tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66794522009-11-08T20:27:06.723-05:00I am a 30-something stay-at-home mother to five kids. They are all under the age of 11. Yes, we chose to have that many kids, no we are not some weird religion, and yes we are done. Thanks for asking! I have been married to my high school sweetheart for over 13 years and have enjoyed almost every minute of it. To hear about the daily antics that occur in my house just start reading!Joditoogirls2000@yahoo.comBlogger1472125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679452.post-12412509871640005972008-03-07T14:44:00.002-05:002008-03-07T14:47:38.555-05:00

I have the spring cleaning bug today. Must be from being at my sister's house where it was over 70F one day and always above 40. Because it is well below zero today with the high only getting to 10F. Blah.But my house is getting clean. I dusted and scrubbed and de-cluttered.I have a new technique for cleaning up the clutter. I take EVERYTHING that is not where it belongs that I have collected

Joditoogirls2000@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679452.post-81483228029335449662008-03-06T10:20:00.003-05:002008-03-06T10:25:21.161-05:00

The days are starting to separate from each other now. The last week felt like a big blur of days. LOLThe kids are off to school today so I am going to sneak into town and have lunch with my husband.I also get to go and register our new car today. That is going to be a hefty check to write. I am thankful we have the money though to do it with.We brought my Mom's kitten home. It is having a hard

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As you can imagine right now life for me is very stressful. As I got up the morning of my Mom's funeral to get in the shower, I noticed my face in the mirror. Suddenly, at the age of 33, I had a new crop of pimples. Ugh!I have always had pretty severe acne. Thankfully as I get older it seems to be getting better. But stress is always a trigger for me, it seems. I am so grateful to the companies

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We got home late last night. I am having a hard time going back to life as usual. Partly because of my sadness and partly because of the break we had while at my sister's house.The dumbest things make me cry. I was listening to an onstar commercial on the radio and I started crying again last night.Then we came home and found our front door wide open and all the lights on. Apparently the neighbor

Joditoogirls2000@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679452.post-32884751395059186312008-03-05T09:36:00.000-05:002008-03-05T23:00:07.524-05:00

Every year as we get closer and closer to Christmas I try to think of cool presents my kids can make for our family.The last few years we had made some kind of photo project. Then after Christmas this year I found out about these custom printed calendars. They are a perfect gift for grandparents or any relative who likes to see your family year round. :)I think we will give them a try this year

Joditoogirls2000@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679452.post-90978021075743989112008-02-29T22:30:00.003-05:002008-02-29T22:37:54.462-05:00

I have a few minutes so I thought I would pop in and say thank you to all of you for your thoughts and prayers and to answer a few questions.My mom was not sick. This was totally and completely unexpected. We don't know at this time what she died from. She died almost 5 days before my sister and stepdad had someone break into her house. When I got the call they had just gone in and found her.They

Joditoogirls2000@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679452.post-60312680778022488772008-02-26T19:26:00.001-05:002008-02-26T19:27:39.666-05:00

I got a call at 3:00 this afternoon that my mom has passed away.I am leaving to go to my hometown right now.

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Yesterday two kids had a stomache ache. Today another one is home throwing up.We can really stop acquiring germs any day now.Really!

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It is Monday. I am here. I survived the weekend. Barely...I got the Tamiflu on Friday about 6 and took the first pill immediately. At that point I was taking two aleve twice a day and it was not making my body aches and head aches even SLIGHTLY better. I was ready to curl up and give in. Then sometime during the night that little pill must have started working its magic. The headache and body

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We were watching one of those design shows on HGTV this weekend and they had the coolest t.v. console. The t.v. slides down at the touch of a button INTO the cabinet. On the design show they had this in their bedroom. "What an awesome way to hide a t.v. in the bedroom!" I thought. So after some research online I found a page full of tv lift cabinets. I am so totally in love with this one. A t.v.

