I asked my almost 2 year old if she had to use the potty so I start walking towards the bathroom and notice that she isn't following but instead has taken off her diaper and is looking at me and peeing on the floor. Does this count?
Mom, Momma, Mommy
Monday, March 28, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
No Really Officer........I didn't steal this car!
A year and a half ago my husband and I decided that we needed a bigger vehicle to accomodate our growing family. So after a year of debating on Tahoe or Suburban, New or Used, we finally purchased a pre-owned Suburban. I LOVE this BEAST of a vehicle by the way! Only way to go if you have kids! Anyhow~ This thing has more bells and whistles on it than I have ever seen or had in a vehicle. Almost so many that it was distracting at first to even drive this thing!
Well, this past fall, my girls and I were sitting at one of my sons football practices. My youngest daughter fell asleep and of course my middle daughter is dancing around all over the car from the back to the front and then finally settled on sitting in the front seat.
So I am sitting there reading a book that I had been trying to finish for 6 months and all of a sudden I hear a phone start to ring in the car and it wasn't my cell phone. So I realized that Livi has pushed the on-star emergency button. BUT we did not subscribe to on-star when we bought the vehicle so I just pushed it off. Well about a minute later I hear the same phone ringing and then a voice. I still think nothing of it because this car has all sorts of voice prompts to try to get you to subscribe to this or that. So I just shut it off again and went back to my book.
10 minutes later I have 3 police cars pulling up behind my car and I'm thinking "what is going on here at the park!?!" But they have blocked me in and I now notice that they are heading for me and they are asking if I'm ok and whats going on and I'm thinking "WHAT THE HELL!!! ?? You people have the wrong person!" Then they explain that they recieved an unknown emergency signal from my vehicle through on-star! BUT WE DON'T HAVE ON-STAR!!! But the people who owned it before us did and it was still activated! So of course I apologize but to be safe they have to run my name and plates. Easy enough. No of course not! The on-star is registered to the previous owners of the vehicle and is registered out of Mattoon and of course my name and information don't match up to this so now they are looking at me like they are going to be pulling me out of the car and tazing me any minute! Meanwhile, all the football players have stopped and are looking in my direction along with every parent and my poor son didn't know what to do and looked like a deer in headlights out there on the field! So, it was finally resolved, I apologized profusely and everyone went on there merry ways. Small town though, bet there was alot of theories on that one for awhile!
Embarrassed on a regular basis but lovin' it!
Mom, Momma, Mommy
Well, this past fall, my girls and I were sitting at one of my sons football practices. My youngest daughter fell asleep and of course my middle daughter is dancing around all over the car from the back to the front and then finally settled on sitting in the front seat.
So I am sitting there reading a book that I had been trying to finish for 6 months and all of a sudden I hear a phone start to ring in the car and it wasn't my cell phone. So I realized that Livi has pushed the on-star emergency button. BUT we did not subscribe to on-star when we bought the vehicle so I just pushed it off. Well about a minute later I hear the same phone ringing and then a voice. I still think nothing of it because this car has all sorts of voice prompts to try to get you to subscribe to this or that. So I just shut it off again and went back to my book.
10 minutes later I have 3 police cars pulling up behind my car and I'm thinking "what is going on here at the park!?!" But they have blocked me in and I now notice that they are heading for me and they are asking if I'm ok and whats going on and I'm thinking "WHAT THE HELL!!! ?? You people have the wrong person!" Then they explain that they recieved an unknown emergency signal from my vehicle through on-star! BUT WE DON'T HAVE ON-STAR!!! But the people who owned it before us did and it was still activated! So of course I apologize but to be safe they have to run my name and plates. Easy enough. No of course not! The on-star is registered to the previous owners of the vehicle and is registered out of Mattoon and of course my name and information don't match up to this so now they are looking at me like they are going to be pulling me out of the car and tazing me any minute! Meanwhile, all the football players have stopped and are looking in my direction along with every parent and my poor son didn't know what to do and looked like a deer in headlights out there on the field! So, it was finally resolved, I apologized profusely and everyone went on there merry ways. Small town though, bet there was alot of theories on that one for awhile!
Embarrassed on a regular basis but lovin' it!
