I Could Write a Book

Check. That’s done. Whew. I doubt seriously I go back tomorrow. Fun little festival. Not kid friendly. The heat was unbearable. Dh was proudly showing off his boat. I took the required pics. J peed in her pants - twice. Oh, so much fun. Not.

I’m home. I’m going to bed. It has been a long Saturday. Night night. 

    It’s so much fun having a passion because then you get to buy toys for your passion. Fun, fun, fun. Right now, I’m looking for the "perfect" tennis bag. One that will reflect me and my personality. Don’t anyone suggest black. LOL.  I’ve got to find myself a hat, too. I couldn’t believe that Sports Academy or whatever it is called didn’t sell actual tennis hats. Hmmmm. Time to go online.

    I think I need to go on a "money diet". I do not know why but it seems like it has just been flying out of my hand quicker than dust. My goodness.

    I enjoyed my day, today. Mother behaved herself and told me she has now gone on 2 dates. I about fell over. Yes, it’s a Southern saying. She hasn’t dated in over 8 years. Wow. I’m impressed. On many different levels. lol.

    Since I have "leprosy"  on my hand right now - this is going to be a short post.

Peace out, Babycakes. 

I’ve had a "Tidbit Tuesday" before so here is my Tidbit Thursday. Essentially what this means is that my brain is absolutely fried and I can’t think to write a thought-out post. lol.

It’s been a non-stop, stressful day. My last couple of hours were okay, but I’m thinking I should charge for therapy. My nail guy likes dumping all of his problems on me. I’m glad that he likes me enough to do so. I’m sure I owe many people for listening to my problems. I’m really not complaining.

Have any idea how fun it is to realize you have a pretty much flat tire when you’re in a hurry to get somewhere very important ? It’s not much fun. I got it fixed. I made it on time. I realized that I really want to live in Baton Rouge. I have loved Baton Rouge since going to LSU there. I love it even more after today. I got to spend all of about 10 minutes in it - not on business time. LOL. I "cut through" a car dealerships parking lot, too. I realized I was headed the wrong way. hehe. I was just going to play stupid if for some reason I had been stopped. I also saw a priest shopping at Whole Food’s Market. Don’t know why I found that odd, but I did.

After I get at least one important email out tonight, I’m done for the day. I’ve got a million letters to get out tomorrow. Whoopie. Oh, tomorrow starts the Seafood Festival and dh is showing his boat. I’ll spend the morning at Chuck E Disease’s (Chuck E Cheese’s) and the evening at the festival. I’m such a great mommy.  Just another calm day.  

Oh, please say a prayer that Russia decides that they are satisfied with us. If so, I have no more adoption stuff to do with Russia. Then I’ll just have to do the re-adoption in the States and J is 100% officially ours. I can not wait !! 

    Tonight, I spent 2 hours cleaning the entire top of my dresser. My goodness. I knew it was bad, but I didn’t realize it was that bad. I had jewelry laying everywhere. Things the kids have given me on there. It was a complete mess. Was - past tense. Now, it is completely organized and beautiful and shiney. Woohoo! I’m glad I got that little push to do that.

    My goal for the remainder of this year is to get my entire house clutter free. "Less is More" is my new motto for life. I just can’t stand all the junk. I don’t need it. It clutters my "peace". Lol. Occasionally, I get weird. I really should have been born a hippie.

    Well, at least I did something productive today. It surely wasn’t cooking. This week could rank among the worst cooked dinners ever for children by a mother week - in my house, at least.

    I’ve got the craziest day ever tomorrow. The first part of crazy is a class at church on "The Hidden Powers of Kindness". It couldn’t come at a better time. I have been about to kill a couple people lately. The 2nd part of the day I’m driving to the Capital building to get some papers apostilled. (for the adoption stuff)  That’s always fun. Not ! So, night night all. Sweet, lazy dreams.  

Thank God I’m pretty lazy right now or I would be driving somewhere to get chocolate. I want some M & M’s or oreos or something sweet so badly. I mean like very badly.

Today wasn’t my marvelous Monday as I thought it would be. Tennis wasn’t as much fun as I was hoping it would be and it was dang hot out there. I was productive today so that’s a good thing. I invested a couple more hundred dollars into my dog. Good grief. Why are vet visits so expensive ?

The lady that I met last week at church that I thought was so nice actually called me today. That was a nice thing for her to do.

