Boys!

Did I ever post about our latest trip to the hospital with Ant? He was running around at the school and tripped, caused his sister to trip, and they tumbled over each other and he landed on the back of his head on the concrete. I heard his head smack and saw it bounce and knew the wailing was imminent. He screamed bloody murder. I took him into the office to get an ice pack. Then we realized it was bleeding and the lump was huge. Like it completely freaked me out how large this mass on the back of his head was in 2 minutes. One of the ladies in the office felt it ( I thought she'd reassure me that he was fine) and she said take him to the hospital. Go. Now. So we went to the ER. They were sweet and we were seen in a relatively short time. They took 4 X-rays of his skull, (possible skull fracture is not something you want to hear in regards to your child). Luckily the X-rays look good, they just decided it was closed head injury and maybe a mild concussion.

The doctor gave us things to watch for to make sure he didn't have a brain injury and his final words of advice were for the boy to avoid bouncing his head on the concrete for at least a week. I'm pretty sure this boy is gonna make me go prematurely grey.

Zzz

It's been a long day. I went to Zumba this morning and got my workout on. I do aqua aerobics, and the couch 2 5k running program each week and Zumba by far makes me the most sore and tired and sweaty. Yay for the calorie burn!

After Zumba I ran home, got my shower, put some laundry away and got dinner ready for the crockpot. Then I grabbed the kids and headed to a birthday party for one of ant's friends. After the party I ran home to pick up Jeff and went to stir my pasta sauce in the crockpot and apparently, I didn't plug the crockpot in. So I plugged it in, got everyone in the car and headed out to the middle of nowhere to visit my grandpa. He's in his 80's and lonely so we try and visit him when we can. At 4:30 or so I was starving and it occurred to me that with the time change my body thought it was 5:30. So we stopped at some funky fast food Chinese place and got dinner. I was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. Dinner for 4 at $16 and none of it made me sick. I've been trying to avoid eating out and anything off of my food plan. I completely avoided all the yummy food at the birthday party so I was frustrated to have to eat out. I did good, I just had 1/2 cup or so of whatever chicken and veggies dish they had that wasn't breaded and fried.

I used to spend so much time thinking about food and eating. Now it's more focusing on the healthy foods and avoiding the hypoglycemia.

Now we're headed back home and the kids will get a bath, I'll tidy up the house and do the dishes. If I'm lucky I'll have time to sit and watch a show and fold some laundry before I fall asleep. And hopefully my crockpot spaghetti sauce will be finished by bed time.

Robots!

We went to a local library for a demonstration on robots. We took neighbor child too and the kids had a blast. The coolest part was a remote control wall-E. He talks drives around and moves like wall-e.

Nablopomo!

It's national blog post month. Are you participating? Leave me a comment and I'll visit your blog too. :-)

I'll miss you!

The last week has been a challenging one for me. On Monday I found out that my Grandma Ruby had passed away. She was sick, so it wasn't a total surprise, but it's still hard. It stirs up a lot of stuff for me as she was my Dad's mom. I swear sometimes that I miss my dad more, not less, as time goes on. I can't believe it's been almost 5 years that he's been gone. Anyway, I wanted to talk about Grandma Ruby. She was such a strong person. She had 6 kids in 7 years. She took care of everyone. When I was little, maybe 4 or 5 years old, Grandpa built them a house out in Surfside to retire in. It was at the end of a long dirt road. They'd lived there in a trailer first, an airstream. I remember stories of Grandma cooking in the trailer with the door hanging open. She came out of the back of the trailer to find a bear checking out her food. I guess she startled him though and he took off. The summer that Grandpa built their house, I remember when there was only a foundation there, and I got to go roller skate on the foundation. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I remember going out in the woods behind their house and finding an old rusty coffee can full of army men. I thought I'd found a treasure, but really my older cousins had left it out there years before. Grandma didn't tell me that though, she just went along with letting me think I'd found some great treasure. :-) I could write all day, but I'm going to stop before I get myself all sad again. I know Grandma is in a better place now. And, she's got my dad, and Aunt Cathy, and Uncle Bill and Grandpa to keep her company...



I borrowed the picture from Grandma's facebook page... lol

School Stuff

Amelia is happily (most of the time anyway) enrolled in kindergarten. Monday they did awards for the first trimester. Amelia got one because she knows all of the letters and the sounds they make, and can identify them quickly. She was so proud of the medal she got. I love seeing her excited about school. Hopefully that lasts! I only had my cell phone with me at the assembly, so I didn't get any good pics of her getting her award, but she recreated it for me at home.

National Bog Post Month, Take 3

It's that time of year again! This will be my third attempt at posting every day for a month, I don't think I've successfully made it through the month yet. Some days my post might be long, others might only hold a photo. We'll see what happens. :-)

Follow me!

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I just figured out how to put a button for twitter up on my blog. So, you should all go follow me. Because I need more followers. Yup. (Can you all tell that I'm running out of things to blog about this month?) So you should click on the bird up there, and then follow me and I will also follow you. Okay? Okay!

7 Random things Meme

I can't find the link for the person who tagged me. I'll add it later.

