought groceries(1st Friday) hung out with an old friend watching a couple episodes of Buffy reruns and then meeting my husband for lunch!
(2nd Wed) I got my hair 'done'! (2nd Friday) Went to this AWESOME place called the 'SalePlace' that sells tons of Ribbon, Tulle, cake decorating, floral, if you want to craft it? that is the place to go my friends!! and an AWESOME little Thrift Store that is right next door!! Super Cheap finds!! and then I cam home and mopped my floors! I didn't realize how quick that goes when there is nobody else here!!
(3rd Wed) cannot for the life of me remember!! NOT GOOD!! that means I probably didn't get anything accomplished!! YIKES!!! (3rd Fri) I ended up babysitting for a Teacher friend at the girls' school. She's Hayleigh's age and that girl talks up a storm!! Super cute! I was able to deliver a custom bow holder to the hair salon that is letting me sell bows there and then ran to Hobby Lobby to buy more ribbon for a custom bow order!
(4th Wed, yesterday) I ran the custom order to the shop and ended up staying for 45 minutes because my 'AWESOME HAIR-LADY' wanted to try a new 'no-frizz' treatment on my hair! Very cool! Then I made a trip to GOODWILL and ended up finding 4 outfits for $24!! I was in Heaven!! It was so AWESOME to actually get to look at stuff and not try to hold to kids down in the cart at the same time! It almost makes me tear up thinking of all the good stuff I didn't see because I didn't want my kids to fall out of the cart!!

TOMORROW-- Oh Tomorrow! How I have BIG plans for you!!! I just wish they would work out!
So here's my game plan!!
5:30am-stumble to the door, start to open it and realize the alarm is on!! Make a mad-dash across the house to turn it off! Go back to door and let in little girl that I keep before school!
(wednesdays & fridays i have to open my door at 4:30! YIKES!!!)
5:40am-go back to bed
6:30am-Wake Up! Make coffee and hook up my IV drip!! ;)
6:45am-Fix everyone breakfast (I'm thinking toast and the yogurt I made today!)
7:00am-Pack 4 lunches and other various things I forgot to do tonight!
7:30- ship 3 kids out the door to school
7:45- take a shower
8:15- pick up and put away everything that's on the floor so I can stick-vac and mop sometime before 2pm
8:30- make sure Thing 3 & 4 are dressed and ready to go
9am - put everything in 3 & 4's backpacks and head out the door!
9:15 - drop them off at school!
9:30 - head to hair salon and drop off custom bow
9:45 - load up EVERYTHING out of my garage that I was going to sell in a Garage Sale, but now I'm thinking it's not even worth it, so I'm going to take it ALL to Goodwill!!!!
10:30 - Either go back home and clean the house really, really good since we will be at Chuck E. Cheese's both Saturday AND Sunday for 2 different B-day parties!!!! UGH NO DOUBLE UGH!!
or hit up that Thrift store!!
The jury is still out on that one!! :)

Okay so that all looks pretty easy right? I mean, I should still have atleast 2 hours to myself before I have to pick up 3 & 4 by 2:15pm!

If only my life really went that way!!!
I guess check back in a month and I'll let you know if my day went as planned or not!!

We are STILL ALIVE!!!!

2010-08-15T22:01:00.004-05:00

There is so much that has gone on in the last two months!!!
and I can't believe none of it has showed up on here! I start talking to myself about what we have been doing this summer and then I look at my blog and it's not on here!!!

Let me tell you I have BIG PLANS for getting that straightened out!!
School starts in 1 week and I have never been so excited to ship my kids back to school before!!
Do you know why I am so excited??? It's probably mean of me......just a little..... but my younger two are going to 'school' also for 2 days a week!!!! Sean let me enroll them in the Mother's Day Out Program and I am going to have about 9 1/2 hours a week, all to myself!!!
Grocery shopping by myself!!! What's that??? This is going to be a whole new deal to me!!! The last time I was able to go grocery shopping by myself and not have to rush to get back was 9 years and 2 months ago!!! Scary stuff, huh??

I'm hoping to finish getting the house organized (aka decluttered), set up for a humongo garage sale, make hair bows and other crafts to sell, work my scrapbooking business, set up a meal plan so I can 'freezer' cook for the month, BLOG!!!!, and probably a few more things....... Now that I'm looking at this list, I'm getting super scared and I'm probably going to end up sitting in a corner sucking my thumb and rocking my self for the first 2 months that I don't have ALL of my children with me!!!!!

Wondering where I go wrong?!

2010-06-11T13:22:00.004-05:00

I'm thinking that I posted the last Post too soon!! When will I learn that I need to finish something out before I start patting myself on the back?

I took the girls to the Library around 10 this morning so they could return/pickout more. Our Library has a reading program every summer to earn 'bucks' for prizes! Thank goodness my girls like to read or I'd be wondering what their intentions of wanting to go to the library 3 times a week were!!

H threw a nice little fit in the Library!! She's been nice and quiet and sweet before! But NOT today! She got mad because I walked past the book baskets and didn't let her get one......she got mad because she couldn't carry the HUGE basket with her books in it!.....even more mad when I tried to help her carry it!!! (I might carry it off or something?!) I wanted to grab a book to read but while I was looking she was screaming because we couldn't see sisters and 'I WANT SISSIES'....shhh, we will go back to them, please for the love of pete just let me pick out a book I will actually read!!!.....we walk back over to sisters and H starts screaming: my seat! my seat! M moves over without even being asked, H crawls up in the chair and proceeds to throw puzzle pieces all over the floor.
All I can think at that point is WHO IN THE HELL IS THIS KID?? WHERE DID SHE COME FROM AND HOW DO I RETURN HER???????
I'm telling you, she really does NOT act this way all the time. At least I don't think she does? Maybe I forgot my 'rose-colored glasses' at home and have seen how my 2 year old really acts?

We left!!!! With our books of course! I just could not make anyone else upset by leaving without them! Besides what were the kids going to do later when we got home while I was rocking in the corner and sucking my thumb? God knows I cannot leave them to their own devices or I will be in much worse shape then I began!!!

After we piled into the van ( I really want to name her, any suggestions?) we headed up to the school for free lunch! I planned on letting the girls play on the playground after we ate, but you know what happens when I plan something fun!!
H was up and down, up and down, off the seat. Then after she finally ate, we went to throw the trash away, but she ends up dropping the tray and uneaten corn kernels bounce like beads all over the floor! NICE!!! la sigh ..... So I had to wait for 'the cleanup lady' to come over with her broom, I said I was sorry and off to get D's tray. I made the mistake of not taking her up with me.... so as I'm dumping her tray, I hear fast footsteps! and it's D and H chasing each other around the cafeteria!!! Then I hear DON'T RUN!!!! YOU WILL FALL DOWN!!! YOU KNOW YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO RUN IN HERE!!!! NICE!!! again!

I tell all the girls we are not staying to play. Which really bummed them out because they were eating with one of their friends and we had to leave. She was sad, I'm sure her mother was pissed. How do I know that? Because I just got a snarky little text from her that I could have mistaken as being sent by a teenager if it wouldn't have had her name on it!

I've realized today, I think I have made an uber-huge mistake but there is NO way to fix it!!
I HAD TOO MANY CHILDREN....and that makes me sad that I am not doing a very good job with them. I feel like I am over-extending myself and I am not tending to their needs very well.
I mean the easy stuff is taken care of, food, shelter, clothes. But I feel like I am not providing the other things, discipline, manners, fun times......
and it is very hard for me to be friends with moms who only have 1 or 2 'perfect' little angels. Huffing at me, rolling their eyes.... Wondering if I missed out on the Birth Control class?!

H is napping now. She ALWAYS wakes up happier after a nap. That will happen today too, right?
And tomorrow we have plans to go back to the lake! The sandy beach, some cloudy water and the sun....that will make it all better too!!! Ya, all better!! (my thumbs calling me)

First Week of Summer Vacay!

2010-06-11T07:42:00.002-05:00

This morning starts the end of our first week of ALL four of the girls being under the same roof once again! And honestly, we've had a pretty fun week! The first couple of days, D and H were having a hard time having 'sisters' home all day. (We are having to re-learn sharing toys and mommy!) By Wednesday, things had started to smooth out a bit!

I told myself that I was going to try and 'keep house' a little better this year so if somebody calls and asks if we want to do something that day, I won't be making excuses to stay home because the house is a mess! (I feel so bad leaving the house a mess!) So, Monday morning after we had all ate breakfast, I had the girls start their chores. M is in charge of dog clean up, picking up hers and T's shared bedroom and taking out the recycables. T is in charge of unloading the DW, bringing dirty clothes down from their bedroom and sweeping off the back patio. We are ALL in agreement that we cannot do any 'fun' things for the day unless chores are done!!
They didn't believe me at first, so it was 2pm Monday before we made it to the Library!! Tuesday, they decided to have everything done before lunchtime!!!

I am helping a friend out by keeping her daughter every Wednesday through Friday this Summer. It works out quite nicely actually. I know I've posted before what a hard time I have getting along with T. With this little girl here, there has been ALOT less back-talking going on!

I don't know if anyone else has expierenced this, but usually when my girls have friends over for long periods of time, the bickering begins!! This time has been different for us! The little girl has also spent the night Tuesday through Thursday nights and no fighting has occured!!! Yippee!! I can only hope it goes the same way next week!! And every week after!!

Our school district offers free lunches during the summer for children ages 1-18. We took advantage of this GREAT program last year a couple times a week. We would have went daily, but I didn't want to drive the 2 miles because we were 'really' low on funds last year! This year our school is offering the program. It started on Wednesday and we've been walking up to the school instead of driving. So, not only are the kids getting free lunches but we are getting 1 mile of exercise in daily!!

I better go and do 'my chores' right quick before the rest of the crew wakes up! I'd like to say everyone is sleeping in but that is so not true! Wake-ups around here are ranging from 7:30-8:30!! Considering that on school days, wake-up time was 6:30, I guess this is better than that!!

such a change.....

2010-05-18T17:32:00.003-05:00

I've had all of these wonderful things floating around in my head for days. I've been wanting to post such pleasant things. I even had something float through my head a little earlier today.
Now I just feel like a big ol' bag of messed up craziness and all those pretty things are gone.
Hopefully my happy self will be back tomorrow cause this really sucks!!
I think I'm just finally fed up with feeling like everyone wants me to be around as long as their things are getting accomplished but once it's done so are they. GRRR.

Titles are so hard for me!

2010-05-02T21:23:00.003-05:00

When I have 'free' time, I don't use it like I should. When I have things planned or going on, that's when I think of ALL the things I could be doing!
Last week, for instance, I babysat that cute little princess in my last post! And I was able to get absolutely nothing accomplished! I didn't even get any of my cleaning done that is on my daily cleaning calendar!! I completely forgot how hard it is for me to get anything done with a child in this house who is younger than oh, I don't know? Entertaining themselves age!! ha!
My house is by no means spotless! I am a MESSY!! There, I've said it!! I have tried so hard my whole life to keep things clean and clear of clutter but I NEVER succeed! I have to tell you my friends that I am getting closer! I am going through all of the girls clothes, toys and what nots and I am putting them in a garage sale!! There are things in the garage that have been boxed up for almost two years this month and I am going through them and getting rid of things!! I have held on to too much for sentimental reasons and that is just stupid. I see that now. I have been coming across things and wondering why in the heck I still have it!?!?!

My goal this week is to continue adding to my garage sale pile! but of course I have an excuse! For the past couple of days I have been working on a poodle skirt for my friend. They are having a Sock Hop at the girls school next Friday and she was needing one! Of course I told her I would do it! I LOVE doing all those crafty, sewing projects!! The only down side is that I have put the little girls' skirts on the back burner! Then sweet Mad told her teacher that I was making a poodle skirt for my friend so her teacher wants one also! Hopefully that one goes quicker. I tend to take forever the first time and then get the others done ALOT quicker! No matter what the project is!

Okay, so that is one excuse! What's next? It just so happens to be 'Teacher Appreciation' week and I have nothing done for that! Go Me! I was wanting to send something each day, but I'm afraid it will have to ONE BIG ORDEAL on Friday!!

and the third is actually a little exciting!! We paid our van off the beginning of March with the intention of 'bulking' up our savings. Well, we all know where good intentions take us!!! Don't we?
Tay ended up breaking her arm and the lovely Dr. we took her to for the cast doesn't work well with Personal care accounts. So we ended up paying $600 out of pocket that should have come out of that! Yippey!! And we will NOT be recieving that money until the middle of this month because they like to wait until ALL of the insurance claims have been filed and then just cut one big refund check! Why do things have to get so complicated? Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy that we even have this insurance, it's just such a pain in the butt to wait to get OUR money back! So, as you can guess, NO money has gone into savings!
Back to what will be going on tomorrow evening......Sean found a truck he liked yesterday that will hold all 6 of us and he really wants to buy it. There was some things they needed to fix on it tomorrow so as soon as they are done we are hoping to go pick it up.

I apologize for this kind of straying. I just lost my train of thought. I sat down on the couch to type this up right quick while the littles were on the other computer and sure enough they high-tailed it in here to 'yap' in my ear!! Dak has been constantly talking to me during this whole post so honestly I can't even remember what I just typed!!!
I guess I just need to go to bed and start everything tomorrow!!!

I did it again.....

2010-04-24T09:27:00.005-05:00

or should I say DID NOT get anything done? The skirts are laying unfinished on my kitchen table, I haven't gone through the girls toys yet to have ready for a garage sale and I haven't switched the playroom and my craft room.

But I tell you! I do have a really good excuse for not getting anything done!!

Isn't she precious? Well worth putting off today what I can easily do tomorrow.... or next month!

