5 Question Friday!

It's the weekend!  No birthday parties for us this weekend!  Which seems pretty remarkable considering every other weekend this month we have one =).  Lots of birthday loving this month for sure!  I'm thinking date night for the Hubs and I on Saturday night.  WHOO HOOO! 

Once again thanks to Mama M. for letting us link up to the fun!  And now on with the show:

1. Are you looking forward to the time change this weekend?

      NOOOOOOOOO!  I despise time change.  I did not always feel this way, but once I became a Mama my feelings about time change went south.  Babies and toddlers do not understand that the time is changing.  They do not understand that you get an hour more or less sleep.  They just wake up when they normally would.  EVEN when you attempt to slowly acclimate them into it slowly.  Time change= pure evil in this house.

2. Are you getting the new iPad/would you want a iPad?

     Nope, I’m not all about the newest gadgets.  I’m an old school girl.  I mean, come on I still have a “dumb phone”.   I’m actually starting to consider getting a kindle.  I know that I’m like 3 years behind, but that’s how I roll.

3. If money was not a problem, what is the one thing you would splurge on?

      A bigger house.  Our house is not tiny, but it seems to have shrunk considerably since having two babies.  It’s a lovely little house, but I yearn for more closet space.

4. How did you and the Mr. (or Mrs.) meet?

     Well, the Hubs and I have known each other since we were both very young.  Our families have been friends for ages.  We never thought of each other as anything more than family friends, until I needed a new car (long story) and all of my family had moved away and I had never purchased a car before.  So I called on my old, car loving, buddy. After not having seen each other for about a year we went out to dinner.  Bada bing, bada boom about 11 months later we were hitched =).  (P.s. I got a nice car that we still own and Hubs drives to work every day.)

5. Summer is right around the corner. Bikini or one-piece?

     I’m a modest kinda gal.  I despise showing off my stomach yucko!  Therefore, I have a tankini, but it’s one of those that the top piece covers all the way down to the top of the bottom piece.  So I guess it really counts as a one-piece.

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!  I plan to =)

Ms. T 

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There Are Some Things Even Mickey Mouse Can't Fix

The other day I was cooking and Firecracker was in the kitchen with me talking and playing.  While I had my back turned he decided to pick up a plate.  The plate slipped from his hands and shattered on the floor. 

Once I heard the noise, instantly I picked him up and ushered him to the living room doorway off of the kitchen.  I knew he would want to know what I was doing, so this was the safest place for him to be. 

Firecracker felt so bad about breaking the plate.  He kept saying, "oh no, Mom, it broke!"  again and again.  I reassured him that it was ok, but that Mommy had to pick up all the broken pieces and put them in the garbage can so no one would get hurt.  After I stated this he looked at me and said, "Mom, Toodles can help us fix it!" and then he proceeded to call, "Oooooh Tooooodddlllles!".  (if you have ever watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse you know the fluxuation of his voice while he was saying this.  If you've never watched it, basically at least 3 times in every episode Toodles is called upon to help Mickey and friends fix some sort of problem.)

I must say that made me smile =).  My sweet, innocent little boy wanted so badly to fix what he'd broken.  He was even willing to call the "helper" that can fix just about anything! 

Hope you all have a great day!

Ms. T


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More Mysteries

This is just another list of things that my little mind can't seem to wrap around.

1. Why can't side walk chalk (and lots of other things too) fit back into the container once you take it out?

2.  No matter how clean I think my floor is how is it my daughter can always find something to put in her mouth?

3.  Have you ever noticed that some days you can walk into your closet and pick out an outfit in 3 seconds flat.  Then other days you walk in and look around and think where in the world did I get these clothes?  None of this looks good on me. Why did I buy that dress?  I've only worn it once and didn't like it then.  On these days it takes a solid 30 minutes or more to get dressed.  Why is that? 

A few more random thoughts floating around in my brain today.  Just thought you'd like to ponder them with me ;).

Hope you have a great day!

Ms. T




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Creep Out

Our garbage can fills up quite quickly.  Most of the time the Hubs does the manly job of taking it out.  Every once in a while though he is unavailable either because of work or he's gone or something, so the job falls to me.  For some reason I don't realize that it needs to be taken out until it's dark outside.  Probably because while the sun is up so are my children and they take alot more attention than an inanimate object no matter how full.

Now mind you I'm not afraid of the dark, but our yard has been known to be home to snakes during the night time hours and the side of the house that has the outside cans has no light.  Therefore, I'm always afraid that I'm going to step on a snake or scare one and it will bite me or something.  

