Update

I have been soooooo sick for the past 3 - 4 days that it is not even funny. Just a cold but it knocked me down pretty bad. I am still in recovery but thought I would update!

Steven is not leaving the restaurant that he is at. They offered him more money and are working on fixing the schedule so that he is working less hours so..... he is staying where he has creativity. That's fine. I just need the money to pay my bills!

Jenna (The Girl) is probably bringing home straight As on her first report card. I am so proud of her! I wonder what I should do for her as a reward? hmmm.........

The boys are both doing fine. The Boy has had another speech explosion and is really making progress. He is probably speaking as much as a typical 2 year old now. He is 3. BUT... it's better than it has been! And he is making steady progress. The Baby has a new favorite word.... No! Yes, he has reached that stage. The funny thing is that when he says it he speaks kind of nasally and it sounds like he is saying "doh" like Homer Simpson! LOL

I am presently in the process of finishing up the last of my unpacking and organizing of the house. It has only taken me a year. Ha. But, we have this horrible German roach infestation that I cannot get rid of. So, I decided I had to finish unpacking everything so that a major bug bombing would work. As soon as I am finished, I will be attempting to kill every last one of those damn bugs. They are driving me crazy.

Wish me luck..... more soon!

After The Weekend

Long weekend of no blogging is ended. I actually meant to post sometime this weekend but got distracted... Steven was home! He was off of work for THREE DAYS! And NIGHTS! We actually got to spend some time together and also get some things accomplished around the house. We did not do anything for the fourth... just relaxed. And we had friends over for dinner on Saturday which was nice. So... boring in some ways, maybe... but nice and relaxing to us.

As far as writing goes, I have done nothing! LOL I have taken a break from everything this weekend. So, now I can start trying to use some of those words y'all left for me! We will see how it goes. Sometimes I can write on demand and others I need to just let it come. I am out of practice so it may take some time.

Jenna (The Girl) is back at my moms house and has posted some camp stories over at her blog. The rest of this month cannot go fast enough for me! I miss my girl....

The Boys have been full of the business all weekend. Wrestling, jumping off of things, running around like crazy and basically getting into trouble! Typical boys... fun but tiring! LOL

I have nothing else. I am just going to try to catch up with everyone now since I barely read any blogs at all this weekend.... I will post again soon!

Rambling

Thanks for the words of inspiration guys! Keep em comin... I will post as I write anything. Today has been a fairly low creativity day. I did LOTS of laundry and dishes and colored with The Boy and lots of other pretty boring stuff for the most part!



Friends of ours just moved back to town yesterday and I went by to visit and make sure they were settling in OK. It was weird to see them again. It has been..... 19 months or so since we saw either one of them. Their kids are HUGE now and they have another little one who is cute as a button. (I snuggled with her for a while. My Baby hated it! Jealous) It was weird for me as I think I had gotten my expectations up. I was excited to have them back as I have missed having someone around who "gets" me. I have met very few people in this area who I could envision myself being real friends with. So... here I am hoping that with A moving back I can have a good buddy again.



Well. I don't know what I expected, the poor girl is trying to unpack, supervise three kids and get set to start her job this week. I guess I just wanted to know that she missed me? Or that she was excited to see me? Who knows. I am just feeling a little let down and I know it is silly. It is not her, just that I tend to build my expectations and want things to be a certain way and when they don't turn out the way I expect... then I feel let down. I have always been that way. You would think I would know better.



Hopefully, when things calm down, I will be able to be friends with this girl again. I hope so... our husbands are in a band together! LOL



I am feeling better physically than I have in a while. My doctor started me on a new medication for the HBP. It seems to be working OK so far. I feel better anyway! Maybe I will try to start working out again. I know I would feel better about myself if I could lose some weight. I hate not feeling comfortable in my own body. And I hate not feeling as sexy as I know I am/ can be. It is hard to look at myself and see what I look like now. In my mind, I still see myself the way I was at 18 - 19. How crazy.... I reread Stranger in a Strange Land last night with the intent to remind myself that all of us are beautiful. I just need to remind myself of that daily, lately.



The Wingmen Of Mayhem have been fairly calm the last few days. Except for at bedtime for the middlest child. He is still giving me fits. Deep breaths.... I love my child...... But, I have instituted "play time with Mommy" every day when The Baby is napping. And we have been coloring and playing and it has been nice. He really seems to dig having a specific time just for us. I think that we will paint a picture tomorrow. I promise to take pics of him covered in paint if we do.



