Disney Day 1

We made it here! I'm actually typing this while in bed:) We are back for some downtime. Miss A is fast asleep and Mr C'man is sitting beside me coloring.
Before I get going you know our life is full of adventure and this will be too. We had no problems with getting to the airport, flight, etc .TILL we landed. I thought the airport seemed kind of small and I sure wasn't seeing all the Disney information that I thought I would see. Upon further investigation it was determined we were at the WRONG airport to take advantage of the shuttle services. SOOO after a slight panic at finding out taxi's were @ $120 to get us to our lodge, we called our niece Meg's.
Meg to the rescue. God bless her soul, heart, feet, you get the idea. AND she was only about 2o min from the airport and could come get us. PRAISE JESUS!! I remember tho her telling me 'now you're sure your travel agent knows you're flying to this airport right??'
I responded, yes b/c I gave her our flight information. So yeah, slight miscommunication BUT it all worked out. She brought us here to our beautiful hotel. Did i mention she had left over pizza in the car that C'man and I promptly scarfed down on! Oh and that we didn't have carseats with us!! We just buckled them. shhh
When we arrived I can't remember now what C'man said, but it was pretty funny. Something about being at Disney. Meg you remember?? They both were asleep but only Miss A remained asleep. In fact, she remained asleep during the entire check in, finding room, and I even got her in her jammies with so much as a stir. How wonderful is that.
C'man informed us he wasn't tired and wasn't going to bed. I just let him tell us that, b/c of course, we had different ideas. DH grabbed us supper and there we sat eating on the bed. We thought we were pretty cool. After all, it was 1030 and there we sat eating in bed. (Miss A still asleep)
Eventually everyone was asleep dreaming about the big day to come. Today we headed to Animal Kingdom. We got there @ 9 and stayed till @1230. In that time we saw a musical, parade, rode Dumbo, Merry go round, the tea cups (WHICH by they way, I'm still spinning from. DH thought it would be hilarious to spin the living daylights out of us. I have a video of it and I'm quite sure just me alone, is drop down hilarious), It's A Small World, which hasn't changed since i rode it years and years ago, Peter Pan and I think that's it. We grabbed a bite to eat, hopped on the bus, and now here we are.
After Miss A, and DH, wake up, we will be heading to Hollywood Studios, i believe, where we have supper reservations. Meg will meet up with us later this evening as she has made a trip to Target to get goodies for us (water, milk, etc)
Our room is great. The hotel is amazing. we were watching Zebra's on our way over here. We can see them too when they are near our hotel room, from our balcony. Everything is so animal kingdom. Very authentic. As of right now, I would only recommend staying in lodge. The amenities are amazing.
Till next time....

Disney Is Coming

In 24 hours from me posting this, we will be at the airport checking in. Assuming of course, all goes as planned. THAT the icy/wintery mix misses us, that we get out of here on time and that I get our luggage packed. Why oh why is it taking me forever to do this.
Oh yeah, I know why.
Because I need to wash undies and socks.
Realized that instead of bringing just one pair of jeans, we should bring more. Niece Megs says it gets chilly at night.
I have many Republican obligations I have to get done before leaving for an event that will take place the Friday night we get back (at the moment I'm wondering why on earth the invite I made on my scrapbook program, will not save as a PDF. Everything else I did, did.)
Have to get our Certificate of Good Standing for the CCC off to be considered for grant moneys.

I'm sure I'll be up late tonight getting everything packed while the little ones dream about Disney and my husband sleeps in the chair dreaming about how nice it is that his lovely wife is taking care of all the preparations (until we get there and he realizes he has no undies hehehe).

I had a purse party last night back in my hometown, about hr away from here. Before getting there we made what was supposed to be a quick trip to the doc to have ears checked. HA we didn't get in till 45 min AFTER our appointment. The appt itself lasted a whopping 5 min of which Miss A screamed the entire time and C'man was busy jumping off the exam table. I couldn't wait to get out of there. Ears are still a little red and he said to give them benadryl last night and tonight and then tomorrow. I hate that stuff but will abide b/c i need my kids as close to 100% as I can get them.

