A CrazyMom's Wonderings

Kindergarten

2007-10-25T16:57:00.000-04:00

I can't believe that Kyra is in kindergarten. My oldest is going to be a decade old!!!! What is up with that? I'm not old enough for that. I still feel that I am the same age as when I had them. Anyways, Kyra's school pictures came in today and I made a layout using it. She of course thought that it didn't have enough pink on it, or sparkles, but oh well.... I created it!

I just realized that I need to go back and put the date on it. One day I may forget what year she was in kindergarten....

Doesn't she look so grown up? I can't believe it just yesterday she wouldn't sleep unless she had her little hand on my cheek and now she's in school.

Well, the kids want dinner so I guess I should feed them!

Kids!

2007-10-18T18:04:00.000-04:00

I need to start a support group for Mom's whose children refuse to pick up after themselves. I am sure that all Mom's could be a member. But seriously, I am tired of walking into my living room and it looking like a bomb went off. They don't even pretend to see what they step over! They just step right on it. "Hey! Pick it up!" They look at you all innocently and say "What?" Do I have any hair left?

The other stress around here is that the classes that I am taking over at the Game Institute are difficult. I have spent the last two weeks on chapter 3. I did complete a program simulating a small slot machine today that came out easy. It only took about an hour to write. Of course if I had those odds in a casino I would be a wealthy girl! But it worked!

Emily wants to start girl scouts, she is the first to really be interested in it, but of course there isn't a troop here. Someone please shoot me, because I think I heard the words "I could help" come out of my mouth! What was I thinking. That's a lot of work, don't I have enough on my plate?

Well, dinner's coming in a box about 15 inches square today... pizza. I love gas station pizza on nights when it is 2 for $10! How can you go wrong?

And another one bites the dust!

2007-10-12T14:40:00.000-04:00

A lot has been going on here lately. I started selling Juice Plus! I love it, the girls and I are taking it and I have been feeling better. Check out my website here. My dad is in town and of course that means that all three girls had to get sick in the last week! Murphy hard at work again! Taryn was sick on Friday and Kyra on Tuesday and Emily last night. Well after three nights on the couch with the girls in one week, I am really looking forward to sleeping in my own bed! School is going well for the girls, Kev and I are struggling. He just doesn't enjoy school. I am finding it hard to sit down and focus. Too many things are going on. I am still trying to get into a routine during the morning while all the girls are in school.

We have had a new addition to our family! Meet Baby! Isn't she the cutest kitten you've ever seen? Well she is. The funniest thing is that she really thinks she is a dog. One of the girls has a "bitty bunny" you know from American Girl? Anyways the cat carries this little bunny around in her mouth and wrestles with it. It is so funny.

She was so little we had to put her on the kitten replacement milk and expensive can food for a couple of weeks, but now she is off of it and growing like a weed!

Well, I should go and be sociable with my family! Take care.

I'm getting better!

2007-09-25T20:50:00.000-04:00

Well.... Here I am again, and it hasn't even been a month! Yeah for me! I have started taking a couple of programming courses from the Game Institute. I am drowning and only on chapter 2. Who knew it was this hard to make a program just to average a bunch of numbers? Seriously with computers advanced as they are can't I say to the computer "Please write a program to average x amount of numbers." And it should spit out a perfectly written program for me.... someone needs to write that program. Of course then all of the very smart programmers out there would be out of a job!

I need to scrapbook, but I am feeling seriously creatively challenged. Not to mention that my girls are growing up. I just don't get nearly as many photographic opportunities as I did when they were toddling around the house after me all day. Now they want me to leave them alone! Can you believe it? When I do get the camera out my oldest either has the cheeziest grin in the world on her face or she runs and hides from my camera! Doesn't she realize that when she is older she will wish that she let me take pictures???? I mean really!

I suppose I should go and actually watch the movie I rented. I will try to check back in soon. (Not a month!)

