Festival

Labor Day Festival: This weekend we took the kids and niece to our local festival to ride some rides, eat carnival food and play games. They had a great time and no one threw up on the kiddie roller coaster! Any other time I wouldnt be surprised that no one threw up except that 2 of the 3 kids had thrown up the night before so it was a good puke free day for all of us.

Tools, boys, oh my!!

Wednesday-The deck has been put on hold because after almost 3 weeks of no rain we are finally getting some today. Our grass is brown, dusty and dead so hats off to you rain for finally finding us.



Tuesday-We are expanding our deck this week and my hubby and son have been hard at work. They both have the same look when they put a tool in their hand, its the "Im man, I have tools, what can I fix or build for you today woman"! I guess as long as they are having fun and they still have all of their fingers then its a good day.

Birthdays-Another year older

Birthdays-We just finished celebrating Prestons 3rd Birthday in June and this past weekend we celebrated Trinity's 7th. Wow I cant believe you are already 7 years old. I have been a part of your life for 5 years now and to watch you grow up to be a tween is fun, scared and exciting. I get to see you love Hannah Montana, drool over the Jonas Brothers, watch you put on makeup with your friends, roll your eyes at your dad when he embarrasses you, talk about boys and the fact that you have a boyfriend from school, and I get to enjoy all of that minus the stretch marks. Im sad that my kids are growing up so fast but I have enjoyed every minute of watching you grow up.

Decision struggles

Struggles. Over the past 2 week I have been struggling with a decision that I must make soon or atleast within the next year. After ignoring my son who was throwing a tantrum, I mean reading a local newspaper, I came across an article stating that the city we live in is going to be creating a new position for next year. Everything they listed in regards to the positions are things that I have experience in, its working for the city, its great benefits and great hours. The location of the office is in the back of our subdivision and one block away from where my son will be in PreK. My dilemma is that even though I understand that Preston will be starting Prek next year I wasn't expecting to want to go back to work this soon and Im not sure if Im making the right decision. If I do go back to work then Preston will spend half of the day in Prek and the other half in daycare, so instead of picking him up after Prek he will stay a few more hours. I wasn't even planning on looking for a job until a year from now but sometimes you cant let an opportunity pass you. I have my resume ready so its just a matter of getting it to the right person and making that step. Some days I'm ready to take the step and other days I want to hold on to my son forever and never let him go and stay with him here at our house and forget school and work and OK after reading my thoughts I know that I cant do that and its not feasible. I have started a list of pros and cons of going back to work:

Pros
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1) I will have a position close to my son, home and wont need to look for a job a year from now.
2) Financially we will be able to do things we have always wanted to such as go on the Disney Cruise and replace the ugly flooring in the kitchen.
3) My son will be better prepared for school because he will be comfortable being away from us during the day.


Cons
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1) My son will cry until he gets used to it
2) I will cry until I get used to it
3) I always knew that this day would come where he would need to have some independence away from us and go off to school and I would need to let him go even if it is just to school, but it just plain sucks that even if its in a few months, a year or 2 years from now its going to be hard.

Worried?!?!

Should I be worried that my sons favorite saying is "what the"? He says it on a daily basis and even though he doesn't finish the sentence, thank goodness, its a little odd to hear my 3 year old son say it. He picked it up from the alltel commercial with all of the guys from the other mobile phone services. I knew that he would pick things up from us, and far worse than saying what the, but from a commercial, come on. Maybe we are safe from now until someone teaches him the last word of the phrase. I hope no one ever teaches him or he just comes up with something else annoying to say.

Robbed, Robbed I say!

Ive been staying up watching the olympics and so far other than holding my breath each time Michael Phelps swam I havent really reacted too much....that was until last night. Ive kept up with the gymnastics and watched it each time but didnt have any emotions about it but that was about to surface. Last night I cried for Nastia Liukin, because even though she tied with China girl, who is no way of age to be competing and I can only hope that her real age surfaces after the olmpics and they give the gold to its rightfull owner, ok back my point, Nastia came in 2nd. Thats not fair. I felt for her as she learned of the tie decision making process and as she stood on the podium almost in tears. She was a lot braver than me, I would of cried as the results came out. You deserved the Gold Nastia, the gold I tell you!!!

