I am so excited, a bit freaked out because I slept in til after 8, but excited.

Yes my dear friends I said slept in til 8, that would be 8 AM. Some of you are thinking “Gah, why is 8 late??” I am a morning person, I would love to get up at the crack of dawn, but I married a night owl. I try to “hang” with him when he is home and last night we were talking on the phone for a while laughing at the fact that our kids are finally getting that we ‘get it’

My parents are picking me up in about 15, I am sitting here with my PJ top on and my capris for the day on, needing to clean the kitchen and eat some breakfast……

But, instead I sit here typing. Why, I have no idea. I just wanted to check the weather, then the weather turned into email, then email turned into Google Reader, then I am here. Well, it has only been 14 min since I sat down, so I guess I am doing good.

Well, I don’t know if I will be back before Tuesday. Hubby is coming home tonight, we may be going to Put in Bay tomorrow, depending on how he feels (His family has a cottage out there that’s been in the family for generations~so no secret money, just dumb luck on his Great Grandfather’s part I guess ) And my birthday is on Monday…so I have no idea if he has anything planned for that, we may still be at the island( if we go that is)

So when I return pics from the Great Lakes Fiber Fest and birthday updates!! Have a fun and safe Memorial Day for those of you in the U.S.

Yesterday on an elevator going down 26 floors leaving the credit union I step back from the buttons and my shoe falls off. Okay so it really isn’t a shoe but a mule. I love my NB 473 mules, they are so comfy and so what if on occasion they happen to come off my foot. But anyways, the guy, who isn’t too hard on the eyes, giggles at the fact that my shoe just came off. I tell him that we won’t tell my hubby that it came off because he calls my shoes glorified sandals and is always complaining that I get real shoes. The guy laughs again, just smiling at me. Gosh, you would think that I spent my life never dealing with the opposite sex….ever! So he glances down and asks me if they are comfortable.

“Oh Gosh yes….Awesomely comfortable” WHAT?!?! Awesomely comfortable. Are you some sort of dork, who says awesomely comfortable?!? Well I guess you do you Rube!

I get off the elevator, the guys still chuckling and me still shaking my head at my awesomely comfortable remark. Geez, I wasn’t looking to impress the guys, but I think he was laughing more at my quick comment than the fact that my shoe fell off.

The girls were better yesterday. Giggles did want money, she always wants money. Today she needed to buy a drink that was so good and tasty and we have nothing like it at home. it was Juice…in a bottle. Well they give that juice a fancy name like Fuze and who wouldn’t want to drink it. Sadly they were sold out and she didn’t get to spend her precious dollar that I gave her from her room. We live about 90 seconds away from the said vending machine and so if she was so dehydrated that she couldn’t make it home with out getting the juice than we needed to take the 90 second trip to the hospital instead.

After dinner of chicken (sautaed in EVOO with onion, garlic, and cilantro), salad and organic french fries (don’t ask its better if you don’t) The Chicken and I went for a walk with Oscar. Well I walked and she rode her scooter. Giggles stayed home to work on her notecards for her research paper about animal testing, but she fell asleep doing said notecards.

The Chicken, Oscar and I probably went 2 miles. Oscar was so excited to get out of the house and walk. I take him on walks nearly everyday but for the past couple of days we have hung out around the house. When I asked Chicken if she wanted to go on a walk he started jumping up and down in front of me like a kid that always get the answers right at school. “pick me, Pick Me, PICK ME…OoooOOOoooo Pick ME!!”

The weather was just about perfect for walking, I have to admit I was a bit winded when I got home but the Chicken was really cruising on her scooter and Oscar didn’t stop for a sniff the whole time. I need to get out more with him on longer walks to build up my stamina and to ease his excitement. Altho I don’t know if anything could ease that, he loves walks. He is full energy…as you can see from this video we took of him in March. I am just showing it to you now because I finally figured out how to embed video.

With that I will leave you…..happy friday!!

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Now that I understand how to change things on my blog things will be changing around here more. It will be slow, but it will happen as I figure it out. Wish me luck!

Off to do dinner for the girls and me too. Looking forward to the chicken and yellow squash. I am also looking forward to the Great Lakes Fiber Fest on Saturday. I am going to the Raverly meetup…wooohoo! So if you are going to be in Wooster, Ohio on Saturday around 2pm, check out the food area and see us all there!!

I am really thankful for Sesame Street. I have always adored the songs and skits and was a wee bit sad when the girls stopped watching. But this morning feeling much better I was at Liz’s blog and happened across this…..

Which totally put a huge smile on my face. Thanks Liz!

Today I am feeling better. I am adjusting to the foods I can eat, unless I want issues later. I am excited that this is a way for me to go more natural in our foods. Now I can take the whole family with me as I am the one who buys the groceries.

Last night the living room got cleaned up nicely and so when we got home from church I spent the whole evening in here and even fell asleep on the couch watching Jon and Kate plus 8. I love watching that show, although I really want to know what Jon does for a living as in the episodes that I have seen it hasn’t been revealed. If you know give me a shout out and let me know.

