Playground Bullies

Ok so when does bullying start. Ok I know this is stupid, but I just want people to be nice to my kids. I mean come on Curls is 2 1/2. So tonight we went to the park as a family. It was great to spend some time together. Curls was playing on some playground equipment all by himself and this group of older boys (if I had to guess, I would say second graders) walked by and said "Hey Bill Clinton" Ok I don't even get that, but then they were kind of mocking Curls. Oh it made my heart hurt because he thinks older kids are so cool. They weren't being super mean just stupid, but you want your kid to not get picked on. So of course being the crazy mom that I am I shot them a not so nice look. The leader of the gang looked at me and goes "OH HI Lady" Ohh I hate smart mouth-ness! One of my pet peeves!

The count down is on!!!!

Well ladies Mother's Day is right around the corner. I was thinking today about what to do for my mom and honestly comming up blank. Sooo I was wondering if any of you have any cool traditions or fun things that you do that might help inspire me. Please comment me and let me know!

The Handy Man Can.....

Curls came out of his room tonight like this.. Isn't it funny what they come up with sometimes?

Rewind decided that he would practice his "cheeses"! He has become a big fan of the camera! He kept waiting around wanting me to take his picture. It was so cute. Such the little ham!

He is such a sweet boy. His little personality comes out more and more each day. I just can't believe in less than 6 months he will be 2 years old. Where did the time go?

I love Garage Sales!

Today this was my big find.. and the day is not over yet!

I love this one because we can lock it to keep the boys out of it. Ohh I love a good deal. $20.00 people!

Ok here we go!

Ok so this was my day..

• Started off exhausted from having to clean up mold from our apartment. (Apparently due to all of our recent moisture a lot of people in our complex are having issues.) Anyways we lost our couch to it.
• Then I went to our bank to pick up a local swap sheet. (looking for garage sales) Anyways on my way out of the bank I was looking over the sheet and some old guy gets out of his truck. He says "You buyin something from me?" I looked confused and said "NO" He goes "yeah cause you ain't got no money for me". Then he starts this weird cackle and walks into the bank.. I swear I attract weird people.
• Later I am talking to this bank about supplemental loans for summer school. Ok I have to be careful how I word this, but it really frustrates me when you call in somewhere and can barely understand the person you are talking to. Today I got the question of all questions. This lady that I called at the BANK asked me how to spell the state I lived in. Spell the state I live in. For privacy reasons I will not say what state I live in, however most of my blog readers know. You guys all know it is not a hard state to spell. I am sure had my morning not been so weird I probably would have taken it a little better. I just figured if you work in the loans department of the bank, spelling the states might be a good thing to know. Especially my state.. NOT HARD~!
• Finally on my weird day stuff, I was going to our city hall to drop some stuff off and for some stupid reason I always have trouble finding it. So I pull over and ask this guy for directions. (This really isn't important but he just had his leg removed) He proceeded to tell me this and then ask me for my number. I am driving a mini van, wearing sweats, hardly any makeup, and their are car seats in the back of my van.. Does it really look like I am on the market? Needless to say I left with directions and he left with no number!

However to day is MAY~DAY! I had never heard of this until I moved here, but it is so much fun. Anyways our good friends the Williams dropped off cute home made bags with goodies for each of the boys. Then the wonderful surprise. A delicious homemade cheesecake from Mike and Mandy. Sargento said it was the best he had ever had, and then asked me to call her and request a blueberry cheesecake. I was so surprised because Sargento is not a hugh cheese cake person. The chocolate on top was devine! It was so delicious that we shared with our friendly neighbors. They always share yummy stuff with us, so we thought we should return the favor! Anyways HAPPY MAY DAY EVERYONE!

Boys and Boxes!

Oh how the simple things bring such joy!

King of Time Out!

Ok so for a long time Curls was the only one going to time out, because Rewind just was not old enough to really get it. However now that Rewind is ready and has been for a little while, we have developed a whole new set of problems. Tonight Rewind was being naughty and so I told him that if he did not stop, he would be headed to time out. As soon as Curls heard time out he started pushing Rewind towards our time out stool. However Rewind did not have to go to time out because he had stopped what it was that he was doing. Curls was not satisfied. He then went and got the time out stool and pushed it into the living room, just in case I changed my mind.

Is that still considered being a big helper?

Time to weigh in....

