I know that I tend not to keep up with my blogging and that those of you (2) miss me when I don't post. There has been so much going on recently that I seem to find time slipping away and my writing takes a back seat to life. So on this sunny Wednesday afternoon, instead of working, I am going to fill you in on all my dirt!
I dont' know the last time I posted, so I will just start with the launch of the school year...that seems to be where I lost my sanity, I'm sorry I mean my place. We headed back to school the Thursday before Labor Day and it has been non stop. With work, my PTA duties, Scouting and Travel Baseball it seems that all my days a nights are full. Add to that neighborhood drama and life in general, things tend to be very complex.
Add to that Danny being evaluated and finally diagnosed with ADHD we have had our hands full. We still
need to do a sleep study and see an allergist to rule out a few other "distractions" but it is as we had suspected for the last year. We are very lucky to go to the school that we do and receive the full support of the Child Study Team along with the building staff and the principal. Without their guidance and support I don't know that I would have known what my options were!
I have also been picked to be the class mom for the fall party at school...I am combing my way through blogs looking for ideas for games, crafts and snacks (ummm snacks) that are fall or Halloween themed. I love the fall it's my favorite season...the time between Back to School and Thanksgiving I live for. I love the decor and the theme from Harvest, to Halloween and then to Thanksgiving. It warms me inside and primes my kitchen for Holiday baking and lots of winter cooking. I cannot wait to make a pot of soup or to roast a turkey.
I hope you are all enjoying the season....XXXOOO
Sunny Spot
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
If I jump off the deep end...will you come with me?
Today has turned out to be a challenge of my sanity. It all started this morning, when as all Monday's go, I think I have all the time in the world and it turns out it's 7:50am and we have to leave for the bus. I do, as always, ask Danny which shoes I should wear by showing him the 2 I'd like to wear and he chooses what I like to call my hooker heels. Now I love these shoes, they are black suede and have a 3 1/2" heel...they are by all means "do me" shoes. In order to wear them comfortably they require the ball of the foot cushions so that my feet don't ache all day long. Well this morning they were missing, not totally but I only found 1...so I hem and haw over to change my clothes, because the pants I choose need heels, or to stick it out. Well dear reader, I stuck it out. Wait it gets better...
I opt to stop at Walgreen's on my way to work so that I can get my much needed (and deserved at this point) ball of the foot cushions. I get out of the car and because my shoes are missing this little piece of cloud beneath my feet, I walk right out of my shoes...I cannot walk in these shoes with out my "filler"! So I walk ever so slowly thru the store...ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK, get my filler and limp back up to the register. The young man at the counter looks at me and says, "have a great day" then I inform him, "I will now", to which he replies, "whatever"...PUNK! Okay shoe crisis averted, but my feet hurt already.
Well I get to work and my mood, as usual, goes downhill. Not for any other reason but I got pissed off and THEN I remembered I was pissed off from Friday and was supposed to call in sick today...UGH!!! As I come to this revelation I get a call from the warehouse that there is an emergency with the container that just arrived and I HAVE to come back IMMEDIATELY...my feet hurt, do I have to? SO I go back and there lies a stack of bags and parsley on the floor.. "so whats the emergency?"..."we don't know how to stack this" REALLY??? What do I look like? The Guru of stacking pallets? My feet hurt...I hobble back to my desk.
At noon one of the women leaves for family reasons, at 12:30 another leaves because her planets are out of sync and at 1:20 the other leaves for lunch..."Who's going to answer the phones?"..."you are"...no I'm not, my feet hurt! Know what? I didn't answer the phone...instead I crawled back to the warehouse to take pictures of the damage in flicked on us by the container. Now I'm ready to whine about how I will never wear these shoes again and want to live in flip flops all year round...think I need a beach house! Or maybe I will try calling in sick again tomorrow...if I remember!
Happy Monday XXXOOO
I opt to stop at Walgreen's on my way to work so that I can get my much needed (and deserved at this point) ball of the foot cushions. I get out of the car and because my shoes are missing this little piece of cloud beneath my feet, I walk right out of my shoes...I cannot walk in these shoes with out my "filler"! So I walk ever so slowly thru the store...ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK, get my filler and limp back up to the register. The young man at the counter looks at me and says, "have a great day" then I inform him, "I will now", to which he replies, "whatever"...PUNK! Okay shoe crisis averted, but my feet hurt already.