Okay off to get ready to drive to downtown Cleveland in hubby’s car that is much better on gas mileage than my van (pout pout) I really dislike driving that car, but what I dislike even more is paying $4 a gallon for gas, so with a long trip planned for this weekend after hubby gets home I am guessing that we will use the van for, the less mileage the better.

Toodles!!

where you are in a crappy mood and you could sleep for 5 hours while the kids are at school and still feel like crap?!? Ugh, well I am having one of those days. I think it started yesterday when I was at the doctor’s. I needed a refill for my meds for my fibro. I also needed a refill on my epipen for my allergy to bee and wasps, the doctor was real nice, she doesn’t have a problem with fibro, but for some reason felt the urge to tell me that only 10 % of the population is truly allergic to bees and wasps and that the “rest of us” are just over reacting. Um hello, I stopped breathing when I got stung, I don’t think I was just holding my breath for attention purposes!! Her response “oh well you know that the epi pen isn’t a fix for getting stung you still need to go to the ER” I told her “I know” But inside I am screaming at her, all sorts of things that I don’t even know what I said in my mind now. The other thing is my feet. They are ALWAYS cold. Not just a little but a lot, so cold that they hurt. She tried to tell me this was normal! They are tingling and sore and I know they haven’t been like this my whole life. She tries to rationalize with me stating that the feet were the furtherest thing from my heart so of course they are going to be colder. Ummm, nope sorry lady, that isn’t it!!

UGH!!!!

And through the process of elimination I have realized that all these years where I thought I have IBS or something I can’t tolerate soy lecithin. Do you know that crap is in all the things I really want to eat. I know we aren’t supposed to have comfort foods but I do. I am feeling crappy this week, hubby is gone, the girls aren’t helping around here, I found where the cat peed in the house, the dog is clingy….I just want to eat my zingers and ice cream or have some coffee with french vanilla creamer. I can’t do any of those things, well not unless I want to spends lots of time in my ugly bathroom…and I don’t. So….sigh…..*big breath* I have to change my diet and get to be a label reader.

I HATE reading labels. I would snicker at those label readers in the store and tell myself I will never be you. And now here I am reading labels. I have to admit that I “feel” better, but not emotionally. I didn’t realize how tied to food I was and so I have to adjust. I really don’t like adjusting. I hate change and so this is very hard and I know I am dragging my feet.

UGH!!!!

I wasn’t going to write this, but I talked to Kristina, we exchanged some emails with septic jokes in them and she encouraged me to vent away. Thanks Kristina….you are a doll, I do feel a bit better. I would feel tons better if someone came over and ate the rest of my zingers though, if I can’t have them I don’t want the girls to either. (I know, I am a selfish mean mom)

Thanks so much for the good thoughts and whatnot from the other day. Life was just smacking me down and I really felt the need to smack back, so to say. The Hubby is coming home next weekend and declined staying the following two weeks. He did however request to go back up mid June if they still need techs so that we could go up mid week as a family and have a mini vacation. I have never been that far north so I am getting a bit excited and hope that we can go. (Lots of family time and meeting with bloggy friends….whoohoo!!)

Did I tell you that my Chicken has a 2 octave range. She tried out for a local choir for kids grades 5-9 and she got in. She was so excited because this was her first audition. The group is only limited to 60 kids and she is just going to be in 5th grade next year. The director was so impressed that she has such a range at such a young age and with no vocal training. The only thing that stinks is the cost (that and the ugly uniform they wear to perform in) But Grandmom has decided to step up and help Chicken out. She doesn’t do the sports thing that Grandpa helps Giggles with, so I was glad to see my mom step up, and be excited to do so.

Chicken was so excited as they get to sing the National Anthem in the fall at a home Indians game (that’s baseball for all you non baseball people out there) and they will get to meet Grady Sizemore (he’s hot for a 12 year old….he looks twelve, I swear. Don’t believe me check this out) Well I guess he doesn’t look as 12 anymore, but still……

The great thing was when she heard she was going to meet him she was so excited. Later when I was watching the game she wanted to know who he was, what he looked like and if I thought he was cute. (maybe she has plans to make him my younger sugar daddy, you never know)

Giggles is volunteering for a Rescue Barn and loves it. I don’t really love the whole get there before 8 AM thing, but I will survive. (Oh gosh I think I feel a Gloria Gainer song coming on in my head) She is also gearing up for next year’s volleyball season and has also gotten into Basketball camp for the week after school let’s out. She is sort of peeved at me because of the fact that she is 8th on the waiting list for the volleyball camp she wanted to go to. So I didn’t send out the form when she first gave it to me. Does that qualify me for the Crappiest mother of the year award. In her book it does.

I think this post is getting long and windy, I don’t want to bore you to tears, plus it is after 12 and I really need to hit the bed, I am sore and exhausted.

