Random Tuesdays

Saucy, Saucy, Saucy! Love sayin it and I love when it applies. I am going to call Tuesdays Special Sauce day. I have a "policy" that I am any where from 3-5 minutes late for everything. In the case of productivity for the week Tuesdays follow suit in the amazing tardiness that plagues my life. Monday is pretty much useless for me. I make all these begining of the week goals. Then wait til it is Tueday to get them all rollin. I think it is in the sauce.

I chatted with a friend about a possible housing move. Sorted all the laundry and transported it to the area that it will eventually get into the washer. I went to the gorcery store with my two Things. I made breakfast for my Band before he was off to work and school(if you talk to the Band he would tell you all the stars are in their proper alignment if this happens). I made the BED!!

Huston the Shoes have landed. I repeat the shoes have landed. This is one of the things I most love to get.

Things I would most like to get in a surprise random gift.

1. Mascara
2. Shoes (my new ones are great and arrived lastnight)
3. Children activites idea books.
4. The most recent issue of Real Simple the magazine.
5. Organization idea books.
6. Time management ideas.
7. Socks aslo called Sockies.
8. Chocolate in it's many forms.
9. An hour one on one with my husband.

Ok so the random thought for the post is.......

People who try to stop their yawn by flexing their jaw muscles and don't yawn. I don't care how strong your jaw muscles are you can't fake it! It is one of the little things in life that will always make me giggle.

I am discovering fun new things to do with HTML. My wonderful Step Momma designed this blog and the banner for me. Thanks Thanks thanks again. YOU RULE!!

What time of the month is it??...

It is time to wait in line at the grocery store with dental floss and a Pregnancy test. Insanity may just be the definition, but as I see it there is that 99-point-something-chance that I may be having another bundle of joy.

There are reasons for my paranoia.

1. Thing 1 was a mere 8 months old when I found out I was pregnant with Thing 2.

2. My sweet Thing 2 is going on 10 months. My body is saying, "Hey, aren't you supposed to feel tired, nauseous, and all excited at the same time??

3. The name game is so fun to play when you are driving with your Band.(the Band doesn't share my enthusiasm for this traveling game.)

4. I really love the new baby smell.


I have my hands full really full. So when the three minutes were up and the window indicated negative I was OK.

Well, there is always next month.:)

Pretty in PINK ????

We introduced Thing 2 back into the room of Thing 1. During this afternoon's nap some how he found himself in her crib. I think the pink brings out his cheeks. What do you say??

The crib has been in his room for ever and he has never been interested. Now he can't stay out.

Shoot I love those kids.

Now for a MEME. I am ignorant and have no clue what a meme is. DYM help me!!!

I am not sure how I made it through Jr. High cause now if everyone's doin' I gots ta!!

1. Four jobs I've had
Photographer grip
Elementary afterschool program leader
Waitress
Telephone chatter for a Cruises and Tours CO.

2. Movies I would watch over and over
Princess Bride
Savanna Smiles
Pollyanna
"N.Dynamite"

3.Four Places I've lived
Laguna Hills, California
Moscow,Idaho
Clearfield, Utah
Huntington Beach, CA

4. Four websites I visit Daily
Sierra Trading Post.com(to see when my shoes will come)
Web Ct for the University
yahoo
Geo caching anything

5. Four Fattening foods
Mix one jar marshmellow creme and 8 oz of sour creme.(Fruit Dip)
Peanut butter milk chocolate chips in the micro spread on grams
Nachos
Super nachos

6. Places i'd rather be
On a golf course
on the beach
In a hammock
hot bath

7. Kid's shows I can tolerate on TV
1. Little Einstiens
2. Blues Clues
3. Seaseme Street
4. Thomas the train ( they are generally real short)

Ok I did it and my posting has gone wild. I am going on a break. 24 hours at least LOL.

Time to update.....

I found the Shoes they are beautiful and much like the ones I was lamenting.

In other news I am attempting girl hair dos for my 10 month old. Today's attempt Piggys!! My biggest fear is that some mom in the local supermarket today will pull me aside and say. "Honey, I have the name of a great hair stylist if you need help with kindergarten picture day." So I am practicing now. She 10 months old and too small to remember any trama that may insue.