Mom, Momma, Mommy
Monday, March 14, 2011
Jehovas Witnesses Don't Come Around Here No More~
One Saturday afternoon my doorbell rang and I opened it to find a teenage girl standing on my stoop, holding a Bible in her hands. There was a much older woman with her and it didn't take me long to realize that they were Jehovas Witness. I was of course running around after the kids and trying to get things done and normally would have told them that I didn't have the time but they sent a brace faced 14 year old to my door so naturally I listened as she gave me her speech and talked to them for a while and of course politely accepted the little hand held Bible they were giving out. So they asked me if they could come back to talk to me and of course, I said yes................BECAUSE I'M A SUCKER and because they sent a child to my door! Anywho~
Two weeks later, I am getting ready to go to Chases soccer game. Of course I'm running late, throwing things into a bag, loading up the kids, and caging dogs. The kids are in the car, garage door is shut, and I run back into the house to finish grabbing everything. While I'm doing this I can hear Chase and Liv arguing and yelling at one another in the car and Sidney is SCREAMING because I have left her immediate vision! I am in the kitchen, they are in the garage and I can hear them yelling at each other and it is pure chaos. So while I'm trying to finish grabbing everything I am yelling out the door to the house into the garage trying to find out what is going on out there and why everyone is screaming! FINALLY, I have everything ready and I open the garage door and hear Chase yelling at Sidney to stop crying so now I'm yelling again because they are all STILL yellling and this is just ridiculous!
Shew~ we are in the car and pulling out! BUT...........as I'm backing out here comes the teenage Jehovas witness with her mother and they are walking towards my car away from my front door but they didn't come very close. Now I don't know how long they had been at my door but I guarantee that they heard plenty! The mother looked a little frightened as she said "maybe Saturdays aren't a good time??!?!"
They've never come back, not any of them! I'll stock up on sunscreen for my trip to hell~
Mom, Momma, Mommy
Two weeks later, I am getting ready to go to Chases soccer game. Of course I'm running late, throwing things into a bag, loading up the kids, and caging dogs. The kids are in the car, garage door is shut, and I run back into the house to finish grabbing everything. While I'm doing this I can hear Chase and Liv arguing and yelling at one another in the car and Sidney is SCREAMING because I have left her immediate vision! I am in the kitchen, they are in the garage and I can hear them yelling at each other and it is pure chaos. So while I'm trying to finish grabbing everything I am yelling out the door to the house into the garage trying to find out what is going on out there and why everyone is screaming! FINALLY, I have everything ready and I open the garage door and hear Chase yelling at Sidney to stop crying so now I'm yelling again because they are all STILL yellling and this is just ridiculous!
Shew~ we are in the car and pulling out! BUT...........as I'm backing out here comes the teenage Jehovas witness with her mother and they are walking towards my car away from my front door but they didn't come very close. Now I don't know how long they had been at my door but I guarantee that they heard plenty! The mother looked a little frightened as she said "maybe Saturdays aren't a good time??!?!"
They've never come back, not any of them! I'll stock up on sunscreen for my trip to hell~
Mom, Momma, Mommy
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Some things I have learned the past year
So before I started blogging I wrote in a journal almost every night. Just recapping my day or week because it all goes by so quickly and little things that happen or are said can be easily forgotten. After every entry I ended with what my kids had taught me that particular day or week. So I'm going to recap some for you!
Here goes~~~
1.) When your son tells you he wants a brother and you respond with "well if I have another baby I can't promise you it would be a boy" you had better be ready for HIS response. Which was..."I didn't say you had to have a baby mom we can just buy one, I don't care what color you get!" (Chase, when we found out Sidney was a girl).
2) When you think your little boy is little, put him in a football uniform.......you'll want to pick him up and run with him off of the field!
3) A big sister might get annoyed and slap, pinch, poke, bite her little sister but if another kid tries to do it, the gloves are coming off!!! Liv physically removed another girls hand from her sister this past summer! It was a proud moment!
4) Thank goodness for crayola washable markers! They really do wash off, this includes but is not limited to...clothing, tables, floors, refrigerators, tvs and little sisters! Chase tattoed Olivia from head to toe! And yes they were actually playing "tattoo place"
5) Lip gloss really is non-toxic~ I had just bought a tube and Liv found it in the car at one of Chases football practices and proceeded to suck the gloss out of the entire tube! Note to self......no more flavored lip gloss!
