Yes, we've heard it all before. I'm going to post more often, I won't forget, blah blah blah. It always seem that once the girls are in bed I don't want to do anything. So, my new commitment to myself is to post twice each week. Trying to post everyday was very hard because there really isn't anything that interesting in my life to talk about everyday. But like I said, this is important to me so I'm going to make an effort. In the meantime, here is an oldie but goodie from my original blog.....
from 9/19/06
Being A Celebrity is Rough
Do you ever feel like a celebrity and your kids are the Paparazzi? I love them and I'm lucky to be able to stay home with them but do they have to want me all the time? Scott got up with them this morning and when I got up they were already having breakfast. I sat on the floor on the other side of the loveseat where they couldn't see me just so they would eat. Natalie finally found me but I spoke to her in a whisper so Alyssa wouldn't hear me. Scott said everytime I whispered she got very still and just looked around. I swear it's like being hunted. Can you imagine what it's like to be hunted by the real Paparazzi?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
25 Random Things About Me
1. I hate being late for anything. It is the only thing that stresses me out more than PlayDoh.
2. My kids are the greatest little people. They are just so smart and funny and genuine. I can't imagine not having them.
3. I love the town I live in and if I have my way I will live here forever.
4. Once my 3yo starts Kindergarten I want to go back to school and become a preschool teacher.
5. My husband is a better person than me in everyway that counts and I really don't know how he puts up with me sometimes. I'm sure he doesn't either :)
6. I think everyone should have to take mandatory parenting classes before they can take a newborn home from the hospital.
7. I got wasted on Kamikazes so many times in my 20's that I can no longer eat or drink anything with lime in it without gagging.
8. I do not belive in God as taught by the Catholic church and I don't believe in heaven or hell.
9. If I dream that someone is pregnant, they are (or soon will be). I have never been wrong.
10. I wish I could like the games that Scott likes so we would have that in common but that is not going to happen. Ever :)
11. I love to bake and if I knew then what I know now I would have become a pastry chef after HS.
12. I didn't have enough credits to graduate HS (and I still don't). I am missing 1/2 credit in European History. They graduated me anyway and I found out about the missing 1/2 credit two years later.
13. I have a blog but the only ones who know about it (until now) are Scott and random strangers on the internet. Someone even commented on one of my posts once. It was about worms. And no, I'm not going to tell you where to find it.
14. My older daughter was due on my birthday.
15. I don't understand what the deal is with coffee and why people have to have so much of it. It's tastes awful.
16. I love the movie Grease 2. It's a really bad and cheesy movie but I can't help but watch it whenever it is on TV.
17. I wish we lived closer to family but it is doubtful that we ever will...see #3.
18. Coming up with 25 things for this list is hard because I am really not that interesting.
19. I love dogs. Other peoples dogs. My 6yo asked if we could get a dog and once I explained that she would have to pick up after it when it poops ( I certainly don't intent to do it) she decided it wasn't a good idea anymore.
20. I'm going to be painting my foyer this weekend. The color I chose is "Arabian Sands".
21. When I meet other parents who have kids the same age as mine I always think "Am I supposed to be that mature?". I'm a goofy mommy and wouldn't have it any other way.
22. I wish I had kept in touch with more people from HS. Hell, I wish I was more in touch with the people that I am still in touch with.
23. We lived in Salem MA for a year and Halloween was crazy! I would love to take the girls for Halloween when they are much older.
24. I love my cat. We adopted him over eight years ago and he is like a child to me. He's sitting on the arm of the couch purring in my ear right now.
25. I don't know how to use bleach. I'm 37 and seriously don't know how to use bleach. I know that it's supposed to go in with "whites" but what if there is a pair of undies with little pink flowers on it? Or a towel with blue stripes? I just don't get it.
2. My kids are the greatest little people. They are just so smart and funny and genuine. I can't imagine not having them.
