Happy New Year!!!!

Happy New Year!!!!The above picture is of my kids building some type of tent or fort with their bunk beds and blankets. I was reading my kindle one night and my husband told me to grab my camera and come "quickly". This is what I walked into..lol. And we always have some level of unclothed childrens in my house.

Christmas was wonderful of course. We spent christmas eve with my husbands family, first at his mom's to open gifts, then to his aunts house where the whole family(and then some) gather for awesome food, drinks and more gifts. I come from a smaller family so I have really loved the whole huge family atmosphere. It honestly was overwhelming at first when we were married but now its just nothing really. You just get used to everyone around you, the kids all play downstairs and you only hear from them when thirst overtakes them from running and jumping or its time to eat or potty breaks. Christmas Day we spent with my family at my parents house with my mom, dad, brother and sister in law and my nieces. Its small but nice. My children were so spoiled by all their gifts.

New years came and went. We didn't go out. We went out Friday before the New year and my father in law watched the kids so we could use one of our gift certs we got for christmas to our FAVORITE RESTURANT. Neither one of us is up for huge crowds so we didn't want to try to even attempt to find a place to eat on New Years Eve... We spent New Years Eve just chillin and doing our own thing, which was really nice.

Tuesday after the new year, it was back to work for the husband and back to work, after just a year off for me. We both were on day shift so my mini world dominators stayed at my parents house overnights so we did not have to drag them out in the wee early morning hours. They'd stay there, go to school, come home for a few hours and we'd sugar them up and return them to grandma and grandpa for the evening. My parents are nothing short of wonderful when it comes to these situations. I guess I never even though "wow its gonna suck dragging all three out of bed and into a cold car and into their house"...luckily my mom is super organized and thought ahead for me. This week I"m on second shift, while the hubbster is still on first so being at grandmas will only be a short time... like 2-3 hours at most depending on if he's on overtime or not. then NEXT week I go back to day shift.... this orientation is making me a bit DISORIENTATED. Its truly nice to be back in the swing of things, back to the nursing field, back to what I understand. Its even better when you are around people who understand you and "talk" the same talk. I know my husband tries but its like when he talks about his work or his gaming stuff. I just don't get it really, I try but I fail. Theres something really nice about the ladies (and a few men of course) that I work with. Its like you can all understand eachother and you don't have to break things down or get frustrated because someone DOESN'T understand you. They are also up to listening to the "new" people on their ideas and what not. Two heads are always better than one, in any situation really. And again while its something "newer" in my line of work, its something I like. I've worked in a place like this before, however this is an entirely different ......set up. I don't know how else to explain it.

While last winter I complained about the cold and the snow and how we'd never get to see the end of it, *knocks on wood* this winter in wisconsin has been mild. We've had maybe 2-3 inches of fluffy snow...this week the temp got into the 50's so all said snow is now gone. You could walk without a coat since friday and open the windows, let the nice fresh air in.

We've also obtained a second car. we've only had one car for years, as only one of us has worked, whether it be him or I. Then the other has stayed home with the children. But now since both of us work(now that two are in school)...the whole only having one car thing...put quite a damper on things like...oh working in opposite directions and different schedules. So that's pretty exciting. Its my sister in laws car her and my brother got rid of. Its old but it works. Come tax time, the car and van will need some money invested in them to keep them running a little better. ....lol. They are quite the match together. But as I don't want a carpayment, I"ll stick money into them and see where to go from there.

so other than new schedules and the mini world domination still taking place at our house, nothing is too new!

Ok so we all can agree that somehow I've been getting side tracked at blogging. I"m not sure what it is exactly that keeps me from it...

November and December have been a busy two months so far. We had thanksgiving and spent that with family on my husbands side. They have a huge amount of people on his side and holidays are always packed.

My grandmother is still in the nursing home. Her alzheimers is progressing and shes quite fiesty. That's my word for it anyways. The workers there simply adore her. She was hospitalized a few days to get her meds back on track and get some behaviors taken care of and when we brought her back, everyone was stopping in like she was some celebrity! She also just had a birthday and had a small party.

Things on the job front, I start a new job come the new year, which Im pretty excited about. I'm going to a job that I have expirence in, a Maximum security prison(all male) but its closer to home than the previous Medium security prison I worked at for over a year.

Of course with December, we've had the kids christmas programs for their schools, and then my youngest baby turned 3! three, how did that happen? We went to chuck e cheese and had a fabulous time. I'm not quite ready to admit he's 3. He's our last and final child so I keep thinking "this is the last 3 year old party we'll have..." and with our kids you know we have their "Firsts" and now I keep thinking the things we do with him, his milestones will be the "lasts".

slacker! again!

so between things in life, I have put blogging to the side.


erm...I really don't MEAN to, it just happens. My grandmother was admitted to a nursing home. So I've been spending alot of time there.... She's 87 years old and she's always been a huge part of my life and my childrens lives. I go usually every night around supper time, make sure she eats, then I visit for a while, sometimes I put her to bed, sometimes not. She has dementia/alzheimers so some days are better than others....

And I've had two job interviews in the last two weeks. For one job. Its with the department of corrections and I"m hoping it goes well.

So between that and the kids, and my yaya(my grandmother) I've been busy....
I"m going to try to get a decent picture of us two together some night when I go.

thanks for hanging in there...

~me~

post halloween update-yup I"m a slacker.

Ok so I haven't blogged in a while. Halloween came and went. I went on a field trip with my daughter and her kindergarten class. A few days before this, it was like 70's. That day it was barely 40's and rainy. Much fun was had...snorts.She fell in the dirt 30 seconds after getting there.

