Yay for shots day....NOT!

Its that awful day before the school years, that day that I have dreaded since my kids were born every few months at first and now every few years....its shots day! UGH!!! Taking Laci in this morning at 10:30 for her Pre-K forms and hearing and vision and her 4 year shots...freaking fantastic....thinking a shot of something in a glass for mommy before the shots for her may help...bleh! I hate shots day....she is already stressing it and I know its going to be an embarrassing mess when we get to that part of the check up this morning. But I promised a special treat after (frozen hot chocolate at dunkin donuts) after. 

After that horrific experience we have some errands to run, bank, groceries, walmart....and then home for cleaning and relaxing. I have got to get the cleaning part of this house started...and finished! I am watching a lot of my hard work going away because of the daily grind and its making me crazy!

Took back over the finances last night to help Brian's stress level and also mine so now I am in the know more on what we have in the bank. I am happy to have to back in my possession and I am hoping to really get us some savings going on now too! I have a lot to set up to keep up with it good, but so far so good!

My birthday was exhausting. I got up and had a lovely banner on the wall, and then brian made me breakfast of pancakes and I opened my cards. Then we got dressed and went to North Point mall to finish the school shopping. After that we came back to the house and I changed into something more comfortable for the heat and headed to my moms house. She grilled hamburgers, made a fresh pasta salad, and we had other yummy things, followed by key lime cake! NOMS! We got home around 6, started the kids in the baths, and got the kids in bed at their bedtimes for the school year (7:30 for laci, 8:00 for christopher) we also started Christopher on going to bed without his TV on or at least we will be turning it off before we go to sleep and he will sleep with a night light instead. He has been up too much in the middle of the night and the TV is a major issue there. He did great and told me this morning he slept really good...so that makes me happy! 

Brian bought me a pretty new purse yesterday and I am excited to use it. Its a fun color but a lot more "grown up" and also has a nice appearance that I wont be embarrassed to wear to Christopher and Laci's schools for things. I know how stupid that sounds, but it makes perfect sense in my head! 

My allergies are killing me today, and my throat is on fire. Gonna gargle with some hot salt water later. I don't know what is blooming or sporing right now but its killing me!

Well, I guess I should jump in the shower and get my day together. Have a great Monday!!!

A very blessed Saturday!

Whew!!! What a morning!!! I am sitting here listening to my music quietly while Brian has the kids visiting his grandmother. Couldn't get to sleep good last night because I was so excited for this morning. Got up on time at 6:40 (omg I need more practice at that before August 1st!) My mom was here at 7:30 and we met Tiffany at the McDonalds and headed to the church. The bookbag/school stuff drive was AMAZING!! I had SO much fun and loved every second of it. I wanted to spend the whole day there! I met tons of amazing people and so many adorable sweet kids it isn't even funny! Just awesome!!! I smiled 99% of the time and my face was actually sore from smiling so much. Then me and my mom and Tiffany went to lunch at Red Lobster and re-capped our tables we worked this morning and gossiped a bit and they came out and sang happy birthday to me and we had delicious drinks (mango mai tai for me, pina coladas for the girls) We got done and dropped Tiffany off at home and came back here and hung out for a few and then my mom went home. Now I am exhausted!!! I want to play with my new bluetooth my mom bought me for my birthday but I have to charge it, I am excited to have such a fun new gadget! 

Trying to plan the next 2 weeks. So much to do still it seems and still seems like eons of free time too. I know this next week will be fun with the exception of Monday morning when Laci has to go for her hear/vision screening and SHOTS....eek!!! I hate hate hate shots days! I usually tell the kids what to expect but I am going to just let the element of surprise happen I think, Laci, like me, is a panic queen and I don't need her freaking out for the next 2 days over something like shots. I will do shots then treat them to pizza out at Stevie B's and then Netflix all afternoon on Monday...then the rest of the week should be good. Then next week Christopher has a dentist appointment on Wednesday to get some things checked out and plan the course we will take with his teeth too. Eventually I will get mine drilled, filled, or pulled depending on the extent of damage waiting 3 years to fix a cavity has caused...sigh...

I am pretty worn out right now though. I think I am going to go take advantage of having the tv to myself and watch a chick flick while I can. Happy Saturday!

Thursday Thursday Bo Bursday Banana Fanna Fo Fursday Me My Mo Mursday....

