Tivo

It was indeed invented for times when I have let my laundry folding pile up!! I spent 4 hours folding laundry and watched 2 CSI's and 2 Bones. Thank you whoever invented this awesome thing!

Ouch!

Today it's no fun to be a kid in my house! We have one home with strep throat and one that just got over it and the little one keeps falling and busting her head or mouth. It's sad! Earlier this morning I was in my room starting a dress for the oldest and Georgia was playing in a basket. Well she flipped over and busted her mouth on another basked. Blood and tears and snot everywhere!! It was bad and looks worse!! Poor thing!!! There is a picture to show you!



So as soon as this picture was taken she fell head first into the floor and got a nice little knot on her forehead. NICE!!! So it's been a rough day!


Here they are like nice sisters lovin each other, so sweet. And like always my baby has some junk on her face, pizza.


And here they are like normal. Georgia is riding her sister Claire and pulling her hair. This is a totally normal image from the two of them.


And here is a picture of Claire that I just love. I think Georgia had run off for a minute and so there was a minute of calm.



Enjoy your day!!

My house is your house......

So this weekend my parents came and stayed. Which is always is NICE!! That means I get to go out with my husband and have a babysitter without paying, WooHoo!!! So on Saturday we went bowling my kids LOVED IT. They enjoy bowling. Gerogia even got to bowl. We ate some yummy bowling alley food, yum. Cheese fries and chicken tenders. Well I'm trying to get my photos off my iPhone to post and my computer or my phone have decided to keep them hostage, so no photos for now, I guess, UGH!! Anywho the kids had a GREAT time.

After we got home I put the kids down for a rest and enjoyed a few minutes of quite time. Yay! I love nap time. Dont get me wrong I love my kids but when you have three kids close in age like mine you don't get much quet time and when you do you really really enjoy it! So I visited with my mom for a while and caught up on family business and whatnot. My family is serious about food, so I started dinner while they were still sleeping and my mom and I could seriously discuss food. I made fried pork chops, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, peas and stewed apples. It was yummy!!! So VERY yummy!!

After dinner my husband took me to the movies. I got to pick and I picked Whip It. It was so so so good! I really really enjoyed it. I love Indy type movies a lot!

Sunday passed like most Sundays very relaxed. My parents went home on Sunday but before they headed back to St. Louis by way of La. we went to lunch at my favorite Mexican place. It was so so so yummy and worth every calorie I stuffed in my face!! After lunch we went to the fabric store to look for some UofMemphis fabric to make pillow case dresses for the girls. They were out and I was bummed! But quickly moved on and got some cute birdie fabric to make a cute little dress for Georgia. We headed home and one of Lydia's friends came over to play and eat dinner with us. So I started dinner. I made American Chop Suey, YUM and Pioneer Woman's Garlic Cheese toast. Let me tell you something very serious here, if you love Garlic Cheese toast this is the mother of all recipes but it is NOT calorie friendly, I repeat IT IS NOT CALORIE FRIENDLY!!!! Friend went home after dinner, kids got showers and went to be. Mommy enjoyed 4 hours of Bones and blog reading, It was wonderful!

Today I am helping a friend out and watchiing her two daughters who are in the same grades as my older daughters. Today and tomorrow they are out of school for fall break and she needed a sitter. So today has been filled up with little girl squeals, screams, laughing, a little bit of crying and lots and lots of tattletaling! It's only 11am we have 4 to 5 more hours to go, yay. But I love my friend and I love to hlep her!

Maybe one day I'll figure out how to get my pictures off my phone, or my husband will find my samll camera he took his his guys vacation and I can put it back in my purse and capture photos on something I can get the pictures off of. Oh and speaking of purses, I got a new one. It's so so so pretty a purple Coach! I love it!! Thank you Ed!

Creamy pasta!

That's what sounds so so so good to me today for dinner. Too bad I don't have anything to make it in my house. It would require a trip to the store. Am I that motivated?? I think notsomuch!!

Today I took Lydia to the doctor. She has been running fever and just feeling yuck. I was afraid that she had the flu. She has strep throat!! I have never been so happy to hear a doctor say that about my kids. That's an easy fix. A shot in the booty with some bug killer and bam in 2-3 days she'll feel good as new!! So happy that the flu missed this once.

