Today my baby is 9....and she is one of the sweetest, kindest, most gentle souls......but don't be fooled if necessary she will kick your ass. she can be super sweet and mean as hell all with the flip of a switch. very dr. jeckyl & mr. hyde. :)
she is very artistic, loves to draw & create all sorts of art. she loves to jump & run and seems to have an extreme excess of energy. she is very outspoken here at home but away from home she is very shy & withdrawn. she is extremely sensitive and the smallest most innocent remark can totally break her heart.
just last night i was telling her that i started to fill out the application for wife swap, i'll explain later......well she got misty eyed and wiped tears as she told me that she would be very sad if we did that. she said she didn't want to have a different mom even for a short time because i'm the best mom ever and she doesn't want another mom. awwww so i guess i will have to re-think applying for the show.
last night she asked me to make cupcakes to bring to school today to share with her class. 12 chocolate 12 white, blue frosting, & little mermaid deco for the top of each one. wow thanks for the advance notice. when chris got home last night he took her to party city to pick out some little mermaid stuff to put on the cupcakes. later we went to the grocery store to buy cake mix. i was going to make them from scratch but chris suggested just using cake mix cause at that point it was 9pm.
i started at 9:30 and was up for a few hours baking cupcakes. i baked them in ice cream cones so with frosting they look like real ice cream. she thought that was nifty and made sure to tell me i would need to color the frosting i bought because she didn't want white she wanted blue so it looks like the ocean. :)
i will be delivering them to the school around 2pm. i'm still trying to figure out how the hell i'm going to transport them without banging them all up......should have thought about that before i baked them in the ice cream cones DOH
hah i finally figured it out! i put them in disposable drink cups and then put all the cups in a big basket. first i tried an empty diaper box.....but it wasn't big enough. so the cupcakes have made it to the school :) i couldn't take them to the classroom because they have a closed campus with no visitors allowed for the next three days...taks testing. only 3rd-5th grade are testing but i guess they are trying to keep the campus as empty and quiet as possible.
chris will be coming home early so we can take her shopping. instead of buying gifts we let her and jewel pick out some new clothes. she almost went nuts on jewels birthday cause she wanted to shop too. lol i'm sure she will be bouncing off the walls when she gets home. on saturday we will have a party so her classmates can celebrate with her.....bounce house & cotton candy machine again.
i saw this on a friends blog so i thought i would do it cause i enjoy answering random questions.
1. Where were you 3 hours ago?
my living room chatting with my friend claudine
2. Who are you in love with?
my laptop
3. Have you ever eaten a crayon?
i don't remember eating one but who knows kids eat some gross shit
4. Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you?
a bottle of pink paint on my work table
5. When is the last time you went to the mall?
shit i'm lucky i remember what happened yesterday......i remember i got a yummy choco fudge cookie at that mall cookie shop....i probably went to shop at bed bath & beyond or burlington....cause otherwise i hate the mall.
6. Are you wearing socks right now?
hell no it's like 3000 degrees outside.......okay it's not that hot at all it's really cool for this time of year but if you stand in the sun you will break out in a sweat and forget about getting in your car that has been totally closed up and parked in direct sunlight!
7. Do you have a car worth over $2,000?
yes and i will make the last car payment in august right before my birthday......yay no more car payments!!! it is not even a car i like but it gets me where i need to go and the a/c kicks ass so i'm happy.
8. When was the last time you drove out of town?
i think it was december maybe november....my mom, marina, and i drove to east bernard to buy pecans from this dinky little roadside place that rocks and they always load you up with fresh lemons that are HUGE and so yummy.
9. Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days?
no but i want to go soon cause i want to see baby mama
10. Are you hot?
i was earlier and then i put my a/c on 30 below so now i'm good
11. What was the last thing you had to drink?
cherry limeade from sonic
12. What are you wearing right now?
a tank top that is splattered with paint because i work like a slob & denim shorts, no shoes if it were up to me i would spend the rest of my life barefoot i hate shoes
13. Do you wash your car or let the car wash do it?
car wash.....i'm lazy like that
14. Last food that you ate?
grilled chicken sandwich
15. Where were you last week at this time?
probably exactly what i'm doing now.....waiting for marina to walk through the door
16. Have you bought any clothing items in the last week?
no but i will tonight
17. When is the last time you ran?
earlier today at the school after dropping off the cupcakes lucien bolted for the door and ran down the sidewalk towards the street.....he was laughing the whole time little turd
18. What's the last sporting event you watched?
i don't watch sports
19. What is your favorite animal?
tough choice i love all kinds of animals but i especially adore our kitty frida & our hamster hubert cumberdale
20. Your dream vacation?
a trip to japan
21. Last person's house you were in?
trevor's
22. Worst injury you've ever had?
hmmm probably breaking my toe
23. Have you been in love?
abso-fucking-lutely.....i love that episode of sex and the city
24. Do you miss anyone right now?
rick, veronika, sophia, my in-laws, grandma fern
25. Last play you saw?
i haven't seen a play in forever...but portia recently saw james and the giant peach
26. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
fuzzy shoes
27. What are your plans for tonight?
shopping & celebrating popa's birthday
28. Who is the last person you sent a MySpace message or comment?
shauna
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29. Next trip you are going to take?
