Happy Happy!

Happy New Year's Eve!!!

Hope you all have a beautiful, safe, and happy New Year's Eve!

Wow! Its been a year! Another amazing, crazy, cooky, wild ride from start to end. Thank you all for sharing it with us and for ringing in the new year with us even if you are far away. 2008 proved to be stressful, scary, and sometimes downright mean to us, but in it was embedded all the magical moments that made it all worth it! Laci's first birthday,watching my mom say "I do!" our first trip to daytona for a week as a family of four, christopher's birthday, playing the machines with my grandparents, watching my cousin missy wear those awful glasses at the pool, seeing my family in florida 3 times!, christopher starting pre-k, and Laci taking her first steps have all be a few.

2009 comes in fresh and new with a whole glow around it with the chance of greatness! We surely will have some sad moments and maybe some tough patches, but in the end it will again be all these amazing moments that make the year feel loved and worth it all!

As they say.. "Life is not measured in the number of breaths we take, but in the moments that take our breath away." No truer words have ever been spoken.

From My family to yours...

Happy New Year! and God bless you!

♥ The Pruitt Four!

Oh Monday! Where did *YOU* come from?

Hello again all my imaginary readers, lol, its MONDAY! Oddly I am actually kind of glad because even though I miss my husband today after having 5 days in a row off with him...I am very much needing some normalcy! :P

So lets see....

Christmas eve was fun. David's girlfriend was sick and at the hospital so David stayed with her instead of coming to our house, and then he missed Christmas too by staying with her at home to make her feel better and spend the day knowing the real meaning of the day. It was a thoughtful move and although he was missed, I was happy he made the choice he did. Joey did come over though and we had a good time of playing Guitar Hero (which I am unable to do at all) and playing games and playing christmas music. We had a big turkey dinner and then pumpkin pie and chocolate chip cookies! I also found out the best game in the world is called "Pass the Pigs"!
We finally got the house prepared for Santa with milk and cookies, carrots for the reindeer and a key under the front mat. Christopher fell asleep in record time in his own room and then me and Brian and Joey got everything done for Christmas morning.
Christmas day was a hectic blur, lol. We got up christmas morning and went downstairs. Once Laci seen her kitchen it was all over. If we asked her if she wanted to open a gift she would smack at us and say "no, no" and turn her back and go back to playing. Christopher was a bit overwhelmed but very excited to see how well he did between us all and Santa. Joey opened his gift from us and it was Laci all over, once he seen his new Guitar Hero World Tour he was done with everything else! LOL! We opened in spurts with a little coffee and breakfast in between. The funniest thing all morning was when Brian gave me one of my gifts (the Topher must have been there to buy) and it was an awesome Kitchenaid Santuko knife. The he hands me a smaller box and says "look mommy....its another knife!!" hahahahaha! Which it was the sister knife to the first and made my whole morning! (reminded me of "Clock Radio")
Anyhow after all the gifts were opened, and most opened from their boxes all over my livingroom we relaxed and then my mom and steve got here with a ton more stuff! My mom and Steve went way over what they should have and bought me an AWESOME zombie book and a beautiful small red point and shoot style Nikon camera! Totally unbelievable! I felt so bad that I hadnt spent nearly as much on them as they did on all of us! :( But we all had a good time and they tried out the guitar hero and before yo knew it we were late on leaving to Cumming and Laci wasnt napping!
My mom, Steve, and Joey left and we ran around to get ready and left to Brian's grandparents house. We got there late and Laci still hadnt napped so we knew she wouldnt. It was a whirlwind of food, laughter, and presents. I played out in the yard with the kids because it was such a warm sunny day that we had to take advantage of it. We finally left there at about quarter to five.
We got home and ate leftovers from Christmas eve and put more stuff together, played with the kids and cleaned the livingroom and kitchen. Laci was in bed by 6:30 and Christopher not far behind her.

Friday we woke up to the sound of Christopher throwing up. He had eaten some bad lunchmeat at the grandparents house we thing and spent the entire day throwing up in his room. Poor guy. It was a yucky rainy day and it was gloomy in the house. So we cranked on the radio and cleaned and took down the christmas tree. Christopher was a trooper and did great in his room all day. Then around 4 in the afternoon he felt a lot better and quit throwing up. By 7 at night he was back to his old self and starving. He ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and some juice and was playing til late at night. Friday night David and Kara came over and we did presents again and talked for a while and then they went home and we played with Christopher until bedtime.

Saturday we cleaned some more and hung around the house because it was raining...again...and nasty. The kids werent having shopping so after a failed attempt at Target I took everyone home and went grocery shopping. We spent th rest of the day jamming out to some classic rock and playing with toys and relaxing.

Sunday was pretty much the same. I went to the gym and did some shopping at Ulta's big after christmas sale and got some new makeup. My mom and Steve stopped by for a few and then the rest of the day was the same as the last few. We got the kids in bed early and watched Hancock and went to bed. I didnt sleep well last night and I am pretty tired today but excited for the new year coming!

My best gift was from Brian this year. He has a babysitter (Joey) for us while me and him got to Atlanta in January and go to lunch at a place there and take some pictures and then we are going to the BODIES EXHIBIT!!!!! I am still freaking out about that! I have been wanting to go forever!!!! It will be such a nice thing to do with Brian and I am super excited! You can look it up http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/ I cannot wait! We also walked away from the week with another date night or day thanks to Bre and Chase who drew our names in the christmas drawing, as well as New Years Night date with Joey babysitting again and my mom saying this year she would start babysitting more!!! I am so happy I could cry!

Anyhow we are almost at the end of the year now. Soon it will be 2009, one of the biggest years ever for the Four Ps in a Pod! I am so ready and excited and I have a great feeling this will be an amazing year! Its a good sign that I havent gotten the after christmas blues that I am usually always plagued with and I am cranking the classic rock tunes instead of hibernating to sad stuff or country music. I feel like I am my own Groundhog in a way b/c I can read the upcoming year based on the week between Christmas and New Years and this year is looking great!!!

So Thank you for sharing this crazy ride so far! Onward to 2009!!

♥ Robin ♥

Christmas Pictures are up!

Way too tired still to add an update but feel free to check out our christmas pictures!!
http://pruittpics.blogspot.com/
♥ Robin

Also...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT CHRISSY!!!

We tried to call but got no answer. :( Hope your day was fabulous!

xoxoxox

Too cute not to post! Thanks grandma!

Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies

1 cup of water

1 tsp baking soda

1 cup of sugar

1 tsp salt

1 cup of brown sugar

4 large eggs

1 cup nuts

2 cups of dried fruit

1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila

Sample the Cuervo to check quality. Check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality,pour one level cup and drink.

Turn on the electric mixer.

Beat one cup of butterin a large fluffy bowl.

Add one peastoon of sugar. Beat again.

At this pointit's best to make sure the Cuervo is still ok, try anothercup just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy.

Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cupof dried fruit.Pick the frigging fruit off the floor.

Mix on the turner.

If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters, just pryit loose with a drewscriver.

Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift two cups of salt, or something.

Who geevesa sheet. Check the Jose Cuervo.
Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

Add one table.Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink.

Whatever you canfind.

Greash the oven.

Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fallover.

Don't forget to beat off the turner.

Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish theCose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the wishdasher.

Cherry Mistmas !

Monday again?!?

