mondays suck

1. i hate mondays. i just need one more day to recoup for some reason so i tend to make my mondays very low key. (in fact, when i worked at pier 1, mondays and saturdays were my day off days)

2. except for this week, i have a mile long list of things to be done before kaylee's birthday party. grocery shopping is number 1. we have been out of cat food since wednesday so my pesky cat who thinks he is not a cat has been eating tuna and bread.

3. speaking of kaylee's birthday party- nothing and i mean nothing that i had originally planned has been working out. finding the stuff i WANT has been impossible to find and time. where does it go?

4. bummed that i never got my bissell steam mop for $49.99. i ended up calling target saturday when mike came home empty handed. none of the 3 stores within driving distance had any in stock. they probably will today but the sale price has ended.

5. had an awesome time at ben's 3rd birthday party saturday. got to see my buddies and got to love on little c man.

6. tons of sales going on for cyber monday. too bad i am out of money.

7. went to ikea yesterday and dropped some dough like it was HOT! got some stuff i've been needing/wanting for the house: curtains, curtain rods, picture frames and my long white shelf plus a few other items. the wants on my list will have to wait for the next trip. my goal is go every 6 months. mike is thrilled.

8. mike + kaylee came with. he was worried that i wouldn't make it. i have a fear of driving in chicago traffic but was ready to take on that fear yesterday. if i do it once then the fear tends to go away but not the sweaty arm pits.

9. i did not have a fun experience learning to drive with my parents. my shoulders still twitch just at the thought and i took out my friends mailbox. a brick mailbox if that helps any.

10. i think my kids are trying to kill me. S-L-O-W-L-Y. kaylee's a little whiny, still clingy + constantly needy. ham is killing me with his need for expensive clothing (when did this happen?) and itouch/iphone "i cant make up mind" decision.

10 things right now: saturday

1. not the best pic but its of them, at the same time, which i treasure.

2. thanksgiving was awesome. mike's (aunt) sherri went all out and made tons of food. tons of it. all by herself. she claimed this will be her last year so i volunteered to do next years but i doubt they will all drive over to our house. (we are the odd man out living 50 minutes away from the rest of the fam)

3. i was going to go out for black friday to get ham an itouch but then he became a butthead and said he didn't want an itouch anymore but an iphone. with the way our cell phone company works, he's not "eligible" for a new phone till march. he doesn't want to wait till march. so that means he doesn't want either i guess.

4. i did end up going out by 7am to get myself a steam mop- who needs a steam mop besides me? but when i got there they were all out. mike is out right now, fingers crossed, getting me my steam mop. it was crazy busy let me tell you! target had all their cashiers full with at least 3 different lines wrapping around the store.

5. later we headed over to our big mall but stayed away from the mall itself and went into a few non-chained stores. got my brother and his wife their gifts. (we had a family drawing for us adult kids) then out to lunch at the olive garden. they have the best soup, salad+ breadstick combo.

6. mike and i took a nap while kaylee watched tv so it wasn't a quiet, non disturbed nap but it was a nap.

7. she kept bugging us to put up the christmas tree/decoration so we finally did that.

8. finally came up with what i wanted to do with one of big blank walls in the family room. thinking of going to ikea on sunday to get two shelves to hang up in there and make it into one long shelf.

9. oh- wednesday and thursday morning i got my craft room primed and painted. it looks so much better. i still need to put everything back in there but organizing at the same time so its taking a lot longer than mike would like. (all my stuff is out in his "man cave"- the horror!)

10. kaylee has a line to say in her christmas program. not only does she know all of her lines but everyone else's too. i'm very impressed.

thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

{via fog and thistle}

10 things right now: wednesday

1. if my house had some character like these floors, i would be one happy homemaker. love the concrete and hard wood floors, love the dark floors against the white walls...LOVE.....{via bliss}

2. so i didn't order any of those dresses for kaylee that i had posted about last thursday. {see #8} i went around last night looking for something local but came home empty handed. {we only have a kohls, target, jcpenneys or elder beerman} everything was either way too casual or way too dressy. not at all kaylee's style aka my style.

3. then i found this one and got 20% off by googling gap sales. i hate "wasting" money on shipping so i bought her another outfit from old navy to get free shipping. i would rather have shipping money go to something even if that means i have to spend a little more. am i the only who thinks this way?

