tastes of summer
Current mood: ecstatic
Category: Food and Restaurants
saturday, june 30, 2007
i have rediscovered the pure, unadulterated joy
of ice cream sandwhiches in summer
(i just ate three)
(in my defense...i think they've shrunk those suckers since i was a kid...)
So, in honor of my rediscovery, I've compiled the following list:
Top Ten Flavors of Summer
10. Ice Cream Sandwhiches
9. Red Popsicles (on the wooden stick, not in the plastic sleeve)
8. Anything done on a charcoal grill
7. S'Mores
6. Potato Salad/Cole Slaw (i have trouble differentiating the two in my memory)
5. Ring Pops (from the concession stand at your little brother's tee ball game)
4. Strawberry Shortcake
3. Ball Park Dog (yes, a $5.00 hot dog tastes better than a regular one!)
2. Ice Tea (Sweet Tea)
1. Watermelon
did i forget anything?
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
Patience
Patience
Current mood: calm
Category: Life
monday, june 18, 2007
So the theme of my weekend seemed to be patience.
We've been trying to instill some sense of the innate virtue and beauty, if you will, of patience in our eldest, Isabelle, newly three with the attitude to match.
"I need more milk now, Daddy" -Isabelle, be patient
"I need to see the picture now, Mommy!" -Isabelle, be patient
"I want that toy, give it to me right now!" -Isabelle! be patient!
It's a tough pill for a toddler to swallow, being told she'll have to wait for something and learning that life doesn't always happen on her internal timeline.
Apparantly someone took her side in the argument, looked down from on high, waved a magic wand and decided it was my turn to be reminded of the same life lesson this past weekend.
A week away from my due date with munchkin #3 and I was ready to go.
Bag packed (check!)
Contractions closing in on seven minutes apart (check!)
Doctor on call (check!)
and then....
nothing...
No baby forthcoming. No more contractions. Back to square one.
And it's so frustrating, and more than a little embarrassing being that it's my third child, to actually go to the hospital and then get sent home because it just isn't your time yet. I drowned my sorrows in half a container of Eddy's chocolate peanut-butter chunk ice cream and started to question why I couldn't just be done with this pregnancy already, when I realized I was pulling an Isabelle.
These things just don't adhere to anyone's timeline but their own. And my body (and munchkins by extension) have never been amenable to being rushed along.
So I'm back to square one. I get it now. A little exercise in patience.
I guess we all need a little reminding from time to time
that life doesn't always happen on our timeline.
Currently listening:
Sky Blue Sky
By Wilco
Current mood: calm
Category: Life
monday, june 18, 2007
So the theme of my weekend seemed to be patience.
We've been trying to instill some sense of the innate virtue and beauty, if you will, of patience in our eldest, Isabelle, newly three with the attitude to match.
"I need more milk now, Daddy" -Isabelle, be patient
"I need to see the picture now, Mommy!" -Isabelle, be patient
"I want that toy, give it to me right now!" -Isabelle! be patient!
It's a tough pill for a toddler to swallow, being told she'll have to wait for something and learning that life doesn't always happen on her internal timeline.
Apparantly someone took her side in the argument, looked down from on high, waved a magic wand and decided it was my turn to be reminded of the same life lesson this past weekend.
A week away from my due date with munchkin #3 and I was ready to go.
Bag packed (check!)
Contractions closing in on seven minutes apart (check!)
Doctor on call (check!)
and then....
nothing...
No baby forthcoming. No more contractions. Back to square one.
And it's so frustrating, and more than a little embarrassing being that it's my third child, to actually go to the hospital and then get sent home because it just isn't your time yet. I drowned my sorrows in half a container of Eddy's chocolate peanut-butter chunk ice cream and started to question why I couldn't just be done with this pregnancy already, when I realized I was pulling an Isabelle.
These things just don't adhere to anyone's timeline but their own. And my body (and munchkins by extension) have never been amenable to being rushed along.
So I'm back to square one. I get it now. A little exercise in patience.
I guess we all need a little reminding from time to time
that life doesn't always happen on our timeline.
Currently listening:
Sky Blue Sky
By Wilco
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Seriously...
Seriously...
Current mood: annoyed
Category: Life
saturday, june 16, 2007
Still Prego
Stalling out is a real bitch...and I had such high hopes for this weekend.
If I show up for work Monday, somebody shoot me, okay?
Currently listening:
Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology
By The Ramones
Current mood: annoyed
Category: Life
saturday, june 16, 2007
Still Prego
Stalling out is a real bitch...and I had such high hopes for this weekend.
If I show up for work Monday, somebody shoot me, okay?
Currently listening:
Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology
By The Ramones
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
still prego...
STILL prego...
Current mood: lonely
Category: Life
tuesday, june 5, 2007
37.5 weeks down
2.5 weeks (ish) to go
STILL prego
STILL can't see my feet when vertical
STILL have a slight waddle when i try to run
STILL can't carry my kids around
STILL can't reach the top cabinet shelves in the kitchen w/o bumping
the belly on the edge of the counter
STILL don't think i'm ready to be a mom of THREE
how did that happen? am i truly an adult?
i still laugh out loud at my kids' Saturday Morning Cartoons
i would have cereal three meals a day if it didn't use up all the milk in the house
i still get as big a kick out of running around barefoot and blowing bubbles
on a nice day as my two-year-old son
Shouldn't an adult have a stronger grip on
her daily sanity levels,
her housekeeping skills,
her ability to walk/chew gum/shuffle songs on her ipod all at once?
