Completely Worthy of a Blog Post. My thoughts for today .

Sampled from someone who must be sharing my same wavelength today!

1.I think part of a Best Friend's Job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap as a kid!

4. There is great need for a Sarcasm font.

5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. Mapquest really needs to start their directions on # 7, I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my own neighborhood.

8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least Kind of tired.

10. Bad decisions make good stories...

11. You never know when it will strike but there comes a moment at work when you realize that you're not going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after blue ray, I don't want to have to restart my collection....again.

13. I'm always slightly terrified when i exit out of word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my 10 page research paper that I swear I didn't make any changes to.

14. Do not machine wash or tumble dry....means I will not wash this....ever....

15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (hello, hello Damn it!) but when I immediately call back it rings 9 times then goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

16. I hate leaving the house confident and looking good, and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone, just so I know not to answer when they call.

18. my 4 year old son asked me in the car the other day, "Dad, what would happen if you ran over a ninja" How the hell do I respond to that?

19. I think the freezer deserves a light as well...

20. I disagree with Kay Jewelers, I would bet that on any given Friday, or Saturday night, more kisses begin with Bud Lights than Kay.

Especially for that guy in the background

Happy Halloween for Grown Ups

Saturday we had our second annual Hall0ween party.
We all had a blast. Thanks everyone for coming out.
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words so here's a little bit of what when down :)
Enjoy, we sure did!

Shane and I were Sweeney Todd and Mrs Lovett.


Tom was Best Overall costume won $120 for his Captain Spalding Costume ( Which I did his makeup)
Nick Won Scariest with his AWESOME Grim Reaper, his mask was the Shiznizzle in the strobes


My Sis Jess showed up for about 2 hours and walked away with most original for her 15 minute adaptation of a drunk driving victim

And I had a hard time finding a pic of Lisa alone, so Lisa, as Baby from Devils rejects won for sexiest costume. This is me and her LATER in the night.

Mommy

4 little kids.
That's what I have now.
When I was 21 years old I had my first baby.
I was the oldest of, well depends on how you look at it, but how i look at it I was the oldest of 8.
(now I'm the oldest of 13, but that's an entirely different story)
Anyhoo, back on track.
I didn't want kids in the first place, let alone any more.
I actually asked the Dr. to tie my tubes after I delivered Kielee,
yeah that wasn't happening. "you have to be 25 or have 3 kids for us to even consider" they told me.
So, within the last 4 years, I have gained 3 more children, and I believe I have really become a mother. I may have given birth to a child at 21, but I was still a child myself in so many ways.
Over the last 4 years, I have realized that a mother, is so much more than just a mother.
My mom, Is and always was, more than just a mom.
Cook, maid, teacher, chauffeur, nurse
A mother is the glue that holds a family together
A mother holds the responsibility of always being watched by her children, as an example for what they are to become.
She's always the one you call when your hurt weather your 3 or 30 she always will be
A mother is a student, as much as she is a teacher.
She's the disciplinarian, with a heart so soft, you find her apologizing even when you deserved it.
She threatens, empty threats, just to get 1 freaking minute (or 30 seconds) of peace and quiet.
As I've gotten older
My mother has become my friend. There are so many things, that while I was growing up, I didn't realize would hold such impact and such importance that I learned, inadvertently from my mom.
Now as my friend I realize my mom is not defined by being just a mom. She is a great friend. She's funny, and quirky, and beautiful. She's smart and shy and she has hopes and dreams and goals.
Now that I am a mom, I know that while I may not know what I'm doing, and I may make mistakes, my values, and the strength of family, the closeness that me and my siblings share, my strength, is all life lessons that I learned with the help of my mom, weather she meant to teach it or not.
As I look around at my sisters, (who are the only ones besides me that are mom's)
I see that we all love our children so much.
We all get frazzled, and stressed out, and overwhelmed
just like our mom did
but we are all good mothers.
And that didn't come from nowhere.


Thanks Mom, however you did it :)

Love Me!

This has been a part of Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop

Family Pictures

Well Sunday we went and got pictures done.
I still have some editing to do but the ones I got back edited turned out so cute.
It was a chore to try and get Reese to behave, she's so much better
left to do her own thing and just snapping pictures of her
unlike Kielee, who poses as soon as she sees the camera,
Reese turns into a monster if you ask her to sit still.
We went to Wheeler Farm, and i just have to tell
anyone who is trying to think of a place to take pictures,
this place is great, there are SO MANY backdrops and fun places
we could have spent a lot more time if it weren't for the pesky sun,
I think we'll be hitting it up in the evening sometime soon again.
Kimberly was a pleasure to work with, she did a really good job being patient with
the HUGE family and so many kids. Thanks so much Kim!
Check out her blog if you like what you see! She's a lot of fun.

