.
Three more sleeps has become my mantra over the last 24 hours or so. J will return from China late Wednesday night.
I had two fears while he was gone. My No. 1 concern was a big snow storm would hit and I'd have to plow out the yard. My second concern was that the kids would get sick. It happened.
We were 35 miles from home after spending the weekend at Gramma Caela's when Edie started complaining her tummy hurt. Then she proceeded to projectile vomit throughout the entire car.
We stopped and I mopped it up best I could, changed her clothes and we got on the road again. I think I got the car cleaned out (although I fear opening the door to see if the smell is gone). I think her seat is clean, too. I think this afternoon I'll reinstall her car seat.
So far, no barf today. I think she's over it, and will be able to go to day care tomorrow and I can go back to work.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Self Portrait
Up until recently I used our small Canon point and shoot camera for my photographic needs. I have a old-school film SLR that was rarely used. Since my bills aren't paid by my picture taking skills, I never upgraded to a digital version of my film camera. Until now.
For those interested (and for those not, just scroll down) it is a Canon XSi with an 18-50 mm f2.8 lens. I think I've found a new love.
May I present a rare self portrait I took with the new camera.
For those interested (and for those not, just scroll down) it is a Canon XSi with an 18-50 mm f2.8 lens. I think I've found a new love.
May I present a rare self portrait I took with the new camera.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Éirinn go brách!
As a girl who claims majority Irish ancestory, today is a day to celebrate heritage. Instead of imbibing with a bit of green beer or exciting revelry, I'm marking the occassion with either A) A Guiness or B) A nice glass of Irish Whiskey, neat. I don't know which will be the beverage of choice tonight.
Here's an Irish Blessing that my mother taught me when I was a little girl:
As a girl who claims majority Irish ancestory, today is a day to celebrate heritage. Instead of imbibing with a bit of green beer or exciting revelry, I'm marking the occassion with either A) A Guiness or B) A nice glass of Irish Whiskey, neat. I don't know which will be the beverage of choice tonight.
Here's an Irish Blessing that my mother taught me when I was a little girl:
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
And may you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Me vs Vilociraptor
1 minute, 3 seconds
For the record I think the estimation is a bit high. My bud Nicole and I went to see Jurassic Park in the theater alone, when we were about 12-13ish -- before we could drive. We thought we were cool since we went to the late show. I recall having vivid dreams in my loft bed that night.
For the record I think the estimation is a bit high. My bud Nicole and I went to see Jurassic Park in the theater alone, when we were about 12-13ish -- before we could drive. We thought we were cool since we went to the late show. I recall having vivid dreams in my loft bed that night.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
A stolen me me
What were you doing ten years ago? (1998)
The year 1998 marked my freshman and sophomore years of college. I don't recall much specifically about the year. In the fall of 1998, I was coordinating my dorm room with best bud, Kelli, at http://www.teknicolorkelli.blogspot.com/. I vividly remember my father thinking the idea of living with a friend wasn't a good one. A decade later we're still very close.
What were you doing five years ago? (2002)
The year 2002 was a busy one. This wannabe domestic goddess was planning her wedding, or should I say, pawning as much off to my future-mother-in-law as possible. In August, I was finalizing the details of the wedding and coordination of getting all of the wedding stuff that was coming from Pennsylvania to Iowa, and then back to South Dakota for the wedding. We were married Sept. 7. We bought our house in the spring and spent the summer remodeling. We still are remodeling. We adopted Rocky, our black lab, the day before we signed the papers for the house. Then he promptly ran away after jumping through the window. He came home, though. Later in the summer we adopted Jasmine, our rottweiler.
Five things on my to-do list today:
1. Pick tomatoes and other wonderful garden goodness
2. Brush the dogs and cat. It's shedding time
3. Start my first pair of two-at-a-time toe-up socks on circular needles
4. Bathe the kids, it's summer time. They like to make mud puddles. This is a must do.
5. Wash Iminion's pants, he's a potty trainee and we do a load every couple of days.
What snacks I enjoy:
1. Frozen Hershey Bar smeared in creamy peanut butter and a large glass of ice-cold milk
2. Air Popped Popcorn, heavily salted, no butter.
3. Jalapeno peppers stuffed with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon and bacon. Yum!
What would I do if I suddenly became a billionaire?
Lift my house up, and put a usable basement under it, finish all pending projects at the house, including hubby's never-ending list of car projects; endow some substantial scholarships at the college I work for and for the Journalism and Mass Communication Department at my Alma mater. I'd probably establish my sheep/wool and hand-dyed hand spun yarn business sooner than originally planned. I might seriously consider taking in broken and beaten Labrador and rottweilers as a rescue program.
Three bad habits?
1. Biting my hang nails
2. Staying up way too late and reading in bed.
3. Chatting on the phone while driving
Five places I've lived:
1. Kennebec, SD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennebec,_South_Dakota (It's so little they don't even have a Web site.
