Meaningless rantings of a cabin fevered Mom.

So, yesterday, was ... well zippy, or maybe zappy, but anyway, it was electrifying! Heehehehehe e. For anyone who missed it, I am moving this month yes, we found a house, not a house to buy, it's a rental. Mike's company has houses they own, and rent to employe es it's a very hands off landlord type deal, we do pretty m uch everything ourselves, except like, roof, septic and such, and the rent is 450 LESS a month.So that makes it all well worth it. When Grant was younger he was very creative, and drew all over my bathroom walls with a yellow highlighter, NOT washable! I guess he was sorry later, he started to strip the wallpaper to cover the crime, even though it was a year later! LOL I felt it was up to us t get the bathroom back to decent before we leave the house, so my project has been that these past few days. It seemed so simple! Strip the wallpaper, sand the walls, put up paint. Yeah, not so much. The walls are crap! They removed tile a while back and never dealt wi...

This is title of a book my mom and aunt always wanted to write, about all the crazy things kids do, and say, and the things you mom never warned you about, the phrases you never imagined you'd use. My kids have been giving me all kinds of "first time, hope i never have to do THAT again" moments this summer. Here are a few cute moments. My son was playing on his wake board, in the grass with Sammy, and she was trying to share, and he wouldn't so I scolded him .. he says " awww, C'mon Mom! I'm surfin' the net here!" On the way home from swimming one day the darli ng were playing the ever popular, "Don't look at me" game and it's cousin, "She's looking at me! make her stop!" . SO i said to them ... "Do you know who else is looking at you? God! God is ALWAYS watching, and you had better remember that next time you wanna be mean." Grant is very solemn, and then Sammy in her pixie voice pipes up .. "God?...

Sick sick sick and SICKER!  if you want the details, it's like this see. January, a blur of activity, ending in a wedding. My aunt and uncle PC were here, staying with us, then they went to northern NH to visit my cousin and Brood. In that week, SAmmy was coughing, and coughing and coughing, then developed a high fever. So for a week or so i was not sleeping well, listening to the baby cough, then with the fever, i did NOT sleep with the fever, getting up to check and medicate all hours. Then the Aunt and uncle and cousin returned on Sunday for the night then they would head down towards home in the morning. Well, I slept in the living room, so i could watch sammy, and around 1am her fever broke, YAY! shortlived :P around 3am, it was obvious that Uncle CP had been struck down by "the BUG" An evil 24 hr bug that leaves it's victim listless, on the bathroom floor wishing for death. *lol* You get the idea :)  So they stayed an extra day while he recovered, we sprayed the...

so , you know Mommies, when your kid is sick, and you play the what should i do game? Should we sit it out? Should we go to the doc? Then we check our "source" Either the big old book, or the internet website with all the info. We read the section entitled, "when to call the doctor.." Well, i don't think this is ever in there. LOL Here is my sick sammy, and here is her table from yesterday. She didn't eat morning snack, lunch OR afternoon snack, COOKIES! Now THAT is a sick kid! When the carb quenn doesn't eat her cookies, It's time to call the doc!  And there she is hugging her "Gianna Dollie" :) 

Not to trump my sis in law with her HILARIOUS treadmill story, but it runs in the family, and we all like doing things together, so it's fitting i get to tell a whopper to :) So, like i said, we went to super bowl this weekend, but before that, i made a pit stop to get junk food, caffeine, pull ups and hat and gloves for grant. ( you can't send them to Mamaw's house with no hat and gloves *lol* ) so. i went in, got my stuff, went to check out, and as im finally getting to the checkout, i start to chat with the normal seeming guy behind the register, as my children begin a high pitched terror induced scream. I prepare myself not to scream back at them and turn to see the cart.... the empty shopping cart with Sammy strapped in the seat, careening over onto it's side, on top of my 4 year old who is clutched to the edge with a "I'm gonna die" look on his face. I leap, leaving my wallet and card for anyone to swipe on the counter, and i grab the side of the car...

Rule #1 Be Confident in your abilities ..... know what you can do and know you do those things well..... case in point ... i LOVE to make things with my hands, crochet is something i picked up again and I am just havng a ball with it! Here is My rag doll ..(formerly known as "Sara Doll" recently re-named "Mommy Doll") well she was in need of some new clothes that sammy could dress her in easily, so i went to work, aaand maybe went a bit overboard, LOL but it's fun, and I'm good at it! Here is the afghan i recently finished for Grant's bed, he will get it next weekend at his birthday party, and it coordinates well with the new **cough** NASCAR bedding he is getting. heehee I am also trying to make new stocking for Mike Sammy and Grant, copying the one my Memaww made for me many years ago. How To Become a Wilton Method Instructor Another thing im looking at recently is Teaching "the Wilton Method" Woohhoo! :) Yup, i got an interiew at the local ...

So, um yeah,this weekend we got alot done, put up the new flag bright and crisp. We had our van repaired, installed the AC, set up grants room for summer, and oh yeah, I put in a new screen door by myself!. Well, i replaced the screen on my sliding patio doors :) Somehow though, i could not handle the fruit salad. :P I had a Grandiose plan to make a cute pinked edged watermelon fruit basket and fill it with a lovely salad. I was two minutes into my project, slicing a bit off the bottom to level it, and i kept thinking, I'm gonna loose this other hand if i don;t move.......DOH! OWIEEEEEEEEEEEEE ....... yuh i stabbed my thumb with the gigantic carving knife :( not a long cut but DEEP, hit the bone, I nearly puked, fainted, went spazzy, then broke into a cold sweat. My boy scout hubby said it was shock, huh, I guess im the sibling who has never felt that. LOL NOW i get it! so, we wrapped it up, i chopped at fruit with one hand, Mikey carved the watermelon, very well i might add ... an...