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May 28, 2007

ooh and ahh

Tess and I are sitting here on my bed. I have dye on my hair and she's watching Ooh and Aah on Disney. We're just about as active now as we have been for this entire long weekend.

Saturday the pool opened and I haven't seen my daughter since. Kendall is on the verge of growing gills and fins. She and Trevor have spent most of the weekend swimming. Kendall's face is dotted with freckles and Trevor's shoulders are redder than they should be if he were re-applying his sunscreen as he should. Jake's been working most of the weekend so he's only gotten to go once so far. Saturday night Dan and I saddled the 3 eldest kid with babysitting duties and went to Aaron's to hang out with the mean mommies. It's rare that we're all in attendance anymore. We even had Tyler there, but no Amy....waaah. Amy, we've voted and you may no longer leave town....ever. k. thx.

Sunday Terri came over and watched movies and ate food with me. I'm not much of an outside girl. I would love to have a tan if I could just get one from the couch. I've craved the river all weekend but I couldn't be there and still run Jake to and from work. We'll have all summer for that. Last night we took Tess and went to the pool for a few. She kept saying "IM SWIMMING" over and over and over and over. She did go swimming too. The pool was freezing so Dan had to be the one in there with her. I can tell already that Tess is going to be a fish like Kendall. She threw a HUGE fit when we had to leave and cried "IM SWIMMMMMINNNNGGG" all the way home. We tried to pacify her with a bath but I think it was a weak attempt.

Today...uh, same ol' shit. Terri's coming over w/ Kayla for a little bit and we're going to watch Alpha Dog and eat some more. There's only one big thing on my agenda at this point...getting this dye out of my hair...I'm off to do that now.

ciao.

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May 26, 2007

sand by me

Tess LOVES this sand box. She'd rather be playing in the sand box than anywhere else in this world. Of course, her second favorite place is on our bed...which is why I felt like I slept on sand paper last night.

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May 22, 2007

Reading? I am.

In two weeks I've read two books. That may seem like nothin' fancy to some of you, but even at my best I've generally taken weeks or months to finish a book. It's not that I'm a slow reader. I think I have that part down. It's just that I get distracted and sometimes I love a book so much I don't want it to end so I put it down and start another and sometimes I just put them down and never touch them again (sorry MIddlesex). I loved Middlesex a lot but kept putting it aside for book club books and now it's to the point where I look at it longlingly and just never open it. That book is daunting...it's huge and beautifully written so I feel like I owe it to the book to wait until I'm ready to commit. Wow, I need therapy.

Anyway, last week I read The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I'd given it to my mom for Christmas so I could borrow it back. When I realized that Tess will allow me to read my book as long as I sit in the room while she's playing, I got all happy. It's been a long time since I could just sit without interruption. So once I finished that book, I quickly hopped into Water for Elephants. I'm a sucker for book-club-types-of-books. I like my discussion points handed to me at the end of the story and I get wicked happy when people are around who have read the same thing. I'm a humongous dork.

The next one on my night stand is The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I had sworn off Oprah books because they depress the shit out of me most times. I hold no hope for this one either, but I needed one more book to give me free shipping on Amazon and this book was the exact right price for that. Tree will agree with me that it's worth spending 50 bucks you don't need to spend just to get free shipping, but I doubt she'd agree that an Oprah Book Club book is the right choice. I'll let ya know!

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May 20, 2007

We interrupt this peaceful morning

I slept in til 6 something this morning. It's not even really sleeping in since now that I work in town, every day is "sleeping in". I am still thankful every single day that I don't commute anymore. But I digress.

The house was quiet except for Dan's shower and I thought "hey, what a great day...I woke up before Tessie, before the dog whined to go out, before the kitties need food". Great morning. As Dan was leaving, Tess woke up in a perfect mood. She was talking about her milk and kitties and all of those other things that get mingled into baby conversations. The dog woke up and went outside and I made my coffee and emptied the dishwasher. What a GREAT MORNING. I felt inspired to get all of my laundry done, plan some dinners for the week and maybe use some of the Pampered Chef stuff that I have but rarely use.

I let the dog back in and Tess was talking to the fish, who was swimming around in his newly cleaned fishbowl. I even cleaned the fish bowl...Dan won't believe it. Usually he's harassing me about the fact that you can't see the fish through the muck. It's here that things start to get muddled a bit. I walked into our bedroom with a basket of clean laundry and there stands Tess beside her diaper. She runs into the living room and points at a puddle in the floor. How sweet...she peed on the floor. ugh. Good thing she didn't mess up that diaper! I noticed as I walked to the kitchen for paper towels that Leeroy was sitting in the dining room facing the windows. Odd, I thought, how he'd hide out there so as not to take the blame for the puddle of pee. Maybe he's smarter than I'd given him credit for.