2. Mitchell, SD http://www.cityofmitchell.org/
3. Brookings, SD, while in college. Go Jacks! http://www.brookingssd.com/
4. Sheldon, IA, for my first job http://www.sheldoniowa.com/
5. Rural Paullina, IA, where my husband and I bought our acreage http://www.paullinaiowa.com/
Five jobs I've had:
1. Cashier at Randall's in Mitchell
2. Customer Service Manager, managing the front end of the grocery store, supervising cashiers, carryouts and customer service desk folks.
3. Public Relations Specialist (when in college)
4. Newspaper Reporter
5. Grant Writer
(That is officially the total number of "real" jobs that I've been paid for in my life)
Five things you don't know about me:
1. I am deathly afraid of water that is deeper than I am tall. Since I'm only 5 foot 3 inches, that limits my opportunities for water recreation.
2. I really hate emptying the dishwasher of clean dishes
3. After my parents arguing for YEARS, I mean YEARS about the "Proper" way to fold towels, I have become anal retentive like my father, and fold them his way. Now I get upset when hubby doesn't fold towels the way I do. (problem is solved since he won't touch towels and lets me handle 99 % of laundry.)
4. I prefer to drink hot tea to coffee, but that doesn't mean I don't like a cuppa joe, black.
5. I always knew I was going to have twins.
The year 1998 marked my freshman and sophomore years of college. I don't recall much specifically about the year. In the fall of 1998, I was coordinating my dorm room with best bud, Kelli, at http://www.teknicolorkelli.blogspot.com/. I vividly remember my father thinking the idea of living with a friend wasn't a good one. A decade later we're still very close.
What were you doing five years ago? (2002)
The year 2002 was a busy one. This wannabe domestic goddess was planning her wedding, or should I say, pawning as much off to my future-mother-in-law as possible. In August, I was finalizing the details of the wedding and coordination of getting all of the wedding stuff that was coming from Pennsylvania to Iowa, and then back to South Dakota for the wedding. We were married Sept. 7. We bought our house in the spring and spent the summer remodeling. We still are remodeling. We adopted Rocky, our black lab, the day before we signed the papers for the house. Then he promptly ran away after jumping through the window. He came home, though. Later in the summer we adopted Jasmine, our rottweiler.
Five things on my to-do list today:
1. Pick tomatoes and other wonderful garden goodness
2. Brush the dogs and cat. It's shedding time
3. Start my first pair of two-at-a-time toe-up socks on circular needles
4. Bathe the kids, it's summer time. They like to make mud puddles. This is a must do.
5. Wash Iminion's pants, he's a potty trainee and we do a load every couple of days.
What snacks I enjoy:
1. Frozen Hershey Bar smeared in creamy peanut butter and a large glass of ice-cold milk
2. Air Popped Popcorn, heavily salted, no butter.
3. Jalapeno peppers stuffed with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon and bacon. Yum!
What would I do if I suddenly became a billionaire?
Lift my house up, and put a usable basement under it, finish all pending projects at the house, including hubby's never-ending list of car projects; endow some substantial scholarships at the college I work for and for the Journalism and Mass Communication Department at my Alma mater. I'd probably establish my sheep/wool and hand-dyed hand spun yarn business sooner than originally planned. I might seriously consider taking in broken and beaten Labrador and rottweilers as a rescue program.
Three bad habits?
1. Biting my hang nails
2. Staying up way too late and reading in bed.
3. Chatting on the phone while driving
Five places I've lived:
1. Kennebec, SD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennebec,_South_Dakota (It's so little they don't even have a Web site.
2. Mitchell, SD http://www.cityofmitchell.org/
3. Brookings, SD, while in college. Go Jacks! http://www.brookingssd.com/
4. Sheldon, IA, for my first job http://www.sheldoniowa.com/
5. Rural Paullina, IA, where my husband and I bought our acreage http://www.paullinaiowa.com/
Five jobs I've had:
1. Cashier at Randall's in Mitchell
2. Customer Service Manager, managing the front end of the grocery store, supervising cashiers, carryouts and customer service desk folks.
3. Public Relations Specialist (when in college)
4. Newspaper Reporter
5. Grant Writer
(That is officially the total number of "real" jobs that I've been paid for in my life)
Five things you don't know about me:
1. I am deathly afraid of water that is deeper than I am tall. Since I'm only 5 foot 3 inches, that limits my opportunities for water recreation.
2. I really hate emptying the dishwasher of clean dishes
3. After my parents arguing for YEARS, I mean YEARS about the "Proper" way to fold towels, I have become anal retentive like my father, and fold them his way. Now I get upset when hubby doesn't fold towels the way I do. (problem is solved since he won't touch towels and lets me handle 99 % of laundry.)
