Bad Mommy!

I feel really bad. Last night was trick or treat and I was going to take my kids to the harvest festival. We had all been looking forward to going for a couple of weeks. Well yesterday afternoon, I started feeling really ill. I was achy all over and my stomach was doing flip flops. I don't understand what brought this on. I felt so weak and sick I could barely move. After picking up my oldest daughter from school, I knew I couldn't make it home, I needed to rest. I stopped by my grandma's house to have her help me with the kids so I could take a nap. (and try not to vomit!) So my grandparents took the kids out to dinner while I rested. I finally felt ok enough to drive home around 8:30. I tossed and turned all night. I couldn't get comfortable. Today I've felt somewhat better. Actually a TON better compared to last night. So now, I just have to make sure I take them up to Delaware Sunday night so they can trick or treat. I just feel bad that they didn't get to go to the festival. When we got home last night, my younger daughter saw her costume and said "you said we were going to get to wear those today", I felt so terrible!

A Little "Funny"

I saw this on babycenter today and thought I'd share with blog world...

John invited his mother over for dinner. During the meal, his mother
couldn't help noticing how beautiful John's roommate Julie was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between John and his roommate, and this only made her more curious.
Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between John and his roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom's thoughts, John volunteered, "I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Julie and I are just roommates."
About a week later, Julie came to John and said, "Ever since your mother came to dinner, I can't find the silver gravy ladle. You don't suppose she took it, do you?" John said, "Well, I doubt it, but I'll send her an e-mail just to be sure."
So he sat down and typed: "Dear Mother, I'm not saying you 'did' take a gravy ladle from my house, and I'm not saying you 'did not' take a gravy ladle. But the fact remains that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner. Love, John."
Several days later, John received an e-mail from his mother which read:
"Dear Son, I'm not saying that you 'do' sleep with Julie, and I'm not saying you 'do not' sleep with Julie. But the fact remains that if she were sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the gravy ladle by now. Love,
Mom."

Thanks to Kami for that little laugh.

LA Weight Loss

Dag! It sucks to have no money! I went in there today to check out their program because they were advertising $5 a week, so I thought, I should do it. I thought it would be a pay as you go type of thing. Well, I get there and they want all the money up front. I don't have $540 (what they calculated it would be to get to my goal and do their other 2 steps totalling 101 weeks) to just lay down today! Apparently after like 6 months or whatever, you get half of it back. And if I understood correctly, you get some $ back at the end too. But I just don't have the $ to start. That sucks. I think I am doomed to be fat forever. I have no willpower! Somebody help me!!!

Half way to a year!

My baby is 6 months old today! It is so hard to believe that it was six months ago today at 5:20a.m. that he was born. It truly doesn't seem like it's been that long. He goes to the Dr. on Friday, so I can update you then on his progress. I think he's around 17 lbs. I have no idea how long he is. He will also have to get some shots so, I'll be in for a mighty fun weekend! Yea!

Baby Bums

I just love 'em. Especially my baby's bum. This is his favorite sleep position these days. It used to be that he absolutely hated being on his tummy. He would throw a fit if you'd lay him on his tummy, and throw a fit if he turned onto his tummy and couldn't roll back over. (Now, of course, he can turn over on his own very well). But now, if you lay him on his back, he'll almost always turn to his tummy immediately, even if he is sleeping. He loves to sleep on his tummy-tum-tum. He is also getting up on his hands and knees now and rocking back and forth. (he also gets up on his hands and toes and makes a "bridge"). He wants so badly to crawl. I don't know if I am ready for this yet. I can't believe he is going to be 6 months old on the 26th. He's growing up way too fast. And I know that once he starts to crawl, there's no turning back. He'll be on the go constantly.