Today I took a trip to Target. I got some Silly Socks for Claire for "S" Silly Sock day at school tomorrow. She's very excited about tomorrow! I also got Georgia some CUTE leg warmers. But her legs are so short that they are like leggings. Tiny person!!

Here are some random pictures. A few are from today with Georgia and Claire and Georgia in her new leg warmers. And some are from the 1st day of school

Time flies!

Yesterday Sassy turned two!! I can't even believe that she is two!! Where did the time go? How did I become the mom of a 7 year old a 5 year old and 2 year old daughters? So unfair that time just slips away! She had a Great birthday! Like all my kids her birthday was celebrated over a few days. We have a bad habit of letting the celebrations go on for about a week. She has also gotten presents since Saturday and that will go on until next weekend when my parents get here. Really setting them up to be mega Diva's once they are grown. Oh well!!

So things have been chugging along here. Things are really busy lately, actually. We got a new tv and bedroom suite. I am so so so so so happy about the bedroom suite! It's the 1st bedroom suite I have gotten in the 14 years I have been married. We have always used the hand me down from his sister that was bought by his parents in 1970, NO KIDDING!

I have boat loads of pictures to upload on here, but have to sit down and upload them to my computer 1st. I got a new laptop and have mess around with it for a while before I get the photos on here. I hope to have some time today to do it. Both my kids are home sick so I don't have any running to do, so that's good. Not the kids being sick, but the not running thing. That's all I have done in the last three weeks is run run run! Today I'm being lazy and not getting out of my lounge clothes and NOT putting my contacts in!! Anywho, I'll try to get those photos on here soon .

A new chapter

In just a week and a half I will, along with my 5 year old start new chapters in our lives. She starts kindergarten. I'm so scared for her. Claire is the sweet one, the tender one, the one who will just sit back and let life happen and be happy to watch. I know she will be fine but I wish I could go with her and make sure all the kids know that they want to be her friend and that she is such a great kid. I can't believe that I'll have one more kid in school full time. When I ask her if she is excited she says that she is really excited but she also has nervous bugs in her belly. I hope that she gets the right teacher, we have a one we would like. She is a person that was made to teach small children. She has small children of her own and I think she understands that they are still babies at 5. Lydia's kindergarten teacher was not that person. She was mean and cruel and never said a kind word to them. She got mad if they wanted to hug her. Children that are 5 still need a lot of physical as well of emotion support and a hug goes a long way when your away from you mommy and daddy for the 1st time. I pray what we get Mrs. McClure this year!

It's going to be me and Georgia during the days now. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself. If any of you have three kids you know what's it like to take two of them out of the picture for a few hours. It's a breeze to care for only one child at a time. But caring for Georgia is like caring for 2 two year old's. She is a handful let me tell you! She's really going to think she is the center of the universe, not that she doesn't already! She has her sister trained, let me tell you. And once this kids goes to school, let me tell you I will be a mess! What do people do all day that have kids in school?

Update

So things have been going about the same here. No major life changes. Georgia is talking more and I love it. She say's things like "I love you" and "te quiero" "I want my cup/drink", things like that. She is also starting to tell me that she is poopy. Yay, not! So I guess that means we will start the dreaded potty training soon. She is 21 months old and Lydia and Claire were both peeing in the potty at that age. I just hate the process and I guess I also hate that it means a passing of baby into toddler. Then before I'm ready she will be in school.

Today my kids are going to my MIL's house for a sleepover and my husband just let to go to Nashville to see Bill Maher (his father's day gift). I'm going to be all alone in my house for one whole day and night. This is the 1st time in like many many years. I mean like 5 or more. I was thinking it was 3, but then it's been more than that. We were in Maryland 4 years ago and then Claire was a baby so it's been like a LONG time!!! Maybe since before Lydia was born. Good lord, that would be like 8 years. YIKES!!! That's sad!

I have been working out big time again. I'm getting back to myself again. I love it and really missed being in shape and toned. Getting the weight off is a massive plus too. So I'm back at it 5 days a week and staying in the 1200 to 1400 calorie range, low fat with high protein. I have dropped almost 15lbs so far. Just 20/25 to go. I gained so so so much weight with Georgia from being on bed rest for 17 weeks and getting all those steroid shots. Good lord it was like 85lbs. LOTS OF WEIGHT. But I'm doing good with only needing to drop about 20/25 more pounds. The ONLY down side is now I really see how bad I need a tummy tuck. YUCK!!! But that's not even that big of a deal to me.

