Saturday, November 07, 2009
All of Our Fall Activities for 2009...Crammed Into One Picture Post
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
Tricky Little Trickster
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Labels: Ben, children, halloween, Temper tantrums, wino
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
They Don't Call Me Grace For Nothing
Ya know how you tell your kids, don't do something, like say, climb on the rock wall cause the rocks will slip and you could fall and bash your head in on the concrete? Don't climb on the rocks over and over and over, to the point your youngest exclaims "We Know!" "DON'T CLIMB ON THE ROCKS, GEESH!" Throws his hands up in the air and walks around the rock wall 27 times while playing soccer in the front yard. The type of warning, which being the parent you should heed, but you don't? Well last night about 6 p.m. I looked out our front window and noticed our rake laying in the yard. I tried to ignore it, but then thought, what if someone thinks it is part of the big item citywide pickup and takes that rake? Also, it's in the front yard, just laying there, making the place look junky (along with our brown and green striped couch and yucky twin mattress) and a total disregard for our house tools! Damn kids! So I march down the stairs and out the front door, minus my shoes and bra, I want you to get a visual here, sorry I mentioned the unmentionables. I was in my sweats and t-shirt and favorite sweater and socks. Then I realize the yard is a mini pond and I don't have my shoes, but man the RAKE! In the YARD! So I gingerly step on the first rock and make my way all Ninja Warrior style out to the big rock in the front yard, reach over, grab the rake and about bust my ass in the yard, I risk getting my sock wet and step off to catch my balance. Then I turn around (now picture Kung Fu Panda in the beginning of the movie) carrying THE RAKE! and step back onto the rock then take a faceplant, two or three feet to the concrete stairs. The rock crashes to the new concrete below, I land on my knees and wrists. So it really wasn't a face plant (Thank you lord for small favors) more of a knee/ wrist/ finger plant. So I crawl into the house and start screaming/ crying for Jacob to get my husband. Aaron comes upstairs, helps me get to the couch, ices down my leg, and I am still crying. This was worse than childbirth, then I remembered I had drugs, so I couldn't really compare it to that! Needless to say I made it through and my lovely husband informed me if it was broken I wouldn't have made it into the house. Then proceeded to tell me he heard some loud crash and thought Holy Smokes someone actually came and took that ugly couch. So he looked around the side of the house but didn't see anything and went back to grilling and drinking his beer, in peace, until Jacob came running. He said I was totally getting an idiot award card for this little move. And to top it all off Ben says, "Mom you aren't supposed to walk on the rocks, you could fall." Nothing like being made an ass in front of your kids and husband. I guess I made believers out of them though.
Anyway, my knee is a lovely shade of purple, my back hurts, my arms and wrists hurt, and my middle toe hurts. Go figure. Sooooo how was your Monday evening?
Posted by Erica at 10:40 AM 2 comments
Labels: lunatic, Mondays suck, pure idiocy, ramblings
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Dilemma
So today I am sitting there thinking if we can just make it til next Friday, then I get more PTO hours....You do realize where I am going with this, right? I am also thinking, man there is a huge flu bug snorting around out there and half of the kids in Jacob's class have been absent all week. Fingers crossed, saying prayers, not stepping on cracks, you name it, and then my cell phone rings, oh a number I don't recognize, so I answer. Lo and Behold it is the school nurse, and she says Ben has chicken pox, you need to come get him right now.
Well that's not possible cause I have a program in 10 minutes, so I call my husband, and no answer, then my mother in law to the rescue. So I go to my program all frazzled cause he had the vaccination and who in the HELL has the pox at school? The nurse said no one did. Hmmmmmmm. Just my luck.
I get through my program, then talk to my husband and he got him a doctors appointment, which we had to go in the back door and be quarantiened because apparantly the chicken pox are even worse than the H1N1. But for future reference I think I will always say I think it's the pox cause damn you get in and out of there fast. 20 minutes tops and we were heading home, with a diagnosis of who knows? It could be the pox, or any other virus that is out there, except the flu (thank the lord),mainly just watch and see. And my selfish self is thinking 'How many hours will I have to miss, or make up?" So answer me this, especially the mom's who work outside of the home, how do you balance this? My husband and I really do a good job of taking turns and working together, but do you ever eventually work up some time off? Time to have just for the hell of it, cause you need a mental health day? Because lord I need a mental health day, all by myself. How is that for selfish?
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Sunday, October 04, 2009
Family
The picture at the top is my family, my dad and my sister and her girls, (her hubby had to work on Saturday, I can't imagine why no one would switch with him :) As you can tell I don't look a thing like my father! HA. There is a picture of all the kiddies in their "good" clothes and then there is a family picture, which I am using as my Christmas photo, because I guarantee you it will never happen again. 5 people, smiling, looking at the camera and dressed in decent clothing! A Christmas miracle I tell ya.
Have a good week!
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Benspeak
The other day Aaron and I were sitting on the couch in the sunroom enjoying the day and Ben runs in and flops down on the couch. Aaron looks at him and happened to notice Ben was going commando again and asked him,"Ben what are we going to do with you?"
To which Ben replies, "I guess you are going to have to sell me!"
I love this kid!
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