Ludwig's Angina

It sounds kinda dirty, huh? It's actually a pretty serious condition that's caused by bad wisdom teeth that have been left in too long. I have it. The infection spread to my tongue and I can't talk very well, it's all swollen. And the next place it's headed is my throat, which will close up, thus the "angina". But thankfully tomorrow I will be getting 3 teeth pulled. Yes, I said thankfully. I'm kinda terrified though. Do they put you under? Does it hurt worse during or after? Are they gonna give me lots of happy pills to take my mind off the terrible pain?
Find out all this and more on the next installment of THE ADVENTURES OF A STAY AT HOME MOM!

Damn Judy!

Well, the shopping was actually really fun. We got to Wal-mart at like 4:30 or so and got in line in the front of the store and waited. 15 minutes later the manager comes outside and says "okay, these doors will not be opened until the OTHER line gets in". That's when we realized there was a line on the side of the building that wrapped around the entire side parking lot. Naturally, we were upset. The three of us moseyed our way over to the other side and tried to just blend in and walk in with the front of the over line, but this worker named Judy pulled Diana (sister-in-law) and myself out of the line, somehow Carol (mother in law) was able to get past. I actually started arguing with this Judy chick, she was saying how it wasn't fair that those people had waited so long and we were just butting in...and I said "well, we've been waiting too, nobody told us they weren't going to open the front doors"...I never back down from a good argument! Anyway, she told us to go to the back of the line and actually followed us most of the way! I asked why he was doing that and she said it was because she knew as soon as she turned her back we were gonna butt in line again. She was right, of course, but with her watching us so closely we had to wait at the end of the line. Anyway, by the time we got in there Carol was waiting for us with her whole list in her arms, she had gotten everything she wanted before most people even got in the door! Love it!!! It had helped that the day before she hid a bunch of stuff in the fake plants in the fabric dept....
You should have seen these people, where was the Christmas spirit? Seriously! Pushing and shoving, not to mention TONS of people walking around looking like zombies in their flannel pajama pants. We waited in line for over an hour just to check out. Oh, and on the way we passed good ol' Judy. I said "hey Judy, we got everything we came for!" and she goes "good! see what happens when you wait in line like you're supposed to?" and Diana quips "nope, that's what happens when my mom runs in before you notice her!". We had a good laugh. If I wasn't me, and I was standing behind me in line that day, I would have hated me! But, seeing as I AM me, it was awesome!

Black Friday

Well, I must be crazy. I really mean it this time. It's 3 in the morning and I'm awake, drinking coffee, preparing to be picked up to go Christmas shopping at 4. 4 A.M. !! yeah, apparently there's a 4 in the morning. I'm going with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law...I'm not sure how I got talked into it but they needed extra legs to run. I've never been shopping early on black friday, do people really run like you see on the news? I just picture old ladies getting trampled by women in curlers and slippers running for the last new Elmo toy. Will there be ambulances on hand? I'm kind of looking forward to it as a way to kick off the holiday season, even though we decorated a few days ago.
Hope everyone's turkey day was wonderful. Mine was, well, interesting. A big family fight (not me this time), and a 12 hour hold in the police station will make for a good story next year...
Alright well I'm going to go put my running shoes on and do some stretches....I may have to run over some old ladies!

Happy Wednesday!!!

Hope you are all doing well today. I have to be honest, I really have nothing to blog about today...but the house is a huge, HUGE mess and I'm procrastinating. You know how it is.
Hmmmm, something clever to say. Something funny to write about...not much really. Oh, Sophie asked me for a snack earlier but I was on the phone and kept putting her off, so she resorted to something she learned from her father "I'll give you a dollar if you get me a snack". I'm still waiting for the cash...
Hmmm, well, here's a link to a very funny video, enjoy it! It's about the differences in men and women showering. Darnit, I can't get the link to "link", just highlight it and right click, you'll get there I promise!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYLCdW4Vo74

Warning- gross story ahead!

ah, my wonderfully imaginative daughter. I have yet another hilarious story to share with you, my faithful reader.
Sophie came out of the bathroom a few minutes ago and was looking a bit worried. So, naturally, I asked her what was wrong. She said "well, I peed. And then I pooped. And my brain came out.". I asked her to repeat it please...."yeah, I pooped my brain out!". I said, "okay, then what?" "then I came in here to tell you". "So, where is your brain now?". "It's in the toilet! It's little and black."
Wow. I mean, just, wow. I decided to spare you all from having to see a picture...plus I don't think I really want one either.
I hope I never forget these crazy stories!
Oh, and here's a couple new pics for ya! One of them is Donnie sleeping sitting up. He tries to tell me he just "closes his eyes for a minute and then I yell at him for falling asleep"...but it's just not true. And now I have pics to prove it!

