My Life. In Pictures

Amber over at Everything Except The Grill has decided to do a picture a day this week starting tomorrow.

Here are the rules:
Monday- Something new
Tuesday- Something on your table
Wednesday- The view from your front door
Thursday- Something you do each day
Friday- Something old

I "borrowed" the post above from a blog that I have recently started following(hope you don't mind Meg!). I didn't know if I would do this being new to the blogging world, well the non baby blogging world. So today I decided to give it a whirl. I LOVE taking pictures so why not!!!

Tuesday- Something on your table


This is a candy dish that is currently the home of some very cute Easter candy. My husband cannot get enough of these and since they are only around at Easter, well we have a full stock on hand. I never had candy dishes or candy bowls until we moved into our house a few months ago. For whatever reason, this feels like home and I want it to be welcoming to others. I now have TWO candy dishes/bowls!! I don't even like candy but I love when guests help themselves!!

I was very unmotivated today and as I head off to bed, this is exactly how my day ends!!! Seriously...

thank you for the polish influence mom

Thanks to my mom's side of the family...the polish side...my daughter is already showing polish tendencies. This is what I found when I checked on Magdelicious during her short morning nap. She may nap better if she didn't get herself into these positions!!!

As cute as she may appear, don't let that fool you. She should always wear a button saying:

As cute as I may appear....if you are a mom, you should know better!!!

She will be the one to put us in a run down nursing home with a 20 inch thick book of citations and violations. As I tell her when she is screeching to get whatever she wants that she cannot get to, whether she is able to and too lazy or not, "I am only helping you build character"!!! I have a feeling those words will haunt me later!! Seriously...

I am going to follow this piece of advice and see if it will work. I eat shit all day long hoping to do exactly that and lose the calories that way...it isn't working!! Seriously...

Amazing Race

This is an official announcement that me and EJ are going to send in an audition tape for the Amazing Race. We have been watching this reality show for a few season's now and we always go through each episode saying which role each of us would play in the challenges. I think we would do well, EJ would stay calm the whole time and keep me under control. I would be the raving bitch who has no patience, cusses all the time, throws tantrums and get us kicked out of all the countries we would enter!! OK, I wouldn't be that bad but I wouldn't be cool, calm and collected through the experience. I have many emotions and would be eager to show the world all of them. I definitely think we would be entertaining. Watching the seasons that we have I don't know how we would fit into the seemingly same roles they always have. The couple who doesn't make it 2 weeks after the show....clearly not us. The couple who yells at each other all the time but you can tell love each other and don't make it very far...clearly not us, EJ doesn't yell! The couple so in love that they make all of us watching want to throw up in our mouths...well, not us. I would like to be the couple who won a couple seasons ago. They were really amazing to watch and I cannot think of there names, they were African American and they were going to spend the money on infertility treatments. They were a perfect example of playing the game right. I call it Karma!! What goes around comes around. To be ready for the season that we will be picked for, I am confident, we will both need to lose some weight, um maybe a little more then that, and get in better shape. I would be willing to do anything to get picked. Well I will keep dreaming....my dad always said..."want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one gets filled first"!!! I did manage to go see Oprah twice(one being getting Makayla ON the show and meeting Oprah and Miley Cyrus thank you!) so persistence is something I have in me. Until then, send reality T.V. show thoughts our way!!! Oh and I haven't told EJ yet that we are doing this so if you could not mention it to him until we are having the going away party that would be great. Seriously...

Maggie Milestone Update

Well I guess since I am currently keeping track of Magdelicious' milestones, she is doing as many things as she can so she will have some record of them as she gets older. I have great intentions of being a perfect mom but I do slip up at times. Like keeping a baby book of milestones. Thank god I had my Baby Jellybeans website so most of my pregnancy is recorded on a CD (which I happen to have misplaced in the move but confident that it is exactly where I left it!!). Anywhos, Maggie started the day off early, she got me up at 6:30, which for her is an hour and a half too early. I guess she was just too excited to sleep any more. EJ showed me first thing that she can stand by herself for a good minute to two minutes and has a great sense of balance. She was a little wobbly but corrected it all while standing by herself. I told EJ to knock it off!! Then she started clapping for herself. It is sooo cute to see her chubby little hands clapping, especially for herself. I think we are creating a monster and a vain one at that. Then the little stinker started CRAWLING!!!! I can't believe all this was accomplished before her first nap!! OK, that doesn't say much being that she doesn't nap!! It is bittersweet that she is growing so fast. I am so thankful that I can be home with her everyday and witness all these milestones and see the differences in her. It honestly breaks my heart that EJ will be gone here shortly into the fields during her awake hours. With a busy weekend and an end to Spring Break tomorrow will be hopefully a quiet day. I hope that I won't be posting that Maggie got up early and made everyone breakfast! Seriously...

