Ill admit i have been very busy. Photoshoot last week, then another of my own boys. I went camping and cleaned my whole house this weekend. Im bushed and need some time out. However if you have a spare moment, hop over to LP Photography and check out my latest shoot of 18 month old Georgia. You wont be dissapointed!
As for me. Im going to stop shamelessly plugging my photoblog this evening and head off to bed where i belong. Have a good one!
Ill admit, its the hardest thing to take photos of my own kids. Sure a snapshot here and there, and they can even be GOOD snapshots but to get some good portraits of my two monkeys? Now you are asking alot.
Well i attempted it today. Matching shirts, jean shorts and some of grammys whiskey barrel pots. So far so good, they look cute but who can tell when i get each photo opened.
But a huge thank you to my photographers assistant today, my husband, who kept the boys on their own pots, kept them smiling ( mostly) and kept my stress level down.
Love you honey.
Im actually finding it hard to teach my son how to share with so many other peoples children outside. I know it sounds strange, wait, kids mean sharing right?
Well yesterday there was my neighbors 20 month old daughter outside. Xoie. Xoie pinched and hit the baby and I said nothing. Just picked up my son, comforted him and set him down. He ran off to play. About an hour later she ripped a toy from Brennans hands and he turned and smacked her.
While he shouldent have hit her ( and was grounded for the evening.) she also shouldent have ripped the toy away. Some of it I understand, she is an only child ( for a few more months) She is very spoiled and indulged. But man you should have SEEN the looks on other peoples faces when he hit her. Honestly, i wasnt concerned with him hitting her. He knows it was wrong and was punished for it. I was very concerned with some of the things that were said to him.
Things like, you are lucky your father isnt home, he would beat the S*** out of you. And that kid needs to be beat. Umm Excuse me. He is MY child and I punished him. It was VERY hard to see everyone outside when he was stuck inside. More so, they have no right to say that. Then every time they saw me, they grumbled about my child hitting another. Furthermore, after it happened, the mother ran screaming to EVERY tenent in my complex saying Brennan hit Xoie. Now really, Why would you do that? For one, the neighbor who told me she did that, came and told me ( we are friends) then LAUGHED in the other mothers face and said, kids are kids, they fight.
Im really frustrated by the whole situation. It shouldent have been made as big a deal as it was. He knows not to hit. However he is 4 and a selfish child, like most his age. And dosent want some other child ripping his toys out of his hands.
Sometimes, i really hate having neighbors.
I have been feeling quite down the past week or so. Stress has been getting to me and i hadnt felt like doing much of anything. But last night we got to go to the store and i picked up flour. Making bread last night, i dont know, i guess it really helped because i feel SO much better today. Ive gotten a few things done, gotten a bit of cleaning done. Im just feeling a whole lot better.
Its funny how a person can get depressed without warning. It just comes on, and leaves just as quick. Who knows, it could have been the fudge brownies i forced myself to make yesterday, then ate 2 big ones, or the marshmellows i downed. Or even just going to the store and buying new measuring spoons ( with the flour) WHo knows. But it went just as fast as it came on, and i feel SO much better!
I buckled and bought a bread machine. I picked up one second hand while i get the hang of making our own bread before buying a new one. I want to figure out if i enjoy it or if its just easier to pay 4 dollars a loaf for some of the special bread we eat.
It was a bit difficult because it iddint have a manual, and to make it a bit worse, there was no plane online to FIND a manual. Thankfully i found this LINK from Hillbilly Housewife that explains bread machines in general.
A side not here, Hillbilly housewife is a great site for mothers and fathers who seek a more simple way of life, they offer resipies and tips on living simpler, foods, and other fun things. They also can teach you how to live on less food a month. Its a great site and i adore it!
As for the Bread. I havent yet started my loaf as im still reading through the instructions and getting used to my new bread machine, but here is a recipie that i found online that is made for my bread machine. I figure its the best one to try first. But let me tell you, im looking forward to having cinnamon raisen bread!
