It’s a Party!

A Pirate Parrrty for Radical #3’s 1^st birthday.  I’ll admit I pulled this theme out of my bum 3 days before the party.  I’m not sure what I was thinking or if I was even thinking but for some reason it wasn’t clicking in my brain that a party was rapidly approaching.

Luckily Target had some pirate stuff since I didn’t have time to craft anything.  I have the load of take out containers and I thought it would’ve been really cute to make mini treasure chests as goodie bags but I ran out of time.  See, that’s what happens when my comprehension fails me.  But these did the job.

We changed the location the night before the party.  Ha, never fails.  That’s me for you….

We met a couple visiting from Washington.  They saw someone cleaning fish but didn’t know what to make of it.  The Mister explained and they seemed very intrigued by the whole process so we offered them a sample since we had a whole tray.  We also had them make a plate of all the other food we had.  Sharing is caring.

Although the planning process was so last minute, we still had a great time.

Happy Birthday Radical #3.

My Great Idea is NOT So Great Anymore.

 

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Happy Thursday y’all!

Radical #2’s birthday party is approaching…and I (as in my brain & motivation) need to get it together fast.  I think part of my stress is from wondering how I’m going to get everything to the other side of the island.  See, this is the crappy part about living so far away from home.  Birthdays and holidays make me cringe because we have to load everything up and make that 3 hour drive.  These are the times when I wish we all lived closer.  Then it wouldn’t be such a big production to get together.  Never mind, I’ll stop complaining and be very thankful that we can drive instead of having to fly.  Could you imagine how much more of a stress case I’d be if we had to fly?  We would definitely not be going home as often.

Okay, sorry to get off track there.  back to my not so great idea…

I decided to do a “beach bash” as the theme and as I was thinking about the thank you favors, a light bulb went on in my head.  “why don’t I do goodie bags of homemade goodness?!”  I thought to myself.  Then I came up with the wording “thank you for celebrating with me!  hope you enjoy your ‘sea’ of goodies!”…because it’s a beach bash…awesome right?  Then I started thinking about the goodies I wanted to put in there.  As I was going over the list with the mister, he gave me that look like “you should take it easy!”  and now I’m wishing I gave his look more thought.

Before I tell you why I’m kicking myself in the rear right now, let me share the story behind this ‘sea’ of goodies.  When I think about the sea, I picture the large sea and a lot of ocean life.  And since the thank you tag says “enjoy your ‘sea’ of goodies”, I wanted a lot of goodies.  Homemade goodies need I remind you (sigh).  So here it is, the list of goodies: chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter kisses, pumpkin cookies, cake pops, and pumpkin cupcakes. 

It didn’t sound like a lot at first but now I’m asking myself what I was thinking.  Yeah, there’s only 5 items on that list but I’m baking them myself and I have like 20 bags to fill.  And me and my bright ideas got big bags (to stick to the ‘a lot’ theme).  I wasn’t going to put one of each item, I wanted to fill  the bag with them.  Oh and I have to make two extra batches of cupcakes in place of a cake for the radical. 

Great idea jenn…not!  So tonight will be the bake-a-thon and I’m hoping the radicals will go to sleep early.  Although I like to bake with them all the time, this bake session is not one of those times.  I need every last cookie and cupcake and cake pop and there is no room for cookie monsters!  Sorry radicals, you can get your goodies at the party.  Is that mean of me?  oh well.  And the mister doesn’t know this yet but he will be a master baker when this is done! 

I can’t wait until this week is over.  It seems like everything is attacking me at once.  I’m running out of days and on top of this bake-a-thon, I still have work (thanks mom, I’m about to croak!) and homework.  Oh and my mama duties and my house is a disaster.  Oh and my family needs clean clothes?  Start digging in the ginormic pile of laundry that is decorating the couch!

Hope y’all are having a happy day!!

jenn

A Recap...in Bullets.

Once again I’ve been mia.  Life came at me out of nowhere and that saying of “just take it one day at a time”…yeah, I’ve had more than several attack me at once.  So I’m back and allow me to recap in bullets.

-          I’m a SAHM who recently started back to work (!).  anyway, I packed up the books for kkp and sent it off for delivery which led my mom to think that if I could crank out a year’s worth of work in a week, then she would give me another client.  And again, to crank out a year’s worth of work in a week.  What’s with these people waiting until the last minute?!  Thanks, mom.  You’re so awesome.  It’s a bittersweet situation.  This past week has had me so stressed out but it’s great to know that I have work that I can do from home.

