Let's start with the haircut - and let me remind you I HATE pictures of me. Here are 2 versions of my new haircut...a better picture of the straight version and the curly version (in which my husband informed me I look like I came straight out of the move The Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler).
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| This is the straight version |
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| This is the curly version |
Onward - watched Flash Forward last night and it made me nervous. Next week is April 29th...well, not really but on the show it is and we will find out if everyones' Flash Forwards come true or if the universe is changed forever. It's kind of a drama - in case you don't watch.
After watching Flash Forward I...well...it was 10 o'clock and I...WENT TO BED! Never happens. NEVER! The thing is that Dean decided he wanted to wake up at 5:30 am Thursday morning. I can't complain too much because he had been sleeping since 6:00 pm the night before. The 5:30 am wake up call wasn't too bad...until about 7:00 pm last night. I felt like I'd been hit in the head with a frying pan and just couldn't keep my eyes open. I stayed awake for Flash Forward and then carried my tired butt to bed amidst protest from DH (not a lot - just a "You mean you aren't going to stay up with me to watch Down Periscope for the 25th time since we got married?"). He still needed a little extra time to wind down - he didn't get up at 5:30 am with Dean, though.
When I woke up this morning at 7:00 am, I felt like I slept in. I felt like the kids let me sleep until at least 9:00 am and almost yelled to Jerry in the shower that he was late for work! I couldn't believe how I felt! I can't promise to try for a 10:00 pm bedtime every night - but I'm really going to give it a shot a few times a week. I actually feel like cleaning today! Don't really feel like making the grocery list, but it won't be too bad with the e-mealz menu...so I'll suck it up!
Danika's Francie Pants came in yesterday ~ I think I may have been more excited than she was! I won a Twitter party contest (the 5M4M UBP10 Twitter Party) and got a $40 gift card for Francie Pants!
I have one little girl, as you probably know if you are a regular blog reader, and I was so excited to be able to order something special for her. We went to the website and picked out 2 pair. The ones pictured below and some really cute pink leopard print ones.
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| Danika in her Francie Pants |
Finally - since I feel like being a blogger today, I'm going to join Friday Follow! I haven't done this in a long time...but I feel like exploring the internet and checking out some new blogs!
Have a great weekend - the weather is suppose to be a little bit better here this weekend. I can't wait to get outside again!
If you are here from Friday Follow ~ Welcome!
Feel free to find out a little more about me and my family at My Kiddos page and my About Me page! If you follow, make sure to leave me a comment so I can stop by and return the favor!
It’s also time for the next edition of 5 Question Friday ~ which I haven’t done in a while but decided to start up again this week.
You can play along by copy and pasting the questions from Mama M’s site and linking up to her MckLinky!
1. Do you sing out loud in the car when you're driving?
Yes ~ I sing out loud in the car when I am driving…alone, that is. I don’t sing out loud if anyone else is in the car with me. In fact, I LOVE singing out loud when I’m driving – I usually try to calm down a bit when I get to a stop light or intersection where someone may see me, though.
2. What would you never be caught doing?
Everything I thought of here was hygiene related – gross as it is, my personal hygiene has taken a hit since having 4 kids. I just don’t seem to have enough time to pay the same kind of attention to it that I use to…so it would either be a) using mouthwash instead of brushing my teeth on the way out the door (just call me Ms. Simpson) or b) picking my nose…I know that everyone does it, but you don’t really want other people to see you doing it.
3. Will you go #2 in a public restroom?
Yes, I have HAD to – no way I was going to make it if I didn’t. This is because I had my gall bladder removed a few years ago and every once in a great while something I eat will upset me so much that it’s a race to the restroom. Aren’t you glad that was a featured question this week?
4. Have you ever broken a bone?
No, not unless you count my nose – which isn’t really a bone, right?
5. Do you prefer cooking or baking?
Cooking! I HATE baking, in fact. I never time the oven right – or know exactly when it’s done…so usually I end up with brownies that aren’t really done enough and cookies that are a little “dark” on the bottom.
With that being said…here is my “menu” for the upcoming week!
Friday – Fish Sandwiches (it is Good Friday, after all!)
Saturday – Dinner @ my Mom and Dad’s (so far this menu planning thing is pretty easy!)
Sunday – Dinner @ my SIL’s for Easter (I am making these to take, so it’s not a completely cook free day!)
Monday – Chicken Noodle Casserole
Tuesday – Burgers and Dog and Fries on the Grill (it’s my birthday – and I LOVE a good Cheeseburger…well done, though)
Wednesday – Pasta with mushrooms and peppers
Thursday- Breaded Pork Chops
I kind of cheated by using recipes I knew I had some stuff for and were pretty easy this week.
Have a great Friday!