The Kids said What? Edition 3

Brought to you by Cammie at house of no sleep

I have only have one this week but Wowee it's a good one!
From Austin, while watching Men In Black II

The scene: during a fight scene with J & K after the bad lady releases all the prisoners from MIB headquarters they were fighting all these aliens.
J kicks one of them for lack of a better phrase "in the nuts"
and a sound rings out like metal being kicked, and K says
"J, he's a ball-chinian, kick him in the chin!"
J pulls down the alien's mask he's wearing around his face to reveal...

And Austin pipes up
"If that guy was me my chin would be like down to here huh!"
and holds his hand about 1 1/2 feet below his own chin...

I couldn't contain myself, I had no idea the kid was so, I don't know well endowed???
But he had no idea why I was laughing so hard I was crying, so I still am not sure where that came from. But it was GREAT!

The kids said what? Edition 2

Brought to you by Cammie Go check her out!

Kielee:
Kieiee hurts herself at her summer kids camp almost daily. They give me these accident reports when I go to pick her up. The other day I went to pick her up and they geve me 2 accident reports. One said she was walking along and she rolled her ankle, so she had to ice it, and one saying she ran into the bathroom door with her face, and had to ice her nose. As we were leaving I said "Kielee, what is it aboutyou getting hurt all the time. You really need to pay attention to what's going on around you. Silly girl" and her response
"Duh mom, it's not my fault, I get it from you. You're a Clutz-o too!"
hmmm, ok I stand corrected. The inability to function on your own 2 feet must be genitically inherited.

Reese:
Reese likes to follow everyone into the bathroom right now. And we don't usually lock doors around my house...so when Hubby was taking a wizz the other day, Reese snuck in. Obviously he can't stop mid stream, so he turned his back to her and told her to leave...this was their conversation.
Hubby: Reese, daddy's going potty, you need to go out
Reese: You go pee daddy
Hubby: Yeah Reese, you need to go out of the bathroom
Reese: You sit down daddy?
Hubby: No Reese boys stand up, girls sit down. please go out.
Reese: (while stalking her way closer to him so she can see in the toilet, I know gross...)
Daddy!!! You Make Bubble PEE!!!! I want to do Bubble PEE!!!
Hubby: (laughing) Reese! You can't come in when boys are going potty! Try going pee in the potty, that's how you make bubble pee!

Lex:

Lex: Jaime, when is my mom comng to get us
Me: later today, about 7
Lex: today? Is that the next day?
Me: No Lex Today, just not right now
Lex: Is that THIS day?
Me: yes, today is THIS day.
Lex: Oh yeah Duh, I know what today is.

The Kids said What?

Brought to you by Cammie, at House of No Sleep!

Welcome to my first edition of "The Kids Said What!"
since this is first addition, and I've only got one good one from this past week
and I've been looking forward to playing this game cause it seems I always get
tons and tons of great words of wisdom form my 4 little ones...until now. (Go over to visit Cammie, it seems that this is actually a trend for week 1....I swear kids just KNOW this stuff!)
I'm going to do what Cammie did, and do a little recap of recent funny things they've said to start things off...
Without further ado

We're going into a restraunt and Reese is throwing one of her daily tantrums because she wants to bring her cup, blanket and toy into the restaurant. I being the wonderful parent that I am decide to reason with her (bribe her) and tell her that she needs to leave them in the car because when she goes in she can have a root beer and she won't be able to hold it with all that stuff...SUCCESS! Yay!! Then we go into the restaurant, waitress comes over and asks if she can get us a drink, and Sweet looking little Reese pipes up with
" I NEED A BEER"
Blush! OMG! She means root beer I assure the waitress.
Somehow since then though, everything she drinks that is not in a sippy cup, has become her BEER. Couldn't I have just offered her a chocolate milk!

Before buying cheese balls was in my weekly shopping list ( I know bad bad bad) We had them leftover from a BBQ. Got home from work with Reese and this was the conversation
Reese: "mom, I want Ball cheese"
me:"!!WHAT did you just say!!"
Reese: "ball cheese, I want ball cheese"
Me: standing there wide mouthed pondering what she could possibly mean buy ball cheese Blech!......Oh Lightbulb on! DUH "Cheese Ball Reese? You want Cheese balls?
Reese: "Yeah mom! Ball Cheese!"