Wittless Wednesday

Today has been one of those days. No one's schedule jived and I am really want to to put an innocent Thing 1 up for sale on ebay. I am glad there are family members like Kass who remind me of his finer points. There are somedays I am willing to just chalk it up as a rotten day and others I refuse to let it get to me.

So today's post is going to be raw. A bit stringy, with a hint of bittersweet. I am bloggin like no one's reading folks. "Hold onto your BUMS" The word Bu-- is a bad word in my house, we use BUM.

OK ..... I was in "the mood" where I start yelling at myself to calm down and breathe. In the mist of these moments I find it really hard to listen to the quiet calm me that says "You are OK. " My heart was filled with the prayer of that included "let me see the things I am supposed to today".

And then out of nowhere my little Thing 1 comes to me and signs his word for BLANKET. My natural reaction to this is to go find it. I turn to find he has handed it over to his LA LA(His nick name for Thing 2) who was sitting in a saucer fussin.

BACKGROUND NOTE:
Thing 1, who is 2 and 3 months old, hates when his LA LA gets upset. He has been known to bring her binkis, toys, and rank nasty bottles only he can find in times of need.
This morning he recieved a new BRUMMM ( Thing 1 language = truck) he is a content little boy unless you ask him to part with said bruuuummmm. This will be the case for at least 3-4 days.
Now his BLANKET is one of those items that is vital. He rarely goes anywhere without the Blanket. Linus's blanket has nothin on Thing 1's blanket.

I swoop down to eye level with Thing 1 who is still signing blanket and now nodding his head ready for the "GOOD Job" hug and kiss. I go to help Thing 2 and here comes Thing 1 with his prized possesion. The BRUMMMM. He hands it slowly and lovingly to his little sister.

It is so hard not to be thankful for each momment you get to spend sweating, mulling, working, learning, worrying and frustrating over these precious gifts when they give you the glimpse of what you need,in the momment you need it. In this glimpse I got to see the "lesson of the month" play out in my universe.

What lesson.... it was in a church meeting when the subject of forgiving others came up. It was a lesson I had heard many times before and will hear many more times in the future. I happened to be signed up for a undergrad/graduate class this semester called "Forgiveness and anger reduction" So I paid paticular attention to the lesson in church about the subject.

In my studies over the first two weeks of the course we are asked the question WHY FORGIVE? We are then asked to delve deep and find our motive for forgiveness. Mine is kinda the same as one of the leading 8 answers in our text. But with a twist. "It is what God would want us to do, and if we love God we will do it out of love for him" The twist added was that if God created man/woman then all of us have an unspeakable bond. A brotherhood if you will. We are His children.

Real joy is watching your children help and love each another. As their mother the smallest tokens of love are noted. I believe that when we forgive others we mend ourselves as well as others. The former is an instant gratification benifit however may take longer for the other party to feel the blessing. This makes our Maker happy. He has intricate purpose for each one of us. We make His work worth it when we forgive one another. Not for the mear fufillment of a commandment to "love thy neighbor" but to reach out with healing words of forgivness to brothers and sisters who have offended --knowingly and unknowingly-- and work to uplift the Children of God.

I get a human type of joy seeing my children be kind to one another. However this type of joy lasts. My Father in Heaven has given me a wonderful glimpse today.

"Each day that we awake is a new start, another chance. Why waste it on self-pitty, sloth and selfishness? Roll that day around on your tounge, relish the taste of it's freedom. Breathe deeply of the morning air, savor the fragrance of opportunity. Run your hands along the spine of those precious 24 hours and feel the strength in the sinew and bone. Life is raw material. We are artisians. We can sculpt our exsistance into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It is in our hands."--- Cathy Better of Reistertown, Maryland.

Good BUY .....

We are gathered here today to express our deepest sorrow for the loss of a beloved pair of shoes.

I have a habit of wearing shoes that are one of two varieties brown or black. I rarely find a pair that I love with all my heart. The combination of comfortable and stylish is often illusive. I will always choose comfort over style.