6) Wearing a bicycle helmet only helps it to not hurt if you aren't purposely driving your bike into things.........over and over and over again! So weird!
7) Farting truly is the funniest thing ever...........all of my kids laugh and announce it no matter where we are and you really can't help but laugh
8)You know that you are out of touch with style when your $100 pair of shoes are found our your 2 and 3 year olds feet more than yours and they walk better in them!
9) Washable little girls nail polish IS NOT SO WASHABLE. Not unless you see it spilled and get it then but WHO SEE'S IT SPILLED!??!! The makers should be flogged!
10) Little girls can look like Rocky. Next time you see my girls pay attention to thier pretty little chipped front teeth smiles! BOTH OF THEM!
11) Competitevness is inherited and not learned!! Chase on the baseball tournament: "We would have beat them had we not had to play 4 games in a row in this F*%^'ing heat!" I let it slide just that once! He was right!
12) Cursing is never ok but there are times that it just is appropriate. EX: I was taking something from the top of the laundry room closet when a can of stain fell and hit me in the foot. I was jumping up and down, holding my foot and also holding my breath in order to not let the words fly out of my mouth in front of my almost 3 y/o daughter. When she puts her little hand on my arm and says: "Momma......is it a son of a bitch?" Just all concerned. To which I answered.....'Yes sweetie it really is!"
13) When your sons start drenching themselves in Axe body gel, shampoo, and body spray.....thats when you know they have noticed girls!
14)Never, Never, Never, let more than 2 minutes go by when you can't hear your children.. Any more than that just means a mess for you!!
15) Also, NEVER NEVER NEVER show your son how to pick a locked door with a small screwdriver. He will eventually do it to your bedroom door!!!
16.) Don't underestimate the power of the movie Charlottes Web....Kids love it and will sit and watch it over and over. But thank goodness for the real animal version, that cartoon pig is so whiney that you hope he gets turned into bacon!
17) If you don't pick up your house before or after the kids are in bed, your just wasting your time! Again, its like shoveling in a snowstorm, there is absolutely no point! Just let it go no matter how crazy it makes you!
18) It doesn't matter how old they are even the littlest girls get crushes on their older brothers friends. Liv has been IN LOVE with the same boy for 2 years now. He knows who he is!
19) Girls are in fact just as strange if not stranger than little boys. Never did my son, play with his poop, eat whatever he found on the floor, LICK the floor, eat dog food, eat lotion (can we say pica) play in the toilet, stick tampons up his nose, I mean the list goes on and on and my girls have done all of this!
20) Savor evey moment, even though you were told it would go fast you never understand it until you're here!
Here goes~~~
1.) When your son tells you he wants a brother and you respond with "well if I have another baby I can't promise you it would be a boy" you had better be ready for HIS response. Which was..."I didn't say you had to have a baby mom we can just buy one, I don't care what color you get!" (Chase, when we found out Sidney was a girl).
2) When you think your little boy is little, put him in a football uniform.......you'll want to pick him up and run with him off of the field!
3) A big sister might get annoyed and slap, pinch, poke, bite her little sister but if another kid tries to do it, the gloves are coming off!!! Liv physically removed another girls hand from her sister this past summer! It was a proud moment!
4) Thank goodness for crayola washable markers! They really do wash off, this includes but is not limited to...clothing, tables, floors, refrigerators, tvs and little sisters! Chase tattoed Olivia from head to toe! And yes they were actually playing "tattoo place"
5) Lip gloss really is non-toxic~ I had just bought a tube and Liv found it in the car at one of Chases football practices and proceeded to suck the gloss out of the entire tube! Note to self......no more flavored lip gloss!
6) Wearing a bicycle helmet only helps it to not hurt if you aren't purposely driving your bike into things.........over and over and over again! So weird!
7) Farting truly is the funniest thing ever...........all of my kids laugh and announce it no matter where we are and you really can't help but laugh
8)You know that you are out of touch with style when your $100 pair of shoes are found our your 2 and 3 year olds feet more than yours and they walk better in them!
9) Washable little girls nail polish IS NOT SO WASHABLE. Not unless you see it spilled and get it then but WHO SEE'S IT SPILLED!??!! The makers should be flogged!