who knows
30. Ever go to camp?
once i went to a day camp when i was a campfire girl
31. Were you an honor roll student in school?
not even
32. What do you want to know about the future?
nothing i like to think i have to live like everyday is the last one i will have
33. Are you wearing any perfume or cologne?
no i love to wear coconut lime verbena body spray & patchouli body spray but i have sensory issues and any perfumes/colognes make me feel sick
34. Are you due sometime this year for a doctor's visit?
yup next monday i'm having a stress test and heart ultrasound
35. Where is your best friend?
probably getting ready for work
36. How is your best friend?
busy
37. Do you have a tan?
nope i hate being in the sun... i'm as pasty as baby powder
38. What are you listening to right now?
rock this town by stray cats
39. Do you collect anything?
mexican folk art, day of the dead stuff, cows, suns, moons, faeries & belly button lint
40. Who is the biggest gossiper you know?
that's easy.....my mom
41. Last time you got stopped by a cop or pulled over?
never, i have been in the car when others have been pulled over
42. Have you ever drank your soda from a straw?
yup
43. What does your last text message say?
i don't text....i'm hella slow and it would take me forever to text someone it's easier to just e-mail i hate using the phone
44. Do you like hot sauce?
yeah...i'm mexican
45. Last time you took a shower?
last night
46. Do you need to do laundry?
i have 4 kids i always have laundry that needs to be done
47. What is your heritage?
mexican
48. Are you someone's best friend?
i guess....
49. Are you rich?
no but i have a roof over my head and i'm well fed so i'm happy
50. What were you doing at 12AM last night?
painting, baking cupcakes, and watching tv
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
terrible twos
i never thought i would use that term but we are there. lucien is just so pissy lately and geesh can that boy throw a fit! he will scream and thrash around like an angry little beaver. it is amazing how much effort he will put into a hissy fit. i feel like any day i'm gonna snap and i will be carted off in a nice white coat.
actually it might be a nice break to spend a while at the macadamia ranch. hmmmm
just a little while ago chris flipped out, yes mr. mild mannered calm and collected chris had a spastic screaming moment. i was upstairs and heard "dammit lucien.....VERONICA" uh oh so i started to come downstairs and i was trying to talk to him to calm him down. so he starts yelling over me to grab a towel. i'm telling him to chill out cause he doesn't need to take it out on me......especially if it was something he could have prevented from happening. well no one likes a know it all so he yelled at me louder.
anyone who knows me knows i don't take being yelled at very well.......i immediately started yelling back. lol it was funny after the fact. i was a total smart ass and asked him if there were not any towels in the kitchen cabinet or maybe i don't know PAPER TOWELS!!
i brought him the towel and he was already sopping up the mess with paper towels so he threw the towel at the back of my legs as i walked away. pissy pants!
after he calmed down he apologized and said he did get pissy because it was his fault and he was upset about it. i always ask him not to leave his coffee cup so close to the edge of the counter because lucien will tip toe to reach anything near the edge and then dump it on the floor. he likes to play in any liquid mess and will smear it everywhere. i'm also afraid that one day it will be hot coffee and he will burn himself with it so that is why i ask chris not to leave it near the edge.
but he did it anyway and lucien very quietly got it down and dumped it, thank goodness it was cold. but it still pissed off chris that he was so sneaky about it. well duh lucien knows how to do it without getting caught he is a toddler and everything is about getting his way.
what pissed chris off even more was that he was right next to where lu dumped it and he didn't hear a thing until it was too late. and then i had to be a little miss can't be wrong and it totally set him off. but after he apologized i did the same for being a smart ass and thanked him for acknowledging the fact that he does leave his coffee cup too close to the edge all the time........he just did it yesterday and swore he always puts it up right. yeah well.
yesterday i was talking to a lady he works with and we were joking that chris is very smart but extremely absent minded......she called him the absent minded professor and then immediately said don't tell him i said that. lol
if i had a nickel for everytime i heard him or the kids say "oops i forgot" we would be bajillionaires by now.
when we were at the doctors office yesterday the nurse took my temperature and it was 99.4. chris said oh you have a little bit of a fever so i said yeah i run a low grade fever all the time. he of course said oh i didn't know that. well i have told him before....many many times. it's just another one of those lovely symptoms i get to deal with on a daily basis. even the cardiologist was surprised when he mentioned the fever and i informed him of the same thing.
he said wow every day you have a fever....umm yup all day long. :) he said well it's quite possible that you have some sort of long term infection. well yes cfids has compromised my immune system so it has no idea what it is doing. i should probably start taking probiotics again, maybe it will help. but i want to wait and find out what exactly is going on with my thumper before i try anything new.
