Cirque de Symphonie

Or some such spelling.

Little d and I went last night to the new Fine Arts Center and watched the acrobats perform while the orchestra played. It was amazing! It was like (what I imagine) Cirque de Soleil does. Very impressive. I wish we could have taken pictures. I especially loved the look on Little d's face as it lit up with all the feats. She practically was squealing! Of course the numbers in between the acrobats wore thin for her during the second act, she behaved so well though.

(This draft was saved in my posts so I decided to go ahead with it for the sake of remembering it later--originally written in September)

Must be just me....

I doubt anyone remembers the last time I went to the gynocologist and forgot my socks in my purse.  And that brief argument I had with myself about whether or not to jump off the table and risk bending over in my paper 'dress' to retrieve them before the doc entered the room.  Ah well.  It was a funny post.  I tried to find it, but it was taking too long.  Anyway.  Today I had to make that pilgrimage again.

My doc has changed nurses, and flipped over to the other side of the facility so I was all disoriented, plus for the first time in MANY years I was not there for anything to do with pregnancy.  I mean usually when I go in for my yearly it's to say...we're thinking about trying again.  But this time no.  So anyway, the appointment was running late so I texted my mom (who was watching the three incubators of germs) that it seemed like I was going to be there for a while.

I proceeded to get called back within minutes.  I changed into my paper attire (the vest has buttons now!  uptown!) and sat to wait.  Of course that's when mom texted me back.  My phone was paces away in my jeans.  I figured it was her.  (She has this fun habit of having to get the last word in with texting.  It's not even intentional.)  Anyway.  I ended up waiting another 45 minutes for the doc to come in, so I had pleeeenty of time to get my phone, but I didn't of course.  But I sat there (sweating in the freezing room) remembering the blog post about the socks and trying not to laugh out loud.

In typing this post I noticed that my pasts post have the worst titles for trying to find what the post was about.  Boo for me.

Unexpected heart

In a do-nut!

I think it's so fun to find hearts in stuff.  It's such an odd shape that you don't see it too often.  I always try to take a picture when I see one.

The other day I happened into the living room and saw Little m and Poppy hanging out watching Disney channel....

I've been experimenting with nail polish lately.  I've found some really cute ones at Walgreens.  You may remember I've had several occasions to shop there recently.  In fact today we'll be picking up another script for the pink eye for Little m.   Freakin lovely.  Oh yes....nails.

It's a very deep purple with a holographic flake over the top and then a clear top coat.  I guess I should list the polishes....let me go find them.   Okay two coats of Wet n Wild Disturbia, one coat Finger Paints Flashy and one coat Seche Vita top coat.  

There's another shot.  It is incredibly hard to get focused closeups of your own fingernails!  Maybe if you enlarge the photos you can see the flake detail.  It's really cool....  (and please disregard the dry scaly hands)

35 Years Young

My hubby, today.

I randomly smile just thinking about him.  I wonder if he knows that.  Oh sure there are times when he annoys the hell out of me.  But for the most part I can't get enough of him.

I'm sure he thinks I spend all day obsessing about the kids or Pinterest.  But sometimes when they are engrossed in Disney and I take a minute to look out the window I picture his dimples, or smile, or the way his eyes twinkle and I get a big old goofy grin on my face.  Good thing I'm looking out into a pasture.  And don't tell him this, but I still can't figure out what he sees in me.

I mean the only way he could possibly be more appealing to me is if I never had to take a bag of trash outside again....hint hint.....

This year for his birthday he got that thing he's been wanting for a while.  You know...that thing that all guys seem obsessed with and most girls are not.  I finally caved and gave in....

A flat screen TV.   Wait...what did you think I was talking about??

Okay.  I'm off for now.

I give up

For some reason, Little d is running fever.  Don't know why.

On the up side I cleaned up the office/scrapbook room today.  Not organized yet, but clean.

Ha Ha, Jokes on me

Woke up with possible pink eye.  Physician's Assistant (PA) said better to be safe than sorry and prescribed drops for me too.

:)

A three day weekend stretches ahead for me and the kids though, so I am happy for that.

