Planning Tuesday

Yah!  The kids go back to school tomorrow.

I have the corner of my dinning room table covered with things to deal with tomorrow.

1. The Alphabet Box.  I need to get Nash to select one thing to take to school to share.  He has to tell me the letter is starts with and then give 3 clues so the class can guess the item.  I love my boy....but, he always wants to bring in the same thing he brought in last time....always!
2. I also have the ticket collection box and the bag that has the tickets, the sign out sheet, the money collection envelope, pens and other stuff for the our Grocery Opportunity Drawing for the school's fundraiser for this month.  It doesn't start until tomorrow...but I have already sold $23 worth of tickets.
3. Information form for the oral surgeon that I will take Sophie to tomorrow that will decide how to best approach the removal of 3 baby teeth and her 12 year molars.  Yes, she is 13 and still has baby teeth.  They are not sure if the dentist should remove the baby teeth and then the oral surgeon remove the molars...separately....or have all of them removed at the same time by the surgeon.  Sophie is terrified of possible pain.  I am terrified of the cost and possible living in a refrigerator box under the bridge.  We just paid $1700 for dental surgery for Nash a month ago.
4. The application I sent in for the Wedding Faire on Sunday.  I have not heard from them but noticed they have charged me so I guess I am in.  Need to get the 150 bridal show bag inserts to them for the bags....I paid for them to be inserted...and sat today making the 150 of them.  Damn....I hope I get clients from this show....I need to make a profit soon.
5. And I get to be teacher Tammy tomorrow in Nash's Kindergarten class.  that is always fun....who doesn't love hugs and adoration!  But...its exhausting!  REALLY!  Nash is always excited when I work in his class......he can hardly wait!

OK....so, that is how my day will start.

So, should wake up tomorrow....I had better hit the ground running!
 

Monday...Monday

Monday...always a good day for me because the kids & hubby go back to their busy lives so that I can get on with mine.  But, not today.  Today is a holiday.

I don't get a holiday...I have to work but the kids don't.  Sophie is sleeping in her room with her BFF....because they were up late.  Sleepover....ya right  :)

Nash was up at just 6am....the alarm sounded, he bounded out demanding breafkast!

I got up...made breafkast, coffee and planned my day.

I printed out 150 with my compliments cards for the Wedding Faire on Sunday...now I just need to trim them and attach a wrapped candy advertisement to them.  And get them to the person who will bag them for the Faire.

I worked on all 3 websites Errand Girl  It's a Wrap by EG and Scrapbooking by EG  Making sure they were all looking and forwarding the way they are supposed to.  Also wrote a complaint on the Facebook wall of my new distributor of scrapbooking supplies.  Trying to get how they work???

Called my state client to see when they would be ready for a pick up by me...and Mr. Tag along, Nash.  We will get to watch Toy Story 3 while making the run today.....I am joyous!

Anyway....I am getting nervous about the Wedding Faire.....hoping it goes well and I am well received and I have made a good decision.

Ok....well, its time to get to work....so, I had better get dressed and quit goofing off this Monday  :)

It's Pancake & Eggie day

Yes...it's Sunday. 

And my son Nash will not proceed with the day without pancakes & eggies.  I make the pancakes from scratch...they are so very yummy!  I love strawberry jam on them...so very much!  But, strawberry jam has become poison to me....Diverticulitus.  Those tiny seeds are killers!  So, my second favorite thing on pancakes is peach jam.

I always sleep in on Sundays....it's the best gift my family gives me.  I sleep until at least 7:30am...that's late for me  :)  I love being able to just sleep, and think, and sleep some more...alone.  It's the best!

Then Lance makes sure there is freshly brewed coffee for me...yum!

I take a shower with the door closed....yes!  CLOSED!  Nothing like showering without an audience!  I am usually greeted by Nash when I get out tho.....he is usually nutting up by then and needs to see his Mommy.

I come out....drink my coffee, watch the news and contemplate the making of pancakes & eggies.

After we eat, Lance always cleans the kitchen and I get dressed and start on whatever chores I have for the day. 

We try to have a family dinner night on Sundays and have whatever kids are around, spouses, grand-kids and friends of kids.  I love having a big group of people over to cook for.  Tonight its bell pepper pasta with Caesar salad, asiago bread & peach cobbler for dessert.

