I have three boys and a husband. to say I am genderally outnumbered is not an understatement.
On Christmas Day, through no fault of my own, I lost my Third, and final, son.
That Santa, he stole my boy in the form of electronics! I watched my so, my baby, be drawn into the world of Electrical devices Christmas Morning. He has not yet emerged, and I doubt he will until such a time as his batteries need re-charging.
That's right. Santa brought the baby a gameboy.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Odd.
Want to hear odd? Of course you do, after all, you are here, arent you?
Yeah that s what I thought.
Yesterday afternoon I hopped into the car to make a quick run to the town's Dollar store to grab some Present boxes and some wrapping paper. I'm glad I had thought to take a look in the closet before Christmas eve! You see, a few years back Micahs parents gave us some Christmas wrap, HUGE bulk rolls of it. I could literally cover my whole upstairs, walls floors and celings with one roll of this stuff. it's awful handy to have it, and I like being able to wrap all the presentsunder the tree in the same wrap, it looks nice. BUT - Santa presents have to have a different paper than the one I use or the kids would guess right away! So off to the dollar store I went.
Here is where the oddness happens.
As I drove down the streets one of the homes had their garage door open (Odd in itself as it was -30!) But the real odd part whs that there was a sadlle, Im not sure the type, maybe an english saddles? Why on earth would a townie have a saddle? It's not like we have any riding stables ANYWHERE near here, and trust me, I've looked becuase at one time we considered riding lessons for the boys!
Yeah that s what I thought.
Yesterday afternoon I hopped into the car to make a quick run to the town's Dollar store to grab some Present boxes and some wrapping paper. I'm glad I had thought to take a look in the closet before Christmas eve! You see, a few years back Micahs parents gave us some Christmas wrap, HUGE bulk rolls of it. I could literally cover my whole upstairs, walls floors and celings with one roll of this stuff. it's awful handy to have it, and I like being able to wrap all the presentsunder the tree in the same wrap, it looks nice. BUT - Santa presents have to have a different paper than the one I use or the kids would guess right away! So off to the dollar store I went.
Here is where the oddness happens.
As I drove down the streets one of the homes had their garage door open (Odd in itself as it was -30!) But the real odd part whs that there was a sadlle, Im not sure the type, maybe an english saddles? Why on earth would a townie have a saddle? It's not like we have any riding stables ANYWHERE near here, and trust me, I've looked becuase at one time we considered riding lessons for the boys!
A What Not List
Now that I know my gift from hubs is safety ordered and on its way to me - even though it will take anywhere from one week to six weeks for it to actually get to me, I feel confident in putting up a what not to get me list. Although, I am certain that This list will apply to at least 90% of all women out there:
1. diet pills. Please. If I decided to use diet pills, and I have in the past, and may in the future again, it is something that I want to do on my own. You giving me a brightly wrapped box containing diet pills tells me one thing : You're fat.
2. A Blender. Yeah, I know, your mom convinced you that it was the perfect gift that first year of marriage becuase we had a wee small baby and making baby food was fun and exciting and good for the baby, but I was looking for something, oh I dunno..something that actually contained a little thought about me?
3. Sexy underclothes. While I love dressing up in various lacy and sheer things, I would much rather pick them out than make due with your inaccurate sizing and incomprehensible style.
4. Anything Exercise related. If I said hun, I want a treadmill, lets watch for one to go on sale, this does NOT translate to you getting me one for Christmas! It goes right back to the diet pills saying I am fat!
5. Clothes. Puh-leeeese. Please let me choose my own outfits! That "cute" sweater you saw with the jingle bells that really jingle? That's more my grandmothers taste than mine!
1. diet pills. Please. If I decided to use diet pills, and I have in the past, and may in the future again, it is something that I want to do on my own. You giving me a brightly wrapped box containing diet pills tells me one thing : You're fat.
2. A Blender. Yeah, I know, your mom convinced you that it was the perfect gift that first year of marriage becuase we had a wee small baby and making baby food was fun and exciting and good for the baby, but I was looking for something, oh I dunno..something that actually contained a little thought about me?
3. Sexy underclothes. While I love dressing up in various lacy and sheer things, I would much rather pick them out than make due with your inaccurate sizing and incomprehensible style.
4. Anything Exercise related. If I said hun, I want a treadmill, lets watch for one to go on sale, this does NOT translate to you getting me one for Christmas! It goes right back to the diet pills saying I am fat!
5. Clothes. Puh-leeeese. Please let me choose my own outfits! That "cute" sweater you saw with the jingle bells that really jingle? That's more my grandmothers taste than mine!
People are Strange
On Friday night, hubs and I set out for the city to finish up our Christmas shopping. It was nothing major, we needed to get some little things to toss in the boys' stockings. When we set out, we already knew, sort of, what we were looking for. Some new Pokemon cards for them, maybe some of those 4$ Pokemon figurines they like to play with so much. About the only thing we were SURE we wanted to get was books for Parker.
A few months ago Parker picked a book in the Beast Quest series from his school book orders. he read it, then re read it, then read it again. He would even bring it in the car with him on longer car rides - and this is the boy who loves to sit with video games for hours at a time. A month ago he got another Beast Quest book from the book orders and had it finished in three hours.