Water: 3/4 cup
Bread Flour: 2 cups
Salt: 1 teaspoon
Sugar: 2 tablespoons
Butter: 1 tablespoon
Dry milk: 1 tablespoon
Dry yeast: 1-1 1/2 teaspoons
1. Pour 3/4 cup of water into the bread pan.
2. Add all dry ingredients except the DRY yeast.
3. Place the DRY yeast on top of the DRY flour. Do not mix.
4. Press the START button
“Your oven-fresh bread will be ready in 4 hours and 10 minutes. It is more convenient if you use the built-in delay timer.”
12 cup capacity= 1 lb, 1.5 lb. 2 lb of bread. Note in recipie about loaf size
Add a teaspoon or two of sugar to all breads to feed yeast.
Bread flour makes BETTER bread then all purpose.
So hopefully you will visit those links and enjoy them. And maybe get your own bread machine?
Going with our pirate birthday party, ive come across some pirate jokes to share. Im hoping to include them in the party somehow.
Q: what is a pirates wife name
A: peg
Q: What’s a Pirate’s favorite movie?
A: ARRrrrmageddon
Q: Why dont pirates make good life guards?
A: Arrr! Me heartie!
Q: why are pirates so sexy?
A: they just ARRRRRR
Q: what is a pirate’s favorire restaraunt?
A: arrrrbys
Q: What’s a Pirates Favorite Street?
A: ARRRlington!
Q: what’s a pirate’s favorite type of movie?
A: one that’s rated aRRRR
Q: what is a pirates favorite study subject?
A: arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt
Q: What do pirates throw over the side of their ship?
A: G-AAAR-bage
Q: Why couldnt the pirates play cards?
A: The captain was standing on the deck!
Q: What has 8 legs, 8 arms and 8 eyes?
A: 8 Pirates!
Q: What’s a pirate’s favorite author?
A: J Arrg Arrg Tolkien!
Q: How could the pirate acquire the ship so cheaply?
A: Because it was on sail
Q: What does a Dyslexic Pirate Say?
A: RRAAAAAAAAAAA!
Q: Where do pirates keep their weapons?
A: In an arrrrrrrsenal
Q: Why are pirtates pirates?
A: BECAUSE THEY ARRRRR!!
Q: what did the pirate say when they reached the north pole?
A: Shiver me timber!
Q: How do pirates cook their food?
A: with laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard!!
Q: Did you hear about the pirate who took up boxing?
A: He had a killer left hook!
Q: What animal ate the pirate’s hand?
A: An aligatARRRRR!
Q: What do pirates make their shirts out of?
A: YARRn!
Q: Where do pirates buy their parrot food?
A: Petsmarrrrrrrrt!
Q: What do you call a shaking pirate ship at the bottom of the ocean?
vA: A nervous wreck!
Q: Whats the best rule of spelling Pirates?
A: Don’t forget the ARRR!
Q: Why did the pirate cross the island?
A: To get to the other TIDE!
Q: What is the name of the pirate tax office?
A: The Aye. Arrr. S!
Q: Did you hear about the pirate on the South Beach diet?
A: He was cutting back on his CARRRRbs!
Q: What’s a pirate’s favorite color?
A: ARRRRrrrange!
Q: What do you call a pirate who can’t conduct a decent raid?
A: The pillage idiot
Q: Why are pirates always looking for treasure?
A: Because they ARRR needing money for rum!
There are tons more, im just out of time! Hope you enjoyed the cheesy pirate jokes!
In order to get state assistance, i have to comply with their orders, Which is get a job.
Laughable actually.
I have to apply for 5 jobs a day.
The problem being, i have no childcare. My children arent vaccinated, so they cannot get into any state assisted daycare. which is all the state will help pay for. The only family memebers that could watch them, work, my mother works 2 jobs, one full time, one part time, and my mother in law works full time.
On top of no childcare, there is the issues of how im getting to and from work.
Make it worse, when we went to WalMart last night, the rear axle on the truck actually broke. Several ” teeth” are broken. Dont ask me what that means, i dont know. All i know is it means our truck cannot be driven. And that truck was what was taking my husband and his stepfather to work. Hauling all of their tools. They had to take the in laws tiny little car to work today. and fit all their tools in the back? Gosh i hope everything fit!