I know! I KNOW!

2007-09-11T16:44:00.001-04:00

I get it already! I really do. I should be fired from doing this blog thing. But I think it is really good to vent into space and not have to worry about a response, because really, how many people read this? If there is anyone out there that is interested in my little life. Let me tell you that I have found my hero! lol. Check out her blog here! She made me laugh until I cried. I can only aspire to be as eloquent with my words as she is. But I can totally relate!

My nine year old has a problem with me today (When doesn't she?) I sent her to her room because she wasn't obeying and now I am the meanest person on earth:

Me: You are not allowed to watch that channel please change it to channel 3 or 11.
Her: But Mom, it's the only channel that has Saddle Club on it.

(I am okay with saddle club. When it is on on Saturday morning and the commercials are age appropriate, but the commercials playing on this channel are not!?)

Me: Turn the TV to channel 3 or 11 (PBS Kids) or shut the TV off.

(I mean how hard is this? You have 3 choices do one of them!)
She then proceeds to the guide and starts using the up arrow to get from channel 519 or something like that back down to channel 3 or 11.

Me: Use the numbers and type in the channel you want. DO NOT use the scroll or whatever its called.

Her: If you do that it automatically changes to that channel. (Duh!? It really doesn't not when you are in guide mode.

Me: Change the channel to 3 or 11 NOW.

She proceeds to ignore me and does what she wants anyways. Let me explain the reasons for not wanting her to "surf" the channels.... there are ADULT ones in there!!! I have them blocked through the parental control, we don't subscribe to them so you can't actually watch them even if they weren't blocked. BUT, you CAN read the names of the programs.... I really don't want to explain why Debbie does Dallas!!!! Seriously.

So at this point I am totally fed up and just tell her to go to her room as she hollers about how I never let her talk. Of course not, you haven't obeyed. When your conversation starts "But, Mom can't I just...." It means you are going to talk back and are trying to avoid obeying anyways. Why can't they just understand that to get want you want you have to DO what I want?

Is that so hard?

Okay there is my vent!

See you guys in another month or so! :D

Well, Once a month is okay...right??

2007-08-11T10:53:00.000-04:00

What happened to summer?? I have not seen much of July... I know it was there but it flew by so quickly that I don't remember specifics just a general feel of it! What can we do to make time our friend?? I would think that scrapbooking makes the days last longer because we have them permanently engraved in our minds, but then are we just living in the past? I don't know, that is just my wondering for the day....should that be wandering?

The Amazing Digital Scrapbooking Race is well underway, and sadly those are the only layouts that I have been accomplishing this summer. Check out all of the wonderful layouts over at NDISB

Gonna go clean my house!! (It's really a never ending battle!)

Bad! Bad! Bad Blogger!

2007-07-22T00:55:00.001-04:00

I am the worst blogger! Really I am. Anyways...I am participating in the Amazing Digital Scrapbooking Race! Check it out at http://www.ndisb.com They are doing a great job. I am part of the Scrappin' Mamas team.

Kevin is gone this weekend....playing rambo, well not really, but that's what I call it when he is out doing his military stuff. Crazy boys playing with guns....but no ammo! They go up there to qualify for a shoot and somebody forgot the ammo..... Just how exactly can you shoot a weapon without ammo? Oh well they are probably having a great time being away from their crazy lives for a couple of days.

The girls and I visited with my friend on Friday. I really wanted to go and get my copy of the new Harry Potter book, but I didn't. I'm going to get it tomorrow. I am so very excited!!! I hope it is as fabulous as the others. I think that she is an excellent author!

I spent all night tonight organizing my non digital photos! Yeah! I am so excited. I have a little bit more to do, but all of the prints are separated from the digital prints. So at least now I know that I can look in one box for all of my non-digital photos and be able to scan them and then move them to a new location. Now, if I could just finish organizing my digital photos. I have most of them sorted by month and year, but I know that I have duplicates on my hard drive and I am running out of room, but I hate deleting a file until I am sure that I know that it is really a duplicate.