The party itself was great. It was so crazy busy. Fun!! Ladies and purses everywhere. When I get back, I'm going to work real hard at taking pictures of what's left and offering them very cheap. So stay tuned!

Well as C'man would say 'only one more dream before Disney' that next time I post should be from Disney. We are taking the lap top and hopefully I'll have time to post. I will be accepting drinks at our room, heck I'd even walk to the bar, anytime b/w 11-3 so feel free to send me some:)

Update

We are back from the Cura Quick clinic. C'man does have a pretty good ear infection and a swollen lymph node. Dang it, I know it's b/c I didn't stay on top of his decongestant. I just hate medicating with stuff like that. Miss A's ear is clearing up.
Afterwards they got a donut and Valentine balloon (I lucked out, they picked out $1.50 balloons). Then while getting the meds an employee brought suckers for ALL the kids waiting to get in to see the doc. (there were at least 5 adults and 5 kids!) C'man let go of his balloon for the sucker. I probably could have jumped up and grab it, but i didn't want to make a scene. They brought me a chair.
Then as we walked out, Miss A decided she didn't' want to leave. I had C'man standing on the curb and her inside the store. I'm holding 2 balloons, bag of groceries and 2 packages with there donuts. Then 3 adults were trying to come in. One man held the door, the other man tried to convince C'man to come back and the lady just chuckled at our sight I'm sure. Eventually Miss A came out (she was looking for a garbage) she proceeded to hand that man her sucker wrapper. Oh good grief i said. At home she just throws stuff on the floor and now she wants some stranger to take her wrapper.
Thank goodness that everyone thought it was cute and told me to not worry about it. It really was refreshing ,b/w yesterday's trip and today, I can not tell you how many compliments I got on both kids. From being cute, to well behaved.
Of course the icing on the cake was coming home to this sight:

Both kids are now sleeping. I laid down with C'man and he said 'sing a song to me mommy'. I sang Jesus Loves Me and other songs. When I'd stop he's sing 'please sing that to me again'. Awwwww

My Nose

Real quick as we're getting ready to head out the door again. C'man has an ear infection. He was up early today crying, holding his ear, telling us how it hurt, etc. I tried an ear candle, did this 'Hear No Evil' herbal treatment which smells HORRIBLE. It required a bath. More crying, fussing, just crabby.

Miss A finally seems to be on the mend from her recent ear infection. But she still has a runny nose and will find me where ever I'm at telling me 'my nose, my nose' to which i wipe and send on her way. She's been up early and been crabby this entire last week.

I think she also has a yeast infection. How is that possible??? Of which I also think I have. Lovely, just what you came over on my blog to read right!?

THEN on Thursday i believe it was, we got an email regarding our Disney trip and that some how it got cancelled!!!!!!! Long story short the lovely Emily got it all fixed for us. We are now staying at Animal Kingdom in a MUCH better room!! There is live animals I guess right there! I checked out the rooms and must admit, I'm so excited!! We will never want to go back to Disney and have to stay at anything any less. This kind of stuff always happens to us. I really didn't panic TO much b/c i knew it wasn't our problem and that Disney/Emily would make it right. Therefore, if you have any travel plans coming up, contact Emily!

So now we are off to the local CuraQuick clinic. I need to get us ALL better. I have 4 days to do that. We are running to the doc Monday afternoon for an ear check on both now.

Never a dull moment here I tell you!!

Amazing Amazon

How many of you shop at Amazon? I do!!! I love it too. As you see, I'm making some updates to my blog to include things that I enjoy. Besides pictures of the kids, music, there are google ads and now Amazon. I'm hoping I can remember to include to the right, the items I've bought from Amazon as well as a critique about them. Maybe you'll find these useful, maybe you won't even pay attention. If you see it beneficial, will you let me know? Feel free to click on any of the items I review to see more information from Amazon. Tell me, and other readers, what you buy from Amazon and what your experience has been.
So continue to watch that side bar for the latest items I've bought.

