Tuesday Randomness

Putting together several random thoughts constitutes a blog post, right?  I say yes. : )

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Bathroom Mystery...

I don't know what it is.

Perhaps the gravitational pull in our bathroom is just immense.

This is the scene I come upon at least once a day.

Dang towel super gravity.

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Life with a boy....

This has become a permanent fixture on the back of my desk chair.  Oh, and the hard hat is a required part of the "uniform." Safety first!

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Upcoming fun...

Jason and I will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary in July.  Yay!  We've got some plans for a getaway in the works.

Here's a little hint.

We'll be hoping to see some of these.

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Brennan-isms...

As Brennan's vocabulary grows, he comes up with some often funny ways of expressing himself.  I thought I better write some of them down before I forget.

A lot of them revolve around Panda.

Who's Panda?

We got Brennan a Pillow Pet for his birthday.

It's the first thing he really ever asked for, and actually he started asking for one back before Christmas, so we got him a panda.

Panda and Brennan were inseparable from day one.  Actually, he is already looking a little dingy and it's only been 2 1/2 months.  Brennan drags him everywhere!  Panda is usually the first thing I see most mornings.  Brennan will climb in our bed and shove Panda in my face and say, "Good Mornin' Mommy, Panda says Good Mornin' too."  Of course there are some days that I just want to send Panda sailing across the room, but I'm a nice mommy and don't.

According to Brennan, Panda is silly and sleeps a lot.  He also keeps me constantly appraised of Panda's emotional state.  Just a few minutes ago I was informed that, "Panda is happy."  Thank goodness, we can't be having any mopey pandas around here!   

A few more:

- After he yawns he says, "I'm just a little bit tired."

- When he sees the FedEx truck, "Look Fox!" (It took us awhile to figure that one out.) :)

- When he wants to take a nap, "Brennan needs to go take a little sleep."

- Blueberries and Strawberries are "Blue Boggies."

- Any time we're outside he has to point out every school bus, UPS truck, FedEx truck, mailman, concrete mixer, trash truck, motorcycle, bicycle, balloon and American flag we come across.

- American flag comes out "A-mark-a-mark-an flag.

The computer is the "com-puke-a-pew-ter."

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And last but not least, it's a big day...

Happy Birthday Andrew!

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As for the rest of our day, it's all overcast and looking like rain outside, so we have big plans to watch Mary Poppins and to do some laundry.

Have a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day!

Tuesday Tidbits

Are you getting used to me doing weekend recaps on Tuesday?  It's kind of like a tradition now.  Monday just always seems to be such a busy day, and I never seem to find the time to blog.  But I'm ready now, so here we go.

Our Thanksgiving weekend was good.  Besides Jason running to the Shopette a couple of times we didn't leave the house the entire time.  Not that we wanted to since it was COLD and snowing most of the time.



Friday Jason hauled out all the Christmas stuff out of the storage closet.  He We also decided that the big Christmas tree was going up this year, so he hauled that out of the garage.  (If that does make any sense, let me explain.  We have two Christmas trees, a really big fat one, and a really skinny one.  Which one goes up depends on what house and what living room we have each year.  Part of being a military family and moving alot, I guess.)  It took some effort to get the big tree to fit.  We had to move the loveseat to the other side of the room, squish up the dining room table and chairs, and move the desk into the laundry room.  When it came time to assembly the tree, I left some of the branches out of the bottom so it would fit closer to the wall.  Shhh, don't tell anyone.  It was a lot of work, but it was worth it.



I am glad that this tree is really sturdy, and that I put all of the breakable ornaments at the top.  Every time Brennan is in the room, he has to grab and say hello to all the Santas, snowmen, and birds.  He also has to take a swing at all the bells to hear them "ring, ring ring," as he says.  With those noisemakers plus all of my cookie tins he has adopted as drums, we have a Christmas orchestra preformance in the living room every night.

We got most of the rest of the decorations up as well, and I finished the advent tree, but I think I will wait until later in the week to unveil those.  I know you can't wait! : )

Have a great week!

Blue Hair Starts at 35 and Other Tuesday Tidbits

We've had a few sicky days here at the Bal House.  Thankfully, nothing too awful, but enough for me to have no ambition to blog, or to take any pictures of anything, so don't be disappointed when you don't find any this time around.  So with the overall feeling of blah, there hasn't been anything monumental happening, just a couple of bits here and there.

