Burrrrr... It's cold outside!

I decided to visit Jared because the kids had a day off. For some reason when you get in a car to travel a long distance, the tummy starts to growl. I made the kids wait till we at least made it to the next "town". We stopped to get some food and when I rolled the window down, it started to clink and scratch and grind. In my most observant thought, I thought it was weird.

Once food was received, I went to roll it up. It made it about 5 inches and stopped. Oh, NO! SO with my ingenious, I tried it again. Same results. (big surprise) I went ahead on down the road and just figured that I'd keep trying it over and over. (reminds me of the scene in the Bee Movie where he keeps trying to fly through the window.) Didn't work.

Anyhow...I told the kids to put their coats on. By this point the thought of driving 2 more hours was not going well with my fingers, which were now frozen, curled around the steering wheel. My eyes kept peering up at the thermometer on my rearview mirror, hoping against hope that the 26 degrees it was reading would rise a few more. Like 55! Sadly, it kept declining. Thoughts of duct tape and plastic started to run through my head and cursed myself for not having any of those on hand. (Must be a guy thing.) I knew there was a Lodge up ahead and decided to stop and ask a "big strong man" to pull it up for me.

AND...I sure did. He tried to figure out how to get inside the door but didn't want to break it. BREAK IT!!! I'M FREEZING! Without breaking into it he must have done something because with the help of his arm muscles, it went right up. His advice to me after that, "Don't roll it down." Got It! No Rolling!

Now....we finally make it "there" and Jared decides to go driving into a field of snow. (Gopher hunting is better from the comfort of a warm vehicle. Right?) I don't know if it's related but my power steering goes out and he's stuck in the field. (It's good that there was a tractor to use. It was unstuck before I even knew he was stuck.)

My over-nighter may have turned into a two-nighter. (Depending on how long it takes the mechanic to fix it.)

Kids aren't complaining!

Where HAVE you been?

I know it's been a LONG time since I've had the time to blog and I'm not going to bore you with stupid excuses, but thanks for stickin' with me. We'll just get right back into things....

To sum up the last two months...
-Had my birthday. AWESOME!!! I was given the gift of "ME". I was able to go do whatever I wanted for a day, kid-less. I took off to spend the day with Sarah and little Luke. (If given the opportunity to have the kid smile at you....SO WORTH IT!)

We went to the "mall" and had sushi for lunch YUMMY. (But don't let me kid you, I always get the "vegitarian" roll. I still can't bring myself to eat anything raw, or anything that lives in water for that matter.

We then did some indoor 'window' shopping (It was cold outside) and found a new obsession. Charms I've got some decidin' to do. I'm gonna have a very cool bracelet by the time I've picked out the ones that I want. I then decided that I wanted my very own "Build-a-bear"and adopted/bought a turtle named Emery. (Emery, short for emerald, and emerald is green, turtles are green...get it?) Thanks to Sarah for the idea. We meandered through some more stores. (Aldo shoes MISS MISS MISS that store. And wished I had an endless pit of money. I miss the shoe shopping thing.) Finally the day started to come to an end and Sarah had to go home.

I hesitated calling to check on the kids because a small cry/whimper I'd hear in the background would send me flying home. I hadn't heard anything and figured that was a good thing. I opted to go home anyways because I really had no place to go. I came home to find all five kids very content and "relaxed" thanks to Aunt Launa's yoga/mediation skillz. They had a great time making cookies and reading books. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK MiLauna for such a great present!!!!!

-Next....I dealt/dealing with germs/sickness galore. I've tried to get rid of whatever is hindering my little home, but am only now starting to see the upper hand. Cross your fingers, spring comes sooner than later so I can wash my hands of this snot/cough/fever bug F O R E V E R!!!

-I started having a playgroup at my house which forced me to 're-arrange' my basement for somewhere that these little munchkins could release their "toddler stress". It turned out ok. As one of the mom's (which hosts a playdate at her house also) said, "it's not as enjoyable to host than it is to go." True that, true that! I felt like, Ok, I really WAS chasing kids around my house trying to corral them in the "playroom" and out of the "restricted" areas. WHILE mommy's sat and chitchatted. It's all good now because it will only happy once a month for 1 1/2 hrs. Managable. I can do that.

-Mykael had her birthday yesterday. I think she had a good day, she didn't say otherwise. She had her favorites for all the meals. Egg sanwhiches, pot stickers, and haystacks. PLUS she didn't have to lift not ONE cleaning finger ALL DAY LONG. Lucky girl! (I hate doing the dishes probably more than she does.!) ;o)

-OH!....We had a small accident with Dylan. He had ventured into my bathroom, un-awares, and climbed up onto the toilet. He likes to play in the water. I hear a big thud and of course the cry that follows. Oh the horror! I checked for blood, bruises, cuts, whatever I could find. NOTHING....just crying. But then....in his mouth....a tooth that is no longer. WHERE DID itgo? Oh, it's still there. Just shrunk. OU-CH! It had jammed right back to where it came from. It wasn't bleeding so I wasn't freakin'. (Some how those two just coincide.) I called my dental "peeps" and was told that it was something that happened to a nephew of hers and it grew back just find. NOW...if you ask another "source" they'd say go to the dentist. HELLO...I did, sort of. Fastforward to today and it has started to move back to its original size and space. Phew. Just a little snaggle lookin'.

I'm gonna go with this for now....I'll see you in two more months. ;o)