8 Baby Chick

The house is quite as DH has taken the kids to the farm. That means they'll come home crabby, hungry and covered in mud. But I have a quite house. I might actually be able to do a decent post for once. Sorry if my posts seem so disorganized. I really enjoy blogging but having to go back and re-read it, etc just doesn't work for me.

I think it's time I jump on the band wagon with my thoughts about the young mom who had 8 baby's. When I first heard the story I thought WOW. Great, overwhelming, I hope they are all healthy and thought I'd try to hear more in the days to come. But then, it all started:
Single mom with 6 OTHER kids
I believe it's 3 of them are special needs
Lives with her parents
No dad
a result of IVF.

The last point makes me sick and probably the one that I harbor the most frustration with. Once again IVF is going to get a bad 'rep' by the media. It's not enough that in the last 3 years we have Hollywood starts doing IVF right and left, having twins, etc and it seems to be this trend to do IVF, but now we have this single mother having 8 babies.

I'm disgusted with the doctor that did this. No way in HECK should more then what 3 embryo's had been placed in this lady. No way jose. What was he thinking!? Ahh yes but then there's the it's her right to do with her body as she wants. (an entire different 'political' post about that) But look, now society is going to be raising these kids. YOUR tax dollars will be hard at work raising them. I'm telling you, she will live a better life then me and my 5 closest friends combined. She even said in an interview that she's going to go back to school b/c she can get financial assistance and use it to raise the children. I can't remember who was doing the interview, but they asked, 'Do you think that's right?' she replied 'It works'.

Infertility is a tough disease. I've been there, done that. Many of my blog readers/'followers' (i sound like i'm referring to those people that think Obama is our savior, please don't ask me for a new kitchen) have or currently suffering thru infertility. But my doctors (RE-Reproductive Endocrinologists) that Ive seen at each transfer will advice me how many to put back, we actually discussed this before we even started infertility treatments. I'm not sure if there is any legal issues with how many to put back, obviously there's not, but I think most clinics have general guidelines on it. Of course I never created enough good embryo's to have to decide how many.

I think the doctor in this case, should be held responsible to some point. In what way should he be? I'm not sure maybe he should give her his house that he lives in from making his millions treating infertile couples. Maybe he should help babysit/care for them. Mostly I guess he should have his license taken away. He can go practice out of his garage.

I guess I'm not sure how anyone can be held accountable b/c it doesn't matter at this point. The baby's are here, we as a society will raise them, and at some point life will move on and in 5-15 years they will be forgotten.

I'm mostly hurt/frustrated at the image of infertility is once again slighted. We want people to be aware of the disease. But then something like this happens and the next time you try to talk to someone about infertility there first question will be, 'Will you have 8 babies by doing this?' No that does not need to happen. A responsible RE will make sure they do not put you at risk of that. A healthy 32 yr old women, that has produced a good amount of embryo's could be successful with 2 or 3 transferred.

You know I just had a thought, sooner then later, I bet we're going to find out that the sperm donor is some 21 year old college kid just trying to make some money to put himself thru college, and now he'll want a piece of the media pie to tell his story. Goll darn. That is what will happen. See how media works!!

Sick Kids

Typical 'mommy' post here folks. My baby's are sick. Miss A for over a week now and C'man for a couple days. I'm SO glad we didn't go to MN this past weekend, sister is cross with me tho. Both kids were running pretty good temps by Saturday evening. Needless to say we didn't go out to eat either. I went and got take out. I'm waiting for the doc office to call me back. Hate to rush in there only to find out it has to run it's course. I'm not a big fan of antibiotics either, I'd like to avoid them if at all possible. My friend Shannan is taking her kids to Dr Miller. I'd do that but when!?



Oh and Miss A will NOT take any form of medicine. She screams 'no mommy, no mommy'. It's just lovely around here i tell ya. BUT the weather is like Spring. It's raining out! AND its @ 60.



Cow's are loving it. They frolic around the field. Kicking there heels, running, just really fun to watch them. Although a couple hours ago one was standing in our yard. I yelled at it and it went back to the field. Dirty little bugger. Oh and the pigs!! They are still around. DH was very cross with them yesterday and they just about became pork chops today. He went to feed the cows and the pigs are in with them. Well the pigs got out and he had to chase them thru mud, snow, water, you get the idea.



