For Chrystal
1. I am really crazy about toilet paper, tissue and any sort of paper product that goes in the bathroom. They need to be a certain way or I get really upset. When I go to people's houses I will switch their toilet paper/paper towels to go the correct way...scratch that...my way.
2. I love to talk on the phone. A lot of my day is on the phone, I get so much done when I am on the phone. I somehow manage to parent, play, wash things and get ready all while I am on the phone, so it really irritates me when people tell me that they called me and I didn't answer because there is no possible way I didn't get to it in time. BUT If I have people over... I WILL NOT answer the phone. Crazy huh? If the number is private, unknown or I don't recognize it I won't answer it either. If it is an 800, 866 or random area code I won't answer it either which brings me to number 3.
3. If I don't know you are coming to my house I will not answer the door. People all of the time come to my door and I will not answer it, unless I can see it is a mail/delivery person. I can't stand when people ring the doorbell. If people ring it I purposely will take a long time to get to it, or I just won't answer it at all. If you are coming to someones house during the day it means one of 2 things,
number 1-a stay at home mom with small children
or number 2-someone is home sick from work or sick in general
Why would you ring a doorbell and disturb someone especially if you don't call first and find out if they are home and ready to answer the door?
I am a single mom during the day and that front door is the only thing protecting me and my kids during the day. i am especially weird about this even if it is my Bishop I will not answer it unless I know that they are coming first. There are so many what ifs I don't even need to get into them!
4. I am a very scheduled person. My kids eat, nap and go to bed at the same time every night. They have structured play time and scheduled television time and it is what helps me get through the day. We have one day a week that is our free day, which means we run errands, don't have a set schedule because everything happens on this day. This day is Thursday. It is a day for the kids to play with the other kids and my day to be with other moms. I love this day because it is also a day where I don't do any chores. My entire day is devoted to the kids except from 12-2:30. :) My kids thrive on a schedule, always have and hopefully always will. I am lucky because my husband is just as scheduled and structured as I am. Of course there are days where we shift things, and when we have family in town we bend it a little but my kids seem to not have a problem with weird days. They just go with the flow and are happy to do so. Yea us! :)
5. I love to start new projects. I like to have several options when I have my "me" time everyday. I usually have 6 or 7 projects going at once because some days I am just not feelin' a particular one. I am the same way with books right now. I am currently reading 5 books. I typically read 7 a month so that just shows you how I am with projects. AAH! My husband hates that I have so many things going at once but I need that many to keep me interesting! :) It is always nice too because I will finish them all right around the same time so I can learn and conquer something new rather quickly. I am into felt finger puppets right now. Chrystal has now intrigued me into this felt food thing. AAH!
6. I don't like to eat out. Well let me rephrase, I don't like to take my kids out to eat. It isn't a behavior thing it is more of a "I stay at home so we should eat at home" kind of thing. My kids are pretty good when we go out but I feel like eating at a restaurant should be a treat not a habit. I know several people who eat out almost 3-4 times a week! That is crazy to me! I enjoy cooking, I am fairly good at it and so I insist we eat at home. Plus if we are going to go out I'd rather it be with just me and Nathan anyway, when do we get a meal where we don't have to cut it into several pieces first or even blow on it? Only when we go on a date! I love being with just him at a sit down restaurant there is something so nice about it. Gosh I can't wait for our anniversary! :) HAHA
I tag Danielle, and who ever else wants to do this...most of you already know this crap about me so it isn't that exciting!
Today since I can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel with this pregnancy we made a paper chain to tear off a link for every day till baby Witte comes. Here they are just making the chains all by themselves. All I did was cut them!
We made it pink and green to match her room. Now I guess I will go make some lunch, have a great weekend y'all!
Today Nathan worked from home, I had an appointment, it had snowed yesterday and after yesterdays craziness I asked him to stay at home for the day. He did and while he was on a conference call I came up to my room and heard my kids interacting with the television. They aren't allowed to watch that much during the day but today was an exception. This is what I found...
I love that they are such good little friends and like to be together. I also love how Bridget thinks she is just as big as Lucas and tries to do everything he does. That was the day, boring. uneventful.but mine!
