Got tagged!
I guess with blogging, it's inevitable someone will eventually tag you and here it is!
Answer the questions with one word (or a little more) and then tag three people.
1. Where is your cellphone? purse
2. Your significant other? making a living
3. Your hair? back to natural dark brown
4. Your mother? giving
5. Your Father? funny
6. Your favorite thing? holding my kids
7. Your dream last night? don't recall one
8. Your favorite drink? Dr. Pepper (unfortunately it's come down to DIET)
9. Your dream goal? ability to find complete joy in life
10. The room you’re in?basement
11. Your hobby? Mmmhh..nothing off hand....
12. Your fear? Offending others
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? St. louis is fine
14. What you’re not? mean
15. Muffins? cinnamon struesel
16. One of your wishlist item? finished basement
17. Where you grew up? st. louis
18. Last thing you did?the park
19. What are you wearing? jeans/T-shirt
20. Favorite gadget? Pampered chef stuff--love it!
21. Your pets? two cats
22. Your computer? on
23.Your mood? moody
24. Missing someone? yes
25. Your Car? subaru
26. Something you’re not wearing? my glasses
27. Favorite store? Target
28. Like someone? lot of someones!
29. Favorite color? dark purple
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31.When was the last time you cried? yesterday
Mmmh and so here it is...who do I tag???? Gillie, Pinky, and Jessica. Have fun!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Mini-me....
Yes...two posts in less than three days...it's a miracle....I really must be on a roll here. Or maybe I just figure that I can take a break for like two months.
So seriously...the other day I asked Jason "Jason did you really think that when you married me, you would end up with TWO more of me? " And yes that is how it is at the Lott home...Jason, myself and mini-me 1 and mini-me 2. Victoria is very orderly about everything and likes things a certain way ----everything is fairly clear to her...there is a way for things and that is the way it SHOULD BE (like me) and Alyssa is the more spirited side of me...loves to tease. Now I must say that these two sides of me have fought amongst themselves at times, but it is quite interesting to see the two sides in two different miniature people turn into literal fights. "Mom, Alyssa said this...." (Victoria taking life too seriously/literally as I do)...Alyssa meanwhile snickering at the joke she just played on her sister (Alyssa letting the "Dennis" (and yes...Melanie) side of her out). So there you have it...meanwhile Jason is living with all females --including our Female cats who have even taken things out on him (One peed on his stuff once, once ((Johnny Dangerously---for those who know that flick))and even ate his pizza---they would have eaten mine had I left it down though.)
Is it just me or do you see strange ways your kids are like you and it totally makes you laugh...at least usually...there's been those moments when I say..."OH NO---PLEASE DON'T BE LIKE ME ...at least not in THAT way!" What do ya think?
So seriously...the other day I asked Jason "Jason did you really think that when you married me, you would end up with TWO more of me? " And yes that is how it is at the Lott home...Jason, myself and mini-me 1 and mini-me 2. Victoria is very orderly about everything and likes things a certain way ----everything is fairly clear to her...there is a way for things and that is the way it SHOULD BE (like me) and Alyssa is the more spirited side of me...loves to tease. Now I must say that these two sides of me have fought amongst themselves at times, but it is quite interesting to see the two sides in two different miniature people turn into literal fights. "Mom, Alyssa said this...." (Victoria taking life too seriously/literally as I do)...Alyssa meanwhile snickering at the joke she just played on her sister (Alyssa letting the "Dennis" (and yes...Melanie) side of her out). So there you have it...meanwhile Jason is living with all females --including our Female cats who have even taken things out on him (One peed on his stuff once, once ((Johnny Dangerously---for those who know that flick))and even ate his pizza---they would have eaten mine had I left it down though.)
Is it just me or do you see strange ways your kids are like you and it totally makes you laugh...at least usually...there's been those moments when I say..."OH NO---PLEASE DON'T BE LIKE ME ...at least not in THAT way!" What do ya think?
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Missing: brain
Mmmhh I am wondering where it is I last saw my brain. I like to think that I once had one, but lately I am wondering if that was ever the case. It seems these last two weeks I have grown dumber than I ever thought possible. I can hardly think straight, hence writing any type of blogging is next to impossible, and yet then again, it might be more amusing than ever, kind of like that joke that was hilarious at 3 AM isn't so funny a week later at the dinner table with your family. So we have been working on a house my parents bought and fixing it up...HOW DO WOMEN WORK FULL TIME? If I weren't working for my parents, I'd probably be fired for lack of motivation---I felt like I was walking circles today as I couldn't think of what I might do next (Have I ever said I have a short attention span? Church is a bear!) We have visited the Dr.'s three times in the last three weeks...we didn't see her over the summer so we thought it was time to start making our regular visits. The first time a cold (SO I was a bit paranoid...pnuemonia last year made me worry even more than normal!), second time ear infection(YEAH---something was actually wrong) and yesterday was making sure that Victoria didn't have an infection from the nail she stepped on last week and this morning I was greeted my PINK EYE from Victoria! My brother Matt topped it all though with Spinal Meningitis for a second time! Sheesh! And that my friends is why I hardly ever blog, can't think straight...I always thought it came from "motherhood", but seriously those who have known me fore years...be honest did I ever really have much sanity to start out with...Maybe I don't want to know that. DENAE you don't need to comment. Do you lose your brain as a mom? Or is it simply an excuse...what do you think?
