Cristina -

I heard on Z-100 (radio) that it takes 8 months to get to know someone and if you aren't ready to marry by 8 months + 1 year (21 months, see I can add - lol) you never will be ready.....something like that.
I am getting old Cristina, I have taken the adventure route before. I also like being on my own for the most part. lol
I don't worry about Gaby being ready for 1st grade. I just believe she only has 1 childhood and I want her enjoying it and having fun. If the school really wanted to prepare the kids they would offer full time to all the students and not just some.
Also, Gab's 3 hours is w/ no recess time or down time that the full time K has ......so basically it is the same amount of study time. And really ...who went to full time K in their days?? That is a new thing and these days it seems the kids have be up and running and have learned before they even step into the classroom.
I do believe in establishing good study habits and I suppose we can do that in K but you know.........I ain't stressing on it and come Monday when she wants her homework packet she might not get it. I might think Gab needs to be outside getting some sun instead. I might not have the degree but I know my child and what is best for her. She'll be fine, she is smart and she doesn't need a completed homework packet to prove that.
So, the teacher needs to chill. lol

Good afternoon ladies. Nice to see that everyone is doing well. Hope the sun is shining where you are. It is cold, damp and ugly here. I swear this winter is dragging on...and on.

I had to run errands earlier. Then sewed and hung valances in the spare room. Finally! Next week I am working on the bedskirts for 2 beds. Ugh...but it has to be done. Have a 5 hour stew in the oven and it has been smelling so good..yum.

We are going to spend the night at the riverboat hotel tomorrow. Mom has decided she feels well enough to go so we got Baby an overnight at the kennel. She will hate us when we pick her up. Spoiled, just a little.

Susan- Hey, you might consider going with McD...kinda like running away from home. hahaha. Seriously, I think you will know if and when the time comes, to go or not to go. I do think it would be okay for Gabby to meet him though, don't you? And of course, the other girls...but I don't know about your Mom. *just kidding*

Cristina- Gal, I would be pulling my hair out with the wedding things. I do not do well waiting for orders to arrive...or waiting for most anything. lol (picture a little bratty kid stomping her foot and saying "I want it NOW." that's me.)

Francie- Sounds like you over did it. I know the stepper kicked my butt the first few times I used it...well it still kicks my butt, I just don't use it like I should.

Mindee- I can't remember potty training DS..so can't help much on Logan. Sounds like Brandon is getting it and I am sure Logan will want to also. My DGS always strips from the waist down when he goes in to poo. Once I visited his pre-school and he was in the bathroom forever...I knocked on the door and asked him if he was okay and he said "Yes grandma, I am just putting my clothes back on." I about peed laughing so hard...and then tried to have a straight face when he came out. The teacher said it was well known by herself and the aides that he took a long time in there, and why.

Sassy-Hope the moving is over and done..at work. Any news on the condo?

Jules- How are you? I have been thinking about you and about Ry taking off for Portland. Brings back memories of helping DS load up his truck for his move to Las Vegas. I hated it, but now he has moved again, to San Diego, and is doing just fine. So hard to let them grow up.

Katy- It sounds like you are still doing well on your program. I thought about you being at the beach last week...so cold here and I want to be at the beach in the sunshine.

Okay, I have rambled on enough. I need to go relax a little before dinner. Yum, that stew smells good!

A quick HIya SUE! You snuck in while I was typing away. Ah! You just reminded me about french onion soup mix...I forgot to get some today! You mentioned your stew, and it does sound good by the way! I plan on a roast tomorrow in the crockpot...ugh, nuther trip to the grocery store...I can do it tomorrow though but thanks for reminding me, lol. It is cold, damp and ugly here as well. HAd some rain this monring, drizzle but supposed to have a storm heading our way sometime...hoping it's not bad. Have fun tomorrow on the riverboat and gald to hear your momma is well. Hugs to you!

