clean 'em baby!

yes, you read correctly...........my Z is getting her first teeth cleaning today.
yeah!! I am really curious to see how she does. I am sure it will be pretty noisy, because I already know she is going to freak out.
She and I have been practicing her brushing, making sure that we get each and every tooth. We go through all the motions, and I lay her back and tell her this is how the dentist is going to do it, then we brusha brush brush.
She had her first visit at 1, so now she is 1 1/2 they start the cleanings. Amazing, isn't it? I thought it was sorta early, but I guess it is good to start them off very early to get them used to good oral hygeine. Go figure.
Well, gotta run and start getting us ready to go see DR. Randy in MT P!

peace out my sistas!!!

have a great day everyone!
don't forget to start looking for your turkeys!

busy day!

Hello fellow bloggers!

Hope you are all having a great day so far.......me, I am busy, busy and busy!
I have a house full of people coming in for Thanksgiving.....and from different places, so I am busy cleaning house, watching Z mess it up- and then more cleaning:)
Gotta love that little one! She is just sooooo cute, you can't be mad at her very long! She is currently sitting in her high chair and eating her cheerios, making me a nice mess on the floor of soy milk.
Today's journey :
1.) meeting up with John, getting some papers signed that I forgot to get him to sign last night
2.) going to drop off those papers with caseworker for the adoption
3.) going to costco for what other than: diapers; soy milk & soap
4.) going to wal-mart to fill RX, shop for misc. stuff
5.) going to bank
6.) making Stampin'Up! order
7.) ????think that's it!

well peace out my sistas!! hope you all have a wonderful day!!!
chow- I must get my aching bones out of this chair, off this computer and get that little angel out of her high chair and put her in the bathtub.............


This pic that I am posting is one of Vonnie & Z last December, when Z had to go to the hospital.....my poor baby! Just thinking about what I was doing last year around this time, getting Z settled in, then bammmmmmm.... MRSA. That sucked.


now she is trying to stick a cheerio up her nose........gotta go!

great customer service, great way to do business

I have learned that if you do not have anything nice to say, then do not say anything at all, I believe I learned that by the 5th grade. I have also learned that you learn to play fair, don’t hit, and don’t spit. When you have something to say (especially to defend yourself, or correct that person’s incorrect knowledge) you speak your peace, you let the other person speak, then you speak, they speak and vice versa it goes back and forth to solve the problem. Pretty easy right???? Get how this game works?!?
You see, I know exactly how it works, I have learned from the self-professed master of the game.

This post is coming due to a “spat” with a particularly rude person in a local business yesterday, in which, I did spend a lot of time, some effort and a little money, at this particular business (maybe that was part of the problem…….).

I have learned that people that claim they are someone they are not…….. everyone knows the deal about that, I don’t even need to go there, I am really trying to be nice, here, ya know.
People get annoyed by know-it-all attitudes. Just the facts. People are people.
Where is the humbleness that is so nice in life today? Apparently, some people’s ego is bigger than life itself, and that it is all about them. Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news…..it is not all about you. You MUST understand that people just don’t care how smart you think you are.
I bet no one has ever told you that before. I am just here to help you out with your misguidance.

People that are in customer service, (this means if you work with the public, in case you were confused) should know how to speak to people and listen with their ears.
If everyone has a problem with the same person, don’t you think maybe it’s not everyone else…..and that it could possibly be you? Ever heard that saying? Maybe, just maybe after you run everyone off in this business, you will get the hint.

I have also learned that when you encounter someone that claims she is “self-professed genius” you learn to know how much that person thinks of themselves, and why they must act in the manner they do. You are really not that smart, as I was a customer and one of your best supporters. OOPS!!!! YOU DID IT AGAIN!!!!

The “favorite” customer is the one that spends the most money with the business, yeah, I get that, surprise, surprise, RIGHT???!!

When someone is giving you signals that they just don’t want to be bothered by you, you usually get that hint loud and clear. I got the message loud and clear.
You also learn a lot about a person if they have to talk-louder than you and not let you or your point of view to be heard, just to “control” you or the situation. Great customer service, I appreciate you.