Ok when I turned on the news this morning all I heard was blurbs about Rev. Jeremaih Wright. At first I was kind of fired up about some of the clips they showed. This was one of them. That was until I went and watched the whole clip. The news made it out to be a very racial clip. When in actuality it is just kind of funny. I just picked one of the clips that had a majority of his speech. I have no clue who the guy is at the beginning. Now I usually don't try to fuel political stuff. I really don't even talk about it with anyone besides Garran, but I am dying to know what you guys think of this man. Do you think he effects Obama's campaign. If you want to leave a comment but don't want anyone else to read it just tell me to delete it after reading and I will. I am still somewhat undecided on what I think. I am still in the process of learning more about him and what exactly he said, rather than what the news shows clips of.

Tagged by the 5

Mandy got me so here it goes!

10 YEARS AGO: Hmmm 1998- I was just finishing my junior year of high school. I was so excited about being a senior. I really didn't think things could get much better. I had great friends and seemed to always be having fun. I think I was preparing for a trip to the beach with some of my friends. I love love love going to the beach!

5YEARS AGO: Hmmm 2003- Garran and I had been dating for three months. We had just got back from visiting his sister, who at the time lived in VA. (Very nerve racking meeting his older sister. She was great. I was just nervous thinking that if things did not go well, I was stuck in VA for a week with a girl who would tell her little brother how much she did not like me) Lucky me she liked me. The summer of 2003 was great. I went all over the state it seemed like with Garran and his family kayaking and going to caves, things like that.

5 MONTHS AGO: Hmmm December 2007- Well we had found out that we were expecting the month before. We were super excited. We had plans to visit a lot of family in a very short amount of time. We spent Christmas with Garrans family and suffered some sadness when the pregnancy did not work out.

5 THINGS ON MY TO DO LIST:
1. Continue packing
2. feed the fish
3. brush my teeth
4. take my contacts out (can you tell i'm getting tired)
5. make some phone calls

5 SNACKS I ENJOY:
1. ice cream
2. jello with whip cream
3. cherries- yum especially during the summer!
4. grapes-but I am very picky.
5. warm toasted bagels and cream cheese

5 THINGS I WOULD DO IF INSTANTLY A BILLIONAIRE:
1. pay off school and not have to worry about loans in the future
2. pay off the van
3. let garran quit his job to focus on school (i know he would love that)
4. buy a house
5. take a much needed vacation

5 BAD HABITS:
1. obsessive..seriously, once i start something I have to finish it. I have a very hard time leaving things half way completed. Once i get something in my head, watch out there is no stopping me.
2. I don't exercise like i should
3. overly critical of things sometimes
4. blogging....I love it. I love blogging about us and I love reading other peoples.
5. not enough patients some days =(

5 PLACES I HAVE LIVED:
1. Urbana Ill
2. Fayetteville, NC
3. Des Moines IA
4. Pembroke NC
5. where I am now.. but that is a secret! =)

5 THINGS PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ME:
1. I was proposed to before Garran proposed to me. (obviously I said no)
2. I am moving soon... The count down is on.
3. Financially.... I am super organized. I know where every penny of our money is. I have to or I don't think I could sleep at night. (Seriously I should talk to someone about OCD!)
4. I have a hard time saying no to people ( i think I may have said this already in another one of these lists)
5. i like typing in all lower case. no capitals. but i don't always do it. i don't know why. it's my blog!

Curls was at it again!

Today we were at church. Curls all of a sudden rather loudly starts saying "He seeping, He seeping, He seeping" you get the idea over and over. Finally I figured out what he was saying and turned around. A friend of ours had dozed off for a minute. Curls was kindly calling him out.. Don't you just love what your kids come up with!

Singing in the Shower

The other day I was taking a shower and singing this song that was stuck in my head. All of a sudden Curls came busting into the bathroom and slammed the door open. This is what I heard-

"Mom- No Singing"

Then the door shut.. Guess my voice is not that great!

Finally a Date Night

Tonight we finally got out for a few hours and were able to have dinner together. I guess this was a late anniversary dinner. It was nice. We tried a place that we had never been before. It wasn't the best ever, but it was pretty good. It was nice to have a conversation without having to stop mid-sentence to say something to one of our little kiddos. Date nights are great.
After we picked up the kids from our friendly neighbors, I dropped all the boys off at home and ran to the store to get some of the basics. As I was putting the groceries in the back of the van, this white van pulled up in the spot next to me. A mother and her teenage son got out. It was freezing and the wind was blowing so hard. Anyways he approached me and said, "Can I take your cart for you". It was such a nice surprise. I thought I hope my boys are gentlemen like that, since the nearest cart return was no where close. I really appreciate those little things some days.

I thought this was cute!