4. I prefer to drink hot tea to coffee, but that doesn't mean I don't like a cuppa joe, black.
5. I always knew I was going to have twins.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
During the Hiatus
Life got pretty hectic for the last month or so. To sum it up using I-minion's favorite phrase we "fixed."
1. We hung a ceiling in our front porch, which allowed me to hang my porch swing from the rafters instead of an A-frame like a swing set.
2. My father-in-law built floor-to-ceiling book shelves in my hall way and built lockers in my laundry room.
3. My husband got his mojo going to get on of our "twin projects" completed, a 1949 International Pickup. It's running and driving now. He has grand plans of taking it to a car show this weekend. I don't know if he's rounded up a seat, or a radiator hose, or fuel line yet. But, apparently these are "little things."
4. The garden grew. I watched the weeds grow, too. Eventually I weedwhacked them. See why I'm a wannabe domestic goddess? We've picked a few tomatoes, a lot of cucumbers and I'm going to be inundated with serrano peppers soon. What the heck do I do with hundreds of them?
5. I broke my knee. Well, basically I really messed it up. But, not in a way that is typically understood. My ACL is in tact, so are my ligaments and it isn't sprained, which is why a month and a half of physical therapy haven't helped. I'm off to the doctor tomorrow to find out what the next step is. One thing I do know is my knee hurts. A lot.
6. I got really motivated to get a few knitting projects done, but then, life sidelined most of them. I'm finally getting going again.
7. I-minion is a potty trainee. Diapers allowed at nap and over night, but we're getting to the point they are dry.
8. We tried potty training E-minion at the same time, but she got stressed out. We're taking our time with it now.
9. It got hot in Iowa, that means I didn't really cook, or do much of anything, see No. 5 for explaination.
10. We went to Mitchell for an exciting weekend, visiting with Gramma Caela and time to catch up with Kelli, of http://www.teknicolorkelli.blogspot.com/ fame.
1. We hung a ceiling in our front porch, which allowed me to hang my porch swing from the rafters instead of an A-frame like a swing set.
2. My father-in-law built floor-to-ceiling book shelves in my hall way and built lockers in my laundry room.
3. My husband got his mojo going to get on of our "twin projects" completed, a 1949 International Pickup. It's running and driving now. He has grand plans of taking it to a car show this weekend. I don't know if he's rounded up a seat, or a radiator hose, or fuel line yet. But, apparently these are "little things."
4. The garden grew. I watched the weeds grow, too. Eventually I weedwhacked them. See why I'm a wannabe domestic goddess? We've picked a few tomatoes, a lot of cucumbers and I'm going to be inundated with serrano peppers soon. What the heck do I do with hundreds of them?
5. I broke my knee. Well, basically I really messed it up. But, not in a way that is typically understood. My ACL is in tact, so are my ligaments and it isn't sprained, which is why a month and a half of physical therapy haven't helped. I'm off to the doctor tomorrow to find out what the next step is. One thing I do know is my knee hurts. A lot.
6. I got really motivated to get a few knitting projects done, but then, life sidelined most of them. I'm finally getting going again.
7. I-minion is a potty trainee. Diapers allowed at nap and over night, but we're getting to the point they are dry.
8. We tried potty training E-minion at the same time, but she got stressed out. We're taking our time with it now.
9. It got hot in Iowa, that means I didn't really cook, or do much of anything, see No. 5 for explaination.
10. We went to Mitchell for an exciting weekend, visiting with Gramma Caela and time to catch up with Kelli, of http://www.teknicolorkelli.blogspot.com/ fame.
Bad Blogger
You would be surprised how many blog posts have this title. The month or so have been really hectic at this wannabe domestic goddess' house. With real life obligations, visiting relatives and huge work deadlines prompted me to not want to even look at a computer, let alone type, edit photos or post on the blog. Now things are slowing down, I'll be posting with regularity, again, I hope.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Shhhhhhhh be vewy vewy quiet . . . I'm hunting wabbits
Jasmine are joining forces. Between the two of us, we hope to strike fear in the rabbit population near our place. Although I'll let her eat anything that we catch. This weekend we've discovered that a rabbit -- only one because there wasn't enough damage to be more than one -- sampled my cherry tomatoes and a sweet pepper. They've still got leaves, so I think they'll make it.
I'm going to install chicken wire around my precious garden tonight to keep the little buggers out. I think they are aware of my plot and they've started taking revenge.
They have systematically chewed through the coaxial cable that connects our satellite dish to our router in a couple places. Consequently, we have no Internet at home and haven't since Friday, May 30. This could explain why last week our Internet was a bit on the flaky side.
The chicken wire comes at an ideal time considering everything else in the garden has sprouted, proving that I might be able to grow things after all.
