This guy CRACKS ME UP! Papa and I love his show. We laugh until we cry, especially when it shows flashbacks of him when he was a kid and his head is the same size as it is now.
I love when he says "Memer? You memer!".
I watched one of his standup shows on comedy central. HILARIOIUS!! I get such a kick out of him talking about his childhood, swimming in puddles and drinking out of the hose. Or when he talks about his aunts and other women in his family shaving their eyebrows and then drawing them back in too high!!!
He just has the greatest expressions! Funny, funny man!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Easter is coming!
Yay!! I love easter! The boys are pretty excited too ;). The bunny has all of his goodies ready (he has them stored in our closet).
The boys got out their bibles yesterday to find the story of easter. They came over to me sooo excited because they had found it. MB said, "See Mom!, it says right here "EASTER"!!". I looked over and he was pointing to. They had found the book of "Esther". I think they did pretty good for a 7 and 6yo. I helped them find the story and we talked about it for a few minutes (it was homework for kid's club).
We are all a bit disappointed because we won't be going to G&G's house for easter. Papa ended up having to work! We are going down next weekend though with a bonus! We get to see Great Gma! The boys enjoy seeing her (we don't get to all that often).
The boys got out their bibles yesterday to find the story of easter. They came over to me sooo excited because they had found it. MB said, "See Mom!, it says right here "EASTER"!!". I looked over and he was pointing to. They had found the book of "Esther". I think they did pretty good for a 7 and 6yo. I helped them find the story and we talked about it for a few minutes (it was homework for kid's club).
We are all a bit disappointed because we won't be going to G&G's house for easter. Papa ended up having to work! We are going down next weekend though with a bonus! We get to see Great Gma! The boys enjoy seeing her (we don't get to all that often).
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Adult ADD??
Haha, if you've read any of my previous posts you might agree with me, I think I might have adult ADD. I am all over the place with my thoughts. Sometimes I'll be on the phone with someone and start and sentence and go off in a totally different direction, its crazy! My mind just goes a mile a minute. I have a hard time falling asleep without the tv on because I just lay there and think and think and think about all kinds of things.
I can multitask like noone's business though, I actually do best when I'm doing 2 or 3 things at once, it keeps me on tasks.
Its hard for me to concentrate on things like reading. I really have to be focused. Like when I'm talking on the phone I cannot have the tv on or anyone in the room talking because I just get lost and the poor person on the phone gets a very strange conversation.
Ahh, I guess just another "issue" to add to my laundry list of mental issues. But, hey, its almost cool to have a mental issue these days, isn't it?
I can multitask like noone's business though, I actually do best when I'm doing 2 or 3 things at once, it keeps me on tasks.
Its hard for me to concentrate on things like reading. I really have to be focused. Like when I'm talking on the phone I cannot have the tv on or anyone in the room talking because I just get lost and the poor person on the phone gets a very strange conversation.
Ahh, I guess just another "issue" to add to my laundry list of mental issues. But, hey, its almost cool to have a mental issue these days, isn't it?
Monday, April 6, 2009
I think I need to have another wedding
My trusty old crock pot still cooks great, but I have to use a plyers to adjust the temp. My electric griddle heats unevenly and I have to have a bowl under the grease drip area because the little grease catcher broke. We have place setting for 6.5 people (as long as that .5 person doesn't want soup or salad). Our silverware (that my G&G gave us) is still in good shape, but there are a couple of spoons that got attacked by the garbage disposal and a fork that BB stuck in the furnace vent when he was about a year old and bent one of the tongs. I got to thinking, "wouldn't it be great if after 10 years people just gave ya new stuff or you got to have another wedding?". Like household items should be a must at a 10th anniversary party!
I was thinking about the things I would put on a registry. We had no idea what we would need when we did our registry. We did pretty good, but we could do MUCH better today. I have to laugh when I think of the first time we attempted a registry. We had no idea what we were doing, we ended up with about 10 things on there all on the more expensive side. I think it was just the novelty of doing something wedding related. Thankfully, we came to our senses and went back and fixed it!
I also get a good chuckle when I see registries with dog bones and sporting supplies. I'm sure those snausages and that camping chair will come in handy when making dinner! Even if the person has an established home on their own, who can't use newer things?! I guess its just one of life's little mysteries....
I was thinking about the things I would put on a registry. We had no idea what we would need when we did our registry. We did pretty good, but we could do MUCH better today. I have to laugh when I think of the first time we attempted a registry. We had no idea what we were doing, we ended up with about 10 things on there all on the more expensive side. I think it was just the novelty of doing something wedding related. Thankfully, we came to our senses and went back and fixed it!