Monkins

Well I went to the pumpkin show this evening. (My younger daughter used to call them "monkins", hence, the title of this post). My 4 year old got lost for a minute. That was frightening. We walked across the street to watch a demonstration of this food chopper thing that is really cool, which we didn't even get to watch, and we were getting ready to walk away from that and I realized that she was not in sight. That was a very scary moment. Among all of those people it would have surely been difficult to find her. Fortunately my bro spotted her and apparently there was a lady that was trying to help her find us. She must have looked away for a second and then lost us in the crowd. She was crying and I felt terrible. I was (and am) so thankful that it was for such a short time and that I didn't have to spend the entire night looking for her.

Christmas Present For Dad

Lemetellyousomethingkids. Thaaaat's right. In Living Color. I've got to get this for my dad. I remember watching this show every Sunday evening. He really liked this show and he adoringly referred to it as "Black Is Beautiful". So, when I saw the other day that it is now available on DVD, I decided I must get it for him.

A Cat, A Cow, And A Lion

What do these things have in common? They are my kids' Halloween costumes. I've decided I am going to take them to the Harvest festival on beggar's night. And since they have to go dressed as a Bible Character or an animal, these seem to fit just nicely. They seem really excited about going to the festival and it sounds like a lot of fun. And like I stated before, they really do get bored with trick or treating after a very short time. (We're lucky to do one street). So this should provide some more excitement for them. As for me, I haven't dressed up for Halloween in over 10 years!!! The last time I can remember dressing up was when I was in 8th grade, so I would have been 13. And even then, I felt silly, like I was too old to be dressing up. I'll be sure to post a pic of them in their costumes.

My Old High School...

It was closed today because of some sort of threat. Here's the news about it...

Groveport-Madison High School is closed after school officials say they received "some kind of credible threat."
All three sessions at the high school are closed.The assistant principal says, "At 6:30 or 7:00 this morning, a note was found taped to the building where students enter. We followed up at the bus garage and we were lead to believe this was a credible threat."
In the note was written that if school officials did not find the threat credible, they should check the bus garage.At the garage, officials say they found an accelerant, possibly bomb making material.
Bomb sniffing dogs have been called out to the bus garage and police are investigating whether or not the threat came from a student.

That's a little freaky!

Which M&M are you?

Sorry, yet another personality quiz. I came across this on babycenter and had to post it. I'm Orange...go figure...

A Political Poll

Just thought it would be interesting to see who people are voting for. Leave me a comment and let me know who has your vote and why.
W? OR

Kerry?

Trick or Treat?

I can't decide if I should take my children trick or treating this year or take them to a harvest festival at Jersey Baptist Church. The festival looks really fun and my kids usually get bored after trick or treating for about 20 minutes. I did notice that Deleware is having their beggar's night on Sunday Oct. 31st, so I could see about taking the kids up there to where my cousin lives to trick or treat on Sunday and take them to the festival on Thursday. What do you think?

I'm Lois

I took guru's Family Guy quiz and turns out...I'm Lois. I don't think it is completely accurate for me though. It is partially. But I wouldn't call myself confident or say I have a healthy balance between having fun and being productive.

Which Family Guy character are you?

And I am married to Peter....

A Whole Week

I can't believe I let a whole week go by without blogging. I have sat down a couple of times thinking I would blog, but then got called away before I could. Today I am going with my younger daughter to Pigeon Roost Farm on a field trip. It is rainy, and she'll be picking a pumpkin, so that should be fun. NOT! I have been busy though. On Sunday, I dropped the baby off to my grandma and the girls went with my dad after church, and I got to come home and have the entire afternoon to clean!! Unfortunately, it took the whole afternoon just to clean my upstairs. The kids' rooms were terrible. I spent most of my time in those rooms. I still have some other things to do up here, like vacuum and clean the mirrors and counters, but other than that, I just have to keep it clean. (not such an easy task, however, with my children around). Well, it's off to the pumpkin patch.