I would like to give a shout out to my family. I loved seeing you guys in May. It was tons of fun. Lydia and Georgia had a great time and Claire had a great nap! I really miss seeing you all. I would LOVE to see my cousin Heather some time soon. So if you make a visit to SoIl please someone let me know!!!

xoxo!

Hu?

Too busy to blog must facebook!

Newest addiction!

Oh My Goodness! I love, I mean I L-O-V-E www.polyvore.com! It is the best best site ever! It's so much fun!!! Here is my newest creation.

Mother's Day

I loved Mother's day this year!! I had such a good time, and got some really good stuff too, hehe. My husband made me breakfast and then my sweet little girls brought it to me in bed. Claire carried my plate of french toast (wheat bread) and turkey bacon, Lydia had my coffee and sweet baby Georgia carried the syrup. It was so cute, I can't even stand it. Then they carried in my gifts. Daddy let them each pick out what they wanted to get me. Lydia picked out a maxi dress and a turquoise necklace, Claire picked out a green t-shirt and some seed bead bangles in jewel tones. Georgia picked out the Keri Hillson Cd and a pair of Lilly Pulitzer sandals, cute! I loved it all. Then after breakfast we all got ready and went to the MIL's house for a cook out of Ribs, potato salad, baked beans and coleslaw and for dessert was strawberry short cakes and rice krispie treats. YUM! So I put together a little fashion board of the things I got for mothers day. Now I want the purse and the earrings and ring, but have everything else. Hope you enjoy!

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What??

I have been MIA for a bit, I know. But good post coming soon. With pictures and all.

New Orleans,

I had a BLAST in New Orleans. I acted like a child and danced in the streets. My kids think that is funny. I also fell in the street, not so funny! I had a blast and am so thankful for my friend Michelle, she is the best a girl could have! And her momma too, she was fun. So here we go.

This is Michelle and I waiting for our Vampire Tour to start, yes Vampire tour. She and I have a strange love for the fanged ones. Silly and juvenile but so much fun. This is not the best of photos because my hair is beating Michelle in the face, but I look good, hehehe!


Here we are getting ready to go out on Sunday night. Night of the old and strange in New Orleans. But we had a BLAST! We went to a rocker club and acted like total idiots. Got yelled at by the bouncer (me) and did the Ashely Simpson dance.


Here we are on the river walk, we had just had Cafe Du Monde beignets and coffee. YUM!!


Photos are not in order, here we are again getting ready to go out.


Again not in order, waiting for the Vampire tour to start. Our tour guide was named Johnathan and I think he was drunk.


Here we are at the Crescent City Brew House. They used to have a rockin Bread Pudding, but now it's not so good. It got sent back.


Here we are at Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville. We had lunch there and they took some awesome pics.





Our trip was so much fun and I'm so glad I got to go!!! I can't wait to do it again. We walked so much and shared all our food, I lost 3lbs on our trip. I love it when that happens.

The Big Easy!

Tomorrow is trip 2 this year to New Orleans! I can't wait!!! I'm going with my BFF and her mommy. We are gonna whoop it up y'all! Not really, I'm such a loser that I can't stay up late anymore. Seriously sad case here! Things I plan to do. 1, eat bread pudding from The Crescent City Brew House, YUMMMM-O FOLKS!!! 2, eat a hot dog from a hot dog vendor. 3, eat beignets at Cafe du Monde (hummmmm there seems to be a theme running here). 4, get a silly drink in a silly fleur de lis cup. 5, eat Gumbo at the Gumbo shop. And have a GREAT time!!! We are staying at the Hotel St. Marie, it's really nice. I have stayed there a few times and really enjoy it. The only poo thing is it's supposed to rain while we are there, so everyone keep your fingers and toes crossed that it won't! I leave tomorrow at 5:30am, yuck, but can't wait to get there!!! See you all Monday night.

Photos

Here are some random photos
1st here is my beautiful Claire, we were messing around with the camera today. This is her new dress she LOVES from Target.




