Hands Free

In honor of my favorite Californian and also for her 1st hands free ticket, this video is dedicated to Kelly:



Of course you have probably already watched it on Dooce, but why not share it with everyone else, because it is hilarious.

Happy Turkey Day to all my friends :)

An Award? For what?

Heather must really love me, because I can't imagine why she would actually give me a blogging award. I mean don't you have to blog in order to receive an award? Anyhow, I am pleased to accept. And it is spurring me into action to actually get my lazy self on here writing. So without any further ado:


So part of the award is listing six things that make me happy and then passing the award on to six of my other favorite bloggers. That part is easy.

1. Sheridan's Vanilla Milkshakes. We might go in debt over this one. They are heaven! I will be more worried when the workers start asking me if I want my usual.

2. Clean Sheets. I love clean sheets. I sleep so much better the night that the sheets are changed. Pre-kids I would change them 2-3 times a week. Now we are at once a week. But oh how I love clean sheet night.

3. Reading. I love to read and will read anything I can get my hands on. Right now I am reading The Shack.

4. Vacations. I could sell everything we own and just be on a perpetual vacation. Yes, I love traveling that much.

5. Music. I get a lot out of a well written song or instrumental piece.

6. Family. Of course it is only when the planets and moon align correctly and everyone is getting along.

Now to share and pass along a few of my favorite blogs:

http://notquitewhatihadplanned.blogspot.com/
http://nestingplacenc.blogspot.com/
http://faithfulfroggers.blogspot.com/
http://uwearitwell.blogspot.com/
http://www.jenx67.com/
http://bknrfamily.blogspot.com/

Of course I need to mention that this award is from one of the best blogs out there:
http://www.stepfordlife.com/

Dealing with a sick two year old

The story of my last four days:

There have been requests

For me to update since a few of you are sick of seeing that icky comb sitting at the top of the page. Since I love you (Sharri) I will oblige. But there are reasons why there have been no updates. The first being that the lice thing had me beyond freaked out. I turned into a mad, nit-picking, cleaning, spraying, laundering, vacuuming fool. I even went so far to become "THAT" mom and went up to the school to have a chat with the nurse and also Tara's teacher. Thank God for Tara's teacher. I think she was more freaked out than I was. I could tell as she immediately began scratching her head as I talked to her about our little problem.

So in the midst of my insaneness, I noticed that our 5+year old computer was running a tad bit slow. I am not great at backing things up. I hadn't backed my pics up since we moved in May. I requested a few days before the lice outbreak that J.R. pick me up a flash drive to save them to. So that Friday I was sad as I realized that our computer died and there sitting next to the computer all neatly in its package sat our new UNUSED flash drive. OOPS! I can't really blame that on anyone but myself. So we went out and got a new computer on Saturday. I am not even quite sure how the other computer worked it was so archaic compared to the newness of the one I now have. I have yet to get used to the 2000 inch screen. Well actually it's 24 inches but WHOA! And talk about picture distortion. I am glad it makes everyone look fat. Makes me feel better about myself.

So I have been lax about writing here. I have some great pictures to upload and hope to get them up in the next day or so.