Well, the school shopping has officially began! We went last night when Brian got home from work and did most of the shopping for Christopher's supplies. 80.00 later we are only lacking a binder (ummm 1.5" is 6.00, 1" is 1.98...guess which size he needs) and shoes and a few new shirts and haircuts. Got lucky and scored an awesome Punisher bookbag for cheap at walmart which was awesomely unexpected and ridiculously cool! Got a cute shirt for Laci that she is gaga over and some snack carriers for after school snacks. Also went ahead and cancelled Christopher's swim classes. Its almost 70.00 a month and while I was sad to do it, we just found out that we now have to pay 90.00 a MONTH (yes every month, even months with 2 weeks of school bc of holidays) for Laci to eat lunch at pre-k....WTF??? She better be eating shrimp and steak for those prices...thanks to america going down the crapper money wise, on TOP of 6 weeks of additional time off school for funding cuts, peachcare now isnt covering food costs starting of course THIS year...lucky me....and now the school refuses to budge and allow outside food so I cant even opt to pack Laci's lunch which upsets me greatly, BUT, what can you do...kinda like Netflix price increasing....I want it, so I qill just have to suck it up and pay the increase....grumble grumble...but let it be known I am NOT happy about any of this! None!!

Taking a break from doing much of anything today. Gonna go through Christopher's shirts and shorts and other dresser drawers and probably clean my bedroom and attempt to make dinner, but other than that, I am pretty much just going to relax. Got my birthday this weekend, but not doing anything much, Saturday I am going to volunteer for a few hours at the church to help with the bookbag school stuff event and then out to lunch with my mom and tiffany. Sunday, as far as I know, we have no plans...which is ok by me. I am not into celebrating my birthday much...I am not a little kid and not overly excited about the day...honestly its just a day I officially go up in age a year...and to me...thats not a whole lot to celebrate...its not like I accomplished anything, lol, so what exactly am I celebrating? Is this another holiday that its acceptable to drink yourself into a coma? I think maybe it is....

Anyhow, next week will be shoe shopping and clothes shopping at the mall, that will be fun. I love shopping for school stuff. Then next week we will probably squeeze in a few fun days even in awful heat just to try and finish the summer break off with a bang before heading back. I know the theater is in the mix, and maybe some monster golf or something fun like that...not 100% sure yet. Probably the mall a time or two and maybe some ice cream out, and the lake i am sure....but we will have to play it by ear and see.

I can't tell if today seems like it is flying by or dragging by yet....I guess if I actually got up and did something I may know for sure...guess I should do that now! 

Have a great Thursday!

I am tired of you Heat Miser!

Well, this heat is officially ridiculous. I mean, ok, I know its going into mid-july, and I am in the south, but 110* heat index with 50-70% humidity??? Really??? Heat Miser, what are you thinking?!?! Its bad when even the water coming out of the hose in the front feel luke warm, and a cold shower still leaves you sweating once you get out. I know some days this blog seems more like a weather briefing than anything, but today...today the heat has finally gotten out of control. I thought about suffering through and taking the kids to the pool today...but just the thought of the thick hot wet air all over me makes me wanna crawl into my deep freezer til September....so thats a no go there...may let them play in the sprinkler for a few this morning before it becomes what the weather man says a "dangerous situation" out there.

Trying to find things to do to help fill my time as a volunteer. I signed up to sell clothes and be a volunteer in the consignment sale next month at the Canton First Baptist Church, and that should be really fun. Tonight I am going to help fill bookbags for needy kids at a place here in Canton, and then this weekend on Saturday I am going to volunteer a few hours to go work the big event they hold here every year for back to school. They do haircuts and dental exams and pass out bookbags filled with clothes, supplies, socks and undies and more. Its pretty cool. I wanted to work it last year but didn't know about it til I seen it the next week in the local news, so this year as soon as I seen it coming I signed up! I am hoping to start finding more things to sign up for, and then when school starts I am sure I will be a frequent flier there coming in a few times a week to help with things needed around the school. I have decided actually appointing myself to anything is a waste of time there though and often leaves me stressed out and still having someone else do the job in the end anyhow. But, they do need help around the school daily so I think I will probably volunteer my time that way...anything to help fill my time with something other than sitting here on the computer or eating stuff I don't need to be eating.

So I just got access to start tagging things for the sale next month, holy crap! I feel stupid all of a sudden...who would have thought that tagging things would be so difficult! I need to buy orange paper for my tags and then pray I can figure out the proper way to do this! Omg, so very difficult....or maybe I just have a headache and not enough coffee yet...either way...oh my!

Welp I guess I better go become motivated....and then try not to melt! Have a great day!

Oh, and I see comments left, but they don't show up here until I moderate them...had some haters a few years back and had to change my settings. :) XOXO

3 weeks from today and its....