3. I love the town I live in and if I have my way I will live here forever.
4. Once my 3yo starts Kindergarten I want to go back to school and become a preschool teacher.
5. My husband is a better person than me in everyway that counts and I really don't know how he puts up with me sometimes. I'm sure he doesn't either :)
6. I think everyone should have to take mandatory parenting classes before they can take a newborn home from the hospital.
7. I got wasted on Kamikazes so many times in my 20's that I can no longer eat or drink anything with lime in it without gagging.
8. I do not belive in God as taught by the Catholic church and I don't believe in heaven or hell.
9. If I dream that someone is pregnant, they are (or soon will be). I have never been wrong.
10. I wish I could like the games that Scott likes so we would have that in common but that is not going to happen. Ever :)
11. I love to bake and if I knew then what I know now I would have become a pastry chef after HS.
12. I didn't have enough credits to graduate HS (and I still don't). I am missing 1/2 credit in European History. They graduated me anyway and I found out about the missing 1/2 credit two years later.
13. I have a blog but the only ones who know about it (until now) are Scott and random strangers on the internet. Someone even commented on one of my posts once. It was about worms. And no, I'm not going to tell you where to find it.
14. My older daughter was due on my birthday.
15. I don't understand what the deal is with coffee and why people have to have so much of it. It's tastes awful.
16. I love the movie Grease 2. It's a really bad and cheesy movie but I can't help but watch it whenever it is on TV.
17. I wish we lived closer to family but it is doubtful that we ever will...see #3.
18. Coming up with 25 things for this list is hard because I am really not that interesting.
19. I love dogs. Other peoples dogs. My 6yo asked if we could get a dog and once I explained that she would have to pick up after it when it poops ( I certainly don't intent to do it) she decided it wasn't a good idea anymore.
20. I'm going to be painting my foyer this weekend. The color I chose is "Arabian Sands".
21. When I meet other parents who have kids the same age as mine I always think "Am I supposed to be that mature?". I'm a goofy mommy and wouldn't have it any other way.
22. I wish I had kept in touch with more people from HS. Hell, I wish I was more in touch with the people that I am still in touch with.
23. We lived in Salem MA for a year and Halloween was crazy! I would love to take the girls for Halloween when they are much older.
24. I love my cat. We adopted him over eight years ago and he is like a child to me. He's sitting on the arm of the couch purring in my ear right now.
25. I don't know how to use bleach. I'm 37 and seriously don't know how to use bleach. I know that it's supposed to go in with "whites" but what if there is a pair of undies with little pink flowers on it? Or a towel with blue stripes? I just don't get it.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Death Is Not An Option
One of the fun things about moving into a new home is decorating it to show your family's personality. Do you like fun and funky bright colors? Or do you prefer the museum feel where your guests (or should I say visitors) ooh and ahh over evey little thing but don't want to sit down anywhere for fear of putting a dent in a cushion. I perfer the come in, sit down and feel like you never have to leave vibe. When people come to my home I want them to feel comfortable, relaxed and free to be themselves. The problem is that right now the inside of my home is stick in 1976 and it is screaming to be set free.
There is only one room that wasn't wallpapered when we moved in and boy did that room get painted fast. Then we decided to try what is now the girls' room and see if we could get the wallpaper down. Well, when we got down to the fourth layer of paper there was no other choice than to call in the pros and pay a small fortune to have the paper removed. They did an awesome job but now we're back to reality and removing the rest of the paper ourselves. We started in the dining room on Monday and it hasn't been so bad. The first two layers were easy to remove but that third layer is a bitch. So, if death were not an option, which would you prefer?
Layer 1?
Layer 2?
Or layer 3?
I kind of like the toile (that would be #3). It is a nice scene and my kids like sheep and donkey's so it would make them happy. #2 is a little plain for my taste, it's kind of like the vanilla yogurt of wallpaper. Layer #1 hasn't been hard to live but it's a little too, what's the word, denimy for my taste. Not to mention that if you look at those flowery things just right they look like little girls in dresses and assorted creepy crawly things. Hopefully the walls will be finised and ready to paint by the end of next week. Then I'm on to picking the paint color and that is going to be harder than removing the wallpaper.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Did I say that?
