Random Tuesday Tidbits

I bought a new nail polish yesterday and I love it. Not too pink, not too red. Rimmel London's English Rose and it's supposed to last 10 days. My sister recommended it to me since I am constantly abusing my hands and polish doesn't last past a day with me. I have only painted Rose's toes... it's adorable! I'm waiting to do my fingernails Saturday night.

It's muggy today. Overcast, humid and not much of a breeze. It's plain icky.

Tonight D has a t-ball game and I'm looking forward to some sno-cones. We have the early game so I'm making supper to go... not sure exactly what it will be, though. Hmm, better start brainstorming.

For once I have beat my mom at planting something! We bought tomato plants at the same time (the first week of March) and I planted mine just a few days afterwards. She was finally getting around to hers yesterday. She's been busy-busy lately. (Usually I'm the one that lets the plants sit in the plastic pots until they are ready to die before I try to plant them.)

I washed, dried and put away the one load of laundry I did this morning AND I have D's uniform all set out, T's coach's shirt and hat and all the t-ball gear ready to go. Now if I can get myself presentable and out of these, ahem, "workout clothes" I'll really be ready to go!

weekend recap

 Saturday

3/5 of us were hanging out at my mom's house while the other 2 were at t-ball practice. Then it was home to try to fix the lawn mower (it's really a jungle out here!) discover we are missing a bolt and we're off to town. While in town we decided to go out to eat at one of our favorite spots downtown. We always get the fried green beans. Major plus for this place: we eat outside under a huge magnolia tree and get to listen to a band play. They were very good! And our kids get to be a little rowdy without bothering anyone due to the loud music. 

Sunday

Our t-ball game had to be rescheduled for Sunday (was a rain-out on Thursday). The Cardinals won and D did a great job. It's so awesome to see his team getting better. It's incredible how much they have improved since our first practice. Luckily I brought lots of snacks for Ry and Rose and we made a few trips around the field to keep a certain little girl from getting stir crazy. 

We came straight home and took naps. The rest of the day was spent eating ice cream, playing baseball, watching America's Funniest Home Videos (the kids love that show), making and eating pizza, still watching drama unfold and comparing how men and women work together... I'm going to keep watching until the end and call it a scientific study. 

fun filled weekend

Our weekend consisted mainly of t-ball. Saturday started at 9am with opening ceremonies and then we had breakfast downtown with Pappy G (T's dad). After a filling pancake and chocolate milk D was fueled up for his first game. He was catcher, which was a bit confusing, but worked out okay. (Mama's going to have to move around the chain link next time to get better pictures.) He scored a run! I didn't expect it to be really fun, but everyone was so excited and we (the parents) were constantly cheering. We got snow-cones after the game and headed home. It was a long day.

Sunday we went to church and then had to go take t-ball pictures. We finally made it home around 3:30 and spent the rest of the day relaxing. By the way, I threw some sticker sheets in our quiet bag for church and by the time we left Ry had covered himself in stickers, but was very well behaved. I can't say the same for Rose. She was good for the first half. The second half was not our shining moment. Especially when she tried to open the door of the cry room resulting in a banging sound and then we tried to sit back in our pew, but she started to bolt when we tried to sit so back to the cry room we trudged and when I opened the door and it swung ALL the way open and knocked into the wall of stained glass windows and was terribly loud. T said it was okay because someone else opened it and it was loud so it wasn't just me. How comforting.

Today I'm going through all of our clothes and switching out our winter clothes for spring and summer. Sounds really exciting, huh? Well, it is. I just found an entire selection of shirts I had forgot about! I hope your day is just as thrilling, if not more so.

da weekend

Saturday morning I discovered that I may have been a little too hasty (or lazy) with laundry on Friday evening. Usually I'm good about checking pockets for pens and the occasional $0.62, but unfortunately I missed the black ink pen this round. And it was load of light colored clothes. Our khaki pants and nice shirts weren't in that load, thank goodness! There are a lot of polka dotted undies, socks and white tees now.

We had our first t-ball practice Saturday afternoon. It went smoothly, T got all the assistant coaches he needed and a team mom (not me). For the first practice I assumed it'd be chaotic, but after everyone arrived and we made some introductions the coaches took the kids off in small groups and taught them base running, batting technique and fielding. From a parent's point of view it looked really organized! I met some other moms and Ry got to make a new friend his age and played catch with him. (He wanted so badly to go play on the field with D.) I think we're going to have a really good time with this.

Let's see... Saturday afternoon went really fast with the practice. Rose was out exploring the world with my mom and aunt and so we stopped by my Opa's house to visit with him. We didn't get home until around 6:30 and ate supper and I started reading The Hunger Games. (I had been reading it two pages at a time... not really able to fully get into it, but once I could read longer I had trouble putting it down.)

