Sports Camp and other warm weather fun…

Yep, Abbey is signed up for Sports camp in our town.  Its just a one hour a day, one day a week thing for the next month but it will be fun.  Abbey and her cousin Matt are signed up and it started today.  From what her Nana told me, this week was Soccer week and she quite enjoyed kicking the ball into the net.  She did not, however, totally get the concept of kicking the soccer ball around the cones…instead, she was trying to knock the cones down…LoL, I wish I’d been there to see that.  I will be off from work next Wednesday so my SIL and I will be taking the kids to Lacrosse day next week.  That should be fun, although I have to admit, I was sort of hoping that the one Sports camp day I had off would be on Football day…how funny would it be to see my three year old daughter playing football :)…tee hee!  Even better, she is also signed up for weekly Nature Workshops for pre-schoolers and tomorrow is Earthworm Day.  As it turns out, Abbey is quite a friend to the earthworms so I’m thinking she will enjoy tomorrow’s workshop quite a bit.  Look for some pictures next week of Abbey’s warm weather activities!

Happy Mother’s Day Weekend!

I hope all my Mom friends are enjoying a whole Mother’s Weekend instead of just a day…you deserve it :)!  MY Mother’s Day is tomorrow since Scottie is working Sunday afternoon and the morning is for his Mom and that night Abbey and I are joining the rest of the family for dinner out with my Mom. 

 Tonight’s plan was to finish Abbey’s presents for her grandmother’s.  I just came across two little heart shaped plastercraft sets I’d bought two years ago for Mother’s Day…at the time I opened the box and read the directions for the craft that lets you make a mold of your little one’s hand, “Be sure to keep your child’s hand still for 60-90 seconds until the gel mold sets”.  I read that and put it away…there was no way my 18 month old was going to keep her hand still for 5 seconds, nevermind 90.  Exactly what made me think I’d do much better at age 3 and a half I’m not quite sure.  The other night we did the gel molds…the more I told Abbey to keep her hands still the more she wiggled her fingers LoL.  Tonight I mixed the plaster and poured it over the gel mold, following the instructions exactly.  After a half hour I popped the plaster heart shape out of the mold and turned it over where the directions said I’d  have to pull out the gel mold with a butter knife.  So…I turn the mold over and its a perfectly smooth, plaster heart…no gel mold in sight.  You should have seen me excavating the mold of my daughter’s little hands out of the plaster, using the back end of a butter knife like a chisel.  I felt like an Archeologist at work LoL.  I’m sorry to say, however, that only one of the gifts survived my excavation…well, partially survived.  The good one has only four full fingers…a good portion of her pinky finger got chiseled right off, but the other one was worse off that that and ended up in about five pieces.  So tomorrow we’ll be scrambling to make another Mother’s Day gift before Sunday morning :)!    Hopefully I’ll get some breakfast in bed first LoL!

I’ve been Tagged!

I was tagged for this Me Meme by my buddy Vicki at the Adventures of Bittymand and Ittyboy. 

Here’s my answers…

What were you doing 10 years ago?

Planning our wedding!
Name 5 things on your to-do list today:

1. Make a Ziti for dinner tomorrow night.

2. Have Abbey finish her Mother’s Day Gifts for her Grandmother’s

3. Plant the Rosemary and Basil Plants I bought the other day.

4. Do at least a thirty minute walk on my lunch break.

5. Buy Mother’s Day Cards for Mom and MIL

What things would you do if you were a billionaire?

1. Buy a big house (but not a huge mansion)
2. Buy houses for my brother and sister and pay off the rest of the family’s houses.
3. Go on an Alaskan Cruise.
4. Plan a big family vacation, with the whole family, probably to Ireland. 
5. Hire a maid LoL!
6. Donate to many charities close to my heart.

 

Name 3 bad habits or qualities:

1. I bite my nails. 
2. I’m a packrat (but working on it). 
3. I’m the worst procrastinator ever.

Name 5 places you’ve lived:

1. Hampton, VA
2. Bronx, NY
3. Fishkill, NY 
4. Poughkeepsie, NY
5. Wappingers Falls, NY

Name 5 jobs you’ve had:

1. Craft Store stock girl
2. Summer Camp Arts and Crafts Teacher
3. Art Teacher
4. Bank Teller
5. Financial Svcs Rep

Name 5 books you’ve read recently:
(Books… recently… obviously a meme composed by someone without small children.)

1. The Very Shy Kitten
2. Elmo Loves You
3. William and His Little Kitten
4. Woman’s day Mag (ok, mags will have to count for this LoL)
5. Rachel Ray’s Magazine

Name 5 people you tag for this meme:

(OK, I don’t know that many people with blogs and Vicki already got a couple of the one’s I do know so I’m not going to make 5 :D)!

