A Little Glimpse of my Week...Day 2

I made it back for Day 2! Today is my catch up day--laundry, get toys to their proper homes, errands,.......

6:10 am--Carrie Underwood wakes me up but quickly gets snoozed until 6:40 when I actually have to roll out of bed to get T ready for school. To my surprise, I hear the TV on downstairs on the way to his room and which meant he was already up! I sigh in relief that I didn't have to wake him then realized J had a 9am meeting in SA which would mean M could stay at home with him while I took T to school. Yay! The day has started off on the right foot!

7:12 am--Out the door, with coffee in hand, to take T to school. Pick up Miss J, our first grade neighbor, who we car pool with and it's my week to take the kiddos. Came home to M, who is watching the traditional, Dora the Explorer. After sending J off and reading the paper, super speed mode kicks in--8 hours until T gets home!

7:50 am--Found T's library book that was due today.......

9:00 am--3 loads of laundry down, clean dishes put away and dishwasher reloaded, off to the office to work on some projects that keep lingering around. One has been M's crib that has been in our garage for a year. I finally sent an email out to our neighborhood Yahoo group to see if anyone wanted to buy it, 2 minutes later--SOLD! Why do I put these things off??

12:30 pm--After a quick lunch, M and I head out (2 hours late) to do errands, which means Lifetime will get put off for another day. After Costco, bank, Petsmart, Ulta and Michaels, we are finally on our way home to put up laundry before picking T up at the bus stop.

4:30 pm--Start putting dinner together while trying to figure out Ts Fiesta float for the Kindergarten parade on Thurs. Burn myself on the hot glue gun--Nice! After explaining to M that you can't eat sugar right out of the jar, we head to teeball practice. With still one million things to get done and it was quite chilly, M and I leave T with J and go home. We finish preparing dinner and read a few books which turned into a tea party before the other 2 come home.

7:00pm--Finish dinner and carefully help T glue flowers to his float. Along comes M who burns herself on the stinking glue gun--ughhh! Nothing a Princess and the Frog bandaid can't fix. Take one antsy dog on a walk while J gets the kiddos PJ's on. They, at some point in the day and I'm not sure when, decided to put every stuffed animal they own into their beds and the guest room bed and had them tucked in under the covers, so we spent a good while trying to return them ALL to their respective rooms. Really?? Finally, after books and prayers, kissed 2 tired kiddos goodnight.

8:45pm--Aaaah, now to my date with the Wii fit. Miss personal trainer was way to perky for 9pm. After some hula hooping, I joined J, who was already sound asleep, on the couch to watch

I'm trying to catch up to the new season that started last week and I'm still 5 epidsodes behind. My neighbor loaned me hers after trying to rent it at Blockbuster, which was out of it. Yay for great neighbors! I am speed watching (imagine that) them to get caught up. They are so growing on me! I can't wait to start the new season!

10:45pm--Well, with the dryer still running and dishwasher on, I now am offically exhausted and am calling it a night!! Until tomorrow....

A Little Glimpse of my Week...Day 1

My good friend, Jill, has a fun website, www.surburbansocialites.com, that specializes in girlfriends and being social. What fabulous ideas she has! Last week, she documented the ins and outs her week (check out her blog section of the website) which I found so interesting and entertaining, just to see what goes on in other people lives...maybe, I'm just nosey, which would explain my obsession with Facebook:) Anyway, she wanted me to do a week in my life, so I will try hard to keep up and document our crazy lives!

7:00am--Awake to the sound of pitter pattering feet coming into our room, glancing at the clock thinking the morning came way to soon. Then, another set of feet came which led to our bed doubling in bodies all in the matter of 5 minutes. Enjoyed the few minutes of giggling before the dog realized everyone was awake which meant someone (J) should be up giving her a walk. Her continuous barking led that someone out of bed which everyone else soon followed.

After coffee, OJ, Sunday morning paper/ad reading, chocolate chip pancakes, a cleaning of the kitchen and getting the laundry started, the day had officially begun.

11:00am--Head out for a quick, kidless grocery store run before T's teeball game. Was quite entertained at the how busy the grocery store was and that everyone was in a hurry. Literally, almost ran into a friend in the meat section, and we laughed at the hustle and bustle, will see her shortly at the same teeball game.

1pm--Out the door to Ts teeball game where J is coaching today. Watched the cutest 5 yo olds play teeball and then load up on snow cones afterward. Love the league T is in because it is basically social hour. We see neighbors and friends and enjoy the afternoon at the ball park.

3pm--Drag one tired family to the mall for some quick returns and ice cream before heading home where everyone gladly sinks into the couch, except for me, which takes this time to pick up toys, sort mail, fold laundry, get dinner ready and start to prepare dinner for tomorrow. I love to make Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup but it's quite time consuming. It only happens about once or twice a year that I actually plan for it and today was one of them. Yay!

6:45pm--Sit down for a quick dinner then out the door for a walk around the neighborhood with L. We are both going to HI in May and are convinced power walking is the answer to a swimsuit body--we'll let you know how it goes! The great conversation makes time go quickly and arrive back home with clean, PJ'd kids ready for bed.

8pm--After just 1 book, both exhausted kiddos are snuggled in their beds and by 8:15 are, uncharacteristically, asleep. Yay for us! Now, it's my turn to sink into the couch, do a little blogging and watch the CMA Awards! Brad Paisley is pretty cute:)

See you tomorrow!