A friend forwarded this to me. For anyone who has kids that go to church with us, they might enjoy it. The boys think it is cute! It is also a fun way to learn about the new people in the 12.

Thanks NP for the cute video!

Ahh Mother Nature!

Ok so usually I am a hugh fan of thunderstorms. I have always enjoyed a good storm. But last night was just crazy. The thunder was so loud, it was literally shaking our walls. I only got two hours of sleep because of it. I am not exaggerating unfortunately. And to top it all off, today is going to be a long one. Sargento has school and work. A lady in our ward needs me to watch her two kids, and my VT are coming over. Hopefully my day goes well at least not to tiring =)

OK PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION!! VERY IMPORTANT!

WE ARE MOVING BLOGS.. CHANGE OF ADDRESS PEOPLE!!!

Here is the new address... http://www.paranoidmommy.blogspot.com/

Due to some dirty perverts and me not liking some things that have happened recently, I am making a few changes. I was going to go private, but it is to complicated for some of my family who do not have gmail accounts and for a few other reasons. Anyways so I know it may be annoying but we are moving to nicknames. I have to be more aware of what info I am giving out on this blog. So instead of going through and changing almost 300 entries I will leave this blog up for two weeks. Then this will become private. I will no longer be posting on this but at our new blog at the top. Please come and visit us. Everything will be the same. Same great stories, just with nicknames. Thanks for being patient with us.. Make sure you make the changes so I will still enjoy your company. Leave me a comment with any questions. Thanks Meg

ps. there is already a new post on the new blog.. check it out!

Our Stupid Remote and Our Stupid TV!

I don't think that I have ever blogged about how much I hate my tv, and now remote. We bought our TV when we got married. So it is not that old, but it is already acting up. We have had to buy a universal remote for it because we are 90% sure that one of our kids threw the original one way while we were cleaning up. Argg. Anyways tonight I was watching tv and I had a drink in my lap. I had the remote resting on my thigh. I lifted my leg and sure enough the remote slide right into my cup.. I could have screamed.. (as some of you know this has not been a great week). So now we can not change the channel on our tv because the stupid thing won't let us use the buttons on the tv and without the remote we are stuck watching the same channel until I can get a new remote or take a bat to our stupid TV... On a better note we saw a place tonight we somewhat liked.. we will see what happens!

Today is the Day I could very well Lose MY MIND!

WARNING: ALL I DO IN THIS BLOG IS COMPLAIN, EXCEPT FOR THE END!

The following things will more than likely end up driving me CRAZY by the end of the day.

1. The university my husband attends.. the fact that when we call no one and I mean

no one seems to be able to answer any of our questions.... We just get passed around

from one department to another.

2. Alternative loan process & Summer School.. I will leave it at that.

3. Moving: trying to find a place, packing, stress.. I hate it. I wish we could stay here but

4. That's my next point. I hate where we live. It is to small and there are more problems than I can count on one hand.

5. Laundry.. Do to where we live, we have to go to a laundry mat.. (another reason we are moving, see above) But when you have two kids and a husband that is never home it becomes almost impossible... we are running out of clothes !!! (Side Note: Not upset with Garran. It's getting close to finals and with work on top of that, this is always a super busy time of year)

6. Finally.. RAIN.. It is supposed to rain all week. I thought I saw that it might not rain Wednesday so maybe we will luck out and be able to go to playgroup. Keep your fingers crossed people.. I need to get out for a while.

On a better note:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE!!

HOPE YOU GOT OUR SURPRISE!!

Going Crazy!

Well we are moving. I thought we had this all worked out. We had talked to a landlord and had everything squared away. Today I call and everything has fallen apart. We are back to square one. So today I drove around looking for places and trying to see if anyone had anything in the paper. Argg. I hate this. Moving is such a pain. Oh well maybe tomorrow will bring better news!

Why I Love Garran.. another one I know!

Garran and I used to listen to this song all the time when we were first married. I had not heard it for a while. But last night while I was brushing my teeth (I know not very romantic) I heard him singing along to this in the other room. I knew he had found it for me and put it on his ipod. I love listening to him sing, not many know but he has a great voice. Anyways it was a very sweet way to remind me of those great times we had when we were first married.

Painting with Friends!

The other day we got to have a little friend over for the day. My boys were so excited. They love when friends come over. The first thing Kael did was go up and give Isaac a hug! Very Cute. At first he was not to sure about our crazy ways, but by the end they all had so much fun getting green paint everywhere! But messes are part of the fun!

Aren't little boys so much fun!