Sunday, February 15, 2009
Food Coma
Oh my gosh, I think I may be falling in to a food coma! I made Sunday dinner tonight - it is kind of becoming a ritual around here with Cameron and Caitlyn here on Sunday nights too. So tonight we had meatloaf, mashed potatoes, asparagus, and egg noodles....mmmmm mmmm good! I must say, I have the touch. I think Nannan's special touch got passed down, tonight would have even been Nannan worthy! It was complete silence around here, that NEVER happens. It was almost eerie. lol And I think Austin probably ate as much as I did. About 15 minutes after I had gotten him cleaned up and down, Caitlyn saw him chewing on something and went over...he had a whole asparagus down in his lower lip just sucking on it. Guess he was saving it for later. Oh how I love a good Sunday dinner.
Ok, I finally jumped on the bandwagon and joined Facebook - everyone happy now. And yes, it is a little addicting. It is weird to even see the names of people I would have never even thought I'd hear of again. I currently only keep up with 2 people from HS. That is it - completely. And I haven't been back since my family moved my freshman year of college except 2 times for weddings. We didn't have a 10 year reunion, well if we did I didn't know about it and didn't go - so absolutely no connection to that point in my life. Needless to say, those days weren't my proudest and I've never had any desire to go back to HS days. It is always weird to me how much of a connection Aaron still has to his HS friends, but I guess some of that is just that we are still here. Maybe it would be different if we had been by KC instead of STL? Anyways, hello to any of you old acquaintances that browse over here.
And since I haven't posted a pic in a while, here is a picture i took of Aaron with his little mini me!!
Friday, February 13, 2009
Wow what a long week. Work was crazy busy again and by Tuesday I was hoping it was Friday! This weekend is going to be pretty filled up by me working on my school stuff. Fun Fun. I've got 2 papers to write and will get another assignment on Tuesday. We aren't doing anything special for Valentines Day - everyday is Valentines Day around here! So pretty much will just be working on my school stuff, Aaron has lots of school stuff to get to, I think we are going to try to take the kids to the dollar show, and before we know it the weekend will be gone. Only 4 more days till my little girl is 5. I just can't believe it. I worked on her birthday party some this week and I'm pretty excited about it. I think it will be really cute. Dora theme, so I'm working with that on the activities. I did get to make it to Mackenzie's Valentine's Party at school on Thursday - I had to leave a little early, but at least I got to go. We had some special time together. I'm so glad that I have a job where i can still make these activities because they really mean a lot to me. Well, I'm down right pooped right now, and need to lay down before I just fall over sitting up. 4:45 will be here all to quickly!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Bromance
Here are some pics from this weekend when Fran and the kids came by. Of course i couldn't get a good picture of the boys together and I didn't even try one of all the kids together....I'm so mad I didn't try more, they'll probably be in H.S before they see each other again (ha ha...love you Fran!).
"Yo mom, this is my bro Sean, and we're just gonna hang for a while and catch up- good with you?"
"Uh, can we get a little privacy please. Who in the heck are you anyways crazy lady, and why do you keep taking my picture?"
"OK Sean, first you push the green button then the arrow, then the red...."
"See just like this. Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it, I've been trained by the best"
"But mom, you didn't even let me hit save first!"
(and this is the total drama, all out fit cry I get these days...just pitiful isn't it!!)
"Yo mom, this is my bro Sean, and we're just gonna hang for a while and catch up- good with you?"
"Uh, can we get a little privacy please. Who in the heck are you anyways crazy lady, and why do you keep taking my picture?""OK Sean, first you push the green button then the arrow, then the red...."
"See just like this. Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it, I've been trained by the best""But mom, you didn't even let me hit save first!"(and this is the total drama, all out fit cry I get these days...just pitiful isn't it!!)Sunday, February 8, 2009
Happy Birthday Grandma
Today is my grandma's 85th birthday! We are driving down for a suprise birthday party they are having for her. My brother and family are up from Houston and she doesn't know that any of us are going to be in town. Wow, 85 years!! Grandma still lives in the same house that her and Grandpy built probably around 50 years ago. Besides some high blood pressure, there really isn't much that keeps her down. Of course the woman wouldn't tell us if it was anything else...she is "so damn stubborn". OK OK so maybe I know where I got it from now! Let me tell you a little bit about my Grandma........memories of Grandma are so intertwined throughout my life and childhood, there aren't too many memories i have that she isn't a part of. She truly embodies the word "Grandma". Everyone should be so lucky to know the love of, sweet and sometimes harsh, of a Grandma like mine. I used to spend the night at their house all the time when i was a kid. I even went to Grandma's when i had scarlet fever one year so I could get the one on one attention I so deserved feeling so crummy, and of course there I wouldn't get everyone else sick. We have had our disagreements, did I mention Grandma can be stubborn! And she nags, and gets more involved in things in your life sometimes than you would like...but that is ok....that is Grandma. Grandma just wouldn't be Grandma if it weren't for you being able to count on her for those things! Here are some examples....
