Take A Seat

Disclaimer: This is not my child, or any child that I know. This picture was found on the internet.

So, it's like this. I finally decided to buy Addison a new car seat. I know, it's about time. She is still 2 pounds underweight to be forward facing but I figure I feed her a lot of candy this week and she will be fine. I could not believe how easy it was to install her car seat. Five minutes. Five minutes to open the box, take the seat out, install it in my van, adjust the shoulder straps to the right height, adjust the tension in the strap, tighten the seat down. FIVE MINUTES. I didn't have to take the seat apart to adjust the shoulder straps. If she is wearing a coat, pshhhh...no big thang. Two second adjustment. HELLO!!! If you are a new mother let me just tell ya how easy you have it. Life and car seats were not always like this. When Zac was a baby it would take me 30 freakin' minutes to install the car seat and make sure it was in ok and put the locking clip in place and then heaven forbid I would have to adjust anything. You had to take the whole dang seat apart. And once I got that sucker in, ain't no way I was takin' it out and movin' it to another car. They have improved over the years but even 5 years ago when Aubrey was a baby, that was my last time dealing with a car seat, they still took some work, honey. Five minutes. I am so excited. It's like hummmm, let's put your coat on. Oh, look, I don't have to squeeze the life out of you to do up your car seat I just push this little magic button right heara and you can breath. I'm lookin' for excuses to go somewhere so I can put her in the seat. Sometimes I put her in a coat, sometimes in a jacket, sometimes in just her clothes. I vary it up so that I can adjust the straps every time I put her in. Who knew a car seat could bring so much joy and entertainment to my life?

One Tough Chick

Last weekend Steve had a job down south where the weather was nice. He took Emily with him and taught her how to ride a 4 wheeler. She enjoyed the time with her dad.

Monday Morning Musings - Grace

I really hope when glue says it is non toxic, it really is. Aubrey made valentine picture with candy conversation hearts glued on it back around Valentines day. She left it where Addison could get it and Addison picked off and ate every single heart. Emily just brought a picture home this weekend that she made at school that also had candy hearts glued on it. I just found all the hearts in Addy's mouth. Maybe that's why she's so sick.......



Addison has all of a sudden become very opinionated. And she has learned how to express herself and try to get what she wants. JOY.



This morning Addison learned that she can now reach my makeup drawer. And she learned that she can open it. And she learned that she can pull EVERYTHING out of it. And she learned that she can open everything in it. And she learned that she can make pretty pictures on herself and anything around her with the contents of the drawer. And she learned that it is really fun to dig around in a lipstick case with tweezers.



Steve and I were watching a show last night on HG TV and it was a top 10 kitchen show. We have found the EXACT way we want to decorate our kitchen. I am so excited. It is just what I wanted in my head and now I have a picture to go with it. I just looked it up and here it is:

We found these red cabinets at IKEA and wanted so bad to use them but we thought it might be too much red. I love how they just did some of the cabinets here in red and the rest in maple. These are the exact colors I have been wanting to do. You can't see the rest of the kitchen but they have pear green accents in it and like I said, these are the exact colors and style I wanted. I had pretty much talked myself out of the red cabinets, but I am back on track. Aren't you excited for me?

Yesterday, I exhibited extreme grace as I tripped on something and stubbed my pinkie toe. I swore it was broken. But I am thinking now that it isn't. It is just all blue and purple from the top of my toe all the way down about an inch into my foot. It is killing me to wear shoes but when I don't have my shoes on I seem to have a problem of re injuring it. Just call me Grace.

(Grace, she passed away thirty years ago. GRACE. They want you to say GRACE. THE BLESSING!!!! I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.....)

Just in case you have no idea what just happened:

Yesterday Zac got in a little trouble. Ok, a lot of trouble. So I took away all of his privileges for this whole week. This morning when he was getting ready to go to school he said, "Mom, shouldn't I stay home from school today? You did take away all my privileges and going to school is a privilege. There are a lot of kids in the world who don't have the privilege of going to school."

The song now stuck in my head:

Why? Because of these lyrics of course:
GRACE Kelly, Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen,
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rodgers, dance on air
They had style, they had GRACE

Do you know Madonna turns 50 this year. HOT DANG!!! I'm 34 and I can't do what she does.

Current Song Stuck In My Head - Don't Spit In The Wind

I was driving home tonight and this song came on the radio. It reminded me of my dad.

PMA Update

I took Addison to the doctor today. She has ear infection #6 since November. She still has the poops and has just recently added vomiting to the equation. Just for the fun of it. She has lost a pound which now puts her down to 17 pounds. The doctor said if she loses any more weight she will have to go to the hospital and get an IV. To make things really fun my dryer decided to stop drying clothes. HAHAHAHA! Great timing. Thankfully I have wonderful neighbors and friends who are letting me use theirs.

If you can't be in the health you want honey, love the health your in. Love the health your in.......

Flashback Friday - Stir It Baby, Stir It!

