Suuuprise.

Ladies and Gentlemen.

I'm back in Indiana. Of all places to be excited about. But my family is here so that's the bulk of the excitement. pause That is where my parents and siblings are. MY family is a bit scattered at the moment (the DH couldn't tug along on the trip SAD DAY) resume So my parentals have been pretty upset since my daughter and I left. And I can understand that-- I mean I have pretty much spent only 2 weeks at a time away from them my entire life. This stretch was a month, and a half I guess lol. But they have missed us a lot and I know it was pretty hard on them to have their grandbaby, my princess, ripped away sooo... after consulting with my DH, I was able to arrange a suuuprise for them.

I hopped on the plane at 11:15PM on Wednesday and took the Red Eye to Indy to be picked up by my BFF Ashley. (She was so sweet because I seriously planned the trip wayy last minute and asked her the night before for the ride lol). Anyways, when she dropped me off I was able to sneak in the house and luckily my brother and dad had just left and my momma was sleeping so I ran into her room with Adeliene and princess started talking and woke my momma up and when she finally realized who we were (in the dark mind you) she shot up and was absolutely beside herself. It was a pretty cool thing. I loved making my family so happy. We have had such a lovely time here. It's been pretty cool getting to have the best of both worlds. Out in California with my husband, but able to come home and visit when I feel I need to.

I love my family. They make my heart super happy. :)

Phil Vassar - Just Another Day In Paradise

Plan B: Looks like, Domino's Pizza in the Candlelight

Oh wow. It's been awhile.

Well the past 3 days have just been absolutely horrid. And I use the word horrid loosely of course. No one has died or been severely hurt or injured and the sun is still shining BUT I have a very bothersome toothache turned headache/migraine. Its tampered severely with my weekend, albeit considering I'm having a very difficult time sleeping my husband, Addy and myself have been able to get up near the crack of dawn and get a jump on our day.

Today we had a very nice breakfast and went shopping at the local... of all things... GOODWILL!!! I love it. Bought a really nice desk for the computer. Finally. And a wall Votive Wall Grill (its like a decorative candle holder that goes on your wall) Way cool. and of course some Elmo movies for my little girl.

After that, we went to some local shelters for dogs to find a furry friend to melt our hearts and join the family; possible wear our a couple pairs of old shoes, ruin socks, pee on the carpet, whine at night from his/her cage, and give us a reason to always have to come home every couple of hours on the weekend. Just kidding. Well, kind of. lol No but in all seriousness we looked. But it was all little dogs and we want a big'in.

By the time we finished checking out the small dogs it was like 1 and we thought we should head back and get Addy some lunch and give her a nap plus Paul had a watch tonight (its like standing guard for 6 hours straight) from 4pm-10pm so he had to catch a few hours so he would be alert.

I took a nap too. It was nice to sleep. My mouth was aching all day and it was nice to kinda get rest. When I awoke, Paul had already left for watch and it was just Addy and myself. I woke up in pain and tried my hardest to not think about it while the ibuprofen had time to kick in, but I am a poor sufferer. :( Anyways I finally got downstairs to my phone where my DH had called and texted me several times. It was sweet. He talked to me for a little while and then...



.... a ring at the door bell. It was the domino's pizza man. I was never so happy to see him. My DH had ordered me pizza from base to be delivered at home so I wouldn't feel so overwhelmed with making dinner and to give me the opportunity to kind of relax. It was the sweetest thing in the whole world and I was SO thankful.

I have such a blessed life and I am so thankful for a caring and supportive husband. :)

Messed Up.

Well today has been a little chaotic.

My oven caught fire.

Oops.

Good thing it did so AFTER my husband got home. You see, we have a gas stove. And my first response would have been water. Thankfully he knew baking soda would work. Massive problem averted, but the lingering effects of the yucky grease which caught fire caked on the bottom of my stove was the lesser problem to tackle. It took about an hour, 2 sos pads, a utility knife, a green and yellow scrubber, a whole mess of lysol wipes and some good ol' fashioned elbow grease (the non-flamable kind) to clean it out but it was done.

Ended up settling for pizza tonight. Not exactly healthy or ideal but at least it was food and we were thankful for it. I was especially thankful for my husbands quick thinking and eagle scout brain. You know, a non-homemade meal was a little disappointing, but I'm pretty sure having a home to eat in was worth it lol... And I'm sure our neighbors would thank us for not burning down their half of the house lol.

Anyways. To top off this incredibly intense day. I messed up my blog. So its taken literally hours to semi-fix. :( Bleh. Hopefully as I learn about blogspot I will figure out... someday... how to correct my foul mistakes.

