I need a new small camera. Yep.... my lil HP camera has had the lick, thanks to Reese. And it's just too hard to take frequent candids of the girl with that big honkin Canon Rebel XS... i think that's what it is anyways.... I think pics would make this blog alot more fun...... gotta get on that... maybe use the Amazon gift cards I earned from swagbucks to get one? Since the tandem stroller I was saving up for is no longer available...
So the night wasn't too bad, got some quality time with DH in, Brooke woke up at 4 a.m. and wouldn't go back to sleep unless I let her nurse lying down in our bed. After this morning though, it sounds like I need to reschool DH on NFP.....Of course, my brain is saying, not ready for #3, but my body is screaming YES YES YES. . . . what can I say? Pregnancy agrees with me, at least physically.
In the mean time, my girls are learning and doing more by the day. Reese is continually shouting "Let's Do This!". I'm not sure where she picked that one up from. Brooke can't keep from making fart noises on my boob everytime she nurses, yep, she's definetly her daddy's baby.
I suppose I'm in for a day of cleaning, unpacking, and perhaps, grocery shopping. I subscribed to this new thing, E-Mealz, it's pretty neat, but this will be my first week trying to use it.... I hope it helps us out budget wise and health wise, we seem to be eating nothing but fast food or junk lately.
Welp, wish me luck, I'm off to finish my 1st can of soda for the day and change Reese into a fresh diaper, I think her Bed Bug is at full capacity. phew.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Rained Home & Shoeless
Finally made it back to our home in Glasgow, after a weekend visiting the hometown, and a long trip down the parkway in a downpour. We enjoyed visiting both sides of the family, especially the girls' great grandparents, my mother's parents, who blessed us with a big bucket of strawberries fresh from their garden. YUM! Now... maybe wash them up and make a pie to snack on?
Of course, we did have to tackle quite the rainstorm to get to their home one evening. The girls and I were in our van, traveling down the scenic highway through Woodbine and into Rockholds, battling fierce rain with Flash Flood Warnings out for the area. Fortunately, we made it there safely, after lots of prayer and caution. My new Clark sandals were not so lucky. After running back and forth carrying both girls into the warmth (& DRY) of my grandparent's home, they were soggy. I always though that leather, when it got wet, shrank. However, when I told my Mamaw Sugar about the shoes, well... she said... "oh no, that leather will stretch." At first, I thought it would be okay, they were rubbing my instep a bit anyways...... but now.... ugh...... can't walk in em without my foot flopping off the heel and into the air in an attempt to sprain my ankle. NOT COOL. Mom suggested getting them wet again and drying them in the sun to shrink them..... told her I'd have to google (or better yet, swagbucks search) that one, haven't done it yet, but hope I can find a cure.
I've only had these (once) ooberly comfortable shoes for 2 weeks AND let me tell ya how I got em. My husband was planning on treating me to our new Olive Garden one day for lunch, but . .. . got there to find it closed until 4, it was 12. So.... we went to my next choice... Logan's Roadhouse. Where..... we sat for too long, with both kids, waiting on my steak, which came rare, after I ordered medium. Sent it back to the kitchen, only to have it returned medium rare after asking them to just go ahead and go medium well to well with it.... ugh... After that, there was no more patience left in my children, the manager took my meal off the bill, and we went on our merry with, with just a few rolls and some sweet potato in my belly.
Well.... after that I had promised Reese a ride on the horses aka the carousel @ the Greenwood Mall. I was getting the girls out of the van, tying Brooke onto my back in our favorite mei tai from Mother Moon Pads, formerly Keep Your Baby Close, and as I took a step the whole top of my ol' favorite white cheap-o $5 Wal-mart sandals came off...... I think I stood there for a good 2 minutes just staring at the disaster.... debating what to do.... Yes, I, technically, only had 1 shoe. However, I also had a 2 year old who for hours had been looking forward to a carousel ride.....a 2 year old that would throw a fit of all fits, especially when she could see the horses a mere 50 feet away....