Hi all...have time for a quick "drive-by" before I head off to my meeting

Susan- stick to your guns on what's right for Gabby...the half day program is the same curriculum as the full day. Leigh has met all her benchmarks in her half day program and her only "homework" (if you want to call it that) is to read together. You are right on this! Do you get any indication she won't be ready for first grade...sounds like she's doing fine and the speech has to be helping, right? As you said, I think the teacher just needs to chill.

Sue - Can you believe it... we had snow at the beach.. so much for that, lol! It is weird to be at the beach with snow on the ground. We still had a great time...it is good to be home.

Cristina - can't believe how busy you are with this wedding..I'm getting tired just reading about it NOT - tired of reading ABOUT it, mind you, lol! I love weddings (as long as they're not mine ) It is going to be such a lovely day. When my son was 9 he was all about Game Boys and computer games...I bet you can find some online games on your computer that will keep him busy.

Mindee -WTG on your loss!

Francie - your exercise tapes sound awesome...wtg on getting it done even if it's making you sore. I have been slacking in the exercise department...will be hitting the gym tomorrow morning and getting back on track.

Sassy - glad things got sorted out at work - that sounded very disconcerting. I'm the kind of person that likes things to be where I put them and I get discombobulated when they are moved around. Still tap tap tapping? ( A' la McKenna) I found myself tapping to keep myself from binging...it worked!

According to my scale, I have maintained over the last month. I hope the weekly meetings help me get out of this rut. It's better than gaining, that's for sure, but I need to get in a place where I can get to losing again.

Cristina~I dont feel that I over did it. I only did the one exercise dvd yesterday. But maybe walking around was an overkill. Honestly though my muscles never get used..so maybe thats why I'm so sore, lol.


Sue~I didnt use the mini stepper yesterday. I only did the exercise dvd.


Katy~I loved the dvd. But I'm thinking that maybe I should do it every couple of days, lol. I'm gonna try some light walking tomorrow. Good luck on getting back on track!!





Okay, I'm gonna switch to teeny bopper mode right now. New Kids on the Block are gonna be on the Today Show tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!! I was 4 or 5 when I started liking them. Jordan Knight was my first ever celeb crush, lol. I have their videos on my Limewire. Dh thinks I'm a nut, but whatever. LoL!!


Okay back to normal sane mode, lol. I'm starving so I'm gonna go make some lunch and wait for Oprah to come on.

Francie...lol...I watch the Today show every morning. Not the whole program but some while I get up, make the bed, brush my teeth etc. So maybe I will catch them. I don't think you are a nut, lol.

Katy...yeah, maintaining is better than gaining. Hoping the weekely meetings help.

Nothing going on...had to come down and check a couple of things so thought I would get on and see what's up.

Good night!

hello ladies....how are you all doing?

nothing new on this end. I have been so tired lately and I can't figure out why! although I haven't really been sleeping like I should be, so maybe that has something to do with it?

we are suppose to go grocery shopping on Friday but since Tommy hasn't been sleeping well either, and he has to work on Saturday, I just figured that it would be easier to just do our grocery shopping on Saturday afternoon! I mentioned that while we were eating dinner tonight and he goes "are you serious? you are going to let me relax tomorrow when I get home from work?" I said "well, yeah. I figured that you would want to relax and since it takes us so long to go grocery shopping that it would be easier just to do it on Saturday." we think that our mattress needs to get flipped. So, I will do that tomorrow after I get Brandon off to school. I also haven't been doing my workout video.....but I have been getting in some form of exercise. So, I am thinking that that has something to do with it as well!

