Sunday, June 29, 2008

Threshing Floor Rule #22

P.S. Check off 90210 and swim.....shoes tomorrow!!

We've officially been home for a week now. What a week! I had night out with some San Diego girls, and then had a much needed time with my Biola girls. Girl friends are such a blessing. We all promised to do this more often. We'll see. =)

The much more pressing issue has been cleaning our house. It's so funny how upset I was that Sylvia, our house cleaner, didn't show up on Tuesday. Okay..maybe tomorrow, maybe she'll return Ty's phone calls...nothing. Wow. It's not like she's on our payroll. However, I think her unanswering our not returning phone calls was one of our biggest blessings. I had already planned on doing this, but check this out.

From Christopher and Avery's closet (one full bag of clothes) From one section of my hang up clothes and dresser (another bag). I actually had maternity tops and dresses from both pregnancies stuffed away. I filled up two bags of Christopher's old junky toys for trash, we threw away so many so old and dumb CDs, old popsicles that found their way to the bottom of the freezer. I'm embarrassed that I'm not even finished listing the things we've put away or thrown away. We've even extended this to our garden and some "overgrown" plants.

Getting rid of the crap has been so cleansing. Without sounding too new agish... it's really negative energy. Living with junk and useless stuff does nothing but prohibit new life.

Christopher loves his new toy shelf. It's too funny how Mr. "drop his drawers" is so anal about his sister putting stuff in it's proper place.

So new goals:
*finish office
*clean out my shoes
*finish my closet
*clean out hope chest (do i really need each dinosaur painting?)
*consolidate craft drawers
*decide which holiday mugs mean the most
*organize Avery's letters
*put the remaining old or new pictures in frames of books
*paint kitchen
*blow bubbles
*make hopscotch
*see Sex and the City
*swim
*do nothing in the afternoon but watch old 90210 reruns
*hi-lights
*Sea World fireworks
*Curves
*do morning work for Theme 1


That's about it....

Sounds like fun



Monday, June 23, 2008

First Full Day

Today was my first full day on summer vacation without Ty. We did the total stay at home mommy thing. We got haircuts, swimming lessons, dentist, and made dinner.

While I was cooking dinner, Ty slayed several bees in the backyard. I use that word slayed minimally. Only because dragons are things that get slayed. However, Ty felt that word was indicative of his bravery for saving his children from an anaphalix scare.

Speaking of dinner, I had a FoodNetwork moment. I was inspired by Giada to make a super simple stromboli for dinner. We were only missing one ingredient that Ty was able to easily pick up while he need his aloe (another story) and my swiffer juice (yet another story).

However, when I tried to pop it in the oven, I was overwhelmed with chemicals. You see two days ago I tried my second attempt at roasting a chicken. All was going well until the last few moments. That moment, when you think, "wow, I did a good job" That's when I splattered chicken juice all over the front of the oven and some of it my chest. By the way 2nd degree burns compliment a new tan nicely. My attempt at 34 to clean an oven by myself bit me in the "arse" because I laid a layer so thick of Easy Off (is that it's name), it was spewing chemical juice all over my oven into a chemical cloud in my oven. I'm surprise HAZMAT wasn't called.

So being at home is great, but it also calls for a day ended with rolled tacos on the table outside.

Love,G


P.S. That awesome desert scene at the bottom..yeah that's not us. I tried to post a picture and got that. It looks nice though


Friday, June 20, 2008

I forgot to mention...Ave's new yet not so new thoughts




I forgot to mention, Avery has some new phrases to add to her repetoire.

"I don't like it."
"I don't want too."
"CHRISTOPHER!!!!" "MOM!!!!"
"Eye (points to her eye, want..touches her heart) then SLAMS!!!! her open hand on her heart for the please sign and the follows with what she wants.

She also says regularly, "Hi ......(mom, dad, etc.....)

But my most favorite is "I lol uu" I love you.
She's our Avery and we love her. Good luck Alyssa

Love,G
I'm going to post some pictures tomorrow

86 Degrees

We left vacation today. We lost our wi-fi in our room for three days. It was actually good not to be connected to the frivolous things we always find ourselves attached to.

It was hotter than 86 when we left Palm Springs. While we were tooling around town, Ty mentioned that gas was a lot cheaper there. So before we left, I mentioned, let's pick up some gas. He said we'd have to go into town and we can make it. Before Temecula, that one stretch where there's nothing but green hills, the gas light went on. At that same time, Avery woke up. By the way, most of our ride was so peaceful. =)

For an hour we battled screams from the back. (happy ones) Silly games that only 2-5 year olds understand. Ones that annoy parents yet entertain children. When our gas light acted like it was screaming, I turned off the air conditioner. All of a sudden 86 degrees appeared again in our car. Literally, there was no gas in sight. That's when Christopher invented the game, let's kick mom's and dad's chairs the hardest. Well, that didn't sit well with Tyronie. The temperature in the car instantly rose. We'll never know how high. =)

Needless to say, we got our gas, we got home safely. Our house was exactly 86 degrees on the thermostat. It took 3 hours for it to cool off, but here we are. It's now 9:56 by my computer and Christopher is asleep, Ty is anticipating waking up to sleep in someones bed, Avery is making noise of some sort and here I am. The watch guard of her room. Kinda like the guards from Wizard of Oz. (Occasionally ugly, love the person s/he watches over......yet would rather she just sleep sometimes.)

Love, Me

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Big Boy




We're in Palm Springs. School just got out on Friday, so our summer has officially started. We started coming to this resort when Christopher was 2. Now, Avery is 2. It's quite amazing where 7 years gets you to.

My baby boy, has never had the opportunity to be a baby. From the moment he was born, people kept telling me how big he was..is. In my heart, I know the fact that he'll grow up to be big is a good thing. That's why I feel in love with his dad. He's a big man with a tender heart. However, his size has held him back sometimes. He was late to crawl, walk, talk. All those things important things. I've felt bad for him several times because he'd throw a tantrum when he was 4, yet he looked like a 7 year old. Long story short, he's always been amazingly smart, yet physical things have been more difficult for him.

However, today was a new day. Ty had to drive home to San Diego for an interview. (Cross your fingers). So it was just Christopher, Avery, and me at the pool. Not once but multiple times, Christopher told me to not grab him, scoot further away as he jumped in (with no hands) It was amazing! He felt so brave and confident at this "seemingly" simple skill of swimming. He had no fear as he held his breath, and blew bubbles under the water. He actually floated and was coordinated enough "kinda" to almost master floating and kicking at the same time. It was precious.

Whereas, little Miss Daredevil was quite content with her pool ring floatie, her old lady visor her mom makes her wear, and her pink swim socks. She was so annoyed with them because they got wet. Shocker..we're in the pool.

So anyways, my little baby became a big boy on the inside today.

Love,Gina