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After doing some shopping this past week, I am curious as to how many of you are brand-specific when shopping.I mentioned quite awhile ago that I almost never buy brand name anything. But note I said almost.There are some things I am particular about. Like Kraft Ranch Dressing. It is the only one I like (well that and the one they use at Perkins but they won't tell me what that is). And I used to

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I have fallen off the exercise wagon for the last several months. I had finally gotten my motivation back when the flu hit. I would like to get back to Denise Austin in the mornings but now she only has one show on and it is on at the exact time I need to get up and get moving in the morning. So then started dreaming of an exercise room in our basement. Only our basement is icky. It would involve

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Today it was 45F here! It was sooooo nice. We took the kids to the park to play. While it was wet and mushy it was glorious to get out of the house, feel the sunshine, and watch the kids play and run.While we were there we heard sirens and pretty soon the ambulance pulled up across the street from the park. The kids thought that was rather exciting until they realized nothing happens after the

Joditoogirls2000@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679452.post-75349584676419753982008-02-23T14:43:00.002-05:002008-02-23T14:48:53.165-05:00

Still sick today. Thankfully I was able to get Tamiflu through my doctor. I was rather skeptical but I took it anyway. I took the first one last night about 6. Sometime during the night my body aches and headache subsided. Then this morning I took another one. I seem to be slowly getting better or at least I am not getting worse. Yesterday morning I felt icky but nothing too bad but by bedtime I

Joditoogirls2000@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679452.post-86368632272691290982008-02-22T11:59:00.003-05:002008-02-22T12:02:03.298-05:00

It is Friday. Which means all my kids are home thanks to the 4 day week at school. Which means we could be playing games, going to town, going shopping, or any number of other FUN things.But instead I woke up with the flu. I swear a truck came through my room last night and ran me over.And here I was just thinking yesterday how I must have avoided this particular strain because the kids all had

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It is almost noon and I still haven't gotten in the shower.Not because I am being lazy but because our water heater is on our power company's energy control program. That means they can shut if off whenever they need want to.And lately they have been shutting it off from about 6:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Which isn't retarded. Not all all. Afterall who wants to shower before going to work or school?

Joditoogirls2000@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679452.post-87455270343542589622008-02-21T13:52:00.005-05:002008-02-21T13:55:04.349-05:00

I need a good book that explains all the things a tweenage girl needs to know about her body, boys, and the birds and the bees.We have had the discussion many times now but I would like for the girls to have a sort of "reference" book to look back at as they get older. I think it is all too much to take in in one sitting.Any ideas?

Joditoogirls2000@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679452.post-15582175508097451362008-02-21T08:35:00.003-05:002008-02-21T08:56:53.642-05:00

The rules for the "You Make My Day" award, are to re-present it to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blogland. Let them know through an email or posting to their blog so they can pass it on. You may get the award more than once, so if you do, consider yourself very loved! So pass it on!!!Here are ten bloggers who I love reading because of

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Yesterday we took the kids out to dinner. We chose a chinese buffet place.I was so nervous about going because Jack had been having a really bad day. He spent a good 2 hours total in his room screaming his head off. Gotta love those days.But about halfway through our meal a lady who was sitting at a nearby table came over and told us we had the best behaved kids she had ever seen. (I imagine

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A few of you have asked how Jack is doing.Jack is doing....okay?.....Since the other day when he actually laid down without screaming we have had 3 other times of actually laying down without screaming.The rest of the time he screams. And yesterday he started kicking the wall or the side of his crib in addition to screaming his head off.I am not sure you would call this progress. But at least we

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Just Checking in on you... Nuff said... Put 'em up...

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Holy smokes Billy's work needs to get this for their employee's performance reviews. This year he was due for his evaluation in June. He finished the paper work and handed it in by July 1st, as requested.But he didn't have his actual evaluation meeting until DECEMBER! 6 months is way too long to keep an employee hanging.

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Right now I am totally immersed in getting ourselves debt free. It seems to consume most of my energy. I would like to lose weight too but I don't seem to have enough brain power to do both at the same time.For now I am content to watch our debt go down. As that gets easier and starts to flow I will start working more on the weight issue. One goal at a time...

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We are now the proud new owners of the GMC YUKON!Yeeeeehaw! It is a beautiful beast of a car. We all fit in comfortably and with room for all our stuff.Too bad the gas mileage isn't a little better.God's timing couldn't have been better though as my van bit the dust on Wednesday night. It is going to cost 900 to fix.

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