Sunday we went to church. We took Rose to the nursery and Ry decided he was at home there and we figured Rose would be okay with him staying with her. After about ten minutes (not sure if it was even that long) our little pager went off. I went off to rescue Rose and again stayed the rest of the service, although, this time I got to hear most of the sermon while in there. When we left Rose said goodbye to the other little girl and even gave the teacher a side hug. Progress?

We came home and T had some things he had to get done and I grabbed my book and read all day. I carried it around with me reading because I literally could not put it down! I finished it around 7pm (it's really good!)  and then took a short break and started reading the next book, Catching Fire, when I crawled into bed.

The house is in pretty sad shape this morning. Rose woke up at 5:15, Ry at 5:35 and D was up by 6. It's going to be a long day, but I'm going to take advantage of it and get things straightened up. How was your weekend? Do you keep up with all the housework on the weekends? I was, but I've been slipping lately. Have a good Monday!

They probably just miss sunshine

 Normally after a morning like I just endured I would avoid blogging, but this is supposed to be some kind of sanity saver for me so excuse me while I vent or not. I'm really not sure where this is going today.

The boys woke up around 6:30 this morning and for some reason (although I have my speculations) they were quite quarrelsome. They were also incredibly rude and defiant with me. There were a lot of bad tempers (theirs) and short tempers (mine) and it led to some crying (both parties). They lost some cherished toys for an undetermined amount of time while I consulted the leftover cupcakes for parenting advice. (The cupcakes were sweet, but offered no real help.) By noon I was dangling precariously from my extremely frayed nerves and my patience was registering on the empty side. Fortunately I caught sight of the clock in time to gather my nerve endings and give myself the "it's almost the blessed event of nap time" pep talk. One harsh demand of a grilled cheese sandwich almost completely unraveled me, but I collected myself once more and marched onward. Nap time unfolded itself in the beauty of a white flag of surrender (I think; I haven't checked on any children to make sure they are actually sleeping). (In fact, I know one of them is NOT because he just came out of his room with multiple excuses for not being able to sleep. No, sir. Nap is a requirement today.)

In other news, T has been dubbed Head Coach for D's t-ball team. The email that I found yesterday with this unexpected announcement congratulated him and said he was "a blessing to be volunteering". (He was volunteering for assistant coach, but apparently they really need him since they had so many kids sign up.) He has to attend the "draft" tonight where all the coaches get together and pick the players for their team. Serious stuff.

I'm going to go knit my nerves back together and hope they are strong enough to last the long evening ahead of me. (at least I have my good humor intact, right? lucky.)

p.s. I think it may be a lack of vitamin D in their systems... we've had quite a bit of cloudy weather lately. Yes, I think I'll definitely blame the weather.

our weekend

Saturday started bright and early with T-ball tryouts. It was actually mid morning (10am) and bright, but windy and cold. (D is in the blue jacket right at the front.) He was so shy during the tryouts! Some of the kids were trying out for their second season and new the drills already. It always takes D a little bit of time around new people or a new situation to warm up and be himself. This time it took a little longer as there were a ton of kids running around and adults speaking to him that he didn't know. I can imagine he felt a little overwhelmed.  Anyhow, apparently he saved all his skills for the final drill- throwing. I didn't get to see it because I was watching Ry and Rose run around since they were a bit restless in the bleachers. T said D stood at the pitchers mound with his hand in his pocket (glove on the other) and walked oh so casullly over to field the ball and then turned, stepped and rocketted the ball to the coach at first base. Apparently everyone did one of those collective, "Woa!" He had the best throw. We are proud.

After that we picked up some baseball stuff so we could play at home as a family. D had a lot of fun during tryouts and was all smiles (especially when T was bragging on him). T and I talked about sports and our kids and we are firm on the stance that this is all for fun and making friends. They never have to play if they decide it's not something they want to do.

Sunday we went to church and got there early. Rose will be visiting the nursery next week. I really enjoyed what I got to see and hear before I took Rose out of the sanctuary. I wasn't alone in "my child is being too loud and squirmy" situation as there was a mom with a 3 year old little girl in the cry room with us and her daughter would not stop talking. (She was amusing, too.) After church we got the kids happy meals (I couldn't believe us either) and went home to relax.

We had a really nice weekend and I managed to only wash one load of laundry and do the bare minimum of cleaning. Despite my lack of real effort over the weekend it looks like it will be a fairly easy going day. I hope I don't have to eat my words in a few minutes when we all get going at full speed. How was your weekend?