About 5 months ago a group of women who all have one friend in common were brought together by that friend. It was actually really a great idea for us all to get out and meet some other moms. I've met some really nice women and generally have a great time when we meet. It was kind of a ground rule that we would try not to get like most groups of women do - we were not going to judge each other...we were not going to try to one-up each other...we were just going to laugh and have a great time. My favorite meeting to date was our Christmas one - we had a cookie exchange and I swear I laughed more than I had in a REALLY long time. I was actually sad to leave!
Our group met last month, but for some reason I couldn't be there. I missed them so much...which is funny because we only see each other once a month - it's funny how you can miss people you barely see to begin with and don't really know all that well.
Anyway, we met last night and I almost didn't go. I was tired. I was frazzled. I just wasn't myself. I'm sure it showed, too. Tired, paranoid me took over and, even though I did have a great time, I left without the "wow, that was great" feeling I usually have. I actually felt out of place - I'm not sure why, but I'm betting it was because I probably wasn't fully present...I was too tired and frazzled. Now, if you are part of the Mommy Group and reading this - I hope that you don't think I'm complaining about anything in particular...it was really more of a not being able to relax and sitting across the room from everyone so I was a little out of it. I will say, though - the food was awesome as usual!
I just wasn't comfortable - I felt like I was in High School again...I loved High School, but I didn't really have a lot of really close female friends during my Junior and Senior year. The problem with hanging out with a lot of guys when you are younger is that their wives (and the guy you end up marrying) aren't really appreciative of you continuing your friendship at the level it was before anyone got married. I'm going to have to make sure my daughter understands this and makes an extra effort to have some girlfriends - then again, my closest girlfriends moved out of state...I still have a few who are close enough for us to get together now and then - but life usually gets in the way of that, too.
I know that this is me and not the mommies at Mommy Group because I've been feeling the same way at work, a little. Just like I've been on the outside watching - like I'm not participating. It's like I'm not in on some secret that everyone else knows - and it's something about me...is this a common side effect of lack of sleep? I'm blaming it on no sleep either way!
I hope to catch up this weekend and maybe enjoy Book Club on Monday! Of course, I haven't finished the book - but I'm not going to let myself loose any sleep over that!
Oh, and I think I am going to do Friday Follow - if you are here from Friday Follow, leave me a comment and I will head on over to follow you back! :)
One of the main reasons I never want anyone to come over to my house - one of the main reasons I feel like I have no friends - is that my house is in a constant state of chaos. I think that I've finally come to accept the fact that my house is just not going to be neat and orderly. Now - my house is NOT dirty. I do wipe things down, run the sweeper, pick up dirty dishes and dirty clothes. We take the garbage out and all of that jazz. However, there are a TON of toys and just stuff that I never get around to putting away...and what's the point, really? I put them away and they come right back out! I need a routine - but I have 4 small children and a routine is often just an extra added stress for me...because, let's face it - I'm not really in control of what's going on 75% of the time (the other 25% of the time the twins are sleeping - I have a little more control when they aren't awake). Then you run into the fact that when I do get time to myself I'm usually too exhausted to do anything productive.
So - I decided when I woke up this morning that I was not going to stress about how my house looked before my friend came over. I'm not even going to say anything about it (or I'm at least going to try not to - it's hard for me not to make excuses). I really doubt she will think anything bad about me - in fact, I'm pretty sure she'll probably feel bad for me and want to do my laundry! hehehe Of course, I'll tell her no. I couldn't let her go down to the basement! Holy crap - wanna talk about a catch all for all the stuff we don't know what to do with!!! Nate calls it "the toy store downstairs"...yep, that's pretty much what it looks like.
So - wish me luck...I'll let you know how it goes.
Oh - and no Friday Follow for me this week...I have too much anxiety about getting to the blogs in my Google Reader as it is! :)
So ~ Courtney, over at Make Me A Blessing, started using Windows Live Writer and was raving about it. I decided to give it a try, too…see what all her fuss was about. I’ll have to play around with it a little bit – but I already like that you can do more with the font and it seems like there is a lot more options.
I really enjoyed Friday Follow. However, after the past two Fridays I am drowning in blogs! I try to follow blogs I will find interesting – and I follow everyone who follows me. I think I added 10 blogs to my Google Reader on Friday – I’m still not caught up. I guess I’m going to have to go through and pick the ones I really want to get into and focus on those. My time is limited – and I feel like I’m all over the place these days!
What do you do? If you participate in Friday Follow, how do you keep up? I logged onto my Google Reader after 1 day of not really being able to spend anytime reading and I had over 170 unread posts! I guess part of my problem is that I like to comment on the blogs that I read – which takes extra time!
The main reason I didn’t get to read many blogs this Friday was that I had my niece, Angelina, here with us for the day. I wasn’t really worried about her being here – even though she fights with Danika and Danika has a lot of trouble sharing with her. All three of the “big kids” ended up on our Naughty Step at one point or another…but I do have proof that they can play nice together!
