martha stewart I'm not

but everyone left the house well fed last night. We did prime rib & D smoked some turkey legs and I overdid on the side dishes so we now have tons of leftovers plus 3 lbs of shrimp that never even made it to the cooking stage. I believe there is a soiree in the making for saturday to get rid of the rest of this stuff I hope!
I must say I am pretty bored being at home with the convalescing kiddo. I know that sounds crazy normally my weeks are filled up running around working, school, chauffeuring the boy you would think 4 days home at home would be just the thing but bored bored bored. I need to break out some of my new books and catch up on my DVR'ed tv shows and clean the kitchen-ugh the worst part of entertaining so I really have no excuse for the boredom..

not a mom

typical holiday I had to run out to the supermarket for a few last minute items. I was walking out behind a couple with a toddler and clearly the girl was not his mother. She was busily telling the guy she was with that she could not take the barely full grocery bag and watch the boy at the same time. HA HA HA clearly not the kid's mom if she was she could have handled at least 4 full grocery bags and the boy with no trouble at all!

pavlov indeed

oscar the superpug comes running when the lid is being screwed off of the peanut butter jar

I am thankful for

Dr Little and the great nursing staff at Children's Hospital west! C had his tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy & nose thing done yesterday and it all went very well. All of the doctors and nurses were so amazing they made a kind of scary thing very bearable for all of us! D & I went back to pre-op with C and stayed with him while they went over exactly what was going to happen, got his vitals, visits from the doc & anesthesiologist then they gave him the "happy juice" and within 10 minutes he was in la la land. D was trying to score some happy juice to go but they weren't biting. Then they wheeled him off happily not knowing he was leaving his parents. Surgery was over in about 40-45 minutes first words out of the doctors mouth were "he had really large tonsils & adenoids" about 20 minutes or so after we were allowed to go back with him in recovery. Although they have a 2 person limit they allowed meemaw to come back as well which was great. C evidently takes after his grammy in the recovery room-he did not want to wake up, he would sit up every now & again and have a sip of sprite but right back down to sleep. My mother, veteran of numerous surgeries is notorious for settling in in the recovery room and sleeping.
So far so good minimal pain he had some oatmeal-meemaw had to make it she is in his eyes the only one that makes it correctly-some scrambled eggs & lots of sprite. He is busy playing his nintendo ds and watching a football game for now. After some more coffee I will tackle cleaning the house, laundry & start some baking for tomorrow!

so how did you sleep mommy?

well baby it's 1:47 in the morning mommy is still sleeping I 'll let you know when I'm finished.

santa aka

Klaus or Klaus Von Bulow(even though he spells his name as Claus).
In an utterly silly moment in the mid 80's during the assembly line wrapping my mother & I would be subjected to each holiday we started signing tags from Santa Klaus which lead into Santa Klaus Von Bulow . Each christmas my mother and I still send & receive gifts from Klaus Von B.

santa quandary

as far as I can tell without probing to far C still believes in Santa Claus. Now he is 7 in 2nd grade and hangs with the older boys on the bus and at aftercare so I really wonder if this will be the year he figures it all out. D hopes so he is apparently tired of the jolly old elf getting all of the credit for um well what I do but I guess we shouldn't go there..
I really do love the excitement in his voice first thing christmas mornings nothing beats it! My favorite christmas was his third he was 2 1/2 and it was the first year he really got christmas it was more than just playing with paper & boxes. The wide eyed look as he trotted out of his bedroom and the oh my goodness HE WAS HERE in his voice for me that is the reason for the season.(Not looking for a religious discussion raised Catholic, understand the seasonal stuff but for me the holidays are about family and how freaking wonderful they are!)

laying in supplies

we have all been busy today D & a buddy road tripped to Nashville to stock up on scotch & such for the holiday season. C went off to spend the night with his mee maw after a trip to the toy store to stock up for his week of convalescence. I hit the stores myself. First a book store so I won't be completely bored this week plus a few new books & activity books for tonsillectomy boy. I also picked up a few of the plug into the tv arcade games to hopefully help keep C somewhat occupied. I'll grab some dvds from work on monday as well. Then I did a little of the grocery shopping trying to drum up ideas for soft food jello, ice cream, pudding, scrambled eggs, pasta, pancakes? they are soft aren't they?. I am running out of ideas I guess we will just wing it and see what happens. I also picked up a standing rib roast not exactly a soft food but it is for thanksgiving day. Now I just have to figure out what sides to go with it and finish my grocery shopping tomorrow!

football

it is all football all the time here at the house. Old football games or vintage if you prefer are the new standard they have replaced saturday morning cartoons around the 'ol homestead. Saturday is full of college football and sundays pro games, luckily C does not know of monday night football yet. D is letting it all unfold which I find amusing. In the past he never watched sports on tv. D played the major 3 when he was younger and felt no need to watch them but as C has shown overwhelming interest the 2 boys well & oscar will spend most of sunday afternoon in front of some ball game or another and I must admit to watching some myself but only the new games not the random old ones on ESPN.
C's loyalties are amusing the Colts because of course Peyton Manning was a Vol and naturally the NY Giants as Peyton's younger brother is the quarterback but more importantly that is Grandpa's favorite team. I see my father in C very clearly sometimes. A few weeks ago C was almost in tears because the Colts lost to the Patriots in a very close game. Growing up on sundays when the Giants were playing dad would slip away from dinner intermittently to check on the score of the game. If the Giants lost you knew to stay away from dad as he would be cranky although we never saw tears!

day of reckoning

so the BEHAVIOR folder comes home this afternoon. I have been assured each day except for tuesday that he has gotten an A each day thus far. C got a B on tuesday for spitting out his snack at snack time?why I don't know but also he was playing tag in the hallway. It was a rainy day & they were cooped up inside for recess so I am not too upset with him he is 7. And honestly the more I have thought about it the past two weeks can be explainable. The grades and schoolwork he has brought home each day have been fine so the education part is not slacking off. His behavior was questionable the week after a fall break-a week off that is unnecessary in my opinion, the following week he was fighting a cold not sick enough to stay home but he did not feel well. On top of it all is the upcoming tonsillectomy which may have him weirded out more than he is letting on. My mom a teacher for 30+ years and the mother of a formerly rowdy little boy who grew up just fine concurs. I am not one of those parents who believe that their child can do no wrong but I am going to hang back a little on the punishment department and see what happens...