Kids and Babies

This morning, my son says "hey mom! Do you know what this is?!" I look over, and he's flipping me off, but he has his thumb out too. hmmmm, don't panic... Me " uh, what is that?" Him "its a bird!" Holy shit... Wait.. I went over any road rage I've had in the last few weeks, nope, couldn't have gotten it for me. At this point I'm trying to decide how to explain that its not nice, and what to say about it and then "See, it's a peacock!" as he starts moving his middle finger down to his thumb. PHEW. I was starting to sweat. LOL. He's a good boy. Yesterday was rough, I was stressed, and still feeling blah, and crying. Max said "you don't have to worry about a stinkn' thing! You just change your thoughts mom, do you need a hug?" He's the best!
Jade got her first tooth yesterday! My earliest teether. Max was 11 months, and Avery was 9 months. She also started to do the army crawl thing. She pulls herself around by her elbows, and changes direction w/ her toes. Cute. I wish it wasn't going by so fast. Hubs said that I should call the doc and make an appt so he can get a vasectomy (sp?). I kind of freaked out about it. Not out loud, but made me sad. How can it just be decided that you want to give up having kids? We thought that 3 was enough, but when it comes down to it, I don't think I'm ready for a permanet procedure. I feel like I just got the hang of this mommy/pregnancy/baby business, I'm not ready to say 'that's it' and feel confident about that. We were out w/ some friends the other night and they were asking if there were more babies in our future. I said something along the lines of "if he'd let me, I'd have more". He was surprised. Turns out, he might want another one too someday. I think we'll wait. Maybe in another year, I'll feel definite one way or the other. Its so hard when you are given the gift to create life, to just not do it. But then again, there a 1000's of kids out there, that don't have a family. What to do, what to do... I think it's best to wait.

Ho-Hum

Nothing at all has been going on for the last few days. Kids have been good, hubs too. I'm alright. I've been in some what of a fog recently. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something is amiss, w/ me. I'll be over whatever it is soon, I'm sure. Have you ever heard of the Great Wolf Lodge? If you have kids, you should go here! We brought our kids in June, and they had a fantastic time. They still haven't stopped talking about it. We are going again in a few weeks. Its not just for little kids though, hubs and I had a great time too. Kids of any age would like it. Its kind of pricey, but well worth it. Check out is at 12, but you are free to use the water park till it closes, so you could get your money's worth w/ only a one night stay. Besides the indoor waterpark, they have fun kid crafts, story time in the lobby at night, scavenger hunts during different times. Its a blast for everyone. Our anniversery is in a few weeks, and b/c I'm still nursing, hubs and I can't go away alone for a night yet, we decided to do something fun for our kids. I'm a little concerned about keeping the baby entertained... The last time we were there, she was only 6wks old, so she just kind of slept in her stoller or backpack, and ate. Now she's a bit more pickey about where she sleeps (has to be in her bed and quiet) and when she eats.. I'm sure it'll still be a blast. The water is super warm, so maybe she'd even enjoy getting in it. She loves the tub. That's an idea...
I've been thinking about my girlfriends lately. I've got some really great friends, and I love them dearly, for all different reasons. I think a few know me better than myself sometimes. I went out w/ a friend the other day, and she had some great insight about me, that I hadn't even seen myself. I have another friend that I do nothing other than laugh with. Then there's Chicken, with her, its more like she's a piece of my soul, I think maybe she's the only one who has seen all sides of me, good bad and ugly, and has never faultered. She's priceless, one I could truely not live w/o. Then I have some friends based only on our history, like we were friends when we were 8, therefore we are still friends today. Some of my history gals aren't even good for me, but I can't let go out of guilt. What is it w/ me and guilt? I got offtrack anyway, I just meant that I really treasure those few girlfriends that know me so well, and still love me anyway :)
Oh, and an update for you on runaway friend and pedofile husband. P.H. was put in jail today. Good place for him. He won't be sentenced for a few months, but jail is where he'll stay until then, and hopefully, get a long long time. R.A. friend is ok. She's decided to move fwd w/ divorce papers, and trying to pick up her pieces. She'll be ok, but I can't imagine how difficult it will be for her to heal from this nasty mess. Anyway- ITS LATE. I need to go to bed! Good night!

I dislike Mondays.