Okay seriously.go read this---->  FUNNY!  Its going to make you laugh out loud.

Be gone February....

I'm done with you.

Last Friday I had the stomach bug.  Friday night Little d started with it.  She and I holed up in my bedroom so as not to infect the rest of the household and praise be to God everyone else stayed free of it.  Sunday she woke with a snotty nose, but able to eat food again.

Monday I kept her home from school to recover her strength, and got what I needed to for the Valentine party.    Tuesday--happy valentines--she woke up with pink eye.  We of course stayed home from school and visited the doc.  Drops, and a note to return to school on Thursday.

Wednesday Little m started with a snotty nose, and so did Little md.  After bedtime he woke with horrid coughing and came very close to a trip to the ER.  But a call to the afterhours nurse and two breathing treatments later, and we both caught a FULL two hours of sleep for the night.

We took him to the doc today where he was cleared of any infections, but got to scripts for Nasonex and Singulair.

Sigh.

Where's a good locust shitstorm when you need it?

In other news:  I am currently pinning many, many crochet things.  Speaking of....I wonder if I can link my Pinterest page here??  Let's give a go.  Try THIS link.

I ordered three bottles of glittery nail polish from etsy.  Check it...HERE.

D ordered some fish to stock our pond.

So tired....wish I was signing off to go to bed, but Little md is WIDE awake.

Little e is here

And she's beautiful!  My brother and his wife had their second child today and she's sweet and precious and just all the good things a new baby should be.  Healthy, warm with just the perfect scent.  Hair to put us all to shame.  And tiny perfect toes with even tinier little purple pink nails.

Eyes shut.

Mouth in perfect pout.

Furry little newborn ears.

Tiny sighs.

Squeaky yawns.

Curled up legs.

Makes you want another one, doesn't it??

I think I'll stick to sniffing around on this one.  :)

Much love to you baby E.  More than you could ever imagine.

Pantry Before and After

So today I thought I would tackle the pantry.  It was either that or not put away any groceries from yesterday...easy choice, right?  I periodically do the pantry over, so it wasn't a huge undertaking.  At least I didn't think it was that bad, but maybe you'll look at the before picture and scream in horror.

Here's the before.  Notice it's starting to creep out of its boundaries....always a sign it's time to re-do.

I started at the top and worked down one side.  Then across the bottom and back up to the cereal/snack/cracker fiasco....

Here's the final result.  

I don't have any cutesy, fancy storage containers.  I use old sturdy cardboard boxes to hold small stuff.  And I'm okay with that.  :)

ET Phone Home

We have a closet in our hall that is supposed to be a coat closet.  Currently it hold a few clothing items, and is about halfway stacked with all the kids' stuffed animals.  Much like the closet in ET.

A few days ago I walked by and saw this.....

Cute, right?

Week in Review

I'm officially done with the cookbook.  Not sure if I mentioned it, but interpreting other people's recipes was quite a chore.  My mom helped tremendously.  Could not have done it without her.

I'm now starting to think ahead to Valentine's Day crafts and party.  I need something crafty for Little d to take to school for the class and I need something for both girls to take to dance for those classes too.  I have a plan to make a little crocheted mouse bookmark, so if that comes together I will post pictures and pattern.  I think if that works out I'll use that for the first graders.  And for the dance classes, I'm thinking of the tried and true melted crayon hearts.  I even bought the silicon heart muffin pan for it.

We bought a second dishwasher.  Not yet installed, but hopefully before the summer.  Ha.  Oh if only that was a joke....

Little d is terrified of being in her room alone, or in the bathroom.  And today it has progressed to just anywhere in the house alone.  Which is usually not a problem since there is someone everywhere.  Except that I can't for the life of me understand this.  She says she's afraid of 'bad guys' that are going to kill her family.  Well, we don't let her watch that kind of scary stuff on TV, nor do we discuss that sort of thing in front of her.  And we don't even watch that stuff on the news with the kids, so as best I can figure....school.  She says the boys at her table talk about scary stuff.  Blood Mary for one.  Geez.  No telling what else.  Did I mention these are the same boys that informed her what the "f" word was.  Geez again.

