Five question Friday... a day late

I thought I would join in on Mama M.'s blog carnival at www.fivecrookedhalos.blogspot.com




1. Do you do a real or fake Christmas tree? I am allergic to the tree's so I have to use a fake one and the one from last year looked like a Charlie Brown tree. We also have a cute 12 inch tree that if I am unable to find a decent tree this year. We will use.

2. What is your favorite Christmas tradition with your family? I think it is the excitement the kids have to get up in the morning and see all the presents. I do not put any presents under the tree until Christmas eve. Though this year moneys tight so it probably will not look like a whole lot.

3. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving in your neck of the woods? yes And, if so...how many calories do you think you consumed yesterday? I was very good this year and even lost weight

4. Have you started decorating for Christmas, yet? no, not at all

5. What is your favorite Christmas cookie? sugar cookie, you know they are different shapes like trees and santas

Introducing a very special lady

........................My Mom...also known as Nana to 40 kids now.

She is just the best in the world and I don't know where I would be with out her. 

Back in August she went to the Hospital because she was not feeling well. They admitted her. 

Things were not looking very well. I was staying strong and then my dad said something really downer and then I broke, My mom is 70 and has lived a long life full of her 8 children, 20 grandchildren, and her building number of great grandchildren which is numbered 20 as of the 18th of November. Now we found out there is another on the way. Anyways I am in No way shape or form ready to lose my mom and that was a really scary time for me.

But after 2 weeks in the hospital and 4 weeks in a rehab facility she got home where she wanted to be. This is something That I am VERY Thankful for this Holiday season.

This is Mom and her 20th grandchild My babygirl showing some love. I am glad I had my camera for this touching moment.

I LOVE YOU MOM!!!!

perhaps this should be written on Mothers day but I wanted to share now!

Happy Turkey Day

I just wanted to say Happy Turkey Day to everyone. Me and the kiddos are going to my mom and dads today to eat dinner. I will be back here and tell you all what I am thankful for and post some pics hopefully. Granted the table will Not be set up in grandeur style.But it is food that God has provided.

New Do's

There is a new hair place near where I live and for grand opening they are doing haircuts for $2.99..I was like wow and Alexis and I went for impromptu haircuts

Above is Alexis and below is myself

 So what do you think of our new do's, sorry as its Tuesday and I forgot to do not me Mondays yesterday I will have to save it for next week.

what we did do was get haircuts for $2.99 each

Arghhhh....and some tidbits

Alexis is not going to be going to the developmental preschool. cognitively they feel she is getting what she needs from her daycare center ( which she has been in preschool since September, before that she was in the toddler class) I love the center they are great, but she is developmentally delayed and has PVL which is brain damage even though thank God it is mild. But anyways she will be getting the therapies PT,OT, and ST through the public schools and will have and IEP. It is only 2 hours a week that she has been approved for. I am getting some help on a possible appeal.


My niece Corina Rose is have her second baby today, she is scheduled for a C-section. So welcome to the world Ava, your big brother Austin is gonna love you. I will post a pic when I get one.

I have to go to the town hall where I used to live to pick up Alexis' birth certificate because in all her three years i have yet to get it, but I need it to register for the public school services she is going to be getting.

Well I am off to get ready for the day of interning

It is November 17 2009 and my baby is three

How can it be that you have been on this earth for three years already?

It seems like only yesterday when you were born.
this tiny little miracle weighing in at 5lbs 2 1/2 oz
17 1/2 inches long. You just could not wait to get into this world






And then before I knew it,

 

And you were one











It seems like I blinked and another year went by.
And then you were two

I don't know how but I must have blinked again because my baby girl is growing up.
                                                    

And now you are three


Happy Birthday to my baby girl 
who is growing up way to fast.

NOT me Monday

Following along with MckMama with my own not me Monday post. I also wish to thank god for Stellan and his successful ablation



I did Not forget to order Alexis' birthday cake until Saturday morning the day before her party.


Okay so on Saturday the serpentine belt did NOT fall off my car while I was Not out trying to get last minute things for Alexis' birthday party. It was Not pouring out and I did not get soaked waiting on a tow truck to get me home.

Because said car was NOT broke down I did not need a ride to get the cake the I did Not almost forget to order, and I did Not arrive to my own child's late, No way that wasn't me.

