weekend chat

Robin · Guru

RE: weekend chat

Robin · Guru

I just took all of Henry's track pants out of his dresser drawer.

He hates wearing a belt to school so all he wears are shorts or track pants.

All of his track pants are WAY too short.

I think 5th grade is old enough to suffer through belt-wearing every once in a while.

At least he can still wear shorts while it's warm outside.

He is getting so tall.

Cuppycake · Guru

Heya ladies.

Crazy weekend here... or at least it would be, if I wasn't being lazy.

I'm trying to work on stuff for Hannah's birthday. You know me, I plan for about 364 days. Plans for her party feel through this past week, and so I'm scrambling to put things back together, and get everything ready for a party in 2 weeks. Whew!

My house is a complete pit. I need to mop and do some insane amounts of reorganizing today.

I stayed up until 6:30 a.m. on Friday morning working on an essay paper for class, then spent the day bowling with my nieces and nephews and Hannah. I was exhausted last night, but I think I'm pretty much done with my paper at this point. Hannah stayed with my mom last night so I could work, and Joe ended up having to wake me up at 1:00 this afternoon, because I was just out cold. We went to this amazing hole in the wall restaurant, and had some amazing thai food (and my favorite thing ever - thai iced tea) and now I feel like I can't even move, I'm so full. But that isn't stopping me from taking another bite or two of what I brought home, everytime I digest just enough that I can breathe without it hurting, lol.

-- Edited by Cuppycake on Saturday 24th of July 2010 03:20:50 PM

Jo · Guru

Robin wrote:

Jo wrote:

Hi, Robin!

The science experiment book sounds like fun. I've been stocking up on craft supplies (other than crayons and markers) and trying to do something different with the boys each day. Finally. They've only been home with me for how long??

I love doing fun craft stuff with my kids!
Be sure to take pictures when you do activities like that. I want to see.

we did watercoloring the other day:
http://shiawee.blogspot.com/2010/07/fun-with-watercolors.html

and also made some kool-aid playdoh last week

I tried to get them doing some paper cutting and glueing yesterday, but they got bored.

Corey · Guru

i am exhausted just reading that, leah.

yay for a lunch date though... i havent been to a restaurant other than friendly's in ages!

kris · Guru

Corey wrote:

kris wrote:

alright. going to tackle it while the kids are occupied.

can i just say i wish we lived closer b/c i love organizing toys and that actually looks like fun to me.

i don't really enjoy the day to day bed making, laundry folding, but i adore being ocd and labeling bins and categorizing.

obviously I wished we lived closer too - I'd get us Dunkin Donuts, you coffee and you'd clean my kids bedroom. I cannot see how this situation wouldn't benefit us both!

kris · Guru

okay - after pictures coming.

sorry Corey - I didn't label the bins. They are very organized though - dinos in 1, Cars stuff in 1, Bakugans in 1, etc.

So help me if Kate M. walks in there and dumps one bin I'm putting her out with the bath water!

Corey · Guru

i think it is funny that it is thundering out, yet the icecream man is still trolling my neighborhood.

because moms always let their kids stand in line next to a big metal truck during a lightening storm.

Cuppycake · Guru

Corey wrote:

i think it is funny that it is thundering out, yet the icecream man is still trolling my neighborhood.

because moms always let their kids stand in line next to a big metal truck during a lightening storm.

LMFAO.

Seriously just lol'd.

Robin · Guru

Jo wrote:

Robin wrote:

Jo wrote:

Hi, Robin!

The science experiment book sounds like fun. I've been stocking up on craft supplies (other than crayons and markers) and trying to do something different with the boys each day. Finally. They've only been home with me for how long??

I love doing fun craft stuff with my kids!
Be sure to take pictures when you do activities like that. I want to see.

we did watercoloring the other day:
http://shiawee.blogspot.com/2010/07/fun-with-watercolors.html

and also made some kool-aid playdoh last week

I tried to get them doing some paper cutting and glueing yesterday, but they got bored.

Fun! I love their finished artwork.

Did you hang it in their rooms?

Corey · Guru

kris wrote:

Corey wrote:

kris wrote:

alright. going to tackle it while the kids are occupied.

can i just say i wish we lived closer b/c i love organizing toys and that actually looks like fun to me.

i don't really enjoy the day to day bed making, laundry folding, but i adore being ocd and labeling bins and categorizing.

obviously I wished we lived closer too - I'd get us Dunkin Donuts, you coffee and you'd clean my kids bedroom. I cannot see how this situation wouldn't benefit us both!

and our husbands could fish together:)

Robin · Guru

Corey wrote:

i am exhausted just reading that, leah.

yay for a lunch date though... i havent been to a restaurant other than friendly's in ages!

Just a few days ago, I saw a Dave Ramsey quote on FB that said something like, "You have no business seeing the inside of a restaurant if you are in debt unless you are working there."

So I'm trying to cook more.

I just super-love restaurants. Sigh.

Robin · Guru

Corey wrote:

i think it is funny that it is thundering out, yet the icecream man is still trolling my neighborhood.

because moms always let their kids stand in line next to a big metal truck during a lightening storm.

Ice cream trucks give me the heebie-jeebies.

Actually they should be called popsicle trucks. They barely have any ice cream at all.

Robin · Guru

Did y'all see where I added to the VBS Names thread?

We had a 10-year-old boy who bit a youth helper.

Henry is 10.

I cannot imagine biting anyone. Ever.

Except maybe Mark but that's understandable.

Boots and Bananas · Guru

I have not been very successful at anything today.

I did call Quint to ask him to please take my whining 5 year old so that my almost 3 year old niece would stop whining. My ex SIL does a ton for me and I have been watching Evie for her a lot but she is getting on my last nerve. (i know this sounds terrible but I am tired and hormonal)

He did take Lucas and Evie is quietly watching Dora and instead of dong something productive I am laying here forcing myself to drink and browsing the Land of Nod catalog that came today.

Corey · Guru

Robin wrote:

Corey wrote:

i think it is funny that it is thundering out, yet the icecream man is still trolling my neighborhood.

because moms always let their kids stand in line next to a big metal truck during a lightening storm.

Ice cream trucks give me the heebie-jeebies.

Actually they should be called popsicle trucks. They barely have any ice cream at all.

actually, i would love to be an icecream man.

(well, woman)

i figure i could score super cheap stuff w coupons, then mark it up about 500%

too bad that all the icecream trucks in my town seem to be owned by some sort of icecream mafia ...they all reside in one ramshackle house near the super walmart.

i always wonder when i see their ten + trucks parked outside at night wth they do with all the icecream overnight?

i would assume the freezers don't work when the truck isn't running, no?

kris · Guru

After

I just got rid of his train table that was on that one wall. I'm thinking I need a bookshelf over there.

Corey · Guru

nice job, kris!

kris · Guru

actually I think I might be ready to go on a bookshelf binge. one for jake's room, one for our room and one for Kate's room when I get rid of her changing table.

We have these built in bookshelves (2) in the living room and I'm such a horrible decorator I do not use them properly. We went to a playdate last week and I got some inspiration for those bookshelves. I use one of them for all the kids books (3 shelves), 1 shelf for DS1's books and the top shelf for me. The other bookshelf I have decorated ridiculously including 1 shelf stuffed with photo albums (I could put those in my bedroom).

Then I think I will frame nice pictures of the kids and put them on the shelves.

-- Edited by kris on Saturday 24th of July 2010 03:52:17 PM

Robin · Guru

kris wrote:

After

I just got rid of his train table that was on that one wall. I'm thinking I need a bookshelf over there.

Wow, that looks great. It would never last at my house.