Rules:

1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

7 Random things about me:

1. I drink tea every day.
2. I love baking, but I hate doing dishes.
3. I get bored easily. I need to change things up pretty often.
4. I love to read, and will generally read anything I can get my hands one.
5. I crave alone time. It's something I don't really get with two little ones in the house.
6. I have asked Amelia 5 times in the last 10 minutes to get dressed. Her clothes are out for her ready to go, but she will not get dressed. When I tried to help her get dressed she told me to leave her alone and let her do it herself. Battles like this are slowly driving me batty.
7. I just had egg beaters, a laughing cow wedge, and some tomatoes, all scrambled together, for breakfast. Yum!



For this meme, I randomly tag the following fellow NBPM'ers:

1. Gumbo Mum
2. Gray Matters
3. The Blog that Ate Manhattan
4. JACKY CARTER
5. Habbala
6. Laughing at Chaos
7. Blog Voyeur Turned Blogwhore

Better late than never...

So I forgot to come online and write a blog this morning. I was busy doing laundry, and feeding the kids breakfast, and changing sheets on the beds. I meant to write a post after that, but I had to pack our lunches and get the kids to the park on time for the play date I hosted. I was going to just put up a picture after the park, but I got wrapped up in planning our menus for the week, and making my grocery list while supervising Amelia doing arts and crafts. (Anthony was napping.) I planned to just type a few words real fast after nap time, but then we had to go the grocery store. After dragging two grouchy kids through the grocery store, and then unloading the van and putting everything away with my two little helpers, I wasn't really in the mood to get on the computer. Instead, I started dinner, read the kids a story, put the garbage cans away, and even managed to lock the kids and myself out of the house. While we were out there I did some weeding and watered the new sod in the back yard. At least I had dinner in the oven before we got locked out. Then I managed to get the lock to work and we got back in the house. We ate dinner, the kids played and I cleaned up the kitchen, did dishes and swept and mopped the kitchen and dining room. The whole time I was thinking, "I need to go put something up on my blog!" I was headed to the computer when I remembered that we left a sweater at the park today so I drove back across town to see if it was still there. It was! When I got back home it was time for baths and bed.

So here I am at 930 PM finally writing my post for the day. Maybe I should just write tomorrow's post while I'm here...

Oh no!

My blog and I totally got into a fight last night. (Or maybe I was going around with my internet connection, I'm not really sure.) Either way I missed posting! I wrote a nice little post about our weekend and other very interesting things; however, I never got it to actually post. Oh well, we'll just count this as Sunday's post. Thirty posts in thirty days. Two of them will just have to be today.

Overheard today

Mama #1 "Do you think that woman knows her butt is hanging out?"

Mama #2 "I don't know, you'd think she'd feel it, it's really cold in here."

Yes this conversation occurred today at story time at our local library. It's a large group of caregivers and children, and there were at least forty people there. This mom was sitting on the floor in the front row and she was wearing those awful low rise jeans. (I'm sure they look great on someone, but it sure isn't me or a lot of other mamas) She also had a really short shirt on. Standing up she looked nice. When she sat down though, the problem presented itself. For the whole story time, I and the 38 other people in the room saw her ass. And I don't mean the jiggles above the butt, we were looking at full on crack. I felt really bad for her, but I figured going up to her after the stories were finished and letting her know about the problem would just embarrass her further.

So internet, what would you have done? Would you have quietly moved next to her during story time and said something? Waited until afterward and mentioned it politely for next time? Or would you do what I did, which was nothing at all? (Although I did refrain from pointing and laughing so that's good right?)

Wordless Wednesday: Fred Flintstone, Princess Belle and Spiderman

Tackle it Tuesday: The blinds

So I know the topic of this Tackle is not very exciting. Really, who cares about vertical blinds? Well I do! Since we got our windows put in last June, the blinds over the sliding door have been broken. The window people broke them; they were also supposed to repair them but that didn't happen. The were still intact, but we couldn't open or close them. Jeff's friend Mike got rid of his blinds and happened to have the piece we needed for ours. The new piece (which is about 10 feet long) has been sitting on my porch for the last week. So today I decided I'd just fix it myself. Amelia offered to be my assistant and hold the drill for me. :-)

First, I had to take the old blinds down. Then I had to clean everything, the piece from my front porch was filthy and it had definitely been a while since I washed the blinds in the house too. Next I took the old blinds apart completely. Finally I was able to put it all back together again with the new pieces and rehang it all. I probably won't attempt taking the vertical blinds down again on my own, it's heavy and really awkward. But on the plus side, we can eat dinner without the sun in our faces. Woohoo.

What are you tackling this week? Leave me a comment and tell me about it.

Menu Plan Monday: What's in the Freezer?

My menus might seem a bit random this week, but my freezer and my pantry are overflowing, so I'm trying to use up stuff we have. It's about time for me to go through it all again and purge stuff that's expired or we won't eat.

Monday: Baked Chicken, broccoli, brown rice
Tuesday: BBQ Pork Chops, Steamed Sweet potatoes, Salad
Wednesday: Hamburgers, homemade guacamole, Chips, baked beans
Thursday: Whole wheat Pasta, Salad, veggies
Friday: Probably Leftover Pasta
Saturday: London Broil in the crockpot with potatoes, onions, celery and carrots
Sunday: Leftovers from Saturday or grilled Cheese Sandwiches.

Go to Orgjunkie.com if you need more meal planning ideas.