BUT, I think they will be getting better soon. I decided to drop my moms group. I love it, and I've made some very good friends from there, but I just can't do it. I'm too busy on Mondays. My mom's group is from 9-11:15. My baby naps during that time as well, but not when we are there. She just misses her nap, which is rough. Then she's off for a few days. I feel really guility about it. I have this terrible guilt issue. I am always concerned about letting someone down, even if doing so is better for me, or my family. I hate that. I don't want to feel guilty about making a good decision. Damn. I hope that will subside some soon!
We had a nice weekend. We played poker on Friday(well right), and I got 3rd. 65$ woohooo. Saturday was the best, b/c we did a whole lot of nothing. Ran errands, did laundry, and napped. My daughter had to go potty while we were out and about on Saturday, so we stopped at McD's. I went in to help her, and when she pulled her pants down, she had a STACK of panties on. I asked her why she had so many panites on, and she simply stated " i taught tey would keep me wahmmer." LOL. I was trying not to laugh, cause she gets really upset if she thinks someone is laughing at her. And when I pulled them back up, I couldn't just pull the bunch up at once. I had to pull each one up one at a time. LOL. Cracked me up.
Last night was me and hubs first night bowling. We joined a team w/ Chicken, and my brother. It was fun. I'm a terrible bowler. Really terrible. We played 3 games last night, and my scores were 65, 85, and 53. Yep, that's how bad I am. But its fun! I hope I'll get better. We shall see.

HNT

I had to go to the dentist today. What is it w/ those guys anyway? I think they are out to see how much they can make you bleed. I have healthy teeth, its one of the rare things i'm compulsive about. I cannot go w/o brushing them. So I KNOW that i take care of them. So the chick is doing the scrape. That's the worst sound ever. I have to disract myself or i get all skeeved out. Then comes the poking. I mean STABBING. Damn! She says "your gums a little sensitive in a few places" Um, no shit? You think if I jammed a knife like tool as hard as I could into your face, it might bleed? Maybe a wee bit? OUCH. That was not great. At all. And I couldn't pull faces or swear cause my kids were with me. Lord knows I don't want to tramitze them. As much as I dislike the scrapping and stabbing, I love the super clean teeth feel afterwards. Insparation for HNT. I've never noticed it before, but I seem to have an odd shaped head. Weird. Happy Thursday all.

More on Sex

Okay, so I recently read this book on sex and marriage. The guy who wrote this book is a marriage consoler, and he had some interesting theories. Hence my earlier sex poll. His theory is that the best indicator of how a marriage is doing is your sex life. Lots of sex= intimate, close nit couple. Little sex= not so great relationship. I'm trying to decide if this guy has a point, or if he's full of it. I understand that sometimes there can be circumstances where couples cannot be all that sexual, and I don't think that that would mean your relationship is on the rocks. But besides those situations, I think I would agree. Do you? I wonder how much of an impact upping your weekly average would make. I have a great relationship w/ my hubs. We on occasion have normal couple issues, but overall, we have a fantastic marriage. He's my other half and definitely my best friend, I could not "be" w/o him. I'm going to test this guy's theory. I read on Queen of Pink's blog today that she had made a decision to always be available when her hubs was in the mood, even if she wasn't (which she also said she is all about it after a few min). Kind of what this author had to say as well. What are your opinions on this? Do you think that intimacy will overall determine how fantastic your relationship is? I'm not sure that I do. Oh, and if any of you decide to try this theory, let me know what happens, and if you agree or disagree.

Finish the Stolen Post

BLAH BLOGGER! I had every intention of finshing my image thing, but blogger is being a butthole, and I cannot upload my pictures. Stupid. So I suppose I'll just tell you. My favorite song is "Summertime" by Janis Joplin. You know, she never had the best voice, but it was always filled w/ so much passion. I think passion will get you farther than talent in some instances. My favorite food is spaghetti. I know, kind of boring. That favorite food business changes as the wind blows. Next week it could very well be tacos. Most hated food that NEVER changes. SEAFOOD. Puke. I can handle white fish, or fried clams, but that is all, and only occasionally. My hubs tries to make me try shrip every time he orders it, and it is nasty as all get out each and everytime. Just thinking of it makes my stomach roll. ugh. gross. and don't get me started on crab/lobster. (blue is gagging). Got off track again. Oh, my grandma's name. Mary. I found a picture of Mary Mary quite contrary, you know the rhyme? I just liked the picture of it. My g-ma is fabulous. She can irritate me for days, but all in all, she's a great lady. She's helped me out in so many ways. A lot of people are not close to thier grandparents, but for me, they are like second parents, and for a great part of my life, the only stablity in my life. Another time for that story. I forget what else... Oh, i think it was favorite smell. My baby. Or any baby. To be more specific, clean babies. :D
I haven't been on in a few days, I've been feeling blah. Yesterday I didn't feel good at all, and I was crabby. It was one of those days that anything that can go wrong, did. My daughter had preschool yesterday, and we woke up late to start things off. Her hair was completely tangled and crusty, and I didn't have time to wash it, so I had to try and brush it out to the tune of "ouuuccchhhh, stop it, that hurts, dooooon't!" always pleasent when your late and feeling like ass. Then my son spilled a full bowl of cerel all over the floor, and began to cry b/c we used up the last of the milk. I was trying not to be cranky w/ him, but given my mood, and my daughter's whining, that was a struggle. I just wanted to go back to bed. I had to wait till hubs got home from work at 5, and then I did pass out. I slept so deeply, that I was totally confused when he woke me up. I didn't know what he was doing, if it was morning, I hadn't remembered laying down. It took a full 5 minutes for the the fog to clear and relize that it was 8 at night- I can't remember the last time I slept so good. It was great. I went back to bed at 11, and slept till 715 this morning.. ahhhh.. Now I need to get my ass in gear, and clean up my house. My inlaws are coming over tonight, and currently, my house is NOT fit to see. I have all sorts of other nonsense to share, but not enough time today. I'll get around to eventually! Have a happy Wed.

