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

I'm Back!

I know I have been slacking in the blog department lately. I really don't have that much to say. There's that whole thing going on with guru, but 2 other people have already mentioned that so I won't be a copycat.

I went out with Sweetiepie this weekend and had a wonderful time. We went to the Mall at Tuttle Crossing and ate at Ruby Tuesday and then walked around the mall a while. We looked in Victoria's secret in their clearance bins but all they had left were smalls and extra smalls. I'm telling you my 7 and (almost) 5 year old daughters have bigger undies than some of those things. I don't know how any adult woman could wear those. They would have to have absolutely NO shape to them whatsoever. To be honest, and this is just me here, I prefer a woman with some curves. I like to see hips that are wider than her waist. To me that signifies being a woman and not a little girl. A typical hourglass shape.

Anyway, sweetiepie and I ransacked her entire house looking for our freshman yearbook to reminisce. Unfortunately we had no luck. I also cannot find mine and we both really wanted to look at it. (We met our freshman year of high school, and she cannot remember the teacher of the class we met in...nor the class itself.) "Well why don't you just look in one of your other yearbooks for the teacher" you may ask. Well, in the school district we attended, Freshmen have their own building apart from the high school, so the other yearbooks would not have what we were looking for. However, I did talk to another friend of ours from high school this evening who says that our freshman yearbook is the only one she can actually find. So it sounds like we have an excuse to all get together now and look through it together. Well, now all we have to do is arrange a time where all three of us are available at the same time....

The Latest Fashion Trend...

Hey Sweetiepie, we should pick ourselves up some of these while we're out shopping Saturday!!
But seriously, I wonder how long it will be before we see our pastor's daughters sporting these on Sunday Mornings? If you know these girls, you'll know I'm not exactly kidding!

Curves and Avon

In case any of you ladies are interested, If you buy $10 worth of certain products from the current Avon campaign you get a free 2 week trial membership to Curves. I'm going to take advantage of it as I have been with my 2 week guest pass to Bally's. I also have a free 1 week trial to Ladies Workout Express. I think I am going to see how many free trials I can get from different places and then decide which one I like the best and join. I need to keep up with my workouts. I didn't get to go to Bally's today. I was headed out the door to go around 5 this afternoon and was reminded by my daughter that we had cheerleading practice tonight. Argh! We have to be at cheerleading at 6:15, so Bally's just wasn't an option for me tonight. (I couldn't go earlier because my sitter wasn't home). O well. There's always tomorrow, right?

Hmm...

I have nothing of substance to blog about today, but I figured I should blog something since I've been slacking lately. I've been feeling really depressed lately and it's very difficult for me to not just binge on every food in sight. Plus, my stomach still growls constantly. What's the deal with that? It's been 3 weeks for goodness sakes! Well, I'm gonna go watch 7th Heaven now, so later.

Disney On Ice

My younger daughter's 5th birthday is in a couple of weeks and she keeps changing her mind as to whether she wants to have a roller skating party or go to see Disney on ice with just mommy, daddy, and big sister. Of course we would still have the traditional family gathering for Sunday lunch for her birthday so she would still get presents. In fact, I'm leaning towards the Disney thing because, frankly, I'm tired of planning kiddy parties. They're such a pain because you never know for sure how many people will come. Most people wait until the last minute to r.s.v.p if they even decide to do so at all. Plus, without the kiddy party, there aren't so many new toys for me to have to step on and/or trip over. I don't want her to be sad later, though, about not having a party with her friends. But we can also go skating any time and Disney on ice is only in town for a few days. Oh decisions, decisions. Life is tough when you're turning 5!

Who's the Cutest?!

My little man got his first "big boy" bath today. Up until now, I had been using the baby bath tub, but he was getting too wiggly and was trying to crawl out of it.

So, here he is.

My 3 Things Questionaire:

3 screen names you have:
1. Loelsh
2. Lo
3. Avalon912

3 things you like about yourself:
1. I gave birth to 3 beautiful babies
2. I have an o.k. singing voice
3. I have straight teeth (thanks to 3 1/2 years of braces!)

