Cold cereal with snow outside

This is what you do on a snow day: warm breakfast, complete with homemade hot chocolate (sweetened with stevia because sugar makes me sick :) and walk around with your pj's hooked on your foot. Well, that's what we did anyway. Where was Jeebs for breakfast? He was in the shower dreaming of his cold cereal he would eat 30 minutes after the rest of us were done. He prefers cold cereal- I hate cold cereal. How are we going to make it through the eternities? I asked Jeebs last night if he'd ever had any good Valentine's Days and he lovingly responded, "Every one I've had with you." ha! Me: "Can you remember any of our Valentine's Days together?" Jeebs "The shows back on." He really needed a twix at that moment to chew it over.

And today- the snow is gone and in the coming weeks we have 60 and 70's weather- so these are going to be making an appearance. My new shoes- 35$ regularly 70$- Hoorah! (I really need a tan)

Poo dots

(Cagey with his new caterpillars)

Cagey has been obsessed with changing his underwear lately. For a while I would let him change because I thought he had actually pooed his pants. One day I happened to check out the damage and it was what we would all lovingly call an innocent "racing stripe". Today as I was trying to get my power nap he told me, again, he needed to change his underwear. I asked him, "did you poo in your pants or did you just not wipe very good?" He said he just didn't wipe very good so I told him it's okay- you can change later. He insisted he needed to change because he had "dots of poo on his underwear". It's definitely better than him being okay with walking around in poo caked undies.

I told Cagey he and daddy were two peas in a pod tonight- he kindly told me, "no, you're a pee in a pot!"

Do you ever feel like what you do is pointless? I clean my house and nobody really cares if it's clean or not. Then if I shirk my duties as a wife and mother and decide we're eating out or having some frozen reheated nastiness I'm the mother of the year! Today my kids had frozen pizza for lunch and hot dogs for dinner- except Tates she had frozen chicken strips for both meals- it makes me feel awesome.

FHE failure part dos

I used to love FHE as a kid. Mostly because that meant momma had baked a treat and my sister had thought up some kind of cool game. It sometimes ended with all of us being mad enough to punch a baby- but my little brother was the only baby around and you didn't want to mess with him- he was an ox (and he'd probably retaliate by throwing a brick.) So- I decided today that I wanted to have better family home evenings. We would have a theme for the month- short lessons, fun games and hopefully some kind of little treat (sweets give me heartburn and make my bum swell so...yeah).

I thought this month needed to be, 'Love is Spoken Here'- my kids used to sing that song all over the house- over and over. I knew this was gonna be great. I had a short story to read about service and some hearts that I was going to make a little game out of. If they found a heart on their pillow when they woke up then it was their day to say or do something loving for someone. Thirty seconds before we started- boom, bang, crash! An angry daddy, a disobedient angry with attitude child and a anything but love being spoken in our house. I was in no mood to even give my lesson and I know when you don't feel like praying that's what you need to do, but the wind had been completely knocked out of my sails. We started, but after all that was done and said during our lesson and game explanation we didn't even feel like it could be closed with a song and a prayer. I think Satan called at one point and told us we were doing great! Awesome.

I managed to get over my irritation and realized that Jeebs and I were the ones that really needed the lesson-- if we don't speak lovingly to our children how are they ever going to learn it? So, I tried to end on a positive note and figured out some minute to win it games, since my kids are so into that show (and wipeout, but that'll have to wait until summer0 stay tuned). Eventually everybody was enjoying our evening at home. That's why Heavenly Father gave us the atonement. He knew we'd fail and fail again, but we have to keep trying and striving for excellence- and that's what I learned in FHE.

Annoying folks I don't know (updated)

I admit I'm pretty easily annoyed. I spent most of my young life as a mute because I didn't want to annoy people as much as they annoyed me- except for my family, I was born to annoy them. Plus, I'm pretty sure I get it from my dad. (hehehe) Well, now I'm 23 weeks pregnant and my pelvis is beginning to do it's same ol' song and dance fall apart. (this usually happens really early so I consider myself blessed that it's just happening now) But, being prego, in pain and tired makes me that much more grumpy. I just wanted to give a shout out to a couple of people that deserve it.

1. Dude in the electric wheelchair at Food Lion: I love how you roared your engine behind Tates and me acting impatient like you needed to get around. I politely stepped to the side and moved my child while you kindly slipped your bum in front of me at the checkout line. I normally wouldn't be too annoyed, but I needed to twizzle, weewee, tinkle- whatever you call it (what do you call it?). I have baby and fluid sitting on my bladder! After expressing my annoyance to Tates in the car ride home she yelled at me, "MAYBE BECAUSE HE'S IN A WHEELCHAIR!" At least I'm raising my daughter with more charity than I have.

2. Dude standing at the intersection down from my house repeatedly trying to bum a cigarette off of strangers- "Can I get a ZIGARAT!" This guy stands there right where you have to stop. The last time he was there Jeebs was driving and alone. This time I was driving and I had no Jeebs (he's also more charitable than me). I did not want to stop- I didn't want to roll down my window- so what did I do? I thought quick on my feet- picked up Jeebs' phone and pretended to talk on it and be too preoccupied to stop and roll down my window. After passing him I made a real phone call to Jeebs and laughed hysterically at my quick thinking. I am messed up.