Well, other than feeling blah right now and really craving chocolate I don’t have much to say. So - night night.  

    Yes, I’m back home. I can not wait to sleep in my own bed. That’s going to be like heaven. The last 2 nights I have "slept" on the couch in the downstairs level of the condo. The first night it was pretty dang hot. The AC unit had no freon (spelling?) in it. Last night, the neighboring condo stayed up swapping stories, laughing, swilling beer and keeping me awake most of the night. I figure I got maybe 7 hours of sleep between the two nights.

    At the end of the last meeting today, we had to say one word that described how we felt regarding the board and our weekend. I used the word "connected". So, because of how I described the retreat I would say that is "Mission Accomplished". We had meetings all except for 2 hours of free time and the couple of hours we slept and we had a leadership team come in and do leadership training. Supposedly, I will know how to run a non-profit organization by the time all of my training is done. I must say that I really enjoy the learning aspect to all of this.

    I’ve been nominated for a position with the International Junior League and if by some chance I am actually accepted I will get to fly to New York City (all expenses paid by them) quarterly. Woohoo. I think I’d really like that. I’m finally getting to the stage in my life where I feel okay regarding leaving my children with dh.  I do know that yesterday, my little golden-haired boy was crying for his mommy and that broke my heart, but he did manage to make it okay without me. I only called home one time a day, too. That’s pretty darn good for me.

    Anyways, I really enjoyed connecting with the other board members. I liked that I learned exactly what is required of me. I like it that I’m back home and going to play tennis on my "Marvelous Monday". Saying cheers and yells and chants over here for a pretty normal Marvelous Monday.

Sleep tight all. You’re going to hear me snore tonight when I pass out. Peace out.  

Lack of control in any situation in my life makes me crazy. I wish I knew how to handle this area in my life a lot differently.  I’m going to be doing lots of praying this weekend.

I hope my son’s baseball team wins the tournament this weekend. Even if they don’t - they’ve done an excellent job.

I’m off to do my presentation and sleep somewhere that I really don’t want to. LOL.

Peace out, Babycakes.  

    Tonight at my eldest son’s baseball game (they won !) my princess daughter caught a toad. I tried to talk her into letting it go back to its family. I told her how sad it would be to be taken away from his home. Those excuses didn’t fly. All I got were HUGE tears and hiccuping sobs while she was proclaiming "but he is my pet, mommy" and then she proceeds to kiss the toad. Ewwwwwwwwwwww. Gag. Everyone around laughed. There was no way I could make her put the toad down. I dumped out my favorite Tervis Tumbler (sorry, L) and let her deposit her newfound prince-in-toad’s-skin pet. Yes, I will be scalding my favorite cup, but what else could a mommy do ? I have 2 sons who wouldn’t pick up a frog if you paid them and a daughter who won’t put one down. LOL. I really wanted a princess.   

    I got my presentation ready for tomorrow night( Jr League ). I learned that they are putting names in a hat and drawing out sleeping partners. That is such a NO GO with me. Not going to happen. Not enough money. Nope. I’m going to be sleeping on the floor and taking Aleve all weekend. Incase you’re wondering, yes, I think Aleve is a miracle drug.

    One more day of VBS. Woohoo. Next week is going to be a normal week for me. I can’t wait. Tennis, working out and possibly sushi - here I come.

Night, night all. (and La Quinta is Spanish for roaches).  

Today makes my 100th post. 100 days in a row. I  haven’t missed one. I am so proud of myself. This has become my journal of sorts. The only difference is this is not private and anyone can read how my days, weeks, months have been.  I’m going to miss my first day of posting on this Saturday. Dang it. I almost wish I had gotten a Treo or Blackberry with the media package now. I’ll live and I’m sure my blog will, too.

I’m just getting home from a Jr League meeting. One of the council meetings. I received a very nice compliment there. It is so nice to hear how other people view you and your work ethics, at least when it is positive. I’ve got a lot of work to do this year in my position in Jr League. I’m looking forward to it. I’m not dreading the board retreat nearly as much as I was before attending this meeting. I love making new friends and I’ve got a girl riding with me now and we both have 3 children pretty much the exact same ages.