So long Paci!

Dear Paci,

You had a good 3 year long visit and now it’s time to go. Thank you for soothing my baby to sleep and being her comfort in times of need but she, much to her dismay, is a big girl now and needs to move on to bigger and better things. I thought she would have a hard time without you but, strangely, she has forgotten you already. I sure won’t miss trying to find you in a pile of blankets at 3am or trying to decipher what my 3 year old is saying with you firmly placed in her mouth. Please try and move on, I'm sure another baby will give you as much love as she did.

Sincerely,

Maren’s Happy Mommy

Power Disney

We powered through Disney World in one day. Yes, I was quite nervous about how 2 children would handle an all day event, but, to much surprise, they did wonderful! We are lucky to have Uncle Stacey that works for Disney so he got us a great deal on the Animal Kingdom Lodge and had free passes for us for 1 day. So we decided to do it all. We left the hotel at 8:30am and headed to Animal Kingdom, spent a few hours there and went to Magic Kingdom to finish up the day. We rolled back to our hotel at 8:30pm with 2 tired and hungry children but tolerable. It had been a few years since we had been to the parks and the kids are at a fun age to enjoy it. We can’t wait to do it again!

Highlights of the day plus some things we learned along the way:

1. Always start the trip with the Magic Kingdom. We went to Animal Kingdom first because it closed earlier than Magic Kingdom and the kids could hardly enjoy it because they couldn’t wait to see the castle.

2. January was a fantastic time to go…great weather and short lines! Con: there was a huge crane taking down Christmas lights off the castle so all the pictures has it in them. 

3. Never buy the huge balloons. They look cute but were about to be the end of me. By the time we got back to the hotel, I had had Mickey ears and Ariel in my face for about 8 hours was seriously about to lose it.

4. Watching giraffes eat their breakfast from our balcony was amazing!

 

5. The cool app WDW Wait Times is a necessity. It tells all the current wait times of the rides!

6. Tate was just tall enough to ride the “big” rides including Space Mountain. He loved it!

7. According to Maren, Minnie is so scary she couldn’t even enjoy going through Minnie’s house in fear of running into her.

8. The teapots and Dumbo are classics 9. It’s nice to have grandparents that live an hour away from Orlando and uncles that work there!

10. Buying beautiful princess dresses at Disney always a bonus. Princess Tiana/Maren enjoyed wearing her dress around the fantasyland even though it was over her jacket and jeans. 11. The light parade and firework show ended the day as one of our favorites!

Highlights of 2009

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to be better at my blog and here it is, Jan. 8, and I am just getting too it. I’m working on it:) Here are some highlights from a wonderful year. I love going back through the pictures. It seems that the year goes so fast, it’s almost a blur and these pictures help me remember what fun we had! Here’s to another great one!

Our Disney Cruise

Trip to Chicago for our godson, Aiden’s , baptism

San Antonio Rodeo Tate learning to ride his bike

A surprise visit to IN to celebrate Dad’s 60th birthday

Tate’s first teeball season

The bluebonnets

Fiesta

Trip to Port Aransas

Preschool Graduation

Trip to Big Cedar Lodge in Branson, MO

Tate’s dinosaur birthday at the Witte Museum

A visit from Mamaw and Papa

The White Family came to visit

Tate’s first day of Kindergarten

Tate’s football and soccer season (at the same time)

A trip to Houston

A girls trip to Las Vegas

The annual golf trip to Waynesville

Maren’s 3rd birthday

Auntie LaShona’s visit

Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

Buzz and Jessie

Tony, Eva and the gang

Jason and Mike finishing the SA 1/2 Marathon

Our family picture

Christmas 2009

Snow in IN

Buzz Lightyear and Jessie

I love to have the kids costumes match but realize that, with their ages, it’s not going to happen much longer. I didn’t think it would even happen this year. Tate had high hopes of being a Ttransformer or Power Ranger. When we were out school shopping, the Disney Store had their costumes already out. Tate saw Buzz and had to have it. I quickly went with that idea because there was the cutest Jesse costume for Maren. Yeah! After promising that he wouldn’t change his mind if I bought it, we were ready for Halloween in August. The thought of changing costumes came up on occasion but he had already taken the tags off Buzz…darn. Needless to say, they were too cute! To Infinity and Beyond………………

Happy 3rd Birthday, Maren!

I can't believe my baby turned 3! She was so excited for it to be her birthday although she didn't quite understand that a birthday is the whole day and not just at the party. When she woke up, we sang "Happy Birthday" to her, she thought that it was time to go to her birthday party that we are having next week at Pump It Up. We had a hard time convincing her that it was her day all day. I guess her birthday celebration just got longer and she is going to be so confused at her party next week.

She had a good day! It, unfortunately, rained and was one of the coldest days we have had but her Auntie LaShona flew in from IN to help her celebrate so she was excited to go to the airport to get her. We were having trouble figuring out a fun "kids" place to take her for dinner since she is scared to death of Chuck E. Cheese and Rainforest Cafe. We ended up at PF Chang's because that is where we wanted to go and she had just as much fun with the chopsticks as anyone. With a birthday cake waiting at home, the evening was a success. We were all so exhausted that the celebration had to continue on the next morning when we opened presents. Just like her brother, she can't wait until her next birthday. She already asked today when was she going to be 4--slow down, little one, you are growing up too fast and we haven't even had your 3 yr old party yet!