Why Me Wednesday?

Welcome to Why Me Wednesday! The Blog started today (the first posting exciting huh??.. ok maybe not but fake it for me ok?), with a place you can vent and whine because its WHY me Wednesday.. Dog get out, Face break out, Bills piling up, life get in the way when you are making other plans.. Then vent on my friend.. WHY NOT! its Why Me Wednesday and your perfectly ok to do so!!!

The alarm clock went off this morning, and I had to get out of bed.... Why me?

Yesterday, our TV died, Dinner got burnt, and the dog peed on the rug and I found it the hardway.. in socks.. why me?

David is supposed to have his meeting today.. Stephanie is supposed to have a half day at school, but due to the "False snow day" She has a full day.. I may have to cancel after moaning and complaining to get the appt in the first place.. Why me?

No matter how many times I balance the checkbook, it says the same thing and its not good.. why me?

The W2s we are so anxiously awaiting to do our taxes are still not here, and I really wanna do my taxes!! Why me?

Blog Giveaway!! My first

HI there :o)~ Today is a new day, things are starting fresh and with that I have my first ever blog contest. Yesterday, somebody reached out for a helping hand, and when I offered one she offered one back with a wonderful selection of her tarts. Louise runs her own site where she makes Dream Tarts - Home and upon burning my first one, I came up with a brilliant idea. :o)~ (It happens now and then... just not often enough) Whats the prizes.. ahh be patient lets get to the contest first... So today, our subject is

Happiness is.........

Happiness is a new baby to remind you how precious life is.

Happiness is Garth hugs <--haha Karen this ones mine lol

Happiness is baby kisses, big kid kisses, ok kisses in general

Happiness is "I love you" when you need it the most.

Happiness is that perfect day you don't want to end.

Happiness is seeing the scale move and not going UP

Happiness is walks on the beach with someone you love

Happiness is warm cookies straight from the oven

Happiness is being told its gonna be ok when you feel all hope is gone

Happiness is laughter that fills your heart and a smile that fills your face

Happiness is winning an argument and hearing "you're right'

Happiness is watching your kid succeed and being his first high five

Happiness is that song that makes you want to dance like nobodys watching.

Happiness is that moment, you know the one, where your heart sings, your body leaps, and you realize thats the moment of your life

Happiness is Disney World, and the moment you go through those gates

Happiness is the first moment you know that you are in love hook line and sinker

Happiness is .................................

Your turn. What is happiness to you? it can be silly or serious, wonderful and perfect, it can be anything... Leave me a blog comment and you are entered its that simple...I will have three prizes... the first two winners will win 3 tarts each from Louise's site, and the third Grand Prize winner will receive....24 custom made tarts (choosing up to 8 scents off her site!!) This contest starts today and runs til Thursday. Winners will be notified by fanfare on this site! :o)~ This is open to anyone except people who live in my house (sorry Chuck and Steph and um you too Mel (Even if your house is the high seas this week))

I can't wait to see what happiness is to you!!!!!

Ok Mr President.....

Whatever your political views, you have to respect the fact that we have a a new Commander in Chief. Today our country changes course again, we bring to office a man who has made alot of campaign promises, and while I am concerned how many of them he can fulfill, I will stand behind him and watch him do his best. Hoping for success as our country at this time with a job shortage that is about as high as it can get, companies closing because they can't stay afloat, and numerous people losing their cars, their houses, and so much more. Mr President, as you come forward, this country needs you to be someone with integrity, strength, and faith. We need you to lead as you have promised, and not just words. While you speak eloquently, I need actions to follow those words. I will stand behind you, I will throw my hat in the ring where every American should , and I ask you to please fix this country, please help us out of this grave we are so close to landing in. God Bless you Mr President.. make America proud.. please. ;o)~

Laughter lives Tuesday!!!!

Updated to add: can someone please send me the correct code to link this back to the Riggs blog? please and thank you

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When you have six children, three pets and a family that puts the fun in dysfunctional, we have an easier time finding things to laugh at then in most cases to cry at. And as I say this, there are a few events I could think of this morning, when I retrieved my chance from the lovely Mrs B to post this blog. (thanks my dear friend, I needed some help today to get kickstarted on a blog lol) So off to this story.........First the politically incorrect one...