Currently reading/watching/listening/playing:
Best of Wonder Years
Current mood: lonely
Category: Life
tuesday, june 5, 2007
37.5 weeks down
2.5 weeks (ish) to go
STILL prego
STILL can't see my feet when vertical
STILL have a slight waddle when i try to run
STILL can't carry my kids around
STILL can't reach the top cabinet shelves in the kitchen w/o bumping
the belly on the edge of the counter
STILL don't think i'm ready to be a mom of THREE
how did that happen? am i truly an adult?
i still laugh out loud at my kids' Saturday Morning Cartoons
i would have cereal three meals a day if it didn't use up all the milk in the house
i still get as big a kick out of running around barefoot and blowing bubbles
on a nice day as my two-year-old son
Shouldn't an adult have a stronger grip on
her daily sanity levels,
her housekeeping skills,
her ability to walk/chew gum/shuffle songs on her ipod all at once?
Currently reading/watching/listening/playing:
Best of Wonder Years
Sunday, May 20, 2007
me time...
me time...
Current mood: peaceful
Category: Life
sunday, may 20, 2007
footloose and fancy free for an afternoon and what do i decide to do?
(1) catch some sun in the backyard and read a ridiculously silly novel
(note to self - stretched and thin belly skin does tend to scorch slightly easy)
(2) down five water bottles full of half slushy pink lemonade
(3) self-manicure AND pedicure thank-you-very-much.
(thank god for a steady hand)
(4) walk to the grocery for some staples
(milk, oatmeal, corn pops, more pink lemonade, chocolate chips)
(5) 1.5 loads of laundry
(6) one gigantor batch of chocolate chip/cranberry/almond biscotti
(7) plunked down in front of the t.v. fo the ultimate chic-flic marathon on USA
(how to lose a guy in 10 days, blue crush, coyote ugly, sweet home alabama)
thank you. thank you. thank you.
(i've needed this for loooooong time)
Currently listening:
Coyote Ugly (2000 Film)
By Various Artists - Soundtrack
Current mood: peaceful
Category: Life
sunday, may 20, 2007
footloose and fancy free for an afternoon and what do i decide to do?
(1) catch some sun in the backyard and read a ridiculously silly novel
(note to self - stretched and thin belly skin does tend to scorch slightly easy)
(2) down five water bottles full of half slushy pink lemonade
(3) self-manicure AND pedicure thank-you-very-much.
(thank god for a steady hand)
(4) walk to the grocery for some staples
(milk, oatmeal, corn pops, more pink lemonade, chocolate chips)
(5) 1.5 loads of laundry
(6) one gigantor batch of chocolate chip/cranberry/almond biscotti
(7) plunked down in front of the t.v. fo the ultimate chic-flic marathon on USA
(how to lose a guy in 10 days, blue crush, coyote ugly, sweet home alabama)
thank you. thank you. thank you.
(i've needed this for loooooong time)
Currently listening:
Coyote Ugly (2000 Film)
By Various Artists - Soundtrack
Saturday, April 28, 2007
cigarettes and chocolate milk...
cigarettes and chocolate milk...
Current mood: full
Category: Life
saturday, april 28, 2007
what do you get when you let an (almost)two-year-old and a three-year-old pick the dinner menu and help prepare everything?
(a) a completely destroyed kitchen and flour-drenched children
(b) chocolate chip pancakes and banana milkshakes as appetizer, entree and dessert
(c) pajama-clad picnic in the living room
(d) two very wired toddlers
(e) all of the above...
For everyone who chose (e) give yourselves a big, fat pat on the back. You probably either have kids of your own, or are in-fact mostly a very large child yourself still if this menu sounds remotely enticing. (that, or pregnant, which is what i'm using as my excuse for having seconds of everything thisevening)
And, in an effort to fully revel in the hakuna matata of it all (guess what the after-dinner movie was?) i'm saving the dishes for much...much...much later tonight.
Current mood: full
Category: Life
saturday, april 28, 2007
what do you get when you let an (almost)two-year-old and a three-year-old pick the dinner menu and help prepare everything?
(a) a completely destroyed kitchen and flour-drenched children
(b) chocolate chip pancakes and banana milkshakes as appetizer, entree and dessert
(c) pajama-clad picnic in the living room
(d) two very wired toddlers
(e) all of the above...
For everyone who chose (e) give yourselves a big, fat pat on the back. You probably either have kids of your own, or are in-fact mostly a very large child yourself still if this menu sounds remotely enticing. (that, or pregnant, which is what i'm using as my excuse for having seconds of everything thisevening)
And, in an effort to fully revel in the hakuna matata of it all (guess what the after-dinner movie was?) i'm saving the dishes for much...much...much later tonight.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
i'm NOT lovin' it...
i'm NOT lovin' it...
Current mood: nauseated
Category: Life
sunday, april 22, 2007
All right...
Someone please tell me what pompous, masochistic, self-involved ass over at McDonalds developed the latest happy meal toy; which (a) plays one song. over. and over. and over again. at the touch of a button, and (b) loosely resembles the bastard love child of Steve Jobs and Simon Cowell.
I wonder if I can accidentally run over two identical toys at once...
Currently listening:
American Idol Greatest Moments
By Various Artists
Current mood: nauseated
Category: Life
sunday, april 22, 2007
All right...
Someone please tell me what pompous, masochistic, self-involved ass over at McDonalds developed the latest happy meal toy; which (a) plays one song. over. and over. and over again. at the touch of a button, and (b) loosely resembles the bastard love child of Steve Jobs and Simon Cowell.
I wonder if I can accidentally run over two identical toys at once...
Currently listening:
American Idol Greatest Moments
By Various Artists
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