508!

i'm here.

here i sit.

i'm typing.

while blinded by the sun.

i'm not complaining because it seems the sun is only here for a few hours each day lately.

by the time we get home from picking up Trevor the sun is already gone. :(

since i'm solar powered this kind of sucks.

i'm procrastinating by typing this post.

i'm cleaning the downstairs.

today we are getting more sheetrock and going to work on finishing this place.

i got rid of over 20 garbage bags of stuff... clothes mainly, and i feel GREAT!

tis the season for giving right?? who cares what you are giving, as long as it is nice and will help someone.

i gave 6 bags of clothes to Jill for her new niece.

i gave 2 bags of clothes to my MIL to mail to my BIL for his daughter.

i gave 4 or 5 bags of clothes and other baby stuff to Melissa for her son Leland.

i gave 6 bags to Dianna for her daughter and maybe her sister's baby.

i have some bags for Walter, my nephew, that i will give today to my SIL.

i have a bag of girl clothes to give to a lady at the school for her daughter.

and...

I...

STILL....


HAVE...



M * O * R* E

STUFF


to give away!

AGGGGGGGGGGG!!

where did all this stuff come from.

I only have three kids... how do I have so much clothes. plus they are only 5 & 3... it isn't like we have been collecting stuff for that long and I have gotten rid of stuff before this... this isn't the first time. i have given and sold a LOT of stuff.

point is that we are over loaded with clothes and toys and i always feel like i need to get more anyway... i have to get some control over myself... i rather take my kids to Disney or something than have 40+ bags of clothes to give away in another couple of years. not that i don't like clothing other children with my kids outgrown clothes... I LOVE to do that... I love to help out and make sure they get good use. But i think we are over doing it some where in the buying situation.

oh well.

i'm off to clean some more, i am going to be in a mad dash to see how much i can get done before i have to go get Trevor from school... which isn't very long.

have a great day

My Evening...

I know I'm a horrible mom for not posting something wonderful about my beautiful girls that just turned three today, but I will. I have something started... but for some reason I'm feeling very anxious right now and can't really put down what I want to convey.

So... instead I thought I would post all about my afternoon/evening...

Here is how it went... at 2:30 PM I left the "new" house to go to pick Trevor up from school. On the way there Lauren fell asleep and Brooke complained to me the entire way that she wanted to sit in Trevor's booster seat... I finally pulled over and gave in... it was MUCH easier than listening to her complain and whine... PLUS it is her bday and she should get whatever she wants (within reason) that makes her happy. :) And sitting in the booster seat did make her all smiley and happy!!

We went in the school and talked to the NURSE... I will tell all about my tale of woes with the nurse today in another post... I do have to make it to 365 people!! ;) Anyway... I talked to the nurse then I got Trevor we signed out and off we went home.

We pulled in the driveway, I got the mail then let Trevor sit on my lap and "drive" us in the driveway... he LOVES doing this and at our "new" house the driveway is way too steep for him to do it so we have to get it all in now. :)

We got out of the truck, I told the kids they could play outside... it was pretty nice out. They all came in. I immediately started cleaning and doing things... AFTER I posted the post before this one. lol You all know I'm a procrastinator. LOL :D Anyway... this is what I cleaned/did...

*I started the dryer and washer.

*I put away all the clean dishes.

*Helped Lauren go potty

*Changed Brooke b/c she had a peepee accident in the bathroom... hate when that happens. :(

*Made Trevor hot chocolate to make his throat feel better

*Gave all the kids a snack

*Took the wet washclothes and towels out the bathroom down to the laundry

*Took dirty clothes down the laundry

*I started washing the dirty dishes that *BLUSH* were full in the sink, on the counter next to the sink and on the stove top. (please don't judge... I'm not usually like this... just a LOT going on now)

*I got all the groceries in out of the back of the truck and put them away.

*I cleaned the kitchen counter off

*I piled up all of Brooke & Lauren's new bday presents and made it more organized

*I emptied the garbage and collected all the misfit stuff around the house to start a new bag

*I took care of more laundry

*I put away more clean dishes

*I washed more dirty dishes

*I started dinner ~ spaghetti & meatballs

*I let Trevor help me make dinner

*I packed about 10 boxes in the back of the truck

*I went to the barn and found all the tarps I could see and loaded them up too

*I went searching HIGH and low to find construction garbage bags... found em! & loaded em!

