The weekend is over?
O.k. so I didn't have any crazy weekend, but non the less I can't believe it's over. I drove past a friend instead of stopping to say hello. She was walking, but I could've at least have yelled out the window. I thought as I drove by: I am only stopping at Walgreens for a few bags of plastic eggs (of which there were only 2,) and then grabbing Sebastian's belt so his pants can stop falling down, because his butt is so darn cute and tiny like his daddy's, and picking up Adam's phone, which I am glad and sad I grabbed. O.k. I know that was a major run-on sentence, but I wanted to blog and get to bed so I can get up super early (yes, super early for me is like 7:30.) By the time I headed back to the house I origianlly left to make my few "quick" stops my friend had walked down the street and around the corner out of site. Yes, I know where my friend lives, but I figure she was probably home getting in the shower. I wish I had simply yelled out my window. I know that she was basically alone for Easter and I wanted to invite her to spend Easter with my friends and I. I hope she had a nice Easter. It looked like she was enjoying her walk. Maybe I'll call her this week and ask her if she'd like to go for a walk with me. Oh, Easter was great! We spent it with lots of friends, and Adam got to talk to his sister about some pretty serious stuff (posative to me having picked up his phone.) However, he then missed out on a lot of the hanging out with our friends and his wife and kids (the negative.) I am so thankful for my husband. He has really been trying to get his priorities in line. Sometimes life just carries you away and you don't even reallize until you've been smashed up against a wall and you're sliding back down to the ground as a flattend version of yourself. He didn't get completely flattened, but he has been being sent little wake up calls for quite sometime now and I am glad he is deciding to pick up on them! I only hope that I can be the best wife I can be and an awesome mom as well to keep the stress level down. Adam gets stressed by me being stressed more than anything else, so maybe that's my wake up call as well :)
Hey, never try and outrun the cops. I use to watch cops when I was a kid, when we moved away from the desert, and it used to always seem to be about Vegas. Those Vegas cops were good. I'm sure that like cheese and fine wine, they have only gotten better with time. There sure seem to be a whole lot more of them than there use to be when I was a kid, and I lived in north town, for 4 years in front of a drug house. O.k. so it might not have been a drug house the entire 4 years, but I remember cops sitting in front of our house in an unmarked car watching the house across the street. Maybe, just maybe they were watching our house wondering what looney people lived inside and what kind of drugs we were cooking up that my parents were neither Catholic nor Latter Day saints,(they weren't widely known as mormons when I was a kid) in their early thirties, with 7 kids and only one income, eating government cheese, (which rocks!) living across the street from a drug house. I use to love that one commercial, "You can't get down, if you can't hear the sound!" I think that is the only time as a kid that I wished that I danced.(it was looked down upon by the religion I practiced as a child. I am glad I decided that not-dancing was not for me. I might be a funky white girl, but I sure do have fun trying to cut a rug, even if I do it more Amelia Bedelia style than lets say James Brown or his less criminal prototype Usher, (that boy can dance!) My daughter might have more of a chance than I did starting at an earlier age, and she wants to go to public school, maybe she'll learn some skills there. Hey, I attended public school in the 4th grade and they taught us to square dance. (that was 20 years ago, and being they were a little behind the times, maybe now they teach break dancing) I hope I make the right decision in either letting Victoria chose public school or deciding for her that she'll be home schooled. Where is Amy with Mliza, who my daughter thinks is so cool, and who also homeschools. I love all of our friends, their kids, and their choices to send their kids to public schools, but Adam was set on our homeschooling, and I was undecided, until a week ago, but now I am undecided again because she wants to be like all her friends and go to public school. She would also like to meet lots of new friends. How can I deny her hearts desire? Well, not today I couldn't it was her birthday, but it's over now HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, (that was an evil laugh, which doesn't translate without me writing, that was an evil laugh.)
What kind of person are you?
Are you the type of person that when your not quite yet three year old son empties the dishwasher for the very first time (and without being prompted in the least):
a) watches with pride
b) stops him, upset about the once clean, now dirty dishes underneath
c) catch a glimpse, but don't really care
Now after that, do you:
a) leave the dirty dishes in the drawer, with the "really" clean ones
b) clean all the dishes now
c) remove the ones that look dirty and leave the ones that look clean
I will admit that all of these scenarios played out in my brain today, and I almost struggled between two of them. Sebastian also took the garbage out and pulled a chair up to the sink to get what I thought was a glass of drinking water. However, upon further investigation I learned that he planned to water the plants. Did I stop him? No, I didn't stop him. So what if a few of my plants (if they even do) turn a little yellow from too much water. The kids are getting so big! Victoria turned 5 today. I can't believe my baby girl is now a 5 year old. She was so into her birthday this year. It was all about the My Little Pony theme. She is having a sleep over, if any of her friends make it for the sleep over part. I have faith in a little girl named, Tori, that made teaching the k-2 kids last Sunday at J-force vacation Bible school so fun. I hope that Tori will breathe courage into the other girls. I think only one is going home for sure at 8 p.m. I am excited to be on the other end (parenting/crowd control) of a slumber party. Victoria has been talking about a ladies night for little girls since October? when we had a sleep over ladies night. We have a plan for Victoria's night, but we are flexible. I will have to blog afterwards. I hope they have a lot of fun and that there will be at least 2 or 3 over nighters.
It's Been A Long Time
Well, it has been a long time since I was able to blog. Our computer had an unfortunate fate with a fist and a floor. However, after many suggestions made by many different friends and asssociates to purchase a Dell computer, we left Best Buy last night with this Sony. However, I am confident that it was a wise purchase, and if not then Best Buy will be getting to know my husband and I well. My husband, Adam, is very passionate about properly functioning equipment. He does not appreciate his business being jeopardized by garbage equipment. I know that in the past my kin and I have had friendly, helpful service at Best Buy, so when the sales associate asked us if we wanted the extended warranty and Adam turned to me to ask me IF we needed it, I had a brief flashback to 3 weeks ago when our computer malfunctioined and then my husband malfunctioned. I gave my husband a solid YES, we need any extra help we can get! My only complaint is that the purchase price was a said $250 less after a store mail-in rebate, which is not my complaint. However, I think they only give you a store price with a mail in rebate so that they can charge you the higher extented warranty price. The price of the computer less the rebate would have put us into the lower priced warranty bracket, but hey what's $50, it would only pay for more than half of my food for my entire family for a week or fill the tank in the car with gas twice. I did learn something that I wish I had learned before Adam had a computer demolition, in our bedroom one gloomy, muggy, wet evening three weeks ago. There are two extremely useful tools that I never knew about. First, if your computer is a laptop, whose battery gets hot, which they all do there is a chill pad, available for $30-$50, it keeps your battery from overheating. Secondly, we were informed by Laura our friendly Best Buy associate that there is a little thing you plug into one of your ports? that will act in the place of up to 300 floppies, for storing your info. If we had owned these two amazing tools we would still have our crappy Toshiba notebook that lasted only one year, and we would have all of my husbands files backed up on that little thing-a-ma-jig that wouldn't take up the precious room in our home that we already don't have to offer 300 floppies. I am just happy to have a computer again and be able to blog, thank you God for a quieter fan and motor? whatever it is that made so much noise in the toshiba is silent in the Sony and the fan in the chill pad is audible, but still much quieter than the Toshiba. What this amounts to is that the only thing that will bother my husband's sleep while I blog now, in the middle of the night when the kids aren't hollering like Tarzan and Jane in the backyard like they are currently is the sound of my 30-40 wpm typing fingers. Maybe I should revisit my keyboarding skills program, so I will finish blogs such as this one more efficiently.