Right.

I walked back through with a wet rag to finish cleaning up the floor just in time to see Tess slip and fall in some more pee. GROOVY. I clean that up and tell the whimpering Tess that it serves her right for peeing on the floor. Just then I notice that Leeroy is still in the dining room facing the window. I look closer and there's his pile of vomit. Right in the middle of it is a huge mass of barbie hair. Poor Barbie. So I clean up that mess, all the while, Tess is bitching at me about "baaaaaffff baaaaffff" because I'd told her she'd get a bath since she's covered in pee.

At this point I'm on the verge of being a raving lunatic. Leeroy goes outside (runs for his life actually) and Tess is in the tub telling me all about bibbits and meows. I'm feeling calmness return....watching Law and Order on Tivo. Considering going out to buy some socks for Dan and some shorts for the kids. Maybe I'll start making lists for our vacation in 3 weeks.

Ah, Sunday. The day of rest.

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May 13, 2007

Mother's Day

Tessie woke up sans diaper. She loves being nekkid and I can't say I blame her. I just wish she'd pee in the diaper before taking it off instead of peeing in the floor.

Dad's party yesterday was a good one. I saw people I hadn't seen since my tortured childhood. I can't say I'd missed them all that much, but it was nice to see that I'm not the only one getting older. Dad got lots of gifts (read: booze) and entertained everyone with stories and jokes as he opened them. I think he was appropriately honored on his birthday and we were appropriately stuffed full of pork bbq. Good people, good food, good day.

Today Terri's coming over to watch Dream Girls with me since Dan's working today and she has to leave again before the Survivor finale. I hope the kids will all simmer down and let us watch it in peace.

Happy Mother's day to all you mamas out there.

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May 12, 2007

all the ps's in the world

I'm up and ready to move today because I have a busy day ahead of me. Busy busy busy. I've got to take Kendallpops to my neices birthday party this morning and then this afternoon is dad's 60'th birthday party. We're having pork bbq and a keg...wootywoo. This means that we have to run over and pick up the keg, get ice, get some balloons and all that jazz. Mom's got the pig parts done, but I have the cake and beer (the important stuff). I thought I was pre-ready last weekend because I'd bought and sent all cards and gifts for mothers day but as expected, I've forgotten things. I forgot that Jason turns 3 this coming week. I need to get him a gift today since I get to finally see him again. Also, grammy O'Brien...this year I did not let your son be in charge of getting your mother's day gift because he forgets...so I ordered your gift last Friday and uh...so much for great planning, I don't know if it'll be there in time. I'm uber stressed about it because I don't like anything to be late, but Dan said you expect it from him at this point...so...well, it's not his fault this time. It's LONDON's fault since that's where I ordered your gift from. I'm not even lying...you'll see. Besides, we love you all the time...so you have to forgive our tardiness (again).

Speaking of mother's day. I'm not going to church tomorrow. I don't want to and even though I feel bad because mama will not see me...she will see us today and um, I have more kids so I get to do what I want to, and what I *don't* want to do is go to church, so that's settled. Someone remind me of my bravery when it's time to tell mama this. k thx. Instead I'm going to watch Dream Girls and Casino Royale on dvd while the kids ask me to take them places and I say no.

I got pink crocs for mother's day.

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May 6, 2007

statues crumble for me

Last night was supper club with a cinco de mayo theme over at Gayle and Wil's house. As usual, there was WAY too much food to eat everything. That doesn't mean we didn't all try though. After dinner we were supposed to wack a pinata. I'd never gotten to hit one before so I didn't realize just how fragile those little boogers are. I decapitated that donkey in one fell swoop. It ended up being a tug of war pinata and we all got goodies regardless of my brutality. It was a good time. Fredtalkers are the best cooks ever.

Today I've managed to get our mothers day shopping done as well as Dad's birthday. He's turning 60 tomorrow so we're having a big shindig for him next weekend complete w/ a keg and tons of pork bbq. It's gonna be way fun. We also got Jake a plane ticket to Florida. Last year Kendall got to go to Puerto Rico to visit a friend and this year Jake's the lucky one. He's going to spend the week going to Disney Quest and Blizzard Beach with his friend Caylor and Caylor's dad. He's going to have a great summer with our vacation, Fredcamp and now this trip.

Just in case anyone is wanting a follow-up on Leeroy's doggie bootcamp...he's a failure. We've all worked with him and he's still the same little raggedy pup who jumps on people, chews up things and knocks down the baby. We've got our hopes up that once he's neutered he'll calm down.

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