Not My Fault

If you read my St. Pat's post you know about the trouble I had with the gold coins the girls were supposed to get from the Leprechaun. I went yesterday to the chocolate shop to return the Chanukah coins and get my money back. Plus I wanted them to know that I was pissed about it and let them know they almost ruined my little girl's leprechaun treat. When I got to the shop it happened to be the same lady behind the counter that sold them to me a week ago. I explained to her how unhappy I was with my purchase. She actually asked me if I wanted to exchange them for other coins! NO, since St Pat's day is over I don't really need them. DUH! I think she was then going to tell me that she couldn't give me my money back. I quickly began telling her how upset I was when I found out that these were Chanukah coins and almost ruined my girl's day while there was were other people in the store, I think she changed her mind. As she was giving my my cash she actually tried to tell me that this was MY fault. Um, I don't think so. I replied with, "Well I didn't think you would still be selling Chanukah candy since it was months ago." Then just for fun I added,"I guess next year I will know not to come here for our coins so it doesn't happen again"

On a good note, yesterday my hubby and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. The girls wanted to bring us breakfast in bed (so sweet) but I explained that this was a day for Mommy and Daddy to celebrate. They didn't have to do anything. B seemed to like that idea, but still told us happy anniversary right away in the morning. She sure is sweet sometimes.

St Pat's Day Here We come

I finished making the girls little paper purses, for the Leprechaun to leave, after they went to bed tonight. I had wanted to get cute St Pat's paper, but knew if I went into Archiver's just for paper I would not come out with just paper. So I figured bet not go and just make what I have work. They turned out kinda cute right?



I am trying to scale back on all the holiday gifts, so I went with the little purse and bought some gold chocolate coins to put inside it. I was so good I bought the coins last week and hid them till tonight. As I opened up the expensive bag of coins I noticed that they we all holiday coins. And by holiday coins I do not mean St Patrick's Day. They were all Chanukah coins!!! What they heck! It is now 9pm and I have nothing to fill the purses. I am so pissed. I can't wait till I go back to the chocolate store tomorrow for a piece of my mind. Not only did they charge a lot for these stupid pieces of chocolate, but they are selling OLD pieces of chocolate. I mean this holiday was months ago! Luckily hubby ran to store and came back with the only other thing I could think of...ROLOS. At least they are wrapped in gold foil.

A new thing this year was the making of the leprechaun traps. B was all over this as soon as she got home from school. It is pretty cute and creative. the only problem was how to make it look like the leprechaun set off the trap but did not get trapped. I ended up taking the real gold coin and left a few rolos inside the trap. All this sneaky behavior has totally worn me out. Well that and the fact that my littlest shamrock has been awake and rather fussy since 5 pm. It is now 9:30pm. He better sleep well tonight that is all I have to say.

A didn't make a trap. Instead she mad a bag for the leprechaun to put all of his gold in.

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY TO YOU ALL!

Grabbing Some Heat

The other day I was trying to get the girls ready for school. this is not an easy task with a very opinionated 4 year old. then again what task is at this age? I was getting to the end of my limit for I could not find A anywhere. Then as I cam down from the stairs I noticed a bundle of fleece blanket in fron of the heating vent. Yup. You guessed it. Inside the bundle nice and warm was Miss A. Not a bad idea for staying warm. She sure did think it was funny that I was calling her and couldn't find her.

2 Months Already

I have a hard time believing that my new baby is 2 months old already. It does not seem like that amount of time has passed. Funny that 8 weeks does not sound so long, but 2 months is huge! I will say if it means he will start sleeping through the night I am all for time moving quickly :) These late night feeding requests are getting a little old especially when he nurses only one side and falls back to sleep. Not what I'm looking for after dragging my sleepy ass out of bed @ 12:30am, 3:30 am and again around 5:30am. I'm sure once these feeding stop I will miss them, but for now take them away!

The girls are more in love with their brother each and every day. They are now so into getting their own personal smile from little bro. it is not a good day if they each don't get at least one good smile. Little B is really starting to be all baby and I hate to say infant is gone. He is growing so quickly.

I still don't have him on a good solid schedule yet. He seems to like the sleep one day and not the next system best. Me? Not so much for this schedule. We are getting better, but still need a bit of work. Until I figure out how to make a baby fall asleep for longer than 30 minutes, I will have to relax.

Can You Say Competitive?

I went to my parent's house for lunch again today. I began with a cherry pie appetizer then had a mom made ham sandwich. The pie appie was to fit in my cherry pie that I am not allowed to have as a dessert. I gave up desserts for Lent this year. So I have figured it out that if I eat the sweet before a meal or in the middle of the day, it doesn't count as dessert. It is now an appie or a snack. Yesterday was Washington's birthday and so I knew that my mom would have a cherry pie to celebrate this president. I LOVE cherry pie, so I planned my meal.

While at their house I went on my blog and I noticed that I have over 400 posts. I told my younger sister this and she replied with, "I have more!" I said, "How can you have more? and "Why do you know that?" She told me it is because she tries to beat me! Yes, apparently I am in competition with my sister over who can post more on their blog. I had no idea, but now that I know I guess I better step up my posts. I certainly wouldn't want my little sister to have more posts than I do.

Guess this goes to show me that siblings are never too old to compete and that we will compete over just about anything.

So get ready to read lots of post fans for game on Vic!

Guess What We Got!

B is a big fan of infomercials right now. There seems to be plenty of them during the kid type shows they watch. One of the items that she really likes and wants every time she sees it is the...

BUMPITS!

I refuse to spend $10 on it, but happened to see it for $5 at get this... Office Max. Well for $5 I will try them. They are not as easy as they look. In fact they are a bit hard to do. B wanted it in her hair the next day for school. After a few tries I got it "good enough" for her. She was so happy and couldn't wait to show off her fashion bumped hair at school.

We tried again Saturday morning with the headband look.

Little bit of a bump from the front.

We still need to practice to get it right. I tried the Hollywood bump in my hair and it was HUGE. I looked very strange. I am thinking I will try the small one that B wears next. Little A wants one too, but she really doesn't have enough hair to make it work.

Which Are You?

"There are 2 different kinds of people in the world: those who finish what they start

and those who." Brad Ramsey

This about sums up how I feel lately. I seem to have a pile of things to finish that I just can't seem to find time to finish. I somehow find time to start something new, but not to finish something new. I used to be the person who finished projects. Where did that person go, and when might she return?

Many will say it is due to the new baby. I'm sure that is part of it, but other people with new babies finish stuff. I read all about it on their blogs. They even post photos. I can't even finish downloading the new baby photos off my camera onto my computer.

I find good reasons why I can't finish things, just not sure if they are good enough.

Perhaps for Lent I should make finishing projects my goal as well as giving up something. Not a bad idea right? 40 days devoted to finishing. On that note I better go make a list of all the things I need to get done in the next 40 days.

Day 1: finish making the list :)