I stink at being a mom sometimes!

My poor middle child had her school Thanksgiving program today. I was on time and happy with myself until she walked in, in her little Indian outfit and realized I had left the camera sitting on my computer desk to charge. UGH, I feel like such a JERK! I just don't want her ever to feel less loved than the other two!

Georgia

2 Things

Well Maybe 3. Numero Uno, I want the new L'Oreal Infallible Lip Gloss! I can not justify a new lip gloss purchase though, since I had just gotten two new ones from VS. BUT then yesterday my $^@# Husband orders some freaking toys for himself and they showed up on our door step. Wow, really are you a 36 year old child, it's so unbelievable! So today I'll be off to get said gloss. Did you know that L'Oreal owns Lancome? And this L'Oreal lip gloss is JUST like a Lancome gloss, same package and everything.

Numero Dos, What do you all think of this little outfit for the girls?? I think it's so cute! AND I could do it in a red pinwale cord with festive little ruffles, cute hu!


Numero Tres, does anyone want to come over and help me put away my 84,000 loads of laundry??? Because I have the mother of all head aches!

Seriously

Pregnant man is in fact NOT a man but a woman. Is Christina Applegate a man now that she had a double mastectomy??? I think NOT! News and other such show please please stop called her a him, she a he! Woman is woman as long as she has a uterus and ovaries!!!! This is really stressing me out. Hey I understand that some don't feel as if they are a woman and identify as being a male, but non the less biology clearly states that you are still a woman!! I fully support your right to have that altered too, but until then please media STOP IT!! And how healthy is it that this woman is taking hormones to grow facial hair and then getting pregnant??

My next project

I haven't sewn anything since ummm, well, aahhhh, I don't know. If sewing strips of white cloth to long underwear to make a mummy costume count, than right before Halloween. So my plan is to sew the girls little Christmas jumpers. I'm very excited about the pattern I have picked out for this project. I had planned on making a summer outfit but then summer got away. So fingers crossed I won't mess around and be able to get this project under way.

Here is the pattern I am going to use


I plan on keeping the top pretty much the same, but putting a ruffle on the bottom, then the pants are going to lose the band get a ruffle like the shirt and maybe a little longer in length too.

So fabric:



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I plan to make matching bows to go with the fabric I choose, along with crocheted socks. I will put a white turtle neck under the jumper top and not sure about the shoes? These will be our pictures with Santa outfit. Cute hu. I better get moving.

Wal Mart makes me want to scream!!

Today mid shopping trip I just walked out, well I paid first then walked out. I needed to get the girls some cheap-O shirts for school so I thought I would go there since I needed to grocery shop too. UGH, Mistake! I got the shirts, a movie for my sick kid, and about 1/4 to 1/3 of my groceries and then got a little too freaked out by the crisscrossing shoppers, slow pokes, wild kids and weird folks. I totally had a tiny mental snap. I hate that place, even more so at 12:00pm on a Sunday!

Recipes

I love love to cook. LOVE It! I am always looking for a new recipe to try out. But it seems as of late I just don't have the time to give to cooking like I did a year ago. It's making me sad. I know what the deal is, I have an extra little person around and my husband is in school 4 nights out of the week (Mon-Thurs), he's gone from about 5ish to around 8:45. He's not even there to enjoy the hit and misses I make. But soon it will be over, woohoo! He Graduates December 19th!!! So here is a list of recipes I'll be making now that it's almost over. Oh and I have a thing for Ina Garten.

Ina's Birthday Sheet Cake

Ina's Chocolate cupcakes with Peanut Butter Icing

Ina's Chicken Pot Pies, oh I can't wait for this one. I'm doing it this week, yum!

Thai Chicken Satay with Spicy Peanut Sauce.

Butternut Squash Tortellini with Brown Butter Sauce.

