The postman always rings twice

Ok, no news yet on the travel approval front. Mom and i are both officially off of our Rockers but that isn't much of a change!

but the mailman did bring us some goodies for Ellie.
I swear that little girl gets more mail then i do!
I ordered this backpack for her to use on the plain ride home to hold all of her goodies, and well who can pass up pretty bows, especially when your baby girl has really short hair.

Nuts! Nuts! I tell you Nuts!!!

I am going nuts, what can i do to pass the time (please something other then eat) Our TA should be here any time now. i tell myself it wont be untill atleast nest week but I WANT IT NOW!!!! i am ready to travel and get my girl. i dont quite know how to describe the emotion. its like I miss her but how can you miss someone who you've never even been on the same continent as?? But i do i feel like there is an empty place in this house that she needs to fill, sooner rather then later. There are a billion thing i caould be doing but instead im eating sugar waffers

with two phones in my lap watching Judge Judy, maybe i need and intervention? No i just need my daughter or i am going to start keeping the kids home from school so that they can keep me distracted. I even tried to let Calgone take me away but it isn't working Tiffany please call and put me out of my missery

I don't know what you do on a saturday night?

But we worship at the alter of the Pie gods. they are kids and loving folks and we so appreciate them. We better get our travel approval soon or I am going to weigh 800 pounds. Dr. Phill, why am i a comfort eater?

Socks

let me preface this by saying that i am a spoiled rotten brat and my mother does my laundry. ever since she moved in it's been sot of her thing and well, i suck at laundry hate it, with a passion, it sits well below cleaning bathrooms on my list of household chores so who am i to argue with the lovely lady.
anyway now that I've outed myself.

I have to share that probably every other morning we here "grandma, I don't have any socks" I swear that we have purchased these kids probably a hundred pair of socks(i mean in there current size, in say the last 8 months) i don't know what they do with them they must be eating them or giving them away to the poor and sockless at school because they can never find any (even though my afor mentioned beautiful mother washes, dries, matches,sorts and send endless socks into the room everyday to be put away) today was a holiday from school and since we live on a coldesac the kids love to go out and play in the front yard i walked out today and this is what i found

(OK safety police get off, they got yelled at for not wearing proper safety attire but jez, we survived without car seats,helmets,pads,etc, hell we even climbed trees) So today i should be thankful they were able to find socks and not mind that those socks will never be the same again? UGH!

Everybody loves cake!!

Well i mentioned that we had a Little party for Ellie"s birthday well here are a few pics from said "party" (that's probably a stretch, we had dinner and cake and sang Happy birthday,that's about it) don't the kids look so innocent with there incredibly elaborate E cake? you wouldn't guess the seconds later the were this at any rate pandemonium ensued as it usually does around here and a good time was had by all.

2007

Well the year of the pig is almost upon us and i find i am a terrible blogger. As we get closer to our travel time i am hoping to improve so please bare with me. The kids are doing well. we expect am update on Ellie some time in the nest week or two. She received two yummy looking cherry chocolate birthday cakes(something like that one) at her SWI last week for her third birthday I hope that she got a little queen for a day treatment but something tells me it probably didn't go quite like that. >

The big kids are well. i think there starting to realize that we will actually be gone for two whole weeks. Sometimes i think they are simply excyted about beating up grandma for two weeks. We'll see.

Brian is working way to hard and has taken his new years resolution to heart. he is at the gym four nights a week and has weekly appointments with a trainer. they came up with a diet for him which is great except that my sundays are now spent weighing out pasta and chicken breasts.

i am storing up some serious good wife points that i am sure will come in handy in he future.

As for me well. I am trying not to go completly mad waiting for the chance to go and get my kid. quilting a bit, trying to avoid housework.

my faverite part of the week is friday when i get to go and spend the day in Connors class. The kids are great and I always have a great time. I hope this find you well. Happy New Year wich ever one you choose to observe.