Monsters- scared away

July 22, 2010 at 12:30 pm
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I was reminded the other night by one of my kids of one of my fondest memories as a kid.

We were terrified that night.  Monsters were coming out to get us.  I’m sure it was simply because we were SO tired, but nevertheless, we were frightened.  After coming down the stairs a hundred times, my parents were frustrated and a little desperate.  My dad (LOVE him to death) decided to scare the monsters away.  He came to the stairs and YELLED as loud as he could.  It actually frightened me MORE than the monsters.  I’d never heard dad that loud before.  I started to cry (and laugh) because deep inside I knew that if I was scared, than the monsters were too.   Dad told the monsters to “GET out or they would have to deal with HIM”.  After a minute of hollering, he hugged and kissed us and sent us back to bed.  We scampered up the stairs and fell right to sleep, knowing that all monsters were gone for good!

This moment of silliness has stayed with me since that day.  I’m so grateful for a daddy who loved me enough to scare the monsters away.  From that moment on, I knew that monsters would stay away as long as Dad was around AND that the boys better watch out too ;o)

I fell….

July 21, 2010 at 10:30 am
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While cleaning the shelves of the fruit room in the basement, preparing to move our things in, I fell through the lid of a bucket. I admit that it wasn’t the smartest decision to stand on the lid of this bucket and even remember thinking (moments before the lid gave way) that I should get something else…
Lesson learned. I fell (luckily) straight down into the bucket, wedging my feet inside. Unluckily, I fell on my shins on the rim of the bucket.

I vaguely remember pulling my feet out of the bucket and looking at my legs and thinking “I need to get upstairs NOW”. I hobbled up the stairs and past my mom in the kitchen. I mumbled something like “ice now” to which all her mommy alarms started going off. I managed to get to the couch in the front room knowing that I wouldn’t be moving for a while.

At this point I looked down again to see on both legs blood accumulating below the surface. Both had swollen to 1″ high and were blue. I knew I needed to apply pressure, so I pressed down as hard as I could 1 hand on each shin. Mom was there soon after to survey the situation. She wanted to look so I managed to peel my fingers away from my legs. She paled a little and ran to get ice- lots of ice.

I kept the pressure on until the ice was there. The blood flow was lessened by then so that they weren’t AS swollen, but VERY painful.

They still hurt lots and the nerves even BURN occasionally still (that comes from the nerve damage). The bruising is yellow now and blends nicely with the natural color of my legs unless you look closer.

AND my Daddy has kindly given me a step ladder, so no more repeats. ;o)

Moving

July 20, 2010 at 2:17 pm
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Hello everyone.
Sorry again for my absence. Someday I will be a super blogger, posting every day and having interesting things to say, but for now, I struggle sometimes.
We moved again recently. My wonderful uncle is now renting us his HOUSE instead of the tiny place we were renting before. It is a welcome change. Life here is embracing us and we can tell that this is the place we are supposed to be.
A BIG thank you goes out to all our new neighbors who have peeked over fences, sent over meals, baked brownies, picked us up for activities and even something as simple as sitting next to us. You have made us feel welcomed and loved.

Pictures and stories to come later….

Lost Password

June 15, 2010 at 10:33 am
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Super kid calls up Jefe at work while I was in the shower yesterday. He told him that I had “fotgotten the password to the computer” and that Jefe needed to “tell it to him, so that mommy could get on the computer”. Jefe was smart and asked where mommy was. Super kid knew he was caught and quickly hung up the phone. Pretty sneaky though!

Baby 1st birthday

June 7, 2010 at 3:46 pm
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Here’s baby’s First Birthday. A little sad that she didn’t even want to eat/touch her cake, but she did try to eat the candle! ;o)

Schools out for the summer….

June 7, 2010 at 2:16 pm
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Well, school is officially out for the summer. The kids are LOVING it and well, i’ve made it 1/2 way through day 1. ;o)
We are officially moving in 23 days to a HOUSE. I’m so excited. It is about 3 times bigger than the little townhouse that we have been surviving in. It has been nice, but it will be nicer to have a little space! Packing, cleaning, painting, repairing and trying to stay sane while maintaining my online business and while Jefe tries to keep up with his online classes are keeping life interesting to say the least! ;o) BUT we are still smiling ;o)
My next posts will be pictures, I promise. Those are a lot more fun than my ramblings.

Fast dinner fixes

May 27, 2010 at 11:54 am
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I have cut my dinner making time down by at least 1/2! How you ask? It is really simple. When I get home from the grocery store, I take 10 minutes and cook up all the meat that I bought. Usually I purchase 10-20 lbs of meat, so I stick it into 2 big pots and fry it up. When its all browned, I drain and rinse it and then stick about a pound into baggies. I freeze the baggies and then when I need them for a dinner, Pull them out and defrost for 2 minutes in the microwave. While its dethawing, I throw the other contents of dinner into a pot, pan or baking dish and TADA! Dinner is donw. Prep time has gone from 30-45 minutes to 10 minutes tops! Plus, I only have to worry about raw meat yuckiness 1 time every few weeks instead of every night.

I wish I would have started doing this years ago, so now I’m sharing with you.

Dr. Pepper break

May 25, 2010 at 2:31 pm
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Don’t judge me too harshly. Lately, when the kids are driving me absolutely NUTS, I can take a little pleasure in a Dr. Pepper. I love it. After a few minutes I have the energy to deal with it all again (I’m sure its all due to the sugar and caffine) and Mom is MUCH happier.

So now my first thought when I’m feeling a little cranky is “I need a Dr. Pepper” which is a little sad. Today I tried to substitue it for some chocolate and a butterscotch bar. It worked for a little while, but soon enough the grumpies were back.

For now, I’m resisting the urge to go and purchase a stockpile of the stuff. We shall see how my willpower is doing tomorrow. ;o)

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