Tomorrow

Just a quick update. We close on our new house tomorrow! I can't wait to get settled and get back to normal life. Change is hard for me and I hate making decisions so this has been a torturous process. Here's my cute baby. She is laughing and smiling all the time. She's at a real fun age right now.

I Was the 100th Customer!

Yesterday, after a busy morning picking out stuff for the new/old house, I headed over to Chick-fil-a to get lunch for Caroline. I approached the drive thru from the wrong angle, so I had to go around the building again in order to get in the drive thru line. Well, good thing I had to do that because my timing couldn't have been more perfect. When I pulled through after I ordered my food, I was told, "You're the 100th customer- there's no charge." I was so happy- I never win anything. Then I wished I had ordered more food.

Lately I've been too busy to blog, but here's what has been going on at our house:

Samantha- is now 9 months old. Super sweet. Has an unusual like for broccoli and not only crawls, pulls herself to stand, and yesterday I found her on the second stair. Yikes!

Caroline- yesterday I caught her dumping out all my water bottles on the driveway. And then I found her outdoor scooter in my bedroom. Lets just say she is still learning boundaries.

Henry- A week or two ago I came into Henry's bedroom and heard him singing,"If you want to be my lover." (You know the Spice Girls song.) Needless to say I was a little shocked and felt horrible, but then I realized he learned it from playing "Dance Dance Revolution" with his friends at the local arcade. What do you do?

Adam & I - watched "Where the Red Fern Grows" the other night and had a good time reminiscing. Those poor dogs, and that boy who fell on the ax. It was pretty good, I even cried again.

But mostly, we've been working on making plans for the new house. We will be moving in at the end of the month. We are having a little work done on the house before we move in and I've been trying to get that all coordinated. We will be very excited to have visitors in the next few months!

My thanks and Neighborhood Lemonade

First, I want to thank you readers out there for keeping my blog interesting with all your fun comments. I have literally freaked out this past week. I'm glad we don't plan on buying and selling a home for at least 200 years.

With that being said I want to tell you about the girls in my neighborhood who provided me with comic relief this afternoon with their Lemonade selling venture. I myself used to co-own and operate a lemonade stand so I was sympathetic to their request when they knocked on my door and asked me if I wanted to come buy some lemonade. I told them I would get my daughter and we would head over. When I got to the Lemonade selling corner I asked them how much it was.

"Its free or just 2 cents."

"Only 2 cents, why so cheap?"

"Our parents don't want us selling it because we don't have any cups, they said we should just make it free."

"You don't have any cups?"

"No, we just have spoons. You can have one spoonful or five spoonfuls."

"Oh....I can get you some cups."

So I went and got them some cups, gave them a couple quarters for Lemonade, and Caroline and I got to meet their dog 'Sasha' who had white, pink, and blue fur.

The Reason Why

The last time I updated this post was in 2007. This new year has provided me with a lot of stress. Since I last updated Adam and I found a new house, made an offer, put our house on the market, got a contract on the new house, got an offer on our house and we aren't really sure what we are doing. I don't sleep at night and I just realized that I'm crazy. Is that what you people wanted to know?

Mustache Demolition

Adam has officially been growing his mustache for 44 days. But today, being the 31st of December, marks the end of the bet. It will be a happy new year after all!

We thought you all might want to celebrate with me and experience the mustache demolition for yourselves.



I'll put up some Christmas pics tomorrow! Happy New Year!

Just to Clarify...

I'm in a little bit of trouble. Recently I recommended the movie Juno. To me it was utterly entertaining, it was cleverly written, the characters were endearing and it was unpredictable.

That being said - it was a bit crude, especially in the beginning. The movie deals with a teen pregnancy, so the context leads to a little crudity. Adam and I felt a little uncomfortable, but the movie had so much more to offer that the crudity was easy to overlook. I've already seen it twice and I would see it again.

It is rated PG-13, would I take a teenager to it? Definitely not. Would I take my former ecclesiastical leader to it and his family, including his 80 year-old mother? Definitely not. (Feel sorry for my sister Annie.)

Who is this movie for? Mature audiences- maybe 30 plus years. A bunch of girl friends perhaps. Someone who likes independent films and gets bored with the big Hollywood formulaic movie.

I can't say enough about the great writing, the story elements, the fun characters, and the magnificent acting of Ellen Page. It made me laugh and cry. Adam loved it too, but we are a little different, so this movie may not be for everyone.

I still give it 4 stars.

I will now retire as a movie critic.

Merry Christmas!

3 year-old's vocab

Mom: When we get home we need to clean the house.

Caroline: Lame, Lame, Lame.

Mom: Do you even know the word Lame?

Caroline: Yes, Lame, Lame, Lame.

Mom: What does Lame mean?

Caroline: Clean the house.