Down Memory Lane....

so...I should be packing and getting ready for my trip to Hawaii but...I've been looking for my frickn battery for our portable dvd player! How am I going to survive an 11 hr flight with no dvd player....anyways....I stumbled upon these pics....and I thought posting these pics would be more fun then searching my whole house for a dvd player battery.

Me and my sis....like the big bow in her hair. Don't you think L-boy looks like me?

Me at 14 years old...my sis was leaving for college....like my braces and our matching outfits.

Me...17 years ago...my senior year pic...this is what I look like with make-up, wavy permed hair, and a uni brow (thankfully I get my eyebrows threaded...now)

I've been thinking about the past because my ex-boyfriend from high school wrote me an email (out of the blue) and I've been thinking about how I felt in high school and what I was like.

I think in high school I was a "good girl", very low self-confidence (probably why I liked the boy with low self-confidence but acted liked he had self-confidence and got into trouble), and I just felt akward. When I think of high school...I just think "yuck" but when I think of my college years I think "fun." I think my college years were just as emotional as my high school years but I think I actually I didn't care and I just had a blast. But, I do know that I love where I am now. I love that I am comfortable in my own skin, maybe not confident about being a mom but I am confident about being me, and I know that I am blessed with many things like great kids and a great husband.

my new best friend...

I love igoogle.com. If only it loved my computer. With igoogle you can have everything that you LOVE on your homepage...but I have an slow cheap laptop so...it takes forever if I have everythng thing that I love on it. At first I had Frogger, PacMan, Spoffee, You Tube and etc. on it but...then it took forever to ever get on ther internet so....I deleted something and now it is much better. But....check it out...there are a ton of stuff you can add on your page and there are a ton of designs you can have.

Enjoy!

A Good Big Sister...

So...for the last week or so...M has been going into L-boy's crib every morning. We loved it because it gave us extra time in the morning to get ready. It was really cute because she would climb into his crib and play with him in there.

Then my "mommy instinct"went in and I thought about what if M gets hurt while climbing in (she has yelled for us because her butt was stuck on the crib rail) or what if she plays with L-boy too hard and hurts him (I know she would not do it on purpose but sometimes she does stuff like put a shopping bag on her face...it is one of my fears that she will do it to Luke and not know that it is bad even if I have told her not to do it a few times).

Plus, she has been waking up in the middle of the night and going into L-boy's room and turning on his bedroom light. Then I have a screaming baby and a little girl that screams because I carry her back to her room and put her in her bed. That's all I need at 3 on the morning....two screaming kids. Also, she does this same thing at nap time. I gave her a little talk last night and said "don't go into L-boy's room and wake him up, not before the sun is out and do not climb into his crib."

She also likes to dress him up in her clothes. The other day she came out of his room without a shirt and crying. I said "where if your shirt?" and she said "on L-boy." She took off his clothes and put her shirt on him. Recently...she llikes to put her clothes on L-boy. Note to self...buy her a doll.

So, this morning....when I went to get L-boy....M was just sitting in L-boy's room. I said "what are you doing" and she said "watching L-boy. I didn't wake him up and I didn't go is his crib."

At naptime this afternoon...I said "sleep and do not go into L-boy's room"

Sure enough I hear some noises from down the hall and M is in L-boy's room. She is sitting in there and tells me "L-boy opened his eyes." I was furious! I again took her out of his room and put her in her bed. She kept saying "his eyes were open" and inside I was thinking...of course they are open you opened the damn door!

In the meantime...I have to deal with TWO kids that do not take naps! L-boy has a meltdown at 5pm (which yesterday I just put him into bed for what I thought was a nap but he ended up sleeping till morning) and I have M who is a whiny girl.

So...now the gesture that I thought was so cute is long gone and it has become a problem!

Going GREEN....

So, I decided to start going green and help save the earth! This is what I tell my daughter when she asks why she can't have the hallway light on all night. In all honesty....I do care about the earth but I care about my bank account alittle bit more.

I just received my first summer electricity bill and it was a whopping...$469 and it's only the beginning of June!! Can you imagine what my August bill will be like. Plus, I just found out my electricity company just went out of business. No wonder they charged me $.18 per kilowatt for this last billing.

So...I am on a mission to reduce my electricity because I can not and do not want to have a $600 bill which is where we are heading if we don't start saving. If you visit my house and it is a sweating 80 degrees. I'm sorry. Just pretend that we are on a sunny tropical island! Also, if you see that my house is dark...it does not mean we are not home...it means we are living in the dark! I have turned off our landscape lights, unplugged all unused electronic equipment like clocks and etc. We really only need one clock in the house and L-boy really does not need hawaiian lullaby music playing in his room all night.

I'm also going to start hand washing my dishes and drying my clothes the old fashion way. We will see how long this will last but....if for this month I can save that is all that matters because we are currently on a electricity company of last resort and they will be charging me up to $.21 per kilowatt!!!!! I even thought about shutting my a/c off at night but...I think the cost of the electricity may outweigh the nights of restless sleeping because it's HOT!

I'm off to go help way the earth and save my bank account =)!

Cosmopolitan....

There was a "Sex in the City" commercial and there is a part where the girls do "cheers" with their cosmopolitans...well....M said..."mommy you do that....you have those drinks."

I wanted to say back to her....

Yeap...I do have those drinks because you and L-boy drive mt to it.

M also grabbed my boobs and tapped away on them. The sad thing is that I have over a cup size cushion so...I didn't even know she was doing it until she said "mommy you have two boobies."

Talking about boobs...I had to go to my yearly obgyn appointment and I hate it. I should say I dread it every year. This time...I had to sit in the exam room for 30 minutes with just my gown on. Of course...I think of all kinds of crazy things while waiting for the doctor like...what if I have to fart? Did I clean down there? and etc. You would think with all of technology...there would be some machine that could examine you without having someone's finger stuck in your "hoo haa" or that cold silver thing that needs to be cranked open.

Going off subject....my husband just came home with "wife beater/muscle" tanks for L-boy!All I can say is....I really need to get him back on a budget! He has been spending WAY too much money. I need to control him because we will be away for three weeks in August and I know he will go CRAZY! In fact...i'll be away for four days in June and I know he will go crazy. I am already expecting him to cut both kids hair, make a huge mess and spend a lot of money.