a few of my favorite things...

First of all, my very very very favorite thing - This bed.
I really love sleeping. I really love going to bed and I love waking up in this bed. (Not to be confused with being woke up.) On days when I can just lay there and watch the sun get brighter and cuddle with my boys, awhhhhhh, angels in the choir.  It's the mixture of the messy blankets, ample amount of pillows, the blues, creams, and whites. Just perfection. I am excited to get our new house and bring this fav into it and have beautiful wood floors and paint the walls a beautiful beige. Currently, the walls are purple and it makes me want to vom.









 Next is this thing. It's a card that I push on my eyelid while I apply mascara. Keeps the black off my face and allows me to layer and gunk up the mascara as much as I want forcefully. Love it.

Finally, I am so happy it is "summertime" and I can wear light scarves and pretty shirts.  Summertime is one of my favorite things. It makes the days go by faster and the evenings longer. And if you look in the background of this picture you can see my calendar. Grant got me this for Valentines one day and just this morning I switched it from May to June!!! Something I can't believe is already here!

Isn't she lovely?



I hope someday I have a beautiful little
girl to put baby legs and tutus on.



NYC

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Me and Kelsey at the Last Tree Standing
at the Twin Towers Memorial

Okay, I'm a little annoyed with my boring blog. I'm working on figuring out how to personalize it and not use a pre-made setup. Ya know? And I also want to have meaningful posts. Something to write about before I start writing. Luckily, I went to New York this past weekend and finally have something worthwhile to type.

I went to NYC to visit one of my besties Kelsey. Kelsey is a firery red-head and I am always a little nervous what we're gonna get ourselves into whenever I see her.  She's the type of girl who could kick your ace and then will pray for forgiveness from Jesus. In high school she banged my head repeatedly into my locker. I don't remember what for, but it showed everyone that you don't mess with Kelsey Moore, not even if you're her "friend". :)  At least she's an honest friend, I mean hey, if she's willing to bang her own friends' head into a locker, she's probably got your back in any situation. She is my hired bouncer for the wedding. Glad that's covered.

WTC Memorial

I flew to NY Friday morning. G dropped me off and I rushed through security, because there was no way I was missing this get out of MN flight. I switched planes in Chicago and I sat in a 3 seater row. It was like this -

 

Window - Weirdo - Open Seat - Me - Aisle.

 

 Okay, the weirdo was a strange dude. Probably 40 years old and didn't say one word. Fine. I don't like talking to new people anyway. But the weird thing was, he caught me looking out the window and then quickly slammed it shut. Ummm.. okay, fine. I won't look out "his" window. It get's weirder.. he peeks out the window, looks back over at me to see if I'm trying to see out it, and then shuts it quick again! How bizarre! He does this probably 5 times. I'm convinced he's nuts. I realllllllly wanted to look out the window and see Manhattan from the sky. This guy was not digging it. 

Pedicures in China Town

It was sprinkling rain the whole time I was in NYC. Which didn't totally blow because we spent much needed time getting pedicures and our makeup done and eating.  We went to a couple clubs at night but honestly, everyone was too old to be there, and a little creepy. I felt very small and white and scared. I was glad to have Kelsey with me.  So we went back to her place and were not tired enough to go to sleep, that's when we decided it was a good idea to get my belly button pierced. YOLO right?





So I went to the tattoo shop and a girl with some nice skull tattoos shoved a needle through my gut. Yowch! I've had quite a few piercings before, but holy moly this one took the cake. I think I was just so not nervous that no endorphins rushed to my poor belly to take care of the pain. I was turning gray and about to pass out when a little midget came and gave me some water. (When I saw the midget I really thought I had lost it.) Kelsey confirmed it was a real midget and I hadn't lost all thought.

The next day I went to church with Kelsey with my fresh belly ring.  Her church is the exact opposite of my Missouri Synod church. Such an experience! Held in a theatre, with a live band, and a black preacher. It was incredibly entertaining. You get so caught up in the moment there it's pretty cool. I'm glad she has found some peeps her age that love God and get together and pretty much have a party for Jesus every week. Awesome.



We rushed out of "church" to catch my flight. Kelsey dropped me off at the airport. Not 5 minutes later I had to call her back to get me because my flight was leaving from New Jersey. F! We made it to New Jersey in like 4 hours (which is supposed to be a 45min drive). I don't know what part of NJ we ended up in, but blatantly, it was a shit hole. Just disgusting. Garbage everywhere. Places that don't take credit cards (white girl problems) and not very friendly people. Really made me want to get back to MN A.S.A.P


When I finally got to MN my boo picked me up in my car. He had vacuumed and washed my car to the 9's. What a honey! He took me home and he had cleaned the apartment as well. Such a good G. When he asked me what I got him in NYC, I reminded him that he once told me that next time I want to get him a gift, to get something for myself instead, so I showed him my belly button ring and he couldn't be happier. Lol

this old house

The House -We got our appraisal back on the house! And it was over what we are paying for it! So that means we are going to get the house for sure!!! Thank God, because I have a lot of plans for that home and don't know if I could handle yet another loss. (Previously, I had fallen in love with a couple other homes and had my heart broken.)