The girls had a good time yesterday, we took them on a walk and went to the park and let them play and them we went back to my friends house and watched Premonition. Crazy movie. I liked it, but man, it was CRAZY!

Okay....I will try to update sometime before next month!!! Have a great day!

Hello again!

2007-07-05T09:54:00.001-04:00

Well, my long lost friends...I am not proving to be very reliable with this blog thing. My Mom came into town last Thursday and visited until Sunday. It was nice to see her as it's been over 2 and a half years. I met her new husband too, and he seems like a likeable guy. The kids like him at least! Although, I am not sure that my children are the best of judges! They like everybody who feeds them Ice Cream!!! :D

Kevin was off from the 20th of June until Monday this week. It was nice to have him around, but its nice to have him at work and not driving me batty! It's not a bad thing, he just needed to get school work done and wasn't proving very motivated to do so. I wanted to go do things with the kids as a family. We did get a little of that in, but not as much as I would have liked.

Are you registered for the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race??? If not, you should definately check it out here! It is going to be totally fun!

Enjoy your day!

Camping!

2007-06-24T22:54:00.000-04:00

Oh. Camping is so very tiring. It's fun, don't get me wrong, but sleeping on an unfamiliar bed and eating way too much and doing way to little, staying up too late, rising too early all contribute to exaustion. Not to mention a seriously upset digestive system. We were only gone for two nights and we didn't even have our own kids to worry about, but I am tired. My stomach has been upset most of the day and I am sunburned. I know, I should have put sun screen on instead of relying on staying in the shade, but I forgot. Thankfully I wore pants all weekend and big t-shirts that had the arms that go clear to your elbows, so the only part of me really sun burned is my nose....I look like rudolph. I'm sure too, that it will peal.

I did try to be very good this weekend though. I brought my own water and tried to choose that over soda for most of the day. I quit drinking soda regularly sometime in March. I was the biggest coke drinker ever. I could almost polish off a two-liter in a day.... every day. I have since switched to drinking crystal light and have even started doing half flavored water and half regular water. I am trying to be more healthy, camping is not really the best environment for that though.

The girls didn't miss us at all. Figures. They were happy to see us, but they had a lot of fun swimming with Mimi and Papa and probably causing all sorts of ruckus. Kyra was asleep in the van a few minutes after we left their house and only woke up to change clothes and go to the bathroom when we got back. Well, even if they didn't miss us, I missed them. It is good to get away and remember that we love the little stinkers...even when they are stinkers!

Weird Weather

2007-06-19T18:56:00.001-04:00

Well, today has been a very crazy weather day. It started out very sunny and around lunch time got dark enough that we had to turn on some lights and it thundered and lighteninged (that's probably not really a word!) like crazy. Then it got very sunny again. Around dinner time it got dark and stormed again. Now it's drizzling and thundering. Very strange indeed!

What is it with the kids today??? Yesterday was okay, but today they are bickering again...maybe the weather is not helping their moods. I know that Em is disappointed because her t-ball game was canceled. Taryn should be thrilled she only has one more full day of school left. Then two half days and we are finally done! WooHoo! I don't have to get up early....well, I didn't have to get up early because my hubby is wonderful and woke her up and got her ready for school. But next year I have to get up too, actually the whole house has to get up. Kyra will be starting kindergarted in the fall, and I will be going back to school again too.

I went to school a long time ago to become a massage therapist. I am considering going back to school to finish the extra hours needed for NY state license. Are there any therapists out there? Any advice would be welcome.

Holy cow! It's 7pm...where is my hubby? He's usually home by 6pm... Well, I'm going to try to find him! lol

Hello there!

2007-06-19T12:06:00.000-04:00

Well I was finally able to scrapbook again! Check it out!

Credit's found here and here.

