my kindergartener has a shiner...

So my beautiful child looks like she got in a fight with the school bully, but in reality she was playing an innocent game of "kitties" gone wrong. The run in was with her sister's big head and her eye blew up to the size of a golf ball! i really thought it was gonna blow up! she ran to me crying and said "i can't go to school tomorrow, everyone will think i look ugly!!!!" not once did she say that it hurt! that child was so concerned that she kept that ice pack on her face for like 24 hours! i let her stay home for a day and when it was time to go back to school i did the only thing i knew how to do..... makeup.... not to cover the black eye just to 'match' the other eye... i know she's in Kindergarten but i didn't know what else to do! i sent a note to the teacher explaining myself, i just prayed they wouldn't send her home for wearing makeup to school....

"sleeping arrangments"

So, my girls love each other so much that they decided to sleep in the same bed... a twin bed is a little small for two people (even two little people) so we put the beds together to make a 'king-ish' size bed so they would have more room.... didn't make much of a difference to them.... ENJOY!

Doesn't this look sooooo cozy??

Dirty feet.... so cute...gross, but cute...

i just love these pics, although not recent, they remind me that the grass is green somewhere under all that damn snow.... i am having a rough winter, i think i need one of those sun lamps or stronger drugs...new shoes? ok now i'm more depressed because even if i found fabulous shoes i couldn't even wear them!!!!!!!!

"baking" cookies...

So, like a good mommie i told the girls we could bake Christmas cookies.... (and by "bake" i mean buy the sheets of dough and let the girls cut them out) So after they cooled off we start frosting them and adding gobs of sprinkles (canned frosting , of course) suddenly Cora accidentally broke a piece of her cookie off and say's "oh DAMN IT" she doesn't even look up from what she's doing! Cory and I looked at each other with our eyes bugged out of our heads and said to her "what did you say?" and she says "i said oh damn it" like what are you deaf... after Cory and i stop laughing we ask her where she heard that word (i was prepared to be busted) and she said "Syd" (check out syd's blog "forever young") at this point Cory and i were dying we were laughing so hard! Syd, you were totally busted, although we both know thats not the first place she heard that

Sydney and Edward

My friend Syd told me she has been not been able to keep Edward out of her mind.  She is so obsessed with him, all she ever talks about is how she dreams of Edward biting her!  I think she is taking this story way to far...what do you think?

12:01 AM -Need I say more?

yes, i drive an 'Astro Van' (seriously)

Just a little background before i start complaining.... i drove a sky-blue Toyota Previa in high school so l love mini vans... its not about the van really, its how i receive the van every WED morning. The van belongs to my father in law but i use it on a daily basis and he uses it tues night and sat morning...



THIS is how it looks... who needs carseats when my kids could just sit on news paper bundles....

Literally, not a stitch of garbage in this van belongs to me or my children and the worst part is i always forget its gonna be like this, so im running out the door trying to get Eva to school on time and i have to heave these bundles over the backseat ( that weigh as much as i do, by the way) i want to SCREAM!

people must really think i "live in a van down by the river" as Chris Farrley would say

too bad i dont care that it looks as if i spend so much money on shoes that i live in my van and recycle news-papers to get my 'fix'....

Speaking of shoes check out these beauties....
now, wipe the drool off your face and pay close attention.....
these shoes almost cost me my life,

alright maybe not my life but seriously i nearly caused a five car pile up. i was driving home from work daydreaming about BOGO when i realized the four cars ahead of me were stopped at a light. No big deal i had plenty of room and time to stop. so i go to take my foot off the gas and my beautiful new guess pump slips and my heel catches under the gas pedal it was literally stuck so i start screaming obscenities and bracing my self for impact with the bumper of a little yellow Mustang... just in time i pulled my foot out, slammed on the brakes and screeched to a halt. i was shaking the whole rest of the way home...
LESSON: when breaking in brand new heals, always bring driving flats (of course if you get pulled over switch them back quickly)

I know, right.... totally worth it...

Last but not least i had to post this picture because Syd literally burst into hysterical laughter when i pulled up to her house with the van looking like this.. i hadn't even noticed and drove around the entire day before like this and was too lazy to care at that point... the one day my husband drives the van he parks under a light post....... Cora says "Naughty burdy! no poo poo on da car, poo poo in da potty!"