i really hope that the fluttering is just stress, but that sucks too cause there really is no way to relieve the stress of 4 kids. unless i sell them to the gypsies like i'm always promising to do. hee hee
last night at around 12:30am storms started blowing in and there was some really loud thunder. chris went to bed...cause he had 3 beers last night with his boiled shrimp dinner. we are lightweights and can't drink very much. i never drink anymore because of the medication i'm taking but maybe i should start so i can calm down a bit. lol
anyway he jokingly said don't wait too long to come to bed cause i'm gonna be scared with all the thunder from the storm. he is so cute! at about 1:30 i decided to head to bed, i was putting it off because i knew it would be uncomfortable trying to sleep attached to that damn little monitor. i get upstairs change into my jammies and who do i find in our bed.......nope no goldilocks it was jewel. she was snoozing and i didn' want to wake her up so i just grabbed my pillow and went to sleep in the bunk beds in portia's room. portia was not in there cause she was asleep in jewels room.
i woke up this morning with so much pain in my hips and knees, maybe because of the rain. so i got up and chris was still asleep!! i let him sleep and quietly got dressed. when he got up around noon i joked with him about jewel being in the bed instead of me. he said he got up in the middle of the night to go pee and saw her there and knew i was sleeping in portia's room.
when our hellions end up in our bed i always end up in that room. usually i get really good sleep in there too because no one is snoring, talking, crying, or kicking me. but last night was very uncomfortable because of the monitor, but i loved hearing all the thunder....i love it when it rains. so maybe today i will try to get a nap.
but probably not cause last night i got hooked on reading crafty blogs and i want to sit on my butt all day and read some more. now i just have to decide which one to read first naughty secretary club or crafty chica
the other night i was looking through the naughty secretary club and i had minimized the window. chris picked up the laptop to use it and started to walk away when he saw the name in the task bar. he stopped walking, laughed and asked me what are you reading?! lol yeah he wishes it was really something naughty!
actually it might be a nice break to spend a while at the macadamia ranch. hmmmm
just a little while ago chris flipped out, yes mr. mild mannered calm and collected chris had a spastic screaming moment. i was upstairs and heard "dammit lucien.....VERONICA" uh oh so i started to come downstairs and i was trying to talk to him to calm him down. so he starts yelling over me to grab a towel. i'm telling him to chill out cause he doesn't need to take it out on me......especially if it was something he could have prevented from happening. well no one likes a know it all so he yelled at me louder.
anyone who knows me knows i don't take being yelled at very well.......i immediately started yelling back. lol it was funny after the fact. i was a total smart ass and asked him if there were not any towels in the kitchen cabinet or maybe i don't know PAPER TOWELS!!
i brought him the towel and he was already sopping up the mess with paper towels so he threw the towel at the back of my legs as i walked away. pissy pants!
after he calmed down he apologized and said he did get pissy because it was his fault and he was upset about it. i always ask him not to leave his coffee cup so close to the edge of the counter because lucien will tip toe to reach anything near the edge and then dump it on the floor. he likes to play in any liquid mess and will smear it everywhere. i'm also afraid that one day it will be hot coffee and he will burn himself with it so that is why i ask chris not to leave it near the edge.
but he did it anyway and lucien very quietly got it down and dumped it, thank goodness it was cold. but it still pissed off chris that he was so sneaky about it. well duh lucien knows how to do it without getting caught he is a toddler and everything is about getting his way.
what pissed chris off even more was that he was right next to where lu dumped it and he didn't hear a thing until it was too late. and then i had to be a little miss can't be wrong and it totally set him off. but after he apologized i did the same for being a smart ass and thanked him for acknowledging the fact that he does leave his coffee cup too close to the edge all the time........he just did it yesterday and swore he always puts it up right. yeah well.
yesterday i was talking to a lady he works with and we were joking that chris is very smart but extremely absent minded......she called him the absent minded professor and then immediately said don't tell him i said that. lol
if i had a nickel for everytime i heard him or the kids say "oops i forgot" we would be bajillionaires by now.
when we were at the doctors office yesterday the nurse took my temperature and it was 99.4. chris said oh you have a little bit of a fever so i said yeah i run a low grade fever all the time. he of course said oh i didn't know that. well i have told him before....many many times. it's just another one of those lovely symptoms i get to deal with on a daily basis. even the cardiologist was surprised when he mentioned the fever and i informed him of the same thing.
he said wow every day you have a fever....umm yup all day long. :) he said well it's quite possible that you have some sort of long term infection. well yes cfids has compromised my immune system so it has no idea what it is doing. i should probably start taking probiotics again, maybe it will help. but i want to wait and find out what exactly is going on with my thumper before i try anything new.
i really hope that the fluttering is just stress, but that sucks too cause there really is no way to relieve the stress of 4 kids. unless i sell them to the gypsies like i'm always promising to do. hee hee
last night at around 12:30am storms started blowing in and there was some really loud thunder. chris went to bed...cause he had 3 beers last night with his boiled shrimp dinner. we are lightweights and can't drink very much. i never drink anymore because of the medication i'm taking but maybe i should start so i can calm down a bit. lol
anyway he jokingly said don't wait too long to come to bed cause i'm gonna be scared with all the thunder from the storm. he is so cute! at about 1:30 i decided to head to bed, i was putting it off because i knew it would be uncomfortable trying to sleep attached to that damn little monitor. i get upstairs change into my jammies and who do i find in our bed.......nope no goldilocks it was jewel. she was snoozing and i didn' want to wake her up so i just grabbed my pillow and went to sleep in the bunk beds in portia's room. portia was not in there cause she was asleep in jewels room.
