Yes, it’s still there

the laundry, needing to be put away.  YUCK.

I was stupid last night.  I stayed up all night reading.  Until 4 am.  I work tonight.  WTF was I thinking?

Today, Bren asked, “Can I have that pink thing in your room”  (rack the brain, rack the brain) 

Mama:  What pink thing?

Bren:  I’ll show you.  (runs off)

Immediately I hear the container of pink grapefruit tic tacs (blech).

Bren:  These candies mama!  (hands them to me)

Instantly I’m bombarded by three semi-naked boys.

Bren:  (kisses my forehead)  I love you very much mama.

Zach: (pushes Timmy) I love you THIS MUCH mama (opens arms wide)

Mama:  Oh wow Zach!  That’s a bunch!  Timmy, I love you.

Timmy:  Ok.  I want candies.

Bren:  I love you a thousand times.  No, a thousand-91 times!

Zach:  I love you more.

Mama:  Timmy, do you love me?

Timmy:  I want 6.

Mama:  Do you love me?

Timmy:  Ok

Mama:  How much do you love me?

Timmy:  (looks at Bren)  A Tousanssss

I had to laugh, it was too cute.

 

I love August

 

Why do you ask?  Let me tell you why.

1.  School freaking starts!   I get to unload TWO of my three boys for EIGHT hours a day!  What does this mean?  No more feeding extra mouths, no more fighting, no more peeing on the OUTSIDE of the toilet, no more 10 times a day clothing changes (no, girls aren’t the only ones to do this).  No more giant red toy bucket being dumped out (really giant, I bet Mike AND I can fit into it, at the same time).  No more stupid cartoons, no more mud and grass being tramped on my clean wood floors.  Just no more!

2.  Pay day.  There are THREE of them in August.  THREE!  That means one “EXTRA”.  No insurance being taken out either!  This leads my to two words:  SHOP-PING.  Enough said.

3.  Ok, there are just two.  But they are pretty good ones!

Oh, and no I don’t know who the girl is, but I’m trying to increase the interest of male readers!  Lmao!  Oh and look again, there IS an August calendar on that page!

 

Laundry and BoobIES

Yeah it’s done, nice and clean. In a huge pile in my room!  I hate laundry.  Especially post camping laundry!  All those towels and blankets to wash.

On another note, something funny.  When we were sweating in the tent, trying to sleep, Timmy and I were the only ones up (well Mike was drinking in front of the fire), he said, “CAN I see your frecKLE?” (place emphasis on the words in caps, add a little squeak, it’s really cute). I have a mole on my chest (look at my pics you can see it).  He calls it a freckle, it’s really cute.  As always he pokes it.  Sometimes he’ll try to take it off, and then tell me to take it off.  Well after he asked to see my frecKLE, he said, “CAN I see your  boobIES?”  LMAO, uh No.  “I want boobIES!”  Good grief.  Thankfully no one else was camping around us.  They’d call DHS/CPS on us!

Typical man, all they want are boobIES!

 

OMG, another time waster!

Myspace.  Babycenter. Several private boards.  Gossip sites.  My blog.  Now facebook.  Geesh.  Comment if you want me to add you.  Geesh!

 

the Little Penguin, Pinot Noir

Blech, don’t buy it.  I knew when I poured it that I wouldn’t like it.  The color was thin.  Like cranberry juice.  It tastes very watered down.  Very bland.  BLECH.

 

Parenting 101

I’m begining to enjoy reading the blogs other than those connected to Babycenter.  Upon researching blogs dealing with family life, I found Affinity Life.  The owner, Jarrett has written a wonderful series on parenting that I can really connect with.  It’s not just parenting, but marriage connection too, TEAM parenting.  He’s adding a part each Monday.  Here’s one to five

ONE

TWO     (I make many of those “heat of the moment descicions”)

THREE  I know that I focus too much on the negitaves.  My sil’s are very positive with thier kids (sometimes TOO much).  Point taken to focus on.

FOUR  I know many times that Mike and I have need support in one another.  We’ve learned not to over power and over step one another in regards with our children, we try to keep an open mind and do what is in the best interest of our children.

FIVE  This is hard for us.  I have friends who have children who I would say are very naughty.  Many of our friends are single and have no children.  We have spoke about joining a church to meet other families, but just haven’t made that step yet.

 

Where’s The Baby?