Well, here it is! The monday before Christmas! WOW! What a fast approaching day! Its a very cold 19* outside this morning with a windchill of only 8*, but it wont last long as Christmas day is looking like 60s and rain. I am so over the rain. It was wierd to see the sun yesterday and now just like that it will be gone again, bleh! The warm I can suck it up and get over, but with the rain, that just makes things icky and nasty! yuck yuck yuck!

This weekend was my big chance to collect bankets from family and I walked away empty handed. I am so saddened by this and will do a better job next year! I will be passing them either tonight or wednesday night and brian will be passing 2 tomorrow morning on his way to work.

Speaking of work, Brian has been given off Christmas eve for the first time (although it came without pay! bleh!) and already had time off on friday so he is looking at a 5 day weekend starting tomorrow night! Its cool that today is like his Thursday! It makes mondays a little less icky! haha!

So its Monday, christopher starts his winter break today and I am not putting anyone on much of a schedual for the next 2 weeks. I am going to let them both sleep in and stay up late if they want and I know they are looking foward to christmas too! I am done wrapping finally, except for one last thing I have to pick up tonight from walmart for Christopher. Then I will be done! I am hoping my brothers can stay christmas eve since I thought it would be fun if we all stayed up late playing wii games while waiting for santa! :) I am also making a big turkey dinner christmas eve and I am excited as much as the kids this year! ha!

Well I hope you all have a very merry day and enjoy each others company!
I love you all!

Robin

Happy Foggy Friday!

Its foggy outside...but finally clearing up in my head! Its Friday! I love friday! I woke up with no headache for the first time in almost 4 days this morning, my cramps have subsided, its warm and yucky out, but I dont care b/c I cant change it! Plus it will be a hard freeze sunday night in the teens again! (so very wierd, but oh so normal for Georgia weather).

Today is Christopher's last day of school for his winter break. He is off for a little over 2 weeks. He is very excited counting down the days til Christmas on our calendar and was giddy when we explained that he and Santa have the same first name! (Kris*topher* Kringle) That just made his morning this morning! Traffic was good for Brian and he got to work on time and when Laci gets up we are going shopping! I have to finish everyone this weekend so I have a lot to do!

My tracker tells me that Mr and Mrs Gardner in Daytona got a package delivered this week. Hmmm...

So its a mere 5 days from Christmas Eve, and already I am ready for it to be here! I cant wait to see my kids' eyes light up when they get a gander at the motherload coming to them! As usual I am sure I will be a tad embarassed at my lack of control on Christmas eve when I look at the finished product, but I feel in a way I live through them now while I can still afford gifts that make them fill with glee and because I was so dirt poor growing up that to me this is magical. So, no, it may not be the healthiest outlet for a pent up sad little 5 year old girl in me, but it could be a lot worse! HA!!

I am not so pleased with the weather, but the change is a comin' and thats all I can really look at when it comes to the outside. My christmas lights still twinkle just as bright and the days keep passing us by so what can you do? :)

Hope you all have a beautiful and blessed Friday!
I love you all!
♥

Longest week ever!

This week has been dragging! Between my migraine and small other headaches, PMS, rain, and being cooped up in the house in the warm muggy rainy weather, this week is crawling by! I thought it was finally Friday this morning, but just checked and its not...its Thursday. Yesterday was so warm I was sweating! It was 74* by my guage and we should get about the same for the next 2 days. GRRR! I am so sad that the whole country is seeing amazing winter weather but US! (well and part of alabama and florida of course) I read this morning that Las Vegas got 8 inches of snow over night!!! what?!?!? Where is the fairness there?? Why am I sitting in shorts with my ceiling fans on, and the desert is getting over 1/2 a foot of snow??? ugh!

Anyways, I am finally getting on the tail end of my to do list. I finished the teachers, front office staff, and girlfriend for Christopher last night and today he delivered the goods. :) I am working on everyone else this weekend and by Monday I am determined to finally be DONE! Then I can sit and enjoy the few scraps of the christmas season left in peace! (well for all of three days then its Christmas eve, Christmas, and the hum drum sad empiness feeling that hits me every year).

Today I have nothing really I can do. It will be raining...again...and warm...again....and I have no money til tomorrow. Soooo it will be cleaning and playing and listening to laci fuss again all day. :P

Hope you all have a happy day!
Robin :)

9 Days!!

Its Tuesday...rainy...and warm. I am so sad that the whole country is in an artic blast except us here in the deep south. People are so lucky to see or even be sure they will see a white christmas and cold temperatures. It sucks to have warm rain on Christmas and that is pretty much what is going to happen here in Georgia for the rest of the days til Christmas. Oh well, enough with complaining about what I obviously cant change.
So I am going to the gym tonight because I had a massive migrain yesterday and didnt make it. I am already getting back to the point where I enjoy going...I just still dont enjoy the drive there and back. Brian meets me there with the kids so I save that 30-40 mins of him driving home and then me driving to the gym. It is pretty handy. The last couple of night we have been very lazy and havent done anything to prepare for Christmas so tonight when I get home from the gym we are wrapping gifts and then tomorrow night we need to clean up the kitchen that I got for the kids back in the summertime. (it is gently used and saved me almost 150.00). This weekend I am hoping to collect my blankets that I will be able to get together. I was unable to pass fliers so I am depending on friends, family, co-workers of my mom and Brian, and the great hearts of the amazon community. I am hoping that I will still come away with 30-50 blankets. :)
Today I am going to get out of the house with Laci and go look for a gift for my mom and then I may wrap all their stuff and get it under the tree. I also need to steam clean the livingroom floor and organize my bedroom some as I am starting to feel very cluttered in there. Other than that I will just be enjoing my time with the kids and maybe getting a nice shower! haha!
Hope you all have a wonderful day!

10 DAYS!

Ten little days until Christmas! Its so hard to believe how fast this year has gone by! I am hoping that by this weekend I can finally be done with the task of shopping for everyone so I can manage to enjoy a few days of this magical season without a "to do" list! (and the stress that comes with it!)

So this weekend was an absolute crazy ride as usually par for the course this time of the year. Saturday I got up and went shopping in the morning solo which is always nice. I got the kids their stuff for the stockings and Christopher's teachers a gift and looked for a gift for David. Then when I had drained the card brian gave me, I crawled home. LOL. Then we all went out and did some shopping and got Steve a gift and looked at some more stores for David's gift. We finished the day early and all of us were so tired that at 7:40 I was ready for bed!
Sunday we got up and did the grocery shopping early and then went to look at some stores and got the boxes for the gifts for Brians co-workers and boss. We then went home and Laci took her nap and Brian and Christopher cleaned my car. After Laci's nap we went to look around in some more stores just to get out of the house since we are expecting rain for the next 7 days, bleh, and then decided to go look at the Lights at Life in Marietta. Santa was there so we let christopher go and sit on his lap and tell him what he wanted for Christmas and what laci wanted too. It was so sweet and he did so good, and to see him whisper in Santa's ear was priceless!!! We bought a 5x7 picture and then we went home.
Today is a kinda slow and boring since its monday. I will go to the gym tonight and I am happy that I have lost my first pound! :) only 39 more to go for my summer goal! haha! :P
Hope today is fun filled and you all get to enjoy the season and maybe have better weather than us!

Robin

Christmas Parade Pictures!!

click here!:

http://picasaweb.google.com/georgiapeach717/ChristmasParade2008

It was too many to upload one by one so click on the link and you can browse the whole album!

oh Good morning Good morning!

Its Friday at last! yay!