That's the background for the story, now onto the main attraction.  Once again the sun had gone down, the Hubs was gone and the trash can was over flowing.  So I decided it was time to take it out.  I gathered up the trash and got out to the dark side of the house, while I was swinging the bag of garbage into the outside bin something brushed against my leg!  I jumped, screamed (because I'm so calm, cool and collected, you know. HAHAHA!) and nearly came out of my skin!  When I looked down what was there?  A frog.  He had decided to push off of me while trying to jump onto a piece of fencing.  That silly little frog nearly caused me to have a heart attack! 

Needless to say my heart was racing and I was creeped out big time.  I wish no ill will towards that harmless froggy.  I simply ask that he not touch me while I'm already on edge, because he creeped me out majorly!

And now you all know I'm a wimp that's scared of the dark and snakes.  Hahahaha!

Hope you all have a great day!

Ms. T


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A Funeral and A Birthday Party

This weekend was a mixed bag.  A few weeks ago, we had been invited to a friend's baby's 1st birthday party.  We were excited for the little man's 1st birthday and Firecracker loves birthday parties.  Early last week though a long time friend of my family passed away and his funeral was the same day and time as the party.

The Hubs and I decided in order to keep the commitment we had already made to the party, and to be able to pay our respects we would divide and conquer.  The Hubs and Firecracker attended the party and Sweet pea and myself attended the funeral.

Let's just say the weekend held quite the range of emotions.  The Firecracker and the Hubs had a great time at the party =).  Which I'm glad for.  And our family friend was honored and the sheer amount of people in attendace showed how respected and loved he was in our community.  This coming weekend will be much more low key, which this Mamma is looking forward to! =)

Hope you all have a great day!

Ms. T

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5 Question Friday!

Good Morning, friends!  Once again it's Friday!  Yippee!!  Here we go with 5 question Friday =).  Thanks again to Mama. M. for letting us link up!

1. Where is your favorite vacation spot and why?

     On a cruise ship.  I love the fact that out there you are waited on hand and foot, you can eat all you want and no one judges, because they’re doing the same thing, and there is no cell phone service for the Hub’s work to pester him!!!  (the last one is probably my favorite).

2. What is your biggest guilty pleasure?

     When Firecracker is sleeping at nap time and it’s just Sweet pea and I, I love to laze around on the couch and watch drama filled shows that I couldn’t watch when the Hubs is home, because he hate, hate, hates dramaish shows.

3. What is your favorite fashion trend right now? Or, in the past?

     I guess it would be big purses?  I don’t really follow fashion much, because often I feel too guilty buying clothes for me when that moola could go for diapers, or whatever else the kiddos need.  I have a gigantic purse and love love love it, so I guess that’s what I like fashion wise?

4. What are your spring break plans?

     Since my kids aren’t in school yet spring break is just another regular week for us.  We will hang out, play in the back yard and maybe if I’m feeling a little crazy we will hang out with O and his Mommy and go to the beach for a day.  We’ll see ;)

5. What baby names do you hate?

     Anything that sounds ridiculous.  I can’t stand it when people name their kids stupid things and then get upset when people can’t pronounce them.  Those poor children are going to have to go through life explaining their name to everyone they meet.  That’s cruel don’t you think?  And now I will give you an extreme example of such cruelty (p.s. this actually happened in the school district that my Mom worked in): A little girl came into class and her name was La-a.  The teacher pronounced this girl’s name as “Laya”.  The Mother came in incensed that the teacher would pronounce the girl’s name that way.  She railed on the teacher for sometime telling her, “her name is Ladasha!  The dash don’t be silent!”  To me this is RIDICULOUS!!!  Not to mention cruel.  And now I will climb down from my soap box and wish you all a fabulous Friday!

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Ms. T

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Birthday Party!

Firecracker's friend, O's, birthday party was last Saturday. The Firecracker was super psyched about going to the party.  He talked about it for days.  And then Sunday morning when he woke up he asked to go back to O's party. =)  I guess the party lived up to all expectations.

Here are a few pictures of the fun we had at O's fabulous party.

Bean bag toss

All the fun stuff to do and these silly boys still want to play cars ;)

Bounce House!!!!

I don't think I'm ready for O to be 3, because that mean's Firecracker will be 3 in less than a month!  It's so hard for me to believe it.  I guess I'm in denial. 

Have a great day!

Ms. T

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