Speaking of that all, did i mention that a couple weeks ago i got my first chicken egg. I've always been scared of chickens ( i don't like birds). No amount of convincing from my sister or niece would led me in to the coupe. Well C'man had brought me an egg one day when i was at the farm helping with cows. I thought that was so darn cute. SO i followed him back to the coupe. I imagined him talking to the chickens, and being all cute. In the coupe he went. I cautiouslly followed. It wasn't to bad. BUT i had him to distract them while i looked for eggs in the nests. It also helped that none of them were sitting in the nest. For sure then, i wouldn't have attempted. They peck you then. One of them ever pecks me, i'll break there neck. We only got 2 eggs b/c they'd been picked alread that day, but none the less, in the 10+ years i've been on the farm i finally did it. I'm not even 30% sure i want chickens at our place yet, we're still working on that. (the poop, and cleanliness of it all, freaks me out)



In other news:

A young family came and looked at the van yesterday. We're 75% sure it's sold. Will know when we have the cash in hand, which should be Thursday evening. What a relief it would be to have that sold.



Armstrong update:

Well it is not even Noon yet and we are wrestling with what might be some really bad news.
They have taken Armstrong off of his chemo and stopped his radiation. Hopefully only for a short period while they figure out what type of infection he has. :(
The doctor also signed the order for Army to get his wheel chair. This all just feels really bad. We are trying to keep our hopes up the best we can. It hasn't even been 3 months since he was diagnosed.
We just feel like we want to at least have a chance to fight this thing. And when they take away the chemo and radiation we are so helpless to this horrible illness.



I really have nothing more to say after that. I'm feeling very scared, helpless, for them all.

Shop It To Me

OK so here's the deal. I got sent an 'invitation' to join this shopping network from Jen. I went ahead and joined and then sent invitations to others. WELL for every 10 people that signed up I get a $10 gift card. Guess what came in the mail today? A $10 gift card to Starbucks.
I'm pretty excited b/c I'm actually enjoying this shop it to me. You sign up for notices to be sent to you when items/brands/sizes/etc come on sale. For instance I marked 'Uggs', Girls 3t, Boys 4 & 5T clothing, shoes in my sizes, and on and on, in my profile. I choose to get notifications weekly and i've seen some pretty good deals come thru. The bad part is that when i clicked on the size 3T coat for $8.99 it was already gone. HOWEVER they hook lined and sank me b/c I ended up going shopping @ Old Navy/Gap and buying a hefty load of items.

Regardless, I'm in love. More of the fact that people signed up and I got a gift card, but none the less i like to shop for bargains.

I'm going to paste the html here for you to sign up. You can sign up and then unsign yourself right away if you'd like. The people that sign up via this blog, when it gets over 10 I will use that as a give away card. What a cheap skate i am. No really, I'll throw something else in too. Here it is, sign up and the next card I get, will have a drawing!!!
Click here (come on, it's safe. PROMISE!!!)

Indecisive-Who Me?

We are home this weekend and we weren't supposed to be. cry cry We planned on heading to Minnesota to see my niece play hockey. But Miss A got a cold earlier this week and then C'man got it last night. But what sucks about this all is my indecisiveness.
That is a characteristic of myself that i do not like. Here's what happens. We had plans for weeks to head to MN. Then child gets sick AND a request came for DH to deliver mail today. We left it at if kid(s) aren't better by Friday, he'll work. He goes ahead and works. If they had fevers and puking, heck there'd be no question about going or staying. But a cold?? Then Miss A seems to be better yesterday and the, 'what to do' kicks in.
Then last night when C'man went to bed I heard him start coughing. Call sister and say we're not coming. But being that she knows how i am with my indecisiveness she asks 'are ya sure??' Ahh I think I am, but i guess we could wait till AM to make sure.
Ahhh dang it why can't I just make a decision and stick with it.
Forward to this AM. I go ahead and decide we're going. What's a minor cold and cough. There are 100's of people that have them and the kids don't act like they feel like crap. C'man repeatedly tells me we're going to see JoJo play hockey and continually is practicing his latest moves.
I load car up, Miss A starts coughing a little bit more. Hmmmm ok we're not going. C'man responds 'No Mommy, I have to get out of this house' (hmm wonder where he's heard THAT before)
Lots of do we go, do we not, continue on. Me throwing hands up saying 'we're staying home'. C'man giving me the oh so disappointed look, and I say ok hurry up. Then Miss A starts coughing, nope lets stay home. AHHHH. I really need to implement what my friend does of not telling her kids anything till the AM of when they leave. (remember tho i can't keep surprises/secrets/etc so yeah, that just wouldn't work) I eventually pull the plug and say we're staying home. You can watch movies, eat the snacks we would have ate and will just hang out at HOME. (puke)