I am an old fart.

yeah!!! I had a great night of sleep last night! I really don't sleep too well at times, and last night I went to bed early, after a long day.
First I had to get up early, (even before Zoie!) and get ready for heading out to the bi-annual yard sale at TPH aka Chas Scrapbooking. Wow! what a great day of fun! Sheila and I were partners in crime writing down the sales on our little pad. She would call out the vendor # and price, then I would write it down, add it up and all that jazz. The women (and some men) were wonderful! It was a great success, as usual. This is the first time us girls, (me, Amber, Vonnie, Sheila) all worked it. We had to go in the night before (Friday night) at 6:00 to start sorting out all the different categories, and then get everything organized. We left (Amber and I) around 10:00 pm after all that was finished. Then like I said, we had the yard sale yesterday, and everyone that had put their stuff in as a vendor, they get dollar for dollar in store credit towards merchandise in the store. I put lots of stuff in the yard sale this time. I really hope I did well with selling my "loot"! I know I wrote up a good bit of my stuff yesterday that people purchased. My goal is to use my yard sale money that I made only to buy stuff I need! I am really being very selective now with my purchases, and that is with every purchase I make in life. I have always been VERY frugal, but now that basically John and I both are unemployed, and with a new baby.....things are more than tight.
But after the yard sale, I had to leave and come home, pack up Zoie and head over to my friends' daughter's baby shower. Heather is expecting a baby girl in January. She really looked beautiful being pregnant. She is young, (19) but, you know how that is, her Mom and Dad are helping them....and they are just excited to be grandparents!
Well as Zoie and I were leaving the baby shower, I was carrying her in my arms, along with all of her "stuff" (back-pack, sippy) etc. I lost my footing and twisted my ankle, with us slamming to the gravel. I managed to cover Zoie, she didn't get a scratch, but I really hurt my knee with all the weight landing there. I swear, every time I wear these Dansko shoes....I end up twisting my ankle and sometimes falling. I feel like an old person today.....bum knee, hurt wrist with tar gravel still embedded in it and a swollen ankle. I tried to clean out the wrist last night, but boy, that peroxide stings like crazy. I am being a baby. I am old. Had to take Tylenol 500 mg last night before going to bed. I am old.

not much going on today, thankful for that!

Today will be a pretty low-key kind of day. Z has already had her nap, I am playing on the computer trying to find out lots of info re: the trial coming up in Dec. Wow! lots and lots I need to make sure I document, just in case I need it in the future. Going to get my hair cut later today, overdue. So we had a pretty fun day today, we did lots of flash cards this morning, and just goofed off! fun, fun, fun! worked this past weekend at CS, not crazy busy.... Grandpa came into town and surprised me when I got home from work Saturday evening......that little crazy boy! always running the roads! He will be back here for Thanksgiving. We are supposed to have a pig roast instead of the traditional dinner. cool, works for me......less clean-up for me too! rock on my sistas!

hay ride woohoooooo!

this was soooo much fun!! I am finally getting the chance to post to my blog, after a kinda busy week. We were invited to go on this neighborhood hayride over in Westcott Plantation with our friends Robbie and Denise. We were going to just go take Z around to some friends-"mainly my girls", and trick or treat.....but I thought it would be a good idea to let her experience her first "official" Halloween with other little kids, since the girls would be busy handing out their candy. There were probably about 20 kids that went, and we just had the best time! We had the IPOD and BOSE kickin' it all throughout the ride! We really rocked! The kids were having such a great time, getting the candy, dancing and just being kids! I just had the best time watching them and John and I took turns taking Z up to the houses to get her candy.....I think even he had a "smidgge" of fun!!!! Our friend Denise has a twin sister named Carla, and she was fun, with her "little" boys. I say little, but wow! the 2 year old was huge for only being two! They couldn't believe Z is only 18 mo.!! Fun, Fun and more fun!! even if Z wouldn't wear her Chocolate, chocolate chip cookie costume that I made her--you better believe that in the future I will acclamate her to her Halloween costume a few days PRIOR to the big night, I don't want her to fight me on the costume. Big lesson learned in parenting. I am sure there are going to be many, many more thing that she will teach me :) I am having a prob. with posting my pics to this post for some reason....so I will try to fix that and post pics later, gotta go feed a hungry girl now!

A long time overdue

I know this

post is a little bit overdue, I know, I know. I hear you loud and clear compadre. So......here's what's been going on in my world.
1. Got sick
2. got even sicker
3. feel better now
4. end of story.

got it?!? I am sooooooooooo over this whole flu/H1N1 crap!

ok, so now life is moving on........and trying to get caught up with my little world.
I will be at the scrapbook store working this weekend, so if you get a chance, come visit me!!!

hi peeps!

ok, so say a prayer for me........please!please! I need a good paying job....so I have this semi-formal interview tomorrow with this company that you have to do "group interviews" and all that jazz.
Not so much liking the whole "prove yourself" type of gig....but, you know.....whatever it takes! :) I guess that is how they roll...!