Kielee, After too much TV apperently!
"Mom, You really need a magic lash! It makes your eyelashes SOOOOO Long and curly and yours are SHORT!"

While I'm Mopping the floor (on my hands and knees, I hate mops)
Kielee: "mom is that mopping"
Me: "yes Kielee"
Kielee: "no it's not mopping is with a mop!"
me: "Kielee if you already know these things...why do you ask me?"

Well there's what I have for now. Hopefully my kids cooperate more and give me more to go with next week!

My Littlest Kid list

Brought to you by Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop :)

1) She looks like she could play football, but then surprises you with how absolutely girly she really is.
2) I can bathe her 3 times a day, But she always finds the filthiest thing to play with
3) She can be SOOOO mean, but she's soooo sweet and has the best manners out of all of the kids.
4) She will only wear 1 of 2 outfits, her Dresses, or her "dancers" which are dress up dresses. And always her Bright green "slip slops" she HAD to have at Walmart. (P.s. She Sleeps in those slip slops.)
5) She has a routine, and you must comply, or she will let you know. Come home from babysitter, Fill her cup with "Chocolate Ma Milk" Get her Entire "bed" (which is all her blankets and pillows) lay them on the floor in front of the big screen, turn on Boomerang channel (hopefully scooby doo is on, or we have to find the Scooby DVD) give her a bowl of cheese balls. IF I comply with all her demands, she is an angel while I cook dinner.
6) Every Barbie is Princess Analise, and she too is princess Analise.
7) She can dance in circles longer than I ever thought humanly possible, while singing "We are princess we we are princess"
8) Her favorite color is undeniably purple.
9) She has the most beautiful hair I have ever seen on a 2 year old. Espicially a blondie. (I need to post a picture of this) It is longer than anyone in the family, and I don't think I will EVER cut it if I can help it.
10) She loves her daddy and cannot go to bed until he kisses her goodnight.
11) She loves motercycles and cars, snails, worms and dirt, as well as princesses, doing her babies' hair, and DANCING and singing her way though life.
12) Her favorite movie is Marley and Me, and she thinks that Jennifer Aniston is her mommy (I know sweet huh! I wish lol) so when she asks me to put it on for her she says, I want to watch Marley and You.
13) She is cuddley, but wiggly, and full of hugs and "tisses" for everyone.

This Littlest kid is a light in everyone's life she touches. She can bring a smile to anyone's face. She is beautiful, smart and inspires me to be the best mom I can be. I love her so much from the top of that beautiful head of hair, the the bottom of each little perfectly painted toe. She truely is a princess.

Beach Mocs ROCK!

Today I am posting about my new favorite thing!
Sketcher's Beach Mocs for Men and Chi Chi for women.
LET-ME-TELL-YOU
They are the BEST casual shoe ever!
I bought some for me and some for hubby and I don't think I will ever go back to flip flops.
The comfort of flip flops, without the dirt! Hell's Yeah!
The woman's are on sale at Famous Footwear now for $19.99
I am definitely going to have to get these in all different colors.
These are my new favorite Summer Staple MUST HAVE.

Peace out!

Owie!

PLUS

Equals

I stepped on a rusty nail, embedded in a board.
My foot aches all the way to my knee
and now, after my tetanus shot
My arm hurts too
Yes I'm a whiny baby!

Oh, that awkward stage...

This is my Kielee. The one on the far right, in the light pink shirt.
She had this little "dance festival" at school the other day
She of course went to the very far end where I could barely see her,
but Jessica ran over and took this video.
After watching this, there can be no doubt, she has officially entered the awkward stage.
She is 7, tall and lanky, but chunky at the same time,
uncoordinated, with feet that are too big,
and hair in her eyes because mom is no longer allowed to touch
that big old mop of hers,
and she was absolutely THRILLED beyond belief to be performing
The chicken dance.
I love her so much! She is one of a kind to say the least!

Shush girl! Shut You're Lips!

Writer's Workshop, Brought to you by Mama's Loosin' It.

1.) What is your life's anthem? You know...that song that is ALWAYS in your head. The one you'd go to sing first if someone told you to sing a song right NOW. What is it and what does it mean to you?