- when we called and told grandma that we were getting married, se replied with a sobering, almost dissappointed "how are you going to survive on your own" - "we'll Grandma, we've been living together for over a year and haven't gone hungry yet"
- I think maybe just in the past year - and I stress the MAYBE - that I can keep my kids alive and healthy. As soon as you walk in Grandma's door she is trying to cook you something, well the same goes for the kids. I can tell her they just ate, or are going to in an hour so I don't want them to eat...and 5 minutes later she has them sitting at the table with food in front of them...and if they eat even a bit I get the "See, they were hungry" like I was lying to her or something! lol
- Same things with the babies sleeping....one time we had Turner in the pack-n-play putting him to bed at her house, and he was fussing some...but then she kept goig back and opeing the door to check on him, which of course brought the screaming back full force everytime. I think that each time he was almost asleep, there she would go down the hall. I thought Aaron was going to tackle her in the hallway....needless to say, I thnk that is the last time that we have stayed at Grandma's when Aaron has been with us.
- Grandma told my sister-inn-law at her BABY SHOWER that her kid was going to be ugly! I don't remember how she tried to explain it off - but that was a classic...Grandma isn't always the most PC person!
Things I will always associate with Grandma-
- Cream of Wheat - on a plate, butter and brown sugar....mmmmmm....
-Cream of Chicken Soup - and nobody can even come close to getting it the way Grandma does - and it is only the canned stuff, you'd think we could figure out her secret....of course the more I cook, I think the fact that Grandma uses the all out regular soup and whole milk might have something to do with the difference in taste from my 98%FF soup and skim milk.....
- Grandma's fried chicken..mm mm finger lickin good - and like no one else's
- "Skrimp" - see Grandma is Dutch, and still to this day can't say "shrimp" - I found this out one time when I was probably 12 or so and we went to Red Lobster and I swear it took her 10 minutes to get the waiter to understand what she wanted. By the time it was all said and done we were laughing so hard I don't know that he could understand anything - still have that joke to today.
- growing pains - the literal ones. I used to get such bad growing pains as a kid and remember countless nights of her sitting in my bed the whole night rubbing my legs so I could go back to sleep. And the warm washrags she would continue to bring to me to put against my ears when I had such bad earaches.
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I could go on and on, and maybe I will later, but right now I need to get in the shower so I'm not late to the party. I just want to end with that i love my Grandma soooo much for exactly who she is. I'm so lucky that my kids have been able to learn about who Grandma is for themselves and have the same memories of her as I do as a small child. I know that a day is coming where Grandma isn't going to be here, and I can't even begin to comprehend that in my mind..... so I'll try to get in as many more memories as I can before that day comes. I love you so much Grandma!!
- when we called and told grandma that we were getting married, se replied with a sobering, almost dissappointed "how are you going to survive on your own" - "we'll Grandma, we've been living together for over a year and haven't gone hungry yet"
- I think maybe just in the past year - and I stress the MAYBE - that I can keep my kids alive and healthy. As soon as you walk in Grandma's door she is trying to cook you something, well the same goes for the kids. I can tell her they just ate, or are going to in an hour so I don't want them to eat...and 5 minutes later she has them sitting at the table with food in front of them...and if they eat even a bit I get the "See, they were hungry" like I was lying to her or something! lol
- Same things with the babies sleeping....one time we had Turner in the pack-n-play putting him to bed at her house, and he was fussing some...but then she kept goig back and opeing the door to check on him, which of course brought the screaming back full force everytime. I think that each time he was almost asleep, there she would go down the hall. I thought Aaron was going to tackle her in the hallway....needless to say, I thnk that is the last time that we have stayed at Grandma's when Aaron has been with us.
- Grandma told my sister-inn-law at her BABY SHOWER that her kid was going to be ugly! I don't remember how she tried to explain it off - but that was a classic...Grandma isn't always the most PC person!
Things I will always associate with Grandma-
- Cream of Wheat - on a plate, butter and brown sugar....mmmmmm....
-Cream of Chicken Soup - and nobody can even come close to getting it the way Grandma does - and it is only the canned stuff, you'd think we could figure out her secret....of course the more I cook, I think the fact that Grandma uses the all out regular soup and whole milk might have something to do with the difference in taste from my 98%FF soup and skim milk.....
- Grandma's fried chicken..mm mm finger lickin good - and like no one else's
- "Skrimp" - see Grandma is Dutch, and still to this day can't say "shrimp" - I found this out one time when I was probably 12 or so and we went to Red Lobster and I swear it took her 10 minutes to get the waiter to understand what she wanted. By the time it was all said and done we were laughing so hard I don't know that he could understand anything - still have that joke to today.
- growing pains - the literal ones. I used to get such bad growing pains as a kid and remember countless nights of her sitting in my bed the whole night rubbing my legs so I could go back to sleep. And the warm washrags she would continue to bring to me to put against my ears when I had such bad earaches.
