I died :(

If you have a small-ish group of girlfriends, (like 4) there’s no way you didn’t sit around and figure out which of you would be who in The Sex and the City group. Or who would be who on The Golden Girls.

My little foursome, The Fab Four as we so fondly called it, did it too of course. We had the Golden Girls nailed. Jen was Blanche (the whole sex thing, giggle), Vicki was Dorothy (level-headed, the cornerstone of the group), Tonya was Rose (sweet and lovingly flaky, hehe) and I was Sophia (smart-mouthed Italian).

Well, as you’ve probably heard in the news, Estelle Getty (Sophia) died today after a long and fulfilled life. Made me a lil’ bit sad. That, and, well… our “Fab Four” isn’t so fab anymore these days… it’s the end of an era in a lot of ways.

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No, not a Staycation

It’s funny almost… I read an article in the paper recently, about how more and more people are planning what is called “staycations” lately, because of the economy. A staycation being a vacation that you take at home without going anywhere. Because of fuel prices and the economy in general, fewer and fewer families have the resources to go away for elaborate vacations and so are choosing to stay at home and play “tourist” in their own towns, or just do things at home.

Now, this is not to say that we have a ton of “resources” at hand, but I’m thrilled that we are leaving tomorrow for our own short vacation. We haven’t gone anywhere in quite some time, and I’m really looking forward to getting away with the kids. We’re going up to the Wisconsin Dells, which is always a source of great excitement for me. I know I’ve written about it here before, so I’ll just suffice it to say that even though I’ve been up there bunches of times, each time is still just as fun and thrilling as the last.

After we get back, we have the local county fair, and then an old friend from high school is visiting from out of town, and we are planning some fun things with her. I will probably be offline for a bit, but I will be back eventually, and I hope to come back to LOTS of updates from you peoples… you know who you are! Hugs all around… happy summer!

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Sum-sum-summertime Part II

It’s only Wednesday, and so far it’s been another great summer week. I’ve had a lot of fun this summer so far, and in some ways I can’t believe it’s more than half over (it always seems to fly by after 4th of July) but then in some ways I’m excited that we still have so much summer left!

Monday my girlfriends and I took the kids to a nearby beach, which was an awesome day. It’s a beach just over the border in Wisconsin, that unbeknownst to me, was less than 10 minutes away. I couldn’t believe that it’s been this close all this time, and it’s SUCH a nice beach and picnic area! We definitely want to make plans to go back. Tuesday I had kids to watch, and since we all got a lot of sun Monday, we just stayed in all day. Today the same friends brought their kids here and we had a pool day. Everyone has left by now and the kids are napping…what a nice way to wind up the day.

Andy is so cute…despite my slathering on the sunscreen every day, he is turning a healthy shade of tan, and he looks like a little surfer. His hair is getting white-blonde at the edges, and with those baby blues of his, he’s a totall mini-hottie. hehe Sam is feisty as ever, and even with his red hair and fair skin that goes along with it, he’s even getting tan.

Softball is winding down, we’ve only got a few more games left, and then our tournament, which we have high hopes for. We had a terrible game last night, and I was in a BAD mood after it. I messed up a couple of plays at home plate and took a hard hit that had me sprawled on the ground with a bloody knee. It sucked. But…everyone still congratulated me on playing a tough game, so that felt a little better I guess. Onto the next game I suppose. Shake it off, as we say.

So that’s about it for now… just enjoying the summer and looking forward to some plans in the coming weeks. I’ll update about that soon.

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Just some fun stuff

You Belong in 1959

You’re fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

Cheese Pizza

Traditional and comforting. You focus on living a quality life. You’re not easily impressed with novelty. Yet, you easily impress others.

You Are a Mai Tai

You aren’t a big drinker, but you’ll drink if the atmosphere is festive. And when you’re drunk, watch out! You’re easily carried away.

You Are Dr. Pepper

You’re very unique and funky, yet you still have a bit of traditionalism to you. People who like you think they have great taste… and they usually do. Your best soda match: Root Beer Stay away from: 7 Up

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Monkey see, monkey… sea

So, I’m in quite a pet-quandry as of late, and I’ll be needing your advice as to how to proceed from here.

Santa brought Andy and Sam each a Sea Monkey aquarium. One broke before we could set it up (it cracked when Sam had a fit and threw it. Nice, huh?) and the other we just set up about a month ago. Well, *I* set it up. It was a long, slow process before the sea monkeys were even visable…but now they are thriving. And getting big! And by big, I mean about the size of my pinkie finger-nail. Which isn’t all that big in the grand scheme of life, but is rather large when you consider they were microscopic when the eggs first hatched. And now we think the big ones are mating and laying their own eggs, because it seems each day there are new tiny ones that we find.

And so the quandry is…what do we do with these new “pets”? We considered feeding them to our other fish in our big fish tank (they are, after all, merely brine shrimp), but Andy was mortified at the idea. I mean, pretty soon this little aquarium is going to be teeming with creepy little shrimp, and then what do we do? Move them to an even bigger container? Calling what they are in now an “aquarium” is quite generous, it’s no bigger than a pint of Ben and Jerry’s.

As a side note, Sam, at two years old, is quite into the whole Sea Monkey adventure as well. Except, well… I think the whole “monkey” thing confuses him:
“Mommy mommy, see monkeys? See monkeys?” / “You want to see the sea monkeys Sam?” / “Yah…where’s monkeys?” / “There ya go buddy, there’s the sea monkeys.” / “Hi fishies! Where’s monkeys? Want see monkeys!” / “Sea monkeys bud, these are sea monkeys. See?” /

Yeah, it’s all very “Who’s on first?”.

