Proof that N is truly my boy (not that I need any)

Every night as part of N's bedtime routine we snuggle up and I have to guess based on him giving me hints, as to what happened at school that day.

Yesterday one of his stories covered off other kid's lunch choices.

N was particularly grossed by one classmate's constant eating of those little canned weiners. Apparently N's classmate eats them all the time.

If this wasn't bad enough, he tends to wave them around on his fork while talking and drops them all over the place. And yup, he picks them up and eats them.

I have a huge dislike of canned weiners. Especially after seeing (at lunch one day with friends from work at McDs.) a women eating them cold out of the can. Yuck!

90 posts and counting

Yikes has it been over ten days since my last post? I can't believe it. Where has the time gone?

A few reasons why I haven't written anything lately in my online journal
- September 7 (the day of my last posting) was my 22nd wedding anniversay. I could say I have been soooo busy celebrating and thus tooooo busy to post. But then I would be lying.
- Blog block (I just can't get past a title)
- Work, work and more work
- crazy hockey Mom syndrome (hockey try outs start this week)
- too busy cleaning up green puppy puke (Eddy has thrown-up three times this week. We bought him a new green, rubber puppy toy. Hence the green puke.)

Crabby Friday

I'm crabby today.

I think it is because I'm not feeling well (cause I am overtired) but everything is just irritating me – my hair, my coworkers (only certain ones), my clothing.

You name it and yup it's bugging me.

The cloudy weather isn't helping and the fact that everything is going wrong at work today.

I should have just stayed home.

I think I just need to watch some TLC. A little "Baby Story" or "Bringing baby home" always makes me feel better. For me it is not so much about seeing the babies (even though there are some cute ones) but I LOVE to see how people decorate their homes.

It’s soccer playoff time…

and we whipped the one team we didn't beat all season last nite. I believe some gloating needs to happen. Our boys played hard, didn't give up and listened to us coaches (not that I know anything about coaching soccer). It was such a fun game to watch.

The win is all the more sweeter cause the team we beat played two kids for the whole game (and sat out two other kids) which, for so many reasons is sooo wrong. I know this happens but this is a developmental soccer league and this type of play is against league rules. The two kids are awesome soccer players but they just ran out of steam.

Our next playoff game is Friday. We were trying to decide if N would be at this game or not. He has three events happening on Friday and of course all are at the same time – hockey camp windup (where there will be food and N loves to eat), a soccer playoff game and a b-day invite. It looks like N will be going to the birthday party as the girl's parents are renting a hummer limo and driving the kids around town. Oooh...

Kraft magazine recipe update
I did manage to make one recipe from the summer mag. It was for the Oreo and Fudge Ice Cream "Cake". N and his friends loved it but I found it a little too sweet.

Hopefully the fall recipe mag will be in my mailbox soon!

Ikea catalogue
The 2008 catalogue arrived yesterday. I spent every free moment scanning the pages. I may even actually order a chair from Ikea (see photo below). This chair isn't my first choice. I really, really love a red leather chair at another furniture store, but it is $1000.

You can remove the cover on the Ikea chair and wash it. This is a good thing.