3oh3 - New Music - More Music Videos

"LIFE" Anthem is kind of difficult for me, seeing as I love so much music and I probably have a different song for every point in my life. So I give you my FAVORITE song of the moment. Why? Because I just love the lyrics. I think they're clever, hilarious, and catchy as hell, and I've been walking around singin this song for months and it just doesn't get old. It's fun!

My favorite line..."Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips"...
AND, "tell your boyfriend, if he says he's got beef that I'm a vegetarian and I ain't f-in scared of him"

Don't know why, but I love it!

To Our Concerned neighbor..Anymore suggestions?

Step 1...the Letter

A couple weeks ago we received an anonymous letter in the mail. With a stamp and everything and no return address. We opened the letter to find something resembling the following...

Dear Resident,

Every time I pass your home I want to cry. If Former owner had ever seen what happened to his Garden of Eden he would roll over in his grave. People would come from all over the area to admire his pristine and wonderful yard. Certainly you could do more with it than you have in order to maintain the yard's image, as well as your own.

Sincerely,
Concerned Neighbor

First of all here is my response to that.
1) We are not 80 years old and retired. We are full time working parents of 4.
2) We are well aware that we cannot keep up on this yard the way it was currently designed. I Am well aware that properly kept this yard is absolutely beautiful, however, It is not possible for us to properly keep it up.
3) And Foremost, if you had the decency of a GOOD neighbor to actually KNOCK on my door and get to know us, you would first of all KNOW all of this, and know that we plan to remedy the situation THIS YEAR, and number 2 you would KNOW how many other problems we have had in this old house recently that would be a perfect reason for us to not embed on ANOTHER project as of yet...

BUT since Concerned neighbor must be appeased, and since said letter made me feel really really shitty about my yard's image, and since hubby thinks any long weekend is the perfect excuse to start a New project...

Here is what we did this weekend!The Garden of Eden has now been replaced with a gigantic freaking dirt hole! I do not know if we will be able to even get around to getting grass planted this year, because it will soon be so hot that it will be hard to start new grass, but I'm sure we will try. We are still not sure as to the identity of Concerned Neighbor, but I am sure that it was one of the 25 people who on their way to and from church on Sunday came to a screeching halt in front of my now yardless yard with mouths gaping a looking as if they were about to have a heart attack...However, since you think that it is your business what we do and don't do in this old house, but it is none of our business who you are, we will be placing a suggestion box in our dirt hole where you can feel free to put any more of your anonymous suggestions. Thank you so much for your concern.
SUGGESTIONS WELCOME
p.s. this is not actually my yard, as my yard has no live vegetation left at this moment.

Lettin it ALL hang out!

Did I seriously do this!

Yes I have hit my all time most brainless moment as a scatterbrained mother of 4. Let me recap.

Yesterday morning I woke up late. 7:30 to be exact. I had all 4 kids, because Austin and Lex are off track, and Kielee had to be to school by 8:10. So I had 30 minutes to dress, feed, brush hair and get out the door for myself and 4 kids. Well on one hand, You could say I'm completely amazing because I made it. Kielee was on time for school, and eveyone was in tow ready to be dropped off at different babysitters (my babysitting woes is a whole other story) So I dropped Kielee off, and dropped Reese off, and drove all t he way out of my way, and dropped Austin and Lex off. I was on my way to work (about 1/2 later than normal, cause of all the dropping off) and I had an itch on my boob. I reached under my jacket, and under my thin tank top cause I had to get under the bra for this one, and lo and behold....
I WAS BRALESS!!!! Yes somehow in my morning rush, I forgot to put on a freakin bra!!!
And, yes I am part of the itty bitty titty commity, so what!

Anyway, I felt completely violated! Here I am sittin in my car, all alone, nobody knows I'm not wearing a bra, and I am so embarressed. So I pull over to the first place I see that sells bras. I go walking into Target, arms folded across my chest, head down, praying that no one is looking at my unconfined boobies! I go, pick out an inexpensive over the shoulder boulder...I mean pebble holder, and standing in line, I just KNOW everyone knows that I am braless, because why else would I just be buying a bra. It's like going to the store and JUST buying tampons, OBVIOUSLY Aunt flow is visiting.
THEN I go out to my car, drive to the far side of the parking lot where NO ONE is parked, and proceed to put it on. Then out of no where, with a MILLION other parking spaces, all of them closer to the actual store comes one of those "my car is too nice to park by anyone else" people, and parks RIGHT NEXT to me!! OMG! Can I just get a break. I think I pulled off the whole looking natural thing, when I suddenly pretended to be straitening my shirt,with the bra buckled around my stomach, looking like some freaky person waiting to do some kind of drug deal or something (I am so paranoid huh) Needless to say when said person finally got out of their car and walked away, I put that sucker on as fast as I could and got the hell out of there.

