Here are a few tidbits of info from our home:

• Punky started sleeping in his “Big Boy Bed” over the weekend. We put his crib mattress on the floor. Good thing too…..as he rolled off it last night and was sleeping in the middle of the floor!
• Hubby is going to a Twins game tonight with two of his friends from high school.
• Mother’s Day was fun. We went to church; then we hopped in my mom-mobile with my father-in-law and my brother-in-law and went down to see my sister-in-law’s family. They live outside of Owatonna, so it was about an hour and a half drive down there. We had a great time visiting, and we had a yummy meal! It was nice to be together again. (It had been since Christmas!)
• 20 more school days, but hey, who’s counting?!?!?!?
• I’m creating blogs with my students in my 8th grade English class. It has been interesting. My kids don’t like to write, so it’s been good for getting them to expand their thoughts. We’ll see how they go…
• My sister-in-law gave me some rhubarb to plant in our garden….which Hubby expanded last weekend with a rototiller. I can’t wait to start planting more things!
• Our NKOTB seats are in the nosebleed section..(read here!)….but we’ll have a blast

Have a great night! My father-in-law is coming over tonight for brats and sauerkraut. Punky will have fun with him. (We have to have this now as hubby HATES kraut….it’s so good….I can’t understand that one!)

“Happy Mother’s Day”

“Happy Mother’s Day” means more
Than have a happy day.
Within those words lie lots of things
We never get to say.
It means I love you first of all,
Then thanks for all you do.
It means you mean a lot to me,
And that I honor you.

But most of all, I guess it means
That I am thinking of
Your happiness on this, your day,
With pleasure and with love.

I love you, Mom!
Happy Mother’s Day!

My sister is getting us tickets for……….

Yep…..there they are 20 years later…..

New Kids On On The Block!

LOL!!!!!

Can you believe it?

This is going to be amusing….and FUN!

I gotta go find my old cassette tape!  LMAO!

May the fourth be with you!

*laughs hysterically*

Hubby and I are very easy to get along with.   Really….we are.

When we moved into this house in May 2004, we nicknamed some of our neighbors. Who doesn’t do that? Anyway, the guy behind us is the “Axe Murderer” as he is a quiet man who you never see……just like when a neighbor is interviewed after a murder and they ALWAYS say…”he was a quiet neighbor….he kept to himself…” That’s OUR backyard neighbor. Our side neighbors (We live on a corner lot, so we only have 1 side neighbor…..THANK GOD!) were promptly named “The Hillbillies.” They have an ok house…….they do nothing to the outside…….but then they have an atrocious tin-roofed, screen ripped, dilapidated deck in the back which houses old mops, brooms, carpets, etc. It’s such an eyesore.

Anyway, last summer, we started to get to know the girl (Of the couple). She is sweet, but doesn’t have a whole lot going for her in the brain department. But she is nice! So, I like her. He is NEVER home, so I can’t say that I like him or dislike him much.

Last summer, while Punky and I were in IL visiting my family, Hubby called me to say that our lawn had been burnt by a fire that was started on the hillbilles’ deck. WHAT?!?? Apparently, on her way off to work, she had smoked a cigarette outside on the deck and threw it into an empty flower pot. The cigarette later reignited then fell off the deck and onto the grass…..which was VERY DRY due to our dry summer…..and up went the grass in flames. Thankfully, a guy driving down our street saw the flames, stopped, and sprayed the fire with a garden hose. He had most of it out by the time the fire engines arrived. Hubby promptly emailed me the following pictures (Although I have added in some notes to show you more clearly):

Fast forward to this spring……..2008.

Isn’t it just a lovely view we have?

April 20, 2008….

The lady calls me over to the fence. Mind you, she is dressed in a fuzzy robe, big fuzzy slippers, huge gaucho sweats…. I walk over to her and then ……. I am bombarded.

Apparently, sometime this spring, Hubby walked over to the fence……facing their deck, with his hands on his hips and shook his head in disgust. She was standing in her kitchen window which looks down where he was standing. She felt “violated, uncomfortable” and now she just doesn’t know what to think of us.

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!? Have you seen your deck, lady?

So, Hubby was actually taking pictures of Punky playing in the yard….and happened to catch this moment on camera……

I promptly went in the house and told hubby he was a putz and that I had just been yelled at for his actions. He explained that yes, he had walked over there……..because he noticed besides the falling down screens, the mops, brooms, carpet rolls, and other trash in their “porch” the hole from the fire was still there….(they had just resided the whole house since the fire had burned some of their siding off, too) So, he shook his head and walked away.

So…..Now when I am in my own backyard…..i feel like a schmuck if I turn ever-so-slightly and glance in the direction of her house….which according to her would be the wrong direction to look! Is she always standing there in her kitchen window….waiting to catch us doing something else “violating.”

I wish this was the only thing I had to worry about…..whether or not the neighbors approved of my gawd-awful, atrocious, dilapidated, falling apart, eyesore of a porch/deck.

Good grief.

I never got around to posting Punky’s HALF BIRTHDAY picture!  :)    Here he is right after he blew out his candles!   Happy 2  1/2  years, Punky!  (Notice the 1/2 of a birthday cake! Hehehheee!)

I have an addiction.

(there I said it!)

I am addicted to word games on Facebook. It all started with Scrabulous. Then I added in Text Twirl… and the latest……Scramble. My FAVORITE! It’s like playing Boggle. Remember Boggle? I lov

ed Boggle as a kid….and I am so loving Scramble.

Meet some of my junkie friends, too. Indigo, RC, Chaim, Carrie, Mommytoj… my other partners in crime don’t have blogs… but there are quite a few more who help feed my addiction.  (LOL on “Partners in crime” because Mob Wars is another one of my favorites on Facebook!)

So, if you haven’t checked out Facebook….Come on over!

See you there!

I. Have. Pink. Eye.

Ugh.

Good news though - while I was at the clinic this morning, I got my blood test results and I am at a 2! (Which is below a 5!) YEA!!!!!!!!

Keep your fingers and toes crossed.   I go in for a blood test this afternoon to see if my miscarriage is over and my pregnancy hormone  levels are less than 5.   Remember they were 9800 when this all started a month ago…and they were down to 30 on April 18th.   My bleeding has stopped…..THANK GOD!    33 days was a LONG time!  So, if my hcg levels are less than 5, I will ovulate again and get the cycle going AGAIN!

Wish me luck!

Happy May Day! I remember every May Day bringing my elementary teachers a bouquet of fresh spring flowers from Mom’s garden…….Lily of the Valley, Tulips, daffodils, and hyacinth flowers. Mom would wrap the base of the flowers in a wet paper towel, then wrap that in Aluminum foil, and I would hold them on the bus all the way to school. My teachers would then have them on their desk all day, and I would sit there proud as a peacock.

Man……how times have changed. I would keel over from a heart attack if any of my 8th graders brought me flowers!