Today is also Super Bowl.  I have watched it every year of my life.  When the first hubby was alive, sports was our life!  When he died....sports is hard.  My family has always celebrated my birthday on Super Bowl Sunday.  My cake was always a football field.  One year...they did something with the score and candles & I was like 55 years old that year.  Not funny!

I prefer to stay away from Super Bowl.  It's a reminder...and not a good one.  So I doubt it will be watched for a long time here.

I am also getting ready for next Sunday....the first time I will do the Wedding Faire at the Elk's Lodge.  I am a little nervous.  I am trying to design an order form that is fabulous!  I will be representing Errand Girl, It's a Wrap by EG & Scrapbooking by EG...all of my businesses.

www.errandgirlofsonora.com
www.itsawrapbyeg.com
www.scrapbookingbyeg.com

OK....off to work  :)

Date night....with Lance

We are kind of a boring couple.  We like to just stay home and enjoy our kids, watch a little TV and go to bed.

Thats us.

At least once a month....we try to go on a date.  Our dates consist of....dinner & a movie.  We live in a small town...not much else to do  :)

Tonight....or should I say...this afternoon......we went to my favorite restaurant.  It was for my birthday...so, I got to pick the restaurant & the movie  :)

Oh....dinning at Diamondback Grill....is awesome!

I was craving their Ultimate Grilled Cheese with onion rings & buttermilk parsley dressing....OMG!  had a window seat....watch the street traffic and ate the best food in the world.

Then we saw the movie King's Speech.  What an amazing movie!

I love date night and spending time with my hubby!

Got after Sophie had given Nash a bath.

I am one lucky Mommy!

too early for a Saturday

Oh....my boy Nash.

I don't have children that sleep in.  They don't have a mother that sleeps in.

But, I have learned how to sleep in the past 2 years.....they have NOT.

Nash......has an alarm that is set for 6am.  This alarm tells him when he can get out of bed.  No matter what.....he can NOT seem to stay in bed.

We go along doing ok.....getting up maybe once before the alarm goes off.  Then BOOM!  We divert.

I also have a husband that can't sleep.  He is usually up by 3am....he goes to his office and plays on his computer.  The only problem with this...is when he gets up....it wakes me up.  Then I realize that I have old people aches and have to potty.  So, I get up....potty....and take some ibuprofen....and go back to bed where I then sleep. 

I have learned to sleep....I like sleep.

Nash got up this morning at 3:50am.  Came into my room and gets in bed.  I know he should go back to bed....but, he is my baby.  I like to snuggle with a warm 5 year old boy fresh from his bed.  I tell him & me....this can't happen.  But, it feels so wonderful...snuggling with my baby.  I miss it.

So, like a bad Mom....I give in.  I announce loudly...this will only go on for 5 minutes.  He agrees to go back to bed when I say to.  Oh...the snuggling.  saying sweet things to my sweet boy.  I am in heaven.  But, I know....this will cause problems.

So, in 5 minutes...I send him to bed.  I tuck him in.  I kiss him all over his face.  I tell him to stay in bed until his alarm goes off.  HE PROMISED TO STAY IN BED.

He lies.  Yep.....he does.

He gets up in 10 minutes.  I warn....Do NOT get up again.  And announce the the punishment....losing a Harry.  Harry is his best friend blanket.  He has little Harry...the favorite.  2nd Harry....obvious name  :)  And then big Harry.....number 3.

After 3 times of opening the door...the screaming starts.

I take Big Harry.  I go back to bed...hoping....this will stop.  Nope!

Screaming in now intensified from Nash's room.  He is slamming the door.  I threaten to take 2nd Harry..  I go back to bed and pray to the nice parent God....please don't make me take 2nd Harry.

Door slam....screaming.  I take 2nd Harry.  I really do hate this.

Now, I am laying in bed...listening to the screaming of a little pissed off boy....and totally don't know what to do.  Lance is now involved....this is almost never good.  Because Lance tends to go overboard or be Lt. McVey.

So, now....I have to get up and have a conversation with Nash to calm the situation.  Because now.....he is incapable of calming down on his own.

After a long conversation and establishing rules....again.  He is calm, I am awake and the day starts.

Parenthood is not for the weak of spirit or mind.

I love my boy.....but on a Saturday morning at this early time.  He is not my favorite person in the world.