I also scrapped this page!

Credits can be found here!

Lightning around here gotta go!

Happy Father's Day!

2007-06-17T23:26:00.000-04:00

I hope all of you gave your hubby's a wonderful Father's Day! I am so excited!!!! I finished my quilt! I was so excited! Now I can Scrap....

I am off to find pictures!!

Template Crop over at SBB

2007-06-14T23:00:00.000-04:00

I love Amy's Templates...hurry over it's going on now! Of course I love templates....no brainers. Well at least less worry than trying to create from scratch!

Did I mention that I have a 9 year old girl? I think she is hormonal! I am telling you! The attitude and the teenage angst is all starting already! I'm going crazy! I don't even know what to do with her. She thinks that she is so very misunderstood and so mistreated. Today she told me that I favor her sisters. Then I am thinking to myself....do I? Arg!

Well, I must go quilt. I am not quilting again for like a whole year! Really! So if I even mention starting another quilt please please slap me! :D

Tuesday already!

2007-06-12T20:33:00.000-04:00

That only gives me 4 days to finish this quilt....

Check out LaWanna's New Kit's the Son's and Fathers Father's Day Mini is on Sale at OScraps when you buy the full kit Here! Check them out. Aren't they gorgeous?

Okay, well I must go back to quilting....

Check this out!

2007-06-11T00:18:00.001-04:00

Is this cool or what? (You have to click on it to see the animation.) This is my very first animated layout. Granted it will probably be my last, but it is cool! Check out the credits Here!

Well, we got the pool liner in, or Kevin and Dad got the pool liner in.... I mostly, um.... supervised! Yep! That's it, I supervised! lol. Well, it's late and way past my bedtime, but I had to share this supercool layout. (IMHO) Good Night!

Where did Saturday go?

2007-06-10T11:32:00.000-04:00

Do you ever feel like that? My gosh! Just where did that day go? I understand now, why I feel as though I missed a whole day during the weekend. Yesterday was a little crazy. We had to go pick up my hubby's motorcycle, and of course we couldn't drive it and OF COURSE, we don't have a truck! lol. Anyways run here drop off kids pick up truck run 45 minutes in the opposite direction to said motorcycle shop, pick up bike drive 35 minutes in another direction and return borrowed truck to original location where the children are. I feel like we drove in a huge triangle just to get ONE errand done. Then I worked on finishing up fixing mom's computer and Kev and I were able to go out with some friends. It doesn't quite look as crazy when I type it... but it surely felt like the day was gone and we had accomplished nothing!

Today is more of the same. Kev is doing school work, I am catching up on some scrapbooking and then we go get the kids, and try and put a new pool liner in the pool. Is that hard? I've never done that before. After we manage that we get to come home and Kev will prolly do school work all night until he is incredibly grouchy and irritated, I can't wait until this semester is over, then I get about a month of peace before he starts again. Don't get me wrong, he is doing well. I just don't like to see him so miserable.

Oh! I have more good news! Brenda Kempf has invited me to work on her creative team!!! I am so excited. I get to work with two great ladies! Wahoo! I've "met" most of Lawanna's team and they seem like a really great group of scrappers.

Anyone know why my animated gif blinkie won't work when I upload it? It works in windows picture viewer and it works in Adobe Image Ready.... hmmm. Oh well! Have a great day!

This Thing Is Tricky!

2007-06-08T22:41:00.000-04:00

I have been trying to put a little gif file on the right side of the screen screaming my good news, but for some reason it just sits on the first frame.... Anyways! LaWanna picked me to be on her Creative Team!!!!! Isn't that cool??? Check out her designs.... I'm going to link them on the right as soon as I figure out how. I wasn't the only lucky one, but I sure feel like it!!! :D

I made a new layout! I like this one! The Kit Used: LaWanna Desjardin's Retro Funk Kit
Title used: LaWanna Desjardin's Paper Bag Alpha
Template Used is from Amy Bleser's Rock the Template Crop 6-7-07 at SBB
Font: CK Zic Zac & CK Cursive
Journaling Reads:
These pictures were taken on March 21, 2006, almost a week after Kyra and Abby collided heads at Awana’s. They were running in the sanctuary, one running up the aisle the other running down and BAM! Kyra’s cheek swelled up so quickly that I was sure she had broken something. Abby, on the other hand, had not a scratch on her! That girl must have a real hard head!

