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Showing posts with label This and That. Show all posts
Showing posts with label This and That. Show all posts

May 24, 2011

This and That

**So I've started counting how many times a day I load my four kids in and out of the car. Yesterday it was about 8 times, so far today 6 times. Isn't that just craziness? Two toddlers, two car seat straps to finagle with, two older kids climbing over the seats to get in the very back and hopefully not fighting with each other. My car is seriously a wreck no matter how many times a week I try and dejunk it. Just this morning after getting home from taking Morgan to preschool I did another clean out and it's amazing how quickly it accumulates. My car is in need of some serious TLC.

**Kale had his first emergency room visit yesterday after pulling a heavy wooden dining chair down on top of his head. It made me feel like the worst parent having to explain over and over to all of the different nurses and doctors that yes, we had our chairs upside down on top of the dining table because he and his twin brothers are climbers, and jumpers, and would gladly swing from the chandeliers if they could. Now those same chairs are laying on their sides underneath the dining table. We'll see if that is the better alternative or if they just use their plotting and scheming little minds to find a new way to do things. But I digress, so Kale received two big stitches after being wrapped in a sheet like a burrito by the doctors assistant, screaming and fighting until he had nothing left, and I nearly passed out. Yes, I can't believe it. Usually I am fine with stuff like that but the doctor had me take a look at how deep the gash actually was after he flushed it out and I felt that light headed feeling coming on. Luckily I had some cookies with me and chowed one down to get some sugar pumping into me and that did the trick. Poor little Kale fell into a completely exhausted sleep on my shoulder two minutes after they unwrapped him from the sheet and claimed he was good to go. The chair also hit his eye pretty good too and it is all just a big swollen lump today. I've just been watching him like a hawk and cringing every time he comes close to falling down, but his spirits are much better today.



{Kale pre-stitches.}


**Last night we sat out in the rain to watch Kendle's game. I thought for sure they would call it half-way through (or that it would have been cancelled) but they stuck it out and even played an extra ten minutes at the end. Kendle has been making some great fielding plays recently and had an awesome double play last night. She was playing third base, caught a line drive/fly ball and ran it back to touch the bag at third. I can tell that she's thinking and knows what's going on during the games and it is fun to watch -- even in the rain! She has the makings to be a good ball player and I hope she sticks it out even though I know she'd rather be playing spring soccer.

**This is Morgan's last week of preschool. I am so sad it is almost over for him. He has loved everything about it and I know he will miss seeing his teacher and his friends during the summer. I can't believe how fast this school year has flown by. I love hearing his little stories about what happened that day and what they all said and did and played.

**I have probably eaten more fast food in the last month than the whole last year combined. We have been so busy and constantly on the go and I have just not been cooking dinner like I usually do.  It is totally disgusting, I'm so sick of it and even my kids are sick of eating out which is really saying something. The crazy thing is, I've actually lost more weight! Go figure on that one. I haven't been running or working out very much and eating horrible. I just can't figure it out. Maybe all the stress and constantly being on the go has made me burn more calories than normal?! Not that I'm advocating for going on a fast food diet (although I usually try to pick the healthiest choices possible). Just kind of one of those weird puzzling things. I thought for sure I had gained back a ton of weight. Kind of puzzling........ 







December 10, 2010

This and That Friday

Yesterday afternoon, I finally went in to Greenies and picked out my pair of TOMS shoes I won from the giveaway on Jenn's blog. These are the ones I came home with although it was a tough choice:


Aren't they so cute? They are surprisingly comfortable and the ash/grey color is one of my favorite's right now. TOMS shoes also has an amazing company goal to help provide shoes for needy children. For every pair of shoes purchased they give a pair of new shoes to a child in need. You can read  more about that here. I was so excited after bringing them home, I decided to wear them to the cookie exchange I was heading out to where I devastatingly stepped in a big puddle from the torrential downpour we had going on last night. Amazingly enough, they dried in about two seconds and without a stain or spot to be found. Yay! That's a good shoe. If you haven't been to Greenies, you should go check them out. It is a beautiful shop filled with lots and lots of cool things and more than a few bikes I would love to buy for Kendle and I.

And after the week I've had, I really needed something like a cute new pair of shoes to give me a little pick me up. Earlier in the week Riley's truck broke down on his way home from work. Luckily he made it to a safe area not far from our house because the main problem was with his front driver's side wheel/axle/bearings and it could have caused him to be in an accident. So the good part is he was safe, bad part is that it cost a lot to fix. Our Durango has been having problems too and I think I am just about fed up with automotive trouble at the moment. Don't they always say bad things happen in three's? Hopefully our third car doesn't all of a sudden start acting up because I think that will push me over the edge.

Kendle was excited they were having a "read in" day at school today. The students got to wear pajamas or comfy clothes and bring blankets, pillows, and books to read. They were also collecting can food to donate as part of the day. There could not be a more perfectly fun day if it was tailor made for Kendle. She was so excited for the opportunity to finish up a couple of books she has been reading. I think her backpack weighed about forty pounds when she left for the bus this morning. Blanket - check. Books - check. Canned food - check. Homework folder - check. Lunch and water bottle - check. Umbrella - check. She would totally be prepared for an emergency!

I am starting to feel the crunch of the holiday check list piling up on me. I want to try and wrap as many presents as I can today. I still have a box full of crafts to finish. I need to clean my house, but really I just want to hire someone else to come do it for me. I need to put the ornaments and ribbon back on the Christmas tree that the twins keep wildly and gleefully pulling off. I need to start planning some Christmas food and shop for stocking stuffers. Aren't stockings the most fun part of Christmas? I think so, and I love to find neat things to stuff in there for my family. Hopefully this weekend I can cross lots of to-do's off my list.

Well, the twins are waking up and doing the "I'm hungry and mad and you better come get me right now cry" so I better hop to it!

April 6, 2010

Check List


Here's what today is shaping up like:


-Make a few batches of banana bread. I've been freezing old bananas specifically for this so I could do it when I had the time. Kendle looked pretty perked up when I offered to make some today so I better follow through on it.


-Get dinner prepped. I'm making tortellini soup with homemade french bread (that's been socked away in the freezer as well.)


-Try to clean off the dining room table that has stuff piled on it from doing the floors. It's annoying stuff that really doesn't have a specifically good place to go. I hate clutter and junk.


-Try to repair my plumeria plant that Morgan yanked out from the roots yesterday. My sister-in-law Debbie brought it back to me from Hawaii last year around this time and it has been through quite a lot and still survived, so hopefully it'll make it.


-Move the last of the furniture back where it's supposed to be.



I'll try and get some pictures of the floors posted soon.