Five Question Friday

I thought that this looked like to much fun so I decided to link up with fivecrookedhalos.blogspot.com and other's for Five Question Friday!

1. Is there something you've always wanted to try but just can't muster up the courage to actually do yet?

Go on a roller coaster a big one, I have been on small one's and I get freaked out and I dont think I would like a big roller coaster but I want to go on one just to say I have.

2. If you had $100 handed to you in cash without your significant other knowing about it, what would you spend it on?
Probably going out to eat. I love to eat and food is my favorite, but then again I may spend it on some shoes or a new bag, not that I need it just to enjoy the money.

3. What was your favorite piece of playground equipment as a child?
The swing, which now make me sick. Go figure

4. Do you prefer a sweet or hearty breakfast?
Neither I am not a breakfast person. When I do eat breakfast it is usually out because we are on a trip and then the breakfast is hashbrowns and bacon with coffee.

5. Are you a Neat Freak or a Messy Bessy?

Total neat freak, I dont like mess it literally sends me over the deep end. My kids know dont keep a mess unless you want to hear it, I feel bad but mess seriously makes me insane.

Missing my blog and facebook friends

So first blogspot would only let me comment but not post. Figure's who knows if it was blogspot or my computer but either way it wouldnt work so I got frustrated and gave up. I also realized I spend way to much time on the computer and with summer coming up that needs to stop. I love facebook and blogspot and all of my friends but I also love my family.

Hubby and I have not been spending much time together due to his schedule, who knew that a daytime schedule was just as rough as a night time schedule.

Big Girl has been flipping out lately and I dont know what is going on with her. She did get an award in school yesterday for being a good citizen, I was proud but also just sat stumped. How is she such a good citizen at school and made such a huge impact and yet at home she continually keeps me on my toes.

The new puppy refuses to potty train and I am sure my landlords are going to love us once we move and the move the carpet. Not that I care because quite honestly this carpet it horrible and they need to replace it desperately. Nobody should have to live with this carpet. I do care that he wont train as we are planning vacations and both people we are visiting have brand new carpet and he will not be allowed out of his crate much if he keeps leaving surprises.

Big Boy, well he started swimming and is doing well. He can move about the water without his swimmies and this was my child deathly afraid of the water so this is an awesome step. He has been acting out and I dont know if it is to "compete" with Big Girl for attention or if it is just him being himself.

I decided when the kids are home and in the house with me I am trying to stay off the computer. I dont pay much mind to them while on and honestly I suck at multi tasking with a computer. Plain and simple, if the laptop is on my lap then I am in my zone. I can not do that any longer. I do leave to cook dinner and such but what fun are my kids having watching me use my computer. So I am trying to take a break so to speak. Summer is coming up and I want to make meal plans and summer plans with my kids so summer runs smoothly. Now dont get me wrong I will be forcing my children outside at leas an hour a day o go play and get out of my hair because let's be real summer break can drive a parent insane especially when we dont ahve something to do daily and the money to do it. Yes people I understand things are free but let's be real how many of you actually go to something free and spend no money? If you have some idea's please let me know because everything cost's money whether it is the gas to get there or the item you may forget or something while you are out. It cost's money and some days we just dont have it. So any free idea's please send them my way because I need some ideas.

So that has been our life and our home. Tons of fun.

Oh yeah and to top that off Hubby and I have been sleeping horribly. The wind can wak me up I am sleeping so lightly and I cant fall asleep at a normal hour no matter how hard I try. It stinks especially when everyone else is sleeping around me. But yeah that is life and this is my break.

Florida is the beachiest

I just have to say, being able to go to the beach and just enjoy a day there with white sand and water that I can see through to the floor is very very nice, and not anything that we ever had in NY. I dont like sand but I can begin to enjoy the Florida beaches. We packed up and headed out, we forgot our beach umbrella and were able to turn around and go home and get it. You know why, because we live that close to the beach. It is so nice. I think I could actually venture to the beach this summer and have some fun with the kids. Oh did I also mention that the water is warm, like nice warm ot piss warm and it was nice to be in it. I keep hearing from friends oh you will be back a true New Yorker always comes back to New York. Well guess what I am not a true New Yorker because I never want to leave these pretty beaches. For those of you thinking well did she tan, oh yes I did. We all got some nice color and guess what I tanned properly, with SPF30 because I do not want to wear a leather coat as skin when I am older. I am learning. So how was your Saturday? Mine was just so nice I had no choice but to share.

