I wouldn't say I'm missing it Bob!

The title for my post is from the movie Office Space! Great movie and if you haven't watched it you should. Today is going to be whatever comes to mind. I thought deep and hard to try and figure out some kind of intelligent things to say but nothing comes to mind but maybe something will pop into my head while I'm writing about nothing. I try to keep my house tidy with everything in a general spot so I can find things around my house. The other night I was making dinner for the family and I couldn't find the salt to season the pork chops. I looked in it's usual place in the pantry but could I find it nooooo.. so I decided to just not use the salt and hours later I was cleaning the kitchen and there I looked beside the oven was the salt I was trying to find earlier to cook the chops. How did I miss that? The salt was beside the stove where I was cooking and didn't see it sitting there. Oh my, I think the kitchen fairy is doing it's tricks again. The kids are going down for there nap soon. I like when 3:00pm comes around. It's not like I don't like my children but sometimes it's good to take a break once in awhile for sanity sake. Love my kids to death but they can also be a pain in my butt sometimes and I too them. We need the break from each other or we will be a whole bunch of crankiness. Not good, not good at all. My daughter is going through this I can't make up my mind phase and it's driving me crazy to no end. A: "I don't want my burger" mom: "Fine you don't have to eat it!" A: "But I want to eat it" mom: "okay then eat your burger" A: "But I don't want to eat it" mom: "make up your mind" A: "fine!" Lately we have this discussion on everything not just food. It's getting old and draining and hopefully it's just a 3 year old learning about choices because I'm going nuts. Oh well, she's only young once and when she's older I can look back and have a good laugh but right now, not so much laughing! The one thing I miss right now are buying books. I try to stay away from the book store because I can never go out of there with just one book. I end up spending around $100.00 worth because I see one book and then another catches my eye and have to get that one also. In the end I'm leaving with a pile of books and then the kids have to get some too because we don't want to discourage them from reading so more books. I like the dollar store for kid books. For one, they are a dollar and I can buy the store up with books and not break the bank. Now me, I like a certain kind of book you can't buy at the dollar store. I like real people and life stories. Right now, more of my book collection is about the Holocaust and some survivor's stories. Books like that are real inspiring to me not because of the situation they were in but they over came some great evil and came out of it with appreciation for life. Great, now talking about books I want to get more. I wonder if there is a book anonymous club I can join because I am addicted to books. That's good right? Being responsible sucks sometimes. I typically am the spur of the moment kind of gal and just get in the car and drive or at the last minute buy some airfare and take a trip. With the economy the way it is we're saving our money and buying the staples we need to survive and nothing extra. Our 6 year wedding anniversary is coming up in a week and every year we go to Reno to celebrate but not this year. I'm a little bummed but I know we have to be responsible adults and one less trip this year will make us feel better knowing if something happened we have the money. Like the Celine Dion concert here in Portland. I found out she was coming to Portland 2 days before and I was so excited but in the end we didn't go because like I said if something happened and we didn't have the money because I went to see Celine. I would feel guilty. You know when I didn't have children and was semi responsible with my money I would have said lets go to Reno and deal with whatever comes later but now kids ruin the spur of the moment choices because you have to think about them also when you make a decision. Not that buying them things is a bad thing and taking care of them is a bad thing but just doing something crazy once in awhile is not being responsible unless you have a lot of money to just throw a way knowing going on a trip isn't going to make your family poor if something happens like fixing a plumming problem or your car falls apart and have to fork over money to fix it. Just everyday things that could go wrong and maybe all those things would not happen and taking the trip would be fine but to me that's a risky choice to make. So Reno will always be there for another time and the hubby and I may ask the Grandparents to come over so we can go out for a nice dinner by ourselves and enjoy some quiet time talking about the children and how cute they are. Isn't that always the case having Date night and all you end up doing is talking about the children. Our anniversary comes every year so this year will be just as special as all the other years in Reno and that's all that matters we're together. Well I'm getting bored so I'm going to sign out for another time. Take care, Peace!