But what drives me further nuts is why do i feel guilty for such a decision. Is it b/c I'm worried my sister, parents, will be mad/hurt that we couldn't come? do they believe me when i say my kids are sick (parents do) or they think I'm making some sort of excuse.

Ahh little C'man just asked me 'Mommy can we watch JoJo play hockey?" Ahhh man how tempting to hop in the car and go. If it was only 2 hours away vs 3 1/2 we'd be going.

Are any of you indecisive?? Or what characteristic do you have that drives you nuts?

My dad reminded me that this is no life or death decision. There will be more hockey games. Correct, but what would i do if i was face with a life or death decision. I'm actually fairly sure i'd be able to make that decision easier then these 'smaller' one.

Little Armstrong

I have posted about little Armstrong in the past and here's the latest on his carepage:

Army has been having fluid leaking from his incision on the back of his head. There was a day early this week that it just wouldn't stop dripping clear liquid. At first Army's neurosurgeon wanted us to rush to the ER. But after discussion how he was doing neurologically we held off.
Last night Army was complaining of a headache and saying he was going to throw up. This is so worrying to us because he hasn't had that since before chemo and radiation started.
Today Dr. Pouchioni looked at Army and was a little worried, but since Army was feeling ok the Dr. decided to wait and see. His worry was that spinal fluid was the liquid that had been leaking from Armstrong's incision! And may be the reason Armstrong isn't walking.
After our Oncology appointment we all went to the Zoo and while we were there Armstrong got a screaming headache. So bad that we had to give him pain medicine. And even after the medicine his head continued to hurt :(
We called the doctor and they had us come back to the hospital. They decided to do some blood work to see if Army might have an infection in his blood and his temp was over 100. This is all really scary for us.
For now we will wait and see what the blood cultures say and tomorrow after radiation Armstrong will get an MRI to see if they can figure out where the clear fluid is coming from. If it is from the spinal chord we will have to have another surgery very quickly because Army could have a stroke from the build up of that fluid in his brain.
Army is not feeling good at all and had to stay home from the basketball game in Avoca tonight. But Daddy was able to go with Montgomery and I hear they are having an awesome time! ooohhh and Daddy talked at half-time (I totally didn't plan this...but am SO relieved..lol) Daddy and Gummy have been selling t-shirts with the CHEERLEADERS...OOOOHHHH
Oh and we have the new white t-shirts in now as well! They turned out so cute. I will put a pick up on the team-armstrong.org website and here this weekend. We also have bracelets that say team-armstrong and will send those out to anyone who orders a shirt.
Ok, tomorrow is Radiation, MRI, and physical therapy. I just don't know how Army does all this. I'm exhausted and I don't have to do anything but push him around and wait in waiting rooms.
One last thing. The silent auction at The Whole in The Wall is this saturday! It is going to be awesome! go to thewholeinthewall.com to see all the details.
Army is laying here watching The Food Network :) because he is done with his snacks for the night... but can't stop thinking about food. It is so adorable. He is really really interested in what they are cooking!
Thank you all for you're positive energy, prayers, and good wishes. We are a stronger family because we have you all to lean on.

I ordered my t-shirt the other day. Please check out his website if you'd like to order one. Let them know you are reading, and praying for Armstrong!!
Visit Armstrongs webpage to order yours today!
Does anyone know how i can put a widget on my side bar with his T-shirt???

