lemony fresh

there is something about cleaning that i trylu love. maybe it's the energy exerted. maybe it's the feeling of accomplishment. maybe it's knowing it's clean and you don't have to worry about cleaning it for awhile. heck maybe it's just the smell!

it all started this am when the man in black (aka tmib) was like, this house stinks and i'm buying some carpet deoderizer. so he went to the store, brought back some arm & hammer for the carpet (and a starbucks goody for me as well). well it evolved into a whole move-the-furniture-wash-the-rugs-mop-the-floor kinda cleaning. 1 hour later, and several good smells later the kitchen/dining room is clean!

clean that is, until toys get strewn across the floor, one of the dogs lays down and sheds in place or tmib walks across the carpet without wiping his feet....

oh well it was nice while it lasted....

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!

Ok so I've worked as a waitress in many establishments over the years since age 18. WHY is it that when waitresses/waiters sing their little happy birthday songs to kids they scare the be-jesus out of them???

mornings suck!

the one thing I hate most around our house is the morning. i no longer need an alarm clock to get up at a decent hour....i have parker for that now :) but once he's up, and then garrett gets up, the chaos beings!

it's amazing how L-O-N-G it can take for me to get a shower, get dressed, get the boys dressed, clean up jammies, make beds and get breakfast into them. the sad part? i'm usually up around 6:30/7:oo and this whole morning ritual isn't done until 9:30!

oh where have the lazy mornings gone? lounging around in my pj's while sipping a starbucks mocha kinda lazy days?

eventhough they are crazy, hectic and annoying, they're still better than waking up alone with no one to talk to.....

sleepy....so sleepy

well it's a RARE quiet moment right now. cody got home from his night shift @ 8am and is still sleeping. both boys are napping though parker just made a little noise. so what am i doing with this prcious uninterrupted quiet time? getting in some much needed nap time? catching up on the worlds top stories? scrubbing my bathrooms or folding laundry?

heck no, i'm wasting time on the computer. the sad part is i'd much rather be wasting time creating in the craft room, but it's surrounded by 3 rooms full of sleeping boys. and with my luck the slightest slide of the paper cutter would awake all 3.

and eventhough though most of me would like to be creating, i think i want someone to wake up because i'm bored.

ok so ask me that same question when all 3 are awake, hungry and demanding....i'll probably be wishing to be bored again :)

there's a first time for everything....

well thought it was time to start a blog. yeah right, just what i need...something else to take up more of my time! i guess it doesn't matter much at this point since no one is reading this as of yet :)

* one important thing to note, although I am a college graduate (GO COUGS!) i NEVER check my spelling....

scenes from the big 'one'