Bridget cut her foot on broken glass last night and Lucas found the band aids this morning. He insisted that Spiderman bandaids were so cool that he needed 4 of them...on his face! (fun)
Some reason, I forgot to do laundry this week and it has definatley caught up to me. (AAH)
I found Lucas under the art table cutting papers, when I say papers I mean the Verizon bill that I tore my entire house apart looking for. He looked at me and said I was cutting for my project. Like I am supposed to forgive him because he is doing it alone for something specific. (grr)
I seperated out several batches of cookies on Monday and somehow I ended up with 23 in each dozen. I couldn't figure it out because I counted out 6 plates with 24 each then I turned around and saw this....LUCAS (click on it) Dang him! He must be 2! (punk)
I think we will go again tomorrow with Nathan because it is supposed to be warm again. I hope it is nice on Monday too, maybe I will steal Robert from Lisa so the boys can play! :)
Click on the picture on read this article from the Washington Post. I got this from Melanie's Blog and you know what this writer knows what she is talking about! :)
I have a love/hate relationship with my kitchen right now. I have been baking non stop for about 6 weeks and this all started after Thanksgiving. Part of it is Christmas baking, you know the kind of things you can't live without like fudge, Snickerdoodles, Sugar Cookies and such--but because I am in my last trimester I can't help myself from baking EVERYDAY. The good thing about this is that at my doctor appointment yesterday I had lost another 8 pounds, my average weight loss per pregnancy is 22-26 pounds. (more on this later) Which means that this baking frenzy has not effected my waistline, but it means that I am not spending as much time with my children because I am always freakishliy in the kitchen! AAH! I can't help it. I will be playing with them and thinking about another thing I want to make, or should give to someone or I am in the mood for muffins so in one week I have made 7 different kinds, I am serious I have done this, this week already and it is Wednesday!
We had such a chill day considering it snowed and I had a lot planned but decided to make it a jammie-movie-cookie day. I know shocker...another round of cookies! Today I made Peanut Butter Choco Chunk cookies, they were really good. Lucas doesn't appreciate the songs in Anastasia and that made me upset since I had them turned up full blast so I could sing to them. I had a good 8 hour day with Dani and for some reason my house stayed super clean. Weird how much of a mess Nathan makes when he's here! HAHA Just Kidding, Lucas begged me for a hair cut which I couldn't resist, the poor kid will never know what its like to have long hair but oh well, I still cut it.
Then I made enchiladas for dinner and the kids ate so well that Nathan took us out for Blizzards. I love that my kids are wearing winter hats but no socks or shoes. Gotta love that warm Colorado January night weather! HAHAHA
We were very productive and I love that and I hope everyone else had a great day. Here is another random video for my sister and my father and GiGi if she can see it.
Here she is this morning. I was just playing and that is why nothing matches her outfit, but I ended up leaving it because she liked it so much. I used to not like the idea of having to do all of this girlie stuff but how can I not when she is just so patient and calm while I am doing it. :)
There is one thing I will never give in on and that is Make Up so Bridgey...
which of course means Bridgey has to be one too...
If anyone has or sees anything cute that is Firetruck/man related please pass it my way. We already ordered the bedding so wish us luck on the rest! :) I am a little sad to say that his sheep room is going to be painted over but its time to do something new he isn't a baby anymore after all! :)
The exhibit wouldn't let you take pictures till the end but the kids liked digging into the pits to find fossils and other cool things like the knee pads Lucas insisted on using while digging. On your way out you could make plaster molds of dinosaur teeth and Lucas just walked right up and sat down and told us he wanted to "cook" so he got to mix and make a fossil. He thought that was pretty cool.
We ate lunch and went to the discovery zone, which Elijah and Bridget really liked. I am going to also add that Nathan the 30 year old really liked this part too! :)
We also saw the normal Dinosaur Exhibit and the Space Exhibit and at the end we watched a Brain dissection, where the demonstrator flung actual brain parts on the front row...luckily we were in the way back and were able to go play with the kids stuff first, you know me I had to try on the Toddler Body Parts Smock...ooh aah...
It was a fun day and afterwards we got to go peek at Nathan's new office. I can't wait to see it when it's all done!
Bridget wanted to pet all of the animals and then we found the ATV's lets just say we spent a good 20 minutes climbing and playing on all of them. :) This last picture was taken on Nathan's phone, that is why it is crappy, but you get the point, they had a great time and it was a fun way to spend New Years together! 