Cattle Moving Pictures

As I said in my previous post, I've made it to the other computer where all the pictures are. So without further ado:

Either DH or BIL moving to cattle right along:

Cows moving down the hill and up the next one (very hilly). I have to add, that when I got out to take this picture i darn near stepped on a pheasant. Scared the heck out of me:)

The scenory along the way. Have i said how beautiful i think it is where we live.

Picture of a 'charolais' (a bred of cow) that i took while passing it to get to the front of the herd.

and now ME!! Wearing my hat that BIL gave us. I knew it would come in handy. I was wearing it in case i had to jump out to stop traffic. I ended up not having to get out at all.

Reaching final destination. This is after we cross the hwy. We run them thru a neighbor field, across a level B road, and in to our land. Don't worry there is a fence b/w cows and C'man. They would never purposely hurt you . I've been in the middle of the herd before. (by accident) They are used to people so it's not unheard of for DH to pat them on the back while moving. Of course we don't let the kids out very often. They ride with PaPa and or me. If C'man walks it's right along side DH. NOW if the dogs are out and a cow gets mad, they are likely to charge the dog which means the dang dog will run behind YOU! Yes that has happened to all of us. We get quite cross with the dogs then. They are then put in the back of the pick up to ride the remaining of the move.

DH helping C'man after fixing some fence.

And last but not least, my favorite picture..............

Day In The Life

I've been asked to portray a little more about life here in regards to my recent facebook status that has regarded our cows.
Between my father in law, DH's Brother, and Jeff they have @ 30 feeder cattle (these cows stay in the 'yards' and will be made fat and sent of to market) and then 37 pasture cows, which consists of cow and calves. The cow/calves are what is at our house now. They graze in pasture during the Spring/Summer/Fall and now are busy cleaning up any leftover corn that didn't get picked up when harvesting. The herd is generally moved from field to field and the last move was one that took us, and them, over 5 miles. We move them by foot and vehicle. The dogs will often help too if needed. Generally the moves go very smoothly. The older cows have made these moves many of times so they know the routine. The worst part of the move is the 1/4 mile we're on a busy hwy. It goes quick and most people are more then willing to wait for the 3-5 min that we are on the road. i think mainly they are in aww about the process since many people don't move them this way.

Many people move cows by trailer/truck. We find that to be very stressful to the animal. They are coraled and then forced to walk thru a ramp/shoot in to the trailer. Since they can only get thru the shoot 1 at a time they end up getting bucked, stepped on all b/c someone at the other end is busy beating them to get them to move faster.

The move can take any where from 1 1/2 -3 hours dependent on the weather. To warm (20-30's) and they move slowly getting hot. There can also be to much snow making it harder on them. There always seems to be a leader and a follower, as in the follower is at the way back of the move and often times has to be told to get going. Or as we say yeup...yup...not sure how to spell that.

During the process either DH or my BIL will follow on foot while the others, DH, myself and my FIL block off potential places where they could get in with our vehicles. Like open gates, broken fences, etc. Let me tell you if the leader of the herd gets off track forget it, the entire herd could escape in to a field causing lots of frustrations and yelling:) Once the first couple of cows go by you are good to move on to the next location. That involves often pushing your way thru the herd with your vehicle, honking your horn. Being very careful you don't cross a cow and he kicks your headlight out:) They will get over eventually allowing you to pass them.

So....now this past Sunday they moved them to our place. I wasn't able to help this time b/c the kids were napping. (that's fine by me.) As I type this they are probably about 600 ft from me. Its our deck, then yard and then the field begins. They take the exact same route at least once/hour. Either going to the creek for water, or coming back out to the field. Taking the same path time after time.

Now with them being over here, always comes some fun (haha) I can remember the times I'd walk out of our bedroom when we were downstairs, and literally cows would be staring at me in the window. Or just this past Sunday after they just got them here, I was sitting at the computer and the next thing i know they are right there. I was able to send the dogs out there and they promptly got them back in the field. Needless to say the hot wire fence was not working and they just walked right over it. You can always tell come Spring where the cows pooped b/c that grass is REALLY green:)

I decided to shoot a quick video b/c honestly that will probably put things in to perspective. Sorry for the mess. Remember we are getting our kitchen 'trimmed' out in the next month or two. A quick appearance of the cat 'sally belly' that's supposed to be outside but she's so darn good with the kids that they often play for hours together.

