Friday I had a sore throat all day....and you just never know what it could turn out to be, so when Presley said her throat hurt when we got home I was not shocked. As all good women do, we push on and deal with it. We watched Mary for a couple hours so that Holly and Jerry could go to a birthday party, the girls played good and hung out and went to bed too late.
Saturday morning Steve got up with the girls about 8 and about 9 o'clock Presley came in and just laid with me. This rarely happens so I knew she probably didn't feel good, she had a birthday party that morning and decided to skip it. She watched a movie in our bed until almost 11, then her meds started to kick in and she got up and started playing. Steve took Piper grocery shopping so we just sat around and did very little....which is how most of my day went. I just couldn't get motivated to do ANYTHING (maybe this was part of my sore throat and 'sicknesss'). I did a little laundry, little dishes, little picking up, little reading, tried to nap a little...finally about 5 pm we decided to venture out for dinner, so I HAD to get up and make myself presentable.
Sunday I got up with the girls about 8:30, we cuddled on the couch...them on their ipads and me on my kindle. :) I had a little more motivation so I was able to get the laundry done, pick up the house, get the girls stuff ready for the week, walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes, hang out with the girls and neighbors outside for a bit. Because the weather was pretty nice Steve gets excited to cook, drink and have people over. So we invited Sarah and family over, Jordan and Sarah showed up and then Uncle Matt showed up also. We hung out on the deck (pretty much out of the crazy wind!) and talked, the kids played so good outside (often times we forget that we really need to check up on them), we ate great food (thank you Steve) and then again our kids were up too late!
I knew tonight it was going to be an early night for them and sure enough both were asleep by 8:30 (usually it's about 8:45 and we are sleeping too!...so hurray for us staying up later than them tonight!)
Monday, April 4, 2016
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Blah Blah
- American Idol update.....well my girl Olivia was gone weeks ago! Dalton is still hanging on, but I don't think he will win. The winner will be La'Porsha. I still think Dalton is super cute, eyeliner and all! And I might cry at the finale, just saying.
- Dear Johnston, your lack of planning on closing two of the major streets south out of Johnston is killing me. There are only 4 main streets out of our little city and you close 2 at the same time? My drive to and from work is now 10-15 minutes longer b/c of the traffic. It should not take me close to an hour to get home at night! Only 8 more months.
- As I have mentioned before, I use the Loreal tanning wipes. I use two a week and the box gets me thru a month....for $8. This is so much cheaper and safer than actually tanning! Sometimes I will have a streak or a bad spot from these wipes, but really, you never had stripes from tanning beds (and I won't mention the cancer from these beds too)? And when you are out in the actual sun, you never get a hand print there or stripe here from the sunscreen you put on? (oh wait, you don't use sunscreen? Shame, shame!!!)
- We lay with our kids at bedtime every night. We read books and lay with them until they fall asleep. This might be a bad habit and might take up time in our night....and we might fall asleep with them more times than not.....but this is time with them I know is limited. Time we won't get back. I'm embracing it (which is easier to do now that it is only 45 minutes with Piper instead of 2 hours)
- Speaking of putting kids to bed, last night I was laying with Piper, we read our two books and it was time to turn out the light. She turned the light off and said "Can we talk or something?". I told her that we could talk, we talked very briefly about her friend Becca and she changed the subject and wanted to talk about her 24 year old cousin Jordan. This girls LOVES her cousin Jordan, they never really talk to each other or bond....but she has an infatuation with his boat, that she remembers from Okoboji last July!
- I threw away the rest of the frosting I had in the fridge. The spoonful of frosting I would have before bed (don't mind the pile of spoons next to my bed!) was just not needed. Now what am going to do with all this Easter candy?
- I'm technically back on Facebook now. Honestly I have very little interest in it now. I haven't posted, haven't commented. I'm sure I will eventually but it's nice to have one less thing to think about doing or checking.
- Dear Johnston, your lack of planning on closing two of the major streets south out of Johnston is killing me. There are only 4 main streets out of our little city and you close 2 at the same time? My drive to and from work is now 10-15 minutes longer b/c of the traffic. It should not take me close to an hour to get home at night! Only 8 more months.