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Waiting on the weather

Well, we’re supposed to be getting our swimming pool installed today, but the installers are being stalled because of the weather. Not that it’s doing anything at the moment, but the forecasters have been calling for it, and it looks threatening, but it’s just not doing anything. It’s frustrating because Jim took the day off to be home for the install, and it’s looking like that’s probably going to be a waste. Not to mention, I’m pretty irritated with him at the moment, so having him home today isn’t exactly feeling like a bonus.

As you can probably guess, I’m SO thrilled to be getting our swimming pool!! It took Jim and I MONTHS to finally agree on a set-up, which is why we’re having it put in so late in the season. (Ideally it would have went in in early spring) We were completely disagreeing on the location of the pool and the size/location of an attached deck. Plus, we’re very limited to where we can locate things in our backyard, because of all the restrictions per the village codes. It was an extremely frustrating process, which makes this delay even MORE frustrating because we’ve already waited so long.

PS. NOW it’s raining. Fuckity fuck.

UPDATE: It’s now 4pm and the pool is being installed as I write. There is currently four twenty-something year-old young men in my backyard with no shirts on. They are very hard at work. It’s sunny. They are sweaty. And in good shape.

Me happy.

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A complete, utter failure of a day

Setting: Evening, getting the kids ready for bed

Andy: {sigh} Today wasn’t that good of a day mommy.

Me: Aww, why buddy?

Andy: Well… I didn’t have ice cream, or chocolate, or even chicken nuggets! {sighs again}

Me: {small giggle} Well, sorry about that bud…maybe tomorrow.

Andy: {disappointed} Yeah, maybe tomorrow.

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An auntie again

As promised…photos of my gorgeous new niece, her name of Italian heritage… Sienna Jade.
She was born very late on Monday night, weighing in at 7lbs 5oz, and 21 inches long.
She’s so precious, so adorable… I couldn’t be more thrilled to have this beautiful little niece.

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Keeping our heads above water

It’s so hard for some reason to get on here to update lately. I don’t know why. It’s not as if I’m at a loss for things to write about. Life is full of things these days, events, happenings, issues, etc. But getting my thoughts organized enough to actually write things down just seems like such a chore. Then there’s the things I want to write about but can’t, or feel like shouldn’t. Then once I let those things pile up in my head, writing about anything else just seems moot.
But I think I’ll just bullet point again…because there’s a few friends on here with whom our blogs have become practically our only way of staying in touch, and since I like to read when they update, I’ll do so in return.

* Our softball team has won two games now! It’s pretty exciting. Two weeks ago, I took a pretty rough hit at home plate from a girl who was sliding in to score. I’m the catcher, and the play was at home. She was coming in to score, and my team threw the ball in…I held on to it until the last second, when we both hit the ground. So I dropped the ball, and they got the score. I was SO disappointed, until I came off the field and my whole team was going nuts and was so excited that I made that play, even though I dropped the ball. They couldn’t believe I took the hit, they didn’t even care that she scored. That was my first (ever) collision at home plate though…and you can be sure I’m not going to drop that ball again if that happens! (grrrrrowl) Especially considering I had to ice my swollen knee for two days, and my thumb is just now starting to work right again after being jammed back by the ball. I’d like to have these injuries worth it next time!

* I had to go to the doctor yesterday for a tetanus shot after I sliced open the back of my leg on my car door. It’s an ugly cut…between two and three inches long. Thank goodness it’s not getting infected. My arm is KILLING my from the shot though, yowza. My body has had a rough couple of weeks, lol.

* My sister is going in for her induction this coming Monday. We’re so excited….a baby girl finally!! I’ll be sure to come on and update with her name (which is a secret from all of us of course) and stats.

* My little brother is on a 10-day vacation in Cabo San Lucas with his friends right now. To say I am a deep shade of GREEN right now is an understatement.

* The news coming out of Wisconsin Dells about Lake Delton flooding and draining into the river has me so profoundly sad. The Dells has been a traditional vacation spot for myself and my family for years. Many of the things that we’ve always done have centered around the lake and/or river. Going on the Ducks, and seeing the Tommy Bartlet show…things like that. I can’t believe that the entire lake has drained to just a muddy-bottomed pit! Not to mention the poor families whose homes fell into the river and were washed away. It boggles the mind. I actually cried watching that footage…it’s just so sad. We’ll be going up there later this season to help put some tourist dollars back in there.

That’s it for now…gotta try to get some housework done while the kids are napping. Hopefully updates (for all of us, really!) will start coming a little easier soon.

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Girlz night out…in

Me and my girlz are having a slumber party tonight! wheeee! hehe

One of our (single) friends just bought her first house on her own, and we’re throwing her a housewarming party at her house. She lives kinda far (a little over an hour) so we’re all riding there together and spending the night, so there’s no worries about drinking/driving.

It’s pretty exciting…she’s the first one of us to do this all on her own, so that’s a pretty big step. Plus, she’s been to all of our showers and birthdays and all that, so we’re happy to do this for her. To say that we’re excited to be hanging out at a single gal’s pad with no kids is an understatement. We’ve been planning it for months, and calling eachother non-stop the last few days.

Only a few more hours and then it’s heavy-duty girl time. Whooo!

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