Quirks Tag

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!

4 8 15 16 23 42-LOST yet?

Only those who watch Lost will get the numbers of this post but it somehow describes my week! With or without the numbers! :)

4 band aids

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)

8 loads of laundry
Some reason, I forgot to do laundry this week and it has definatley caught up to me. (AAH)

15 chicken nuggets

This is how many Bridget ate for lunch on Wednesday. Seriously, I counted and poor Lucas only got one. I asked her where they went and she pointed to her mouth! She must get that from Auntie Stef and her obsession with McD's nuggets! (crazy)

16 scraps

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)

23 cookies

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)

42 days left of this pregnacy
well a little over 42 days! :)

I can't believe it. It makes me sad and excited all at the same time. I am finally enjoying my kids this crazy week included and it makes me a little nervous to add a newborn to the mix. (aww)

LOST PEOPLE!?!?! that is what happened to my week. With the warm weather and the several trips to the park, random grocery shopping, hosting lunch on Thursday, cold weather on FRIDAY, I seem to have lost this week completley. What happened? Oh well, there is another cool episode this coming Wednesday. and hopefully I will catch up on housework! Sounds like Nathan's going to be busy this weekend :)

Tax Return

Because my house smells like sweet treats and because its tax time we really have been thinking about what we were going to do with our tax return this year. Jokingly we talked about a large purchase...

What do you think, will it fit in my kitchen? Will Lucas want it when he's 16? These are questions we are asking ourselves...

Fifty-Nine

That was the high temperature today in our area. IN JANUARY! I actually took the kids to the park it was so beautiful. We walked to the park in my subdivision that they just refurbished and we LOVE LOVE LOVE this park now! It has no wood chips, several swings and a HUGE grassy area for Lucas to roll down the hill and play soccer on, including a little pavilion area that would be nice for lunch. I especially like that it is in an area that has no traffic from the school and it has that recycled rubber flooring that is a bit bouncy. Bridget had the most fun, there were some neighborhood girls there oohing and aahing over her and taking her up and down the slide. Lucas loved the freedom of running wherever he wanted.
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! :)

Amen Sista Friend

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! :)

Baking

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!

I need to just step back and let it go but the funny thing is about all of this is that I never eat what I make, I give it all away because I can't eat too many sweet things while I am pregnant because of the heartburn factor. So, I have counters full of treats and no one in my house to eat them, so I have been sending them to work with Nathan. Yesterday I took a bunch of sweets...almost all of them to the Elementary School down the street because they were having a bake sale. I need help. I am admitting this outloud because someone out there can help me I just know it.

My poor kids only get to see my backside because I have been in the kitchen so much lately that I am not taking time for them! I am horrible. It doesn't help that Nathan is STILL in New York and I have nothing else to do because it is winter time!

Okay I am done with that random rant. My appointment went so well yesterday. My new doctor called me a pro at birthing babies and even read me a little snippet of Bridget's birth that was written up by my old doctor and we had a good laugh about it. She told me I can have my baby whenever I want and that she isn't worried about me in the least bit. She also said that she hopes she witnesses this birth since I have my babies so quickly. Haha

I am grateful to Lisa who watched my kids while I went to the Hospital to see the doctor. I am more gratefult that she fed them lunch because they both passed out on the 3.2 minute drive back to my house!

Quickie

haha, not really Nathan is in New York so this post is a little insight to our day without him.

The first business trip of the year and so far so good. Lucas basically played basketball all day and poor Bridget kept falling asleep in random places. In fact this is how I found her this morning...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.

Tomorrow I have my first appointment with the new doctor who...I have yet to meet. We had to switch providers in January and I am skeptical that any doctor other than Anita Pierce will listen to my pregnant demands but who knows we will see. I am most excited to hear my enducement date...wish me luck!!!