Marissa was a little stinker tonight! she didn't go to bed until 10:30pm! That was even after I took her for a walk around the complex! I will have to post a recent picture of her....she has really thinned out since she has become mobile! Tommy mentioned something about her being really skinny now while we were eating dinner. He said "I never really noticed it before because I see her every day. but now that I get a chance to see her from a distance, she really has thinned out."

ok.....now if only I could thin out that quickly after becoming mobile!!!!! I would be doing this

Francie~ I will have to snag it here in a second! I am in the middle of making banana nut muffins. (we ran out of options for breakfast....well, not really....so Tommy mentioned making them for breakfast for Brandon before school) where do you get them from? I have done searches and I all I can find are the lame ones that every body seems to have. I like the ones that are more sarcastic or ballsy as most people say.

Oh my goodness! Richard Simmons just showed up on Jimmy KImmel Live! I can't believe that he is going to be 60 years old!

Sassy~ I would love to have that job! Do you ever get people with attitudes because you woke them up?

SusieQ~ Tommy's work is actually going great at the place he is now. For some reason they were just slow that day. He was busy yesterday, and he is going to be busy Friday and Saturday.....so that is a good thing! Thanks for the nice comments about me. I have basically been a mom since I could remember! I spent most of my teen years taking care of or helping to take care of my younger siblings. So, I got most of my mothering skills from that. Now, I get to use them on my own children. As for Brandon, he gets 10 minutes a day of speech homework, and that consists of using a study packet that she puts into his speech folder and we help him with the letters or sounds that they are working on. Right now, they are working on the final p sound, as in ship, nap, sheep, ape, and the such like that. I know what you mean about wanting them to be normal kids. I like the natural way of teaching. we try and do that any chance we can with the kids. we take them for walks, and we show them the different things and tell them what they are.

Cristina~ Yes ma'am! I will keep it up, ma'am! I am actually in a challenge that is basically a boot camp like setting! So, that is so far keeping me on task with all my drills and such! I am going to keep up with this one and I am going to make it through the hard tasks of the double birthday party at the end of the month! we are trying to figure out something to do for our anniversary next month. every year they do this thing here in MI, called the downtown hoedown. It is a free country music concerts and such. This year, they are going to have Lonestar (the group that sings our wedding song) and Gretchen Wilson there on our anniversary. every year we usually go on the Saturday of the event, but this year we are trying to make plans to go on the Sunday, which is the day that they will be there AND our anniversary.

Sue~ I thought it was weird that they do the striping thing just to pee! Logan just doesn't like the feel of a poopy diaper on....so he will be starting again with the potty business at hand. that is great to hear that your mom is going to go with you! I am sure that she will enjoy herself!

Katy~ Thanks for the nice words! I hope that the weekly meetings jump start things for you!

Mindee~here's the muffin icon I was telling you about..and one that is just too funny...

Good Morning -

I don't feel good and am too afraid to jump on the scale, I feel bloated. I have been eating late all week and it feels like the food just lays in the stomache all night, how gross is that?? I woke up and had toast w/ peanut butter and honey.
Coughing all night and the medicine puts me out cold, *wah *wah. Stop the *itching Susan.

Cristina - Sweet that you are trying to find interesting things for Chase to do while visiting. I don't know anything about 9 year old boys though.Something that runs on batteries though and you can hold in your hand and play with?? lmao......sounds like a sex toy......oops, don't get him that!!! Anyway - hugs to you and hoping you are having a good day!btw - the roast sounds yummy!

Sue - Riverboat hotel?? Like something on the water?? I know, I am slow. Sounds nice, I am sure you will have a nice time! Ya, I wanna run away from home, the kids keep finding me though. McD will never meet my mother!! lol The last time I said to her Me:"I have been dating him for 4 months now mother"....Mother "It is just a friendship, right?? It is platonic??" Me: "We have been going out 4 months (yes, I have to repeat myself w/ her) ,I don't think it is platonic anymore"......Mother: "Ok, I don't want to hear about this stuff. I don't know why you have to drag someone else into your mess"....
Ouch.
She is another Mommie Dearest. My life is a mess and I deserve no happiness. lol

Mindee- I missed Gab's early speech today. I should have had her at school 15 minutes early and I remembered last night but w/ taking the cold medicine and Rach fussing for work this morning I totally forgot. I have Gab's packet almot done and we will make the Monday deadline....regardless of my protesting - lol. I am going to go look up that nature school though, maybe I will send Gab there for 1st grade? Good luck on Saturday afternoon shopping!! lol It is always busy here.

