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Friday, February 8, 2008
I cannot remember....
the last time I got a "cat call", but as I was walking across the parking lot of JoAnn's Etc., low and behold a delivery truck driver had his window half-way down and was whistling at me...did the snow blow into his truck and freeze his brain? Did his friend riding with him dare him? Whatever it was, I blushed, smiled and hurried into the store, where something else happened that I cannot remember when the last time it happened - I walked out of JoAnn's after shopping/perusing for almost an hour without buying a thing! Seriously! Can you believe it? I cannot either, but I did have two swatches of material, so I had something to show for my trip, after all, it would just be NOT normal for me to walk out of a craft store without something in my hands! I think the snow has frozen my brain.
Speaking of cat calls, I'm sending one to this Birthday Girl, check out the HOTTEST 50 year old MawMaw ever:
Yep, today's Leah's birthday! Happy Birthday Leah - we LOVE you!!!! I'll be having a foo-foo tini tonight to toast your day (I'm Leah's personal bartendar!).
Alex has had a good week at school, he has not been eating a great lunch, but at least he's consistent with the "2 pieces of wheat bread" that his teacher writes on the menu that he eats. The other day, I looked at the menu and about fell out because she circled that he had fruit, the added a side note, "he licked a banana". I'm laughing just typing it!! I was so embarrassed, he licked a banana. Okay, still laughing here because I can totally picture it in my mind, I've seen it too many times at home. After asking, "WHY?", I ventured to read in his notebook that they are encouraging him to "lick" or take a small bite of new foods. She asked if we had tried this at home, well the small bites, yes - he may still have the small bite of carrot tucked in his cheek that I made him take last week with the chewy roast, but not the lick. Yes, he's licked a banana before because he swears that he wants one, he likes to peel them, so I let him peel one, he sniffs it and I tell him to EAT it, he gives it a lick and says he's done. Now, do I throw the banana away? That's just wasteful. Boy, wish Andy were around, he'd eat it - a little Alex germ on it, would only make it sweeter in his mind, he's fruity like that. But no, hubby's no where, not even in the state, so I eat the banana. I cannot wait to see how Andy reacts when I tell Alex to "lick" his mashed potatoes - we both might get swatted with the wood spoon for that! Oh well, I'll try anything to get my child to eat veggies and fruits other than applesauce.
So what have I been doing with my time this week while Andy's been gone and I haven't blogged since Monday? I've made a complete and utter mess of the upstairs - there's stuff everywhere, it looks worse now than ever. My craft room is set up (all furnature is in place), but not everything has found a home yet. I'm off to finish getting Alex's playroom cleaned (much to his dismay, that's where everything that I pulled out of the craft room that was going to go back into the craft room went when I pulled everything out of the craft room to get it all "cleaned"), clear the hallway so I can get to the laundry room, so I can do laundry, and try to get the house lookin good to surprise Andy when he comes home.
Before I head upstairs, I need to get dinner in the crock pot, it's lasagne - I'm making it with Italian sausage. I'll let you know how it turns out.
Have a great Friday!
Monday, February 4, 2008
Bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....
I just got inside after being out for an hour and a half, shoveling the driveway and walk to the front door! Why? Well, I figured that if I kept up with it every day it would be somewhat managable and luckily it has stopped snowing for now, so we'll be able to come and go!
Not that I want to leave my cozy home, especially since I got myself this - isn't it cute? I treated myself to 20 songs that I'll be jammin to while I clean my craft room tomorrow while Alex is at school! I've got a new plan...I'm going to pull everything OUT of the room into the hallway and only put back in what belongs - the rest will go in blue bins.
How was school? GREAT! Although the bus came to pick him up 10 minutes earlier than they said they would, yikes! But we were almost ready, just getting jacket/shoes/hat/gloves on. At 11:30 his teacher called me to let me know that he was having a good day and enjoying himself in the pretend area - they were having a birthday party in the pretend area complete with hats and plastic cake - how fun! He said that he had crazy fries for lunch (he had the ketchup still on his face to prove it!) and when I asked what he had for snack he said, "crazy fries AGAIN!" I'm going to print off the school's cafeteria menu so I'll know what they had and ask if he tasted any of those things.
I didn't follow the bus (she was early and I wasn't finished getting ready - I ran him out to the bus without a coat in my jamma pants because my jeans were still in the dryer and had my slippers on - yes, little did I notice that the snow was coming across, not down, it was blowing sideways!!) and he got there safely and got home safely, so I didn't need to worry as much as I did!