3. Girl at walmart that didn't acknowledge me speaking to her...I accidentally dumped about 6 eggs on the floor in front of the egg case at walmart. I immediately went to the nearest person and said as nicely as I could, "I just made a nice egg disaster over there, sorry!" She didn't turn her head, she didn't say a word, she dropped what she was doing and walked off. I normally would have offered to help clean up, but if you're gonna be like that- I'm gonna let you clean up the egg mess and I will be laughing a little inside (not really, I was steaming).

4. I forgot to mention- Sydney from the Daybook- you skinny little scallywag. I'm so sorry you had to pinch and scrunch and fold and cinch your ginormous XXL chain mail dress to fit your size 0 body. And by sorry, I mean I can't be worried about your skinny butt! I don't know why the rest of the girls who have previously styled this dress haven't come at you with a bloody shillelagh. I guess that would be good fashion blog etiquette.

I remembered another one while I was tossing and turning trying to go back to sleep after my 700th trip to the bathroom- but then Jeebs said "thank you" in his sleep and messed up my concentration.

I remember! 5. Nicholas Sparks- I watched Dear John last night that we had DVR'd so I could fast forward all the hippity dippity I didn't want to see- seriously no more people we don't want to see it. Jeebs told me in the middle of the movie it was a Nicholas Sparks story- but I was already into it. I think that man writes purely to make people sad and cry. It's like he thinks "hmm, what can I write about to make people feel the saddest and blubber the most- I know let's take away true love and all your family members- that gets 'em every time". Blagh- do something else.

okay- I think that's all. I can't wait for May or June which ever brings my uterus back to it's normal size :)

patience

Ya know when your kids get old enough to where they don't want to ride in their strollers so you can get a good heart pumping brisk walk? Yeah- we're there. I wanted to take the boys on a walk yesterday, but Ezra insisted on wanting to ride his battery powered 4-wheeler. I finally just gave in and let him at it. Cagey took off on his bike- he made it down the road and back about 5 times before we ever made it across the road and onto the sidewalk. Ezra has already caught onto driving the little thing, but apparently he has the attention span of a gnat. If he sees a pile of poop, kids playing, a dog, an ant, or a car coming by- he has to stare at it and inevitably drives himself off the sidewalk in the process. I felt like Elaine on that episode of Seinfeld when she's stuck on the subway. It took us 40 minutes to go maybe a tenth of a mile, maybe. I swear there were tortoises and snails passing us shooting us the finger. I finally convinced him to walk a bit and let me carry his "bike"- we were making good time until he decided to push his "bike" from behind with no driver. Every 3 feet again we were running into the grass, off the curb, into poop- you get the picture. I have never been so happy to get back into my driveway carrying that dang 4-wheeler.

Valentine Decorations pt 1.

I love Valentine's day- probably because of the colors and the hearts. (It is definitely not because I've had amazingly awesome V days in the past because- no I have not. I remember one V day I was in my apartment watching a movie whilst my roommate flirted with a boy she was crushing on, my best friend was out with her boyfriend and my other roommate was out with her fiance- awesome. But, I digress- this is not about my depressing valentine's days this is about decorating... I love hearts, but I like to decorate with less traditional things and colors. I'm loving black and white with splashes of red for Valentine's lately. (I guess that's not real non-traditional) I thought and thought about what I could fill my apothecary jars with. I love my apothecary jars!! I'm slowly getting a collection.
I dug around in my fabric drawers and found some red tulle- I smooshed that into the smaller one with some silvery, white ribbon and these little rhinestones. Then I found some black crushed velvet- crushed velvet is definitely romantic- and I had the idea to throw these little white flowers in with it, but then I found my playing cards and I kinda love how it came out. Jeebs said he liked it except that I had a diamond playing card in there- of course I have diamond playing cards in there for v day! Diamonds are a girl's best friend- hint hint.


Cagey took this beautiful picture of me- this is what I look like on a regular basis- sad.

My bedroom

My bedroom is always the last to be nicely decorated. I want a warm safe inviting haven- but anytime I mention anything about buying stuff to make it happen Jeebs says, "let's just sell it". So I haven't done much. This is my bedroom now...
I got this comforter set at Target and the paintings at Pier1 super cheap. I really wanted to decorate my room in yellows, greens and oranges, but THEN...I saw something- who knows what- and I have decided I want to do my room in black and white. Then, splash some kind of bright pop o' color on the walls- green maybe? Anyway- I got 3 bolts of different types of black material at wally marto and here they sit...in my craft/boy's closet. At 3$ a bolt I can afford to let them sit there a while, but I really have a need to create something.
While I'm trying to really put all my efforts into getting this house sold, I really want to make pretty things. Any suggestions would be helpful. I really wanted to do some ruffly, flowery pillow covers for those throw pillows on my bed, but beyond that- I got nothing, nothing that's really affordable anyway. Help me or buy my house ;)

ps I really want this shower curtain