So there you have it. I'm curious what some of you think of this all.

When I get on our other computer I'll post some pictures. There is the most hilarious picture of a cow looking at me, peeing:) Yeah i know i have a weird sense of humor.

Perfume

Hmm what an interesting title for a post eh?? Those that know me my think why would she blog about perfume. That's right, i never wear it b/c my skin is just to sensitive. I also can have issues with others that wear it. But anyway, even if you aren't a perfume lover, I'm sure we can all think of smells that we like. I love the smell of lilacs for one. I could stand by a lilac bush for hours with my nose stuck in the beautiful flower.

I love the smell of the ocean. I can remember getting to the ocean, while growing up, and stepping out of the car and oh i knew I had arrived. It still smelled the same this past summer. There's a smell i can't smell all the time, outside. I'm not sure if it's just a 'earth' smell, maybe fertilizer, i really have no idea. I'll say to DH 'come here, there's that smell, smell it?'.


But with the smells i like there are more that i do not like. One is Vanilla. I literally would rather slam my hand in a door then catch a whiff of that.

DH is a cologne kind of guy. I love cologne for him. One of our favorites is Cool Water or Aqua Quorum. I have no idea if we can even get this Aqua b/c we got it on our honey moon to Jamaica. So it really has a lot of memories with that smell. Day to day DH where's Polo. I love to smell his clothes and even even they've been washed, i can still pick up the smell of his cologne.


What smells do you like? or dislike? If you could bottle any smell what would it be? take a look and see what others are saying about perfumes/colognes. Maybe you'd like suggestions on what to get hubby for V-day.
new perfume blog

I Could Spit Cotton

I'm so frustrated, mad, WHATEVER at my son right now. He has been such a turd the last 12 hours I'm thinking I'm going to run away!
Last night DH and I went to the city and decided to leave the kids home with our niece. Thank GOD for her, although she may be feeling differently towards us now. (read on) C'man decided he wanted to come with us, about 30 min after he told us he wanted to stay with niece. We ended up leaving without him.
Get home @ 9 PM. He's in bed but gets out. So by 930 he's back up in bed with no fuss. THEN this AM.
I don't even want to post this but I'm going to. He was in our closet taking his jammies off. I went in there to see what he was doing b/c he acted like he either just did something he wasn't supposed to, or was about to. Well i came back .2 seconds later and he had peed in the register on the floor. UN FREAKING BELIEVABLE! I flipped out. Luckily DH was still home and handled some of the discipline. When asked WHY?? He said b/c 'D did it'.

Ah D. He was over yesterday and when I went to the basement to check on them and someone had peed on the floor! D had done it!! Second time this has happened. Of course his mother handled it very well. I won't go in to detail but she was clearly embarrased and mad. So after our incedent with C'man this AM when I talked to friend i told her what happened. She said 'oh know, i'm SO sorry' she sincerely apologized.

I made C'man stay up in his room while I got my wits about myself and the day proceeded. Well it gets better, better not worse, well towards the end. We go and get groceries, no problem, come home start eating lunch and papa shows up to check fences (we are moving cattle to our place tomorrow). Thinking his pickup is like a snow plow, or something, he gets it stuck in the deepest snowbank within the entire field. Mind you 300 ft the other direction and he would have been fine. C'man says to me 'I think papa's truck is stuck' I look, ahhh yes son you are correct.

Papa and niece show up at my door. Papa freaking out b/c he has to be in town within 10 min before the lumber yard closes.He wants to use my van. My CLEAN van that not only did i get washed, but 10 min earlier had vacuumed. Dang it!!! I opt to load the kids up and say 'you're taking the kids with you and feel free to get them some lunch too'

They leave but not with more DRAMA. The stinken garage door will not shut. It starts off then stops. I must now figure out how to get it shut and fast b/c all the heat is escaping. Call DH he says 'push the button and hold it down' HELLO what the hell do you think I've been doing!! I end up having to pull this red cord which releases it from being automatic (or something like that) and am able to get it down.