*I feed the kids dinner

*while they ate, I loaded in the truck :

**the microwave

**plates (real ones)

**silverware

**serving utensils

**soap & hand towel

**dish soap & sponge

**napkins

*I then packaged up dinner and took it to feed Bryan, Kevin & Chris dinner

*I feed them dinner

*I cleaned it all up

*I took the dishes back to the truck

*I brought in the boxes out of the truck

*I visited with Melissa and the guys

*I came home and put Lauren and Brooke to bed (they were sleeping in the truck)

*I carried Trevor in too and he is watching some tv before bed

I am going :

*clean the bathroom

*do more laundry

*wash up the new dirty dishes

*clean up the kitchen

*pack at least 4 boxes

*take a shower

*CRASH!!

this isn't even including what I did today at the "new" house and all the running around Bryan, the girls and I did... but since I'm milking the posting stuff I will wait for another post to tell you all about that.

Sorry still no pics... I'm not sure how to get them on the computer and I keep forgetting to ask my mom... duh!! But soon I promise!! :)

have a good night... I'm off.

deja vu??

so here i sit... yet again.

same senario...

it is muggy hot out, i'm procrastinating and we are leaving to go camping in a few hours... and guess what?? yep. not. ready.

ugh.

Leaving... On a Jet Plain

****UPDATE @12:22PM****

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Made Trevor's bed in camper.

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Made Lauren's & Brooke's bed in camper.

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Brought in more un-needed blankets.

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organized a few things of clothes in camper

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put away clean dishes from drainer, washed remaining dishes.

cleaned sink & counter

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cleaned suger glider cage

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put Lauren & Brooke in for a bath

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put blankets away in house from camper.

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****UPDATE @ 11:25 AM****

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Made three trips to the camper. am sweating like a friggen pig! Still have a least 748 more to go.

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Took some stuff to camper, i.e. pillows and two dolls for the girls.

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Took unneed because I am an over packer and need HELP! things from the camper... i.e. 18 blankets! someone please tell this woman it is SUMMER time! plus we have heat in the camper if need be!

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Took cooler up to the camper so I can load it in there once I get a chance to organize some more and clean the floor... which I may wait to clean the floor until we are there, and set up... it only will get dirty again with us taking bikes and cooler and tables and such out ~ CHECK! one less thing on my "To Do" list.

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still sweating like a pig, only a fatter pig now
Will be back soon.

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****UPDATE @ 11:03 AM****

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Took sheets and bedding off of clothes line (because before I started this list I had hung out two loads of laundry to dry, b/c I had stripped my bedding so we will come home to nice clean linens)

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Sprayed mattress with Clorox spray, and pillows too! Made bed. Put pillows to take out to camper. (haven't gotten there yet)

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Cleaned table and chairs in dinning room from girls' having breakfast.

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Gave Trevor some breakfast, he just wanted some NOW... I have been asking him all morning long.

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Dumped cat litter outside, and cleaned litter pan, then sprayed it with Clorox spray and put new litter in it.

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Gave the cat nice full bowl of dry cat food.

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Washed hands.

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****UPDATE @ 10:46 AM****

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Put away dish drainer FULL of dishes, and washed sink OVER flowing with dirty dishes, soaking dishes that wouldn't fit in the dish drainer.

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Also Clorox sprayed the toilet, door knobs, garbage & light switches in the bathroom, just for good measuer!!

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Had the kids bring out their pillows so I can pack them in the camper... which is soon to be my next dreaded chore.

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Off to do more hellish, because I procrastinate chores!
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Be back in a little bit with more updates!!
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****UPDATE @ 10:25 AM****

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So Bryan is going to be coming home earlier than he normally does... which normal time is about 4:30 or so. Which means I have even less time than I orginally was obnoxiously procrastingating about planning on. UGH.

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But good news!! So far I have totally cleaned the entire bathroom... sink, counter, toilet, shower and floor... that is one thing knocked out of the way... and only 3,742 things left to go! :-) I'm doing perty darn good!!

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Okay... we aren't going on a jet plain, but we are leaving. As soon as Bryan gets home from work, showered, dressed and hooks the truck up to the camper... or as soon as my parents get home from work and are ready to go too, I'm not sure which yet.

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BUT we are going camping again this weekend... not to far and no where really special, just a nice campground with a brook that runs through it... and a pool and some property we can hike and have a great picnic lunch. :)

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I'm going to try to go get everything done that I was supposed to do all week long and put off till today... and then maybe I will be back to post some pictures of the Rascal Flatts & Taylor Swift concert that was at Bethel Woods right here in my own backyard... Bethel, NY (the town I live in).

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But, I really need to get a move on... I have nothing packed. The camper is not cleaned from the last trip, and I have a messy house that I need to get in order and clean up so we don't come back home to a messy house. :P UGH!!

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Wish me luck!

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xoxoxox

This time...

This time tomorrow... we will be on the road! yay!!

I am excited to go. We are going camping. We have a new camper, we go it last year but it is a 2008. It makes camping with three children a lot more reasonable and FUN!!