Fourty.....8.......thoughts

• 1. Today is my birthday
• 2. I have NOT been looking forward to it
• 3. How can I be 48?????  
• 4. How did this happen?
• 5. I was raised in a VERY vanity driven home
• 6. I always wanted to be good enough...I grew up thinking & told I wasn't
• 7. The day my Mom turned 30...was a horrible day
• 8. I learned the word vain that day
• 9. I baked a chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and decorated it with fresh rose petals so that she would stop crying and screaming and throwing things.
• 10. It didn't work
• 11. I HATE ROSES!
• 12. I always thought you should be happy with what God gave you....if you get plastic surgery or change something for vain reasons you spit in Gods face.
• 13. I am far from perfect....but this is how God made me....I am just fine  :)
• 14. A couple of years ago...I was told by several people in my family that I think I am better than what I am.
• 15. I don't believe that's true.
• 16. I am better than what I was raised to be.
• 17. I have always felt lost in my life.
• 18. Like everyone knew the secret to growing up & being loved and I missed it.
• 19. I figured it out...just later than others.
• 20. I am an incredible Mom.
• 21. I  am learning daily to be a great wife!
• 22. I am still unlearning old things and replacing them with new things.
• 23. I get better everyday!
• 24. I absolutely adore my children!
• 25. I can't believe I am their Mom.
• 26. What did I do to deserve their love and innocents?
• 27. Sophie is my Hero.
• 28. Her presence in my life....saved my life.
• 29. I marvel at her wonderfulness.
• 30. Sophie looks so much like her Dad...David.
• 31. I am so grateful for the time & gifts I got from David.
• 32. David forever changed my life and told me I was more than what I thought I was.
• 33. I was destroyed when David died
• 34. If the dead can ever come back to life......I would hug him, kiss him, and punch him right in the face.
• 35. Yes, it's been 13 1/2 years since he died....and I am still pissed off  :)
• 36. David was the funniest, sweetest, worst with money, trusting, fanatical, open man I have ever known.
• 37. I miss him every day and count myself as lucky to be able to see him everyday in Sophie.
• 38. I have loved 2 men....more than life itself.
• 39. David....and Lance.
• 40. Lance is the love of my life!
• 41. I can't believe that Lance is my husband and loves me like he does.
• 42. He believed in me...when I didn't.
• 43. Lance makes me a better person because he loves me.
• 44. He talked me into having Nash  :)
• 45. I am glad he did!
• 46. Nash makes me question my parenting skills daily!
• 47. Nash proved to me that I trust others...all I have to do is trust the right ones:

• 48. My life is filled with the right ones now.  I am lucky.  I have a wonderful life, husband, children, friends, and people I have chosen to be my family.  I guess it took 48 years to understand that I am ok and worthy of all that I am. I have been through bad, worse and ugly.  But, I wouldn't trade any of it because that made me who I am today.

Thank you to all of the people in my life now.  I will be fine being 48...according to Sophie....I only look 40.  And coming from a 13 year old....that's pretty good!

So, Happy 48th Birthday to me.

so busy I forgot!

I started this blogs many moons ago....and got so busy I forgot about it. I would think about it...say, I must get back to it....then got busy again.

So, here I am.

Dishwasher is running, Roomba is whirling, laundry is staring at me. I just printed out the minutes for our PTO meeting for tonight and a bill for the Mother Lode Scots that my hubby wants a check written to so that he can remain a member.

I have a pile of things to get done today....a day that is just for that. Taking the tax stuff into the preparer, a million mini candy labels that need to be trimmed and wrapped for the Wedding Fair I am doing on the 13th.

I also need to get together with a guy from Cal Green Recycling and get the program going for April at the school. Make a date for McDonald's Night for our school....its keeps jumping off my to do list but they won't let me make the date yet! Oh, and get the sad little total for the Dinner Night Out that we held last week so I can present the sad little total to the membership.

I also read an article...thanks honey for leaving it out on the counter for me with red arrows pointing to it :) That I need to get into the small business program office for some help....yes....help!

And....tomorrow....I face year 48. Yeppers...it's my birthday tomorrow. I need to order my cake...'cuz I am picky. I am trying to not worry about the age I am turning. I don't want to be vain like my Mom and lie about my age or be hysterical and try to avoid turning 48....like I watched her do many times. But, embrace 48.....but, I am doing so with one eyebrow hiked up. I am sceptical! I don't feel 48 but about 28. Altho...my body is feeling like.....hell, 48! Mornings can be achy.

OK....I am rambling and I got a list a mile long for today :)