***Attention all male readers. This post is for women only. If you insist on reading on...then you will be obligated to go out and buy your wife a pair of these panties!
These are the worlds greatest undies! Super, super comfy and totally seamless. They don't "ride up" or roll down under your baby-belly when you bend over. They are honestly, truely just like not having anything on...but better because you do. They come in several different colors (my favorite is sheer pink & black). They are the ultimate undies because you can wear them under anything, even body-skimming clothes and they won't show. If you wear thongs (which I'm sure none of you God-fearing Christian women do) but if, heaven-forbid, you do wear them, like I do...then you know what I mean when I say they don't cut into your skin giving you a butt completley seperate from your back. GROSS! Haven't you ever seen those girls who try to wear a skirt or something and you can see this awful line around their middle where the back of their underwear is WAY too tight? Nas-Tee!! Anyway, I also like these particular ones because it's not a teensy peice of floss in the back either...but the fabric is so smooth and thin...you never notice it's there. They're wonderful, really. I mean...look, I had to do a whole post on just them! Try them, I promise they'll become your favorites!
They are: GapBody Ultra Low Ultra Smooth Thong. You can also get them in Ultra Low Ultra Smooth Cheeky (which covers the majority of your booty).
Grant's preschool had their Easter egg hunt today. He looks real enthused huh? He actually did really enjoy it but every picture I got, he had this dazed-out look on his face.
Geez Louise! One of my free days is already over! I can't believe it's already Thursday night, time to go to bed and I haven't accomplished one thing on my things-to-do-while-hubby-is-gone list! We left the house at 4:30 for Jessica's soccer game, froze our butts off watching her play until 6:45, ran by the bank and then went out for dinner. We got home about half an hour ago and the kids were exhausted so we just finished reading bedtime stories (which always puts ME to sleep along with them) and so now I am way too tired to begin any kind of project like scrapbooking. As a matter of fact, I am probably about 75% asleep right now! When referring to sleepyness, I have this thing where I imagine myself as a big, tall 20-story building and each story represents a percentage of me (my mind and body). At the very moment I start feeling a tiny bit tired, the lights go out on the first story. With each passing minute, the tireder I get, the more stories of the building's lights go out. When I am about half awake, the lights are out all the way down to the 10th floor. Right now, the lights are out all the way down to the 5th floor! Ha Ha! I know I am a nut...but my husband understands this crazy analogy and now I've gotten to where when we're talking about doing something before bedtime, all I have to do is tell him what story I'm on and he knows what I mean. Isn't that silly? In my mind though, it makes perfect sense.
So, like I mentioned in my earlier post...our nice weather is over. Tonight on our way home from eating it was actually sleeting/snowing out! Get this...the ground is steaming!! I guess because of how warm it has been and then how COLD it got so suddenly. I don't know but it's crazy, like nothing I've ever seen. It looks like your at a big concert and someone turned on the little things that blow steam out all over the floor. (you know what I'm talking about?)
Well, I guess I will end for today. Maybe I'll just go upstairs and look over my scrapbook stuff for a few minutes so I can dream up layouts while I sleep all alone in my king-size bed tonight! (nothing beats having hubby in bed with me...but being able to stretch out as far as my arms and legs can reach is definitely 2nd best!)
Goodnight!
Wow! I didn't realize how long it's been since I've been "Home Alone" without my husband. He left this morning for a 3 day camping trip/turkey hunting. I feel so free! Ha Ha I know that sounds bad...and I don't mean it in the way you're probably thinking...but it's just that I keep thinking...wow! I don't even have to cook dinner or wash dishes or do laundry or pick up the house and no one will even see or care! Obviously the kids couldn't give a hoot about whether or not I do any of that stuff---as a matter of fact, they'd probably LOVE it if I just let all that stuff go. I have a ZILLION things I am thinking I want to try to get done while he's gone (like painting our bathroom, "doing" Grant's big-boy room, hours of scrapbooking...and so on) plus also I'd love to spend some fun, laid-back, chillin'-out time with the kids doing whatever they like to do (playdough, paint, barbies, hot-wheels...or whatever). But..I've come to the realization that he'd have to be gone for a MONTH for me to be able to get that much stuff done and relax too! (and I couldn't stand being without him that long). So...we'll see what I actually end up doing. I am thinking about taking a diet/energy pill at about dinner time tonight and then see if it wakes me up so that I can stay up for a few hours after I put the kids in bed so I can scrapbook. Isn't that awful? I have been SO tired latey that if I don't take some kind of pill...I am zonked by about 8 pm and usually already asleep by 9 or 10. I used to stay up till midnight all the time...but lately, it's like my body just shuts down wayyyyyy before my mind does. I am beginning to wonder if I might be anemic or something. I've had bouts of anemia in the past and it seems like the main side effect was always being tired. I will say though, the past 3 days, I've started taking a multivitamin and maybe it's just psychological...but I think it might be helping some.