Did you watch the Super Bowl? Wow, good game! I was chearing for Eli to win because I have to support Peyton's fam (even though my bil is still mad at me for not ever getting Peyton's autograph the hundred or so times we passed each other on campus when we were still at UT, especially since my nephew's name is Peyton Connor !). So where was I going with this, oh well, it was a good game and I was glad to see a Manning boy win again this year!
Okay, I think I've thawed out enough to get out from under this blanket and get some stuff done! But before I go, I just had to tell you what my sweet little man did the other night...he came into the office while I was on the computer and instead of requesting his usual, "I want to play pbskids.org/cartoon network.com/nickjr.com" he says, "mommy will rock me in the rocking chair". Holy cow, it melted my heart, I'm so glad that I stuck the glider rocker in the office instead of giving it away! Alex being my little guy had to go get a warm blanket for us to have while we rocked, it was just delightful - I rocked him for over an hour (at some point he fell asleep), remembering all the time in the past five years I've rocked him in that chair...starting while I was pregnant...time sure has flown. Hmmmm, I think I need to take a pic of that chair so I can make this little story into a scrapbook page!
Off to go grab my camera!
Not that I want to leave my cozy home, especially since I got myself this - isn't it cute? I treated myself to 20 songs that I'll be jammin to while I clean my craft room tomorrow while Alex is at school! I've got a new plan...I'm going to pull everything OUT of the room into the hallway and only put back in what belongs - the rest will go in blue bins.
How was school? GREAT! Although the bus came to pick him up 10 minutes earlier than they said they would, yikes! But we were almost ready, just getting jacket/shoes/hat/gloves on. At 11:30 his teacher called me to let me know that he was having a good day and enjoying himself in the pretend area - they were having a birthday party in the pretend area complete with hats and plastic cake - how fun! He said that he had crazy fries for lunch (he had the ketchup still on his face to prove it!) and when I asked what he had for snack he said, "crazy fries AGAIN!" I'm going to print off the school's cafeteria menu so I'll know what they had and ask if he tasted any of those things.
I didn't follow the bus (she was early and I wasn't finished getting ready - I ran him out to the bus without a coat in my jamma pants because my jeans were still in the dryer and had my slippers on - yes, little did I notice that the snow was coming across, not down, it was blowing sideways!!) and he got there safely and got home safely, so I didn't need to worry as much as I did!
Did you watch the Super Bowl? Wow, good game! I was chearing for Eli to win because I have to support Peyton's fam (even though my bil is still mad at me for not ever getting Peyton's autograph the hundred or so times we passed each other on campus when we were still at UT, especially since my nephew's name is Peyton Connor !). So where was I going with this, oh well, it was a good game and I was glad to see a Manning boy win again this year!
Okay, I think I've thawed out enough to get out from under this blanket and get some stuff done! But before I go, I just had to tell you what my sweet little man did the other night...he came into the office while I was on the computer and instead of requesting his usual, "I want to play pbskids.org/cartoon network.com/nickjr.com" he says, "mommy will rock me in the rocking chair". Holy cow, it melted my heart, I'm so glad that I stuck the glider rocker in the office instead of giving it away! Alex being my little guy had to go get a warm blanket for us to have while we rocked, it was just delightful - I rocked him for over an hour (at some point he fell asleep), remembering all the time in the past five years I've rocked him in that chair...starting while I was pregnant...time sure has flown. Hmmmm, I think I need to take a pic of that chair so I can make this little story into a scrapbook page!
Off to go grab my camera!
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Super Saturday...
What a great family day we had yesterday...Andy got Alex's playstation hooked up in the playroom, we got the formal dining room set up, cleaned out a linen closet, got 10 rubbermaid bins set up to put the season stuff from my craft room in and then we all got ready to run errands.
First stop was lunch at Hooters! Alex has now claimed Hooters as his favorite restaurant, poor CiCi's has taken a backseat to "crazy fries" (curly fries) and "cheesy chicken" (a grilled cheese with a couple of chicken wings on the side!). Yes, he told his new teacher that Hooters was his favorite place to eat, isn't that delightful?!? I have to say that their grilled cheese does look might tasty, they use really thick bread and tons of cheese - mmmmm!
Next on errand day was the usual - Petsmart, Home Depot and Best Buy, then home!