The real reason im so stressed is because a new one costs $1300!!! That is over the top, i dont think my measly photography stuff can support that. Much less if my husband cna keep up the working. He and I were supposed to be doing a job this weekend, but now we have no way of getting to the other side of town. We dont have a bus system here and it would be 50 dollars a cab one way, and we still have to get the tools there too! I dont know, maybe his mom will take us. I hope, its $500 we really need!
Guess im going to have to wait for a new camera lens. Considering my walk around lens broke earlier this week, im stuck using my high powered zoom lens for now. Really cuts back on the amount of pictures ill be taking. 
So we decided on a kinda floor plan hehe. Its going to be an A-Frame. If you dont know what that is. well then ill tell you hehe. An A-Frame is a two story house, which has a very steep roof. The wood that is used to put up the roof is also the cealing. Where in a regular house you use Trusses. Which are filled with insulation between the trusses and the cealing you see. So the bottom floor will have 1 or two bedrooms, not sure yet, there is room for two. A kitchen. a bath and a living space. The second floor is only a 3/4 floor. Making our living room have a huge celing. The top floor is at this point 1 room and a half bath ( toilet and sink only) Later on, we might make it two rooms, or a room and a sitting area. But for now its only one room.
We will be using wood heat, which means we need to find a good heater, and fans. Wood heat is SOO much cheaper then electric or gas with the prices of both of those. We can find enough wood for free ( we did it winter before last) to get through a winter. Even in AK.
Ive kinda picked out the kitchen cabnets, although we wont be buying them for a while. I know what colors the bedrooms and one bath is going to be lol. Its all alot of desisons that I get to make. Its like playing the sims and building a house, only this is going to be MY house. Not a game…
ITs alot to take in.
Ill admit i have two huge projects going on in my life irght now. One bigger then the other.
The first and smaller of the two is the birthday party for both my sons. Now i wanted to have a pirate themed party as my older son loves pirates. But now with the addition of the second and larger of the parties, im not sure if i can do it.
The second project is building a house. We plan on starting small right now and picking up small bits and pieces for the walls and floors throughout the summer, then in the fall when we get our dividends ( october)getting our lumber package delivered and throwing up our house in less then 2 months. There is a reason. In october our lease is up, and rather then spending 1600 of our divvies on rent, we are hoping to find a place to stay or borrow even a motor home or something to live in while we throw up our house. The other reason for the hurry, is in october, it freezes, by the end of the month there is snow. So its a rush to get that stuff done.
The thing is, we need to save all the money we can throughout the summer so that come fall we can get as much for the house as we can.
But really do you have ANY idea how huge of an undertaking it is building a house. Granted nothing we get for it at this point will be new. No new appliances or cabnets ( we probably wont even get cabnets for a while) everything we can get will have to be found as cheap and secondhand. Probably through craigslist or second hand stores. Our salvation army has tons of working appliances for relativly cheap. The only thing we have right now, is one cabint for the bathroom, and a washer and dryer. Everything else… we have to find.
Its massive. Its almost frightning. Those are the things we need to get by the end of summer. We need a toilet, tub and kitchen sink ( even though we wont have running water till next winter, my MILs house is literally a stones throw away, we are talking 100 feet or so) So some of those things can come through the winter. A stove, a fridge, light fixtures, hopefully a dishwasher.
We went into homeDepot and picked out the flooring, its enginnered bamboo, cant have real bamboo in AK, too much moisture. We got books on cabnets so we can pick those out for eventually. Starting to decide on wall colors, i allready decided what im doing for the boys room. Im going to paint the lid blue and sponge paint clouds. The walls im going to draw on a forest. Maybe toss some momkeys into the trees. The living room is going to be deep green or deep red. The bathroom is light blue and cream. Our room? Well i dont know yet lol.
Its a two story house, with a half ” loft” for the second floor, leaving the living room with real cathedral cealings. Its just oh my god. My own house. Even through it wont be finished, and next summer we have to put in a well and septic, and i dont know what else. Its huge, its going to be half finished for a while. But it will be ours, rent free, on property with our name on it. and its ours.
Damn.
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