Today is the retirement of an extra good pair of shoes. They go great around the house in sweats and they look cute with jeans(as seen on the left) and my skater patnts that went out of style in the 1990s. These paticular ones I picked up onsale for 8.99. I am in search of another pair.

Things I Look for in a shoe.....

1. Comfort
2. Color: Brown
3. Easy accessibility(I know that this breaks the cardinal rule of www.FLYlady.net but i do love slip ons)
4. Multi purpose
By this I mean functional in wal-mart, on dates, and in the backyard feeding the neighbor's horses.


I am going to begin my search online this time.

A Recipe?? OH I love a good recipe.....

I am the one on the Left..... Not the seal!
Stop looking at the seal. Many of the mishaps in my life are just like this picture.

"Look at the camera!! "

"Not that camera....!!"




Recipe for Most recent Mishap....

Ingredients

1 lb Enthusiasm
2 tbs Distraction
Stir in .....
1 new doctor's office

Mix well. Until embarrassment is the only possible outcome.

A couple weeks ago I had heard a friend compliment a co-worker about his being a "great Pediatrician". I am always on the look out for a good pediatrician because ours is just .... well mediocre. Then we talked about languages and Potuguese came up and he mentioned this Pediatrician was from Brazil. Kewl.
So last week my Thing 2 had teeth common in and was feeling yuck, I then made an appointment with this GREAT Pediatrician. He was notably good and hey he was someone who spoke a language I did.

So the appointment date arrives. We all cram into the exam room (Thing 1, Thing 2, and I).

Enter "Great Pediatrician"

Pediatrician: Hello, how are you all doing today?

Me: Great! we are here today because we had heard you were a great pediatrician.

Pediatrician (humbly): Oh why thank you.

Me(very excited!!): I also heard you were Brazilian. Que bom, voce fala Portuguese!

Pediatrician(now with his head cocked to the side, with a half smile): What?

Me ( in one breath teen-hyper-mode fashion) :I know that is exactly what I said! I am so excited para fala portuguese! Now your friend said that you are from the Northern part of Brazil around Recife?? What part are you from?? I spent some time in Bahia. I love it in the North. What part of the north are you from??

Pediatrician(reaching slowly with a stethoscope to listen to thing 2's heart beat ----Pauses----)

Me (noticing a pause slips in): I just want you to know that your friend told me what a great pediatrician you were before I heard that you were from Brazil. (add wink--Brazilian gesturer for "see how savvy I am")

Pediatrician (Deep breath, rather blank expression): Just a moment.

He listens to Thing 2's heart beat then her Lungs. Pulls back the stethoscope and says, "I am From the Middle East, who told you I was from Brasil?"

At this point it hasn't full sunk in how deep the embaressing moment was going. "Oh who was it..... Ummmm?? I am not sure .....I think ......

We changed the subject promptly, and had a lovely visit. He is a great Pediatrician. Stay tuned for Thing 1's visit to Dr. "Great".


This week has brought some fun new discoveries. Thing 2 is fluent in Wookie.
Thing 1 is still a mute so I will type his new discoveries.

Valued Lessons of Thing 1

1. Chapstick and glue sticks may appear to be the same, but are very different.

2. Mom's deodorant does smell like it would taste good.

3. Crayons write better than they taste.

4. Dad laughs when I fill the door handle, of our car, full of bottled soda.

AH let there be light.....

Ever since thing 1 has been big enough to turn on the light endless hours have been spent reading books, pushing cars, and emptying sock drawers. His bedroom light would go on at 2, 3, 4 am and stay on until it was time to wake up and find the toys he had fallen asleep playing with. He had yet to sleep in his big boy bed for longer than 3 hours at a time. Annoying? Yes, when you go to the bathroom and see the light is on at 5:30am. So we tried taping the light switch to the off position. Good for a maximum of 24 hours. This week I had had it. No light bulbs. Pulled them out. My child magically sleeps when he is put in his bed.
Day three we return Thing 2 to her crib. She had been exiled to a play pin bassinet in the office since the light discovery took place. Today we entered their room to find thing 1 giggling with thing 2 in her crib. No Buena. How he got in there involves a gymnastic feet I don't want to know that my son is capable at his tender young age of 2. I have placed the baby monitor back into their room so that we can hear the brawl before it gets violent if that is the case. He has figured out how to enter the crib his dismount is sketchy and I assume that is why he hasn't attempted it YET.... We shall see.