I have knitted about 5 inches of my blanket so far! It is so cute. I will be sure to take a picture when I am done. I am getting much quicker at it. I first started crocheting when I was 10 or so, and just learned to knit within the last year. I can crochet like the wind, but knitting...no so much! Anyways, I am glad that I am learning to be a little quicker, or it would have taken me years to finish the baby blankets that need to be done this summer. Is it just me or is EVERYONE pregnant? Not I.

Have a great night all!

Wow! I have readers!

2007-06-07T20:02:00.000-04:00

I am so excited! I have readers! I smiled so big when I read your comments! Thanks so much! I have some good news, but I'm not sure if I am aloud to share yet... So check back tomorrow! lol What a tease I am!

Don't forget the template scrap at Scrapbook-Bytes tonight at 11p.m. EST. I am trying really hard to remember, I even have a new kit to work with for it!!!

I also knit... did you know? I just started a baby blanket for a friend of mine. I figured I could knit when we camped this summer and during all the sporting events that I will have to attend all summer too! It's a free pattern from Lion Brand yarn. It's called My Favorite Blankie. Check it out.

Well, short blog today, gotta go work on my FIL's quilt that was supossed to be done for last Christmas! It is a cheater way of making the Mariner's Compass pattern. Mine looks very similar to the one in the picture on the right. Check out their kits at www.quiltsmart.com

Take Care!

Organize What?

2007-06-06T11:38:00.000-04:00

I am having the worst time trying to find all of my digital files! It takes hours just to find that "one" thing I saw and I know that I have. I have all of my files saved in a folder with the designer's name and then a sub folder with the kit name. At least I won't forget who made it, but man, if I need a white ribbon it's opening folder after folder after folder. So I downloaded Picassa, trying to get organized, but I really wish that someone had told me about this a year and a half ago when I was first starting. I have sooo many files. A lot of them the freebies from crops and chats and blogs. I also have all the freebie kits from 2 peas. I love them. Oh well, I feel better, I have vented.

On to another subject. What is it about kids that makes them bicker? The two girls have been bickering non-stop all morning. One wanting to boss the other around, the younger one having no part of it. I even pulled out a couple of games that they haven't played in a while and they were excited but now they are fighting over that too. "She isn't playing the right way! She's cheating!" Oh for the love of Pete! Hush! -- Is it Friday yet? I've noticed that the week after Kevin has drill the girls seem to be a little more moody. Missing Daddy time. But Kev took the day off yesterday so you'd think that they would have recovered a little.

Taryn has her very first orthodontist appointment tomorrow. Do you think they will let me bring the camera? She's only 9, I'm not exactly sure what they are going to do, but the dentist recommended seeing one so here we go!

Okay better go before one of them hurts the other! Have a great day!

Trying this blog thing.

2007-06-05T21:32:00.000-04:00

Okay, everyone's doing it....so maybe I should too. Please don't let my kids see this when they are in high school, then they will throw it at me that I began something because "everyone" was doing it too! lol. I am definately not going to pretend that I will be good at this. Some of you guys are so very wordy it makes me wonder if I can keep up.

I just finished this layout

today! I love it. How do you guys make the credits available on another page? You know when you find the "Credits can be seen here" button. Anyways I used a kit called Priceless Kids by DigiScrap Divas. It was a charity kit, but I couldn't find it on their site today. I also used a template from Gina Miller's Simply Sketches Set 11.