A friend of mine from M&T's school needed help finding a babysitter for her grandaughter and guess who came to her mind? Ol' reliable of course! :)

I was only supposed to keep her for three days but since she had such a grand time with us, I will have her for atleast five more days!! (I apologize for any misspellings or weird wording. I am typing one handed because 'little precious' here will ONLY nap while I am holding her!!)

I better get back to reading blogs and trying to crochet with a baby on my arm!!

I've got High Hopes!!!!

2010-04-19T15:22:00.002-05:00

I have started yet ANOTHER couple of projects!! I thought these would be quick but they are turning out to be so much more than I bargained for!!
But maybe this is a good thing. I can't get my pictures to upload to my computer anyway!!
I know I keep promising I'll post more, but I really promise this time!! :)
Promise!
Oh who am I kidding??
I am such a scatter brain!!

and then I cried.....

2010-04-13T08:44:00.003-05:00

Sunday night I put the two LG's (little girls) in the tub and told Hubs to watch them. I was heading out the door to grab a Sunday paper from Kroger for my coupons!! I figured I'd be gon 10 minutes the longest!! and what do you know? It maybe took 8!

I enjoyed my little trip up to the grocery store, radio blastin', windows down, singing out loud!! Ran into the store right quick, grabbed my paper, flew through the self-checkout and back to the car! Repeat first sentence of this paragraph, only heading home this time! ;)

Getting ready to walk in the door to the house feeling very pleased with myself for my trip not taking long at all! Record breaker trip!! (We all know that gets us in trouble!! Feeling so good like that!)
I step into the living room and Sean is still sitting in his chair watching tv.
Me: Are the girls alright?
Him: Sure.
Me: Okay!
take paper and purse to kitchen
Madison: They did it again mom!!!
Me: what?
Madison: Poured a whole bottle of shampoo in the tub!
Me: which one?
Madison: The kind you used on Taylor's hair last night!
Me: WHAT!!!!!

okay now here is the little back story:
Saturday night I combed a HUGE RATS NEST outta Taylor's hair!!! It took 45 minutes to get that bad boy out!!! so then I washed her hair with some moisturizing shampoo.
Sunday morning I used THE SAME shampoo to wash my hair!! OMGosh!!! That stuff was AWESOME!!! Usually when I blow dry my hair it is crazy frizzy!!! hence the 'straightner' comes in!! I hardly had to use the 'straightner' after I used that shampoo!!! I had THE BEST hair day I think EVER!!!!! I was only going to use that shampoo from here on out!!

Now, lets proceed to Sunday evening!!

Me: WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! MY SHAMPOO IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!
as the tub overflows with milliongazillion bubbles!!!

Okay, so I know it is silly to be so upset about this! but It was PANTENE and that stuff ain't cheap. Granted, I wasn't crying because all that money was washed down the drain (because I used a coupon on it and got it for a dollar or so!) It was the fact that all that creamy goodness that made my hair so beautiful was gone and I was NOT going to pay full price for it!!!

After the girls were in bed Hubs has the nerve to ask, "What happened in the bathroom?"
Me: They emptied my new shampoo into the tub!!
Him: Oh.
Me: grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Today I'm not crying though!! I heard that Walgreen's has there Pantene products clearanced and I still have a couple of really good coupons that I found!! Guess what Mama is gonna do?
Well, go and buy 6 more bottles of the good stuff of course!!!

one month and one day....

2010-04-12T15:00:00.003-05:00

since my last post and I know there has been things to blog about.
I just don't sit down to do it!

We built a new kitchen table but I didn't want to blog about it yet because we haven't finished the benches yet!
We made a week long trip to see fam in MO and ended up staying an extra day because of the Freak snowstorm! (which by the way my kids were excused from school for!! I heard that another family called in because they were still in Mexico and the Principal wouldn't excuse it because 'it didn't snow there.'!!!!
My third daughter turned 4 and we had a heck of a time at Chuck E. Cheese's!!
I dropped two pants sizes but I've gained 4 lbs!!!! (somebody please let me know what's wrong with that!!!!)

Hopefully I will have better things later and not just 'catch-ups'!!

Starting to Settle In....

2010-03-10T16:35:00.009-06:00

With Sean's job we have moved around ALOT!!! We have lived in 7 homes in the past almost 10 years that we have been married. I realize that to some this is not bad at all but I only lived in to 2 homes during the 18 years I lived with my parents. And the house we moved into when I was 7 was no strangers. We simply 'traded' houses with my Grandparents so we could see my dad more often!!

Now, the longest Sean and I have lived somewhere was when we were living in MO. We were in that house for 4 years. It was nothing fancy and to say the least, my Mother was quite appalled when I told her which house it was before we signed the contract for it! We made it our home and brought two babies into that house! We also had a Garden!

I just realized that this is only our second garden since we've been married. The other of course in MO. I think it is because I feel like we are a little 'settled in' when we start to hit the 2 year mark in a home. Which is where we are now!

This is our Garden we built as a Family on a whim Saturday. We are no means professionals and I'm sure there are better, cheaper and faster ways to go about this, but we had a great time!!

Contrary to what some of the pictures may be telling you!!

Do you like my garden? Probably not yet! This is what it looked like around 11am Saturday morning!! It does get better! I promise!

My 'Twins' helping Daddy measure the boards before cutting!

This is serious stuff here guys!! Can't you tell by the look on Mr.'s face?

I promise I trust him, but I was cringing EVERYTIME he cut a board!

Time to Screw!!!

The boards together of course!! What did you think I meant?? and have a snack and be right up in daddy's business and be little girls!! What else could you ask for?

Oh, I don't know. Maybe some extra 'help'!! H was doing something VERY important!!

D with 'her seeds'!! This little lady about drove us nuts with the seeds!!!

Breakin' down the cardboard!!

Sean's attempt to throw the hose over the fence and onto the ground!!

No dull moments here!!

Cardboard is down and we are ready for the dirt!!

D is a tad unhappy because we can't plant the seeds yet.

Finally some dirt!!

Now what??

Seeds maybe??

Nope!! Not yet!

We still need to make it look like a square foot garden!

And NOW we are ready for the...................

SEEDS!!!!!!

The three older girls each got to plant two different kinds of seeds. We will plant more in April.

Dakoda posing with 'her' garden!!!

What do you think about our Plant markers??

I guess saving ALL of the dial-up cds we used to get really did pay off!!

Hopefully I will have some pictures later on with a little green in them!! If not, at least we ALL enjoyed the expierence!!

Plates, Cups, Candleholders and a Surprise Find!!

2010-03-02T09:35:00.007-06:00

Almost two weeks ago my Mom and SIL came down from Missouri for a lil' visit! On that Friday we wanted to drive out to the Cowboys Stadium so my nephews could see it! We couldn't go to early because we didn't want to be sitting in rush hour traffic so we decided to run over to the Goodwill first.

I usually don't get to look at the 'breakables' too closely because there are two little girls who are always tagging along with me and they like to touch everything also.

But this time I did and look what we found!!!

Actually, my Mom found it!!

It's a Longaberger Woven Traditions 1-Pint Crock!! (Paprika)

Do you know how much this retails for? Well, I didn't at first so my mom called her friend up.

$15.00!!!

How much did I pay for it? Are you ready for it? 99 cents!!!!!

Not a single thing wrong with it!! It is Bee-U-tee-full!!!

Onto my other purchases!!

I think I paid about 79 cents a piece for these little beauties!!

And between 59 cents and 99 cents for these cups and candleholders.

Now you are probably saying, "Wow! That's cheap! But what do you plan on doing with those mismatched items?"

Well, I have a plan!!! and they are almost finished, I just have to find the right place to put them and then I will post the pictures!!

Hopefully before the end of the month!!!

Please say a Prayer

2010-02-17T22:16:00.004-06:00

****UPDATE!!!***
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS. LUCY HAS BEEN MOVED OUT OF ICU INTO HER OWN ROOM!!! FOR ANYMORE UPDATES PLEASE VISIT HER BLOG!!

Sorry for all that shouting!! I'm just so excited for her and her family!!!

On February 1st our Vicar and his wife took one of their daughters to the hospital and she has been there ever since. Things are looking very grim.
This whole thing is tearing my heart to pieces.
To read what has been going on please visit the blog they have set up for her story.

Pray For Lucy.com

I have no idea what to do for them. They are losing a daughter and I have NO IDEA WHAT TO DO OR SAY TO THEM.
They are also friends of ours and I feel like I am avoiding her at a time she needs us the most. But yet, I don't want to 'bother' her during this precious time with her daughter.

I was able to keep their other 4 children on Monday while they spent time with Lucy, but like I've been saying, I just wish there is more. Church members and friends are feeding them and also helping out with the babysitting.

I am asking that if you have a couple of moments please read about little Lucy and maybe say a prayer for her and her family. A miracle would be nice and we know that God can deliver when he sees fit.

All I can think right now is: His Will Be Done.....

Just Once!!! Can't it be about ME????

2010-02-05T09:02:00.002-06:00

I was EXTREMELY Excited about this weekend!!! I have been looking forward to the first weekend in February since October! I hadn't been anticipating something like this since I'd been pregnant!
But I should have known better than to be so excited about something that only involved me and no other members of my family! S decided a couple of weeks back that while I was gone for the weekend he would take the 4 'hoodlums' with him up to see family for the weekend. When he first mentioned this I had a bit of a gut feeling that this wasn't the best idea but quickly pushed it aside. What was I worried about? I was going to be gone. He could handle the 4 kids in a car for 7 hours each way! I have done it before. Why can't he?
Oh and I guess I forgot to mention where I would be going! My first ever Scrapbooking weekend getaway!!! Now do you see why I was so excited?
So back to my husband 'babysitting' our kids for the weekend.......
guess what? he only has to watch three now!!!
Littlest Hoodlum has a bad case of butt vomit and she is in no condition to be traveling unless we want said butt vomit leaking EVERYWHERE and smelling up the van. I guess, 'we' meaning S because I wouldn't be with them.
So I guess I already gave it away that I will be the one staying home with her because it only makes sense. You see, I was the first one to make plans to be away for the weekend. and I said it would be okay for them to head north. and I don't know what else I did but I apparently am the one who get's butt detail this weekend instead of spending an 'adult only' weekend!! without my kids. did you know i have NEVER been away from ALL four of my children EVER????
I'm really not trying to sound like a big ol' baby. But I am hurt and disappointed and pissed!!!!
All rolled up into one blubbering ball of a mess!!!! And I can't even tell the other person involved in this how I really feel!!! It sucks!! I just roll over and take it!
And I made cookies to take!!! Not just regular mix em' up an bake them. NO!!! I made little cookies that look like rulers and hole punches and adhesive rollers and ink pads and little tshirts that say 'crop till u drop'!!! ALL. I. KEEP. DOING. IS. CRYING!!!!
but I have to stop because I need to finish up laundry and pack the kids clothes and make them food to eat on their drive!!

TODAY REALLY SUCKS!!!!!!!

Christmas Crafts for Donuts with Santa!!

2010-01-15T23:02:00.006-06:00

I was asked by a friend at my girls school to make some crafts to help raise money. Instantly, I thought, sure! that's a great idea. I can promote some of the things I've been trying to sell in my Etsy shop. I asked some friends what they thought I should make weeks before this things was scheduled. I was going to kick butt!!
Then life continued to happen, I procrastinated a little, ran a little low on funds and my mom came to visit! You know? The usual excuses I have!

A really good idea I was given was these coasters made from 4 inch tiles!! I told my mom what I was doing so of course while she was here, she decided these would be GREAT Christmas gifts for practically EVERYONE she knew!!!
So I stamped out roughly 80 of these things!! At least it was good practice for these!!

I had a couple other designs too but I can't seem to find the pictures for them!!

Again, story of my life! But it is 2010 so I am changing that!! :)

Next we have some simple little paper bag ornaments!

I also made some cute little kid aprons.

I bought a couple of pot holders and kitchen towels and put these puppies together in no time!

I made a couple ornaments too! I just picked up some glass ornaments from Hobby Lobby and stuffed them with pieces of ribbon and 'sprinkles'!! (Rhinestones)

Of course while I was selling them I realized this was the money maker and I should have made more than 11!!! (one broke while I was filling it!)

The kiddos went crazy over these!! remind me next year just to make these!!

And here are the Hairbows for my Etsy shop that I NEVER got put up!!

But they sold out too! So that went well!

And this is the Beautiful After math that I call my kitchen!!! Let me just say, Sean is not too fond of my crafting. We ate at the coffee table for a whole week because I had this stuff everywhere getting ready for the Donuts with Santa thing!! I do have to say that it wasn't a complete waste though!! I helped raise $54 for the school and..........

A couple of 'Hotties' made their appearance!!! My heart palpatates a little faster everytime I look at these pictures!!

I did get my picture taken with Edward but I looked a little too 'crazed' to show it!

Yes, I am a twenty-something mother of four children and I HEART Edward!! Yes, I do know that he is a fictional character, but I love him nonetheless. And because Jacob was staring at me the whole 4 hours I was there I began to understand Bella's delima!

I can honestly say that I hate M's teacher right now!! Okay not really, hate is such a strong word. I just dislike her a little bit because she got to take Jacob home. Now, had it been Edward? I'd probably be serious about the hate thing!!!

Some Thoughts! Or maybe just One!

2010-01-08T17:20:00.004-06:00

There is this really awesome gal who is having an 'online baby shower' with giveaways and such. And it got me to thinking how I really got gypped in the whole baby shower department!
Sean's mom had a baby shower for me when I was pregnant with Madison and invited ALL of my family so there was really no need for my side of the family to have one for me. Then when I was pregnant with Taylor there was no baby shower because A: she was another girl 2: they were only 15 months apart so I could still use pretty much EVERYTHING C: I don't think there was a third reason? That's all I was given.
Then baby number three came along. I needed EVERYTHING!!! It had been 3 and a half years since we had a baby in our house and I sold EVERYTHING when Taylor was 8 months old because I swore we were NOT having anymore kids!!
Anyway......Baby shower?? NOPE!!! You wanna know why? Well even if you don't I'm still gonna tell ya! and you may have guessed it anyway..... duh! Because we were having another girl!