On Tuesdays we have Gymnastics from 4pm to 7pm. We are not home to cook. I have to give the girls a snack as we are heading out the door and them feed them dinner once home. So on those nights we do either crock pot dinners or casseroles. One of my favorite casseroles I got off the Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar website. Since my mom is one of 11 I have a fondness for super large families. I love em. It makes me feel welcome and at ease. My cousin Amy might feel the same or different since her house is where we all gather. But none the less I understand the HUGE family in a way most don't.

Tater tot casserole, I cut this recipe in half to feed my family of 5. It is really really good!

Crockpot BBQ, we love BBQ, but only PORK! We are in Memphis. I serve this with slaw, baked beans, deviled eggs and a salad.

I also do lots of red sauce type things because I can make it ahead then keep it warm in the slow cooker and chili too. So anywho, I'm sure I'll make another more interesting post later. My WONDERFUL husband took my oldest child to a birthday party this am, God Bless that man! The party started at 8:45 at the Zoo in the city. WHAT! That means they had to leave at 8:15, yuck!

Friday again

Well it's another week down and another week closer to Christmas. We are having a dilemma about what to get the girls. Either a BIG gift like a monster swing set, or a bunch of stuff. I personally think that the swing set is best, because my kids already have TONS of stuff. I am so sick of the stuff in our lives it drives me NUTS!! I just don't think that giving kids "stuff" all the time is good for them, even at Christmas. My husband on the other hand thinks that's the way it goes. My kids get a new movie every week from him, it's infuriating. His argument is that 1 we don't have a HUGE back yard because of the pool and spa, then the yard we have is landscaped to be two levels and then it backs up to a lake, 2nd that's cold and they won't get to play on it much. But I firmly believe that there is plenty of yard and we can put a little picket fence up around the 1st tier of the yard to keep everyone safe. I also think that they will be able to play on it through the winter months and it will be summer soon enough. So any comments will help (as long as you all agree with me, hehe)

I LOVE Pledge multi surface spray!!! Tiaras & Tantrums guilted me into dusting because of a question she had asked on her blog about house keeping. I had this stuff for a while but man oh man does it make dusting easy! You can dust and wipe your pictures and nick nacks all with the same stuff and cloth. You can also wipe down glass and electronics with it. The stuff is GREAT!

Is anyone watching the tv show Fringe?? Oh holy moly it's a great show. I am also hooked on True Blood, Bones and CSI. Hummm there is a theme with all these shows. Maybe I'm a big twisted??

Enjoy your weekend!!!

Holiday Season

Am I the only one not ready?? It just doesn't feel like it's almost mid November. Where has this year gone?? In just a few short weeks it will be time to get the tree up. UGH! I am so not feeling it this year. I sound like Scrooge I know. I think I'll be feeling better about it soon. It has just kinda sneaked up on me.

Last night I was able at 9:30 to sneak out for a nice 2 mile walk with my mini pin, it was wonderful. I so enjoy getting out and doing stuff like this. It's just so hard with all these little people around.

Losing it

This week I have lost 1 brand new Victoria's Secret lip gloss in Cherry Bomb, 1 Brand New Robeez, 2 pacifiers, 1 pair of big girls Gymnastics shorts and a brand new pair of socks for Clarie. What is going on here!! It's really making me mad. The worst is the Robeez. I really really really don't want to go out and buy another pair, this sucks. My MIL got these pair for Georgia and so I feel really bad about it coming up missing. I guess I'm going to have to really clean out my van to see if I can find it?

Other than that things have been going good. Saturday night birthday dinner was awesome. We finished off the tenderloin yesterday for lunch and it was so yummy. We drank way too much and had way too much fun. His best friend and his wife came over she happens to also be one of my really good friends and they have a little girl around my girls age so it was fun for everyone.

Today it really looks like fall. It's cold, windy, on and off rain and it's dark out side. I so wanted to sleep in, AHAHAHAHAHAHA HA! Georgia was up dark and early; 5:45, YAY!