- As I have mentioned before, I use the Loreal tanning wipes. I use two a week and the box gets me thru a month....for $8. This is so much cheaper and safer than actually tanning! Sometimes I will have a streak or a bad spot from these wipes, but really, you never had stripes from tanning beds (and I won't mention the cancer from these beds too)? And when you are out in the actual sun, you never get a hand print there or stripe here from the sunscreen you put on? (oh wait, you don't use sunscreen? Shame, shame!!!)
- We lay with our kids at bedtime every night. We read books and lay with them until they fall asleep. This might be a bad habit and might take up time in our night....and we might fall asleep with them more times than not.....but this is time with them I know is limited. Time we won't get back. I'm embracing it (which is easier to do now that it is only 45 minutes with Piper instead of 2 hours)
- Speaking of putting kids to bed, last night I was laying with Piper, we read our two books and it was time to turn out the light. She turned the light off and said "Can we talk or something?". I told her that we could talk, we talked very briefly about her friend Becca and she changed the subject and wanted to talk about her 24 year old cousin Jordan. This girls LOVES her cousin Jordan, they never really talk to each other or bond....but she has an infatuation with his boat, that she remembers from Okoboji last July!
- I threw away the rest of the frosting I had in the fridge. The spoonful of frosting I would have before bed (don't mind the pile of spoons next to my bed!) was just not needed. Now what am going to do with all this Easter candy?
- I'm technically back on Facebook now. Honestly I have very little interest in it now. I haven't posted, haven't commented. I'm sure I will eventually but it's nice to have one less thing to think about doing or checking.
Happy Easter!
The girls came in and got us up about 7:45, they were SO excited (b/c of course they had peeked into the family room and saw random eggs!)
Ignore the bedhead and the mismatched pj's! :)
With their Easter baskets!
We hung out at home and played and ate candy and got ready to head to my parents for Easter lunch/dinner.
Look at that baby face! :)
My parents hid eggs in the backyard for the kids and of course they run around so quickly that we were back inside in no time which was good b/c it was chilly!!!
My mama and my baby!
Happy Easter!
We actually had a fairly busy Easter weekend. Friday night we hung out at home, popped in on the neighbors and played with them a while until Piper was too bossy and mean that we had to leave, plus we needed to dye our Easter eggs anyway so the timing worked out! ;)
They grabbed their eggs, faster than lightening and while we were opening them I noticed family walked in late with 2 little boys (ages 1 and 2...maybe) and of course, all the eggs were gone by then! Steve and I told Presley that we were going to give some of their eggs to those little boys, she was ok with it. It wasn't much and I'm sure the boys didn't know one way or another but the parents were VERY grateful! In 15 minutes flat we were back in the car and the egg hunt was over! Then we headed to my parents to dye eggs. We haven't all been to my parents house since the beginning of February, that is a long time for this family!
Saturday morning I got up and headed back into work until about 11:30. Then got home, ate some lunch and headed out to the Johnston egg hunt. It was originally supposed to be on the football field but the moved it indoors due to the cold, rainy weather. They had half the gym for the little kids and the other half for the older kids.
Miss Mary
She wrote 'mom' on a egg for me! :)
After we were done we headed home for a while and then we headed back out for dinner. We tried a new place for us, The Food Depot in Grimes and it was a success! The food was good and the kids were good! :) That night we just hung out at home, watched a little Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory until then got ready for the Easter bunny the next morning!
Monday, March 28, 2016
Spring!
We are ready for spring! The girls put on their 'spring' dresses last week and were so goofy for the camera! I've been bad at taking pictures this month so I've gone a little overboard this last week trying to make up for my lack of paparazzi skills!
We decorated easter bunny cookies.....something to keep them busy for a hour without fighting!
Random
- Piper started her new class at Generation last week, so far so good. She was nervous at first, but she seems to adjust well to new things. The first day I picked her up she was outside with her class standing at the window by herself looking inside to her old class! It was so sad! She looks so little compared to some of the kids in this class, it's crazy how 6-9 months makes such a difference in kids this young!
- I signed Piper up for gymnastics this summer, it's the same night Presley's class is so that will be nice.
- I had my biometrics test for work and my health insurance yesterday. My weight and BMI is 'normal', my blood pressure was a little high 129/89 (and I'm blaming work for this) and even my total cholesterol was high! Thankfully my good cholesterol was high also so my actual calculated 'risk' of heart disease was low.
