Life is so hectic, but I am finally caught up. I am sorry if I missed anyone, but here is my best attempt at catching everyone
Well ladies I think I have a date tomorrow.
wish me luck. I meet someone who seems really nice. It would be nice to go out once in a while. Alex will be doing the same someday.
How was your date? I hope it was great!
Come on! The only requirement is you must be able to tune out the Blue's Clues and/or Teletubbies that will be playing almost constantly from Hailey's TV. And you must be willing to be at her beck and call.
She thinks that everyone who is with her must be there to serve her every need.
She is at that developmental age when she still thinks that it is an honor to be selected to be the one to fill her juice cup, etc. I can't tell you how many of our friends who have had a sucker shoved into their hands to be opened or a juice cup given to them to be filled. But she isn't shy.
Nola just started with Blue's Clues.
That is one show I cant handle! You have never had a Mickey Bar? Seriously?
Marisa, how is Kady enjoying her allergy free lifestyle! She is very lucky. Hope you are getting settled in the new house.
She is loving her new allergy free lifestyle! We went out for ice cream Tuesday night at a local ice cream place. She was so excited to get a cone with rainbow sprinkles and sit on their picnic tables. The weird thing was that she ordered VANILLA!!?!?!
We are pretty much settled. I need to unpack more bins but I put them in the basement. Out of sight out of mind, right? When the computer is set up in the basement I will have no choice but to get rid of the bins. But I have a few more days. Nan has my truck, and she warned me that she is filling it with more of my stuff. I think it is never-ending
Hi ladies! (and any men lurkers
)
Here are the mint juelps I made for the Kentucky Derby:
NASTY! Neither John nor I could even drink this. Bourbon is NASTY, yuck. It went down the drain. I do like bourbon in recipes--like bourbon glazed chicken, but NOT for drinking. YUCK. (Apologies to anyone that likes bourbon
)
That drink looked so good. Do you know how to make mojitos? Those are my favorite!
So I had this strange dream last night but only remember bits of it. I was paying for something but using a debit card. For some reason, you added the tip in through the debit card machine - not written in on the little paper.
Well, the machine malfunctioned. The total was something like 43.17 and I was trying to make it an even 50 as the total. Well, it charged me $1000! So then I had to go to the guest service counter (at Target) to have them fix the error. But I had to use the bathroom, so I was looking for it, and it didn't say "Women" on the door, it had my first and last name.
Then I woke up.
The night before, I had a dream that I remember very little of, except that I woke up confused. Somebody said that there were the words "home sweet home" written in a cornfield like a corn maze...in Texas but you had to see it from the sky. In my dream, I wanted to go to google maps satellite view so I could look at it, but then when I woke up I was just really confused because I didn't know what the word "home" meant.
Your dreams are hilarious!
I was actually thinking of Kady. Is there something food-wise she always wanted while there but couldn't have because of the food allergies. I'd love to pick her up a mickey head rice krispy(s) or some of those mickey cookies, etc. If for no other reason than to celebrate her being able to have them.
do.
I asked Kady this morning if she would like anything from Disney that she couldnt eat the last few times. (remember she is home sick
) and she jumped up off the couch and said "I really want a rice krispy mickey head with the chocolate" But it is cute because she says chocolate but her "CH" sounds like a "SH" i love that. So if you could get her one, it would totally make her day!
Good morning!
Today is a looooooooooong day, followed by a very busy week. I have activities until 230 and then a meeting from 3-6. I'm supposed to be at a staff retreat by 7 but I'm going to head out in the morning instead; I'd really like to see my mom one last time before she leaves tomorrow.
Dinner will be during that meeting. DH is on his own.
How do you do this? I would be sleeping in my car
Gretchen- you are so sweet! Let me ask Marisa and I will get back to you. As long as you are conducting an experiment, have a Mickey bar for me....after a Dole float.
It is gloomy here too. I ran errands and cleaned an office that I do but ended up coming home before I got to the produce market because Kady did nto feel well. I think she is overtired. I wanted to grill a steak but it is rainy and while I would have handed Marisa an umbrella, I don't think I want to stand under one myself. We'll see.
Do you see that she would send me out in the rain, but not her.... Interesting
I love the Dole Floats
Funny story: I got up this morning and started cutting the potatoes for the frites on my mandolin. The mandolin has a feature that cuts the potatoes into that nice matchstick size that you (blurrily) see in the photo above. But, it is hard to slice potatoes while using the very essential hand guard. So, I was slicing the potatoes, sans hand guard this morning, while listening to the new Black Eyed Peas song, Boom Boom Pow. Imagine, if you will: Boom (slice) Boom (slice) Pow! (thumb slams into frite slicer). It was Boom Boom Ow! Always use the hand guard.
I unpacked our mandolin from a bin, and I didnt even want to wash it for fear I would lose a hand. Those things are DANGEROUS!!! I hope your hand is OK
Hi everyone. We survived our busy weekend, and I am trying to catch up here. Please forgive me if I miss someone.
I'll try to keep up this week, but it is a busy one...three baseball games (Liam's coach said Liam is going to pitch either tomorrow or Thursday...fingers crossed he does well! His team REALLY needs some decent pitching), four days of skating, two dance practices, a make-up gymnastics class, and two afternoons spent waiting to get tickets to the dance recitals. Things will settle down in a couple of weeks.
I have two nights a week that we are busy, and that is more than I can handle. I just dont know how you do it. You are so busy!!
Nancy- shhh, we used a walker too. Guess what, she turned out okay.
Nola does great in her walker. We had a child that went down the driveway in her walker, but her driveway had a slope. The baby went fast and into the road and under a car. Those things scare me outside. I think inside they are fine as long as the stairs are gated. Kady never had one but she was walking at 6 1/2 months!!
I really think she was tired from the past two weeks. She told me she needs some snuggling
With all that is going around it made no sense to send her to school if she was run down and needed one day to catch up. Besides.....Nana misses her
I think Nana missing her was the motivation for her staying home today. For some reason Nana was pushing very hard for her to just stay home and rest...