Did I say I would start writing regularly again and not forget about this place? I think I did *blushes*. Between trying to get my walls out of the 70's, get Natalie ready for Kindergarten and Alyssa started in Preschool, my free time has been almost non-existant.
Natalie is loving K. She really likes her teachers (so do I), she's made so many new friends and is just all around a happy and fun person. I was helping her roller skate today (or, helping her not fall while wearing her skates) and all of a sudden it hit me. She is no longer my older baby. She is an honest to goodness little girl. Her face has lost all evidence that she was once a baby and the realization makes me want to cry. 
I'm not sure if I want to cry because I've lost something or if it's because I'm excited for all the new things that she will be experiencing in this new territory. When the little girl around the corner comes over, they like to have private time for "girl talk". I can't imagine it's anything more exciting than what she and her stuffed animals where playing that morning but the thought of it is still odd to me. The thought that she has a life separate from me is strange as well. I know all the names of her school friends but on the occasion that I see her class in the halls at school it is obvious that *I* am the outsider. When exactly does it happen? When do our lives make the shift from our children trying to be on our inside to us trying to get into theirs? I hope I don't find out for a very long time.
I'm not sure if I want to cry because I've lost something or if it's because I'm excited for all the new things that she will be experiencing in this new territory. When the little girl around the corner comes over, they like to have private time for "girl talk". I can't imagine it's anything more exciting than what she and her stuffed animals where playing that morning but the thought of it is still odd to me. The thought that she has a life separate from me is strange as well. I know all the names of her school friends but on the occasion that I see her class in the halls at school it is obvious that *I* am the outsider. When exactly does it happen? When do our lives make the shift from our children trying to be on our inside to us trying to get into theirs? I hope I don't find out for a very long time. 
Thursday, July 17, 2008
What??!!!
I am such a loser. A huge loser actually. I can't believe it's been almost three months since I've posted. It's been on my mind and I've been wanting to get back over here but until this very exact second at 5:04 and 36 seconds PM I haven't been able to. Do you really want to know where I've been? Well, it started like this.....
April. The month when the leaves start coming out on the trees and flowers start to bloom and....wait. It's the month when the leaves start to come out out and flowers start to bloom and what that really means is that my eyes start to itch and swell so bad that I have to go to bed at 7:00 some nights because I literally can not keep them open any longer. I have tried all kinds of allergy medicine and the only ones that work just happen to be the ones that make me want to sleep anyway. I never had this problem in my life until I was pregnant with Alyssa and I think it was some sort of pre-shadowing as to what life with her would be like. Definitley not my "easy" child but I wouldn't trade her for the world.
About the time I was regained the use of my eyes Scott and I decided to buy a new house. We had just paid $800 to have our front and side lawns ripped up and re-seeded because we hadn't been able to grow any grass since we killed it all in 2006. I put in new flower boxes and planted a pretty little herb garden. We were finally getting around to doing some of the things that we couldn't do with two very small children. Then BAM. I saw a house online of all places. It was much bigger, in the perfect neighborhood and best of all it was affordable. Turns out the woman who had lived there passed away last year and her kids were really ready to unload the house so they had it priced to sell. In less than a weeks time we were under contract and waiting to list the house we were living in. We listed that house the next week and had an offer even before the sign was in the lawn. I don't know if it's Karma of plain old dumb luck but something was sure working in our favor.
Moving....it sucks and I don't plan on doing it for a very long time if I can help it. The only thing that can make moving worse is when the head guy comes to you and says "yeah, we have no more room in the truck". Guess we have too much crap. Well at least we now have a bigger house to fit all that crap into, and get some more crap to fill the extra space.
