11-11 - 11:11am

I just noticed that's it's 11/11 and I'm writing this at 11:11am. LOL

I always notice weird times like that. I'll just happen to glance at the clock and it'll be 4:44pm or 10:10am, or 2:22pm. That one is a favorite, since Johanna was born at 2:22pm. :)

WHY I notice the odd times, is beyond me. Maybe it's just because they are more noticeable. LOL

Hope everyones Sunday is going well. The Hubster is off taking pictures. I should be clenaing something, or maybe taking down our H'ween decorations. LOL I've been too sick to take them down, and I'm better now, plus it's nice out, so I really should. LOL


I've been busy playing Webkinz and d/l-ing the beta version of YIM. Hopefully this version will solve my YIM issues. More often than not, I've had to use the web version. I can send messages on the old, regular version just find, but I don't always receive them. Then everyone thinks I'm being a snob and ignoring them. LOL

I've also got all caught up on Facebook, and successfully Mass Poked everyone, so I think I'm good with my online activities after this post is done. :)

They girls are busy playing "summertime". Well, I'm not sure what Ava is doing, J's trying to get her to go along with her ideas, but Ava's not to reliable. LOL So far, J's set up a beach, making summer pics and now wants a "summer snack" so I guess I should go work on that for her. :)

Have a Summery Day! ;)

Is it bad...

that I was really excited this morning, to be able to look out my windows? The past few days, you can't see out in the mornings. The dew point has been SO high here, that they are all fogged up on the outside. Not a good sign.

This morning however, the dew point is a mere 68. I'll take it!

Could be worse. Those of you out there in other areas of the state are having really hot, 100+ weather. So I'll take my 90's and deal. LOL

We've been busy. We girls' started up swimming lessons this week. We also have company arriving this weekend. I need to work on finding the guest room again. It seems we get it all cleaned out for guests, and then they guests leave, and it goes back to being a catch-all room again. UGH.

Hope everyone is staying cool! I'm off to go work on my WW pic.

Tackle It Tuesday

This is going to be a day long event here. So far I've put away a load of the girls' clothes, threw another one in the dryer and took down the sheers in the living room and our bedroom and are washing those. Next will be Johannas' curtains.

I'm hoping to get the Kitchen floor Scooba'd and get the living room picked up while J is at school today. Just depends on Ava's desire for a nap. LOL

I got the "Before" pics taken. I'll be back later with the "After" pics.


I hope... LOL


Ok 12 hours later and I'm back with pics. lol It's been a long day! I didn't get to clean while J was at school as I had hoped, so I only managed to tackle the Living Room. Later I attacked some of the garage with the Shop-vac tho. That culminated with my having to crawl into our tipped over trash bin so I could retrieve a part I dropped in it while banging out the filter. LOL


Anyway, here is my highly embarrassing before pic. A progress pic, and an After pic. I still need to clean off the trunk and the credenza, but Ava was tired and the hubster ended up taking J into Urgent Care 'cause she was complaining of ear pain (it's infected). :-P

I'm Melting!

Ok, maybe just the snow melted. :) It was mostly gone by Sunday. Totally gone yesterday. It hit 76 here! YAY!!!!

Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

The Hubster spent most of Sat on the phone, computer or both doing some work stuff. Thankfully that doesn't happen too often.

Sunday we worked on cleaning up the yard and hung out outside. I pulled up some scary looking dandelions that were sprouting already (just leaves).

Monday I did my shopping and we planned a picnic at the park for supper. That was really nice. the girls played and we ate and then took a little hike along the bike trail.

Today I ran errands and brought some stuff to OUAC (where I ran into a friend and her two girls, that was a nice surprise!!). Picked Johanna up at school and then dropped what they didn't take off at a local shelter type place and then we ran through the DQ drive-by for lunch. They have a pretty good (and reasonably priced) kids meal there.

I had to order a new battery for the Roomba. That arrived today. They only seem to last a couple years. It still holds a charge, it's just not as strong as it was. I've been doing wash too. I had weeded out a lot of J's long sleeved outfits when I drug out the spring stuff. There's only so much room in her 1/2 of the closet. lol Then w3e had all that cold weather and she's out of longs sleeves. it's supposed to get a bit cooler here, so I wanted to make sure she had clothes to wear the rest of the week.

That's pretty much it around here. It just seems I haven't had a free (quiet) moment to hop on and get a post written.

I think we have all caught Spring Fever! :)

Lots'O'Stuff

First off, thanks for all the great comments, everyone! I've read them all via email, and I need to go and visit some blogs still. I'm hoping to get to that before the party is over. :)

Wednesday, I stayed in and worked on cleaning up down here. I had intended to do it Tuesday as part of Tackle It Tuesday, but that didn't happen. I was even prepared to humiliate myself and take pics to show you all of just HOW bad it was down here.

Let's just say I ended up with several trash bags and 3 bags of toys and clothes and shoes to take to GoodWill.

I still need to do so minor picking up and run the Roomba and the Scooba. I'm hoping to do that tomorrow.

Sadly, we still have way too many toys down here. We seem to have fallen into a vicious cycle that is thrift store shopping and garage sale hunting. "Momma, can I have THIS?" Oooh, look a cute barbie car for $1. "Sure, why not" and before you know it, you are drowning in stuff.

At least, buying used toys, it seems more like recycling or at the very least a cheap rental. LOL I buy them something for a few dollars or less. They play with it for a while, and then it goes back to be resold again to someone else. :)

The bad side is there's just too much stuff and I think they get overwhelmed and there seems to be a certain lack of respect for the toys happening here. I'm thinking that if there's only 3 barbies instead of 30 (not that we actually have THAT many, but it's probably close.. LOL) that she will take better care of them.