10) Little girls can look like Rocky. Next time you see my girls pay attention to thier pretty little chipped front teeth smiles! BOTH OF THEM!
11) Competitevness is inherited and not learned!! Chase on the baseball tournament: "We would have beat them had we not had to play 4 games in a row in this F*%^'ing heat!" I let it slide just that once! He was right!
12) Cursing is never ok but there are times that it just is appropriate. EX: I was taking something from the top of the laundry room closet when a can of stain fell and hit me in the foot. I was jumping up and down, holding my foot and also holding my breath in order to not let the words fly out of my mouth in front of my almost 3 y/o daughter. When she puts her little hand on my arm and says: "Momma......is it a son of a bitch?" Just all concerned. To which I answered.....'Yes sweetie it really is!"
13) When your sons start drenching themselves in Axe body gel, shampoo, and body spray.....thats when you know they have noticed girls!
14)Never, Never, Never, let more than 2 minutes go by when you can't hear your children.. Any more than that just means a mess for you!!
15) Also, NEVER NEVER NEVER show your son how to pick a locked door with a small screwdriver. He will eventually do it to your bedroom door!!!
16.) Don't underestimate the power of the movie Charlottes Web....Kids love it and will sit and watch it over and over. But thank goodness for the real animal version, that cartoon pig is so whiney that you hope he gets turned into bacon!
17) If you don't pick up your house before or after the kids are in bed, your just wasting your time! Again, its like shoveling in a snowstorm, there is absolutely no point! Just let it go no matter how crazy it makes you!
18) It doesn't matter how old they are even the littlest girls get crushes on their older brothers friends. Liv has been IN LOVE with the same boy for 2 years now. He knows who he is!
19) Girls are in fact just as strange if not stranger than little boys. Never did my son, play with his poop, eat whatever he found on the floor, LICK the floor, eat dog food, eat lotion (can we say pica) play in the toilet, stick tampons up his nose, I mean the list goes on and on and my girls have done all of this!
20) Savor evey moment, even though you were told it would go fast you never understand it until you're here!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Off for a weekend with the girls and the kids!
So we my 9 and 3 yr olds and I are off for a weekend getaway at Grand Bear Lodge with a group of moms and their kids. It will be a weekend of water/theme parks, playing, gabbing, and a few drinks! I just hope that last year doesn't repeat itself! It was a great trip except for that Saturday.
We had been at the water park the entire night before and got up, had some lunch and headed over to the amusement park! The kids had a great time! But then, my son and his "girlfriend" Tyler decided to ride the Tilt-A-Whirl like 12 times in a row! We are talking getting off and then right back on! So my friend Sarah was riding with them and her youngest and after the last time she says "oh my gosh I can't do that again, so I decide to get on and ride the next few rounds! Well, my son comes off and says "I'm gonna sit this one out, I'll stay with Sarah" Fine. I get on, it starts spinning round and round and all I am catching is quick glimpses of my son bent over puking all over the floor! So I am trying to stop the ride, of course to no prevail. I hop off, he is still bent over, Sarah (not very strong stomached) is patting him on the back while looking away, and then here comes Tyler running towards them ready to go again and she runs straight through the puke! Now she has on flip flops so not only does she run through it, she SLIPS IN IT!!! GROSS!!!! I am telling you!!!! So......there will be limits on the tilt-a whirl this year! And no chicken nuggets before!!!
Wishing you all a good weekend!
Mom, Momma, MommEEEE
We had been at the water park the entire night before and got up, had some lunch and headed over to the amusement park! The kids had a great time! But then, my son and his "girlfriend" Tyler decided to ride the Tilt-A-Whirl like 12 times in a row! We are talking getting off and then right back on! So my friend Sarah was riding with them and her youngest and after the last time she says "oh my gosh I can't do that again, so I decide to get on and ride the next few rounds! Well, my son comes off and says "I'm gonna sit this one out, I'll stay with Sarah" Fine. I get on, it starts spinning round and round and all I am catching is quick glimpses of my son bent over puking all over the floor! So I am trying to stop the ride, of course to no prevail. I hop off, he is still bent over, Sarah (not very strong stomached) is patting him on the back while looking away, and then here comes Tyler running towards them ready to go again and she runs straight through the puke! Now she has on flip flops so not only does she run through it, she SLIPS IN IT!!! GROSS!!!! I am telling you!!!! So......there will be limits on the tilt-a whirl this year! And no chicken nuggets before!!!