There are ten books in the series, and Parker had book one and book eight. Hubs and I were determined to get the other books in the series for him for his stocking. If there is one thing I will spend money on, its books. I was hoping that the store would have the ten books in a box set, but they didn't. They also only had four of the eight books we wanted.
Hubs and I bought them, and put in an order for the other four books, which we will just give to him when they come in. On the way out of the kids level of the book store, right beside the Christian books section was a display of hand puppets. Hubs noticed them becuase the monster form Where The Wild Things Are was one of the puppets. We immediately started playing with the puppets, deciding that Logan should have a puppet in his stocking.
The pre-k class rotates their toys one week on, three weeks off, and the week the class had the puppets out, Logan spent all of his center time playing with them, and then telling me everything he had done with them on the way home.
We had pretty much settled on the monster puppet when we saw the T-Rex hand puppet. I picked it up, put my fingers in its wee dinosaur arm holes and wiggled them. Hubs immediately grabbed the dino puppet from me and started reenacting this :
It was hilarious. He kept playing with the puppet even when we were in the line to pay. We were so intent on playing with the toys, that when it was our turn to pay, we didn't even notice. the Poor man at the counter had to call three times for us to realize!
On Christmas Morning, I'm not certain their wont be a fight between hubs and Logan about who gets to play with the puppet first!
A few months ago Parker picked a book in the Beast Quest series from his school book orders. he read it, then re read it, then read it again. He would even bring it in the car with him on longer car rides - and this is the boy who loves to sit with video games for hours at a time. A month ago he got another Beast Quest book from the book orders and had it finished in three hours.
There are ten books in the series, and Parker had book one and book eight. Hubs and I were determined to get the other books in the series for him for his stocking. If there is one thing I will spend money on, its books. I was hoping that the store would have the ten books in a box set, but they didn't. They also only had four of the eight books we wanted.
Hubs and I bought them, and put in an order for the other four books, which we will just give to him when they come in. On the way out of the kids level of the book store, right beside the Christian books section was a display of hand puppets. Hubs noticed them becuase the monster form Where The Wild Things Are was one of the puppets. We immediately started playing with the puppets, deciding that Logan should have a puppet in his stocking.
The pre-k class rotates their toys one week on, three weeks off, and the week the class had the puppets out, Logan spent all of his center time playing with them, and then telling me everything he had done with them on the way home.
We had pretty much settled on the monster puppet when we saw the T-Rex hand puppet. I picked it up, put my fingers in its wee dinosaur arm holes and wiggled them. Hubs immediately grabbed the dino puppet from me and started reenacting this :
It was hilarious. He kept playing with the puppet even when we were in the line to pay. We were so intent on playing with the toys, that when it was our turn to pay, we didn't even notice. the Poor man at the counter had to call three times for us to realize!
On Christmas Morning, I'm not certain their wont be a fight between hubs and Logan about who gets to play with the puppet first!
Friday, December 19, 2008
Weird dreams
Last night I was dreaming of Keno. Facebook Keno to be exact.
I had played an 11 number card at a 50 wager with a payout of 3 million in prizes and 600k in Keno Bucks (fake money)
And in my dream, I won. 11/11 numbers were called. I did a function/print screen of the win and then spent the rest of the dream flashing between looking at the win - which is odd because three minutes after the win it is replaced by the next round - and looking for a flash drive memory stick.
I needed theflash memory to store my win on for some reason. Maybe for prosperity? I dunno, but I do know I woke up this morning still with the sense that I needed to find something. It took until after I had had my morning coffee to put two and two together.
Aren't dreams weird? This one last night was so real that I kept the "must find it" feeling with me when I awoke!
I had played an 11 number card at a 50 wager with a payout of 3 million in prizes and 600k in Keno Bucks (fake money)
And in my dream, I won. 11/11 numbers were called. I did a function/print screen of the win and then spent the rest of the dream flashing between looking at the win - which is odd because three minutes after the win it is replaced by the next round - and looking for a flash drive memory stick.
I needed theflash memory to store my win on for some reason. Maybe for prosperity? I dunno, but I do know I woke up this morning still with the sense that I needed to find something. It took until after I had had my morning coffee to put two and two together.
Aren't dreams weird? This one last night was so real that I kept the "must find it" feeling with me when I awoke!
Monday, December 8, 2008
Interesting
I went to the mail box today after picking up the boys from school, like I do every weekday. I expected to find bills, flyers and maybe a Christmas Card. I found all three of those, but I also had a notice from our Home Owners insurance company as well, which kind of freaked me out!
This year, for the first time we paid our home insurance online instead of going to the bank and doing it that way, and when I saw who it was from, I immediately worried that we had done the payment wrong and it had not gone through. The big thing about home insurance, here at least, is that if you have a home with a mortgage you MUST have insurance of your Mortgage will be canceled and you can lose your home.
Very Scary!
Instead, it was a notice that we can save 100.00 off our insurance for every person we reffer to them who ends up getting insurance through them.
I wish I knew someone in need LOL.
This year, for the first time we paid our home insurance online instead of going to the bank and doing it that way, and when I saw who it was from, I immediately worried that we had done the payment wrong and it had not gone through. The big thing about home insurance, here at least, is that if you have a home with a mortgage you MUST have insurance of your Mortgage will be canceled and you can lose your home.
Very Scary!
Instead, it was a notice that we can save 100.00 off our insurance for every person we reffer to them who ends up getting insurance through them.
I wish I knew someone in need LOL.
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