Girly time

Last weekend Trinity got invited to a princess birthday party. The boys stayed home so it was just Trinity and I and about 16 other little girls along with some of their moms. It was a fun party where they did the girls hair and makeup. I have to admit its been a long time since Ive been around so many girls but I had fun and so did she. While the girls played I got some time with other women to just sit and relax and talk about the important things such as whats on sale, our husbands and the best chocolate cake place. I know that as Preston gets older he will be stuck to his daddy's side and it will give Trinity and I a chance to do girly things. Girly things like shopping , talking about boys and eating chocolate cake in between the shopping, all the finer things of womanhood!

You have got to be kidding me..

There is nothing more annoying that being woken up at 1am from a much needed sleep by a beeping noise coming from 1 of the 7 smoke detectors in the house because it has a low battery.

To the manufacturers of smoke detectors, just a question for ya, but is there a reason why you cant make the green light turn red when its the one with a low battery so you can distinguish which one it is.
Very annoying when 5 of our smoke detectors are upstairs and within feet of one another and no way of telling which one is beeping.

I give up on this week....

This week sucks. Monday starts off with a car wreck outside my house caused by a 15 year old, Tuesday we get locked out of our house, Wednesday Preston is really sick and no one gets any sleep, and today on Thursday I fall. Yep I fell once again on steps at our house. As you recall the last time was down our basement steps. Im not normally this clumsy and I know how to walk up and down steps but for some reason steps and I have a battle going on and Im definitely losing. These steps werent just any cushiony steps either oh no, these didnt have a nice padding of carpet on them these were the steps to the front stoop on our house so it was good old concrete that broke my ass's fall as I fell backwards. I went out to get the mail and just didnt have my footing and down I went from the top landing bouncing once on my butt really hard and then falling back and hitting my head. My head I can deal with my broken butt is another issue. Im right now at this moment sitting on the couch with a heating pad on my ass that is numb from the pain. Im going to have one good old bruise and Id take a picture of it after it comes in really nice and purplish but I will save you the drama of seeing my big bruised ass. I give up on this week, it sucks and instead of being a pain in the ass I have a pain in my ass. If Friday is anything like the rest of the week I am moving to Australia, surely they dont have days like this.

I had to ask....

I had to ask what Wednesday would bring and it brought sickness. Preston's cough has gotten a million times worse and now he can barely speak from a sore throat. He is on the verge of getting Bronchiolitis, he gets it once a year. Its a common illness of the respiratory tract caused by an infection that affects the tiny airways, called the bronchioles, that lead to the lungs. As these airways become inflamed, they swell and fill with mucus, making breathing difficult. Yeah I so copied and pasted that.
He has an inhaler that he has to use when he does get this yucky stuff but it doesn't seem to help much. He has been sleeping in our room on the floor because he is coughing so much that he actually gags and gasp for air. He sleeps under the humidifier but he ends up in our bed before the night is over. The sleeping arrangements are with Lowel comfortably sleeping on his side of the bed with plenty of room to roll and stretch out and Preston is suppose to be in the middle however he is all up on my side pressing his bony knees, elbows, feet and hands in my back and me with less than an inch from the side curled up hanging on to dear life trying not to fall out of bed and wake Preston up. Needless to say my body aches and I haven't slept in 2 days. What about my husband you ask? Well he is Mr. Sunshine with plenty of sleep and his skin is glowing from all of the beauty rest he has gotten and he skips into work while whistling Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. He is probably milking a Starbucks Latte as we speak while I am using a bulb syringe trying to get the yuckies out of Prestons nose. Tonight I'm sleeping on the floor.

Krogers card more than just groceries

Monday I dealt with a wreck outside our house and today I dealt with being locked out of the house with Preston. We decided once it warned up around 11 to walk over to the park so I grabbed my garage door opener as usual and when Preston insisted on shutting the door from the garage to the house I didn't think anything of it until we tried getting back in and the door was locked. I was forced to make the one call that I did not want to make to my hubby from work , he was going to have to come home to let us in and he wasn't happy about it. I tried all of the doors and all of the windows with no luck, I decided to try my luck at picking the locks on the door, nope. I then found a Kroger's card in my glove compartment and tried opening the door that way and what do you know, bingo, it opened. I guess if all else fails and we have to resort then I can always become a burglar, just me and my Kroger's card. Cant wait to see what Wednesday has in store for me!

Not what I imagined a Monday would be like

Yesterday started off as any old day, Preston and I went to the grocery store like we do every Monday and then came home and since it was cold outside we played inside. After putting Preston down for nap somewhat early because he was coughing a bunch I sat downstairs and within minutes heard the loudest noises that I had ever heard. It sounded like a house blowing up so I ran outside and realized that two cars had collided at the back corner of our house on the street. Had the cars not collided one of the vehicles would of been in our back yard and over the top of our swingset. I was the first one out there so I checked on everyone and they were conscious but not moving very well. Another neighbor called 911. In the end both people involved went to the hospital , the one girl driving was only 15 and was not wearing a seat belt. I stayed with her to keep her calm and kept checking on the older man in the other vehicle. He had his seat belt on. Before the ambulance took both of them off the young girl asked how much trouble she was in and if her parents were going to be really mad at her. I told her that her parents will be glad that she is alive and not hurt seriously. After I walked back to my house I wondered how would I react as a parent and I had no answer other than my first thought would be are they alive and ok. I would kick their ass later of course. It made me think about how grateful I was that no one was seriously hurt, that Preston and I weren't outside playing, and that I wasn't 15 years old again and careless. Her father stopped by the house this morning to thank me for staying with his daughter and started crying when I filled him in on the details of the wreck. He said that his daughter told him all about me and how I held her hand the entire hand. At the time I didnt think about it but after he left it made me think about my friend that passed away in a car wreck and I wondered if someone had been there to hold her hand and even though I dont know the answer I want to believe that someone was.

Preposterous

This is the first time I have ever used the word preposterous because any other time I would say that something is full of shit! However to get my point across I'm going to use the word preposterous when describing our local gas prices and I'm going to use the word preposterous as many times as I can during this entry and this will probably be the last time I use the word preposterous because lets face it the word shit is much easier to type and much more fun to say. This is a look at today's local gas prices, aren't they preposterous?

This is Preston standing in the bathroom this morning trying to sink the cheerios.And this is Preston explaining to me why he cant get anything to come out and his explanation is because mommy cut all of his hair off last night. I was not aware that Preston had strength in his hair such as Samson and when I cut it off I also cut off his power to pee. Duh mommy!

Things you will and wont find on a box of cheerios

Cheerios Bee happy-Bee healthy

• can help lower cholesterol
• has 13 vitamins and minerals
• has cute bee if there is such a thing
• Low fat
• Good source of calcium
• Good source of whole grain
• Helps reduce the risk of heart disease
• Excellent source of iron
• Works well with potty training
• Makes a great target
• All boys big and small should use them
• does not sink when you pee on them
• a box of cheerios is less money than a box of diapers

Its official the entire downstairs of our house has now all been painted. This is a before and after of the family room.