I shouldn't make light of it. These are great ideas - things that people don't think of when they are in a panic. We should all keep lists like this inside of one of our cupboards. Who is that organized though? Wish I were.
They almost made me cry. It's only for one night, but you'd think it was for months. I think it's because the last time I went on a business trip I was gone for weeks at a time.
You'll have to wave to me when you pass by! I'm in Chicago ya know!Hi all! Back from New Hampshire and I'm all Storyland and Santa's Villaged out. I don't want to hear another fairy tale or see another pointsetta for awhile. So now I'm getting ready to leave on a business trip to Chicago, IL and my DDs are crying in their beds because they don't want me to go. Actually DD6 is sitting next to me writing an 'I miss you' letter so I can take it with me.
special hugs for them tonight.
Hope everyone has a good week.
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Olympics is taking up our viewing time over here- UK third in the medal table - never happens - with our little population we normally get about 8 golds maximum, but we are doing really well at the sports you get to sit down to do (my kind of exercise!!!
Cycling, rowing, sailing, kayaking.... I think we do have some medals for "standing up" sports too, but mainly for sitting down....
Tessa
Know what I miss about the Olympics? Having those "bad" eastern bloc nations to root against. I remember the days when the US was good (of course), and Great Britain, France, West Germany, Australia, but we always rooted against USSR and East Germany, etc. That just seemed to make it more exciting, kinda like that rivalry thing between us and the communist nations. But I love love LOVE the Olympics!!!
Cycling, rowing, sailing, kayaking.... I think we do have some medals for "standing up" sports too, but mainly for sitting down....
We've enjoyed the Olympics, too! I'll be sad when they're over. We are also excited about the next winter Olympics in Vancouver. I've been once, and fell in love w/it, but Darrin has never been. Listening to the radio this AM, the DJ's were talking about Michael Phelps possibly being gay and a mama's boy. I guess they can't get him on taking sterioids, so they are going to find another way to try to bash him in the press. It makes me so angry! 
He's a phenomenon. Can't they just let it be at that?
We've enjoyed the Olympics, too! I'll be sad when they're over. We are also excited about the next winter Olympics in Vancouver. I've been once, and fell in love w/it, but Darrin has never been. Listening to the radio this AM, the DJ's were talking about Michael Phelps possibly being gay and a mama's boy. I guess they can't get him on taking sterioids, so they are going to find another way to try to bash him in the press. It makes me so angry!
I've been once, and fell in love w/it, but Darrin has never been. Listening to the radio this AM, the DJ's were talking about Michael Phelps possibly being gay and a mama's boy. I guess they can't get him on taking sterioids, so they are going to find another way to try to bash him in the press. It makes me so angry!
Its too small and has no room to fold clean laundry, so I wind up folding it on my kitchen island and it usually sits there forever. Because, you know, I am the only one capable of taking clean laundry upstairs
) fold laundry on the couch, and the folded laundry sits on my coffee table in our only living area for days, sometimes a week! I can get everyone to put up their own stuff, only after I complain about it, but common laundry, like towels, are my job. We do a fast clean up job if we have any kind of warning that we will have a visitor other than DDs' friends. Otherwise, it's just a part of our decor!
NO WAY. When our older dog leaves us, we will make do w/one!
Turns out it was TAMMIE!!!!
Needless to say, Shannon and Grace didn't arrive at the party in matching dresses. See what having 2 kids in 11 mos and a lack of sleep does to you? I still laugh everytime I think of that day!
Kara-I am really glad for you that Fay is going to be mostly rain. I will give my dad a call just to check in with him.
I hope that you are right and she sold Caylee (as horrible as that sounds!), but I really think she is no longer alive. I agree that Casey seems like a party girl and her daughter was getting in the way of her having fun. Casey obviously has some major psychological issues (ie being a pathological liar) and I think that she was very bothered that her parents paid more attention to Caylee than to her. I just have a gut feeling that this story is not going to have a happy ending. The sad part is, it seems like her parents were basically raising the baby anyway, so all she needed to do was to give them custody and go about her partying ways.
I totally agree. How sad.
I have a mouse update...the traps that shock and kill the mice are really working (hope I don't offend any animal lovers here.) We have caught one every night for the last 3 nights and I even emptied the trap myself this morning, which is a major accomplishment for me!! I really like animals and I have 2 dogs that I rescued, but to me, mice are filthy pests and I will do whatever it takes to get rid of them!
My son's md appointment had to be cancelled because my DH took my keys to the van with him to work. I am kinda glad, because I am not really in the mood to sit in a doctors office for 1 1/2 hours. I am also glad, because I have taken DH's keys to work before and he freaked on me. Now maybe he can understand how it can happen. I swear, I never did so many airheaded things before I had kids! My theory is that each child sucks out some of your brain cells.
Couldn't agree more!!!!
One of my favorite mommy stories is when my daughter Grace was a month or so old. I dressed her and Shannon in matching dresses and we were all ready to go to a family gathering. I was so proud of how nice all the kids looked. Before going out to the car, I realized Grace needed her diaper changed, so I took her out of the car seat to change her and there was poop everywhere (sorry to be so graphic!!) I went to change her diaper and realized that I didn't put a diaper on her, just a diaper cover
Well, I am obviously doing the computer procrastinating thing, so I am off to try to clean a bit after putting the kids down for their naps.
I will check in later!