Wishing you all a good weekend!
Mom, Momma, MommEEEE
Thursday, March 3, 2011
My Brand New Furniture
Okay, so we FINALLY broke down and bought new living room furniture. Our old stuff was awesome, we had it for 8 years but 8 years of 2 dogs, 3 kids, family, and kids friends had REALLY taken its toll on this stuff! Last year we started looking and we had gone into Lazy Boy and Scott asks me if I see anything I liked. Well of course I did! But I sat down on a beautiful $1500 sofa and looked up at my kids running through the store and then told him that "I have no idea why we are here!?!?" So we left with no furniture. Mostly because I know that had we purchased it, got it home and the dog jumped on it and ripped it or one of the kids spilled something on it....it would end up in 2 pieces out on the curb! So...I took the less expensive route.
But a few months ago we were laughing about our torn and stained furniture and then found ourselves once again in Lazy Boy. We made the plunge and bought the furniture. It had to be ordered so it took 7 weeks. In the meantime I found myself telling the dogs to enjoy it for now, telling Chase and Liv to enjoy making their forts with the pull off cushions, let Chase sleep on it for the last few times (he has seriously slept on our couch for years!), etc etc. The day before the furniture arrived Chase and Liv were throwing the cushions to the old couch at each other and I said ENJOY IT because the new furniture cushions don't come off! The reply from Chase was, "You did that on purpose didn't you!?!?!" Well yeah I did!
Then the next day its here! My beautiful new furniture! Which by the way isn't the gorgeous leather sofa that I so desperately wanted but its still pretty, only difference it has ENDURANCE FABRIC! Oh yes people! They make it! And I have since been fighting a hard battle to not give it a test run! I have been hovering over the dogs, following the girls when they have anything such as food, drink, NAILPOLISH etc, and the other day Chase was laying on it and I asked if his socks were clean, then if he had washed his hair that day and then asked him to please not fart on the new furniture! He laughed, I laughed, but deep down...I totally meant it! So I'm really enjoying it!!!
Signed~ Mom, Momma, MommEEEEEEEEEE
P.S.~ Dear Lazy Boy, we shall see how much your so called ENDURANCE fabric really does endure! Cause its in a warzone now! If it survives, I'll purchase furniture from you for the rest of my life!
But a few months ago we were laughing about our torn and stained furniture and then found ourselves once again in Lazy Boy. We made the plunge and bought the furniture. It had to be ordered so it took 7 weeks. In the meantime I found myself telling the dogs to enjoy it for now, telling Chase and Liv to enjoy making their forts with the pull off cushions, let Chase sleep on it for the last few times (he has seriously slept on our couch for years!), etc etc. The day before the furniture arrived Chase and Liv were throwing the cushions to the old couch at each other and I said ENJOY IT because the new furniture cushions don't come off! The reply from Chase was, "You did that on purpose didn't you!?!?!" Well yeah I did!
Then the next day its here! My beautiful new furniture! Which by the way isn't the gorgeous leather sofa that I so desperately wanted but its still pretty, only difference it has ENDURANCE FABRIC! Oh yes people! They make it! And I have since been fighting a hard battle to not give it a test run! I have been hovering over the dogs, following the girls when they have anything such as food, drink, NAILPOLISH etc, and the other day Chase was laying on it and I asked if his socks were clean, then if he had washed his hair that day and then asked him to please not fart on the new furniture! He laughed, I laughed, but deep down...I totally meant it! So I'm really enjoying it!!!
Signed~ Mom, Momma, MommEEEEEEEEEE
P.S.~ Dear Lazy Boy, we shall see how much your so called ENDURANCE fabric really does endure! Cause its in a warzone now! If it survives, I'll purchase furniture from you for the rest of my life!
Sometimes..............
Quote from the movie Date Night:
"Sometimes, I would just like to go to a hotel all by myself, eat room service, watch TV and sleep without interruption!" So I laughed really hard at this part of the movie which made my husband look at me like I was nuts and then it hit him and he says.....:Oh my God! YOU have thought about that!" Well..........duh!! I would come back! But I would need a full 48 hours!
