Turkey Day!!!

Well, happy Thanksgiving to all! I hope everyone remembers what they are thankful for. As i sit here at my computer and listen to the sweet laughter of my girls, my guys playing video games, and the clicking of my fingers on the keyboard i realize all i am thankful for. I am thankful for my 2 little blessings. They are both smart, happy, and healthy. I am thankful for my husband, although somedays i have to really find why i am thankful for him! I am thankful for my brother in law who sometimes has to keep the peace between toby and i! (not to mention he keeps my car healthy!) I am thankful for my family and their health and safety. And i am thankful for my "sisters" that i have online. i share their ups and downs, the firsts of the babies, the heartbreaks of yet another month of not being pregnant and the sheer joy of knowing that they are going to have that little girl they always wanted. If we all ever get to meet in person i think the first hour will be nothing but tears. i know that i have shed a few just reading the topics that we post and reply to. i know that i don't ever have to worry about being made fun of in there. they are truly my sisters!
As for Thanksgiving dinner, we are going to my grandma's and my Uncle Larry's. (2 of the greatest cooks ever!) i look forward to going there to eat. (the word diet doesn't even cross my mind when i am there!)
Paige and I made Christmas ornaments the other night. we took glass balls and put paint inside them then swirled the paint around. (we only had 1 casualty!) but it was a great project for paige to do. then i wrote Christmas '07 on them and a family members name. paige is going to hand them out when we go to my moms for christmas! she had lots of fun.
well, i hope everyone eats lots tomorrow and enjoys the blessings that we call family and friends. remember that i am thankful for everyone that listens to my babling!
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

a week already...

wow, i can't believe its been a whole week since i posted anything on here. well, i have been so very sick all week i haven't been able to sit at the computer for more than a few minutes. and today is the first day that i have been able to hold down solid food. i hate it when all i can keep down is chicken broth and pedialyte!! but as i said before i am feeling so much better. and just in time for Thanksgiving. we will probably go to my uncle larry's, thats where everyone goes for every holiday. its always a lot of fun.
now onto my newest child raising issue...
temper tantrums. miss paige has taken to simply just screaming at me. she doesn't do this to anyone else but me. i don't get it. toby says that its a respect thing. its going to be a mommy knocking her on her ass thing if she doesn't stop it. i have done everything but tape her to the wall. i am at wits end with her. i don't want kimber to see her do that. i won't know what to do with both of them doing it. i'm up for any and all suggestions!!!
with christmas fast approaching i know that losing weight is the last thing on most peoples minds. but it is all i can think about. i am going to my moms for christmas and the biggest topic of conversation is always weight; who has gained it, who has lost it, who needs to lose some, and who needs to stop losing it. there are three of us girls. i am the oldest, darlene is the middle sister, and christine is the baby. christine is the smallest and always has been. darlene is the heaviest and always has been. i am right in the middle. but my mom has lost a lot of weight and looks really good. but everytime we go up to my moms we wind up comparing weights and weight loss tips and stuff. then it winds up being a big contest over who can lose the most weight by the time mom sees us again. thats where it sucks. i just don't ever lose anything. i need to. i have tried to watch what i eat and i have tried to walk, but its not working. i would like to lose like 10 pounds before we go to my moms. any suggestions???

sunday, back to my schedule

Well, aside from having the flu and a nasty 102.8 temp. my sunday was ok. i scrapbooked with paige and she used most of my stickers. but it was okay i can always go to hobby lobby and buy more, when they go on sale!! but since i used all of my day quill up today, just so i could function. i have non to get me through my evening and since i start work at 3am i better go get some more. or i won't last long at work. i'm thinking a hot bath, some vick vaporub and some halls cough drops would do me some good and then sleep till 2am when i get up for work.
As i said before, paige scrapbooked with me, then played with her friend till dark. they have such crazy imaginations at that age. kimber spent most of the day getting into things that she shouldn't; kitchen cabinets, the dryer, mommys bedroom. (all the fun places!) And learning that she can push off from the couch and stand there. that to her was so very entertaining, and to us as well. she also was very fascinated my the fact that mommy cried real tears when she tried to pull out all my hair!!
well, i hope everyones monday goes good!!!