Until then. Forgive my unshapely, unattractive blog. It's under construction and a work in progress.

The Snowball Nah-Nie Meltdown

Before I explain the details of this traumatic experience... let me first clarify.

Nah-Nie: a banana

Yum Yum: a sweet treat

Adeliene and I had just gotten back from playing at the park when I decided I better quickly pull together some lunch, after all it was pushing noon. YIKES.

Anyhow... I precede to the kitchen and pull out our favorite last minute lunch-- Top Ramen Noodles Chicken Flavor with Cheesy Cheetos, some sort of fruit and usually a yum yum. As I begin to boil the water for the noodles Miss Adeliene strolls into the kitchen looking for me because she has decided she is ready for something to eat right then. Being that she is small and doesn't understand what wait one minute means... I ask her which fruit she would like, orange or banana. She points to the banana and begins her chant.

...Nah-Nie Nah-Nie Nah-Nie Nah-Nie Nah-Nie Nah-Nie Nah-Nie Nah-Nie Nah-Nie ....

Okay. Gotcha. Banana. Peel the sides down and chuck them in the trash. My next move starts the fallout. As I begin to break the banana in half to appropriately portion out a size for my daughter to eat the blood-curtling scream comes soaring out. She didn't want the "half-a-nah-nie." She wouldn't take it. I think at one point I could almost here my duplex neighbors fine china bursting into a THOUSAND pieces.

Whoops. My bad.

I try to calmly explain to her that I'm saving the other half for her lunch and that we will have it in just a moment but to no avail. She'd already lost her mind. Thankfully I have the ability to put on and take off my "mommy" ears quite easily. One to two minutes pass and the lingering sniffles and slight moans coming out of Little Miss are getting fewer and far between. I finish up with the Ramon, season, stir and place it in the freezer to cool.

There she goes again. DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA. She's started this new thing where she gets angry and starts to hit anything around her: floor, table, mommy, ect...ect... well this time it was mommy, as I was trying to desperately buckle her into the booster so she could get ready to pray and eat. By this time, I'm not so calm anymore. When I take her hands away from her she uses her next sly move of headbutting. UH. Right to the lip.

I am heated. Without saying a word, quickly trying to remove myself from the situation, I sit her down and buckle her up. I drive her seat straight into the dining room and park it in the middle of an empty corner. She sits. Screaming. I finished preparing what I need to while trying to regain my composure so I can go and explain why what she did was negative communication that WOULDN'T be tolerated. After a minute I return to my daughter and explain to her plain enough for a toddler that the behavior she was displaying was a no-no and was very naughty. She began to cry again and even more so when I told her she was in Time Out to Think for 1-1/2 minutes, But she calmed eventually and we were able to get through the re-explination of why she was there and how to avoid being there again, the I'm sorries, the I love you's, the hugs and the kisses.

I was really nervous how praying would be after all that. Adeliene is getting more and more used to folding arms and bowing her head for prayer before meals but usually with some reluctancy-- this time however she was quite good. THANK GOODNESS.

We ate, we drank and soon lunch was over. Adeliene started to rub her eyes signaling to me she was ready to be laid down for a nap. Smart girl. I cleaned her hands, face and pants which were by then completely covered in Ramon. I swooped her up and held her close to my chest where she laid her head on my shoulder and began to suck her thumb. I laid my baby girl down and swiped the hair from her eyes, blew her a kiss and told her Night-Night.

When I got back downstairs and started to clean up our mess I noticed her plate with noodles strung about, half eaten cheetos, picked at double chocolate chip cookie and the nah-nie in pristine condition, not eaten, not touched, not moved.

I had to laugh. Was this her lesson or mine? :)

So it's not ALWAYS warm here. But we've had a couple of good days.

Adeliene is really starting to enjoy the fresh air and playgrounds. She can't get enough of them. Its also become one of her very favorite phrases.

Ina go to park

I hear it everyday. Yesterday, I took her. YET AGAIN. As you can see from the runny nose she has-- it wasn't fantastically amazing weather but she enjoyed it none-the-less.

The craziest thing about people around this neighborhood is nobody plays with their children at the park. Perhaps I'm just a kid at heart but as the other mothers in the neighborhood enjoy their folding chair and tie-fleece blankets, I'm scooting, yes scooting, down the slide and climbing the steps and scaling the "mini-rock wall" they have prepared for the kiddos. I love it. I pushed about 3 kids (including my own) on the swing as their mothers just watched from a distance.

Weird. But o.k.

I love it here. I love the sun. Not too fond of the temperatures but I love having my family together. They are my world and I'm so incredibly happy. So much to be thankful for. Really. :)