Let's just say a mistake was made and well they'll be a new addition in a few months......
Once I peel myself off the floor I'll get back to you with details
PLEASE NOTE THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE!
I REPEAT THIS WAS FOR APRIL FOOL'S - I AM NOT PREGNANT!
Thank You
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Just call me Coach
That's right it's Coach Cheryl now. It's official I have lost my mind! It's not enough that I have 5 maniacs running around (technically only 4 but Anthony will be there soon enough), a husband that wouldn't know the meaning of 9-5 if it hit him in the head and all the other insanity that comes along with running this house. So why not Coach 10 little 5 year olds how to play soccer. Did I mention that I hated soccer growing up. I never played. I barely know the rules but hey I get a whistle so it can't be too bad.
Let the fun begin!
Let the fun begin!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Some BIG trees fell down...
Here's some random pictures of the damage in our area from the storm last week. We drove around for almost 2 hours looking at it all. I don't think anyone expected to wake up to this much destruction. This would have been called a hurricane had this originated in the caribbean.
This sign was funny because there was a huge tree down blocking the entrance that made it clear that the park was closed.....
This was our neighbors tree - if you look close you can see the underground wires
This poor guy. So there was 4 cars in this driveway and this truck was the owners baby. He had no insurance on it because it was so old. He was so upset! It was a total loss:
This was the block behind ours - We think this tree was what started the power outage. Us and a few other houses lucked out and we didn't lose power but we did lose cable, phone and internet and that was worse than losing power...lol
Another neighbors house - they happen to keep fake flowers in there flower boxes ALL YEAR ROUND. Too bad the flower boxes weren't knocked down
Steve checking in on Lou's generator while they were away for the day. We always make fun of it and the fact that he bought it but he was the one laughing now after he had power and no one else did
Lulu coming along for the ride :
Didn't get close enough for the picture but this tree was on the front end of the truck...
This was crazy - the pole was ripped out of the ground and flipped up in the air:
Oh this was another hot mess -
check out the size of this root:
Steve liked this one:
Oh this was such a pretty tree that went down:
One last one for Steve - he was fascinated by this one:
This sign was funny because there was a huge tree down blocking the entrance that made it clear that the park was closed.....
This was our neighbors tree - if you look close you can see the underground wires
This poor guy. So there was 4 cars in this driveway and this truck was the owners baby. He had no insurance on it because it was so old. He was so upset! It was a total loss:
This was the block behind ours - We think this tree was what started the power outage. Us and a few other houses lucked out and we didn't lose power but we did lose cable, phone and internet and that was worse than losing power...lol
Another neighbors house - they happen to keep fake flowers in there flower boxes ALL YEAR ROUND. Too bad the flower boxes weren't knocked down
Steve checking in on Lou's generator while they were away for the day. We always make fun of it and the fact that he bought it but he was the one laughing now after he had power and no one else did
Lulu coming along for the ride :
Didn't get close enough for the picture but this tree was on the front end of the truck...
This was crazy - the pole was ripped out of the ground and flipped up in the air:
Oh this was another hot mess -
check out the size of this root:
Steve liked this one:
Oh this was such a pretty tree that went down:
One last one for Steve - he was fascinated by this one:
Thursday, March 11, 2010
For the over 30 crowd
Stolen from a friend - thanks Stef!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda (at 34 I am still hearing this one)
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! (it took you forever to just figure out how to use the damn thing)
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car.. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig? We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!
There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!
And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda (at 34 I am still hearing this one)
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! (it took you forever to just figure out how to use the damn thing)
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car.. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig? We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!
There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!
And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
"Like Oh My God" said in my best 8yr old voice
In reality I am 30...something and will be married 10 years this September. I have 5 kids and life is crazy. In my head I'm still 18 and up to no good but in the best possible way - which means I just never get caught - oh and life is still crazy. So when I was 18 my younger brother was getting bullied. Being the oldest I felt it was my duty to defend him even if I was a girl - I was still the oldest. The problem was I was 18 and realized I could get in trouble for beating up someone younger than me BUT I had nothing wrong with getting other younger people do it for me. OK so now fast forward to the present. Here I am presented with a similar situation but this time it's my own kid having a problem (Samantha) and the 18 yr old in my head thinks I will just have this taken care of by using a younger person....say maybe a nephew that goes to the same school as Samantha. OK OK I realize I can't do that.....or can I...hehehe. The thing is she is getting picked on by a boy who obviously likes her but she doesn't understand that - she's only 8.
Why is it we can never understand what is going on in the present until years later - like that helps. Once I can start time traveling is when this will be helpful
Ok so back to Samantha and her boy drama. I sooooo don't want to deal with this now. I told her for the millionth time this week to ignore him and she yelled at me that I don't understand then preceded to run away from home.
There she is just to left of the tree trunk. I yelled after to her to at least take a jacket:
Why is it we can never understand what is going on in the present until years later - like that helps. Once I can start time traveling is when this will be helpful
Ok so back to Samantha and her boy drama. I sooooo don't want to deal with this now. I told her for the millionth time this week to ignore him and she yelled at me that I don't understand then preceded to run away from home.
There she is just to left of the tree trunk. I yelled after to her to at least take a jacket:
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Maybe we have the next Nancy Kerrigan on our hands....
While away on a little weekend getaway to Vermont Samantha learned a new trick .....
(as always remember to pause the music 1/2 down on the right so that you can hear the video)
(as always remember to pause the music 1/2 down on the right so that you can hear the video)
Monday, March 1, 2010
Just a little bit of Anthony...enjoy
* remember to scroll 1/2 down the page to my music and pause it so you can hear the video *
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