Well, wish me luck!
THANK YOU JENI, THANK YOU JENI!!
I APPRECIATE YOU WATCHING ZOZO FOR ME! I owe you girl! you rock!

peace out sistas-

just chillin'

hello my chicks,
where to start! Went out last night...don't get too excited...just ...to one of my bff's to help clean out her attic, (I am such a wild chick, can't you tell!!!) so her hubby can start working on her "craft area". He is like this really crafty woodworker dude, and really quite good. I was amazed how great his bunk beds for the kids turned out, Harry Potters wand, and some other broom looking thing. And lots of other cool stuff. I have never seen a Harry Potter, so not really sure about the whole broom/ and wand thing. So, just acted like I knew what she was talking about....Ha Ha!!
I really had to do some smooth talkin' to be able to get out, even though I really wish I didn't have to hear a bunch of SHIT when I got in. It really ruined my evening! I am a(n) *!}^~ adult! I do deserve to get to leave my house, and leave angel girl here, especially if I seldom ever get a break!!!I really think it sucks that my relationship is in this valley. Peaks and valleys, peaks and valleys..... you know.
Both of my bff's have these absolutely blissfully sickening-sweet, lovey-dovey relationships......and I really think that should be what all marraiges could be/ have that too! but there is this dude named bud that someone I know would rather have, and he rules the entire house. Kinda sucks shit. ok........we all know it is really no secret any longer......I refuse to harbor his sickness any longer. My life revolves around my angel girl now.......and that is what is important to me. So anyhoo.......sorry to write a book..........just sitting here doing some thinking about my life, and how much of a dissapointment I am to myself.
I really am so happy that my girls, (you know who you are) have wonderful marraiges, I do believe it can happen.....rock on my sistas!! You guys rock!changing the subject, as my Amber calls it, "deflecting". I am learning how to do that quite well now!

My little brother and his girlfriend are coming into town for the weekend tomorrow, and I can't wait to see them!!! They are just so freakin' cute together! I really just love his girlfriend Sara....she is really good for him. He is such a great young man, so proud of him. I really got lucky with all of my sisters-in-laws.....they are great! Note to self: Need to spend more time with them while I can. Life is too short.
nite sistas! trying to think happy thoughts, and get my few hours of sleep for the night.

wanna go???

hey my peeps!

want to get out for a while sometime this week? I NEED A FRAKIN' BREAK!!!!!!
I plan on doing something....even if it is just riding around by myself in my car. Possibly thursday? john is hunting but I think Thurs. is good for me. any suggestions? wanna go?

this is how I feel right now. Special.

another day comes and goes.......

hello my peeps!! yesterday I spent a majority of my day-- in b/t the one of many Zoie meltdowns!!! gotta love that whole teeething thing! My poor baby!!!-- trying to get a SU! order to go in. wow, what an ordeal! Still not completely in.......... ?!

anywhoo....... we are still trying to deal with John's Dad's sickness....it is a reality that the whole family is trying to come to the realization that he is not going to get any better. Doesn't look too good...... it looks like anyday now.....the inevitable is going to happen. John is not taking it too well. My heart hurts for all of them. John is really having a hard way of life right now with lots of other things too.......the economy......this whole adoption thing.......did I mention that he has shingles?? he is just getting it from all angles lately. I am trying to be a good girl and not piss him off! He is about to crack I think. Thank God for our ZoZo. He absolutely lights up when he sees her, just like she does when she sees him.

I think I will take angel girl to the mall today to ride around in her wagon. She loves that wagon. I love that wagon. Wagon makes Mommy's life a bit easier!


