I am not trendy......,at all

It has come to attention that I am not trendy. I don't have a name brand anything, wear jeans and a t-shirt almost everyday, barely clean house, and in a nutshell am one of the moms other moms talk about. In a bad way.

But I think it also has to do with the fact that

1. I only have the one child and will keep it that way
2. I'm not Christian/religious
3. I'm past the breastfeeding stage
4. I don't home school
5. I don't go to school
6. I'm a full time stay at home parent
7. I don't scrapbook
8. My daughter has never had her pictures taken with the Easter Bunny/Santa Clause and I avoid it whenever I can

There are a lot of things that I don't do that other moms do, which unfortunately make a me a little more alone in the world, just another reason for me to feel like an outsider here and everywhere I go. I've never used a sling/carrier to drag Savie around, never felt the need for it. She was happy and content to be in the bouncer and watch whatever I was doing. I don't play with her a lot now, she is in her own little world making her own voices for her dolls and things. Why should I intrude on that? She can play just fine by herself. But after popping in on places like 5 Minutes for Mom, Mommies United, Hip Mama's Place, and Shutter Sister's I realize just how boring I am. Plain and simple as that.

I am sooooo tired, forgive me if I yawn. Today was the Border to Border Air Show in Douglas. It was suppose to be a family thing but hubby had a fever and I didn't want to hear the whining when we were out so he stayed home. We saw a lot of great plans, a couple of helicopters, some great looking motorcycles and show cars, and then headed over to the carnival for some rides. I will post about it tomorrow, I'm just having a hard time staying awake. And my feet hurt, lol.

Feeling a little ol

Ok so my birthday on Saturday and I'm feeling a little older. Then I went over to Cluadia's place and saw this video.



I remember when this video just came out and it was new and everything.Man I'm feeling my age, lol.

Tagged

Well I was over at Michele's place and I came across this Meme. I love things like this and thought I would 'steal' it from her, lol so here goes



I am supposed to list 8 facts/habits that none
of my readers know about me.
Here are the rules of the Meme:
In the 8 facts about yourself,
you share 8 things your readers
don't know about you.
Then at the end you tag 8
other bloggers to keep the fun going.

1. I hate touching things in public, if I think about where my stuff has been and then think about where other people have been it gives me the creeps. If I really think about it I would never leave the house
2. I hate going out in public. If it wasn't for my daughter I wouldn't be there.
3. I am afraid of heights
4. I love sushi
5. I think people are always staring at me and not in a good way
6. I love horror movies but am afraid of the dark
7. I have to sleep with a nightlight on, at least until I fall asleep
8. I have 2 tattoo's and want more.

I would like to tag a couple of people that I think will do this for me. My online friend's Claudia, Anna, and Zoe.

Thirteen Thursday

13 Things I love about Bisbee

1. It's got that small town quality.
2. I know my neighbor's.
   
3. Going to the Dr's is kinda fun
4. You can "drop in" on friends and not worry about being a pain
5. The mailman isn't afraid of my dog
6. I know my UPS guy
7. I don't have to worry about leaving my dog when I'm out of town for the day.
8. My landlord is very nice, so nice that I don't feel really bad about stopping by his work to tell him something is wrong at the house.
9. It's a quiet neighborhood
10. You know most of the kids, and parents, that your kid hangs out with.
11. Most of the jobs are "word of mouth".
    
12. Most of the ladies at the bank know us and I can go in with a friends lamb.
    
13. It's a great place to live, lol.
    

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Works For Me Wednesday

In an attempt to celebrate spring I have just a bunch of random things that I do.

• Toy Box in the back of the SUV. It's got a bunch of random sand toys in it cuz you never know when you are going to stop at the park, especially here where there are 3 parks between our house and the library, and several in town when we go. This way I just pull up at the park, get her out of the car, pull the toy box, and that's it. Several toys have been added from other kids we play with but we see them throughout the week so it's ok. (which reminds me that I need to restock, lol)
  
• Music in the morning. Some mornings I have a hard time getting us going and music has always a big movement factor for me so I turn on the TV to a digital radio station, make breakfast, wash some dishes, clean up some and we are moving that much faster.
  
• "Hand on the car" when your out shopping and trying to put things in the car it's was to lose track of a kid I've found out, especially in the parking lot. Some days she doesn't want to get in the car first or I haven't pulled the keys out yet so instead of making her hold my hand (which doesn't help when I'm looking for the keys) I tell her to "put a hand on the car". You can't go very far when you've got a hand on the car, lol.
  

Check out some other 'helpful hints' when you bounce over to Rocks In My Dryer.

ABC Wednesday

H is for

HORSE!!!!!!!!!

This is one of the horses we went to see today.

H is also for Halley, my dog

Does she look a little bored? She probably is since Savie has been pulling her ears.


How about Happily married?


Check out some more ABC's here.

Wordless Wednesday

MUDDY MERMAID

Some days make you laugh, others make you wish for a really good washer. guess which one is this.

Tackle It Tuesday

wow it's been awhile since I have felt like tackling anything. But I am so proud of myself, even though we didn't do this on Tuesday I had to do it. Our driveway has slowly been taken over by the stuff my husband uses for his construction work so things are slowly taking over. This is what it looked like before we started cleaning. I know it's not a great picture but I didn't remember to take one until we were halfway done. Does Halley look happy? She isn't because we keep telling her to move out of the way, lol. It took 2 truckloads full to get all of the junk and stuff that we weren't using out. This is the finished driveway.





At least now we can pull in further. Hopefully next week can tackle this

A non- mommy

Every mother has one, a friend that doesn't have kids but wants to tell you how to raise them. Letting your kids play with the scissors, buying shoes that aren't needed, to much candy, etc. K would be that friend for me. She has bought Savie 3 prs of shoes that she doesn't need, bought her nothing but candy for V-day, and now wants to buy these shoes for her. These are cute, but not for us. We are down and dirty girls. We don't need the cutest shoes or outfits, my child wants to play in the dirt so why buy shoes that I'm going to have to wash when she gets in the car? That is more work then I want. I barely wash our shoes now as it is. These are more up our alley. C'om I know everyone has one so let's hear about it.

A few things about me

The Ultimate Blog Party over at 5 Minutes for Mom has me blog hopping and checking out other moms. After reading some of the other blogs and seeing what they have I thought I should make a list myself of interesting facts about me (even though I don't like to talk about myself, lol). So here goes.

1. I was born in San Jose, CA but grew up in Petaluma, CA.
   
2. I am the 3rd child of 4 girls, no boys (sorry dad)
3. I love to read, a lot!
4. I taught myself to crochet and the first thing I made was a blanket for my niece (and she still uses it even though it's 10 yr old)
5. My parents got divorced when I was a senior in high school
6. I barely remember school
7. I weigh more now then when I was pregnant
8. I played soccer until I was 16, when I blew out my knee.
9. I spent my entire freshmen year on crutches
10. I was nicknamed "Gimp" my freshmen and sophomore year
11. I got my first job the day after my 16th birthday.
12. The longest I've ever had a job was 3 and a half years
13. I have worked at all 3 big retail companies, Kmart, Target, and Walmart
14. I am afraid of heights but can ride a plane
15. I have never been on a road trip until I had my daughter, then I went on 4.......with her, lol
16. I have driven from AZ to ID once but want to do it again
17. I have an 8 yr English Pointer, Halley, that loves my daughter
18. Halley knew when I went into labor
19. I let Halley sleep in the bed when my husband is not home
20. My husband is 25 yrs older than me
21. I am not religious
22. I didn't get married in a church and left my reception to go home to bed
23. I breastfeed my daughter for the first 10 months, even while on the road
24. I am not very close to my family
25. I am kinda anti-social
26. I love kids and animals
27. I miss having chickens and rabbits and can't wait to move to have some again
28. I am not a big meat eater. I don't eat steak, pork, or beef. I barely eat chicken and turkey and am semi-veg. I have a hard time eating meats where I can picture what part of the animal it came from.
    
