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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

For me, we celebrated yesterday. Aaron was the cook, and our dinner was awesome. Normally, I don't eat too much of our Thanksgiving dinner because I typically don't like what my mom cooks, but Aaron had tons of stuff. We had a turkey, of course, stuffing, home-made mashed potatoes, home-made gravy, from scratch macaroni and cheese, green beans, green bean casserole (both of which I did not eat), corn on the cob, rolls, home-made corn bread muffins, deviled eggs, 3 homemade pumpkin pies, 1 homemade apple caramel pie, and 1 homemade apple cinnamon pie. I still feel like I forgot something, but it doesn't matter. It was all sooo good.

I took a few pictures of AJ's first Thanksgiving, but I haven't taken them off of my camera yet. I'll have to do that later.

I'm off to make Broccoli-Cheddar Quiche.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Movie

AJ and I went to Movie in the Park last night with Laura, Thomas, and Joe. It was Kung Fu Panda, which we have been watching all week lol. Oh well. It was nice when we left, a little chilly when we got there, and COLD by the end of the movie. I had brought three blankets to wrap up in, but next time I'll make sure that we at least have one for each, depending on if it is actually going to be cold in December. Last year it did not get cold until right after AJ was born. It is really nice that it is cold now, thought, and I really do want a cold Christmas.
Anyway, back to the movie... the concession prices were very good, and I actually ate a hotdog and liked it. The babies fell asleep a little into the movie, and they were all swaddled up in their blankets, and we laid them down next to each other. It totally made me feel like he was a newborn again, I miss the newborn stage ALOT.
Alrighty, I do have to get going. I have a little boy in the next room who seems to be smelling up the house.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Poundage

Brrrr... I'm chilly right now. And... I'm very tired.

So, I was reading Sgt and Mrs Hub's blog tonight. She was talking about her struggle with weight, which if you read back some posts, I was working on too. It got me thinking about something that I've been thinking about for awhile.

I am not happy with my post pregnant flabby body. To be honest, I wasn't happy with it before either, but ya don't know how good ya got it til it's gone, right? But... I do have to give myself some credit, which I wasn't doing. I would get very disappointed with myself if I missed a day of exercising, but I've stopped for alittle while because of the anxiety I was having. I'm actually going to start formulating a new routine soon. Anyway, onto why I give myself some credit. It took me 39 weeks to gain 32 pounds (remember: pregnant). I got those 32 pounds off before AJ was 10 months old. It took me about the same about of time to lose it as to gain it. That is an accomplishment! I just forget to let myself know that because I forget how much I actually weighed at the end of my pregnancy.

I definitely don't think that I could lose another 30 pounds in 10 months. I mean it's only 3 pounds a month, and I guess I could do it, but it's too scary to think of it in a big number. Although, if I did lose that much I would be pretty damn close to where I was at the end of high school, and 15 more would be where I was at the beginning of high school.

I'm going to leave you with a scary question though.... if I lost 45 pounds... how saggy would my boobs and belly be? EEEEWWWWW...

Monday, November 17, 2008

Boo

Boy oh boy, am I tired? I was up at 5:50 this morning to get ready for work. I went to work in the music class that I've worked in before with the emotionally disturbed kids. I like going to that school. I have seen other teachers trying to control a kid in the hallway there, and it is scary, but I have not had an issue yet. I even feel that a lot of these kids are much better behaved than in the "regular" schools that I go to.


I had to stop blogging for a few minutes to give my boy some smooches. His slimey, dirty face needed some smooches. I have lived through four younger brothers, but it never ceases to amaze me how a baby can get so dirty doing nothing. The worse part is, the floor was just mopped and vacuumed the other day... just goes to show you can't always get all of the dirt. Oh, AJ has another tooth! Grand total: 5 He's just popping them out.

I also want to add in here, Aaron is a WONDERFUL cook. He made me lunch when he got home. Chicken tenders and potato wedges. Exactly what I wanted, and he made them. It was yummy.

I don't have too much going on in my life right now. It's just working, doing schoolwork, and being a mommy.


Thursday, November 13, 2008

A story

Acouple of nights ago, Aaron made a ziti type pasta dish. He made alot! A lot more than we could eat lol. I had to go to my mom's to scan some drawings for school, and I brought the left overs with me. My brothers are sure to eat practically anything, expecially if it is a homecooked meal. I left to go to the bookstore, and my mom calls me alittle while later. She thanks me for the food (she was sleeping when I was there) and said all the boys loved it, except Michael. He had walked into her room, and freaked out. Here is the convo: Michael - Blue Mom - Red
Are they TRYING to poinson me???
What are you talking about?
They are trying to poison me, there was a leaf in my food!
There wasn't a leaf in your food, you're imagining it.
There was a leave, I'll show you.
Michael shows her his food.
Oh Michael, that's seasoning, it's a bay leaf.
Gross! He throws it in the trash.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Quicky

Just a short blog before I'm off to work. I took an art class at a middle school today. This school hadn't been one of my favorite schools in the past, so we'll see how it goes.

In the wedding news... I'm not really closer to a decision yet, but I'm leaning back to the original plan, but still don't want to give up the new idea. Can you say frustrating!

In AJ news... I don't know how that boy doesn't freeze to death at night. We don't have any footed sleepers for him. I went in to check on him this morning... no socks, pants rolled up on his legs... and he didn't have a shirt on. I put his blankets on him, and he kicks them off in his sleep. I won though! He was sleeping on his belly, and a very carefully, and slowly layed a blanket on him, and then I did it again with another blanket... just to be sure.