I guess we better start with the reason for the melancholy days:

The Sicky. 
Brennan woke me up crying Friday morning, he wasn't hot, or clammy or anything, he just said he needed to blow his nose.  We took care of that, we rocked in the chair awhile, and then I put him back to bed.  The next morning, aside from the runny nose, he was his normal self, so we took him to school.  That evening the fun started.  He still had the runny nose, but now he also had the barking seal cough, and a fever.  Saturday morning, he was a little better, but then I started to get that feeling of being in a fog, and a sore throat.  Joy.  Brennan bounced right back to his old self by Sunday evening.  I, on the other hand am still living in Sicky-ville.  Hopefully, I get to come back soon.  I don't like it here at all.  (And poor Jason, he had a 4 day weekend for Veteran's Day.  We sure weren't too much fun for that.)

My Current TV Addiction.
I'm sure some of you watched the series Heroes when it was on TV.  I never did; it never looked like my kind of show, plus I'm sure it was on at the same time as something I actually did like to watch.  Well, I was going though Netflix the other day, and Heroes came up as available for Instant Viewing.  I remembered it had the guy who played Jess on Gilmore Girls, the "whipped cream bikini" cheerleader from Varsity Blues, and one of the Neutrogena girls, so I thought I would check it out.  (Nice reasoning to watch a show, huh?)  I've been watching it every chance I get since then.  It's still not something I would normally watch, but I just have to know how it all turns out.  I did Google it, and found out the show was cancelled after four seasons due to high production costs.  That means it will probably end stupidly, and I will be disappointed in the whole thing.  I'll let you know.

The Blue Hair.
I know you've been dying to know about that one. : )  Well, since not being able to breath laying down prevented me from getting much sleep, I got up early Sunday morning and colored my hair.  A pretty normal occurrence, yes, I do that every 4 to 6 weeks.  However, this time was a little different.  The last couple of times I colored my hair I have been trying to go lighter.  Those of you who know me, know that my hair has been through varying shades over the past 20 years, from blonde to very dark brown.  In the last year or so I have stuck with dark brown, and I was ready for a change.  The problem is, my hair wasn't having it.  The first time, I got one shade lighter, and my hair stayed the same color.  The next time, I went two shades lighter, and my roots turned lighter, but the rest stayed the same.  Uh, oh, not a good look.  So this time, I got two boxes of Darkest Ash Blonde, thinking that would surely do it.  The problem is, I wasn't paying attention when I was at the store, and the boxes I picked up were of the True Brunette variety, instead of the normal hair color.  But it was 5:30 in the morning, I was in my hair coloring shirt, and there was no way I was going back to Target to exchange them.  My bad.  The main part of my hair is a tad lighter, but now my roots are a mess.  They really are blue. There was a warning on the box not to use the hair coloring on predominantly gray hair.  I scoffed, that didn't apply to me.  Ha ha...yeah.  Now I am an official member of the Blue Hair Club.  They lowered their membership age just for me.

Things I'm Pondering Lately.
As you know, I've been super excited about Christmas this year.  I really, really wanted to watch a Christmas movie this weekend, but Jason vetoed me.  He said that if I wanted to watch Christmas movies with him, I had to wait until after Thanksgiving.  (I think it was more about the football schedule of the day.)  OK then, I thought, then we'll watch a Thanksgiving movie.  Problem was, besides the Charlie Brown cartoon, I couldn't think of one Thanksgiving movie.  Hmmmm...are there any?  I Googled my predicament, and the lists of Recommended Thanksgiving Movies was ridiculous.  The Ice Storm, Pieces of April...no thank you.  I wanted a snuggley, family friendly movie.  I ended up ordering Pocahontas off of eBay.  Not exactly what I had in mind, but it will do.

Well, I'm off to find some cold medicine, drink a Pumpkin Spice Latte...and probably not much else. 

Have a great day!

Weekend Recap...I Know it's Tuesday

Of course I meant to write this post yesterday, but I had priorities.  I had to sew up these little cuties, so no blogging for me.



I think they turned out pretty well.  I would have made more, but I ran out of stuffing.