i woke up this morning with so much pain in my hips and knees, maybe because of the rain. so i got up and chris was still asleep!! i let him sleep and quietly got dressed. when he got up around noon i joked with him about jewel being in the bed instead of me. he said he got up in the middle of the night to go pee and saw her there and knew i was sleeping in portia's room.
when our hellions end up in our bed i always end up in that room. usually i get really good sleep in there too because no one is snoring, talking, crying, or kicking me. but last night was very uncomfortable because of the monitor, but i loved hearing all the thunder....i love it when it rains. so maybe today i will try to get a nap.
but probably not cause last night i got hooked on reading crafty blogs and i want to sit on my butt all day and read some more. now i just have to decide which one to read first naughty secretary club or crafty chica
the other night i was looking through the naughty secretary club and i had minimized the window. chris picked up the laptop to use it and started to walk away when he saw the name in the task bar. he stopped walking, laughed and asked me what are you reading?! lol yeah he wishes it was really something naughty!
Friday, April 25, 2008
old candy molds & my crappy heart
for the last week i have been having a lot of heart palpitations and on wednesday i totally flipped out and had a horrible panic attack. i haven't had one in years and they still suck as much as i remember!
today i went to see the doctor and they did an ekg. my heart rate was really high and there was skipping. nothing like the doctor blurting out you have an arrhythmia to scare the ever loving shit out of ya. so she sent me down to see a cardiologist in the same building. they have scheduled me to have a stress test and a sonogram on may 5th. they also hooked me up to a monitor that i get to wear for the next 24 hours to keep track of any more "episodes". i'm also supposed to write down what i felt and what i'm doing when it happens, if i feel them.
the doctor explained that it could have been happening my whole life and i just started to feel it. he went into great detail about what could possibly be the problem but i won't know for sure until all the testing is done. he was concerned because my uncle paul had a heart attack when he was 36.....yup that's how old i am. doh and my grandmother and tia patti also have heart problems.
just before we left i got a phone call from the 11th grade principal about marina. she wrote a letter to a friend and made a reference to getting high and used "profanities" in the note. i guess they accidentally dropped it in class and didn't know it, the teacher found it later.
i told the principal that i totally trust marina and assumed that the letter was just her being a big smart ass. of course he probably thinks i'm some stupid mom with her head in the sand, but i know how marina can joke about that shit and sound totally serious. but i truly believe that if she ever had the opportunity to drink or get high she would more than likely pass on it. i have let her have alcoholic drinks before and she didn't like the way it made her feel.
just last week she spent the night at a friends house and the chickie made herself a drink and offered one to marina. marina flat out told her no thanks i don't drink...i don't like it. i know this because she brought home the empty bottle of vodka. it was a mini-bottle and it was a cute shape so marina wanted to add it to her shelves of chotchkes she has also been offered drugs before and told us about it. she told us she turned it down because she is afraid of how her body will react to it and doesn't want to freak out.
plus all they had to do was look at her record she has never been in trouble at school. okay once a teacher called because she overheard marina say shit......well if that is the most horrible thing she has ever been in trouble for then i'm happy. i know she is a foul mouthed little cusser......cause i am. :)
when she came home today she told me that the neighbors up the street were having a garage sale and that they had 3 boxes of what she thought were resin molds. so i hauled ass up there and bought them all for 2 bucks. they were hella old candy molds. i have tried casting in candy molds before and they usually break apart but i'm going to try and make silicone molds out of them. if they don't work then i will use them to cast plaster to paint.
i was so fucking excited digging through the boxes. there were 2 sheets of old star wars molds YES portia said look mom it even has yoga. lol
and just a little while ago the doorbell rang. it was the guy we bought the house from. he was coming by to see if we had any of his mail. shit put in a forwarding address with the post office! he said that someone filled out his income tax return and used the old address as the return address. so i told him i would set aside any mail he gets and give him a call so he can come and pick it up. i feel for him because it was probably one of his kids that did this shit to him.
we still get phone calls all the time from bill collectors looking for his son. and i know for a fact that the kid applied for his license 2 weeks after we closed on this house and used this address instead of their new one. crazy......nope no idea why my heart is fluttering like a moth up against a light in the dark.
today i went to see the doctor and they did an ekg. my heart rate was really high and there was skipping. nothing like the doctor blurting out you have an arrhythmia to scare the ever loving shit out of ya. so she sent me down to see a cardiologist in the same building. they have scheduled me to have a stress test and a sonogram on may 5th. they also hooked me up to a monitor that i get to wear for the next 24 hours to keep track of any more "episodes". i'm also supposed to write down what i felt and what i'm doing when it happens, if i feel them.
the doctor explained that it could have been happening my whole life and i just started to feel it. he went into great detail about what could possibly be the problem but i won't know for sure until all the testing is done. he was concerned because my uncle paul had a heart attack when he was 36.....yup that's how old i am. doh and my grandmother and tia patti also have heart problems.
just before we left i got a phone call from the 11th grade principal about marina. she wrote a letter to a friend and made a reference to getting high and used "profanities" in the note. i guess they accidentally dropped it in class and didn't know it, the teacher found it later.