Last night, David my cute charismatic four year old walks in the room and announces in a frusturated tone "I cant find my balls" (he was refering to a Buzz Lightyear ball he has) being the silly goofy people we are this sent me and Stephanie (the 17 year old) over the edge.. I then said "Words you never want to hear from your son" of course we giggled more like school girls. We got over it went back to watching NCIS and a few minutes later he comes back in.. wearing underwear and a tshirt and announces loudly "I FOUND MY WOODY" (the cowboy from Toy Story) which of course made things worse.... so as you can see we arent always G rated but boy do we laugh.

Then... further on.. constantly we refer to AJ as a blonde in disguise as a redhead. He is a great sweet boy, but um.. hes a 75 watt bulb in a 100 watt world. Today is a snow day (ok all you people who are stuck in REAL snow.. let me tell you WHY this is so funny.... we don't have a flake of snow yet.. but we are closed.. we don't have anything other then the potential of snow coming.. so why are we closed? in anticipation of the snow that is possibly coming. um ok) Stephanie and Danny come dancing into my room at 7 AM, hooting and hollering about "Yes its a snow day!!" yes yes yes yes yes yes! Not two minutes later AJ walks in......."Am I closed too?" we had to explain if one school was closed they were all closed. he looks at me and says "well I didnt know if it was SNOWING at their school cause its not snowing at mine" lol.. sort of made me giggle.. hey look its the little things right?

And finally.. I am posting a story that happend to me a few months ago...I blogged about it, but my kids took a vote and decided if I was going to blog about them.. i had to blog about me. .ok I guess thats fair....

I got up at 3 AM to use the bathroom (note to self STOP drinking a bottle of water before bed), I didn't flip the light on because I knew how many steps it takes to get the potty.. thats right I got potty skills. I am taking care of business and out of the corner of my eye i see something about 2 inches long wiggling... i freaked "OMG we have mice!" I jumped up and start stomping on the mouse... i am stomping and stomping like some crazed lunatic.... yea.. then i realize i feel nothing crushing.....or scampering or anything... so i flip on the light...i had killed it.. it was murdered in my bathroom! Victory was mine.. that wad of toilet paper was never going to harm anyone again. Yep. thats right I am one lean mean TP killing machine..

Hope you got a giggle.. pray for me.. its a snow day.. 6 kids in the house.. this can't end well. lol.

Not Me Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did NOT yell at my girls NOT to yell about the Jonas Brothers, and then less then 30 minutes later SCREAM like an insane woman when Garth showed up on TV, no that would be wrong so I did NOT do it.

I did NOT find piles and piles of clothes I have not worn in months in my room as I cleaned it today, making sure my side of the bed stays clean following the rules for just one week, Nope that would not happen.

I did NOT wipe off my daughters face using spit on a tissue because its just plain gross and what kind of mother would do that.. not me.

I did NOT give my one year old a bottle because shes one and of course is totally off the bottle.

I did NOT curse out our dog for eating ANOTHER pair of underwear because if they were in the hamper it would not have happened.. nope not me.

I did NOT cringe over seeing massive misspellings in the freecycle ads today, and nearly lose my mind because someone asked for baby cloths not baby clothes. no that would be anal retentive and I am not that bad. right?

and Finally... I did NOT get into a fight about whether this character is a Megazord or Volton.. because that would be nutty.. and what kind of people fight over that?

Carepully.... Carepully.....

David when he carries something that is delicate (IE a glass of water, a full plate, or at times his baby sister (that makes me nervous), he takes on the task at hand, picks up whatever he is going to carry and as he takes each step he says "Carepully.. Carepully...." So today, I am going to take words from my sweet little boy and approach a few topics.. well carepully :o)~ Nothing is that serious.. just a few things.



First of all, we watched the Inauguration concert today.. WOW what a line up! but I was personally delighted to see Garth. I love him. I have always loved him.. but especially since these pictures. Hubba hubba. Chuck never believed he knew my name until as we were waiting for him to put Trisha Yearwood in the limo he said "Hang on Tricia, let me put Trisha in the car" sighs. he's a great singer and the most amazingly humble male there is. He has no idea he is a celebrity. :o)~ I have met him a few times.... seen him in concert a few times.. and um.. had a couple of phone calls from him. So imagine my delight today when he sang three songs, (American Pie, Shout, and of course We shall be free.. thud.. I was on the floor) any rumors that I screamed are purely exaggerated until Not me Monday.. winks.