Oh come on! You have thought about it too!!!
Signed, patiently waiting for my spa weekend~
Mom, Momma, MommEEEEEEE
"Sometimes, I would just like to go to a hotel all by myself, eat room service, watch TV and sleep without interruption!" So I laughed really hard at this part of the movie which made my husband look at me like I was nuts and then it hit him and he says.....:Oh my God! YOU have thought about that!" Well..........duh!! I would come back! But I would need a full 48 hours!
Oh come on! You have thought about it too!!!
Signed, patiently waiting for my spa weekend~
Mom, Momma, MommEEEEEEE
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Real Housewives............My A**!
Okay, so I am one of those people who while they are engaged in something such as cleaning, getting ready, etc. that these are the moments when my mind really starts to wander. So I was cleaning the bathroom this morning and I am listening to the television in the background and I keep hearing all about these "Real Houswives of wherever they are from, I mean what have we covered about half of the United States now?!?! Anywho~ these supposedly "Real Housewives" are dressed to the nines with their designer clothes, high heeled shoes, make-up and perfect hair, and they are housewives right?? Well, I will not debate that they stay at home with their children or that they are not good and active mothers but I would like to know what "Real Housewife" has the time for all of this that they do? Including sitting around arguing with each other and what not! I will be the 1st to admit that I have never watched a show, not one, and don't plan to but I have seen enough on entertainment TV, talk shows, and advertisement (by the way this is all in passing because I don't have time to SIT and watch TV) to know that if this is what being a "real housewife" is then sign me up! I will be more than happy to have someone make me over, drive me around, nanny my kids (not saying that they don't take care of their kids), and let someone sit me in a room just to scream and yell because their are days that I would welcome the chance to just sit and scream about nothing just because I need to!
But honestly, if they want to do a show then let them do a REAL HOUSEWIFE show about REAL Housewives. You know, like the ones who hit the floor running in the morning to get everyone ready and shuffled to where they need to be, the ones who are scrubbing the floors and toilets and cleaning the kitchen for th 3rd time that day because that is where the 3 meals per day come out of. The ones who are wiping butts, changing diapers, picking up after 3 kids plus their friends, the ones who are pooper scooping the backyard, mowing the lawn, busting her ass to just get that 8th load of laundry in for the day, taking the recycle, taking out the trash and who are just looking forward to the one hour of quiet that they might get at the end of the day to paint their nails or read a book/magazine. Again, I don't want to slight these women but COME ON!!!! Lets give some credit to those of us who are truly doing it all and not because our husbands don't help but because its how we make it work. And to thos of us who can't wait for a date night or night out with the girls in order to get dressed up because there is no point in doing so during most days because whatever we are wearing is puked on, pooped on or used as a napkin!
Now maybe I would think differently about this if I had millions of dollars, who knows, but I am here to say that wether you are a stay at home mother or a working mother (I have been both), I applaud you! With or without you being on TV!!! BRAVO!!!!!!
Signed With Pride~
Mom, Momma, MommEEE
But honestly, if they want to do a show then let them do a REAL HOUSEWIFE show about REAL Housewives. You know, like the ones who hit the floor running in the morning to get everyone ready and shuffled to where they need to be, the ones who are scrubbing the floors and toilets and cleaning the kitchen for th 3rd time that day because that is where the 3 meals per day come out of. The ones who are wiping butts, changing diapers, picking up after 3 kids plus their friends, the ones who are pooper scooping the backyard, mowing the lawn, busting her ass to just get that 8th load of laundry in for the day, taking the recycle, taking out the trash and who are just looking forward to the one hour of quiet that they might get at the end of the day to paint their nails or read a book/magazine. Again, I don't want to slight these women but COME ON!!!! Lets give some credit to those of us who are truly doing it all and not because our husbands don't help but because its how we make it work. And to thos of us who can't wait for a date night or night out with the girls in order to get dressed up because there is no point in doing so during most days because whatever we are wearing is puked on, pooped on or used as a napkin!
Now maybe I would think differently about this if I had millions of dollars, who knows, but I am here to say that wether you are a stay at home mother or a working mother (I have been both), I applaud you! With or without you being on TV!!! BRAVO!!!!!!
Signed With Pride~
Mom, Momma, MommEEE
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