Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The Night from .... Someplace very unpleasant!!!
Sorry for the non-existant blogging lately. The blog will NOT upload any pictures again for some reason, trying to work it out. Dont know if it's my new camera or if it's the site. Very annoying, whichever it is!
As for our life, let's just say yesterday was one of "those days!" Everytime I thought nothing else could happen, it just had to prove me wrong!
I had alot of stuff to do and Jacob was being a bugger, so I made him go in and sit on my bed to watch a movie. I checked down the hall from time to time and saw him wiggling around but he was just sitting there so I kept working. He came running out with a paper full of holes- all proud of himself for mangling the thing. I went flying down the hall and what he had been doing so quietly on the bed was tearing into shreds all of my photography paperwork. These were papers that I had hand written while doing hours upon hours of research over about a month's time: pose ideas, tips from other photographers, notes I have taken while watching the Tutorial photography lessons, lists of props I need, literally everything imaginable! I was devastated. While reeling from that I happened to look down at my brand new $44 bedspread that I LOVE, and saw where he hand mangled the bits of torn paper poking them full of holes with my favorite pen, he had done it on the comforter and it has ink scribbles all over it! I disciplined him and made him go to bed, then ran out to the computer to try and type as much as I could before I forgot what was on the papers, and kept hearing a funny noise like someone moving around in the house. I thought Jacob was up, so I stood up to tell him to go back to bed. No-one was there. It happened several times and I began to get concerned. Suddenly heard what sounded like a gunshot, and jumped out of my chair with my heart in my throat just in time to see garbage landing all over the floor and red stuff flying everywhere! About 2am Fri. morning I had opened a triple sized can of Prego spaghetti sauce to make a pizza. I forgot it on the table. We left as soon as we got up Friday morning and did not return home until really late Friday night, and went straight to bed. Saturday morning we got up to leave and I noticed the jar on the table and it looked a little funny so I threw it in the bottom of the trash. Yesterday, the trash was almost full so I had it setting in the kitchen to throw a few more things in so I could send it out with the trash pickup today. The sauce must have been fermenting and the jar exploded, blowing up the garbage bag, throwing garbage and sauce everywhere. I never thought of 45 oz of sauce being that much- I learned differently! Let me back-track a little and say, Saturday night into Sunday, Mark suddenly decided that he wanted to sleep in our new bed that night, so he brought everything out of our bedroom- yard sale bags, boxes and piles, piles of kids too big/too small clothes I had been sorting through, all odds n ends stuff from the room and dumped it here and there down the hall, behind the table in the kitchen and in the living room. Since we were gone all weekend, sorting through this stuff was the project I had been working on when this all started! The sauce covered my freshly washed dishes, blew down the hall all over the dirty clothes pile, covered bags of stuff for Salvation army and yard sale stuff, coated the entire underside and part of top of the table, rungs and seats of chairs, the walls, my entire box of photography props, canned goods and food on the shelf, jacob's shoes, some of Mark's hanging up clothes i had out here on hangers, a pile of books I had set by the couch to go back to the library next trip to town, all over the couch itself, the wii controllers, tv, playstation- thankfully the old one- not the new one! Literally everything in 3 rooms of the house was plastered! I was shaking so bad from the scare that I sat down on the chair for a second and Jacob started screaming and came running down the hall where he slipped on the sauce and fell, was so freaked out he wouldn't just hold still and kept trying to get up which made him keep falling until he was plastered head to toe with sauce. I picked him up and carefully made my way back across the floor to try and clean him up, finally got him cleaned up and back to sleep on the chair, grabbed a roll of paper towels and Danika started screaming in the bedroom, so I went in to get her, she kept spitting up like crazy and Screaming every time I tried to lay her down. Luckily Mark was on his way home by this time so I held her and waited for him. He got home and held her a little then put both of the kids to bed, we got out rags, mop bucket, mop, paper towels,etc and started scrubbing everything and then the power kept going off every 5 minutes! Never did get my photography stuff typed up which means starting from scratch, I was able to salvage most of my props with a good cleaning, even this afternoon the house still spells badly of spoiled spag sauce :( Ick and I am still finding it plastered on things that I didn't even SEE last night! It has been a NIGHTMARE!!!!
As for our life, let's just say yesterday was one of "those days!" Everytime I thought nothing else could happen, it just had to prove me wrong!
