Monday, December 07, 2009
Still Got It
Posted by Erica at 4:18 AM 4 comments
Labels: butt whuppin, family, sports
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Blessings
Posted by Erica at 8:40 AM 3 comments
Friday, November 13, 2009
Thankful** Updated Version
I have a couple of friends on facebook (yes they are actual friends) who are posting what they are thankful for everyday for the month of November. I really liked this idea, but thought it would be better in my blog, so someday my kiddos can look back and see what I was thankful for in 2009. It would have been really wonderful if I could have posted a picture to go with each little bit of gratitude, but that will not happen.
So here it goes:
1. I am thankful for my husband. His kind words, his loving heart, and his powerful mind. He is my love, my best friend and the best father to our children.
2. I am thankful for each of my three children. They grace me with their smiles, hugs, and kisses. Their smiling faces, there unique senses of humor, and their beautiful souls. I love them more each day.
3. I am thankful for my job. It allows me to contribute to our family and our wants and needs. I am also lucky in the fact that I actually like my job. I get to promote my love of reading to little children in two counties!
4. I am thankful for my friend Stacey. I can call her any time and she will be there to listen, to advise and to give me a good laugh!
5. I am thankful for my new coffee pot. It has an automatic button and so it is steaming hot and ready to go in the mornings.
6. I am thankful for my health. My body allows me to run, jump, and play with my children without fail.
7. I am thankful we finally sold our other home down south. Such a huge relief. I will miss that house, but I always have the memories, and I will not miss having two mortgage payments.
8. I am thankful for all of the technology that is available, including my laptop, my cell phone, my camera, facebook, (which allows me to connect with old and new friends) blogs....etc. etc.
9. I am thankful for the beautiful weather we have been having this month. Absolutely gorgeous.
10. I am thankful for my relationship with my in-laws. They are so kind and generous and just a lot of fun to be around.
11. I am thankful to our service men and women for protecting our freedoms on a daily basis. Thank you!
12. I am thankful for stolen moments...5:30 a.m. sitting on the screened in porch, just listening to the world waking up, snuggling with Jacob before bedtime, watching Hannah when she thinks I'm not looking she will sing, dance, etc., getting Ben up in the mornings when he wraps himself into my arms and snuggles into my neck.
13. I am thankful for my children's teachers. They are all three amazing individuals. Thank you!
I will add to this sometime this month. For now I think it's a pretty good start. It is hard for me to sit and reflect. I've never been really good at that. I don't know why, but just something I am not too comfortable doing. Maybe this will help me look inside myself a little more....
**Update** Well I haven't really spent enough time looking inside myself this month (does that sound wrong?) However I do want to add a couple of more things to my thankful list. So here it goes:
14. I am thankful for working with a group of people who, for the most part, are pretty understanding, and have decided to let me drop down to 3/4 time. So happy about this! I will work 8-3:30 and have Fridays off! This should make my life a bit less stressful.
15. Once again I am thankful for my husband...see above, and all of his support and dedication to me and our children!
16. I am thankful for all of our wonderful neighbors. We are so lucky to live in a neighborhood where everyone knows each other and keeps an eye out for you.
17. I am thankful for our dog Buster! He cracks me up at least once a day. Anyone seen Up?Remember when they say "Squirrel!" and "I hate squirrels!" These are Buster's thoughts approximately 1, 267 times a day. Too funny
18. I am also thankful for the opportunity to pursue my Master's Degree. I will take my first class this spring. I am nervous but also excited. I had originally thought about getting it in Library Science, but I have decided to stick with elementary education. Maybe this will lead to new possibilities...we will see. I am getting a masters in curriculum and instruction. It could take years. Don't hold your breath. I'm not.
19. I am also thankful for lots of frivilous things, such as coffee and chocolate carmel coffee creamer, pepsi, mcdonald's french fries, Anytime Fitness (see above items)
20. I am thankful for this day and all of the days to come, filled with love, adventure, and hopefully stolen moments....
Happy Thanksgiving!
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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
Posted by Erica at 5:37 AM 2 comments
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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