Blessing someone else

Today isn't just any other day. It's my birthday!! Woo hoo! At 12:01 this morning, my Cy turned his body towards me and said, "Happy Birthday Baby Cakes". Thankfully, I was barely awake and coherent and heard him and said, "Thank You". Then I turned over to my side and closed my little eyes. It's funny, how since we've been married - we have been doing the same exact thing to each other...wishing each other birthday wishes at midnight on each others birthday. It's sweet and thoughtful.

I started the day out with another Happy Birthday from my sweet boy Evan. Though he had his eyes closed, lying in his bed, daddy whispering in his ear to tell me "something" -- he blurted out "Happy Birthday Darby-Darby-Dump". That's his little pet name he calls me sometimes. I call him "Tweets". I'm sure you mothers out there have some nicknames for your kids too! It's a good start when Evan wakes up happy and willing to eat his breakfast. Sometimes we have those days where we have to get on him about getting up. It usually ends up with him crying, and moving even slower in the morning. It's very frustrating...and for Cy, it's worse, since he's in charge of getting Evan up, ready and out the door for school. I can blog about that in another blog entry, but I'll spare you.

I made some birthday brownies, and took them to work - sharing the love to my coworkers; at least to the ones who are in the office. :)

My day is going well and frankly, got a little bit better after I went to Publix this morning. Our Pepsi machine at the office is out of soda, so I had to make a mad dash to Publix. Got what I needed, then waited in line. This guy was in front of me and had lots of baby food jars. Oh, how I remember those days. Anyway, long story short, we had a few words between each other about baby stuff, yada, yada, yada. Turns out his credit card wasn't working, so he told the cashier he would be back. Well, it was my turn and the lady started ringing me up and so forth. So, I asked her how much was that guys stuff, she told me and I said, you know what - Let me bless that man, I'll pay for his stuff. She was like, really? I said, yeah, here, let me pay for it, but don't tell him who paid. So, I did and the bagger took the guy's bags to him (he was near the doorway or something on his phone). He kept asking who paid for his stuff, blah, blah, blah - the bagger gave in and pointed to me and I was walking out the door. BUSTED! Well, he was so thankful and kept saying, no, you can't do that - blah, blah, blah. I told him I wanted to bless him, and not to worry about it. And he kept saying no. Turns out, he's the owner of this new pizza place near my work and he gave me his card and said - consider this a gift certificate! So, while I was blessing him, he turned around and blessed me back!! Is that how its suppose to work? LOL! It was all good...

My birthday keeps getting better and better! When I got back to work, I was greeted with a wonderful surprise. A beautiful plant delivered from my parents. Thanks Mom and Dad! So "Hawaiian" looking. Hah! Can't wait to have a yummy birthday dinner at Miyabi's Japanese Steakhouse tonight. I'm actually excited that Evan will be going too! The last time he went to a teppanyaki sit down -- he freaked out! So, now that he's older...I'm sure he'll be alert and will have fun watching the chef cook our food in front of us. I'll blog about that later!

Here's the picture of my beautiful flower plant my parent's sent me. And the other photo is of Evan with a baby Alpaca. I took this last month - Ms. Lynn (Evan's previous sitter) has neighbors who have Alpaca's. Well, one of them was pregnant and we had a chance to see the new baby Alpaca. She was so cute and soft.

Who's your acorn?

Well, I'm ready for the fall -- come on already!!

This morning, as I was getting ready for work, Evan came running into my room - jumped into my bed and hid himself under the covers. I can tell the boy did not want to wake up! I greeted him with a morning hug (he's still under the covers) and was so tempted to jump in the bed too! He was so warm...I told him he was an acorn, and I'm the squirrel. I'm going to bury him until the spring! His reply, "okay mommy". We have tons of squirrel's in our yard due to the many trees that surround our house. And those trees have lots of acorns. The squirrels have daily parties at our house. We know, because we hear them up on our roof just prancing away and then occasionally, we hear acorns dropping. Either there's a squirrel up in the tree shaking the branches, or the squirrels have dropped their acorns on our roof. I'm telling you...there's plenty to go around!

Boy, I wish I was a bear so that I can hibernate. I know as the weather gets cooler, I'll be the one still in the bed not wanted to get up.

I'm thankful for a short work week. We have tons of stuff going on this weekend. Actually, we've been quiet busy these past few weekends. Cy has been working on putting in a new drainage field in our backyard. Poor guy...he's worked so hard. He has been up before the sun rises and doesn't come back into the house until well after dark. Last night he got in at 1:30 this morning. I know we're saving a lot of money doing this work ourselves - removing four huge trees, trenching ditches, cutting concrete, pounding asphalt pavement, installing new PVC drain pipes from our septic tank, etc. We've saved thousands of dollars doing it and I know in the end, we'll be a happy family again. Just two more days until it's over!!! I'll post some pics on my Picasso picture site. Check it out:

I'm doing my part by staying out of the way and watching Evan. Well, Evan and I did help out a little bit on Sunday. Who's going to move the big tree branches out of the way? Somebody has to do it! So, after taking our Sunday nap - Evan and I ventured out to the backyard and helped drag the branches to the street. It was a good bit and I tell you, I was wiped out afterwards. We were pretty proud of ourselves and stayed out until dark. While we did that, Cy continued to move the big tree trunks out of the way. He used the bobcat for that job!

There's so much stuff going on....it'll be a while before I can get you all up to speed on my life. Until next time - who's your acorn?

Blogs! Blogs! Blogs!

So, I've been keeping up with my daily blogs. Well, not MY OWN personal blog, but other peoples blogs and they have inspired me. I need to get to it! I'll try my best to write random, not-so-meaningful thoughts about life. I just feel I don't have the time to do it. But, I'll try.

