February 2006
23 posts
Oooohh, stuff
I am surfing around looking at scrapbooking goodies.  I have been carrying around my stuff in a cardboard moving box.  Not convenient, and my box is getting ready to break.  I am thinking of the Big Daddy.  I’m pretty sure that I can’t fill it up yet, but give me time.  I keep meeting more people who are interested in scrapping and they at least pretend that they would like to crop...
Feb 27th
Science Center
We will attempt a family outing to the Science Center today.  Perhaps we will see you there.  If you don’t go, then we won’t.
Feb 26th
Crop
I went to Aubrey’s crop today.  There was fun.  There was talk of men.  There was talk of scrapbooking.  There was talk of doing it again.  Not the actual act of ‘doing it’, because that wasn’t done at the crop.  Perhaps the excuse of scrapbooking for social time. I completed TWO WHOLE PAGES.  Yes, I rock. I also had my hair cut today.  It is now a round old-lady...
Feb 26th
Play dates
We have had two occassions where parents have talked to Ben about setting up play dates with their daughters and Becca.  They give Ben their phone numbers and he passes them on to me.  The first occassion was at gym class.  It was the father of one of the newer students from when the new session began.  I don’t know the daughter’s name.  I don’t know the mother’s...
Feb 24th
The List
Ben and I have a list.  It is a revenge list.  Things our children have done to us which we will return to them in due time. When Becca is driving, we will enact retribution for all the months where there was screaming in the car whenever we were stopped at a light.  Preferably, when she has friends in the car.  It would probably be best to wait until she has a bit of experience with the driving,...
Feb 23rd
Lovely day
The only topper to my day right now would be the actual phone call. We have been having the constipation/bladder infection problems with Becca for about two months now.  It cycles between several days of constipation followed by several days of super runny, due to the stool softener she is on. I took the boys in to the doctor on Friday to be checked for the ear infections they had.  The dr asked...
Feb 22nd
Kite fun
Becca watched some of Sesame Street this morning.  Elmo and Zoe made kites.  Becca had to make a kite as well.  She is very excited about flying her kite.  This kite has no hope of doing any flying other than Mommy or Daddy waving it around.  Why, you may ask?  Because it currently has approximately a half-gallon of Elmer’s glue in the process of drying on it. It is a beautiful kite. ...
Feb 22nd
Bridal Gowns
I spent my President’s Day shopping with a friend for a bridal gown.  Two different locations, two gowns found.  Each gown said, ‘You like me!’  Neither gown said, ‘You must wear be to your wedding.’ One gown was $1600, the other was $600.  I’m thinking we need to search the mid-range, as we seem to have touched on the two opposite ends.  We went to Maiden...
Feb 21st
Funk update
I have started reading a not so trashy book.  The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser.  This is helping me keep my brain from leaking out of my ears. Ben has given me his vote on which room to paint next.  As much as I would like to paint the play room for the kids, I can’t open any windows down there to air out the fumes.  I will wait until the weather is better and the boys are walking...
Feb 16th
Oops
I was in the kitchen, drinking my coffee as usual, watching Becca eat her breakfast waffles and listening to the boys laugh in the family room.  I stupidly assumed that they were playing with each other.  Nope. So far, Magnus HAD been the only one going up the stairs.  No longer.  I come into the family room to watch them play and find Douglas 4 steps up.  While watching, with me standing right...
Feb 16th
Good one
I would like to thank Jennifer.  I have been sitting here in my funk, surfing around for something of interest.  I went over to check Ben’s page a found a comment which made me laugh.  Thank you Jennifer (please drop a link to your blog in the comments).  You also made Miss Multiple Personality laugh, and she is having an extremely bad day.  Twenty points to you on the big karma scale. Here...
Feb 15th
Funk
I’m having a funk week.  One of those periods of time where I am sitting here completely bored with my existence.  I get up in the morning and see the long day stretching ahead.  I am not normally like this.  Generally I enjoy spending the time with the kids and watching to see what they come up with and what new things they will do.  I am still doing these things, it’s just done in...
Feb 15th
That annoying title thing again
I think I have reached a new low.  I just ordered diapers over the internet.  Although, the price is better than what I have been paying in the store.  We shall see how it works out.
Feb 12th
Uh, yeah
I am an embarrassment to myself (okay, not really) and to others.  It is best for you to not be out in public with me. At the mall tonight I suddenly blurted out to the salesman that I had not showered today, but I had changed my underwear.  I don’t know why I did this, I just did.  I tend to have periods of time where the censor in my brain takes off for a coffee break. On another note...
Feb 11th
Bedtime noise
Ben, I suppose in an effort to entertain the boys in the morning, yesterday put Teletubbies in their cribs.  The Teletubbies were not removed when the children were placed in there for bedtime. This from the man who took Magnus’ mirror out of his crib.  Not that I disagree.  Magnus can wake up momentarily, have his eyes closing and his head falling down tired and still force himself to play...
Feb 10th
Donation Dilemna
I have clothing that I don’t wear anymore.  I also have clothing that the boys have outgrown.  There are issues with this clothing.  I am unsure what to do with them. My clothing.  Most of the stuff I don’t wear anymore I donate to Womens Another Chance or Goodwill.  The particular clothing I have in mind is my polo shirts from Pulaski Bank.  I don’t work there anymore and I...
Feb 8th
It made me laugh
Yesterday, coming up to the time for morning nap, Magnus went from happy and not at all tired to crying and wanting to eat and go straight to sleep in 0.6 seconds.  I fixed him a bottle and set him in his swing.  I went back into the kitchen to fix a bottle for Dougie.  Magnus starts crying again.  I finish the bottle and head into the family room. Dougie saw Magnus get a bottle.  Apparently,...
Feb 7th
Bad people
Seeing as how today is Ben’s birthday, we went out to eat.  He finally chose Emporer’s Palace in Chesterfield Valley.  Becca fell asleep on the way there, so we just stuck her in her umbrella stroller and set her next to the table.  Food was great.  Employees were great. We go to leave.  I have the diaper bag and Magnus.  Ben has Douglas and is pushing the stroller with Becca.  I get...
Feb 7th
Happy Birthday Ben
Ben gets to be right one day of the year.  That is right for everything.  This is that day.  Enjoy.
Feb 6th
Birthday Party
I, being an unorganized person, left getting ready for the party to the last minute.  I ran out to Wal-Mart to purchase a crock pot to make the BEST DIP IN THE WORLD.  Buffalo chicken dip.  Yummy!  I come back from the store to drop off my goodies and start the dip before heading on to the grocery store.  I open to door to find Becca running all over the house shouting, ‘Is it time...
Feb 5th
You really wanted to know this....
I’m sure you will all be excited to read that I have finally purchased new underwear!  I don’t yet have it, as I ordered them, but they will be here soon.  Maybe I should have a party!  Or, perhaps not.
Feb 3rd
Happy Birthday
My little boo is three today.  She went off to school with a plate of rice krispie treats for her class to eat at snack time.  Of course, she insists on calling them ‘rice christmas tree’.  She did not like Ben and I singing happy birthday to her this morning.  She kept telling us to stop.  Ben had to tell the teachers not to have the class sing to her.  Last year, she would freak when...
Feb 3rd
Threes
We has our bad event yesterday.  Magnus started climbing stairs.  That may not sound bad to you.  I can go into the kitchen, take a swallow of coffee, come back into the family room and only find one of my three children there as it is.  Then it is hunt-the-baby time in my household. Magnus also had his first falling down the stairs yesterday.  It was only 1.5 stairs, but he wasn’t happy...
Feb 1st