Last night was good, I guess. That is if you consider talking to your hubby for over an hour good. I was very excited that he wanted to talk to me, but I wish that he didn’t call so freaking late. It was nearly eleven when he called. I was literally reaching for the remote to click it off and head to bed when my cell phone rang. We did boring crap like clean up the DVR and decide what shows he REALLY wanted to see and what shows could wait until they hit the schedule again. I think he was in LaLa land when he decided to schedule out the DVR. So that is all squared away….crisis averted! (not)

Then he tells me that they are probably extending him at least 2 more weeks after his time is up and then there is talk of another 2 week stint after that. AHHH!! Part of me doesn’t mind him gone, it saves on gas, the girls and I just graze (altho both of the girls have complained that I make “real” dinners when Dad is home…infact Chcken actually complained to him on the phone about it yesterday~when he called earlier…geez what kind of mother do you think I am letting my 10 year old crazy daughter stay up past eleven!!) And he is getting a lot of overtime up there. But of course, I miss my hubby and I do want the dining room to get finished some day. (I tried to poly but it has been either too wet or too cold for the windows to be open for the past week and next week isn’t looking much better) He is thinking about having the girls and I come up to CT when he is there for the 3rd stint….so I guess if you want to get together (Clink I am looking in your direction) and then he wants to go the Alpine Slides in VT (so now I am looking at you Liz) maybe we can work something out.

So after talking to him on the phone it was almost 12:30 before we got off the phone, I think it may have been longer but I have surpressed those memories so I will be less tired today. All I know is it was 1:05 when I hit the pillow and I had to get up at 6. To top things off I just realized that I forgot my medication last night. The one that helps me deal with my massive amounts of fibromyalgia pain. It wouldn’t be too bad, but I have a wedding shoot tonight and I will be on my feet most of the day.

Gosh, I have such downer posts these days, I apologize, I guess I just really need to vent. thanks for listening to me dear mac….and anyone else who has made it this far you deserver this

I highlighted and almost deleted the title like 3 times but decided that I need to keep it in honor of Giggles. I know I said I was going to be handing out some more giggles love around here and so this is the start. Giggles got the nickname phonebooth a couple of years ago when we would ask her to change for bed and she would literally come down just a moment later all changed. if I didn’t know any better I would swear that girl had the easy release on her clothes. You know the kind that velcro away. I saw some in Naked Gun something or other, but I am sure the tear away clothes are in bad pornos as well. (Gee won’t the people who google bad porno feel bad when the come here..LOL) So like Superman changing in the phonebooth…..her name phonebooth was born. Well cuz Supergirl would have been too predictable and we like the crazy stories round here.

Well, week one of single mothering is half over, it hasn’t gone too bad. Really wish that the kids would help out a little more here voluntarily, but I am pretty darn sure that isn’t going to happen in this lifetime. Oh well, I can just tell them to do stuff since I know they aren’t taking the suggestions I am handing out to them. When it comes to picking up on subtle hints I don’t think they are the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Alright it is way past my bedtime and I just wanted to share the cool photo I took of myself in photobooth. Chicken and her friend were playing with it the other day and I decided I wanted to play with it tonight. Was fun, plus I got not much else besides sleeping going on past 11. So without further ado…….

Hubby found out this past Thursday that they wanted him to go to CT for the next couple of weeks. They may extend him, he won’t find out until it is almost time for him to come home. I guess it isn’t all bad. You would think 6 years of being a military wife I would be able to handle him gone, but we have been in the “real” world now for 7.5 years and he is home most of the time. I guess to make matters worse is the fact that he had a couple of really long days the days leading up to him leaving on Monday. I don’t want to turn this post into a whine so I guess I should stop talking about hubby now.

But in a sort of related subject to hubby…..I get to poly the floors. It just never happened and I don’t want it to be June before I am able to use the dining room again. The mess that is the other half of my living room is really getting to me. I find myself sleeping to avoid the “squaller” that is the dining room shoved into my sitting area. I have this attitude that I don’t want to do anything because it isn’t going to make a difference. And I can’t get to my windows to open them up so it is continually without natural light in here, which I require to be happy in here, so I am watching more TV….something I don’t want to do, so I just need to stop. Again with the whiney post…ugh I need to stop.

In other news, I did have a lovely mother’s day. I was surprised to find my brother and SIL at church with my mom on Sunday morning. It was probably the best mother’s day gift she could get. Then I handed her the gift and she started to cry. She was just so thrilled.

After church Chicken and I went home and then hubby and the girls decided they were going to take me out to get me something. I really wanted a toaster oven. I love my new toaster oven, it is the pimpiest toaster oven we found. Well in our price range anyhow. Our toaster recently started dying so I have been toying with getting a new toaster, but we decided on the toaster over instead. This one is a confection oven and has a rotisserie function as well. Cool beans! It is set up right now I have yet to play with it, I will do that later.

Well I need to run to finish doing somethings around here like cleaning and laundry so I will be free to poly in the morning.

Hubby found out this past Thursday that they wanted him to go to CT for the