Elf Yourself!

I should probably explain the "elf yourself" video. Mark's mom was trying to be funny and sent me on with Mark, me, the kids, and Harry our kitten. So I made this one and sent it back to her - the older fella in the middle is Mark's grandpa! Then I got really punchy and made one for her with Mark's grandpa and his wife, and his other grandma. That was about 1 am, and I was about to pee my pants laughing!

ElfYourself!

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Christmas Portraits

I'm so proud of my kids! They did fabulous enduring the one hour wait at Portrait Innovations today! They did better than some of the adults there! Enjoy the pics!

The Flu

I'm pretty sure I had the flu last week. In fact, I'm pretty sure I still have the flu this week. Now I am so exhausted - every muscle and bone in my body is exhausted. I get out of bed for an hour and have to sleep for 5 more to recover. I can't believe I have not missed any time from work yet because of this. Gotta love prednisone! I thought I was on top of the world - got the house clean, kept seeing patients, etc. until the prednisone wore off and now I still feel like poop. I will probably end up taking tomorrow off just to rest.
Thankfully, my three children have not caught this yet and I hope they don't. I have managed to get the laundry almost caught up. Last weekend the washing machine was broken so I had to wait until Wednesday to get it fixed. I've been slowly catching it up during my "awake" times. I think I'm down to 5 loads left - 3 kids, one whites, and one towels. I'm amazed at how fast we go through laundry around here! You'd think we have 3 year old twins or something!

Exhausted

There is a reason God did not allow me the time over the weekend to change the sheets on my bed. I washed a set of sheets over the weekend and they were tossed on the floor beside my bed with the intention of eventually changing the bed. About 1:30 this morning, Moose woke up fussing and wouldn't stop, so Mark picked him up and put him in the middle of our bed. About 5 minutes later he threw up everywhere, his pillow, my pillow, our sheets, down thru the mattress pad. Ugh! So, the sheets got changed. Then Squeaky woke up and was upset that she was not included on the excitement, so Moose and Mark ended up sleeping in Moose's room and Squeaky and I went back to bed on my clean sheets.

All I want is a pumpkin...

All I want is a pumpkin on my blog. Is it too much to ask?
Anywho... Potty training for Moose has gone to the Moose-turds. Last Monday (just over a week ago), his teacher and I decided that since he was doing so well staying dry in pullups, that he could wear his big boy underwear to school. I guess that stressed him out! When we got home, I asked him if he needed to potty, and he said "no." I waited about 15 minutes and asked again and got the same answer. I waited 15 more and said "Moose, its been a while, its time to go potty. Come with me." To which he replied, "No, don't like it no more. Don't like it." And that was the end of that. About ten minutes later he came to me in the kitchen and said "I poop." He did. Ever since that day he has refused to sit on the potty, let alone pee on it!
In other good news, I broke out the recipe for pumpkin fluffy dip - I love it this time of year. So easy to make too! one tub cool whip, one can pumpkin, one box vanilla pudding mix, and one teaspoon pumpkin pie spice. Mix it all together and consume joyfully with graham crackers! Deee-lish!

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i hate this effing blog. it is pissing me off. all i want is an effing pumpkin on my effing blog and i can't have it. i've spent an hour and a half trying to get rid of the beach and get an effing pumpkin and its not happening. where's the effing ativan - i'll never get to sleep tonight.