Rainy Days

It's a very rainy day in my neck of the woods. I didn't have any plans today, so I don't mind. Rain makes everything so pretty and green this time of year.


My rainy day has consisted of playing with kids, reading blogs, and drinking coffee.

(Note the coffee mug.. It's the one I won in Brittany's contest awhile back. I forgot to post a picture of it before.)

Today is my little brother Wesley's PROM! I cannot believe it. I feel like I just had my own prom, and here he is going to his, about to graduate from high school and go off to college. He and his girlfriend Mia went together with a group of kids from their school. They were going out to eat somewhere, and then to the prom, then afterward my parents were brave enough to agree to allow all of them to go back to their house.

My mom went with Wes to meet everyone at a girl's house to take pictures. She thinks she got some good ones so as soon as she e-mails them to me I'll share them with you all. I gave him about 10 speeches this past week about being a gentleman and making this night special for Mia. I better get a good report from her... I've tried to raise him well but sometimes I worry!

My girls are throwing Lego's everywhere so I'd better end this. Have a great Friday!

Making up for lost time

I like rain when it's warm outside, but not when it's 40-something degrees. There is nothing more miserable than being cold and soaked with rain. Luckily I don't need to leave the house today. We're having a nice, lazy morning. My mom is going to stop by around 3 to bring Summer her bunny. Harley chewed it's eyes off so my mom took it home and fixed it. I'm baby-sitting Xavier today, but not until 6pm. The whole baby-sitting thing is going well, but tonight should be interesting. My SIL closes tonight so she may not be here to pick him up until after midnight, and I am TIRED.

Yesterday, my friend Nicole brought me her copy of Twilight. I have heard people talking about this book and now the movie, non-stop, and I finally gave in to see what the fuss was about. I enjoy reading, but I've never been into the whole vampire thing. I had my doubts that I would even be able to get through the book. Well, I was wrong. I read the entire 498 pages last night, from 10:30 pm to 4:56 am. I was exhausted, with blurry vision and a headache, but I could not put it down! It is worth the hype, amazingly. I'm curious to see if the movie is as good as the book. I doubt it will be, since they usually never are, but I'm still excited to see the characters I read about in action.

I was a horrible blogger last week. I just had blogger burnout, I think. I'm recovered now, so hopefully I can get back to regular posting. This week was uneventful, as was this weekend. The most exciting thing that happened was that we rented a carpet cleaner from Kroger and cleaned our living room carpet. I wish I had taken before and after pictures. It looks brand new now! I'm so happy, because the disgusting juice and whatever the heck else mystery stains we're really grossing me out. I hate messy, dirty houses. If my house is dirty or things are not where they belong, I feel out of sorts, so that dirty carpet was really messing with my feng-shui.

Summer and Camryn are both doing great, and being their adorable selves. Summer is doing about the same as far as her drops, but her eye looks SO much better. Her eyelid isn't drooping anymore, she almost looks normal. Camryn is starting to say more words. Her newest is "help me!" It sounds more like "Heh meee!" though. She is still obsessed with bananas. She would eat 25 bananas a day if I would let her. Here's our stock for the week:


Summer's fruit of choice is apples. We have to have plenty of those, too.


At least they like healthy stuff :-)

So on Friday, I was in the kitchen cleaning, and I thought Summer and Camryn were both napping in their room. I had put them both down maybe 30 minutes before, and hadn't heard a sound. Camryn started fussing, so I went in to check on her. Summer wasn't in there. I went into the living room and found her sitting amongst this:

Yea... those are tampons. She had somehow sneaked out of her room and closed the door behind her without me noticing, and gotten into the one drawer in the house that doesn't have a baby-proof latch on it. I guess I can't blame her, tampons are pretty interesting if you don't know what they're for. When I was little, I threw them in water and watched them expand for fun.

Camryn has the most bizarre habit. I mean, I guess the concept isn't bizarre, just the way she does it. She has always taken her socks off. Constantly. I can never keep socks on her. And now I know why. She is absolutely obsessed with picking lint out from between her toes. She will pick it out, hold it to her nose for probably 30 seconds, and then put it back. Every single time. It's strangely cute. On Saturday she had on tights under her skirt and got SO MAD when she realized she couldn't take the tights off to find some lint. She pulled at them as hard as she could and said, "Hehhhh meeeeeee!!!"


Joe did get a deer last weekend when he went hunting. He got an 8-point buck. I think that means it's antlers had 8 hook things on them.

I can't stand to look at that poor deer's face, and I didn't want to subject you guys to it either. We had the meat processed and went to pick it up on Saturday. Our freezer is now full.


This has taken me absolutely forever to type, and it is now lunchtime. I'd better end this now, before Summer realizes she's hungry. She's not one to wait on her food!