The wee one is running fever and coughing and snotty… and tomorrow he will be 3. It is a depressing cold Kansas Sunday and the dad is at drill. Yep… working all weekend. I hate drill weekend but I like the moola he gets from it. I like the retirement moola we will get much later down the road from serving his country…it’s not nearly enough in my opinion… not for the crapola he has had to do and the crapola places he has had to go. Not enough for the hundreds of days I have played momma and daddy….and plumber… and lawn boy. Can you tell I am hatin on the military today and the crappy pay….and I am terribly homesick. I have been all weekend…and I suspect my girls are just as homesick as I am….Some prayer for us would be nice peeps… I’m just sayin.
DeeDee’s bedroom is finished!! September 19, 2009
Here are the pics to prove it! Curtains, pillows, and a turning twenty quilt. 
morning ritual… September 18, 2009
The wee piglet has a new morning ritual. He brings his “silky side” into the upstairs living room and has to cuddle with me in the comfy rocking chair/recliner that used to be in his nursery. Oh the hours we have logged in this chair…
I think I should let you in on “Silky Side”. When I was preggo with tiny wee piglet I was working as a consultant for a university with an early childhood program that they had. I had a nice chunk of extra money to spend on baby stuff so I splurged on two blankets by Little Giraffe. Well, I became obsessed with all things Little Giraffe… it was so soft and elegant. The crib bedding was Little Giraffe…the pillows, the blankets… even some clothing. The dad thought I was on crack for spending upwards of $60 on ONE baby blanket but who is laughing now?? Wee piglet will be THREE in a few weeks and he still has to have silky side to even think about getting through the day. The baby bedding has long since been given away, but the chocolate brown silky side as well as the baby blue lesser favored one are still around.
So we curl up usually with brown silky side in the big comfy green rocker… bed hair and all… and cuddle. Sometimes coffee and chocolate milk are involved…sometimes not. So I captured it with the laptop this morning… poor quality, but you get the idea. We both have big hair… mine more 80’s tastic than his…
Who will I cuddle when he is too big?? Wait… I forgot… even the oldest of the hoard…Mamie still cuddles on my lap nightly. Sometimes squished in my bed between me and the dad. Mind you she is 6 inches taller than me. Maybe I will get a picture of THAT for you… We kick her out after the requisite 20 minutes of bonding time.
As a teaser… I think I am going to picture document chicken & dumplin making for you this weekend. Anybody want to learn how to make em?
Is it a bad thing to get this excited about a teeniebopper movie if your 34? September 14, 2009
I watched the VMA’s last night with my girls. Mind you I am not so into the video scene. Neither is MTV these days I am told. More reality TV than anything. Half the people on there, I didn’t know…there was even a lady with a birdsnest on her head… and she meant for it to look like that. Apparently Kanye ( what kind of name is that??) was rather rude to Taylor swift. I did pick up on that… even though I am old. My girls reminded me of this many times as I asked things like ” why is she called Lady Gaga?” and ” Why does that guy have his pants below hit butt?” This, of course, is well after I had done the complete thriller dance and belted out every word to every Michael Jackson song in the opening and told the girls all about the MJ thriller record I had…. only to be met with..”what’s a record?”…oh to be young.
Anyway… my point of watching this whole thing was to see the trailer for New Moon. I made fun of the Twilight books when my kid read them…. then I got bored one day…. then I read one….. then two…. now I am sucked into the evil vortex that is teenage vampire romance. It’s nuts. I know this. It’s something I can’t control and I am taking my girls and their friends to see New Moon at the midnight showing in November when it comes out. Partly to be a cool mom, but partly because I can’t friggin wait!!! So I pose this question… how pathetic is it that I wasted my Sunday night watching a silly awards show where I recognized like 2 performers ( and I use this term loosely) just so I could play, rewind, and repeat the New Moon trailer? You may call me a ding dong and rip ne a new one now….
Peace… I’m going to Hobby Lobby to buy some fun fur yarn and knit up a birdsnest head thing like Lady Gaga…or maybe a gold thing to wear over my eye… cuz that’d be kool too right?
yea... I want some feathers and a gold leafing set.... I feel a crafty project coming on...
The beast in my basement September 11, 2009
Want to guess what I am doing today? Taming the beast… that’s what. So here is the story… er… legend of the beast. When we decided to take this jobbie job in Kansas we had to bribe the hoard to come along and not complain. So, we promised the two oldest piggies new bedrooms…. furniture and all. Thank the Lord for IKEA cause it’s cheap and cute. Well, furniture is in, rooms adorable… but alas… no curtains or bedding. Now, me being both cheap and such a quilting diva (go ahead and laugh… that’s a joke)… I decided to have them pick fabrics and I would make the curtains, bedding, pillows and all. Dede’s curtains are made and I got the quilt top together this week. It has since only been spoken of as “the beast”. It. Is. HUGE.
Seriously, we are gonna put it on her bed and small animals and children will get lost in it. I think the finished dimensions are like 99 x 110… and I have to cram it into my sewing machine and quilt it. Seemed like a good idea at the time. If I never post again… it’s cause the beast ate me.
She is a big girl... not unlike me...
She is made from Paula Prass Flights of Fancy... oh I am such a fabric hussy....
all the little stitches...a special shout out to the dad who got me a stitch regulator last year...
You thought I was kidding about cramming it into my sewing machine didn't you? No.. seriously... I cram it. I know...right??