This is Not the last day my baby will be 2 she can Not be turning 3 tomorrow

Alexis birthday party was today

We celebrated Alexis' 3rd Birthday today, we had a joined birthday party with her 2nd cousin Nikolis. It was Dora and Diago themed

Alexis' cake

Nikolis' cake

And this last one is of the two birthday kiddo's together. Alexis will be 3 on November 17 and Nikolis will be 2 on November 29.










I cannot believe the price of cakes now. I paid $25.99 for Alexis cake and $5.95 for the Dora candle. The cake was a 1/4 sheet last year I got a half sheet for the same price. Whats up with that? Anyways it was a fun and chaotic time with a birthday party for two little ones. I do not think this is an experience we want to repeat.

I am going to make a slide show and post it soon when I have all the photos uploaded.

Introduction to our Pets

Well tomorrow is Alexis Birthday party and she was given a kitten, we were looking for one a while back but ended up adopting and older cat named Kitty Kitty (we just left the name) 

So anyways this is a picture of Dylan with his Cat Kitty Kitty

My children hung out in my bedroom today hence the messy bed and princess chair on the left.

And with out further ado here is Simba (he reminds us of Simba from the Lion King when he was a cub).

                             

Isn't he just adorable



So now we have two cats

Talking about Thursday: my favorite vacation spot

I am linking up with Genny from Mycup2yours and writing about my favorite vacation spot.

So I have not been on an actual Vacation since I was still a kid living with my parents. We went to Ohio to visit my dad's dad and step mom and went to Cedar point where I took my dad on the first roller coaster that was suspended as opposed to having rails

Boy I don't think my dad expected that kind of experience, he tossed his cookies (or should I say fried dough) after that.

My grandparents lived on lake Erie it was beautiful and even as a child I recognized the beauty.

I caught fireflies

It was pouring rain but after a hot summer day it was fun to play out there in the puddles with my dad.
(I wish I had the pictures)

I was made to eat fish that my uncle Rich caught which has given me a distaste for all things seafood to this day.

I remember the boat ride in Lake Erie on Uncle Rich's boat feeling the water spray on my face.

I remember my little round smurf floatie I had for swimming in the pool because i could not get my head wet because I had tubes in my ears.

I remember how tan I got on that 2 week long vacation and coming home and people thinking I went to Florida because I was tan.

I had an extremely bad day yesterday

As I am a single mom I have to rely on a daycare voucher for me to go to school/intern. Well yesterday I woke up got ready as usual. Got myself and Alexis out the door earlier than usual because I wanted to get to school early to study for a quiz. When I got to the daycare I was told my voucher was being terminated. I was floored and frustrated. Had to leave and find out why. I called and I was told I was not doing enough to warrant the voucher. What? I am a full time college student and I intern. they were only counting the 11 hours I was physically at school and not counting my internship. They did not call and tell me this. It was a terrible morning. However I said how can this be rectified? where is your internship at they ask. I answer. Well ask them if you can do community service. I talk to my agency and my professor and they are on board with me interning/community service. I will be treated like an Intern but will be getting forms signed saying I am doing community service. Because today is a holiday it is not in effect till tomorrow, but the daycare said they would keep her anyways I do have to intern today

NOT me Monday

I most certainly did NOT pay one of my friends to help me clean my house last week why would I do that when I have a teenager that should be helping me?

I did NOT break into Alexis' birthday presents to get her dressed Friday morning because she did NOT get to tall for her clothes in the last few weeks

I did NOT eat any kit kats from Alexis' Halloween candy why would I ever do that?

And lastly I did NOT have a 10 hour phone conversation with someone the other day, How could we possibly talked for 10 hours straight?

ABC's of me

I read this on other blogs and thought I would do it myself



A - Age:31 I will be 32 December 15
B - Bed size: King!
C - Chore you hate:  them all
D - Dog's name: don't have a doggy
E - Essential start your day item: logging on to facebook
F - Favorite color: bluw
G - Gold or Silver: Silver
H - Height: 5'6"
I - Instruments you play: none
J - Job title: Mom, Full time student and Intern
K - Kid(s): Dylan and Alexis
L - Living arrangements: With my teen and toddler and a roommate at the moment
M - Mom's name: Doris
N - Nicknames: Amy
O - Overnight hospital: just to give birth to my children
P - Pet Peeve(s): obnoxious people
Q - Quote from a movie: Don't really have one!
R - Right or left handed: Right
S - Siblings: 5 sisters and 2 brothers...Linda (passed away 2003) Debbie, Kathy, Franky, Jimmy, Lisa Tammy.
T - Time you wake up: Anywhere from 5:30 7:30
U - Underwear: of course
V - Vegetable you dislike: Brussel sprouts, asparagus, cauliflower, I am sure there is more
W - Workout style: YMCA, treadmill bike nautilus equipment and swimming
X - X-rays you've had: too many
Y - Yesterday's best moments: seeing my babygirl laugh
Z - Zoo favorite: haven't been to one in a long time

