Greece!

No not the movie. Dancing is so not my thing. I am one of those who have absolutely no rhythm hence I keep my butt where it belongs, that is on a chair. I don't want to be the one everyone is talking about after an office christmas party and imitating and laughing their heads off...noo i'm too aware of my out-of-tune dance moves. Anyways, so not the point of this post. Yesterday I took out a book with maps and stuff for my 4 year old, I thought it would be good for her at this age. So I tell her a few countries and itty bitty things and guess what? she told me how to say 'hello' in about 5 languages. Where are these kids coming from? I mean I was like 'wow, Goddammit'. Then to add to my utter confusion of should I be over the moon or should I be concerned, she comes to me after 15 minutes and says "Look Mommy here's Greece". Well all I could say at this point was 'what the....'. I mean I was loosing my mind. Where the heck did she learn about Greece of all places. We have no family connection, never ever talked about it, and haven't seen her play any games involving the country. Help!!! I mean people looking for intergalactic alien species, stop! and look at these kids these days. I mean I felt like she was giving me the geography lesson rather than the other way round. okay wait! she just came around, stood in the back and said "Oh no she didn't". Should I stop typing because now I think she knows I'm writing about her. How much can she read, am I in trouble? Ahhhh, running away, will be back tomorrow, If my 4 year old doesn't sell me to a stranger without me knowing about it!

Nutty Mommy Drink

I wrote this blog during the summer & since I never got the chance to post it I thought i'd share it now, so enjoy!

We had this amazing block party today with water balloons, inflatable bouncies, bubbles, barbecue and believe it or not it turned out to be one of the hottest days this summer. I really don't know whats wrong with the weather but man its gotten me to recycle more and reuse bags and get rid of batteries properly. The winter was brutal with snow totals of 50inches and now summer, more than few days way over a 100F.Gets you thinking about global warming and severe weather changes. Anyways with heat wave galore there were also drinks and with drinks I mean Booze. Yes people apparently the ladies weren't taking this block party lightly. We had beer, wine coolers, margaritas, some innovative mixes and some questionable orange soda bottles. Now my neighborhood is crawling with little kiddies. There are atleast 2 to 3 women pregnant at the same time. So with young kids come crazy mommies. And apparently crazy mommies need to take the edge off more often than not. Well since I do not drink I was just standing and listening to all the waste-plans that were brewing (pun intended). They were planning to make the hubbies put the kids to bed while the ladies stayed around and gulp till the wee hours of the night."PARTAY!!!". Everything you grabbed and every cup had some kind of gin, rum, something in it. One of my neighbors son came holding a bottle of lemonade and her mom goes: 'give that to me, you can't have that, who knows what kinda nutty mommy drink that might be'. I swear the kid was so confused grabbed a popsicle and ran. 

So for all the dad's out there please give the mommy's a little break so block parties can end up being rated 'E' than 'PG-21' !

My Day...

