ten happy things friday

one
I'm very glad that we have a holiday Monday because we'll get a 3 day weekend for the whole family, which doesn't happen often!

two
I made a yummy crock pot recipe and got two meals out of it this week.

three
The season opener for the Texas Longhorns is tomorrow!

four
Football season means Fall is around the corner and that means I can start cooking chili again!

five
Wings in the crock pot (not right now- this weekend)

six
Family

seven
Planning our menu for next week and I am hoping this tastes as good as it sounds.

eight
Ry learned to count to 10 in German (I taught him while we waited at the bus stop). Next up is Spanish.

nine
I have been oddly consistent with Rose's potty training since D started school and (knock on wood) she is doing really well. I haven't dared take her in public without a pull up yet, except to the bus stop, but we're getting close!

ten
We stopped at the store to pick up a birthday present for TJ (my nephew) and as we're walking past the stuffed animals Rose waves and says hello to them all and then looks up at me and says, "Those are my puppies! Look! It's my kitty cats!" We turn into the next aisle with Barbies and she exclaims, "My princess!! And my princess pony! I want that for my birthday!"  (I am lucky that she will accept "for Christmas" or "birthday" instead of flipping out that she isn't taking it home right at that moment.)

I'm having a good* day

I wish I had something really awesome to write about.... I don't. So here's a random update on what's going on.

At this very moment Ry is spelling every word in a book out loud and asking me what they spell. I think he'll have "elephant" down by this evening.

Also at this very moment, Rose is sleeping!

I finally remembered to buy Tums at the store this morning... no sense in suffering longer than a week with that lovely combo of heartburn and acid reflux each and every night.

It's Wednesday, so it was Chapel this morning at school. I ran to the store in the 15 minutes I had between dropping off D and Chapel starting. I made it back only 4 minutes late! It must have been the combination of sitting on a pew with some other ladies, the fancy box of animal crackers I purchased, remembering Rose's blanket and not sitting around waiting, but we made it though the whole thing! Rose was a bit talkative and sang her abcs (just the h-i-j-k-l-m-n-o part) most of the time (quietly, at least). Success! Ry was very well behaved... just thought I'd mention that. D was very excited when he saw us as he left to go back to class, but I am certain he will ask where we were at the beginning.

Hmm... yesterday I ate vanilla ice cream with ruffled potato chips. It was delicious and I wish I had more, but I don't. Pregnancy craving? Sort of. I have a habit of dipping pretzels and french fries in ice cream, so this was along the same line. Sweet and salty!

My nephew is turning one and his birthday party is Saturday. Yay! Okay, here's the problem, what do I get him? I'll ask my sister, but any suggestions for unique gifts? And I'm not a crafting type of person so sewing or hot gluing projects are out.

I sure hope everyone is having a normal, good* day.  

*A good day is always nice... Great! and Fantastic! days are for overachievers for the most part.

another monday

Today a calf walked up the steps of my front porch and started eating the remains of my tomato plant.

I was one proud/happy mama when D's teacher told me how he is doing in school. He's making friends, is very sweet and gives her hugs when the rest of the class is acting a little rowdy and so far is just doing really well.

Over the weekend D went to a birthday party for one of the kids in his class (Tim took him) and apparently his friend that he talks about a lot and sits next to at lunch spotted him and ran across the yard yelling, "Hey! It's my best friend!" and gave D a big hug. And there was a collective "Aw!" across the crowd of parents, of course. I'm so glad he's making friends!

Yesterday we went to a little museum and the kids were okay, but I think Tim and I will have to go back without them sometime.... just too much "no touching" and "no running" for that hour of the day. And seeing how we went directly after church I think they were feeling a bit cooped up.

I am in the middle of making these cookies, only I'm making half with chocolate chips and the other half with raisins. D and I don't believe in raisins while the rest of the family seems to actually enjoy them. I don't understand it, but I love them so I double recipes to keep everyone happy.

