Saturday, July 30, 2011

Teeth pulling extravaganza at the Staton House

After an hour and half or so of us trying to pull Ramie's (our 3rd girl) 2 bottom teeth....we finally did it!
I mean we pulled out all the stops, tylenol to calm her down and help with the pain to come, tying string around it and letting her pull on it on her own....etc. Out of the 2 kids, so far, that have lost teeth it has not been by my hand! I am NOT the tooth puller in the family, either the thing will fall out on its own or you pull it your self.
That wasn't the case here....Ramie is my last baby girl, so we all have spoiled her rotten, not that the other girls aren't spoiled but Ramie is the "princess" of the household and she KNOWS it!


As all the turmoil is going on she looks at me and says, "I want moma to do it", I started freaking out my self because as I said I DON'T DO TEETH! But of course I could not let my princess down, if she wanted moma to do it by golly I was gonna muster up the courage and do it! Usually being the picture taker/video maker of the family, I instead have the task of pulling the teeth. Please be advised that the video you are about to see seems like we are killing our child....but we are not! She is just really scared, as you will see in the video we lost the tooth. We did, for a minute or two, but we found it in her dress!

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Budding artist



As you can see from my previous (yard sale finds) post I recently acquired a bicycle and a treadmill. So I have been getting up with my husband when he leaves for PT and going for a bike ride. Then coming home and doing as much as I can on the treadmill.
Well Turner was awake this morning so I couldn't go for a bike ride. But while I was on the treadmill he decided to draw me a picture on the dry erase board (supposed to be used for chore charts). He is so cute! I hope he gets the artist gene from his daddy and I both.
Just as long as the art stays on the easel LOL

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Yard Sale Finds

So a couple weekends ago there was a post wide yard sale. Most military installations do this every year maybe once or twice. This was my second time joining the yard sale mania. A friend and I decided to put our "stuff" together so maybe we would sale more. I did sell a lot of my things, but of course the ones I really did not want to bring back into my house didn't sell! Needless to say I did find some amazing deals of my own, as I was looking for money in my coin purse to make change low and behold I found a $100 bill! YES! I completely forgot I put it there a month or so ago when I sold my kids beds. So I went shopping! I found some pretty amazing stuff, spent the whole $100 but made it all back in sales of my own.



Here are my treasures....

Starting over on my blogging journey

A few years ago I started blogging while our family was stationed in Germany. At the request of my mother so that she could keep up on what was going on with us as a family.
My mother passed away unexpectedly and I have had no desire to blog.

Well I have started to realize that all these crazy things and all the madness, happiness and wonderful journeys we go threw, I want my kids to remember and have something to look back on besides just pictures. They will actually get to see things the way I saw them when it happened.



I hope that the people who read this blog, not just my kids, but other mothers, army wives, cooks and just random people will take away something from what they read. I will post many pictures, recipes, and stories. Stay tuned the chronicles will continue!