I also get a good chuckle when I see registries with dog bones and sporting supplies. I'm sure those snausages and that camping chair will come in handy when making dinner! Even if the person has an established home on their own, who can't use newer things?! I guess its just one of life's little mysteries....
Friday, April 3, 2009
One of THOSE days
You know, those days. The kind where you drop everything you pick up and everything just goes a little wrong (not catastrophically, but a little). I'm having one of those.
It all started this morning at 6:00 when I woke up to stare at the clock. I normally get up at 6:20 (don't ask), it takes me forever to fall back to sleep so I just figured I would lay there wake up slowly. After listening to rotten dog SNORE for 17 minutes, I got up. I went in to take a shower and remembered there were no clean washcloths-NONE! The boys and I shower every school morning, its a must. Soo, I dug through the cupboard and found a baby washcloth for myself and two flimsy hand towels for BB and MB (LB would have to wait!).
After my shower with the teeny washcloth, I went to get dressed when it hit me that if there were no clean washclothes the odds were against me having clean underwear! Yep, no clean washcloths, no clean underwear and then I realized.....NO CLEAN PANTS! Ok, they were clean, but our dryer is on the fritz and I overloaded it (with a half dry load and a wet, wet load... I know, I know), so we had pants and shirts in the dryer and undies and their pals in the washer!! So, I threw a shirt on and got the boys in and out of the shower and then scurried down to the laundry room to put pants on and start another load of laundry. I was a minor snafu in the scheme of things, but VERY day damaging!
I felt like a ringmaster trying to get the boys out the door for school this morning. MB's boots were wet (keep finding the deepest puddle then!), BB's gloves were wet (again with the water!) and LB was having a meltdown about something or other (ugh, no explanation, he's 3). We got to the school when BB comes to the realization that today is friday and we didn't practice his spelling words-OOPS (turned out not to be a bad thing, he got 100%)!!
Papa and I got in a disagreement (I like that word better than "fight" because we didn't actually have any physical contact (don't worry there, folks, we never do!) this morning, so before it turned ugly we decided to go to our own corners, him to the basement to lift weights and me to the mess that was my kitchen to begin cleaning. He commented on the dog hair on the couch, got the stank eye and retreated back to the basement to finish his workout.
After cleaning up a bit, I sat down to watch some Golden Girls (I love me some GGs!!) and calmed down a bit. The rest of the day went well and we even ordered out so I didn't have to cook (SCORE!)!
The sad note of the day is that we might be saying farewell to our dryer (its been a good old friend), but its 15ish years old (It was a leave behind from G&G!) and things like this happen when dryers get to a certain age. We ordered some parts for it and Papa will give it his all but, sadly, Papa is not a real great repair man (he has many wonderful traits, but repairing isn't one of them). I'm hoping for the best but expecting the worst (by next week I might be down there shocking it with the paddles-especially if I have no undies again).
It all started this morning at 6:00 when I woke up to stare at the clock. I normally get up at 6:20 (don't ask), it takes me forever to fall back to sleep so I just figured I would lay there wake up slowly. After listening to rotten dog SNORE for 17 minutes, I got up. I went in to take a shower and remembered there were no clean washcloths-NONE! The boys and I shower every school morning, its a must. Soo, I dug through the cupboard and found a baby washcloth for myself and two flimsy hand towels for BB and MB (LB would have to wait!).
After my shower with the teeny washcloth, I went to get dressed when it hit me that if there were no clean washclothes the odds were against me having clean underwear! Yep, no clean washcloths, no clean underwear and then I realized.....NO CLEAN PANTS! Ok, they were clean, but our dryer is on the fritz and I overloaded it (with a half dry load and a wet, wet load... I know, I know), so we had pants and shirts in the dryer and undies and their pals in the washer!! So, I threw a shirt on and got the boys in and out of the shower and then scurried down to the laundry room to put pants on and start another load of laundry. I was a minor snafu in the scheme of things, but VERY day damaging!
I felt like a ringmaster trying to get the boys out the door for school this morning. MB's boots were wet (keep finding the deepest puddle then!), BB's gloves were wet (again with the water!) and LB was having a meltdown about something or other (ugh, no explanation, he's 3). We got to the school when BB comes to the realization that today is friday and we didn't practice his spelling words-OOPS (turned out not to be a bad thing, he got 100%)!!
