Well, I have discovered that my blogging is getting a little more difficult due to my poor little laptop that is on its last leg. I’m not looking for sympathy folks, as I find this a rather humorous post. I have been diligently saving for a new one that I will send my dear husband to stand in line in the cold on Black Friday for LOL. He likes that sort of thing and with diapers for two, it’s well worth shivering in the night with 300 other weary souls.

I got this laptop for my birthday about 6 years ago from my husband (and it came with a surprise visit from my parents) and I just love the thing. There is nothing like sitting on the couch and surfing the net in your jammies, or talking to good friends, or just writing, which I love to do. But, now I am sad to say, my poor Lappy, as I call it, is really on it’s last leg. I no longer have the power cord for it, as that died and I had to get a universal cord for it. The place that you plug the cord into (the pin on the laptop has broken 3 times and has been soldered on there by our good friend who happens to own a sodder iron. I believe at one time it was rigged with a piece of dental floss!! The “B” key, well, it popped off and the guy who fixed that, glued it to the rubber so it wobbled, and we finally snagged one off of ebay and replaced it. The hard drive went kapoot and well our dear friend gave me a new one as a gift. We lost the special hard drive connector, so we won an auction on ebay and got it back…well today while gutting the basement for our renovations we found it…(day late and a dollar short I say).

So as you all can see, it has been a brave and determined little computer and I do it give it credit. The speakers are broke and I hear no more sound either. I’m getting good at reading lips LOL! But the darn thing still works, and well I am happy, while I save up my pennies for a new fancy one. I won’ know what to do with myself! I’m lucky I can see this screen as there is a short somewhere in the monitor…it has to remain bent a certain way or the screen will spazz out on me.

Anyway, I thought I would share a few pics of my beloved laptop, and even when I get a new one…I might have to keep this one..I’m a little sentimental that way. Probably more than one Mom should endure…LOL but I get my tolerance from having twins!

With having two boys there isn’t a lot of time to do the things we used too. I do miss it but I love being a Mom the most. I was just thinking about our trip to Las Vegas back in the day when we were young and free (ha ha). We were there with two other dating couples and I still have the video of how ridiculous we all were. One of the guy spit over the Hoover dam wondering if it would evaporate in the heat before it reached the bottom! I also have the funniest video of them in the backseat of the car driving down the strip singing the song “Ice Ice Baby”. It went perfect with the passing scenery! I can still hear my favorite slot machine “The Jackpot Party” playing in my head. The first time I won, I left the machine because I thought it was broke, but I had actually won a jackpot!

I was thinking about Las Vegas and I would love to go back. I would love the photo opportunities! So I have started looking around to see whats new and for information on the latest shows and happenings. There seems to be several decent online travel guides because I think my old Las Vegas book is out of date. There are three more hotels there since we were there last! Trusted tours has a great newsletter and is offering a $150 gift card to Magellans (a great travel gear site) for signing up!

They have lots of cool things there at the site I even saw something for Knotts berry farm tickets! I have always wanted to go there too. I guess I am in the mood to travel.

This was sent to me so I thought I would share! This shows how innocent little ones are…we live in a world so quick to grow up. Keep them little as long as you can is what I say!

Why We Love Children

1. A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he’d found a cat, but it was dead. “How do you know that the cat was dead?” she asked her pupil. “Because I pissed in its ear and it didn’t move,” answered the child innocently. “You did WHAT?!” the teacher exclaimed in surprise. “You know,”explained the boy, “I leaned over and went ‘Pssst!’ and it didn’t move.”

2. An exasperated mother, whose son was always getting into mischief, finally asked him “How do you expect to get into Heaven?” The boy thought it over and said, “Well, I’ll run in and out and in and out and keep slamming the door until St. Peter says, ‘For Heaven’s sake, Dylan, come in or stay out!’”

3. A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself, “Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven. Three plus six, that son of a bitch is nine….” His mother heard what he was saying and gasped, “What are you doing?” The little boy answered, “I’m doing my math homework, Mom.” “And this is how your teacher taught you to do it?” the mother asked. “Yes,” he answered. Infuriated, the mother asked the teacher the next day, “What are you teaching my son in math?” The teacher replied, “Right now, we are learning addition.” The mother asked, “And are you teaching them to say two plus two, that son of a bitch is four?” After the teacher stopped laughing, she answered, “What I taught them was, two plus two, THE SUM OF WHICH, is four.”

This isn’t going to be a long post but I thought I would share the picture of the spider web that I got the other day. I am so happy I had my camera with me because I checked back today and it was gone! This is a cool image…but I hate spiders! LOL

I was in the kitchen cleaning up the lunch mess, when I realized that it was a little quiet in the house for having two toddlers running about. Nicholas comes running in talking about blocks. He kept repeating blocks, blocks, blocks! So I was thinking ok, he wants me to open his bin with blocks, so he can play. I go into the play room and there is Alexander with the floor vent open, and all the blocks are missing in action! This has been a constant battle, and they always manage to get the vent off without a peep! You would think it would make a lot of noise.

I have gotten out the trusty vacuum numerous times to snake the hose down the vent to suck up anything I could get. I think I have removed an entire toy box at times, and even had those moments where I say “so that’s where that went!” There are still some lost toys, I can get a pic with my camera, but they are too far to reach..I wonder how you get these things out. If you have a suggestion…please enlighten me! In the meantime, I will be super gluing them to the floor…the vents and not the kids lol!