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I could go on and on, and maybe I will later, but right now I need to get in the shower so I'm not late to the party. I just want to end with that i love my Grandma soooo much for exactly who she is. I'm so lucky that my kids have been able to learn about who Grandma is for themselves and have the same memories of her as I do as a small child. I know that a day is coming where Grandma isn't going to be here, and I can't even begin to comprehend that in my mind..... so I'll try to get in as many more memories as I can before that day comes. I love you so much Grandma!!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
A Day in the Life
So I figured with my crazy days right now, I better go ahead an capture a normal day for me so that I can look back and remember.
4:45-5 - wake up
5:45 - leave the house, stop at Quik Trip to get my daily cappuccino/coffee concoction. I really can't go without it!
6:30 - get to work
Stay crazy busy all day, about 12 heat up a can of soup and eat at my desk
3:30-5 - depending on the day, leave work. On Tuesdays I stay late and go straight to school from 6-10. Monday and Wednesday I have to be home by 4 so Aaron can leave for school, Thursday home by 5, Friday home about 4:30-5.
Get home and start my second job! lol Lets take tonight for example, got home about 4:10, from then till now at 7, here is my list:
1. clean kitchen
2. start laundry (load 3 is in now)
3. make cookies with the kids
4. make dinner
5. serve the kids dinner - feed Austin, tell Turner 563 times to get back to the tale and eat!, and Mackenzie was having her favorite dinner (cheesy chicken) so she ate fine.
6. Put all 3 kids in the bathtub
7. clean bathroom while kids are playing in bath
8. go to get towels out, and there are NONE clean...UGHHHH - that has never happened....Cameron??!!
9. Figure without all the big towels, it is a good time to straighten rest of towels/washrags in linen closet (right outside the door, I can still see Austin) while kids are in bath
10. Get all kids out and in jammies
11. unload/load dishwasher and clean kitchen again from cookies and dinner
12. Finally get a chance to update my blog!!!
For the rest of the night - around 8-9 the kids will all get to bed. I have to read at least 2 chapters for school, go to bed and back up at 4:45! Yippee! And no I don't sleep in on the weekends, I have to use the time of everyone being asleep to work on school papers. I'm not complaining, this is actually pretty good speed for me. I take a day off here or there and rest back up. Well I better go, I've got kids wanting to do homework and play with the bead things you put on and melt together (and Austin is helping out right now by walking around with the broom sweeping the kitchen floor - thanks buddy!). So...until next time.....
4:45-5 - wake up
5:45 - leave the house, stop at Quik Trip to get my daily cappuccino/coffee concoction. I really can't go without it!
6:30 - get to work
Stay crazy busy all day, about 12 heat up a can of soup and eat at my desk
3:30-5 - depending on the day, leave work. On Tuesdays I stay late and go straight to school from 6-10. Monday and Wednesday I have to be home by 4 so Aaron can leave for school, Thursday home by 5, Friday home about 4:30-5.
Get home and start my second job! lol Lets take tonight for example, got home about 4:10, from then till now at 7, here is my list:
1. clean kitchen
2. start laundry (load 3 is in now)
3. make cookies with the kids
4. make dinner
5. serve the kids dinner - feed Austin, tell Turner 563 times to get back to the tale and eat!, and Mackenzie was having her favorite dinner (cheesy chicken) so she ate fine.
6. Put all 3 kids in the bathtub
7. clean bathroom while kids are playing in bath
8. go to get towels out, and there are NONE clean...UGHHHH - that has never happened....Cameron??!!
9. Figure without all the big towels, it is a good time to straighten rest of towels/washrags in linen closet (right outside the door, I can still see Austin) while kids are in bath
10. Get all kids out and in jammies
11. unload/load dishwasher and clean kitchen again from cookies and dinner
12. Finally get a chance to update my blog!!!
For the rest of the night - around 8-9 the kids will all get to bed. I have to read at least 2 chapters for school, go to bed and back up at 4:45! Yippee! And no I don't sleep in on the weekends, I have to use the time of everyone being asleep to work on school papers. I'm not complaining, this is actually pretty good speed for me. I take a day off here or there and rest back up. Well I better go, I've got kids wanting to do homework and play with the bead things you put on and melt together (and Austin is helping out right now by walking around with the broom sweeping the kitchen floor - thanks buddy!). So...until next time.....
Sunday, February 1, 2009
We went sledding yesterday...so it was at least 40 degrees outside, but there was still enough snow (barely) and we wanted to make sure we made it once before it all melted. So sledding we went and snowman we made. Had a great time, and it was nice to not be freezing cold while we were out playing in the snow. Austin LOVED sledding and threw a fit any time we took him out of the sled, also LOVES swinging...and you guessed it...all out fit when I go to take him out of the swing too. He is in quite the dramatic stage right now.
These are some random pictures from my birthday. Wanted to take a picture of me at 30 - but this was the end of a long day, so not lookin my best. 
And here is my wonderful cake. Didn't have a '0', so I just got the 3! (Don't mind Turner in his dinosaur outfit!)
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