The last two days have been so boring and so nasty with rain and even a local tornado! Bleh! And then Baton Rouge gets 4 inches of snow and we dont even get a flurry! what?!?!? Anyways its going to be unseasonably warm for the next week or so...the last time I remember that we had a good January ice storm. *fingers crossed!* (yes we actually like the ice in this house!)
We started doing some wrapping last night and wrapped the gifts from my Grandma and Grandpa and put them under the tree and its starting to look pretty exciting! We tried to see santa at the mall last night but it was packed and an absolute madhouse, so we are going to try again the week before christmas when Christopher is off school during the lunch hours so maybe it wont be so crowded.
Tonight is Christmas movies, fun food, and cookies by the fire! I am looking foward to it! I cant believe how close we are to Christmas now! I am already looking past it into the new year and starting to get some plans in order. Soon (sometime in January) I will be renewing the kids' birthday blogs for the upcoming ones and I have already found a place to stay in Daytona for the July week! (The Grand Seas Resort, woohoo!) So for now I must go, its friday and I have a ton to do around the house and tomorrow me and Brian are actually going out! Then on Sunday we are taking the kids to the Lights at Life! I know they will love it!
Have a wonderful friday!!
♥ !

What can *you* do to help?

So this last weekend when we were in Atlanta, as we were leaving we noticed that not 20 yards from the fun of the parade were at least 10 people who were homeless sleeping on the cold hard ground, one in nothing more than a tarp! It was a sobering moment to see that as we complained of our hands being cold (it was 36*) and being hungry...it was 3 hours after our pancake breakfast) there were people who the world had forgotten, who had probably forgotten about themselves and who they may have once been, sleeping in the fridgid temperatures. It bothered me for days. I wanted to do something and I *AM!*

I am organizing my first annual Blanket Drive for the Homeless. I am making a flier and will be passing them on mailboxes in our 3 big cluster neighborhoods this weekend as well as my mom posting one at her job and Brian at his...then this morning I made mention of it on an Amazon forum and I was asked to add blankets and sleeping bags to it, and I have now gotten NINE blankets and a sleeping bag (a nice coleman one and really nice new blankets) from complete strangers!!! I was overcome with joy and emotion this morning and humbled to tears! I cannot believe there is still such a human spirit out there! I am hoping that this christmas there will be people touched who thought that Christmas was just another day the world forgot them. I cannot explain the happiness in my heart!!!

So what can YOU do? Can you adopt people in Nursing homes? Donate to Toys for Tots? Donate a coat, or work a soup kitchen? What can you do to make someone else, a complete stranger, feel loved this year? Please, I ask that if nothing more, you say a prayer for those less fortunate. I mean, how many of us are a months pay away from where they are?

May your day be filled with the true meaning of Christmas!

Robin

also this is a direct link to my amazon wish list if anyone wants to donate a blanket!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/EO1IBOQ2K5M1

May God Bless you all!

and a one, and a two...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MOMMY!!!!

HAPPY BIIIIRTHDAAAY TOOOO YOOOU!!

Happy Birthday mommy! Hope you have a great day!!! I love you!!!

Happy Tuesday!

So I was so lazy I slept in yesterday and didnt get on here and update everything from our SUPER busy weekend! I said all weekend "come monday I am getting up at 6am...no matter what" and then on monday at 6am I woke up....with just enough power to turn my phone alarm off and went back to sleep til 8! Haha!

Well, the weekend was a blast for the most part. I honestly dont remember friday night at the moment so I will recap since Saturday. :P Saturday we got up and had breakfast and got bundled up because it was in the 20's again to go down to Atlanta for the christmas parade! (pictures will be added in next 48 hours). We got to Atlanta with a good hour to spare...and by the time we FOUND peachtree street since there was no directions at all online to get there, we had to run to get to the front of the parade so we could watch the whole thing as it happened! What a mess! I was literally dilusional as we hit Peachtree street saying "I found it!! I found peachtree street!!!!" It was awful and so stressful and then with one block til the parade I said "well I lost, I cant find it...if I make a left right now we can at least take the kids to Fernbank" and then as I was turning my blinker on, Brians says "no, THERE IT IS!" and we seen floats and were over joyed with the fact that after an hour of roaming the streets of Atlanta, we made it!
The parade was awesome! So much better than I thought it would be! The kids really enjoyed it and we were right on the side of the street and they had tons of goodies given to them by parade workers. They had one group of about 60 nurses in all white with full getup on and hats and the ones on the outside lines had I.V bags on holders colored red and green. The sight of them swelled me up with such emotion that I had tears and even lost a tear or two! I dont think anyone in the world has wanted to be a nurse as much as I do and I was just so proud of those girls out there doing what they do. (remember this was a parade to help the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Hospital hence the nurses). Christopher loved the clowns and huge Spongebob float and Laci loved it all but only sqealed in delight once and that was for the Llamas! LOL!! Brian says he loved seeing us love it and that was his favorite part. We have decided to make this a yearly event to help get us in the Spirit. :)
After the parade, Laci paced out on me and slept all the way home. We got some lunch and then went to the neighbors kid's birthday party. It was fast but the kids had fun. Christopher did fall off the top floor of their double decker fort thing in the backyard and we had a bad scare but other than being shaken up and sore he was ok, Thank God! He is now banned from it permanently. He understands and doesnt want to get back on it anyways.
Saturday night I went alone to the mall to do some shopping for my moms bday gift.
Sunday we got up and did some christmas shopping and then went to my mom's to bring her a gift. Then we went grocery shopping and came home to have cookies and play Guess Who. :)
Yesterday was pretty dull and slow after the big weekend, but it was ok. I went to the gym for the first time in 6 months! I was so scared to go because I hadnt been in so long, but I dont want to wait until january to make some half hearted resloution to lose weight. Because, quite honestly, for the first time in 6 years, losing weight is NOT goal this next year. I plan on getting healthier, but losing weight will be a bonus. If it happens it happens. :)
Well thats all the time I have today. Hope you all have a wonderful day!!

♥ Robin ♥

Happy Friday All!

Hoping you all are having a holly jolly friday! I read a comment this morning and it brought tears to my eyes because I know its easy to get caught up in the chaos and stress of the holiday season and its easy to get frustrated and spend more time stressing about the imperfections in the decorations and the destruction of them by children and cats and not see or feel the true meaning of this most wonderful time of the year. Today I am going to try and enjoy the day that God has so graciously granted me and try to make the very best of it. I am going to close my eyes and count jingle bells in my head until the urge to freak out and stress has passed and go right back to living for them moment. If I can mangae to do that today then I will try again tomorrow...and if I cant do it today I will *still* try again tomorrow and maybe with enough luck and love I can learn to continue to live for the days given and not stress the past because it has come and gone and not fear the future because I still have time to change it. Thank you Grandma. :)

Today is friday! I have a bit planned today. I need to get to Toys R Us, go to the mall for a birthday gift for my mom, get a camera picked up to use tomorrow and possibly pick David up to spend the night. Tomorrow is the CHRISTMAS PARADE! Yay! I am so excited and I know that even though its going to be FREEZING we will all have a great time and hopefully it will be a memory that Christopher will never forget! (Laci is so young I know she wont remember it)

Well, have a wonderfully blessed day everyone! I am off to make something of today!

♥ Robin

Thursday...