You know...it has been a long time since I've gotten to ramble to you all on here. The last several posts I've done have just been pictures with quick little explanations. It's kind of nice to just sit and type whatever comes into my mind.
So...I want to give a "shout out" to my friend Amy E. who is 9 WEEKS PREGNANT! Hooray! Amy, I am so excited for you. This has been a loooooooooong time coming! I was going to try to keep this a secret...but I am NO good at secrets of this sort...so guess what? I talked to Matt and I am going to plan on flying out to see you after the baby is born!! That is a BIG deal for me because for one...I've never flown in my entire life and for two...I've never gone anywhere by myself without my family! Let me know what you think and when would be a good time to come!
So...it's almost Easter. I am really looking forward to this Sunday. A bunch of families from our church that all have young children are meeting at a big park and doing an egg hunt for the kids. We're all bringing food, like a pot luck, and blankets and lawn chairs. It will be a lot of fun and the kids will LOVE it.
Well, I guess I better end this for now. We are fixing to leave in a just a couple of minutes to go to my neice, Jessica's, soccer game at the high school. Brrr...! Our 86 degree weather has come and gone! We are down in the 50's now and 30's at night! ick!
Talk to you more later!!
My neice, Chantel, who turned 19 yesterday is one of my favorite people in this world and I thought, in honor of her birthday and to go along with all the pictures I just posted, I would dedicate this entire post just to her.
She is truly one-of-a-kind! She is one of the most giving, unselfish people I've ever known. She jumps at the opportunity to help anyone and all you have to do is mention you need a massage and she's rubbing your neck! Best of all, she is a sold-out the whole-route Christian and she is currently enrolled in The Master's Commission (college). She spends her time dancing (interpretive dance) for the Lord and directing drama's and human videos. She is very talented and she keeps the focus always on Jesus instead of herself. She is the kind of girl you want your daughter to grow up to be like and the kind of girl you pray your son finds one day. I love her SO much and just wanted to say so in honor of her special day!
We love you Telly!!!
Never mind the fact that my kids have nice, comfy beds of their own...this is where they choose to sleep, given the opportunity---either IN our bed...or if we say no to that...then on the floor beside our bed. Tonight we start locking the door again!!!
Brooklyn, Chantel, Pudgy, Mom, Doug, Me, Christian, Rachael's Matt, Rachael & Grant at Toby Keith's restaurant.
It got up to 86 degrees yesterday so the kids actually went swimming. BUT...I was the first to get in! I knew it was going to be cold, so I just jumped in and went down the bottom right off the bat so I could get the "OH MY GOSH I AM FREEZING" part out of the way. I had to get in-in order to put the ladder inside the pool. It was quite an ordeal because that is a BIG, HEAVY ladder...but we got er' done. (Matt was on the outside helping me). The water was so cold I could hardly catch my breath...but the kids didn't mind it! ha ha They had their first swimming lessons earlier in the day and they were very anxious to try their new skills out.
The other day while I was trying to work, Grant decided he wanted to take a bath. I was thrilled with the idea because the bathroom is right outside my office and I knew a bath would keep him busy (and out of my hair) for a little while. However...when I went in to check on him, he had been washing himself with Scrubbing Bubbles! (and he was very proud of himself for washing his own body and hair!) Well, I guess I got two for one that day...a clean kid and a clean tub! Ha Ha!
Grant loves to walk back and forth between our house and my parent's house. This is how he looked the other day on his way home. SpongeBob jammies, rain boots, umbrella hat and his sister's barbie fishing pole. Ha Ha!
It's the morning of my 9th wedding anniversary. As usual, I have way 0ver-imagined what my husband might-hopefully-possibly-could have up his sleeve in the "plans" department. I 'just knew' that he had taken off work today and was going to spend the day with me...but to my dismay, things went exactly per the usual this morning and he is off to work while I spend a few minutes in peaceful quietness before I wake the kids up for school. My day will likely consist of a couple hours of house work paired with a couple hours of grocery shopping. Fun, Fun! Really, I don't mean to complain. While it's not the fantasy day I had imagined in my over-active, fairy-tale imagination...I am blessed to be sitting here in my robe and slippers instead of rushing off to a job at the office. I am blessed that I get to spend time with my kids all throughout the day and not just in the evenings for a couple of hours before bedtime. I am blessed that my husband works hard and has been blessed with the kind of job that allows me these luxuries that so many other moms long for. I am blessed that even if I did nothing today in the way of housework or grocery shopping...the only person I'd have to answer to would be myself. I am blessed that despite my imperfections, I have a Heavenly Father who loves me, a husband who is faithful to me and children who adore me. I have every worldly possesion I need and most that I have ever wanted. I truely am blessed! Praise the Lord for the power of the tongue (or in this case, the keyboard) because just by typing this post, I have change my I'm-feeling-sorry-for-myself mood into a Wow-Look-how-blessed-I-am mood!
Woops!! It's times to wake the kids up now...better go! Hope you all have a wonderful day!