A Blog Call

Hello? Oh, hi. How are you? Me? You know, same ol'. uh... Wow. It's Wednesday. Cool. Not much to blog about. The weather is nice. Nice and autumn-y. Likin' the leaves on the ground. You know, and the smell in the air. I have a lot of housecleaning to do today. Kinda procrastinatin'. So....yeah. Uh, well, I think I hear the baby crying so I have to let you go now. Bye.

What's wrong with this picture?

Migraine???

Oh, so THAT's what has been killing me this last week....a migraine!
I'm on the mend, peeps. I'll be back...I haven't forgotten you!
Please send flowers.

A Desperate Housewife

Okay, not really but doesn't that sound so dramatic?
Not much to report about today, we stuck Donnie's socks on Aidan and he looked like he was wearing tights, see picture below.
Our landlord is stopping by to fix some broken boards on our deck. We have the best landlord...he's blind! Okay, not all the way but he can't drive and can only see lights and darks and the shapes of things. It's great..."no, that's not a stain on the carpet...are your eyes getting worse?", and so on and so forth.
The most exciting thing going on in my life right now is the Indiana Jones lego game on xbox 360. And I don't even like playing video games, but this little lego man stole my heart! My daughter and I sit on the couch in our pj's playing "Diana Jones" all day, it's great. Occasionally I get up to fill the baby's bottle and plug his mouth back up...but for the most part it's about all I've been doing. The thing is, I suck at it and have to use a walkthrough for most of it. I'll try for awhile, and then I'm like "screw it, I can just look this up!". It's like cheating on a test. You know you shouldn't and you can't take full credit for it, but you can't help it when the answers are right there.
Hopefully my next post will be more interesting, I don't want you all to think I'm a video game nerd! Because I'm not....not even a little....

Aidan wearing daddy's socks

For Natasha

I got your comment but I can't comment back!!! I had to go to a third party site and get a counter, here's the link
http://www.blogpatrol.com/
It shows up at the very bottom of your blog.
That is all.
Good day to you.

Well, our car broke down so we had to borrow Donnie's moms car. I hate not having a car. My b-day is on Tuesday, and I wanted to spend the day shopping, preferably by myself. I love my family, but I relish the times I'm by myself. I'll take the long way to the store just to give me a few more minutes of quiet! Anyway, after work last night we went grocery shopping. At 11:00 at night. I was so tired I couldn't think straight and we ended up spending a lot of money...on crap. But tasty, yummy crap. We picked up some fruit snacks and I caught Sophie sticking them in her nose, wanna see?
And she still ate it! Ah, youth. I wonder how many adults do this when they're alone.
I suppose this blog is fairly successful. I don't know what the average traffic on a personal blog is, but I get a bunch of views every day. I gotta keep writing and keep you coming back for more! Only thing is, some days are really boring so I resort to telling old stories or babbling...like today....lovely weather we're having, huh?...how is your family?....did those antibiotics get rid of it?...
ewww.
Do people get my sense of humor?

Stinky Hands

I have nothing really interesting to blog about today, so I'm going to tell you a funny story about my daughter. It's a goodie.
When we were moving into this house we had to take down a ton of wallpaper, and Donnie and Sophie were downstairs in our room tackling this really, really ugly SALMON wallpaper. Not the color, the fish! Seriously. Anyway, Donnie was using vinegar in a spray bottle to loosen the wallpaper, and just making conversation he said "Sophie, my hands stink"! And she said "why?" and he said "Because of the vinegar". She thought a minute and said "my hands stink too" and he said "oh yeah, why is that?" And she said...are you ready for this...."because I put them in my butt crack.".
Ah, what a gem of a story that one is!

A Sunflower Fairy and a Monkey