Most recent funny thing my son Evan has said. I was holding our friend's baby, Joseph and I asked Evan to look at him asked if Joseph was cute. Evan's reply, "Yes, he's cute, can I pet him?". And he said it with a serious face. Of course I burst out laughing...b/c dude - we have cats and everything that is small in hand, Evan relates to our cats - particularly Pickles. So, that's a funny that will go in his scrapbook!

I'm excited about going somewhere in August. Not sure WHERE we're going, but we're going somewhere! LOL... From the blogs I've read, everyone has been going to the beach. I too would like to go to the beach - just as long as its a beach where I can see my feet in the water. The only place on the east coast is Florida. So, maybe we'll go to FL. Who knows...I do know I want to get away.

I know, this is a boring blog entry. It's almost 4:30 and I'm on empty right now. I'm drinking 6 hour old coffee that I had to reheat a few times. That's how bad it's been today. Tick, tick, tick...time to go pick Evan up. :) Woo hoo!

Okay - so I tried to attach a picture with this post, but it doesn't seem to be working. Oh well..I'll try again tomrorow.

Proud Mama of a 4 year old Boy

It's Evan's birthday today! Wow - 4 years has just flown by. Actually, he doesn't officially turn 4 until 9:26 pm tonight. But hey, let him enjoy his day.

He woke up this morning in a very good mood. He said, "I'm FOUR" - today is my birthday. It was so cute. I reminded him that now that he's four, he's even a bigger boy and four-year olds don't suck on their thumbs. Yeah, way to go me -- tactfully using child psychology on him. ;) He agreed and went on his merry way.

I made cupcakes (rainbow ones) for him to take to Ms. Lynn's house. When we arrived, there was a "Happy Birthday" sign and then another sign that said Happy Birthday Evan. So cute. She also decorates the house when its some one's birthday.

We head off to Chuckee Cheeses tonight for a dinner birthday. We're also meeting Evan's "twin" Greer and her family. Greer is four hours older then Evan. When they are together, its like having twins! In the past, we have had joined birthday parties for Greer and Evan. But this year, we scheduled it separately. Greer had her party at Monkey Business last Sat., and this Sat., Evan will have his at our house. We're pretty excited....I'm still contemplating on making a cake or buying a cake. I planned on making a custom snake cake, but then Evan decided he wants a Hippo cake. He's into hippos now. Anyway -- what to do? You'll have to see....I'll post pics up after his party.

On another note...we are still looking for a van. Preferable a Toyota Sienna (yr. 2000 & up). Anybody know of anyone selling one locally? We'd travel maybe 2 hours radius from our house to find a good deal. Let me know.

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Random Thoughts

• Happy that my friend April had her baby. Welcome baby girl Piper Louise. I'm thankful that she had a great delivery.


• Stayed up late last night and watched "The Dark Knight" - it was rather long & dark.


• Oh, I'm happy that Cy shaved his head. Yes - for 48 hours he had blond hair. It was rather amusing. I couldn't believe he did that - but he did. Must be a "mid-life" crisis or something.


• I find that Evan is growing and growing and getting bigger and bigger everyday. He's starting to answer back and well, gives some attitude too. I'm sure this is normal for a almost four year old.


• I can't believe it'll be Easter already. Time is just flying by....


• Our little garden is doing well, and the tomatoe plants and sweet banana pepper plant are also growing and doing well. We water them almost everyday.

That's all for random thoughts.

Pictures above are Cy bleaching his hair, Evan's reaction, the end results and "Garfield" shaved.

Below: Evan and Gigi - he put my pink pearl necklace around her head...poor girl!

Should I ignore it or say something?

Didn’t think anything about it until I got to work. I’m wearing green today. Frankly, I don’t care about St. Patrick’s Day. I definitely don’t have Irish in me at all. To me, it’s just another day. Note to self – don’t go to the Vista when St. Patty’s Day is celebrated. Over the weekend, we decided to get a bite to eat at Monterrey’s near my office. Uh – yeah – bad decision. Little did we know that the Five Points crowd were making their way to the Vista and already arrived. The waiter directed us to the back corner booth. We thought, hey, that’s cool. It’s in the corner – no sweat. WRONG! First next to us were a bunch of girls just gaggling over random stuff. Of course all dressed in green. Evan kept staring at the one girl who had a green headband on her head. Guess he was trying to figure out the bonging green clovers on her headband. Whatever.

The trouble became clear as soon as we reached our table. A group of six were sitting diagonally from us, and clearly they were all drunk. Cursing and foul language permeated from that table. I as a parent thought, hummm this isn’t good. My 3 year old is in his “repeat after me” stage, and it would be horrible, just horrible if he started repeating, WTF and what a B** all the time. Ah, yeah – no way. Did I mention we were super hungry? So, what’s a parent to do, but to say something. I told the waiter, um, I think we’re not going to stay. He asked why, I told him we hear some inappropriate language and its just not something I want my child to be hearing. He said, do you mean the table behind me. Yes, I said. He then said, I will talk to the manager and do something. Don’t worry, we’ll take care of it. I thought to myself, man – I remember when I was single and this stuff didn’t bother me. I just let it roll of my shoulders. Totally different when you have a kid. TOTALLY!

You know what happened next, right? The manager goes over to the table (thankfully, they were finished eating and just killing time to head to the next destination to get even more drunk), starts talking and then leaves. Next thing you know, the guy who is like totally wasted already gets even louder. Is making a scene, making comments such as asking which table is it, rude comments about Mexicans, etc. Ah – yeah, I’m not Mexican dude. One of girls chimes in and starts going at it. In the end - the left (thankfully). But then more drunk patrons started coming in for dinner. We finished our dinner and left. We exposed our son to such vulgar bad language. AAHHHHH!!

I DID SAY SOMETHING and felt better about it too!