My children learn best from OTHER'S?

So does anyone else have that issue with their children? I have been trying to teach my son to swim and yet he continues to resist. So yesterday we started swim lessons. Amazing he wants to learn from someone else. It honestly bother's me because they are teaching him something I could teach him for free but he will hopefully learn and I wont have to pay again. Does anyone else have children who learn best from other's? I ask because I know so many people that homeschool and it amazes me because my son wont even learn how to swim with my instruction so how could I be his daily school teacher, along with swim and all of his other daily needs.

Other then swim lessons other things have been well, Hubby and I have been doing wonderfully and the next thing to work on is intimicy. I dont know how I am going to work on that one. You would think it is simple but yet it is not so we shall see the steps that we can do to become intimate yet again. No I am not only speaking of  the bedroom but also other imtimate things. Conversations and just being able to love one another. There are so many ways to be intimate. I know one thing most men think is intimate but I want other intimacy as well. I definitely have issues there. We joke and say Big Boy broke me because since him I have had intimacy issues. I guess this is the next chapter in our lives. I will try to share some of our growth but you know not all intimate things are PG and I want this to blog to be in case family should ever happen upon it.

Chewy (the new pup) has adjusted well into the family. Next step with him is potty training, needless to say he is quite the stubborn one. I hope to be able to get him trained soon, I do not enjoy pee and poop on my floor at all.

As for life all has been well. I definitely need to get into a better schedule and quickly. I have been enjoying way late nights and even later mornings that seem to turn into late afternoon wakings. Not fun, I am still keeping home well and am enjoying our nice clean house, but the schedule is getting off. now with summer coming up I dont want to sleep in all day, till 9 or so would be nice but all day would be a complete waste. Besides now that I will be 30 in 32 days I have decided I want to be more adult and do the adult things in life. I definitely want to go back to school in my 30th year of life and hopefully I can continue to acheive my goal of becoming a career woman. Only problem is, I want a career based around my kids, so I am starting to wonder if going back to cosmetology is the right plan. I am definitely going to go back to get my license because I dont liek that I started it and yet again did not finish, but I am thinking that working with children is my calling. So yet again we shall see where the next chapter in my life brings me. I must admit I am enjoying being a stay at home Mom so much and wish I never had to fully go back to work. Why cant stay at home Mom's make a paycheck? (And if anyone has the answer fill me in).

NY came to Florida

Yesterday we had a blast, we went to Orlando and saw some friends at a resort where they are staying. The kids had a blast playing with our friends family and their children. It was a lot of fun. I keep saying friends but honestly they are more like family. it is my best friends brother and his fiance, and their two children. It was awesome getting to see them and it was weird all at the same time. We neevr hung out alone in NY because when we got together my best friend was always their as it was family gatherings. See I told you just like family. Yesterday it was just us and it was awesome, we stayed by the pool all day. Big Girl had a bit of an attitude as she wanted to do more, that girl always wants to be on the go and can never just be happy in the moment. I enjoyed myself and Big Boy had a blast, he learned how to swim, or so he says. I think he may have been touching the ground but whatever he did it and when he starts swim class this coming Tuesday he should skip right ahead of the levels since he can now swim with his head under the water. Of course Big Girl was less then thrilled that her younger brother could swim under the water and she could not, so I am sure we will be having a few fueds over this one. By the pool they had food service, ah how nice, Pina Colada's and sun. A lethal mix especially for me, I caught a huge headache by 4:30 and we had to leave. Worked out well as we came home and the kids got to bed at a decent hour for school today but it stunk  as we wished to spend more time their. I passed out in the car on the ride home and then came home and passed out soon after the kids. Hubby is still sleeping over 15 hours later so I assume he needed to get caught up as well. It was an extremely long day in an extremely short amount of time. It was also a blast though and I loved seeing our NY friends here in Florida. I hope eventually someone will come see us though because although I love going to see other people, I want other's to just come near us and enjoy some time seeing where we are living and all. I also think the kids would enjoy showing their room's to their friends family. Let's be real anyone willing to travel from NY to Florida just to see us must be considered family, because most of our friends from NY will pobably neevr see us again.