We did the whole tent thing... we even did it with THREE kids... we set it up... it RAINED and poured and the wind was terrible. We stood outside in the pouring rain, with the wind making it BEAT on us like bee bees and tried to hold our tent together so it wouldn't get wet.


It got wet.

We were obviously soaked.

We set everything out to dry and cleaned up the mess.

Everything dried. We put it all back in. We had a good night. All three kids slept pretty well.

We camped we had fun. We had another storm the third night there.

It rained, it poured the wind was horrible.

We stood in it and tried to hold our tent together so it wouldn't get wet.

IT. GOT. SOAKING WET.

A - G - A - I - N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We were cold and soaking wet again too!

It was NOT FUN!!

We got it all dried out and dried up. Put everything back in and it went well. The kids slept well and we had a good camping trip! :)

The next year....

We... BOUGHT a camper!! YAY!! now this is really FUN!!! :)

I love it. You can pack stuff and leave it packed... when we camped in the tent I had to constantly pack and un-pack EVERYTHING we took each time... now we have things that are just for camping that stay in the camper.

BUT... there is still packing, cleaning and organizing... all of which I'm supposed to be doing ...

RIGHT. NOW!!

I have some of it packed... and some of it cleaned... like 1/300th of it... done. Yeah. Not looking too good. Especially not with me sitting here at the computer. UGH!!

Worse part of all is that my kids... yeah those little cuties that I always talk about... they are BEING the BEST BEHAVED children in the entire UNIVERSE!! I swear. They have been playing so nicely with one another and watching some Disney Channel and eating cookies and drinking milk... so I should be getting EVERYTHING done lickity split...

NOPE.

I'm sitting here procrastinating ... MAJORLY!!

I suck.

I'm getting up.

I have to.

Bryan will be home at 3 and we have to go get groceries.

I think we are also getting some company later. I'm not sure.

I have 299% more to go with cleaning packing and organizing the house and the camper.

alright...

here. I. go.

Hitting publish... then getting up off my duff and doing something... I might be back to let ya'll know what I actually got done and the world record speed I didn't do it in. :)

have a great weekend all.

xoxoxo

Murphy's Oil Soap Bleach Dust Dishsoap!

So, that is what my hands and clothes smell like. : ) Yeah. Yummy. I know. I think this could be the next line in perfume, forget Vera Wang and Sarah Jessica Parker and Este Lauder... here comes the newest fragrance. Sparklin' Kitchen! LOL
I'm, well actually I was feeling super ambitious yesterday and started to do a thorough cleaning of my kitchen, which by the way was well deserving of it.
I broke out the Murphy's Oil Soap, and some HOT water, and the Windex, Goo-Gone, Pledge multi-surface, rags, paper towels, sponges and some elbow grease and got started. I cleaned out each cupboard then cleaned the cupboard itself inside and out. Let me state the it was NEVER fun...but today, as I'm at it yet again it is really REALLY really not fun at all. I'm thinking that if I had some good wine, or hell any wine at all, I would be a happy camper or a happy cleaner, anyway, I would be happy. The closest I'm getting to this dream is that I have whine. You know... whine. From my three kids. Trevor is home today because when he coughs his stomach hurts, which I can understand, he has been coughing a lot, but he also told me that the bone in his neck is hurting him. He pointed near his collar bone, so I'm guessing/assuming/thinking he has a sore throat. GREAT. :( Hope it is just from his dry cough or post nasal drip that he has all night long that has him coughing, and nothing more, like strep or something. The fact that he is okay most of the day and hasn't really complained about it any other time, I think he will be fine.
But, back to the exciting topic at hand... cleaning. My kitchen is not that big really, but damn it is dirty!! That is what is taking me so long. And, actually I'm slightly embarrassed at how filthy it is. Don't worry if you have been here recently and ate something... the general areas of use are pretty clean... but the other areas are just down right scary!! I'm talking about the top of the fridge and other such areas. I'm telling you if social services came here earlier and saw my fridge top, they would be taking my children IMMEDIATELY from my home. That is bad. LOL
But I cleaned it. I'm almost done, and have just run out of steam. I thought if I sat here for a moment and did some procrastinating... um... I mean some posting, I would feel more like finishing up.... BUT I don't. chuckle chuckle.
Oh well I guess I have to get tough with myself and go back to cleaning. I really want to finish up in the kitchen today to get to another room or at least do the other rooms semi well so that we can decorate for Halloween. :)
Okay, the phone rang and I totally forgot that I was typing this. DUH! I was cleaning and talking and all that good stuff. I'm almost done with the kitchen. Thank goodness.
I guess I have done enough procrastinating... for now.
I'll be back.