This has been a very slow week being back to normal around the house. Tuesday we went to get a christmas tree and the prices were great, only 22.00 for a 7 foot douglas fir! It was freezing when we went and sadly my SECOND camera that I have bought to replace the one I broke before halloween went kaput! So I got no pictures of picking out the tree. I am so upset and trying to work with the warrenty people on getting it up and running again before christmas.

The tree is beautiful. We changed the window it sits in front of this year and I really like it. :) Laci is a monster though and is continuing to rip the ornaments of the tree. She stands super close to one with her hand juuuust by one and we say "LACI NO!" and at that moment she rips it off the branch as hard as she can and just stands there with it in her hand. She is trouble from the word go I tell you.

Any how I spent yesterday afternoon feeling crappy from a migrain and I am hoping today is better but I still have a headache and we have rain coming in (and if you know me you know I ALWAYS get a massive headache when it rains, I have my whole life. :P

Well I am off to start my long dull day. Hope you all have a great one!

Good Tuesday Morning :)

We seen snow on December 1st, how cool is that? It wasnt much, and we wont see it again I am sure for a few weeks if at all (you never know with GA weather) but it was nice...and cold! Today I woke to a beautiful orange and pink sunrise over the houses across the street. I love sunrises in winter because they look so airbrushed with their softness and colors. We didnt get a tree yesterday but there is a good chance we will tonight. Basically it will all revolve around Miss Laci and her schedual. She never took a nap yesterday and was very fussy and anxious for sleep by 6:30. So it wasnt happening. Today I am again letting her sleep as long as she wants and then I am also going to see if she will do a small nap this afternoon so she will stay up longer tonight. If not then it will not be tree time for us again. bleh!

I got my livingroom steam cleaned yesterday but never got around to may calendar so I have that on my list of things to do. It has finally stopped raining so I may put the last of our lights up outside today myself if I start feeling froggy for it. Other than that it will be a pretty slow day with not much planned. I am thinking I may go up in the attic and start making a list of everything we have gotten so far for the kids so I have a better idea of where we stand there.

Well have a wonderful Tuesday! I am off to see the wizard! lol

Happy December!!

And what nicer way to start December than with SNOW!! :) Yes we are getting our first flurries of the season today and tonight. Its is cold and gray outside but warm and festive inside! :)

Today is Monday, the first day in almost 2 1/2 weeks that things are supposed to go more "normal". Well Laci decided the hell with normal and is still asleep at 9:15. So she isnt getting a nap today. Christopher went back to school this morning, and I plan on working in the house today on steam cleaning the livingroom and working on December's calendar in the kitchen. We may go today and get our christmas tree too!! YAY! But we will see. I know we are going to finish the lights outside tonight for sure and I will post some new pictures tomorrow.
The weekend was a mad house. Thanksgiving went off without a hitch and I must say that I asked for a blessing at 5:00am and was truly given one. I went to Kmart for the Thanksgiving day sale and it turned out perfect. (except for the fact that I was there at 5:30am and they said they opened at 6 and it was really 7) I got to watch the Thanksgiving day parade with my kids and husband like I wanted. My mom was on time to my house for the 3pm dinner and I topped my day off with Brian's aunt Debra's famous much anticipated Carrot Cake...AND she sent me home with the rest of it!!! SCORE!!!! **drool**.
Friday was the so unholy Black Friday. I didnt actually need anything that was on sale this year (much to my dissapointment) and I went to target and got Joey his christmas gift and a few more good deals on toys for the kids that I didnt need. :P I was at home in bed by 7am. Joey helped me with the kids since Brian had to work and let me sleep til 9ish (broken sleep) and then I managed to stay up til 9:30 that night. I had hardly any voice left from pure exhaustion by the time I passed out next to christopher watching sponge bob!
Saturday I woke up feeling a lot better, but still tired, and took my brother David out for his 23rd birthday for lunch at Chilis. We had a nice time over Fajitas and enjoyed some solo time with each other. Happy Birthday again David, I am glad I could take you out. :) We then braved Toys r Us again and then went home.
Sunday was shopping for groceries and working on the lights in the yard in the cold rain. Last night was just getting ready for today.

Today is Monday...DECEMBER FIRST! Wow! How did that happen? Wasnt I *just* amazed that it was November? Or September? August? Counting down to our vacation in July? Where has 2008 gone? Oh well, better buckle down, get through December and prepare for the insane ride that will be 2009. It will be the biggest year in our family history here at the Pruitt house! eek!

Happy cyber monday all! :)
untill 12/02
^^Robin^^

What I am Thankful For...

I am thankful for those I have been so blessed to know and love before they passed on. For Cheyenne, Nana May, Renato, Mike, and Adam. I am thankful and forever in debt to Becky, Brian's mom, for giving me such an amazing friend to marry and call my husband every day for the rest of my life.

I am thankful for my family, both near and far. I am thankful for all their quirks and visions on life, I am thankful for their humor and love and for helping me to find my path in life.

I am thankful for Cheyenne. My first born baby girl who rests in Heaven and is all too often a painful memory. I am thankful for her light, her love and the wisdom she brought me and so many others. I am thankful for her memories and for all the quiet moments I had with her while she was here. I am thankful for the outlook on life she brought me and for grounding me and possibly saving my life.

I am thankful for my 2 beautiful children. Christopher for his humor and wit and unending need to make me smile. I am thankful for every "I love you" I get during the day. I am thankful for those big blue green eyes and silly smile that only he has. I am thankful for my chance to be a mommy to a boy. Laci for her wild hair and crazy ways. For her smile and evil laugh that lets me know she is up to no good. I am thanksful for her wet sloppy kisses and for her endless energy and amazing spirit, and I am thankful that God granted me this second chance to have a daughter and all the wonderful things that come with that privledge.

I am thankful for my husband, my best friend, my loyal companion and my whole heart of love. I am thankful for waking up in the morning to see his beautiful strong back half under the cover and to feel his arms around me daily. I am thankful for the little nook in his chest that is and always will be my happy place. I am thankful that his cancer tests came back negative and I have the chance to spend each day trying to show him how much I love him and miss him when he is away from me. I am thankful that he is normal and funny and finds my twisted ways amusing. I am thankful that he can find it in his heart to love me everyday no matter how I feel or what I do or say.

I am thankful for my friends, both past and present. I am thankful for the fun and laughter we have shared and for the memories we have created together. I am thankful that even though not all have worked out for good, that I can look back and still smile on brighter happier times.

I am so very thankful to have so many blessings in my life. To have each day to live and learn and to spend with those that I love. I am so very thankful for the love that I receive on a daily basis and can never write enough words to explain that.

I hope you all had a beautiful Thanksgiving and took the time to count your blessings and give thanks for all that you have even if you have been dealt a hard hand in life. May you all find comfort in love and peace from the holiday season now upon us!

Until Monday,
Robin

ALL TOGETHER NOW!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOUUUU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOOOO YOOOOOUUU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR GRANDPAAAAAAA

HAAAAAPPY BIIIIRTHDAAAAY TOOOO YOOOOOUUU!!!

(wish I could call but my cell phone is off for a few days, bleh!!!)

Please share with me....

WHAT ARE *YOU* THANKFUL FOR THIS YEAR?

Please share with me even if you usually just read my thread, or if you dont usually get along with me, or if I dont know you at all, or if you just have a moment...I'd love to know what the world around me is thankful for...

My answer will come by Thursday. :)

Its back to the grind!

First day in 5 days that I am back at it alone! Wish me luck!!

Happy Tuesday!

Guess who's back...back again....