So proud

I am keeping this short only because I am exhausted and heading to bed. I just want to say how proud I am of Makayla and her fellow Cougar All Stars!!!! The team placed 1st today in Indianapolis and got a huge trophy and a banner that reads National Champions 2009!!!! Yeah team!! We have the best team anyone could ask for! The girls are really wonderful and the parents are too! I mean you have to be a cool mom and dad to drive at least 3 hours away for every competition on weekends after practicing 3 nights during the week, paying monthly gym tuition, paying entrance fees, camp fees, purchasing uniforms, warm ups, shoes, fake hair, make-up, t-shirts to match everyone, and volunteering for gymnastics and tumbling meets that you have no clue what you are doing!!! Clearly, I mean who wouldn't want that lifestyle. All kidding aside, it is a commitment and at times seems like a chore but it is all worth it for days like today. Here is how I sum it up...

Monthly tuition: $110

Uniform, warm ups, shoes, fake hair: $300+

Entrance fees: between $35 and $80

Booster Club dues: $200

Watching a shy little girl who couldn't do a cartwheel work harder then you ever knew possible and fall in love with an activity that takes away her Friday night sleepovers, makes her push herself harder then I do!, learn self discipline, teaches her accountability, who is so close to mastering her flip flop and front walk over, come together with her team to ROCK OUT an amazing performance and walk away with the First Place trophy and banner that reads National Champions: PRICELESS

(plus the girls got hoodies...something only first place teams get!)

As you can tell from the tear stains all over this post ;) I am brought to tears remembering where Makayla started almost 2 years ago and how far she has come. Clearly I really am tired, but really I am so proud of her and the whole squad!! Our coaches need some much deserved WOO WOO's too! Sorry this post isn't funny or witty, I will get back to that tomorrow! Seriously...

Clearly I wasn't as exhausted as I thought I was, so NOW I am going to bed. Seriously...

I love the "just woke up" look she has. I could just kiss her, and love her and squeeze her and call her George. Nothing cuter!!! Seriously...

Maggie Milestone Update

This is in direct correlation to her last milestone. She didn't fall asleep for her nap yesterday and seemed exceptionally irritated so I assumed she was on her belly and couldn't figure out which way she wanted to go. Well I opened the door and sure enough she was standing at the end of the crib, facing the door with her head resting on the crib. She clearly was pissed that she couldn't get down and decided to just rest her head on the crib. I wonder if she would have fallen asleep like that. It took her only 1 day to figure out that she could go from laying on her back, roll over to the stomach, sit up and then stand up. Yeah for her, boo for mom, who would really like to keep her a baby forever!!! Seriously...

Letting you know...

Just letting you all know that I tested a theory this week. I put all of the dirty clothes in our house into the laundry room on Monday and shut the door. I did not come back to the dingy duds until this morning. I am sorry to say that they did not wash and dry themselves. Damn. I even left the doors open on the machines to entice them. Clearly all the perverts did was reproduce. The piles of clothes grew to twice the size I left them. I was hoping that I would have a break through for all you laundry doers out there. I will let you know how the toilets cleaning themselves go next week. Then we will move onto hairballs so big they could vacuum the floor themselves in the master bathroom!!! Seriously....

P.S. Speaking of laundry...I got this amazing vintage T-shirt from tide that has the saying "loads of hope" on the back. It was 20 dollars and if you order two or more the shipping is free. All proceeds go to helping families affected by disaster! What a great program! Check it out.
http://www.tide.com/en-US/loads-of-hope/index.jspx

Promises

I promised myself to write everyday....well I am writing. There. I had a big bowl of bitchy flakes this morning and it seems they have stuck with me all day. Tomorrow will be better. It has to be. Oh and can my husband please get better. His being sick is pissing me off!!! Seriously...