Now, they did manage to get EVERY toy out of EVERY box and container in the house. They even went down to the basement (aka the “Toy Store” in our house – Nate’s name for it since that’s where we store the overflow of toys) and they played down there. I have yet to actually clean up the havoc they reeked down there – I just haven’t been getting enough sleep to get up the energy. For some reason the babies weren’t sleeping well. Thursday and Friday night they were up at insane hours wanting fed and held. Last night was better, though, so of course I picked last night to catch up on some TV.
We watch quite a few TV series these days. We didn’t for the first few years we were married – it was too tough to be tied down to sitting in front of the TV at a certain time of the week. Because of the beauty of DVR, we are hooked on TV again. Last night we caught up on episodes of – Spartacus Blood and Sand, Community and Parenthood.
Now – Spartacus is bad TV. Really bad, actually. So bad that we can’t help but watch it. I say at least once per episode that we should stop watching it – but I know we won’t. We are too curious about what will happen to this man turned gladiator who lost everything and has nothing left to live for . . .
Community just rocks! It started out kind of slow…but man is it awesome now! I LOVE Joel McHale and in this week’s episode he takes his clothes off!! I seriously would have never guessed he was so well defined. Plus, the whole Abed/Troy friendship cracks me up…they are hysterical.
Parenthood was okay. I think my biggest problem with this pilot was that there was too much drama and not enough comedy. The movie was a good mix of drama and comedy – this seemed like one problem after another with only one small piece of comic relief (one that was already shown on the preview). I will keep watching it, though because Peter Krause is a favorite of mine. I did cry real tears while watching. When Peter’s character’s wife confronts him about their son, Max, possibly having Aspergers. Of course, he is in denial and she looks at him and says, “There is something wrong with our baby. Please, don’t make me go through this alone.” Max looks to be about 5 or 6 in the show…maybe a little older. The fact that she used the word baby was probably a major contributing factor to why I was bawling my eyes out. It reminded me of that Olympics commercial -
Made me cry EVERY time!
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So - besides being Friday Follow is is also Five Question Friday...figured I'd kill 2 birds with one stone (so to speak) since I'm actually up in a somewhat quite house! 3 out of 4 are still sleeping - as they should be at 6am - but my "baby baby" is up and ready to go because he went down at 6 pm and never got back up last night. Slept the whole night through!
1. What's your guilty pleasure?
Hmm...blogging. Reading blogs, writing blogs - they all take up time that I could be doing other things. I try to squeeze it in when I don't have other things to do, but I ALWAYS have other things to do.
2. What is your favorite TV series?
We hardly ever watched TV until we got our DVR - now we record everything and catch up on it when the kids are asleep. I have a couple favorites but the two that I've really been enjoying that aren't on a premium channel (because I don't count those as TV for some reason) are Glee and The Good Wife - not necessarily in that order.
3. Can you speak any foreign languages?
Nope - I took Latin in High School to help with my SAT grades. I'm not sure if it did that or not. My SAT's were pretty good but nothing amazing. I didn't mind taking Latin, but I do wish I would have taken a more practical language - HOWEVER if you ask my Latin teacher he would tell you that Latin words are the roots for all of those other languages...so if you understand Latin you can understand all of those other languages, too. Maybe, but you can't speak them...
4. How many pairs of shoes do you own?
I hate shoe shopping...really, I do. I own...8 pairs of shoes. 2 pairs of tennis shoes, 1 pair of dress boots, 1 pair of winter boots, 1 pair of Crocs, 1 pair of dress shoes (black), 1 pair of sandals, and I think 1 pair of flip flops. I have purchased shoes for special occasions like weddings, but I always end up getting rid of them shortly after because I know I'll never wear them again and they just collect dust.
My husband, however, is addicted to shoes. He probably has 20-25 pairs. I make him throw a pair out every time he buys a new pair because we have no more room for his shoes. Go figure.
5. What's your favorite kind of M&M's...peanut, almond, straight up regular, etc.?
I like ALL M&M's. In fact you would be hard pressed to find a piece of milk or dark chocolate that I don't like...not a fan of white chocolate, though.
I'd have to say that the dark chocolate M&M's are probably my favorite with the almond ones coming in a close second!
So...there you go! Head on over to Mama M's place and grab the questions to play, too! Leave me a comment so I can come read your answers!
So - I'm trying something new this Friday. It will probably result in me spending way too much time (the time I have, that is) hopping around and discovering new blogs to follow! I'm actually excited because I LOVE reading blogs!
Here's the "rules":
–Link up your blog name and URL using the MckLinky below. Only need to add on one blog to be seen on all the blog hops.
–Follow the Friday Follow hostesses (One 2 Try, Hearts Make Families and Midday Escapades!) listed in the first 3 slots. They will follow you back.
–Follow as many blogs as you’d like.
–Comment on the blogs telling them you’re from Friday Follow.
–Follow back when you get a new follower through Friday Follow.
The Blog Hop is the same at each of our three hosts blogs so you do not have to add your blog at each site. Just one – but you can follow each!
