Has anyone else noticed......

OK.....I have to preface this post with a lil disclaimer. I am by no means an angel. Those of you who know me can attest to the fact that on occasion, if the situation warrants, I can throw around some bad language. I have gotten better over the years since having children and have traded common swear words for "G" rated words like "gosh darn it" and "shoot" or "darn" and "heck".......Foul language is a vice for many of us, and we all really know we shouldn't use it. But sometimes it's fun to cut loose and cuss like a sailor when your having a good time with friends LOL

So that brings me to my post.

I took the kids with me to Wal-mart this evening to grocery shop. I didn't need too much, just some staples and things to make dinner the next few days. Also some stuff for Halloween....yes I am a procrastinator LOL

While walking the aisles there at good ol Wally-World I can tell you that I overheard more than a few people swearing like a sailor. And no, they weren't "kids".....they were ADULTS....many of whom had children with them. And we aren't talking words like "shit" or "damn".....I'm talking the ultimate.....the "F" bomb. What the heck? We were in the Halloween aisle and there were two women with a couple of young kids in their cart talking about treat bags and the like. Dropped a few "F" bombs and were laughing. You should have seen the look of horror on Kailey's face. Funny that at 12 years old she has the social knowledge that these are not words that should be used in a public place for anyone to hear. I mean come on? Is it that hard to put a filter on your mouth while you are in public? Really? We all know that the prices of things are high and the economy stinks, but must you verbalize this with profanity in Wal-mart in front of your kids......in front of MY kids for that matter!

These are the kind of people who end up on Maury Povich with teens who do as they please and the parents just don't understand why they act the way they do.....hmmmm.....what a mystery!

I hope I don't offend anyone with this post. I just had to get it off my chest. This isn't the first time we have encountered people like this, and I'm sure it won't be the last. I'm just glad that I can put a filter on my mouth and that my kids know that these words aren't appropriate. Even though I'm sure one day they will have a curse word pass their lips.....I just pray I have taught them well enough that they don't do it in the Halloween aisle at Wal-mart LOL

We Are The Champions!

I have to post about my sweet girl to share with everyone that her and her soccer team had a playoff game and championship game last weekend.....

Saturday the girls played the 3rd place team (they were the 2nd place team) to determine who would play for the championship on Sunday afternoon. All of their biggest fans (ie: parents LOL) were SO excited for them and were hoping they would do well. You see, the girls got off to a rocky start at the beginning of the season......they didn't win a game until the mid point of the season! Then they rocked it out to come in 2nd! You can't tell I'm proud, can you? LOL

So Saturday's game was AWESOME! The girls did SO well! They were all very worried because they were playing these games on the stadium field, which is turf. So the ball reacts totally different than when it is on actual grass. It's faster and bounces higher.......but they did a great job. It was a nail biter and the game ended at 1-1! So they went into overtime, 10 minutes of play....no score......another overtime, 10 more minutes.....no score! Now they had a shoot out. Each team chose 5 girls to take a shot at the goal. Just one girl against the goalie. Our girls came out on top winning the shoot out 2-1! They were going to play for the championship!

Sunday the girls were super nervous. The team they were playing a team that they had tied, lost and beat during the regular season. So it was really a toss up. I have to say that they were pretty evenly matched. It was just going to come down to who could score and who could play some great defense........

So......take the last of my paragraph from Saturday and place it here! LOL! AGAIN they girls played excellent and ended the game 1-1....went into double overtime and then a shoot out!

They WON the shoot out 2-1!!!

I am SO proud of all these girls.....and especially one FABULOUS defense player :D

Kailey is like a brick wall! She did so well! Of course maybe I am a tinnny bit biased!!......NAHHHHHHHH!

Congrats to those 7th & 8th grade girls from our school.....you guys did FANTASTIC! And now I can't wait for basketball to start!

Just a Quick Video Clip....

Just wanted to share a quick video clip of my chubba bubba :D He's just getting so big!

But Mom I Like Ants!!

So I'm sitting here relaxing on the couch. Rocco is sleeping in his swing, Kailey is upstairs in her room doing homework and Roman is in the office playing with his toys. Ahhh it's peaceful in the Fetzko house for now.........

I'm half listening to Roman talking to what I presume is himself. Totally normal for him, I swear he rarely isn't talking LOL

So he's talking and it sounds like he's talking to someone.......I look up and he is walking towards me, talking to his shoulder. You just cocked your head and thought "Hmmm", well I did the same thing!

He got up close enough for me to see his "friend". It's a little brown ant crawling on the sleeve of his t-shirt. I promptly grab the ant off his shirt and smoosh it in a Kleenex.......

"MOOOOOOOMMMM THAT WAS MY FRIEND!"

"No, Roman that was an ant. Ants are bugs and they can sting you!"

-since I can't explain that some ants are bad and some are harmless at his age, they are all bad LOL-

"But Mom I like ants!"