This soooo describes me and my thought process.....clearly. I only like talking on the phone while I am driving and don't understand why people aren't available when I am!!!! Selfish much? Seriously...

Just wondering....

Does anyone ever actually use the position that is pictured in the directions on a tampon box? You know the one where you put your foot on the toilet. Seriously....

Sooo funny....sooo cruel

One of my favoritest persons came over yesterday to see our house and visit. She brought with her her amazing daughter and her cutest little baby boy. We had a great visit...too bad she works and can't come hang out everyday!! Well Mrs. C brought Maggie and Makayla a present. Maggie got a cute little bunny that you can wind up and he walks around. Makayla got a frog to a prince magic egg. Makayla has already discovered her prince and as she soon will find out when she gets older, is clearly disappointed that he is only 1 inch tall!!! Maggie played with her bunny for a few minutes last night and of course tasted him. Well today while EJ was playing with her on the floor, he discovered that the bunny must have done a number on her while we weren't looking. She screamed and tried to get away from the bunny today. Of course he didn't realize it was the bunny at first and tried to get her distracted with it. She screamed louder. I was not in the room for this so I of course, like any of you would, made him show her the bunny again, while video taping it. It is clearly the funniest thing I have seen in a while. She is PETRIFIED of this bunny!! Even across the room now if she sees it she starts crying. We have retired the bunny to Makayla's room for now. Only after thinking it was his feet that freaked her out and mom popped them off. Nope, still doesn't like it. Well thanks for thinking of the girls Mrs. C and don't mind the therapy bills that will be sent to you for Miss Maggie!!! Seriously....

Okay girlies...I know that you have all thought this at some point in your lives!!! Seriously...

Maggie Milestone Update

Well with all the excitement we had today Maggie decided to grow up a little more. She was playing with Makayla and Grace, a cute 4 year old going on 14 that we were watching, when she went from her back to her stomach to sitting up!!! All by herself!!! I couldn't believe it! She is growing up way too fast! I guess it is about time for another one! Seriously....

I highly recommend....Meijer's

Ok, so my rant about the pharmacy at Meijer's(I did not name the store before, so now you know) must have been read by an employee, or they are just this nice. I called to ask about getting our solutabs for Magdelicious and they were VERY apologetic! The tech told me they had a $20 gas gift card that would be with my new prescription when I could make it back in from Towanda. Clearly he didn't realize that Towanda is closer to Meijer's then South Bloomington!!! I didn't inform him of that, as I still was making an extra trip. So I get there tonight with Magdelicious, in the rain, by myself, carrying her and the wrong prescription getting completely soaked(I was not intending on being such a dramatic character at that moment but it didn't hurt!!). I hand him the drenched sack and apologize for it being soaked. He then tells me that the gas card was expired so they hoped I would accept a coupon for $15 in store credit. I said that was great and I just hoped to get the right form of medicine for princess and not have to pay for it again. He understood and said it wasn't a problem as it was their error. Oh and he shows me the medicine so I know it is right. Well guess what was stapled to the bag!!!! I got not one $15 store credit but 3!!!! That is right, I got $45 credit to Meijer, where I happen to be every other day! Not bad for all the hassle. I fully take back my criticism and want to let you all know what they did to keep me coming back. That is what I call Customer Service!!!! Seriously.....

Kicks patio anyone.....I'll buy!!

Embarassing

So this is actually what my other post was starting off to be before I got off on my tangent. Again, taking the darlings out to lunch. Makayla got to pick and of course she picked Avanti's. So we go and enjoy our usual. After we are getting ourselves ready to go, Makayla is holding Maggers and all of a sudden I hear a sound that I want to run under the table from. Makayla has just...oh wait...is continuing to pass a little, er I mean ALOT of gas!! I looked at her and told her to stop. Yeah, I know that was unreasonable. What made it even worse was that I thought for sure she was going to drop Maggers so I, trying not to laugh my gas off, was practically tripping over myself to get to her. When I went to take Maggers from her, I realized that she was holding onto her as tight as she could in the hopes that THAT would make her stop tooting. No such luck, it was one of those situations that lasted WAY too long. What was the REALLY embarrassing part was the waiter was cleaning a table behind us and, I am sure it was just a reflex, said "WHOA". I lost it. (did I forget to mention I went to high school with the waiter) I was hyperventilating, trying to grab all of our stuff, listening to Makayla crop dust as she made her way to the bathroom. I had Maggie, the diaper bag, our leftovers, the bill and realized Makayla was going to be occupied for some time in the bathroom. Trying to gain control over myself, like the mature person I am, I somehow managed to find my wallet and pay, only to keep having laughter outbursts. When Makayla finally joined us in the waiting area, she informed me I was really red in the face....really!? Makayla couldn't stop laughing which turned to crying halfway home because she said I was "going to tell everyone" and now she could never go out again!!! So here I am telling everyone and a little sad that we won't be allowed back into our favorite restaurant again! Seriously....