29. I am bi-sexual and my husband is ok with that
30. I have an open marriage with my husband, meaning that we are open about everything (get your minds out of the gutter ladies, lol)
31. I am not a girly person. I don't wear make-up or perfume (both set off my asthma)
32. The only 'girly' thing I do is my nails and getting my hair done
33. I burn off the back of my hair 5 yrs ago
    
34. My favorite color is purple
35. I love Betty Boop
36. I am afraid of bugs and spiders, I can't kill them and will make my husband get up to get them, lol.
37. I can shot a gun pretty good, or so says hubby
38. I hate to cook but love to bake
39. I also hate to clean
40. I love to drive places but can't stand to let hubby drive, he goes to slow
41. Did I mention I love to read?
42. I love to watch the animals in my neighborhood
43. I hate/love to go camping. It must be the right time of year, with a tent, a sleeping bag, and an air mattress
44. This is the longest I have not worked (almost a year)
45. I am addicted to buying lotions and soap. I have 5 different lotions and 3 different kinds of soap right now.
46. I love watching movies, action movies to be exact. The Transporter is my favorite.
    
47. I love watching CSI, Law & Orders and stuff like that. Hubby finds it kinda weird
48. I am a night owl
49. I can't sleep thru the night, so I stay up late to make up for it
50. I have two bad knees, carpal tunnel syndrome, nerve damage in both hands, am near and far sited. My dr 10 yrs ago said I had the body of a 60 yr old with all my aches and pains.
    
51. I am one of the best friends to have
52. I am one of the worst enemy to have
53. Did I mention that I am easily distracted?

It's time to party!!!!!!! part2

Ok I know that my original post is a little depressing but it was late and I was tired so let's try this again.


I am a 31 year old SAHM married to a man who is twice my age, with a very active 3 year old, Savie, and an 8 yr old English Pointer, Halley. We've moved from the Bay Area in CA to a very small town in AZ, Bisbee, AZ to be exact. We have moved away from friends and family, something that is not totally new to me but this is different.

I started this as a way to stay in touch with my family who is scattered across Northern California and Nevada, but also as a way to stay on the computer. It started as an outlet, a way to connect with people even if I couldn't see them face to face. I am not a very social person. I have very little social skills and would much rather, like I said, do the background stuff. I'm the mom that makes brownies for a play date, stays to help you clean up after the birthday party and offers to watch your oldest while you go take care of the younger one. Yep that's me. Give me a couple more kids to watch and I'm pretty much ok. Which is why I am going back to school to get my degree so I can teach preschool/kindergarten teacher. I love kids, a lot, which is why there will always be a lot of pictures of my daughter and other kids on my blog and none of me. I try to keep up with the other moms with the Tackle's and Wednesday's, sky watching and other stuff.

I almost forgot to list what I would like to win, there is just to much good stuff to pick but here are my top 3 choices.

#58, # 62, and #79 I also like #70, #91, #94 (gotta have a booklight, lol), #108, #129 (gotta love the books).

IT'S TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!

It's that time again ladies, time to head over to 5 Minutes For Mom and check out the party!!!!! I loved the party last year but I was just a newbie to the whole blogging scene and just missed the party but I am here this year!!!! So let me introduce myself.

I am a 31 yr old SAHM to a very active 3 yr old little girl and have been married for almost 2 years. I am living in Arizona, away from everything and everyone I know. I have no family here and usually feel a little alone. I know it sounds depressing but it's a fact. This was not my plan but I am so happy with what I have. I wouldn't trade my daughter, or my husband, for anything. (Maybe just where we live, lol)

Ok let me get back to talking about me. I love reading to the point where I go thru withdrawals if I haven't read a book in days. Magazines don't really count, they take less then an hour for me to read, lol. I need a novel. I also love to crochet which is hard for me to do sometimes because I have carpal tunnel syndrome. But that doesn't stop me from testing patterns for my online friend Anna. She has great stuff that I love to make and test for her. But again back to me.

I don't really know what to say. This blog is a way for me to talk to other mom's, and dad's, that I normally wouldn't be able to. I am not a outgoing person in real life. I am a very behind the scene, "let me help set-up and clean-up", stuff like that. I am easily distracted (which is why it's taken me almost 2 hours to get this done, lol). I am not one for schedules but would rather fly by the seat of my pants. i really have a hard time talking about me so let me get on to someone else.

I met some great ladies last year so, come on in, bounce around, check out the party and don't be a wallflower, that's my job!!!!!! LOL

Just a quickie

58%

Whoo!!!! Not bad if I do say so myself, lol.

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ummm....... don't know what to say about this one.



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Sky Watch Friday

It's another beautiful day here in AZ. This is a shot I took when we went to the mountains to go camping for the day. I love the view especially on days like this.

Not sure where to start

I really don't. I have been bouncing around the Internet for most of the evening, trying to focus on things, reading blogs when I came across Rocks' blog and this story and the story that goes with it on MSNBC. I have to say that I kinda, no I do, I agree with the mom in the story. The school can not tell me how to do my child's hair. Now if it was something where kids couldn't see the board then yes, I would do something about her hair. But it's a hairstyle, not a shirt telling people to "Make love not War", or a pair of pants with holes in them or something like that. It's a hairstyle. Now I understand from her comments that this is distracting, and yes teachers have a hard time controlling our kids in school, and yes there are dress codes to try and help with the teasing, and yes most of the time it helps. I understand that taking your kids out of school to go get their nails done is over the top but it's just a hairstyle. Does that mean that when I braid my daughters hair in several braids that it's distracting??? That I have to keep her hair the same as every other child in her class??? SHE will be the only mixed, not of Hispanic descent, child in her class. There are only five other people in the whole town. Maybe I am being to sensitive to this but this makes no sense to me. Am I crazy?? Am I being oversensitive??

Storyhour

Today was the last day for my favorite librarian Lauren. She is the only reason I stay in town on Thursday for Bi-lingual story Hour otherwise I would have gone into Douglas for their's (but they don't do bi-lingual which I find odd since they are a border town).


Good-bye Lauren, thank you for the fun and the memories.

ABC Wednesday

Well I've been hoping over to mrsnesbitt's place for awhile now and thought I would finally try to jump in and give this a try. So here's my first attempt at an ABC Wednesday.

G is for.........

Giant Egg!!!!!!
Last week Savie and I went to the Zoo in Tucson while hubby was taking his class for his contractor's license. We had so much fun. This is a Giant Egg in the aviary where we some great birds. My pictures didn't come out as well as I would like but that's ok. We saw a lot of animals while we were there. I just wish that I had been able to get some of her feeding the giraffe, it was so cute!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Savie, Mommy Burro and her new baby.