Where’s the baby?  Can you find him in this picture?  Yes, he’s hard to find.  This was around midnight when he had snuck out of his room, and was digging around in the kitchen.  He heard us and hid really fast.  Sorry for the bad picture, it’s with my crappy cell phone camera (note:  get camera fixed).  Good luck trying to find him.

 

Camping, Route 44, And Other Random Thoughts

A few weeks ago, when Mike’s schedule came ut and I noticed that he had TWO days off ~ IN A ROW ~ I asked if he wanted to go out of town.  Ya know, Branson, Dallas, Kansas City, Memphis.  Someplace for a weekend trip, and we could even take the kids.  He said, “Let’s go camping!”  And for some stupid reason I agreed.  If I had known then, what I know now, I wouldn’t have gone.

No, you can NOT go camping with a weather reading of:

TEMPERATURE:  98

HUMIDITY 49.9%

FEELS LIKE 103

The lake water was like warm bath tub water.  Ick.  Even by the dam it was warm.  You couldn’t get cooled down.  I took the boys to the gas station (I needed a really cold cold drink), just so they can be in the car with some A/C.  It was even worse at night.   The HUGE flies that bite (yes, house fly looking things that BITE and HURT), and other bugs were hungry, and our hot sweaty bodies were irresistible.  It wasn’t until after midnight that the last kid went to sleep, and very reluctantly at that.  They cried because they were hot, but did not want to go home. 

I read until about 3AM, reading Stephanie Meyer’s  first book in the Twilight series, Twilight.  It was very good, considering it’s geared to a teen age range.  I’m going to put the kids to bed tonight, open my bottle of Little Penguin Pinot Noir and read the second book, New Moon!  Then I’ll have to get the third one (Eclipse), which is only out in hardcover (I have the first two in paperback).  And the fourth and final book comes out August 2nd.  If you haven’t heard of these books, they are extremely popular and will more than likely be sold out (especially the new one).  Yeah, I didn’t know about them until recently either, but thanks to some wonderful ladies (HOFF HOFF), they geared me into the right direction!

Here’s a rock that Zachary found, errr, on a beach full of rocks.  He felt compelled to give it bunny ears.

Dinner.  Hmmm Dinner.  Mike is having a guys night out on the lake tonight.  Yes, the idiots are camping.  So dinner is my choice.  I kinda want to pick up some Olive Garden, but the boys are wanting pizza (again).  I thought about taking them somewhere, but we did go to this great little local joint, 2 Boys and A Dog.  We had some ice cream.  This was our first visit and it was more than I expected.  They had a mixing board (think Cold Stone Creamery) and a great lunch menu.  Certainly a stop for another time WITHOUT the boys.

What else?  Camping.  Brennen somehow toasted his roasting stick and burned Timmy on the back.  Then  while in the water, he skipped a rock, right into Zachary’s eye.  When we were trying to sleep, Zachary was crying because his legs were hurting.  So I measured them, stretched them, measured again, and noted to him that they had grown!  So he has told everyone today (strangers et al) that he grew last night.

Oh, and after the ice cream stop, I needed a drink (yes that kind, but I resisted).  I stopped at Sonic, and for some reason ordered a Route 44 Coke.  First, I never will drink a Route 44.  I drink that much in like three days (yes, bad I know).  Much less a coke!  I drink a coke with dinner most days.   That’s it.  What in the world posessed me to get that!

Gas.  My gas-O-meter hit half a tank today and I saw that I had driven 189.9 miles so far.  WOOT!  The dealership had filled it up before we left.  I’m hoping to make it until Friday, fill up, and see what my MPG is!

Here’s my Tahoe, that is now Mike’s Tahoe.  Please note the RIMS he put on them (rolls eyes).

Cleaning.  My house needs it.  All over.  ‘Nuff said.

Family.  I loved seeing Mike and the boys play and laugh in the water.  It’s nice.  They say money can’t buy happiness, but thanks to a nice gift from Mike’s mom, we paid and caught up on all our bills.  I’m not sure if that’s why we felt so much more relaxed.  But it was nice.  Real nice.

Dinner.  I’m still stuck on dinner.  I don’t think I want to go out, so I’m leaning toward pizza or chinese.  Hmm…

ETA:  It ended up being Dominos Pizza.

ETA2:  Added colors to separate my thoughts

 

Cuteness Overload

Thanks to http://vipsignatures.proboards84.com/index.cgi and especially ELLA who made it for me!

Very quick!  I requested my siggy and got it that day! ! !

 

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