Did you know that if you already have two girls and you are having a third then you don't need a baby shower? Well that is what I was told and this silly ol' 24 year old (at the time) believed them! So you know what? When baby number four was baking in this ol' oven I didn't even wonder if I was gonna have a baby shower because SHE. WAS. ANOTHER. GIRL!!!!!!
Now I did have some WONDERFUL friends offer to have a get together for me and the DUMB ASS that I am turned them down because I thought I didn't deserve it!!! Yeah, for the past 6 years I had been told that I didn't need one and when the chance came up...... I freaking turned it down!! Go figure!!!
So why am I even whining about this today? Because this is my blog and I can! That's pretty much the only reason!
Because there will be no more 'buns in this oven' and that kinda makes me sad
:(
Then somebody screams or tattles or vomits or etc. etc. and I'm happy that I only have four Beautiful Daughters!! (only four? Ha! How absurd is it to say it like that?!)

It's Broken!!!

2010-01-05T15:43:00.002-06:00

And it's probably not what you thought I was gonna say. Me! I'm so broke right

now I don't have two pennies to rub together. Let alone buy me some groceries!

Now, I don't want anyone feeling sorry for me or my kids cause we DO have

food in the house. It's just that it's the stuff that no one really wants to eat.

You know the kind? You fan the pantry or fridge door a couple of times and

can't find ANYTHING to eat! Even though it is staring right back at you!!!

So, no more money until NEXT Wednesday means making meals and snacks

out of what's left!!

Here is a run down of what I am dealing with:

Pantry:

3 bags of tortilla chips (these were bought for a dip I didn't make)
2 bags of sour cream and onion chips (guess everything does work out)
1/2 bag of pretzel sticks
6 slices of bread
7 dinner rolls
4 boxes of assorted pastas
6 open boxes of crackers
2 boxed potatoes
2 4oz. cans of mushrooms
1 6oz can black olives
1 15oz can Asparagus spears (extra long!)
1 46oz can pineapple juice
1 can beef broth
1 can chicken broth
3 cans cream of chicken soup
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
2 bottles of Hershey syrup
1 humongo can of pumpkin! (because you know there was a shortage this year and I didn't want to be without!!)
2 bottles ranch dressing
1 bottle relish
1 bottle vinegar
2 cans Rotel

Fridge

1 1/2 gal milk
whole chicken
pork roast
ham steak
grape jelly
strawberry jelly
3 eggs
1 1/2 lbs. Velveeta
1 rolled pie crust
3 slices of cheese
4 ozs of Cool Whip (give or take)
dill slices and dill midgets
8 oz block of colby cheese
16 Baby carrots and 2 little pieces of broccoli
24 oz tub of sour cream
little bit of leftover turkey

Kitchen Freezer

2 quarts vanilla ice cream (too bad that can't be a meal!)
canadian whiskey!! What? who put that there??
4 chicken patties
2 'half' bags of hashbrowns
bag of corn
bag of peas
half bag of green beans
ham bone
pie crust
1 lb of butter
pack of brauts
some m&m's, reeses peanut butter cups and hershey candy bars? (So that's were Sean's been hiding his candy!!)

Deep Freeze

Ham
3 lbs sausage
10 packs of bacon
pork chops
Ham Steaks

(Excuse All the Pork! We bought a pig from my brother and we forgot how to buy chicken and cow!)

4 packs Italian sausage
1 pack cheese-wurst with jalapenos
3 lbs of chicken tenders ( oh, good! we did get a chicken!)
2 1/2 lbs chicken breast
2 bags of broccoli
2 bag corn
1 bag peas
1 bag french fries

I'm gonna apologize to ya'll right now. Here I thought we were going to starve and I guess I just needed to get up off my lazy rump and do an inventory. Sorry for this interruption in your day, I'm going to go feel silly for abit and then start making supper!

Are you Excited?

2010-01-05T08:38:00.003-06:00

Cause I am!!! I don't know what it is about twenty-ten? but I am Pumped!!!

(Should I even say that? I've been known to be a dork!)

I just keep feeling that this is THE YEAR!!! For what? ANYTHING!!

I still haven't taken down our Christmas Trees and decorations but I don't do

that until after the 6th anyway. I like to leave Christmas up till Epiphany. It

only makes since right? That is when the Magi came to visit Jesus. Also known

as Feast Day to wrap up the Twelve Days of Christmas.

I've felt a little bummed about having to take down the decorations so I have

decided to leave up two trees and decorate them for Valentine's Day. I just love

leaving the lights on. It makes the house seem more cozy and inviting!

I want to do a little tutorial and show off the tree, so keep me accountable. If I

don't have that up by the 10th, I expect somebody to be asking me where that

is!! ;)

I also need a little help... I want to find my niche in the blog world and I am

struggling terribly!! I am all over the place with this blog and I'd like to only

focus on a couple of things! So thank you to you diligent souls who read through

this muddled mess! I would also like to change my blog name....AGAIN!!!

because I WANT to finish things!! Any ideas?? I know it's kinda of stupid for

me to be asking this since I'm not even sure what I will be offering yet. I'd

like to have the title include Princesses and I'm not really sure what else.....

I know, I'm so difficult!

The First Day...

2010-01-01T16:37:00.002-06:00

of the year and I'm already letting you down.

I was hoping to be hiding in a closet right now typing some fantabulous story about what has been going on at my house since about 7:30 last night. Instead I am sitting on the couch while one child and two adults nap, two kids are watching Spongebob and the other four are playing with the one year olds Christmas present.

Nobody has gotten on my nerves yet. I actually enjoyed staying in the kitchen cooking from 6 last night until 4 this morning and getting back up at 7 to cook some more. Even though nobody told me how good it was or thanked me for slaving away so long on it. I not mad or hurt or angry.
I enjoyed it and if I liked it, it had to be good! I know this because back in the day (when my cooking wasn't as excellent as it is today) I didn't want to eat what I had made. I don't think the reason was because it was gross or anything, I just wasn't hungry after all of that cooking!

I apologize for this lame post but a few of my 2010 goals are to make this a 'Rockin' blog with some changes and plans I have to better myself. And I'm hoping I can write better when I've had more than 3 hours of sleep in a 33 hour period!!

To-Do, To-Do, To-Do....

2009-12-21T08:20:00.004-06:00

It seems like my To-Do List isn't getting any shorter and Christmas will be knocking in a couple more days. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not getting anything done or if I am adding more things to it?? It is probably a mixture of both, if that is possible!

Today we are making rolled out sugar cookies, putting together a Gingerbread house, baking and icing said sugar cookies, going out into the world to purchase a couple of last minute items today (with ALL 4 of my children) start wrapping gifts so I know who I have forgotten!
Which by the way, I know one of those forgotten gift receivers is Hayleigh!!
How can I forget to buy my youngest a Christmas gift? It's quite easy honestly. She doesn't NEED anything. We have an abundance of toys, dolls and clothes from the other girls! She's happy as a clam playing with all of that and old cell phones!! I just have no idea what to get her!!
If the older two weren't so observant Santa could just recycle some things around here!!

Okay, back to my To-Do's......
I WILL stay on track today and get this done! Plus, I want to enjoy the 16 days of my children being home and not have schedules to stick to. If I keep them entertained maybe there won't be so much bickering and pestering going on! (Yeah, right! A mother can dream! Right?)

There May Be A Name Change in My Future!

2009-12-16T14:43:00.002-06:00

Well, my blogs future anyway..
I'm going to finish something this week!
It wasn't Monday like I planned on and it wasn't yesterday. I'm hoping for this afternoon but I highly doubt it. It does HAVE to be done by Friday though.
What is this I am talking about?
A craft? Fixing something around the house? Sewing one of my children's pants back together?

No, it is something much harder for me than ALL of my "To-Do" and "Haven't Got It Done" lists combined!!

I am going to tell my neighbor that I am FINISHED watching her little boy! I have let things build up to the point of no return and I have to put my foot down. This is the only way I see that happening.
I am such a quitter!!!!
There! I said it!!! I'm a QUITTER!!! I am by no means proud of it but this 'Babysitting' job is causing major problems at my house!
I am neglecting my own children to take care of another for a measly two dollars an hour.
I know money isn't everything but if I'm going to be neglecting my own children to care for another who needs more attention than I can give by all means pay me more so I can pay somebody else to watch my kids!!!
It's not helping my marriage either. This morning our doorbell rang at 7 because I hadn't opened my front door yet!! I may be out of line but isn't that a little rude? I mean, would it be too much to ask for you to Knock first???

There is a whole list of other things I've been letting happen by not putting my foot down. But I don't want to air everything. I'm a little embarressed by the way I have been letting people treat me!

On another note, Sean has given me his full blessing to go gung-ho with working my Scrapbooking business. That's a super-duper plus! He has been surprising me everyday for the past couple of months! I think he's getting pretty excited about turning 30 on Saturday!!

3 Months and 2 Days....

2009-12-07T20:27:00.002-06:00

since my last post and I probably wouldn't be able to tell you a single thing that has happened!
Well, that would be a lie.... so I think I will just start fresh!!
Because if I start dwelling on the things I haven't blogged about in the past 3 months I will probably just start crying!! (One of which was me not telling Taylor's birth story) My heart still aches a little everytime I think of that. But there is next year and that one post I didn't do is probably the real reason I haven't been blogging.
So, back to the reason why I am blogging.....
Drum Roll please.......RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
(Did anyone else have a 'Clark Griswold' moment there? I sure did!!)
I GOT A LAPTOP FROM SEAN FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!
I know, I know, it's not Christmas yet, but we ALWAYS have a hard time keeping presents from each other. Plus I picked out and ordered it so I guess it really doesn't count! Right?
I have been dreaming about the day that I had my Laptop and I could be sitting somewhere Blogging!! (Instead of stuck off in some other room by myself) And this day has finally come!!
I'm going to be a blogging son of a gun!! Of course after I finish EVERYTHING that has to be done before Christmas.
I guess I will start blogging after the New Year :(
I'm going to make my little To-Do list right here so I can come back and check it and hopefully blog a little!

1. Clean entire frickin' house before Christmas because Sean's parents and brother's family are coming down to spend New Years with us! (That! My Wonderful Friends will be a couple of posts in and of it's self!! I'm sure I will be hiding in a closet somewhere typing about that one while they are here!!!)

2. Finish up a couple of Craft's for a PTA Money Raiser at the girl's school.

3. Finish up Christmas Shopping and wrap all presents before the girls get out early on the 18th. (which reminds me about 4)

4. Make treats and attend each of the older girl's 'Winter Parties' ( I understand why they do that, but Merry CHRISTmas anyway!)

5. Bake some goodies and desserts for Teacher Appreciation days next week.

6.7.8...10....15.....20..
I thought there was more. Maybe I should have listed what I have to clean inorder to do an overhaul on my house, but then I may not have any friends anymore because you would know how messy and cluttered my house has really gotten!!

That's enough for this post or I may not be able to come up with anything else to write this year!
I think Hayleigh is ready to get out of the tub now and Sean is blown away by me typing in the bathroom. I probably need to go and check on him to see if he has recovered yet..
My reply to him was 'How do you expect me to be the next Stephanie Meyer if I can't type whenever the mood hits?'
He just walked right on out of the bathroom!!!

Comfortable Shoes

2009-09-05T10:25:00.003-05:00

The past couple of weeks I have been feeling euphoric and I really couldn't understand why. I can't recall that I've ever felt this way for so long. Don't get me wrong, I still feel a little beat up some times but it doesn't take me long to get over it. I've always been afraid to be happy too long for fear that something bad or disappointing is sure to follow. But I've been pushing that away and just living in the moment, I guess you could say.
I'm realizing that no matter what happens, God, my family and friends will get me through it.

My title is not talking about real shoes but how I've become comfortable with myself and where I am in life right now. I have some wonderful friends right now. It's taken me awhile to build up these friendships. I've found some real 'crazys' and for awhile I figured it was me. I am the crazy one because I can't keep friends. But that's not true. I've had to weed out the crazys before finding the good ones. I hope you good ones know who you are. I know I haven't always been the model friend but I have been working harder on that. I've had friends leave me and I don't want to do that to you all.

And I think that's what's playing a big part in my euphoria. I'm becoming stronger in my faith than I have ever been. I have always prayed and talked to God but I feel like my relationship with Him has become much closer than I've ever allowed it. I think this has allowed me to become more confident of who I am and allowing me to be a much better wife, mother and friend, I hope.

I cannot believe how fortunate I am to have my husband. It is so nice to be living with my best friend. We can talk about anything and I think it's just the fact that we do talk. Our favorite time of the day is at bedtime. The kids have finally fallen asleep and we can just sit and talk. No interruptions. This is our time. We catch up on what happened during the day. I cannot even imagine what it would be like if I didn't have him to talk to.... I've caught a glimpse of it and I don't like it... When we argue over something and both of us decide to give the silent treatment. It rips my heart to pieces and one of us usually gives in and starts talking to the other. It's never lasted longer than 24 hours because we are both acheing to talk to each other.

I'm also excited about the girls being in school again. But probably not for the obvious reasons. They love school. They love their teachers this year, again. And I'm just happy they are attending the same school two years in a row. We haven't got to do that since Madison went to Pre-K. I'm just happy that they were able to return to friends without making ALL new ones. I also was able to return to familiar faces. Even as a grown up that is one of the scariest feelings for me. Trying to make to friends!

