Random thoughts of the day...

• I need cameras. Video cameras. I need them following me around every day so that a.) people believe the insane stories I tell, and b.) I could at least capitalize off the crazy. I'd totally watch my reality show. Though...I'd probably not be shown in a very good light. Scratch that...I need NO cameras. Anywhere near me. Ever.
  
• Crap...still need to order checks.
• Why is it that when I don't need something..it's always in my way. And when I do need it, that same thing that was in my way 5 minutes ago is no longer there. It has fallen into the great abyss that swallows up things in my house. And it always happens on Sunday mornings. And it always causes me to practically cuss before church.
• Pastor Mike said we should demand things. I like that. I'm gonna start demanding more things. I know I'm taking it out of context...but...it sounds like a great idea. My first demand is cake. Lots of it. And that none of it makes me sick or fat.... mmmmmmmmm....cake....Next demand? No annoyances....ever. That one will be trickier than cake.
• Found this picture the other day...who the HECK gives a 5(?) year old a picture of Jesus for their birthday? Seriously. I love Jesus, and the love of him was cultivated from an early age, yes...but is it really necessary to give a small child a picture of Jesus to hang on their wall? He doesn't even look like that. It was probably some family member trying to be all "spiritual" and give me something my parent's would approve of. Whatever, skip that, Jesus lives in my heart, I wanted Strawberry Shortcake that year! Ironically...I still have that awesome wooden Jesus picture;)
  
• My cat looks awesome...and ridiculous...and he knows it.

Wanna know WHY he looks like Mufasa's groomer got ahold of him? See HERE

Random thought of the day....

• Chances are if you are a parent, and you have to leave an ENTIRE cart of groceries at a store because your kid is running around like crazy, opening and trying on all the lipsticks and nail polishes, breaking stuff, and generally being a nuisance to society.....you need to rethink your discipline options. I'm not saying beat the kid...but...maybe you should try something. Anything. Gently speaking in calm tones and begging the kid to obey you isn't gonna cut it. I'm just saying.
• Crap...still gotta order some checks.
  
• Donuts should not be allowed in my house. Especially on days that I am weak and had to deal with bratty children running up and down the aisle at Target screaming and breaking nail polishes while I was trying to pick out my dog food. But it sure tasted good goin' down....
• I seriously say "seriously" way to much...it's evident in Maebree's speech. Everything starts with "Seriouswy Mom...." followed by at least 10 more "seriouswies" in the same sentence. But dang it's cute.
  

Random thoughs of the day...

My random thought for today? I.Hate.People. Not really.....but kind of.

Wal-Mart paint guy? Yep..your general lack of people skills and droning on and on about paint annoyed me. I just want my paint mixed...the color I asked for...the quality I asked for. Done.

Old people in your jazzies at Wal-Mart? TOTALLY on my list. Next time you butt in front of me after I've waited to speak with an overpaid/undertrained sales associate, there is a good chance I will go ballistic on you, throwing a huge ol hissy fit right in the middle of the store causing you to be all sorts of flustered, shaking your head and grumbling about "young people these days". Just cause your old and I must respect you as an elder, doesn't mean you reserve the right to be rude. Please go back home and watch your taped copies of "Young and the Useless" and let me go on with my day. (no joke..this happened TWICE while I was there!)

AT&T guy...you fixed my internet and didn't charge me...your great. Sales lady I talked to on the phone afterward to (for the 1 millionth time) to fix my bill...yet again....you were on my list til you ended the phone call with "God-Bless you". I'm pretty sure you weren't allowed to do that, but I appreciate it.

My new 3 pound 3 oz nephew? You gave me a fluffy moment when I heard you let your momma hold you for over an hour and feed you....keep up the good work buddy. Not on my list....

Random thoughts of the day...

I'm gonna try something that might help me blog on a more regular basis...I have at least 20 random thoughts in a day, some are worth sharing, others not so much. They may be mine, they might be stuff my kids said..and I might do this once and never again. Here's today's:

• Does anyone else take 45 minutes to pick out a box of checks? There is a lot of pressure involved with this. I mean...I don't use them a lot anymore, but my checks say a lot about me as a person. I can't do some girly flowery junk, otherwise the next time my husband has to pay for something with a check at the fire station....hmmm.....that would actually be funny. I won't do anything with a Christian symbol on it, cause lets face it....I might be in a bad mood that day. AAAAND I don't like apologizing..."Sorry clerk. Don't be hatin' on God cause I'm PMSing" I don't want to go too simple like "metropolitan design" or anything 'cause that's boring. I still haven't picked out my checks.
• How MANY Free Willy movies are they going to make before they realize the first one was extremely LAME! Though that last one has Bindi Irwin in it...and all my fellow Joel McHale fans say WHAT?!
  
