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.

Memories

I've been reminded of something this week. It's been a HUGE wake-up call too. I've been reminded of what daily life is like with a VERY busy 17 nth old. LOL Holy cats! Ava's always been busy. She finally realized she could go down the steps in the house. She's been able to crawl down steps for a while now. I think it's because we mostly would carry her up and down here at the house, that she didn't realize she had that option here until this past week.


It's now ALL she wants to do. If I dare close the door down here so I can try to get something done, she has a complete fit. Full on screaming and all that. yay. If this keeps up, I may be drinking heavily by the time she's 2.5. LOL

It's interesting, having a toddler and an older child. Ava wants to do everything her big sister does. So I think that makes her 10x braver than Johanna was, which is scary. lol

We've been doing some "Spring Cleaning" around here. It's been good, but stressful, since like I said, trying to do anything with Ava awake is near impossible. LOL

Today I have to run errands. I'm looking forward to getting out of the house. I really don't do the 90+ degrees and humid thing very well! It's been like that for a good 4 days maybe. ick. So it was good weather for me to be cleaning... inside... with the a/c. lol

I'm blaming the weather...

Johanna was SO not motivated this am. I told her to go brush her teeth and 10 minutes later she still hadn't done it. 5 minutes before that I told her to get her shoes. She hadn't done that either.

Talking to my neighbor at school this am, her girls are having the same kind of day.

Quite frankly, so am I! LOL

I took J to school and ran to the store. I realized after I got home yesterday that I had forgotten to get Bananas and pick up a loaf of bread to make garlic bread with tonite. So we did that.

I get home, and I am greeted by Dottie.

Now, I realize that being greeted by your dog is not THAT unusual, but this means that I had forgotten to lock her in her crate.

Dottie is locked in her crate while we are out because Dottie likes to go food sampling in the Kitchen.

So I do a quick scan of the kitchen on my way to let the dogs outside and happily note that everything seems ok, aside from the bag of chips on the floor. I think they just fell down.

Let the dogs out, and hear a noise. A noise that sounds a lot like chips hitting the floor. Apparently I wasn't the only one who noticed the chip bag on the floor.

So while my puppy was a good poochie and left the chips alone and didn't leave me a huge mess, the same can't be said for Ava. LOL

Then she proceeded to step on them. Apparently crunching chips is fun.

So, yay! LOL

I have a mountain of wash to do and I feel like doing none of it. I ill tho, but I don't wanna! (whine whine whine)

I had planned on scooba-ing the kitchen today, but I'm not. It will only frustrate me. It's going to rain all day and 2 seconds after it's clean and sparkly, the dogs will come in from the yard and get it all dirty. So I am on strike from floor washing until the rain stops!

Oh and if anyone happens to see my motivation, please send it here, and maybe suggest it does the laundry for me while I take a nap. :)

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! :)

Yeah, ummm

So, you know how this morning I was saying my friend Laura's area was going to get more snow than us?

Yeah, well uhhh, scratch that.

It started snowing like crazy this afternoon and hasn't stopped.

They're now saying 5-8 inches.


Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...

... Oh sorry, I got caught up there for a second thinking it was December when I woke up and saw all the snow outside! LOL

I shouldn't complain too much tho. My friend Laura lives a bit north of me and they are supposed to get more than we are. Supposedly it's going to switch to rain sometime this afternoon. However, looking at the forecast for the rest of the week, Thursday is the ONLY day it's not supposed to snow or snow and rain. Bah.

The dogs are having fun. They've been out three times since I got up about 30 minutes ago. Buddy, being the teenager that he is, decided he needed to beat his sister outside, so he LEAPT over her as she was going out the door. Only problem was he didn't account for the snow. I now have a German Shepherd sized skid mark in the snow on the deck from where he slid head first across the deck after leaping over Dottie. :-P

Back to the old grind today. I also need to answer a few questions. ;) Not to mention i still owe you Easter pics. :)

Sunshine!

Well the sun came out yesterday and the wind died down. YAY! It was nice to look out and see something other than white! The Hubster went out, twice, to clear off the driveway.

Thankfully, the sun did a good job melting the remaining snow on the driveway and the sidewalk. Hubby said we had a few 5ft drifts out there. Craziness!!

I stayed in and made Brownies. Today, Hubby cleared away some of the killer icicles that were hanging off the gutter.



Did anyone happen to catch the lunar eclipse last night? We tried, but weren't terribly successful.

We were scheduled to go to a friends house, but he needed to go help his FIL with snow removal, so we had to reschedule. I was actually looking forward to getting out of the house.