Oh and also if anyone can find the extra time I seem to be missing please let me know. I really want to use that time exercising. I try everyday to fit it in, and some how I can NEVER get to it. Ugh, is it just me or is this and issue with all people who have 3 kids all doing different things because of the age difference? I currently belong to this gym, but want to belong to this one. While in Maryland we belonged to Lifetime and OH MY it was WONDERFUL! I so love to work out and it's really helpful to me when there are so many options so you don't get bored. And at 24 there is a window of time in the am and pm that your kids can be in the child care facility. At Lifetime it's open all day long, so it's great that way. Lifetime will be finished here in Spring of 09 and I so can't wait!! The only thing is it's about 100 bucks more to be a member of Lifetime. So we will see??

Well I can put it off no longer, I'm off to clean out my van, yuck! Wish me luck in finding my junk.

TGIF Baby!

Oh how I love Friday's! Tomorrow is Ed's birthday. I'm having a small birthday dinner party. For starters we will have iceberg lettuce wedges with home made blue cheese dressing, then the big boy, a Beef Tenderloin which I just got and it's SO pretty, if a tenderloin can be, the sides are Grits Casserole and asparagus. After that we will have a cheese platter with Brie, Chevre, Manchego, dates, tapenade, and grapes served with a Port. For dessert, he reverts back to being about 5, he always wants chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese icing, I don't get it either? It's his birthday. This year all he want's for his birthday is slippers. That's a TRUE sign that we are getting old!! Slippers it is then.

Oh I'm so looking forward to tomorrow. I don't have to get up for starters, Saturday's are his early day. The BIG thing is I don't have to get anyone ready for school. That makes me such a happy mommy!!! On most Saturday's the girls stay in junk clothes all day, it's wonderful! Though tomorrow the father in law will be here to take us to lunch, oh joy. I wish I could take all of you with me to experience this tortuous event. The things he say's to me and my husband are so off the wall and A$$ Holish! One afternoon he just dropped in with NO phone call. My husband was lucky enough to be gone with friends and one of my friends was on her way over to help me drink a bottle of wine. He walks in says "Wow you house is clean for once" Umm whatever. I say "I'm having company over" He says "A Man???". WTF! OMG NO I do NOT need another male in my life! This is just one of the many many off the wall things that have been said to me over the last 15 years. UGH. Don't ya wish you had him in your life. Never mind tomorrow is going to suck.

The baby has learned to say Thank you. I know she is saying this because I speak her language. It's so cute, she kisses you and says Thank You in baby, so sweet!!!

Not bad

Miller Genuine 64 not so bad. Kinda bland but hey for 64 calories I can get behind it.

Sassy!

Ok, what the heck. My 4 year old sweet little baby girl tells me every morning she want's to be a teenager. WTF, is all I can muster to this comment. Not out loud to her, but in my head. What the heck is happening here??? This is really sad to me, and and lets not even get into what the 6 year old is wanting. Seriously! I don't know if any of you watch "Whatever Martha" on the FLN? I TiVo it, and was watching a few last night. Martha (Goddess of all things crafty Stewart) was making a table setting for a Barbie Party. Well Jennifer was saying that OMG yes it was so cute for a 3 year old, but her 8 year old would hate it. She wants things all glitter and trashy. Oh and how true that is. It's sad. I look at the clothes and thing Wow, your kidding right. These stupid half sleeve/glove things that come with the Hannah Montana shirts. What the heck is that junk?? Sequins belt/tie things, ugh, it's enough to make me want to move to a religious compound and make them wear Modest Swimwear (no offense to anyone out there that would be reading this and wears said swim suite).

On to Whatever Martha. If you don't watch this show you really really need to. Alexis Stewart and her friend Jennifer Koppelman Hutt sit and watch old Martha Stewart clips and totally rip it and Martha herself apart. It's so flipping funny. Sometimes I think to myself "what planet do you people live on", because of stuff like Alexis doesn't blow dry her own hair?? HU!!! Jennifer is more normal, if you can say that about someone who had Run DMC and The Beastie Boys play at their Sweet 16. For the most though it's really funny to watch them.

