Reliving the past...and messing with your child's mind

You know how sometimes over long weekeneds some TV stations will run a marathon of a show? Well this past weekend VH1 had an 80's marathon. Now my hubby and I were both in high school during the 80's. We discovered this little trip down memory lane while playing flip the channels. Some songs we remembered and others we didn't. Most though made us say....hey I remember hearing that one while doing .........Or I was going to.....while hearing this one. Since it was 80 wonderful hours of 80's music our eldest child got to listen in on some of it one night. All is well, we are having a grand time listening to it and watching the videos, then we hear --- HEY, I like this song - they play it on the radio....I thought it was a new one. OR....You mean that band has been around that long?! Yeah...makes you feel real old real fast. OR......MOM DAD they had hair and clothes like that ?!PLEEEEAAAASE tell me you didn't look like that ?! No son, daddy didn't have frizzed out hair down his back nor did he wear spandex pants. Me, well I went between doing the rocker babe thing, Go Go thing and Madonna look. The look on his face!! LOL. It took a while to convince him that I did not dress like anyone in the videos. The poor child...hope I didn't scar him too bad.

Think I will go easy on him this weekend. He might not be able to take another scare like that. LOL

Do you hear that.....

That is the sound of silence with a muffled groan coming from me. I have just received this season's soccer schedule AND realized that yes, today is Tuesday - NOT Monday. Which means tomorrow is crazy day. At our school district the kids get out of school an hour early on Wednesdays so teachers can use that time for their meetings and training. It cuts down on teacher in-service days during the year- so they tell us. Wednesdays mean - Kyle rushes home from school, raids the fridge, starts and hopefully finishes homework, gathers soccer gear , gets to soccer for wam up at 4:50, leaves soccer a little early at about 6:30, eats supper in van on way to Boy Scouts, gets home just after 8:30 from that and then either hops into shower, inhales more food or collapses on his bed. This week he will need to leave soccer even earlier as he will be haivng his review board meeting at Boy Scouts - and has to be in uniform..... I pray to the highest being(s) that he will be somewhat sweet smelling for them. At least as sweet smelling as a pre-teen boy who has been running around the soccer field can smell. In a few weeks he will be having his awards ceramony - in uniform. Yeah, it will be on a Wednesday also. I think I shower and unrumpled uniform might hold out higher than practice that day.

Sooo looking at the soccer schedule at least this season we have all game son Saturdays. One of the them I have no flipping idea where it is located, and some of the teams are competion level teams - we are a rec level team - but a higher level one. Hmmm could make for an interesting season.

In other taterville news....the twins are still liking school so far. They have discovered the free breakfast in the cafeteria at school . This morning I was asked if I minded if they just ate in the cafeteria this morning. I sd no , but first you need to eat something here. That way I know you actually have food in your stomach. BIG sigh - oh right moooooom.

The garden is still growing good. We actually had some yellow watermelon from it the other day. Not bad. The tomatoes have been YUMMMMMO as has the corn and everything else.

Sunday we had some friends and neighbors over for a BBQ . Grilled up tons of food - once again I think I over did it - oh well. Most of the veggies we did were from the garden! A friend brought makings for smore's and recipes for making different kinds of smores using flavored marshmellows or candies. Such oooey goooey goodness. The kids all had fun doing various lawn games and flying kites. Poor little Megan was trying to fly her kite - a big gust of wind came up and looked like she was going to be carried away!

Hubby's business is busy and I'm trying to dig out my office and dreaming up creative projects to get that side of my brain going again.


Oops being called and need to go take a peek at the slow cooker - supper is getting all happy in it.

TGIF

This has been a BUSY week. Kids are back in school. The oldest is now in 7th grade and amazed by the growth changes in some of the students. And I don't mean in just height. It has also been reported that there seems to be some girls on the prowl asking some of the boys out. Yes, some 7th and 8th grade girls are going around either solo or in packs asking the poor unsuspecting boys out. My son and a friend of his declined.