Okay so I don't exactly know where the "day" is supposed to begin but lets say 12am-12am is my 24hr. Around 1:26am the baby monitor started talking or might I say thing#2 starts babbling, for what reason, only God knows. So since I put both my girls in the same room I start freaking a bit while laying in bed that thing#2 might wake up thing#1 and if that happens HeLLO 5:30. Anyways when 10minutes turned to 45 I went and gave her a bottle so she could sleep again. Well an hour and a half later thing#1 walks in to the room and wakes me up so she could go pee. I thank her and ask her to go to bed, which she does thankfully. 3am and I can finally sleep. 7:30am is the normal wake up time for both the kids so we get up and have our milk and breakfast. As the day goes toys are flying, paint is splashing and water is spilling. I'm cleaning so fast but somehow the house seem to look like a pigs sty anyways. After mopping and cleaning the house I decide to not look back and head to the post office to pick up a letter for my hubbs. After rolling around the post office floor, and putting fingers inside the heating ducts we get our envelope and leave. On my way I realize I have to get my cars oil changed so I pull up at the mall to drop off my car at Sears. A box of Tic-Tac and strawberry-flavored dum dum later the guy tells me to come pick it up in an hour or so. We head in to the mall and I realize I gotta go pee. So I drag a 3 year old and a very big stroller in to a very teeny bathroom and a series of crying and yelling later we head out. As soon as we come outta the restroom there is a display of Sesame Street characters which thing#1 has to have but can't decide which ones to pick up so 5 trips back and forth the display I manage to make her put down all of them. We head to the other stores but first thing#1 decides I should try to play catch with her and she takes off. Imagine running with a stroller with a baby in it, lets just say people were smiling.Well we enter a baby clothing store and I let my one year old off the stroller to roam around a bit, she walks around comes and stands by the stroller and guess what???? Poops! Ai Ai Ai !!! So the next mission on the list was to find another clean rest room to go change the diaper. I start telling my 3 year old to get a move on so we can get the little one clean and she enters the stores and decides to individually jump on every square tile and hop her way to the restroom....took so long that you could read this blog 15 times over. There was yelling and crying and in the end bribing involved to get the job done. Anyways we get in do our thing and leave. Since the bribe included french-fires and coke (as if more caffeine was required) we head the Mikky D's yaay woohooo, fun for mom. Half hour of munching chicken nuggets and french fries and fighting with 15 straws in one cup of Sprite later (yes I decided -caffeine=loose my mind) my Hubbs calls and asks me to stay there another 45 minutes so he can come drop his car and we can leave together. Well I clean up and decide to walk in to the 4th store with any luck, then my 3 year old announces 'Mom I need to go pee' Kid You NOT!!! So guess what we did....need I repeat the process. We come out and I decide to go and atleast sign and get my own car keys before Hubs gets here. So a strange old man playing Peek-a-boo with my little one and one $1.80 candy baby bottle for the 3 year old later I get my keys. At this point I decide to sit on a bed in Sears and let the kids bring the store down infront of me. Dad comes in and we Finally leave. On the way back he says he wants to go to the Gym and since I needed a gosh darn break I tell him i'll go when he gets back. We get home and discover that thing#1 opened up the candy baby bottle and spilled the powered part all over her car seat, clothes and the back seat. While I go change her clothes and dust of her seat my hubby got the vacuum to clean the car. We get in, I start to cook dinner because before I leave for the gym I need to get everything set out so daddy dear can feed the kids and himself. Dad gets home but first we all have to go together and pick up his car. I take his car and head off to the gym, he takes the kids home. I work-out for 40 minutes and head to Target for some groceries. I get back and kids are done with dinner Thank God. Me and Hubs have our dinner. He cleans up while I put the little one to bed. Its about 9:30pm at this point. I am almost to the point where I cant move but the older one says she wants to go to bed too so I do the whole bed time routine and take her to bed. Finally, Relaxation! .....not!!!! she walks down in 61/2 minutes. I am about to pull my hair out. Hubs goes to bed and i'm stuck with her downstairs. 11:00pm and I turn off all the lights and tell her i'm going to bed and you stay down here, she decides moms not joking and goes to bed. And there goes my 24hr. Anyone tired of reading this yet !

Oh The Drama!

With girls comes drama. Period. That's why I think life is more colorful in many way if you have' sugar and spice and all things nice' in your home. Here there key word is "SPICE". I think I never really thought about it before recently. My older one has come in this world with a built-in 'NO' clause. Few of her grandma's have been known to start any conversation with the word, hence my little drama queen has to get it out of her system before anything gets done. Well today was the day where the No-Game went on so long and bargaining became like selling something to a thrift queen or my mom that I completely snapped!!!! Totally made her clean up the entire room cluttered with toys like a hurricane had hit it by herself...which she usually somehow makes me do while she puts away a one toy and makes me sing the clean-up song with her the rest of the time. Today was a different day..I had to retain my Mommy-Ness and that was the end of it. No bargaining this time, it was my way or the highway. Felt good. Don't tell. Oh yeah and the little one, when she wants something i'm not giving her, just to annoy me in to giving in, she make her lips in a circle like tweety bird and goes..AhhaH, Uhah, Uhah. Totally fakes it and smiles if she gets her way after. I swear sometimes I think they are ganging up on me man. Two girls both spicy more than sweet, my brain's almost fried today.

Who can spell ADD?

