Someone asked me how our boys could be smiling and happy all the time….thought this would be perfect for Wordless Wednesday. They aren’t all smiles all the time!
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Is This Bad?
So we got to have dinner out with Mary tonight, and Carolyn came to hang out with the kids. Got home and all of the sudden I felt like a needle was stabbing me in the ear and now everything’s muffled and weird. It’s not right but I’m hoping my ear just needs to “pop” (you know the feeling) and all will be back to normal in the morning. Anyone else had this happen?
Another snow day today, although there was still no snow we could see. The boys are getting restless and wanting school again. It’s tough to tell them it’s a snow day when there’s not even a flake to play in. Hopefully it’ll be business as usual tomorrow.
Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
We are in full pirate mode at our place….FULL…went and saw the Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything movie today. It was everything a toddler could want from a movie. Goofy songs, singing veggies, adventure and it was just a tad scary. Now the boys are in the living room with their pirate telescopes searching the Puget Sound for pirate ships and dragons. Gotta love that!
Oh, and it was SO Bainbridge….there was a lady in the theater who was on her phone throughtout the whole movie. Lame.
Snow Day….WHAT!??!
The phone rang at 5:30 this morning. Who calls at 5:30 in the a.m.? I could help but startle awake and assume something bad had happened. Turns out, it was the school’s automated system telling us that there was no school today due to snow. I got up, rubbed my eyes and slowly lifted the shades to see all the snow. Um, what snow? We had a dusting of frost but there was NO reason school should have been cancelled. Someone’s going to be in trouble for this one. It’s clear and dry, not even a flake on the ground at this point. So, I’ve got the boys busy with craft projects so they aren’t thinking about missing school and they are little Picasso’s with stamp pads.
Might take in a movie this afternoon…let’s hope that there is school tomorrow.
Happy Birthday, Pickle
Linda, Scott and the girls came up this weekend to hang out and we had a great time! It was truly one of the most relaxing weekends we have had in a long time, even with the addition of 2 adults, 2 kids and 3 dogs. It was a full house for sure but the kids are at such a great age that they can play together and be entertained while the adults hang out in the dining room and talk. We got a cute picture of the kids and their cousins today…in age it goes like this: Carlos (3), Levi (4), Leila (6), Emma (2) and Trey (2). Believe it or not, Trey is only 2 months older than Emma!
The bummer has been that I totally strained a muscle in my back and it’s been painful. Got some meds at the Evil Empire but they knock me out so I try to not take them until it’s time to crawl into bed. Someone once told me that suffering doesn’t get you into heaven any faster but I have to stay mentally clear or the crew will smell weakness and go for the jugular. Give me the power to carry on this charade of strength so they don’t eat me alive!
Question
So a fellow blogger, David Mcmahon (check him out at: http://david-mcmahon.blogspot.com/ for some cool photos and interesting news stories) asked the following question:
How efficiently (or inefficiently) would your household function without batteries?
If he had said electricity, I would have responded that our lives are highly dependent, we come to a stop at power outages since we have no heat, no light and no hot water. But as for batteries, I think we’d do ok. I would miss the camera and the cell phone, plain and simple and those are two things I would struggle without. We try to limit the number of the boy’s toys that are battery dependent mostly to cut down on the noise. They each have flashlights that they play with non-stop but since we got them the new, fancy flashlights that you crank to power, it doesn’t matter that they leave them on. No batteries to run down, just a little boy power to get it working again. Genius!
So, David, we’d get by….but our lives would be significantly changed without the pictures we treasure and the convenience of the cell phone.
A New Look
While I was keeping the wee beasties busy at the Zone playing today, Dee was working hard getting our ceiling painted. Oh I can’t tell you how nice it was to come in and see a solid white ceiling, instead of white spotted drywall. I talked her into doing the “real” paint as well so now we will have a truly new look to the living room. I even drug the kids into Home Depot to get a new light fixture (no more gold “boobie” light….you know what I mean). Can’t wait for the carpet to be cleaned, that’s next week, and the couch to arrive in 2 weeks. I think the room we spend the most time in should look good!
Dee’s home and the kids are napping…time to get to work and help paint!
Exhaustion
Yesterday after picking the boys up from school we had so much running around to do…we got haircuts, Carlos had speech, then we decided to get some things off of our “to buy” list. We figured Kohls would be the best place to one-stop shop but the didn’t have the pans we wanted in stock, the comforters all looked like old lady ones and not something for Carlos’ bed, they didn’t have a clear shower curtain liner and their scales were $60! We quickly left Kohls and headed to ice cream, as we had promised the boys a treat if they could bear with us with the shopping. Driving up the hill we spotted…..Linen n Things….they would have EVERYTHING we needed! The boys were bummed at another stop but we found even better pans (Rachael Ray in cobalt blue), shower curtain liners were on sale, as were scales and we found a perfect comforter for Carlos’ bed on clearance! Happy happy happy.
The day left us all exhausted, with enough energy to play a little before bed and turn in for the night. As you can tell, Carlos was REALLY done.
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Breathing
Last night we saw an amazing slide show. Our neighbor’s son went on a mission trip to Ethiopia with YoungLife and they set pictures to music and it was very moving. It even held the boy’s attention and that’s saying a lot. Looked like a great trip and I give those kids all the credit in the world to spend their Christmas doing mission work so far away from their families.
Tonight was a treat for Dee and I….our friend, Martha, invited us to The Cantina to help celebrate her birthday. Drinks out with the girls was so fun, and a nice break. Thanks again to Nana and Papa for watching the boys, we wouldn’t be able to stay sane without them, that’s for sure. We had lost track of time and we ended up being gone over 2 hours, so the boys had worn out their welcome and were super tired.
Three Scurvy Dogs a Wee Lass (and their Mamas) 