Our matching little peanuts have now entered into the world of kindergarten and have successfully ridden the school bus to and from school a grand total of one day. They declared that so far school is easy, and they have a nice bus driver- not like their brothers mean and grouchy one. We are getting a kick out of their description of their day at school. Sometimes it comes with voice inflections, hand use and facials, not stopping to breathe.......oh and talking on top of each other or picking right up where one left off.

While walking back up from the bus stop yesterday morning I stopped and talked with a neighbor. Warned about the packs of girls roaming the middle school halls. Her son is also in 7th grade. She sd you know it kind of surprises me but doesn't. I sd yeah hormones are raging in the girls. She sd yes but also think about it this way. We are taught as young girls to go together - safty in numbers. Wherever we went we were always with a family member or a girlfriend - or more. Might kind of explain that phenomenon of one female has to go to the bathroom - they all get up and go, even if they all don't need to use it. Saftey in numbers. Not to mention news sharing, note comparing...you know - all that girl stuff.

Soooo with a few hours of time all to myself everyday...I hope to accomplish great things.

• Find my office is at the top of the list. I pick away at it some everyday in hopes of getting it to where I want it to be soon. Then I think I'm putting a lock on the door. That way no one can come in unless I say so. LOL
• I can use the bathroom and take a shower in QUIET! No little fingers wiggling under the door or voices saying mommy what are you doing. Followed within 5 min. with the twin coming and doing the same
• Finish planning my Ebay store. Yup, I decided tht all our outgrowns, and other various items not used by us anymore is going to be sold. This time plan on doing a store and not just selling one or two things here and there.
• Getting re-connected with friends from long ago and not so long ago.
• Saying to myself - why did I say I would do that?! Volunteering in school and soccer....hmmmm did I say yes one too many times...
• See my garden through to the end....and start planning on next years
• Think a complete thought without an interruption...or two...or three.....
• Read or talk on the phone.....in quiet

Well the bus will be here soon. I hope everyone has a good Labor Weekend. BSU will be playing their first game tomorrow so all their devoted fans are getting ready for it.

They say........

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach........hmmmmm........ I kind of have to wonder about that one as sometimes I think the way to his heart hits a little lower south.

From the Belly ~ AKA - Belly Laughs

You know you're pregnant when...........



you quit getting pedicures and putting on lace up shoes because you can't see your feet anymore.

From the kitchen table

A friend once told me - great gatherings happen around the kitchen table. At first being young and a little clueless about some things, I didn't fully understand and appreciate what she meant. Then as we got a little older, became parents and entertained friends more, I came to a better understanding of what she meant. I think it hit me one day when she was over helping me prepare for a dinner we were having that night. We had moved into our first real home. The kitchen was long and a little narrow with the eating area at one end and the food area at the other. A family room was just a short step down from it. It was all open so everyone in the area could get in on whatever was being talked about at that moment. It made a great set up for folks to come hang out, talk and or help get ready for any occasion.Often times more than one or two conversations were going at once. I LOVED it as I could prepare the goodies,socialize, and keep an eye on a new baby at the same time. We shared a lot of laughs, philosphy of life, watching kids grow up, recipe sharing , trying out of recipes and tears in that kitchen for 10 wonderful years. That is one thing I miss the most in our move. Maggie and her family could not be packed up into our packing boxes and moved with us. We keep hoping that they will come visit someday as I have a big old kitchen just waiting for some talking with Maggie time. Doing it on the phone is not really the same.

The kitchen table is a place to gather, to nourish all of yourself - not just the stomach, but also the soul. To share the ups and downs of everyday life. To laugh, cry, play games at. Cherish your kitchen table time.

Soooo.......my hope for this little blog is to share all those wonderful kitchen table moments with friends and family. Where we can spend time "around the table" , sharing stories, recipes, jokes, helpful hints....whatever comes to mind.

Come on in to the kitchen, pull up a chair and sit awhile. Come back often as I plan on adding more goodies to this little blog spot.