Oh. Also? My "A" key is sticking. So is my "R" key. I blame Hallie. Her post yesterday made me spew soda all over my keyboard. Ewwwwww......



That's it. I got nothin' else. I'm done. For now. Maybe.

Boys Being Sweet, Sweet Peas and More

And now that I have the pictures off of the camera, I will show you why I need a video camera! This progression of pictures is just too cute. I wish I had video of the entire episode!

Here is The Boy "reading" to his doll.

And here he is after tucking a blanket around himself and the doll so that they will stay warm. He was showing each of the pictures in the book to the doll!

Here the boys are after The Baby climbed onto the couch and The Boy tucked him in too!

This one is a little dark but The Boy moved the doll to the other side and was playing "speech" with him! He was pointing at each picture and saying what it was and repeating it several times. Very sweet.

And now to something completely different.....

I have pea pods on my pea plants!!

And radishes! And other stuff that I do not have pics of! Yay!

The last pic for today is of a lonely little lady. My dress form. She has been sitting on my back porch for some time now. Waiting. Waiting for me to get around to adjusting her measurements and using her!

Now, what should I make on this lonely little girl?

Hi all! I am alive and kicking. I have been cleaning and gardening and wrangling babies and just have not had a spare moment to blog about any of it! Things are going fine here. I am just trying to figure out what is going on with our finances this month so I figured a break was needed.... so here I am! I have pictures to share....

First, today in the mail I received a present from my good friend Alisa in FL. She said that she came across this while she was at a garage sale and thought of me. What she said was, "I saw it and the powers that be said it was really yours - so all I'm doing is delivering it to it's rightful owner!". You can't really tell in the pic below, but it is painted on a tile and hangs on the wall. I love it! Thanks Alisa!!


Here, we have a picture of the eldest Wingman of Mayhem as he is learning to make grilled cheese sandwiches. he is very amusing when he wants a sandwich. he goes and gets the spatula and smacks me with it! While I would rather he did not hit me, at least he is letting me know what he wants!
Here are both of the WOMs sitting on bar stools and waiting for me to cook them dinner. I was a nervous wreck that one of them would fall off, but Daddy was right there and they were happy as clams to be sitting and watching me!
This next two pictures are some of my favorites. This is my darling husband teaching the boy to play guitar. He is veeeery interested and wants to play all the time. he has his own small guitar but wants to play on one of daddy's all the time!

And here we have the "plumber's" towel incident of 2008. My eldest boy loves to wrap up in a towel. And this is the result! LOL

The youngest loves to watch "I-Carly" on TV. I have no idea why. It's a cute show but who would have thought a one year old would be interested? As you can see, he loves it. He won't move for the entire show. I think he has a crush on Carly.
And.... these pics just show you how entirely exhausted we all are at the end of the day. My boys wear themselves out! (and me too)

For the rest of today I am going to be running around like a chicken with no head. I have to go get DHs check, go to the bank, pay the rent, go to Wally World, go to Curves with DD, cook dinner, finish laundry and vacuum. Among other things! I will try to be back tomorrow with something a little more interesting! LOL

The Thursday of Boredom

Ok. First off, I MUST do my menu or I will kick myself later. I already have everything I need for this weeks menu so no more shopping needed. Thank god.

Thursday - Hamburger Gravy and Rice
Friday - Chicken Stew in the Crockpot and Angel Biscuits
Saturday - Leftovers
Sunday - Meat loaf, mashed potatoes and corn with homemade bread
Monday - Hot dogs, Brats and fries with green beans
Tuesday - Chicken Fajitas
Wednesday - Leftovers or Pasta

There. Done. LOL

I am feeling much better today, my back is hurting no worse than it normally does, lol. My children made me insane yesterday. I seriously thought about trying to sell them to the circus. But I think once anyone saw the way they were acting they would refuse to take them. Well. The two youngest anyway. I rarely have problems with my oldest. She is a good girl. Just lazy and lacking in common sense. But that is a typical teenage malady. I remember being the same way myself.

Today I am still trying to get my laundry folded. And I plan to go through the rest of my cabinets to organize and inventory. If it happens, great. Probably, I will not have time. The boys canNOT stand to have me in the cabinets without trying to be in them as well. I may just wait until tonight to do it. After they are in bed. That's when i get the majority of my housework done, anyway!

