Just One of Those Days.....

Have you ever just had one of those days? Of course! We all have! And if you haven't, then please don't talk to me because I'm libel to claw your eyes out LOL

Today was one of those days for me. My patience level was...well is.....running low. I was on the verge of an emotional breakdown all day. I think the fact that I spend most of my days constantly picking up. Picking up clothes upstairs and throwing them downstairs so then I can pick them up from there and take them to the laundry room. Pick up toys......I just know that when I am older and need back surgery because I am no longer able to move I can place the blame squarely on my son. One thing I can NOT stand is a cluttered living room. He insists on bringing his toys into the living room where I spend the majority of my time. So that means by lunch there are 275 cars, trains and train track pieces as well as guns, a baseball bat and golf clubs. IN ADDITION TO the pile of baby toys I have in here for Rocco. I know I should just relax and not be so anal about the mess in my house, but I just can't do it. I am totally unable to relax in clutter. Many of you are laughing at me right now.......I know you are! Yes I knew that this toy business came with the territory of having children. Wait a minute....haven't I ranted about this toy thing before?....LOL

I was also frustrated with the pressure of getting my house ready for holiday guests. Not that my husbands family really *cares* if my house is disheveled, they know I have small children. But it would be nice if they could at least walk in and the house is all picked up. Oh and how lucky they would be to not need to play an impromptu game of hopscotch around cars & trains to make their way to my sofa!

Add to that stuff the fact my husband had the GALL to scoff at the turkey I bought tonight *raises eyebrow* Just because it is the store brand does not mean it will be bad. Heaven forbid you don't get a Butterball.....this is a nice FRESH store brand turkey! As in it hasn't been frozen......good grief. I guess the Butterball turkey people have some magic feed that they give their turkey's so that is why it tastes better? Yeah ok, whatever. I was quick to snap, "You will eat it and you WILL love it." LOL

Just one of those days my friends.......just one of those days :D

Must. Get. Into. It.

OK.....so there is no more putting it off. I must get into the holiday spirit.


There are exactly 42 shopping days until Christmas. Whoa. Just shy of a month and a half.


Are you ready? Have you started shopping? Ugh are you one of those who are already done?! Please don't tell me that! LOL


At this point in time I have NO clue what I'm getting my kids for Christmas. NONE! Ok, so maybe that is a tiny white lie....I do know that Roman wants a diner. Here is the link for the more "boyish" looking kitchen that it is. But yanno, he could very well change his mind in 42 days.....ok he could change his mind by tomorrow, he's 3!


So far on Kailey's list is a book and new bras. She would DIE if she knew I just posted that she wanted bras LOL.....she is 12. That is all she is giving me.....nothing else. No games....no toys...nothing. A book & bras for pete's sake!


And Rocco.....he is happy with anything that will fit into his mouth at this point. He is all over the place putting anything in his mouth and LOVES magazines. He will surely be in his glory with all the wrapping paper at Christmas!


I guess I could be thankful that my kids aren't into toys so much. Roman plays with his toys alot. Most times he plays with them in ways they aren't intended. He uses his imagination, which is so wonderful. One thing my husband and I agree on is the whole "less is more" approach with toys. I wish I could tell you we feel this way for some smart reason, like kids have been bombarded with toys and most wouldn't know what to do if they weren't doing something with a toy, video game or video. But the main reason we don't buy alot of toys for our kids is because we HATE cleaning them up. Yup....that pretty much sums it up.

So sometimes when I hear other moms go on about the toys their kids have and what they are buying next I feel a twinge of guilt.....but then I come home to our office and see what Roman does with the limited amount of toys he DOES have:


Yeah that twinge of guilt goes RIGHT out the window LOL
*sigh*


I know once Bob and I go on our yearly Christmas shopping day without the kids we will buy more than we intend and spend more than we wanted. That's what we do for our kids.


Tis the season......but I think I wait to start stressing AFTER Thanksgiving! LOL

Holy Evil Trainer Batman!

So I've complained for years since moving here that there wasn't a decent gym in town. Where I lived before there was a great 24/7 gym and it had childcare and nightly classes, etc. I used to go with a co-worker on nearly a daily basis and I got into really good shape! I haven't felt that good in forever. And I miss it!

Before having my 2nd child, I joined Curves. It was OK. I really felt out of place. And that was strange considering it is totally geared to women. I think the main problem is that I felt like the youngest member and the workout was monotonous to say the least. For any of you who have never been, you basically workout in a circle on different machines....go around the circle 3 times and your done. It's cool for awhile....but gets old! At least for me it did.....

Last week I saw some pamphlets that were left in our pizza shop up here where we live. Turns out a new gym was opening up in the shopping plaza near by. Cool! So I decided to go check it out the following weekend.

It's a cool gym. Not real big, but it has all the equipment I am familiar with. The membership price wasn't bad and so what the hey, I joined. Turns out they don't have room now for classes, but they are looking to rent the space next door with plans to do something like have classes in the future. Sounds great!

I went in the next day for my consultation with a trainer. This was just a basic get your weight, BMI, blood pressure, etc. Then he walked me through the gym showing me how all the stuff worked. I also decided to get a few sessions with him in hopes he could help whip my rear into a shape other than ROUND! LOL

Yesterday was session one. I arrived and he greeted me holding a clipboard and two sheets of yellow legal paper where he had mapped out our hour together......an hour.....what did I just get myself into LOL. I started with 10 minutes on the elliptical machine AKA Satan incarnate. I guess it's not quite as bad as the dreaded StairMaster, but it's darn close!