....Being the perfect parent

now I know that that is a touchy phrase to use. I am no where near a "perfect parent". My 3yr old stays up late, doesn't eat her veggies/fruits at every meal, may go a day without brushing her teeth, etc so this year, as part of my 50 Book Challenge I am reading parenting books. Most of what I've read have been good. Good pointers that I hadn't thought of, different ways to approach things, stuff like that. (If you look over in my sidebar you will see some of the books I've read so far.) I think it had a lot to do with the parenting class I took last year. It was only a 6 week thing, not really official, just a positive parenting class. Most of the books I have were mentioned in the class so that's where I got my start. I've been looking for the Love and Logic books but just haven't found the one for kids, not teens.

I've read "How To Talk......" which was really good, that one was in the class and was worth buying. I plan on passing it on to a mom I know who is having problems withe her son, so I think it will be a good one for her. I went to a Walden books store that was closing in Tucson and spent $100 on books!!!! That's right, One Hundred Dollars, but in my defense they were not all for me. I got one bag of books for me and one for Savie. And of course since it was just days before the store was to close there wasn't much of a selection but as you can see, I did just fine.

Anyways I had bought "Queen Bee Mom's", "How to Behave" and a couple of other books but these two are squeals and once I found that out I had to go buy the first ones so I could understand what is going on in these.

But this book, Positive Discipline, this one I can't read. I got 4 pages into it and came across a paragraph that just turned me completely off of the book. I don't know if I can post it here but it's about "controlling" mom and losing "control" of the kids. The way it's worded is just wrong. And then on top of that it also talks about the civil rights movement has messed with parenting and that was it. I couldn't read anymore. I may just try and take this book back and get my money. I have no problem with books, or rather the author, telling me what I should or shouldn't be doing with my child but to tell me that because "Dad lost control of Mom, they lost control of the kids" just rubs me raw. Maybe it's just me but I don't think so. Please tell me I'm right about the wording.

Sky Watch Friday

It's Sky Watch Friday and I have a beauty for you. This is a couple of months old but it's a great one. What do you think?




To see some more beauties check out Dots site.

I am sooooooooooo

tired.

I have spent the past week driving back and forth from Tucson, which is a 2 hr drive one way. Yes I know it's crazy to do that 4 days in a row but what we paid in gas is still less then what we would have paid for a room for just 2 nights.

Starting on Monday we, or rather I, got up at 4 am. Yes that's right 4am, before the sun is up, before the birds have woken up, before my dog wants to go out. That is just to early for me. I don't get up until 7, maybe 8 am in the morning. But back to the trip. I get up and make coffee, start making snacks for us, and try to do a little stretching. Around 7 I need to get Savie and hubby up, mostly her so I can get her dressed and do her hair, maybe even get her to eat a little before we hit the road. We get on a the road and make it there and drop him off. By the time we head back for home it's almost 6pm so we don't get home until 8pm and poor Halley has been outside the hole time.

Now if you can just picture the saddest face on your kids when they don't get something or can't go with you, that face they get when their best friend has to go home, yeah that look, times 100. That's the face Halley gave us everyday. Poor baby. So now for the next week or so Halley will be sticking very close to me.

Well today was the last day that we have to be gone for so long. We do have to go back at least one more day next week but that's ok. We know where we are going so it won't be that long to get there.

Well I am trying very hard not to fall asleep but I have to give in now. I will be back. With pictures.

Response to "OMG!!!!!"

Even though I only got one comment to my OMG post (thanks Mom) let me give you a couple of links for Javelina's. This is a good one that shows the habits in Arizona. This one you have to page down to get to the Javelina's and there are other desert animals there to. Enjoy

Sunday Scribblings #99

Tonight's Scribble is about Passion. This is a hard one for me. I am passionate about a lot of things.

I have a passion for my daughter and the life she has.
I have passion for my husband who worries about taking care of us, for children in general, and animals to. Lost, sick, and alone, I feel for them and want to take them home with me.


But most days there is no real passion in my life. I am mostly just here, surviving my thoughts and trying to cover for my lack of feelings towards other. This is not me. This is not the way I want to feel. I want to feel passionate about something, anything at this point.

Maybe tomorrow will be different.

Sky Watch Friday

mountains coming out of NV from my mother's house this past Dec.





to see more checkout Dot.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Freakout!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, I am trying really hard to calm down right now so forgive me if I don't make a lot of sense. Anyone who has ever lived in AZ knows that there is a lot of wildlife around. Coyotes. Bears. Wolves. Mountain Cats. Javelina's. Deer. I know this. I've lived here for 4 years and have seen my share of coyotes and wolves and javelina's. The mountatin is our backyard. All of these animals walk by our house at night, maybe a javelina in the back once in awhile during the day. We try not to go out there when they are around. I don't want to bother them or scare them away. Two years ago my husband did some work trimming a tree for our landlord and left all the brush on a trailer above the house. Every night we watched the deer come down and eat of it. It was so interesting for Savie to sit in the window seat and watch them. I really want to buy a salt lick for them to watch them more often. I love to watch the animals around here. I just don't want them very close to me.

I just went out to close my gate so Halley, my dog, can go out without me having to out with her. I was talking on the phone with a friend and looked back to see the moon when I saw/heard something outside the gate. I turned...........and saw........ a javelina!!!!!!!A big one, no more then 50 yards away from me!!!!!! I screamed, almost dropped the phone and ran (tried to keep my slippers on) back into the house.

It was just to much. I can't believe I was that close to one and didn't know it until it made some noise. I'm just lucky it was busy eating and didn't want to chase after me.

Bad Mommy #2........redeemed

Like I said in my last "Bad Mommy" post I had a bad moment. Savie's favorite baby doll was left at the library. Over the holiday weekend. Alone. (hanging head in shame) But come Tuesday morning we were at the library promptly at 10 am when they opened and went straight to where I thought Savie had left her BeBe. But wait, there was someone else there. Her other baby doll. Her second baby. Do you think my child was happy? She screamed so loud in a near empty library that I was scared.....for a minute. But is well now that both baby dolls are safe and sound.......at the bottom of the toy box.

Wordless Wednesday

Tea Party, anyone?

I love my library. It's a great place, so many books for the little ones, a great storyhour and ........a tea party once a month. I love it. I have to remember to bring my camera and take pictures. Lauren, one of the wonderful librarians, does bilingual story hour on Thursday and a regular one on Tuesday's and then once a month we have a tea party (but no stories).

It's a great opportunity for them to practice their manners, to use cups and plates just their size, to be little "big people". The kids have so much fun and it's so cute to hear some of them say "please" and "thank you". And I love to help set up and clean up........... and now I've volunteer to bring the snacks for the kids. And I have no idea what to make for them. I'm hoping that my friend Anna will help me since she is really loves tea parties (are you listening Anna?)

Calling all Bloggers.......

that post pictures. I would like to be able to protect my pictures that are posted here. I know some of you ladies have 'tagged', for loss of a better word, your pictures with your name or something and I would love to do that. If anyone knows how to do it, or a link to go to so I can learn that would be great.

Bad Mommy #2

I think this is going to be a new thing for me.To write out every "bad mommy" experience I have just to make myself feel better (that didn't sound right did it?). If I can get it out of my head maybe I won't feel so bad about it.