20 min later niece comes back with my van covered in DIRT/mud/salt! They took it down the gravel roads. Oh man was i fuming. DH calls her as I'm getting the kids out (van is parked outside at this point) and must have asked her how it was going? Her response was the pick up is stuck, van was clean now it's not, kids are crabby and so is 'Rae'! No lie!! But as i walk in the house and see the pick up seating high center in the field, i can not help but chuckle. Truly this is how life is with my FIL:)

No hamburger for the kids so they are famish and gobbling down bowl after bowl of cereal.

NAP TIME!! A goes down no problems. I tell C'man he has to stay in his bed for a couple min. Hoping he'll fall asleep I head out to paint in the garage. C'man comes out and says something about 'papa going by'. He is back working on more fence. I decide to forgo the nap and send C'man out to hang with the 2, now 3 amigos.

Awhile later they drop him off and DH comes home. He takes C'man with him and off they go. Just A and I home now. DH comes home and I notice a cross look on his face, and C'man has a look of guilt on his face. Ends up that he thru this hard ball of some sort at nieces face and hits her right b/w the eyes! Oh man I'm on fire again WHY is my child acting this way?? DH says he's already disciplined him but then i hear that niece cried b/c it hurt so bad, as I'm sure it did! C'man was apparently being a 'wrecking ball'.

We ponder where this behavior is coming from. DH promptly says no more playing with D. I don't think that's all the problem. I think he's watching do much of the Discovery Channel. He likes to watch 'How It's Made' (that's ok) but when he starts watching 'Mythbusters' or some show where they blow up buildings, that's what it is!

We still are unsure what to do about playing with D. I can't possibly imagine my life without S in it. Generally speaking the boys do play fine. But it's the times like yesterday where it almost looses it for me. Tomorrow we are all going swimming but I'm wondering if we shouldn't go. But would c'man understand that the reason he can't go swimming is b/c he's been such a turd? Or is he overly exhausted causing him to turn in to this monster? Maybe I'd better take a look at what he's eating (no mac n cheese lately so not that) milk hasn't been an over abundance.

I'm clearly at a loss. Any suggestions? Have you been able to follow this entire post? Can ya tell I'm a little cross right now! It's @ 530 now and by 7 he will be up in bed no doubt. A will follow by 715, and then I'm making myself a cocktail (yeah right) and watching a movie. Did i mention we subscribed to NetFlix and I'm LOVING it!!

Oh Lets See....

I really don't have a specific subject to blog about. Do I ever?? I really like 'random' anyway. Deep thoughted blogs are hard for me to read, and do, with the kids running around. Take for instance, just right now C'man has brought me Thomas b/c his 'thing is stuck down there'. OK fix that. Now the two of them are playing peacefully for oh about....5 more minutes? So it's just virtually impossible for me to get to in depth on pretty much anything I do. Can any of you relate?

Both kids have been napping so that gives me about 1 1/2-2 hours to work on our garage. Oh that garage. Yes the one where the contractors billed us WAY more then it was supposed to, the garage that will be nicer then some peoples houses! Well it's getting a paint job. Right now I'm priming, the ceiling that is. I despise painting ceilings. When i am done, i am completely covered in paint. I'm sure I'm walking around with paint specs through out my hair. I get it off my face with no problems, thank goodness. That would be just lovely walking in public with paint on my face. (that's assuming I'm going somewhere). I am happy to report that DH got the automatic part of the garage doors working again. MAN what did we do before automatic garage door openers. It's been a long 2 months of getting out and opening that dang door. It's a heavy beast too.

I'm still working on finding out about the 'Cancer Sucks' T-shirts. It seems from reading little Armstrong's care page, that things aren't going very well. Follow the previous blog about him to read about him. As soon as I know something I will post it here.

Anyone going, or hosting, a super bowl party? Neither here. Oh and a shout out to Wendi. She's in labor!! I'm sure her blog will be updated. Never met Wendi but can relate to her story.

Have a great weekend everyone!