Alright, well I have to go. I need to get lunch ready for me.. and then off I go. I feel like I don't have any time today though. I have to go to work. I have an exam, and two art projects due, along with some stupid postings. I really hate having to use a discussion board for school. They want you to reply, but it's always stupid.... "Yeah I agree" cause there really isn't anything to disagree about. Whatever! And, I need to pick my classes for next semester...

Anywhoooooo.... Have a good day!

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Wedding Uncertainties

No... it's not pre wedding butterflies telling me not to get married.

It's the fact that I thought that Aaron and I had pretty much hammered out the major details of when and where... but now I'm changing my mind. I feel stuck in between my two options, and I just don't know what to choose. I know which one Aaron wants, but I'm not to certain that I really want that. I know this is all so confusing, it's confusing for me to write, because I'm not ready to give out details just yet. I have to work tomorrow, I think when I'm on my planning period I'm going to make some phone calls. Maybe that will help me decide.

I'm happy to say that we know what we are doing for the honeymoon. We're going to go to Las Vegas. So, either way there is hope in that just one detail is hammered out.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

My November so far

I've spent the past couple of days doing absolutely nothing, mostly anyway. I haven't really had school work to do, so we've spent the past couple days watching movies, sleeping, and last night after AJ went to be we had a few drinks.
I have come to realize that my emotions can be bipolar sometimes. I love my life, really I do. I love my beautiful boy, and Aaron to no end, but while I'm telling myself I love my life, I'm also thinking of things that I HAVE to change. It makes no sense really!
I'm going to get mushy, really mushy right now.
AJ is my life. I love him so much. Seriously, I never knew that you could love like this. This love is so overwhelming sometimes that it makes me tear up. I look at my boy, and he is just the most beautiful person I have ever seen. When he's playing and I'm watching him, he turns to make sure I'm there and gives me the biggest smile. He calls me mama (more like mammammam, but he does it only when I am there) and I can't even express how I feel. My baby is turning into a toddler, and I can't believe that in two short months and a few days he will be 1 year old. I still can't believe I am a mom. AJ now has his fourth tooth, it popped through three days ago. So, now he has two on bottom, and two on top. He doesn't have both his front teeth though, he has one front tooth and a tooth to the side of that. The other front tooth should be popping though very soon, I can see it under the gum.
I watched Thomas, Laura's almost 8 month old, for two days this week while she was gone at a conferance. I will say it was very difficult to take care of both boys at such a close age. It actually wasn't this difficult when both of them couldn't move around. This may surprise you, but the difficulty was not in them getting into things, but them fighting. They pushed and pulled each other over, they fought to sit in my lap, and they did yell at each other. At one point it looked like they were trying to hit each other but it ended up being a gentle touch to the face, lol. It made it alot easier when we came back to my house rather than staying at Laura's house because AJ was not happy being there, and Thomas seemed more easy going about being in a different house. AJ does not seem to like sharing his mommy. The second day was harder for Thomas, I think he missed his mommy, and that made him very cranky. He cried a lot of the day, which caused a problem with AJ because AJ did not want me to spend time with Thomas, and when I did AJ would start crying.
So, that was Wednesday and Friday. Thursday, I went to work. OMG!! lol. Anyway, it was a rough day there too. I substituted for a middle school reading class. These kids really tested me, but there was a substitute across the hall that had it worse. Her first period the kids started chanting BITCH. I felt bad for her, I wouldn't have known what to do except for to call administrators at that point. I actually just had to send out a bunch of referalls. My second class I sent out two referrals, one because a boy was throwing text books across the room, and the other because the boy that I sent the referral with didn't take it to the office. Obviously I was in middle school once, and yes I did think that adults were on the slow side when it came to some things.. like computers, and such, but what I don't get is why these kids think that I'm stupid enough not to know what is going on in the classroom. Yes, I can see you throwing a book across the room, yes I do know that there is a chance you won't take the referal to the office and that is why I check, yes I can see that you just minimized a website that you are not suppose to be on, and yes I did just see you grab a bunch of pencils and shove them in your jacket sleeve. The last one sounds wierd, but it did happen lol. The next class I sent out 5 referrals, yes 5! Just a group of kids got together, and egged each other on to make the class a disaster. I truely did lose control of the classroom, the worse part was, when I called the administrators they sent someone down, and they did nothing. They told me to start sending kids out, but I would send a kid out only to have them be sent back to me, lovely. Oh, and the other classroom kept sending their bad kids to my room, which made it worse. It was a horrible horrible day.
Onto the movies that I have watched so far. We watched a movie called Factory Girl, I thought it was pretty good. It's about a Edie Sedwhick, she was made famous by Andy Warhol. We also watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall, this was a good movie too. Very funny. I've seen bits and pieces so far of Journey to the Center of the Earth, it looks good so far. There is one more movie, I think it is call Get Smart. I haven't watched it yet, it was a movie that Aaron wanted, but it has the guy that was in Bruce Almighty, and he also was in the movie just like Bruce Almight but it was about Noah, and I think it was call Evan Almighty or something. I don't know, anyway, I'll probably what Get Smart later tonight if I don't crash soon. I'm starting to get very tired.
Ok, and I'm going to let you in on something that I learned last night, and if you don't want to read some extremely personal about an intimacy issue then don't continue reading. I'll just say bye to you know because I'm not going to say anymore after this..

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Ok here goes...




No matter how much you have to drink, Anal sex is still not a good idea!