So, here's to the good times and the bad because what would life be like if it was always predictable?

“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.”~Arthur Rubinstein

I ALWAYS go back to Wal-Mart.....

2009-09-03T12:38:00.002-05:00

I decided to run into Wal-Mart this morning after Hayleigh's checkup to grab some paper towels. I remembered that H still had some money left over from Christmas so why not spend it? Dakoda and H had played with some Play-Doh at a playdate a couple weeks ago so we went 'whole hog' and purchased a whole bunch!!
D also wanted to go outside and look at the 'fwoers' so we ended up buying a couple of mums. Of course they had just been watered so naturally they were dripping. I set them on the bottom of the cart and didn't think anymore of them.

We finally made it to the checkout line. I put the 'fwoers' on the belt and the rest of our purchases. When it was my turn, the cashier didn't ask, "Did you find everything okay?" or "How are you doing today?" NO, she whispered, "Nothing like putting the dirty plants where the food goes!"
I wanted to say: Really? Cause where do you think most of our food comes from???? I'd rather my BOXED food be sitting in some wet potting soil then soaking in blood from a package of hamberger!!!! Wouldn't you????
But I didn't...... I just grabbed my flowers off the spinny thing and put them back in my cart. While she hatefully grabbed some paper towels from the next checker and wiped it up.
After that little incident she asked me how I was doing like nothing had happened!!!

I guess this is why I have my blog though......so I don't bite a real persons head off.....I just talk about them here.........

Disappointed

2009-08-09T09:35:00.004-05:00

I feel a little disappointed with myself.
I thought for sure I would be posting ALOT this summer. Boy was I wrong. I've done good to get one post a month up. There have been so many things I've wanted to blog about and either I haven't made it to the computer to do it or I sit down and forget what I wanted to say.
All I can think, is school will be starting in two weeks and I hope I can get back into the swing of things.
Oh and if anyone has a laptop they want to give away....look me up cause I think that would help me out ALOT!!!
I wouldn't have to keep running upstairs to my computer!! :D

Why Do I Do This To Myself??

2009-07-03T00:21:00.003-05:00

For whatever reason I did not read Twilight when it was the craze! I think I had my suspicions that I would become addicted to it and I was not ready for that yet. I did wonder what the big deal was and why everyone was so crazy about it. I did not realize the craze was Edward Cullen instead of the story itself.

Last Thursday the kiddos and I went swimming at a friends house and before we left she handed me Twilight to read. I started reading it around 1:30 pm Friday afternoon. That was my first mistake. I very hesitantly would put the book down when my children needed the silliest of things... i.e. food, diaper change, nap. How could they be asking me for these things while I was reading?? Did they not understand what Mommy was reading? This book was almost as important as the Bible!! I said ALMOST!!!! and I'm kidding!! The Bible is VERY Important!!

I even managed to feed everyone supper and help Sean restring the weedeater. And after everyone was in bed I continued to read. I could not believe the feelings I had while reading this story. I kept having flashbacks of when Sean and I were dating in High School! I felt like I was Bella!! Except for the whole VAMPIRE THING!!

I finished the book 14 hours after starting it. I practically crawled into bed at 3:30 Saturday morning and had THE MOST Bizarre dreams EVER!!!! Sean thought I was crazy and maybe I was.

That was not enough. I HAD TO WATCH THE MOVIE!!!!! So, Tuesday the mailman delivered it and I watched it!!

I AM OFFICIALLY ROBSESSED!!!! I just can not quite thinking about him. Vampire form or not, HE IS HOT!!!! I know he is younger than me. I never thought I would have such a crush on someone besides my husband!!!

But then I got to thinking, even though this is not healthy..it is safe. There is NO WAY I will ever meet Robert Pattison or that he will EVER know I exist. So, even though this is in no way a win win scenario...it is safe.

But I do have this song that I would love to sing for Rob if,

a) I wasn't married

2) I didn't have children

c) I met him and he had feelings for me

I know...I can hear you laughing at me. But isn't it perfect???

That's probably all I should say now before I seem TOO crazy!

But I do need to go and check out my two new FAVORITE Blogs!!!

Inappropriate Twilight Obsession and ROBsessed

July 2, 2001

2009-07-02T23:25:00.003-05:00

5am - I wake up starving!! I was not supposed to eat anything after midnight last night and that includes breakfast this morning!!

So I take a shower, shave my legs of course and get my clothes on.

5:30am - I watch Sean drink his coffee and eat a egg sandwich....it's so not fair!!!

6am - Sean takes my Nike duffle bag and pillow out to our black Neon.

We pull out of our drive way for the last time as a family of two!

7am - Arrive at the hospital and 'waddle' up to labor and delivery.

9am - I have IV's coming out of my body! Pitocin is started at a VERY low dose.

What was I thinking? I shouldn't have gotten pregnant!!!

10am till 12pm - Pitocin is gradually increased.

What's the big deal about labor? This is a breeze!!

12pm - 3:30pm - I am only allowed to eat ice chips and "gross lemon sherbet thingy"

After this baby comes out...I'm eating the biggest burger EVER!!!

3:30pm - The Doctor comes in and Breaks my water.

Dr. L: Wow, you have a really tough bag of water! *jab, jab, jab*

Me: *whispers* ow!!

Dr. L: Let me try this AGAIN!!! *jab, jab, gush!*

Dr. L: Oh, there we go!

Me: *a little louder* OW!!!!!

3:45pm - 8:40pm - My mom, grandma, aunts and brother arrive.

A lot of pain, crying, uncomfortableness and a little bit of demerol, way to early!!!

8:45pm - I feel the urge to poop!!

Apparently that meant I was ready to have a baby and the only thing I could think of at this moment was that my va-jay-jay would never be the same!!

8:50pm- 9:00pm - A lot of 'I can't!!! I'can't!!' 'It hurts!!' 'Help me!!'

9:01pm - A beautiful baby girl was born!!

Madisonann Augusta weighed 9 pounds 10 ounces and was 21 inches long.

I would have loved to show a precious newborn picture of my baby, but I can't get the darn thing to scan!! So instead you are seeing what she looks like today!!

I'd have to say it was well worth not eating for 24 hours!!!

I love you Madi!! Think you for being such an awesome first born!!! Just like your momma!!

I can't believe it's already been 8 years since the day I had my first baby!

Sometimes it feels longer and I feel older than I really am.

Oh to be 19 again and be so naive about what's to come!

I have grown up so much these past 8 years. (On the inside and out)

I'm gonna end up Higher than a Kite....

2009-06-04T17:25:00.004-05:00

I bought this ugly little night stand 3 weeks ago tomorrow with high hopes of turning it into something cute. The longer it sat in my garage the more I was wondering, "What the hell did I spend my 5 dollars on?" I could have bought me an Arby's Roast Beef sandwich and felt better about it!!

But then, I brought out the 'Almond' Spray paint and went to town!! I made sure the kiddos were safely playing elsewhere and began my project. Only to find out later that someone was enjoying eating dirt AGAIN!!

(I know this is the wrong date on the picture to coincide with my post. I didn't get a picture of her eating it this time, but she had done it before so I used that picture!)

Now, doesn't this look so much better?? Sean even liked it! and that's saying something.

Later he told me, he was really wondering what I was going to do with that "Piece of Sh_ _!" I bought! But now he was impressed with it!

And of course, I had to add a touch of red!!

This little beauty now lives in our living room. I have to wait to put things on there because a certain little girl who enjoys eating dirt also enjoys pulling EVERYTHING off of EVERYTHING!!

Another quick trick....

2009-06-04T17:18:00.003-05:00

This past Saturday Sean was working and since I was going to be hanging out with the girls ALL day by myself....I decided we needed to make a little trip to Wal-Mart!!
I was wanting to do a little 'transforming' and what better way to do that by myself than to purchase the kids a 'Slip n' Slide'??

The two older girls had a blast and the two littles took naps!
Perfect!!

I took our old glider we have had for maybe 5 years? It was a Mother's day present, I just can't remember which one. Sad? I know!!

This is how pleasant this thing was looking. Who would want to sit on that thing? Right?
Well, I'll tell you who!! Me and you and anyone else who drives by my house.
Especially after I painted it!
What? you painted it???
Why, yes I did! I used fabric paint and an itty-bitty paintbrush.
(I never said I did things the easy way!!)

And there she is......I even have Red, White and Blue on my Front Porch!!

If you have been to any of my previous homes...

2009-06-04T16:59:00.004-05:00

you may have realized that I LOVE to decorate my home with Red, White and Blue. Anything with the United States flag on it is game for being displayed in my house.

I have decorated this way in two homes before this one and finally after almost a year here. I am starting to get my "Americana" game on!

Over Memorial Day weekend I started a little project. I had four off white coffee mugs that were in my cabinet but not really being put to use. I pulled 3 of the 4 out and spray painted two.

While they were baking, I mean drying in the sun, Sean hung the shelf.

I placed a couple of my garage sale finds, from many months ago!!!

The apple and the apple swag are from long ago also. (That was way back in the day before Home Interiors & Gifts filed bankruptcy!)

I stuck a little flag in there that we got from the Rodeo Parade awhile back and I hung my mugs on the hooks.

I don't think it could have turned out any better!

A little catching up to do.

2009-05-27T18:18:00.003-05:00

My last post was 20 days ago. (No, I'm not counting the one I just did on the GCS)
Where have the days gone? Was I doing something productive or just wasting them?
Honestly, I'm not too sure. It has been quite a blur.

I felt like I had pretty good traffic flowing to my Etsy shop. Thank you everyone who checked it out!
On Thursday last week I had my first customer! Yeah!
She ended up buying 24 dishcloths from me! She wiped out my shop and requested custom white ones!
I was beyond happy, I was friggen extactic!!
Thank you so much for your order and I will be putting them in the mail tomorrow!!!!

Once I get this disaster area cleaned up and in working order, I will be making more things to put up in my shop. It looks quite bare right now!
If any of my wonderful readers would like to request something, go right ahead. I seem to be having a block right now!!!

Now I must go and feed my children...

I'm hoping I'll have better and more frequent posts coming up.
I had a wonderful one I wanted to post last week but by the time I made it to my computer....I had forgotten.
Nice? right?
........the children.........why do I keep forgetting about them?

What Rock Have I Been Living Under?

2009-05-27T18:07:00.004-05:00

Last week......I really don't remember what day it was.?.?.? I decided to make grilled cheese for me and the little ones.

We were out of cheese slices so I used Velveeta..................................................

I know, I know...

I am probably the only person on the planet Earth who has NEVER made a Grilled Cheese with Velveeta!!

But I hadn't and now I will be damned if I ever make a grilled cheese without it!!!

I have eaten a grilled cheese just about every other day since I made it that way!

Somebody should have lined me out sooner!!!

I will NEVER EVER EVER make a grilled cheese with American slices AGAIN!!!!!

I am not denying myself and my children that warm melted goodness!!!

I Did It.....

2009-05-07T08:28:00.003-05:00

So on top of everything else going on around here......I decided to open an Etsy shop!
What was I thinking? I don't know....I thought it would be kind of fun.
I only have a couple of things up right now. There are more things in the works.
I am trying to upload a couple of things at a time, in between feeding the kids, changing diapers, giving baths.....this seems to be a slow process!

So, without further adu, I introduce to you GirlyThingsbyJessica!!!

Don't be too disappointed at first. I only have one thing for sale right now, but as I said before,
I am working on others!

I have been bursting at the seams to share this!!

Also if you have any ideas, please let me know. I'm open to just about anything right now!!!

The Days Are Passing Quicker.....

2009-04-30T14:37:00.003-05:00

then I anticipated! That's a good thing for now.
Sean left Sunday morning for 2 weeks...2 weeks.
I do not like this whole single parent thing.
I will tell you, I haven't been as lazy as I usually am.
The house is decent looking, everyone is getting fed and baths at night!
It's kind of been nice with him gone...one less mouth to feed, less laundry
to do and one less person to pick up after.
I better not get too excited about this.
I still have a whole 'nother week left!! YIKES!!!

Need a Job in Dallas?

2009-04-22T08:31:00.003-05:00

I sure would like to make some extra money....but my morals or should I say my children are getting in the way!

There is a strip club in Dallas called Cabaret Royale...and they are hiring!!
They are having a Job Fair today and are planning on hiring 150 to 200 people!
Just imagine how quickly I could get my van paid off!!!
I did tell Sean that I would be very uncomfortable giving 10% of that too the church.

I just thought it was funny to see THIS on the news the other night!!
I heard on the radio yesterday, when the owner was being interviewed,...the DJ told him
'Thanks for stimulating the economy, along with other things!' haha!
(I know, I'm very immature for my age!)

The Job Fair is called, 'Jobless to Topless'...and I just can't take the chance going since I have 4
daughters of my own. It makes me think back to the picture from THIS POST
They've already been dancing on table tops (the coffee table, while singing Hannah Montana songs!) and pole dancing (around the swing set). I know that doesn't mean anything, but I sure don't want to add fuel to the fire!!

Communication is Key.....

2009-04-16T14:00:00.003-05:00

This morning Sean told me......

"Oh, yeah, when I talked to mom the other day....(meaning Saturday!) she told me my Great Aunt's Birthday is coming up.

Me: Oh, yeah?

Him: Yes, and I just wanted to say, You know that I really, really, really, love you? Right?

Me: Yeah, but, what are you wanting me to do????

Him: Oh, well, since you asked.....My GA just wants a 'Card Party' instead of an actual party or with presents or anything.......so......could you make her a couple of cards?.......She needs them by Saturday.

Me: Uh, sure......You do realize it takes 2 days for the mail to get to her? and I still have to take care of the kids while I make the cards? and she probably won't get her cards till Monday now...because I'm probably gonna miss the mail today!!

Him: So you'll make them then?

