I think the fact that Tiger was up all night coughing and sneezing and the fact that he fell asleep on his floor during quiet time today may perhaps mean that he doesn't feel good. But I'm just guessing.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
If I Had a Million Dollars. . .I would buy you some art.
This post is dedicated to my love who is celebrating a big birthday today. I must say that for a man who does not like birthdays, he is handling this day quite nicely. Of course it helps that he is at work and not surrounded by our constant birthday references. But don't worry, the day is not yet over and so there is still plenty of time for us to smother him with birthday love. So here's to you my love (picture me raising my lunchtime glass of Diet Dr. Pepper) and to all of the years we have had and to all of the years that are yet to come. You rock! 
(this "lovely" photo courtesy of my KK princess)
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Busted
Seven years ago we moved into this house and signed up for basic cable. At the time of the cable installation, the cable guy forgot to bring the block that would give us our basic cable versus the standard cable. He said that he would be back with the block, but apparently he forgot and so for the past 7 years we have been enjoying all the perks of standard cable at basic cable rates. I must say that it has been heavenly. Well you may remember that this summer Doug lovingly surprised me with a DVR box for our cable which has brought us joys previously unknown. Unfortunately it turns out that there is a down side to our beloved DVR. Apparently the DVR box speaks directly to the cable company and so yesterday the mistake that the cable guy made seven years ago was rectified. Sad, sad, sad. Sad, sad, sad. So, what to do now? The thought of paying for television is rather sickening, but at the same time what am I going to do without my Foodnetwork and Bravo TV? How will I watch my Project Runway? We can't return the DVR box because then they will know that we can still get the standard cable if we bypass the box and then they will come and fix that little glitch. We can't keep paying for the DVR box and not pay for it. So, do we suck it up and start paying the full amount? Do we go the Dish route? So many questions my friends, so many questions.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
More Thoughts and Happenings
1. Apparently the only way to keep up with the laundry is to wash and fold the laundry EVERY day. Sheesh. I managed to do this for one week and then it about put me over the edge. I am now back to my laundry mountain and I think it is mocking me.
2. Once again my house is swallowing me alive. Help. So. Much. Stuff. Everywhere! I believe that a cleaning binge is once again necessary. To all members of this house. If you haven't touched it in three months it is out of here. Hide your treasures now because if you blink they may be gone. Nothing is safe. Except for all of those really annoying "important" papers from school. Oh how I wish that I could just trash all of that stuff. Oh how I wish that the school would stop sending stuff home.
3. Tiger is on a coloring kick. It would be really cute if the surfaces that he were coloring on weren't his belly, his face, his hands, the carpet, the walls, the doors, my purse. You get my drift. The little pill. Anyone know how to get marker off of the carpet? Because heaven forbid we actually have our carpets cleaned like we really need to. Instead I just want a really clean spot where the marker used to be.
4. I am amazed at how Tiger's preschool is really helping him. The other day I was getting him in the car to take him to school when he said, "No. I don't want to go." Doug and I just looked at each other in amazement. We have never heard him voice an opinion using words and thought like this and in a full sentence. It was awesome. We congratulated him on his excellent use of words and then I told him "Sorry, you have to go. Now get in the car." He is also really starting to figure out who he is in relation to everyone else. Meaning that he is trying so hard to understand that he is 3 years old and that he is a boy and not a girl and also how to tell the difference between boys and girls. Also, emotions. Last night Sparky was crying and Tiger kept asking if Sparky was sad. Amazing. He has never understood before that crying means someone is sad and that a smile means you are happy. It's these little things that you take for granted that you think kids just automatically get that he has just never understood. It is exciting to see him finally starting to figure these things out. It just makes me excited for my little guy.
5. I am finding that I am getting really excited for Christmas. That joyous feeling started to creep into my inner being so subtly that I hardly noticed it until I found myself wanting to listen to Christmas music and to buy presents for the kids. I am even planning to send out Christmas cards this year. I know. Shocking, isn't it? I can't even remember the last time that I sent out a Christmas card. I am sure that it won't say much, but who cares? It's just fun to get Christmas cards in the mail.
That's all for now. I must go and clean and fold laundry. But really I will probably just take a shower and then goof around on the computer until all of my free time is gone and then kids are home from school.
2. Once again my house is swallowing me alive. Help. So. Much. Stuff. Everywhere! I believe that a cleaning binge is once again necessary. To all members of this house. If you haven't touched it in three months it is out of here. Hide your treasures now because if you blink they may be gone. Nothing is safe. Except for all of those really annoying "important" papers from school. Oh how I wish that I could just trash all of that stuff. Oh how I wish that the school would stop sending stuff home.
