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my crazy life as a mother & wifeMoving…..
I’m thinking of moving my journal from here to blogger. I just like the FREE beautiful layouts I can use there. Although, if I could figure out how to install some here, I might not. But blogger also has ads, which might make a little money if I really push my blog. Hmmmmm……we’ll see.
I Really Am Cool!! I AM! I AM!!!
My teenager likes to remind me that I am indeed not cool. I embarrass her all the time, I say words I’m not supposed to say cause “I’m old” and I’m not allowed to talk to her friends….cause I am not cool. So Saturday night when I drove her and her friend to the grocery store so they could stock up on junk food and I saw some “skater boys” in the parking lot and suggested we drive by and honk she almost died. Her friend, on the other hand said…”LET’S DO THIS!!!!! Go Mrs. B!! GO!!” LOL!! So I did and she did not die and I am now so not cool…..but she was smiling and her friend was cracking up, so maybe when she says that, she really means the opposite…..I am cool!!
Out Of Control!!!!
I made some pizza dough last night and put it in the fridge so we can make our own pizzas tonight. Went to get Lex a drink this morning and saw that the dough is about to bust out of the bags!!!! LOL!!!!!!! Lex got all excited when he saw them and thought they were for him. Uhm….no. LOL!! We usually have a “Make your own pizza night” on Fridays, but Kevin and I have a date night tomorrow night and I don’t want to be tied up in the kitchen all evening. I need time to make myself look good. LOL!!! I decided to make my pizza healthy. Green peppers, red onions, grilled chicken and mushrooms. YUMMMM!!!! Raven’s will be cheese and Lex and Kevin will make their own creation. Lola and I share, so I’m sure she won’t eat much except the sauce and crust. LOL! I am determined to make that child eat different foods!! Lex is the pickiest eater on the planet. I bought some avocados and mangos to start off with. Don’t want to waste too much!! So far she eats anything. I made macaroni and cheese with peas and carrots added in to it and she loved it!!! I’m hoping to find some recipes to coax Lex into eating different thing. Wish me luck!!!!
p.s. I caught Lex in the fridge squeezing the dough. When I asked him what he was doing he said….”It feels like your boobies, Momma!! hahahahahaaaa!!!’ -_-
Why I Don’t Let My Husband Cook….
THAT is cheesy grits with sausage. -_- And yes….I DID eat a tiny bowl of it just to be nice. I felt bad!!! He wanted to cook breakfast for once, so I let him. Usually I would have said “NO WAY!!” but he said…”Let me cook YOU breakfast for once!! You’ll love it!!”. o_O It’s not that it was good, it would have been if it weren’t for the 1,000,000,000 mg of salt in it. It would have been better with the sausages on the side with biscuits. He ate TONS of it!!! I literally ate 1/2 cup. I forced it down. Sorry, hunny……no more cooking for you.
PREGNANT!!!
NO, not me!!! 
A friend I met over at JM is expecting her 3rd!!!! It’s so exciting!! So many of my friends are pregnant or are trying to get pregnant. It’s great because I can experience pregnancy through THEM and not have to do it again myself. HAR!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS, C!!!!!!
This Is Bread Baking Weather!!!
Yes, it’s that time again!! I will be baking, cooking and even more baking. I have a ton of new things I’d to try, sour dough bread, mince meat pie and I’m going to try to recreate my Grandmother’s chicken and dumplings. YUMMMMM!!!!!!!!! My Grandmother was always in the kitchen and everything smelled sooooo good all the time!! I want my kids to remember me that way. 
Lex and I made peanut butter cookies last night together. It was a blast!!! He said…”I like making bakery with you, Momma!!”. Too darn cute! I will hopefully be posting pictures soon. I’ll make some bread this weekend!!!
School
Raven is back in school. This is her last year of Middle School, then it’s off the High School!!! O_O When did that happen?! I swear, I gotta stop blinking. So she started school a little late because we were in TN, but she jumped right in and is already sucking up to as many teachers as she can. The child is somethin’ else. She told me that she likes to suck up because it gets her what she wants. -_- Not that she needs help in school, cause she doesn’t, she’s been an Honor Roll student since 6th grade. She loves school!! Which is kinda weird, cause I hated it!! I still remember her first day of Kindergarten. She was up at 5 a.m. x_x jumping on my bed, begging me to get up and help her get ready. No, I did not get up, I made her lay down with me till 6. HA! Since it was her first day Kevin took the day off and we walked her down. Her school was at the end of our street, loved that!!! She had her new backpack, her cute dress, shiny new shoes, her hair was perfect and she had her Bonn Bell Dr. Pepper lip smacker in her pocket. HAH!! She was the cutest thing. She talked nonstop the entire way there!! We walked in, went to the office, got her papers all set, found her classroom, walked her up, met her teacher, talked for a while about Raven’s likes and dislikes, Raven actually did most of the talking. The teacher looked at us and said…..”I don’t think you have to worry about that one, she’s going to rule the class by the end of the day!”. Sure enough, she did. She came home with phone numbers from her new best friends and playdates all lined up. Raven was made for school!!!!! From that day on, everyone in the school knew Raven and everyone loved Raven.