3 things you hate/dislike about yourself:
1. I'm a heffer
2. I'm impatient (am I done with this quiz yet?)
3. I'm always hungry

3 parts of your heritage:
1. German
2. Irish
3. Native American

3 things that scare you:
1. Dying young
2. spiders (ew)
3. being alone

3 of your everyday essentials:
1. sleep
2. pumping
3. food

3 things you're wearing right now:
1. White nursing bra (for my b.o.l.t.'s.)
2. Red gym shorts
3. My wedding ring

3 of your favorite bands/artists (at this time):
1. Clay Aiken
2. Kelly Clarkson
(yes, I love my "idols")
3. Casting Crowns

3 of your favorite songs at present:
1. You Are God Alone (Phillips, Craig & Dean)
2. Who Am I (Casting Crowns)
3. Break Away (Kelly Clarkson)

3 new things you want to try in the next 12 months:
1. Lose weight
2. not to conceive a baby
3. tone my muscles

3 things you want in a relationship:
1. Trust
2. True love
3. Respect

2 truths and a lie:(no particular order)
1. I have been to a Buckeye game
2. I played varsity tennis in high school
3. I can't make decisions

3 physical things about a love interest that appeal:
1. great smile (straight teeth)
2. good sense of humor
3. sexy booty

3 things you just can't do:
1. make myself throw up
2. wear a size 2
3. dance

3 of your favorite hobbies:
1. walking
2. shopping
3. reading romance novels

3 things you want to do really badly right now:
1. go to sleep
2. take a long leisurely bath
3. get my back tickled

3 careers you're considering (don't include what you do now):
1. contemporary christian singer
2. ultrasound tech.
3. interior decorator

3 places you want to go on vacation:
1. Disney World
2. Hawaii
3. Niagra Falls
(I've never been to any of these places)

3 things you want to do before you die:
1. be happy
2. be healthy
3. long life (read: Fiddler on the Roof)

3 people who have to take this quiz now:
1. drifter
2. Guru
3. Peekies

On The Go!

That pretty much sums up my life these days. It seems I am hardly ever at my home! For example today: I got up way too friggin' early so that I could drop off my van to have the brakes worked on.

Then my hubby took me to my grandparents' house so I could borrow one of their cars . Then while I was there, I had to feed the baby his breakfast and then gather all the kids back up and cram them all into the back of my grandma's Corsica.

Then I went to my other grandparents' house so they could watch my kids while I went to go work out. (I have a free 2 week guest pass to Bally's!) So, I ate lunch at their house, then I pumped (for the baby) and then went to work out.

When I got back to their house, my grandma and I and the 3 kids went to Walmart to do some grocery shopping.

When we got back from there, I had to pump again (man that takes up a lot of my time!) and heard from my hubby that my van was done. I really didn't expect them to get it done today. I was pleasantly suprised!

Then it was over to my dads house, since I couldn't reach him on the phone, to go take my other grandparents' car back to them and head out to pick up my van from the shop.

Then finally I got to come on home. After putting up the groceries, cleaning up the kitchen, collecting up all the trash in the house and starting a load of laundry, I am getting a chance to blog.

Of course the downside of this is that the baby has been sleeping for quite a while now and I am hoping that he doesn't wake up when I'm trying to go to bed somewhere between midnight and one a.m. With my luck, he'll be wide awake!! At least the girls had a snow day today, that made things a bit easier for me in that I didn't have to make the 4 usual trips to the school.

Ah...isn't mommy life....wonderful?!!

Gonna win a Pontiac SV6

Yeah, baby! I want to win one so bad. You have no idea how bad I want a new car. I am so sick of our pieces of poop cars. I have to take my current minivan in to get brake work done tomorrow. So lucky me gets to borrow my grandparents' chevy corsica. Woo hoo! Every day in February, Regis and Kelly are giving away one of these vans and are even covering the taxes so it really won't cost a thing to win it. How cool would that be?!! I must win one. I simply MUST! Even better, I must win 2!

Virtual Lo

Well, it's a fairly accurate representation of me. Especially the face. Guru thought at first glance that I somehow added a pic of myelf to make it seem more realistic.

Is it Bjork or Kevin?

I just don't know. In keeping with drifter's post(via guru) I found a nice pic of K.J. for ya. Here you go. We need to find a nice swan for ghraper to wear and post another side-by-side. Well, that's my blog du jour. Loelsh out.