2009 May | Lola B's

my date with a fireman…

May 29, 2009

I hate to toot my own horn, but the reality is…..i receive many awards in the mothering department. I also hate to disappoint ladies like “Pioneer woman” and “dooce”, but it’s just the truth. I love to bake cookies with the children….so much so, that yesterday as i was wallowing in my “life defining moment”, i grabbed my favorite box of oatmeal cranberry cookies from Trader Joe’s. I always keep a box of them in the freezer for those moments of baking with the children……

….so we opened the bag of already rolled and ready to put out on the cookie sheet….when i heard the sound of a fire truck………hmmmm…..i thought to myself as i looked around the kitchen and noticed NO children were helping me bake cookies..…strange i thought…………it sounded like the fire truck was right outside my front door……..i better take a look……..

…..and still no children…….but then another fire truck pulled up…….

…I had a feeling that the award i was supposed to receive this evening ……was not going to happen….

…..and instead was indeed going to “pioneer woman”……. Can i ask you now…..why..oh..why….

do kids like to take the phone and hide in the closet to crank call 911?….and why do they yell…

FIRE…..and hang up….

why?…..

…..thank GOD they didn’t say…..my mom has a belt in her hands and she’s going to beat me….no….

thank goodness they didn’t say that……

….so my lovely readers….i am so sorry to have to forfeit my lovely award this year…..i guess i can try again next year?…..

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life defining moments…

May 28, 2009

I was told there are 3-5 life defining moments in one’s life……like the birth of a child……a marriage…..or something like this.

I knew this day would come….i had been waiting for it. I knew joining facebook had the possibility of it, it was just a matter of when.

where.

how.

I had a great group of friends back in elementary school, as a matter of fact….it was the four of us and we did everything together. we even started our own version of the babysitters club.Four friends.

My elementary school went thru 6th grade with 7th and 8th being middle school.

Life was lovely.

Then middle school started.

There really should be no middle school.

I don’t know anyone that loved middle school.

It was fun….for the first couple of months anyways.

The four of us…..

my good friends….the other 3 girlfriends that i loved…….

and one day……

dumped me.

i use that term nicely.

dumped.

i was humiliated.

i had to start my life completely over and to tell you the truth, it’s probably the reason i hated school so much.

Oh, i made new friends and survived but the fact is and was….

i was dumped by my 3 best buds.

my besties…

this was a life defining moment.

to this day i’m still very touchy about friendships…i don’t get very connected or deep.

oh, i have plenty of friends, but i only have a handful that thru the years have i stayed connected with….a handful.

which brings me to today …..

one of those girls contacted me……

“hey kasey…..remember me….jenny from elementary school……remember?”……

oh yeah….jenny…..i remember you…….you dumped me..right?……that jenny..is that you?

“lol….ha….i guess that’s a harsh word….but ……oh…yeah…your right…..maybe we call it water under the

bridge and start over”.

start over?

seriously?

flash back to life defining moment……

So….this is where you my lovely friends can help me…….maybe you’ve been there…..

Do i say “heck with it”, let’s be best buds…..i mean really….i’m not 13 anymore…i’m 34 and married with children…..with awesome blog readers…….and…..

let it be…..not accept her invite to be friends……
oh….the trials and tribulations…….

..on a lighter note……my home was featured on this awesome blog yesterday.

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the bad side….

May 27, 2009

the bad side of my brain got ahold of me yesterday. I don’t know about you but every once in a while it gets me and makes me do things i don’t want to do…….like shopping. I don’t necessarily WANT to shop, but the bad side of my brain FORCES me to. I have been eyeing this shower curtain from Anthro {duh} for a while now. ….actually just a few weeks to be exact. So after i dropped the kids ALL off at school after a LONG weekend, i decided that a trip to Anthro was necessary.

Hello new Madoleine shower curtain!

she’s a shabby,cottage, frenchie new addition to my petite bathroom in my petite farmhouse cottage….

Do you like that chandi above? I do. I love it. There will be some more in shop soon……

Stop here before you read on. …..because right next to Anthro was Gap. Now, normally i’m not a gap girl. sorry, i’m just not. BUT……..i saw a sign in the window that said “SALE”.

The bad side of the brain saw it also and dragged me in…..

sunburn and all.

long winters in the midwest does bad things to us………we think that the first warm long weekend requires sitting outside ALL weekend with no sunscreen on.

BAD BRAIN.