I love traveling to different places to see different things and experience new sights! On the other hand, there are things I absolutely dispise about traveling! Here are a few of the things I dispise:

1. I HATE packing! I can never seem to remember everything even though I have traveled on planes with them a thousand times! It seems like we spend more money when we get here on things I forgot then we actually spent on the plane tickets!

2. I could never go through security again and it would be too soon! I have to take take everyone's shoes off and put them back on and then all of our shit is scattered all over the pace and you have to find it like you are in some kind of scavenger hunt or something! I really hate that!!

3. Sitting at the terminal is for the birds! You have to get there so early just to sit in the terminal and wait for the plane! Half the time you sit there for a long time just for them to tell you your flight has been delayed! Talk about a kick in the balls, I feel like I want to go crazy the second they say the flight is delayed!! Where are you going to go? What are you going to do with two wild children that just want to get on an airplane? Most of the time it is to early in the morning to drink!!!

4. Another thing I could totally do without is arriving! It is so annoying when you have to find yor luggage on the carousel, you never know which one is yours and half the time you grab the wrong one! Everyone is in a complete tailspin to make sure they grab the right luggage before it goes all the way back in the black hole! Once it goes in the black hole there is a another set of issues! If you accidently grab the wrong suitcase, you get all weird because you never know what they have in there bag, then you feel like "they" are looking for you

5. Then you have to find your car! Whoever is picking you up has to stay in the line and you are frantically looking while trying to watch to make sure your kids don't run in the road and no one takes your luggage! It is such a clusterfuck!! The best part is, you usually have more luggage then arms to carry it all, so some person of interest stranger you don't know has to help you carry your luggage across to the waiting car! What a complete disaster it usually turns out to be!

6. I am usually starving by the time we arrive at our destination, since all they give you on flights these days in air and water! Nothing ever sounds good and no one can ever agree on what to eat! When we do finally decide on what to eat, nobody really likes the food, we just went because it was the easiest place to go! I don't know if that happens to you, but it sure happens to me on more then one occasion! I am speaking from major experience here people!

7. My last and final thought, one of the biggest pet peeves of mine, I usually sit in front of or behind the person that farts the whole flight!! Everytime they make a move it seems like they are farting! It is like I have a permanent fart cloud around my seat!! The best part is, it is not my fart cloud!!! It stinks so bad and it makes me just want to say over the intercom, "Exscuse me, but can whoever is sitting in the seat in front of me or behind me, I can't tell which row you are in, can you please stop farting because all the hair in my nose is burned to a crisp and we still have a long flight left! I feel sick to my stomach as is and your gassy ass is not helping one bit!! Thank you passengers and have a safe rest of your flight" I don't know if that would make the smell go away, but I would sure feel better!!


That is all I can think of right now! I will get back to you if I can think of anything else


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The other day I drank some Kool-Aid and forgot how much I loved it! My kids picked it up at the store and I bought it by accident. They found it in the closet ans my husband made it therefore I tried it. OMG! The minute I drank it I returned to being a kid again when I used to drink it all the time. I remembered when we used to eat the powder out of the container and our mouths would be so red and we would tell my parents that we didn't eat any! What were we thinking, it looked like we got shot in the mouth they were so red!

Since I had it the other day, I have ventured out to drink more then just the cherry. I tried the grape, fruit punch, and of course the classic, cherry! I love it all and think it will be my new favorite drink from now on! I am going to divorce crystal light and re-marry kool aid after all these years! Sometimes an old flame is better then a new and improved flame, you know what I mean?

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This Thanksgiving we came to New Hampshire to be with my husbands family. We come here every other year for the holidays to spread the joy with his side of the family. I enjoy coming here I just don't enjoy the traveling to get here!