So that's where I've been. That and dealing with snotty-baby. She doesn't seem to have a fever, and overall, she seems less congested. She's in that gross snot stage tho, and I'll be happy when she's feeling better!

Today I ran errands, and picked up pictures of Johanna with Clifford for her school journal. She's bringing in a special treat (suckers) for the class tomorrow. I may attempt to go in and read the class a story too. She really would like me too, I'm just not sure how well that will work with Ava running around.

Hope everyone's had a good day, and if you've made it through all this, thanks for reading! I'm off to watch the rest of Idol!

Anyone Seen

My motivation? I think maybe I lost it on someone else's blog this am. LOL

Maybe it just took off cause it was disgusted with me, since I haven't managed to get much done around here lately. LOL

So yeah, it's Monday again. LOL Got up, did all the usual weekday things. Ava and I did the grocery shopping. Now we are home for a bit. I have floors to clean, trash to collect, toys to pick up.

So what am I doing? sitting here, surfing the web, drinking some earl grey tea, and eating choc. covered pretzels. LOL

Monday, Again?!

Well, here we are and it's Monday again. I don't even go off to work, and I'm not a Monday fan. LOL Johanna looked at me this am and said "Mom, please don't tell me I have to go to school today!"

I said "You have to go to school today"

"Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom, I SAID don't tell me that!"

So yeah... It's Monday here. LOL

I'm trying to get my coat washed and dried before we have to leave. I was a bad Momma and didn't hang it up in the closet. I left it hanging from the railing post, and it got all furry. Imagine that... fur in a house with 4 pets. Really now, who would've figured.

I need to hit the grocery store. I should go to the MOMS Club meeting if I can. We'll have to see what time I get done at the store and whether or not Ava is awake or asleep.

Well, time to put the coat in the dryer and start our Monday. Bah.

Tired

I've been really tired the past couple of days. The kind of tired you are when you find out you are pregnant... only it's the exact opposite thing going on here. lol

The past couple months, I seem to get really exhausted right before my period arrives. It hasn't happened often enough for me to learn to recognize that that is what is going on. At first I think I must be getting a cold or something. Both girls have drippy noses, so I figured that was it, until WHAM! Ooooohhhh yeah....

So I haven't really been up to a whole lot the past couple days. I've tried to do a few things around the house, but then I just peter out.

I have a bunch of wash I need to do today. Hoping I can start that.

We have a winter storm warning here for the weekend. It's either going to just rain or we're going to get up to 10 inches of snow.

I was hoping we could go out and get some real shoes for Ava this weekend, but it's looking like it might have to wait another week.

Oh, and we've started looking more seriously for a mini-van for moi! YAY!!! I can't wait!

Sunday Ramblings....

Well we slept in until 7am again. Ava didn't go to sleep until we all went to bed last night. That was a lot of fun. She fussed a lot too. I ended up spending about half of the night with her sleeping with her head on my shoulder, and my sleeping without my head on the pillow. I was tired enough, I didn't really care. LOL

Eric went out and shovelled a bit. The snow blower needs to be looked at. For some reason it keeps cutting out on him, among other things.

I cleaned out the medicine cabinet. It was a wreck and there was a bunch of expired stuff in there, so it was good to get that cleared out. I do need to remember to buy come more children's Tylenol tho. Usually we just use children's Motrin, but I like to have the Tylenol on hand as well.

We had leftovers for lunch. I'm not sure what I'm fixing for supper yet.

Eric also started some laundry.

Ava had a big nap.

I heard from Jilley and Sindy today. Sounds like they had a fabulous time at the spa yesterday (insert jealous whining here)! Today they will be celebrating Marshall's birthday! It really seems like just yesterday when Sindy headed out there to watch the girls while Henry and Jilley went to the hospital to have him!!

I really need to pick up the living room so I can run the Roomba.

Ava's happily watching a Baby Einstein DVD and Johanna is wanting to play that Cinderella game that came packaged with the Cinderella 3 DVD, so maybe I should quit rambling here and get to it!

Plugging along

I'm not getting quite as far along with the housework today as I would like. I'm on the 3rd load of wash. The landing has been scooba'd, the dishes done.

I ended up having to do an unexpected load of wash after the baby yakked all over the both of us. Not pretty! I think her tummy was just overly full.

At least I actually got a shower in today, tho! LOL

I've also being trying to catch up with MTV's Monday night line up. I've watched Super Sweet 16 and Engaged and Underage so far.

Ava's out cold now, so I may sit and fold some laundry and watch the other 2 shows here in a bit.

Been an interesting day, but like the hubster says "A bad day at home is better than a good day at work!" LOL

Well

We're home again today. Johanna woke up sounding like she swallowed a frog. We were supposed to hit todays lowest temp of -16 at 9am. Between that and her snotting around, I decided we'd stay home.

I think this is the most school she's missed all year!

Of course now she's acting OK. :-P Figures. I was up sneezing a bit last night myself and we were up a lot during the night. Not because of the baby, but the dog, and then hubster couldn't sleep after that.It was a long/short night here.

I'm planning on trying to catch up on housework today.. The girls' hamper is overflowing. My floors look like a fur-bunny desert. I have no clean mugs for tea.

Need to get this place whipped into shape!

I wussed out

We skipped school today. It was -freezingcold out this am with the windchill, we had about 2.5 inches of snow and it was still coming down. The Hubster didn't want to snow-blow before he left work, and the plow hadn't been down the street yet.

Despite the fact that I did SIX loads of wash last week, I still managed to do FOUR today. The hamper with the girls' stuff is overflowing, but Eric needs to do some of his own wash tonite. (Yes ladies, he does his OWN WASH... I know, I know...)

Sadly, it's 3:42pm and I'm still in my jammies. Maybe that's a good thing, I don't know.... LOL