i told the principal that i totally trust marina and assumed that the letter was just her being a big smart ass. of course he probably thinks i'm some stupid mom with her head in the sand, but i know how marina can joke about that shit and sound totally serious. but i truly believe that if she ever had the opportunity to drink or get high she would more than likely pass on it. i have let her have alcoholic drinks before and she didn't like the way it made her feel.
just last week she spent the night at a friends house and the chickie made herself a drink and offered one to marina. marina flat out told her no thanks i don't drink...i don't like it. i know this because she brought home the empty bottle of vodka. it was a mini-bottle and it was a cute shape so marina wanted to add it to her shelves of chotchkes she has also been offered drugs before and told us about it. she told us she turned it down because she is afraid of how her body will react to it and doesn't want to freak out.
plus all they had to do was look at her record she has never been in trouble at school. okay once a teacher called because she overheard marina say shit......well if that is the most horrible thing she has ever been in trouble for then i'm happy. i know she is a foul mouthed little cusser......cause i am. :)
when she came home today she told me that the neighbors up the street were having a garage sale and that they had 3 boxes of what she thought were resin molds. so i hauled ass up there and bought them all for 2 bucks. they were hella old candy molds. i have tried casting in candy molds before and they usually break apart but i'm going to try and make silicone molds out of them. if they don't work then i will use them to cast plaster to paint.
i was so fucking excited digging through the boxes. there were 2 sheets of old star wars molds YES portia said look mom it even has yoga. lol
and just a little while ago the doorbell rang. it was the guy we bought the house from. he was coming by to see if we had any of his mail. shit put in a forwarding address with the post office! he said that someone filled out his income tax return and used the old address as the return address. so i told him i would set aside any mail he gets and give him a call so he can come and pick it up. i feel for him because it was probably one of his kids that did this shit to him.
we still get phone calls all the time from bill collectors looking for his son. and i know for a fact that the kid applied for his license 2 weeks after we closed on this house and used this address instead of their new one. crazy......nope no idea why my heart is fluttering like a moth up against a light in the dark.
Friday, April 11, 2008
lucien is napping
he never naps anymore so i'm totally gonna take advantage and type a nice long blog.
btw rick & veronika sorry i have not called i seriously hate using the phone. really guys i totally despise talking on the phone........it's so not you, i just hate the damn thing. it makes my hands hurt something awful and speaker annoys the shit out of me even more.....sorry :(
Okay so lucien is the cutest toddler ever…….seriously. on Monday night he helped chris take out the trash, okay well he followed chris outside and stayed with him instead of running down the street. So on Thursday chris is taking out the trash and Lucien catches him with the trash bag in his hand so of course he runs to the front door to “help” chris open it. Chris laughed and said “ah he remembers” my smart little bubbelah. So after taking out the garbage can they come back in to grab the recycling bin. Chris has aluminum & plastic in the bin and boxes broken up and stacked in a big empty box. So he says to Lucien “okay lu go ahead and grab those boxes” he was totally kidding and thought Lucien would just stare at him……..but lu bent down and picked up the boxes and started carrying them towards the front door!! We were all stunned and followed them outside to see what lu would do with them. He carried them to the curb and chris told him to put the boxes by the bin, so he walks to the bin and sets down the boxes. WOW
Everyday I’m amazed at the things he learns and just does right out of the blue. I love to watch my kids learn and explore. They are such wonderful little creatures and sometimes they make me totally crazy and sometimes I could just die from the insane amount of love I feel for them.
Portia has the flu……oy……jewel had it then she got better and I guess it just took a little longer to really effect Portia. I think it’s probably just making it’s way through the school too. Portia came home Wednesday afternoon complaining that her legs hurt a lot. I assumed it was growing pains, cause she is at that age and I know they hurt a lot. But later in the evening when she kept complaining, started coughing and telling me her neck hurt I knew it had to be the damn flu. So I took her temperature and sure enough it was 102.6 *boing* that was the sound my eyes made upon reading the thermometer. So now I’m just waiting for everyone else to get it too. Fuck a duck!! I wouldn’t know the difference if I had the flu so there ya go. *snort*
Now that I am done with the craft show I have a new way to totally eat up my time. DOH I started a local pod (group) for an organization called morsbags. Check out the site if you have a chance, maybe you can help spread the joy. :)
So they are having a handout next Friday April 18th and I want to participate so I will be sewing bags, bags & more bags. I posted to my local moms group to let those ladies know that I will be sharing the wealth. I was surprised that more people didn’t take me up on my offer for the free bags. They normally cost a few bucks at the grocery stores around here….probably too much trouble for a busy mom to worry about always having shopping bags with you.
I know sometimes I will forget to put them in the truck after I have emptied them out after a shopping trip. But then I will ask the clerks not to bag my stuff if it is small enough to carry or stuff in my purse. I’m so sick of all those plastic bags. Chris on the other hand will not use the bags if he is alone. Yes he is lazy that way, he does not want to remember to carry them or he just plain forgets. *shrug* but I love using my cloth bags and try to use them everytime I go to the store……..any store, not just grocery shopping. Sometimes the clerks & baggers act annoyed but sometimes I get the crunchy ones and they totally applaud my use of cloth bags. Most of the time I will be bagging before they even get a chance to start so I have to explain that I would rather have my bags. I always get asked if I want any meat in a cloth bag…..so I have to answer “uh yeah they are totally washable”
I also have to get all my shit in order so I can throw Portia’s birthday party. I’m dreading it because after jewel’s party I felt like a truck had hit me…..but she was so flippin’ happy it was totally worth it.