Georgia helping mommy "clean"




Eating lunch. Cottage cheese is one of her most favorite lunches EVER! She would eat a tub a day if I let her. Which is good since she won't touch milk.




This is also today, Lydia. We messing around outside while they were riding bikes in the driveway.




And this is where I would LOVE LOVE Love to be right now. This is the view from our room at the Hilton Sandestin. Let me tell you this is one of the best places to stay out there. I really would love to be back there right now!!!

Sheep, peas and potty

So here is Claire and her BF Ella, they had a dress up parade at school. Ella was Little Po Peep (I think or Mary had a little lamb and if that's the case then the title to this post is messed up) and Clarie was Princess and the pea.



And then there are these photo's and a back story. So we went to Toys/BabiesRus to get a gift for a b-day party. While there I let Georgia down to wander the store and just burn some energy. While we were in the baby area she kept going to the potty seats, so I said why not? I bought it, brought it home and put it in the bathroom. If she's gonna show interest at 18mo than I'll play along, even if she's just playing. I stared the pee training for my other two at 18mo, so why not her? We get home and she is yanking her diaper off wanting to sit on it. So I let her and sure enough she pees in that thing, then puts her hand in the pee. So we made a big to do over it and that is where she wanted to stay for the rest of the night, or until she was too blue and cold looking for me to stand.

100th post

For my 100th post I will do an interview with my kids

An interview with Claire, age 5
April 3rd, 2009

1. What is something mommy always says to you?
"Good night."

2. What makes mommy happy?
"When I'm being good."

3. What makes mommy sad?
"When I'm being bad."

4. How does your mommy make you laugh?
"Tickling me."

5. What was your mommy like as a child?
"Loved to play outside."

6. How old is your mommy?
"I forgot."

7. How tall is your mommy?
"6 inches."

8. What is her favorite thing to do?
"Watch my favorite channel, that thing that that boy goes to the restaurant (dinners drive ins and dives)."

9. What does your mommy do when you're not around?
"Clean, go to places go with my friends somewhere."

10. If your mommy becomes famous, what will it be for?
"For being a rock movies star."

11. What is your mommy really good at?
"Crocheting ."

12. What is your mommy not very good at?
"Doing a flip over."

13. What does your mommy do for her job?
"Working for us (Lydia Claire and Georgia)."

14. What is your mommy's favorite food?
"Cake"

15. What makes you proud of your mommy?
"Letting me go to her friends parties house (well I kinda stink at that, poor thing)."

16. If your mommy were a cartoon character, who would she be?
"Sleeping Beauty."

17. What do you and your mommy do together?
"Snuggle and watch tv (I tell ya according to Claire I watch a ton of TV, thing is I can do days without turning it on)."

18. How are you and your mommy the same?
"We have short hair and we both have brown hair and we both have blue eyes."

19. How are you and your mommy different?
"You have different shoes and you have longer hair than me."

20. How do you know your mommy loves you?
"Because you be nice to me"

21. What does your mommy like most about your dad?
"He loves you back"

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
"Bowling Alley, when it's not so crowded."



An interview with Lydia, age 7
Arpil 3rd, 2009

1. What is something mommy always says to you?
"I love you."

2. What makes mommy happy?
"To love you back."

3. What makes mommy sad?
"For us to get grounded."

4. How does your mommy make you laugh?
"Making the kitty stand up and talk."

5. What was your mommy like as a child?
"Wild."

6. How old is your mommy?
"36" Gee thanks

7. How tall is your mommy?
"10 feet Tall."

8. What is her favorite thing to do?
"Snuggle with us."

9. What does your mommy do when you're not around?
"Fuss at daddy."

10. If your mommy becomes famous, what will it be for?
"Being a famous writer"

11. What is your mommy really good at?
"Loving us"

12. What is your mommy not very good at?
"Building stuff."

13. What does your mommy do for her job?
"Being my classes room mom."

14. What is your mommy's favorite food?
"Indian food."

15. What makes you proud of your mommy?
"Cooking a very good homemade dinner."

16. If your mommy were a cartoon character, who would she be?
"Sandy from Spongebob."

17. What do you and your mommy do together?
"Bake."

18. How are you and your mommy the same?
"We both like mustard"

19. How are you and your mommy different?
"I hate tomatoes and you like them."

20. How do you know your mommy loves you?
"You tuck me in every night and say you love me."

21. What does your mommy like most about your dad?
"He does stuff you have time to do."

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
"Flying Saucer (amen sister)."