We left on Tuesday afternon because Maggie had her first Thanksgiving feast at her school. I wouldn't have missed that for the world! She had made vests, hats, and placemats and the whole school put on a performance and her class sang! It was the cutest thing I have ever seen I was so pround of her standing up there on stage and singing the song and doing the little dance she had learned. Some of the parents had brought in some food and desserts so when the performance was over, we all sat down and had a little feast. It really was  so special to be there with my little girl and her friends and just enjoy the time with her! She was so proud of herself and I was so proud of her! It was a great start to the holiday festivites!!

Right after the feast we had to be at the airport to leave on vacation. Talk about cutting it close, as usual we were balls to the wall and rushing! I was a little nervous about flying for acouple of reasons. For one thing the Swine flu is all over the place and I just was a little apprehensive about being at the airport where people from all over the world travel and touch and snot all over everything! What better place to catch ome kind of funk then the airport! I washed everyone's hands as often as possible and tried not to touch to much sthuff and if we did I washed hands and arms and legs and feet! Just kidding, but I did wash hands often, you can never be too careful when it come to your health and the prevention of spreading illnesses. Now that i think of it, I should have bought stock in an antibacterial company, I probably would be a millionaire right now! Just saying

The other reason I was worried is because it is the holiday season and there is always flight delays, no matter what! We checked our bags and got through security with no problem! That was a mojor shock because usually security takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R! Since securitydidn't take long I thought we were off to a great start! Sometimes I don't think I sould even think because that is when everything goes awry! I was already exhausted and trying to pull it together just to get on the plane when they cme over the intercom and said the flight was going to be delayed for an hour for low ceiling in the sky!! I thought my blood was going to shoot out of my veins because that was one more hour that the kids weren't going to be confined in their carseats and I was going to have to find something to do with them!!!! My husband kept them busy for most of the time, but we had to eat and get drinks and just rearrange the whole day now.  really just wanted to be on the plane watching TV and getting there!! We finally board the plane to sit there for a while!  That really annoys the shit out of me, you have to get there so early just to sit there and not go anywhere! Don't these people know we have places to go and people to do see! We taxi off to the runway just in time to pull over and take care of some mechanical problem that only a few people know about. Real quick, I would really like to know what is wrong with the plane before we take off, just in case I wanted to get off and decide to drive!

We jet down the runway and lift off, finally! Grace fell asleep and Maggie talked the whole time! The whole time, the flight is like three hours, and she found enough to talk about for three hours! I couldn't believe it! I couldn't believe she had that much to say at four years old! I just wanted to go to sleep, I think I did at some points I couldn't help it! We finally arrived an hour and a half late my mother in law picked us up and we went to eat. We just got some pizza because that was the easiest thing to do. Maggie akmost fell asleep at the restaurant and Grace was wired! She had just slept for three hours on a plane and was hungry! After we left the restaurant  Maggie fell fast asleep in the car but Grace, oh Grace, her little self stayed up until 11pm! She finally crashed on the couch with me, I was asleep shortly after! I was just relieved that we arrived safely and in one piece

Even though it was a little bit of a disaster of a start, it ended up turning out okay in the end! Sometimes I stress about stuff and drive myself everyone crazy and it all turns out just fine in the end!!


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First and foremost, HAPPY THANKSGIVING to everyone I hope everyone had and awesome day filled with good food and desserts and mostly quality time spent with family and friends!

I have been very busy these last couple of days getting ready for Thanksgiving. We traveled to New Hampshire to be with my husbands family this year. Usually every other year we come here either for Thanksgiving or Christmas, this year it is Thanksgiving. It is really beautiful here and I have enjoyed spending time in this part of the world.

It really makes a huge difference when you are somewhere that is actually cool and feels like the actual holiday season. Where we live in Florida it is always hot and humid and never really feels like a holiday, it always just seems like summer all year round.
The kids are having the best time playing with all of their cousins and dressing up in there coats and boots because it is so cold. They think it is actually fun to put a couple of layers on to go outside! I think it is so annoying to put the layers on then the second they get outside they have to come in and take them off because they have to go to the bathroom! It is fun though to see them in all the get up just to go outside

I hope everyone enjoyed their day like I did! I missed my family back home and was thinking about them all day I didn't talk to my sisters all day because it was so busy! I talk to them everyday so I am sad about that, but they know I love them and I will talk to them!