So all my time has been taken up by all the things one does when the purchase an affordable house like painting over awful colors and trying to remove funktastic wallpaper. Once we realized there were FOUR layers in what is to be the girls room we decided to take a second mortgage so we could pay for someone to remove it for us. We didn't really have to take a second mortgage but the wallpaper remover guys are coming tomorrow.
That's my story. I hope you enjoyed it and I promise I will not leave again for such a long period of time unless there is a white jacket and a padded room involved.
April. The month when the leaves start coming out on the trees and flowers start to bloom and....wait. It's the month when the leaves start to come out out and flowers start to bloom and what that really means is that my eyes start to itch and swell so bad that I have to go to bed at 7:00 some nights because I literally can not keep them open any longer. I have tried all kinds of allergy medicine and the only ones that work just happen to be the ones that make me want to sleep anyway. I never had this problem in my life until I was pregnant with Alyssa and I think it was some sort of pre-shadowing as to what life with her would be like. Definitley not my "easy" child but I wouldn't trade her for the world.
About the time I was regained the use of my eyes Scott and I decided to buy a new house. We had just paid $800 to have our front and side lawns ripped up and re-seeded because we hadn't been able to grow any grass since we killed it all in 2006. I put in new flower boxes and planted a pretty little herb garden. We were finally getting around to doing some of the things that we couldn't do with two very small children. Then BAM. I saw a house online of all places. It was much bigger, in the perfect neighborhood and best of all it was affordable. Turns out the woman who had lived there passed away last year and her kids were really ready to unload the house so they had it priced to sell. In less than a weeks time we were under contract and waiting to list the house we were living in. We listed that house the next week and had an offer even before the sign was in the lawn. I don't know if it's Karma of plain old dumb luck but something was sure working in our favor.
Moving....it sucks and I don't plan on doing it for a very long time if I can help it. The only thing that can make moving worse is when the head guy comes to you and says "yeah, we have no more room in the truck". Guess we have too much crap. Well at least we now have a bigger house to fit all that crap into, and get some more crap to fill the extra space.
So all my time has been taken up by all the things one does when the purchase an affordable house like painting over awful colors and trying to remove funktastic wallpaper. Once we realized there were FOUR layers in what is to be the girls room we decided to take a second mortgage so we could pay for someone to remove it for us. We didn't really have to take a second mortgage but the wallpaper remover guys are coming tomorrow.
That's my story. I hope you enjoyed it and I promise I will not leave again for such a long period of time unless there is a white jacket and a padded room involved.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Purrrrrrrrr
This is my cat, Toby, and I love him. You have no idea how much I love him. I almost consider him my firstborn. We decided to get a cat for my 29th birthday so one day after work we headed to the MSPCA. I was looking for a small, fun kitty that would jump around after little toy mice but Scott saw this little white kitten relaxing in his cage without a care in the world. There was some sort of connection between them because Scott was adamant that this little cat was the one we were supposed to adopt. He was right. We've had Toby for over seven years now (I'll save you the math, I'm 36) and he has been such an unbelieveable joy.
As a tiny little kitty he was so playful and wanting for attention. The first full day we had him he set up camp on my lap and was there to stay. If he hadn't gotten up when he did I would have peed my pants because there was no way I was making that furry little bundle of love leave my lap when he wasn't ready. Even today if one of us is graced with his presence on our lap, said person will proclaim to the other "I Win".
He is just the sweetest and most personable cat
I have ever met and most people who come into
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Long time no see...
I know I haven't been here the last two weeks but my computer has been so freakin' slow. Like I'm about ready to pitch the damn thing out the window slow. Scott says it has something to do with the Kodak software I use for pictures from the camera and it's really pissing me off. Anyway, one day when I have eight hours to sit around and upload pictures, I will update.
In the meantime, here is a pencil sketch that my dad did from a b/w picture of my grandfather. He did an awesome job. Grandpa's been gone for 27 years but I have very good memories of him.
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