Papa and I got in a disagreement (I like that word better than "fight" because we didn't actually have any physical contact (don't worry there, folks, we never do!) this morning, so before it turned ugly we decided to go to our own corners, him to the basement to lift weights and me to the mess that was my kitchen to begin cleaning. He commented on the dog hair on the couch, got the stank eye and retreated back to the basement to finish his workout.
After cleaning up a bit, I sat down to watch some Golden Girls (I love me some GGs!!) and calmed down a bit. The rest of the day went well and we even ordered out so I didn't have to cook (SCORE!)!
The sad note of the day is that we might be saying farewell to our dryer (its been a good old friend), but its 15ish years old (It was a leave behind from G&G!) and things like this happen when dryers get to a certain age. We ordered some parts for it and Papa will give it his all but, sadly, Papa is not a real great repair man (he has many wonderful traits, but repairing isn't one of them). I'm hoping for the best but expecting the worst (by next week I might be down there shocking it with the paddles-especially if I have no undies again).
Thursday, April 2, 2009
The value of a dollar
I was watching Dr. Phil a few days ago. It was about teaching kids to save rather than spend. They had a panel of kids on there that they asked how much different necessities of life cost (like house payments, car payments, utilities, groceries, etc). Some of the kids were way off, they had no clue. This got me to thinking about my own cubs (although the kids on Dr. Phil were quite a bit older than mine, I figure its never to early to learn).
Papa and I are really hoping to help the cubs get a realistic grasp on the value of a dollar. They like to go to the grocery store and plunk quarters into machines and get a little toy that ends up broken (or is broken right out of the machine). Before they know it $3-$4 is gone and they have nothing to show for it. We've implemented chore charts for them. They have a chance at earning $3.50 a week (.05 per stickers per chore completed). We are planning on letting them have some of it for fun money, putting some in the bank and taking the rest for donations.
We don't have a homeless shelter or soup kitchen around so the animal shelter is going to be our donation recipient. We plan on taking them to buy a bag of cat food or dog food and then taking the food to the shelter to donate it. They see those commercials for the ASPCA with all of the poor animals and usually end up asking why people are so mean to their pets, so we figure this is something they can relate to. They will be able to see the animals who are going to recieve the food they are donating.
Papa and I have had our own problems with credit cards, we want better for our cubs. We want them to be responsible with money are realize that it doesn't grow on trees.
Some people actually consider spoiling your children a form of child abuse (Dr. Phil being one of them). It makes sense.
Papa and I are really hoping to help the cubs get a realistic grasp on the value of a dollar. They like to go to the grocery store and plunk quarters into machines and get a little toy that ends up broken (or is broken right out of the machine). Before they know it $3-$4 is gone and they have nothing to show for it. We've implemented chore charts for them. They have a chance at earning $3.50 a week (.05 per stickers per chore completed). We are planning on letting them have some of it for fun money, putting some in the bank and taking the rest for donations.
We don't have a homeless shelter or soup kitchen around so the animal shelter is going to be our donation recipient. We plan on taking them to buy a bag of cat food or dog food and then taking the food to the shelter to donate it. They see those commercials for the ASPCA with all of the poor animals and usually end up asking why people are so mean to their pets, so we figure this is something they can relate to. They will be able to see the animals who are going to recieve the food they are donating.
Papa and I have had our own problems with credit cards, we want better for our cubs. We want them to be responsible with money are realize that it doesn't grow on trees.
Some people actually consider spoiling your children a form of child abuse (Dr. Phil being one of them). It makes sense.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Yuck
More snow today! I am so tired of winter, it needs to move on and let spring have her turn. So much for "in like a lion, out like a lamb", guess that doesn't apply to ND.
Poor Papa, due to our trip to Grand Forks on Friday and losing 2 hours of sleep that night, he's been tired and is now getting another cold (another reason I am not-so-patiently awaiting the end of winter!) and now finds out that they want him to come in an hour early tomorrow and probably stay an hour late. At least he has the weekend off so that he can get some rest. I'm hoping the Olive leaf extract that I've been giving the cubs in their OJ every morning will keep them from getting the sickz (AGAIN).
Poor Papa, due to our trip to Grand Forks on Friday and losing 2 hours of sleep that night, he's been tired and is now getting another cold (another reason I am not-so-patiently awaiting the end of winter!) and now finds out that they want him to come in an hour early tomorrow and probably stay an hour late. At least he has the weekend off so that he can get some rest. I'm hoping the Olive leaf extract that I've been giving the cubs in their OJ every morning will keep them from getting the sickz (AGAIN).
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