Saturday, September 13, 2008
What's makes you you?
Okay, so I have thought a WHOLE lot about this for the last couple of months...and wondered what I have done with the crosses life has given to me (or through actions of my own I have created) and have I turned them into some kind of studwork for the mansion I am hoping to create out of my life....Too deep?
If you had to list the top things that were your so called "crosses to bear" what would they be and what have you done with them? I have thought about this a lot and for me ---this is more personal than I usually delve into on my blog ---but these would be the things and what I have done whether good or bad with them....you may already know these things but I will divulge them anyways...Mmmmh I do believe I am rambling.
Top one---of course my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder---not my own choice of course, but has undoubtedly changed my life and who I am. Many people have no clue what "being Obsessive Compulsive" means, but it means that you don't ever have a day free of worry. You worry about everything from the way that your house is cleaned, to the way that your children appear. It is a constant---medications make it livable, but definatley not gone. Okay...so that's the downer....the upper is that I am a different person because of it---I have been able to discuss my disorder with many and found that they too suffered from it ---I have hopefully been able to help others not feel so alone in their trial. One of my biggest pet peeves about it though is that people use the term "OCD" so loosely---I am NOT talking about when they are like oh that's my OCD--ha ha ha---it's when the say "oh I used to have OCD"---it's not something that just goes and comes...it is a part of life. Okay...so OFF my soapbox on that.
The next would of course be "ERIK" ---other than saying it caused an emotional break down and was the most obsessive relationship of my life...it certainly was a cross to bear. It caused me to question everything I had believed and was. It was a choice of my own to date him, but the consequences struck me like nothing I had quite experienced before. It stole my innocence and taught me how the "world was". I won't delve further...I know it gave me compassion towards others who had been cheated on and emotionally abused and manipulated and I can only hope that I do well with this one.
Lastly---REALLY hope this isn't a "debbie downer" blog today----was when I was in college and my best friend's cousin was killed in a car wreck. I will spare all the details...but it gave me a run in with death closer than I had known before. The other deaths I had experienced up until this point all made sense...my grandpa was sick and elderly (or so I thought---I now know he was only 68 which is MUCH younger than I knew)---but this seemed to defy all I had previously known. Teenagers, and children weren't supposed to die. It consumed my heart in ways I still can't express, however since then I have had several close friends lose brothers, sisters, parents and even a child recently...and I feel/hope that I am not afraid to discuss death with people...as a result of having experienced this challenge.
Okay...so there it is...what helps me "me" ...now what makes you "you"-???? Feel free to
comment away after all this IS a loaded question!
UPDATE: FYI---think this was misinterpreted a bit--wasn't meant sacreligious...just should have titled it--what has changed and created who you are?
If you had to list the top things that were your so called "crosses to bear" what would they be and what have you done with them? I have thought about this a lot and for me ---this is more personal than I usually delve into on my blog ---but these would be the things and what I have done whether good or bad with them....you may already know these things but I will divulge them anyways...Mmmmh I do believe I am rambling.
Top one---of course my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder---not my own choice of course, but has undoubtedly changed my life and who I am. Many people have no clue what "being Obsessive Compulsive" means, but it means that you don't ever have a day free of worry. You worry about everything from the way that your house is cleaned, to the way that your children appear. It is a constant---medications make it livable, but definatley not gone. Okay...so that's the downer....the upper is that I am a different person because of it---I have been able to discuss my disorder with many and found that they too suffered from it ---I have hopefully been able to help others not feel so alone in their trial. One of my biggest pet peeves about it though is that people use the term "OCD" so loosely---I am NOT talking about when they are like oh that's my OCD--ha ha ha---it's when the say "oh I used to have OCD"---it's not something that just goes and comes...it is a part of life. Okay...so OFF my soapbox on that.
The next would of course be "ERIK" ---other than saying it caused an emotional break down and was the most obsessive relationship of my life...it certainly was a cross to bear. It caused me to question everything I had believed and was. It was a choice of my own to date him, but the consequences struck me like nothing I had quite experienced before. It stole my innocence and taught me how the "world was". I won't delve further...I know it gave me compassion towards others who had been cheated on and emotionally abused and manipulated and I can only hope that I do well with this one.
Lastly---REALLY hope this isn't a "debbie downer" blog today----was when I was in college and my best friend's cousin was killed in a car wreck. I will spare all the details...but it gave me a run in with death closer than I had known before. The other deaths I had experienced up until this point all made sense...my grandpa was sick and elderly (or so I thought---I now know he was only 68 which is MUCH younger than I knew)---but this seemed to defy all I had previously known. Teenagers, and children weren't supposed to die. It consumed my heart in ways I still can't express, however since then I have had several close friends lose brothers, sisters, parents and even a child recently...and I feel/hope that I am not afraid to discuss death with people...as a result of having experienced this challenge.