Me: Sure, but I'm not promising ANYTHING else will get done today!! :)

So....this is what I came up with.......
The cupcake one is from the girls and the second one is from Sean and I.
Cute, Huh? Nothing like spur of the momentness to get something done!!

I know I haven't formally come out and said it.....but I am a Consultant for Close To My Heart and I used left overs from their 'Tickled Pink' Scrabooking Kit. It already has the glitter on the pages!! *giggle* (For the card on the right)

I NEVER thought in my whole life I would be so super duper excited about glitter. But I am!!

The cupcake card was made with the 'Daydream' Kit.

Super cute too if you are in to the whole 'Princesses and Pink' thing like I am!!

And while I was at it, I thought I'd make a couple of Birthday cards for my Bestie's little boy's birthdays that I missed awhile back.

I really enjoyed making these. I hope I can keep it up..........Yeah, Right!!

It's Looking A Little Greener Over Here!

2009-04-14T13:40:00.004-05:00

I just wanted to share a couple of things we've started doing around our house to be a little more 'green' and my frugal attemps.

For starters I am only buying groceries once a week now. I haven't been to Wal-Mart in awhile because I have only been buying groceries from Kroger. Usually every Wednesday night after we get the 'Sale flyer' from Kroger I make my shopping list for the next week from that. I have only been buying 'good deal' items and that's what we live on for the next 7 days. I have only been spending $90 a week on groceries and I am super excited to be feeding 6 people off of that!!! (7 if you count the little boy I keep during the day!)

Now, I have to admit that I don't have to buy much meat because my parents usually send beef home with us when we visit them. But I ALWAYS buy chicken, pork and sometimes ground turkey when they are super cheap. This last shopping trip, I did spend $120 but it was for Easter and we wanted some extras to eat!

And when I go shopping I am sure to take in MY BAGS with me so that I don't have to use the plastic ones!! This was hard for me at first. I would leave them in the back of the van and be at the door before I would realize I needed to go back and get them. So, I would turn around and go get them, with baby on hip and ALL 3 children following me! (Sometimes I feel like a mother duck with all her babies behind her. Does anyone else ever picture themselves that way?)

Okay, back to what I'm talking about:

We also made our own compost bin using a tutorial from The Happy Housewife

This has probably been one of the hardest things for me to do believe it or not. Just because I have to remember what NOT to throw in the trash anymore.

We also recycle because the town we live in picks up recyclables every Thursday. You don't even have to sort it. Just put it ALL in ONE bag and they pick it up! Recycling has never been so easy!!

I'm also cloth diapering which is saving a ton of waste! I don't have a picture of the diapers I'm using right now. But I seriously can not believe I waited so long to do this!

We also hardly ever use paper towels any more. The holder has been empty for 3 days and nobody seems to have noticed. I have a basket of cloth napkins on our kitchen table that the kids use for just about every kind of clean up, i.e. spilt milk, water, cleaning glasses, boogers!

And now for our newest venture:

Hanging our clothes out on the line!!

I told my mom I was doing this and she asked if I was crazy. She asked me if I remembered how stiff everything got and that the birds would probably poop on my clothes!! I told her that I remebered and if the birds did poop than I would just wash them again!!

And, YES. I did have to hang some pants on the fence.

I waited too long to do laundry so I was trying to get everything caught up and I ran out of line!

Are you doing anything green? I'd love to hear about it!

Want another laugh?

2009-04-07T17:59:00.009-05:00

Is it wrong that I think this is funny??

How about the same thing over and over and over again???

Or how about with another child?

What can I say? Cheap entertainment!!

And in case you are wondering....yes, that is an alley we are playing in...and yes, It is our alley....and No! That is not our driveway!!! It's the neighbors!!!

I hope you all are having a good Wednesday!

The Devil was in church THIS MORNING!

2009-04-05T11:53:00.002-05:00

I woke up earlier this morning than most. I needed to wash my hair and fix it before the kids woke up and Sean left for work VERY early this morning. I made my punch last night for the reception after church so I wouldn't have to worry about that this morning. I woke the girls up, fed them breakfast, the older two got dressed and then dressed Dakoda while I got Hayleigh ready.
Sounds like everythings running smoothly, right? Yeah, I thought so too.
Loaded everyone in the car and I even remembered to put the punch in. We had enough time that I let Dakoda load a little bag of hers with a coloring book, markers and ponies. (What was I thinking? I know better than to let my kids take something fun to church!! I ALWAYS pay for it later!)
We got to church at 9:25 this morning and it doesn't start till 9:30. (Had the world ended?)
My little Angels helped me carry everything in and put the punch in the Fellowship Hall.
We arrived in time for the big girls to get their palm fronds and walk in with the other kids during the processional. (This is a big deal for us. We usually don't get to church until 9:35 or 9:40! )
After the processional M and T came and sat with me and the little girls. It was going great at first. Dakoda was coloring, Madison was sitting nicely, Taylor was coloring even though I had told her three times already it was for Dakoda. Hayleigh was quite and content with her sippy cup for.....oh....3 seconds.
Then, my children left and satan took over!!!
Dakoda had snuck change into her purse. Not just a couple of dimes and some nickles. Oh no, that would be okay. I'm talking $10 in pennies. At least that's what it sounded like when she turned her purse over on the seat and DUMPED. IT. ALL. OUT!!!! Pennies are rolling everywhere, Hayleigh scoots off my lap the fastest she's ever moved. The lady behind me is passing change back up as more falls off the chair. I'm about in tears.
During the prayer.....Taylor was practicing her thriller dance! I gave her 'THE LOOK' told her to fold her hands because we were praying. Hayleigh is head banging my lip! I look back at Taylor and she has slid down to the floor and is doing Gymnastics exercises!!!! Where is Dakoda you may be asking? Oh....wondering down the aisle TALKING. ON. HER. CELL. PHONE!!!!
I have to give Madison credit. She was sitting in the chair nicely. When we prayed she was standing with her hands folded and head bowed.
As soon as the prayer had ended I told the girls to gather their stuff because WE. ARE. LEAVING!!!!
Madison looked at me and said, "To go home?"
Me: YYEESSSSSSS!!!!!!! (In as much of a whisper as I could muster!)

And then......you all are gonna love this part!!
I thought that I could just SNEAK my kids out of church! Yeah, like that was gonna work!!
I had Hayleigh in my arm and nudged Dakoda out of our seats. Madison was following. Taylor chose not to listen to me at that time and proceeded to lay in the pew.
We almost made it to the door, Taylor decided to follow and I. STEPPED. ON. THE. BACK. OF. DAKODAS. FLIP FLOP!!
And DOWN SHE WENT!!! crying and carrying on!
EVERYBODY!!!! I MEAN EVERYBODY! WAS LOOKING AT US!!
I could not have drawn more attention to myself if I would have stood up during prayer and announced that WE WERE LEAVING!!

Madison held the door open. I set Hayleigh down in the hall. I went back to get Dakoda and her flip flops. Madison was still holding the door and Hayleigh was coming back in. (Are you kidding me? Really?)
All five of us made it out of the door and Taylor asked, "What are we doing?"
I lost it, tears flooded my eyes, I told her to go back in and get her coat and bible because we were leaving.
I had to go to the Fellowship Hall first and dump the punch in the bowl. Dakoda was crying because she didn't want to leave.
We made it back to the car and I loaded everyone in practically blind. I was crying so hard I couldn't see. My 'waterproof' mascara was running down my face.
I DID NOT yell at them though. They knew I was upset so they asked questions and with as much calmness as I could I answered their questions.

I've realized there are some changes I need to make with myself and by doing that.....I'm seriously hoping that my children will come back.

Happy 1st Birthday Pictures! (Only a month late!)

2009-04-04T17:23:00.003-05:00

Tea Time

2009-04-01T08:17:00.005-05:00

On Friday I helped a lady from our church have a birthday party for our Pastor's daughter.

She turned 8 and wanted a Tea Party theme. Mrs. Smith had the BEST house for this party!! Her house was built in 1910 and was laid out perfectly for Tea.

I was in charge of invites, cake and cookies.

I barely got the invites sent out a week before the party and I had to make them and mail them from Missouri while I was visiting. (I forgot my stuff when I left TX so I had to start all over!! GO ME!!)
Included in each invite was a Pink card with "Princess __girl's name___" on each. They brought the card with them and the 'butler' announced the Princesses as they arrived. Very fun!

I baked the cake Thursday night and iced it on Friday.
What kind of cake was it you ask?

Well a Teapot of course!!!!

I had so much fun making this and ALL the little girls AND moms LOVED it!!
I also made cookies with the girls names on them.

The party started at 4:30 so as the girls arrived Butler Rob took each girl into the parlor and announced them to Princess Abby. After they had been announced they took thier dress up clothes into Mrs. Smith's bedroom and laid them out on the bed.

Next stop was the kitchen table where they placed flowers and ribbons on a white hat. Another lady was there hot gluing the flowers on.
(I know this was a party for the big girls to attend and the younger two were just tagalongs. But they were off and gone too quickly for me to get their picture making their hats. I know, I know....and the mother of the year award goes to......)

After the hats were made the girls were off to get dressed up. They came out of the bedroom in their dressup clothes and hats on! Mrs. Smith had an assortment of shoes and jewelry for the girls to wear! THEY LOVED IT!!!

Next was Tea. The girls went out to the porch, chose a chair and put little white gloves on after they sat down. It was adorable....I think they were in Heaven!!!

(Finally, I do have two more children!)

Abby's Aunts served the tea....the girls were asked "One lump or two?"
And the cookies were passed around!

One little girl cracked me up....I gave a little girl sitting next to her a cookie and
she said, "I want a cookie just like hers!"
I said, "Yours is a little different......""I want a cookie just like hers!!!!"
Me: Honey, yours is different because it has your name on it.
Her: Oh..........

Then the cake was brought out, 'Happy Birthday' was sung, and she couldn't blow out the candles because the wind had picked up.

Presents were opened and a little modeling ensued.
The girls tried on each others clothes and walked out into the living room, one by one to model.
Of course Taylor came out bearing tummy. It was a belly dancer costume and she had bangles on her arm so she gave a little 'shake'! Oh, to think what her daddy would have done if he would have seen that!!!

Finally, it was time to pack up and go home.

Where are you?

2009-03-28T15:58:00.003-05:00

Spring?.....
Where are you?
I know you stopped by last week. There is evidence everywhere!
The trees are green...the grass is green....there are even little flowers popping up everywhere!
It warmed up so nicely! I even enjoyed the rain showers since it wasn't freezing outside!
That was a terribly mean trick you played!
Please come back!!!

Bag Tag! You're It!!

2009-03-24T13:16:00.006-05:00

I was tagged by Donella at So Not Domestic to do a bag tag. She tagged me back in February and I'm just now getting this up. If you look closely at the pictures you WILL see that they were taken last month! Unfortunately if I'm playing by the rules, I can't go grab anything cuter So I'm using pics of my handy dandy diaper bag! Yay! NOT!!

Here are the rules for the tag:

1) Post a picture of whatever bag you are carrying as of late. No, you cannot go up to your closet and pull out that cute little purse you used back before you had kids. I want to know what you carried today.

2) I want to know how much it cost. :) And this is not to judge, this is for entertainment purposes only. So spill it. And if there is a story to go along with how you obtained it, I’d love to hear it.

3) Tag some chicks. And link back to this post so people know why the heck you’re showing everyone your diaper bag/non-diaper bag.

I don't even know how much this cost. I'm sure under $20. My mom bought it for me right before or shortly after Taylor was born. (Holy moly that was almost 6 1/2 years ago!!) I didn't use it too much with Tay because I had several other diaper bags as well. I think I used it maybe once with Dakoda and then put it away. I ended up using it with Hayleigh because it is actually very well made. The one we recieved from the hospital tore where the strap attaches to the bag. Didn't last very long at all!

Crazy I know! How does one live with a bag filled like this? I guess I don't pay attention to it until I'm digging around trying to find something! You just never know, you may need a dollar, some playdoh and a headband!!

I'm just gonna say this is an open tag and if you want to participate go ahead!! I'd love to see how much better all of your bags or purses are!! LOL

WANTED: A Good Friend

2009-03-24T12:43:00.003-05:00

I am happily married to my best friend and mommy to my four wonderful daughters. I am looking for someone to be my friend.
Yes, I already have several. But they ALL live so far away. I don't have anyone here. I've tried.......there is one gal who I thought was going to work out because it all seemed like perfect timing....but I am quickly realizing there are problems in this relationship and I am very slowly trying to work my way out of it.
I've finally realized that I do not need to put up with somebody who:

puts me down all the time.
Makes sarcastic remarks to me ALL the time! (don't get me wrong, I like to 'josh' around, but I'm not nasty about it!)
is nasty to my kids (that's my job! I feel like slime when mean things slip out of my mouth at MY kiddos, I don't want anyone else doing it!!)
tells a story about a special needs child she use to work with and then makes the remark that I probably don't know what the average IQ of somebody is (Hello, lady!...my IQ was 135 when I was 14!!! It's not easy playing dumb!)
doesn't like the way I am parenting and proceeds to tell me about it!(her kids are going to need therapy when she's done!)
talks trash about ALL the things her husband does and how they are wrong (at least her husband washes dishes and picks up the kid's toys!) ((Sean's been helping this week so I won't complain about him!))
EVERYTHING is that man's fault through her eyes, but from the outside looking in, I'm thinking she has ALOT to do with it!
and a whole lot of other things that have slipped my mind at the moment!

Now that I've finally gotten that out, I guess I should call her and break up with her!!

I just want to tell my friends that are reading this, if I have EVER done any of the things on this list to you....I am SORRY with ALL OF MY HEART!
This hurts and sucks and hurts some more. People should NOT treat others this way.

