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About this recession... We are such a dramatic nation!!! If people stepped back and had some perspective, then maybe we would all freak out every other hour. The media is the worst!!!! I swear from the way some people talk, we should all just hide in our bomb shelters because the end is near!!
We need to live our lives. By being bombarded with doom and gloom it becomes obsessive. Yes it is a bad bad time, yes we need to make better decisions. But we also need to have hope and live, enjoying the little things in life. Watch a child, all they need is a balloon on a string or some bubbles. Simple things in such a complex world.maybe this recession will help people to realize that material things aren't that grand, and learn to live more simply.

This is for jackie

Ok it's been forever!!! We are all doing well, weather the recession etc.

Lily started walking just shy of 17 months, way to take her time

Anthony doesn't get that we can't spend like crazy anymore, which in turn drives me crazy.

I have found a new obsession, couponing. Today I got b bags of sugar, 2 packs of juice boxes, 2 packs of Hunts Snack Packs, 2 boxes of popcorn, 2 frostings, 2 cake mixes, 10 ramen noodle packs, 2 bags of egg noodles, cherrios, cookie crisp, 12 double roll toilet paper 2 cartons of lemonade, texas toast and 10 lbs of chicken for 35$!!! woohoo!

this is another reason I love the weekends

picts

Mommy and me Halloween and new leg warmers!

Christmas is coming!!

I am so excited I am a Christmas freak!! The girls gifts are done, I left the stockings up to daddy, so that I am a little surprised. Speaking of Ant, he got a catering job that pays well, so hopefully that will help bring some money in as well as pay down some credit debt. I just figured it out...yikes!!!! Mia is still excelling at school, it was funny they had a vote in school and she voted for McCain, who knew I would raise a republican LOL. Anyway she got sooo upset when he didn't win, it was comical. Tears and all!!

This week i feel more on top of things, domestically wise. Either I need to really not work or we need to scrounge for a cleaning lady again, I keep falling behind with the house and it skeeves me. to everyone else it's fine but I have issues. All in good time.
Lily is not walking yet, but gets into enough trouble crawling and pulling up so I am ok with it!

So lets see 3 weeks till Thanksgiving, 7 weeks till Christmas, 10 weeks till Disney!! So exciting!

fall 2008

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so mad

Mia's school principal just called me. Apparently her sperm donor father jsut called the school and demanded to be put onto her emergency list and requested copies of progress reports etc. Good fine and great but asking me firat would have been a good idea. He can't call Mia to find out how school is going but he can call the school and try and act like I am witholding stuff??? First of all he lives 30-45 mins away so in an emergency why would I wait that long??? he only emails me once a month to schedule a weekend with her, if he actually grew some balls and called me I would gladly tell him how she is doing. How dare he try to act like he is this great father when half the time he can't be bothered. He just wants to part time parent which to me isn't worth the effort. If you want to get involved, then you take off work to pick her up on half days and you be room parent and you volunteer at book fairs parties etc. Oh no that would inconvience him, God forbid. Sorry this is so long I am so mad!!!!!!

Back to Blog

After the confusion of last week, I am back LOL!!!! We had a crazy weekend, went to a wedding in Rhode Island, which was fun considering we were around the inlaws all weekend. Let me rephrase, i was fine, DH had enough by the the second day. I brought the baby I watch to my house today, which is such a nice change of pace. I am able to do things and not feel like a sloth like I do at their house, because all I do there is sit on the couch. Here I can at least do laundry and tidy. Now if I an just get the mom to agree to me bringing him here on a regular basis...



Philly zoo picts!

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Had to delete info about DH in case some one read, that shouldn't be reading.

Need Sleep!

Cutie Patootie!!!!!

DH and I at a wedding

Well Lily has been cutting teeth like crazy so needless to say I have not been blessed with sleep. Here's how it goes. Fall asleep around 11:30pm . 1 am Lily up.  2:30am Mia up, hear her going potty. 3 am Lily up again. Finally get to sleep again around 4, Lily up again at 6:30, bottle, then she decides it's playtime. 7:00 Lily back to sleep, but what's the point I have to be up in 45 mins.   So what's that, um maybe 5 hours if I am lucky?? No wonder I can't think straight!!!

Oh yeah we tried sketti the other night!! I now have a stained cloth diaper!! Thankfully I had the foresight to strip her.

Funny how life changes!

So I went to  a bridal shower today, which was fun, but as I was driving home I came to realize how much more fun I have when I am with DH and kids. I'd much rather do stuff with them then hang out with my old friends, there are just too many differences in our lives at this point.  Hopefully once they start having kids, we'll be able to connect again!

New picts

These are Lily's 9 mth/Mia 5 years and belated Baptism!!

Back!!

We are back from vaca, went pretty well with the exception of Gram, it only takes one person right?? The girls did great in the car, and all in all it was pretty fun!!!

After the week of gorging ourselves and drinking ALOT, Ant and I have started the South Beach Diet.  It's going to be a huge change, because we have been eating carbs galore!!! But hopefully it will be the shake up I need!!! 

I did manage to workout at least 4 times while away and the hike to the beach helped too!!! 

I will keep you posted!!!

Goodbye!

We are leaving at 2am Sat morning for our long car ride to Corolla NC. I hope I can sleep as I am planning on staying up till we leave! I know I have some buddies on here, even if I can't add them yet. Have a great week everyone!

vacation!

The Pingicers are hitting the OBX!!! We are leaving in the wee hours of Saturday, and from the looks of the pile of stuff  accumulating in Lily's room, we will look something like the car the Clampetts drove in LOL!!! Oh well, have kids, have stuff!

4th of July!

Before fireworks

Finally a picture of Mommy and Lily!

Lily likes frozen custard!

As if

I don't apparently spend enough time online, but thought this may be fun!! Today Ant and I went to look at a house, in Yardville. It was nice, and we really liked the neighborhood.  Packed more for vacation, and that's about it. The pictures on here are the most recent, from 4th of July!! More to come...