Off the rails

Today I ate too much! I had pizza hut for lunch, 1 slice of BBQ pizza a quarter slice of Hawaiian, and HUGE salad. I had a slice of brownie that I made a few days ago, like 5 or 6 spicy chili Doritos, a slice of left over southwestern frittata that I made last night for dinner and then two fat free turkey dogs. UGH, I really pigged out. Well tomorrow I will be better! AND I didn't go to the gym today. I had to fast for some blood work done at my OB's office to see if I'm broken. So after that I just wanted to eat and I made really poor choices and should of followed up with the gym. But my laziness got the best of me. So I am publicly beating my self up, join in would you.

After my disgrace at the Hut Lydia (whom took a mental health day from school, total embarrassment yesterday at Social Studies which involved the whole class laughing at her and today she couldn't face them, she gets one pass day a year today was her day) and I went to Walmart for some senseless spending since it's that kinda day. I got some of the best smelling candles. One is Coconut Lime and the other is Pineapple Fusion. They smell super good and they were a steal at like 3.86 a candle. Then I got some scented oil for those little burners that have tea candles in them. It's called Citrus Tropical Fruit or something like that. My house is smelling YUMMY!

Ed ran off to New Orleans today with his dad. They are staying at some sheesheepoopoo house on Lake Pontchartrain for the weekend. Fishing, sight seeing, D-Day museum and outrageous meals sound like no fun to me anyway! Staying home ALONE with 3 kids sounds WAY more fun!! But that's ok, I go back in just a few more weeks anyway!

My anniversary is coming up. April 22nd I will have been married 14 years. I am so stumped on what to get him?? If he really want's something he just gets it. It makes it even harder being a stay at home mom, who doesn't do the bill anymore (I was an inch away from a nervous break down after Lydia was born and quit my job) to take large amounts of money from our account and he not know what it's for. Plus we do the if you can't pay cash you don't need it Dave Ramsey thing. So any suggestions you all could throw my way would be good ones. And he's a total geek!!! Loves all things geeky. Not the outdoorsy kinda guy. But does like sports to a degree. Loves Hockey.

Tomorrow I'm doing a baking day. Waffles, breads (quick and yeast) muffins, pancakes and monkey bars to set back in the freezer for a later morning. I'm looking forward to it. Just me and my kids. I think it will be fun for us. Speaking of kids today I taught Lydia how to add large sums in her head, it was fun watching her wheels turn as she was thinking. But she got the hang of it and was pumping out numbers at me as fast as I could throw her a math problem. She's such a smart kid. Today Claire had her Nursery Rhyme Parade at school she was Princess and the Pea (yeah yeah yeah, not a nursery rhyme I know). I took a pillow and some play peas from their kitchen and poked holes in them then sewed them to a travel pillow. She got to wear a past Halloween costume of Lydia's. It was an elaborate princess dress. She LOVED it, and she was SUPER cute.

Hope you all have a rocking Friday and a great weekend! I'm going to read now!

Happy Birthday to me

If I had a working scanner I would post pictures of my cute self as a small child. But I don't so you can take my word for it I was cute, LOL!! Anywho, no plans for today, Ed and Lydia have a father daughter dance for Girl Scouts tonight and I'm working for the school fair tonight on the PTA board. Watch out, I'm wild. I think on Sunday Ed and I are going to brunch somewhere to celebrate.

A new Do!

My house got a new do. The roof was finished today and OMGOSH it's so pretty! I'm so so so happy with the shingles I picked. It's called Black Walnut and OH MY GOSH is it ever pretty! Now we just have to get the yard all spiffy to match the spiffy roof. Then in two short months my pool will be open and I will be chilaxin! I have already started to fake N bake in the beds so I'll be ready to go when the pool is opened. Woo hoo folks can you smell the summer!!! I can!!!