We thought about going somewhere, but instead opted for staying in and doing laundry. Oh and getting Chinese Food delivery. YUM! :) I'll just consider it part of the party celebration! :)

We've been watching Charmed, season 7, as predicted. I think we are almost done with the 3rd disc now.

In fact, I think I'll go get hubby and tell him it's time to watch some more. Ava's about ready for a nap. There's nothing like a snuggly baby and your favorite show! :)

March Blizzard

So, we've been having a Blizzard. You know it's serious when the close the school here in the city. They hardly ever do. In fact, I think the last time the kids had a snow day here, was Fall of 2005. There's only been 7 snow days in the last 10 years.

We've now had 2! lol

We have a 6ft fence around out backyard. There are drifts back there that are a good, 3ft high. The dogs think it's great fun. I'm just hoping they don't get any higher. We don't need them hopping over the fence!

Yesterday am, I was IM-ing with my friend Laura. She lives here in SD too, just about 45 minutes north of us. I was telling her that I was putting some country ribs in the CP for supper. I bought them on Sale this week, and needed to cook them.

The purchased part of a cow (I can't remember if it was 1/4 or 1/2) this fall, and so she was inspired and grabbed a pkg of ribs to put in her CP too.

Now, Laura make THE BEST beans, EVER. So she starts blabbing about making beans, which has me wishing there was no blizzard so I could drive over there and get some. So I start wondering if I have a can of baked beans. Nope. I did have about 1/2 pkg of dried Pinto beans tho.

So I go to my favorite recipe site, and I find this. Ummm, YUM!!! it took most of the day to make them, but that was ok, cause it took the ribs that long too. They were REALLY good. so much better than canned!!

Then Laura starts blabbing about Banana Bread, so since I was already perusing AllRecipes.com, I looked one up and found this one.

Banana Banana Bread



again, YUM!!! I made a few modifications. I used 1C whole wheat flour and 1 C All Purpose. I added vanilla to the sugar/butter/egg mixture. I added Cinnamon, nutmeg and a pinch of ginger to the flour mixture, and I threw in a pkg of chopped walnuts.

This bread won't survive till supper. LOL

I really don't know what it is about being STUCK at home that makes me bake/cook/try things from scratch. Normally, I'd be opening up a can or a box, but it's kinda like a challenge to see what I can make with what we have around the house.

Anyone Want to Take Bets?

On whether I am still semi-sane come Monday? LOL

It started snowing here, around about 11am. Just in time to be a huge mess in time to Get Johanna from School.

There's nothing I love more than driving around on sloppy roads, with people who drive like morons. :-/ I came close to not having to worry about what we do with my car when we get the van. Thankfully I was travelling in the left lane of a two lane road when this genius pulled out from a side street in front of me, and then realized she couldn't get stopped.

Anyway, they are saying we should get something like 4 inches of snow today. There's more coming Thursday and Friday.

Did I mention the hubster is home sick?

Stuck at home. All the rest of the week. With my FAMILY. auuuuggghhh! LOL Don't get me wrong, I love them, and there's really no-one I'd rather be stuck with, but I think by Monday I'll be ripping out my hair. LOL

At least we haven't started watching Season 7 of Charmed yet. I'm sure we'll be getting that watched over the next few days! LOL

The Good, The Bad, and The Fluffy

Well, Somehow, Sioux Falls managed to escape the huge amounts of snow that were seen north and south of us. It looks like we got about 6 inches. Maybe 7.

It was wild watching the weather channel this morning and seeing this huge band of dark blue hovering over us.

Church was cancelled this am. Not that we've been lately, but hey.. LOL

I just sat down here after getting Johanna all bundled up to go help her Daddy clear the snow. She was pretty excited to go out and play. I get a reprieve from having to go out and use the snow blower, since the fumes trigger my asthma. Same goes for mowing the lawn in the summer. hehehe.. that's a good thing.

Ava's settling down for her nap, so there's no bundling us up to go out and play too. That's the bad.

I've been trying to work on wash. I've gotten three loads done so far. We've made the usual weekend calls, tho I still need to phone my Mom. We had lunch, I made more ginger cookies (yum!)

No it's time to sit here and catch up while Ava naps. I need to work on my QWERTY badge for Pogo too. That one is going to take a while. LOL

Oh, and I'm still excited about getting a new(er) car! I'm going to have new-fangled things in it... like windows that go down with a button, and a cd player!, and a car that locks and unlocks with one of those booper doo-dads! GO me! I'm stepping into the 2000's! LOL