On a completely different note, I totally want this shirt from Mominatrix. I think it would be fab to wear to play dates. LOL. Because, you know, bondage is the new black. LOL If you have never checked out Mominatrix, you should. She has some great articles on how being a parent affects your sex life. And sex as a mom is definitely different! This article, in particular, is a great one for moms to read.

No planting happened yesterday. My husband irritates me immensly at times. He just sits around when I need him to do things. I asked him when he wanted to go get the soil we need and he answered, "whenever". Sometimes, I just want an answer. I don't want to always be the one making decisions and choosing what to do, when to do it and how to do it. I would love it if he gave me input! That's why I ask! If I didn't want his ideas I would just do what I want ALL of the time. Not just most of the time. LOL

Anyway, not much going on right now. I will try to post again later, but who knows.

Today had been an interesting day so far. And it is only 10:45 am. I can't wait to see what the afternoon has in store for me!

First, I woke up to less back pain than yesterday, but a toddler trying to poke my eyes out. The Middlest Child was trying to wake me up by putting my glasses on me. And then he handed me his cup and waited. LOL So, I got up and got him a drink. He proceeded to be sick. All over the place. He was also running a temp so i gave him Tylenol and held him for a bit. He was an unhappy boy. He seems to be feeling a little better now, at least he is napping without crying. I swear, if I could get all three of the kids healthy at the same time it would be a miracle. I had to cancel a playdate today for the baby because I don't want to chance infecting anyone else's children with this nasty bug.

DH decided to cook breakfast and made pancakes and sausage. Yum. Anything I don't have to cook always tastes so good.

So, I went outside to smoke a cig this morning and what do you know... a fire behind my house. I'm talking flames shooting up to the sky and billowing clouds of black smoke. It was across a field from the house, back in some woods. I was getting ready to call the fire dept when i heard sirens. A fire truck, 2 other trucks and about 20 cops came tearing through my yard and across the field. They hooked up their hoses to a fire hydrant across the street which necessitated the closing of said street to traffic. Lots of excitement. It was an old barn in the woods burning. the cop I spoke to said they had no idea at this point what started it. I have my suspicions. there are some neighborhood boys who cut across the field and go back there to hang out all the time. It wouldn't surprise me if it was started by them. Either accidentally or on purpose... who knows.

I'm just glad they got it put out OK.

My garden is growing like gangbusters! LOL I will try to post pics again one day soon. The plants are all up and growing well. Soon i will have to thin the plants. We still have several other things to plant in seperate container planters. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, zucchini, watermelon and pumpkins. I think i am going to attempt to get all of these started today.

I have about 4 loads of laundry to fold. I HATE folding laundry. With a passion. I don't mind washing it. And I kind of like drying it. I hang out a lot of it to dry on lines behind the house. I like taking down the crisp clothes. I just hate having to deal with it afterwords.

I also have to decide on my menu for this week. hmmmmm......

Wednesday - Country Fried Steak, Au Gratin Potatoes, Peas

I will decide on the rest after I get the sales papers in the mail later.

Nothing earth shaking going on in my life. I sometimes wonder why i blog! LOL It can't be very interesting to read about potty training and folding clothes.

Anyway, I will be back later on with more menus and who knows what else!

Mondays.... boring mondays....

Nothing too earth shattering going on her at the castle today. We have decided to not give the new meds to the Boy. There is no medical reason at this time to medicate him. I am going to keep track of his eating and weight. i believe I will start a food diary for him. But not make a huge deal out of whether he eats or not. Just keep track of when he is hungry. He has been eating like a hog for the past 2 days. Maybe it is time for a growth spurt? I don't know. We did discover that he will eat almost anything if you stick it on a toothpick. Kinda like on a stick. I know I will eat anything if it comes on a stick. You stick a turd on a stick and I will be hard pressed not to gobble that sucker down. Cause food on a stick? Very cool. Reminds me of the fair.

I am finally feeling completely well. The husband not so much. He is still running a slight fever. And The Baby is still suffering from on again off again diarrhea. Fun for the mommy. The Boy and The Girl appear to be 100% OK now. Hopefully this will be the last of the true yucks at our house for a while!

Jen's giveaway is still going on over at The Delusional. If you haven't popped over there, you should!

