flooring issue resolved!

Well, with impending doom looming over us... oh I mean with a move to certain death by dehydration, er... uhmmm... okay, with a possible move to somewhere, we gotta get our butts moving on this house, and where we wanted to take the time to do it with finesse not just to get'er dun' and with very limited funds to do sooo much in soooo little time well it just gonna be not so nice:( but functional. I'm gonna have to live with that!!! This weeks adventure was how to not have to jack our front door up 1 inch, or replace it like we wanted to accommodate our new Pergo flooring... apparently a very common issue in homes in this area. So we are cheating and making a 3'x3' laminate entryway... almost like a built in floor mat. I actually think I'm going to like it better anyway, plus I can change it every so often if I feel like it since it is laminate... you know in my daydreams where this is all just one big nightmare that I wake up from and find out we don't have to move! So I've got my supplies, and tomorrow promises to be cooler... I should be able to spend at least an hour or two on it!!! Plus we got spackle and paint for the foyer... one room planned, supplies bought on the cheap, and soon to be started!!!

I thought 2010 was suppose to be better...

... not so!
I finally after 7 years of wondering what to do now that I got kids had a plan, made some goals, acted on them. The house is almost finished. And I start a business... based on plants... landscaped plants!!! Hubby is losing his job... or being relocated... to far far f$@%ing away. I married a Morris not a Murphy!!! I'm so depressed I could sleep until we have to move!

Oh and Ti failed his food challenge today... he is allergic to TREE NUTS... when in doubt just don't feed him;) We had fun at Johns Hopkins all day!!!

New Soap, for my fur-less friends

It's springtime... which means actual baths for my fur-less companions, so we all climbed into the tub the other night... okay I got in and Buddha jumped up and thought about it awhile till I pulled her in, Olivia... well I had to take her in with me! One day I need to but on my bathing suit and take pictures of this process b/c it's cute! Anywho, as I was shampooing Olivia I was thinking it would be great to have a soap specific to the sphynx breed and be able to have it in a terry cloth pouch! That was Wednesday night, now Sunday I have a recipe cooling in the fridge and a pattern awaiting the sewing machine! It would be great for newborn babies as well!!! A gentle mix of castile soap, calendula petals, lavender buds, oats, and milk... I can't wait for bath time!!!!

february may june july

yeah that's my new calendar and I'm sticking to it! So much for keeping up with my blog! I tried, I'll try again, besides nothing but illness and general crankiness to report on! My biggest new news is that we are pulling everything together to open a business mostly internet based. Hubby gets to tinker with a website so he is pleased, I get to play with crafts and plants... lots and lots of plants. 4t's Lavender Farm As of now I have close to 75 lavender plants, between 20-25 varieties. Plus we have many other good herbs to make yummy bath salts, bombs, and teas. I'm working on a holistic especially for pets, and another line in the back of my head to go to charity for ASPCA probably since they cover small pets up to horses. More later I promise... plus pics!

just cuz it's a bug doesn't mean you gotta squish it!

Apparently for folks trying to beat red lights that thought wasn't one of them. I will admit it could have been far far far worse! In some ways it was good it was snowing a bad kind of snow that I'm not fond of or I would have been farther into the intersection... I was driving like an old geezer! Of course me being the bad example 99% of the time, this was the 1% of the time I choose to wear my seat-belt and that is what has screwed up my back and kept me out of work all week, plus my eardrum that keeps oozing blood... but that doesn't hurt anymore, I just can't hear out of it... really annoying! Buggy should come home from the car hospital Tuesday or Wednesday weather permitting!

As a side note never lock the car rental keys in the rental car... they don't keep spares at the rental place, gotta triple a, it sucks all around!!!

New Years Resolutions

I stopped making resolutions long ago, the ever over achieving suck-up that I am could not handle something on a to do list with a time constraint not getting done. Well folks perhaps that was to drastic, perhaps instead of making those big resolutions like everyone else, I should stick with manageable for me resolutions... so this year that's what I'm trying. Notice I gave it 3 weeks before posting! So of course there is everyone's wishful hope that usually gets crushed by some monetary crisis... but I made a plan! I hope to be Credit Card debt free by the end of the year. We've been so behind the 8 ball for so many years, paycheck to almost paycheck... why can't the bill companies realize that if I get paid on the 31st they aren't going get that payment on the 2nd? Anyway... for at least until late spring I'll be working 3 jobs. We just paid off our 4 highest interest bills smart thinking there, and will make as large of payments each month as possible on the next highest interest bill. We sat down and made a plan... in some ways that is almost more important to me than completing this resolution! My second resolution is Miss Lisa's fault :P she thought it would be fun to try something new every week... I thought so too, but that it would not work with my debt free resolution, so I downsized it. Every other week I try a new wine, every other week I try a new mixed drink! My first mixed drink was a Homecoming equal parts Irish Cream, and Amaretto... liquid candy is all I have to say! Then I tried the Hazlitt Vineyards Red Cat Wine, meow... I don't like red wine... well now I do! This weeks drink was a Widget... I don't suggest it... if you like girly drinks, that is...equal parts gin and peach schnapps. It would have been much better if I had added ginger ale, or doubled the schnapps I think. Next shall be the Hazlitt Vineyards White Cat!!

See told you I'd do better!