-          I stumbled across a blogger who happens to live in my neck of the woods.  Another awesome thing!  Although I’m not being quick to jump on suggesting a blate, it’s exciting to know I have a bloggy friend in driving distance.  Btw, she has a business doing custom blog designs.  Can I get a woohoo?!  I’ve been dying to re-do the look of my blog but it’s so overwhelming.  I have many thoughts going through my mind like maybe it’s too early for me to invest money into my blog or maybe I should wait until actually do something with my blog or maybe I should wait until my big project becomes a reality and I can somehow link it to my blog.  Just a couple of thoughts but now I’m thinking that it’s never too early to start.  Maybe I can do baby steps instead of doing one big step?  I don’t know.  My mind is still calming down from this past week of stress.  Which brings me to my next point…

-          Radical #2’s birthday is right around the corner.  Like in eleven days.  And I still haven’t done a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g.  ugh!  I did a lot of brainstorming but no action.  I have to change the location and I also have to tweak my ideas that I had (L).  I’m going to blame this on our little power outage we had two weeks ago.  Remember how I told y’all that the outage fried my computer, printer, tv, and phone?  Yeah, well I need my darn printer to print things for the radical’s party.  And I’ve been so caught up with work last week that I haven’t had a chance to get the printer up and running.  I’m guessing I should get on it.  Pronto!

-          Since I haven’t blogged in a while I was thinking about a post yesterday.  Silly me forgot to write my thoughts down and now I can’t remember what I was thinking.  I know it had a word starting with a ‘t’ like treacherous or terrorize or something like that.  If I could remember the word then I would be able to remember my thoughts on the post….being that this happens with everything (things I need from the grocery, people I need to call, what I’m supposed to do at what time, etc.) I’m thinking of hanging pads of paper throughout the house.  That way I can write things down all the time.  note to self: please work on not being so scatter-brained and distracted.  Find your balance.  Please and thank you.

-          The above bullet makes me think about the other projects I was working on.  I so wanted to share the outcome but remember, my camera died on me.  I took pictures with my phone but I have no idea how to get them from the phone to the computer.  I’ll admit, I’m technology-challenged so if y’all have any idea how to do that please let me know.  Speaking of cameras…the camera that I so want for my birthday is so not gonna happen because you know…I’m no professional.  But that can be for another post, maybe tomorrow.  Oh, but don’t worry, I’ll be sure to write it down.  Haha.

Happy Wednesday, Lovelies!

jenn

Negative on Going Home, Overwhelmed with Thoughts, & a 2nd Birthday.

Shucks!  I was so looking forward to going home this weekend but duty calls so I guess I’ll get over it. 

Little Man #2 decided to do a rise and shine this morning at 3am.  Didn’t go back to sleep until 5am and then woke again at 7:45am.  Great, just great!  Since I've been up since 3am, I drank 8 cups of coffee and got half of my homework done.  So that’s a good thing, right?

I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed with all that is going through my brain that it went into shut down mode.  Could it be the reason for the lack of a clever blog post?  Boo!  Does anyone else go through that?  Please tell me you all do.  Anyway, my brain needs to come back soon because I’ve got a lot to do.  I can’t wait until my projects are done AND Little Man #2’s 2^nd birthday is right around the corner.  Okay, 2 months away but I know it’ll come in a blink of an eye!  I feel that his 1^st birthday wasn’t much of a celebration for him.  And it wasn’t as big as his brothers.  Not that I wanted it to be that big but I didn’t really go all out {in a small way} if that makes sense.  Anyway, I want to go all out even though it’s his 2^nd birthday so I’m thinking about a “beach party” theme but we’re not really at the beach?  I’ll have his little kiddo pool, a slip & slide, and the cute little sprinkler thingy my mom bought them.  I’m thinking of having it at the parental’s house since they have a nice grassy area that’s fenced in.  And since Little Man #2 loves to wander off like it’s nobody’s business I figure I can keep him locked up.  Okay, that didn’t sound too good but you get the picture right?

I found some cute cut outs for cupcake toppers, birthday banners, favor labels, and thank you tags for his theme.  I have so much ideas and things I want to do.  The Mister thinks I’m crazy because I’m going all out for his 2^nd birthday and the theme is “beach” but were not at the beach even though were surrounded by beaches.  Ugh, whatever!  And speaking of cupcakes, I’m going to try my hand at fondant.  Dun dun dun…I’m also thinking of shaping little “beach” animals to put on top of the cupcakes with the cupcake toppers.  Is that too much?  That’s my thought but we’ll see if it actually happens.

I know its 2 months away but I don’t want to be a complete stress head when the day rolls around so I’ll continue to plan now.

Did I tell you how I get warm and fuzzy when my kiddos hug each other?  Ah, the love.  They hug when they get up to say good morning, they hug when one is hurt, and they hug for reasons I’m not sure of most times.  I love it that they love giving hugs.  I love hugs too!  And of course my camera is not on hand to capture it even though it likes to play tricks on me...

I haven’t been posting pictures lately because my camera has had a mind of its own.  Sometimes it turns on or sometimes it doesn't.  Sometimes it'll show me what I'm taking pictures of but sometimes its not in the mood.  Little Man #2 dropped it during Father’s Day weekend and now it only cooperates when it feels like it.  So since my birthday is in 2 months too, I’ve been hinting to The Mister about the new camera I so need want.

That is all for now…TGIF!

Have a fabulous Friday!

jenn