4. i might be going out on black friday to our local target for one item. i think ham's finally made up his mind on the itouch- he's been debating since last year. if i buy it, i get a $30 gift card and if i buy before noon, i get another $10 gift card because its over $100.

5. ahhhh....sigh of relief. my car will finally be payed for at the end of the month.

6. i miss my buddy who has her parents in town visiting from scotland. hope she's taking advantage of her parents and getting some "me" time!

7. started working on my craft room. like i said on my face book page, if you don't hear from me in awhile- send help! its a hoarders paradise!

8. as we all know i'm a list maker. something on my list for december is to cook more meals. we eat at my parents restaurants' at least once a week and my parent's house every monday night. i want to add more fruits and veggies to our diets.

9. kaylee and i are needing some time away from each other. she's become super clingy. she usually doesn't mind if i leave her with daddy but lately she's been crying for me. (i love it and hate it at the same time)

10. now to get ham to express any kind of love for his mother is a whole different story.

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10 things right now : tuesday

1. no this not my teenage son's closet. this is my dear husband's before and after. its all clean clothes on the floor. {i only fold, everyone else is responsible for putting away} i spent some time yesterday morning folding, organizing and straighten his clothes. he was out of town yesterday so he hasn't seen it yet. {please ignore that big brown blob on the top shelf, that's just a comforter}

2. one of the many "remodel" things i wanted to have done when we first moved in- replace those ugly plastic shelving system! {i have a drawing made up of how its going to look}

3. poor kaylee is sick again. no fever but she's got that cough back.

4. yep, mom had pecan pie, pumpkin pie and jello- cake for dessert last night but mine did not get over looked! my dad requested a maple oatmeal pie and that's what i made for him. he loved it!

5. they leave for a 8 day cruise on thanksgiving.

6. we got a 2 hour school delay this morning which i needed. with mike being out of town and his truck being broken into last week, i went to bed late. i also ended up putting something/anything in front of doors and ground level windows even though we have security system and i slept with a baseball bat.

7. i got this yesterday from my favorite big brown truck. its super cute and i'm glad i got it when it was on sale! kaylee's going to love it!

8. ham wanted to know where his was.

9. i'm skipping my chiro this week because of kaylee not feeling well. i can tell the difference. i feel out of it today.

10. last night i made ham go with to monday night dinner since we were celebrating thanksgiving. all the cousins tried to beat him up only to call for help from granny. they all got him down on a chair and my mom yelled "ham's ticklish under his arms!" then my nephew, jake- he's 8? yells " ham's ticklish in his balls too!" guess you had to be there. jake wasn't even near ham. it was so out of the blue that it was funny. inappropriate but funny!

10 things on a lazy sunday night

1. kaylee buttering a bagel. hate the fact that she's big enough and old enough to do this.

2. tonight while she was falling asleep she told me she loves me infinity and loves daddy 100. i'm documenting this for when she turns into a teenager and wants nothing to do with me.

3. i've lost my inner martha {stewart} mojo and would really love to have it back. for some time there i was cleaning house, caught up on laundry, making dinners, errand running...

4. weekend was good. friday we were So bored. no one to see and nothing to do so we took kaylee to a movie- planet 51. it was a cute movie. kaylee loves her buttered popcorn just like her mama.

5. still working on my list of things to gather before winter arrives. i plan on staying in whenever possible so i'm loading up on crafts, projects and food.

6. speaking of gathering for the winter, a squirrel came up to our back patio door with a nut in its mouth. it was so cute! i tried to get a picture of it before he ran off but my camera wouldn't cooperate.

7. trying to convince mike to trade kaylee's room and my craft room around. she doesn't use her "bedroom" and i don't want to be in the basement- i love natural light! i see it as a guest room till she's ready to move into her own bed and by that time ham will be in *GASP* college, then we can move her bed back upstairs.

8. tomorrow night at monday night dinner we will be celebrating thanksgiving since most of us will be out of town on the actual day. mom told me to bring dessert. the last time she told me to bring something, she made like 3 extra dishes so mine got ignored. i wonder how many desserts she's made for tomorrow.

9. ham just told me he found a pair of jeans on-line for $135.00!! yeah, he's a little cuckoo!

10. thanks for the encouragement left on my advent calendar love post. i'm currently making some simple curtains for my master bath area but after that i will be making those advent goodie bags just smaller.