I did my 10 minutes, as soon as I stepped off this machine my legs were JELLY. Holy crap! Then I follow my trainer to the back of the gym.....he proceeds to make me do squats, lunges, modified push ups on the shoulder press bar, modified pull ups on that bar (me sitting looking like an arse not being able to pull myself up from the floor...talk about shameful LOL)....I am really dying at this point. And we are BARELY at the 1/2 way point!! Then he whisks me to the free weight section and has me doing some other upper body exercise with *blush* 2lb weights. Next we went to the other side of the gym and he has me do those reverse sit ups....you know where you face downward, wedging your legs on some pads and bend down then come back up? Oy.

At this point my face is bright red LOL I then remind him that I have children at home to care for, including a 20+ pound infant I will need to carry the next day! He has no mercy.....next stop the mats. He has me working my core. Sitting with my knees up, arms out in front of me holding what might as well be a 100 pound medicine ball. Side, middle, side.....over and over. I really just want to die. After that, I'm on the floor laying on my side struggling to lift my fat arse and hip off the floor only using my side muscles.....side muscles, obliques? WTH are you KIDDING me? This my friends was a sad SAD sight.

Oh but it gets better!

3 minutes of "general fitness".....this was the most embarrassing display of physical activity in my ENTIRE life folks. If I wasn't in so much pain at this point I would have probably crawled under a treadmill. I had to do 15 jumping jacks....my legs felt like they were going to buckle at any moment. Not to mention my failure to wear.....or even OWN for that matter.....a sports bra. OH MY GOODNESS. Talk about a sight.....after the jumping jacks I had to SKIP across the gym. You see what I said? SKIP! You HAVE to be joking. Again, a VERY sad sight. Then I had to do these things that I have seen football players do during warm ups at high school games on occasion. You get down like you are going to do push ups, then you jump your feet up under yourself, then jump them back into the push up position. This was ridiculous. There are NO words I can use to accurately describe the way I might have looked at this point. After this there was another series of jogging and more lunges....then I got to "cool down" on the treadmill for 10 minutes. Let me tell you, I was NEVER so happy to see a treadmill in my LIFE.

When I got home and walked in the door, my husbands face was priceless. That is how BAD I looked. All I could do was tell him this trainer was worth every penny and then head up to my beloved jacuzzi tub for a soak. I did nothing the rest of the day or night LOL

Today I am one sore cookie. I barely trust myself to carry my baby up or down the stairs my legs hurt so bad. My arms are pretty sore too. Lord help me because I have 7 more sessions with this guy LOL

So I'm going to stick it out. As bad as I hurt today, I know that it will pay off in the long run. I really need to get fit. Not just for me and my own well being, but for my kids sake.

Now I'm off for another dose of Advil so I can make lunch for my 3 year old LOL

The Little Fish Learning to Swim....

I finally got a couple of videos to upload :\ Blogger was being a booger LOL

Just ignore the "Silver Sneakers" water aerobics in the foreground *snicker*
Enjoy!!

Fall Time Busy-ness

Why do I feel like my cleaning mode is stuck in Spring and not in Fall? I swear I have been a busy bee this past week tying up loose ends around here, organizing and just cleaning in general. Things I didn't do in the Spring because......oh yeah I had a baby LOL

I mowed the lawn for, I hope, the last time this season. I don't mind at ALL. Especially since I have a snazzy new riding lawn mower. Just pop on the iPod and it's some nice "me" time. How lame is that? LOL But it's so nice to just be alone with my music that I never get to listen to now that I have a toddler and a tween.....you moms know what I mean.

The hall closet got sorted and organized. So I had shoved boxes from the move in there and it was a jumbled mess. Out of sight out of mind right? Well now that the temperature is cooling and we are opening the closet to get jackets more often, it's not so out of sight LOL I even picked up one of those neat 3 drawer plastic things to put hats, gloves and the like in. I figured that I can wheel it into the laundry room (it's by the garage door entry that we use) for fall/winter use and then when we don't need those things anymore I can just wheel it back to the closet. Just another attempt for me to be Martha organized *snort*

I FINALLY hung the address plate on the house. I have a legitimate excuse as to why it has taken me 10 months to do so.......the mason had to re-do the mortar on our brick and so it made no sense for me to hang it and then take it down, with ruined screws after putting them in mortar, and then find new screws to re-hang it. But alas it is up and looks nice, so I'm happy!

OH and I hung up these word art deals I got. They are from a place called Uppercase Living. They are like rub on transfers that go on your walls. Very cool! I swear I've had these in the back of a closet for MONTHS. But they are up and look so cute:

My kitchen & entryway also got a nice scrub on the tail end of that day's cleaning frenzy. I have to admit I rarely mop the entry because to be honest no one uses that entry LOL. At most it just needs a dusting or I run the vacuum over the floor hehe.

Then I wrapped up the week & weekend with a delicious ham dinner last night. Ham, sweet potatoes & fresh green beans DELISH!

So there you have it.......that's what I've been up to! Roman started swimming lessons today and I hope to get the kids in their Halloween costumes for some pictures, so look for those on here soon!

Hope you are all enjoying the fall! I'm off to upload some video of Roman swimming!

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!