So here's the new one. Savie has a baby dolls. One we got almost 2 years ago from a really great lady here in town. Her family does this thing where they buy presents for other people and then have to give it away. It was really nice at Christmas when she got it. Savie named her BeBe, mostly because I think she was trying to say baby but that's as close as she could get. She takes her everywhere, sleeps with it, take her potty, undresses her, everything. She's been to California, the library, and Mexico (didn't anything for that one). I love BeBe, she is a great little baby doll, she sits patiently and listen to Savie when she reads her books. I know what she loves her as much as she does. BeBe looks like her. Simple as that. BeBe is one of the first black baby dolls that I've seen that actually looks right. Not just the dark skin, or the "afro" styled hair with the Kente cloth clothes but she really looks like my daughter. They have the same cute little nose and big beautiful eyes.

And I miss her.

But not as much as Savie.

I being the "Bad Mommy" that I am, I left BeBe at the library on Saturday. Alone. By herself. Without Savie.

Savie noticed this yesterday and hasn't really let it go. I can't get to her until Tuesday and you can bet we will be there as soon as they open the doors to get BeBe. This is breaking my heart, she looks so sad and sulky and close to tears.

I am a Bad Mommy.

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this is a picture of the two of them, don't they look so happy?

Sunday Scribbling

This Sunday's topic is sleep.

I have never really slept thru the night.........in my entire life. At least that's what my mother tells me. But I am a not owl. I would much rather do something during the night then do it during the day. Even now I can not go to bed until almost midnight, which is not such a great thing when your child wakes up at 7:30 every morning without fail. But I can get by with 6 hours of sleep.

Now my daughter, she is another story. She is what my father calls "a Ford baby", I'm not totally sure what that means but I know that for her it means she can sleep just about anywhere. We've driven to California several times and she sleeps for most of the trip. Even when we drove to Idaho she slept a lot in the car, which is such a great thing when you have a lot of distance to travel but not so great when it's just the two of us. She falls asleep in bed and wanders all over it. She sleeps the long way over pillows, kicking hubby in the head. (But that's what he gets for sleeping with his back to her, lol.) She is out cold when she's asleep, something that I envy. But I'm guessing she gets ability to sleep from her father.

And speaking of Daddy he sleeps so hard and so loud I don't know how I sleep. He sleeps and snores that's probably why I wait so long to go to bed. There are nights when he snores and the whole bed shakes. It's funny. Sometimes. I wish I could sleep like the two of them, yet here I am, staying up until midnight watching TV and blogging.

It's a wonderful night!!!

As I sit here surfing the web and messing around on the computer, after making 3 batches of cheese muffins, Savie is laying on the floor with Halley using her as a pillow.

Halley is the best dog in the world and, as you can see, Savie loves her to. Halley will be 8 yrs old next month and I don't know what I will do when she is no longer with us. She has a bad hip or knee, I'm not sure which, but she follows that old saying about dogs being like their owners. Anyways, when I was pregnant with Savie the last trimester we were worried about how Halley and Jess, my husband's dog, would react to her. But she was fine. They both got in the bed with me when I was in labor and wouldn't leave me until I left for the hospital. When I came home they sniffed and walked away. They didn't really seem to care.
When Savie was a baby and in her swing Halley never hit her with her tail, even though she hits everyone else without a thought (does she really think about it?) And now that Savie is a rough and tumble little girl who would much rather roll around in the dirt then play nice, Halley will just let her roll all over her. I love that Halley loves her and will let her do just about anything to her. Pull her ears, her lips, yank on her tail, she just lays there and takes it until she's she had enough. Then she goes and pouts by the front door until I let her out. What a great baby.

Beautful Scenery

These are for you Michele.

The first one is the road coming into town and the side is the touristy side of town. And in case anyone was wondering just how close I am to the Mexico border here it is.

That is the border and it's 10 minutes from my house. We can see it when we go to the grocery store so it's not a big deal but it does look really nice at night when it's lit up at night. It looks kinda like Christmas lights all the time. I drive down Naco Highway at least twice a month and a great lady does my nails. I'll have to post when I get them done, she just had her baby so it will be awhile before I can get back into to see her. But she does such a great job and her designs are so cool that I don't mind waiting. For those moms that love getting their nails done, you know how hard it is to get in and keep the kids occupied and out of the way or just not take them so when I found someone who was ok with me bringing Savie I jumped at it. But I got off topic.

Today there was snow, yesterday there was a sandstorm. I have pictures of that to but they don't look that great. I just love the changes in weather here.

Winter was here!!!!!!!!

yes I know for most of you winter has been around for quite sometime and you can't wait for it to go away but we had a very mild winter here..............until today. We got this Isn't that beautiful?? I know, I know "Yeah Kisha, great you got powder, woopeee!" It's ok, I am not a big fan of snow and would not normally be happy about it making an apperance here but it looks so nice when your in the house and don't have to drive in it, especially when it's just a little bit and not feet of snow. That's the road coming into town, yes I live in the mountains but you would never really know it. I went to town and was coming back this way and was getting a litle nervous, after my last CA trip and all, about the snow so I took a scenic route to show you the little bit of snow that we get here. This is what I saw on the other side of the mountain. No snow anywhere. I love that about the area. You can get snow on one side of town but not on the other. It took me all of ten minutes to get from the second picture to the last one, lol.

Well that's our little bit of weather here, this weekend is suppose to be 60 degrees and then back up to the 70's by Monday.



**********EDITED TO ADD****************
It stopped raining/snowing early afternoon yesterday but we woke up this morning to 2 inches of snow, on my car. It's to cold for me to go out there and take a picture so you'll just have to imagine it, lol.

V-day

thank goodness it's over!!!!! I know that sounds kinda bad but you don't know me. This is one of the few holidays (even though it's not really one) that I can't stand. I see no point in forcing anyone to tell me/show me how much they love me on one certain day. That is something that should be felt whenever you speak/spend time with them. I don't need flowers/cards/candy/present to know this. But I have been told, that for the sake of my child, I should do something. My response......WHY?????????

Doesn't letting her stay up late to play with Daddy count? Letting her have a banana for lunch instead of the peanut butter & jelly sandwich she asked for count? What about letting her wear boots when we go to the park? or picking her own clothes out?

I think it does. It shows that no matter what she does or ask me for, that I love her. Even if she does drive me crazy!

IT'S A PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love 5 Minutes for Mom, even though I don't get over there as much as I would like to, lol. They are having a blogging party I tried to get into it last year but I flaked but I will be into it this year. Pop on over and look around, you can find some great other moms sites, stores, cooking sites, and even home based business's. It's a blast and the ladies are so down to earth and fun!!! Can't forget fun!!!!!

Bad Mommy night

tha's right that's what I said. Tonight I was a 'bad mommy'. Dinner-leftovers or maybe some fruit. Did we take a shower-just barely. But we did brush our teeth, with a fight. And bedtime??? Oh that's where the bad mommy part comes in. She went to bed at 10.....pm... All together now...."BAD MOMMY" !!!!!!!

Works For Me Wednesday

I am a sucker for coupons. The only reason I buy a paper on Sunday is for the coupons. I've even have a couple of online sites I go to for coupons. There's CoolSavings.com, which is good but there's not a lot that I can use here. I don't buy a lot of my cleaners in stores and we only have one grocery store here so my choices are limited. But I'm sure that if you type coupons in your search program you'll come up with a lot of other things. I know this is weird but I also mail coupons to my friend in CA for things like diapers (she just had her 3rd baby so I think she needs all the help she can get, lol). Check out Rocks, she usually does this but she is in Africa for awhile so Don't try this is hosting while she's away.

