Run With The Fishes

We were behind in getting Allison her 18 month – 2 year immunization shots. 2 weeks ago Greg took her to get them but was sent home with an antibiotic prescription because she had swollen tonsils. Today we went back and instead of shots this time, we found out that Allison has ear infections and her tonsils are still swollen. Blah. It explains why she hasn’t been sleeping well at night, but other than that, she has had no other symptoms. She has been her happy-go-lucky self.

I AM: “Smellin’ like the rose that somebody gave me” – ok really, a wife, a mother, smart, a hard worker,
I WANT: to take a vacation somewhere nice with the kids.
I WISH: to live happily.
I HATE: feelings of inadequacy
I MISS: friends
I FEAR: something happening to a loved one.
I HEAR: the typing of keys.
I WONDER: what I am going to fix for dinner tonight.
I REGRET: not keeping in touch with people.
I AM NOT: good at keeping the house clean.
I DANCE: when the mood strikes me.
I SING: all the time.
I CRY: when I am really mad.
I AM NOT ALWAYS: good with words.
I MAKE WITH MY HANDS: shadow puppets
I WRITE: in my blog
I CONFUSE: Greg, easily. Mostly because I speak nonsense.
I NEED: a maid and a gardener.
I SHOULD: get back to work.
I START: water for tea
I FINISH: my plate
I TAG: Amy, Josh/Christina, Todd and anyone and everyone else who reads and wants to do this. I would tag Isabel, but she has a new baby to take care of. Congratulations!

Last night at dinner, the kids were acting slighty goofy. When are they not? Nathan was doing some crazy arm and head dance moves. Allison was laughing and copying. I’m not sure what Zoey said, but it was said loudly. Nathan told her, “Good job speaking up for the old people.”

In honor of Earth day (which was Saturday). I spent most of the weekend outside, cleaning up the yard. We inherited a berry patch that had become so over run with weeds that a few weeks ago I started pulling. After I thought about it, I wasn’t sure that I hadn’t pulled up berry plants along with the weeds. This has been an ongoing saga between the weeds and me. The flower beds were in such awful shape because I just didn’t know what was a weed and what was actually supposed to be planted.

So, I bought some new berry plants to make up for the ones I was sure had been pulled up. Thornless ones this time to be more kid friendly. Saturday, I was pulling more weeds to get ready to dig trenches. I noticed there were some plants that had little berries starting to grow on them. Instead of planting the thornless plants there I needed to find a separate place.

There is a little trellis on one side of our house that was a good spot to put the new ones. The only problem was that something else was already growing and I haven’t really been upkeeping that side of the house. Now however, the trellis is clean, with new berries planted under it, most of the weeds are gone and the little trees that had started growing in the flower bed are out. The yard looks much nicer, except where I massacred a hedge that was growing in front of the girls window.

As a side note, someone is supposed to come out this week with their tractor and till up a HUGE spot of land for the garden this year. I hope he does it soon because I started a bunch of seeds in little peat pots 2 weeks ago, and now they are getting too big for the pots. We’ll have okra, spinach, lettuce, cabbage, onions, bell peppers, broccoli, brussel sprouts, spicier than habanero peppers (not sure what kind they are only that they are seeds from one of my mexican co-workers). I am waiting until the ground is ready to buy tomato plants. Seeds still waiting to be planted directly in the ground are corn, cantaloupe, carrots, watermelon, peas, and I am sure there are other things I am forgetting. When you guys come to visit I will have plenty of fresh vegetables.

Now you have read the most boring post ever placed on this blog.

I was tagged by Amy over at CrazyMokes! So, Amy, This one’s for you!

1. I can’t stand the sound of knuckles poppling. It is just creepy and sounds wrong. When someone starts popping, I usually leave the room. Blech! Now you know how to get me out of the room.
2. In High School and the first year of college, I worked for a fast food joint called Captain D’s. They asked for a volunteer to dress up as the captain for a couple of occasions and I thought it would be fun so volunteered.
3. I used to have my belly button peirced but took it out when I found out I was pregnant with Nathan.
4. I never sneeze just once. I normally sneeze 3 times in a row. They aren’t girly sneezes either, but whole body, really loud sneezes.
5. I can only fall asleep if I am laying on my left side. I’m pretty sure it’s because that’s the recommended sleeping posistion for pregnant women and I had to train myself to sleep that way 3 times.
6. I couldn’t think of 6 things. I kept asking Greg if he had any ideas and he was no help at all. I’m sure there are more, but how would I know? For the most part I think I’m normal.

Fine Print and all that good stuff:
1. Reveal six weird facts/things/habits about yourself and then tag six people if you can.
2. Leave a “You’re Tagged!” comment to let the people you have tagged know they have to reveal six things (or the entire blogosphere will explode and it will be their fault).
3. Leave me a comment letting me know that you have completed your mission (if you have chosen to accept it!)

I think that most of the people I slightly know from the blog world have already done this. If you haven’t, go ahead and do it.

We were all around the table getting ready to sing and watch Nathan blow out the candles on his cake. No sooner had I lit the candles than Nathan took a huge puff and blew them out. Everyone was shocked for a second then started to cheer. “Are you guys sure you don’t want to sing Happy Birthday? I can always relight the candles.”

“No Way!”, was the general consensus.

We have a pond. Sometimes we catch fish in it.

Yesterday Nathan caught this bass.

18 inches long and 4lbs.

While Greg’s mom, sister and brother were here visiting last week, we had an air mattress set up in the girls’ room. The plan was for 2 of the kids to sleep on the air mattress and one each in the beds. Here is how you can tell when your children lead pretty non-eventful lives. Set up an air mattress and watch how excited they get at the prospect of who gets to sleep on it.

What you can’t tell from this picture is that Zoey is right in the middle of the queen size mattress. The Care Bear pillow is actually a child’s chair that she has used as her highness’s head rest.

“I’m Hiding. hehehehe”

If you ask Allison what her name is she will tell you. “I’m Big Kid Stueber”. If she sees another little kid (ball games or grocery stores) she will ask what your name is and then introduce herself as, not Allie, but Big Kid. Big kid she stays until she is sleepy or there is something she doesn’t want to do. That’s when she tells us, “I’m not Allie. I’m not Big Kid. I’m Mom’s Bay-Bee”.