God I Love that little girl with the sweet angel face. My angel girl.

peace out sistas!!

ziploc baggies and babies

hello my loyal compadres.......today I must share the cutest little story with you. It will be short, so....here goes.
I have had this little ziploc theif in my home for about oh....let's just say...about 5 months now......and I have been really going through some ziploc baggies. I was not sure if something (someone) is eating them, or they are just being eaten by the air. So, I am going about my business today, just picking up, straightening up and cleaning up after a certain little person.....and low and behold!! I pull out the drawer the Zoie plays in, and viola!!!! guess where my plastic baggies were???!!! you guessed it! But now I am moving all plastic baggies, cause I really think that could be a potential hazard for that little bag theif.
She is so dang cute!! this is the pic of the bag theif and her best friend, they played hard today, so they are exhausted, and chillin' out!
check out the Blankie that Gramma Gloria made for ZoZo, she loves it and is teething those last four teeth right now I imagine, she chews and chews and chews on it.

woot woot!! hmmmmm

so.....I am starting to work every possible weekend at the new ab fab scrapbook store, formerly The Pink House--Charleston Scrapbooking that I possibly can, and today was one of the days. Daddy gets Zoie duty and Mommy gets to get out the house and make some moolah.....:)
Got there, the doors opened precisely at 10:00 and wham!! From that moment on.....we were busy answering questions, ringing up sales, and just running our mouths! They (we) are doing great!! I am soooo happy to be there, especially because I want them to do great, but also because I need a JOB! I would love to sit and play with some of the new products, but......no time for that, and lguess what? no time to do that! Isn't that just great! So excited for them! I get to help out, and make some green stuff.
ok....let's hear a "woot woot"!!

so moving on.

ok, so let's talk about the economy some. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???!!!! I need to get back to feeling like there is a bottom to all of this bad crap! I am just disgusted with all the talk about people losing their homes! (And we may be next)....and Jobs! what about there being nothing out there....and if there is....you have to have a freakin' master's degree to make 14.00 an hour?????? This is crazy! I really want to wake up and pretend this is all a very sick, cruel joke.
Ok, I will get off my soapbox....and let you get back to reading sweet things that I usually post. Just thought I would share a bit.

sweet dreams my peeps.

not so sweet sound of a chainsaw in my ear

ok, so here's the deal. My so sweet of a husband asked me to come to bed early with him tonight, since I am sorta sometimes a night owl......I obliged him.
So what happens??? well, let me tell you.
I have been asked to rub his back, scratch his back, rub his head.....and oh don't let me forget about just doting over him. You see, he really has to have alot, and I mean ALOT of attention normally. But in this case, it is even more attention because he has learned as of last night he has shingles. I am not talking about the kind on your roof- I am talking the painful kind that follow your nerve endings. It can be had by anyone that has ever had the chickenpox- just in case you wanted it....lol. He has been complaining that his shoulder and arm were killing him for the last 4 days or so. (I really just thought he was being a baby ;) I feel so bad for him right now. It looks really painful. He is so stressed out,and alot of the time that is what brings it on.
So............to make a long story longer..........I rubbed, scratched and doted.
And guess what? I am up blogging because someone fell asleep on me in just about 10 minutes flat!!! Both of my babies are sleeping soundly now.
We are off again to the hospital tomorrow to see his Dad, he is still not doing well. Please say a little prayer for him tonight.
We (Amber, Zoie and I) were able to get up to our favorite local scrapbook store (LSS) Charleston Scrapbooking formerly The Pink House
for their "soft" opening. Wow!!!!! were are impressed!!! they are such rockstars!!! what an awesome job they are doing!!! They were very busy, so we just wanted to go wish them luck........rock on sistas!!!!!!!
well, now is time to put the ear plugs in....Mr Chainsaw is getting up early again tomorrow to go to the Hunt Club to see his buddy. Snooze on my friend.

waiting and blogging

Doesn't it seem like when you are waiting for someone or something to happen it takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r! I am sitting up here in what I call "my heaven on earth" space, (of course it is my craft room!) and waiting for my cousin, his wife and their son Free to come in from Virginia. He texted me to ask if they can come "land" at our pad. UMM, let me think.........of course!! They won't be here until about 10-11-ish tonight. They are moonlighting, obvioulsy! They are just coming in for the night I believe, and leaving tomorrow. Cool! I haven't seen them since my Grandmother's funeral a couple of years ago. It will be nice to see them all.
I really wish I had at least 1 family member that lived here in Charleston. It would be nice to have someone to turn to and run off to their house to "hide" if I needed to when John is an ass.
I miss my family, and the older I get I really really really miss my family. It seems I remember my parents telling me that is what will happen. Amazing how they were always right!!! My cousin that is heading in tonight, he is my father's brothers son.
Our fathers' are brothers. Did ya get that?! hehe!

