Weekend overview!

So lets start out by saying my niece is here! Londyn Skye was born on July 15th by c-section. She is cute and I think looks like me :) Sad to say the Kowalski genes are strong, herre are 2 pics of her just about a day old.

Aint She adorable. Yeup my nose and my lips :)


On to other things, trying to get the motivation to do my homework and really it is not happening especially when I am at my inlaws playing video games :) well have to get back to defending my properties!

Uggggh

Today is the last day for watching the kids before they go on vacation!! So excited and yet dreading what I have to accomplish in the next 5 days. I need to fight this laziness when I get home after watching them. I just sit on the couch and veg. Now I know I am combating the monthly friend, 4 months in a row this is a record, but it is still no excuse. I have quite a bit of little things to do that a boring and irritating. I guess I am just going to have to suck it up.

Other news today, my niece will be born today! Sucks that she is in Georgia, lets hope and pray everything goes well! well back to more doing nothing!

our first bee sting

talk about getting scared the hell out of ya! Alex got stung twice in the back of the neck today. Immediately nurse kris kicks in , I go for ice, no ice. Power just came back on at the kids house today so they have nothing. I make sure no stingers are left, he is balling up a stormy. I got a cold compress so we can combat swelling and call his mom. She has no clue if they have benydril (what??) I found some childrens tylenol, gave him that. Searched thru cabinets no benydril. :( looked up more treatment types said not to give it cause it can mask symptoms so glad we dont have it. So far it is 2 little swollen marks like a vampire bite on his neck. This enough to give me a heart attack. What ever happened to shit aint supposed to happen on my watch.

I feel like sometimes they will get mad and not want me to watch the kids any more. I hope that doesnt happen. I enjoy my days here even though they are kookie. I am sure it is just nerves talking, so now I am getting off and going to check him once more to make sure he is good.

Playing catch up

So a lot has been going on the last week or so. We have been revamping the house because it needs to be done and also we are having a party on my birthday, just a little one. I just finally unpacked all my books, took up more space then I thought so I had to get into some of my decor bookcases. I got the craft room turned into a play/computer room. Still working on that though because I have tooo much craft crap, but at least all the legos are upstairs now! I honestly think I am almost finished unpacking, lol! over 3 years in this house and I have like 5 boxes left (this is not counting the holiday decorations). with all of this trying to juggle homework, cleaning, family and babysitting, I am tired!! Maybe it is also because I am cramming this together before our trip too!

Yes I said trip, it looks like we are going to Washington D.C. after all. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited, even though it is going to be short. we are leaving Wednesday night and driving to get there thursday. Since our tour is on friday we are going to do some sight seeing. After our tour on Friday we will check out of the hotel and drive home. (we are bringing the bubba with us, other 2 are staying home) So on Saturday when we get home I will be having my party. Yes I am nuts but I will be hyper on something to keep awake!!! well enough of the catch up time to make some lunch and get back to work!

No More Lizards and Really depressed

I have been EXTREMELY busy the last few days. We got the lizard room painted and it is officially a guest bedroom. I am putting together the bed tonight and going to see what I have for decor so I can start hanging stuff up. It isn't perfect but it works for me!!

As for the depressed part, everything was fine today until I got the mail. I got a letter from my state rep. I was like well it might be telling me that we didn't get selected for the white house tour, which it would be fine since we aren't going to D.C. now. So I open the letter and guess what, we got selected to go to the white house, literally less that 6% of the people that request tickets get selected and I am the lucky one. i feel like crying. It is the one thing that I wanted to do with Ken. He has never been to D.C. I was stationed there for about 2 yrs. I miss the east coast I wanted him to see it in person not just in the movies and now we aren't going. I am trying to figure out if we can still do it being that I would need to be back before my party started on the 23rd. It would be a quick turn around but really when am I ever going to get the chance to do this again? I hope he switches his days off. I might be able to pay for the room and way there (26hrs round trip with 2 people and 3 dogs fun) but he will have to pay for everything else. hmmmm mind is a brewing, this could be trouble.

Good Deeds and Weekends!