Stolen Post

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I stole this from Chicken, who stole it from CaligirlPEI, and she from someone else. I liked it too. Good for a Sunday post. You're suppose to go to google, and select image searches. Then you look for the following images. Um, not sure the order, but something like~ the name of the town you grew up in, the name of the town you live in now, your name, you grandma's name, your favorite song title, favorite drink, and food? I think. Anyway, you select your favorite images. Here you go. Flippn' blogger. I can only do a few for some frickn reason. Pisses me off. Why do I always have picture trouble? Is there a way to post pictures here using Flickr? If that's possible, could someone PLEASE explain it to me in retard terms? Pardon my rant. On w/ the FEW FLIPPN' pictures.

This is a picture of the firestation in the town I live in now. Which I should add is only like 4 miles from where I grew up.
I liked this picture. Its an old train station in fantastic Byron Center MI. Very nice.
Oh... Margarita.. Let me count the ways I love you......
This one is suppose to be my name, Misty. I love the woods. Grew up in em'. Love it. Love the way they look, smell, and how you can lose yourself in them. I don't mind getting lost. That's 1/2 the adventure of getting there :)

SEX SEX SEX

I think we need a sex poll. Help me out here guys. If you are in a committed relationship, of any sort, please leave your age, length of relationship, and how many times per week you have sex :) Sex is an interesting topic... Did you know one of the best indicators of how strong your relationship is, is your sex life? Do you agree or disagree w/ that statement? I suppose to be fair, I have to go first. Depends on the week, some are more active than others, w/ an occasional lapse of no more than a week, and I've been married for 6 years.... And I do agree that its a good indicator of where you relationship stands. Because if your not having sex, something is wrong. And I don't mean the occasional lapse, but like you never do it on a regular basis. Help me out... I'm curious what happens in other peoples hectic lives, and how often you're getting some :)

HNT

I haven't done a HNT post in awhile. And this is not an interesting one, but its a pic, right? So this morning I had to babysit a friend of mine's kid. This little girl is in the same preschool as my daughter, and her mom had an early morning appt. She is a naughty girl! Worse than mine, I know, hard to believe. She was loud, disobedient, AND she HURT my baby. Yep, I almost had to kill her. Unbelievable. My innocent baby was sitting in her exersaucer. Naughty girl came up and pushed her head down till it hit the saucer. I can't handle that shit. Drives me crazy. You should have heard my little baby cry- so sad, and surprised. My kids have never tried to hurt her-ever. There would be hell to pay if they did such a thing, but being this was someone else's kid, she was put in the corner for a time out. I was surprised that she listened, but I'm glad she did. Brat. This naughty girl has a baby brother as well, and every now and again hurts him. I've heard of that before, but why? She was dropped off at my house at 730 this morning. I prly would have tolerated her better if it had been after 9. I don't function well in early morning hours.
Hubs and I have to go to a rehearsal dinner this evening- he's in a wedding on saturday. Friday night, more poker of course. And Chicken, I'm looking fwd to taking your money again :) muhahahah... Sunday my girl friend is flying in from MN, just to hang out w/ me! I'm excited to see her. She hasn't met Jade yet either. She was here last just before I delivered. Should be a fun weekend! I will post pics of the nasty farmhouse tomarrow! Happy HNT all.