This evening I was in their room trying to rig up the baby monitor and its components.

You: This was difficult?
Me: In a room with no light bulbs? Yes.

Luckily for me my "Band" pulls through. He is an avid outdoors man, who sees very little of the outdoors. In his previous life as a camper he used what I call a "Head flashlight". Soooo, in I go into the dark with light attached to my head. I come back out of the room to get the other components and start my usual bark of random things to my Band. He takes one look at me and starts to laugh hysterically. I then realize the head flashlight is still attached and it is on. Let there be light.


Meanwhile in other news.... We bought a car. Yes it is officially ours. I guess we have to have the title in hand to say that but the car we have been purchasing for the past four-and-some years is finally ours. Paying off a car has had some new effects that I didn't expect.

1. Desire for a new car payment has completely diminished.
2. The thought of purchasing old cars (so that you don't ever have a car payment again) is new and very persistent.
3. The desire for the purchased car to be passed down (for the enjoyment of many generations) is growing steadily, as I have named it Doug.

My band and I are planning "debt-free-by-February" that almost rhymes. I am givin myself A for effort. We get in the mail an overdraft statement from our bank. One month ago we closed our account to this particular bank that I do not have love for. AKA Rape of America. Now the electronic debit that was issued was an auto bill pay transaction. Only when you cancel the account you no longer can have access to the online portion of the auto bill pay. Thus you would think that the cancellation of an account would cancel the auto bill pay.

Not the case. Now they want their 34 dollar- check -bouncing fee as well as a 20.00 transaction. Ok call in special forces, BAND. Love it. Band calls and proceeds to explain situation. Customer service can't remove bank charge asks band to go into the branch and pay fee and transaction. Band responds with......"I am sorry that is against my policy." Goes to branch pays for transaction not fee. It's all in how you write the policies. I love MY BAND!

Only on Sundays...

I am noticing this blog thing is addictive.... really addictive. So Sunday nights are the update night. I like limits and boundaries they are good for me.

The newness of the Year may have someting to do with my new attitude of boundaries.

Resolutions that aren't so resolute (as of late).....

1. Getting up early

2. Dealing with the goal of setting goals

3. Love more.

4. Yoga more than last year (once is more than last year)

5. Read and understand more.

6. Smile with my heart more.

Alright, started a new book and loving the thought provoking effects. "The Alchemist" written by a Brazilian named Paulo Coelho.

This year's new loves.....

Buying books.

Sheets with 320+ thread count.

New comforters for the new year.

Watching Thing 1's vocab expand with words like HEY!! and Yeah!

Waving at Thing 2 with my fingers and the back of my hand my mouth. Just immitating her.

Seeing my friends kids as they are growing up.

Can you see that roof top on the right side?

Smell of the Day.....

I am pretty sure it's skunk. Possible Dead muskrat mixed in. I discovered the smell first in the garage while changing over some laundry. No Bueno, combining two things I don't like Laundry and Smelly skunks.What is it about smells?? The "Band" can smell it too he says it may be the smell of weeds too. I am hoping really wet weeds, instead of really wet skunk.

I don't like skunks. They shift their weight weird when they walk.

The Band's picture takin' skills...

I do love my Band ... he does have thoes picture takin skills down. I notice the composition gettin better and better. The leve is so full and everything has been green lately because of the copious amounts of rain we have gotten in the past couple of weeks.

Thing 1 and Thing 2 have been good as we entertain ourselves Geo caching all over our little town. They both have runny little noses and are the epitamy of cuddly and cute. I just wish Healthy and cuddly could exist in the same space time contiuim. Thing 2 is teething and four are breaking through at the same time. I am ready for her to go on strickly "people food diet". She has been handeling the breads, meats and eggs pretty good. For a nine month-old she is pretty advanced in all her skills. Takes after my Band.

This should be interesting

I finally did it I am officially bloggin'. So here I go......