For some reason, right now my life really feels like everything is falling into place.  For the moment I’m at peace with the school that my children are in. I’m still very heavily considering homeschooling them. I absolutley love being with my children. We are having a great (busy) summer so far. They are happy and learning so much. I’ve got them involved tons in the day-to-day stuff with the house. I taught T how to vaccum today. All 3 have their own chores to do. It is very nice to feel like a "little family". And as a side note, I finally folded and put away all of this weeks’ laundry. woohoo.

Well, I’m off to start working on a presentation that is due on Friday. Joy. Sweet dreams. 

    Yes, I’m tired. Yes, I’ve had a few frustrations today, but for the most part - it has been a terrific Tuesday.  Sometimes, I wonder why God puts the people he does in our paths. I’ve met 2 of the nicest women that I otherwise would have never met except for me working this Vacation Bible School. Both are so sweet and so family oriented.

    I haven’t mentioned this to anyone, but one of the students in my VBS class is an autistic little boy. I love working with him. Today he was having a hard day and I was shocked at how easily that part of me popped back. I love it. Really makes me want to go back to school.

    Tonight, T’s baseball game was cancelled due to the weather. Phooey on that because I am going to miss some of them due to me being out of town. However, it made the night so calm and peaceful. I put the boys to bed early and told them they could have reading time. I only wanted him to read one chapter of his book. He read half of it and asked if that was okay. I was very impressed. He came back in later and told me he had finished the entire book. Oh my goodness. He has never read an entire book at one time before. I really hope he has a love of reading like me. I’m very proud of him for tonight.

    To the funky news. I swear I’m technological disadvantaged. I can’t figure out how to put songs on T’s mp3 player. I can’t figure out how to get a different ringtone on my new phone. lol. I think I keep linking to the web and I don’t have the "media net" package. I swear, technology today makes me feel incredibly stupid.

Peace out, Babycakes.  

Vacation Bible School at church was fun. It was very nice to meet some new church members.  This VBS is just like the VBS at my old church. I was very surprised. Pleasantly surprised and the kids all had a great time. Both boys got to meet kids who are going into the same grade at their new school. That was very nice.

I did a RPM class tonight. Spin class on crack. Good grief. It was wonderful, but I’ve already taken 2 Aleve for my legs. lol. My legs are aching. This teacher is training for an Iron Man next month and tonight she made us do "resistance training". It obviously worked. I didn’t burn as many calories tonight (594 in one hour), but I’m thinking I built muscle. Whew boy howdie.

I even managed dinner and grocery shopping in tonight. Go Me. I didn’t get to the laundry, but hey, the clothes are clean.  I’ll fold them tomorrow. (Hopefully, lol).

I almost forgot to mention what made today so marvelous. I had a friend give me one of the sweetest surprises today. It wasn’t asked for at all. Just out of the blue.  Those kinds of surprises are the best kind.

Peace out.  

    Yesterday was a pretty low point in my marriage. I was completely frustrated, disappointed, hurt, angry, defeated, and on and on. Well, because of those emotions I pretty much ignored my husband the entire day. I didn’t lift a finger around the house. He obviously got the point about how upset I was.  With today being Father’s Day I had gone to a little effort and had him a few nice gifts. He loved everything. He was the last one to get out of bed this morning. He got to make the decision regarding what we did today and so forth. After our lunch at the club and me being pleasant to him, the guilt kicked in. On his side I should point out. He suggested that we start working on the room today and I asked "where do you want to start ?" He told me that today he was going to listen to his wife on that one. 8 hours later I am 75% done with rearranging the front 3 bedrooms. We started in J’s room and moved her bed to the other side of the room and then went to the boys room and began. He disassembled all the furniture and helped me moved the big pieces around. I’ve done everything, but he helped me where I needed it. I’m actually very thankful for his help today. It made up for how badly I felt towards him yesterday.

    I’m glad I was busy all day. It helped keep my mind off of my father. I miss him. I kept wanting to pick up the phone this morning and call him, but I’ve yet to find out the direct number to heaven.  I always think back to the last Father’s Day I spent with him. Ugh. I can’t even talk about the gift I got him. I think I must have been out of my mind. It was so sad that day knowing that that was the last Father’s Day I was going to be able to spend with him. I’m not sure if I even took pics that day. I am pretty sure I did. I think I know which ones they are. That was before digital pics for me. blah.