I guess the moral of the story is, I now have a new addition to my morning routine...check that I am wearing all nessecary undergarments!

DUH JAIME!

Our New American Idol!!!

Congratulations Kris Allen!!!
I ♥ You

I know there is a ton of controversy over Kris winning last night. And I know there are a lot of disappointed Adam Lambert fans out there. But just let me tell you exactly why I am so happy with last nights results.

I LOVE KRIS, I'm a huge fan of boys who play the acoustic guitar and have that grungy voice and sing songs with awesome lyrics and messages (ie: Dashboard Confessional, Second Hand Serenade) It is no secret that this is my FAVORITE kind of music. And when Kris started showing his true abilities, I was in love.

I started out the season IN LOVE with Danny Gokey. I thought he had it in the bag every time I seen him, until they got down to about the top 5 or 6, then, he started to bore me. It was the same old Danny every time. Sure he is a great singer, and will probably go on to make a good album, but he just started to bore me.

I also have been a HUGE Adam fan the ENTIRE show. I think that Adam is definately one of the most, if not the most talented and conditioned performers to hit the Idol stage EVER. He is refined and at an entirely different level than ANYONE else in this year's compitition. This is why many people think he should have won the whole thing. And I'll tell you, if he won, I would have been fine with that too. I think he's absolutely amazing.

but let me tell you MY opinion to why I think America made the right decision last night...

Did you HEAR the song that was written to be the winning Idol's first single... That would be a disaster for Adam. I think Adam needs to have a little more freedom and his album needs to take a differnet direction than the Idol winner would be provided. I think Kris, is a good fit for what they do to the Idol winners. He fits the kind of music they like to fill Idol Winners first albums with. Adam on the other hand is one of a kind. He needs to be embraced and marketed as just that, the ONE AND ONLY Adam Lambert. His style, and vocal abilities can take him far, if they pair him with the RIGHT writers, and music style. But rushing him to the studio to put out an AMERICAN IDOL WINNER album right away I think will do him no justice.

Take David Cook for example, he was my favorite contestant last year. He is a great singer, musician, and song writer. I think, by listening to a lot of his album, that although I like it alright, so much of what I LOVED about him was lost in the main stream transition that IS Idol. David Cook put out his own album, before he ever went on Idol, and I heard the songs off of that album, and the writing, musically, and lyrically was perfet. (imho) I think his passion, when performing HIS OWN music, shows through so much more than when he sings the songs you know where hand picked, pre-written, by some one else (just look at last night's performance for example, no doubt he wrote that one). Although I do realize that he wrote/ or co-wrote ALMOST every song on the album, I think it's apparent that a lot of artistic control was lost when he won Idol. He went from being so original, and now MOST of his album is so much like every other "rocker" out there.

Adam on the other hand cannot be just lumped into the "Idol Rocker" category. He will go on to do bigger and better things as the Idol Runner up, than I think he could have done as the Idol winner. So there My friends, I have shared my piece. I hope I haven't offended any Adam fans, because I stress it again, I LOVE Adam!

So to both of the Idol Finalists....

Congratualtions! You were BOTH the right choice!!!

My List of Things that MUST GO!

Writer's workshop just happened to coincide with something I was really thinking about doing today anyway. I think it's because I've had a couple bad mood days and that always makes it so much easier to come up with bitchy stuff to say. So Head over to Mama Kat's place for more Writer's Workshop's, and until then...

My List of Things that Must Go

1) Acting like you have NO IDEA what's going on when you really do, so that you can see if you can catch someone or something in a lie. Seriously, DUMB and obviously it doesn't work because I don't have anything to hide.

2) The Text dog out. I HATE when you TALK to someone, and they're all good to go, on-board with whatever plans your making, and then 20 minutes before said plans are supposed to happen, you get a TEXT MESSAGE with some dumb ass excuse. Come on now, be a big girl and just say NO!

3) The Text dog out, followed by the blame someone else. Again, grow some effing balls (or somethin) and don't blame everyone else, you already took the pussy way out by texting.

4) When people just can't get the method to my madness. I swear, what I do usually makes sense to me for some reason, and it may not be good to you, but it's perfectly logical to me, and that is what matters. As long as no one gets hurt, deal with it.

That's all for now kids...