I know this probably seems like a desperate cry for friendship, but I really just wanted to blog about this and get it off my chest! Everyone here in bloggyland seems to be so understanding of that!
Anymore thoughts on how I should handle this would be greatly appreciated.
Julie, thanks for your input, I have to see her tonight, and we will see how that goes.

Another Birthday!

2009-03-24T08:41:00.004-05:00

Yesterday my 3rd baby turned 3!! I can't believe how fast the past 3 years have gone by. (I know every mother says that....but isn't it so true?)
I remember the 2 false trips to the hospital and then having to be scheduled for an induction.
It snowed a little on the drive to the hospital that morning. We arrived at the hospital late. I was scheduled for 6am and didn't get there till 6:15. The nurse was a little short with me I almost forgot to have Sean take my 'before delivery' pic. I had my sheet on already and then I waddled back into the bathroom to put my shirt and pants back on so he could take my picture.
Finally, I was ready.....my nurse started hooking me up to everything and started the 'pit' around 7am. There was a swarm of student nurses at the hospital that day and they ALL wondered if they could take part in this miracle! Why not? I said. I'd already birthed 2 babies and I wasn't as shy any more! ha! I labored pretty quickly. I let them crank the pit up as much as they would dare. It hurt like you wouldn't believe but I wasn't one to be in labor for hours! I did that with Madison....Taylor was quick and I wanted this to be as short and sweet as possible! Around 9am I felt ready to push so everyone swarmed in and started getting everything ready. I remember 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' was on. Between contractions my doctor would turn around and watch the show and answer the questions. She was answering one question and I practically shouted....I HAVE TO PUSH NOW!!!! So she turned back around and caught Dakoda!! at 9:26am.
I haven't told too many people this, actually my husband, doctor and nurses are the only ones who have known this up until now......but you know how most people are afraid of pooping while having a baby? Well, I was over that fear since this was my 3rd. But who would've thought you'd pee all over your doctor?? Not me in a million years did that thought ever cross my mind!! Until a Thursday morning on March 23rd 2006 at 9:20ish am. I had fluids running through my body for the previous 2 hours and nobody ever thought once to ask me if I needed to go the bathroom. Well, there was that one push I gave and Dr. Warner got a shower!!!! How embarrassing was that?? So, now world, you know my pee-pee story!!

Back to who this post is really about.......
Yesterday was a horrible day. Dakoda cried, screamed and cried some more. I think that maybe she was already 'birthdayed out'. We had a little party here before we went to MO and then we had 2 while we were visiting. By the time it got to the 'real day' she was done!
I did get her calmed down for a little bit with an ice cream cone!!

Happy Birthday my little Princess!!! I love you!!!!

On the Road Again!!

2009-03-14T07:57:00.002-05:00

Actually it's been 2 months, but time sure does fly around here.
We are going to visit family this coming week since it is spring break.
We will be celebrating the two little girls birthdays and I'm sure I'll be pissing some people off because I won't be spending equal amounts of time with them. Plus, I have to pay the money we owe!
I haven't talked about that in a long time because I have found my piece with it and we are just going to pay him, I'm going to have him write me a receipt of payment and we are never borrowing or owing him any money again!!!

So if you want to see me, give me a call and I'll try to meet you somewhere. (Yes, I'm talking to you Julie!)

We will not be back until next Sunday evening. I will not get to blog and will probably be behind on reading everyone's amazing posts because my mother still has dial-up. I cringe at the thought of how much farther I'm going to be behind! Will I ever get out of this hole??
Not to mention I have started babysitting again and that really takes away from my computer time!!
Everybody have a good week and I better finish more like finish start packing because I'm wanting to leave in less than 2 hours. I really don't see that happening.

I'm Sooooo Behind!!!!!!

2009-03-05T08:12:00.002-06:00

It's been over a week since my last post and I can't seem to make the time to get it done!!!
There is soooo much I've been doing and that has happened......I have pictures sitting on my camera I need to put up....I made a pettiskirt for Hayleigh and I need to start Dakoda's.......My baby had her 1st Birthday.......my house is a disaster area and I just don't want to clean it up......(it's just easier to keep throwing more on the pile instead of putting it away!).....and the cloth diapers arrived in the mail Friday and we've been successful with that since Saturday............I collected quite a bit of cookie money from the other moms that needs to be deposited in the bank.......Hayleigh is getting angry in the highchair at this moment because she is out of Blueberries and I'm typing........I don't want to go to a playdate today because I am tired of the way the 'smothering-mother' treats my baby.............I've already missed two weeks of playdates with her and I just don't have a good excuse today!!............I need to clean my house up because I start babysitting next week and I don't want more to be piled up on top of what 'already is'!! (If that makes since?)

Okay, off to soothe the crying one and get ready to leave!!! Blah!

OMG!!!

2009-02-24T08:37:00.003-06:00

Hayleigh is about to turn 1!!
On Monday in fact!
So why did I have the 'hair-brained' idea to do this? Why didn't I do this sooner, Like last year or maybe 3 years ago when I had Dakoda?

I JUST BOUGHT CLOTH DIAPERS!!!!

Last night I decided I would wake up this morning and research the cost! I will save about $100 or more. I just figured on this for 1 year. I'm sure she won't be potty trained by 2, but the way my luck goes sometimes.....She might!!

I just placed my order and they should be arriving next week! AFTER she turns 1.
Am I crazy??? Or was this a good idea?

My name is Jessica and I am a cloth diapering mother...
Who woulda thunk that!
Maybe I should change my title to....Why didn't I start that sooner?

Theyyyy'rrrreeee Heeeerrrreeeee!!!!!

2009-02-17T13:32:00.004-06:00

I'm just gonna lay this out for you like I see and feel it! Ever since we moved into this house. I. ALWAYS. FEEL. LIKE. SOMEBODY. IS. WATCHING. MEEEEE!!!!!

It's usually when the older girls are at school and the little ones are napping or when EVERYONE else is asleep and I'm the ONLY ONE awake!

Just a little bit ago I came out of the laundry room and glanced upstairs because it looked like someone ran into my scrappin' room.

Then I was taking a shower and I could have sworn somebody was in my bathroom!

This happens a lot in the evenings.....I'll be sitting in the living room. The little heater is running and the ceiling fan circulates the air.....The rooms all nice and toasty.....Then, BAM there is a coooool little breeze blowing through the room.....I know, I get *piloerection* EVERYTIME!!!

(Merriam-Websters Dictionary- involuntary erection or bristling of hairs due to a sympathetic reflex usually triggered by cold, shock, or fright or due to a sympathomimetic agent ) just incase you didn't know!

Now, I'm not scared, it's just a little annoying! I don't like PEOPLE watching me so I don't want anything else to either! As long as they aren't hurting my kids or my hubby or me, they can stay. If for some reason they start acting nasty, then I'll just have to go Supernatural on their butts!!!

This is Jensen Ackles, a.k.a. Dean!!

He's Hawt too!!!

I've lived with ghosts before. But I knew them. I don't know who the ones here are.

Swoon

2009-02-16T21:14:00.004-06:00

I was sitting on the couch earlier while Sean was watching wrestling. I usually try to find something else to do because I don't enjoy watching his 'soap opera'. I forgot that I use to watch on Monday nights.
This little hottie is the reason why I used too and why I shall start again!!

I HEART YOU JOHN CENA!!!!!!

Not Me Monday #1

2009-02-16T09:52:00.003-06:00

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

1) I DID not get Thanked infront of everyone after church yesterday for putting on the Valentine's Dinner (And the guy sitting behind me DID not ask his wife, "Who's That?")

2) I DID not sit in front of the computer ALL afternoon yesterday instead of cleaning my house!

3) I DID not just finish cleaning up the kitchen from this weekend!

4) I DID not honk the horn at Taylor while she had her head stuck in the fridge and make her cry!

5) I DID not pick up dog poo off my bedroom floor because I DID not forget to let the dog out!

6) I DID not cry because Taylor used the rest of my body wash!

7) I DID not sit down and crochet a washcloth instead of folding laundry!

8) I DID not feed my kids leftovers TWICE yesterday!

9) I DID not turn the doorbell off so I wouldn't know if the neighbor's kids were coming over to play!

10) I DID not give Hayleigh cough medicine from the last time she was sick so I could go to sleep last night!

11) I DID not just lay Hayleigh down for a nap so I could type this without a baby attached to my booby!

NOT ME!!!!

So? What didn't you do?

I Know...I Know.... I'm Lame

2009-02-15T18:19:00.003-06:00

Yesterday I realized I was needing some new shoes to wear to the Dinner. So I ran up to Payless and they were having their BOGO. (When don't they?) Usually I can't find anything or I don't see anything that I. HAVE. TO HAVE. or they have something really really cute, but only in the smaller sizes...grrrrr...

Not yesterday my friends. I think I found a heck of a deal!

Not one pair but two!!!

I purchased my first and second pairs of heels. I have never bought heels before!!

This snazzy little pair cost $19.99

And these little beauties. What a steal!!

Pair #1

Pair #2

Oh, and please excuse the 'honeycomb' vinyl in my bathroom! That WILL. BE. GONE. next year with tax return. I'm sure the money this year will end up going to 'Dear Sir'.

I usually only participate in the BOGO when buying my children shoes. But I hadn't bought any for awhile.....so, why not.

Pair #2 was regular $26.99, the sale price was $17.99 and I got them for $8.99!!

Whoo-hoo!! I am quite excited!!

Kinda Glad It's Over.

2009-02-15T17:25:00.003-06:00

The past couple of weeks I have been getting ready for the Valentine's Dinner at my church.
A couple of months ago I had felt moved to volunteer for a couple of positions at the church. I know....What was I thinking? Right? I was going to help another lady with the 'Fellowship Committee'. She decided her baby was going to be due early February so she wanted to pass off the little dinner thing to me! That's all fine and dandy, I don't mind helping a person out. BUT, I wasn't even here last year so I didn't even know what was expected of me. This was the '5th Annual' and I sure as hell did not want to mess that up!!!!!

On Friday a nice lady from church offered to help me decorate. I took the two little 'monkey-butts' with me. And we made it look pretty nice! If I do say so myself!!

Last night my family arrived an hour before it started so I could take care of anything final. There was a lady there complaining because the tables were too close together. So, the people pleaser I am, quickly arranged them to HER liking!!! What the Fark??? I shouldn't have done that!!!
We played the not-so newlywed game. Sean and I were made to sit in front of everybody with 3 other couples!! When the guys were sent out and the questions began......I will admit....I was quite frightened. You see? We were the youngest couple. But apparently that doesn't matter....even though we stay home and don't really get out much. Apparently spending ALL that time together with our kids kinda helped us out..........WE WON!!!!! WE WON WITH 110 POINTS!!!! Second place had 90. So even if we would have cheated a little...which we DID NOT! We still would have won!! Oh, and it was a gift card to go to the Movie Theater!! Which we haven't been to in a long time by ourselves. And one of the losers said she would watch our kids for us! How cool is that?? Pretty cool!!!
I didn't get any pictures. I was about to have an anxiety attack as it was. There was no way I was going to get pictures taken.
There was a guy with a camera there.. and I know he got a picture of me with my hand over my mouth when Sean gave a wrong answer. If I ever get ahold of those...I'll be sure and not share!!!

Where Have I Been? You may or may not be asking

2009-02-14T11:23:00.003-06:00

I have ALOT of catching up to do. I didn't post a lot last week because I was busy doing things I shouldn't have been doing! Nothing Crazy! But it was time consuming!

We went to Canton the Saturday after my birthday when my mom was here. I saw a little girl wearing the cutest overalls and new I could do that!

We found a pair of jeans that a lady was trying to sell for 25 bucks and I KNEW I could do that too for way less! Plus the older girls had some jeans with some serious knee problems and I wanted to do more than just iron a patch on them!

Well, I did do more than iron and it took me about 14 hours to get these done!

And you know how it is with kids! You don't get to work on that straight, It is broken up into pieces!!!

Here's Model Uno! Rockin' her 'new' jeans!

Dos Trouble! Likes her Pink!!

Lil D Loves her some Strawberry Shortcake!!

Hayleigh showin off her paisely and sippin' and standin' skills!

I had fun making these! I need to get my house back in order now before I start the next set! It ALWAYS looks like a tornado has blown through when I work on my little projects!!

Valentine's party yesterday

2009-02-14T11:11:00.003-06:00

Madison and Taylor had their parties yesterday. I loaded up the 2 little sleepy heads and headed up to the school to try and devide my time evenly between both classes. (Thankfully they are down the same hallway so I don't kill much time racing between classes!)
I went to Taylor's first because her party ended first and then to Madison's. Taylor followed me to M's party because apparently her teacher lets her do whatever she wants because she is such an 'awesome student'! Why can't she be that way here at home? She fights me tooth and nail on everything!

So, back to the party. I was watching Hayleigh chew up, er read books in M's room and there was this commotion. I looked up and Madison was giggling and the other girls were oohing and ahhing and her teacher looked at me across the room and said, 'Can you believe it's started already?' I looked back over at M and she had a red gift bag!
MY. DAUGHTER. RECEIVED. A. VALENTINE. GIFT. FROM. A. BOY!!!!
Second grade and I've lost her to a boy!!! LOL
I started thinking back and I was in 3rd grade. They say kids are aging quicker now and I'm just not ready for it.
I think Sean and I handled it very well. We listened to her oooh and ahhh over him all night last night. It was pretty funny!

She would say: I don't really like him. He chases me at recess ALL the time. He's such a fast runner! I guess I kinda like him.

Me: Is he cute?

M: No! Well, a little.

Me: I see.

M: I don't like him. I can't believe he gave me this stuffed animal!

Sean: Now that's not nice. Don't tell him you don't like him. That will hurt his feelings.
Just be nice to him. You don't want to make him cry do you?