    Tomorrow starts Vacation Bible School. Yes, I’m teaching. LOL. Oh, if they only knew.  It’s going to be an interesting week. VBS all morning long. Exercise - when ? I promise I’m going to exercise at least 3 days this week. That is going to be a test. Cooking ought to be interesting, too. LOL. Santa still hasn’t delivered my maid or personal chef, yet. I’m guessing I was on the naughty list this year and no one had the heart to tell me.

    Sleep tight, all. I’m punch drunk.  Oh, I let the battery drain on my ipod and it unfroze and my computer recognized it. Hopefully, it will continue working.

Today has been one of those days. A little bit of good. A lot of bad. I had a great time at the movies tonight with my wonderful friend. "Knocked Up" was snorting hilarious. Glad I was of some entertainment to someone today.

I unloaded all of my day’s frustrations to my friend and she suggested "Rent-a-Husaband". Yes, others have suggested hiring someone to help me out but none have actually said a name. I guess it took being completely literal with me before "I got it". Rent-a-Husband might actually save my marriage. We will see.

So, there you have it. The synopsis of my day (minus a few(whole lot of) very boring details).  Oh, the biggest heartbreaker today - I think I’ve killed my ipod.

    Tomorrow is the first Saturday in forever that we have absolutely nothing planned. I do not have to get up at the crack of dawn for any type of ball game or dance class or swim lesson.  What do you want to bet that I am wide awake at the crack of dawn ? If I am I am going to Spin class. I’m becoming slightly addicted to it.

    I completely miss my tennis right now and can’t wait till I get back on something of a normal routine.  After next week, I will be back. Woohoo. I can not wait.

    I’m off to bed very early tonight. For some reason I’m very tired. I hope everyone has a great, late Saturday morning.  

I’m not talking about the cowboy people. I’m referring to my favorite book "Cowboys Are My Weakness" by Pam Houston. I have had this book since it was first published. Now, I lost it in Katrina but it was replaced by a friend. This book is one that I can read over and over again. The short stories always make me smile.

I don’t know why I’ve been thinking about this book lately. It is almost like a security blanket to me. I pick it up and read it when things are stressful or I’m sad or just in a funky mood. I think because my routine has been off and I haven’t been able to exercise like I want to I’ve been a little melancholy lately. Other than the not exercising everything else has been going very well for me. Go figure. I’ve been Betty Crocker this week with my cooking.  Thanks Megalicious.

Yesterday a really bad storm came through here. I got caught out in it driving with the kids. Holy moly. It reminded me a lot of Katrina. The crazy wind, the falling pine trees, and the blinding rain.  I think that is what has me thinking about my books. My books are so important to me. I’ve lost them 3 times so far in my life now. Hopefully, I won’t lose them again.

So, tonight before I go to sleep, I will be reading about my cowboys and wondering how many beeping messages are there on his answering machine. Read the book if you want to know. Lol.  

Peace out, Babycakes. 

    As a mother, I have clearly failed in teaching my daughter her animals. This morning she practically yelled at me "look Mom, it’s a little chicken." I looked out the window to see a beautiful cardinal. I asked her "what did you say ?" She repeated, "look, Mom , it’s a little chicken." I calmly told her that it was a red bird and she retorted with "well, it’s dressed like a chicken." I could only laugh.

    Example #2 of why I really need to buy an animal book and start teaching her. The other day she comes running into the house "it’s a mouse, mommy." I’m thinking "crap, we’ve got mice." I go to the front door and look out and there is the biggest opposum ever taking his dear sweet time walking up my sidewalk. In the daytime, I might add. "uh, honey, that’s an opposum." "No, it’s not moma. That’s a big mouse." And here I thought I only had to work on the ABC’s this summer.  

Today I was told that I express myself well, but I did so loquaciously. For those of you who need to know the definition of that word - it means that I use way too many words. lol. I must say that I am very aware of that. It is said that the average person uses 5000 words per day. Well, when you are talking to  8 , 5 and 4 1/2 year olds all day you have at least 4500 hundred words left over at the end of the day. I still haven’t decided if I was given a compliment or not.

Tob did it again tonight. He was up to bat, there were 2 on the bases and he knocks a home run in. Woohoo. They won by one run. His run. His team is going into the Championship Tournament in 1st place. He was so excited. I love seeing him smile when he is proud of himself. Also at Cub Scout camp, he built a little tool box. I think it is the first time that he has ever hammered anything in his life. It turned out very good and it will be one of those little things that as a parent you keep forever. He even signed his name on the bottom.