I'm trying my best to be patient with it, which means just barely.  I can't seem to get through to her how safe we are here in the house.

Ugh need to take off....more updates later...

TOo Many SUBjects to SUmmarIZE in One Title

That's what happens when you wait too long between posts.  ;P

First, let me talk a little about my pinterest life.  I made THESE.   Go look at a picture of that site.  They are caller Baked S'mores.  I didn't take a picture of mine, because I ate them too fast.  YYYYYum.

Then I baked these....

Why yes, yes they are that delectable.  HERE is the link to the recipe.  They would be awesome for breakfast.

Let's see what else.  I've been doing my usual back and forth and all around town.  The girls are now enrolled (and all paid up) for the dance recital at the end of the year.  D is still working the overtime to pay for all the costumes and fees!  (I am only half kidding about that.)

On the girl scout front, we are still selling cookies, and we are also making a basket to send to some troops that we've "adopted".

I'm also working on cleaning house all the time.  Like literally all the time.  This week I've done two loads of dishes a day.  I organized my spice drawer.  I cleaned of the junk counter.  I've swept, swept, swept.  I reorganized a couple of cabinets.

The think I haven't done is lost any weight.  I'm hovering around 130 and that is unacceptable.  And also not surprising at ALL.  Did you see that picture up there???

D really is working lots of overtime.  And I won't complain about it.  There are people looking for work and we have been very blessed with his job!

I made some necessary appointments.  Dentist, yuck.  And gynecologist, double yuck.

I am still doing the cookbook committee.  The good news is I think once it's done it's going to sell like hotcakes!  We have over 400 recipes.  Can't wait to see it in actual print!

Also I am still on the nail polish kick.  It's taken over for my creative side.  (I have to postpone CTMH for a while since our house taxes are over $4000.  I feel like I should tighten the belts.)  I really wanted some of this Lynnderella polish, but it's harder to get than a good nights sleep.  Check out some samples HERE.  I mean I can not even believe that someone can make a polish in that high demand and then not have the wherewithall to be able to handle the customers.  Stunning really.  I may devote a post to it some time.

I am so tired.  Just all of the time.  Like now.  Why the heck am I still up?!?  Night-night!

Let's Vent, Shall We?

Yesterday my partner in crime informed me that she was picking her daughter up from school because another kid (another first grader) had walked up to her on the playground....unprovoked...called her a bitch and then hit her in the head with a book.  Hard enough, mind you, to leave a raised bump.

Can you believe it??

Can you believe that the kid is getting no punishment??

Do you know why?

He walked up to her in the office afterwards and said "I'm sorry for hitting you so I don't get punished."  That makes no sense does it?  Well this child is a special needs student who is being integrated into regular classes.  I don't normally have a big problem with that if the student is not violent.  Last year there was an autistic student in the Kindergarten class.  Occasionally he had loud outbursts, or flapped his hands, but never did he hit another student.

I just don't know what to make of this.  I am just as upset as if it had happened to Little d.

Need to go take care of house work....

In no particular order...

here are some pictures from last month or so.

Kids playing together on the dining room table with Play-Doh.  Very little Play-Doh was eaten.  I consider that a success.

Ground Beef and Ground Round were sold to auction.  They're in a better place.

Girl Scout cookies are on sale!  You know you want some...

Little m at Grandma Hawes' house on Christmas day.  Posing as usual.

Little md decided to hide in a 'fort' while I moved furniture to sweep in the kitchen.

We have a paved driveway now...yea.  Yea yea yea!!!

Enjoying Disney movie with popcorn.  Everyone once again getting along!

We are enjoying the long MLK weekend.  It's cold outside, but nice in here.  Wish D was off to enjoy it with us, but tomorrow morning he will be!

Thinking about starting up that new blog, trying to decided if it should be all crafts or just paper crafts....

The littles

Little d:  started a trend in first grade of wearing her bangs over to one side with a clip.

Little m: has decided to be on dance moms.

Little md:  hates my hair touching him when he lays his head on my shoulder.  Tonight he went into my bathroom and brought me a hair scrunchi so I could put it back.  All on his own after I asked him if he thought I should cut my hair so it wouldn't bother him.

Love Them.