Relaxing Sunday

Today was one of those springs days that you look forward to all winter long. A warm day wiht a nice breeze, plenty of sunshine and not a cloud in the sky. I almost didn't want to go out, but as small as our house is there was no way we could keep Savie in the house and be sane at the same time, lol. So I talked hubby into taking her to the park and playing soccer with her while I broke in my bike, again, so put the bike in the car and loaded up hubby and off we went. Everything was fine until I unloaded the bike and walked over to the gas station to put air in my tires only to find out that the air thing doesn't work. So I put it back in the car and played soccer until the little one was tired, or rather until my stomach started growling. She was ready to go, not! but went along with the plan. We drove downtown and got sandwiches from a really cool little sandwich shop right in the middle of the tourist area and as warm as it was today, there were plenty of them out. Tourist season has officailly started here in town.
It's usually a great thing, they spend a lot of money in town, take lots of pictures,etc but the problem is a small one, to most people. It's parking. This is a town that is in the mountains so everything is on a hill and there is very little parking. But I won't get into that right now, just know that it's one of the few things that irk me about the tourist around here, lol.

Anyways back to our day. We got home and tried to get her to eat but she fell asleep on the way home so hubby tried to put her to bed but no luck, they slept in the living room and I tried to watch the Pro Bowl game but the warmth was just to much and put me to sleep. What a way to spend a Sunday, huh? Playing most of the morning and sleeping all afternoon.

Sunday Scribblings

Every now and then I really look at my fridge. I remember growing up that there was nothing on th fridge, not my artwork from grade school, not interesting magnets, just blank space. Why?I remember wanting to know my pictures weren't on the fridge, why a good report card or even a soccer schedule would have been nice. Looking back now I think I was a little hurt by the lack of things on the fridge. . When I moved out and shared a house there were notes, reminders, stuff like that. It felt kinda good to see something of mine on the fridge.

Now with a child of my own there is an array of things on the fridge, (a shopping list that's suppose to help me), artwork from that week (it's always changing), cool magnets, all kinds of stuff to let her know that she is loved and wanted. Everything at her level is cool, all the boring stuff is up above. How cool am I?


I found this and she's got good stuff. Check out some more Sunday Scribblings.

Look what I got

from Queeny!!!!!!!! How cool is this?!?!? I dn't know what to say, this is a first for me since I love to talk and can write all day long, lol. Thanks Queeny!!!!

Cleaning up

not necessarily cleaning house but I am cleaning my computer. I have way to many pictures on my computer and files so I am going to go thru everything I have and move them to a disk in hopes that it will speed up my computer, I should be cleaning house or at least my dishes but this is more important, lol.

African American Art

So I was talking to hubby the other day about art class and it got me thinking. Hubby asked me if I thought the teacher was singling me out for a reason and was I getting upset about the subject. I said no, African American art is, to me, art done by an African American.

"well what about art of an African American?"

That's a good question, is art done by an Indian/Hispanic/Angelo/Russian of an African American still considered African American art to you?

50 Book Challenge

Ok I know some of you are hoping that I have finished another book but I have hit a little snag. I am reading "Queen Bee Moms & King Pin Dads" but it's a little hard to follow since she keeps referring to her first book "Queen Bee's and WannaBee's" so I am going to put this one on hold until I can get that book. Luckily I have another book that I've started already, "The Cursed" and it's a good read. Good thing I bought a lot of books when I went to the store closing in Tucson a couple of weeks ago.

Works for Me Wednesday

I, like many other people, love on-line shopping. If I could get my groceries I would. I hate going grocery shopping and almost always end up getting more than I planned and not the stuff I went in for. But here are a few of my favorite places to shop.
One Hanes Place~ has great bras and panties. I'm to big for most of the bra's but the panties are great, especially the Barely There brand.
I've had to start buying my bra's at Figleaves. It really sucks that I've gotten to be so big on top and spend a good $30 on one bra, if I'm lucky.
I've looked up books at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble, mostly to get reviews on books and check prices.

Just something I got from Rocks in My Dryer.

OK I think I've said this before K has a lot of pets. One of her cats just had kittens, I think they're almost 2 weeks old, and Savie loves to pick them up which is fine. Well she has a tendency to pick them up when Smokie, the mother, is in the bed and of course they start crying. So I've explained to her that when Smokie is in the bed she has to put the babies back because she is going to feed them. A perfectly ok explanation for a 3 yr old, right? Well little did I know that this is what would come of my answer. Hubby showed me this when I got up the other morning and I couldn't help but laugh. That is just to cute.

Sight seeing

After looking at Michele's Blog and loving all the pictures she has on there I've decided that at least once a week I will post pictures of my area. I just have a basic camera, nothing fancy so I am hoping that they can be scenic and picturesque as her's but I will try. I may even go so far as to give a little history of it. But that might be pushing it a little for me.

Tacke it Tuesday

ok I will try this one more time. I started doing this meme, from 5 minutes for Mom, last year before I started working but then had to kinda stop because I was just to tired all the time. But I did one today.

It may not sound like a big tackle but it's something that I've been putting off for a few weeks. I cleaned out brush's. Yeah I know it sounds like a simple thing but for my daughter and I, it's a lot of hair. Every time I brush my hair I lose some and same with Savie. There was a lot of hair in the drain when I was finished. I had to soak our brushes, which I did while we were at the library, and then came home and rinsed them out. Let's see if we can do it two weeks in a row. ha ha ha


(oh by the way, I didn't link it because I want to do it a couple of weeks in a row before I link back.)

I almost did it

I was really close, so close. I made a menu plan 2 weeks in a row and pretty much stuck to it. There were a couple of days that I didn't have to cook since we had leftovers and now with leftovers from Super Bowl so I didn't have to cook tonight. So tonight I will figure out what I will be making for the rest of the week.

50 Book Challenge

Well I finished another book. Yeah!!!!! and it didn't even take me a whole month to do. This time around I read "How to talk so your kids will listen......" It was a good read. I took a positive parenting class a few weeks ago, before Christmas and this was one of the books that we used. There was a lot of good stuff in there and I will definitely be passing in on to another parent.

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY

Here it is, 4 hours before game time and what am I doing? Trying to clean house before my guests, that I just found out about, come over. I had no plans to make anything for the game since it's suppose to be just the 3 of us. I ha guacamole made, shrimp cocktail and leftover pot pie, that's it. Nothing for another family with a toddler, eat. Oh well wish me luck!!!



****************UPDATED AFTER THE GAME*******************************
Well the game is over and I couldn't tell you who won, lol. We were to busy talking and watching Savie play that we weren't paying much attention to it. But it was not as bad as I thought it would be since we are in a small house and even with just us it's a little crowded and then to add 2 more people plus their little dogs?!?!? But they have two little dogs, a teacup chihuahua (Chile Tapin I think I spelled that right) and a regular one (Apache). Chile is a cutie of a teacup and was of course very timid since she has never seen or met my dog Halley. But they did good. They got down and ate some snacks. Savie finally went to bed about an hour ago, almost half an hour after the game was over.