Katy - Great on maintaining! What kind of meeting were you going too?? Just nosy. lol

Francie - Hope your aches and pains are better!

Sassy - How are you ??

Did I miss anyone?? Hope not!!

I am just trying to get over this cough. I just wanted to say hello! Went to swimming last night and felt miserable. Bought myself some red vine to help w/ my feeling like scum. Gab's dad didn't show up , didn't call and isn't answering phone calls. A-wall.....he must be pissy I won't have his baby....lol , whatever. I want my child support though!So, I guess I will have to track him down. Cleaning and just wanting to get over the cough and stuffy nose. Chicken soup sounds good!

Good morning everyone!!!


Well, I've actually been up since 6, but you know what I mean, lol. I watched the New Kids on the Block on the today show this morning!!!! I was sooooo excited I started crying, how lame am I? LoL!! They're gonna preform May 16!! I cannot wait!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm doing some stretches to help my legs right now. I seriously cannot stand this!!! I'm gonna give in and take some advil. I doubt it'll work, but it could help with some of the pain. I actually forced myself to move around a lot more today. I cleaned in the living room and cleaned the kitchen. Even played with my kitties. Which reminds me..I had a dream my cat Lucky was pregnant, LoL!! She was pregnant one day, and then the next day she was ready to have her kittens. I'm sure it doesnt happen that way, lol!!


Susan~Hope you feel better soon!!!





Well..Fonzo is gonna be home soon, so I better go dry my hair. BBL

Just a quickie as I just got home. Spent the morning with daughter, daughter-in-law and baby girl...too cute! So short on computer time. Nothing much to say anyway so...

Got in 50 minutes of exercise this a.m. which threw me off my schedule and I was running late...hate that...always feeling rushed...once it starts it kind of dictates how the day goes and it did indeed! Not stopped with the feeling rushed feeling. Anyway...babbling.

Have a good day!

Hiya chickies! I once again did not make it to the gym today- I am officially a slug. But according to my scale I have lost .6 pounds in the last two weeks, so I am not depressed....yet I have been physically busy - doing lots of housecleaning and errand-running. I put all my exercise on the calendar for next week so I schedule around it and have no excuses!

Cristina - hope you had a nice time with your family...

Susan - The Kaiser group I'm a part of have changed from monthly meetings to weekly for 8 weeks. They call them boosters...and I need the boost, let me tell ya! The kids aren't swimming this term, J is doing track and field, L is taking a soccer class and a bouldering class. Sounds like the relationship is about to get serious ...ooooo..Seriously, though ( haha) McD seems like a nice guy and you'll know if he's "the one" and whether a move is what you want to do. As far as your mom.. well you know that you can't listen to that kind of talk. Life is messy - it's just the way it is...would be terribly boring if everything were perfect.

Francie - NKOTB?! Please, God , no! JK My cousin way back in the day had a huge crushes on them. She told me that she wanted to get hit by their limo so they would have to get out of the car and she would get a chance to meet them. 'Course this was 18 years ago and she has grown up...she hides all her New Kids posters in her closet (snicker) Love the muffin icon

Sue - hope you are having a nice time at the riverboat hotel - that sounds like fun and I'm glad your mother is up for it.

Mindee - Glad Tommy's job is going well. Now Marissa needs to go to sleep earlier and the boys need to pee in the potty...you just tell them I said so, lol! If only it were that easy, huh?


I have some family arriving this afternoon and we'll be keeping them busy this weekend...so have a good one, ladies!

Hmmm...why do my posts keep disappearing? Wonder if this one is going to do the vanishing act before I get back to. Anyway...