Birthday

Friday is my birthday and I'm so not looking forward to this one. It's only number 33, but it's so much closer to 35 than last year. UGH

Ugh

I haven't posted anything good in so long. I just can't muster up anything? I don't know whats up? I have so much on my mind right now, I guess that's it. I keep thinking about how weedy our yard is and how embarrassing it is, it's so so so bad. I keep thinking about sending Claire to Kindergarten next year, and is she ready? I keep thinking about how at 17 mo Georgia still wont walk or talk much. She can talk, she can walk, she just won't. I'm kinda worried. I'm thinking of my brother, ugh. My parents, ugh again. I'm thinking about how did 7 years get away from me with Lydia and did I do a good job so far? I just have too much on my mind right. And thankfully none of it is me thinking about a sick child. So I guess I should just suck it up and get over my small issues and be thankful I have a yard, kids, parents and a brother to worry about.

So happiness! Today is FRIDAY! I love Fridays. Always will, even if I don't "work" outside the home. AND today is pay day, woohoo! My big splurge for the week is going to be a good sports bra, whoo I know. But hey I need a good one. I have been back at the gym and really feeling better, too. I can't wait to get back to my "goal" size. I'm done with weight, I'll be happy when my pants fit again. Why do we do this to ourselves? We know we should eat right and exercise, but we don't. I'm as guilty as everyone else in my position. I'm an educated person, I guess it just takes more work than I'm willing to give at that moment? But I'm back so Yay!

I'm getting my hair done today, another BIG YEAH! I'm very excited. I'm gonna go a little blonder I think. Summer is right around the corner and I'm ready for that. So blond makes me feel like it's a little closer.

I think I'm also going to buy some new lip stick today. I love lip stick. It makes me so happy to get a new one. I know silly, but it works?

Have a great weekend!

Proud to be Irish!

May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
The sun shine warm upon your face
The rains fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.


(stolen from my cousin's blog, hehe)

Things I should be doing, but I'm not

I should be cleaning my house. I should be doing laundry. I should be cooking dinner. I should be dressing the baby. I should be eating something healthy and nutritious instead of tortilla chips from a Mexican restaurant from yesterday. I should be paying more attention to my kids instead of hanging out on the computer. I should be putting up the groceries. Instead I'm sitting here rotting my brain with computer time, tortilla chips and sweet tea. I'm blocking out my kids and giving them cheese and cracker stick that I'm guessing have High Fructose Corn Syrup in them (which I'm against by the way). My house is WAY trashed, the laundry needs doing, the dinner needs cooking and the cat box is bordering on toxic, you have to wear shoes in my house right now to keep the crumbs from sticking to your feet. I DON'T CARE for the next 20 or so minutes. I plan to sit here until my glass is empty. Ya wanna know why?? Because my kids have been sick for 8 days now, my husband needed some "alone" time so he's off to the gym and then to "guys night out' and I have been left alone with these people whom I gave birth too and haven't figures out that if they wanted to they could tie me up and tuck me into the laundry room. I'm on a mental break and in now 15 or so minutes I should be refreshed enough to deal until 8 or 9pm or until they figure out that they can indeed hog tie their momma and no one will catch them until around 11pm when their daddy comes home. Ahhhhh now the baby just bounced her head off the floor and all is lost in my mental break. Well until next time.

Bugs

Dang it if my two older kids didn't get the stinkin flu! Ugh! I took them to the Dr this am. Lydia has a double ear infection on top of it all. Clarie had the throwing up and what we call "sneaky Poops" They sneak up on you before you can make it to the potty. Georgia has a yucky cold with yucky snot, fun! I am going to put my kids in a bubble from now on when they have to be around anyone until the flu season is over. Thankfully Georgia's tubes are hanging in there! Man oh man just a few more months is all I ask of them.

I went to WalMart last night and got the kids 8 shirts for a little under 18 bucks! They had some good deals!! All summer shirts too. Yay for me and my wallet.

Ashes to Ashes

Wow, we went to the late mass tonight and Georgia did NOT do well. It started at 7pm we had to duck out right after the girls and I got the ashes on our forehead. It was bad I mean B-A-D! She was throwing her self on the floor and screaming. Ugh, this child! Why are things so different with the baby? Thankfully my big girls were total and complete Angels! They listened, sat up when told and even tried to read along with the readings, it was beyond sweet!

