Lazy days

I haven't posted in 11 days! I guess this blog has been put on the back burner along with cleaning these days. I have cleaned but you can't tell at all so really does it even count? I am on strike. I am just tired of the routine. I was starting to consider getting a job for a couple of reasons. But then I really think about my availability and figure no one will hire me for a few hours Tuesday mornings and Sunday afternoons! lol Whatever. I guess I would have to quit in 2 months anyhow so it isn't worth it.

My children are driving me batty. We have had to have some serious heart to hearts lately with Mykenzie about her attitude and her being disrespectful to us and just mean to Kaylee. Hopefully we will see some improvement. The biggest conversation just took place yesterday so we shall see. Kaylee is doing a little bit better since her and I had our little chat. Fingers crossed. I am not asking for perfection just common sense stuff taken care of and keeping the attitude out of my face.

Mykenzie isn't enjoying her palate expander. It was rough in the very beginning and then it seemed like it wasn't hurting her but now she seems to be in pain every time I turn it. It is definitely working though because she now has a sizable gap between her two front teeth where she certainly did not have one before. I am hoping that when we go to the orthodontist in a couple of weeks they are planning to tighten the braces to begin the process of pulling them back together. I have checked her bite a couple times though and can definitely see an improvement so I am hoping that 2 months will be long enough to have it on.

Kaylee is doing really well in school. She is learning so much this year and is much further along than Mykenzie was at this age. I am so glad that we had her in preschool at age 3 instead of waiting till 4 like we did with Mykenzie. Travis has talked me into letting her go to Kindergarten next year. So now I am really cracking down on behavior and how to act in school. No progress on that yet but I just started. Several of the classes from her school were on the news the other day! The weather man came to talk to the kids and teach them about weather, what to do in a tornado ect. And they got a group photo that they showed on the 6:30 news Tuesday. She was SOOOOOOOOOOOO excited to tell everyone and to watch herself on tv! It was really fun to watch how excited she was about it.

As for me I can't seem to get motivated these days to do much of anything that requires me to get off my big butt. I have watched tv, played on the computer, done some work on the computer for my moms group, fed my facebook addiction, watched Changeling, read the last book in the color series about Jane Kelly by Nancy Bush called Ultra Violet, read Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich and washed some laundry and dishes. That pretty much sums up my week! lol SAD! I did go to the doctor on Tuesday, FINALLY and she did end up giving me a prescription for my bitchy-ness. Apparently she thinks I have extreme PMS! LOL Travis I'm sure would agree with that. I am currently waiting for my Ins. company to mail it to me so I can find out if they are going to work. It is sad cause this is the week is when I REALLY need to have it. lol Travis keeps asking if I've gotten them yet but since I believe he need meds too I just tell him to kiss my ass. :)

I am debating on going to Bunco on Saturday. I really want to go but at the same time I have already been out the past 2 weekends with friends, we already have 2 things planned for March (so far) and I have several weekend things for girl scouts coming up soon. I guess I will wait and see how things are looking tomorrow. If we aren't doing anything I may just go anyhow.

I finally called the college I am planning to attend to find out what I needed to do yesterday. It looks like I will be going to fill out an application either Tuesday or Thursday next week. The mere thought of this gives me a panic attack. Not good. I know it will be ok, hard but ok, once I get started but getting there is scaring the crap out of me.

I guess that is all that's been happening here. I am really hoping for some nice weather soon (supposed to have snow flurries tomorrow damn it) that will help motivate me to get off the couch, until then I am afraid I'll be sitting here ;)

Estrogen Overload!

OMG! The hormones are going to just kill me! Seriously my kid is 8. Should I be dealing with mood swings and melt downs already? They have been picking at each other all day which is always followed by a loud whiny mooooooooooooooom _______ did _______!!!!!! I am tired of listening to it so I sent both of them to their rooms for so quiet time. Mykenzie totally breaks down crying, screaming "I don't want to go to my room! This is my last day of vacation and it isn't fair!!!!" So then I told her if she didn't go she could just be grounded from the computer for the week. She stomps off crying as loud as most people can scream, slams her door and has now been in her room for 25 minutes still hysterical crying and talking to herself about how I am such a mean mom and how she doesn't want to be in her room that it is her last day off. And of course how it is all Kaylee's fault (even though she has been the one picking on Kaylee all day)

OMG! I am going to need to be tranquilized to make it through the teenage years! Just kill me now~ I don't even want to know what it is going to be like when they are both hormonal! Geeze!

