Missy's Moments

Frustation!!!!

I have fish tales... really I do, tried to set up to post tonight it failed, tried to manually post and my Internet Explorer crashes every time I load the pictures...... ggggrrrrrr, going to try live writer and see if that works... bare with me and Dad I'll email you the pictures!

Going Down

My friend Deanne and I have embarked upon a new journey. Since we're into month three I'll share and so will she right here.  Feel free to stop by and lurk, laugh, lip off- whatever you do just be nice doing it!

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Moon Sand... HA!

Ever scene the commercial for moon sand? Let's just review in case you haven't. It molds, it never dries out, EASY to clean up, doesn't stick to clothes.... all the things a parent loves to hear (and all the things I actually fell for).  So yesterday we were shopping for a birthday present for a party the boys were invited to. I had a couple of things that motivated me into looking into this and one was the mother of the boy suggested a present that involved crafts or building. I thought hmmmm wonder if this would be a good time to buy some of that moon sand. When the commercial comes on the boys are quick to admire it with big gleaming eyes and as long as I was picking some up for the friend I might as well get a small thing of it for Eric and Sam. AFTER ALL that would keep them busy for a while so I could get a few things done. Two colors ought to do it and they I ran across this treasure you see in the picture.... I know I know to exciting -MOON SAND WITH MONSTER TRUCKS..... oh life is good. So we placed two in the cart. One for the birthday boy and one for Eric and Sam. Well I wish I would have read some reviews on this before buying it....

good golly I got the boys all set up and Eric felt it and made a face and I should have known that if Eric was disturbed it was going to be messy. Eric doesn't do messy. Sam does messy and when he came to see me in the laundry room (remember I was going to get great things done while he played nicely) and told me there was a problem.... well that's where my not so finer moments began.

I walked up to my kitchen now the blue/yellow beach front and about cried. My sweet Sam finally had a moment where it was just to tempting and there was moon sand from one end of the table to the other, all over my kitchen chairs, the floor, on the dogs paws, going down the stairs, going into the living room and anywhere else that it stuck to. I enlisted Sam to a bit of cleaning but he was gone... off to wash up. So I get a path cleared to prevent anymore transmission to the rest of the house before going to find him and I suppose at least 5 minutes went by..... 5 LONG MINUTES THAT THE WATER IN MY BATHROOM SINK RAN FULL BLAST UNATTENDED AND NOT DRAINING!!!! 

As I went to the linen closet to grab some paper towel I heard this water running, I thought it was just the toilet handle needing a little jiggle so I ventured into the bathroom only to find a small waterfall off the side of our vanity.

You know the shock when you can't even say anything, you can't even get upset, you don't dare talk for fear green split pea soup will fly and your head will twirl kind of shock.... yeah that was me.

So I turn off the water, build a dam on the sides of the vanity so no more water goes down and proceed to the basement because surely that is where this is all going. I'm pretty sure the upstairs bathroom is close to being above the downstairs bathroom so I go to flip on the light in the downstairs and it doesn't work, none of them work and I wonder "hmmmm wonder if the water has short circuited something" After a talk with my husband he confirms that is exactly what happened and tells me to check by the chest freezer/extra food storage area and sure enough there is water running down the walls there. Thankfully only 3 boxes of mac and cheese were not able to be saved.. My $20 box of Splenda (1000 packets from Sam's) was safe so I found some hope in that! LOL. I removed food, made sure the water was under control and went back to my first task.... THE MOON SAND.

Well in order to get this cleaned up I needed to take out the garbage because it was overflowing, I cleaned out the fridge earlier and at the top of this heap was a half thawed thing of freezer burnt sherbet and as soon as I touched the garbage not only did it fall out but the lid came off of it and SHERBET FLEW EVERYWHERE but thankfully not much of it landed in the moon sand. No the moon sand was on the other 1/2 of my 2x2 kitchen. Sherbet covered the rest of it. :(

I just stood there.... sherbet between my toes.... and cried. Not one of my finer moments. I didn't cuss (out loud) I didn't yell (right away) I did get it together fast and think, this could be funny later but I was not ready to laugh.

The good news is all this got my floor mopped, my house vacuumed, and I even dusted the family room. I mean why not? The day is already going a different direction, might as well go with it and really clean right?

The moon sand you ask.... in the garbage. I'm still dealing with the guilt of giving it to this other boy. I hope that mom speaks to me again!

This Will Keep You Busy

This will keep you busy until I get my zillion pictures and stories up from the lake and other summer fun!

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My Psycho Shower

What could be more relaxing that a nice hot shower, not feeling rushed, knowing you have some time to get ready.... I mean really. Kayla and Jordan are off to school, Eric and Sam are happily watching Mickey Mouse and already dressed, Rick is off to work. Just me my thoughts, the hot water and this:

DO YOU SEE THAT THING!!!!!! While minding my own business and lifting my arm to shave (I know TMI) I glance up to see the shadow of HORROR! I've never ran out of the shower so fast in my whole life. REALLY and don't EVEN tell me you wouldn't have ran to! GOOD GRIEF I HATE CENTIPEDES HATE THEM HATE THEM HATE THEM!!!!!! This one was and I'm not kidding about 2 1/2 inches long and had about a thousand legs. I took a cleaning bottle with bleach in it and it took THREE shots to get that creature to drop down from the shower fan. THREE and when it dropped it was still fighting...... I must stop now, I can't get the heby jebies to go away and I don't know as if I will use our shower anytime soon. They're really not all they're cracked up to be..... ick :(

PS: I did grab a towel before racing through the house to get the camera and the bleach! LOL

Taxes and Teenagers

Taxes, teenagers and Monday... am I a glutton for punishment or what! All that to say today was spent with a huge headache. It took a couple of slugs of Tylenol and motrin to get this one to go away and hopefully it will stay away tonight. Needless to say today was productive in an I wish it were over way.

