Happy Birthday Mom!!!!

Happy Birthday to a wonderful mom!!! We love you!!!

That's how you get pinkeye!

Well, the craft fair was wonderful! It was better than it had been since The Storm. There was a bunch of new stuff, although not much Christmas stuff, so I didn't buy a new wreath for the door as I had hoped to do. My only complaint was that we had to rush through, because I had to hurry back to NO to take Molly to the doctor at 4:30. Why, you might ask? It appears that she has pinkeye. Maybe we can hire Detective G to figure out who's been farting on Molly's pillow? But here's what gets me - $30 co-pay for the office visit, $50 for the prescription eyedrops. So we get the Rx bag and get home. I don't know what I'm expecting, but when I pull out the eyedrops, the bottle is so tiny. For $50, we get 3 ml of eyedrops. For those of you who don't know how much that is, 5 ml is a teaspoon....yeah, rip-off much? That's ridiculous, because if any of us get it, that's another $50 for 3 ml, because you know that bottle is not going to have any leftovers (not that I advocate using leftover meds for anyone other than the person for whom they were prescribed - yeah, whatever, I've got a family to feed).

Oh, I almost forgot! As we were leaving the craft fair, we passed a group of 4 or 5 women, and I overheard this snippet of conversation "it's like athlete's foot, only on the penis". Hmmm....sometimes they write themselves!!!! Glad I wasn't part of THAT conversation!

So. Let me tell you how awesome my husband is: He took the day off yesterday (he's going out of town tomorrow for the LAST TIME and he'll graduate Friday - yay!) and fixed our toilet (thank you thank you thank you) and put up our Christmas lights outside. It looks awesome!! The lights gave him a bit of trouble, but he got it done, and done well. Then, on our way to dinner, we bought 3 of those spiral lighted trees for the yard (one for each kid). I must confess, I do love Christmas lights!!! I guess because growing up, in some of the houses we lived in (Navy brats tend to live in many houses) my bedroom was at the front of the house, so my folks would put up the Christmas lights in my window to be seen from the street. I loved falling asleep with the soft glow of the Christmas lights twinkling in my room.

You have got to be kidding me....

Does anyone else find this funny?

I'm feelin' crafty!!!

Well, some things have changed, and if all goes well in the next 24 hours, I'll be on my way to the craft fair on Friday!!! Yay!!!

I'm afraid to read my horoscope today

Geez, I'm all over the place today...I was reading SIL(H)'s blog, and I realized how blessed I am to have brothers and sisters-in-law who truly love my kids. I know you guys are grownups and do grownup stuff (of which I am sometimes jealous), but you make time to do special things for the kids - go to school events, movies, small gifts to tell them you were thinking of them. I appreciate it, and so do they (even if they don't know it yet!). Thanks guys (and gals - yes, I went there).

I don't understand

I've been avoiding looking at this news story but finally couldn't avoid it any longer. Maybe it's because the media dubbed her "Grace" or because she's only a little older than Molly, but whenever I start thinking about it I want to cry. I don't understand how people can do this to a child, a baby. Of course, now that I've seen the article, I can't stop thinking about it, and about all the children being abused that we don't know about. Then I wonder why God would allow these innocent little babies to be hurt like this (and maybe it's the lucky ones who don't survive). And no, I don't want to get into a religious debate, because it's not going to make me understand why He doesn't strike these monsters down with a fury like no other. Why can't our society prevent this? It hurts my heart, and no amount of pain that you can inflict on those horrible people - they're not human, really- can take away the horrible things they did to that child.

Miscellaneous ramblings....

First, let me say, I sure am tired of looking at JoJo_4_ShoSho and Arggggg! - no pressure, I'm just sayin'.

Well, we got it done!!! (no, not that you pervs) We cleaned out the hall closet and Ian's closet. It looks HUGE now!!! So, I think all the closets and garage are finally clean and organized. To paraphrase James Brown - "I feel good! (da na na na na na na) I knew that I would!" The most amazing part is that the trash men took all the trash! We put out at least a dozen bags twice in a week and they took it all!!! (for those of you not living in NO that's a huge deal!!! HUGE, I tell you!) Now, if only I could figure out how to get the grout mold out of the tub - bleach won't kill it and it's making me crazy!!!

The kids are back in school after Thanksgiving break. BB was sick the whole time. She had some kind of cold/allergy and she was sooo sweet while she was sick. She was cute and cuddly and funny and sweet. And she'd be in the middle of doing something and just fall asleep on the couch. I was giving her cold meds but now she's getting Nasonex and that seems to be helping. She told me this morning some kid near her threw up in class yesterday, so I hope that stomach virus will not be making the rounds at my house again! Ugh!!! I don't have a quote of the day from her, but I did find out while watching the Nativity Story with her that the wise men brought the Baby Jesus gold, frankincense, and Merv. Hmmm...maybe that was the name of one of their camels? I'm thinking this year we'll be seeing more Christmas specials than ever before thanks to the writer's strike.

My loving husband has asked for a Christmas List...here goes (in no particular order):
1. mani/pedi from Earthsavers (regular, not ultimate)
2. subscriptions to Cosmo, Glamour, and Elle
3. Chance by Chanel perfume
4. fancy sheets (mmmm...nice)
5. gift card to Dillards b/c I need Clinique!!!
6. some way to play my ipod in my car (can't link what I don't know - in this tech-y family someone's gotta know!!!)

Thanks to SIL(H) for putting her list up too!!! I have some ideas for J which of course I can't post here so e-mail me if you need an idea.

TTFN!!!

Ho! Ho! Oh no!!!

Thanksgiving is over...it's time to start seeing some Christmas wish lists!! To borrow from SIL(H) - Make it happen people.

Happy Birthday Ellie!!!

Happy Birthday to a wonderful sister-in-law!!! Hope your day is wonderful!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hope you all have a wonderful day!! I'm thankful for each and every one of you, family and friends alike. Thank you all for your wonderful responses to my last post, I appreciate each and every one.

To celebrate Thanksgiving, I'm giving you all a BB's Quote of the Day: BB asked me why Molly's eyebrows are white. I told her people with blonde hair have blonde eyebrows. To which she replied, "no they don't, their eyebrows are brown." (Hmmm...wonder where she got that from???)