Mom's Taxi at your service!

Oh yeah, the Tuesday drive, to HSchool ,home, to ST. Pats, home, back to Hschool to get Charlotte, drop her at St. Pats for work, home, go get Charlotte, take her back to school, go get molly in howell, go to St. Pats to pick up Danny, drop him at home with Charlotte,take Molly to dentist, home ,serve dinner, take Charlotte,Danny and I to dentist, then home!(meanwhile Jer did the run of Molly to her second dress rehearsal out in Pickney)
So day is good, but in spite of my best efforts, not alot gets done! AAarrgh!
Should be upstairs packing, the car is coming at 6am, so I better stop writing and talk more tomorrow.
ps. no one had any cavities!

okay I lied!- Monday 11/29 Leah's Birthday!

Okay, so it's tonight! Sorry, it was a busy day! So yesterday..Monday...tried to get alot done.Charlotte was pretty traumatized about going back to school, thanks to Mr. V for helping with that transition. Molly and Danny went back no sweat.  Danny's fundraiser came in, so after school we took Leah's cake and went over to FT. Danny and Jack delivered all the goodies, and then we joined the Wisbo's for a sloppy joe supper. We all had activities to get to so it was quick but fun! Leah loved her Pillow Pal- As seen on TV! and her outfit and game. Can't believe she is five! Still pretty nuts over there with Mike's Mom's 2 dogs..Shawne is a saint to have them so long. Prepping for our trip on Wednesday.

tommorrow-in the morning--first thing!

I am so tired, I'll see you in the morning! Sleep well!

The Vacation is over-Not a moment too soon!

To start Sunday on a gourmet note I made a nice breakfast of pumpkin waffles with homemade cranberry syrup.  I got great reviews, and since I had never done that before, I can put it on my "Forward" list.
Okay, the girls are completely on my nerves, Jers, Danny's and each others! I guess its time to go back to school.  Today was a good one though, we were able to shoot over to church and help load over 1000lb's of donated food into the traverse and drive it to Gleaners food bank. We helped unload and were still back home in one hour!  Love teaching the kids that a little bit of time goes such a long way for the community.  Jerry and I tackled the branch that was hanging into the roof by our bedroom. After climbing on to the roof(too steep and slippery!) and moving the ladder a bunch of times, we finally got the vines that had twisted around the branch off! Go US! at one point Jer and I were literally swinging on the vine(can you picture it? we were like Tarzan and Jane!) Jer got all the outdoor furniture tarped up, and we put up more decorations.  It is so nice to be almost done and its not even December! I hope this will allow for relaxing and reading Christmas stories and watching Christmas movies.
This evening it was back to making lunches and organizing clothes,backpacks,etc.  Have a great week friends!

It's hard being a Mom

Saturday, November 27, 2010

It's hard being a Mom

You know you need to teach your kids things; like how to behave, not to leave the seat up in the bathroom, not to snort milk out of your nose when you laugh at the dinner table, treat a date like you would want someone to treat your sister, don't take the last pancake, hold the door for someone...but the intangibles are so hard. How to teach optimism, perseverance, follow through with tasks, pride in self care(and awareness of..) these things are much harder. Struggling with that today, and concentrating on giving it to GOD. Went to mass right after work today, and Father Mark talked about JOY! which as you know is one of my favourite words( Danny was going to be Joy if he was a girl!) He reminded us that this is a joyous season and we should express that. And that there is nothing we can do for JESUS, he doesn't need anything from us.  All he wants is to be our saviour, and since we need a saviour, we should let him. OK! On my knees asking him this week to fill me with the joy of his love and presence and to save me and my kids. Are you with me?
Tonight for dinner we had pasta with homemade sauce that Jer and the kids had made from the fresh tomatoes from the farm. It was so good, they had done a great job.  We even had Gus's breadsticks to swish around our bowls to get all the sauce up...so good!  We played 4 rounds of UNO after dinner, and we shut Molly out! this may be a record(and the source of her post game crabby-ness!) Jer=2, Charlotte=1 and Danny=1.  Danny and Jerry are watching Lord of the Rings for the first time together.  Danny is really psyched. He loved the book series, and has been anxious to see the movie.
So JOY this week as advent begins-GOD has sent his only son to earth for us, to be our saviour-say YES to him!

Black Friday

I went out! Got up at 5:30 and headed out into the cold....did you? How did things go for you?  I went to Target, and while I got all I wanted, I did have to wait on line for 1 hour to pay.  Oh my!  But as you can imagine everyone was happy and friendly, and I downloaded an ebook program to my phone and downloaded some free books, and read the first 2 chapters of Little Women
while I waited.  I took home my booty, refueled with some coffee and grabbed Charlotte and headed to wal-mart.  Got there about 9:30 and I still got lots of bargains and no lines...better than Target for sure, and they price match so no worries about missing another stores deals.  I also got more done on the village, cleaned out the pantry,worked more in the storage room and various other chores. Go Me!  I'm working tomorrow, but it will be good to get out of the house for a bit, alone!

Happy Thanksgiving!

GOD has blessed me that's for sure! Thank you for my home and family, for my husband's job, for my job, for the kids, for Special Olympics, for St. Pat School, friends, coffee, Marshalls, my Mom,sister and brother, HGTV, Lucky Charms, libraries and cameras..not necessarily in that order! I hope you had a wonderful day!
Well we got up at 5:15 and headed downtown! We brought all our cold weather gear because they said it was going to be cold and rainy/snowy, but thankfully they were wrong. It had stopped raining by the time we arrived and parked, and as they morning went on it got better.  the sun never came out, but the temp was around 40, so the running weather was perfect.  Guess how many people ran??  17,500.  Seriously. It was amazing!   Molly was up on the grandstand, and we all piled up behind her. She greeted the runners and wished them a good race, then said.."Runners Take Your Mark" , at that point they were supposed to blow an air horn, but they couldn't find it! So the MC takes the mic and basically hoots into it in an attempt to simulate an air horn! Hilarious! Anyway, we had time to thank our host, climb off the podium, circle down to where we could enter the start chute, and head off, in the middle of the pack.  Danny blazed the trail for the Hinckas, but no one could run for time because of the crowds(that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!) Danny ran a 29:33, I ran a 29:50, Jer ran 34:57 and the girls 10K times were Charlotte 59:46, and Molly 1:04.  After a couple of hairy moments at the finish trying to round everyone up, we grabbed the free bagel and banana and headed back to the parade route.  Jack Riley of Fifth/Third Bank, who sponsors the race, had given us grandstand tickets, and they turned out to be in the TV zone, where all the groups do their best stuff in front of the cameras. It was awesome!  The Cass Tech High School band could give many other bands some serious "get down" lessons! they were my favourite band.  The parade closed with Santa, of course, and Mayor Bing gave him the key to the city.  We headed home then, after making our way through the crowds, and taking some photos(check tomorrow for pics!)  We all took hot showers and ate when we got back around 1pm. And then I put my turkey in.  Danny and I baked an apple pie together which turned out delicious, and we had a pie break around 5, followed by dinner around 7.  Danny and I started on the village, unpacking all the boxes and starting to set up.  I opened my package from Susan and it was a new piece! A pizza place and deli, which lights up, it is a perfect addition and soo Jersey!  Trying to decide if I'm going out tomorrow morning..how about you guys? Are you gonna do it?  Keep me posted!
Happy Thanksgiving to All, and may GOD continue to bless you.