I have a couple of mno’s this month, more dentist appointments, sick kids, & I have to visit my doc again soon. I need a mommy clone. But I’m remembering to take my Zoloft regularly so I’m loving the fact that I’m busy again. I totally scrubbed down the kids bathroom yesterday. Oh my GAWD that fucking bathroom was the pits I mean how can 3 little girls be such slobs?!! I was so disgusted. Chris won’t even use that bathroom cause it creeps him out, so yesterday he came home from work and said it was so clean that he wouldn’t mind using it if he needed to. So what did I wake up to this morning…….”mom our toilet is clogged again” shitty little fuckers totally take huge poops and then use way too much toilet paper.
We replaced both of our upstairs toilets with smaller water efficient ones and they still have not gotten used to them. So we had to have the toilet paper talk again. Use less for the love of pete! The counter top and sink were coated in toothpaste & mouthwash and there was some funky fungus growing in the shower. I had a couple of gagging moments with the shower and the toilet. And I had to fish a fucking rock from the turtles tank out of the sink drain. It was totally causing the sink to drain hella slow and no one had told us!! I was about to whip out the lye to clean the drain and noticed the rock.
This weekend I may be buying new toilet seats for their bathroom and our downstairs toilet. They are those soft cushie seats and they both have started to develop tears in them……okay the kids bathroom has a full on rip that is totally grossing me out. So I am going to buy hard seats. I really want to buy a resin mold and make my own seats but I will have to wait and do that later cause those seats need to be replaced straight away or I’m gonna die from the gross factor.
I also have managed to cook meals 3 days in a row this week. And had hot monkey sex with my husband 5 times in the last week & a half!! He is in heaven. Lol so are the kids cause they are sick of eating out. While I was preparing for the craft show everything took a back seat to that and they are so glad mommy is back. :)
btw rick & veronika sorry i have not called i seriously hate using the phone. really guys i totally despise talking on the phone........it's so not you, i just hate the damn thing. it makes my hands hurt something awful and speaker annoys the shit out of me even more.....sorry :(
Okay so lucien is the cutest toddler ever…….seriously. on Monday night he helped chris take out the trash, okay well he followed chris outside and stayed with him instead of running down the street. So on Thursday chris is taking out the trash and Lucien catches him with the trash bag in his hand so of course he runs to the front door to “help” chris open it. Chris laughed and said “ah he remembers” my smart little bubbelah. So after taking out the garbage can they come back in to grab the recycling bin. Chris has aluminum & plastic in the bin and boxes broken up and stacked in a big empty box. So he says to Lucien “okay lu go ahead and grab those boxes” he was totally kidding and thought Lucien would just stare at him……..but lu bent down and picked up the boxes and started carrying them towards the front door!! We were all stunned and followed them outside to see what lu would do with them. He carried them to the curb and chris told him to put the boxes by the bin, so he walks to the bin and sets down the boxes. WOW
Everyday I’m amazed at the things he learns and just does right out of the blue. I love to watch my kids learn and explore. They are such wonderful little creatures and sometimes they make me totally crazy and sometimes I could just die from the insane amount of love I feel for them.
Portia has the flu……oy……jewel had it then she got better and I guess it just took a little longer to really effect Portia. I think it’s probably just making it’s way through the school too. Portia came home Wednesday afternoon complaining that her legs hurt a lot. I assumed it was growing pains, cause she is at that age and I know they hurt a lot. But later in the evening when she kept complaining, started coughing and telling me her neck hurt I knew it had to be the damn flu. So I took her temperature and sure enough it was 102.6 *boing* that was the sound my eyes made upon reading the thermometer. So now I’m just waiting for everyone else to get it too. Fuck a duck!! I wouldn’t know the difference if I had the flu so there ya go. *snort*
Now that I am done with the craft show I have a new way to totally eat up my time. DOH I started a local pod (group) for an organization called morsbags. Check out the site if you have a chance, maybe you can help spread the joy. :)
So they are having a handout next Friday April 18th and I want to participate so I will be sewing bags, bags & more bags. I posted to my local moms group to let those ladies know that I will be sharing the wealth. I was surprised that more people didn’t take me up on my offer for the free bags. They normally cost a few bucks at the grocery stores around here….probably too much trouble for a busy mom to worry about always having shopping bags with you.
