Yes, I am still alive.

As usual, I haven't posted in a while.  I had a post just about ready to go a little while back, but kinda just forgot about it.  Not having a computer and internet at home limits what I can write about and when I can write.  I am hoping to change that soon.  Sneaking a post or two in at work every few months doesn't really work.  I'm not even sure what I intended to write in this post.

Let's see...

Here is a bit of an update...

My latest obsession - Pinterest - yeah - I know I will probably never do even close to half of the projects and recipes that I have pinned on there, but it's fun to look at all the pretty pictures!

The boys are getting bigger...  I don't know if I ever mentioned it before, but we have my oldest sons friend living with us now.  So that makes two fourteen year olds and one two year old all rampaging through the house.  Teenage boy hormones & the terrible two's is the norm for our household.  AAAAARGGGGGHHH!  No wonder I have been noticing new gray hairs!

I am actually trying new recipes.  Well - one - and I am trying it tonight.  Let's see how that one goes!  Maybe next post I will get a picture of what we ate!  I am a wanna-be foodie!  I just wish that the rest of my household liked something more than chili dogs & spaghetti.

Well, my mind is about spent (doesn't take much now-a-days) - so for now - OVER & OUT!


hey! I just figured out my next post!  Gotta wait & see!

I am definitely learning a new language...

My Little One has developed one very similar to English.  It usually still needs a little bit of translation, but here is just a small list of Trent-isms which I have been keeping track of:

Boops = Boots

Fa-fa = Frog

Fwaaaaaak = Quack (what a duck says)

Da-bi-da = This is what he says for a game on his dads phone - Stupid Zombies

Fafee = Coffee

Faffur = Cracker

Ka-kit = Jacket

And I have saved the best for last:

La Lu = I love you (the best ever!!!!)


This is only a very short list of what he is saying - but these are the ones that stand out to me!  I know most toddlers develop a language of their own.  It has been so long since my Munchkin was that little.  It's like I have said before - I'm starting all over again and everything is new!  I'm enjoying it like the first time again!  12 years is a long time and my memory has never been the best anyways! 

The next chapter

I am not very sure what I want this blog to be about.  Being a mommy, my kids, wonderful tips for the working mother, what it's like to be likened to Martha Stewart... 

There is no way I could ever be anything even close to Martha Stewart and I am struggling myself as a working mother - so my advice on that would not be very helpful to anyone...

I started this to keep a sort of journal while I was pregnant.  My Little One is now 22 months old.
So what now?
I do love being a MOM and I do love my kids.  So that is what this will (might) be a blog about! 

Sometimes, though - I like to ramble (hence this post!!)
So you never know what to expect...  especially since I just decided to stop posting to my other blog - which was where I did a lot of my ramblings... 

So - if you are reading this - thank you!!!  and welcome to my craziness!!!!

Potty Training

I am trying to figure out the best way to start potty training my Little One.

He is 21 months old and has shown an interest in the potty, knows when he has dirtied his diaper, and is very uncomfortable when he wets his diaper.  Plus he like playing with the rolls of toilet paper!

The grown-up potty we have in the house is one of the higher-rise ones.  He can't quite get up on it by himself yet.  I have a small step stool that I used for Big Brother when he was little that I can bring in.  I am leaning towards getting him his own potty, though.  I know that he is very independent and likes to do things on his own.  I think that the training potty would probably be the best idea for him (also - since we have the one bathroom - it's already hard competing for bathroom time!) 

Now to decide on which potty to get. 
The music playing one that cheers? 
The insert that fits over the grown-up seat?
The simple, no-frills attached one?

We will just have to see.  I am going to start buying the training pants and see how it goes from there.  I know daddy had a big part in training Big Brother, and hopefully it goes as smoothly.

Hot as H - E - Double Hockey Sticks!!!!!!

It has been ridiculously hot around here this past month!  Along with the heat - it has been incredibly dry.  Our rain totals are a couple of feet shy of our normal rainfall.  So the way we have found to try to keep cool is by going to the river.  It is so shallow that it doesn't get much deeper than chest-high around most of the area we go to.  The sandbar (which is maybe kneedeep at the most) goes out close to 3/4 of the way across and then there is a small "drop-off" (chest high).  Don't let it fool you though.  The current is still pretty strong. 

A woman that was there yesterday was swimming up-river from us and got caught in the current.  Luckily my hubby was able to catch her and bring her back to the sandbar.  She said it was her first time there and she didn't know how the river would be.  You can never underestimate the power of nature!  Even though it looks calm - looks can be very deceiving! 

That is just a little off tangent of where this story was going, but I guess that's alright! 

We have been enjoying our time at the river cooling off.  It's relaxing to sit there in the water and sun watching the kids play!  It definitely beats parking our butts in front of the TV sitting in the A/C.  There is still plenty of river time left, too, even though school has started back up.  We still have weekends!





IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY - FOLLOW THE FAR BANK & ABOUT 2/3 OF THE WAY - YOU CAN SEE THE BIG BOYS HEADS POKING OUT OF THE WATER.  THE GROWN-UP KID IS LAYING DOWN IN SHIN DEEP WATER



DIGGIN'!




WATER!!



First Ballpark Visit

Boys and Their Toys

A couple of weekends ago, I decided it was time to clean out my Munchkins closet (a little at a time). He has several BIG plastic totes that we used to use as toy boxes. These totes haven't been touched in a couple of years - they just sit at the back of his closet with other junk piled on top. SOOOOO - I had him pull one out so we could go through it and throw away things that needed to be thrown away and hand down the toys that were still salvageable. 3/4 of the contents was trash - old, broken crayons, pencil shavings, broken popsicle sticks, pieces of plastic from toys that we couldn't quite figure out, and just JUNK really. We were able to save a few toys though - and I am pretty sure that the missing parts to some of the ones we found are still in one of the other totes. Big Brother had to show Little Brother the in's and out's of playing with his old toys! I haven't gotten around to cleaning out any more totes. Maybe it would be a good project for this weekend. This is going to be the last free weekend for a few weeks and I would REALLY like to get it done. Let's see if the motivation sticks with me until then!