It’s not that she tries to be popular, it’s just that people tend to be drawn to her because she is so outgoing and happy all the time. She stands up for the underdog, isn’t afraid to speak her mind and doesn’t take shit from anyone!!!! So when she called me at work yesterday and said….”I love all my teachers, even the mean one!! Know why? Cause I will have them eating out of my hand by the end of the month!!!! I may have been late coming in, but I got all my late work done and my Pre Algebra was a breeze. My math teacher was all like….WOW! You’re good!!! and I was like…Yeah, I know!!!” -_- So when she says she will have them eating out of her hand by the end of the month, I know it’s because she’s a good student and not just because she’s a suck up.
We’re Home!!!
We actually made it back on Saturday at 2 a.m. but we’ve been recovering from our vacation for the past 2 days. Saturday and Sunday were tough. We were very tired. But the trip was SOOOO worth it!!! We had a great time and we can’t wait to go back!!! Yes, that will be a favorite spot of ours for, well, probably the rest of our lives. It was quiet, the people were extremely nice, the air was clean and the place was very family oriented. We like that. The first day we got there we unpacked, Lola napped, then we all got freshened up and off we went. That’s how is was every day. We’d wake up, shower, get ready and then we’d head out to breakfast and we stayed out the entire day. There was so much to do and we were trying to do as much as possible and we STILL didn’t do everything we wanted to do. So we HAVE to go back. LOL!!! The place we stayed at was beautiful and set back in the woods. It was soooo quiet. We all slept so good!!! Here’s a picture of our cabin……
And the view we woke up to every morning……
Doesn’t get any better than that!!! We wanted to take our children somewhere where we could spend some quiet time together as a family. We needed to get reconnected. And we did just that. I will say though…..Lola was a handful!! She’s cutting her back teeth o_O and wasn’t very happy. She was great when we were out or in the pool, but the ride down was brutal and the first few days she wasn’t happy. But she was a trooper and let us tote her around all over the place!!! When we got home Saturday I went to put her in her bed and I swear she giggled with delight!!!! She’s been sleeping till 10 a.m. every morning!!! BLISS!!!
There is so much to write about. Like our daily walks downtown and doing all the various things they had there, like…..the mazes, the museums, the aquarium, the wax museum, the lift to the mountain where there was a mini carnival, Dollywood, Dollywood Splash Country, shopping…….like I said…..sooo much!!! Lex’s favorite was the maze. You walk in wearing 3D glasses and plastic gloves and you have to find your way out. The kid was all banged up but kept wanting to do it again and again and again!!!! LOL!!! Raven’s favorite was the museum. My favorite was the Ripley’s Aquarium Of The Smokies. That place was amazing!!!! They had a Touch A Ray Bay where Raven spent most of her time trying to touch one of the rays. They had sharks in there as well, but they were little and kinda harmless unless you provoked them, which we didn’t. LOL!! We were there for almost 3 hours just walking around looking at all the neat things. It was great.
The food. UGH!!!!! The food was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m on a detox this week from all the rich Southern food we ate. Seriously……I left there weighing about 10 pounds more than I did when we got there. O_O I LOVE Southern food. LOVE IT!!! I would be fat if I lived down there. HAH!!! Seriously though……the food was amazing. There was a place called The Donut Friar that made homemade donuts and pastries, they were my bestfriends. LOL!!! Look how cute….
The guy working there was just too darn cute, too!!!! Hubba Hubba!!! Kevin kept giving me dirty looks cause I’d go in there ALL the time. HAH!! Hey, there’s just something about a man with a shadow beard AND he can bake!! Nice! LOL!! So yeah……we ate there a lot.
Our vacation was wonderful and we can’t wait to do it again. I’d like to spend either Thanksgiving or Christmas there one year so Kevin’s family can come up if they want. It’s much closer than MA. Kevin’s sister, Autumn came up and stayed a day. That was nice. So we talked about spending at least ONE holiday there. I can’t wait!!!!
Be Careful What You Wish For……
We all know that saying……”Be careful what you wish for, it may just come true” or something like that. There are many versions of that saying but in the end they all mean the same thing. Just a few posts ago I was saying how Kevin and I have been talking about wanting to move. Well, Kevin’s contract is up and the company he works for drew him up a new one………and it sucks. REAL bad. More work, no raise, even though they’ve been number 1 for a whole year, they don’t want to give him a Holiday bonus and again…..more work. He told them he’s not signing it. I agree with him. I told him to tell them what he wants…….a raise, the Holiday bonus back and another bonus if they are repeatedly #1 in the ratings for 3 books. I don’t know if they’ll go for it. If they don’t, looks like we may be moving. So yeah……be careful what you wish for.