I know sometimes I will forget to put them in the truck after I have emptied them out after a shopping trip. But then I will ask the clerks not to bag my stuff if it is small enough to carry or stuff in my purse. I’m so sick of all those plastic bags. Chris on the other hand will not use the bags if he is alone. Yes he is lazy that way, he does not want to remember to carry them or he just plain forgets. *shrug* but I love using my cloth bags and try to use them everytime I go to the store……..any store, not just grocery shopping. Sometimes the clerks & baggers act annoyed but sometimes I get the crunchy ones and they totally applaud my use of cloth bags. Most of the time I will be bagging before they even get a chance to start so I have to explain that I would rather have my bags. I always get asked if I want any meat in a cloth bag…..so I have to answer “uh yeah they are totally washable”
I also have to get all my shit in order so I can throw Portia’s birthday party. I’m dreading it because after jewel’s party I felt like a truck had hit me…..but she was so flippin’ happy it was totally worth it.
I have a couple of mno’s this month, more dentist appointments, sick kids, & I have to visit my doc again soon. I need a mommy clone. But I’m remembering to take my Zoloft regularly so I’m loving the fact that I’m busy again. I totally scrubbed down the kids bathroom yesterday. Oh my GAWD that fucking bathroom was the pits I mean how can 3 little girls be such slobs?!! I was so disgusted. Chris won’t even use that bathroom cause it creeps him out, so yesterday he came home from work and said it was so clean that he wouldn’t mind using it if he needed to. So what did I wake up to this morning…….”mom our toilet is clogged again” shitty little fuckers totally take huge poops and then use way too much toilet paper.
We replaced both of our upstairs toilets with smaller water efficient ones and they still have not gotten used to them. So we had to have the toilet paper talk again. Use less for the love of pete! The counter top and sink were coated in toothpaste & mouthwash and there was some funky fungus growing in the shower. I had a couple of gagging moments with the shower and the toilet. And I had to fish a fucking rock from the turtles tank out of the sink drain. It was totally causing the sink to drain hella slow and no one had told us!! I was about to whip out the lye to clean the drain and noticed the rock.
This weekend I may be buying new toilet seats for their bathroom and our downstairs toilet. They are those soft cushie seats and they both have started to develop tears in them……okay the kids bathroom has a full on rip that is totally grossing me out. So I am going to buy hard seats. I really want to buy a resin mold and make my own seats but I will have to wait and do that later cause those seats need to be replaced straight away or I’m gonna die from the gross factor.
I also have managed to cook meals 3 days in a row this week. And had hot monkey sex with my husband 5 times in the last week & a half!! He is in heaven. Lol so are the kids cause they are sick of eating out. While I was preparing for the craft show everything took a back seat to that and they are so glad mommy is back. :)
Monday, April 07, 2008
i'm back finally
The show was this saturday *phew* now i can get back to my normal life. No more bustin' my hump to make sure i have made enough stuff. I shared my booth with my friend trevor who runs a local children's boutique. She raked in the bucks and i sat around watching people zoom by my table. DOH she also had her picture taken with a customer that is appearing in the chronicle. I kinda figured that more people would be interested in her stuff cause people are always looking for baby gifts.
I got to meet portia's best friend erik & his mom Claudine, she was super nice. Before we even knew who she was trevor and i were gossiping quietly about how well behaved her children were. she had 4 little ones and they were all younger than portia & erik and were not running crazy like some of the other kids there that day.....or like ours might have been. lol
I also met this really great couple lauren and mace. She bought a necklace that i originally had made for myself and then decided not to keep. I hardly ever wear jewelry and thought someone else might appreciate it and wear it a lot. It is a beaded necklace with a polymer clay pendant. the pendant has a pic of lily munster transferred onto the clay. she loved it and also bought a day of the dead magnet. the fact that she knew who the magnet was supposed to be and that it was in honor of day of the dead made me swoon. :) the magnet is a frida kahlo skull i have them all over my fridge. I make them with plaster and then hand paint them.
she mentioned that she would like to have a black widow cast in resin to wear as a necklace so i told her to definitely email or call me cause i would LOVE to do it for her. then i explained to her that i could teach her to cast in resin cause i love to pass on my passion for casting. so we have been emailing back and forth. i'm so glad that we have made a couple of new friends in the neighborhood that appreciate the unusual things that i do.
marina came with me to the show and helped out all day. she was great and eric came halfway through the day to hang out with us. I did at least make back the booth fee and a little extra. but most importantly i had lots of fun, i got out of the house for almost 5 hours without my kids. chris, portia & lucien came to the show at around 1pm just before heading over to the high school. jewel was at the high school all day participating in a dance clinic and he was heading up there to see there recital.
they hung out with me for about 1/2 an hour then after the recital came back with jewel until we went home around 2:30. lucien loved the stairs to the stage that were located right behind us. the couple that was next to us were selling candles and they were so super nice. we ended up chatting with them off and on all day.
i have a few pics and of course i was talking in one and then blinked in the other so i look a little funny. kinda looks like i suffered a stroke right before the show. hee hee
marina and trevor
me and marina
my main table.
my half on the left and trevors on the right.
trevors main table
my super supportive and very sexy husband
*meow*
please ignore that fact that our backyard desperately needs attention from the weed whacker. :)
i should also share a pic of lucien and his cute little dimpled tushie. lately he loves to play in the backyard, if i let him he would be out there all day long. he loves to slide, swing on his belly and run in circles on the trampoline. but his most favorite part of the day is near sunset when i unleash the wild boy in him and let him run around neeked.