It looks like someone came in and ransacked the house so I really should try to put things back in order. I better hurry while the kids are "napping" or it will be completely pointless.
Later lovely people.

ten happy things friday

one
I'm happy that we were ready to leave ten minutes early this morning so I could get the escapee cow back on our property instead of her wandering further down the road.

two
We have finally settled on a name for this baby girl (and you all will have to wait until she is born to find out)!

three
ROOT BEER FLOATS

four
um... a little shocked, but very happy that both kids at home are napping right now. Nothing short of a miracle.

five
I checked the status of my fancy jeans made especially for gestating women and am happy they arrived at the PO this morning! I'll be picking them up this afternoon and hope they fit!!

six
I really want to make soft pretzels this weekend.

seven
I noticed that I have started pinning and obsessively looking up anything "cinnamon roll".... Cinnamon Roll Cake, Cinnamon Roll Waffles.... cinnamon rolls just plain and simple. I think I have a fever and the only cure is more cowbell cinnamon roll influenced foods. (Tim, be prepared... we're gaining a lot of pounds this weekend. Okay? That's why I packed you a salad for lunch.)

eight
24 weeks today. Restless Leg Syndrome is real, Johnson's baby bedtime lotion sort of curbs the terribleness of my rls... Tim calls it my fake ailment- obviously he's never been plagued with it before. tsk, tsk, tsk.

nine
BACON

ten
It's Friday. Friday. Friday. I will not link to that song because I love you guys too much (and if you know what I'm talking about now it's stuck in your head, too). Hah!!

have a great weekend!

smiling is good most of the time

I was in the middle of writing a very lengthy post about maternity jeans, but thought better of it and deleted, deleted, deleted in order to spare you from gouging out your eyeballs. Anyhow, I'll make it really short and just tell you that I finally got up the courage to purchase a new pair of jeans (giant elastic waist band style, of course) and hope that I guessed the correct size and am waiting impatiently for them to arrive via postal express. There, that wasn't too bad.

This morning after I dropped D off at his class I headed over to the church with my remaining kidlets for Chapel. Despite my best efforts to not be super early (I mean, we are already there, I don't want to sit in the car for 20 minutes so what am I to do?) we went inside and found a seat in the back (not very difficult since there were fewer people in attendance this week). I smartly packed some drawing materials for the kids and some snacks to keep mainly Rose occupied. We made it about 30 minutes (out of the 45 designated for chapel) until Rose got a very manic looking smile on her face and race down the entire length of the pew (we had to ourselves) and back. I refused to make eye contact with her because I have learned (the hard way) that doing so will only entice her to behave even more terribly. So I simply gathered our things and hauled butt outta there. This was after several attempts at keeping her entertained, asking if she'd like to sit in my lap, telling her to be quiet and watch the 8th graders do their skit about Job... Nope, she was already on the "I'm two and will do whatever I want" train. And she even said she wanted to leave. So we did. But here's the catch, we get to see D come in to chapel (he got to carry the offering basket for his class today!) and we get to see him go back to class UNLESS someone can't be quiet and sit next to her mommy. Happy she was as we walked out the doors until I let her know that she had just messed up her chance at seeing D. Maybe that is tragic enough for her to remember for next week. I doubt it very much, although she was in tears when she realized she wasn't staying to see D. I mean, he is her favorite. It sucked for me too, not getting to see him... I miss that boy while he's at school.


It's probably time for me to do something that is more productive than eating a taco salad and pinning cookies and more things to make and eat. To be fair, the reason I haven't done anything is because I've been playing "mommies and babies" with Rose. She is currently very into this and everything she plays with is either named mommy or baby. Today it was her toy giraffes and horses and they were at the playground. I am amused with her pretending because the boys were not very into that at her age... is it just a girl thing? Or maybe since they pretend more now she has just picked it up from them? Either way it makes me laugh, but I do have to be going now. Adios.