• At some point this week....laundry should've been higher on my list of priorities. I'm pretty sure the body of John Gotti is hidden underneath this pile.
  

Random Pics

*****DISCLAIMER****** This is a long post:) But at least it is filled with pics!

Life is crazy, we are all feeling it now. I feel like every post (which has been few and far between) has started that way....

I went through the pics on my small little point-and-shoot and thought I would just throw them up in an extremely random way. These date as far back as the beginning of November! So here goes!Dad celebrated his 52nd b-day....the cakes were extremely yummy. This is where my freedom with eating began.
Mae decided to try queso ON chocolate cake. She was actually licking the queso off the cake. She seemed to enjoy it.

On our way to Colorado...there was a whole lot of this...watching the DVD player, and sleeping. Thank GOD for DVD players in vehicles. Don't know how we survived before it.


Thanksgiving was successful. We had a plethora of food, and the kids had a blast playing Guitar Hero. Faith especially...Mae...not so much:)

We bought and decorated our tree.....and Essie. She was less then enthused. Perhaps because she had already been puked on that night.
We decorated LOTS of cookies......



And the girls had their school and church concerts.....They were less then thrilled to have that last pic taken:)


AND....finally. A new milestone in our house happened. It wasn't by my choice. Mae came to me on Saturday holding her ponytail (yes you saw it right..her ENTIRE PONYTAIL) in her hand and informed me that she "took my ha-oh out!" Literally. So, I had to cut the mullet. She rocked an awesome mullet, but I had to let go. You can see the rather sparse spot it left on the side of her head there. Here is the before......

*sigh* And the after. She looks like a boy with a bow. My sister says she looks like a German child, which I guess is ok since she mostly is German. But she definitely looks older. That's it for now....hopefully I will be able to update more frequently now that I am done with all my immediate stuff. I do have 1800 wedding photos to start going through, but I am taking a week off!

Random thoughts....

I've been having some seriously random thoughts the past two days, and since I love all things random, I thought I would share.

*When it's the end of the night, and you think kids should be tired, why do they run around like crazy people jacked up on pounds upon pounds of sugar?

*If Jack Bauer can save the world in 24 hours, like SEVEN TIMES, why oh why can't our government save it in 100 days? Just sayin..........

*Why, Oh WHY, does cake hate my midsection and thighs so much?

*Why don't babies understand how good they have it. I mean seriously, if I didn't have to wipe my own butt, could eat whatever whenever, and got to take two naps per day, I would be the happiest person alive. And yet.....their not.....

*That "I'll sleep when I'm dead" statement is the stupidest thing I have ever heard and the person who first said it should be shot 'til their dead.

*Why is it that when our "mommy love feelings" kick in, we have this overbearing urge to squeeze our kids until stuff comes out. Literally....like their breakfast cereal.

*That feeling also occurs when they tick us off.

*Did I SERIOUSLY just sing the whole theme song to Dora? And Diego?

*My throat really hurts today.....what are the symptoms of swine flu again?

*If I had a secret super power, it wouldn't be something awesome like being invisible or flying or any crap like that, it would be the one Jeanie had where she blinked her eyes or wiggled her nose or whatever and stuff would get done

*What takes hours to clean is undone in mere seconds by a two-year old. Life truly isn't fair.

*Why do I sometimes hate the word "mommy"? Oh yeah, it's 'cause all I hear over and over all day is "mommy....mommy.....mommy.....mommy". Yet, I really am sad when they start calling me just "Mom".

*Ah screw it.....I'm making a cake. I jogged 1.5 miles today.

My little helper

Maebree is seriously a little "Mother Hen". She absolutely adores "Caebin" (that's Caleb in Maebrinese) and always wants to "help" with him. I let her try and feed him a bottle today....the results...