My sister Farrah likes to stir things up. I told you about her anonymous Confessions Post a while back. Well now she has sparked a political debate over at her blog that is far more entertaining than my attempt at a debate. She is crazy and that is one of the reasons we love her so much. Here is a picture of her stirring things up long ago at a party we had at our house:

I have mentioned before that our house was the hang out house for all our friends. We had so many parties, I don't know how my parents handled it. I have a lot of fun pictures from that party that I thought some of you might enjoy. I was planning on sharing them here. However, my scanner is giving me fits and I am about ready to slam it up against the wall. I did get this one scanned. I will try and scan the rest later. Right now I just think the scanner and I need a break from each other.

Eddie, Kristy, Allyson and Kristen

YAHA!!! Spell check just worked!

Thursday Morning Musings - Why Not? I'm On a Musing Kick

We had an earthquake this morning. Actually it was in Nevada but I felt it all the way over here in my living room. Addison and I were the only ones awake. We were sitting on the couch in the living room. It felt like someone was under the couch and was trying to stand up, it was all wobbly. I thought one of the kids got up and was hiding under the couch or something. That doesn't really make sense because even though my kids are super skinny they still wouldn't fit under there. Oh well. Steve was upstairs in our bedroom and he said he could really feel it up there. Scarry! Our neighborhood is right on a major fault line. If there is going to be more quakin' I hope it holds off until we sell the house.

Steve is the only one still sick today. I never actually got sick. I think it was my PMA (positive mental attitude). My ear even stopped hurting.

I went a little crazy yesterday and there is a chance that we might all get Lysol poisoning. We'll see.

Zac has a Science Fair project due tomorrow. Humph. I guess we should get started on that.

It snowed last night and is still snowing now. We have snow in our forecast everyday from now until Monday. I am trying to have PMA about that, but it is pretty hard.

I am really angry at all cell phone manufacturers. I know they do this in order to make more $$$, but I really wish they would just be kind to the comsumers and make one universal charger. As I am going through the house and cleaning stuff out I have probably found 20 different chargers. Why we kept them? I guess we figured someday we might have a phone with that kind of charger again. I have since learned that no two cell phones have the same charger, so I might as well throw it out. I wonder, if you took all the worlds tossed out cell phone chargers and put them in one place, how many there would be.....If only we could get some celebrity to jump on the 'cell phone charger cause' band wagon, the world would be a much better place. (that was sarcastic, just in case you didn't know)

What's that picture at the top of my post, you are wondering? Why, those are people charging their cell phones, of course. I wonder how long that takes.

Current Ditty Stuck In My Head - Oh Yeah, Life Goes On

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i think i might be over my slump

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Wednesday Morning Musings - Take 2

This is what I have decided. I need to embrace it. So that is what I am doing. Embracing. Letting go of all the hate. The negative energy. (deep breath in, deep breath out)

So we're sick. Again. Pshhhh. Big deal. People get sick everyday. Like us. Everyday. We're not dying. We don't have a terminal illness. A degerative disease. (oohhh, big words, no spell check).

Embrace.

Be thankful for the health you have.

I have a new theme song. A little ditty (about jack and diane. two american kids doin' best they can)(gonna let it rock, let it roll. let the bible belt come and save my soul, hold on to 16 as long as you can, changes come around real soon, make us women and men)

That's not my new theme song. I just really love that song and once I start it is really hard to stop (in the name of love).

Apparently I am in a better mood.

Embrace.

Enough, here is my song: "If you can't be in the health you want, honey, love the health your in. Love the health your in."

I am embracing the vomit. I am embracing the poop. I am embracing the countless baths. The loads of nasty as all get out laundry. The 50,000 diapers a day.

I am so thankful I have clean running water to facilitate the clean up. I am thanful I have a washing machine and a dryer. I am thankful I have 50,000 diapers with which to put on my baby. I am thankful that my mother went to the store for me this morning and bought us the things we need to make it through this day.

I am thankful for lysol.

Embrace.

This is gonna be a good day. I can feel it in my bones.

Wednesday Morning Musings - Good Freaking Morning

I have been in a blogging slump the past several days. I think I might be on the verge of getting over it.

I am about to have a nervous breakdown because:

• I finished my antibiotic for my ear infection yesterday. Right now my ear hurts worse than it did when I went to the doctor. I feel like someone has stuck an ice pick in it. And it is still there.



• Addison has been waking up at night. When she does that it usually means she has an ear infection. If that is the case it will be ear infection #6 (or #1 that has just never cleared up) for her since November.



• Addison has the poops. Again.



• Zac and Aubrey both threw up in the middle of the night last night. They were both kind enough to do it within 5 minutes of each other so Steve and I only had to get up and clean up once.



• Steve, Emily and I all feel sick. So far we have had no outward manifestation of our illness. But you know when sometimes you feel like that would make you feel a lot better?



• We have been sick ALL WINTER LONG. No kidding. No exaggerating. ALL FREAKING WINTER LONG.

I really really really really really want winter to be over. I really really really really want to go outside. I want to take my kids to the park. I want to walk my kids to and from school. I want the FREAKING snow to melt and not come back. I want it to be spring.

I just about started to cry when I typed that last part.

I am really mad because my book club meets tonight and I don't think I will be able to go and I loved the book we read.

On a different, more positive note. I am so thankful for my husband and how hard he works so that I can stay home and be a mom to my children. I love you honey!

Will spell check ever freaking work again?

You will have to excuse my language, but that is the kind of FREAKING mood I'm in right now.