Black History Month

It should be a great thing. A chance of artist, songwriters, authors, etc to take the front stage but instead I'm pissed. Yes I am one of the few African American in town (there are only 5 of us) and yes I know my history. There is no reason to tell me about why they painted something, what they were feeling, etc I know it so don't preach it to me. Your probaly wondering where this train of thought came from, well let me back up and tell you (I will try to do it without yelling)


There is a Art class taught at the library every sat. and Savie and I have been going since they started this new session, at the beginning of the year. I love it. It's a lot fun. We've done sand and sugar art, "I have a dream" stuff like that. The teacher is a little out there, even for this town, and she has a tendency to talk over the kids heads. I mean it's 3yr old for goodness sakes. The class is for 3-8 yr so I would think that you would want to keep it pretty simple right? So for MLK day wouldn't you ask them what they dream about, what they want to be when they are older, the older kids I mean. But for the younger kids, you know the ones that aren't in school wouldn't you just let them draw whatever they want? Why control it, they just want to draw something. I think that you should let kids draw however they want, if they want a pink horse with a green sky and purple clouds go right ahead. It's their picture so be it. I am not a Helicopter parent. Today's project was "African American Art", a prefect subject for Black history month. But there is no reason to spend 15 minutes asking 3-4 yr old what it is. They have no idea. Am I wrong in thinking that? She showed us some beautiful pictures that she printed here's a few of them.






The teacher asked me if I could help Savie draw something like the second one, really????Really?? She's three for goodness sake I can't even draw like that. And when I told her "No I don't think I can." she looked at me like I had a third eye or something. She is starting to make me not like this class but I will keep going and if I have to get ugly faces then so be it. I just want to let Savie enjoy the coloring/drawing/making things part of the class. There's no reason to push her to make it African American art because as far as I am concerned it's African American art if an African American did it whether it be a painting, a statue, or a sculpture.
Ok I think I am done ranting and raving about the whole thing, please someone say something nice to me.

I am no longer a thief

Hey notice anything different about my blog?? Look really hard, it's something that is easy to see. No? Nothing? I added more mommies to my list. Mommies I've been reading for awhile and some new ones, that I've found from reading other mommies blog. There is will be more, it's just a matter of moving things around on my computer, lol.

2 Days

in a row. (doing a little happy dance) I got out of the house at 9:30 this morning, that's right I said 9:30. Let's see if we can continue and make it 3 days, lol.

I am a thief

but not in a bad way. Let me back up and start at the beginning.

I don't really know what I am doing online. I love to play around and see what's going on. Reading other people's blogs, seeing what they have on their pages, layout, etc. Every now and then I see something that I like and think "that would look kinda cool on my page" and I steal it. I click on whatever they have on their page and make it my own. I am such a bad mommy. What kind of example am I setting for Savie? (hanging my head in shame)

And since I bounce around a lot and come across other mommies that I like to read, I never seem to save them to my blog but to my toolbar. I really should move some of them over, like Claudia who lives in Canada, Anna's site espically with her crocheting and stuff, Mom's Happy Handful with her six kids, and also her sister. There's new mommies I've found like Queeny, crazysoccermom, and Dawn. I've read their blogs for the past week or so and have them saved but haven't added them to my blog I should and quit being sneaky about the whole thing right? Ok so sometime this week I will have to start moving them from my toolbar to my blog and quit being a thief, lol.

Yeah I did it!!!!!!!!

I made it out of the house on time this morning..............barely. It wasn't a pretty leaving the house but it worked, we got out of the house and only got to where we needed to be about 5 minutes late, which isn't bad at all. I was really trying to get out since it was horse day and all. But I'll talk about that some more in the next post.

Things have to change

they really do.

Usually I am really good about getting us out of the house and to where we need to be but the past couple of weeks. I just can't do it. We haven't gotten out of the house before 10am all week and today was library day. Actually since it's the end of the month today was our tea party.It's something the librarians do for the kids, it's so much fun. They have a little tea set and saucers, with milk and sugar, sandwiches or some other kind of snack. It's just so cute I'll have to post some pictures next month. But back to what I was talking about, getting out of the house on time.

Story hour is at 10:30 and I would like to be in the car and on our way by 10. That way we have time to play and relax before story time. Today we didn't even get in the car until 10:15am and then I got to thinking that if we rush (a bad thing to do) and get there we'll have to leave early anyways since she has a Dr. appt. at 11:30 so why rush across town just to have to rush back? Turning the car around we came home, not going to the library at all. Back home I unloaded and threw another load of clothes in the washer and tried to figure out what we could do for the next 45 min before our appt. Let's just walk down, mommy needs a good hike anyways. So a harness on Halley, jackets on us (even though it was a nice 59 today) and walked down to the Dr. office. It's only a 15 minute walk but you know what happens when you walk with a toddler? A 15 min. walk turns into a 45 min. walk. But we did it and then after our appt we walked over to K's house and then I walked back to my house to get my car and then drove back over to get Savie. We only stayed a few minutes because K was living to and we needed to come home to have lunch, by the time I got back to her house it was almost 1:30p!!!!!!! At least we did something today and I got a good walk in, lol. Hopefully tomorrow will be better since we are going out to the horse's again.

5 Minutes For Mom

I know I posted this before but they've changed so much in the past year, grown and everything, that they've had to re-tool their blog listing. My interview should be listed in a day or two but check them out, they have a lot of cool stuff on there.

50 Book Challenge

Well I finally did it. I finished a book. That's right a book. From the way things go I might not get a full 50 book read this year but we will see. I finally finished reading "For the Love of Money" by Omar Tyree. It's the sequel to Flyy Girl and that was a good book but for some reason this was just slow to read. I'm hoping that my next one, The Cursed by L A Banks, will go by faster. I love her books.

Take two

Ok I don't know if I mentioned this in my post about new years or resolutions but I am going to try and keep a weekly menu plan. And, drum roll please.......I've done it for one week. YEAH!!!!!!!! But the big question is can we do this for two weeks in a row. I am trying to plan for this coming week right now so if anyone has any suggestions for websites that could help in planning that would be great.

It's offical

I have tried to deny it for a long time now, and even after Savie was born I knew that I would have to stop doing this but I can't, I just can't stop myself. I am no a morning person and can not get out of the house before 11am. There I've said (well wrote it, same thing) and now I can move on and do something about it.

Today is Friday and I should be at the park right now but instead I am on the computer, in my pj's and haven't even made anything for breakfast. Savie is eating dry cereal because I didn't feel like putting milk on it (plus she has a bad cough and a runny nose so no more milk than necessary). I guess we really should get up and get dressed but after all the running around we did yesterday I really don't feel up to it. What did we do yesterday you ask that would make me feel so tired today, even after a good nights sleep? Well let me tell you....

Got a wake up call around 7 from another mother calling to see if we wanted to meet at her place or if I wanted her to drop L off at my place. I completely forgot that I promised to watch L for her while she had a Dr. appt. So now I have to jump out of bed and get Savie out and dressed so we can leave the house in 45 min. Did I mention that we don't really do morning's in my house? But we were only 5 minutes late, which isn't really a good thing since the place is only 5 minutes from my house!! LOL.
After playing with L she took us to breakfast to say thank you to me, which wasn't really necessary since I would do it for anyone and I would like to think that they would return the favor but anyways. By now it's 10 and I really want to get on the road for Tucson, it's a 2 hr drive to Tucson and I just want to go. But I'm not going alone, I have to wait for my friend.
Yeah the same one that has all the animals, so I know it will be awhile because she has to feed the lambs, get the hairless set, etc, etc. But I called her when I was getting dressed so she knew where I stood time-wise. Called when we left breakfast and told her that I still needed to come back to the house but I was almost ready to go. I'm not going to get into it but we didn't leave here until 1:30pm!!!!! That's right for all that time, the whole 3 1/2 hrs we were at her house trying to get her ready. It was not what I wanted.