Isn't it just heavenly? I have always wanted a big yellow house.  But it had to be older than my great grandparents and it had to be in good shape and not in St. Paul. Not an easy find. Luckily for us, some people got divorced and foreclosed on their house.
And man, it is perfect perfect PERFECT!!!!  It has 4+ bedrooms, I plan on making a lot of babies.. or having some serious closets.  The kitchen is bigger than our current apartment, there are stairs in the pantry! There are 2 bathtubs and no standing showers, I really don't like those standing showers. There is a fantastic attic with a secret door that I just can't wait to turn into Narnia (a story I never read). 3 living areas. AND a freaking creepy basement. What more do I need? Really, what else could I ask for? Oh! It also has the biggest yard on the block. I can't wait to put up a pretty white fence. Fences make the best neighbors ya know?  I want to move NOW! Gotta get married and stuff first though. OK fine.


No luck in the nanny job search, I was pretty discouraged and need to just hold off a couple weeks/months and wait until people are looking for a school year nanny for their little babes. Instead of a summer nanny for their pre-teen brats.


I'm changing my fashion fails of the day section to..

Just Clothes - Because I'm from the Midwest, I don't know anything about "fashion" but I know some stuff about clothes. I'd say there's a difference.

So here's my outfit from yesterday. I've been really digging stripes lately.  Horizontal ones make ya look wider, so I paired it with a skinny belt to show that I'm not really that wide.  But the stripes sure do show off my hippys. I'm okay with that. I put a sweater on and completed the look. THANKFULLY it got up to 98 degrees yesterday and I was able to take off the sweater and work on my tan. I rarely complain about weather ever. I love snow and think it's pretty, but it is so nice to be warm.

"Don't touch my butt"

Why do I even have to say this?  Shouldn't it be a duh?
Often when I'm just standing, one of my kiddos will just touch my butt. I don't know if its at the right height that its irresistible,  or if its just a phase. But I don't know how to handle this situation.
I had to say to him, "Don't touch my butt, would you like it if I touched your penis?!" Thank God he said "no."
Please just be a phase.

'merica and its mommies

Fashion Fail of the Day-

 

Oh hey there! It's me. I wanted to wear this blue and white tank top because I want it to be summer. Unfortunately, it's 35 degrees out. So I have to wear a sweater. My options for sweaters are neutrals, lime green, or red.  I picked the red because it's clean. I feel like a real American in this outfit.  I'm planning on going to caribou today, because it's pay day, and that will make up for the 5$ drink. Right? Also I spent a good hour last night mending all of the chewed up undies I had piled up from George. I deserve the coffee. Right? Anyway, I hope that when I'm in Caribou people don't assume I'm wearing the American flag because I'm a proud citizen today.  Hopefully now that gay marriage passed MN can focus on a real issue.

 

Nanny Diaries-

I'm trying to find a new nanny family because I'm moving.  It is REALLY hard.  Usually I have tons of interviews and get to be picky. But now I've heightened my standards in my families because I have been spoiled by my current families. I'm thinking 1 baby maximum and no on the side night babysitting and a fantastic paycheck.  But... people do not want to pay for child care. Some lady offered me 50 dollars/day because she knew I would just love her son and it would be worth it. Ummm.. WHAT?! Another person was at 8 dollars/hr. And I was like, do you know minimum wage is going up to 10 dollars an hour? I could work at McDonalds (my most favorite place) and NOT have to deal with your snotty child and get free burgers. I am  not a babysitter.  I am an educator. I am a daytime nanny. I am not putting your kid to bed and watching t.v. and raiding your fridge. I am, quite frankly, replacing YOU, mommy. I have a degree in this. I know what I'm doing. Good grief. Frustrated. I have even broadened my search to look at jobs at the YMCA with the kiddy area and even applied at a home daycare as a helper. She said she'd like to get back to me this fall.  Sure lady, I'll just wait 4 months and see what you think about me then. UGHHHHH. Everyone wants babies. Nobody wants to pay for them. Just because they have to do it for free they don't understand that this is my whole income. I have to get paid. Kind of like a prostitute. I do what you do for free, but get paid for it. And people don't like that.  Except my current nanny families who genuinely appreciate my help.  These pregnant women with no kids are the worst. They don't quite "get it" yet. They are excited to be a "mom" and leave their baby with a nanny all day and only have to put it to bed and then want me to babysit on the weekends so they can have a "break". DO YOU EVEN WANT TO BE A PARENT? Gah.

 

Alright. Done ranting. Gotta go hang out with my besties! It's going to be a great day! It's Friday!

hello sunshine!

Yay! It's summer time! Finally! Oh how I've missed the beach. I no longer have to watch movies and eat popcorn and be lazy with the kids. (Not that it was so terrible, just will be nice to be tanning instead.)

I LOVE summer with the kids. We go to the beach, the water park, the pond, the park, biking, wagon rides, stroller rides, trolley rides, OH MY GOSH I'M SO EXCITED FOR SUMMER.  The best part is we can take any learning activity or game and move it outside. Less mess inside = more fun.

Andddd I get to marry Grant next month! Wow, it's finally almost here!

Fashion Fail of the Day

 

Not too bad. I like my outfit today. Scarf, flowy open back shirt, pink shorts, white sandals, summer! It makes me want to lose 5lbs but not enough to add that to my to-do list. However, my face could be considered a fail. I put makeup on and my hair is decent. But I look tired. That's why it's not here.

Friday-Wednesday we were babysitting our nephew, Cosmo. And now that he's been gone for oh, 30 minutes, George is back to annoying me. He is sitting between my legs under the desk. Poor little buddy is lonely. I suppose I can take him out for a summer walk. Toodeloo!