Well... thank goodness we got a GOOD parking spot that day, because I somehow managed to hobble into the mall with 1.5 shoes wearing one baby and pushing my toddler in the stroller. Reese was able to get her carousel ride. THEN I was able to scoot my way over to JcPenney's for my first pair of Clark's... a brand my mother and grandmother tended to rave over.... almost as much as I do over Merrel's. And boy... they were worth the scoot..... and the loot.... although I did get em on sale & with a coupon, for $40. Of course, $40 is ALOT of money for a pair of sandals for me, when they aren't Merrel's, but I took a chance, and it worked out... UNTIL the rain came.... :(
But everytime it rains.... I can't help but think of my husband coming through our front door singing.... the words to a song I hadn't heard just yet.... but I've heard several times since, including once during that rainstorm on the way to my grandparent's home.... "Rain makes corn. Corn makes whiskey. Whiskey makes my baby..... Get a little frisky." *Blissful Sigh*
Now.... off to put the babies to bed and battle the ants that took over our home while we were away.
Of course, we did have to tackle quite the rainstorm to get to their home one evening. The girls and I were in our van, traveling down the scenic highway through Woodbine and into Rockholds, battling fierce rain with Flash Flood Warnings out for the area. Fortunately, we made it there safely, after lots of prayer and caution. My new Clark sandals were not so lucky. After running back and forth carrying both girls into the warmth (& DRY) of my grandparent's home, they were soggy. I always though that leather, when it got wet, shrank. However, when I told my Mamaw Sugar about the shoes, well... she said... "oh no, that leather will stretch." At first, I thought it would be okay, they were rubbing my instep a bit anyways...... but now.... ugh...... can't walk in em without my foot flopping off the heel and into the air in an attempt to sprain my ankle. NOT COOL. Mom suggested getting them wet again and drying them in the sun to shrink them..... told her I'd have to google (or better yet, swagbucks search) that one, haven't done it yet, but hope I can find a cure.
I've only had these (once) ooberly comfortable shoes for 2 weeks AND let me tell ya how I got em. My husband was planning on treating me to our new Olive Garden one day for lunch, but . .. . got there to find it closed until 4, it was 12. So.... we went to my next choice... Logan's Roadhouse. Where..... we sat for too long, with both kids, waiting on my steak, which came rare, after I ordered medium. Sent it back to the kitchen, only to have it returned medium rare after asking them to just go ahead and go medium well to well with it.... ugh... After that, there was no more patience left in my children, the manager took my meal off the bill, and we went on our merry with, with just a few rolls and some sweet potato in my belly.
Well.... after that I had promised Reese a ride on the horses aka the carousel @ the Greenwood Mall. I was getting the girls out of the van, tying Brooke onto my back in our favorite mei tai from Mother Moon Pads, formerly Keep Your Baby Close, and as I took a step the whole top of my ol' favorite white cheap-o $5 Wal-mart sandals came off...... I think I stood there for a good 2 minutes just staring at the disaster.... debating what to do.... Yes, I, technically, only had 1 shoe. However, I also had a 2 year old who for hours had been looking forward to a carousel ride.....a 2 year old that would throw a fit of all fits, especially when she could see the horses a mere 50 feet away....
Well... thank goodness we got a GOOD parking spot that day, because I somehow managed to hobble into the mall with 1.5 shoes wearing one baby and pushing my toddler in the stroller. Reese was able to get her carousel ride. THEN I was able to scoot my way over to JcPenney's for my first pair of Clark's... a brand my mother and grandmother tended to rave over.... almost as much as I do over Merrel's. And boy... they were worth the scoot..... and the loot.... although I did get em on sale & with a coupon, for $40. Of course, $40 is ALOT of money for a pair of sandals for me, when they aren't Merrel's, but I took a chance, and it worked out... UNTIL the rain came.... :(
But everytime it rains.... I can't help but think of my husband coming through our front door singing.... the words to a song I hadn't heard just yet.... but I've heard several times since, including once during that rainstorm on the way to my grandparent's home.... "Rain makes corn. Corn makes whiskey. Whiskey makes my baby..... Get a little frisky." *Blissful Sigh*
Now.... off to put the babies to bed and battle the ants that took over our home while we were away.
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