But we finally left, around 1:30pm!!!!!!!!! We should have been in Tucson already not just leaving but that's another matter. Savie fell asleep on the way up there which is a good thing since it's a 2 hr drive and she wasn't going to get nap in. We got there and did the shopping I went there to do and spent way more than I had planned. I didn't think there would have been that much left in the store but there was. I spent close to $100 on books in that store (stupid store closing sale, lol) and then let Savie play in the play area that was in the mall before making the 2 hr drive back.

And just so you know how tired I am today, I started writing this this morning and now it's 10p and I'm finally finishing, lol. Oh well off to bed I go,

101 post

Wow what a thing to post for my 100 post, not what I was hoping for but oh well i guess it will do, lol

She doesn't get it

not even a little bit. K doesn't have kids of her own, how could she you read the last post about the animals so where would a kid be in all that??? But I'm getting off topic. I take S over to her house mainly because the walk there and back is good exercise and she has plenty of space outside for her to play in. But that's it. I would never go to dinner and leave her with her for a couple of hours that is just out of the question. Especially after yesterday.

A couple of days ago we went to Walmart and she bought a bunch of stuff for S to use at her house, glue, paper, stuff like that. Well when I left they were playing outside. It was a little windy but not as bad as at my house since i leave right at the base of a mt. Fine, everything is fine, so I walk all the way home and get the car and come back for her. I called to tell her that i was on the way so they can clean up whatever they were playing with, you give her a warning. Well I get there and they are coloring and gluing pom poms to paper, it was all very cute.......until i saw that there was a heart drawn on her pants.. IN GLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes that's what I said, in glue. And then something was drawn on her back pocket to. I was trying really hard not to get upset but just because it says it's washable does not mean that you can put tit on anything. I left, with S, and did what I needed to do came home and washed her pants, twice. When I talked to her later online, she asked me about ti and I told her that it finally came out. She got upset because "it says it's washable, that's just like a bait and switch. I'm going to write them a letter and tell them they can't mislabeled and mislead people like that".

me "No K, it's not meant for fabric, and it is washable.... from your hands"

K "Well that's just wrong, they shouldn't do that"

K "the girls and I used body paints on our clothes and skin but, it washed out easily..."

me "because body paint is meant to wash off of just about anything, not the same for glue or crayons"

K "WELL.... they should NOT say washable then!"

I could go on wit the conversation but I think you get the point. How many different ways can I say not to do that? I finally just told her not to do it. It's meant for paper, pom poms and stuff like that. Maybe it's just me but that is just stupid on her part. Kid or not, if I was watching someone else child and they got something on their pants be it crayon, glue, stickers, whatever, I would try to take it off not get made at the company that made it because it didn't wash out.

Martin Luther King, Jr

Ok I've been a little lax in days and didn't even realize that MLK day was on Monday. I can't believe that it's almost the end of the month already. Our library here has started doing an art class on Sat afternoons and we've been going. It's only been 2 weeks but so far it's been really fun. (just another day for me to spend at the library right?, lol) Well anyways, in an effort to get us caught up we did 2 projects today, a sugar and sand art project and then something for MLK day. Well the first project was easy. Glue and colored sand on paper, how can you go wrong? lol. Then it was time for the second project.

The lady asked how old the kids were and if they knew who made the line "I have a dream" famous, or rather who spoke those words. Well let me give you a little background about the other kids in the this class. There is Savie and myself, another mom who has a 4yr old and a 3yr old, and then a lady visiting from Alaska with a 9-10yr old. The old girl is the only one in the class that is not half black. So back to the teacher.

She was going off talking about how he was a great man and that we should watch programs about him this weekend, etc. I am all for that and have nothing against anything she said, it is after all a part of black history. Then she proceeded to tell us that "even a 3yr old should be able to understand what is going on". Then, continuing to look at myself and my daughter, she wants to know if she knows who he is and what he stood for. Am I wrong in thinking that at 3 she has no idea what is going on? That she is more interested in coloring and painting? So I got over that. The whole point of the project we were suppose to make was "who inspires you to be a better person, what are your dreams, what do you want to be when you grow up".

Ok that's fine for the older girl but how would a 4yr old know the answer to that? Am I wrong in thinking that? Have I lost my mind? I was a little put off by the fact that she was trying to tell me what I should be teaching my child. I know what she needs to know about black history, about the people who gave their lives so that I, as a african american woman, can go where I want, do what I want, and live where I want. I know this, there is no need to tell me that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Ok I feel a little better now. Sorry for the speech but I have been thinking about this all day.

Can you say "yea haw?"

We, the other mommies that we spend time with, try to get together every Wednesday and do some kind of outing with the kids. Today's outing was to go to a horse ranch just outside of town. We have driven by every almost every week when we go to Douglas, so it's not a totally new place for us. It was so much fun. I am so glad that J suggested it. There was a horse there with blue eyes!! I've never seen a horse with blue eyes. I think the lady said that they were Appaloosa's ? I don't remember and I didn't get a lot of their pictures I got more of the kids playing in the carriages they had around the place than anything. The horse's are a mix, Appaloosa's and Arabians. Horse's look so different when they have their winter coats on, lol. She also has burro's but I think they are minis, they have short legs and really big heads, they look kinda silly. Here's pictures of the kids playing and the animals. I'm kinda looking forward to Friday now, I think we are trying go to the pool (indoor).

Fast Food

Now I'm not saying that I don't eat fast food, I would be lying if I said I didn't but this is getting old. The whole " whopper freakout"?? It's getting old. Are really that hung up on getting a whopper that we are going to ask "for the manager to come to the window" as one woman said during one of the commericals. I mean c'om. So you can't get a whopper, go home and make a sandwich, have some leftovers, get something from the grocery store. But I have to wonder, how many people just took what they got, in the ones where they gave out Big Mac's instead of whoppers, and were happy? I think a lot of people just got their food and left or ate it. Get over it people.


Today was to cold to do much of anything outside, well not really but it was really windy. I think that we had wind gust that were 15-25 mph today so makes it kinda hard to enjoy the sun that we got. I'm hoping that tomorrow is not more of the same but we are in kinda of a wind tunnel so who knows. Tomorrow is library day so will be out for the morning and then back in the afternoon, I may end up making banana bread to keep the front of the house warm since this house is drafty. It's one of the things I can't stand about this house and I can't wait to leave but that's another post, lol. Well off to watch some movies, eat some popcorn and work on my niece's blanket.

5 Minutes for Mom

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Meanest mom on the Planet

So I was on another blog and I came across this link on her sidebar and went to it. I had to laugh because after reading the story about the "meanest mom on the planet" to myself I had to kinda agree with what she did. It's a little more than I would have done but hey everyone is different. I read the story to my husband and you know what he was stuck on??? The price of the car!!!!!!! Yes ladies and gentlemen, the fact that they, well the mom, was going to sell the car for $3,700. Not the fact that there was booze in the car, that it was hiding under the seat or that 'a friend' left it behind. I have to laugh at that. It took about 5 minutes for me to get over that one.

