On Sunday morning our Pastor played a very interesting video, of course that was when I had to get up so I missed it. However David said it was really good and found it on youtube. Anyway I thought I would post it and see what y’all thought about it.
I received some interesting mail today. I don’t know about where you live but a few months ago at major intersections they installed cameras to enforce red light safety. And can you guess who violated this safety rule–yes that’s right me. It seems that last Tuesday I was caught on camera going through a red light. Now please before any of you out there jump down my throat this is not a normal thing I do and to be honest I don’t recall doing that. What I do recall is trying to shop for Easter outfits and Monkey not being very cooperative; I know that no excuse. Just to make sure that it was me I had to go back to the calendar and sure enough I was the one who had the car that day, crap now I have to tell David. Well surprisingly enough he wasn’t mad but did tell me to be more careful. Oh and to make it worse you can go on the website and watch the video and you know what I never slowed down! I still can’t believe it and yes I’m mad at myself. I know what was going thru my mind “must hurry home before I lose my mind” because from what I do remember is Monkey throwing a fit and Sweet Pea yelling at him to be quiet. Oh and the price of this ticket is $75.
Before I go for any of you that are reading this and plan on leaving me some type of rude comment-don’t. I’m not a reckless person nor am I perfect and it just so happens that I made a mistake. Anyway hopefully everyone is having a good week.
Tracy tagged me for a meme the other day because she knows how much I like to do them and it gives me something to write about without having to think of something–so here it goes.
1. What is your occupation?
I’m a sahm to two beautiful kids who keep me on my toes and are the light of my life.
2. What color are your socks?
They are fuzzy pink and white stripped socks.
3. What are you listening to right now?
I’m on the phone so no music right now.
4. What was the last thing you ate.
Corn Pops for breakfast-yumm.
5. Can you drive a stick shift?
No, unless you count the fact that every time I’ve tried I’ve stalled a million times.
6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? If I could be any color it would be Scarlet, I love the color red and there are times when I think of myself as bold and sassy (sometimes anyway).
7. Last person you were on the phone with?
I’m talking to my sister right now.
8. Do you like the person that sent this to you?
Hmmm let me think-of course I do that’s why I always tag her and have her on my sidebar.
9. Favorite Drink?
Non-Alcoholic: Coke; I have to have one everyday. Alcoholic: Crown and Coke
10. What is your favorite sport to watch?
I like to watch football and sometimes soccer and hockey. But don’t think I understand everything that going on.
11. Have you ever dyed your hair?
So many times that I don’t like my “natural” hair color which is black. I think it washes my face out so if anything it’s a med-dark brown color. However that being said I think I want to go and get my hair done–I’m think black hair with purple highlighted near the front. I saw a girl yesterday at luch and I loved it.
12.Pets?
No not right now, I don’t feel like having to potty train a dog and my Monkey at the same time.
13. Favorite Food?
I love, love, love Italian.
14. Last movie you watched?
I watched Little Women the other night; I like the movie and the book.
15. Favorite day of the year?
Ok I have a few: my birthday, the kid’s birthday, my anniversary.
16. What do you do to vent anger?
I call my sister who is always there to listen and sometimes I’ll blog about it.
17. What was your favorite toy as a child?I loved Barbies, Cabbage Patch, Rainbow Brite, My Little Pony, and Care Bears-gee was a kid of the 80’s or what.
18. What is your favorite? Fall or Spring?
That’s a tough one but I prefer Fall because I love the cool weather.
19. Hugs or Kisses? Both thank you.
20. What kind of pie?
I have two Apple and Cherry.
21. Living arrangements?
Right now we live with David’s parents out in the country.
22. When was the last time you cried?
Last week, I was having a bad day and David and the kids just seemed to be hitting all the wrong buttons.
23. What is on the floor of your closet?
Let’s see, boxes, shoes, blankets, and a big duffle bag.