I know she is advanced but come on......

Today is the first day of Spring Break and so I thought I would be a nice mom and take my little darlings out to lunch. We were going to get Magdelicious' medicine refilled so we were in town. Miss Princess has been on Prevacid for about 4 months now and it is WONDERFUL! Expensive, but wonderful. So I am in the car after crying about how much it goes up every month. Can Pharmacies do that, raise the price about $10 dollars every time I need a refill? Anywhoos, I wanted to see how many refills I had left and got into the bag and realized they gave me actual capsules for my precious 7 month old to swallow!!!! Who does that...clearly they do. This is the first time we have been given capsules as we usually get solutabs, which dissolve in the mouth. I wonder what the person getting the medication ready thinks when they are filling a prescription for a 7 month old who obviously cannot swallow a pill. Frustrating, very frustrating. Now I have to go back into town and hopefully get our regular form without any hassle. Seriously, do they not pay attention to what they have given us the last 4 times!!! I understand that mistakes happen, boy do I!!! I would expect a Pharmacy to catch something like this, especially since I am going to a Pharmacy that needs the business!!! Seriously....

Look behind you!

As I was unloading Maggie in the parking lot at Kohl's on Wed. I noticed in the car next to me that there was a HUGE piece of paper that said "Look behind you" on it taped to the dash. Do you think this person needs a reminder to look behind you when backing up? Please tell me that I am not sharing the road with a person who needs reminders like that. Luckily there was no damage to the back of the car, yes I did look! I only wish I had my camera to take a picture!! Seriously...

Really....

I have had some tough days in my life, some pretty shitty ones to be completely honest. I do love food, too. I am guilty of sometimes using food to comfort me, knowing full well that I feel worse afterwards. BUT....today I witnessed something that even I had a hard time understanding. I love people watching and what better place then McDonalds's. I was in the drive-thru line getting a large diet coke. I swear. Well I noticed a gal in the lane next to me was eating fries as she was ordering. I thought huh, that is odd, eating as you order more. I was assuming she was ordering for someone else in the car. Nope, she was solo. She was talking on the phone, so I assumed again that she was taking something to someone. Nope again. She pulled away while eating the fries she just ordered!!! I would guess that she had a sandwich only because she got a big bag and a drink(which she was drinking from a fast food cup while ordering as well!) Yes I observed all this as I was in line, I am observant! All I have to say is that I have never had a day that deserved two fast food meals in one sitting. She wasn't a small girl by any stretch of the imagination so I guess that is how she rolls. I will now think of her as I turn to food to comfort me. I will see the possibility of what lies ahead! I hope that none of you ever have this kind of a day. If so, call me and I will write about you as well! Seriously...

Welcome to my blog

Welcome to my blog. I am a 30 year old wife and mom. I have a wonderful husband and two beautiful girls. My girls are 9 and 7 months. I have 3 brothers, one sister and three sister-in-laws. I tell you all this because a lot of my future posts will more than likely be about them. I served in the Air Force and loved the experience. I have worked in the dental field for almost 13 years. My husband is a farmer so twice a year I become a "farm widow", much like those wives married to football or basketball fans. I am getting used to it after being together almost 6 years. We just built the home of our dreams and loving being in finally. While pregnant with turkey bird, my 7 month old, I had a website to keep family up to date on all the progress and loved doing it. I decided to start this one to make it more general then just baby. I use this as an outlet to get any frustrations, aggrevations, and funny stories out there. You will soon realize that I am very sarcastic, think I am funnier than I actually am and see things much differently than most. This is my life and as crazy as it seems at times, I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Seriously!!