The newest addition, and some of the rest of us.

As we welcome Chewbacca (Chewy) to the family.

All of us at the dog park. Well minus Hubby who is behind the camera.

Trying to get bailey to walk alone. It didn't work out to well.

Stopping for a drink because you get thirsty being carried around.

Wanting some water too. Dont worry he got some as well, Hubby just didnt photograph it.

Tuesday A Wonderful Tuesday

Happy Belated Mother's Day to all. I hope it was wonderful. I had a wonderful mother's Day weekend because that's how we roll. Saturday I stayed in bed almost all day and half the time Big Girl stayed in bed with me, watching movies and just having fun. I also searched Craigslist to see if I could find a puppy because you know I am nuts and a puppy was just the extra work that was needed to be thrown into the daily grind. I couldnt find one and fell asleep, I was tired and spending all day in bed made me even more tired so I gave up on the dog search and said to Big Girl just an hour please.

Well Hubby had other plans and found a puppy. I swear it must have been posted as I signed off the computer. My eyes closed I got into a nice sleep and Hubby called to call this woman. Luckily Big Girl had left me to my nap and did not know what was going on, as we had already called many people and no doogy was meant to be. I called the woman and at 5p.m. we were set to meet at Hubby's job. Well 5 turned into 6, she has children as well and we met up and I got my Mother's Day gift, my very own Chihuahua. Saturday night we spent relaxing and enjoying time together.

Sunday morning my darling children woke me up at 7 a.m. Ugh I love them but do they forget I dont even wake up to bring them to school. But I woke and got my gifts. A tomato plant from Big girl and a pottery heart bowl she made in art class. A wonderful card that she got from Walmart and a great big hug and a breakfast in bed of a toasted buttered English Muffin. Big Boy alo made me a bowl but his was a circle shape, he gave me a card he picked out, I think he thought it was cute because it had a puppy on it, little did he realize it was meant to be from a dog. But still adorable and since he just learned how to write all his letter's in script it said From: (Big Boy) To: Carri (yes Carri not Mom because his mind blanked when it was time to write the M so a C was easier and I was dubbed Carri for Mother's Day). So sweet. Off to church for both services. The kids as usual had a blast. The service was about foster care and adoption. I wish we could but now is not our time. We went to walmart and had to get Big Boy new glasses as he had broken them. Let me tell anyone if you need glasses especially for kids, go to walmart. Big Boy is close to blind (no joke his prescription is high) everyplace we go charges an arm and a leg, Wal-Mrt only cost us $88. Seriously, nice frames and the right glas with not only anti glare but also with transitions. I love Wally World. Then we went home got the dogs and headed to the local dog park where we met a woman with 4 dachshund's. Boy were they big. She also had two other dogs fun fun. Bailey stayed by us the whole time, he was not enjoying the dog park not one bit. Oh well maybe next time. We came home Hubby cooked dinner and the kids played with their friends. It was a nice relaxing Mother's Day in which I was hoping for a nap but luckily Saturday gave me enough sleep to make up for no sleep on Sunday.

Monday agh the drama day. Hubby cut his hand open at work, like only Hubby could. It was not a bad cut but all the same he cut it. We went to the local first care clinic and they were able to stitch it up. He is on the mend and in a week he goes to get the stitches removed. After that we got the puppy and went to get the kids from school. I plan on socializing this pup so we can bring him everywhere and he is friendly. Bailey is attatched which is nice but this little one needs to  learn how to socialize and not be a yapper. I know all little dogs yap, well not this one. I am going to try to train it better than that. So far he is a winer, and last night I put Bailey in the crate with him and they both slept together with minimal whining. I felt bad for Bailey having to not only sleep in the crate ut eal with a tiny Pup but seriously Bailey, you are only a few monthes shy of 2, your not a senior by any means and you need to learn to love one another.