Team USA

Michael Phelps you make me proud to be an American all over again!!!

Boys R A Joy

The wonderful conversations my 3 year old son shares with me.


This week while at the grocery store with Preston in the buggy.

Me- Preston please stop kicking me while I push the buggy.
Preston-What am I doing
Me- Your kicking me and I asked you to stop because your hurting mommy
Preston- Mommy Im not being a bad boy Im just not listening to you.


Today at a restaurant

Me-Preston please stop pulling the front of your shorts down.
Preston-I just want to see my hulk underwear
Me-I dont think others want to see your hulk underwear
Preston-I bet that boy wants to see them
Me-No honey people dont want to see them so please stop pulling them down
Preston-Mommy Im just looking at whats big in my hulk underwear.
Me-Your not the first male to say that now leave your pants alone.

Things you might not know about me:

1. I go through a roll of paper towels in one week. I hate sponges and I dont like using dish towels to clean with so I use paper towels. We should buy stock in paper products because with 4 people in the house we use a lot of toilet paper as well.

2. I hate clutter and mess which is strange because growing up my room was never clean and clutter was my middle name.

3. My pantry has to be in order or it drives me nuts, can we say OCD.

4. I could wear flip flops all year long.

5. I have to drink something hot in the morning, either coffee or tea, anything with caffeine.

6. My favorite store is Target and I secretly wish I worked there so I could get a discount.

7. I cook dinner 6 nights a week and we have pizza the other night. We dont eat out for dinner. We eat out sometimes when guest come to visit, so please come visit so I can eat out and get a night off from cooking.

8. I miss Las Palmas restaurant.

9. I bribe my son on a regular basis to behave in public.

10. I let my son watch scary hulk videos on the computer, eat candy everynow and then and run around in just his underwear for most of the day.

11. We were contiplating taking Trinity to see the Jonas Brothers concert for her birthday and secretly I probably wanted to see them more than she did.

12. I will paint anything that doesnt move and I paint everything. Ive been known to paint lamps, picture frames and toilet paper holders to give them a new color and reuse instead of purchasing new.


Basically Im a flip flop cleaning fool with ocd that gives into her son. I can live with that!!!

Breezy weekends

This weekend we spent some time at the park, playing outside, playing with neighbors, attending a block party and enjoying the nice comfortable weather. It was nice to open up all of the windows in the house and have a cool breeze come through. We had 75-80 degree weather all weekend and even though we didn't get to go to the pool we spent most of our time outside. Here is a picture taken today of the kids. I figure I need to take as many as I can of the kids getting along before they become teenagers and don't want to sit beside one another.

Kids, kids, kids oh my!

For all of the times that I beg my hubby for another child, for all of the times that I wish I was pregnant, for all of the times that I wish that Preston had a brother.... I now take all of that back. Today I had Trinity for the day and since it finally rained we weren't able to go to the pool so instead she asked if she could have a neighbor over to play. Little did I know that one play mate would turn into 3 kids from the neighborhood. So today I had my 2 kids and 3 other kids and my wish for another child went down the toilet. I am so exhausted at this point that I can barely even type this. My brain is mush. I once loved being a stay at home mom but today I would of traded my husband for his job in a heartbeat. Lucky punk for getting to go to work, for not hearing screaming all day, for sitting at his desk sipping his coffee, for not having to break up fights, for being able to go to the bathroom at his own pace and not trying to break the world record for fastest pee'r so that you can get back to the kids to make sure that they aren't burning down the house. Im sure that next week I will get back to wishing for another baby but right now Im looking forward to only taking care of the kids that I am legally bound to watch.

Summer weekends

Summer weekends are always the best. During the summer months from time to time my hubby can work from home on Friday which means that he can get his work done in time to join us at the pool. This Friday we took our kids and the neighbors kids to the pool and we had a blast. On Saturday we went to Touch a Truck, its a boys dream come true. They have all sorts of large trucks such a firetrucks, trash truck, bulldozers and dump trucks and they allow the children to climb in, on and all around. We then went to the pool afterwards. On Sunday yep you guessed it, we went to the pool. Basically we spent the weekend playing,climbing and swimming. All in all Id say it was a good weekend.