I've been taged and bad hair days?

Alrighty! My darling older sister, Julie, tagged me yesterday and I have just now gotten a chance to sit down and think on what to write. I am supposed to tell you 6 unspecticular quirks about me. So, here goes!

1. I cross-stitch when I have spare time. Obviously, I have not had any spare time in the last 2 years because my nephew Ryan has been waiting for his picture for a very long time!
2. I get HIGHLY ANNOYED by people that drive under the speed limit in the left lane. I think I heard some amens out there.
3. I can only do laundry twice a week. Monday & Thursday. It makes me crazy to deal with laundry every day. I tried it once and I was a nervous wreck waiting for someone to change their clothes! There are only 4 of us so we don't have a ton.
4. I am left handed - this explains ALOT doesn't it?!
5. I hate to have my schedule rearranged.
6. I am involved in a local book club but have never gone to a book store to buy a book - I order everything used thru ebay or amazon.

I would love to hear some of your quirks. I am not going to tag anyone, simply because I have not gotten to know many of you gals yet. So, consider unofficial tags all around.

On a different note, I have to tell you how Abby's day started yesterday. I am still shaking my head! She planned on going with me to my weight watchers meeting and then she was going to help me to get some cakes done at work. (I know that weight watchers and cakes don't really mix but I love it and I usually keep the sweets at work) She was upstairs working on her hair and I kept hearing these huffs and puffs and stomps from her room. I asked her if she needed anything and she kept saying NO! Then I heard the growl. YES - she growled!! I again asked if she needed help and she said she would like for me to blow dry her hair. So I went up and dried her hair and she said she would finish the rest. We needed to go so I told her I would be in the car. She came out a few minutes later and guess what she has done to her hair?! It was in a ponytail!! Yep, that's right - she was having herself a temper tantrum over a ponytail. She got into the car and I started laughing and asked her if she was seriously having a fit over a ponytail. She said she just could not get it right. So there you have it, a bad hair day with a ponytail. Man, look what we have to look forward to.

Enjoy your evening!

Jeanette

A new look....

Well, what do ya think? It is totally me! I LOVE chocolate.

I have chocolate at my house. Do you have any at yours? If not, come on over, I'll share - PROMISE!!

Ok so that title of "mom genius" that I crowned myself with yesterday. Yeah well, it is gone today. It must have only been a 24 hour thing. I am hoping that one of my blog friends has received the crown and will wear it proudly for the day.

Weight Watchers and Cold Stone tomorrow. That goes right?!

The cure for hiccups and other random thoughts.

On the way home from the orthodontist today Gabby had the hiccups for the second time. She was mad so I figured that I would help her out. I waited until she had turned to look out the window again and screamed really loud. She screamed, jumped and yelled wanting to know what was wrong. I told her nothing but I wanted to help her get rid of her hiccups. It was successful but Gabby did have to change her pants when we got home - kidding of course!

I haved decided that in order for my girls to really listen, I will need to be really resourceful. I don't know why this is just now hitting me now that my girls are 13 & 14. I guess it has taken this long for me to feel like I am no longer to come out of survival mode. Sorry gals if you are currently in this stage of life. It hangs on awhile!

Today, in order to get to the previously mentioned ortho appointment, I told the girls we needed to leave our house at 2:37pm. Not a minute before or after. They laughed and wanted to know why that time and I just said because you will remember that time and be ready. It worked!

I now feel like I have become mom genius! I should write a book, or not...

Hoping to get a good night's sleep tonight and not get rudely awaken by the tornado warnings at 5:40am tomorrow morning. Course, that may have been the reason that I came up with such great ideas today.

Na, I come by the mom genius title honestly. I earned it :}

Gabbyisms & Blonde Moments

Gabby is our oldest daughter. She was born a blonde. We have no idea how this happened. I think it is due to all the blonde jokes I used to tell. I REALLY TRULY don't believe that blondes are naturally dumb or even dingy but our Gabby has a real "DAH" streak that runs through her head. Here are a few statements she has said. We call them Gabbyisms!

She was about 3 or 4 when she says.

"Mom, I can't wait until I grow up and have a big butt just like yours."

I turn around (being very careful not to knock her over with my big butt) to make sure this is really my kid talking before I explode.

"WHAT!"

Her reply "That way I won't fall in the toilet anymore!"

REDEMNED!!

In her little mind, she was tired of dunking her tushy and felt that a larger bottom would do the trick. Unfortunately, she has grown up and now has that big butt she was hoping for. She really is not large at all - she wears a size 2 jean. But if there was one thing she would wish to be rid of it would be her hiney. She has inherited exactly what she was hoping for!

Another time when she was in grade school probably 3rd or 4th grade she got into the car and began to tell me about her day.

"Mom, we had a test in school today"

My reply "Really, what was it on?"

With a look of "I can't believe you are actually asking that" she replies.

"A piece of paper."

This is what I have to work with!

That being said, our youngest daugther is Abby. She is a brunett and until this week she was always on top of things. This week she has completely lost it. Mom, what are we doing today comes out of her mouth at least 3 times within the first 1/2 hour of waking. By the third time I usually tell her we are going out back to scoop up elephant dung and feed the chickens. We have a very small backyard and no animals but at least she usually catches the comments and starts laughing. I think it must be the raging hormones as there have been more tears than usual as well.

Ah, life with a teenager. Enjoy your weekend! I would like to customize my blog - send me tips on how to do that!