So today was a big first in the lives of one of our little men. The little man himself went to the dentist! We all wanted to keep it simple and go to the same one and since they won't see children under 5 we had not pushed the subject. Well look out 2010 cause I'm tearing it up already! So the plan was I would get my exam/cleaning first with a certain someone watching and watched by Daddy then he would have his turn, and we would just get as far as possible, as I detest the dentist I was prepared to pay for the cleaning of one tooth. Well as luck would have it I woke up with a migraine and since I had to go to work and holding my mouth open that long always gives me a migraine Daddy got the appt, but he had to be a few minutes late, which meant my little man had to forego the example. He hated the x rays being taken, then did not want to let the dentist look at all, but then the dentist gave him a print out of his x ray and all was right in the dental world... not just one tooth but the whole mouth cleaned, all the while flirting with all the girls... OF COURSE!!! Let's see want happens in 6 months! I didn't think a picture would be appropriate... but he was awfully cute in his flirtatious ways!

2010 seriously... already?

Yeah okay gotta be better this year with updating the blog, I did good for a while there in 2009 then I got sick and then the days got shorter and well bed just looks so much more inviting with two cats and a book to curl up to than a computer at a desk! So well this week coming up I hope to put out our x-mas/holiday/happy 2010 family newsletter here-going green. Along with it will be the x-mas card photo that I neglected to send to anybody... soon, I'll be sending out Happy 2010 cards! I can only try to be better!

Mama has been sick...

We've been doing some fun stuff but I haven't been updating at all and because I've been lazy I've been taking lots of photo's but with my IPhone so I have to figure out how to download them and then I can do so more back blogs. Also stay tuned I should have the X-mas letter with the X-mas photo up soon... hard copies should be mailed out this/next week.

I decided to pull some teeth...

 

 

... well at least you'd have thought that if you had just witnessed me trying to get our x-mas photo taken. Gosh, what spoil sports... 120 shots and I have maybe 5 to work with... which okay I only need one... but still. I'm not giving the shot away because it's great but look at these guys shear torture!!!! Ughhh... Will they ever cooperate???

Welcome

 

So the poor little man's first big boy field trip got rained out and cancelled... no pumpkin patch today. But I had taken the day off of work to chaperone and fulfill my new duties as one of the school's yearbook photographers. So I got a hold of Ms. Hoover and asked if she needed a volunteer for the classroom. As it turned out she could use someone to help carve a pumpkin that she had got to help pass the time in her now unplanned day. Pumpkin... me carve a pumpkin... I would never do such a thing... it's only my most favorite activity of the whole year. So I headed up to the school this morning... and spent 2 1/2 hours carving welcome into a pumpkin... can't be having evil Halloween in the schoold anymore. It was a really neat but intricate design... I think Ms Hoover is afraid I'll never come back. It was actually totally cool... the kids were mostly awesome, and I know my little man was happy I could have lunch with him and see his classroom and his friends. It was nice... well maybe not lunch... 120 kindegarteners... that was scary... scarier than Halloween!!!!

It's time for haircuts...

Since my little man needed a haircut I thought I'd give my little dude a try at sitting still for someone else and hope he wouldn't sream and cry for them. It worked, he sat as still as a statue and got his hair trimmed up. Next was big brothers turn... not so good at sitting still but he got a great little do! I'm sure school pictures won't be anytime soon and I'll probably never get them to cooperate again for the stylist! Oh well they look adorable for my pics!!!!!

MY ANGEL!

 

Apple Orchard

Okay so the PKU Fall Festival was held in an apple orchard... which ended up okay with the boys even though I told them it was a pumpkin patch. We got to pick 6 bags of apples which in turn I'll make into apple butter! There was a maze made out of haystacks/bundles... which they boldly took... following of course two very cute girls. Oh and we can't forget the awesome hayride. All in all a great day out for the three of us and Miss Lisa! I did cave and I bought the boys pumpkins since we couldn't pick any... Little dude picked out a snake gourd, which we will carve into a snake, and the Little man got 3 baby pumpkins of different colour which we will put on a serving platter with spiders milling about on it! So much fun stuff planned for Halloween!!!!

meow...

Check out our new blog! We just adopted two sphynx cats and because their family was sad to see them go I decided to start a blog for the cats... should be much fun! I still am having a few technical difficulties... but I promise backblogs are coming, little dude has, 1st day of preschool pics and a PKU fall festival coming up this weekend and of course we will have cat pictures!!!!!

BACK BLOG Aug 30th I broke down...

 
 
 
It was so hot, and they had been so good... I bought them water guns... and we all had soooo much fun EVEN GRANDPA!!!!

BACK BLOG AUG 29th DRESS UP

 
 
 

I think I should get them proper dress up clothes... although finding how imaginative they can get with what they have is too much fun!!!!

Back Blog Aug 22nd CAUGHT!!!

 
 
 

Yup caught in the act of occupping opposite ends of one sofa without kicking, hitting, biting,or screaming. See they can get along... just only once a year!!!!!

THIS IS WHY I BOUGHT A BUTTERFLY BUSH!

 
 
 

uhmmm... printer... check...

lazy me... check.

T-man got my new state o the art printer set up... and hooked up some cable so I can attach the camera directly to the computer. But I totally have been too lazy to download any pictures... I promise tonight or tomorrow... we got pics of the little dude's first day of school. He waited by the door for an hour with his shoes and backpack on... he was totally excited and ready to go!!!!!