Hello hello and welcome to another episode on, Four Ps in a Pod!!

So its Monday, its raining, and I am so tired I cant stand it! I am back from my visit with Grampy and Gramy, and I had a very good time with them, even though it seemed like I was only there a day and then I was off again. :(

The trip down and back went way smoother than I ever imagined. I started by getting up almost an hour late an left the house at 6am instead of 4-5 like I wanted. But for the first time ever I wasnt pulled over not even once!!!! Wow! I made great time there and back coming in at 4 mins shy of 7 hours there and 6 hours and 40 mins home. (home was faster since I only stopped once for gas/pee/lunch). I was sad to leave Daytona, but I knew when I got teary eyed coming up on the Atlanta skyline that I was back home. I missed my husband and kids so bad. They were silly all night last night to welcome me home.

My grandparents were doing a lot better than I had anticipated so I was pleasantly surprised. I got to spend their 26th wedding anniversary with them and they even treated me to dinner at red lobster! We did a little online gambling which is always fun and we made plans for my trip in the spring to get down to the pier and do some fishing! My grandpa seemed stronger to me than I thought he would be, and had a very healthy appetite. (17 pieces of pizza?!?!) My grandma was radiant as she always is and she took me out and treated me to some goodies and just the pleasure of her company. I had a great time and miss them so badly when I am not there. 4 more months and I can be back!! I love you guys!!!

Today has been a bit of a whirlwind already. Brian took the day off to spend with me and the kids. It is nice to have him home when everyone elses husbands in the neighborhood are off at work. :) We just got home from the grocery store and man was it a madhouse in there!! People everywhere and the kids were kinda nuts and Brian had to end up taking Laci to the car to watch Blue's Clues so I could finish shopping with some sanity since I had forgotten my grocery list at home! Eek!

This afternoon we are going to go poke around at some stores and enjoy our time before Brian is back to work tomorrow for tuesday and wednesday and then back on friday again.

Black friday ads pretty much suck this year. I am very dissapointed and dont know if I will even go out at all. I am sad and worried that we will not be able to get the amount we wanted for the kids since so far not one thing on their lists is on sale.

I will keep you all posted on the progress of that.

Have a wonderful Monday and a beautiful night!!!

♥ Robin

G-G-G-G-Good M-M-M-Morning!

ITS FREEEZING! 25* is a bit colder than I was wishing for already...but...I refuse to complain about it b/c its so much better than 80* in November! Ha!

So its Wednesday! That means time to pack my suitcase!!!! In less than 24 hours I will be pulling away from Osmanthus and heading to Suwanee! WooHoo! My body was so nice it gave me an early gift this morning too...grumble grumble...but tha explains my psychotic less then stellar mood I was in all day yesterday. :P I have nothing done in preparation for the trip. I have waited and procrastinated and havent even written ONE list!! (take *that* OCD!) I will likely be bumbling like an idiot by 8pm but its ok. For now I am having my eggnog coffee and enjoying a few minutes of peace.

Laci has decided to quit taking naps. Yeah, not cool at all. So my days have changed considerably this week. So when she gets up, I know I have her in my face for the next 13 hours or so! eek! Oh and I know this year has been awful for us all getting sick. It has caught me quite off guard what with the strep throat for the first time in 18 years and the ear infections, sinus infections, upper resp. infections, stomach issues, fevers, headaches, viruses, and flu. I feel like my head is gonna pop off every time one wakes up with a sore throat or runny nose. Sadly I know its b/c I have a friend who thinks its ok to let people come to her house only to tell my 3 hours later that her son is upstairs asleep after puking, or letting her kid with strep throat come to christopher's birthday party and play on a slip and slide. And with Christopher being in school and Brian being at work they have brought home all kinds of goodies and we have gotten sick from *being* at the doctors too by the waiting room patients. It has been a rough year, but we can only pray for some relief in '09 right?! :) So yeah, I know its been awful this year...its even worse when you live it! ha!! I may just have to invest in 4 gas masks and some zipper suits for christmas gifts!! LOL Thats the gift that keeps giving!

So I have a ton to do today. But I already feel like stuffing my face and sitting on ye old kiester (sp?). I wont though, I know I will get through this day somehow!! (tequila anyone?) Brian gets his truck back today and I am excited for him for that. I have to run out this evening when he comes home to get more stuff done. Egad! My day will be long!! I plan on leaving at 5am instead of my usual 4 am b/c of how badly my eyesight has gotten. I had a wierd dream 2 nights ago and I just would feel better having more cars on the road to follow til sunrise. But its only and hour difference. I will be in my Grandma's yard by 2 the latest I am sure. :)

Welp, try not to miss me too terribly bad while I am gone!!!

Kisses and Hugs!!
*~Robin~*

Welcome back Monday...

Before I get started this morning, I would like to ask everyone to send a little prayer to Brians Aunt Debra and her kids as well as Debra's inlaws Mickey and Martha today. Today is/was Brian's Uncle Mike's birthday and while I know it would be a very hard day for Debra and Bre and Chase...I can imagine as I know so myself that the Mom and Dad would also hurt worse than usual today. Happy Birthday Mike....one day we will all see you again and we will have one heck of a party!!

Ok, so on to other news. Its Monday, freezing, and we were scraping ice of the windshield this morning. (and by "we" I mean "Brian", lol) I do not have a car for the next 1-3 days because we are having some front end issues with the truck. So I am stranded here day in and day out til its finished. (or until I stomp around like a spoiled 3 year old and get my car back early haha) Its nothing massive thank God as originally thought so. We thought it was suspension damage, but turns out its in need of an alignment and some smaller pieces and tires. The tires is what is killing us. Yuck!

Laci somehow managed to get SICK **while** taking antibiotics. I swear if my kids dont get better soon I am building an apartment on the back of Kennestone Hospital! She was up ALL and I do mean ALL night on saturday night and fussy the rest of the weekend. She didnt do too well last night either, but since I was on 0-2 hours sleep, Brian had to to force her to accept him while I snoozed all night. I still feel exhausted this morning, but considerably better than Zombie status I was yesterday. Oh how I wish me and Brian had just ONE night away from here and the kids to reconnect as husband and wife. 8p-8a would be awesome!!! Sigh.

Anyhow...so its MONDAY! That means I am a mere 2 1/2 days away from going to see my grandparents!!!! Yay!!!! I really want to leave on wednsday, but Thursday it will be. It sucks that even though I will be gone 4 days, I will only really see the about 2 1/2 of them due to 7+ hours of driving. But, I will take what I got and be happy for it! :)

I guess I need to run off here and wake up some before Princess Psychopath is up for the day shift!

Have a wonderful Monday everyone!

♥ Robin

Friday Friday!

Good morning everyone. It is a foggy chilly Friday morning. I have a pounding headache, and I am sure typing in the dark isnt going to help it any. It is supposed to be a rainy 2 days but bringing with it the cooooold weather! (upper 20s!! woohoo!) Tonight if it isnt pouring we will be meeting brian at the mall for dinner and shopping with the kids. If seeing Santa himself doesnt get me cranked out of this grumpy shlump then I am afraid it must not be happening! But I have a feeling it will! :)

Anyhow my website is making me crazy for the better black friday ads. I am wishing for a target sneak peak and the give me CVS...who goes to CVS on the day after thanksgiving, unless you are sick and picking up meds?!?!? Oh well...all in good time, all in good time!

