In One Word..

Got this in an e-mail today...

1. Where is your cell phone? In my purse dying
2. Where is your significant other? work
3. Your hair? light brown
4. Your mother? Joyce
5. Your father? John
6. Your favorite thing? Sleep
7. Your dream last night? Can't remember
8. Your dream/goal? to live long enough to be a great-grandma
9. The room you're in? computer room
10. Your hobby? scrapbooking
11. Your fear? spiders
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? in OUR new home
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you're not? patient
15. One of your wish list items? be out of debt
16. Where you grew up? Illinois
17. The last thing you did? laundry
18. What are you wearing? PJ's
19. Your TV? Off
20. You're pet? dog/cat/fish
21. Your computer? Dell
22. Your mood? Little lonely
23. Missing someone? My Dad & S
24. Your car? SUV
25. Something you're not wearing? Socks
26. Favorite store? Archivers
27. Your summer? almost over..yeah!
28. Love someone? YES!
29. Your favorite color? Purple
30. When is the last time you laughed? a few minutes ago
31. Last time you cried? yesterday
32. Who will resend this? n/a
33. How many sisters? 2
34. How many brothers? 0
35. How many children? 1

Long time..

I can't believe how long I let my blog go. We have been fairly busy around here. Had to take our dog Sweetie back to the shelter. It was really hard to do..but it all came down to Sarah's safety. We decided to go with a smaller more family friendly dog. So we got a Papillon. He is a sweetheart for sure! He can't get close enough to me at night or anytime for that matter. His little tail just goes crazy when he sees Sarah. She is still learning how to be nice. But for the most part she snuggles him and tells him she loves him. Haven't had much contact with A lately. Last I heard they moved again. I did get 6 month pics of Olivia and she looks so much like her adoptive parents it is unreal. I know in my heart that she is where she is suppose to be. It took a little while to get over not being asked to adopt her..but now I know there was a greater plan. She looks so happy and so do her parents and that is more important than anything. My back has been giving me problems again. I have good days and bad ones. I hate not being able to stand for long periods of time...heck I have trouble standing for more than 5 minutes. I haven't been to the grocery store in 2 weeks. My wonderful hubby went a couple of nights ago and got the basics. I really need to go tonight. I have to hang on to the cart for dear life. It really sucks. Sarah has missed the last 2 swim classes because of me. I hate that. I just don't know if I can take bending over in very shallow water to pick her up..so we have stayed home. :o( She doesn't even ask about going. I did get her pool filled up yesterday and wouldn't ya know it...it is kinda cool today. GRRRR (I actually love the cooler weather..but feel bad for S KWIM?) Cute quote from Sarah yesterday...She was playing with moonsand. Great stuff but can be really messy for a 2 y/o. "Thank you God for moonsand. Help me be good with the moonsand...amen" Oh my gosh! I was at the computer and overheard her. Sooo sweet! We had told her that she had to be good and not make a big mess with the moonsand or she couldn't play with it again till she was older. Such a cutie! LOL I'm sure I'm not the only one..there are days you just want to scream with them not listening to a thing you say...and other days where you could just eat them up they are so sweet. :o) I miss my one day a week that I use to have to myself. It was only 2 1/2 hours..but so heavenly. We tried another play date location and it stunk. They put the 3 year olds in with the 2 year olds..even tho I was told that they were kept in seperate rooms. I was not happy. Plus an older girl pushed Sarah down and she scraped her chin on the woodchips. I just didn't feel comfortable leaving her there. I am trying to talk Dave into letting me use a babysitting service to have someone come here for a couple of hours a week. Then we would possibly have a babysitter for an occasional weekend out. That would be sooo nice to actually have a date with my husband! :o) We shall see I guess. Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July. I won't even start in about ours...just that some members of our family are on my poop list. LOL If you got through all my rambling and are still with me...Thank you!! Hopefully I won't be such a stranger here. ;o)

Flower girl

I took this picture the other day. Sarah calls the flowers stars. At first I had no idea why she was saying there were stars in the yard...till she walked over and smelled a "star". I guess they do look like stars huh? :o)

Funny Girl

I didn't realize how long it had been since I posted last! Dave gave Sarah her bath tonight and told her she needed to get some creame in her hair (leave-in conditioner) to which she started singing "creamy in her hair...creamy everywhere..I love the creamy girl" LOL It was sung to the I love the flower girl song. I sang just a couple of lines to her when she was younger and sniffing the flowers outside. LOL She loves to sing this and insert her own lyrics. Most of the time she has us in stiches when she does it. She also has started singing her ABC's...she gets most of them..but towards the end she will change them...like X becomes S. So she is really close to saying it right. I want to record her saying them but as soon as she knows I'm listening she stops...or starts picking letters at random. We had a good day at the grocery store today. She didn't use the "I don't like him/her" at all. She actually said "I like that lady...she's nice" at the checkout. I praised her for saying that..told her that was nice thing to say. We dove full steam ahead into potty training today. I set up a posterboard with her name at the top and squares next to each day to put stickers in. She used the potty four times today...only had one accident (#2). I bought a few goodies at the Dollar Tree for her rewards. At first she said I don't want any rewards..I don't want to use the big potty. But when she got up this morning she was ready to wear big girl diapers. (pullups) Now she is running all over the house asking if it is bedtime! LOL I pray that means tonight will go smoothly as I am on duty. hehe Better get her tucked in!