Well I get to work and my mood, as usual, goes downhill. Not for any other reason but I got pissed off and THEN I remembered I was pissed off from Friday and was supposed to call in sick today...UGH!!! As I come to this revelation I get a call from the warehouse that there is an emergency with the container that just arrived and I HAVE to come back IMMEDIATELY...my feet hurt, do I have to? SO I go back and there lies a stack of bags and parsley on the floor..
At noon one of the women leaves for family reasons, at 12:30 another leaves because her planets are out of sync and at 1:20 the other leaves for lunch..."Who's going to answer the phones?"..."you are"...no I'm not, my feet hurt! Know what? I didn't answer the phone...instead I crawled back to the warehouse to take pictures of the damage in flicked on us by the container. Now I'm ready to whine about how I will never wear these shoes again and want to live in flip flops all year round...think I need a beach house! Or maybe I will try calling in sick again tomorrow...if I remember!
Happy Monday XXXOOO
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Back to the grind
We are finally back to the getting here at the Sunny Spot, school has started and volunteer commitments are creeping back and, of course, back to work....UGH! I love the carefree, unscheduled days of summer. The times when there really is no bed time and you don't care if you are a few minutes late for work...I dislike sitting in traffic and getting stuck behind school buses. I love the fact that ice cream is a perfectly acceptable dinner and that dinner is a perfectly acceptable dessert. The days are long and warm and the nights are warm and clear. I love summer and all that goes with it, sun, beach, cold cocktails...
With the fall quickly approaching, yes I said FALL! Today's high here in NNJ is only going to be 72 degrees...yes ONLY 72 degrees. Do you know what that means for us cold blooded people? That means that we have a party late this afternoon and I will have to dress (and be taunted by warm blooded people) like Nanook of the North. I already know I will need to wear jeans and a sweatshirt for most of the day, but when the sun goes down I will need to add layers...warm layers and sit REALLY close to the fire because tonight's low is 45 degrees. Can you imagine? Last week I was sitingg on the beach in OBX, NC it was 90+ degrees and I was happy as a clam, beer in hand and feet (only) in the water. Now that is my element!
Okay, so I will stop brooding over this cold weather and go finish my coffee and head out to the farmers market...have a ton of green tomatoes that I am going to make salsa with and need some fresh ingredients to make it perfect and maybe a loaf of warm bread to stuff in my shirt to keep me warm later.
Happy Sunday and Labor Day! XXXOOO
With the fall quickly approaching, yes I said FALL! Today's high here in NNJ is only going to be 72 degrees...yes ONLY 72 degrees. Do you know what that means for us cold blooded people? That means that we have a party late this afternoon and I will have to dress (and be taunted by warm blooded people) like Nanook of the North. I already know I will need to wear jeans and a sweatshirt for most of the day, but when the sun goes down I will need to add layers...warm layers and sit REALLY close to the fire because tonight's low is 45 degrees. Can you imagine? Last week I was sitingg on the beach in OBX, NC it was 90+ degrees and I was happy as a clam, beer in hand and feet (only) in the water. Now that is my element!
Okay, so I will stop brooding over this cold weather and go finish my coffee and head out to the farmers market...have a ton of green tomatoes that I am going to make salsa with and need some fresh ingredients to make it perfect and maybe a loaf of warm bread to stuff in my shirt to keep me warm later.
Happy Sunday and Labor Day! XXXOOO
Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Vacation Part One
Vacation this week started 5 days ago when Ryan and I left New Jersey and headed to Tennessee to pick Danny up from his Part I of vacation. We drove for 13 hours and arrived late Friday night and spent the day with my parents on Saturday and hit the road to North Carolina on Sunday morning. We arrived in the Outer Banks around 8pm after driving another 11 hours. Monday we spent recouping, or should I say I spent recouping...the boys spent fishing.
I have a ton of pictures to show you and will set up a link as soon as I find my cable. We went to the Hattaras Lighthouse yesterday..Danny and I made it to the top, Ryan almost made it before they closed the lighthouse due to "inclimate weather". Today we spent the morning at the beach together before I was made a fishing widow again.
Hope you are all having a good week. Back home on Sunday XXXOOO
I have a ton of pictures to show you and will set up a link as soon as I find my cable. We went to the Hattaras Lighthouse yesterday..Danny and I made it to the top, Ryan almost made it before they closed the lighthouse due to "inclimate weather". Today we spent the morning at the beach together before I was made a fishing widow again.