We watched our new dvd last night, it is incredible - Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds live a Radio City Music Hall. If you're a Dave fan (we are!!), this one is awesome. Tim Reynolds is an excellent guitarist - Andy and I saw him live at a little bar in downtown Charleston, SC, but he played a keyboard and an electric guitar for most of the show, only playing two acustic songs, which is what we were really there to hear. Anyhow it was a fun night, me being all of 8 months pregnant in a tiny bar with everyone crowded around the stage and only 4 chairs in the whole joint, one of which Andy had gotten for me (since I chose to wear my kickin high heel black boots that night because pregnant or not, I still had to look good!) to sit in and every time I went to the bathroom (which being 8 months pregnant is quite a lot!) he almost almost got into many a confrontation trying to save my chair from the crowds of drunk college kids who needed to sit down before passing out.
So back to our night, we munched on one of my new fave salad recipes (we had Hooters for lunch, we needed salad for dinner!) - 1 head of chopped romaine (including the white crunchy stuff - I know you hate it Krista, but this salad needs it!), 1/4 a red onion sliced extremely thin, 1 can of cannelini or garbonzo beans rinsed/drained, lots of fresh parm shavings, lots of fresh cracked pepper and a balsalmic vinegrette. We had an earthy Merlot with it, which was so good with that salad! A salad, wine and Dave Matthews on dvd instead of being at a live concert, we're becoming old farts! Oh well it was bound to happen eventually;).
Such a nice relaxing day, especially since as soon as we woke up this morning, Andy was rushing to get ready while I packed his bag so he could make his 9am flight. While I was standing at the door watching him drive off, this is what I saw...
And then he pulled back into the driveway because he forgot something, this is why I was still standing at the front door, I knew he'd be back at least once! So I had time to take another picture before moving on with my morning, just making sure he didn't come back a second time!
I love these poor little freezing trees, they're so pretty! As you can see, we didn't get much snow yesterday, but they're calling for 20% chance of snow every day this week, we'll see. They're not too accurate on calling the weather up here - Andy said it's the Canadian's fault, their weather messes with ours - he said he's gonna call Uncle John and have a talk with him about it and maybe they'll have a B&B while they chat!
Have a great SuperBowl Sunday!
First stop was lunch at Hooters! Alex has now claimed Hooters as his favorite restaurant, poor CiCi's has taken a backseat to "crazy fries" (curly fries) and "cheesy chicken" (a grilled cheese with a couple of chicken wings on the side!). Yes, he told his new teacher that Hooters was his favorite place to eat, isn't that delightful?!? I have to say that their grilled cheese does look might tasty, they use really thick bread and tons of cheese - mmmmm!
Next on errand day was the usual - Petsmart, Home Depot and Best Buy, then home!
We watched our new dvd last night, it is incredible - Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds live a Radio City Music Hall. If you're a Dave fan (we are!!), this one is awesome. Tim Reynolds is an excellent guitarist - Andy and I saw him live at a little bar in downtown Charleston, SC, but he played a keyboard and an electric guitar for most of the show, only playing two acustic songs, which is what we were really there to hear. Anyhow it was a fun night, me being all of 8 months pregnant in a tiny bar with everyone crowded around the stage and only 4 chairs in the whole joint, one of which Andy had gotten for me (since I chose to wear my kickin high heel black boots that night because pregnant or not, I still had to look good!) to sit in and every time I went to the bathroom (which being 8 months pregnant is quite a lot!) he almost almost got into many a confrontation trying to save my chair from the crowds of drunk college kids who needed to sit down before passing out.
So back to our night, we munched on one of my new fave salad recipes (we had Hooters for lunch, we needed salad for dinner!) - 1 head of chopped romaine (including the white crunchy stuff - I know you hate it Krista, but this salad needs it!), 1/4 a red onion sliced extremely thin, 1 can of cannelini or garbonzo beans rinsed/drained, lots of fresh parm shavings, lots of fresh cracked pepper and a balsalmic vinegrette. We had an earthy Merlot with it, which was so good with that salad! A salad, wine and Dave Matthews on dvd instead of being at a live concert, we're becoming old farts! Oh well it was bound to happen eventually;).
Such a nice relaxing day, especially since as soon as we woke up this morning, Andy was rushing to get ready while I packed his bag so he could make his 9am flight. While I was standing at the door watching him drive off, this is what I saw...
And then he pulled back into the driveway because he forgot something, this is why I was still standing at the front door, I knew he'd be back at least once! So I had time to take another picture before moving on with my morning, just making sure he didn't come back a second time!
I love these poor little freezing trees, they're so pretty! As you can see, we didn't get much snow yesterday, but they're calling for 20% chance of snow every day this week, we'll see. They're not too accurate on calling the weather up here - Andy said it's the Canadian's fault, their weather messes with ours - he said he's gonna call Uncle John and have a talk with him about it and maybe they'll have a B&B while they chat!
Have a great SuperBowl Sunday!
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