Hey! Kara over at Grace Under Autism! I have not forgotten you! Now that we are all officially well and I will not be shipping you flu germs, I will be sending your yummy chocolate goodness on over to you! Sorry it has taken a while!

And now.... off to bed. The tornado watches and warnings and penny sized and marble sized hail and 60 mph winds are gone for the night. Now I can relax enough to get some sleep maybe!

9 out of 10 blog readers agree that catchy, fun blog titles are for wusses

ha.

I am alive. I am bitchy and feel yucky but I am alive. The Baby still has not cut his teeth. The Boy is determined to make me insane throught he use of crumbs and licking. The Girl is full of b-day plans and making me feel old old old. DH is working too much at work and not enough at home.

I am just depressed. I can't lose weight. I have no motivation or energy. I feel old. I feel totally un-sexy. And I am tired.

But my house is partially clean. And I have clean clothes. Even if they are not folded and are just in a pile in the livingroom justr waiting for The Boy to decide that he needs to take a running jump while naked and decide to pee ont hem and then they will not be clean anymore. phew.

I will return tomorrow in a (hopefully) better mood with (hopefully) amusing anecdotes to share regarding bday plans and potty training.

Nothin' New

All is well at the Faerie Castle. We have had a quiet and uneventful weekend full of not much of anything interesting! I have been watching bad tv and reading trashy mags. Watching the boys fight over silly toys and trying to get some sleep in between the teething related wakings of the littlest and the night terror wakings of the middlest. My eldest rocks pretty hard as she brought home some wonderful grades on her report card. So we went to lunch today... just the two of us! No boys. And she decided to tell me that I embarrass her when we go out to eat because I am picky and opinionated. I just want things the way that I want them. If I am paying $50 to eat at your restaurant and tipping another $10.... you had better make sure my glass is full at all times and that my food is the way that I want it! I tip good. Because I know that I am picky and demanding! LOL

Anyway... just ramblings today. I have been doing a lot of cleaning and organizing in my house... much more to do to get to where I want to be. My back hurts and my nipples are sore. The baby just cannot help himself. He must bite me. And giggle about it. I take the nipple away. It makes no difference. He is currently weaning himself slowly. If he keeps up with the biting he will be weaned much faster! No doubt! Cause bit nipples may be a little bit sexy in bed with yo man, but not when there is no sex involved!

M'kay..... ummm..... no great burst of inspiration here. No wonderfully amusing story. I will be back at my regularly scheduled thinking post tomorrow. And maybe, just maybe, I will be able to combine thoughts into a coherent whole.... but no guarantees.

Later.

Call off the dogs!

Call off the dogs, Jessica! I am here and alive and well! This Christmas has been an.... interesting one so far. Very relaxing in some ways as we had no traveling to do and no one came over. It was just me, DH and the 3 kiddos having a quiet day. And lots of good food and yummy cookies. In other ways it was very stressful. My car decided to break down in the midst of last minute Xmas shopping. And there I was with little baby boy and no way home. Long story but eventually the car started and I got it to limp home. My mechanic (who SUPPOSEDLY fixed this same problem on the car months ago) was going to come over for a house call but was unable to make it. So, thanks to some wonderful ladies in my meet and play group, the rest of my shopping was completed without the use of my car. It is still not fixed. It will drive but will not shift out of first gear. So I cannot drive above about 20 mph. Which kinda sucks for going anywhere.

But, Xmas was a success. I took baby boy for his 9 month checkup today and he is doing wonderfully. No problems. It is nice to go to the doctors and not have problems. The Boy ALWAYS has something going on. Not physically but developmentally. So it was nice to have a relaxing office visit with our ped.

My mom and my MIL are on their way here from FL right now. So, Xmas part deaux is about to commence. Can't wait to hug them and have a visit and a chat face to face again. It feels like forever since they were here even though it was just Thanksgiving when they were here!

I will try to post again tonight. More chatting about toys and wrapping paper and cookies.

On another note.... I think I am going to attempt to post every day for 2008. 365 days of blogging. What? Am I crazy? I couldn't even do a month! What am I thinking! Hey, it is worth a shot. And I got a new digital camera for Xmas so I can post PICTURES! Yay! Anyway, I think it will give me a good goal and a good way to take some mental time for myself each day. We will see how it goes!

Later!!!!