I can't believe I did that

I got up this morning, put on my "work jeans" as I intended to mow the yard, and finish clearing the last section of the parking strip to plant the flowering ice plant.  I am dressed to shoes to take the kids to school. Beth desperately needed an item from Wal-mart so we dropped the others and backtracked to the store. got her item, and headed to the car.

When I first sat down (taking the kids to school) I thought I'd sat on a piece of paper. But didn't bother to check. After walking through Wal-mart when I returned to the car I had the same feeling.. so I went to remove the paper/item... yup, you guessed it. The left side of my jeans is torn.. BIG hole, like the size of my hand. So I'm officially total white trash as I've now shopped Wal-mart with my cheek showing. 

Sad part is, I care more about the fact that my FAVORITE work jeans are basically dead. :o(  

Lots of nothing

I don't have any grand things to talk about... I've done dishes, helped with homework, laundry, all the usual stuff.. but nothing fun, cool, or noteable.

The only semi-noteworthy news is that Beth has requested her bike get a tune up as she wants to start riding to school now that it's warmed up. I'll be dropping it off at the shop on my way to a lunch date. 

At least the Lakers won last night!!!!! :o)

Whirlwind

So I worked the door at the bar Friday and Saturday nights. Friday night was BUSY! busiest I've ever seen the bar. I didn't get home until 3am. Saturday we hit the Rennesaince Faire in our area. FUN! We all wore costumes, I was a wench, Beth was a gypsy, Tori and Katie wore princess dresses I'd made a few years back for them for a wedding (this was the last year for those dresses!)... drew wore his Kilt (though he called it a quilt) and a peasant shirt, along with his dad. We bought Beth a gypsy top while there, it's her birthday present. I'll make her a skirt out of similar colors as a surprize. :o)  we tried to get me a new underskirt, but I wasn't willing to pay what they were asking when I know I can make my own for not even 1/3 of the cost.

Sunday was Mother's day, I rang in our handbell choir at church, then we went to the Beach house for lunch. We watched the lakers not show up for the semi-finals game. sad.  The flip side of that though was that there were a lot of fouls called in favor of the jazz and alot of fouls NOT called for the lakers. We left there and headed straight to Outback to meet my Mom, Dad, Brother, SIL, and Nephew.  Dinner was yummy, the conversations were great.. and we were home, with me in a bubble bath by 7:30pm. :o)

I've done lots of NOTHING today. Two loads of laundry are washed. One load is in machine. I did get two baskets put away. But the entire love seat is COVERED in clean laundry to fold and put away. and here I sit.

I'm off to at least try to get something visible accomplished today.

The last 4 days...

Wow. Friday after I dropped the kids off, I came back cleaned out the van, and left intending to get it washed on the way to Disneyland.  Well, I got to Disneyland, but the van still waits to be washed. LOL.   I went to check out the 50 years of Magic film they are showing on Main street, something the kids likely wouldn't be that interested in.  TOTALLY cool.  They had all kinds of memorabilia in the foyer to the theatre.  Really neat.  Steve Martin and Donald Duck sort of co-host the film. It was awesome. After that I rode Pirates, Splash mtn, thunder mtn. and had lunch at the Golden Horseshoe revue.  Too fun. I left the parks with enough time to get Drew, it was just what the Mouse ordered!

Friday night I went with my parents, Tim, and Chris to celebrate Chris's bday and my passing the CBEST. I can now substitute teach!!! YAY!  Much partying occurred between the  two pubs we visited.  Saturday I had an all day women's retreat with my church, it was really nice, and I truly enjoyed the being away from everything and getting to visit with women.  I worked the door at the bar Saturday night. Sunday was church, then I did some shopping. I got sleeping bags for the 3 littles, and mess kits for the 3 girls. All for summer camps, and camping trips.  Then I picked up kids from playdates and such and did dinner. 

