Motorcycle Man

This is "Motorcycle Man"

He is into all things motorcycle, ALL things!

He has motorcycle shirts, shoes, sunglasses!

The other day he is putting his shoes on and he says "Everyone is going to think I'm a jerk"

To which I replied, "Why?"

"Because I'm a Motorcycle Man, and Motorcycle men are jerks"

"Ohhhh I see" I said.

Now where he heard that is beyond me but it sure was hilarious to hear him repeat it!

And I know it won't be long before I'm dealing with bumps, bruises and broken bones!

What to do....Pin It

I have been so busy.

Ok not really, but I'm gonna be pulling my hair out this week I am sure!

I have more surgery scheduled for weeks end, and that will put me out of commission for 7 - 10 days at least. And for that time I will be sitting in my own stink doing nothing.

So, this week is laundry, cleaning, shopping, putting things together, spending time with my boys, oh yeah and working. Why does work always get in the way of life?

And I have been sleeping horribly! I think I'm going to toss the cat out into the cold if he wakes me up in the middle of the night again with his incessant licking and cleaning! I am so tired I am wide awake as crazy as that sounds!

And? I stupidly didn't heed the advise of others and I looked on Pinterest and now I am drooling over recipes, pineing over dresses and shoes and places to go. I am aspiring to be the photographer I wish I could be and wishing I was smarter and could come up with all these brilliant sayings!

So while I sit around and can do nothing while recovering, you can be sure I will be hanging out on Pinterest and hoping to ignore pain! At least I won't be bored huh?

The Greatest Love of All

I was 13, and completely knew it all. I had my whole life ahead of me but all I was concerned about was starting the summer by going to Hawaii with my family and spending the rest of the summer at the beach and pool with my best friend. I'd worry about High School later.

I believe that children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind them how it used to be.

Seriously? Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston as an 8th grade graduation song? Who chose that song anyway? Greatest love of all? What does that have anything at all to do with graduation?

Children's laughter? We are NOT children, we are so going to be in High School. HIGH SCHOOL, that means we are far from being children!

Everybody searching for a hero, people need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfilled my needs
A Lonely place to be, so I learned to depend on me.

Oh because that sounds perfect for a graduation song, don't have friends, don't depend on anyone else because everyone is going to let you down. That's great. Just perfect, send us off into the world of high school and tell us not to depend on the people most important to us, Hello...our friends!

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadow, If I fail, If I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe, No matter what they take from me,
they can't take away my dignity.

Ok really? Who is taking anything from me? They are GIVING me a diploma to move on into high school, and my dignity has nothing to do with it.

The greatest Love of all, is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all inside of me
The greatest love of all is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself, it is the greatest love of all.

And then, it clicked! This was the perfect 8th grade graduation song! The next 4 years would be spent learning who I am, what I want and catching a glimpse of what happens next.

And by standing tall, being proud of who I am, where I come from, standing behind what I believe, and standing up for those that can't stand up for themselves.

THAT Is the greatest Love of All.

So Thanks Whitney, for being a part of my generation, for being a part of my milestone in Life.
I never again questioned why we used that song. And I know it by heart, I've sang it a million times. We were children, and I do remember that laughter!

Whitney, I hope you find the Greatest Love of All as you rest in peace.

1963 - 2012

New Subjects

I'm starting to think that my photography skills are much better with anything other than very active children....

Like Pikachu and his little sister Taz

Or an almost full moon right in the middle of a gorgeous clear day...

That lead into an amazing sunset sky peppers with clouds.

Valentine's Fail

Ok I admit it, I hate Valentine’s day, no wait, I take that back, I LOATHE Valentine’s day.
I have never really had a great, fantastic, spectacular Valentine’s day, so I “lost that lovin’ feeling” for the great day of St. Valentine a LONG time ago.

And God Bless my husband for always trying to get me a sweet card or some flowers or something. And I love him for that, I truly do. But I think I’d much rather keep my money and let Hallmark have all the 1st loves, and the 1st Valentine’s Day and such.

But now I am forced with a dilemma. I have to at least give my boys a chance to love Valentine’s Day and hope that after all the candy years wears off that they will love it enough that they will make someone else’s Valentine’s Day super spectacular.

I went to the store, looked at all the possible Valentine’s. All the DIY Valentine’s cards and little bags that you can fill with candy and put little cards that have hearts punched out in them and make home made rice crispy treats to put in them and all that.

Uggh really? I bought Fun Dip, it already has a little place for a name, no stickers, no baggies, no messing with stuff until midnight making sure it’s just right, just for my boys to bring them in and drop them in a bag for a child that will never remember that Valentine.

Now should I be trying to impress other mothers? Making all these cutesy little bags and stuff? Because to be honest, my kids bring home all their little baggies and I cut off the top, dump the contents into our big candy bowl and toss all the rest. I don't sit and look at all the stuff and say "Oh that is crafty" and "How cute it that". Because me? I am not impressed. And my kids? Could care less, they just want the candy anyway! And I don't have time to compete with all the other mothers who have time during their day to do that!

Tell me, did I fail miserably?

5 years flew by

So the hubs and I just celebrated our 5 year anniversary.....

We did so by taking a quick little jaunt up the coast to Solvang, minus kids.

It's a quaint little town, windmills and Danish bakeries....

Lots of fun little shops to walk through....

And of course a million different wineries,

With a ton of different wine tasting places! And we had a blast tasting wines from all over, all different kinds of climates, and temperatures, learning more and more. Oh And? See these?

We got to feed them, even though the hubs wanted to go and ride them after wine tasting all afternoon! I settled for just feeding them. Have you ever actually seen one of these up close? They are weird!

And these? These are Aebelskivers

They were tastey but overall, I wasn't THAT impressed.

And that is how we spent our 5 year anniversary and part of our Sunday!

If you give a woman a pregnancy

Anyone who knows me knows that all I ever wanted in life was a baby. Just one, after 4 miscarriages, that is all I asked for, just one.

And with that....

You give a woman a pregnancy and she will be a doubting mess.
The baby will grow and grow and decide that because of her doubting he will come 9lbs 9 oz.
That mom will turn into an emotional madhouse for every little thing.

When you give a mom a baby she will want just a little sleep
Between the sleepless nights and short cat naps she will dream of another baby.

That 2nd baby will come, 2 months early at that.
She will then tell herself that she is all done.
And she will lay down to snuggle with her babies and pray that they don't grow up to fast.

But then she will realize that as they grow they learn how to bicker and fight and whine and pick on each other. And then she will think, I wanted one more why?

And then she will hear two little voices say "I Love you Mommy" and she's remembers when she said If you give a mom a pregnancy, and she will be happy with what she has!