Any minute now!

He should be calling any minute now for us to go get him!!! Everything is done, and the stuff that isn't he won't care about anyway! I have sat down to relax for the first time all day just now. I also need to come up with a name for him in the blog. All the ones I really like are taken. Hmmmmmm I have thought about Face (you know, from the A-Team). Hubby is kind of like that, he can take anything and use it to make something.

Daaaaaaaaaaaang! He needs to call..........

Counting

the hours!!! I have finished almost everything that I wanted to get done, and lack of funds for all the other stuff I wanted to get will just have to put all that on hold. I would like to have some fun money when DH gets home!!

DG's party is pretty much ready to go! She is getting really excited that daddy is going to be home on her birthday! She also doesn't know that I am going to redo her room while she is at school tomorrow. I can't wait for her to see it. Nothing fancy, just a new bedspread, sheets, rearranging her room, etc. I really hope that she loves it though!

She really made me laugh today too. I called her and her brother big ole turkeys, and she said,

"Mom, you are the biggest turkey ever. Dance like a chicken, Mom, dance!!!

Maybe it was only funny to me, but she doesn't usually come back with cute quips like that.

I still can't believe she is going to be 7!!!

Boys and the bathroom

OK, so I have read about airforcewife's son and where he prefers to use the bathroom, so I thought I would share a story about my son. This actually happened a couple of years ago. He was 3 and we lived in post housing. We were in the really old housing so it was small adn our yards were very small as well. At the time we only had one dog, and one day I was going out to take of the messes that dogs make. As I am walking out the back door, Speed speaks up

"Are you going to pick up my poop?"

No I am picking up the dog's.

I bend over and start cleaning up different spots. Once again,

"Are you going to pick up my poop?"

Then it dawns on me that he was serious and was very concerned aboutme cleaning up his mess. So I asked him if he actually pooped in the yard. He said, incrediously I might add, with one eyebrow raised,

"Well yeah, I had to go!"

I should also add that yes, he actually talks that way and has since he was 2. He is way to smart for his own good.

Getting there

OK, so the curtains are hung, though the valance will have to wait. Party favors, Invitations are done. I have appointments for the dogs to be groomed. I still have to call and get a hair appointment...blah blah blah. Menial and boring tasks abound, eh? Yeah well, one small bit of good news......but I must explain first!

Speed decided last weekend that he wanted to let his friend borrow his skateboard. So his friend runs off with it. Speed following close on his scooter. Somewhere in the day his friend walked off with it and then left it in a neighbors yard. Then the local neighborhood skateboard thief walks off with it. Now, in my opinion, it was my sons fault for not making sure it got put up. At the same time, he is 5. The kid who walked off with it is in middle school. I tried to go talk to his father about it, but couldn't get anyone to answer the door. So I went and filed a police report. Now, I only did it because I felt someone needed to do something to make this kid realize there are people who don't care if he is a kid, if he is stealing, he should be disciplined for it. He has been known to walk into peoples garages and take stuff from there as well. Anyway, my eyewitness of this kid taking Speed's board, spoke with the thief today and he told him that the MP's have my son's board!!!! So I suppose we will see how long it takes to actually get it back!

Anyway, looking forward to having my hunny home!!

Feeling

a little overwhelmed. Dh will be home soon and I have many things to do. I mean, what military wife doesn't upon the return of their hero, right? My problem at the time is deciding what to do first. At this point, I have enough time for everything, but I know me. I will end up putting it all off till it's too late to get it all done. I know I can't be the only one who does this.....

So hair, nails, cleaning the house, installing new curtains (that won't be here till Tuesday), getting his dry cleaning done, finding a new outfit for his return, planning DG's birthday party and finish, getting the rest of her gifts, Exercise everyday and eat nothing (lmao yeah right!), and I am sure there is more that I need to take care of that I am missing right now. I guess we will see how much of this gets done right?

Just because.......

So I opened my door this evening to a lovely surprise!

Also, the other day I went upstairs to email a friend back. I was only there maybe 5 minutes. I come downstairs and find my daughter, let's call her DG from here on out, making her own sandwich. She proudly calls this her recipe.

Bet you are wondering what's in it. At first I thought, wow that's alot of mayo, but no.......she used whip cream! Nilla wafers for eyes, cherry tomato for a nose, and since she could find nothing suitable for the mouth, she draws a smile in the whipped cream and fills it with Nilla wafer crumbs. Then she proudly ate it and insisted it was good. She has even asked permission to make her recipe on several different occasions. All I can say is I am so glad I didn't have to eat that. Bleh! Oh yeah, and she made one for her brother, Speed, and he ate his, too. *gag*

Been Lazy

I have been lazy this past week. I have been reading books and I finished 2 and am a quarter of the way through a 3rd. I had a lovely scrapbooking club on Saturday night and got 4 pages done and learned a new technique for my pages. I have so much scrapping to catch up on it isn't funny!! The whole time we were in Kentucky, I didn't do any scrapping!

DH is coming home soon and I can't wait!! We are going to set up a home gym in the garage and start working out together. Now, this is a scary concept for me! As my hubby is so in shape that I have almost no hope of ever being like that. And I am not in the greatest shape either. I am not horrible, I can do workouts, get sweaty, get sore and all that jazz, but I am just not at the level he is at! He is going to have to promise to go easy on me for a little while till I get me some muscles, hehehe!!

I hope everyone has had a great first week of 2008!