M: No! He's a nice boy.

She slept with the animal last night.
Oh puppy love! I hope her heart doesn't get broken too soon. *sigh*

Happy Valentine's Day!

2009-02-14T11:05:00.002-06:00

I let the girls play on the computer via "Kidzui's" website. Dakoda already knows how to cruise around on there quite well. Clicking on everything. I'm going to be fighting her for computer time!

She found this little video and I wanted to share it with you!

The sound isn't working on my computer for some reason? But I hope you all enjoy it!!

Happy Valentine's Day from My Family to Yours!!!!

How can you not chuckle?

2009-02-11T15:13:00.002-06:00

My house phone just rang and I ALWAYS jump when it does. Usually the only people who call our house phone are THE neighbors and people wanting to sign me up for stuff that I already have for cheaper then what I paid....i.e. Dish Network, ADT, Playboy(just kidding, we had to cancel cause it was getting too expensive and the girls found out where we were hiding it!) OOPS!!!

Anyway, I answered the phone

Me: Hello? (I always answer the phone with a question mark. Is that weird?

Caller: Hello. Is this Jessica Hood? (It was a sweet little girls voice) This is Celeste.

Me: Yes.

Caller: I'm sorry to be calling at this hour. (*It's 3:10pm hehe) But I just wanted to tell Madison that since I got my new phone I wanted to talk to her and give her my number.

Me: Okay, would you like to talk to Madison?

Caller:Oh, Yes please.

Me: Alright, just a second.

MADISONNNNNNNNNNN.....PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just kidding! she was right beside me!! It's like she was expecting the phone call or something!! LOL

Kids are cute!
But my kids aren't getting phones for a LONG time yet!

Thank You!!

2009-01-31T08:06:00.003-06:00

Thank you EVERYONE for the 'Birthday Wishes'!!
My mom, aunt and nephew came into town about 7 last night. We ate dinner here at the house and then had cake!

They sang the Happy Birthday song and I blew out the candles!!

I had a piece for you all!!! It was delicious!!

The center was white and strawberry cakes. Delicious, Yummy, hit the spot!!

For the icing I used Bakerella's Easy Butter cream icing recipe! I do believe, THAT made the cake!!!

Happy Birthday to Me!!

2009-01-30T13:23:00.006-06:00

Finally!!

Now I can go pick up my WHOLE house the two little ones DESTROYED!!!

While I was making this for myself!! :)

What was I thinking??

I'll be sure and post pictures of what this baby looks like on the inside!!

This ain't yo mamma's cake!!! *grins and giggles*

Oh, and I did make some cupcakes too!!

Just not the edible kind!!

These were made with my NEW stamp set from Close To My Heart!!

I know that I am by no means a 'Master' at cake decorating. But I enjoyed making it and I get to eat it.

If you want to see some that is really Awesome!! check out Bakerella and her Wii-art!!

Birthday what??

2009-01-29T21:12:00.002-06:00

I'm having trouble deciding what kind of Birthday cake I should make tomorrow...
anybody have any suggestions???

cupcakes??

cheesecake??

yellow cake with icing??

white cake with icing??

something with fondant??

I'm at a loss!!!

Update

2009-01-25T20:25:00.001-06:00

I added a couple more things to my fireplace.

I just can't seem to leave well enough alone!!

It looks better without the flash (in real life), but I can't hold my camera still enough

to take it without the flash! Go figure!!

And this is why......

2009-01-25T20:17:00.002-06:00

I SHOULD NOT be on the computer when Hayleigh is awake!!!

*Note to self: Move bread to a higher drawer!!

Problem Solved!!! :)

Something Else to Do!

2009-01-23T12:24:00.005-06:00

My friend posted about a bracelet she found on another blog.

So I thought I would try making one!

(I was supposed to be making a Baby Shower card for tomorrow, but I was doing this instead)

It was fun and I'm glad it turned out!

In honor of her 'AWESOMENESS' she will be receiving this some time next week!
No worries, she already knows about it, so I'm not spoiling anything!! ;)

New Frame, Old Picture

2009-01-21T19:08:00.003-06:00

There was probably about 100 other things I should have been doing today. Instead, I decided to tackle this nice little job!!

I was unpacking a box of pictures that I've accumulated over the past 8 1/2 years. The whole time we have been living here, I just haven't been motivated enough to put any pictures up. I kind of enjoyed the uncluttered feeling! After reading ALOT of blogs though I'm starting to 'not like the look' so I need to put some pictures up!!!

I almost got rid of this picture 2 years ago when we moved from Missouri to New Mexico. For some reason though, I just couldn't part with it. (I never even had it hanging up in our house in MO!)

I'm sure glad I kept this little jewel! The gold frame really doesn't go with anything I have, but the yellows, that you really can't see, do.

Alas, the light bulb went off and lit up my whole bedroom!!! I'll just use the spray paint that I bought for another project!!! (I'll show you that one as soon as I get the 'rug' peeled off of my bedroom wall!!) That's a whole-nother post right there!!!!

And here you have it finished.......

I'm honestly surprised I finished this in one afternoon!! In my past life, this project would have taken me MONTHS!!!! and today I got it done in 2 hours!!

The older 3 ran over to the neighbors for a bit so it was just me and Peanut! I made her stand at the glass door and talk to me while I spray painted. I did end up letting her out on the grass while i scraped the paint drops off the glass. (She only ate a little grass!)

I am up to no good!!

Somebody get that kid a kleenex!!

This looks very interesting!!

Aww, that's nice!!!

So, what magic can you make happen with a can of spray paint???

(It has to be legal!!!) :)

7 months and I'm still trying to move in

2009-01-19T09:01:00.004-06:00

Remember when I found the Shrink-It and got sidetracked with that?

Well, this is what I was trying to unpack when I got side-tracked by that fun little project!!

Flash On!!

Flash Off!!

I have ALOT of Americana decore. This is just a small portion of it and I thought it would look nice on my fireplace!

Now, to go unpack some more!!

Boots, Boots and More Boots

2009-01-19T08:41:00.005-06:00

I've had my fair share of boots over the past decade and a half. I grew up on a dairy farm. I was a member of 4-H. I even showed a couple of cows. I was also a member of the FFA when I was in High School. I was labled 'a shit-kicker' in school because I wore my 'boot & jeans'!

Sean bought his first pair cowboy boots 2 years ago after Christmas. I've had my pink pair for 2 years as well. We have now passed this onto our children. They wanted to use some of their Christmas money to buy some boots!

Taylor picked out the light pink ones! I about died when she said she wanted these!!! I tried to persaude her to others, but she WOULD NOT BE SOLD!!!! You can't see it in the pictures, but they have a silver chain that runs under the boot in front of the heel!! They are starting to grow on me!!

Madison got the camo ones. I'm very glad. I wish they would have had those in my size. Because then I would have talked her into something else and I would have got them!!! ;)

Dakoda looks so cute in the pink and aqua!! She has been wearing them EVERYWHERE!!! She even wore them to church yesterday! I couldn't talk her out of it!!

I wanted to get these for Hayleigh, but her foot is too fat and they didn't have the next size!

I guess when she starts walking, I'll get her the real deal! She ended up getting a horse instead!!

Doesn't every little girl want a pony??

And the winner is.........

2009-01-16T08:13:00.004-06:00

Thank you everyone for your comments.

I will try and leave more posts with the things you are interested in.

Look for more giveaways in the future!!

Don't Forget to Enter my Giveaway!!!

2009-01-14T07:38:00.001-06:00

Click on the title and enter my Giveaway!

Seriously? What next??

2009-01-13T17:33:00.003-06:00

I saw this on Yahoo.
Click on the title to find out what this is all about.
I can't even begin to..... okay, here's the deal. PETA wants to change fish to sea kitten's.
Apparently people are killing too many fish and they want dog and cat lovers to feel sorry for
the fish and save them.

So I made my own little 'sea kitten'.

Does this mean I can't eat tuna salad, or talapia or grilled salmon??

If I go to a chinese restuarant and decide to eat sushi will I really be eating kitten???

Kinda scary!!

I'm just saying...It would take some getting used too!!!

Oh, and what about people who would still 'go fishing'?

Husband: Hey Honey! I'm gonna go catch me some sea kittens!!

Create Your Own Sea Kitten at peta.org!

Look what I found!!

2009-01-13T16:55:00.004-06:00

I was unpacking a box and I found a container of 'arts & crafts' that I had when I was still living with my parents. I figure this dates back almost a decade and a half ago.

I made this when I was about 13 give or take. Naturally I lived in Missouri because I think they are the only ones who support this team!!!
Just kidding, I'm not a hater!

It was just the outline and I colored it in today.

Before the Shrinkage.

During the shrinkage!

After the Shrinkage!

I know everybody has probably done this before, but I just couldn't get over it. The girls absolutely thought it was a blast!!

Now the updated version!!

I'm melting, I'm melting!!!

(oops, wrong movie!!)

Ta- Daaa!!!

Damn, I'm so easily amused!!

Crack doesn't ALWAYS kill!!

2009-01-13T13:45:00.002-06:00

There's just something about sweet little girls!!

Can you tell this is ONLY the second day she's been wearing panties??

Dakoda hasn't quite figured out how to get them pulled up far enough yet!!

CTMH

2009-01-13T08:05:00.003-06:00

As many of you may have guessed from my Giveaway... I am a Consultant for Close To My Heart Scrapbooking products.
I signed up back in October and it's mostly to support my 'habit' I am still starting.
A couple of months ago CTMH made it legal for us to talk about there company on our blogs. So that was pretty exciting.
I don't have a website yet, because I don't have the funds for that yet. I know, same story, different tune!
I was just wanting to put it out there that if you like these products and would like to order anything. Just let me know! I'd be happy to help you out!!

Another Hobby!

2009-01-13T07:53:00.004-06:00

Like I really have the time to be starting something else!!

I think I do this so...no, I know I keep starting new things because I get tired of taking care of things here at the house ALL of the time.

Now, don't take this the wrong way! I LOVE staying at home. I didn't get to stay home this much with the older 2 girls, so I am BIG TIME LOVING being here with the 2 younger ones. Plus, I'm not very good at keeping a job. I get bored too easy with jobs, hence the reason I think for all the 'new hobbies' I always try!!

Now for my newest 'time-waster'.......drumroll please.......rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

Crocheting!!!!!!

I used some of my Christmas money and bought the little beginners book, a pack of crochet hooks, some yarn and even a little basket to keep it all in.

Now, I didn't just start this on a complete whim. I remeber when I was probably T's age and my mom would crochet little doilies and such. All I was taught to do at the time was 'chain' and when it got long enough I would rip it apart and start over. My mother didn't have the patience to teach me and I think that's why it is so hard for me to teach my girls things like that!! It comes from my mother!! (Good thing I didn't pay a therapist for that session!!)

So I started with a simple hat. So it says. Simple my hind end. If you have no clue what you are doing, it. is. not. simple!!!

I started last Thursday. Didn't look hot. ripped it apart. Started again Friday. Ripped it apart. Started again Saturday. Now it was starting to look like it should!! Yippee!! I finally finished it Sunday evening.

I even had a model to wear it!!!

We had to take several pictures though, he wouldn't smile for me and they kept looking like 'mug shots'!!! I didn't want America's Most Wanted to identify him on my blog!!!

It's actually funny how much he enjoyed wearing this!! He kept it on all evening!!

I think he looks kind of cute in pink!!! Is that wrong for me to feel that way???

Just asking!!

50th Post = GIVEAWAY!!!!

2009-01-12T09:42:00.006-06:00

Don't worry followers! I did not forget about my '50th Post Giveaway'!

It is FINALLY here!!!

I will admit, I was dragging my feet a little. I was superexcited at first but as it

neared, I feared my gifts would not be 'giveaway' quality.

So, here it goes!!

I am offering this fine assortment of scrapbooking products! (From Close To My Heart)

All you have to do my friends is leave me a quick comment telling me what you like about my blog or what you would like me to blog about! (One comment per person please!)

You have until 6:30am CST on Friday January 16th to leave a comment and be entered into the Giveaway! Sometime Friday I will draw a number through Random.org and have the winner posted by 2:30pm CST on Friday!

Good Luck!

And here is what you are 'commenting' for!!

You will get this Aspen Paper Packet Level 2 which includes: 12-12"x12" B&T Duos (2 each of 6 patterns), 9-12"x12" Cardstock Sheets (2 each of 3 colors & 3 neutral)

6 Twilight Corduroy Brads

Aspen My Stickease Assorment Level 2 includes 2-6"x12" Adhesive Sheets

A page of 'Clear Sparkles'

Exclusive Inks pad Cocoa

4 little picture frames!

As a side note: if you aren't really a 'scrapbooker' per say have no fear! If your name is drawn and you don't know what to do with the items you have won. Just let me know and I will make a couple of Layouts for you to put your pictures on!!

Thank you all for reading my blog!!!

Who Said That?

2009-01-06T09:19:00.003-06:00

Girl Scout Cookie Sales start on Friday! M did it last year and we had fun! This year the Daisies get to sell cookies so now we have two in our home who will be competeing for sales! Please keep me in your thoughts because I'm sure this is going to be fun!! (sarcasm, lots and lots of sarcasm)

T was supposed to have her bi-monthly meeting last night but it was cancelled on account of the ice sticking to the trees!! Anyway, the phone call from her leader informing me of the cancellation also led her to tell me that she didn't know where we were going to meet on Wednesday because she couldn't get the church that day. We would have just skipped the meeting but with 'Cookie Sales' starting we have to have the 'parent meeting' this week.

All of a sudden I hear a voice saying: You can have it at my house! I have a big, open living room. That should be no problem!

GS Leader: Really? That would be great!

Voice: Sure! What time?