Well I thought I would share a new funny thing that Alexander is doing. This is a prime example of just how smart your toddler can be LOL. Whenever Alexander is busy doing something that he isn’t supposed to be, he has figured out a way in his mind to pretend he isn’t doing anything. If you call his name in that parental tone, or ask him what he is doing, he will quickly say “Hi!” and squint his little eyes and give you this cheesy grin. He has already figured out how to manipulate the situation in his little mind. Sometimes it makes it very hard for me to maintain a straight face because it is so incredibly funny to me. He is such a little stinker and ohh so smart! I keep telling my husband that we are gonna be in trouble. It will be Alexander thinking up all the things to do, and he will be sending his brother Nicholas to do them all. It is soo funny how different the two of them are. Double trouble indeed!

I am not sure what is up with the bugs this year! I normally am happy to be outside, but lately I have just had enough. I guess it is all the rain we have been having? I have already had three ticks on me.. yuck!
Right now my husband and I have Japanese Beetle traps out. They are the things that are grubs in your lawn, and become these beastly looking things. They are all over my rose bush outside.

So we put up these trap things, that have some sort of scent lure and they can’t fly very well and get stuck. We have already caught a few thousand of these things. Speaking of not flying well, I had the not so lucky privilege of having one stuck in my hair! EEK! Now I can handle bugs, as long as they leave me alone!

The story goes…

My husband and the boys and some friends of ours were outside, while I came inside to finish up dinner. I am busy washing the strawberries and I hear a buzzing. So by now I’m sensing there is something in my hair. I instantly start to panic and I reach up with a paper towel and I can feel it there! So I turn my head upside down and I’m already screaming…(nobody in the house but me). Here I am doing something akin to an Indian rain dance, trying to untangle this beast from my hair! I finally managed to get it out, just shy of a heart attack and everyone coming back in. My heart was pounding and I am seriously considering shaving my head LOL!

Anyway, thats my story and I’m sticking to it. I DON’T DO BUGS! Goodness what am I gonna do when my boys start bringing them home to me as gifts? I will pray very hard for this not to happen!

The boys are growing leaps and bounds in their development, and more noticeably in their vocabulary. It was like all of a sudden they woke up talking! Their favorite thing to play now it I gotchu! It is so cute to watch because they come up to me and try and tickle me and say I GOTCHU mommy! I usually go after them and they just laugh and spit all over themselves. They get to laughing so much that eventually the only thing they can get out is I GOT before they take off running and laughing in between hiccups! LOL

Today Nicholas has a new word…it is Octopus! But he pronounces it Pot-o-puts hehe…so cute!

1. Chocolate: Its a good thing because I always have it on hand here at the house LOL It’s partiularly good when the toddlers are bouncing off the walls and I need a “me” moment. The kind of chocolate that’s good for you is the dark or bitter chocolate (you can wash it down with some milk chocolate haha). It contains chemicals called polyphenols that reduce the presence of free radicals, which cause cell and DNA damage. It also protects the heart.

2. Red Wine: Well I never have really liked alcohol of any kind. Now folks this doesn’t mean get slopping drunk. Polyphenols are the key - chemicals such as tannins and flavonoids in the grape skin and seeds that are powerful antioxidants.

3. Stress: SAY WHAT?!!! Ok, well long term stress is no good, but short bursts are good for the whole “fight or flight”…used to help keep men protected against predators…does that mean my kids are the predators? LOL!

4. Ice cream: WOOOHOOOO! Ice cream is low GI, which means it releases its sugar gradually into your blood after you’ve eaten it, which means you’re not left wanting another pint lol. Bring on the Ben & Jerry’s. I can handle this one folks!

5. White bread: White bread flour is fortified with calcium and iron as well as B1 and niacin. And because white bread has less fiber, it means that more of the calcium is absorbed. As a rule you should stick with whole grain breads…but at least white bread isnt totally bad for you

6. Work: Ugh makes me feel tired. But work helps you stay healthy. It helps reinforce your sense of social worth and extending your life expectancy. Guess the houseworkk isn’t totally thankless LOL

7. Coffee: Well that’s a yuck for me. Coffee contains antioxidates, and tannins which help unblock the arteries and protects the heart. It’s also good for the liver to protect against cirrhosis. One cup a day lowers your risk by 20%!

8. Baked beans: Yummy! Genuinely just good for the heart and I would imagine high in protein. Break out the Beano folks…they aren’t without some downwind risk! LOL

9. Guinness: Not the book…the beer. Yuck! Apparently a pint of the dark black stuff is much like a daily aspirin.

10. Newspaper Lists: Apparently reading long lists in papers helps with stress..go figure.

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I can’t believe how fast the time is flying! In less than two weeks my sweet baby boys will be two. It seems like just yesterday, I was was holding their tiny little hands in mine, waking up for all those feedings and diaper changes, and now they are becoming such independent little guys. I was just telling my sister-in-law, that I am going to dread the day I have to send them to kindergarten. I think it is going to be harder on their mommy than them.

So now I am busy doing some shopping for their gifts, going through the toys they are bored with, and planning their special day. We wont be celebrating on their exact birthday, but they won’t notice lol. Both of them love Blues Clues, so this will be their cake this year. It will be a small get together but as long as there are balloons…they will be thrilled HA!