This year for Lent I'm going to give up cussing, so far so good (she almost caused me to slip, but I said Captain Knuckles instead, hehe). I cuss normally like a drunk sailor! I feel that this is something that will be beneficial to my whole family if I can keep my promise and I plan to try hard too keep it.

Now it's laundry time and some real crazies John and Kate plus 8 and then some Duggars (I LOVE both shows, but wow, my life is totally calm after these two families).

C is for Cookie

Girl Scout Cookies are in! Woohooo! We just picked up our 15 cases that we ordered. Now we have to start collecting money and giving folks their cookies. We have already opened our boxes, and YUM-O I LOVE the Dulce De Leche cookies. This year they are my favorite YUM!!

When?

When did shopping at consignment (thrift) shops become the "in" thing to do?? This has really stressed me out! I have always looked for deals when it comes to my kids clothing and there is a GREAT new consignment (thrift) shop down the street from my house it's WONDERFUL but it's packed all the time and it's really stressing me out! I want to know when the snooty people started shopping thrift. Is it because the economy is in the crapper and the credit your family has been living on has finally run out? If so, then welcome to the world of REALITY folks, nice to have ya! Anywho off track. I love love love love me some consignment (thrift) shops. I went yesterday and got Lydia a nice patch look dress for 4.50, Claire a oh so cute sail boat themed dress for 4.50, Georgia two smocked dresses, both with their original tags on them, one for 6.50 and one for 10.00. So in all 4 dresses for around 32.00, tax included. You can't even hardly get a on sale smocked dress for 32 bucks! It really makes my day to get these deals. BUT all you new folks are making it to where it's slim pickins, ya'll need to go on back to buying retail price, selling them to the consignment shops for a fraction of what you paid after your darlings wore said dress 2 or 3 times so I can get a KILLER deal for my little darlings! Just kidding (kinda).

Claire's dresses.




Lydia's dresses.




Georgia in the tub being cute as heck!


Georgia's dresses








Ed painted this for Claire who threw a fit to have him paint a University of Memphis tiger on her hand, so she got her way.


On a funny note, yesterday I was sifting through the sizes and kept bumping into a lady that had children is similar sizes. I being nice, said "Boy don't you just love thrift shops." she said to me "Consignment is such a nicer word to use." Ummm whatever!!!

Why???

Why is it when you don't need something you see it over and over again, but once you need said object you can't ever find it??? It's really ticking me off.

Edit:Wow I came back and read this, I am the typo Queen!

My troubles

I sometimes get so wrapped up in my self and my little drama's that I forget that I have a WONDERFUL life with healthy children a loving husband and a beautiful house. I have more stuff that anyone could want. My children want for nothing and always have food. I read something like this and it really grounds me. Yes my children have been sick and even been in the hospital sick, but nothing life threading, thank God! I couldn't even begin to understand the pain of losing a child. So today I thank God for all I have.

Needing help ya'll

How do I download a free template and then apply it to my blog? Anyone out there know? I want something cute and fun and blogger just ain't cuttin it for me in the cute and fun template department.

TGIF!!

Today my husband goes out of town for the weekend. It'll be just me and the girls. I'm looking forward to some mommy daughter time. I'm planning a special day with them tomorrow. I'm going to take them to the library to get their own library card and some books. Then we are going to eat lunch somewhere fun, maybe our favorite Mexican place or pizza. Then come home relax for a little while, put Georgia down for a nap and read the books we got from the library. I may take them to walk around the mall later in the afternoon or if it's nice play in the yard on the swing set, cook dinner together then eat it in front of the TV (big treat for our family) watching Wallie. I'm really looking forward to our day tomorrow.

This am we ran our of half and half so instead I put whipped cream in my cup, yum.

NOLA pictures

Here we are about to hit Bourbon Street. Woohoo! Really it was a bunch of grown up fun. We had one beer and food.




The famous or infamous Super dome. This is where Sarah's race started and ended.



Sight seeing pictures, I'm sure everyone knows what this stuff is.







And here is Sarah running her race, doing good making good time.




And here is the sign that we made for her. We held it up and cheered as she ran past the finish line area. She was embarrassed holding it, wonder why? Back story here is she gets all sweaty and salty looking after running. Funny hu!