GS Leader: I'll tell everyone 5 o'clock. What's your address again?

Voice: 522 Are you insane Blvd.

GS Leader: Great! See you Wednesday.

Voice: Bye!

and

Me: Wait....What? Did I just offer my house?
Where did that voice come from??
Crap!! Now I have to go clean!!
Seriously...Why do I do this to myself??

Booorrriiinnnggg!!

2009-01-05T16:30:00.002-06:00

So, I know that my Blog looks pretty boring, but I just couldn't find anything else that jumped out at me.
Okay, that's a lie. I found a lot of things but I just couldn't put any of them up.
None of them were racy or anything like that. A lot of the ones I liked.....just weren't me.
I have realized that.....
Maybe I should start this a different way because this is almost what it feels like.

My name is Jessica and I am a PRUDE!!!
Can you believe that? I've been in denial for awhile now.
I don't want to be a prude. I'm actually quite fun loving and enjoy tiny borderline dangerous things.

Back to the way my Blog looks though.....I want to be fun and spontanious but most of the time I feel like I'm ALWAYS 'writing within the lines'

I do have a Birthday coming up and no more babies are in our future. Maybe this is just a funky day. I'm really not sure!
Yesterday I was ALL GUNGHO!! about getting things accomplished right for the New Year.
Apparently today just wasn't in the cards to get that going!

Maybe a better day is in store for tomorrow!

Oh, and I have found 1 thing that I do not like about this Great State of Texas!!!
The fact that it has been raining ALL DAMN DAY, the temp. is 33 degrees and all it has done is freeze all the trees!!
I'm sure my good ol' friends in ABQ are getting a kick out of that. They have gotten a nice little amount of snow since we moved our sorry a$$e$ out of that state.
See, there I go again.... I can't even type out the 'cool' way to say butt!!!!! WTF????

I LOVE my Hubs!!!

2008-12-21T06:50:00.004-06:00

...and this time it's not because he buys me things or doesn't make me 'work' or lets me start 'home-businesses' or anything else like that. It's because he let me open my Christmas present early!!!!
Check this out!

I AM SO FREAKIN' EXCITED!!! I got these Rachael Ray pots and pans!! We have been married for 8 1/2 years and these are the first real 'set' of pots AND pans that I've owned!!

He said he let me open them now so that I could get them washed up and use them to make Christams Dinner!! Isn't that sweet? You don't think so? Well I do and I am SUPERFREAKINFANTABULOUS EXCITED!!!!

We do this every year! We are so awful about keeping anything secret from each other. We end up telling/giving each other gifts early. That's why I ALWAYS usually wait till a couple days before Christmas to get his or I'll give it to him a week before!!!

OOOh, I can taste my yummy food now!!!! Onions sauteing in my little skillet! Boiling some potatoes to make creamy mashed taters!! Chicken breasts sizzling in EVOO!!! Yumm-O!!!!!

Hungry yet? Come on over and I'll fix ya whatever yer little heart desires!!

(I keep talking like thes pans are gonna make me cook like Rachael or something!!)

You just never know!!!

Need a Boost?

2008-12-17T08:24:00.003-06:00

Here are 40 Inspirational Movie Speeches in 2 minutes!!

Can you name all the movies??

I could only think of a few!

Just A Little Coffee!!

2008-12-16T07:09:00.003-06:00

Every Saturday morning we let the older girls drink a little coffee with some creamer.
I know, I know.... too much caffeine!!!! My neighbors would 'freak' if they new we did this! They don't let their kids drink anything besides Sprite and Root Beer!

I'm the one who has to entertain these children though, they don't. So bottoms up T!! The house needs to be cleaned!! Let me tell you, they are quite the 'Lil Tasmanian Devils' when it comes to cleaning after drinking a 'cup 'o joe'!! See? There is a method to my madness!!!

A Little Help! Please?

2008-12-16T07:01:00.004-06:00

I am making this for my in-laws. They are done having grandkids. (I say this like it's their choice to stop!) haha

When I come up with an idea to do something...I never fully think it out. I just 'start doing' and hope everything comes together.

Well, now I am stuck!! If you all would be so kind to give me some ideas on the wording. I would be forever greatful!!!

A little side note: I usually try not to worry about being perfect when I do things, because I know that I can't be. And I'm less stressed for lack of trying to make it that way. But when it comes to 'outgifting' my sil. THIS BABY HAS TO ROCK!!!!!!

I'm wanting to play on the words of: Favorite things in Grammy and PaPa's Pond.

I haven't glued anything down yet, so there is room to move things around!

Thank you all in advance! I can't wait to get this finished up!!

I just thought you should know!

2008-12-10T16:50:00.003-06:00

I was just getting ready to start supper and I realized that today I have a touch of the 'VD'!! (verbal diarrhea!)
What did you think it meant??

It's not the 'drunk' kind. It's just the 'wanting to post a whole bunch of stuff on my blog kind'!
As you may remember, I had mentioned something about a 'Giveaway' when I hit 50 posts?!
I am really excited about that and I don't have to many more to go!
I was going to do it at 100 but I thought that would take too long. Maybe I should have set that for my goal anyway!!
I'm almost wondering if I'm going to have the item ready or not???
Don't worry though, I will!!
This is too exciting!!

I know this is kind of sneaky and probably a little sleazy but I just want everyone to know:
If you are a 'follower' of mine, you'll get a 'heads up' to my giveaway!!!
Just sayin'!
And depending on how well that goes....there may be more!!!

Well, off to feed the 'hoodlums' and bake some cookies!!

Excitement for a 2 year old

2008-12-10T15:32:00.005-06:00

Saturday afternoon we were putting up a couple of decorations in our front yard. S got another

little tree out of our shed that had belonged to his grandmother. (That I forgot to put up)

He told D that she could have it. She didn't seem to excited at first because it did not light up....or so she thought!!

S put it in her room and plugged it in while she was busy doing whatever it is that 2yearolds do...

Later she wondered into her room and came out screaming!!!!!

Daddy fixed my tree!! Daddy fixed my tree!!! And then she proceeded to hug his legs, tell him 'thanks' and 'I wuv you daddy!'

I know...melts your heart, right? Mine too, I'm just a little jealous though. S ALWAYS gets to swoop in and make everybody happy!!

Another piece of excitement from D came this morning when she got a hold of my camera! She came in screaming all excited AT me and honestly, I had no clue what she was saying. She held out the camera to me and I pushed review. She had taken a picture of her chair!!

MY CHWAIR, MY CHWAIR!!!! ( I know, I know.. you are probably thinking she needs speach....I think we will be okay though. If she is still talking like this at Christmas next year, I'll get the phone book out!)

Yes, it is quite blurry but I guess that's what you get when you take a picture with the camera turned to 'mountain'.

Good try though! Sometimes I think it's way better than anything mommy coulda done!!

This could happen to you!

2008-12-10T13:58:00.002-06:00

Be sure and check your child's homework!!
This didn't happen to me, but you never know who may fall victim!!

(This mother works at Home Depot – she is selling a shovel.)
The teacher thought she was a pole dancer!

My Grandpa

2008-12-10T10:13:00.005-06:00

I decided to participate in the Wordful Wednesday today that
Angie is having. Click her blog button to check it out!

My Grandma Jerry got sick three years ago before Thanksgiving. I was pregnant with D at the time and we were all naive and thought it was her Gall Bladder and would be a quick fix! Boy was I ever wrong. Grandma was later diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. She got so sick and kept a smile on her face despite. She passed away in January before D was born in March. I like to think that they met in Heaven when Grandma got their and before D was born. D acquired alot of the little quirks that Grandma had!
This of course is a picture of H and I like to think that she also hung out with Grandma before she was born. H even more than D shows ALOT of my Grandmas characteristics. The main one being that she is ALWAYS so smiley!! Even if she is crying, she will stop, sob, smile and then continue to cry!!
This picture of my Grandpa Jim holding H really doesn't need any words. You can see the love he has for her already. You can also see how he wishes his wife, my grandmother was there to see her and love her!

Just another day.

2008-12-09T13:20:00.003-06:00

What is it with me?
One week my house stays clean......
my laundry is clean and put away......
we have good, homemade meals for supper....
my kids aren't fighting......
my kids are listening to me and polite and loving!!

And then there is this week....
I don't want to do anything but sit on my behind!!!
Which makes me feel super guilty when I do..
because when S asks what I've done ALL day..
My mind is racing to give him something productive I've done..

If anyone knows how to 'fix' me let me know!! I may take into consideration.

Well, off to watch Falalala Lifetime while the little ones sleep and before I have to get the older girls.

I'm sure this afternoon will be hell since I'm doing nothing. I only punish myself!!

Oh, and as a side note. If anyone is interested in being a Follower of me, by all means go ahead and add me! As soon as I hit 50 posts I plan on having a Giveaway!! You don't want to miss out on that!!

Merry Christmas from the little Hoods

2008-12-06T17:09:00.001-06:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Merry Christmas From the 'Adult' Hoods

2008-12-06T16:35:00.001-06:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Only 3 months left!

2008-12-02T16:48:00.004-06:00

Today my youngest and last little girl is 9 months old. Where has the time gone?? I remember a year ago when I felt miserable and I was wanting the next 3 months to go quickly so I could meet her.

Her birth was quick.

It seems that the past 9 months have gone quicker!

I just had to throw this one in because I laugh everytime I see this!!

D: I don't want to hold this!! She's going to ruin my life by taking away ALL of my attention!!! I'm not the baby anymore!!!!

No worries though! They are the best of buds for now!!!

The whole reason for this post is because my dear husby keeps telling me that I'm going to nurse this poor child till she's 3!! I don't plan on it. I will probably take the boob away when she turns 35 months. That seems fair enough. Doesn't it??

A Tad chilly this morning!!

2008-12-02T16:32:00.002-06:00

For my friends who don't live in the immediate area please disregard.

I'm sure you will become quite upset with me over this post!

This morning when I woke up I checked the temp. to see what I should dress my children in for school. It was 33*.

I know that technically this is not cold. But here it is cold. It really hasn't been to bad here yet. I'm sure it will get colder and I'm going to enjoy it while it's above freezing. I dread paying my heating bill.

I've lived in Missouri and New Mexico so I know what cold is. I just want others to understand that. I don't want anyone thinking that I am complaining about this 'just above freezing' tempurature. I'm not. But I have felt cold. Not 'Northern states' cold, but enough to realize that I don't like it!!!

Now, I do miss snow. I miss snow dearly. And I'm coming to the realization that I may not see snow here or any that's worth playing in. I've seen the pictures of the snow on the Sandia Mountain already this year and I have to admit that I am missing New Mexico. I never thought I would say that but I do. (I miss my people there dearly, I just never thought I would miss the state!!)

And I know that Missouri got some snow Sunday and Monday.

But this is what I found this morning!!

You gotta take what you can get!!!

Oh Yeah!!

2008-12-02T16:25:00.003-06:00

So, this is why I was putting this off!

H has stopped fussing. She's hitting a barn with a sheep. So she is happy as a clam!!

I just had to share this picture of my dad holding H.

She wasn't being very cooperative when we were visiting family the other week. You know,

the whole seperation anxiety/being a 'titty' baby thing? That was her. It broke my dad's heart.

He just wanted to hold her and spend time with her. And ALL she wanted to do was cry and look

around the room for her momma!!

Of course, the last night we were visiting. My dad takes H and goes into the living room. Crying and all. I help mom clean up the kitchen, give the other girls their baths, take the dog out and realize...I haven't heard H crying?? Did she fall asleep???

You bet your bottom she DID!!!! AND SO DID GRANDPA!!!

What Happened???

2008-12-02T16:04:00.003-06:00

I get so irritated with myself sometimes. Okay, more than sometimes, but right now I'm a little irrate. *sigh*
So, I leave for a week and come back home and try to get my house, laundry, kids, etc. etc. back in order and I make absolutely NO time for blogging!!!!
How dare I, you ask. Now, I have been reading blogs, because that is what keeps me going. I've been leaving comments here and there because I want to show my appreciation for being able to read those blogs. I just haven't posted anything myself!!!!
There have been many a 'bloggy' moment that I have thought.....'oooh that would be good', or' I should post that.'
But I never seem to make it to the computer too type.
So.....I have jumped back onto the 'blog-wagon'..
while my baby is screaming in her high chair (not a hurt/mad/red in the face cry) just a little
'I'm pissy, come and pick me up squeal',
God only knows where the two older girls are and WHAT they are doing
and Dakoda is running around with her paci in her mouth!! (Big NO-NO!! That is only for bed!!)
So you can see how I have become a little distracted by life!
Now I know that I can stop what I am doing for a little and share with you what goes on behind our closed doors, blinds and windows. (No curtains yet so I thought that really didn't apply)
Okay, too much screaming now....better go!!!

No Blogging

2008-11-17T07:14:00.001-06:00

I will be out of touch with 'Blogland' for awhile. We are going up to MO for an early Thanksgiving and Christmas visit. My mom still has dial-up and it's a little difficult for me to even consider using the computer at my in-laws. I will miss all of my fellow bloggers dearly.

Canton!!! Only the World's Largest outdoor Trade days!!

2008-11-10T14:21:00.003-06:00

A week ago my mom and a couple of her friends came down from Missouri to attend 'First Monday' in Canton, TX.

(They came to see us of course too! But only because we had a free place to stay and some food!! Just kidding mom!!)

Anyway, This place is amazing! They have everything!!!! We didn't even see half of it!! That would take the WHOLE 4 days it goes on!!!

100 acres of EVERYTHING!!!!

I'll post some more pics later, but I at least wanted to get this up here!

If anybody wants to come out and go to this you are welcome to stay at my house! I am only 42.8 miles from it (according to google) and I won't even charge you to use my air mattress!!