There isn't enough coffee in the world.

OMG, we are accident prone this morning I am afraid to move.

First, Mark, Abby, and I were watching Sesame Street this morning when Abby rolled off the couch. Luckily she landed on her butt, but her left leg was curled underneath her. She hurt her hip some how, and doesn't want to put pressure on it or pull her knee up to her belly on any way. Side to side is fine but up and down is no good. I called my husband and we are watching it to see if it is better this afternoon. I feel so bad. I feel like I broke her. If her leg moves the wrong way, she just looks at me and whimpers like, "Mama, it HURTS!". She is taking a nap now, so hopefully resting it will help.

Second, I was stoking the fire (because a wood burning fireplace is our primary heat source, people, how cool is that?) when a rather large log freakishly falls over and clunks Mark on the head. I am sure it got bumped by either me or Mark, but now I have 2 babies on my lap crying in pain.

Third, We are taking a break watching TV upstairs just trying to get everyone to calm down and take it easy. When Mark tumbles down the whole flight of stairs. He is EXCELLENT on stairs. This is only the second stair accident ever for him.

In conclusion, Mark is OK but might have some bumps/bruises that show up later. Abby is sleeping now and we shall see how she is this afternoon. And I think we all need to stay in bed the rest of the day to avoid further injury.

On a different note, my Britta pitcher works great. I heart my new pitcher. I can now drink water again.

Also, as a warning, I am making plans to move this blog to Wordpress as soon as I can decide on a domain name. I am thinking about something like www.the-crafty-mom.com. I want it to be home for my mommy blog, my growing Ebay-selling which has upcoming plans for homemade soap, rice heating bags and other homemade stuff, and home for any web design I might (not necessarily in the near future) have. Any good ideas?? I would love to hear them!

The one with water that goes clunk

I have been doing alot on Ebay. I have made a lot of money selling garage sale type stuff that was hanging arround the house. It is great because I have a little money of my own to buy what ever I want (from Ebay of course). And not feel guilty.

Plus, I admit it, it is really fun to have things come in the mail.

Today I got my Britta water pitcher. Hopefully that will make the water tolerable. We have hard water here. Like, you turn on the faucet and it goes clunk. We have a new style of water softener that doesn't use salt. Instead it uses magnets to remove the iron and ionizes the calcium to prevent it from caking to pipes and everything else. But the calcium, ect is still there and so the water doesn't taste the best. Think lake water. OK, it isn't THAT bad. But I don't like to drink water in the first place. So any unpleasantness and you can forget about it.

I am soaking the filter and setting up the pitcher now. I will let you know how it goes. Does anyone else have a Britta filter or pitcher??

In my new house we have a DISHWASHER!! GASP! I have dreamed of a dishwasher. The dishes (GASP!) get washed EVERY night. Plus I don't have to stand there for hours to do them. I want to kiss whoever invented dishwashers right now.

And the previous owners left a bread maker. So I (in all my domestic goddessness) make a loaf of fresh bread every morning.

I really do love my new house.

TTFN

Look! Here I am...

OMG, it has been forever since I have blogged. It has been so hard to squeak out 5 minutes just to shower, let alone write a post or do any designing. Life with the munchkins has been crazy. Abby is now 7 1/2 months, and eats and sits up and has teeth and says "Da-da". Mark is now 2 ( so I can't say anymore that I have 2 under 2!) and all of a sudden so independent.

We love our new house. It is so nice to be closer that Gabriel's office. He actually sees the kids now. AND has time to play with them. That makes him happy. The kids took the move really well. Mark hasn't even mentioned the old house once. I will get pictures up sometime in the next year or so....

I really want to get back into the swing of blogging. I miss my friends. I miss having any time or anything to myself.

I hate my first post in many moons to be a whiny one, but I am going nuts not having a moment where someone isn't ask me for something, crying, or needing their butt wiped.

But the way that also means that bring sexy back has feel by the wayside . And I haven't lost any more weight. Ugh.

Here's hoping that I can (gasp) blog daily again!

TTFN

Hey there, everyone!
I'm still here.
Packing. Starting to freak out because the moving date is not far off. It is hard to start packing this far in advance. Do I pack up the dishes, the clothes, or the towels? Hmm...

Dealing with one cranky little girl that has been teething for 6 weeks now. Seriously! And still no freaking tooth. I have felt one massive swollen spot for a week now, and still this morning nothing!

Selling a TON of stuff on E-bay so don't forget to check it out. I have LOTS of stuff, from craft items to DVDs to Juniors dresses to baby items and coupons. It do combined shipping discounts. No Reserves, and most of the auctions start at $0.99. Go now! Buy something!

I bought a Senseo on E-bay and I am SOOOOOOOOOOOO Excited.
I can't wait until Wed when it gets here.

Less then 2 weeks to go until the big day..... TTFN

The one to make up for being away

Oh how I hate that dirty little word.... hiatus.

I would rather just disappear for monthes than say "Hey, world, I'm going to be gone for I while. Please feed the cat while I'm gone." I guess I never want to admit that I really just am too busy to blog. Or maybe I am afraid that if I go on... hiatus... people will expect my blog to be not updated. Or worse yet, they might think that I have just forgotten about it. *shutter*

But never fear!! I will NEVER close my blog, unless I am moving it to another URL.

I suppose you are all wondering what I have been up to the past month?? Oh yeah, besides Christmas.

We only SOLD our house. BOUGHT a new house towards Green Bay, Wisconsin. Cleaning like a mad woman (seriously!) to get the old house pretty for showing. Packing everything I can think of this far in advance. AND taking cares of the two munchkins.

The closing date is Jan. 26. So I might be on... hiatus... until then, or a little after. I will try to post here and there to try and update with what is going on. But I can't promise that I will be able to read any blogs. And that makes me very sad.

However! To pacify the masses, I have updated Flickr and you can also check out my auctions on E-bay.

Lots o Love.

Why does every thing come back to the bathroom?

You know how you have one of those days. And you become more appreciative of the next day that went better. Well, I am finally having 'the next day' after about 2 weeks of 'one of those days'.

I actually had breakfast, and before 11:30 when Mark has lunch.

I actually had a full workout, but to be fair I have managed to get my run on the treadmill in almost every day. The exciting part is taking my ear buds out and realizing that Abby hadn't rolled over in bed while I was in the basement thus bringing on hissy fits.

I did manage, after 4 days, to finish my Access list of Christmas Card receivers. And I printed out the envelopes. If you would like to receive a Christmas Card from the Expressions of Love household, e-mail me at daniels_mommy04 at yahoo dot com.

I am wondering though why every thing in a mommy's life comes back to poop. After hosing both kids down from poopy explosions this morning, I let Abby cry in her crib just so I could pee. Mark follows me in and I ask him, 'Can't mommy go pee by herself?!?'

Big ol' doe eyes just stare up at me, as serious as could be, shaking his head slowly. 'Nooo.'