my boys

.We are all adjusting well these days. It is trying some days more than others but overall we are still striving to better ourselves as we exist in this family. These past weeks have been ones of complete busyness to say the least. First Christmas came... Wait; First Moe came, then Christmas came as well as J's army enlisted brother from WA, then his fiance` came with her little girl of 2 years. With the first initial meeting came a lot of outings and dinners, lunches, dress shopping, pedicuring, ice cream eating, and game playing oh and pony riding. Did I mention that the boys are "sick" with a runny nose and cough, so needless to say I was worried about having them out in the weather. But time stands still for no one!

We got in some good time with family over this holiday and I am ready for another year before the next one. EXCEPT, it doesn't stop there. We are traveling to WA for the infamous wedding in like 3 weeks. We of course have to continue on with getting permission to take the boys out of state for this said trip so that is a plus! HA! Has anyone ever taken a 15 month old AND a 10 month old on a plane trip for approximately 3 hours before? Could you give me some pointers? Do they have dramamine for infants? I am nervous but I know it will be fun and adventurous to boot. Plenty of fun picture opportunities anyway.

We had our friends come stay with us this weekend and so we hosted a game night for 6 of our fun loving friends. I made Baked chicken parmesan with spaghetti and brought to join was a delicious salad, some fabulous french bread and quenching drinks. I also picked up a mix for a cookie brownie. MMMMM if you want to know. Thanks Tia for all your hard work making that happen *smile* it was well worth your labor! hahaha.

In having our friends here this weekend we had to move Moe to Bear's bedroom. We wanted them to enjoy their stay in our guest room without the workings of our little Moe, plus they have their own little set of 16 month old pipes that joined them in the guest room. Come to find out Moe LOVES being a roommate. So does Bear. They talk to eachother at the corners of their cribs and can sleep through one another's fits of crying when they are needing something. I love them. It is so funny to hear them talking and carrying on when they are "falling asleep" and when I peek in on them they are just lazily lying in bed staring into abyss jabbering in monotone mumbles for lack of anything interesting to say until finally you walk in and they are sprawled out all over their cribs passed out from so much excitement. I need to talk to the agency and see if it is appropriate for them to remain in the same room. I see some benefits to helping Moe with his insecurity and separation anxiety; but I also fear that if some day Moe does end up leaving us again that it would hurt them both for no longer having a roommate to talk to. I love that they are so good with one another. They, in my heart, are the best brothers ever.

From the first day Moe came 9 months ago Bear has been his best friend. Moe would cry A LOT and Bear would "crawl" over to him and hold his hand to comfort him. It never failed. Even to this day they are comforting to one another. We had to pile into the jeep for a couple days while our car was being repaired and their car seats consumed the entire back seat and from time to time I could look back there and they were holding hands just "talking" away. They are quite the duo in singing from the back seat as well. There is not a quiet car ride with those two. It is comical I will give you that.

We were eating out last night with J's family and Moe and Bear were sitting at the end of the table with us. They were in their high chairs and playing pat-a-cake for the most time. The other half of the time they were putting grown men to shame with their mad eating skills. Oh and for those of you wondering how Moe is doing with food. He is a hauss when it comes to food. The boy loves real food and cannot get enough of it. Forget the baby food and anything that has to do with that mushy stuff. Give him the good stuff! He puts Bear to shame. He weighs 21 lbs right now and Bear is 26 so I give it another month or so before he catches up to him. Big boys!

I am retiring this post for now to give you all time to catch up and then I will be coming back around with another post and lots of pictures about all this getty-up....

Good night to all!

No year's resolution

I am not going to go on about making out a new year's resolution because after day one I forget it is even a new year. It feels strangely like the one that just passed and the ones before that. So to save face and not lie to everyone out there I am going to tell you like it is...

I am more than likely not going to lose weight (I have been told I don't eat enough). I may even go out on a limb and gain some.

I am going to still roll out of bed to one crying, one talkative babies, and fight to get breakfast ready before they chew through the bars of the crib to come do it themselves.

I am going to see my husband as much as his job allows and as much as I am allowed given that I have "NOTHING" to get done.

I am still going to strive daily to see my house clean for one minute before I notice the toddler behind me with a poopy diaper that has somehow come loose and left it's coacoa puffs all over the "clean" floor. (it has not happened yet..... buuuuut)

I am still going to get my prayer time in when I see a need and or in the shower (praying that the water gets warmer is definitely a valid prayer time I must say).

I am still not going to shave my legs every stinkin time I take a shower... hahaha leg warmers.. Yes I did just post that.

SO far it looks like I am just going to be myself. I do however, strive DAILY to be a better person overall and be a better wife, mother and friend. It just isn't exactly successfully achieved by the end of each day. I pray that God would give me the strength and courage I need to get out of the norm and Strive a little harder each day! How's that for a no year's resolution. haha

Happy New Year's eve to you all!!!

$530 later...

SO the automotive repair place called this morning about our car. I was in the shower so J took the call. He came in to tell me that they found ANOTHER problem that needed to be fixed in order for their other repairs to maintain quality performance. So J agreed to it. I asked how much more we would be paying (on top of the $340) he sweetly replies with "it will be a total of $530". I wanted to vomit (good thing I was in the shower). I just put my hands over my face and started bawling. I hate money! We seem to never have any and the minute we do and it looks like we are going to finally go somewhere in the direction of paying extra on getting out of debt something else shows it's ugly face and drags us back down. Later I was talking to J (after I calmed down some) and told him to watch out... we had $200 left in the bank something else was liable to break or need a repair. He loves my sarcasm... yes, that too is sarcasm!

Joke's on me. Later I found the Auto ins bill that had not been paid for the month at a whopping $47.70 (I know, I am grateful it is cheap... for two cars even) and of course I find the Phone bill that is due TOMORROW (I made the mistake of letting J handle the bills for a month... we had some late payments to say the least) the phone bill comes to $112 (for all 3 phone lines). WELL IMAGINE THAT! Sorry for the sarcasm. I am tired of pressing in just to SURVIVE another week to struggle through to the next one. It stinks really. We have been trying to figure out what to cut out. Our only "luxuries" really are our cell phones (dropping one would only decrease our bill by $10. And our internet which is really high if you ask me but sometimes I am expecting cheap things when there is no way.

Oh well... God always provides. It truly does not even make sense on paper but it always works out! We have a fixed car to say the least. It does, however, still smell like burning plastic! hahaha *smile*

tomorrow will be a better day. right??? Of course it will. I choose my attitude... God just corrects it! LOVE HIM!