KATY...WTG on the loss and making it to the gym! Every little ounce counts and adds up. I did enjoy my day with the fam. Actually went to the Church to measure some things and figure out some things. Then we all went to lunch and had a GREAT time!

SUSAN...hope you are feeling better. Well, I've bought so much for Cambrie and I have to make it up to Chase. Plus they need to have things to do while here. They get bored easily. Of course Cambrie is like the stinking energizer bunny, lol...she truly does keep going, and going and going... but too darn cute!

MINDEE...what a cute picture/avatar! Bet you take pictures of the kids like I did and still do! They hate it! Used to pose for any picture now they cover their faces. The hoedown sounds cute! and fun! Hope you guys are able to do it.

FRANCIE...I missed the new kids...shoot. I was up kinda early but since I thought I had plenty of time to get everything done and out the door at 9 I did a few little extra things. Ugh! Ended up getting behind and not getting out the door until 9:30, crazy! And you are not lame!

Anywho...I have some wedding things to go look at, or rather try to find some wedding things. Trying to get some decorating ideas for the church...we are not sure what to do with at the altar. Of course today there were all kinds of chairs and other stuff that won't be there...it was just really cluttered and couldn't really get an idea of things. We'll get it figured out...probably the day of rehearsal...gotta go over and help her decorate that day. I'm sure I will bore you guys to death with all this talk but I think as the day nears it will get worse....sorry in advance

Have a good night ladies...gotta go or I will never find anything!

Hello ladies....how are you all doing?

well, I was able to get all my things done that I needed to get done and then some! Brandon got his hearing tested and his vision tested at school on Friday!

this coming Thursday, the 10th, Brandon and daddy will be going bumper bowling with his class. And then next month, his class has a field trip to the zoo! I am sure that we will try and make it a family trip out of it since they don't use buses for the trips, the parents drive them.

after we did all of our things that we needed to get done, Tommy got home from work. He asked me if I had my shoes on and I said no. He said well put them on and go check out in the van, there is a surprise in the van. (mind you....before all this, he had asked me what I was thinking of doing for dinner) I went out to the van with Brandon and Tommy had picked up dinner on his way home. then after we ate dinner, we all went grocery shopping! we were suppose to do it on Saturday afternoon but he insisted that we might as well do it on Friday.

he then said that he had a surprise trip in mind for Saturday after he gets off work. we were going to go up north to see my parents since she had clothes for them that came in. but she sent them out in the mail a couple of days ago. so, the surprise trip will be a ride to a city in MI called Frankenmuth, that is known as Little Bavaria. we haven't been there in a while.....Marissa was a couple of months old the last time we went there. (I can't remember how old.....I just know that she threw up all over the place when we were in the Christmas store) And since the weather is suppose to be nice tomorrow, I will take the camera with us so that we can get some pictures of them!

Francie~ Those are some great avatars!!!

SusieQ~ They don't do Gab's speech during school? Brandon's is done during class time. He came home from school on Friday saying "dummy" and "dongey." We are thinking that the "dongey" is him trying to say donkey. the whole time we were getting ready to go grocery shopping, he kept saying dummy over and over again. thakfully he didn't say it once while we were shopping!

Cristina~ I hate when my schedule gets thrown off! Yeah, I take pictures any chance I can! Logan is getting to the point where he will avoid getting it taken at all costs. I have to bribe him with food or tickle him in order to get a nice one of him!

Katy~ WTG on your weight loss! I agree with you on what you said! And I will let them know that you said so! They actually went to bed pretty good for me today. Now, I have to come up with a non-boyish outfit to put her in when we go out on Saturday! the last time we went to Frankenmuth we got the "oh are they triplets?" and "oh....how cute....three little boys!"

Christina, two of your posts on this page have been deleted. They both say, "This post has been deleted by FrouFrou."
Let me know if you want me to undelete them for you.

Excuse me for jumping in, ladies! Enjoy your day, everyone!