Flash Friday

Thank you dear sweet co-worker who shared the stomach bug with me, I'm thinking of you even now as I attempt to keep ice cream down. Cause seriously what is the joy of throwing up if you can't eat non-diet food....ask the hashbrowns I had for lunch...yumHowever, we've had a good week, between ballet, soccer practice and pre-holiday games we've managed to stay on schedule. So we're rewarding ourselves, with a trip to the mountains this weekend..... I just love waterfals, there are a ton in this state....also...

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She is Mistreated....

Recently Duchess began soccer. This is actually her first year doing any activity, she now has tumbling and soccer. She is joining Princess in the efforts to bring the parents to their knees through extra-curricular activities.She was very very excited about soccer. So we got a coach and we got a schedule and we got a uniform. They are the dragons, woohoo!!!! Breathing fire and all that jazz....So before the first game, she was very excited...... Until she realized that the coach expected her to...

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Relaxing Day At the Gym

So The Man and I realized the other day that perhaps we need some mommy/daddy time...away from our little ones....I'm thinking a cruise, but it'll have to wait till after we get our house.However, this epiphany came while we attempted to take our kids to the gym. So we found a great racquetball court that has "waiting rooms" for the kiddos so they can kick back in some lounge chairs, slip a cold juice and watch some TV while mom and dad get their sweat on....Or so you would think..... We had two...

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I Bore Myself!

This is a good reason why I shouldn't be left home along on a saturday night...after the kids are asleep, and I can't shop online.....I find things to do after I OCD clean the entire house.....There is really no excuse for this.....I'm obsessed now.......... So I am seriously looking for a new hair style....sigh, should I try bangs? I haven't had bangs since ohhhhh 19...

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Racking up the Points

They shouldn't let me go out in public....so the hubs was at work training this morning and since he works down the street from me, very cool co-winky-dink, he swung by so we could hit up the bookstore for some new reading materials for Princess!We ate on the way there and upon pulling up out front in his new-old-Bronco I started packing up lunch into a trash sack. I then noticed that half of the crumbs from my sandwich went straight down my shirt and were gathered, and quite itchy. So I went to remove them and The Man had that husband look on his face so I just offered....Do you want to lick...

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Keeping A List

We live in such a conservative area that I sometimes gain the most immature pleasure out of shocking the utter shit out of total strangers....(now, I have family members who are reading this and just nodding to themselves at this point, cause face it, I never change!)Immature, yes but oh so much fun. Especially when The Man jumps in like second nature to join the conversation.At lunch today, we had such a nice time. Almost like a date, until the left side of my arse fell asleep causing me to limp across the packed, crowded foyer of the area where we lunched. Then he called me "Gimpy" and hurried...

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Wordless Wednesday

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The Reason I Have Love Handles

One thing I love to do with my girls is bake. I like to think that I'm passing on a love of all things high fat and yummy calories but in reality, I want them to be proficient in the kitchen. My mom taught me the importance of measuring (Southern style people....dash of this, pinch of that, scoop of this, teeny little bit of that...to this day I can't give anyone a recipe for cornbread, I just have to make it), chopping, and preparation techniques~ cooking makes me happy.Plus it kept The Man and...

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First Day Blues

I remember my first day of 3rd grade. I walked to school that morning with my mom and I was wearing the most awful polyester lime green outfit, cause that was what kids wore back then. It was a good day, nothing dramatic and nothing horrible, just another day.Now Princess can't live without the drama so her first day of 3rd grade was anything but another day....After staying up last night to add money to her lunch account online, lay out clothes, lace up new shoes, complete info packet per teacher request, pack and label supplies and wash all that hair of hers....I wake up to her not liking the...

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Manic Monday

The start of a glorious new week....yet once again all I could think about this morning was pulling over and buying a pack of smokes at the store on the way to work. It's been over 65 days, this week in particular has been very very difficult....I can't stop at my usual store for even a coke now cause I do not trust myself!Here are the reasons I've convinced myself so far not to give in.....1. The Man will kill me, he expressly told me this already, in very unpleasant terms! (Me thinks he would secretly love me to start again, then he could!)2. My children would be disappointment in me....if...

