Out Of My Mouth

Big day here in our house, or should I say car? This morning my car was stuck in the driveway due to all the ice/snow. I had to gun it to make it over the ice pond and snow mountain at the end of our driveway. Doing this caused me to knock over one of my neighbor's garbage cans. I said a bad word out loud. So my young passenger heard it. Yup, the big F@#$! came out of my mouth.

Now I really don't use the word much espically around the girls. My husband on the other hand. Let's just say we both figured it would be due to him that the girls learned this word.

He was very pleased to hear that B learned the word now from me and not him. I did go through the "you may never repeat this word" speach. As well as the "It is just a very bad word to say." lecture. She was very into the meaning of the word and why it is such a bad thing to say. I left the meaning at "I don't really know what it means, it is just a naughty word."

So I pray that the 2 times she said it in the car will be the only time she says it. I did try to get across the amount of trouble she would be in if she ever repeated the word. Lucky for me she seemed pretty ok with that knowledge. For I'm sure if it was A she would not care about the trouble just the attention.

Not so much a new topic, just a new story...

Tonight at dinner we had salad with dressing. A asked if I could "pass the dressing up, so she could dip her mato in it." Dressing up? Oh I get it, dressing...dressing up. I thought it was funny!

Have a good one and watch what you say :)

My New Niece

Here is a picture of my niece, Madison. My sister-in-law gave birth yesterday. My brother seems happy yet I have not talked to him. The only sad part of finally being an aunt is that this niece lives in CA. I'm am not thinking I will be seeing her that often. I guess I can take some comfort in the fact that I am still an aunt to 42 other kids thanks to my husband and his family.

All By Myself

This post started as I thought about going to see a movie alone. My friend Joan brought this topic up. I stated that yes, I would go to a movie alone. But then I began thinking of other things that I would or would not do alone.

Have done alone: eaten in a restaurant, would not do this again I had a horrible time.
shopped alone, have no problem going alone. Almost prefer going alone.
gone to mass, I actually listened instead of focused on kids

Have not done alone: travel. And I mean like far away, not a hour(s)road trip
join a group. I feel like I need to change this one.
go to a party, I would just feel weird alone without friends/husband

Anything I should add to my rather short lists? What things have you done? What would you not do?

Few Comments From Today

me: A would you like to go to art time today?
A: no, I like elmo on puter (puter = computer)

I am watching a blurb on tv about a little boy who lost his legs and is showing his very cool prostetics. B came into the room and states : "Those are some funky legs!"

B: A, I am your sister.
A: No you are not.
B: Yes! I am. tell me I'm your sister.
A: You are not my sister!
B: You better prove I am your sister.

We are at the grocery store B sees a display of greeting cards. She pulls one off and rushes over to me. It is a barbie one.
B: Mom, this is the card I'd like for my birthday.
Me: oh really? I guess I will have to remember that.
B: No, just buy it now and save it till May. ( the DUH! was inflected)

More Snow!

What does one do with tons of snow and 45 degree days? Yup! Make snowmen. So A and I did just that. In fact here is one of the finshed crew. After I finished this one I was informed that I now needed to make a "yittle one". So A and I began making a little one just for her.

She is so funny. She picks up the biggest amount of snow that her little mittens allow, and as she is placing it on the ball of snow, she is telling me which body part it is. Ears, cheeks, eyes... you get the idea. The photo I wish I had taken was of her snowman and all his arms. When I finished getting the body together we went to look for sticks. We found 2, put them in the proper arm place and I went to get the snowman kit for the finishing touches. When I came back outside I saw that our snowman now had 6 arms and they were in all different directions. A said he needed them. So for a while he kept all his arms.

When B came home from school she too wanted to make a snowman. By the time she got outside it had begun to rain. That did not stop her. She stayed out there set on making a snowman. She is not able to start the ball and roll it, so she just kept making a pile of snow. By the time she was finished for the day it looked like we had a termite hill in out front lawn. Not so much of a snowman, but good time out in the snow!

Early To Bed, Early To Rise...

Wednesday night Tom and I fell asleep on the couch watching Cars (too lazy to stop it from the girl's viewing) at 8:15. By 8:45 we both decided to go up to bed. So by 5:00am I seemed to be rather awake. Being awake, I began running my TO DO list over in my head. The number one item was grocery shopping. I had made my monthly menu and went through the sale flyer to create my list the day before. Now the only thing I had to do was find time to go to the store. Easy right?

I was thinking of peapod since they deliver, but many of the items were on sale at Jewel. I just hated the thought of going with A. She is good, but we have all read past blogs of our shopping excursions. Plus, I knew this trip would take longer since it was a monthly trip, not a quick re-stock trip. I decided that since I was awake I would head to the store and get it all finished before the girls woke up. This way I could even bring home the needed milk before breakfast. A perfect plan!

Sweat pants and bra later, I was off to Jewel. Now it is 5:30. I figured this was a win win. No kids, no people, all sale items fully stocked, and shelves brimming with food that they had all night to stock. Well, let's just say that my reality was not at all like my vision.

For starters, the store was not fully stocked. In fact many things were not out at all. Most of the produce section was bare. The new sale prices were not up on many products. Because of no labled items I was unable to remember what was on sale. So I had to go get a flyer and use that while I shopped too. These problems added time to my quick trip. So all in all it was nice to wander without kids, but it took much longer than I had planned.

I will think a little more the next time I want to get out of bed to go to the store at 5:30 in the morning! Early to bed, more sleep for me!

Show Off

Just wanted to show off my great Christmas gift from Tom. I found this table, bought it, put it together, and love it! Yes, it was technically from Tom, but I had to do the leg work. Fine by me. I got what I wanted and he DID carry it in from the car for me :)

So the best feature of this table is not all storage, or the folding table on the side, but the fact that when the lid is shut my projects are out of reach. The lid actually does not close down flat on the table. This allows me to keep works in progress out and they don't get squished.

I also had a good time organizing all my card stuff in the pockets and drawers and shelves. I did find however that I now really needed more stuff. So good thing there have been a few good sales around at the local craft stores. I now have things I have never used before and so I have been working a little.

The only down side is that the table is in the "dining room" so when I am working I am all alone. No tv/background noise. I'm not too into that. I am trying to work during nap time instead or when B is home from school and on the computer next to me.

So to all of my friends... look forward to your J originals. And remember I am still working on this whole creative thing.

PS. Joan I know you are soooo jealous :)