Lookie lookie what I found…. September 10, 2009
Well…. paint me purple and call me Barney… I promised pictures, so looking through the photobooth I found these. This is my youngest daughter Lizzy. Peyton calls her Dede…so shall we? I am assuming Dede was really bored one day and made these. You can do all kinds of distortion stuff in photobooth. Yet another reason to have a mac. As Martha would say, it’s a good thing.
I'm getting tickled just loading these up...
She's a talented little turnip... yes Ma'am she is...
Is this thing on……..hello? September 10, 2009
Uh.. so…. yea. It’s been a while dear friends. It’s been… ummm… a long long while. I was recently asked to blog again, so here I am. Long story short….I am stuck in Kansas so time is something I have an abundance of lately. Yea, Kansas. Wichita, Kansas. For the first time in like, oh… I dunno…16 years…. I have nothing to do but take care of my kids. No work, no volunteering, no nothing. So just sit back and get ready cause I’m a bloggin again. I can hear the rumble..”heck yea…another blog back from the dead!”…” I know.. right?”
I am also adding a cooking section in this here blog… it’s even gonna have pictures. I know… WHOA… dream big huh?
Peace and love for now… gonna go change tiny piglets poo…
Quilting and sewing… October 9, 2008
I have been spending a lot of time quilting and sewing lately. I was asked to make some store samples as well as customer orders for a local quilt store www.quiltartsonline.com . What an honor to be trusted to make a quilt for someone else who does not sew and picked materials for it and is paying me to do it! Anyhoo… I am also teaching a few sewing classes at the store over the next few months.
How was Tiny Piglet’s party someone asked??? It was great!! He is now officially 2 and we made enough spaghetti to feed an army. We also had chocolate cupcakes and he got a tricycle. Can life get any better??
Tonight we venture down to Kiefer’s for the teenager’s birthday ( it’s tomorrow… the big 15). If you are not from here, Kiefer’s has somewhat of a cult following around here and has the most amazing greek food ever. So, per the teenager’s request, we are all going to eat there and eat the sickeningly sweet strawberry cupcakes I made for her today. I am sure they are great if you like strawberry cupcakes… I do not.
I plan to post some pics of tiny piglet’s and teen piglet’s birthdays tomorrow. Until then… get the insulin ready… I feel a sugar rush coming on!~
PS — I may post some quilt pics too.
I suck… and it’s October October 4, 2008
Anybody who knows me knows that October is a horrendous month for me. I have three birthdays for three of my kids ( and one in early November), and usually a plethora of sports, dance, carnival, Halloween related activities. Now, aside from it being October, I have no excuse for letting you down and not blogging more. Oh wait, I did have a kidney stone last week. That was fun times! I actually went to the emergency room and had to be put into a narcotic induced coma… I have had 4 kids ( one completely natural) and I would gladly have 4 more before I ever have another kidney stone. It seems that the running I am doing ( yep the dad and I are still on the exercise kick) coupled with insufficient water intake and too much calcium gave me a stone.
The whole fitness and diet thing is still here…. rearing it’s ugly head at the most inopportune times. The dad has lost 20 pounds and ran a sub 10 min mile and a half yesterday. He also did like 88 pushups and like 90 situps in like 12 seconds or some crazy junk. Yes folks… he is a machine. I on the other hand am up to being able to run 3 minutes and alternate walking 2 for up to 40 minutes. I have lost a total of 12 pounds and for the record and starving. Why is it that men have the weight melt off and women have to eat an almond and pretty much be done for the day or face a gain for the week. So unfair. Remind me to speak with God about that when I see him.
Tiny Piglet’s birthday is tomorrow. He will be 2. He woke up at 4 AM night before last and asked me to “wead dat book… wight dere” I handed him the book, put him back into the crib, moved his big brother to another room, and closed the door. He wailed for about 30 minutes and cried out for his daddy to save him ( incidentally he was SNORING next to me). So… if you ask me if I am sad that tiny piglet is turning 2, I say no. Can we hurry up and get to 18?
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Don’t be bloggerhatin…. this one is for you Blake… August 23, 2008
Blake (the rocket scientist… no seriously he is a rocket scientist) is hatin on me cuz I’m not bloggin much. Oh my I think I just got in touch with my urban rapper self! I am both ashamed and sorry to say that I fell out of blog love for a while. It just didn’t seem as fun for a bit, but never fear my 3 readers…. I am back! What’s been going on lately.. hmmm… let’s see. The dad ran like 10 miles this morning and I did like 3 in the same time frame. He is burning through calories faster than a fat kid on fudge. He has lost so much weight that I can actually see his abs. No really… they exist. I thought they ran away shrieking 10 years ago, but no… they were merely nuzzled between rolls. I made the mistake of telling him that he looked like he was getting that cool David Backham curve thing at the ab / hip region. Note that he happened to be stretching a certain way with his torso contorted in such a manner that would make him look crazy if he did it in public. He now thinks he is David Backham. Why oh why did I have to open my big mouth. He has even started bench pressing tiny piglet and his brother freckled piglet. Between you and me, I am pretty sure I caught him winking at himself and flexing in the mirror the other day. On to me and my rolls.
I know you will all be happy to know, they are still there. I have lost a grand total of like 5 pounds since we started this in July. I eat an almond and lick a lettuce leaf every day and I get 5 measly pounds? Maybe I need to post pics of my progress. Maybe I will frighten small children if I do. Maybe they will put me on a terrorist watch list because I am a weapon of mass destruction… emphasis on mass. BBWWAAAAAAHHHAAA. Sometimes I crack myself up. ok seriously though. If everyone who reads this posts and asks nicely… I will post some progress photos. Until then… asta martini brotha’s.