3. Tiger is on a coloring kick. It would be really cute if the surfaces that he were coloring on weren't his belly, his face, his hands, the carpet, the walls, the doors, my purse. You get my drift. The little pill. Anyone know how to get marker off of the carpet? Because heaven forbid we actually have our carpets cleaned like we really need to. Instead I just want a really clean spot where the marker used to be.
4. I am amazed at how Tiger's preschool is really helping him. The other day I was getting him in the car to take him to school when he said, "No. I don't want to go." Doug and I just looked at each other in amazement. We have never heard him voice an opinion using words and thought like this and in a full sentence. It was awesome. We congratulated him on his excellent use of words and then I told him "Sorry, you have to go. Now get in the car." He is also really starting to figure out who he is in relation to everyone else. Meaning that he is trying so hard to understand that he is 3 years old and that he is a boy and not a girl and also how to tell the difference between boys and girls. Also, emotions. Last night Sparky was crying and Tiger kept asking if Sparky was sad. Amazing. He has never understood before that crying means someone is sad and that a smile means you are happy. It's these little things that you take for granted that you think kids just automatically get that he has just never understood. It is exciting to see him finally starting to figure these things out. It just makes me excited for my little guy.
5. I am finding that I am getting really excited for Christmas. That joyous feeling started to creep into my inner being so subtly that I hardly noticed it until I found myself wanting to listen to Christmas music and to buy presents for the kids. I am even planning to send out Christmas cards this year. I know. Shocking, isn't it? I can't even remember the last time that I sent out a Christmas card. I am sure that it won't say much, but who cares? It's just fun to get Christmas cards in the mail.
That's all for now. I must go and clean and fold laundry. But really I will probably just take a shower and then goof around on the computer until all of my free time is gone and then kids are home from school.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Quotes that make me smile
As Doug and I looked out the window this afternoon at all of the millions of leaves blowing off of the trees and off the yards and down the street, Doug turned to me and said, "Look. It's the great leaf migration."
Friday, October 23, 2009
I am the coolest
Yesterday I got the kids out of school early and my sister and I took the kids down to the pumpkin festival. The weather was gorgeous, the people were weird and freaky, and the pumpkin donuts were totally worth the drive.
Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere
Mmmmm, pumpkin ice cream
KK made sand art in a bottle.
On our way home we stopped at a pumpkin patch on the side of the road and let the kids pick out some pumpkins. Tiger loved his little tiny pumpkin, but really his favorite part was the little maze made out of hay. Well maybe not the maze so much as all of the hay that was laying on the ground around the maze that he could throw up in the air while he yelled "Happy Birthday." In fact, I found hay in all kinds of places last night when I was getting him in the tub. Yes, it was a successful day. The kids had fun and I was the coolest mom for a day.
Fun with cutouts
Sweet kids
Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere
Mmmmm, pumpkin ice cream
KK made sand art in a bottle.
On our way home we stopped at a pumpkin patch on the side of the road and let the kids pick out some pumpkins. Tiger loved his little tiny pumpkin, but really his favorite part was the little maze made out of hay. Well maybe not the maze so much as all of the hay that was laying on the ground around the maze that he could throw up in the air while he yelled "Happy Birthday." In fact, I found hay in all kinds of places last night when I was getting him in the tub. Yes, it was a successful day. The kids had fun and I was the coolest mom for a day.
Fun with cutouts
Sweet kids
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
A moment of whining
I really didn't want to say anything about this but for the past two months I have been discretely working out. Not that you can really tell, because I have yet to bring myself to curb my eating. But that isn't the point right now. Really, the only reason why I am even bringing this up is because of the inconvenience that all of my sweating is causing me. I wouldn't care about the sweating if it weren't for the fact that it makes my hair sweaty and nasty as well. Sweaty and nasty hair must be washed and unfortunately must be washed often. At least my sweaty and nasty hair must be washed and must be washed often. This is what I want to whine about. I am so tired of having to completely wash and do my hair every day. It is soooooo inconvenient and takes way too much time. All of my free time during the day is now being taken up grooming needs. Ugh and sigh. OK, that's all. I feel much better now and so now I must go and take yet another shower.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
A coincidence? I think not.
