Aw, young love....

My lil man is in pre-k this year. He loves getting to go to school. I enjoy that he gets to go learn new things. I was not ready though for his first "crush".

This morning, while I was getting ready to head out the door with him I said "Luke, its time to go to school" He said " Will Mrs. J be there?" (shes his teacher) " Yes, she will be there" He then said " oh mom, dreams do come true!"

WHAT? My son has a crush on his teacher.
Then He said "mom, I love you.....and I love Mrs. J"

Well at least he still loves me too!

Lydia's first trip to the ER

This trip was not near as bloody as Luke's trip to the ER but it was just as traumatic.
It was a quiet evening at our house, I was feeding Lydia dinner. As I was feeding her I noticed something shinny in her nose...this was very odd. I pulled her out of her highchair and laid her down on the table. To my horror, She had stuck a shinny little bead up her nose. All the way to the back. OH NO!!!

I had Mark come over and look, He being a man and way more of a go getter then I am decided we could get it out on our own. We took a booger sucker from the hospital and cut off the ball part of it and in true redneck form, ducked taped it to the end of our vacuum cleaner. Laid Lydia down on the table and tried to suck it out. no such luck. i now know that there is one thing that ducked tape can not fix!

So, off Lydia and I went to the ER. We got there and waited for our turn. When we got into the room I was not to sure if the doctor could help because when she saw it she said "huh, Ive never seen that before." Lydia had stuck it so far back that nothing could get it out. We tried everything, all the while my poor baby was screaming! finally the doctor called in some help. one of the helpers was a rather good looking male nurse. They all decided they would hold her down and I would blow in her mouth to push the bead out. The rather good looking male nurse stood by me, I blew with all my might, and out shot...SNOT! All over my cheek. I thought I would die! least cool moment ever!

They rigged something else up and finally sucked it out of her nose. it was so traumatic you would think she would have learned her lesson...oh no! she has tried it three more times. Oh how ready i am for her to be out of this stage!

mothers day

I love being a mommy!
I had a wonderful day yesterday. I am one blessed woman.
Mark took me and my mom out to lunch. It was fun but, my children who are very regular naptimers, were not so happy about lunch. they were so tired. bless their hearts. I told Mark that we should have left them at home with a babysitter, and went out for my mothers day lunch by ourselves! LOL. I guess that would defeat the purpose.

Got home. Put the kids down for nap promptly as soon as we walked in the door. They slept for three hours! that was a mothers day gift all on its own! Luke then woke up with a fever. poor boy! got that taken care of, ate dinner and then snuggled with him for a little while. Put them to bed and had Oreo pie :)

Such a simple day but so great! I told mark that morning that I just wanted not to clean or cook all day...I then said, soooo I guess just every other day I guess..lol

I hope all you mothers out there feel very loved!

raccoon and a long night!

Well, it is now 11:22 PM
at about 9:30 tonight, i heard Merlin barking outside. It was different from his normal bark. More, worried.
I went out on the back porch to see what was wrong. There stood a massive raccoon. This is the first time I have really seen one up close and personal. I, being the strong woman I am, turned and ran into the house! Merlin, my coon dog...ran behind me.

Mark and I have spent the last couple of hours chasing it around the yard, trying to get it to go away into someone else's yard. one that would not have a terrified basset hound barking at the backdoor trying to get in. Big baby!

Well,that didn't go well. And, just to let you know...If you need a animal control officer at night, he will not come! We called and they said call back in the morning. We got so tired of hearing Merlin freaking out that Mark went back out and tried to get him to go in his dog house. To Marks surprise, There was the raccoon, in the dog house!

We decided to put a cardboard box over the opening, bungee cord it in and take him down to the creek by our house. He is now in a happy home, away from our home!

wonderful hubby!!

I enjoy a clean house..I just dont enjoy cleaning it!
Over the last few years I have gotten good at keeping my livingroom and kitchen and dinningroom clean. I like to keep the kids rooms clean so that hasn't been a messy issue. My big down fall is our master bedroom. By the time I have cleaned all day two loads of dishes, three plus loads of laundry..Im pooped and all I want to do is climb into bed. Not up to cleaning our bedroom. No one see's it so who cares? My hubby cares so that should be more then enough to get me cleaning!

So, today I dove in. I first off made the bed. so I could fold the 15 loads of laundry on it. Mark walked in and said "oh, It looks so good in here." Bless his little heart! He is too good to me!!! I had stuff everywhere and he chose to focus on the one thing I had done right! Love that man!! And it really got me incouraged to clean the rest of our room. It now looks clean and wonderful!!

going for a walk.

Yesterday I took the kids on a walk. It was nice for about the first five seconds. I got halfway around the block and thought I was gonna die! If you know where my house is, you will know that it is halfway, in the middle of the block. lol
So really I got to the end of my driveway and thought I was gonna die. I was pushing a double stroller so I will use that as my excuse for being so tired. not the fact that I am totally out of shape.

I got this sudden burst of athletic energy from a comment I received a few days ago. I was asked for the second time in two months...by the same person both times if I was pregnant. yep, that was a low moment for me. I politely said no, the person then said that she couldn't tell because of my big tummy. HA! one must laugh to keep from crying. so...HAHAHA....HA
Yes, I have had two children so things around that area are...different. But not big or fat.
I have over the last few days been trying very hard to not take it to heart or personally. but,  its hard. so here is my venting about it. I can move on. :)

Ugh...the outdoors.

I am not the biggest outdoors person. I am a poser. I have my north face stuff and my chacos but that's about as far as it goes. I don't mind camping as long as there is a restroom withing walking distance. I would not mind the outdoors if it were not for bugs. I HATE BUGS!

I do however like to garden. well, that's not totally true, I like to plant flowers and water them. I don't like the work it takes to get the garden ready. I plant in barrels so I do not have to mess with...the ground.

We decided Sunday afternoon to plant some flowers. So to me this meant pulling out my barrels and putting flowers in them. This to Mark meant cleaning out the flower beds that had been neglected in the past and plant things in the dreaded ground...with my own two hands.

We, were outside for about three hours and as my husband got in there and got dirty and got it done. I happily checked on the kids while they were napping, used the restroom about 8 times and got about 4 glasses of tea. :) I must say, I make a wonderful "supervisor". After we were done, the ground looked wonderful. I am very proud of my flower beds and all the work "we" put into them!