Then there was yesterday. Cinco de Mayo. I met mom at the bar, I had a few margaritas, lunch, and lots of water.  I went to get the kids, and ended up going back to the bar after Bell choir. What an adventure. I had one more beer and 2 water bottles but the fun was watching all "the guys" celebrate the day.  They are a hoot when they've have a few. (let me state though that none of them drive, they all shared a taxi to and from).  I didn't get home until 1:30am  ouch. This morning hurt. But I did get a nice nap in, after I took Beth to the asthma dr.  She's fine, just a meds review.  :o)

Now I'm off to enjoy a nice soak in the tub and my pillow.

 

Two in one day!

Two posts in one day. Who'd have thought it possible.  heehee.

But I had to share the fun of the evening. Baskin Robbins had a special tonight 31cent scoops as a fundraiser for the fallen firefighters assoc.  So we headed over, the littles were in pj's. It was too fun.  Now any of you who have school-age kids will likely know the "hand games" that kids play, as a girl I remember doing several in elementary school. Tori and Katie hooked up with the girl behind us and by the time we got in to order our ice cream they'd gone through "lemonade"  at least 18 times, and it apparently cannot be done at a reasonable volume. BUT, as much as they were loud-ish, they were entertained and actually pretty entertaining.  Poor Drew didn't know what to do with himself so we played thumb war and rock paper scissors several times.

The ice cream cups were yummy, and now my babes are all snuggled in to their beds. Ahhh~

Re-finding my muse

I'd sort of lost my desire to write (like you couldn't tell).  But I think it's back, at least for today.

Updating you on my world,  on April 12th I took the CBEST which is our states teaching skills exam. I found out Monday I passed it. With that and my BA I can now substitute teach. I'm beyond thrilled, and am awaiting my paperwork so I can pass it on to my district people and get going!!! It's going to be very different for us, my last full-time job had crummy hours and nearly sucked the life out of me. I don't think that will be the case this time. However, I'm going to need to get the kids involved in cleaning / chores more than they are now.

We also found out that Katie gets to go to our churchs' summer camp. It's a resident camp in our local foothills, Tori and Katie go together for 5 days. Beth goes after them for 5 days.  Drew will take a daycamp here through parks and recs. I hope.  And bestest news my cousin and his family are seriously looking at a visit this summer. I'm so excited!  We'll hit the beach, downtown LA including the tar pits, hollywood star walk, rodeo drive (we'll just drive down it),  Disneyland, maybe Knotts, the beach. hehe. I cannot wait to spend time with them! Neither can the kids!!!

My church choir had a concert this past weekend, I sewed some of the costumes (we did broadway show tunes).  That had me realize that I miss sewing, of course, now that my time will be cut I want to do it again.  But before I can really start any projects I need to take both my sewing maching and serger in for service.  Maybe I can do that tomorrow morning.

Friday morning, I'm dropping the kids at school, and taking MYSELF to disney.  I've never done this, and am really looking forward to it. I want to see the history of disney with Steve Martin (it's a movie I think) i'm just curious. I want to see a show or two, and maybe ride a couple rides. Then I'll come home. :o)

Now I'm going to finish cleaning off the desktop where the new printer scanner is going to land and then see about some lunch for myself. :o)

An Extra surprise, and Disney fun

My Mom celebrated her birthday 2 weeks ago, the Friday afterwards we all headed to Fontana to the California Speedway where Mom was to do a ride along in a NASCAR. So we arrived, and there was a confusion, Dad had bought Mom the chance to DRIVE, Mom didn't want to Drive. Dad had credit (they don't do refunds).. so he gave ME a ride along too.  WOW!  I went 170mph, in a car. I did not drive, of course, but oh wow. It was totally and absolutely amazing and cool!

Yesterday I scheduled a trip to Disney, Beth actually got extra credit for her science class for going to see a light display in CA Adventure, so we did that first. then we rode the re-opened Monsters Inc. ride, yay- we'd never ridden it before. Very cute ride.  After that we headed over to Disneyland to ride Buzz lightyear, Snow White and Mr. Toad.  Then we came home. It was fun!!! I think we'll do another Wednesday evening at the park. Next time though I'll plot out the 3 rides we'll try for with a few back-ups in case of longer lines, so that we can hopefully get to the car before 9pm (oops, not-so-great-mommy moment there).  The kids were good for me this morning so hopefully they'll be good for school today.

Now I'm off to work. :o)