So I dont know if I said it, but its official! I am hosting a full fledged Thanksgiving at my house! My mom told me yesterday...or wednesday...i forget...that her and Steve and my brothers will be coming over for a full meal! eek! I am beside myself with both excitment and nerves! It was one thing cooking a turkey for Brian and the kids, but the whole family? Oh man, I just hope they like my cooking! I am scared to death!! I was going to make a stuffed bird this year, but I was watching Rachael Ray last night (hate her, love the food network) and I didnt know that people fought for crispy bits of stuffing, so I am thinking I will make "stuffing muffins" instead. Basically you just use and ice cream scoop and fill muffin tins with stuffing and bake til golden and heated through. It seems easy enough, but I dont know yet. :P

Well today will likely be pretty boring until this evening, so I gotta find something to help pass the day along. I may go look in Linens and Things again to see if they have lowered anything else yet. :)

Have a great weekend if I am not back!

smooches!

And a good Thursday to you

A friday would be nicer, but a thursday is pretty good deal this morning.

I like Thursday because....

IT MEANS I HAVE ONLY ONE MORE WEEK TIL I SEE MY GRANDMA AND GRANDPA!!! YAY!!!!

Yes, this time next week, I will be sailing down the interstate...coffee beside me and singing to Frosty the Snowman! :)

Then its 2 weeks til thanksgiving...meaning the next day is....BLACK FRIDAY!!!!

Of course, Kmart is helping me out on Thanksgiving day with its oh so sweet deals they have, but the ads are pouring in on my special site and I am stoked!!! (Now if they could be sweet and give me just ooooone of my big stores like Target or Toys R Us).

I am actually really excited about Thanksgiving this year. It will be the first year in my whole life that I have cooked a turkey *ON* the day. And haviong it at home I can watch the parade, and listen to christmas music and cook in my pajama pants...hell I may even go to Kmart in my pajama pants! ha! But seriously, I will be sad if no one shows, but I still feel that this is the best choice for my family and I am excited for the first year in a long time. I think the last time I was excited was when I was about 12. That was the last year that me and my mom did the wake up early and get the turky in together while everyone else slept in the house. I miss those mornings. :( But at least I have them as memories! I am also aorking on finding a soup kitchen I can work at during that week to help give back to the community. I am looking foward to that too!

Anyhow, its going to rain today. So there wont be any big plans. I may be applying for my insuance finally today so thats good. But on the excitment scale, today is a low 2. LOL. Sorry Thursday!

Hope you all have a wonderful day...maybe today my grandparents phone wont be busy every time I call!!

Asthma...

After 4 1/2 years of lung issues, my baby boy was officially diagnosed with asthma this morning. We go tomorrow for some allergy testing to determine if there are any common allergens that are causing possible flare ups besides the cold weather and other issues such as running and crying. (typical 4 year old activities). He and Laci and I also all have pretty bad sinus infections and I am waiting on about 8 different prescriptions to be filled at the pharmacy. Hopefully we will soon all be feeling a lot better. I am pretty tired today and my throat hurts from the post nasal drip, but I am sucking it up since I am home alone with the kids. (what else is new, right?) Anyways I am a little sad, even though I know it could be a lot worse, at my baby's diagnosis today. I think its a mix of the weather, my own illness, and just the lack of anything seasonal adding to it, but I am sad for sure anyhow.

Well in good news, My Grandpa came home yesterday from the hospital!! I am happy about that. I will be calling soon Grandma! I am so happy for you guys! I love you!!

Have a good day everyone
Robin

Good MORNING!

So wow, what a long action packed weekend! I have so much news this morning I am bursting at the seams with it all!

So here are some major pieces of news:

1. I have officially weaned myself off of the anti depressants I have been taking for nearly 4 months now. They were killing me...and when I did something very stupid last week while medicated, I decided to take the bull by the horns and get off of them. Almost a week now and I am feeling great!! I am still having some mood swings but overall I am getting so much better! Last night was my fist deep sleep unmedicated in nearly 4 months! I slept like the dead too! I am feeling peppier and I think the pills were my reason for gaining the 13 pounds in the last few months. I had become a mean recluse and was spending every night away from people and sad and crying and just so unhappy. But now I am awake and happy and looking foward to all life has and getting back to the GYM! (which I havent been to in months now) I am alive again and I am truly proud of myself for getting over this hurdle alone as no one else could have fought this battle for me. yay!

2. We rehomed DeJa. She had some real character flaws and was becoming increasingly aggressive with Laci and starting to snap at both kids and growl and it just wasnt a risk we were willing to take with our children as she would outsize them in just a few more months and we didnt want something drastic to happen. So with a sad heart, but the strength by looking at attack wounds on christophers arm, we found her a childless home where the husband and wife were unable to have kids of their own where she could live out her days without endangering anyone. It was hard, I got choked up, but I have to put my kids first and it is what it is, and she is no longer a part of our family. :(

3. My grandpa is in the next step down room!!! He is getting stronger each day and will soon be coming home! He has a phone that I have tried to call about 4 times, but must be screening his calls since I have yet to reach him! Ha! Well Gramps, looks like we will be enjoying grandma's beautiful Thanksgiving tree together here soon! I cant wait to see you both! Keep getting better and stronger and get that fur thong out of storage for the winter months! hahaha!!! (I am still loving that comment!)

OK, now for my weekend.
Friday I went to Toys R Us and got some great deals on the play food for the kids' kitchen from santa, and I went to Linens and Things that is going out of business and got this AMAZING bed in a bag set that is microsuede (sp?) and is OH so luxurious that was originally 120.00 for 35.00!!! Woot! (now thats a black friday worthy sale there!) I also took the kids to Garden ridge after school to look at all the christmas stuff they have up. Laci loves trees all done up and screams "OOOH!!!" everytime we see one. Friday night was Christopher's fall festival at his pre-k and we stayed out til about 7, which felt like 9 b/c it was dark for so long, came home and me and brian had zaxbys while the kids bathed and got ready for bed. Saturday we got up and went to breakfast at the buffet, I dont car for their food that much but we had fun anyhow. My kids were so happy to get brownie sundaes with their breakfast, heehee! Then we went to Target to look at christmas stuff. After Laci's nap we went to Chuck E Cheese's and the kids really had a good time. We got to meet David's girlfriend Melissa who tagged along with David to spend time with us at CEC. It was a nice time and I really liked her and look foward to seeing her again. :) Sunday we went to my moms to get our christmas movies out of storage and then to Wal-Mart for groceries. Then we came home and during Laci's nap me and Christopher went to see Madagascar 2. It was a super cute movie and I really liked it. Then we came home and just rested and watched some christmas movies until bedtime.

Anyhow, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and I am now gearing up for BLACK FRIDAY!!!!!! There will be some great Thanksgiving sales at K-Mart too this year and I look foward to being there bright and early!! Woot!!!

Have a wonderful monday!!!!

♥ Robin

Lots of new pictures!!

Check them out!

http://pruittpics.blogspot.com/

YAY!

The prayers are working!!! My grandpa is getting stronger! He was still in the ICU last night when I talked to him on the phone (teehee) and they think he may step down a room today and then come home next week!!!!

Thank you all so much for thinking of him and my grandma! :)

Looks like I will be having an early thanksgiving dinner with my grandparents this month! I have even more to be thankful fo now.

In other news, I got my new camera!!! THANK YOU MOMMY!!!! It is the coolest best camera ever and I cant wait to take lots of pictures of the few leaves on trees that are left!

I will be back later, but I have a ton to do!

