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?

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"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...

Ready, Set, Record...

Anyone who knows husbee and I know that we are series freaks. You see with 4 small children, sitting through a movie can sometimes be tough, and by the time we actually lay ourselves down in our cozy little bed at night it's usually too late to watch a movie. This my friends is why our cable bill is a fortune, and we ARE NOT NOT NOT willing to give that up. Because there's always time for a 1/2 hour - an hour episode of great TV. This is also why we stick with Comcast, because the on demand feature saves our butts if we ever forget to set our DVR (which I usually don't) Any-hoo, I thought I'd post a little bit about what's coming back that I'm CAN'T wait for, and what's new that I think I'm liking.


First off right now The Tudors is back on Showtime. I have to say (and if I'm wrong I'm sorry I'm about 3 episodes behind right now) that I don't think I like this season as much as the other 2. Hence the reason I'm probably 3 episodes behind, because the last 2 seasons I couldn't wait to watch it. The story isn't really that different, and I think that it's heading in an interesting direction, especially 2 wifes in 1 season, the prospect of war, and I really really like how Princess Mary's character is developing. Let me tell you what I think my problem is.

THE EYE CANDY!!!

The Tudors used to be FULL of Eye candy for both me and Husbee. Not to mention it's pretty damn racy, I think it showed more sex in the first 2 seasons than I'd ever seen in any other series. Now granted, there's still eye candy for Husbee, with Joss Stone Joining the cast, she's one of his favorite hotties anyway. The problem is MY eye candy got ALL JACKED UP this season. Granted I STILL have my Charles Brandon (Henery Cavill pictured above because he is now hottest boy on show!) and he is still yummy...but Jonathan Rhys Myers!!! What is UP with the stupid looking facial hair and slicked back hair, and your Pouty Ass Hole disposition is not so flattering. Your hotness from the last 2 seasons is dissipating with every episode I watch. Now I understand that you're playing the tyrant King Henry VIII, and that in real life, no matter what kind of facial hair you grow you will be MUCH hotter than he ever was, but given the fact that they already totally threw historical accuracy out the window as far as how many pretty people they used in this show, could you please shave and fix your hair, and tell them to LEAVE YOU ALONE... please let go back to being sexy bad boy king. Here let me show you...

Season 1 a little boyish, but hot Season 2 totally bad and SEXY Season 3 angry, and WTF?

You probably have to click to enlarge these, but this goes from Season 1 to season 3. I don't know if this is the REAL reason I'm not truely into this this year, but I do know I find myself so preocupied being upset with how not hot he is, to enjoy the show. I will be catching up on this in the next couple days, and I will be trying my hardest to put this little detail behind me while doing so. I guess we'll see if I change my mind.

Well that post ended up longer than I thought it would. LOL See I told you I LOVE my cable series! I guess I will continue this tomorrow.

Lates!

A Day at the Park...

A Few weeks ago we took the kids to the park while Hubby played ball with the brothers. I got some great pics, but haven't got around to posting them until now :)

And just for fun, the brothers all trying to catch the ball at the same time lol

Joy, Sorrow, Anger...

Writer's Workshop brought to you by Mama Kat
Head over to Mama Kat's blog for your prompts, and to check out everyone else's entry's tomorrow. But for now, here's my entry.

Describe Joy, Sorrow and Anger through pictures you've taken.

First of all I have to say this gt me to look though all the pictures on my computer (at least my work computer). That was worth it in and of itself.

First Picture is my Anger entry. I Knew what picture I was using for this as I read the word. This is one of my favorite shots I've ever captured of Kielee. She's so beautiful, even when she's completely pissed off at me.

~Anger~

This Next Picture is Sorrow. This is Reese the day after she was born in the nursery. I had to leave her there for a week, and go home without her. I have to tell you I know that a lot of people go through so much more with their babies than I did, but as a mother seeing my baby with tubes and masks, and leaving her there for that dreadful week was the most heart breaking thing I have ever been through.

~Sorrow~


And bringing this post to a close. Joy! There are so many pictures I could have put in here, and any pictures of my kids, at least for me, would do it justice. However when I ran across this picture, I thought it was perfect. The relationship Husbee and I have really makes, or has made a lot of the joy I have in my life possible. I ♥ him!

~Joy~

Not Me Monday

Today I will officially be joining the Not me! Monday crowd, courtesy of McMama over here at My Charming kids. McMama is an amazing mommy and I've been followingher blog for a while not. Her story, her sense of humor, and her wit keeps me always checking back for more.

This weekend I did not jump up and down as I watched nasty sewage FLOW (that being the key word here) out of a clogged pipe which required the demolition of half of my beautiful back yard to get to. Something so gross could not excite me!