CrabAss

I'm crabby, and tired. I've been super busy the last few days. My days have been spent carting my kids to their various activities, and then to work at the hotel, and after that, cleaning the old nasty farm house. I'm glad for the job, but I must admit, it makes me tired. And on top of being tired, I think my period is going to come back. It hasn't yet since my baby was born (she's 6 months). So my uterus feels like a hard mass of crampiness, and my lower back a mass of knots and soreness. Which is probably adding to my being ornery. Of course it could also be sore b/c I've been hunched over for the last few nights scrubbing away nastiness. My kids have been fairly pleasant. Except for yesterday. It was one of those days that every time my daughter opened her mouth just like nails on chalkboard! "mmooooommmmmyyyy I WANT JUICE RIGHT NOW!" She can be a peach when she wants :)Naughty.
Since I've been so busy everywhere else, now my house is a mess. When my house is a mess, I can't relax. It makes me twitchy. When I'd rather sit and read a book, I can't, I'll be too busy stewing about the mess. I can't not do it, I must get up to clean it. I'm not a clean freak by any means, but there is a difference b/w lived in mess, and big MESS. Know what I mean?
Our cable was disconnected. I don't watch too much TV to begin w/so I didn't think it would bother me, but it is. I can't wait to have it back. We don't have any channels. Every channel is fuzz. It was disconnected on Sunday. My hubs called to find out what the problem was and they said it was their mistake, there was not a cancellation order. Duh. So he asked if they could come and fix it now, and they said no. B/c it was already done, we'd have to wait till the next business day, call the sales office, and order a reconnect. Hubs said that he didn't order a disconnect, so he's not making any phone calls, company's mistake, you fix it, and I'd like it done today. They said that they couldn't do that, so now hubs is pissed. You can imagine how many times he had to hold and how many different people he talked to. He ended it w/ "if you can't take care of this for me, I'm taking my business elsewhere." So now we are without. I've been calling around, but there isn't any other cable company's around here, except for dish, and I'm not interested in a dish. Bastards. I want to start my own cable company. Only order the channels you watch, and pay only for those. Custom cable. And Cheap... How do I get started on that?
I'll post some pics of the nasty farm house tomorrow. The stove in there is crazy.. I wonder what year it is. I should have taken before and after pics so you could see for yourself how bad it was... I'm almost done with it now. Pardon my bitch fest, I'll try to be chipper tomorrow. Later

Woohooo

Morning! I skipped my moms group today. sshhhhh. I love it. Mondays are generally SO hectic that I don't have time to breathe, and today, I just decided to not be hectic.The weekend was alright. I finally won some money playing poker. I was hoping to do some serious drinking at the polish festival this weekend, but we were stuck w/o a sitter, so I went to bed, before 10. What? I know, weird.
Some friends of mine wanted to go and see this house that was for rent. The owner told them that it wasn't ready to see b/c previous tenants left it a mess, and he would need some time to take care of it. Gave me an idea... So I called him and just asked if he would be interested in hiring someone to clean it out for him. He said yeah! Sweet. I felt really odd calling about a job that had not been offered, but I figured all he could say was no. Then I was telling another girlfriend about it, and she and her hubby are moving into a new house. She asked if I would be interested in cleaning thier house! YES! I believe I've just found an additional way to make money. Any one else? Need some cupboards cleaned? Have a great Monday. I'll be more entertaining tomarrow, I promise. This was kind of boring... Later.

Prom and the Midgets

Chicken was over this weekend, and we were looking back at pictures of our jr prom. I'll have to scan a few pics for you from way back when. We and our dates went to the prom together. We had a riot, and my prom date, was hot. I kind of wondered on occasion if he was gay, he IS a nurse, but anyway. After prom we were staying in a hotel, and our parents weren't normal. They knew we were staying w/our dates in a hotel, but we just had to call them and let them know which one and the rm #. This was before the cell phone revolution, so we had to go down to the lobby to use the payphones. Chicken and I were both talking to our moms, standing next to each other when a midget walked by. We kind of looked at each other and giggled. A few seconds later, 6 midgets came by. We were like "whoa, I didn't know that there were whole families of midgets-weird." We live in mid-west Michigan, there is nothing interesting here, or wasn't then anyway, and we lived in the woods. Little people are not commonly seen so it was funny to us. We got off the phone, and we were talking about the family, giggling, and looking fwd to getting our drink on. We're music lovers, and kind of fanatacal about some late 60's-early 70's rock. We heard Jimi Hendrix 'Purple Haze' and we were like "where is that coming from?? Let's go see if its a wedding reception, crash it, get some free food/drinks" We started wandering down long hallways, following the music. We found the room, it was a HUGE ballroom type thing, and the door wasn't open all the way. We cracked that bad boy open, and our jaws dropped in amazement. There was this big sing that said "Welcome the the little people of america convention!!!" lolololololol! There were 1000? midgets in there shaking thier asses to 'purple haze'. So yeah, we joined them. We had a blast! We went and got our dates, and got drunk as hell w/ the cool ass little people. For as small as they are, they can hold some liquor. We hung out w/ them drinking/smoking pot till the early hours of the morning. All was well till my date passed out, and this small fella tried to make his move. Ha! How 'bout nope. Sorry dude. He kept trying to convince me that he was the shit and I should stay w/ him, my date was asleep anyway, why waste perfectly good prom night? Eeewwwwww. So then it got weird. I had to collect my passed out date, and my chicken, and crawl our way back up to our own room. That was for sure a night to remember. Nothing like the good ole' days :)