Spring cleaning...Err... Not exaclty spring but cleaning none the less

I am sick of my messy house.

With a teenager and a toddler and a lazy roommate, cleaning up after both plus going to school full time and doing my internship I have gotten severely slack in the cleaning department. I keep doing laundry but not fold it, so I folded 10,000 clothes today no lie, while folding Alexis clothes I weeded out the size 18 mos clothes which is what most of her wardrobe consists of, they fit in the waist but they are becoming high waters and other than looking uncool its just to cold now for her to be wearing high waters. anyways I had gone shopping for her birthday and bought 10 outfits but with the high waters I have already gotten into 2 of them for her to wear.Well, I decided to buy some more outfits and give her some to wear now I bought 5 more. so I put aside 5 outfits plus two she wore already for now and there are 8 outfits for her birthday.  Now while you may think that is alot it is not, She had about 40 18 mos clothing which is being passed down to my great niece Mykenzie.

Dylan decided that he was going to chill in my room and eat Halloween candy, there were Kazillions of wrappers all over my room and floor, plus a bunch of Alexis toys that have collected in here. The toys will make there way in her room tomorrow as she is in bed now. Nice to see I have a bedroom again.

My kitchen is still clean since Monday, with exception of a few dishes.. Yay!! to up keep

My thought is if i clean it thoroughly and then perhaps I can maintain it, I hope.

And also making a choir list for Roommate, Dylan, and myself. team work, I hope

Joys of parenthood..lol

Why is it that Dylan has a hard time waking up Monday through Friday but on this saturday morning he is up at 6:30am sitting on the computer with his headphones on but singing at the top of his lungs and in the process waking up his sleeping sister?  Why?
 My poor up stairs neighbor  having to also be tortured by this horrible noise he calls singing  
I sneaked this video of him jamming out, Its dark so not good quality but I hope you can at least hear him 







Alexis is in her room saying help me, help me, which actually just means i want to get up and come out there.

Alexis is growing like a weed in height on me, well maybe its not that fast as she will be three in ten days but all of a sudden her 18 months pants are suddenly high waters, Now I have like 7 outfits for her birthday but apparently it cannot wait till then so I went out and bought five outfits for now, I am sure she will get more for her birthday. I now need to get all these 18 mos clothes out of here and give them to my great niece Mykenzie, she is only six mos old but she is a porker so she will get use from them before we know it.


OK poor Alexis has waited long enough for me to post I need to get her up and ready for the day. Gonna make some blueberry muffins for breakfast  yum o

What moms are saying Mom Monday--- I am late as its tuesday

I am Linking up with Genny at My cup to yours today using this starter sentence

The best part about being a mom is..  seeing my children smile, or their laughter there is nothing better than that, well except for the first time they say I love you mummy

Lifes happenings, and Halloween

I have been kind of slacking lately on my posts, I have neglected to post not me Monday. I didn't even do a Halloween post and now it is November 3rd, time is flying my baby is going to be three years old. I just cannot fathom this. She has had 3 evaluations so far for the developmental preschool and she has one more on November 9th and then the eligibility meeting is on her birthday November 17.

Anyways better late than never this is Princess Alexis sitting her her chariot (other wise know as a stroller)

this one from left to right are my twin nieces Amber and Ashley, their friend David and Dylan is the freak with the red wig farthest to the left

Last but not least is princess Alexis surrounded by daemons
where is the prince to come to her rescue?







Anyways I hope everyone had a good Halloween, I should have taken a picture at the mounds of Halloween candy but Dylan had the day off from school today and ate most of it.


I am more than half way through this semester and I just pre registered for spring semester.I will have my associates degree in December 2010 only 7 more classes woo hoo