I did not cringe just a little inside after they buried the pipe back up and I saw the mess left in my beautiful back yard.

I did not look at my babies all day on mothers day and think of how happy I am that I'm a mommy. I also did not miss Austin and Lex, and wish my whole family was together on MY day.

I did not do a little happy dance when I dropped my camera and saw it shatter on the floor. I would not do that! I do not like spending money on things that are mostly for my benefit.

I did not completely selfishly start a Tattoo Fund. I will not be taking all my spare change and extra money from my allowance and completely horde it to myself and stash it away for my tattoo that I have been wanting for years. I did not quit smoking and decide that I deserve a reward for that. I do not already have almost $40 in it :)

I did not spend my entire Mother's day cruising around visiting the mother's. Even though I'm a mother too I did not get home at 8:30 at night and I did not have to fix some dinner for my family. I did not think ahhhh mother's day! This is what being a mommy is REALLY about.

I did not give in and give Wheezer her binky because she was driving me insane. I did not take the fact that she had been without it for our entire trip to San Diego and throw it down the drain just to get her off my leg. I would NOT do that. That would be bad. And I definatley didn't look the other way when husbee did the same thing.

I did not gracefully dismiss myself from a late night conversation with Husbee and his Bromance because they were getting loud and I knew we would argue. I did not fake completely exhausted just to avoid becoming completely irritated. And I was not completely successful in my scam.

I did not steal my daughter's hair flower this morning and wear it in my hair because it matched the print on my skirt PERFECTLY...

I did not wear a skirt this morning for the sole reason that I've held out on Husbee for a bit due to hormonal bitchy tendencies, and I know he needs a little TLC. I do not plan in using the fact that I am easily accessible to seduce him when he gets home. And I do not think that I look extra hot today, to also aid me in my seduction.

I did not make THE BEST grilled cheese, and I did not smile like a school girl when my husband bragged about it to everyone this weekend. I am not completely tickled that I put together my second self made up recipe and it was a success, and I am not proud that my cooking is taking a new direction.

I did not use the trip to the store to pick up gifts for my mother's as a secret excuse to get some stuff for myself. I am not really excited about my new knifes, baking ware, and waffle maker. And I did not get the waffle maker just because I knew 1 of my kids would love it. I did not say I really wanted one, and I did not fail to mention that I don't even like waffles...

I hope you enjoyed my first week ever of "Not me Monday" the others I read always make me laugh, mostly cause i can relate so I decided to try. It really is like therapy!

Great News!

Ok so I know that I don't post enough. And one of the main reasons is I don't take pictures of everything I should. I think if I took more pictures, I'd surely have a lot more to blog about, and pictures make the stuff about my kids at least cuter :) If not more interesting for people to read. Well one of the main reasons I don't take a lot of pictures is that I HATE HATE HATE my camera. It's like ancient, and lame and I just don't like it. Well I have good news! I accidently dropped my camera on Saturday and I BROKE it. YAY! It truely was an accident, after I took all the pictures of the excavainig going down in my back yard when I walked in my cute little kitty Meow, jumped right out in front of me and scared the holy living crap out of me. I don't think I've introduced my blog to My MEOW...She's totally scary right? Well for some reason I jumped, and dropped it REALLY hard, and I saw little springs and stuff go flying, and I don't think I found them all, but NOW it won't hold batteries, and the lens won't move so I GET A NEW ONE!!! Finally!!! at least now I have a good reason!

Too Gross to post! But I did it anyway cause you should all feel my pain!

Yes I know it's DISGUSTING! This is my basement floor drains as of last night. We've bee having major pluming problems in our 1950's house. So bad that New Years eve when it flooded (SEWAGE) into our basement we had to tear out EVERYTHING drywall, carpet, tile, our finished basement became unfinished in a day. We though it was fixed but about a month it started backing up again. This is the most disgusting thing I have ever experienced! We have literally had POO, and TOILET PAPER, and you know anything else that goes down THERE coming out of our basement floors. after calling my dad basically in tears we are now officially POO FREE!!! This is what we did this Saturday! My WONDERFUL father came and Dug a HUGE hole in my yard to dig the clog out. It took about 15 hours to dig down 7 feet re-pipe and bury it back. Now we get to wait 3 or 4 months for the ground to settle before we can plant our grass back. All I can say is thank god I can bathe my kids all in the same night! I can do laundry and dishes at the same time! I can go # 2 and not worry about having to see it the next day when I go to go do laundry ( I know it's TMI but seriously, nasty stuff) I am really happy about this! Now on to refinishing our basement...sigh it never ends does it :)

An off day

I'm feeling extremely pissed off today!
The kind of pissed off where I'm just sitting here being pissed off about being pissed off!
I really want to yell at someone, or kick something maybe.
I have lots of reasons to be pissed of, but logically, none of them are really that big of a deal
so I know none of my reasons are really THE reason.
I wonder why I have days like this...
I'm just off my game today

Do I want a baby?