Today was park day. We did the usual park thing and then went for hot dogs. Usually we don't go because we end up doing something for my friend and end up missing things. It was a lot of fun though. We need to it more often.

Goals pt2

I forgot to mention this in my goals, I will lose weight this year. Not because of a diet or fasting or anything like that, I will be more mobile this year.
-I will ride my bike
-I will take my dog for a walk more often (she's starting to gain weight to)
-I will get a smaller size bra (trust me I need it)

These are all things that will happen, not only because I need to lose the weight but because I want to feel better. Playing a round of ring-a-round-the-rosie with Savie leaves me winded, walking up a flight of stairs leaves me winded. I should not feel that way, I am to young for that. Well maybe not that but I am not ready for that to be my reality. I want to lose the weight.It's not a matter of being a size smaller but being a healthier weight and being able to do things without having to stop because I'm tired and winded. I thought that working would help with that but I only ended up putting on weight instead of losing it (all those late night trips thru the drive-thru is what did it to me). But this time next year I will weigh less.

what a day

Today was a great day. We were suppose to go hiking today with some of the other moms but it fell apart so Savie and I went by ourselves. It was a good day for it. I know the place, we tried it last year with a friend last year but we only made it about 5 minutes, lol.

It's at the pass here in town, which is nice since I brought our dog along with us. She had been left out for so long, not going on walks, being locked in the house because it's cold. So off we went on a good hike.

We had a late start, didn't leave the house until about 10:30 and still needed to gas up (not a good thing to drive to the top of a mountain when your 'check gauge' light is on, lol). Halley was every happy to be in the car to the point that she almost fell out, lol. We got to the spot and Savie kept asking me 'where are we going?" It was to cute, even though I had told her several times that we are going for a hike (we can't say walk around Halley, she knows the word and goes crazy). Out of the car we go, oops wait a minute forgot the camera, gotta take pictures of the sites and scenery. So we set out again, this time with camera in tow. Halley was her usual happy self when we are out, Savie was more interested in picking up sticks then looking around. We walked down the trail for about 30 min before we walked back to the car. Got some great shots of her climbing a mountain and sitting next to a small tree and then in a tunnel we found. I will have to post them later. I am to tired to go out to the car and get the camera.

I needed the walk. I need to lose the weight that I've gain over the past 2 years from doing nothing. Savie and I are going to be doing this more often, at least until it gets to cold for it. But I think that the worst of our winter is over since today was a nice 60 degree's with no wind. I'm hoping that maybe even try again this weekend. Let's hope.

What a friend

Yes I am going to brag about myself. I have a friend, who started out as a co-worker, that uses me a lot. Not necessarily in a bad way all of the time but one of those friends where when you get home at the end of the day after being with them or dealing with them you are just tired. Now not just physically tired but emotionally and mentally tired. Yesterday I promised to come over and feed the two baby lambs that she rescued from her mother's ranch outside of town (don't ask that's a whole different post) and she said that I could use her washer/dryer since I only have a washer and it was raining here yesterday. So no big deal, feed 2 baby lambs their bottles, wash clothes, let Savie play on the play set outside, easy right?

No such luck. Her washer/dryer situation is bad. It's in another room that is barely big enough to fit the 2 of them in there. I mean they are right there, you can't even really walk in the room because to open the dryer door it pushes you out. It gets a little old and makes my back hurt, I don't know how she does it.

****edited to add more****
So today, the 13th, we went to Tombstone to buy trigger locks for the gun that hubby has because we need them. So it';s a great family day, nice and warm and sunny, we are enjoying ourselves. We've just gotten there, are walking around watching the street fight they have every hour (gotta love Tombstone) when my phone goes off. It's her!!!! I hung up the phone and she calls back!!!! So I finally turn my off off and went on with the rest of our family day.

When we left to come back home I turn my phone back on and she left a message asking me to come get her from her parents ranch, 30 min outside of town!!!!!! how can I say no when I listen to the rest of her story. What a friend I am.

Goals

I have finally made up my mind, and I think my mother would be happy. I am going back to school. I may have said this before but I am really going to go thru with it this time. I went the the junior college here and got the books so I can plan for next semester, not the winter semester but the spring/summer one. That way I have time to plan for Savie, find grants/financial aid (if I qualify), and look for a house. I figure that by the time we move, he stops working long enough to get his contractors license things should be settled down enough for me to go to school. Especially since I plan on doing online classes and Savie won't be in school just yet. I'm hoping that by the time I put her in day care/prechool I will be ready for 2-3 classes and not stressing to much, lol.

Which brings up another subject, putting Savie in daycare. I don't see the point since I am not working and we spend time out with other kids. I mean, why waste the money that we don't really have, on putting her in school now when I am not doing anything else during the day? I mean if I was working, or in school, then yeah I will put her in school but for now there's no need. And it's not like we don't spend time with other kids and are not social, we are. We have a pretty wide schedule where we do do certain things on certain day, ie story hour or going to the park, but we are active. Everyday is something, even if we just have to go wash clothes we are out doing something. Well it's way past the little one's bedtime so I guess I better go put her to bed, lo. Have a great night ladies.

Playtime

Well it's Friday here again and we did the usual, playtime at the park. But for the past couple of weeks we have missed it or have been out of town so we haven't been. It was so nice to see everyone, both old and usual (if that's the right phrase) again. Usually after Tues we don't really see a lot of other people because we don't go over to Douglas for their story hour we stay here and do bi-lingual story hour. I have so many pictures that I would love to put together for a scrapbook that I think the other mothers would like to see. It's nothing fancy, just pictures I've taken at the park and the library and other event/things that we have done as a group but to see the changes in the kids would be nice. It was only after looking at some of the pictures that I can really see the changes in Savie. Besides it's something nice to do for someone other than me, lol.

Today started out pretty good. Finally put the new down comforter on the bed so we won't be freezing anymore and had a very warm night last night. Slept in and then got dressed and eat a little something for breakfast. Savie was her usual cranky, wanting to watching TV self (we are going to have to put a stop to that soon, very soon, but we made it out the door at a reasonable hour. I tried to drop stuff for hubby but he wasn't where I thought he was going to be so I have his phone and am looking all over for him. Played at the park for a good amount of time, hoping in the back of my mind that she will take a nap so i can think after 5 minutes lol. Then came over to feed a lamb and dry some clothes but I ave yet to eat. I really want to get home and work on my nieces blanket, eat my own lunch and just relax. I don't think that's asking a whole lot you know. But that's what I get for being a friend to this one person. I am getting myself into her stuff, it's great and everything when I can do that I like, like go to the ranch, feed some animals, have a 2 opinion when I go shopping, but it wears then when I can't get a word in edgewise.

Like the other day when I was trying to tell her a story about the trip I just took. Somehow things managed to work their way around to being about her......again. Not that she hasn't had a hard time in life, but when we're talking about how hard it is to find time to do something for me without Savie how does that translate to her not having car?? Maybe I'm missing something but somehow everything that I bring up works it's way back to her and her problems.

Well maybe I can eat my lunch now that the lamb has calmed down and she is eating. Let's hope for good things, right?!?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!! Just a view from the pass near our house. I hope everyone had a safe and happy new year eve's I spent my night watching movie's, eating popcorn, and having a glass of wine.