Poor G and J got to spend 3 hours and 15 minutes in the car with me today. That definitely wasn’t planned. Holy moly, Batman. The traffic sucketh around here. We had a squall come through and of course, the dummies can’t drive in the rain. I saw 3 wrecks and they had traffic backed up for miles. I actually went out of my way by about 10 miles just to go around a wreck. It was a million times quicker. I had no idea that we would be in the car that long. I said that already, huh ? Another example of my loquaciousness. I think I’m going to start using one big word a day.

And for all of you who love music and your ipods, I found out about LimeWire today.  I’m having a ton of fun on it. I’ve got it going to a shared folder that opens in iTunes, but have yet to figure out how to put the songs into an actual playlist on there. Any suggestions ?

And I just got a call from my sister. Woohoo ! She and her husband finished painting the baby’s room. That means I don’t have to go tomorrow. That means I can actually go exercise. Now if I could get my music on my ipod.

Peace out, Babycakes. 

    My marvelous Monday has become a "mushy Monday" because I am just beat. I never knew painting could wear you out that much. I’ve got paint on me that doesn’t want to wash off. I actually tried scrubbing it off with a brillo pad. That didn’t work but it did seem to be a great exfoliant.

    Tob loved Cub Scout camp. He had an awesome day and they wore him out wonderfully. I felt really sad this morning when I dropped him off. I think next year I’ll be sure and work it again.

    I let my ex-BIL babysit my 2 youngest children today. I felt very odd about that initially but once I was there at his house it just seemed like old times. The kids were excited to see their "old" uncle. My sister’s children were spending the day with him incase you’re wondering about that. I’m not that odd.

    Tonight is going to be an extremely early bedtime. The kids can bitch and moan about it all they want, but we are going to bed early. Moma’s tired.

    Ps. This color is about the same color that I painted the baby’s room today. That poor child is going to be blind. LOL. 

Sweet dreams.  

Today was another long day. Extremely interesting. Mass was 2 hours long and yes, I did attend. I loved the Feast of the Corpus Christi. It was beautiful. Hot, too. The part that was outside.

I actually scrubbed the master bathroom before going to church. Have I ever mentioned just how weird I truly am ? If not, now you have proof. lol.

Tomorrow starts Cub Scout Camp for my eldest. I feel really odd for not volunteering this year. I just figured with me teaching Vacation Bible School the next week that I’m covering my "volunteering" hours for the summer.

I’m going to help my sister do "painting" tomorrow. Do you know that I won’t even paint my own house ? That I hire some poor soul to do that for me and here I am going to paint for her. She better love me big time. She is surely going to owe me. lol. I’m such a great sis.

Peace out, Babycakes.  

    It’s been a long day. I’ve got 23 minutes to spare to get this post done before it is on the next date. So, here are the highlights :

    1) We achieved "Africa Heat" today. If any of you watched Spike Lee’s documentary on Hurricane Katrina you will know that lady who referred to the heat here as "Africa Heat". It registered 97 degrees (while I was watching a baseball game outside in it) and that doesn’t include the dang humidiy and heat index. We definitely reached "Africa Heat" today. The animals couldn’t even stand it.

    2) Tob got MVP on his baseball team today. Got to bring home the "game ball". He hit a ball that went all the way to the fence and the bases were loaded. They won the game. I’ve never seen my son or myself so proud.

    3) G - drama boy - got his first trophey ever. You would have thought he had just won the presidency or something. He was smiling from ear-to-ear. He got a participation trophey for t-ball.

    4) I just finished watching a 4 hour long dance recital. My niece is a wonderful dancer and I pray that she changes her mind and doesn’t stop dancing this year. Oh, forgot to add, that drive home was one of the hardest I remember in a long time. I was major sleepy.

    5) I got  my anniversary present today. (How many days ago was my anniversary ?) Yes, I’m bad. lol. I got the little jewelry box I wanted. I figured this time when a hurricane hits I’m going to be prepared - at least with my jewelry - and have it all together in a neat, handy dandy, jewelry box. That way I can just grab it and go.

    6) The weather got so bad here today it reminded me of Katrina. I’m going to be taking lots of mini-vacations in my future. All the weather man is going to have to say is "tropical storm headed to New Orleans" and I’m outta here. Where should I go ?

    Those are the highlights of my day. Yeehaw. Peace out.