well, my Zoie is snoozing, and I am watching the Country Music Festival....and they just said that Jamie Johnson is going to be performing tonight, rock on! I am soooo diggin' him. Lovin' me some of his tunes. Don't have the coins to buy his latest CD...or else I would so snag it. I bet it rocks!!
John left about an hour ago to go meet the concrete dudes at a job he is working on. He has never really left at this time of night to go do a job.....he left at 8:00 tonight. He is really stressed about this whole economy business......and he has me stressed the hell out as well.
I really really really need to go back to school and finish my degree. I cannot be in this same situation for the rest of my life........it just sucks.
This is why I am so thankful for my little piece of heaven on earth.
My craft room is what I need for my therapy. Good night all, I am going to do some creating now. Gotta make sum-thin'!!!!!!

This pic of Vonney and I....we were just acting stupid......comes naturally!..... and yes that is Amber in the window....she was so funny! getting ready to hit the hay. Long day.
Been trying to get caught-up since getting back from Charlotte-Raleigh trip. I had a good time. A few pranks pulled on my gurlz...(one was an awesomly [don't really know if that is a true word or not....but....] stinky prank.....known as a "fart bomb" that I just had to pull on them.....and of course blamed it on each of them individually....just toooo freakin' funny! Did you know a baby ruth mini candy bar looks like a true turd???!!! GoOd tiMes!!!)
Came home to a messy, disallusioned house, as well as a disallusioned husband. ;0) My sweet angel girl just giggled and hugged me. I love it!!!! Today I scrubbed the tile kitchen floor (with a toothbrush!!%$#**^$@!) in hopes of getting a resemblance of clean grout lines....after years of build-up. UGH! I cringe when Zoie picks something up off this filty floor and sticks it in her mouth, and I can tell ya, it happens a bit too often for me!
I hope to start the process of trying to organize my vast collection of stamps tomorrow while John goes and does a guy thing.....I just love them!! I really use them often, and am absolutely obsessed with all aspects of rubber stamping, scrapbooking and making cards when time allows now.
There will hopefully come a day when I get everything organized in my "craft room", as it does make crafting more efficient. Got to have order in everything in my life..... :0) I really need to see a shrink!!!

this was supposed to be a very short post.....so over and out for now!
peace out!!!!

Good moring all! My Zo Zo is sleeping peacefully, so had a few minutes to kill before jumping in the shower, starting my hectic day.

Glad to see that my "gurlzzzz" made it to Charlotte ok. Rock on sistas! Can't wait to see ya'll Saturday!! I'm a comin' toooooo! Don't have fun without me! No just kiddin'!

OK, so here it is in a nutshell. Court was absolutely useless for the Pre-lim........just as the CW told me. No relinquishment. Next is the other person's - in Sept.

well, I guess you know about my master plan? right? Z and I will have to become "ethiopian" chicks............do you think we will "blend in" with their color/culture?

Well, about the only positive thing that could possibly come from us moving to Ethiopia would be........ummmmm......I will finally WIN that weight loss challenge that we have going on!!! HeHe!

I really think it's going to get expensive for my gurlzzzzzzzz to come see us in Ethiopia.......I hear it's a long flight as well:o)

gotta run!

PS: If you are reading this, ...........and ...........and you haven't seen us in awhile....we are not in Ethiopia............this is all a joke, you never really saw this post. (Do you think I would post where we are secretly going?)...........hmmmm............

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trying to get to bed early tonight....

ok, so I just checked on angel girl....... again.......for the fourth time tonight. She now sleeps in her own bed, in her OWN room. Finally! She needed to be getting more sleep than she was getting...................She is sleeping just like a a little tiny angel sleeps. I told my friend (Amber) about checking on her for the first couple hours when she goes down ...and I found out I am obsessed with making sure she is still breathing, not tangeld up and just overall peaceful.

I have this thing about worrying about her. Have had it since the moment I got her. I am trying to get better about this......Does the worry ever end?

Is this just part of being a parent? I think I am just so worried that I won't be able to help her if she needs me in the middle of the night and I can't hear/see her. I have the monitor set to the highest setting (even if John snores like a freight train I can hopefully still hear her). (2 monitors, actually, in case one fails)

ok.....so paranoia will destroy-ya..........:o)

I got nothing accomplished today except for taking angel girl to get her blood drawn for her allergy testing to be done. She is highly allergic to something....we are not sure if it is something she is eating, or what.

We should have results back within a week.

Well, going to peace out for now..........

this is something I made for a special someone.