Happy Belated Valentines Day

We had a good Valentines Day here. Mykenzie and I headed to a cookie booth at noon to try and peddle cookies outside of Kmart. We ended up selling 96 boxes in 2 hours! Yay! Add that to the rest of the booths our troop did and we sold quite a bit in booth sales. I am almost done delivering cookies. I missed an opportunity to deliver some today but I will hook up with her another day this week. Still waiting on a couple of checks to come in the mail and then I will be headed to the post office to mail the rest to Ohio, Virginia and Arizona. Then I will be DONE with cookies for another year! Woohoo

After the cookie booth we met up with Travis and Kaylee and went out to lunch. Figured it would be less crowded at lunch time. Went to get Mykenzie a webkin for her v-day gift and came home, delivered the neighborhood cookies and then just relaxed. Travis got me a dozen roses and another bouquet of flowers :) Thanks babe.

Today was our group's secret Valentine reveal lunch. I got some pretty great things from my valentine and everything is something I will actually use and am happy to have (especially the jelly belly's ;-) ) I can't wait to go to Michael's to use my gift card!!! I love doing secret valentine with these ladies! After most of us went to see the Shopaholic movie. It was good but it was pretty loosely based on the book. I guess the main idea and the character names but that was about it. I was glad I got to see it regardless, I loved the books.

The rest of our week has been pretty busy. Mykenzie got her palate expander on Wednesday. That is a gigantic pain in the ass for me and a pain in the mouth for Mykenize. It doesn't seem to bother her unless I am trying to tighten it. We have to do it every single night. Hopefully it takes less time than they originally told me (3-4 months) cause I seriously after 4 nights of doing it am already done.

We had a family mystery night at Mykenzie's school on Thursday. It was fun but I have to say some of the clues were harder than I would have liked. Thank goodness I am not in school and can go ahead and look at other peoples papers to cheat! lol In the end we were able to solve the mystery though and all was well with the school :)

My house is a total disaster! I can't seem to get myself back into a routine after being sick for that week ( I have not missed a single dose of my medicine btw, big pat on the back for me!). I FINALLY have the last load of clothes in the dryer. This is the first time in 3 weeks laundry has been caught up. Of course now it starts all over again. My goals for this week are 1. get this house put back together 2. get a couple of work outs in. Hopefully I can make that work, since there is no school tomorrow I will be all thrown off again this week. Ahh well, cleaning isn't the most important thing right? You wouldn't agree with me if you saw my house right now...

Oh and in other news, I found out that I am going to be an aunt once again. My sister just found out she is expecting baby #2 and will be due sometime in October. I am hoping for a BOY this time!

It has been a long week.. I am tired

"We're gonna have to check with the general manager on that ma'am"

I had a girl scout project planned out for last nights meeting. And by planned out I mean I knew for a month (probably 2) what we would be doing but the procrastinator that I am didn't have any of the stuff actually ready for the meeting. Fast forward to 4:30 yesterday afternoon just 1 hour before we have to leave for the meeting and see me scrambling around the house getting everything ready trying to make the things the girls would be making so they could see the final project ect. Then I realize that I never went and got those straws I have known for a month I would be needing for this project. DANG IT! So I decide that on the way to the meeting I am going to go through the McDonalds drive thru and convince them to give me the straws rather than me going in with both kids and teaching them to steal straws from McDonalds. Here is the conversation that took place at the pick up window.....

Me: Is there any way you would be willing to donate 20 straws for a project for a local girl scout troop or that I could just buy 20 straws from you?

Girl: Ummm. Let me go ask

The manager is right behind her so she turns around and has a 2 minute discussion with him right in front of the window rather that him just speaking to me directly all the while we are holding up the drive thru line at 5:45 pm..... you know fast food rush hour.