Its hard to believe that I am already beginning the school shopping! I have gotten a few supplies, a shirt, and a lunchbox for Christopher so far, but plan on doing all his school shopping next week. Laci doesn't need much, but she is having a hard time understanding why she can't have the same things Christopher has, she is confused why she can't have a lunchbox and is sad she doesn't need things. I am sure she will get over it soon enough though. I have to get my desk organized today and get all her paperwork filled out. I also need to make her an appointment for her vision and hearing testing to be done. I need to make an appointment for christopher for xrays and a cleaning of his teeth too, and probably a cavity or two filled...then I need to get to the dentist too...fun stuff! I would like to see all appointments done by August 1st!  (but I know thats pushing it) I am pretty sore this morning, I fell down the hill in the back yard yesterday and banged myself up pretty good. My right elbow and knee hurt the worst, and the pulled muscles form desperately trying to stop the fall on the long slide down the rocky muddy cliff....sigh...but, the show must go on, and I have a ton of crap to get done around here still. Considering its going to be possibly 105* today (wtf? when did I move to the desert???) I am thinking that the heat is the reason I have had about 10 spiders in the house this week. Which are grossing me out!! 

So it's Monday, my self proclaimed "do nothing monday"...but today will be the opposite of the norm for me. I spent all last week trying to rearrange and organize the house room by room and have a lot left to go. I have to do the desk, the closet in my bedroom, the garage, and the downstairs closet still....then the house cleaning has to start...deep cleaning...I gotta get these cobwebs and mud and dust gone! I already need to steam clean the livingroom at least, Brian says I can rent a rugdoctor, so I plan on doing that the last week of July...that way I can honestly start the school year off right, totally clean and totally organized....this year is going to be weird man! A whole year of trying to entertain myself...bizarre...

The weekend was pretty much uneventful. (unless you count my crash test dummy landslide for something) Saturday Brian worked, I was going to go to an adoption event with Athena but then found out friday that for some reason or another she isn't allowed at events for now....thats all I am saying on that today....Sunday was a quiet day after the mudslide, and in the afternoon we went to Target and Staples to get some supplies. I got the kids in bed by 8:30pm last night which is the earliest they have been in bed since the vacation to NC! I am going to be slowly working them back down to a 7:30-8:00 bedtime over the next few weeks....

Today its going to be another day of cleaning and organizing and then enjoying another relaxing afternoon...and early bedtime...love it! Hope everyone else has as productive but relaxing of a Monday as me!

Organizing like a mofo!

And I am not sure I am winning this battle! I have been spending days now...maybe even weeks trying to organize the house before school starts in 3.5 weeks (well 4.5 for one) and while for small moments here and there I feel like I am making progress, I turn around and think "holy crap! I am never going to get done!!". I am starting to think my house and life wasn't made for being organized, lol! I spent the morning yesterday looking for things to help with organizing, and came home with a desk, a few baskets, and more stuff to clutter the house with! I am a mess! I desperately want to get the whole house done and ready before school starts, preferrably before I start school shopping, so I can feel like I accomplished something before the new year begins and we are all getting into the swing of a new school year instead of trying to find our keys and shoes in random piles of junk everywhere!

I had plans of going back out to yard sales today, but honestly I am just wiped out...add that to getting my period worse than I have had it in a year at least, and I don't feel like doing much...especially cleaning my house! But...the show must go on because the clock is ticking down the days. I had planned on taking Athena to adoptions today, but turns out, some of the core team doesn't trust her as a liability and they want her to go to a behavioralist so there is a high chance she will be leaving my home soon for an undisclosed amount of time to I guess get better? I am still a bit lost and trying hard not to think about it much at the moment....

Today I want tot try and get the downstairs closet, my desk, and the bathrooms organized...if I can do that I will feel pretty happy...if I can't, well, at least I will get some good netflix time in! Ha!!!

Brian's grandma had surgery on his birthday and is doing well, it was pretty cool that even after knee replacement surgery she still called Brian, thats awesome! I was really impressed. Got my first load of blueberries in the freezer at the moment and about to put a roast in the crockpot and then its off to clean clean clean!!! Wooptie doo!

Have a happy Saturday!

Its my hubby's 31st birthday! And other than another horrible night's sleep and being up at 3:15 for the day, and having a splitting headache today, its been a pretty dang good day! We started the day by me decorating the diningroom with streamers and the bedroom  with balloons. Then I made a nice big breakfast of ham, eggs, and made form scratch cinnamon raisin biscuits! I was really impressed with the turn out and they were delicious!!

After breakfast and dropping the cars off for emissions (yay birthdays) we packed up and headed to the lake! I brought the pole of course and actually caught a big beautiful catfish that jumped out of the water as I was reeling him in! How cool is that?!? We grilled burgers and dealt with the amityville horrors of flies  and swam for hours before coming home. I made Brian a birthday cake (his fav Chocolate with vanilla frosting) and me and the kids sang to him. Now the kids are watching TV, brian is washing his car, and I am sitting here waiting for bedtime!

All in all today is a MUCH better day than yesterday....now with all the cake and raisin biscuits in the house if I could just get back on my diet I would be one happy girl!!

Oh...and yes...I will ALWAYS love you my friend....even when we have our downs...because the ups are just that good! ♥