I had alot of stuff to do and Jacob was being a bugger, so I made him go in and sit on my bed to watch a movie. I checked down the hall from time to time and saw him wiggling around but he was just sitting there so I kept working. He came running out with a paper full of holes- all proud of himself for mangling the thing. I went flying down the hall and what he had been doing so quietly on the bed was tearing into shreds all of my photography paperwork. These were papers that I had hand written while doing hours upon hours of research over about a month's time: pose ideas, tips from other photographers, notes I have taken while watching the Tutorial photography lessons, lists of props I need, literally everything imaginable! I was devastated. While reeling from that I happened to look down at my brand new $44 bedspread that I LOVE, and saw where he hand mangled the bits of torn paper poking them full of holes with my favorite pen, he had done it on the comforter and it has ink scribbles all over it! I disciplined him and made him go to bed, then ran out to the computer to try and type as much as I could before I forgot what was on the papers, and kept hearing a funny noise like someone moving around in the house. I thought Jacob was up, so I stood up to tell him to go back to bed. No-one was there. It happened several times and I began to get concerned. Suddenly heard what sounded like a gunshot, and jumped out of my chair with my heart in my throat just in time to see garbage landing all over the floor and red stuff flying everywhere! About 2am Fri. morning I had opened a triple sized can of Prego spaghetti sauce to make a pizza. I forgot it on the table. We left as soon as we got up Friday morning and did not return home until really late Friday night, and went straight to bed. Saturday morning we got up to leave and I noticed the jar on the table and it looked a little funny so I threw it in the bottom of the trash. Yesterday, the trash was almost full so I had it setting in the kitchen to throw a few more things in so I could send it out with the trash pickup today. The sauce must have been fermenting and the jar exploded, blowing up the garbage bag, throwing garbage and sauce everywhere. I never thought of 45 oz of sauce being that much- I learned differently! Let me back-track a little and say, Saturday night into Sunday, Mark suddenly decided that he wanted to sleep in our new bed that night, so he brought everything out of our bedroom- yard sale bags, boxes and piles, piles of kids too big/too small clothes I had been sorting through, all odds n ends stuff from the room and dumped it here and there down the hall, behind the table in the kitchen and in the living room. Since we were gone all weekend, sorting through this stuff was the project I had been working on when this all started! The sauce covered my freshly washed dishes, blew down the hall all over the dirty clothes pile, covered bags of stuff for Salvation army and yard sale stuff, coated the entire underside and part of top of the table, rungs and seats of chairs, the walls, my entire box of photography props, canned goods and food on the shelf, jacob's shoes, some of Mark's hanging up clothes i had out here on hangers, a pile of books I had set by the couch to go back to the library next trip to town, all over the couch itself, the wii controllers, tv, playstation- thankfully the old one- not the new one! Literally everything in 3 rooms of the house was plastered! I was shaking so bad from the scare that I sat down on the chair for a second and Jacob started screaming and came running down the hall where he slipped on the sauce and fell, was so freaked out he wouldn't just hold still and kept trying to get up which made him keep falling until he was plastered head to toe with sauce. I picked him up and carefully made my way back across the floor to try and clean him up, finally got him cleaned up and back to sleep on the chair, grabbed a roll of paper towels and Danika started screaming in the bedroom, so I went in to get her, she kept spitting up like crazy and Screaming every time I tried to lay her down. Luckily Mark was on his way home by this time so I held her and waited for him. He got home and held her a little then put both of the kids to bed, we got out rags, mop bucket, mop, paper towels,etc and started scrubbing everything and then the power kept going off every 5 minutes! Never did get my photography stuff typed up which means starting from scratch, I was able to salvage most of my props with a good cleaning, even this afternoon the house still spells badly of spoiled spag sauce :( Ick and I am still finding it plastered on things that I didn't even SEE last night! It has been a NIGHTMARE!!!!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Tales of Jacob! : )
I asked Jacob if he wanted some strawberries. He asked me what kind they are. I told him the red kind, not knowing exactly what he meant by that. He scowled up at me and informed me, "I wanted the blue ones!"
I was in the bedroom talking to Mark and Jacob was out here yelling trying to get my attention. When I came out, he was sitting here with his hands held up in the air yelling, " Mom mom! I have hair growing in my nose, but dont worry it's not the kind that chickens have, it's the ones like Daddy grows in his nose!"
I was in the bedroom talking to Mark and Jacob was out here yelling trying to get my attention. When I came out, he was sitting here with his hands held up in the air yelling, " Mom mom! I have hair growing in my nose, but dont worry it's not the kind that chickens have, it's the ones like Daddy grows in his nose!"