Me, Chuck and Garth.. the copy of this pic.. stinks which is sad
<---that's me and hes touching my face. <3
Baby kisses, Garth hugs...it doesn't get much better then that ya know?
My oldest baby with Garth, he was soo sweet to her (he signed her cast)



Second of all, we went to church this morning.. I have to be honest when I tell you it has been a very long time since we went to church. (The good news is the building did not explode when we walked in so I guess we are ok to return). We saw some friends we have not seen in a long time, and they embraced us and welcomed us back. That was so nice. I have to be honest and tell you I am so glad we went. :o)~



Thirdly. (thats a word right?.. sounds like one to me so I dub it a word. I am putting up a picture of Emily. Don't be alarmed.. she didn't stay this color. It faded after her daddy power washed her (just kidding), and shes the cute peppy one year old sh was before dinner. :o)~ She still isn't walking.. prefers the speed of the crawl.. I guess we can all understand that eh?? Heck my mom sometimes is faster crawling too (She broke her ankle a few years ago and used to get up and down the steps crawling... a rather amusing sight. because shes so independent and having to crawl was her way of showing us all she could TO do it. lol.
Oompa loompa baby...



And finally.. we went over to the house of our friends who lost their children to CPS last week, they are working so hard to fix things, i hope and pray that the county sees this and returns the children, there are still some safety issues but hopefully they will resolve them quickly. We covered her couches with black fleece and a friend of theirs told me I could teach Martha Stewart a thing or two lol. (The blankets we usd were 3.00 each at walmart we bought 13 of them, and a staple gun, we fit the fleece to the couches, stapled them down and voila.. new furniture one of the requirements. We also saw our dog Lilys brother Butch, he is soo much bigger then her they are beagle labs mixed, but i think she is more beagle then lab. :o)~ I ask that you keep Vickie and DJ in your prayers that they get their kids back, and also there is a blog i was pointed to yesterday Kelly's Korner please keep them in your prayers as their little girl Harper is having some health issues. ;o(

Have a lovely Sunday and more tomorrow!!!

For Just one week

I have discovered that I adore this weekly feature.. .mainly because I enjoy having little bitty goals for myself. I did pretty well last week... the biggest hurdle for me was that lovely white car.. I may have even sent Chuck a text message after he sent one FIRST that said "Ease off the clutch" I may have sent him one that said something about "Love you" I know the first word was four letters.. ok. .it wasn't love and it rhymed with duck. .:oX ::: blushes::: I did mostly keep the table cleared off, the chocolate kisses bowl is SUPPOSED to be there. and I did have to turn into a human pitbull mommy a few times.. and yes.. I did hide the Ipod charger because I kept finding it on my table (If they didn't want it hidden they would have MOVED it) and I did drink 40 ounces of water. As a matter of fact TWICE last week I did more then the 40 oz. Rock on eh? :::: Snoopy dance:::::

And now onto this weeks.... drum roll please.... ::::: taps on the desk.. but doesn't play wipe out because I am not a male and do not have the rhythm men have.. btw.. again. whats up with that? every man can tap out wipe out on the desk with their hands.. and EVERY man can make that machine gun sound that women are just not genetically equipped to make.. annoys the hell out of me:::::: ok sorry I am back.....

For just one week, I will not go to Walmart, Target, anything else that ends with Mart, BJs or anywhere else without a list. If I go with the list I will then stick to it.. and that does not mean I will write a new item on the list while I am walking through the store (yes.. I do that.. bad me)

For just one week, I will try and be positive even when I do not want to, and I will smile even when I am not feeling like it ;o)~

And finally......

For Just one week, I will keep the floor on my side of the bed clean. I will not throw things down and leave them waiting for the clean up fairy to come and carry them to the laundry room only two days later to get frusturated because she skipped my house.. again. ;o)~

So what will you do? Let me know and then leave a blog on the wonderful My Ice Cream Diary's blog. http://icecreamdiary.blogspot.com/2009/01/for-just-one-week_17.html oh and be sure and tell her Tricia sent you :o)~