Kids really DO say the cutest things. Here is one from each of my kids that had me giggling this past weekend.
Grant at dinner "Mom, I want some cartoons!"
Me: "Huh? Grant we are eating dinner right now...not watching TV."
Grant: "No, not TV mom, I want some cartoons in my salad."
Me: (giggling) "oh? These cartoons? (holding up the croutons). Ha Ha
Brooklyn in the car: "Mom, what's it going to be like in Heaven?"
Me: "It will be wonderful Brooklyn. No more sickness, no more sadness, no more crying and Hooray!--no more kids whining and sassing their moms!"
Brooklyn's serious reply: "MAN am I going to MISS that!!" Ha Ha
Wow! We've been busy little bees the past 3 days! Monday night Matt's little brother, Cale and his wife, Lindsay, and their son, Jaxon, came into town to visit. They were staying at the Radisson so they invited us over to the hotel's indoor water playland to swim with them after we all went out and had a big dinner at Cheddars and ice creams at Baskin Robin's. (YUM!) We stayed and swam (the kids had SO much fun) until about 9:30 pm! Next on Tuesday, my mom and I took the kids to the park to play while she and I had lunch (chinese takeout) at a nearby picnic table. BUT..it started raining only about 15 minutes after we got there...so that fun had to be cut short. After that, I went home and cooked dinner for everyone and then we all headed to the aquarium. The kids enjoyed seeing all the fish but I think the sharks took the cake. They have this tunnel you walk through where you are surrounded by water with sharks in it. Kind of freaky if you let your imagination run wild like I like to do. (pretend I am at the beach and they are coming towards me and gonna eat me!! AUGH!!) but then they swim right on past me and I remember I am only in the aquarium...not at the beach. Whew! ha ha
They spent the night with us on Tuesday night so on Wednesday morning we got up and went to Pump It Up (inflatable playland). Thank God that I had called last week and found out we had to have reservations this week to play there since it is Spring Break here and they are extra-busy. I felt so bad for all the moms and kids being turned away b/c they hadn't made reservations. You could see the disappointment all over their faces (and running down their cheeks!) :o(
But, our kids had a lot of fun there and so did we. After that, we loaded up and went to the Bass Pro Shop so they could see the (stuffed) animals and (live) fish there. However, it wasn't really all that cool after having been at the aquarium the night before, so we didn't stay there too long. (but long enough for Matt to buy some more hunting gear, of course! ha ha) After that we went to Safari's, this place where they have rescued animals that you can get pretty up close and personal with. That is where all the pictures of the lions, tigers, zebra, pig and ducks came from. It is a really nice change from the zoo where the animals are all so far away you need binoculars to see them and they look like statues b/c they don't ever move. At this place, you can actually feed them! (raw chicken) but we didn't b/c it's $10 a package...but we got to enjoy watching it anyway b/c of all the other people who were doing it. They (the tigers & lions) get really excited when they see people walking up with that chicken in their hands!
After that, we all headed to the mall to let the kids do some running around in their play area while me and Lindsay (Cale's wife) did about 45 minutes of shopping. I got the kids some cute summer clothes at the Gap and Brooklyn some more free cotton undies from V.S. (I know those salesladies think I am crazy when I go in there asking for extra-small! ha ha) Next, we had planned on going to Sho-Gun for lunch...but we found out they didn't open till later and they were all booked, so we settled for Ted's Mexican. It was yummy but we all got super-stuffed. (how can you not when they give you free queso and free sopipillas!?!) Finally, we all got back home and the kids played while Lindsay and I relaxed on the couch and watched the big boys (our husbands) play some feirce games of air hockey. How competative brothers can be!!! ha ha
They both won a game, so they called it quits there and then it was time for our company to head home. Grant was so bummed that they were leaving, he wouldn't even give anyone a hug. Maybe he thought if he refused to participate in the good-bye hug ritual...that they wouldn't actually leave...? But of course, they did and we miss them already. It stinks that we live so far apart. Guess that just means we need to be making more trips to our hometown than we do (about twice a year). You don't realize how much you miss everyone until you're with them again and then you never want to let them leave.
So...that's how our spring break has been so far. My mom and my plans to go visit my neices has changed as some medical conditions have come up for my mom. More on that later when we find out what's actually going on but be in prayer/faith with me that the alarm/concern the doctors are having will turn out to be no big deal.
Instead of going anywhere major today, I think I am just going to take the kids to the gym with me so I can do my aerobics class and then maybe try to get out this afternoon and look some more for a bed for Grant.
Tomorrow, my neice and my great-neice(!!!!!) and her daddy are coming to visit with us. I can't wait to get that little cutie back in my arms. She is such a doll and she reminds me of how much I LOVE little babies and how glad I am that I don't have one of my own! ha ha I am more than satisfied just spoiling her for now! (until my other neices have babies--hint hint Rach!)
I hope you all are having a good week!
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