This is princess peach at the schools halloween party.

This is what I call "halloween picture fail".

how to make halloween cookies

How do you make halloween cookies?

First you need fistfulls of sprinkles. Doesn't matter if they stick all over.

Clothing is merely optional.And great concentration is also needed. And you need to be cute.


Sunglasses may also be needed. The orange frosting gets real bright. Again, clothing is optional. We got hot quick in our house.

Again going over the rules, cute, clothing optional, great concentration, lots of sprinkles...check check check and check.

See...this many sprinkles are needed to make great cookies. Or more.

Cause its not awesome until they're all over the floor momma scrubbed the night before. And you must also shake excess sprinkles from your hands onto the floor.

Oh and having pre-bought cut out cookies help. Cause unlike MY momma did, we don't cook them ahead. Because THIS momma tends to burn things, and then its not edible. Just sayin....

And lots and lots of orange frosting. The brighter the better. Using utensils are also optional. Who needs to keep the sprinkles from sticking everywhere?

And then you must shove that newly decorated cookie into your mouth much like a dog and shake your head around, hence spraying more sprinkles all over mom's freshly scrubbed floors.

Your uneaten product will look something like this. The more sprinkles you can pile on is always better. More is more... and the more on the table the better. Cause you know you can just SWEEP them onto the floor and TADA the table is clean.

You can take a bite out of the stems of your cookies and put them back for others to eat. Because sampling is allowed. Because who really needs the stems anyways.

its tuesday right?

I think I"m going crazy lately. My two year old, my youngest is awfully attatched to me lately. Its like having a third leg. Its just me and him in the afternoons and usually he's really good at playing on his own so I can do stuff around the house. But lately he's really up my butt. You ever see that whole family guy episode where Stewey is going "Mom, mom, momma, mom" over and over until she snaps? that's what he did tonight. I almost done near snapped! My husband is all "answer him" and I was. He just kept it up cause he was he knew he could break me..LOL.

Then my husband and I took him to my mothers house with the other kids because we had parent teacher conferences for our oldest tonight and weren't even gone an hour and my mom said he cried the whole time. He just didn't know what to do with himself when he's not up my butt. If I'm there WITH him, he's fine, goes off and plays. But I left him yesterday there for like an hour and he didnt even know I left. But tonight he saw us leave and I think that bothered him.

I know we all love our kids but there comes a point where you can only take so much of them being up our butts. I think I"m coming to that point. and usually he goes to bed relatively good. Tonight? when momma needs the peace and quiet? hes up like hes strung out on sugar which he's not. He's just really into breaking the rules I guess.

Its a good thing he's cute.

Its thursday and I'm a slacker

I'm pretty much a slacker. Maybe its because we haven't done a whole lot lately. And really I"m not sure why all my words are underlined like this. I tried to fix it. Its really actually very annoying.

Its been unseasonably warm here, according to the weatherman. I love our weatherman. He's funny as all get out. Who can say that about a weatherman? I don't remember them being this funny when I was growing up! We've been spending time outside and such since it's been so warm out. I put away all the summer clothing(go figure right?) and its a good thing there are still tshirts or my poor kids would be roasting. It got colder here for a while and I thought "wow perhaps we're going to skip fall!" but nope. The leaves are lovely in their changing of colors. I wish they'd stay that color all year long.


So my father in law brought the kiddos, the mini world dominators, a tball set. However, my kids lack any kind of coordination or grace. I'm serious. I showed you the picture last time of my son being assaulted by a shampoo bottle! My daughter who's 4 can fall down just standing there. The other day at my mom's house, she was talking to my mom, looking behind her at my mom and ran into the back of the couch....and literally bounced off. I , as a responsible adult, had to really struggle at not laughing. I think our 2 year old falls off our bed in some manner every day. And its to the point where it doesn't even phase him anymore. He just picks himself back up, dusts himself off(so to speak) and gets back on it. He was sleeping last night, rolled off and stayed sleeping on the floor. Thankfully our 8 year old has seemingly grown out of that whole "we should put you in a bubble" phase but when he was younger, he had the same mishaps as the other two. I mean, he's the one who ended up being rushed to the urgent care center during a family vacation to get stiches in his chin after going down a slide...in the water...who cuts themselves on a waterslide? in the chin even!

so Here is my middle child, my daughter, ever not-so-graceful swinging her bat. Notice the smaller one, with HIS EYES CLOSED. Cause he knows.



The (OMG THE UNDERLINING IS GONE...WHAT?) middle picture? is actually a funny story, but his stomache looks all distorted . We lovingly call(now its off bold and still typing in bold!) his belly button his "habba hole". We(my husband and I) made up this story that all the naughiness from little boys comes from the habba hole. And the people who live inside it, are called the habbas. When hes being naughty, we tell him we're going to get the habba hole. He's very proud of his habba hole. Who am I kidding, he also loves to be nekkid as much as possible.

And last but not least, is the goat machine picture. We were at a local town festival last weekend and they had a petting zoo. While the oldest was getting food to feed the goats, this goat appears and I snapped the picture, and now it looks like hes getting a goat from the machine! no kidding!

Well thats about all from me right now. All the mini world dominators have been a sleep for a few hours. That's the way I like em. quiet, peaceful and asleep. I like it even better when they stay asleep in their own areas. We've had frequent night time wandering into my bed, which kicks me out of my spot and I surrender to the couch. I refuse to keep cramping up in the bed. For a while I've gotten up, put them back to sleep in their own spots, but some nights, you mommas know, you're just too tired!