My mother the Fairy Godmother

breaks

I have now had two breaks in the past week. My kids have both been invited to sleep over with families twice in one week.
WOW!!!! Two dates in one week we are living the high life now * laughs*

We went to see Transformers on the first date and if you are wondering "why?" go back to The Queen blog and know that Marty decided it was his turn to see a movie. It was a good movie that I did somewhat enjoy but I ended sitting next to a very rude, neurotic lady. I would go further into detail but won't for fear of disgracing myself in the process. I can tell you it was a doozy and by the end I wanted to tell her she owed me 9 dollars but didn't.

Tonight we went to dinner and Costco * I know,I know how sad is that..... I got a new spice rack there though and I am happy with that. It still was nice to be together without the kids for a little bit. I am missing them now though.

Here are your funny kid stories for the week:

Conner " SIs, is really the funny one around here she is such a silly girl"

Marty and I chuckle and Marty says " Conner you are funny when you are not trying to be funny buddy" isn't that the truth

Elizabeth and I were having a discussion about her room ( most of you know that she is famous for the state it usually is in) and I tell her it is "OK" that it is sometimes messy because that is what little girls do but that we need to clean it up when we are done with it. She smiles and says "That's what Tigger's do best is make messes and I am a Tigger" seriously my kids know how to crack me up to get out of things.

We had a minor crisis when she threw a book at Conner last night when they were supposed to be in bed. It was this book:


Which is a rather large book and so she gave him a bloody fat lip. Apparently, she wasn't mad and she was trying to be funny and he was coming in to take her Nintendo DS. He was crying and she was crying and I told them that this is why I put them to bed and expect them to stay there.

Concert for Diana

As many of you know I am a big, lifelong Diana buff and this concert was very important for me in many ways. I originally wanted to buy tickets and go to the concert but they weren't allowing kids under 12 and I wanted my children to go with me. So I resorted to watching the concert on VH1 all day and recording the one on NBC.

  I was so impressed at what William and Harry put together for their mother and the strength it must have taken to get through the day. I think most of the acts were geared toward their tastes. Duran Duran was disappointing to say the least and I thought that Nick Rhodes having to look at the notes on a laptop was a sign of the times. I really enjoyed Elton John's opening performance that made the hair on my arms stand up. I enjoyed watching Lilly Allen, Rod Stewart, P.Diddy, The Andrew Lloyd Webber presentation and the English national ballet is what my kids are still talking about.

 I think the most touching moment came at the end when the played never before seen movies of Diana set to a Queen song that really brought the whole day into perspective. I think it was a wonderful way to spend the day remembering her and that is what I did.

my new blog

I have been blogging for several years now on myspace but wanted to share with more people who choose not to join for numerous reasons. I am bringing over the archives of my old blog to here and posting those so I can have them all in one place. I always like to read the archives of a new blog that I start reading that way when something posts I am in the know of what they are alluding too. I love being able to share and express my self in written word and having a archive of past events. Bear with me as I am not a good writer or English major by any means. I am a wife and mom who wants a way to share with other wives and moms. I hope you enjoy as much as I enjoy reading other blogs myself.

the goodnight

So tonight Elizabeth wanted to read to me and she read to me from "Junie B. Jones" and she was reading and it was so funny to her she was laughing and then I had to read and then I was laughing. Junie gave her dog a haircut in the story and it was really funny. She ended up reading the whole 86 page book in one sitting...aaahh, payback yet again since I blew through books like that. Good thing it was a library book :)

Then Conner read to me and did really well. He is getting better and better these days and is making huge progress with his reading.

Then I put them to bed and Conner came running down and said the neighbor was outside ( he heard this from upstairs) and said a satellite was going over. So we went out back and something bright was moving across the sky and you could see a shape to it and something coming in the distance. We watched them until out of sight and came in and checked NASA skywatch and sure enough we had witnessed the shuttle and space station go overhead. I didn't know that they were so easy to see and so bright. Very exciting night for us!

Music and Lyrics

Who knows how the last version of this got set to Diary ??? Here is the original cut and pasted:


If you grew up in the 80's and you love 80's music this is the movie for you. I think I have watched it 5 times in the past two days. I love it! I always watch Hugh Grant movies and love all of them. I think this is my favorite all time Hugh Grant movie it is that good. The music is pretty good too and now I want the soundtrack.

Speaking of 80's heard coming from the back-seat yesterday driving down the road "Rock the Cash box, Rock the Cash box..sssriee don't like it Rock the Cash box" You can only guess which child that was heard coming from :)
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I am adding this as a side note: This weekend I was looking up Tears for Fears and found out that Curt Smith has a myspace. So I checked it out and it is him and he runs it himself. This was my childhood crush and my favorite band of all time. So I was able to send him a message and he not only read it he added me as a friend. WOW! What a great thing!

random thoughts

ahhh, back to the blog! It seems like forever since I have

Life is good here in Visalia we have been enjoying nice weather. Very odd for this time of year.

We got a pool, a little easy set pool. What were we thinking??? first we got took on buying chemicals. That guy saw us coming. Then all the kids want to do is swim but I know this is what my grandparents and aunts were waiting for "PAYBACK" all they did was watch us swim all day everyday for about 20 yrs. The only problem is our back yard isn't really even and it is needing to be drained and moved. It is kinda oblong instead of round. But the good news is I am tan. Bad news, I will probably get skin cancer from tanning that would be bad.

School is done except for Conner and his math and reading that he must finish before summer is over. Pray for patience for me. All he wants to do is swim and he already doesn't get to go to camp because of not finishing his work.

Conner is the king of random thought here is my favorite out of all that we have heard in the past two weeks:

" mom I can't learn to play the banjo! They don't sell them at Wal-Mart" OK! I cried at this one.

Elizabeth never wants to clean up but she did finish all her schoolwork. She is still at that age of mispronouncing things and these are two she keep saying:

When I ask her to do something she salutes me and says "YES, MAMMARY" no you did not misread that instead of saying "YES, MA'AM" she calls me Mammary.

Then she keeps telling Marty " Mommy touched me how to do breast stroke today" hehe she means "taught" but she keeps saying touched. :P

We have been so busy with birthday parties and end of school parties and this and that. More of that this week.

I think because it is summer and we have a pool I have dreamed about my grandparents house and pool two nights in a row now. I won't elaborate.

I am me and happy to be me. Just nerdy, dorky me!