a little inappropriate perhaps

C little classroom "holiday" party is next Thursday first thing in the morning. Evidently they are going to make pancakes and do festive crafts or something. The cheap thrill is you can wear you pajamas. C sleeps in his underwear and he would sleep in less if I let him.
Think we'll have to dig out some sleep pants for him to wear, might be chilly next week.

real snow

all of the this inclement weather talk, my parents are having real snow and expecting a nor'easter to hit this weekend-yuck! My poor SIL & her entire family are headed up there for a family funeral and I'm hoping they don't wind up sleeping in an airport somewhere! I am also hoping this mess clears out by next weekend as we trek north ourselves.

pet peeve #378

at the grocery store while checking out, clearly my items are still being scanned, I have not even retrieved my card out of my wallet to pay yet-don't come stand with me I don't know you. Personal space is all I'm saying dude.

ack run for the groceries!

they're talking snow for Saturday night. better stock up on bread, milk, eggs and toilet paper!!!
My parent's always want to know do people make french toast & go to the bathroom when it snows down here?

bad flashback

nasty wreck in front of the store as I drove in this morning reminded me of my own wreck in the same spot almost 8 years ago. 7 months pregnant and what do I do why total my car what a great idea! I thought an ambulance ride to the hospital might be a good idea at the time but I tell you unless I am bleeding out of my eyeballs I won't do that again. Totally freaked me out, I told them I could not be flat on my back-when you are preggers you need to at least have feet elevated otherwise it cuts off circulation or something-so they put me flat on my back. I was trying to take some deep breaths to calm myself down so they shoved oxygen up my nose even though I told them I did not need it. Wanted to go to hospital out west well they could not do that which turned out fine I was at Fort Sanders Regional and wall taken care of for which I am eternally grateful.
I was having contractions so I spent the first night in labor & delivery. That sealed the deal on the whole epidural debate some poor woman was screaming her lungs out at 3 in the morning-she had waited too long & could not get the epidural. Then comes C favorite part of the story-he was pissed at mommy kicked moved and carried on ALL night. I was on a fetal monitor but he kept moving off of it my nurse would come in wake me & shift everything after several visits in she finally let me go an hour at a time so I could get a little sleep.
My SIL told me she was ready to hit the road and help if we had C prematurely. Now she has some serious experience as her daughter was born at 24 weeks. My niece was not even 2 lbs at birth but the ultrasound indicated C would have still been 6 lbs even as a preemie a monster child! largest premmie they would have ever seen is my guess but luckily contractions were stopped and I went home after a really long & boring week in the hospital.

alright already

so I got tagged this weekend and instead of the if you were a cookie which one would you be? what's you favorite color? where were you born? when did you last cry? what movie did you last see? no I got 3 things you can't let go! I think perhaps I have been over thinking the whole thing so here goes
Physical-I am a clutter queen from hell. I come by it honestly through my maternal bloodlines ask my father & uncle it's a female family trait! so I have lots of things from my past however one treasured item is sad chewed upon stuffed panda who is missing his nose. He has been lovingly gnawed upon by 3 different dogs, named monty because he at one time wore an I love Vermont tee shirt he now sports a pretty red sweater.
Mental-Love to read! again another maternal bloodline thing I have lots of books around the house & way too many magazine subscriptions coming in. Thank god for used book stores and visits home to trade books with my mother! I am happily passing the love of reading to my son who as soon as he could read started going to bed with a flashlight so he can read under the covers before falling asleep. This is a discipline area I tend turn a blind eye to-most nights.
Emotional-I would have to say the birth of my son and I doubt that I could convey the emotions that can well up around his little(well not so little) existence. Yes I am the mom that can fire up the waterworks at each assembly, concert, belt awarding & first day of school-hell sometimes even a good report card gets me going. D finds endless amusement in it and C has not noticed or become embarrassed by it yet.
I am going to tag retromoderns!

more christmas tales

I've got a million of them as Christmas is my favorite holiday! The first xmas D & I were together was a mere 4 months before our wedding, we had moved in together in September I had knee surgery in October and by xmas had just started driving again but was still doing the physical therapy routine. Let me just say surgery easy but PT kicked my butt!
I had convinced D that we needed a live tree so he obliged not a great tree but good enough until illness set in. D had some sort of flu type thing one weekend and we had the heat so high it was like a sauna in the apartment. There went our tree! It went from decent little tree to Charlie Brown tree in a mere 24 hours. I wish I had a scanner to show just how sad it looked. Of course that would also involve finding the picture..details! details!
D was not so good in the gift department back then he got me a shiny track suit you know the ones little old ladies would wear. He also got me underwear and for those who do not know women's under garments are not sized the same as say their jean size I was not amused. I thought I was going to call off the wedding. Luckily he is much improved in the giving of gifts and spa packages or shiny baubles are the norm these days!

real or fake?

Growing up we always had 2 trees a live one upstairs and a fake one downstairs(fireplace is downstairs). In retrospect it is so freaking weird that we would have TWO trees-my mom has always loathed christmas she did not have the best of kidhoods and christmas was not a particularly special day, my father on the other hand all about christmas and the holiday season!
Decoration day was always a big deal hell we had 2 trees to decorate and family tradition actually my mother's tradition was each year each member of the family would get a new ornament to put on the tree. A fantastic tradition that I have forced on my family. On the first xmas after we each got married my brother & I got boxes of ornaments a mix some that were our own and some of each family members. It is a very special feeling to put up ornaments with such history. Anyway as we got older they switched to all fake as my mother would get a horrible rash from the live trees. They were really large nice fake trees but fake & I always swore that when I had my own tree it would be real. The first few years together D & I had real trees 2 holidays in a row the needles from the tree killed our vacuum cleaners and then one year we headed to my parent's for the holiday so we made the switch to a fake tree and have not turned back. However looking at our sad little outdated fake tree I am thinking we need a live tree next year, I'll just ask Santa for a vacuum

I absolutely DO NOT need this

but I want it for some stupid reason. I might use it 2x that I can think of in the next year but my guess is it would be relegated to the appliance graveyard that is our garage