There she rolls!!!

So this weekend I accomplished a lot! The entire deck got stained with a roller and a sponge brush! That was a chore, but I love the way it looks! I can barely move this Sunday evening, but not from all the staining.............I fell,or rather rolled down the hill in the front yard yesterday!
I have no idea how this happened, but I do know that I can roll down the hill, in case you were wondering. I didn't think I was hurt , other than my pride, until tonight.........Oh Lordy, I have muscles in places I didn't know existed, and they are soooooo sore! Bryan could not believe his eyes when one minute I was grabbing my Diet Dr Pepper and going to the back to stain some more ,then the next minute I was laying on the ground covered in grass! Of course my wonderful Daughter, Lyndsay, didn't even stay around long enough to see if I were OK, oh no, she ran in the house to tell her sister "mom just fell down" as if I needed more of an audience!! Did I mention the neighbor was there also? Well, here's a look at our newly stained deck!

Nice Shade!

I'm hot ,I'm cold, I'm itchy, I'm sunburned! Yes it is already that time........I really love spring, and use it to get a decent tan before the pool opens. I know we aren't supposed to tan, it's bad and causes cancer and wrinkles and blah blah blah.......... I can't help it, I know that, but I also know that tan fat is much nicer than white fat.....so there it is...... I will tan!
I feel I need a tan before the pool opens in the same way that one will clean their house before the housekeeper comes, or wash ones hair before going to the salon. See there are just some things that must be done and for me tanning before pool opens is a must do! I did give up spending money on tanning beds several years ago, so at least now my wrinkle causing, cancer giving sunbathing is all free!!
Well I'm off to find the lotion, so I don't look like an alien losing a layer of skin tomorrow(does anyone remember that show V?).......btw blow drying hair with a burned forehead and scalp is not recommended!

All Things Spicy

I have become obsessed this week with spicy food. Let's back up and explain how this happened(other than my tendency to have OCD). An old friend of mine posted a picture on her blog of the stuff she gave her kids for Easter........there right on top of everything were Flamin Hot Cheetos.....okay, I have never actually tried them so I didn't think too much about this until a couple days later when Bryan (husband) and I were in the check-out at Stupid Center and there they were , sitting on the top shelf of the impulse items saying "buy me ", so of course I got a bag. Now let's think , how hot can these thing be? my friend gives them to innocent children. Thankfully my husband is a little OCD about his 'company car' so I had to wait until I got home to eat said Cheetos. Oh My Goodness........call the fire department, call 911, just do something, I thought I would die! 3 Cheetos later I was seriously ill................but the strangest thing, I couldn't stop eating them........every few minutes I would try just one more to see if they were still hot! So the next day I start eating the Jelly Belly beans that I have 3 pounds of and discover the cinnamon are amazing, so after sorting through all 3 pounds I'm out of cinnamon beans and what do I do? Go back to eating the horrible Cheetos!!!! Why? I have no clue, but it doesn't stop there............oh no........last night I went to three different stores just to buy Hot Tamales, they are very close to cinnamon jelly beans, and also found a bag of Flamin Hot Fries!!! Well, after much thought, I have figured out why all these HOT foods have been so obsessive for me the last few days.........these type things did not used to bother me, but I quit smoking about 6 months ago after having smoked for over 15 years , and I think my taste buds are much more sensitive now!! So I hope that I experience a new taste for foods that are actually good for me now...........like vegetables and all things green, but I wouldn't count on it!

Caterpillars Everywhere

So this is the newest of the critters in my backyard.......from what I've read online these are gypsy moths. They will eat all the leafs off my tree and turn into moths and be on their way. This should upset me, but I figure they have a very long climb to get to the top and if they make it they will be hungry,so one year with an ugly tree won't kill us. Maybe I'm not upset about these because it could be worse...last year at this time we seemed to be overrun with snakes, so I'll take leaf eating caterpillars any day, besides all the kids think it's cool!

wonder what this is all about?

So I figure there are all these people writing blogs ........why can't I? Well , we'll see, I could be technically challenged, too old, too boring or just not able to write in complete sentences.
For those people who do write blogs, I might add that if you write about a friend or family member and make fun them, chances are they will read it or hear about it, so think about it!!! Duh!! (this may or may not have happened to me)

I realized recently that my days of being the mother of little twin girls is basically over.....I know. ..I know , I'll always be their mother, but they are growing into adolescents quickly. They are so grown up all of a sudden that I wonder if I was a bad mother and they felt the need to grow up and take care of themselves because I wasn't doing a good enough job.
The day last month when I changed all their clothes from little kid hangers to normal adult size hangers was very difficult for me......it may sound odd, but that is a huge milestone. This also happened to be the same time that they moved into their own rooms for the first time.
They were gone on a three day trip with the school last week, which left my husband and I alone for the first time since........................well, since they were born ! This was very odd, we don't remember marriage without the girls, considering they were born one week after our first anniversary, so we were sort of lost. I suppose we need to figure out what to do with ourselves over the next few years. I should work on that.