New Gal at Work

Someone new started today in my office. She is not going to be working in our office rather she is covering two other counties doing the same job I have. I guess in this economy in Michigan she should be happy she found a job at all. She is a nice girl. Never worked in non profit so she has a lot to learn. It will be fun teaching her the ropes. Tomorrow is a very long day. We have hubby's dads by pass surgery, I have meetings galore, Emily get her hair cut, I have to golf and we have our first meeting with other parents for the preschool class. I tell you I am nervous for this pre school meeting. I guess this is where the parents size each other up and decide who their 3 year old can play with. Man this school stuff is tough! I will let you all know how it goes. Wish us luck! I told Hubby he needed to shave for this event!

Whoa its Friday!?!

Wow were has my week gone. I cant believe it is Friday already. This week has been pretty ho hum. Not a lot of excitement. I guess that is good. Anytime there is no excitement with two 3 1/2 year olds, and hubby that is a good week. Needless to say my blog has been suffering. I am excited about one thing I just made an appt for a pedicure. I have not had one all season so I saw a flyer for a girl in the town just to the north. Someone new. I always enjoying trying out new places so why not while I'm having my feet done up. So look for a post of that next week. Other than that I have very little plans this weekend. I hope it is sunny! Last weekend before our big trip to Philly for my friends wedding. Oh that will be another fun blog topic. See I guess it just one of those weeks. Next week is jammed packed! Have a great weekend!

We survived July 4

Well the big weekend has come and gone. With Hubby owning a business in a tourist destination it leaves the kids and I to single parent on these wonderful Summer holiday weekends. Honestly Memorial Day, July 4 and Labor Day are not a lot of fun in my book. Oh Well! So this weekend the kids and I did the following. We helped clean the pool at Nana and Poppos house. I figure we use it we should clean it! We went to two fireworks displays. Hubby did attend these with us. The kids were not that into it except the finale. I must say Silver Lake did a bang up job this year! We went to the Ludington Parade. Oh this was a doozy! They gave out free pints of ice cream from the local Ice Cream factory! Now that was a good parade. The kids also got so many frozen Popsicles they could not eat them so I brought them home and refroze them.. Who says I am not thrifty! Also at the end of the parade is the Scottville Clown band. This is a group of men who enjoy playing Brass instruments very well and dress up in crazy costumes. Not the pictures most of them are in drag...HMMM? We also had a chance to swim in the pool it finally warmed up enough on Sunday to take a dip. Oh we were also in the nursery on Sunday at church. The kids decided to stay with me in the " baby room" They entertained the one baby. We had fun. So needless to say the holiday weekend was packed full of fun. Oh did I mention I managed to get sunburned too. Oh well we have a wedding coming up and I need some color any color will do. Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Miracle

Last year in case you did not know was my first year playing golf. Something I thought I would not enjoy but actually it has become one of my favorite things to do when we have a babysitter. So I played on a league last year with my neighbor also owner of the golf course. Pretty convenient. So she gave me pointers. I struggled was awful had fun though. Guess What!

We just finished our first half of the league for this summer. We WON! Yes I actually contributed to our team effort and we won the first half. This is a miracle. So who ever wins the second half will play us in the last week. Do you understand that we could win the league! That is just crazy!!!

Where do they come up with these things!

Emily our three year old daughter is in love with anything Dora. Swim Dora Doll, Dora Sheets, Dora Backpack you name it I think we have it . Well the other day we were shopping and last year she had PJ's with Dora on them. Background- This summer she saw the old Dora PJ's that are a tad to small considering she has grown 6 inches. So needless to say they did not fit. I promised her if we saw new Dora PJ's I would buy them. Well guess what my own baby elephant did not forget and the other day in Meijers guess what Dora PJ's. Except this was not pants/ shorts it was a nightgown. She has never had a nightgown. She is our freezing cold child. So nightgowns are not a good option. Oh no she saw it she had to have it! So I purchased it for an outrageous amount of $ for 3 year old PJ's. took them home washed them and we were happy as little clams. Fast forward a few days later Zach my other three year old, Emily and I are reading stories before bed. Zach asks Emily " WHERE ARE YOUR PANTS EMILY?" I about lost it half way through Green Eggs and Ham when Emily responded in her three year old know it all voice.... "Zach this is gown. YOU DONT WEAR PANTS". End of conversation. Hubby laying on the floor of the room just about peed his pants. AHH from the mouths of babes.

Bedtime Bribes

We have two children who just hate to go to bed. Once they are in bed they are down for the count but convincing them to stay in bed is another story. With summer time here the whole it is getting dark out theory is out the window. Last night a prime example. After Zach finally decided swimming in the pool is fun when I told him time to hit the bathtub and then PJ time at 8:20 Pm he turned around looked at the sun still shining and stated but mom it is still daytime we dont go to be during the day and proceeded to jump into the pool.( Life jacket on!) Ok so we have been working on getting them to go to bed and stay in bed. I have finally found a bride that works! YEAH! we have created a sticker chart. Each night they go to bed reasonably well ( for us that means only getting out of bed 4 or 5 times to ask for something) they get a sticker. The other night. Zach was on his last time out of bed. Hubby eloquently stood by his bed and told him that his sister has gone to bed and is getting a sticker. If he does not stay in bed no sticker for him and she will have more stickers than him. Let me tell this did the trick. Peer pressure worked perfectly! He went to bed and Hubby was all smiles as he told me what he said. I only hope that our little plan that we have hatched continues to work. If all else fails we will swim till 9:00 Pm until they are so exhausted they will fall into bed. When winter comes that will be another story!

Summer has arrived

Well we are hoping summer has arrived. We have endured a long cool spring but the weather has finally turned for the warmer and the kids, Hubby and I headed to my parents pool. If you are not familiar with my life. My parents relocated to Michigan from Ohio last fall. They found a cute little house just 5 mins from us with a bonus an in ground pool. This has been a treat since my parents never thought they would own a house with a pool. The kids are super excited. So yesterday while hubby was watching the kids they had an outing and purchased life jackets. Emily's is princess and Zach is spider man. Oh boy were they excited when I got home. Emily practically ate dinner in hers. So when I mentioned going to swim they were practically tripping over each other to get up the stairs to get their suits. The water was chilly but that did not stop the Emily. She was right in there and swam all around. Zach was a little more timid but enjoyed going down the slide and jumping off the diving board. We had a good time. I will post pics here later. We are hoping for some nice hot weather to warm things up to being the enjoyment of the pool. Any local friends just let us know when you want to swim!