Have a great friday everyone! Good luck on your knee surgery Amanda!

Today my Grandpa is still very sick. I need everyone to pull together and continue to pray for him and my Grandma during this time. I am spending a lot of time today remembering back on some memories I have of spending time with my grandparents. They have always been there for me my whole life. When I was a kid I always knew my life would be fun and happy when they visited. I remember when they stayed at a hotel one time and I got to spend the night and it was my first time in a hotel that had a buffet breakfast and it was so fun to go through the line and get pancakes and sausage and orange juice. I have always treasured my private time alone with them. Its been one of my favorite escapes from life. My grandpa is always laughing at me and my grandma's antics and he has always tried to play the tough guy and be the voice of reason...but since I was a a little girl I knew I had him wrapped and I just let him get away with thinking that he was tough with us! Ha! I have always been his fishing buddy. I have always watched in wonder as he tied up my rigs and lines for me. I remember on the seaquarius once my grandma was casting her line and the hook came back and stuck right in the brim of his ballcap! We laughed so hard over that! And so many times we have been at the beach in the quiet morning hours side by side by side fishing in the ocean with shrimp packs on our hips and the sun on our faces. Having meals alone has always been my favorite though. Its a time to just sit and talk. Whether it be morning coffee over private talks or fun filled stories of past visits over flounder dinners at Sweetwaters...they have always been my favorite.Grandpa, I know you are very sick right now, and I know you wont be reading this today, but you gotta stay strong! I know you can do it. Just keep fighting. You have so much love behind you and no one is ready for you to go anywhere yet. We have more breakfasts and dinners and stories to tell. I will be there soon and we will laugh like always. I miss you so much and I know you can get through this.

Love,

Your Fishing Buddy

(Robin)

♥

Obama or McCain?

Its so wierd to know that by midnight tonight we will have a new president. I wont lie, I am worried about the outcome either way and what it will mean for us as a whole as well as it impact on the people of America. I am worried about rioting either way and I am worried about race becoming the biggest issue between americans in a long long time. I know it may seem like an odd fear to some but I hope I am proved to just be overly worried as usual and my fears dont come true. Either way I will not be going anywhere without a loaded gun for a while and I will also be sure to have my doors locked always should any rioting begin. My first priority are my children and home and those I will protect to the death if need be.


Well, I am ashamed to admit it, but I let the hype of the internet and media get me into a fear and panic yesterday and I can honestly say the I am still 100% behind my candidate of choice, President Barack Obama, and I am not worried about race deviding us anymore. YES WE CAN! Now remember, I was never afraid of Obama getting into office, I was afraid that there may be ignorant upsets in the general community both Black and White and thats where my fears came from. I was never worried about Obama, just what the emotional overspill may be from the race outcome. Last night and today have proved my fears irrational and I am back to feeling strong about the future of the USA for my children.

God Bless you all, and God Bless the USA!!!

On yet another somber note,
I need prayers. My grandfather has had another setback and I need prayers for strength for him and my grandma. My prayers obviously havent been enough so any that could be spared would be much appreciated. I am still going to see them both in 2 1/2 weeks and hopfully by then my grandpa will be a bit stronger and my grandma caught up a bit in rest. This is such a sad situation and I am in awe of the strength that has been put foward by my grandparents on both sides. I try not to imagine how I would do all that my grandma has if I was in this situation, mostly because I dont think I could do it all. Keep it up guys my heart is always with you.

Take a moment and hug your spouse or kids or dog or friend today. Each day is a gift, embrace it!

Til tomorrow
Robin

Enjoy!

I worked very hard on a new layout and music for you all to enjoy! Hope you like it! Feel free to leave a gift under our tree at the bottom of the blog!!

see you all tomorrow!

♥ Robin

why I love monkies...(thanks mom!)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Well, (I seem to start my blog off a lot like that), it is finally here. Somehow, someway, its already the very last day of the month...the month of October...its finally Halloween. I have a house full of sick people...I am sure my mom will love that surprise, but I have a 4 year old that is sure that no cold is going to stop him from getting his much anticipated sack of candy tonight! Haha!

I am so blown away by the fact that it is already November tomorrow. I cant believe how fast this year is going by. I hope dearly this isnt the speed the rest of my life will travel at, because I am not ready for that! Tonight will be fun I am sure, even though my kids are both sick, I am sick, Brian is sick, and Laci's oh so cute halloween pics wont be without fault as she is sporting a nice big scrape across her face from the puppy (nice timing! ugh!). But I still plan on having fun. This Halloween seems a bit off though and I guess its the sheer lack of holiday sprirt around here that has me kind of glum. I am hoping that people remove their heads from their rear ends and get with the program for the "most wonderful time of the year" that is now faster than ever quickly approaching. I know I am all about it already, and even though money is tight and bills are going unpaid at times, I have my family and my friends and thats worth a treasure in itself! I am looking foward to redoing my blog this weekend, adding some new colors and songs, and making things cheerful on here! I am also looking foward to starting a few new countdowns as well as getting geared up for another Black Friday (which will also be wierd and different this year as I still have 2 small kids and no babysitters)

I must go for now though. It has been an interesting month albeit fast and kinda boring for us here at the pruitt household. But I know November is going to be a speed demon packed full of goodies and fun and surprises! Plus I get to spend a 4 day weekend with my 2 Nuts in a Shell and help my grandma start her own blog!! Yay!! :)

Have a happy happy halloween everyone, and from our home to yours, much Love! :)

Robin

ok well Halloween is tomorrow!

But first we must get through today.

Laci is sick....again...Holy crap I am *so* over having sick kids!!!! &^$%#@!!! And this morning Brian and my noses are running too. ugh! The kids both have a doctors appointment today at 2:40 for Laci's 18 month check up (a month late) and Christopher to get flu shots. I am praying that they give laci her shots even though she has a runny nose and cough. I really dont want to put off the flu shot any longer as apparently the flu is here...and mad as hell this year already. The kids' doctors office said they have confirmed 47 cases of the flu in the last 2 weeks! eek!!

Topher is not pleased with the shot as you can imagine, but I think I have him confident it will be quick and almost painless...then tomorrow he gets to stay home from school and we will carve pumpkins and at 3 my mom will be here to help with the rest of the night with them. I am looking foward to trick or treating with them, but I am worried not many people will be passing candy this year as hardly anyone in our neighborhood has even put up a pumpkin, let alone decorate their yard! What is wrong with people? No one seems to care about the kids of the world anymore and keeping fun and fantasy alive for them. Sometimes I feel like I am in a battle all alone to keep the spirirt of youth going. Its very sad.

Saturday we are cleaning out the garage again, organizing it and cleaning up the halloween decorations (yes, *gasp* we decorated our yard) and getting the yard ready for Thanksgiving and to finish fall. Deja has her first puppy grooming appointment (9.95 at petsmart! cant beat that!) and then Chuck E Cheese in the afternoon. :) No real reason for chuck e. cheese, except we want to go out and enjoy some family time.

Sunday I dont really know what we are doing. I think I am going to see if my mom and them want to have lunch at her house. Other than that it will be the same ol' same ol' with cleaning and errands.

Don't forget to set your clocks back this weekend too! I will be uploading pictures as soon as I can!! :)

♥ you all
Robin

2 banana breads down...

Well, that was quite the coffee break I guess since its been days since I said I would be back on here! Life got hectic and busy as usual. Lets see...its Tuesday, so I guess I will start by telling you about the weekend!