Well I found a permanent home for the baby duck. Even though I wanted to take care of it soo back, I found out it is a little illegal to keep baby mallard ducks soo my hunt for a rehabber began. luckily it was a short one, I found a rehabber that specializes in water birds and she lives 10 min from me! Little duckie has 2 adopted siblings now and is being properly taken care of. I was sad though because I had to take it all by myself, Ken was at work. :(

Other notes and a very good one, My roommate moved out as of yesterday! we are officially empty, NO more people living with up unless they are children that legally belong to me! Now we start painting and decorating tomorrow I am sooo excited! well I have to get back to my game with the nephew, hubby and FIL. :)

And officially I became a zoo

the little stinker

Today my house officially became a zoo. We have a baby duckling. At first there was 5 now there is one. No I did not kill them. We got a call from my sister in law that her friend had some baby ducks. She had found them under a trailer at their warehouse. After searching for the mom and not being able to find her they shooed the ducklings from under the trailer and they ran straight into the warehouse. once cause she brought them home and called around to rescues. These rescues said and I quote " leave them by a pond and if they die it is the circle of life." Really!!!!! WTF!! So my sis in law called us (apparently my husband has raised one before). When her friend got home 3 of the ducklings had died, when ken picked them up one of them did not look so good. It died within 5 min of being there. so now we are down to one.

After preparing the food and cleaning the container we set it up in the bathroom with a heater (what a headache that was, luckily i remember we had one that has a auto shut off and on when it gets to a certain temp). It (we don't know if it is a boy or girl yet) curled up in the animals and went to sleep. We closed the door turned off the light and went to bed ourselves. This morning Ken went downstairs to get it while I do the morning routine with my zoo. Came back in and he went out side with it. After i was done doing the meds and my own stuff I went outside and it was in the pond. Apparently Ken was picking it up and it jumped and ran to the pond. Not knowing if it has oils yet on its feathers (it might drown if not) it was a scramble to get it out. Then once out it ran under the deck. yes it was a whole 30 min project getting it back into the container. Now it is happy and eating the food with Ken on the deck. Uggghhhh you know at this point I think Kids are easier.

making me laugh

you know some days you just need to laugh. My husband has to have perfect timing with this. So yesterday I was sitting on the couch and he just sat down on the other side of the couch with his dinner and a Cialis commercial came on. Mind you I was not paying attention to the tv but looking at my phone and i hear this click noise and I look up at the hubby. He was making clicking noises and winking at me and asked me if it was the right time. I busted out laughing cause he looked like a fruit cake and he said he was doing it because of the commercial and how stupid it was. He is soooo goofy sometimes and I love him for it and much needed more than he knew :)

Ken acting crazy at the orchard

Strawberry fields and cheap wine

Well I just got back from taking the kiddos ( not mine, the ones I babysit) to the strawberry patch and we had a blast! There were tons of strawberries and the kids were eating them along the way. the owner personally took us out and showed us a fruit bearing tree that the birds love. I don't remember the name but it looked like tiny cranberries but tasted a whole helluva lot better. They had a lab there as well running all over the place that would also catch strawberries you tossed to her. Apparently she loves strawberries. The price wasn't bad either about $1.75 a pint, they even let us have the baskets! :)

alex picking strawberries

my basket of strawberries

olvia picking strawberries

strawberries

strawberries 2

Tony and Olivia looking at ladybugs and strawberries

can't wait eating em in the car

On other notes, I took a PG test this morning and it was negative. a little disappointed with that, was kind of hoping I didn't have to go back to the fertility office to tell them hey I don't have the money now to do the procedure since the hubby doesn't have the morning job anymore. The only thing is still don't have a period, damn PCOS! I go through 4 months of hellish periods to nothing, ugh.

Big weekend coming up, got to make brownies tomorrow for the "picnic" at dad's house on Saturday and Sunday is yard work. Busy Busy Busy!!!!

Sox win and I am getting closer to my pedicure

Well today was a better day, Kens just started back on his night schedule and it goes to the airport so it won't be just 4 hrs, Yay! so hoping this will be a start to the good path. Other than that things are busy, this weekend we will be at my parents house for our Picnic fathers day celebration. It should be a fun day, i will be bringing brownie sundaes! Yum!! well I need to go to bed, so updates later! :)

Things you do on a humid rainy day

So lets say i am crazy,  I know I know I am but we dont let too many people in on that secret, what would you decide to to on a humid on and off rainy day? Stay in... watch a movie...sleep.... noooooo my husband who came home cause they didnt need him at work decided to say lets go to the place that sells the stone and see what they have.....ok (it wasn't raining then).

So we go to the rock place, it was good till he was trying to be cheap (my husband that is) once we got home, here comes the rain. So who do you think unloaded this rock?? yeup me and him with him complaining. really I am doing this too! Then we have to place the brick more complaining, jesus what did you think was going to happen.This is what happens when you decide to do a project and do it right. I was just so glad I had to go babysit, gives me a break from killing him. Untill tonight that is when his team plays my team in MLB. GOOO White Sox!!!