Today I am the world's best mom!!

Well at least I will be on Christmas morning when my little one opens up the TMX Elmo I just scored online!!! I didn't want to pay ebay prices...and figured that I would get him one for his birthday in the spring when sanity resumes in the toy world and you would be able to buy one of those demon dancers for under $50 again....then I got the email...KBToys.com would have them for sale at 1pm EST today...online only...well needless to say I was online at 11:55 my time to click my way to sainthood and grab one of those elusive little gigglers.

So now $51 later after shipping I am doing the snoopy dance in the living room while BD is outside putting up the light spectacle...


I mean spectacular......

okay no I really meant spectacle.....


So now I sit in all my glowing momminess....and cut up ribbon from my recent SU! order to get it bagged up...of course I am missing a spool...but it should be here monday.....and all will be right with the world again....

If I don't like the photos...I'm not buying the photos!!

It seems like an easy answer....obviously not.

We went to get the yearly family portrait for christmas cards. We got the boys dressed....ourselves dressed....headed over the mountain to the studio....the boys BEHAVED for the entire shoot (priceless in my book since it never happens). You would think that the day is golden and nothing could go wrong, it has just been that smooth....until it's time to get the photos back.

The pictures are overexposed. They are out of focus. Bottom line....I don't like them. The girl at the studio tries to tell me that the photos are fine and I will like them much better once I get them home and in a frame....well let me tell you a little secret.......

ugly photo = ugly photo

ugly photo in nice frame = ugly photo

notice how there's no difference there?? People don't look at your pictures and say "well that frame sure is nice"......how absurd.

So to the girl's suprise I demanded a refund and gave her back the hideous pictures. I rescheduled for later this week...yay. Hopefully the boys will behave again..but twice in one week may be more than I can hope to expect. We are certainly using a different photographer so hopefully that will rectify the situation.

I hate being bitchy...but photos cost so much to have done that if you aren't happy then you aren't happy. Well today I was not happy....and that might make me a total bitch...but I want my money's worth....and I plan on getting it!!

I've been a blog slacker

I know I haven't been posting as regularly as I could be....things are so busy and getting busier every day.

We just had Halloween parties at the boys' school and now I am helping host the Thanksgiving party on thursday of this week......thank goodness we only have to make some cookies. Next comes the Christmas party...which I'm in charge of as well. I am also doing classes in the next couple of weeks...I actually have 4 people signed up to make christmas cards (yay!!) and am hoping for a couple more by the deadline on friday. I am also planning a gifts class..hopefully I can get the flyer done for that and get them out. Figure in the laundry...shopping...taxiing the kids around....scrapping commitments....I think I have an extra 10 or 15 minutes somewhere between now and the new year.

My mom is doing much better...kinda. She's still out of work...and still on bedrest...but her spirits are higher and she's coming to terms with the limited mobility. She's eating and getting to her appointments...so I can't ask for much more. She's bored out of her mind...but she'll survive. I bet next time she'll think twice before falling off a loading dock won't she?? (that was a joke in case you aren't sure...I"m sure she'll never do it again...)

Well I've used up all the extra time allotted to me for today...so off I go...

My mom...

I think of my mom often. She's so vibrant, so alive, so independant.






And right now she is so incapacitated.

Last week I found out that my mom fell at work and broke her leg. Not only did she break her leg but she tore her ACL, MCL, broke her tibia, and has fluid accumulating under the kneecap. She's going to be out of work until at least January. She's never been out of work that long in her life!! She only has one bathroom...and of course it's on the second floor of the house, so she is spending a lot of time in her bedroom.

She is heavily medicated at this point, so she's been in a pretty good mood. Though I can assure you that once the meds wear off she won't be so pleasant!! She is getting by with people coming by and helping out with meals and such. My uncle who I just found out is getting a divorce is supposed to move in and he will be able to take care of her and get her to appointments.

It really kills me that I can't be there to take care of her. Be the savior that she was while I was growing up. Just be able to show up and tell her not to worry, I'm here to save the day and I'll take care of everything. It sucks being so far away from her. I'm constantly wondering who is going to make sure she eats....who's going to take her to the doctor...who's going to help her get dressed. Ever since Micheal died earlier this year I just worry about her so much. She doesn't have anyone to take care of her. For the first time in her life she's alone...


and there's nothing I can do about it.