Saturday was a bit of a rush. I got started later than I wanted to, and we had a ton of running around to do for the Halloween party we were going to that night. We went out to try and find myself a costume and possibly a new one for Brian. We eneded up finding a Raggety Ann for me, and Brian went as a redneck, lol, complete with redneck hat and mullet! Haha!! I had to get to the store too so I could get the ingredients for my crock pot mac and cheese and we finally got to Jesse's house at 5pm. The kids had a really good time, they had games for the kids, and treats and Christopher was excited to finally get to wear his costume. We got home around 9 and got the kids in bed and me and Brian passed out from exhaustion!
One really REALLY crappy thing is that I dropped and broke my camera at the party and considering we are dead broke and I take tons of pics of my kids, I am beside myself sad that I cannot afford a new one until God knows when (the one I want is 200.00, bleh!) and so I dont know when I will be posting more pics....and this close to the holidays too! ugh! I cried when I knew it was junk and I only got a few pictures and I cant explain how sad I am about it. :(
Sunday Brian took the kids to his grandparents house while I went and did the grocery shopping and cleaned up. We had a showing and I met a woman about possibly cleaning her house...but 2 1/2 hours into our meeting it became clear to me she was looking for a friend, not a maid. So its back to the drawing board for me. I had ads on craigslist for my cleaning services but after being solicited for sex 3 times (once at 3:30 am for 1,000.00 to sleep with some guys son) *a police report has been made* I have decided to take them down and try some other means of making money. I am so tired of being so broke and not being able to put any money on the table here. I have made the choice that when Laci turns 2 I am going to start looking for full time employment for a number of reasons, even though sadly, after a 40 hour week I will be lucky to bring home 75.00 after all it costs for me to actually got to work.
Today I am enjoying another really cold day. It has been told to me we even had snow flurries in N.Ga last night and it is icy cold and I have my fireplace on, my christmas music playing, and just took my second banana bread out of the over for the season so far! (hence the title) Laci is taking her nap and I am going to try and get the few pictures I have on the blog now.
Hope you all have a wonderful tuesday afternoon!

Robin

for my baby....

love you!

BRRR!

I am writing in blue...because, well, its cold! And I swear if my nose runs for one more day I am going to cut the frigging thing OFF already! ugh!

So its friday, a wet rainy, 40 something degrees outside and with the exception that I am dealing with a misbehaving nutcase puppy and an angry daughter and a runny nose...I am LOVING it! LOL! Yes I cannot complain about being freezing right now because I asked for it and I got it! ha! However, I could do without some of the other stressors in my life at the moment. *cough* *deja* * cough*!! I baked my first banana bread of the season yesterday and it is more than 1/2 eaten already! I am going to get some more bananas tomorrow and make another...this one is too yummy to be almost extinct already! I have my yummy apple cinnamon glade candles burning and I have the curtains down and thinking of starting the fire place tonight for a romantic feel during our chiller flick. (although I would prefer a christmas movie! haha!!) I am totally in love and ready for the christmas season, christmas music, christmas parties , baking, carols, and family gathering. But...its october....and I really should understand that to better get my things straight. I tend to forget that I still have a full week before Halloween...and then almost 4 weeks before I will be able to hear continuous christmas music in my home and car 7 days a week! And I know that the time is flying so I should enjoy today because it will be 2009 before I know it...

ahhh speaking of time flying...it appears my daughter has awoken from her down time...I will be back, coffee in hand later, to enjoy continuing this conversation. :)

So as you can tell, I have been absent again...

Mostly because I have been very sick. We will start with Friday as I dont remember much before that. Friday I 8finally* arranged a baby sitter for the kids and me and Brian were stoked to be going to dinner and had decided thursday night that we would also go to a local haunted house. The mere idea of it had me giddy! Then friday I wake up and my throat hurts. ARGH! So I wait and wait and finally around noon I inform brian that my throat is at that point on fire. But I was determined to still go out! So he came home and about an hour before he got there, my nose started to pour! I was so upset! I was tired and cranky and just feeling overall like crap. So we made the choice to go to dinner, but it looked like the haunted house was out. :( We went out to eat at Pappadeaux's and my throat hurt so bad, and my nose was running something awful that I could hardly taste dinner at all. :( And to make it worse, I had scraped the top of my mouth on toast on thursday so it was hard to eat my food due to pain in my mouth too!! We got done with dinner and I felt so bad like I had ruined our night being sick. But we decided to go walk around Wal-mart at least and we did that and had a nice time looking at christmas stuff and got some things we needed and the halloween candy for the kids' trick or treating. We went home and I passed out.
Saturday I had planned to go out and do some stuff for myself and I still tried to do that. I made it to petsmart, Toys R Us, and to get gas and have coffee with my mom at her job and I was done. I simply couldnt make it any longer. I was on the verge of tears on the way home just wanting to crawl in bed. I did that when I got home and stayed there through monday. I feel a lot better now, I had a fever and chills, and an achy body all weekend, and now I just have the runny nose still. So far no one else is sick so I am praying they were all spared!
Yesterday I reorganized my dining room and added my "buffet" against the wall (which we still have to paint black this weekend) and I am working on getting the house ready for the holidays! I hurt my thumb on saturday too, so I think I have an infection and I fear it may need lancing by next monday if it doesnt get better. Its awful right now and so bad I cant use my thumb at all! ugh!
Today I am relaxing. Its nice and cool outside and we actually got into the 30s the other night!! yay! The cool season is finally here! woot!
So anyhow I guess I better go for now, I am tired and I need a shower. I will update with some pictures and stuff hopefully tomorrow!

Have a wonderful day!
Robin & family!

wow I am worn out!

it has been a very busy 4 days with a puppy who is ALL puppy! She has been having me on my feet more than either kid I have ever had and she is very bad with the house training stuff so I have been steam cleaning mostly by hand as I was missing a belt til yesterday trying to keep up with the sheer amount of pee and poop that comes out of this thing!
Then yesterday Laci gets up at 6:30 and lays with brian for a few before he decides she isnt going back to sleep just to come downstairs and puke down MY leg. Why?!?!? Why can he lay with her for 20 mins and she pukes on me??? She then had diarrhea all day and felt crummy. I think it was a bug that wasnt too bad since she only threw up once and was running and playing by the afternoon.
I made a delicious corned beef and cabbage dinner last night, watched 2 episodes of "Paris Hilton's New BFF" (my bad guilty pleasure, lol) and an episode of wife swap and it was off to bed for me.
Today is Christopher's early release day. He gets out at 12 noon. Brian is going to get him for me. I hate Georgia weather. It is a heat wave right now with temps today peaking at 84* UGH! But yet come saturday our temps will be 64*, *rolls eyes*, well at least its the weekend that will be nice and cool.
I was going to go to the Apple Festival this weekend in Ellijay but I dont think I will because Laci will be miserable and need a nap and there will be no time to get her home for it and things will just be miserable. And since I dont have a babysitter ever it seems when I need one...or when I dont for that matter...I will be missing yet ANOTHER event this year. I am really starting to feel like the Little Red Hen here. Now thats 3 things this year I have had to skip for lack of a babysitter. :( So instead I will be going to poke around alone for a few hours in the antique store, Barnes and Nobel, and any other store that meets my fancy. :) Its a close second choice anyhow.
Welp, I am off to start my hectic busy stressful exhausting day. I hope you all have less pee and poop to deal with than me today!
Have a good one!

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