On to the weekend.  I didn't get to put up fall decorations earlier in the week like I originally wanted to.  Why?  Because the tote that had all the stuff I needed was way in the back of our small, dark storage closet, buried under all the Christmas totes, (never fails) so I had to wait for Jason to help me get to it.  So that didn't happen until Saturday morning.  When we did get it all moved out, you would have thought it was Christmas.  Brennan had the greatest time pulling everything out of the box.  Following the unpacking, the house looked like it exploded, but that's ok.  It was worth it to see Brennan so excited.  (For some reason he absolutely loves pumpkins!)  I haven't taken pictures of everything yet, but when I do I'll post them.

Saturday night we went to the Olive Garden to eat, and the walked around Target for a couple hours.  That's the usual routine; go out to eat, eat too much, and then walk around Target to get some exercise until you feel normal again.  Hey, works for us. : )  We did find some good deals on stuff we normally wouldn't have even looked at.  Jason found a new leather cell phone holder on clearance for $4.98 and I found two good-smelling candles on sale for $0.75.  Score!

Sunday was the usual, we did the yard work, ran to Walmart (I can't remember why, now), and watched football.  Some of us (Jason) got more napping time in than football watching time, but it was all good.  I did make my pot of chili.  It was really good, and I made it in the crockpot so I didn't make too much.  (Usually, I make so much we are eating the leftovers all week.)  Sunday evening, Jason had to go to the airport to pick up a friend, and Brennan and I skyped with Nana and Papaw (oh, and "puppy," we can't forget her.)

 Other tidbits:

We watched Sherlock Holmes.  Rating: Eh.  Definitely not a movie I will ever want to watch again.

Brennan has discovered he can put on his own shoes.  He proceeds to put them on and take them off several times a day.

He also has figured out how to "play" his harmonica.  We get to hear his "music" all day.

I started ready the Harry Potter series.  I know, how many years behind am I.  My 100 Books post from the other day got me looking through the bookcase and I found one of the Harry Potter books Shanny or Andrew must have left behind one summer.  I figured what the heck, so I read that one, and then ordered the others off of eBay.  So that's what's on my reading list right now, which of course will require me to then watch the movies.

Well, I think that's about it.  Let's see what we can get into this week.  : )


Hugs,

Thursday Tidbits

Some little tidbits from our week.

Maggie is almost out of dog food.
Normally not a big deal, we'd just go get some. But this week it's really cold. And windy. And Snowy. And really cold. In order to delay having to leave the house for a day or two, I've been giving her extra table scraps...and leftovers. Like when all the salisbury steak I made the other day didn't fit into the plastic bowl I picked, I didn't get another bowl, I just put the extras in Maggie's food dish. Or when I made Pigs in Blankets yesterday, I had too many pigs and not enough blankets. Maggie gobbled those pigs right up. I also made her scrambled eggs for breakfast. We had french toast, and after I was done with the toast, I cooked up the leftover egg mixture. Well, Maggie's a big dog, and what I had left didn't look like enough for a hearty breakfast, so I added another egg (or two). Believe me, she's in doggie heaven.

I resent Jason superhuman willpower against chocolate and cookies.
I just don't understand it. At Christmas time, Jason loves peanut butter balls, and peanut butter fudge, and sugar cookies, and butterscotch haystacks. This year since we're not going to be visiting family for Christmas, I thought I would try to whip up some of those tasty treats right here at home. So far I have made the peanut butter balls and the sugar cookies. Both turned out absolutely scrumptious. The downside of that is, Jason can eat one or two of them and he's done.

Not one or two a day, one or two total.

Now what exactly is supposed to happen to the other 38 peanut butter balls, and the other 22 sugar cookies? That's right, somebody has to eat them. And who does that leave. You guessed it, me. Brennan doesn't count, if I give him a half a ball, I still have to eat the other half, and he only licks the icing off the cookies. Not that I eat the leftover cookie, that's just gross, but Maggie enjoys them. Now I was able to ship off half of the peanut butter balls to work with Jason. That still leaves a dangerous amount of peanut butter balls lurking in the refrigerator.

Baby Jesus is missing.
Last year for Christmas, Santa brought Brennan a Fisher-Price Nativity play set. This year we set it up on the coffee table for Brennan to play with. He is very proud of it, and was doing a good job of learning all the characters. Of course, Baby Jesus was his favorite. He carried him all through the house. Well, for the last couple days Baby Jesus has been MIA. (Oh, why couldn't it have been the sheep!) I keep hoping he will turn up. I've looked everywhere I can think he might be stashed, but no luck. I'm hoping for a Christmas miracle...or if it comes to it, an awesome eBay auction.

You can find anything on eBay, right?