because naked spelled n-a-k-e-d means you ain't got no clothes on........ neeked spelled n-e-e-k-e-d means you ain't got no clothes on and your up to somethin' saw that on an episode of designing women and it always cracks me up to think about it.
everyday at the same time it's like he knows if he begs i will let him be free. he will come to me and tug and pull on his clothes, shoes and finally his diaper. i think he may just be ready to potty train and is getting tired of wearing the diaper. cause if he poops he cannot wait to get it off and will tug on it in front of me until i change him.
he loves to swing from this sandbox. we don't have sand in it because frida would use it as a potty box and i don't want my kids to play in that...yuck!! later that same day as the picture portia and jewel came in screaming and laughing. they said "ugh lucien pooped in the yard and it looks like a banana!!" which was even funnier cause we are always calling him monkey boy. he loves to make an ooh ooh ooh noise and he sounds just like a monkey. and he is a very good climber.
anyway we have had a very very busy couple of months. lots of stuff going on so i have been to busy to blog...i've barely had enough time to scratch an itch!! this month is portia's birthday and we are doing a party for her here at home. oy vey i must love punishment!
chris and i will celebrate our anniversay next month and we have all the kids dental cleanings scheduled that day. happy anniversary dear......gotcha some free dental floss. :) it's a religious holiday for us so you think i would remember our anniversary....ah i'm luck i remember my kids names. if they are all alive at the end of the day i have done my job!
I got to meet portia's best friend erik & his mom Claudine, she was super nice. Before we even knew who she was trevor and i were gossiping quietly about how well behaved her children were. she had 4 little ones and they were all younger than portia & erik and were not running crazy like some of the other kids there that day.....or like ours might have been. lol
I also met this really great couple lauren and mace. She bought a necklace that i originally had made for myself and then decided not to keep. I hardly ever wear jewelry and thought someone else might appreciate it and wear it a lot. It is a beaded necklace with a polymer clay pendant. the pendant has a pic of lily munster transferred onto the clay. she loved it and also bought a day of the dead magnet. the fact that she knew who the magnet was supposed to be and that it was in honor of day of the dead made me swoon. :) the magnet is a frida kahlo skull i have them all over my fridge. I make them with plaster and then hand paint them.
she mentioned that she would like to have a black widow cast in resin to wear as a necklace so i told her to definitely email or call me cause i would LOVE to do it for her. then i explained to her that i could teach her to cast in resin cause i love to pass on my passion for casting. so we have been emailing back and forth. i'm so glad that we have made a couple of new friends in the neighborhood that appreciate the unusual things that i do.
marina came with me to the show and helped out all day. she was great and eric came halfway through the day to hang out with us. I did at least make back the booth fee and a little extra. but most importantly i had lots of fun, i got out of the house for almost 5 hours without my kids. chris, portia & lucien came to the show at around 1pm just before heading over to the high school. jewel was at the high school all day participating in a dance clinic and he was heading up there to see there recital.
they hung out with me for about 1/2 an hour then after the recital came back with jewel until we went home around 2:30. lucien loved the stairs to the stage that were located right behind us. the couple that was next to us were selling candles and they were so super nice. we ended up chatting with them off and on all day.
i have a few pics and of course i was talking in one and then blinked in the other so i look a little funny. kinda looks like i suffered a stroke right before the show. hee hee
marina and trevor
me and marina
my main table.
my half on the left and trevors on the right.
trevors main table
my super supportive and very sexy husband
*meow*
please ignore that fact that our backyard desperately needs attention from the weed whacker. :)
i should also share a pic of lucien and his cute little dimpled tushie. lately he loves to play in the backyard, if i let him he would be out there all day long. he loves to slide, swing on his belly and run in circles on the trampoline. but his most favorite part of the day is near sunset when i unleash the wild boy in him and let him run around neeked.
because naked spelled n-a-k-e-d means you ain't got no clothes on........ neeked spelled n-e-e-k-e-d means you ain't got no clothes on and your up to somethin' saw that on an episode of designing women and it always cracks me up to think about it.
everyday at the same time it's like he knows if he begs i will let him be free. he will come to me and tug and pull on his clothes, shoes and finally his diaper. i think he may just be ready to potty train and is getting tired of wearing the diaper. cause if he poops he cannot wait to get it off and will tug on it in front of me until i change him.
he loves to swing from this sandbox. we don't have sand in it because frida would use it as a potty box and i don't want my kids to play in that...yuck!! later that same day as the picture portia and jewel came in screaming and laughing. they said "ugh lucien pooped in the yard and it looks like a banana!!" which was even funnier cause we are always calling him monkey boy. he loves to make an ooh ooh ooh noise and he sounds just like a monkey. and he is a very good climber.
anyway we have had a very very busy couple of months. lots of stuff going on so i have been to busy to blog...i've barely had enough time to scratch an itch!! this month is portia's birthday and we are doing a party for her here at home. oy vey i must love punishment!
chris and i will celebrate our anniversay next month and we have all the kids dental cleanings scheduled that day. happy anniversary dear......gotcha some free dental floss. :) it's a religious holiday for us so you think i would remember our anniversary....ah i'm luck i remember my kids names. if they are all alive at the end of the day i have done my job!
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