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Christmas Wish List

10 Dec

This week’s spin is to write what we would like for Christmas. Can I just say that I don’t really want anything? Really. Stop laughing.

And please don’t gag, but I have to say that I have everything I could possibly need. A healthy family, a roof over my head, food on the table, clothes on my back, running cars, and money in the bank. Yah, I know…I am a spoiled brat!

So as far as material items, no, I’m good. Other things I would like would be:

  •  NO, not World Peace. Everyone has said that one. While it would be nice, that is not what I am going to ask for. What I would wish for would be clean children. Is that so hard? Why do they have to wipe their hands on their clothes and the table, and the chairs or whatever is around while they are eating. Really? Are you my children? I am so neat and picky and I hate messes. Thus, God has blessed me with dirty, smelly, stinky, sticky boys! However adorable I think they might be, that doesn’t excuse the mess.

 

  • Can they just eat over their plate, too, while we are on the subject? It’s not like it’s rocket science. Although the little one could probably figure that out.

 

  • DRY, four-year old underwear. Little dude, you are potty trained. You are standing at the toilet. You even have a stool to help you reach up there. WHY must you pee in your pants? Are you not paying attention? Did the awesomest, coolest, bestest airplane ever fly through the bathroom so you had to turn and look and in the process you whizzed all over the toilet seat and your underwear? Come on.

 

  • 75 degree weather and no snow

 

  •   That the powers that be bring back Friends. I so loved that show.

 

  •  That you could rewind time for Rachel and not let her take that Twilight quiz on Facebook. The answer that she was given totally gave away everything that happened in the last books she hadn’t read yet. Her life is now meaningless.

 

  •  And while we are on the subject, another Twilight book would be nice as well, Ms. Meyer!

 

  • I would also like for my children’s eczema to go away completely and forever!

 

  • To have a publisher and marketing agency magically come to my door or email address and volunteer to get me up and running. That would be SWEET!

 

  • OK, also World Peace. What?

 

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Honey-Do – A Spin Cycle Re-Post!

11 Nov

spincyclesmall****This week’s Spin is a free spin! So I decided to post an oldie but goodie. And I wrote it one year ago today so it sat well with me to re-post it! Enjoy!!

I am sure that everyone gives their hubby a “Honey-Do” list once in awhile. It happens, right? They can’t remember from one room to the next what they were supposed to do in there. Or maybe it is just mine?

Any trip to the store must involve a list if there are more than three items to purchase. Eggs, milk, and bread is a snap. Add some fat-free sour cream, red potatoes, a half a pound of muenster and diet coke to that and it’s all over. You are lucky if they come home at all! They end up just circling the store aimlessly and you lose them in the alcohol section. Beeerrr… need sustenance..must have beeeerrr….

My Hubby has a Blackberry so I always get, “Email me what you want.” It helps when he is on his way home from work and I need something for dinner or we run out of diapers or worse…chocolate. Sometimes it is nice to hear his voice, however, but I have better luck getting him if I email. :(

So when I need some chores done around the house, of course I have to make a list.

“Honey, while I am gone today, can you throw the towels in the dryer, run the dishwasher and vacuum? And make sure you take a picture of you vacuuming. I promised the bloggers a photo.”

He looks up from the TV with a blank stare. He has heard nothing I have said. I can tell by the vacant look in his eyes. Then awareness comes to him, but he realizes what a situation he will be in if he admits that he didn’t hear me. So he says, “Can you make me a list?” It is always a safe thing for him to say.

I am hip to your jive, mister.

So yesterday, I am working in the office and I hear Hubby tell Big A – while he was watching TV – “Hey, bud, tomorrow when you get home from school, can you sweep the leaves off the porch?” A few moments go by and then…

“Um, can you make me a yist?”

I can not control my laughter as I hear Hubby, taken aback, say, “Uh…yeah…”

Hubby comes back into the office perturbed and a little outraged, but also laughing a little. “Did you hear him?”

I just kept laughing.

“A yist?! He can’t even read!!” He couldn’t decide whether to laugh or to frown.

“He’s just like his Daddy!”

**For more Spin Cycle, go see Jen at Sprite’s Keeper! She’ll keep you spinning!!

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Hi, how are ya?

15 Sep

Life is busy. I admire the bloggers who can post multiple times a day or even once a day! I just can’t do it! I would love to, but most of the time I feel like I don’t have anything in me worthy enough to write about.

Kids are back in school. Big A is doing well in first grade. He is a great speller! He gets 10/10 on his tests on Fridays. He is not bad at math either. He is eating lunch at school and using a pin number to pay for it. I hadn’t checked up on it recently and got a slip home today that his account was -$1.00. Oops. They still let him eat, however. Then he got off the bus and walked home to find no one there. My mom got stuck in traffic and was two minutes later than the bus. Somehow he got into our building and stood in the hall crying. Poor guy! He thought no one was coming home for him! Mom! She felt bad, of course.

Little A had the shar004e bag today. You have to pick something to share with your class and think up 3 clues to help the other kids guess what it is. His clues were: he wears a mask, he is black and gray, and he is a super hero. Any guesses? It’s Batman. Jeremiah was all over it. Miss Laura says he didn’t need any help with his clues and his voice was loud and clear as he announced them and then paused for dramatic effect, keeping them in suspense. Then he called on Jeremiah to guess. He is such a character. He has been in some scrapes the last couple of weeks. One day, he slipped in the bathroom after washing his hands and hit his chin on the sink. Big old cut and swollen chin that night. The next day, some kid ran into him, hitting him in the chin, and making his upper teeth cut up his bottom lip! Big old bloody and fat lip that night. Then on the weekend, he got bit by a goose at the zoo. I told him not to try to feed them. He doesn’t listen well all the time.

 

 

 

 

 

IMG00075-20090912-1756Hubby and I went to the U2 concert at Soldier Field (where the Chicago Bears play) on Saturday. That was wicked awesome. He got tickets through his work so we were in a box enjoying appetizers and alcohol and air conditioning. Way cool. That is their stage in the picture. They bring it with them everywhere on tour. It is unbelievable.

Then last night, Hubby somehow wrenched his neck. He was walking stiffly with his head to one side and his shoulder hitched up in the air. I told him to stay home today – I didn’t want him driving the kids around. Who knows what kind of crazy accident you could get into! Then I told him when he saw Big A off to the bus, not to walk him all the way there. We don’t need him embarrassed at this early stage of the game! “Hey, Big A, is that your dad? What is wrong with him? Why does he walk so funny?” I had a hard time sleeping last night because he came to bed and was grunting and grimacing. I felt so bad for him, but couldn’t do much. I tried to look for muscle relaxers, offered him some other meds which he turned all down. Only to wake me up and hour later looking for them. Then I couldn’t find any and he took some Alieve. Then 10 minutes later I got out the heating pad for him. Got him all set up only for him to use it for 10 minutes and then hit himself in the head with the controller part of it.

Today Little A asked when hubby got home if he was going to walk around like that all night. Daddy feels like the boys pick on him. This morning I was explaining to Big A that Daddy’s neck hurt and he was walking funny so he wouldn’t ask him what was wrong. I guess he told Little A that he was walking funny so we hear him announce loudly that he saw Daddy walk out of the bathroom walking like this: and then he must have mimicked him. I couldn’t help laughing. Hubby said the kids were mean and he gingerly climbed back in bed and covered his head with the covers. Poor guy!

Nothing is going on with me. Busy at work – our conference is coming up in a month. This year it is in Covington, KY! Is that near you Sammanthia??

And that is about it! I am going to try to post more often!

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