Not So Lazy After All

Well, as you can see, my blog has a new title.  According to my brother, I wasn't living up to the title of Lazy Mom.  Guess I've been busy.  So....now my blog is titled, A Windy Day.  Very fitting.  I am all over the place...sometimes physically, sometimes mentally.  What can I say?  I am a mom...and a wife and that can surely make us "mental" sometimes.  Love you honey.  :)

Today was one of those "Windy" days.  I don't know about the rest of you, but when we had a child, our house turned into a toy store!  Our house isn't tiny overall, but the downstairs is pretty small.  We intended for all of the toys to go upstairs, but that never happen.  We spent most of our time downstairs and so did all the toys.  We noticed that our living room was slowly being swallowed up by all of this stuff.  How does one child have soooo much crap??!  And she has only been around for 2 1/2 years!  I cannot imagine having another kid...let alone a boy who would have totally different toys.  We just don't have room!  Anyway, today the kid and I were very busy.  We moved her kitchen set upstairs to our loft (or second living room).  The doll house also went upstairs.  This made the BIGGEST difference!  It was almost as if we got our downstairs living room back!  And the best part is, the kid wanted to play upstairs with the "new" toys.  I say new because they are in a different spot and it was though she just played with it all for the first time.  Anyway, so this means I had the downstairs TV to myself as well as some quiet time to organize the rest of her junk!  Fantastic!!  I am so happy that I finally did this.  I have been talking about moving her stuff upstairs for MONTHS, but I have just been too lazy or busy working.  Well, no more excuses folks!  Next we just need to get the extra room cleared out and turned into an office....  By the time that finally happens, I will probably have another kid and we will need to figure out a place for that.  I can't believe we are already outgrowing this place.  Oh well.  We will make it work.  We always do.  

The kid has been napping for just over an hour and I have a Grey's Anatomy to watch (remember, I have to watch these shows when she is napping because the husband doesn't allow me to control the remote when he is home).  Kidding.  He just can't stand my shows.  Ha ha!  I want to watch my shows alone anyway...so when i cry, he won't say, "Are you really crying?"  Sor-ry! I'm a girl!  I cry!!

Well everyone, have a great weekend.  We are smokin a pork butt (or shoulder or something) this weekend.  I am sooo excited for that.  Only problem is my house will smell like smoked meat for about a week. Oh well.  Could be worse I suppose.  When i get a chance, I will post the recipe for our smoked pork.  The husband makes a fantastic rub and has a great method for smoking the pig (he got that from a friend).  

Talk to you soon!

Windizzle

It's been a while!

Wow...it's been over a month since I have written.  And for that I apologize.  I'm home, but seem to have no time to do this.  I guess it's because I am go, go, go until nap time and bed time.  At nap time I tend to surf the web as they say and at bed time I catch up on our TV shows.  Any who's, last time I wrote I was getting ready to head to Hawaii with the hubby for his conference. We had a GREAT time!  His company sure does things right when it comes to dinner and activities.  And so does the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island.  Man what a good time.  Awesome food, free drinks, great entertainment, and fun people.  After the work part of the trip was over, we stayed on a couple extra days.  It was weird because both of us were like what do we do now??  We were on our own with no where to be.  We had rented a convertible and took that on a few drives...with the top down of course.  One of my favorite things was visiting the Kona Brewing Co. We had some yummy pizza and great tasting beer.  It was so nice.  Ahhhh, I miss Hawaii......  Anyway, I did well on both flights (thanks to some Xanax) and can't wait to go back one day.  Hopefully sooner than later.  Here are a couple of pics from our trip...

View from our hotel

Ocean front massage

Hubby and I before dinner

Kona Brewing Co. 

Sunset on the way home

We got home from Hawaii late Friday night and then headed off to Palm Desert (Indian Wells actually) Sunday morning...more work stuff for the hubby.  That was pretty cool.  The kid and I took it easy and hung out by the pool.  There was also a water slide that we must have slid down two dozen times.  She loved it!

Once we got home from the desert, we were finally able to settle in at home.  Boy was that nice!  Next up was Easter.  We colored eggs on Saturday and then headed to Yucaipa and Chino on Easter to celebrate with our families.  Unfortunately I did not get any pictures of the kid and her cousins.  I'm totally bummed.  The girls had a lot of fun playing though.  

The kid and her colored eggs

Easter morning and new Lalaloopsies!

Finding eggs with Grammy

Last weekend we went down to San Diego for a couple days.  We have season passes to Sea World which are about to expire so we figured we better take one more trip.  The kid loves Sea World!  Her favorite part?  Making souvenir pennies!  

Daddy helping turn the crank to smash the pennies

I think in the end, she got about six of these coins.  She was happy and so was dad's pocket book! :)  Her other favorite part of Sea World is touching the Starfish.  She loves it!  She also enjoys feeding the sea lions but we didn't get to do that this time.  We stayed the night in San Diego and headed back to Sea World the next day.  The kid loves staying in hotels.  We stayed at the Residence Inn in hotel circle which I highly recommend.  Full kitchen in the rooms (which we didn't need), heated pool, free full breakfast, free dinner mid-week, and are you ready...free drinks and snacks in the evening!  What parent doesn't love a FREE drink!  Anyway, the hotel was very nice overall.  Wish we could have stayed longer.  Here are a couple more pics from our trip.

So this whole stay-at-home mom thing is working out pretty well so far.  I really do enjoy being home with my daughter.  I miss my friends from work, but thankfully we are still keeping in touch.  This has been a very good change for us.  I even joined a mom's group!  Yep...that's right!  It's a great group of local moms who get together with the kids and hang out.  So far I have only been to two outings...Chuck E. Cheese and the park.  We enjoyed both.  The kid loved playing with other little girls at the park.  I can't wait to do more...we just need to get our lazy butts up at a decent time so we can get out of the house!  We are pretty lazy, I must admit....the blog ain't called Lazy Mom for nothin!  We are both homebodies.  We enjoy hanging out at home.  But as much as we enjoy being home, we enjoy being out.  Mixes things up a bit.  So hopefully next week we will make it out to the park again.  Here's hoping the weather stays nice!  

The clouds are rolling in and the wind is starting to blow.  There is a storm on the way.  Hopefully it will pass quickly.  We are going to have white bean and chicken chili for dinner.  How fitting for the upcoming rain.  Tomorrow the kid has tee-ball so hopefully we won't get rained out.  Yes...they have tee ball for 2-year-olds.  It's the cutest thing.  I think there are 7 kids total.  Six boys and my daughter.  Out of the seven, I think only four of them listened to what the coach was saying.  It was way too cute.  The kid can tell you where all the bases are and show you how to hit the ball.  She's a natural!  :)  Ha ha!!  We will see how it continues to go.  I guess I better get going.  I got nothing accomplished while the kid has been asleep.  Well, other than writing this blog.  I really need to start keeping my promise to update this.........  I will certainly put an effort in to making more time.  

Just one last thing....I wanna give a shout out to my cousin Carol who is getting married in 17 days.........  I LOVE YOU and I am soooo excited for your big day!!!!  You have been my closest and dearest friend since I can remember.  I can't wait to see you walk down that aisle in just over two weeks.  It's finally your turn and I couldn't be any happier for you.  You deserve the world because you would give that to any of us ladies who consider you our best friend, sister, cousin, etc.  Thank you for being you, Carol. 

Talk to you all soon!

Windizzle