I have a few goals for the day. Lets bet that I don't get them done. UGH. I need to do laundry, LOTS of laundry. I need to clean out my kitchen fridge and my laundry room fridge. A job I just love to do, that's why it gets done like ohhhh maybe once every 4 to 6 months. Yuck. I need to sweep and mop again, I'm really getting sleepy thinking about this. I may need to nap before so I have the energy to do it all. Hehe.

I'm going to leave you with some of my favorite music. Some new, some older.









My oldest daughter was named after this song. Lydia Elise. I LOVE The Cure!!!




Ok, this is Pink Floyd, and if you know them then you are ready for this one, if not you may want to skip it. I LOVE Pink Floyd. It comes from my childhood. My partents Total hippie lifestyle while I was younger. My dad still lives the life.


Again this another one from my childhood. ELO. I used to stare at the cover of the album cover as a kid.


I also like all the top 40 stuff too, but these are really some of my favorites. Music is and has always been really important in my life. I could keep going with favorites, like Bluegrass, old Southern Hymnal songs and on and on.

Glum

I have been glum all week and don't know why??? I have everything I could want! I think it's got something to do with the time change, and the fact that my husband is never able (or willing) to spend time with me in the evenings? I don't know what the deal is. If he is at home and not working he is on the stupid freaking computer playing some stupid game with his stupid friends. It's really annoying! The evenings normally end up with me sitting in the den watching TV and him on the computer in there cussing at one of his "friends" because they got him killed on some stupid computer game. Very aggravating. I said something to him tonight before he rushed off to school after work. I got the "Whatever, I'm here, if you want to do something with me than you need to say something". Because it's my responsibility to always plan out our lives in every aspect. So aggravating! So any who, tonight I'm here alone again. After school he's off to a friends house to hang out because he needs time by himself. UGH!!!! OK, that's out and off my chest so I'm done.


Ok, so now to my next grumble. I can't find a book I want to read. Anyone out there have any suggestions? I love to read, and am always reading something. So it's very aggravating to not find something I really want to read. I am reading, Eat Love Pray. It's good and all but I'm not "into it", ya know. I will finish it, but I have a feeling it will take a while. I also have Water for Elephants. I haven't started that yet and don't know why? Just a mental block I guess. I just finished The 1st of the Sookie Stackhouse series, it was an easy quick read. I'm into just about all kinds of books. Some of my favorites are "The Red Tent" "We're just like You only Prettier" "Bright Lights, Big Ass", I also REALLY enjoyed "Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette" "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan". So if you have read any of these books and enjoyed them please make me a suggestion.

Am I the only one who has eaten their weight in mini candy bars?? I tell ya, It seems that my regular meals have all been pushed out of the way so I can eat miniature candy. I wonder why I feel all yucky when I lay down at night??? Hummmm????

ARG! A flipping telemarketer just called my house and it's flipping 8:33pm. My kids are in bed!! Now thing 1 and 2 are up, great! Good thing Mini Thing is still out.

I'm off to tuck kids back into bed, you all have a good one.

Back to the land of the living

Well I'm back. I got my shot last Monday and by Thursday I was feeling normal. Halloween was good. Lydia was a Mummy, Claire was a Mermaid and Georgia was Cinderella. I will post pictures later. We trick or treated and got lots of loot, it was fun! Other than that things are going good but slowish.

Get out tomorrow and vote if you haven't already. My voting place is my daughter's school. I am keeping her out tomorrow. I don't want to deal with the people. I like a goofball didn't vote early. So I'll be standing in line with everyone else, oh joy. Kinda sad it over, I have REALLY been enjoying Tina Fey as Palin, it's so freakin funny! No but really I am glad it's going to be over tomorrow.

Daylight savings time thing has really got me sleepy!! I got up easy this am, but whoa I'm sleepy now.