Now here it is Tuesday the week is flying by. I have gotten laundry done and two dogs to peacefully co-exsist. I still have floors to clean though and I know there are other things I could be doing. Maybe deep cleaning a room or rearranging a closet. I dont know some awesome housewife duty. Tomorrow we are traveling to Orlando to see some friend from NY who are there on vacation. The kids have no clue that we are going though and I think they are going to have a blast. Now to somehow get the car packed and ready tonight without them knowing we are going anyplace tomorrow. We are hoping to hit the road by 9a.m., if it were up to me we would leave at 8 since that is what time they leave for school, but whatever. I also need to pack some swimsuits and other things that I think we could possibly need. I want to be overprepepared (I know not a word), isn't that better then not having all we need. Dinner is cooked and laundry is done, so life is good. All I need is to find my friend motivation and get the place nice and clean so when we come home tomorrow night I feel relaxed and not stressed out. I did not enjoy coming home last saturday from my best friends only to feel like I walked into a hurricane. Tomorrow night I will walk in and feel like I am in a resort because that is the feeling I want. Hope everyone enjoy's there day. I know I will enjoy mine.

Oh yeah on the Hubby and me note, things are going well. We still have our outbursts but I think we are working more and more on a daily basis. Big Girl has adjusted well to her med's I still dont know if they are the right one for her but for now they are working and she seems to be more focused on school work and such. She has also gotten back into reading which is nice to see because before she was not into it one bit.

Back in High Heels

So I am back. My knee is healing and I am wearing heels again. Literally. I dont know why but maybe since I was injured and knew I could barely walk I had the biggest urge to wear high heeled shoes. I dont know why I just know I was aiming to get better and put on my heels. I went out and did my errands and refused to allow my bum knee to stop me from doing things. So I went... yes it was a slower pace then I am used to but I still went and ran errands and went grocery shopping and did all the jobs of a SAHM. It was annoying but I did it and I didnt complain that often. Until the back of my leg started to hurt. I had huge black and blues from the immobilizer they gave me. Ouch anothing annoying bit of pain on my leg. I took off the immobilizer, put on my knee brace and continued on.

Last Saturday we went to see my best friend. Well our best friend I should say and my kid's Uncle. We had a blast. it was great seeing him after all these years and even better to know we were all Floridian's ( and I use that term ever so loosely), who lived a lot closer then when he was here and I had a NY address or when he was in Virginia and Maryland and we were in NY. It was awesome seeing an old friend who I could be real with. It was awesome having a friend at all in real life and not just on the phone. The kids had a blast and were able to make his home their home for the day without feeling the least bit hesitant about anything they did. Got to love how adaptable kids can be. We had a fun Saturday and can't wait to enjoy our time again soon.

This week we have been busy. I signed Big Boy up for swim lessons which he start in a week and a half and I am thrilled. here in Florida you need to know how to swim. Hubby and I have both been through swim training, he was a lifeguard and I was on a swim team so needless to say we can swim well. I taught Big Girl how to stay afloat and from there she went to teach herself. What is it with children not wanting their parents to teach them how to do things. Needless to say Big Boy is not having the same self confidence as Big Girl and he refuses to allow us to take off the swimmies and just float. So swim lessons here we come. I hope he enjoy's them and I am thrilled to add another thing to our calendar because I enjoyed being busy in NY, although if I remember correctly I did complain about all the running when I was there I also remember stating (when it was not snowing or raining), that I loved our hectic schedule.

This week we also started our Church classes for the membership/growth track classes. It was different and nothing like I expected but I am hoping to grow in my relationship with not only God but with other's. I am hoping this also help's Hubby and I in our journey together.

So that has been our week, no reason for not posting and my leg is not stopping me from doing anything at all. It has just been a fun week.  Thank you to all who asked how I was doing and sorry I didnt get back to you sooner. I have been keeping up with other's blog's catching up on my reading but I never commented because I am great like that.

Have a great weekend. I am in the mood for another road trip. I am stopping myself from packing up the kids and just going to my Grandparents for the night. Good thing they need some advance notice or we could be on our way to South Florida and a 4 hour road trip.