Monday, February 18, 2008

Tagged! Report 1 of 3...


What is his name? Robert Shane. Shane to me. R. Shane to the business world. Sometimes people just call for R!
How long have you been married? 9 Years wow!
How long did you date? about a year
How old is he? 32
Who eats more? He does, unless it is dessert...then I would be the one to eat more!
Who said I love you first? I think I did by way of him reading private emails from me to my friend. Later that night I did tell him. It was a good night to be at the library!!
Who is smarter? Shane and that is why I married him! Well not that I am not smart but he is good with numbers and well...I'm not so much!
Whose temper is worse? Mine
Who does the laundry? Me.
Who does the dishes? I do and he helps! When he is around!
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do because it is closer to the kids!
Who pays the bills? It is a good combo of Auto-pay/me/him!
Who cooks dinner? Me
Who drives when you are together? Shane.
Who is more stubborn? Me!
Whose parents do you see the most? Mine.
Who proposed? He did!
Who has more friends? equal! Most of our friends live in other states.
Who has more siblings? He does by 1.
Who wears the pants in the family? I would say we are pretty equal partners in this game of love!!

So now I would like to tag...Lindsey, Tamara, and Stephanie! Hop to it girls!

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Really?

What Julie Means
You are fair, honest, and logical. You are a natural leader, and people respect you.You never give up, and you will succeed... even if it takes you a hundred tries.You are rational enough to see every part of a problem. You are great at giving other people advice.
You are a very lucky person. Things just always seem to go your way.And because you're so lucky, you don't really have a lot of worries. You just hope for the best in life.You're sometimes a little guilty of being greedy. Spread your luck around a little to people who need it.
You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily.Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.
You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.
You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Post Office + Kids Craft Project = CRAZY!!!!!

Today I participated in 2 of my least favorite things....

First I dragged all 3 of my kids to the Post Office to mail some packages. I will have to say that my stress level was already at a 4 (on a scale from 1-5 with 5 being the highest!!) because the prep work that it took to get me and my kids to the PO was just enough to make me pull out my desprately needing a haircut hair!! So after a trip to Walgreens for some packing tape and a long time sitting in the car taping and addressing and yelling at kids we were off to the PO! And much to my dismay (totally was not surprised) the line was all the way to the door. Which means we are going to be here for a very long time! Long enough to have my kids (who were for the most part very good!) invade every strangers personal space and to spy on 3 little lost ants on the ground! We did finally make it to the front only to get called to the back counter so...I enjoyed the task of hearding the cattle (kids) thru the crowd. As the postal worker is asking me every question he can think of I am trying to calmly tell my cattle to not climb on the counter. Well nice didn't work so I got a bit more aggressive in my tone and I am sure the man at the counter was wondering "just what kind of mother is this really??" Well we make it out to the car and now the next task is to feed the heard and put the trouble maker to bed so we can start on the much anticipated homemade Valentine's Day cards!!!!

I was really excited to do the V Day cards so I could spend some quality time with them! I think I should have picked a different project! I am not a fan of craft time with my children! I am way to OCD to enjoy any of it! That is why they have school! Crafting is for school not for home with mommy! So tonight things started off great and then going on the 3rd hour the stress level started to climb!!!! Ty woke up at the end and was helping by ripping the already done cards...I was soooo not loving it! And it will be a miracle if any of Alli's classmates can read their names! She was so distracted by various things she would... well examples...

Lind (Lindsay)
Deis (Denis)
Brod (Brad)

And Andrew had to decorate every blasted card! We started at 3pm and finished sometime after 6pm. So to bring the stress level down we drove to Wendy's for dinner in a quiet car!! Ahh...bringing it down a notch!

So after a none enjoyable day (and I shouldn't be complaining) I have a few things to be grateful for!

1. I crossed off 2 major things on my To Do List! One of which has been on the list for ohhh...2 years!!
2. I did spend a lot of time with my kids and hopefully they still love me after today!
3. It is 8:30pm and my kids have been in bed for 30 mins! Yahh-hooo!

So with all of that said I would like to quote my dear brother..."Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a white room with a red dot, I counted that dot. One. One. One. It drove me CRAZY. Crazy? I was crazy once..."