1. Katie
2. Suz

A Picture’s Worth 1000 Words…

When I saw there was a Motherhood Photo Contest  on Five Minutes for Mom, this is the first photo that came to mind!  A picture of my daughter and I when she was just 6 weeks old…seems like just yesterday and a hundred years ago all at once. 

ETA: It appears that I’m too late to enter the contest but what better photo to have up for Mother’s Day Week anyway.  Here’s a link to Five Minutes For Mom’s Mother’s Day Giveaway post with lots of giveaways you can enter to win.   

I Won! I Won!

I’m so excited that after spending hours last week checking out websites and entering many, many blog contests I found out the other day that I won the Family Game Night Package offered by Kristen at We are THAT Family  .  She offered a Very generous prize including six games, one of which is Risk, one of my families favorites (the fact that its the Transformers version means our younger nephews will probably be joining in too!).  Go check out her site, its very entertaining.  I’ll be adding her blog to my list of blogs to check on daily for sure! 

Spring Has Sprung…

Ahhh, Spring is finally here!  I did not spend one minute of the weekend doing any Spring cleaning either LoL.  There’s plenty of time for that on rainy days.  Instead we went to our library’s Earth Day celebration and made ‘Newspaper Nelson’s”, a little newspaper pillow with a face made of scraps of art supplies.  Then we got some sandwiches and had a fishing picnic…and Abbey caught a fish, with a little help from her Daddy.  I was a little worried about what she’d think about the worms we were using for bait, since she’s taken a shine to worms in general lately.  Meaning, when it rains and they make their way out onto the road, we have to rescue them and put them back in the dirt so they can ”Find their Mamas” as Abbey puts it.  Luckily she hasn’t figured out the fate of the bait worms yet, but when she does I’m guessing we’ll be using rubber worms or rolled up bits of bread instead LoL.    Anyway, we ended the day with some ice cream.  It was a perfect Spring Day!                        

More giveaways…

Katie over at Boasting in My Weakness is giving away a handmade tutu in your choice of colors …they are so cute!  And for those of you that have little boys there’s another giveaway just for you with some Bath and Bodyworks and beautiful, handmade washcloths to go with it.  You can check out all the great stuff she makes at her Etsy Store Zoe’s Couture Boutique  .  Go and check it out!

Free Toys!!

 

My buddy Suz from A Family, Created finds all the best giveaways!  Here’s the new one she posted today that is from the ladies at Five Minutes for Mom .  They’re giving away toys everyday for two weeks.  Todays Giveaway is for a Legos set.  Legos are one of the few toys that keep Abbey busy for ages.  She would love this one.  So, mosey on over there and check it out…there’s bound to be something your little one will love being given away as well :)!

We’re back…

We’re finally back and healthy!  Abbey came down with a stomach bug last Monday.  It lasted most of the day and the next day she was a bit better.  I was planning on going back to work last Wednesday when I woke up with it in the middle of the night.  The next day it was my Mom’s turn to come down with it and a few hours later Scottie got it.  The day after that it was MIL’s turn as well as my sister.  I have never seen a bug burn through our family so quickly.  Most of us just hardly ever get sick at all.  Thankfully we seem to be mostly back to normal.  Abbey isn’t throwing up anymore but she has other tummy issues the minute she strays from the BRAT diet it seems, but other than that we are doing much better. 

We ventured to the dentist today.  I am a total coward when it comes to the dentist for myself…when it comes to taking Abbey I’m a hundred times worse LoL.  She’s a real trooper though.  It seems God has a sense of humor…I can’t stand going to the dentist and he sent me a child who inherited a dental condition from her father’s side of the family called dentinogenisis imperfecta…translation: she will eventually need caps on all of her teeth.  For now, she’ll need to have four silver caps put in on the molars in the back, two on top and two on the bottom.    Today was a breeze…she just had a teeth cleaning.  The day we go for putting in the molars will not go so smooth I suspect.  Oh well, her father got through it and her cousins too so I guess she will too…me I’m not so sure about :).

On a brighter note Abbey got invited to her first real birthday party this weekend.  Up till now she’s only been to her cousins birthday parties and all her cousins are boys so she’s never been to a little girls birthday party at all.  This is a little girl that’s a neighbor at my parent’s house.  They play together at the park sometimes so it will be cute.  Its being held at one of those jumpy house places,  they just opened one right in town.  So that is our plan for Saturday…I don’t know whose more excited, Abbey or us LoL!

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