Things went bad...then got better

well TT#1 has no permanent damage to his teeth. He is doing much better now and his chompers are great. And judging from the teethmarks on his arm...so are TT#2's.

Sorry for not updating for a while...but my computer decided to die...well not really die...just hibernate for a while and not wake up. So we went out looking at new computer systems and ended up with a laptop system....I LURVE it!!! The freedom of having the "cord cut" is wonderful. I love that we can be sitting in the living room and still be online. Much better than having to go into the computer room and mess with it. The kids think it's pretty cool too.....and if we can get the old desktop fixed we will let them have it for learning on. Figure they can't do much more damage than what's already been done.

We got the car back from Chevy. They went halves with the repairs since it really shouldn't have gone bad with the minimal amount of miles that we have on the car. Not too bad really. We were happy with the resolution...not as happy as if we never had a problem...but happy with the resolution. The dealership of course still sucks....but we won't be dealing with them anymore.

We have spent the past few days looking at mini vans....now I swore that I would NEVER drive a mini....but I am starting to see the benefits of having a mini...the more stuff my kids require when we leave the house...the more appealing a mini becomes. We have been to Kia, Saturn, Dodge, and Chrysler.

So far the front runner is either the Kia or the Dodge. I really like the Dodge more...and the Kia just doesn't have the time on the market to really make it worth the risk. But those two have the best pricing for product at this point. I love the stow and go seating in the Dodge...as well as the auto doors...but the auto doors are even more appealing because you can also manually open them. They have a ton of safety features when it comes to the doors and the auto close...very easy touch for it to re-open...which is nice when you have kids jumping into and out of the doorways very quickly...with the Saturn the door really needed a heavy push for it to start to re-open when it was auto closing. I was putting TT#1 into the captain's chair in the Saturn and he hit the close button for the side door. The door almost pushed me over before it had the safety kick in and re-open. If that were my kid in the doorway it would have knocked them right over and they would have been laying on the ground. Not impressed at all.

The Chrysler is a good mini...but the salesman was a schmuck and that killed it for me. It sounds stupid and petty...but if you are a pushy salesman...you are a salesman who can't answer my questions...you only pay attention to my husband and ignore me...you are not getting the sale....I can guarantee it.

I am getting geared up for my retreat next weekend. We got our dorm assignments yesterday and we are making plans for our dorm decorations....fun fun fun!!! I still have to make a blindfold and a name tag....I am so PSYCHED!!!! A whole weekend of estrogen....WOW!! I won't know what to do with myself...BD thinks that it will be like an episode of "Girls Gone Wild"...and looked really dissappointed when we were out at the mall and I looked at pajamas...he picked out the pink and red lace one...I was looking at the capri pants and strappy t-shirt.....he looked confused when I told him that it wasn't like in the movies....no pillow fights...poor guy. You would have thought that I just peed on his wheaties....he looked so sad. Oh well........till next time.

It's been a day....

the boys decided to get up at 5:30....they must have forgotten that mommy is NOT a morning person...by lunchtime it wasn't going to badly...

but of course..the worm must turn...

TT#1 decided that he was going to ram his face into the floor...but the space he chose was already occupied by a toy...and so he knocked his two front teeth off kilter...

called the doc...got answering service because it's lunchtime...and had to wait for the doc to call back...got the bleeding to stop while waiting for the doc to call back....

my car is at the shop getting looked at so I call BD at work and tell him to haul it home so we can go to the doc's....we get to the doc and he says that there's nothing that he can do...we just have to wait and see if the teeth die...but not to worry cause it's not that bad and TT should be fine...

so now we just have to wait....I just hope that his teeth are fine and we won't have him toothless for years before his adult teeth come in.

the good news I guess is that my car needs $750 worth of work...and it has less than 36,000 miles on it...but it's 5 years old....so out of warranty...but shouldn't be having problems...this sucks............................................

Oh where oh where oh where is mojo??

I think my mojo and my muse went on vacation and didn't leave a note telling me where they were going or when they would return. Just like those darn kids to up and leave with no notice. I hope they return home safely soon...I miss them.

I am counting down the days until I go on my scrapbook retreat. 3 days of pure estrogen. Sounds like heaven to me. The boys will get a weekend to themselves to do guy stuff...whatever that may entail. Probably pizza and spaghetti will be involved....and more than likely a few dozen screenings of a veggie tales DVD.

We are doing a new bible study in my MOMS group. "Chocolate for Lent" based on the movie Chocolat with Jonny Depp. I had my reservations about this idea...but anything involving Johnny Depp can't be all bad...unless it's that Willy Wonka remake...nuff said.