I am so thankful today for so many things! I am thankful for my family, without them I would not be who I am today, I am thankful for my kids, they are the best blessings I could have ever gotten, I thank God for them everyday! I am thankful for my husband, I love him for his support and how he is always there for our family and the love he has for us I am just so thankful for all of the blessings in my life!!

What a perfect holiday, you can shove your face with so much food that you can't move, not have to clean up the mess if you a visitor, and then hope someone will carry you to the car so you can leave!! I love it!!

Gobble, Gobble, everyone

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You really have to put your thinking cap on for this one!!!


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Maggie started school this year, she goes to VPK, which is voluntary pre kindegarten. The kids do a lot of things that prepare them for real school next year. Recentely the school has been reminding the parents that school starts promptly at 8:30am. That is fine because I usually get there on time.

This week they really started getting serious with this new rule. Dale had gone away this week and the first day he was gone, I was late to school! The funny thing is, he never helps me get them ready to go to schooll because he is at work. The latest you can be there is 8:35am, I showed up at 8:36am!

I walk into the class like nothing is wrong and the teacher looks at me in frnt of the whole class and says, "Can you get a tardy slip from the office please!" I felt like I had just committed a crime. I was standing in frontt of a class of 4 years olds and they were all looking at me like shame on you! I felt so weird like they were all judging me! I was one minute late for crying out loud, can you cut me some slack on the first day of the new policy! It is not like they are going to Yale or Harvard!!

I slinked out of the class with my tail between my legs and went to the office to get a tardy slip. I was just shocked that these people still work off of the honesty policy! What will happen if I am late everyday and I only claim 2 tardy slips? Just saying Anyway, the lady who handed it to me is the head of the program and I said, "Can I have a tardy slip?" She said, "It is 8:36!?!?" I said,"Yeah I am late!" She handed me the slip and said here, sorry I felt like saying I am sorry also, this is bullshit, a tardy slip for being one minute over the time! Give me a break!! I pulled myself together and took it like a champ! I snatched the slip out of her hand and said all kinds of things under my breath so no one could hear me, but it made me feel better about the ridiculous situation!

I love talking under my breath just low enough for no one to hear me but loud enough so I can! That is the best feeling, like you got a secret jab in  the fight! I always have to have the last word whether it is aloud or under my breath!!!

I wonder if I am going to collect tardy slips like some people collect unpaid parking tickets?


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This made me laugh out loud!!


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You know it's funny when that happens!!


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Over the summer I took a hiatus from life! I mean I took a vacation from my everyday life and traveled New England for two weeks! I think this might have been the best trip I have ever been on in my whole life! We went to Sesame place in Pennsylvania, Boston, Maine, New Hampshire, and everywhere in between. I have memories from every state, each one better then the next. I have happy memories, like when DAle came and suprised me and also some sad ones like when we went to see my moms aunt who is 92 in a nursing home. I have a little funny story that I thought of the other day.

We went to Acadia National Park in Maine, which is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. The drive there was less then to be desired and the drive back was even worse. The pic above is when we were at Thunder Whole, which is where you go to watch the water rush in and make a huge loud noise, hence the thunder, and splash everywhere. When we were there there was no thunder just a hole. We did have a really good time and saw some beautiful sights.

You can see from the pic that my kids were wearing dresses. Somehow, I think Grace had a full diaper and we took it off just for a minute until we got back to the car to put on another one. The kids and I were walking along the sidewalk above thunder hole and just running and laughing. All of the sudden I heard, "Oh no poop!" I didn't even want to look because I knew right away what had happened! Grace had shit on the sidewalk! The sidewalk where everyone walks! I was horrified, so horrified that when someone walked by I acted like I just found an ounce of gold and was inspecting it!

There were no dog bags around so I did the next logical thing, picked my kids up and got the hell out of there!!!!



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