Okay...so there it is...what helps me "me" ...now what makes you "you"-???? Feel free to
comment away after all this IS a loaded question!
UPDATE: FYI---think this was misinterpreted a bit--wasn't meant sacreligious...just should have titled it--what has changed and created who you are?
Monday, September 1, 2008
Top ten reasons I haven't blogged!
So it's been a couple of weeks and I haven't posted SQUAT! So here are my top ten reasons I haven't blogged (some are legit...some well...not so much!)
10. I was too busy documenting everything I ate on weight watchers! ( I lost nine pounds and still going...however I did manage to find two of those pounds!)
9. I was recovering for two weeks from my huge two day trip out West ALL by myself
8. I have been trying to eliminate from my body, the gas that leaked from our oven for a day and a 1/2 before my return home...my husband mistook it for the cat having a litter box problem! Whoops! Near death experience!
7. Victoria started 2nd grade and soccer the same week!
6. I have been too busy painting with Alyssa --My hidden talent
5. Hours of cleaning up imaginary cat urine from before stated gas leak! (not really but let's pretend)
4. Been too busy trying to figure out the (*&*&^* to put music on this thing and how to download my latest photos!
3. Working one day a week....intense I know
2. Reading everyone else's blogs!
and the number 1 reason I haven't blogged....
I HAD so many things to say I didn't know where to start!!!!!
Here are some updated pics of the kids!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
My little three year old!
Today Lysie-lou is 3! WOW! I can hardly believe it has been that long since she entered our lives! She is truly our joy---she is a serious comedian. Whether she is falsely accusing my father of bugging her--(All he has to do is look at her and she says "Papa top (stop) buggin' me.---at which point of course he must begin!), asking us if we are happy---(whenever she is in trouble she says "Mom-you happy."---unfortunately lately my responses haven't been as kind as they were a month ago when this started--"You took the debit card OUT of my purse and now I have no money at the store ((good thing dad was there))---do you THINK I am happy?" The response is always "yes" ), or just saying "mom, do you like my Kittheth (kisses--she has a lisp now)?" "Yes Lyssa, I love them." "mom, I like your kithteth."
She IS our joy. She is our love bug too---never misses a chance to love on us. She is our middle of the night cuddle bunny---we have tried to change this on numerous occassions...but I must admit there is something sweet about waking up with her in my arms and wondering how on earth she got there and how long she has been there! Don't tell Jason, but I even miss it when she isn't there...at least a little bit.
She is such a helper...the teachers at her school tell me she is always the first one there to try and comfort another child and will do all she can to try and make them happy. They call her the little mother hen. Last week she went and got a wet wipe for a child without the teacher asking..and before the teacher had noticed the need...the teacher said she was literally being a helper!
She wants to be just like Toria---she must do a BIG pony tail! As long as Toria is doing it..she wants to also! I could go on and on! We are so glad she is a part of our family---she adds the energy and randomness that sometimes we lack! We love you so much Alyssa Marie!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Am I alone here?
No, I don't have anything of major importance to say here...no major catastrophies or phenomenons...just comtemplating my job as a stay at home mom?
Do I go back to work (more than one day at a mother's day out)? Like most, we are fine financially, but always seem to wonder where that extra goes for the little things--a rec-plex membership, (we have an amazing huge recreation facility here --indoor pools, weight rooms, ice rink--it's got it all-yet we don't have a membership), vacations, misc birthday gifts, dance lessons, savings, savings, savings. No matter how much Jason makes we always seem to have some expense that suck it all up.
Or do I somehow justify the fact that I stay at home lately and do nothing of upmost importance, (like blogging when I have clothes in the washer and an upstairs floor that resembles that of the pioneers (DIRT!))---MMMMhhhh---I love being with my girls, but seriously sometimes I wonder if I would do more with them if I had less time with them---does that make any sense---or if I would just be more worn out...? Okay so I am just blabbing as I think.
What do you think? I know it my heart what I believe is most important---but isn't there some happy medium---without doing daycare in my home, or selling my soul to a 40+hour a week job? Help!
Do I go back to work (more than one day at a mother's day out)? Like most, we are fine financially, but always seem to wonder where that extra goes for the little things--a rec-plex membership, (we have an amazing huge recreation facility here --indoor pools, weight rooms, ice rink--it's got it all-yet we don't have a membership), vacations, misc birthday gifts, dance lessons, savings, savings, savings. No matter how much Jason makes we always seem to have some expense that suck it all up.
Or do I somehow justify the fact that I stay at home lately and do nothing of upmost importance, (like blogging when I have clothes in the washer and an upstairs floor that resembles that of the pioneers (DIRT!))---MMMMhhhh---I love being with my girls, but seriously sometimes I wonder if I would do more with them if I had less time with them---does that make any sense---or if I would just be more worn out...? Okay so I am just blabbing as I think.
What do you think? I know it my heart what I believe is most important---but isn't there some happy medium---without doing daycare in my home, or selling my soul to a 40+hour a week job? Help!
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