24. Who is the friend you’ve had the longest that you are tagging?
Catwoman, next to Tracy she’s the other blogger I’ve known the longest.
25. The friend that you have known the shortest amount of time that you are tagging?
Jessica, she’s my newest blogging buddy who I think is awesome and she liked to do meme’s. 26. Favorite smell?
I love the smell of babies; there is just something so sweet and pure about the way babies smell.
27. What inspires you?
I love books.
28. What are you afraid of?
Aside from roaches because they are creepy gross, I don’t want to look back at my life and have a lot of regrets.
29. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers?
Cheeseburger please with ketchup, lettuce, and tomatoes.
30. Favorite cat breed?
I don’t know the name of the breed but I want a ginger colored cat.
31. Number of keys on your key ring?
I only have two but there are like 4 or 5 key chains on there.
32. How many years at your current job?
I’m going on 3 1/2 years right now.
33. Favorite day of the week?
Fridays
34. How many provinces have you lived in?
A few.
35. How many countries have you been to?
Only one the U.S.
Alright so last night David and I finally watched Beowulf, and it wasn’t at all what I had expected. I did know that it would be all done in CGI and I thought that it looked pretty cool, however, I didn’t know that it wouldn’t follow the poem. I remember reading this poem a long time ago and it was never one of my favorites-I thought it was a little boring. Anyway while watching the movie I started thinking this is not how I remember the poem being, so of course after the movie I went and googled Beowulf and sure enough I was right. The movie wasn’t really like the poem at all, I mean sure they had followed some of the stuff but overall they changed quite a bit. Well David liked it but couldn’t see why I bothered me so much since I didn’t really like the poem all that much. All I can say is that I’m one of those people that when you read something and they then make a movie it should pretty much follow the storyline. I mean what would you think if you were watching Romeo and Juliet and in the end they are both alive and live happily ever after–sure it would be nice but that’s not how the story goes and I would hate it. Oh and speaking of Romeo and Juliet I didn’t like the remake of it with Claire Danes and Leo DiCaprio.
Hopefully all of y’all had a great Valentine’s Day. As for me it was pretty good; David was off and I was able to take care of some errands. He then topped off the day by making dinner-which was nice. Other than that all it well. Ok I take that back because right now Monkey is acting like a major brat-he’s throwing a tantrum for reasons unknown to me. And frankly this isn’t how I like to start off my morning.
On to some better news I’m looking forward to Sunday because that’s when I go to visit my mom and sister for a few days. I’m only taking Monkey although at this point he may stay home. Anyway I’m only taking him because they haven’t really had one-on-one time with him which means David and Sweet Pea will be hanging out and having fun. Again we’ll see how the next couple of days go because I may end up going by myself.
I don’t know if any of your kids watch Nick Jr. but last week a new show started called Ni-Hao Kai-Lan. The animals in the show remind of Hello Kitty. Anyway the show is kind of like Dora and Diego–it weaves in English and Chinese, and teaches about her culture, oh and they have fun and little adventures. Anyway Sweet Pea really likes it and I think the show is very cute, especially the animals.
Now I have read a couple of blogs that don’t agree with the show. Like some of the values it teaches. Personally I don’t see anything wrong with the show and I think in the society we live in now it’s important to teach our children to be accepting of others who are different from them-at least that’s what I think. I know the values list being in harmony but as a Christian we are taught to be accepting of others and no we don’t use the words “harmony.” I just think it’s important for my children to grow up and accept others for who they are despite their cultural background, or the fact that they may speak another language. So for those of you who have watched the show what is your opinion about it.
Here is the list of values the show teaches:
Mind-body connection Typically, television portrays excitement as the good emotion to feel. In many Chinese-American communities, the good thing to feel is often calmness and contentment. Feeling excited and feeling calm can both be happy feelings, but they differ in how aroused the body is.
Perspective-taking In many Chinese and other East Asian families, children are encouraged to take the perspective of others to maintain harmony in relationships with other people.
