home sweet home!

finally Friday!  home sweet home for the weekend!  and I took monday off besides.  I have a dr appt in the afternoon and thought heck.. lets just take the whole day of and then I can run some errands that I've been putting off..  

I am pooped out.  twas a long busy and stressful week at work. My weekend plans consist of cleaning my craft room, shopping for flowers, a childs birthday party, gardening, and cooking out and working on those bears!

The last few nights after work, Ive been going to my daughters to help her pack to move this weekend.  I can pack.. but I dont help in the actual moving... that physical stuff is not my cup of tea! LOL!  Im grateful that my kids are all close and they are always there to help each other out.  they all showed up to move Tony into his house and then bethany into her apartment the next day.  Then a few weeks ago Rob and Tiff moved and they all helped out there too.  after Jen gets moved I hope they all stay settled for awhile.  Im never moving.. well unless I win the lottery or something.. 

anyhow.. thats whats going on around here this past week and this weekend!  I'll be blog hopping in the morning!  see you then! 

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and then the blue bird of happiness came!

last night was a sucky evening... just a wee bit stressful, nothing serious.  Here.. I'll cut and paste what I wrote on face book...just to give you a good idea of how awesome it was to then find this freak'n sweet  package on my porch!  

 "what a screwed up evening.. stopped at the grocery store to get some lowfat cottage cheese, but picked up a WW watchers magazine and saw this fritata recipe, looked so good, I bought all the ingredients and headed home to make it.. beth called and asked me to watch torry while she got her hair done, so I turned around to go get him, then almost ran out of gas. Once home, he was so grumpy, tired and hungry I was trying to find him something to eat. He fell off the kitchen chair Hard on the side of his face and head... broke my heart.. I spilled grape juice.. made a mess making the fritata (how the heck do you spell that?) dropped a bunch of it on the floor while trying to get it out of the pan. It looked disgusting.. ... was hoping it would be ok... when I finally would get to eat it. in the mean time I made torry some scrambled eggs, which he proceeded to throw or drop on the floor.. after he left I tried my egg thing.. and it was disgusting. I threw the whole thing away. cleaned up the huge messes in the kitchen and ate watermelon, cottage cheese and half a grapefruit.. took two tylenol and now Im sitting her complaining! LOL.... its all good though.. now if the headache would just go away..."

Of course things calmed down afterwords and I went to bed early.. but I have to admit I was pretty shaken up by Torrys fall... I keep getting a sick feeling and my tummy still rolls every time I play it back in my mind.   And I was pretty ticked that I bought and wasted all the stuff to make that gross fritata....   but oh well.. life goes on, today is a new day.. and I have the sweetest little mushroom bird nest made for me by paintin Patti!!    I LOVE this patti.  thank you so much!

I hope everyone that participated has received their nests by now.  Ive had a lot of fun playing with nests this spring... wait.. did I say spring????   I think mother nature is very very confused...  there is frost out there this morning..  it snowed on mothers day!  what the heck is going on?  

I have to weigh in today and I need to wear very light weight springy clothes..  this weather aint work'n for that!  lol!

wish me luck on the scales.. If I could weigh in right now, Id be down two pounds...  maybe I should not eat today! lol.

have a happy day my friends!

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dollies, mothers and the winner!

how did we get to monday already?  the weekend went soo fast!  These little babies were my saturday morning finds at the doll show.  wow.. this year there just wasnt a lot calling to me!  I guess on one had thats a very good thing.. (the hand that carries the purse!  LOL.

Figgy and frannie, aka  the naughtie pies. (see them on the table??  nothing new.. they go there alot..  sorry to those of you repulsed by that.. but seriously,  it doesnt bother me...)  anyways, they wanted to check out the new babies.. I think figgys just checking out the competition for my attention!

Saturday afternoon and I cleaned and puttered and then had Rob, tiff and marla over for pizza bagels, as they were going to be unable to make it out to dinner with us for mothers day.   and DUH!!  I failed to take any pictures of marla pie! 

Yesterday, I puttered around and then went out to dinner with the other kids and torry pie.  Lets just say... Im afraid to weigh in tomorrow night!  I will surely be scrimping on my points the next two days~ lol!

I got sweet gifts from my kids, a parking pass to the beach... so awesome to have!  and some birds and birdnests and mushroomie type lovely things!  and of course dinner.. such a nice afternoon.. inspite of the blustery snowy, windy rainy weather.. and cold!!   This time, I remembered to take pics, but the lighting was goofy and they just didnt turn out well enough to post.

And so now,  I drew a name for the birdie print and it goes to Vintagebettys!  will you please send me your address my friend?   Hoping to get to the post office tomorrow or wednesday.

I never mailed my mothers day cards...   I have them sitting here ready to go.  I suck.  but really part of the reason was that I was trying to get a good picture of myself to stick in the cards and I must have taken 50 pictures over a few days last week and let me just tell you, I truly am not photogenic...  and then finally I got one that turned out pretty good.  probably just a fluke as I dont think I usually look like that! LOL!

anyways, this is the picture that im sending to my mother and step mother.  I did manage to call my mom last night and I will call my step mother today. 

 

for now, its time to get started on a new week and off I go to get ready for work..  such fun such fun... (that was sarcastic incase you couldnt tell but the tone of my typing! lol)  

happy day girlie pies!

Happy Mothers Day♥

(my mommy and two of my sisters)

Happy Mothers day to all my own mommy pies.. 

and all my mommy pals!

I hope everyone has a great day today.

(my daddy and my sweet step mother)

Hubby has to work today, so I'm starting my morning with some big band music blasting while I clean up this house!  yes, I'm cleaning on mothers day!  but it is what I want to do..  Then later we're going out to dinner at the Center St  Grill for some yummy bbq!

 

 (my awesome mother in law)

My eating plan for today... I'm going to have a grapefruit for now.. and try to hold off eating until about 11:00.. then I'm going to have scrambled eggs full of veggies and some toast to hold me over until we go to dinner.  I'll probably sneak an apple in around 2:00..   just trying to keep my points as low as possible so I can enjoy a yummy dinner tonight! 

have a lovely day everybody!

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needlefelting and a giveaway!

pooped out!  home from work at 5:30, made dinner and beth, Vanessa and Torry pie came over.  The girls wanted to learn how to needle felt.  So, I taught them to make birds!  they did a great job.

we made tiny birds!  but they are very sweet.  Its sort of hard to explain really, how to needlefelt.  You sort of have to explain it but then just let people get the feel for it and experiment with it.  I bet these girls could whip these birds right out now if they wanted too. 

And speaking of Birds...  I am making up a few of these.  A couple of them are gifts and one of them is a giveaway for my bloggy peeps!  I had meant to do a giveaway for my 1000th post.. but didnt get to it for some reason.

so, just leave comments and I'll pick a winner randomly this weekend!

for now, Im soooo tired.  I think I'll go take a nap on the couch before I go to bed! lol!

sweet dreams.. and happy Friday!!