Entries from October 2007 ↓

I was going to do another Tackle it Tuesday post, but my ambition right now is severely lacking.

Here’s a little snippit of our schedule today:

• Get up
• Lay in bed under the covers with the kids and watch Arthur and Curious George on PBS Kids while my morning sickness subsides a little
• Feed the kids
• Take a shower
• Get Dressed
• Back to bed while my morning sickness subsides a little
• (or not) Throw up
• Get one kid dressed
• Throw up some more
• Get the other kid dressed
• Attempt to get them to clean up their toys
• Go to Mommy and Me
• Go to the Grocery Store
• Come Home and feed lunch to children who were not hungry since they were still riding on a sugar high from their Halloween Party at their class
• Change Diaper
• Talk on the phone w/ a friend
• Put clothes back on kids, wash faces
• Go to OB/GYN (WITH BOTH OF MY CHILDREN)
• Fly pretend airplanes through the waiting room for 15 minutes
• Pee on a stick (WITH TWO CHILDREN)
• Go into exam room
• Sit two children in a big chair
• Feed two children the treats you brought to bribe them with
• Get on exam table
• Jump off exam table to rescue train that has been dropped
• Get back on exam table
• Jump off exam table to keep tiny one from eating a cooking off the floor
• Get back onto exam table
• Jump off exam table to rescue Rescue Hero who has fallen out of his QR Jet onto the floor
• Get back onto exam table
• Repeat 10 times fast
• Explain to the doctor why your pulse is a bit higher than average and you have sweat rings under your arms (okay I didn’t really explain the last part, but I should have)
• Hear babe’s heartbeat of 160! HOORAY!
• Get out of the doctor’s office with little commotion
• Get back in car
• Come home
• Play Outside
• Clean bathroom
• Talk to Grandmother on phone while making a mexican casserole for dinner
• Throw towels in the washer with hotwater and bleach that were used to mop up toilet water that bigger tiny kid clogged and then flushed over and over and over because it wasn’t going down (yeah, you can picture the scene)
• Washed three dishes
• Back outside to play
• Felt like my eyes were closing and I was going to throw up
• Decided to blog about my day that felt like I was doing a lot but really didn’t end up accomplishing much in

Oh well, the day is young. Perhaps I will accomplish something soon. I have been dreaming about making cute tags to put on the boys bins that are in the big shelves in their room. I did this in their school room bins and they love it and I loved making them. Got to get out all my fun edged scissors, my card stocks, stickers, etc. But that’s ‘fun work’, not real work. And when you have no clean spoons in the house, you gotta go with the dirty work first. Unfortunately.

I have found an awesome new online game called Free Rice. I wanted to share it with you because I know of course, that we are all bored and need more things to do with all of our free time. But wait, this is actually for a good cause! They will list a word and 4 different options you can choose as the word’s meaning. For each one you get right Free Rice will donate 10 grains of rice to starving people through the U.N.! So go, indulge your inner scholar geek and feed the world!

An Island Life is having two great giveaways this week, so be sure to head over there and check out:

1. Onesie or Children’s t-shirt from Poopasnuffas.

2. A $25 gift certificate giveaway from Sher’s Wares.

Crunch Domestic Goddess is giving away a Bitty Braille Shirt to a lucky winner. In case you haven’t checked out Bitty Braille, get your patooty over there pronto; they are ADORABLE!

It’s Write Now is giving away an iPod Nano! Sign up by Oct. 31st.

Laura Williams’ is giving away a bottle of Skin MD Natural!

Check out Julie’s cupcakes! She is my hero yet again. (I swear in my next life I’m choosing to come back as her!) While you’re at it, check out her sister Jodi’s groovy potatoes!

My in-laws have given us the most amazing offer! They are in need of a queen sized bed for their new guest room (BIL graduated college and moved out on his own). We have a queen sized bed but it’s rather cramped….. while we don’t practice co-sleeping full time, we do usually end up with at least one kid in our bed every other night. Sometimes there are two in our bed! Now that is 4 people in a queen sized bed. Even if two of them are quite small, it’s still cramped. Especially when one insists on sleeping diagonally (the bigger little one). So anyway, they said instead of them buying a brand new queen sized bed, how about we give them ours and they buy us a KING! MIL can get a great deal on beds through her work, and she has ordered us a great king sized bed!

Last night as I was laying in bed having my pregnancy induced insomnia (dang it, I’m so tired - why can’t I sleep?!?!) I was thinking about all of the things we would need for a new bed! A frame, a mattress pad, a duvet or bedspread, sheets, bigger blankets, etc. I was thinking the linens will be perfect to get ourselves for Christmas (practical, so I will feel like the money wasn’t spent on nothingness). One of these days I’d love new bedroom furniture as well. There are so many options to choose from — classic, modern, antique, contemporary bedroom furniture. In the mean time, I guess it doesn’t matter, because we’ll be on a bigger mattress, and I might not have to sleep curled in a ball in the left hand bottom corner of the bed!

I am using one of our old dining room chairs for my computer chair. This particular chair has one of the rungs missing out of the back, which is why it’s not at the table. Before that we were using a padded folding chair. I have no idea why we’ve never invested in a nice desk chair. It’s not like the rest of our office furniture is crappy. In fact we have a very nice corner computer desk. I think after Christmas this is one of the things I will start to save for.

Have you seen these Lego advertisement photos yet? When I first saw them it was like I was warped back in time. I adored playing Legos with my brother. Oh, the things we would build! And in our minds, they looked so real! What a simple, yet brilliant advertisement!