Girl: Yeah I just spoke to the manager and he said for us to be able to make a donation we would have to get in contact with our general manager and check with him.

Me: You have got to be kidding me! That is the craziest thing I have ever heard!

Girl with a sympathetic look: I'm sorry

Me: Look. I am not asking you for 20 boxes of straws I am simply asking you for 20 straws. In reality all I have to do is park my car walk in there and take 20 straws off of your counter or you could make my life easier and just hand me 20 straws. I mean come on it is 20 straws.

The manager is still standing there the whole time this conversation transpires. With a very distressed look on his face as though he felt as if his job could possibly be in jeopardy finally gets a bag and tells her to go ahead.

Seriously you would think I was asking for all the money in the cash register with the reaction I got over 20STRAWS!!!! Ey yi yi

Moral of the story. If you ever need McDonalds straws for something leave the kids at home and just walk in and take them off the counter. Yes I am telling you to steal. If it makes you happy leave them a quarter on the counter to cover enough for them to buy back those 20 plus an extra 1000! For petes sake!

Just call me Rainbow Bright!

No one can ever say that I am afraid of color that is for sure! My house is now a rainbow. I am thinking the only color I don't have represented is blue.... maybe the garage can be painted blue that would be cute! For those who have never been to my house, my bedroom is a yellow gold, my master bath is sage green, Mykenzie's room is pink & Kaylee's room is purple (lavender). Last year around this time we painted the girls bathroom a bright orange (you can click here for a reminder). Our loft was red when we moved in and while we repainted it because they did a terrible job but we kept it red. Downstairs our living room is brown our kitchen is purple (Plum) and now our half bath is BRIGHT green! Now I must say that it is MUCH brighter than the swatch I have is but it works out because I love it anyhow! So now 2/3 of the bathrooms in my house blind you when you walk in! LOL That is what Travis says anyhow. I personally love it so I don't really care. I really hope that when we decide not to live here any more the person buying likes color too cause I will be damned if I am repainting over any of it!! I still have some accessories in mind to add but here are some photos :)

BEFORE

AFTER! Isn't it pretty!!

Signed~ ROY G BIV

This could be a record!

I haven't really posted anything in a while. Sure I did my shame on you post but does that really count? Life has been pretty quiet around here the past couple of weeks both by choice and not. Last week I was really sick, I imagine that most of the people that have permission to read this blog already know that I have Inflammatory Bowel Disease(IBD), I call it old man disease. While most of the time I consider myself in "remission" every now and then it rears its ugly head and knocks me on my ass for awhile. I was out for over a week pretty much laying on my couch sick with a few good hours here and there thrown in to trick me into thinking I was better only to be knocked back down on my ass. Anyhow, while I am no longer saying that I feel better cause every time I do I end up sick again, I will say I am no longer couch bound and am able to actually leave my house without panicking. This started Monday afternoon. So I have run a few errands this week but mostly have chosen to stay put. I haven't crafted other than making a couple more bean balls yesterday to fill up the apothecary jar and helping a friend make a tutu. I have my next one planned and the stuff to do it but I haven't gotten around to it. I have to do the girls valentines day boxes for school first.

The girls are doing really good. Mykenzie got her 2nd report card for the year a week or 2 ago and got straight A's for the first time!! 4.0 Baby! She brought her reading grade up from a B which I was sure she would do since she hated reading until the end of the last grading period, now she loves it and reads more than she ever has and has found some books she really enjoys and is reading above her grade level. This is big because before she really hated reading and would get books that were way under her skill level just to take the easy way out. Last night she was reading a 4.2 (fourth grade second month) level. I realize that it isn't how some people are saying oh "Johnny is reading 2 grade levels above where he should be" but it thrills me to no end. This is such a huge improvement to have her actually choosing books she should be reading. I have no doubt that she can read at an even higher level and she will get there soon. I am just so happy she finally loves to read!!

The upcoming weeks are going to be pretty busy. Not insane but I have alot going on this month. Between Mykenzie's dental stuff and girl scouts and both girls have school things and add in Valentines Day,2 no school days and 2 MNO this month is going to seriously fly by. At least most of it is fun stuff though ;)

Shame on you!

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