Oh blog i've missed you...the place to vent and not feel bad about it or have anyone feel the burn to stand and listen to all this crap. Okay so today me and the Hubs decided we'll spend some time doing things around the house. So that means the kids would be on ignore for a bit, needs will be met no doubt. Here's what I found out, They HAVE too many NEEDS. UGH! I swear about every 15 minutes there was something extremely important that had to be tended to. Talk about putting up a single gosh darn nail. First they were fed, then one wanted something to play with and the other wanted to play the same, fight fight fight!!! so after creating diversions of sorts I tried to go back and help the Hubs....half a tilted mirror later, MOM! I wanna paint! okay okay so the whole old t-shirt, brushes, papers, paints mambo jumbo comes out and laid on the table. Picaso goes at it for 10 minutes, little one pulls the paper from below and knocks down a bottle of paint and Voila! CLean up on Aile 5! After half an hour of clean up the older one wants to play with play dough and it's the little ones nap time. Bucket of playdough and a bottle of milk later I get the chance to see whats going on around the house. This time I get an hour. Time for lunch, so there goes another 2 hours. In the meantime the baby wakes up and needs food, minus another hour. So as usual the hubby is doing 90% of the work all by himself even though i'm right there in the house. The kids then start coming in the part of house where we were working so I had to stop and go play with them and get them out of the tools and nails. It never ends!!!!!! Time for dinner and another round of crayons, playdough, cartoons and food. And I look like more of a mess than my significant other even though technically speaking he did all the heavy lifting that day.

How old am I?

Okay so lets see....trust me when I say, this was not THAT long ago...what I remember from my childhood is playing hide-and-go-seek, tag, patti-cake(i'm a girl, its allowed), video games: hand-held was a 2 inch black and white screen with a single built-in game and computer interfacing games were on a system called 'Attari' I swear i'm not making it up...the games used to take 20 minutes to load and it had this cassette player you had to insert a cassette in for each individual game. Other than that VCR's were used not DVD players....cd's and dvd's came in the picture right infront of me. Then came the internet and E-mails...how cool was that. Took about an hour for dial-up to connect and 15 minutes to send the mail after hitting the 'SEND' button. What's next..oh yeah the invention of Wi-Fi, laptops and the whole Shabbang!!!..no wires no nothing...WHAO!! Oh yeah TV's that hang on the wall...I remember people going and looking at their back sides with disbelief comparing them to the gigantic giants that weighed about a ton Atleast that they had at home (still talking about televisions people...keep your heads in the right context). I mean as i'm writing this it's starting to get more absurd and I think i'm getting a few grey hairs in the process. One of my aunt sometimes says to me, you guys were born in the refrigeration era...and I always used to think big deal...I mean wasn't it the Ice-Age when they didn't have these things in existence ppsshhh. But now I think when my kids grow up i'll be saying to them...you know what when I was young you couldn't rewind Live TV you know...and they'll be like, 'Mom that was like when Dinosaurs roamed the Earth'. God how fast is the world moving. Okay here's another one, who remembers watching 'The Jetsons' and thinking that those Video Phones were the coolest things from the future and like that could ever happen, SKYPE anyone???? aaaaaaaaahhhh I feel about 150 years old right now. This is becoming ridiculous I think I should stop writing...... 

Allergies Shamallergies

Well guess who's mocking who now? The allergies won this season. I swear I used to think it's a made up disease, people popping allergy meds seemed addicts to me, guess who got a kick in the butt!! Well now I can say that I am officially a citizen of the West. You don't become totally American till you get to say 'These Allergies are killing me this season'. The only thing that tingles my taste buds these days are 'Sour Patch Kids' yummm who thinks they are totally awesome!!! me me me. The stuffy nose and headaches are so bad, I think i'm up to 4 cups of tea (yes yes no coffee yet, I love my tea, can't give it up for the West just yet) now. You know that commercial where they show you this guy sneezing outside under the tree and the song in the background 'It's A Lovely Day' but the guy is having a horrible time. That's exactly how I felt at the park the other day. I had never ever even payed attention to that commercial but now it's ringing in my head. Ah, pollen pollen go away come back some other day. The End.