The year is 1999, I'm 18 years old and graduated high school. I'm dating my second serious boyfriend and the answer to the question....NO WAY. I don't ever want kids I would ever so wisely preach to anyone who would ask. "I am the oldest of Like a million kids I know better than to want my own!" I thought I was so smart!

The year is 2001, I moved in with serious BF in lieu of marriage, because I'm so smart! And within a couple months of moving in, I'm pregnant with baby # 1. The answer now...I only want 1 baby. I may not have planned it, but this little buggey growing inside me I loved since the minute I found out about her and I'm so smart, I'm a grown up, I will be excellent at this! I become mommy, of my one and only, but I am still the girl who never wanted kids, I can't deal with anyone else's kids. I'm the one NONE of my friends ever ask to baby sit. But MY baby I could handle!

The year is 2005, Poo-key is 3. She is the most wonderful thing in the world but I am just figuring out what it really means to be a mother. Serious BF is now seriously GONE, and I am seriously by myself with my poo koo ca choo! The answer, I would have gotten my tubes tied when I had poo-key, in fact I asked, but they would not do it. I needed to be 25 years old or have 3 kids before I was 25 for them to even discuss permanant contraception with me. Ok that's fine, I'm so smart! I will be THE BEST mother of my only child ever, and I'm definately smart enough to not have more babies!

Enter My Casenova, My Mr. Wonderful, My Prince Charming who had me from the moment...hell, the guy just has me. Still does, I got it bad for this one.! And GUESS WHAT he comes with 2 KIDS! I can't even tell you the extreme sense of concern coming from everyone around me. I can't tell you how many times I heard...with a hesitent voice like they didn't even want to ask..."AND what do you think about the kids" Or "but you don't want any more kids" I can't even describe in writing the sound of OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING! I don't know what it was but the little suckers won me over right away. For the first time ever I actually LIKED these kids that weren't mine. , The answer now...No more BABIES still. We are in fact just dating and I am so smart I know better than that!.

And Valentine's Day, and Hot Tubs and Bottles of Champaygne, and that makes..., the year is only 2006 and guess what I'm having a Bouncing little bundle of Joy! Yeah that's right Me! Little Miss No more Babies, Little miss I'm so smart! Yeah ok, so I wasn't so smart. Infact that was very careless oops. The answer now, I guess everything happens for a reason so sure, what's one more. We'll work it out.

Now it's 2009, I'm a Full time mommy of 4. Short Hills is hell on wheels, but I wouldn't trade her for anything EVER. Now being a mother and a wife is the greatest joy I have. The joy of being able to take off whenever I want and do whatever I want, and having frineds all over the place, has been replaced with the joy of having a few close friends, and cooking great meals. I love my children, and I don't know what I would have done or how my life would be without each and every one of them. Do I want a baby now...well no, and I actually have managed to get that part taken care of. But looking back I cannot believe that I was so convinced that I didn't want kids. In fact, I believe that I NEEDED my kids. I now NEED to be a mother. It has become such a deep and profound part of who I am and what I am proud of. I have learned that i wasn't, and I'm still not so smart. I always have room to learn and grow, and sometimes you don't know what will bring you the greatest joy.



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Back to Reality...

Well , I'm BACK today from our lovely weekend vacate to Mission Beach. While in San Diego, although I had a lot of fun, and much needed relaxation time with Hubby, I missed the kids so bad. So bad in fact that a VERY LARGE portion of our relaxing was spent walking on the sand searching for sea shells to bring home to our little ones cause we knew they'd love them. See this is us looking for shells :)

So I spend my vacation remembering that even though I LOVE the beach, and I don't think that will ever change....see I mean HELLO how can you not love this, anyway, I really love home. And so I was happy to come home to my babies, and then I got here. Granted, i'm happy to see the chitlens, and they're happy to see us, but talk about back to reality!!! I go from this -------->

and now, the truck, needed breaks, well we go to change them, and it needs a Rotor (look baby I spelled it right) the ROTOR is nowhere to be found. can't put it back together. Now Shane had to take me, and Austin and Lex (because they're off track so we have them staying with us until Saturday) they all had to get in the car and drive me to work this morning. Then wonderful hubby had to go home with kids in tow, and find the part. And I get to go to work after being gone for 5 days and now this is pretty much where I'm at! Although it's nice to know I'm needed, its definately a harsh return.

So alas, I am back, back to the daily grind, back to responsibility, back to house work, and home work, and work work...but hey...it's only 2 more days til Friday!!!

Til next time