Monday, February 28, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Getting busy! Didn't get near enough sleep last night. Danika kept waking up every 5 minutes and crying, and since i'm the only person who knows how to take care of her, i'm slightly wiped out! Now, I have a lasagna dinner to cook for 20+ people tomorrow, complete with dessert! I don't mind helping out- the people are out of commission, 1 just had a baby, 1 just had knee replacement surgery, 1 is basically dying, 2 have been very sick for over a month now, so I like helping out I just wish it could've came at a better time when I could've actually enjoyed doing it instead of being exhausted from being sick! Luckily it's only a 3 dish meal, lasagna, garlic bread and blueberry cream muffins with vanilla glaze. All i have to do is cook it and they will finish it tomorrow!
Jacob and Danika are laying in the recliner eating a brownie and watching Thomas. So glad my computer and camera are functioning again! : )
Jacob and Danika are laying in the recliner eating a brownie and watching Thomas. So glad my computer and camera are functioning again! : )
Making up for lost time! : )
ready to go to Gramma and Papa M's
Playing with valentine balloons! She loves them! She plays and plays with them!
Eating dinner at Perkins after the youth rally
crashed out cold on the couch- finally!
Grumpy pants! : )
She's finally arrived! After an awful 2 weeks dealing with horrible sickness and heart-wrenching family situations, finally a bright spot!!!! We're finally on our way to what I hope will be a successful business! I have spent countless hours researching, watching gobs of movie reviews, I read through 102 pages of customer review, when I was too sick and tired to sit at the desk any more Mark would take over and very carefully search with my guidance and she's finally here! We've had alot of fun playing tonight! : ) Can't wait for the rest of the accessories to arrive! It's show time!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
But for the Grace of God go I...
So glad to have the grace of God to rely on this week.It's nice to know you have someone to rely on when there's no-one else to turn to! Glad that He is in control and planning everything out for us according to His perfect plan even when we don't understand! Just can't wait for this week to be over!Everytime you think it can't get any worse, it does!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Food for thought! (I mean Danika)
I am very happy! I finally solved Danika's food issue! I have have been searching for something that she can feed herself, so I can have a few minutes here and there to do stuff, or I can actually sit down and eat a meal with the family, instead of eating by myself after feeding the baby!We gave her a biter biscuit, which is a rock hard biscuit that babies are supposed to chew/suck on and it turns to mush little by little- she bit it in half and choked so bad we were grabbing the phone to call and ambulance when it finally went on down. We tried cheerios, she couldn't chew them. We tried little pieces of bread, they got gummed up and she'd choke on them. Finally mom told me to try Ritz crackers because they mostly just crumble, and it wasn't likely she'd choke on them- we gave her one and she promtply stuffed the ENITRE thing into her mouth. Well tonight I was sitting here and happened to glance over to the groceries i'd just bought and solved my own problem- FRUITY PEBBLES!!!!! I dumped a handful on the high chair tray and she loves them! They are tiny enough that she can eat them without me worrying about her choking. Also, they're so thin that they turn to mush before she needs to chew them! It's so funny- she picks them up one tiny piece at a time and carefully puts them in her mouth! I will upload pictures as soon as my computer cooperates with my camera. (it's having a breakdown)
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Jacob with the flower he grew. He likes to carry it around and it still somehow got through growing without being dumped or broke! 
Wow! She looks alot like my sister in this picture! (just realized that) She loves to play with our phones
This is what she thinks of Jacob going to school next year! : )
Sharon Dendler (and baby bump) : ) holding Danika at the shower for Jen and Janae
Jen and Janae at their baby shower! She's 2 days old here. (and yes, she's as tiny as she looks!)
Wow! She looks alot like my sister in this picture! (just realized that) She loves to play with our phones
This is what she thinks of Jacob going to school next year! : )
Sharon Dendler (and baby bump) : ) holding Danika at the shower for Jen and Janae
Jen and Janae at their baby shower! She's 2 days old here. (and yes, she's as tiny as she looks!)
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Beaver SuperBowl Commercial 2011
This is why, even though my husband always yells at me, I ALWAYS swerve for animals! : )
Beaver SuperBowl Commercial 2011
This is why, even though my husband always yells at me, I ALWAYS swerve for animals! : )
Jacob asked me where his new Papa is. I told him that he doesn't have a new Papa. I said, "you only have Papa Waterman, Papa Musser, Poppy Sherman..." and before I could add Grampy, he informed me, that no, he only has 2 papas because Poppy sherman is MY grampa! A few minutes later I heard a noise, looked and he has his face buried in the couch cushions sobbing.When I asked him why he was crying, he told me that he's crying because I took his Poppy Sherman away! He keeps crying and crying and telling me that I took Poppy Sherman away, but I better not take or steal his other 2 papas too! He cries, then looks up at me and glares! Does finding this quite funny make me a horrible parent? : ) I dont know where in the world he comes up with this stuff!
Friday, February 4, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
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