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Flash Friday....

No you perv, there isn't anyone nekkid here, just a quick overview of our week! Cause we all know that I'm running behind, school starts next week and I am so not ready, still washing camp clothes (that could explain the smell...hmmm) and well stuff....read on.... Christmas shopping has started. I'm very proud of myself as this is an early year for me. As both of my girlies have birthdays the WEEK of Christmas, I am always broke in December. The Man and I are trying something new, you know, purchasing...

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Hannibal Lector Lived There

So today on my lunch, The Man met up with me to go look at a nearby house that had popped up twice in our househunting stages.....as we're very very early in the process here.It is the house of Mr. Lector....completely normal on the outside and normal on the first three floors (split-level).....It was the completely underground level beneath the garage with three tiny bedrooms and a butcher's closet (complete with drain the concrete floor) that did it for me..........It doesn't help that the entire way back to work, The Man kept announcing "It puts the lotion on it's skin".....

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Houses on the Brain

Well we've begun the "neighborhood hunt"....meaning, we've decided to start our house hunt by picking neighborhoods first....We've picked three locally....Then I get online and find some houses I'd like....can you guess what these below all have in common? A. this lovely has an incredible back yard (not seen here)...small but adequate....lovely trees and a veggie garden to boot.....Oh about 22 miles from my house B. Mature trees and an oversized lot here......important when you consider the desert...

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Lazy Sunday Coming Down...

Church bound....more drama to come bright and early on Monday. :)Every blog should have a toliet picture in it, Princess is assisting Duchess with her shoes, here...

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She's Back!!!!

My heart has returned. What a tough week....Princess was gone to Science camp and I was beside myself all week. But man oh man do prayers get answered....what an independent confident little girl I picked up this morning! As promised I was one of the first cars at the gate this morning at 0:dark-thirty to pick her up! This was accomplished by driving everyone else in the house nuts so I could leave here on time....opps.Since I couldn't bear to actually talk about my oldest and firstborn who left...

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Duchess Ponders Her Future

With Princess at camp (OMG they haven't called me yet, she just might make it), Duchess has had plenty of mommy/daddy time. Woohoo! We've had ice-cream dates and tickle-fest but the best is the three of us riding around in daddy's single cab truck.What a cute view.....(note that The Man's porn mustache is gone now though, he finally shaved!!!! I had to buy him a new scope but it was totally worth it!)So we're driving along....when Duchess ponders this: I don't want a husband! The Man is quite happy...

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Wordless Wednesday

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My little camper

I blinked. That is really the only thing I can think of right now. I blinked and she grew up into a tween thing. And now she is leaving home to attend a week long science camp, by herself, without her mother, however she is taking her green-green (the long suffering green blanket). That gives me hope that she isn't totally grown yet. Sigh.... So we have spent most of this week, preparing her for camp. She is on a green streak. Everything is green, she picks out trendy, hippie green skirts, skorts...

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We Occassionally Eat Out...

And I do mean occassionally, as in not a drive through. Since Princess is leaving us to go to science camp (yep, totally comfortable making a nerd out of her!) we were out and about the other night procuring some of the things she'll need....like a daypack, different froma backpack? How? Anyway, so since I'm on a diet (read past posts, sigh) I kept veto-ing places where I knew I wouldn't and couldn't be faithful to my diet, until I got outvoted.Hello, pasta joint complete with trolley....which of...

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Where Am I going?

Things have really started settling down here in the land of mountains and muskrats. We have worked out a pretty good schedule and we're actually living life. Not just "living" as in waiting for the next move, the next big transition, we're actually living. It's a pretty cool concept, we should have tried this years ago...before I got grey hair and wrinkles and a shelf that has started to grow on my arse........that is another post though.But now that we are settled, both with jobs and the kids in a routine. I have to ask myself, what is next? Somebody real close to me asked the other day why...

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