never wake a sleeping child

parenting 101 right? except sometimes the mommy gene overrides all sanity and logic and one finds oneself waking the baby in an effort to confirm the baby is still breathing....I am curious clearly C is not a baby so when does this overwhelming an idiotic compulsion stop???? I just woke my almost 10 year old "baby" to make sure he was still breathing because he does not normally sleep until almost 8 on the weekends

my new method to deal with stress

climbing into bed and putting my head under the covers.....the theory needs a little work but it'll do for a weary Friday evening

it wasn't really all that ironic

the rain on our wedding day that is I've always heard it was good luck!
14 years later and I am still deeply in love with my dear husband David even those times when I want to smother him with a pillow to make him stop snoring

best laid plans

big dinner plans on Saturday were thwarted by the popularity of the tiny tiny restaurant, even with reservations we were looking at about a half hour wait at best near as we could tell. Plus tables were jammed in to fit as many folks as possible and the noise level did not really lend itself to a quiet dinner for two as it was going on 8 o'clock we opted out for the evening winding up with Captain D's to go and an evening at home. Disappointing but we would have been more disappointed spending a sizable chunk of money on a dinning experience we would not enjoy....although I am quite sure the food would have been great so we may try again at a later date with an earlier reservation time perhaps. Regrouping included plans for brunch at one of our favorite restaurants the Northshore Brasserie, we love the brasserie and have been numerous times for dinner & lunch but never brunch because well we do not go to brunch often enough for my liking. But brunch it was & brunch there was stupendous! a little pricey but not really when you consider the quality, quantity & variety of food being served and I might add I have not even mentioned the whole kids under 12 eating for free....so we have another 2 years where C could eat free!

from the is it really necessary files

those stick figure bumper stickers with your family....do we really need to know you have 2.3 kids, a dog,a cat, 3 fish and a bunny?

Happy Bunny Day!

-church was of course SRO and that was the early mass I can't imagine how packed the later masses will be
-people drive like idiots in the church parking lot you'd think otherwise but you'd be wrong
-families dressing matchy matchy creep me out
-not an Easter hat or bonnet in sight this morning..
-I do not get worked up about wardrobe for church no one is going to hell for wearing jeans on a Sunday but to the little chickie in that strapless number this is not a night club wear a shrug or a sweater or something next time
-started working on dinner the carrot cake cupcakes smell way to delish hope they make it till dinner
-have eggs boiled but somehow not dyed yet...
-Easter Bunny still way creepy but he does have the very best candy
-peeps are only meant to be eaten at Easter it should be law

oxymoron of the day

fast food...rarely fast and sometimes not food at least not anything easily recognizable

Easter...really???

how is it Easter already....wasn't it just Christmas??? I need to stop by the grocery store on the way home to pick up eggs we somehow missed out last year on that since we were road tripping and wouldn't you know C still expects the "bunny" to deliver something and I might add Easter bunny still creepy as hell but he does have the very best candy

name, rank & serial number

growing up the biggies were learning your phone number & address, I still remember my first phone number HA1-6..something, something, something okay maybe I don't exactly remember I'm old give me a break. These days kids have to learn the above and cell phone numbers, more than likely several cell phone numbers. And it struck me yesterday as C passed our email address to someone that it is some pretty handy info for kids to learn as well.

spring break

this time for the kiddo and nope not doing anything this year either...there has been talk of a Disney trip for next spring break but of course we were suppose to go this summer right after school let out, that got changed to Thanksgiving at some point and currently I guess it has been dropped altogether for now with hopes for next March. I suppose the only way we will get it done is if I just book it and make a down payment forcing us to actually pay for the trip. Not much going this week hubs & I have work, I have school, although labs were cancelled this week giving me this evening off, C had his sleepover, is spending some time with MIL, has gone to daycare a couple of days and is spending the day with David on Friday doing guy stuff I suppose. Unfortunately I don't have any vacation to spare and take a day off with him this year which bothers me but it cannot be helped. We have some Mommy/C time booked for Saturday starting out at the ihop for breakfast which I am looking forward to