Still Here

I've kinda been m.i.a. the last few days. I've been trying to finish getting everything out of my house and moved to my apartment. When I'm at the apartment, I've been trying to get boxes moved to the rooms they go in and get them unpacked and put away. This is wearing me out. I am exhausted. Other than moving, I haven't been able to get in any workouts the last couple of weeks. That really sucks. Now that we have 24 hour access to a workout facility, I should be able to workout more. I say "should" because that doesn't mean that I actually will. Pretty much the only times I will really be able to workout will be after guru gets home from school and can watch the kids so I can go. However by that point in the day, I am pretty much pooped! If I do workout in the evenings, and get a bolt of energy, then I won't be able to get to sleep at a decent hour and will be up too late and not be able to get my day started well the next morning. It's an endless cycle I tell ya. Boy this being a full time mom to 3 thing is really something. I always really wanted 4 kids, but I am beginning to doubt my ability to keep my sanity and function properly. I have a hard enough time with 3. Oh well...I just have to keep reminding myself that in a couple of years, I'll have a built in babysitter. Haha. Well, I'm just rambling cause I don't really have anything blogworthy and I'm waiting for guru to finish his online homework on the other computer so we can go back to the apartment and unload another bunch of stuff for me to unpack. More to come later. I still need to post some pictures from the arena football game last weekend. Good times...good times.

You Know You're A Mom When...

* Your feet stick to grape jelly on the kitchen floor--and you don't care.

* When the kids are fighting, you threaten to lock them in a room together and not let them out until someone's bleeding.

* You can't find your cordless phone, so you ask a friend to call you, and you run around the house madly, following the sound until you locate the phone downstairs in the laundry basket.

* Your idea of a good day is making it through without a child leaking bodily fluids on you.

* Popsicle's become a food staple.

* Your favorite television show is a cartoon.

* You're willing to kiss your child's boo-boo, regardless of what body part it happens to be on.

* You're so desperate for adult conversation that you spill your guts to the telemarketer that calls and HE hangs up on YOU!

* You buy cereal with marshmallows in it.

* You count the sprinkles on each kid's cupcake to make sure they're equal.

* You have time to shave only one leg at a time.

* You hide in the bathroom to be alone.

* Your kid throws up and you catch it.

* You get up at 5:30 AM and you have no time to eat, sleep, drink or go to the bathroom, and yet... you still managed to gain 10 pounds.

I found this on my babycenter board and there is just so much truth in it that I just had to post it.

Bad Attitude?

Actually, at this point, I'm suprised I scored as high as I did on this. I thought for sure I would've scored lower. Hey, I'm average, maybe I'm not as bad as I thought!

How Your Attitude Ranks

Your Attitude is Better than 30% of the Population If you scored... 80-100: You've got a winner attitude. You're always optimistic and cheery. Your personality will get you far in life. 60-79: You have a good attitude. While a realist, you do see the positive side of most things. People love to be around you. 40 - 59: You have a positive attitude... somtimes. You prefer to see the world through clear glasses, not rose colored ones. 20 - 39: You have an average attitude. You take the good and bad in life as they come. Though sometimes you could use a little more good. 0-19: You have a negative attitude. You tend to see the dark side of every situation. Free ice cream? No thanks, it will just make you fat!

How's Your Attitude?

But Everybody Else Is Doing It!

So I'm going to post a quiz too.

You Are 30 Years Old

30 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Packing and Puking!

Those 2 words pretty much sum up the last couple of days around my house. As some of you may know, my family and I are moving. (In an effort for me to be able to continue to stay home with the kids, we are cutting back on our expences by moving out of our house and into an apartment and taking our children out of private school and into public school. I still have mixed feelings about public school, but at this point we don't really have a choice monitarily. It's just plain too expensive and I do NOT have the patience to homeschool!)

So anyway, I have been working my butt off the last couple of days by cleaning out closets and drawers and getting rid of stuff we no longer need. We cleared out our crawl space in the basement and I'm currently going through all those totes and boxes full of (mostly) toys and throwing a TON of stuff away! I've also been sorting and washing kids clothes and separating them into stuff to take to a second hand store to see if they'll buy any of them and stuff to just skip that step and take them right to good will. Bad news is, they only take 2 boxes of stuff at a time, per person at the second hand store. So, looks like I'll have to take a few trips. Dag, how in the world have these kids accumulated so many clothes? It's sickening I tell ya.

And the toys, oh the toys!! I know I could probably sell a lot of them, but it is so much work and very time consuming (and since we're on a time limit) I'm simply tossing the toys we no longer want to keep. It's amazing how much junk we have.

Now on to the puking part. Yesterday, my oldest daughter woke up not feeling so great and by mid morning, she was puking! Great! I tried to keep her away from the other 2 as much as possible, but nevertheless, my 9 month old son woke up around 6 am throwing up! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Poor little man!
Fortunately, he doesn't act sick except for when he's puking. Then he gets cranky and unhappy for a few minutes. But then he's back to normal until he pukes again. Not fun times! I am still hoping that the rest of us won't get this virus, but, I'm sure it's just wishful thinking.

Do you all know how impossible it is to pack for a move (or do anything for that matter?) when you can't put the baby down for more than 2 minutes at a time? Darn near, I tell you, darn near! If you looked at my house now, you would probably be wondering what I've been doing around here besides making a mess. But I promise you I HAVE been busting my butt as much as I possibly can. Well, time to go change a poopie diaper. Ah, the joys of parenting! :)

Snow"ball" fight anyone?

Ho Hum

Wow! I can't believe it's been almost a week since I last posted. It really doesn't seem like it's been that long. Nothing really going on with me worth blogging about. The baby has been sick and has had me up in the middle of the night for the past couple of nights. As guru blogged about, we went to see Hitch on Saturday. That was our Valentine's date. We don't get to go out very much by ourselves anymore. With three children and no one who can watch all of them at once, we often have to get 2 different sitters. My dad kept the girls for a couple of hours and my grandma kept the baby while we went to dinner and a movie. It was a good time. I found the movie very enjoyable. I love Will Smith movies, and Kevin James is just hilarious (the fact that he looks and acts like my bro, ghraper, makes him even funnier to me). So, the combination was good and made for lots of laughs. I love to laugh, but don't do it often enough. Guess that's the price that comes with a depressing and boring existance. Well, that's it for now. I need to go feed the baby.

Dirty Monitor?

Here you go...Let me know if it helps.

Food Pyramid