- I signed Piper up for gymnastics this summer, it's the same night Presley's class is so that will be nice.
- I had my biometrics test for work and my health insurance yesterday. My weight and BMI is 'normal', my blood pressure was a little high 129/89 (and I'm blaming work for this) and even my total cholesterol was high! Thankfully my good cholesterol was high also so my actual calculated 'risk' of heart disease was low.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
March Madness
Friday I took off work a little early to meet Steve and the neighbors Sarah and Kyle, to watch the Iowa basketball game....even though work wants me to work overtime, I just couldn't bring myself to do any last week. We watched the game, ate some food and then Steve headed to work at 4:30 and I went to pick up the girls!
Steve got home about 8:30, showered and headed back out to watch more bball about 9. Then he had to work Saturday morning for a couple hours too.
Saturday the girls and I got ready and headed to the mall to walk around, see the easter bunny from afar and ride the train. They saw some animals the ARL had there, they played in the play area, and then they ran crazy doing very little listening to me. So instead of going to Target like I wanted to on the way out, I carried Piper screaming and kicking all the way to the car. Fun times.
Basically our kids CANNOT get along for the majority of the time they are together. Everything is a contest, everything they do is to purposely bother the other one, everything is an argument or fight. EVERYTHING.
So Steve had some friends in town watching bball at Jethro's that afternoon and took Piper with him (the more time the girls are apart, the better). Presley and I hung out and I enjoyed the quiet and we might have made a quick trip to Dairy Queen too.
That night we kinda hung out at home, trying to keep the kids from killing each other and us from killing them (kidding people, kidding, no sense in calling CPS on us).
Sunday morning I got up and went to work....I got to work at 6:20 am! For the record that means I was up and out of the house by 5:55 on a Sunday morning!!! I worked until 11 and then headed over to Sarah and Kyles house to watch the Iowa game, bad loss but oh well. I snuck out after the game and headed to Target (by myself!!) and did some shopping and got home a little before 3. Then I worked out and showered and started a quick clean up since Sarah and Kyle were now coming to our house for dinner and to watch more bball (do you see a theme to our weekend?) Steve made his wonderful pizzas again and we hung out while the kiddos played. UNI had a fantastic game but did end up losing. Bummer.
Since my NCAA bracket is looking pretty sad right now I'm ready for bball season to be over. I have Kansas winning it all so I'll just hope that no one else does and I'll win the pool we are in! :)
Steve got home about 8:30, showered and headed back out to watch more bball about 9. Then he had to work Saturday morning for a couple hours too.
Saturday the girls and I got ready and headed to the mall to walk around, see the easter bunny from afar and ride the train. They saw some animals the ARL had there, they played in the play area, and then they ran crazy doing very little listening to me. So instead of going to Target like I wanted to on the way out, I carried Piper screaming and kicking all the way to the car. Fun times.
Basically our kids CANNOT get along for the majority of the time they are together. Everything is a contest, everything they do is to purposely bother the other one, everything is an argument or fight. EVERYTHING.
So Steve had some friends in town watching bball at Jethro's that afternoon and took Piper with him (the more time the girls are apart, the better). Presley and I hung out and I enjoyed the quiet and we might have made a quick trip to Dairy Queen too.
That night we kinda hung out at home, trying to keep the kids from killing each other and us from killing them (kidding people, kidding, no sense in calling CPS on us).
Sunday morning I got up and went to work....I got to work at 6:20 am! For the record that means I was up and out of the house by 5:55 on a Sunday morning!!! I worked until 11 and then headed over to Sarah and Kyles house to watch the Iowa game, bad loss but oh well. I snuck out after the game and headed to Target (by myself!!) and did some shopping and got home a little before 3. Then I worked out and showered and started a quick clean up since Sarah and Kyle were now coming to our house for dinner and to watch more bball (do you see a theme to our weekend?) Steve made his wonderful pizzas again and we hung out while the kiddos played. UNI had a fantastic game but did end up losing. Bummer.
Since my NCAA bracket is looking pretty sad right now I'm ready for bball season to be over. I have Kansas winning it all so I'll just hope that no one else does and I'll win the pool we are in! :)
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