Being a good member of the group Ni Hao, Kai-lan also emphasizes the Chinese and Chinese American value of being a good member of a group.
Social & Emotional GoalsHighlight cause-and-effect thinking about social and emotional issues germane to preschoolers and to support preschooler’s social and emotional development.
Ok I don’t know about any of you but I happen to suffer oily skin and hair. Unfortunately I wasn’t blessed with perfect skin or hair but hey you work with what you got. I’m the type of person who has to wash their hair everyday and if I don’t well then it just looks gross.
On to my BIG problem: Yesterday I noticed after I washed my hair and blow-dried it that at the top of my scalp my hair looked oily and felt weird (kind of like dried hair gel). Ok I chalked it up to maybe I didn’t have enough shampoo in my hair. Today-I washed my hair twice got out toweled off put on lotion then proceeded to dry my hair. Well wouldn’t you know it look EXACTLY like it did yesterday-ahhhhhhhh! Now I’m thinking maybe it’s because I first put lotion on and some of it got in my hair to make it weird. So what do you think I did. If you said washed my hair again then ding, ding, ding, you were absolutely correct. And can any of you guess how my hair looked after blow drying it AGAIN–IT LOOKED FREAKING OILY!!!
Now as many of you can guess I’m a little annoyed at this point; I have never had this problem before and now all of a sudden it’s been out of control for the past couple of days. I did do a little research and saw that I could dye or highlight my hair because it’ll dry out your hair. Ok I can do that, I can go buy a bottle of hair dye if it’ll work. But my question is what really works, what types of shampoo are good for oily hair. I’m desperate and I can’t stand the way my hair is looking so it’s up to you bloggy world to help a sister out.
So a couple of days ago Tracy tagged me for a meme and she’s right since I love doing them she knew I would do this one so here it goes.
5 Random/Weird Things About Me
5 Places I Want to See or See Again
Now I know I’m supposed to tag 5 people but I’m not going to. So if you want to do this let me know so I can see what you posted. 
I came across this a long time ago and thought of finally sharing this. I think the last one is probably my favorite-let me know which one you like. Anyway I hope y’all are having a great weekend.
7 Days Until Christmas!
Sorry I’ve been gone a couple of days but I’m back and with some pictures (can you guess) of my tree. Now in the Christmas meme I did it asked what kind of tree do I do and mine is what some would call the kiddy tree. On my tree I have ornaments that my mom gave me that were mine growing up and of course every year I buy a new ornament or two for the kids.
And here is our Christmas tree, now I know it’s not loaded down with tons of ornaments and there are two reasons… 1. I just knew my Monkey would get into every single one and he has, 2. I got tired of dragging out all the ornaments. But hey it’s up and I love looking at it and so do the kids.
Now here is my mil’s tree, it’s themed and it’s very beautiful; see 
Her colors are ivory and gold, but she’s thinking of changing it for next year, or maybe adding burgundy to add a little more color. But in case you’re wondering when the kids were growing up she had a kid tree but when as they got older she started collecting new ornaments to have a themed tree.
Ok so here’s my question do you think it’s more personal to have the “kid” tree or themed tree and which do you prefer. Also when your kids become older do you think you will keep your kid tree or do something totally different.
Here is my answer-I love both kind of trees but I love the kid tree because for me I have ornaments from when I was growing up and all the memories come flooding back to me. Also now that I have kids of my own every year I get ornaments that mean something to them. Like one year it was care bears and another it was spongebob; but what I really can’t wait for are when they make ornaments and gifts at school like I did. So I guess when they are grown I will still have the kiddy tree filled with multi-color lights and packages wrapped in any kind of paper of my choosing. But with that being said I may buy a 4 ft. tree and have it themed but who knows. Or I could do what my mil does-she had a kid tree in the veranda and then her main themed tree in the living room-but man that’s a lot of work. Anyway let me know what you think and if you still have some shopping to do because there is only 7 days until Christmas.
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