Last night Doug and I went out to dinner. We had Chinese food. The food was good, but the fortune cookie was even better.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Thoughts
Greetings to the 5 of you who read this. Unfortunately I don't really have anything particularly exciting or witty to say at this time. Really, I just felt like I should post something and I haven't taken any pictures of my kids for a while and we haven't really done anything noteworthy lately and so instead I will leave you with a few thoughts that are running through my brain.
1. Why must I hate laundry so much. Seriously. I really, really struggle with doing laundry. It is never done, no matter how hard you try. I could spend all day washing clothes and there will always be a sock or a pair of underwear sitting at the bottom of the hamper. Actually, I think that I dislike folding laundry the very most. Frankly I just don't do it. I am however sick and tired of the mountains of unfolded laundry that pile up around my house and so I am afraid that a new method must take place. I just don't think that I can live like this anymore, especially since the kids are wearing socks again. I would make Doug do it except that when it comes down to it he doesn't care enough about the mountains of laundry to actually tackle them himself.
2. I want to move. I want to move next summer to be exact. I have no idea how we will make this happen. I don't know where exactly we will move. Will it be a mile from here, will it be farther? I have no idea. All I know is that I have made a decision and I think that if I throw it out into the universe enough times then it is bound to come true. I even collected a bunch of moving boxes from a very friendly gay couple in a super cool jeep the other day as they were about to recycle the moving boxes. I figured that I would need them eventually and I just couldn't stand the thought of those perfectly good moving boxes just sitting in the recycling bins.
3. Winter is not my favorite. Winter here equals no sun, frigid weather, and sick kids. It also means that I will be cold for 4 months. Therefore winter is not my favorite.
4. I have recently been having realizations that I am an adult and that sometimes I can do whatever I want to do. Here is an example: We ran out of toothpaste and so I went to the store to get some more. Usually we just get one tube of toothpaste and we all share it. Well frankly I don't like the kind of toothpaste that the kids like. I was grumbling about this very fact as I picked up the kid's Crest when I suddenly realized that I was an adult and that I could have any kind of toothpaste that I wanted to have and that I didn't even have to share with them. It was liberating. Today it's toothpaste, tomorrow it's peanut butter.
5. I am spending way too much time these days watching Flight of the Conchords. But dang it they are just so entertaining.
6. I don't want to think this, especially about someone so much younger, but Zac Effron is too cute for his own good.
That's all from my brain for now. It's a pretty murky and disturbing place and I don't want to scare anyone away and so I will delve no deeper today.
1. Why must I hate laundry so much. Seriously. I really, really struggle with doing laundry. It is never done, no matter how hard you try. I could spend all day washing clothes and there will always be a sock or a pair of underwear sitting at the bottom of the hamper. Actually, I think that I dislike folding laundry the very most. Frankly I just don't do it. I am however sick and tired of the mountains of unfolded laundry that pile up around my house and so I am afraid that a new method must take place. I just don't think that I can live like this anymore, especially since the kids are wearing socks again. I would make Doug do it except that when it comes down to it he doesn't care enough about the mountains of laundry to actually tackle them himself.
2. I want to move. I want to move next summer to be exact. I have no idea how we will make this happen. I don't know where exactly we will move. Will it be a mile from here, will it be farther? I have no idea. All I know is that I have made a decision and I think that if I throw it out into the universe enough times then it is bound to come true. I even collected a bunch of moving boxes from a very friendly gay couple in a super cool jeep the other day as they were about to recycle the moving boxes. I figured that I would need them eventually and I just couldn't stand the thought of those perfectly good moving boxes just sitting in the recycling bins.
3. Winter is not my favorite. Winter here equals no sun, frigid weather, and sick kids. It also means that I will be cold for 4 months. Therefore winter is not my favorite.
4. I have recently been having realizations that I am an adult and that sometimes I can do whatever I want to do. Here is an example: We ran out of toothpaste and so I went to the store to get some more. Usually we just get one tube of toothpaste and we all share it. Well frankly I don't like the kind of toothpaste that the kids like. I was grumbling about this very fact as I picked up the kid's Crest when I suddenly realized that I was an adult and that I could have any kind of toothpaste that I wanted to have and that I didn't even have to share with them. It was liberating. Today it's toothpaste, tomorrow it's peanut butter.
5. I am spending way too much time these days watching Flight of the Conchords. But dang it they are just so entertaining.
6. I don't want to think this, especially about someone so much younger, but Zac Effron is too cute for his own good.
That's all from my brain for now. It's a pretty murky and disturbing place and I don't want to scare anyone away and so I will delve no deeper today.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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