And on that note Rocco awakes from his short nap in the swing..........ahhhh so much for the nice quiet time.

My Chubba Bubba....

So Rocco had his 4 month well baby check yesterday. These appointments are always bitter sweet so to speak. I get excited to see how much my lil baby has grown, even though I'd prefer he stay a lil babe......As cliche as it sounds, time really does fly when you have children. They grow so fast. One minute they are this sweet smelling, squishy, helpless infants then you turn around and they are toddlers! *sigh*

Well getting back to Rocco's appointment.........he is doing great! Growing like a weed! He is a bit of a moose actually LOL At 4 months he is weighing in at a super healthy 18 pounds 12 ounces and is 26.5 inches long. He has officially doubled his birth weight which was 9lbs 4ozs!

We also got the OK to start solids if he is interested......another bitter sweet milestone :( LOL

Roman was with us at the appointment and he was such a sweet supportive big brother. When the pediatrician was looking in Rocco's ears, he got a little upset and Roman sat next to me and talked to Rocco. Once Roman started talking, Rocco got quiet. It was super sweet. Then when Rocco got his vaccinations Roman kept telling him it would be OK. I swear that kid melts my heart daily with his sweet moments :)

I love my kids. I'll leave you with a couple pictures I snapped yesterday......enjoy!

I Just Can't Believe This.....

A week or so ago I was flipping the channels one evening.....this of course was when no one was around because otherwise I am forced to endure hours of Wow Wow Wubzey, Ghost Hunters or World Series of Poker.........

I can't even tell you the name of the show or what channel it was on, but it was about garbage. Not garbage in the sense that 90% of what is on TV is garbage, but literally garbage.

Why does this fascinate me? Who knows.....I don't know why anything fascinates me these days LOL.....I'm a simple person I guess. Maybe it's because garbage is almost an enigma of sorts. We all make garbage. We take it out each week for pick up by the cool garbage truck. We almost pity the guys who have to deal with it after we leave it on the curb.......some of us even know where they take the garbage. But what happens to the garbage when they unload it from the trucks? Where does it go? How does it get there? Have you ever wondered?

Well that takes me to this show. They were following garbage! From the can to the dump. They even had a "Sanitation Engineer" aka "Garbage Man" showing the host how to properly lift garbage cans and or bags and toss them into the garbage truck. It was pretty interesting.
Next the guy went with the truck to the landfill and much to my dismay they don't just dump it off to bury it!

So much of our garbage is resorted for recycling.....it was amazing to see how they sorted the garbage, both by hand (yuck) and machine. They ended up with TONS of paper, metal and glass that could be recycled.

As interesting as all of this was to me.....nothing prepared me for one single factual nugget the host revealed. I watched this show and the most memorable thing was this statement.

"Do you know where the largest landfill in the world is?"

Several cities popped into my head.....NYC? It's a big city with LOTS of people. That surely equals TONS of garbage. OK.....maybe LA? Houston? Heck, what about Hong Kong or some foreign city......largest in the WORLD?!

You are going to be SHOCKED at this.....cause I know I was. LOL

The largest landfill in the world is not a city.......it's not in a state........not in a country.....not even on a continent! It's IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN!!!

Are you kidding me?!?! Nope!
Check it out: http://science.howstuffworks.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm
Make sure you read the whole thing.......it's really interesting!

Can you believe that?! There is a GIANT (twice the size of Texas) vortex of swirling garbage in the middle of the ocean. So much garbage in fact that they can't remove it because there is no place for it! Fascinating AND disturbing really! LOL

Not only is that one of the craziest things I've learned recently, it's something that makes me really think about my impact on the earth.

Now........I'm not one to go totally off the handle and be a green green girl. But I know there are a few easy things I could do in my daily life to help out in a small way. I can say though that we do not buy bottled water. We drink the filtered water from our fridge in a glass. I'm even known to bring a glass of water with me. It's not as "easy" as having a bottle of water with a lid, but I like it because I'm an ice eater LOL

We also are replacing our regular light bulbs with the energy efficient ones. Our builder put in regular light bulbs and I'm not wasteful, so when they burn out I will put the green bulbs in :D

And I bought a tote bag for the store......I admit I am not the best at remembering it. But I have good intentions and am going to make a real effort to wean myself from those store plastic bags that I swear breed in my laundry room. I am guilty of throwing many in the garbage. However I noticed that my local grocery store has a recycle bin for the plastic bags. From now on I put them in that.

Didn't really mean for this post to turn into a go green lecture of sorts......but man, how can you not think about it when you learn that there is garbage floating in a section of ocean that spans the area of a continent and extends 100 feet below the surface?!

Something to reflect on and think about........

A Thursday Funny....

I was happy to get a little ray of sunshine in my email box this afternoon. I have read this before, but it is still pretty funny and definately true! Enjoy!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a freaking Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little brats!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a fringing fire. Imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile, whether they are under 30 or not.)