Disappointed

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??

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

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....

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....

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...

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.

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?