Stories

I wanted to post last night, but I just never had time. Hectic as hell kind of day. So the weekend was great. We had a good time playing cards on Friday night, but no, I didn't win. Next Friday though. Saturday night hubs and I were sitting in the front room watching tv, around midnight. All of a sudden, I heard the front door try to open. Someone was jiggling (sp?) the handle. I asked hubs if he heard it. He did, but he thought it might be my brother. My bro left his truck here and we knew coming back for it at some point. But anyone who comes over, comes through the garage. So hubs started poking around, looking out the windows, he couldn't see anything. He went outside to check things out. Have I made mention of my paranoia? You can imagine the state I was in :) Hubs found this kid in our front yard, piss drunk. This kid has been staying in the ghetto neighbor house. He was so loopy drunk that he thought our house was his. I should post a pic of the front of our houses so you can see how different they look. I will when I'm done. T.K. had also been driving. I CANNOT stand drunk drivers by the way. His car is blue, but it had white streaks of paint down one side, and the tire was gone. He had been driving on rim alone for who knows how long, and he didn't know it. He drove from Zeeland to here, which is like 10-15 miles. Unreal that he didn't kill himself, or someone else. Hubs called the police, and they came to pick T.K. up. We gave our statements, and watched them do the sobriety test. Have you ever seen one? They're not difficult at all, and as awful dd's are, it was hard not to laugh about how fucked up he was. He couldn't say the alphabet, he screwed up his letters. Couldn't count backwards from 35 to 18, and he was REALLY concentrating- his forehead was all wrinkled, REALLY concentrating. And when the cop asked him to stand on one foot and count 1-onethousand up to 10, he fell over and pissed himself when he got to 2. Unreal. Made for an interesting night though.
This post got longer than I thought it would, so i'll save the midget and the prom story for tomarrow. Oh, I worked yesterday. That was great! Before kids, I worked for a well known hotel chain. After I had my first baby, I worked twice a week, but after the second baby, hubs and I thought that twice a week was too much w/ our plans and his long hours. At first, they said that they would miss me, but at the end of my notice, asked if I could stay. I couldn't, so they asked if I would be 'on call' so if they couldn't cover something, or someone was sick, I could come in. Perfect! So yeah, I've been doing this 'on call' thing for 4 yrs now. I usually work once a month, and I still get to keep all my perks, which make traveling a lot less expensive, and not just for me, but for my extended family as well. But yesterday was the first day I had worked in 6 months! It was nice to be back. I think I might just start working a little more. Its nice to have another purpose than just a mom.
I stopped at the store last night. My purchases were: a dozen condoms, personal lubricant, and shaving cream. Do you ever wonder if they talk about you when they leave?? :D It looked like the clerk was having a hard time not busting out. I suppose it did look kind of funny. I guess my plans were aparent. I wonder about that w/ the pharmacey too. I get cold sores on occasion, and a great treatment for those is Valtrex, which also treat genital herpes. lol. Last time I filled a prescribtion, I was like "yeah, I've got COLD SORES" LOLOLOL. I don't really care, but I think its kind of funny. But I do think that I will leave condom buying up to my hubs :) I wouldn't expect him to go buy tampons, right? Geez, I got all off track on a bunch of nonsense. Sorry kids!! Hope you have a great day!

I wish I had more time today- I have some stories from the weekend, but I'm just too damn busy! Dentist, Dance, School, and I GET TO GO TO WORK TODAY!!!! Yeehaw. Can you believe it?? I'm excited. If I have time later today, I'll fill you in on the job thing, and a fabulous story about a drunk stranger and the police and coming in my front door. Crazy. Oh, maybe I'll throw in a random story about midgets and the prom. Sweet. Later...