Digital scrapbooking

Something i've been dipping into over the year. I haven't invested a whole lot of time inot it yet, but looking forward to now. I stumbled upon a site that has both free and premium program. This what I was able to do with the free:

Click to play | Make your own Smilebox

Pretty cool huh. It's called smilebox.com
It's so simple, try it out

birthday, cont'd...

My birthday evening ended well.
First, since hubby was working, I heated up a frozen white pizza for my daughter and I. then mixed 2 tbs of rice cereal for my son. My son ate his cereal with no hesitation, but my daughter turned down her pizza after seeing spinah on it. Normally I don't allow her anything alese to eat until she eats what was served to her, but being it was my birthday, I didn't want to the day to end with a tantrum. So, I let her eate yogurt. Then it was bathtime for both kids and then bed. My son went to bed happily, but my daughter tried pushing the limit. I'm instituting an earlier time due to her gogin to school in the mornings, problem is that she just isn't tired enough to go so she gives me a bit of a hard time. After only 2 trips to the bathroom she was down.
At that time I poured myself a glass of white zinfadel that my neighbor left me :) and watched some Real World, my secret obsession.

Around 9:30, hubby came home baring chocolate chip cookies, swedish fish and an Orchid! I love orchids, but never pictured caring for one. It came with directions. I'm afraid, hubby joked about taking an insurance policy on it, it must of been pricey!
Anyway, I loved it :)

Birthday

It's been a pretty lame day, blah blah blah....
Then my neighbor from across the street shows up with a bottle of white zinfendel, not bad ;)

When did birthday become so blah?

Maybe by being an only child I was spoiled by my mother and grandparents taht always made a huge deal about my birthday, no big parties, but family celebration, favorite dinner, favorite activities and family visiting. Plus I had an uncle that always made a point of celebrating his adult birthdays, I thought it was the norm.
Not anymore. My mother & granmother live in an apartment without transportation, so they call. My in-laws celabrate birthdays by having a cake after dinner on Sundays, so i have to wait till Sunday to getr my all-special-important cookie cake (by speacial request). My hubby is working day and night today, so it's just me and my kids, who have no idea. ideally i wanted to play Zelda on my Wii for the majority, but instead I was doing some house work but my son is really crnaky so not even much of that. Can't really complain, I had to take my minivan in today to be serviced so my Siste-In-Law took me to lunch at Cheesecake Factory, my fav :)

But still in all, what happened to the fun birthdays?

fundraising

OK, my daughter had her first day at pre-school. She loved it. In my fat packet of paperwork from her teacher a got a fundraising packet that needs to be turned in Sept. 28th. So I need to work fast, welcome to Catholic schools, LOL!!!

Ok first is http://www.innisbrook.com/NewIcom/homepage.cfm
second is http://www.helengrace.com/eShop/stores/InnisbrookA/CustomerService.cfm

Comment me if you are interested in ordering anything for my daughter's preschool ;)

Somebody reads my blog!!!!

I was recently told by someone that they had a "Reality Check" from reading my blog. SO COOL!!! My blog actully touched someone, ha ha :)
Ok, grant it the reality check was from a friend how was traveling to NH with us and she was reminded ta tis was time to pack soon, but hey, I touched somebody, right?

Vacation time

We are going to New Hampshire, Laconia, Nh to be exact. Why, becuse my hubby closed his his eyes, flipped threw a catalog and opened to the page with this resort on it, saw it had an indoor waterslide and thought it would be fun for our daughter. I'm not sold on it yet, he thinks we may love it, i dunno, I'm used to Florida and caribbean destinations. We haven't been on vacation since last June, since then we had a son. This will be interesting. We are driving there....'nuf said. There is so much more to think about packing when you have both a toddler and infant. First I thought a baby wouldn't make much of a difference, but I think the back of our van is going to be packed quite tight.
My daughter is excited, she is spending the vacatin with her BFF Rachel, she can't wait. She fainlly at the age where she understands that she has a friendship and remebers her, it's too funny.
My son just started to sleep thru the night, agian (he's given me hope a few times before), I hope the vacation wont screw him up, oh well, C'est la vie if it does, right!
What to pack, I went shopping yesterday for some odds & ends, now I need to start packing so I know this time next week what odds & ends I really still need!

Left at pre-school

Madeline, my eldest at 3, starts pre school this September. It's no secret, she's well aware of it, we've visited the school and talked aobut how it will be. She's excited and also scared, typical.

I was having lunch with a friend today and I was telling her That Mad start's school this year. The waitress chimes in and asks Mad, "Are you going to school this year?"
Mad answers, "Yes, my mom is leaving me there and nobody will take me home!"

Awww, I guess I emphasized the fact that I cant stay but forgot to mention I will pick her up, opps!