You Know You're a Mom When ......

You Know You're a Mom When ......
1. Your feet stick to the kitchen floor.....and you don't care.
2. When the kids are fighting, you threaten to lock them in a room together and not let them out until someone's bleeding.
3. You can't find your cordless phone, so you ask a friend to call you, and you run around the house madly, following the sound until you locate the phone downstairs in the laundry basket.
4. You spend an entire week wearing sweats.
5. Your idea of a good day is making it through without a child leaking bodily fluids on you.
6. Popsicles become a food staple.
7. Your favorite television show is a cartoon.
8. Peanut butter and jelly is eaten at least in one meal a day.
9. You're willing to kiss your child's boo-boo, regardless of where it is.
10. Your baby's pacifier falls on the floor and you give it back to her, after you suck the dirt off of it because your too busy to wash it off.
11. Your kids make jokes about flatulence, burping, pooping, etc. and you think it's funny.
12. You're so desperate for adult conversation that you spill your guts to the telemarketer that calls and HE hangs up on YOU!
13. Spit is your number one cleaning agent.
14. You're up each night until 10 PM vacuuming, dusting, wiping, washing, drying, loading, unloading, shopping, cooking, driving, flushing, ironing, sweeping, picking up, changing sheets, changing diapers, bathing, helping with homework, paying bills, budgeting, clipping coupons, folding clothes, putting to bed, dragging out of bed, brushing, chasing, buckling, feeding (them, not you), PLUS swinging, playing baseball, bike riding, pushing trucks, cuddling dolls, roller balding, basketball, football, catch, bubbles, sprinklers, slides, nature walks, coloring, crafts, jumping rope, PLUS raking, trimming, planting, edging, mowing, gardening, painting, and walking the dog. You get up at 5:30 AM and you have no time to eat, sleep, drink or go to the bathroom, and yet...you still managed to gain 10 pounds.
15. In your bathroom there is toothpaste on the light fixtures, water all over the floor, a dog drinking out of the toilet and body hair forming a union to protest unsafe working conditions.
16. You buy cereal with marshmallows in it.
17. The closest you get to gourmet cooking is making rice crispies bars.

Chocoholics Dictionary....

Thought I'd share this with all of you.

Romance : The art of slowly and seductively unwrapping your chocolate bar.


Diet : Cutting down from twelve to eleven chocolate gateaux per day.


Recipe : A formula to ensure that chocolate is included in everything from baked potatoes to onion soup.


Self Control : Saving half your box of chocolates until 'later'.


Ultimate Act of Generosity : Grudgingly giving someone a square of your precious chocolate.


Love : A passionate need for another. Many believe that true love is only possible with one chocolate bar at a time.


Unrequited Love : When your chocolate cake just doesn't seem to care about you any more.


Aphrodisiac: Chocolate covered oysters served with chocolate flavoured champagne.


Chocophobia : The totally logical fear that the world will run out of chocolate.


Glutton : Anyone who refuses to share with you.


Affair : Having a wonderful time with one chocolate ice cream while another is patiently waiting in the fridge.


Sex Appeal : Being so 'hot' that you cause chocolate to melt at first glance.
Copyright Stuart Macfarlane

Happy 7th birthday Teagan!

My mom and McKinley watching Teagan open his loot.

This is me and my grandma. Isn't she cute?


Teagan turned 7 last week and we had a party at the skating rink. It was crazy but lots of fun. Thought that I'd share some pics with you.

Birthday Card for Kedron

This is a card that I just made for my SIL. Her bday is on September 11th so I thought I may as well get her a card made while I had a bit of time. I used the River Rock (my new favorite color) textured cardstock and Groovy Guava. I think that this hostess set is sooo adorable. I mostly wanted it for the cute little pea pod :)

Just one more angle so that you can kinda see some of the detail on it. I used my cropadile to dry emboss on the center circle. I used brads on the wheels and stamped on shimmery white CS. Click on the pics to see them up close.

Halloween Swaps

I finally got a little bit of time last night to sit down and use my new Halloween sets. Batty and Batty for you are my favorite Halloween sets yet. I had a good time messing around with them. Isn't it cool that they coordinate with the circle punches?!? I wasn't really sure what I thought about the new size of ribbon, but I am totally in LOVE. My plan is to purchase it in every color in a few weeks. Anyway, I hope that you like the card!

I actually had time to STAMP!

Today was the first time in a very long time that I have had time to do some stamping. I found it really hard to get into it though. I was stamping for a couple of hours and only ended with one card complete. I spent a lot of time playing with my new Batty for You set that came via UPS yesterday. It's been hard for me to gather energy for even the smallest tasks the past few weeks. You aren't going to hear me complaining though... at least I haven't had any morning, noon, and night sickness yet. ( I call it that because that is what it REALLY is ) I've been going to bed around 9:00 every night for the past 2 weeks, wake up at 7:00, and still don't feel rested. Back to my stamping... I made a Christmas card using my new Snow Wheel and Snowfall. My friend won Snowfall at convention and she didn't like it so she gave it to me in exchange for a retired set that I had and she really wanted. I will post a pic of the card in the morning when I figure out what the heck I did with my camera. I swear my brain has been less than functional lately. Oh, and I used my new Jumbo eyelets. I LOVE THESE THINGS!!! Buy them if you haven't already done so. I promise that you will be glad that you did. Anyway, check back for a picture of my card... My goal is to post it tonight, but at the latest, tomorrow.

Hope you all have a great night!

Convention Make n Takes

Sorry the scans are so crappy, but I can't find the cord for my camera so this is the best that I could do. ENJOY

Sorry I've been out of touch....

My life has been somewhat crazy these past few weeks. I accepted a job teaching pre school and have already decided that I just don't want to be tied down... I found out that I am pregnant.. again... due in March.... I am still pooped from convention.... My son starts school in the morning but is far too sick to go... I am the PTO president this year, need I say more... you see, everything is just nuts. I haven't even done any swaps or posted pics of my make n takes from convention yet. Now that I have all of my PTO stuff sorted out, I hope to be able to do some stamping for fun very soon.

I plan on REALLY posting some pics tonight when the kids go to bed so keep a look out for them!!

Have a wonderful night.

I'm back from Denver!

Okay, well... I have actually been back for over a week. I have been so worn out and busy that I have still not looked at all of my swaps or unpacked all of my stuff. As soon as I got home I had to get ready for a huge family reunion. Those are always fun... and PTO is exhausting me. The sad thing is that school has not even started yet. Have any of you ever been PTO president before? If not... don't! If so, why the hell didn't you warn me?!? Anyway back to convention... I had lots of fun. We had a few mishaps ( I am still trying to move on so we will discuss them later) and bouts of bad luck, but all in all I had a great time. It was fun to hang out with Alyson and Lynsey for a few days and get to know them better. I learned a lot of new stuff. All of which I fully plan on sharing with you very soon! Like I said, things have just been nuts around here. If you could see my house right now you'd believe me!

School is starting next week for Teagan so I have to be at registration everyday this week... that should be lots of fun with a 2 year old in tow:)

I am very sorry that I haven't posted any projects or blurbs in some time... I am going to get back in the swing of things.

Have a great night!