I hope to post soon with our weekend activities soon. You'll be introduced to our other set of twins that live at the house through a few pictures and maybe a video, if I can figure out how to do that.
I'm going to install chicken wire around my precious garden tonight to keep the little buggers out. I think they are aware of my plot and they've started taking revenge.
They have systematically chewed through the coaxial cable that connects our satellite dish to our router in a couple places. Consequently, we have no Internet at home and haven't since Friday, May 30. This could explain why last week our Internet was a bit on the flaky side.
The chicken wire comes at an ideal time considering everything else in the garden has sprouted, proving that I might be able to grow things after all.
I hope to post soon with our weekend activities soon. You'll be introduced to our other set of twins that live at the house through a few pictures and maybe a video, if I can figure out how to do that.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
This Takes The Cake
My birthday was this weekend. I turned 29. Eeek (I really can't be that old, can I?) For the last 23 years I've shared my Memorial Day birthday festivities with my little brother, Alex.
My dear husband has a reputation for making "special" birthday cakes for family members. Alex and I agreed we could share a cake -- it wasn't always that way, though. Jeremy racked his brain coming up with a way tie my interests -- yarn, knitting, sheep -- with Alex's -- guns, military and other fire arms.
When he unveiled the birthday cake Sunday night it was decorated with the standard "Happy B-day Mariah + Alex." Then he hand drew a sheep with -- get this -- machine guns mounted on their backs. It was inspired by Ausin Powers movie where Doctor Evil's son gave him sharks with lasers attached to their heads. I think the sheep with machine guns cake is the coolest cake ever! Tell me what you think.
He told me he was frustrated because he had red, yellow, blue and black food coloring and his options "were limited." I still love it. A cake, I didn't have to make.
My dear husband has a reputation for making "special" birthday cakes for family members. Alex and I agreed we could share a cake -- it wasn't always that way, though. Jeremy racked his brain coming up with a way tie my interests -- yarn, knitting, sheep -- with Alex's -- guns, military and other fire arms.
When he unveiled the birthday cake Sunday night it was decorated with the standard "Happy B-day Mariah + Alex." Then he hand drew a sheep with -- get this -- machine guns mounted on their backs. It was inspired by Ausin Powers movie where Doctor Evil's son gave him sharks with lasers attached to their heads. I think the sheep with machine guns cake is the coolest cake ever! Tell me what you think.
He told me he was frustrated because he had red, yellow, blue and black food coloring and his options "were limited." I still love it. A cake, I didn't have to make.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Peanut Butter Gnomes
We have hit critical mass. I must. get. groceries. While I have bread, milk, butter and eggs, I am out of peanut butter and cheese. Until recently I’ve been convinced that there are peanut butter and cheese gnomes that keep my fridge and cupboard stocked with these staples. They must be on strike.
That means no "peanut sandwiches" – a favorite breakfast/snack for both kids. It also means the frozen Hershey bar that is patiently waiting in the top bin of my freezer for a special night to be unwrapped, smeared with peanut butter and consumed with reverence along with a glass of ice cold milk is ignored.
Our cheese status is also in dire condition. I am out of American cheese to make the staple of mac ‘n’ cheese. I always make homemade – never the stuff in the blue box, ick! It seems like the kids suggest this for supper nearly every night. To complicate matters, I'm almost out of mozzarella, cheddar and the sliced cheese I use to make cheese sandwiches. Our meal options are suddenly limited.
Tonight’s agenda includes going to town, buying groceries, schlep them home, unpack and put away. Did I mention I love to shop for groceries, but don’t like to put them way?
That means no "peanut sandwiches" – a favorite breakfast/snack for both kids. It also means the frozen Hershey bar that is patiently waiting in the top bin of my freezer for a special night to be unwrapped, smeared with peanut butter and consumed with reverence along with a glass of ice cold milk is ignored.
Our cheese status is also in dire condition. I am out of American cheese to make the staple of mac ‘n’ cheese. I always make homemade – never the stuff in the blue box, ick! It seems like the kids suggest this for supper nearly every night. To complicate matters, I'm almost out of mozzarella, cheddar and the sliced cheese I use to make cheese sandwiches. Our meal options are suddenly limited.
Tonight’s agenda includes going to town, buying groceries, schlep them home, unpack and put away. Did I mention I love to shop for groceries, but don’t like to put them way?
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Blogging for the very first time
I've been yearning to establish a blog that will encompass my life as a writer, photographer, wife, mother, chef, knitter, seamstress and wannabe domestic goddess. Tonight's the night. People will tell me I'm a domestic goddess, but really I'm just a pretender. Sure I can sew clothes, whip up a mean meatloaf and sinfully delicious cinnamon rolls and can bake with a pair of 2-year-olds, but I'm an impostor. This blog will chronicle my attempts to ascend to the ranks of goddess. Welcome to Portrait of a Wannabe Domestic Goddess.
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