TGIF......

Hey guess what ICE AGE 2 STARTS TODAY WHOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO and I have to wait till tomorrow.....Anything for Sid the sloth...hehe
It's gloomy on and off today...I guess April showers bring may flowers right?? Well I dont plant, so I don't want the rain. =-)
The wind is blowing REALLY hard...it's actually kinda funny to sit here and look out the window and watch the birds fly in the wind....

Kit-Kat is coming tonight for the weekend...should be fun. Krackel can't wait to see her and neither can Rolo...I hope we have just one day of good weather so we can go out for a nice walk. Something about fresh air just renew's the spirit in my opinion.

So Krackel said to me the other day when we were driving...."Mom, you should REALLY stop drinking Coke!! It's bad for you and your health and there's was too much caffeine and sugar in it!!" So I asked her where she heard that...."My healthy teacher told me, and she know's what she's talking about cause she teaches kids!!" And I have noticed that this past week I have cut back on my coke intake...it's really weird. How can you argue with someone who "teaches" kids hehehe...i guess it's a good thing cause now Krackel drinks more water and milk, cause her "healthy teacher" told her its better for her.

Rolo is getting REALLY good at being 2. She throws her fits....her new thing is walking around nude with just socks on. No wonder she's always sick. But to keep clothes on the child is like taming a wild beast. If she spills ANYTHING on her shirt, she takes it off....even if were out to dinner..that shirt comes off...so I have learned to pack at least 5 shirts and at least 3 pairs of pants....i CANT wait for summer with this child...will be MUCH easier to keep a dress or shorts on this child!

Kit-Kat is doing good...she's got a cough again. I don't get to see her much and I don't like that. I really miss her. That little girl is awsome! I just wish we could have her more.

Mr.Goodbar is doing really well. He finally getting caught up at work. I let him stay late a coupld days a week so he doesn't fall behind there. The company he works for get's on his back if he has one thing due and its not turned in, in like 5 minutes they get on him...so he needs to be on top of everything, and sometimes 8 hrs isn't enough hours in a day, and our computer is REALLY slow at home, well the program that he needs anyhow. But 2 looooooong days a week is good....we can give him up for two days...at least we get him on the weekends this way, and he doesnt have to work at home or go into the office if he stays late a few days...

I'm doing good. My mood is slowly getting better. I have my moments of insanity, but then I take a deep breathe and a gulp of coke, and a chocolate candy bar, and i'm all good...I think right now, i am right where I want to be in life...I wish that me and Mr.Goodbar had a little more "free" time together, alone. We don't get that alot...but that's what happens with 3 kids I guess =-)

Well I hope EVERYONE has a great weekend!!! I found out that ANYONE can post now...not just people with blogs....so pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease leave me a message =-)
Take care

CHOCOLATE FACT: Fishermen from Gloucester, Mass., accept cocoa beans as payment for cargo in tropical America.

QUOTE:

A better day....

Today started off a little slow. The past few nights I have fallen asleep, only to awaken with the feeling like I got no sleep at all. Of course last night Rolo got up at 1:30am and didn't go back to sleep until around 3am, so I know why I didn't feel like I slept. But all was good cause WE GOT TO GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!!!!! And none of the kids have given me any hard time today.....

This weeked were going to say Ice Age 2...CANT WAIT....I have been waiting for this since the first one came out....I LOVE that movie....Target now has SID THE SLOTH stuffed animals, I'm gunna have to get me one of them!!!!!

Well I hope everyone has a great day. The sun is shinning, who could ask for anything more!!!

CHOCOLATE FACT: Christopher Columbus returns to Spain with cocoa beans but King Ferdinand (the fool!) overlooks them in favor of other treasures.

QUOTE: I should be patient with the annoying; the most questioning child could open a new door.

Eye of the tiger.......

It's another gloomy day here in chicagoland....but that doesn't stop the birds outside....
It's weird, being from California when spring break hit, we were able to go to the beach, or go to Disneyland without jackets and wearing shorts, but it's spring break right now for Krackel and were still in pants and our winter jackets....Been here almost 8 years and i'm still not used to that.

Everything around the Chocolate Factory is going good. I think I may be coming down with a little cold. My energy just got wiped out, my mood is well it's hard to explain. When im with the kids, all of them, its great, and i play and laugh, but when im alone or during nap time I get really down. I stare out the window at the birds. Sometimes I wish I could just turn the brain off.

Going to work out tonight, should be fun. 30 minutes a day 3 days a week...It's nice. I go with my mom, nice conversation and it's nice to get out of the house for a little bit, even if it is only for 45 total =-)

Hope everyone has a great day!

CHOCOLATE FACT: The Mexican Indian word "chocolate" comes from a combination of the terms "choco" (foam) and "atl" (water).

QUOTE: The world is a wonderful place and everyone should shut up and enjoy it every once in a while.

Grumpy monday.....

Today is a weird day. I slept good last night, but woke up and am cranky....I have no clue why. The kids however are making me laugh, so that's good. Krackel is on spring break and today she is doing ok. BUT it's only monday....we will see how she does AFTER nap.

Her reading is getting so good. She read the best book today, and I always said that "I can't wait till she can read this book".....its called "The Giving Tree" great book......

Today I sit next to a poster I have next to my puter, that says How to really love a child, and I sit and think.....these suggestions are great.....which one can I do. With kids, it's like looking at everything for the first time....or seeing it through there innocent eyes...its AWSOME.....

Hope everyone has a happy monday....

CHOCOLATE FACT: By the 1990s, annual world consumption of cocoa beans averages approximately 600,000 tons; chocolate consumption is on the rise.

QUOTE: The best place to go with a child is in their imagination.

Feeling a little blue on a nice day.....

Don't know what it is....the sun is shinning, the wind isn't blowing, and its nice outside, but i'm still feeling kinda blue. Don't know if it's all the cabin fever catching up with me. Couldn't sleep last night, so i watched my daughters lava lamp night light most of the night. Maybe a nice walk is what the doctor order. Rolo is doing good. She is still a little green in the eyes and nose. Krackel is still awsome. She didn't want to go to sleep last night.

Sometimes I wonder where these kids get some of the things they say. Last night at 11pm, Krackel came walking into my room telling me that she couldn't sleep. So i walked her back into her room and tucked her back in and sat on her bed. I asked her why she couldn't sleep, and she told me that she was scared. i told her that we have been here a year and everything is the same. She looked at me and said "no its not mom, my bed is different then when we first moved in...and im different, cause when we moved in i was 6 and now im 7, so not everything is the same" How can you argue with that?

Rolo has taken to walking the house naked w/out a diaper on. She will only wear them when she goes to sleep. She has already pee'd on the floor once, but has gone potty on the potty most of the morning, and all day yesterday. I think this 2 year old is done with the whole diaper thing. So many big kids going potty in the potty, now she wants to do it. On the weekdays, Buddy does the same thing to me, tho he gets mad when I don't let him sit on the toilet. So be it....=-)

Well I hope everyone has a great day.....it's sunday, which means back to work tomorrow, so enjoy this wonderful day! the sun is out and shinning and tomorrow its supposed to rain!!

CHOCOLATE FACT: Christopher Ludwig Hoffmann's treatise Potus Chocolate recommends chocolate for many diseases.

QUOTE: No matter how old you are, you always think that there may be something hiding under the bed.