Hope you are all having a good week. Back home on Sunday XXXOOO
Monday, August 16, 2010
Random thoughts and a Martha Stewart rant
Today when I went out for lunch I saw a women walk down her driveway and across the lawn to her mailbox. Upon further inspection I noticed she was ONLY wearing sox...SERIOUSLY??? Do people really do that? If you are going to go through the hassle of putting on sox why not keep a slip on by the door so you don't have to go out in your sox. Personally I NEVER go outside in just sox, it tracks too much crap into the house that I will have to clean up later. I prefer clean sox and floors.
When I went out I took my back issues of magazines with me to go through and headed to the park for fresh coffee and some catching up. I first finished Good Housekeeping as this is my newest subscription. It was good but not the best one ever as far as recipes are concerned. I would think summer editions would be better since more people pick things like magazine up to read at the beach...but I digress.
So to follow was Martha Stewart, whom I have subscribed to religiously since the day the magazine was started. As a young (or should I say NEW) wife and nesting mother-to-be I wanted to BE Martha Stewart. I loved her ideas, creativity, and her prospective. It seems that PRISON has changed my beloved Martha into a women I don't recognize...she is a SELL OUT. I used to love her magazine I would get them and go through them with such enthusiasm, it would never sit around more then a few hours and I HAD to see what the months offering were. There were home making ideas, kids crafts, adult crafts and recipes I wanted to try...now there are advertisements and redecoration's done by OTHER people. Did Martha run out of "Good Things" to show us? Or has it just come down to the fact that she is too busy to share? Where is the personal touch I long for? I use to feel like she'd show these things to me because she knew I NEEDED to know them...now I feel like I no longer count. I've been gardening for a lot of years because she inspired me to WANT to, is she too busy to tend to her garden anymore? Does she even take a minute to show us what we can do with all the extra product we have grown for her...NO! Well Martha, I am sad to say that after a decade of loving you, I must say goodbye to your commercial magazine and your sell out ways...prison has changed you in ways I can no longer overlook.
Happy Monday XXXOOO
When I went out I took my back issues of magazines with me to go through and headed to the park for fresh coffee and some catching up. I first finished Good Housekeeping as this is my newest subscription. It was good but not the best one ever as far as recipes are concerned. I would think summer editions would be better since more people pick things like magazine up to read at the beach...but I digress.
So to follow was Martha Stewart, whom I have subscribed to religiously since the day the magazine was started. As a young (or should I say NEW) wife and nesting mother-to-be I wanted to BE Martha Stewart. I loved her ideas, creativity, and her prospective. It seems that PRISON has changed my beloved Martha into a women I don't recognize...she is a SELL OUT. I used to love her magazine I would get them and go through them with such enthusiasm, it would never sit around more then a few hours and I HAD to see what the months offering were. There were home making ideas, kids crafts, adult crafts and recipes I wanted to try...now there are advertisements and redecoration's done by OTHER people. Did Martha run out of "Good Things" to show us? Or has it just come down to the fact that she is too busy to share? Where is the personal touch I long for? I use to feel like she'd show these things to me because she knew I NEEDED to know them...now I feel like I no longer count. I've been gardening for a lot of years because she inspired me to WANT to, is she too busy to tend to her garden anymore? Does she even take a minute to show us what we can do with all the extra product we have grown for her...NO! Well Martha, I am sad to say that after a decade of loving you, I must say goodbye to your commercial magazine and your sell out ways...prison has changed you in ways I can no longer overlook.
Happy Monday XXXOOO
Saturday, August 7, 2010
And he's gone...
On Thursday I took Danny down to meet my dad to start his vacation in TN. We left the house early and headed down, arrive in Baltimore around noon. When I called my Dad to let him know, he told me he would meet us at the airport at 330pm...ugh, what now? Well being the VERY resourceful women I am, I took advantage of where we were and suggested a trip to the National Aquarium. Which by the way was VERY well received and enjoyed. Afterwards we walked along the harbor and looked in a few shops, then it was time to head to the airport.
All said and done Danny and my Dad were checked in and through security and I was on the road by 4:30pm heading back to NJ. As I arrived home 9pm my cell phone rang and it was Danny informing me that they arrive in Knoxville and he was very happy to hear I had gotten home and we had "the same day".
Now the house is empty and the little voice in my head is not screaming at me. I am up way too early for a Saturday...
XXXOOO
All said and done Danny and my Dad were checked in and through security and I was on the road by 4:30pm heading back to NJ. As I arrived home 9pm my cell phone rang and it was Danny informing me that they arrive in Knoxville and he was very happy to hear I had gotten home and we had "the same day".
Now the house is empty and the little voice in my head is not screaming at me. I am up way too early for a Saturday...
XXXOOO
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