.....were that she clearly cared more about wiping the milk off his mouth than actually giving him a bottle:) This is probably one of THE most easy-going kids...but there is one thing you don't mess with, and that's his meals! He has the thighs to prove it:) So needless to say, Maebree won't be on feeding duty any time soon....and Caleb is thankful for that!

On another note, Emmy came home from school today and was excited to show me all her dances she learned in P.E. She especially loved the "Baucooracha" (this was her pronunciation)....after watching her, I quickly realized she was doing the "Macarena". I have no idea where Baucooracha came from:) She has her mother's way of making up stuff as she goes along, kinda like "Sweet Potatoe Pie and I Shook My Baby" :) (for those of you who don't know, for years, that is what I swore the words to "I Love Rock and Roll" were instead of "put another dime in the jukebox baby")

25 Random Things About Me

So Facebook has this going around and I thought it would be fun to also include this in my blog as well. None of these are extremely serious or spiritual because I am just not into putting my mushy/gushy feelings out there:o), but I am certainly a fan of all things random. Here goes!

In NO particular order and completely off the top of my head:
25.) I love coffee. Two creams, Two sweeteners please!
24.) I am extremely, easily annoyed. Top of my list these days? Disrespectful teenagers whose mommies and daddies give them anything and everything they want.
23.) I have fallen into every job I have had. And it's always worked out really well.
22.) I really wanted a son, and God chose to bless me with three girls. He really does have a sense of humor, doesn't he?
21.) I vowed my kids would never have a mullet. I've yet to cut Maebree's because it's taken her 2 years to grow the little amount of hair that she has. She is STILL called a "he" most days.
20.) I love good smells and am obsessed with my house smelling nice. It doesn't have to be clean necessarily, just has to "smell" clean.
19.) I love firefighters. Good thing I married one.
18.) I hate being cold.
17.) After I sit in a relaxing hot bath, I still have to take a shower because I don't feel like I am "clean".
16.) I enjoy watching t.v. Probably too much. Thank GOD for DVR, because now I can watch it on my own time and not have it interfere with anything!
15.) I'm closer to my family now than I have ever been. Sometimes it takes moving out, getting married, and having your own kids to see what your parents REALLY had to go through.
14.) Someday, my sister is going to be rich and famous and we are all going to mooch off of her for the rest of our lives. And I can't wait. (Ok, this one is not about me, but I had to throw it in there to make her smile:o)
13.) I avoid most indoor playgrounds like the plague ie: McDonald's, the mall, etc. Have you ever LOOKED at one of those places? They just ooze with bad smells and germs. Blech!
12.) I hate vacuuming.
11.) I hate putting laundry away. Sometimes, I will just fold it and will have like 10 loads of clean laundry sitting on my spare couch.
10.) There are days I am so busy, I forget to brush my teeth. Thank you LORD for gum!
9.) I LOVE doing theme parties!! Hello, have you SEEN my Lost party pics? Not to mention all my kid's b-day parties are always rich with a theme and a deliciously decorated cake:)
8.) I love naps but rarely can take them. My mind just won't shut off in the middle of the day.
7.) I can and will get violent if any one attempts to mess with or hurt my children. I scare myself sometimes!
6.) I am extremely competitive when it comes to playing games. Again with my violent streak....who knew a simple game of Apples to Apples could become war!
5.) I went to nursing school for one year, 11 years ago and to this day, my family and friends always call me up and ask me medically related questions as if one year of nursing school and some work in the medical field (ie receptionist and medical transcriptionist) actually qualifies me as the "professional".
4.) I have never truly mowed a complete lawn. I ran the lawnmower into our house when I was 15 (long story, no damage), so my dad never let me mow the lawn again. I tried to mow our lawn about two years ago and the lawnmower ran out of gas. Guess it's just not my thing.
3.) My dream job is to take someone shopping, show them the right clothes to buy, dress them up, do their make-up and hair, take some awesome pictures of them, and then serve them a deliciously decorated cake. What would you call a business like that?
2.) I love cake. I cannot and will not go into any more details because I'm a little bitter about what cake does to my mid-section and thighs. Most of you know my obsession.
1.) I secretly want to be a butt-kicking super spy like Sidney Bristow. I guess I will have to settle for kickboxing at "dance club". Gotta get all that aggression out somehow!