My answers to G's meaningless survey

1. Pet Peeves: People who only go the speed limit, semi's in the fast lane.

2. Favorite Sounds: the sound of quiet.

3. Desk Items: CRT, printer, speakers, phone, scanner, no purple pen, CD's, trash.

4. Biggest Fears: outliving any of my children.

5. Biggest Challenges: trying to lose weight, thinking positively.

6. Newest 'Toys': I can't tell you, but it's in a drawer next to my bed (wink).

7. Most Used Words: jack@$$, STOP IT, GIRLS!, Shhh, the baby's eating.

8. Most misspelled Words: nutheeng, I uze spel chek!

9. Favorite Cartoon Characters: looney toons.

10. Your Homepage: Google

Taxi Anyone?

Is anybody planning on going to see the new Movie with the cutie-pie Jimmy Fallon? It's about a cop (JF) who can't drive and has to take a taxi (driven by Queen Latifah) around Manhattan to chase female bank robbers. I don't know if it will be good or not. I saw a clip from the movie that looked amusing. I'll have to look at the reviews to see if I think it will be worth the $8.00. What do you think?

A Fun Questionaire

1. What's your middle name : Ellen
2. What color pants are you wearing right now? red gym shorts
3. What are you listening to right now: my hubby snoring in the next room
4. What was the last thing you ate: cheese pizza
5. If you were a crayon what color would you be: green
6. How is the weather right now: fair and 59 degrees
7. Last person you talked to on the phone: my dad
8. First thing you notice about the opposite sex: it depends on if they are facing me or turned away from me (hehe). It's either face or butt.
9. How are you today? tired
10. Favorite Drink: diet root beer (is that 1 or 2 words?)
11. Favorite sport: volleyball or tennis
12. Hair Color: blonde
13. Eye Color: blue
14. Do you wear contacts: occassionally
15. Siblings: 1 older brother (ghraper)
16. Favorite Month?: October
17. Favorite Food(s): Italian
18. Last movie you watched: Annie
19. Favorite Day of the Year: September 12th
20. Summer or Winter: summer
21. Hugs or Kisses: hugs
22. Chocolate or Vanilla: chocloate
23. Living Arrangements: with hubby and our 3 children
24. What books are you reading? Bible
25. What's on your mouse pad: don't have one
26. Favorite Board Game: scattergories
27. What did you do last night? Watched "Joey" and the Presidential debate
28. Favorite Smells: Cool Water cologne for men
29. Can you touch your nose with your tongue: nope
30. What inspires you? Jesus, my children, people who overcome devestating odds
31. What is the best vacation you have ever had? Kiawah Island 4 years ago

If you get a chance, fill out your answers on your own blog, and leave me a comment that you did so I can check them out.

Holy Pumpkin Show, Batman!

It's just 3 weeks away! We missed the festival last year because I was preggers and was not feeling well. Hopefully we will be able to attend this year. Maybe even take the kids. My hubby doesn't really like to do these kind of things. He will go as long as we don't take the kids along, but, it's time that we be parents and start making memories with our kids. Like ghraper said. (Though I myself have been thinking this as well). I am also looking forward to taking the kids to Lynds Fruit Farm and picking some apples and pumpkins. guru doesn't want to do these things with the kids because of the hastle of keeping track of them and keeping them from fighting, but when I think back to my childhood, these are the things I remember and have fond memories of. Going apple-pickin' on a fall Saturday. Walking around the Pumpkin show and seeing the pumpkin pie that was bigger than I was. My parents didn't really have a lot of money when I was growing up, but they always enjoyed making things like this special for us whenever they could.

What do you do?

When a friend of yours tells you that he will burn you a copy of a Brian Regan CD, and then days, then weeks, then even months go by and still....no CD? I keep hearing little snippets from the CD, people quoting the funniness that is Bri-OWN, and I keep saying, "I still would like to hear the rest of that CD", and yet the friend has still neglected to burn it for you? What to do? What to do? Maybe I could send him a subliminal message or something, and he will get that to me STAT.