Saturday evening we watched The Pursuit of Happyness and I must confess as many good things as I've heard about this movie I was a little neutral about it. In fact I went and looked at some other reviews to see if I was being a little harsh and sure enough I am. What I didn't like about it was the fact that I felt the whole movie portrayed money to be the giver of happiness. I get stuck on that message as the world is so "happy" based. What will make you happy? That way of thinking is dangerous for me. It's a set up for the exact opposite and that is unhappiness. You may be reading this and be thinking what in the world is she talking about. Well it's simple, it's a joy that comes new from One not happiness that comes from anything in this world. To be fair there were lots of great messages in this movie. Will Smith is a loving father that has his priorities in order, I understand why he trudged forward and the love that drove that. The movie did a great job of saying that no dream is to big for anyone.

I also watched Broken Bridges yesterday. Now that movie had me in tears almost the whole movie. I loved the story and the songs. Dad if your reading this you should watch this one. I think it will touch you as much as it did me.

So another day almost wrapped up for spring break. I have a room full of teenage boys right now watching the Twins game. Two little rats outside playing in the rain with Daddy and one girl that well lets just say has had better days. Tomorrow on the agenda is a little bit of shopping to get ready for the meal this weekend and I think I may get out of my jammies tomorrow. No promises after all I take this break thing pretty seriously! 

Winter Humor

For lack of time to write and hopes that you don't give up on me, here is a email that made me giggle! (hint... you may need to click on the image to make it bigger and easier to read)

Say Cheese!!!

This year I wasn't as on top of things as I would have liked to been but I did make a point to stop at the portrait studio that I've used for the last 5 years to make appointments for the kids that were convenient and worked well for everyone! I'm gotten wiser and there is no sense in trying to get all four together, so Eric and Sam were scheduled on Monday, Kayla and Jordan on Thursday and since they were all the same week all the pictures would be back at the same time. Sounds easy enough right?

Monday comes and the phone rings..... Mrs. Eagen, our photographer is unable to shoot your pictures tonight and the next available is in 2 weeks..... Let's just say Mrs. Eagen wasn't happy, the hair cuts the time of the appointment everything was getting thrown off. Sigh.... what can you do? Well this is what I did.

"My older two have an appointment, can we squeeze them all together?"

I know better, I absolutely no better but the half of me that still thinks my children are angelic decided that it could be done and not only could it be done I'd do it myself.

Did I mention that the studio bragged about their new digital shots and the many I would have to choose from? They did forget to mention that the prices quadrupled but hey that's a small detail right?

So Thursday comes and we get there early (as advised) only to wait not only until our appointment time but past, we snapped what seemed like a million pictures and the time came to view them.... the time came.... did I mention the time came....,oh this time they really were able to view but I couldn't see them as I was chasing Sam down the isle and trying to convince Jordan to watch Eric, Kayla was late to work and already had to leave this lovely bonding time and then the big announcement came, the little detail about the prices. oh and the coupons, they are only for the studios that haven't gone digital...... can you see my eyes bugging out!!!

So 3 hours later, OK maybe 2 1/2, I left, no pictures purchased, and 3 boys that were just short of being strapped to the roof of the car. It was fun... humph!

My solution: We'll redo them somewhere else, surely another studio and I'll get the full story before going. I was able to get an appointment at opening, no waiting. The kids are up, happy and ready, here we go.

I'm not sure what went wrong but if it could it did. First Sam would not smile, if he did he looked like he was in pain and I was really getting frustrated. I felt really bad but there was nothing I would have purchased and to be fair I told her that so she could keep trying. And why is it when you see that perfect smile the flash goes off as the smile leaves the face? So I gave up, I just wanted out, she'd take a picture, I'd say good enough, next.... four kids later and a whole pile up in the lobby with other kids waiting for mine, angry stares form other parents, oh the fun just wouldn't end. I ordered the pictures I was willing to live with and when she rang them up the price was all wrong, the only other person to help was busy and all my children had left me there. Other parents were literally yelling about the wait time and I had to resist the urge to shout HAPPY THANKSGIVING to the all of them. I very nicely asked if I could stop back to pay for them and left. I decided that no matter how bad my picture experience was that poor photographer was going to have a way worse day than me. Poor girl. 2 1/2 hours later I left, no pictures purchased.

So now I'm about 5 hours, 4 grumpy kids, and a few headaches invested into my Christmas pictures. I'm pretty sure my living room is going to turn into a portrait studio on Friday. I may or may not go back to order pictures.

SAY CHEESE!

Happy Thanksgiving!