Ok, Maybe I'm Not Really Back Yet...

Well, I thought I was back and would get some bloggity-blog-blog blogging done, but maybe not. You see, I was taken hostage by these 2 really scary men (well, actually, boys) and they refuse to let me go and move out of my house for at least another 6-13 years. They just keep making messes, dirtying everything and bringing me endless stacks of paper from their daytime hideout that I can't seem to get a grip on. I am just buried under piles and piles of their mess and filth and I can't seem to break free! You think I'm kidding??? Well, I have pictures to prove it!


This one seems to be the ring leader. He's made this ferocious face so many times, that it seems to have frozen like this! Can you imagine having to look at this hideousness day-in and day-out? It's torture, I tell you! Can't you see the pleading in my eyes? Somebody.....please.....help.....



This guy may look small, but he seems to be the muscle of the group (think Joe Pesci). My gosh, just look at him! He pulls his own teeth out for fun! Just look at that grizzly smile. Have you ever seen anything so sinister?

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!

I don't have time to try and bore you with listing everything I've been up to during my 3 month hiatus, so I'm going to give you a quick run-down:

Yay, good Christmas!

Jenna came to visit for a couple weeks!

Lots of hockey!

Jenna flew back to her dad's house in California. :(


Lots of looking at houses for sale! Big, little, green, white, dirty, clean, good and bad.

AND THEN.....







We found this house:

Better Late Than Never!

I was tagged a while back by my blogger friend Beth @ This Crazy Thing Called Motherhood to list 6 random/quirky things about myself.

Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. List 6 unspectacular quirks you have- (as opposed to all my SPECTACULAR ones? lol)
4. Tag 6 bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each taggee's blog to let them know they've been tagged.


My 6 items:

1) I, like Beth, must take some TP and wipe off the toilet seat before I sit down. All 3 males in my house have driven me to have OCD when it comes to toilet seats. Doesn't matter where, when, seat liner or not, I HAVE to wipe off the seat first.

2) Kids with boogery/runny noses drive me crazy. If I didn't think the parents would report me to the authorities, I would grab every yucky nosed kid I came across and give them a good wipe down.

3) When I was pregnant with my oldest son, I would drink sauerkraut juice out of the pan I cooked it in.

4) I really want to get some chickens.

5) I haven't washed my hair in months, based on the 'Curly Girl' method.

6) I bake my own bread.

Who I'm tagging:

1) Caffeinated Cowgirl

2) Happy Meals & Happy Hour

3) April Showers

4) Thirtysomething Reality

5) I Am Boymom

6) Biblical Homekeeping

On the blog again.... Just can't wait to get on the blog again...

Wow, I have been SLACKIN' on this blog! You see, I was abducted by aliens... Why, yes, they were the little green ones! They took me to their planet and wanted me to be their queen, where I'd do nothing all day except eat whatever I wanted (with no adverse reactions) and watch cheesy TV shows while they waited on me hand and foot. But, alas, I had to refuse their offer. "I cannot stay here another minute! There is food to be cooked, dishes to be washed, clothes to be laundered, medicine to be handed out to every sick member of my family, and poop to be cleaned off the shower walls!" (Yes, that does really say poop.) (Don't ask...) (Well, if you really want to know, you can ask.) So, they promptly returned me to my little slice of heaven.

Okay, I wasn't REALLY abducted by aliens, but I'm sure some of you might've already guessed that. I've been working as a substitute aide at my kids' school, so I've had about 20 less hours a week for blogging and what-not. So, I'm sorry if anyone felt neglected during my absence, but I had pre-schoolers to attend to. They even made me a card!







So, I gotta say that this made all the nose wiping (theirs and mine, since I'm sick now too.) worth it! Next week, I'll be starting my new job at our daycare center in town, so I'll have even less time to blog, but I'll try to figure out something, sometime, somehow, so that months don't go by without blogging. But for now, I must try to catch up on my blog reading!

My Kidney Stone

Okay, I'm sure this is probably TMI, but I'm posting a pic of my kidney stone that I passed lastnight. I found out a few weeks ago that I have 5 of them, so I've now decreased my amount of kidney stones by 20%. As soon as I found out what was causing my unusual pain, I started drinking my required 8 glasses a day, which is actually 64 ounces more water than I would normally drink. So, now I'm saving my rocky little friend to take to the urologist next week to be analyzed. I'm hoping that they'll tell me that the only way to prevent more of them is to increase my intake of frozen dairy products (preferably chocolate flavored). And one thing that totally amazed me about my stone is that when you look at it in the light, you can see little shimmery sparkles. I'm assuming they're some sort of mineral deposits like you sometimes see in rocks, but dadgummit, if all my poor eating and self-dehydration didn't create just the purtiest little stone! I'm wondering if I can't make some sort of bracelet after I pass the other 4, so that I have something to show for all my hard work!

My Bloggy Shout-Out!

As I was browsing through my favorite blogs, checking out some new ones, I noticed something that made my day! I know what you're thinking. "Alicia, your house is a mess, there's laundry and dishes to be done, not to mention the fact that you've got an accumulative total of 32 years of your children's memories to scrapbook, AND boxes that haven't even been un-packed from your move a year ago. Do you really think you have all the time in the world to be checking out MORE blogs???" Okay, well, no I don't. But, what I DO have is an unhealthy obsession with reading about other people's lives. I don't know if all you ladies know it or not, but y'all are pretty dang funny! See, now you have me off-topic and I'm rambling on like a crazy person, talking to people who aren't even speaking to me. OKAY, so what made my day, was that I was on This Crazy Thing Called Motherhood and Beth has me on her list of favorite blogs! I feel like I just won an Academy Award and received my little naked gold statue! Although, this does crank on some pressure to try to be witty and entertaining in all my blogs. Now, I have to keep up a certain standard of blogging for fear that I may be 86'ed from her list of favorites. This may set off a whole new set of issues...

New Post: No Time to Read!

Okay, I'm just blogging cuz I haven't for a few days. Drove to Omaha to pick up my daughter and father-in-law from the airport today. I was actually lucky enough to get their flights scheduled within 2 hours of each other. Praise God, the weather was perfect(meaning no tornados or threat of)! FIL here for a week and daughter here for 5 weeks. Not sure if I'll have any other time to blog for the rest of the week, and it seems like on the blogs I normally read, they're blogging like 3 times as much and I have NO time to read them right now. I think I may be suffering from blog-stalking withdrawals. So, if everyone could just have un-exciting, un-eventful lives for at least the next week, so that I can catch up on my blog reading, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks to y'all in advance!