lazy, lazy, lazy

Well, guys night sucked. very few guys showed up. We figured that instead of just ordering pizza we would just collect money and pick 3 different restaurants and go get the food. We picked Popeyes chicken, KFC, and Wendy's. But Toby thought that i could handle it myself so no one went with me. By the time i got home i had spilled Mt. Dew all over me and dropped several bags of food on the floor. (They didn't notice thank goodness!) But i was not happy when i got home. I think i need to be more agressive. I told them that i would NEVER NEVER do that again. Think they got the point?
So i thought i was going to have a good night. Oh no. They decided that instead of playing poker they were going to sit in the living room, our nuetral area, and play video games. Toby said that i can stay in there if i wanted to. But again, the testosterone is just too much for me to handle! So i went and took a hot bubble bath with a bottle of smirnoff, some candles, and a steamy romance book. I figured that since they were only playing video games that Toby would be tired sooner than if they were playing poker and would be in to bed soon (and who knows maybe i would get lucky!!!) Well after my bath i went and laid down in bed, and fell asleep. the next think I knew it was 7:30am and Paige was wanting oatmeal. Toby had slept on the couch! GGGRRRRR, men.
But as for my saturday...I have done nothing. i did most of my big cleaning yesterday. I bleached the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room; did all my laundry, all my dishes and all my linens. All i need to do today is clean out my fridge and wipe out my cabinets.

Woo hoo its FRIDAY!!!!

I didn't think this week would ever end!!! but now its friday and i am off all weekend! tonight is "guys night" all the guys come over to eat pizza drink, and play poker. and what do i get to do??? sit here by myself and watch the girls. i hate guys night!!! the testosterone is so thick in the room a female can barely breath in there! So i wind up playing on the computer, or sewing. None of the guys bring there girlfriends or wives since its guys night and the other girls tend to be clingy. Not me. I would much rather get a group of girls together and sew or scrapbook or something like that.
A couple of months ago i went to St. Louis to meet up with my Mom, Dad, and Grandma. My Mom has an ipod. i had never seen one or played with one. So by the end of the weekend i just had to have one! So when i got home i got one. My "wonderful" hubby decided to put songs on it for me. He put 33 songs on it (one was on there twice!) And several of them were songs that i wouldn't listen to. So i finally got tired of waiting for Toby to show me how to put songs on it. I did it myself. I now have 80 songs on my ipod!!! Woo woo for me. I am so computer illiterate! Toby is very bright when it comes to computer stuff. Not me.
I was thinking about going to Oklahoma and picking up a friend of mine for the weekend. She started out as my brother-in-law's girlfriend. But her and i became really good friends. Then when they broke up it was kinda uncomfortable when she would come over to help me with the girls or just go out with me. But Justin and i discussed it and we all live here together and i may not like his friends and he may not like mine but we all just have to deal with it. Besides him and Mandy actually ended it well. she was just too clingy for him. But her and i get along really well. Well, miss Paige is needing help on her video game so i better help her before she gets angry!

i am still new at this so i'm not sure what to do. so i guess i'll just write whats going on. the holidays are coming up and i don't have a clue what we are going to do for thanksgiving. but for christmas, we are going to my moms. i can't wait. we have christmas with my entire family every other year. all the kids grow so much in between visits. and yes we do send pictures, but its just not the same. this will be kimbers first christmas, that will be so exciting. i love watching a baby's first christmas. their eyes just light up. i am making all my gifts for my family. i know it sounds silly, but i love making things for my neices and nephews. i made them all pillows at the last christmas; they loved them. this year i am going to make them pillows, blankets, and hoodie sweatshirts that are all in their favorite characters! if i have time and can find everything that i need i might make them all soaps with rubber duckies in them!
now for a different subject... sibling rivalry! however did my mom deal with it??? my oldest is 4 and my youngest is 10 months. we bought both girls a toy yesterday; paige got some more diapers, bottles, and trinkets for her baby doll. kimber got one of those things that you have to fit the circle block into the circle hole and so on. now paige doesn't want kimber to play with the toy we got for her. i'm sure this will only get worse, but i am already going crazy. well, both girls are getting fussy, maybe we will just go to hobby lobby and walk off some of this energy!!