Frigid Friday Goodmamas

I believe I am continental. My yarn is held in the left hand. Same way that I crochet.

Sorry Val about lefty and righty.

I'm here. I was just putting away all the laundry I washed and folded over the past couple of days. I'm finally pretty caught up!

Now that DH is wearing more dry clean stuff, the laundry doesn't pile up quite like it used to. He used to wear jeans and a t shirt everyday, so like 3 days of his laundry was more than a load on its own.

That IS unfair, Sam! Funny enough, I'm from Nebraska.

Even better is the no shipping to Alaska at all. Getting a USB cord for the camera should not be this hard.


Where's that head banging smilie?

Sam, have you looked into Amazon Prime? We have it and it's like $70 a year, but all the stuff you order that qualifies (almost anything sold directly by Amazon, including a bunch of stuff you wouldn't expect) ships 2-day for free and overnight for $3.99. Plus there's no tax unless you're in Oregon. Even when something costs the same as it does locally, I'll order it because there's no tax and it's just easier. That might explain why our dog hates the UPS man - when A was first born, I ordered TONS of stuff we needed through Amazon and the UPS guy made almost-daily visits!

Hi ladies.  Oy.  Went to visit the babysitter today, and nearly left in tears.  She seems nice enough, but maybe kind of a flake...but her 4 year old...eeek!  I think maybe both of her kids may be delayed, which would be FINE.  Except that the four year old was SO rough!!!  To get my attention he patted under my chin.  VERY hard.  And then he whacked Greg over the head with a plastic baton like thing.  Then he grabbed Calvin under the chin from behind and pulled.  Then he found a rubber snake and chased Maisie with it.  Then started swinging it around.  He hit her with it, and she cried, came and jumped in my lap and curled up in a ball.  She has NEVER done that before.  Then the 4 year old went up to Calvin and stuck his hand in his mouth and pulled out a checker!

Forget it.

I called the lady I'd called before who never returned my phone call--she was like, Karyn!  I'm so glad you called back!  I meant to call you, but I couldn't find your number.....anyway.  I've known her since we were very very small, and my good friend here is leaving her baby with her in January.  She is kinda full-but since my kids need to go there at 3, and she has another infant leaving at 3, she is taking us on a trial basis.  She wants to make sure she isn't overwhelmed, which I totally understand.  I hope she feels ok with it!  We are going over tomorrow morning so Maisie and Calvin can meet her, and Greg can.

HOPE!!!

Xandi--I fed Maisie mac and cheese for dinner tonight and Greg and I are going to have smoked salmon and cream cheese on crackers with wine.  Good grief.  I win for loser dinner.

mmmm.... smoked salmon on crackers sounds yummy!

i'm still waiting for billy to get home. this is really horrible, but... i noticed a few minutes ago that mos had pooped.... and i'm saving it for billy to change when he gets here (10 minutes).    i've just had it for the day, YK? i thought i'd be excited to get out of the house to go to the PO kiosk across town tonight, but i'm even dreading that. i just wanna kick back with a soda and some cookies and finish calvin's pants!

sorry about the horrible BS experience, too, karyn... i hope it works out with your friend!

now that i've admitted my poo-scheme, i'm feeling guilty enough that i think i'm actually gonna change it. that way i'll feel less guilty leaving billy to get mos ready for bed while i run my errand.

OH mY GOODNESS!!! I have not been able to get the dp site to load ALL DAY!!!
I actually uploaded & resized photos to share and everything...no I just have a few minutes before dh & I have tv time

let's see...

should be the invitation...

This is the inside:)

I only had to make 28 of them

And no one is around for me to share with :(

awwww i LOVE the invitations, noel!  you did a fantastic job!  (and thank you for the sweet pm, you made me get all teary eyed!)