Quiz Time!

Found this quiz on another bloggers site....

The Husband Quiz
The Husband Quiz

1. What is his name? Dave

2. How long have you been married? 7 years 5 months

3. How long did you date? Met in Feb, Married in September.

4. How old is he? 42

5. Who eats more? About the same..LOL

6. Who said "I love you" first? He did.

7. Who is taller? Same Height

8. Who sings better? I think we are pretty equal on this one. He sounds alot like Tom Petty..especially singing those songs. :o)

9. Who is smarter? Ohhh he is!

10. Whose temper is worse? Mine

11. Who does the laundry? Me...but he will help if I need him to.

12. Who does the dishes? The dishwasher..hehe..but again he helps me with it too.

13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? If you are standing at the end of the bed..he does

14. Who pays the bills? Me.

15. Who mows the lawn? Neither..we hire someone

16. Who cooks dinner? Me or we go out...he cooks about once every month or so...and it is yummy!

17. Who drives when you are together? In town..he does...long trips mainly me.

18. Who is more stubborn? Me

19. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Me.

20. Whose parents do you see the most? Mine..only because they tend to come here more often.

21. Who proposed? He did.

22. Who has more friends? He does

23. Who has more siblings? Same..2 each

24. Who wears the pants in the family? Me..LOL

2 years ago today...

We were in St. Petersburg Florida staring into our newborn daughters eyes. I still can't believe it has been 2 years already! We had her party on Saturday. The weather cooperated thank goodness. Lots more toys were added to Sarah's collection. Tonight we are heading out to dinner to celebrate her birth and Valentine's Day. I hope they will sing Happy Birthday to her. She will be sooo happy if they do! We talked to her Birth Mom on the phone. Even Sarah's half sister talked to her. She is too cute. And her half brother said Hi too. We saved a couple of gifts for her when we get back from dinner. One is a kitchen set that she is going to love for sure. The other is a stroller for her doll. She will really like that too. Daddy won't care too much about all the small pieces! haha But it will be worth it to see her happy face when they are all put together. I'm trying to take more pictures...but it seems like a week or so goes by before I get any. I will take alot more tonight..but I need to try and do a better job of taking the everyday ones. Anywho...I sure do miss those days where the most she could do was roll over! haha She couldn't get into trouble for sure. :o) I am liking this stage alot tho too. We can talk to each other and she gets most of what I am telling her. That is so neat. To hear her put several words together is wonderful. We have so much to look forward too this year. Hopefully the big one being potty training. I have a feeling once we go full time with it she will train really easy. Oh joy to not changing any more diapers!! ;o) This entry took me forever to write. We had a good dinner and she loved her gifts. Daddy even brought us chocolates home. YUMMO!! He is sooo sweet. We are lucky to have him in our life. I got a really cute pic of him and her that I put at the top of the post. Happy Birthday my baby girl and Happy Valentine's Day!!

One month from today..

My little baby turns 2! Before I started typing this, she was playing with her little potty that talks. She lifted the lid and it said "open" to which she said "closed" then it said "up" and she said "down". I am amazed at all she knows. We have people tell us all the time how smart she is..or they can't believe she can speak so well. Yup we are so proud of her! We got a scare at the pool this weekend. Well I did..Daddy was on the other side and couldn't see us. She is able to walk on the bottom of the baby pool. She decided to walk over to the edge and grab a toy out of the box. Her feel must have slipped cause she went under water. I swear it felt like an eternity before I got to her and got her back in my arms. I was only a little ways away. I thought she would lose it, but she was pretty calm. She wanted to go right back to standing on the bottom. Mommy on the other hand took a little longer to calm down. Dave made up a song when she was little that goes like this..Good morning Sarah..how are you my sarah..how are you doing today? Your hungry and thirsty and need a new diadie...that's how you are doing today. Well Daddy will change you and then he will feed you...and then we will be on our way. He went a couple of months without singing it..and just started it up again recently. Now Sarah will ask (ALOT) "How you doin today Mama?" I usually say "Great Sarah. How are you?" To which she says " I doin fine or I ok Mama". LOL Took me a little while to figure out that she got the question from her Poppa's song. So sweet! She always wants to kiss our pain away.."I make it betta". And it always does. I hope she never looses that caring and sweet side!