I want to enter Alivia in our local newspaper’s baby photo contest.  I happen to think she is the cutest baby EVER.  I know, I know I am biased but whatever…so the only problem is that I can’t choose a picture.  I have narrowed it down to a few and I need your help!

I have a few favorites in this bunch but I would love to hear what you guys think.  I am not indecisive at all…nope.  I just value your opinions that much.

In other news we are leaving for the beach tomorrow and I have about eleventy hundred things to accomplish before tonight.  I maybe probably should be productive today instead of playing on the computer.

In other other news our fabulous real estate agent (also known as  my dad) is coming over tonight to discuss putting our house on the market.  Last night he sent us some listings to look at online and although the idea of moving into a new house is exciting I am getting really anxious for many reasons.   I am just a fretter and I fret about things and make 35 lists and call my mom and consult her about every little detail.

I am however really looking forward to going to look at bunches of houses.   I mean HELLO it will be like House Hunters in my own real life!  Now how fun is THAT?

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12 days ago I started the BIG SPRING CLEANING PROJECT.  Otherwise known as clean out every dresser, closet and drawer and throw the junk in the dining room.  It was horrible nightmarish process.  There were piles of crap everywhere.

There were goodwill piles, consignment store piles and trash bag piles.  I finally got rid of the last load of things a couple of days ago.  I looked around at the house and it was FILTHY DIRTY!  It looked like a pack of wild dogs lived here. It was a pigsty.  Or a dogsty.  Whatever… I am not kidding.

So I spent the last few days vacuuming, dusting, scrubbing and Clorox wiping.  Mr. 007 and I even washed the windows inside and outside.  Actually he did the outside and I stood inside  scrubbing the  inside of the window yelling” You missed a spot”!

Hey I am nothing if not thorough.

So this morning I woke up to a spotless house and it felt so nice that I decided to make homemade sweet potato muffins for breakfast.  I honestly don’t know what I was thinking dirtying up my beautifully clean kitchen like that but I guess it was just one of those domestic impulses that I later regret and bitch about cleaning up.

While I was mixing up the batter for the muffins Alivia let out an ear piercing scream and Addison called out in a panicky voice “MOMMY IT’S STUCK IN HER HEAD IT’S STUCK IN HER HEAD I AM SO SORRY IT’S STUCK IN HER HEAD!” All the while Livie is crying and crying as Adam and I race into the room.

Then I saw it.  An electronic motorized gerbil was stuck in my baby’s hair.  It was attacking her head.  It had wrapped it’s little wheel feet things around and around her hair and she was freaking out.

I honestly breathed a sigh of relief.  As I found the off switch I was just so happy it was only her hair and not as bad as I was picturing.  When Addison said something was stuck in Livie’s head I honestly pictured blood and an emergency room visit.  Adam took the gerbil apart and we only had to cut a tiny bit out of her hair to detach it from her head.

Anyway after the motorized gerbil attack I finished the muffins and waited for them to bake. When they were finished I thought I would sprinkle a little powdered sugar over the tops for a bit of sweetness.  I only did this because Addison had groaned about how GROSS sweet potato muffins are even though she had never even heard of such a thing. I figured powdered sugar would make them a little more appetizing to her.

I have one of these Pampered Chef flour/sugar shaker things so I found the Ziploc bag filled with the sugar, put it in the shaker and sprinkled the tops of the warm muffins.

I got a little sugar on my finger in the process so I licked it off.

Something was wrong.

%&#@!!! ACK!   It wasn’t powdered sugar!  It was cornstarch! $#@$!!!

And let me just tell you I was IRATE.  I was so mad I could have SPIT NAILS!  I might have said an ugly word or two.

Enter Adam who actually saw humor in this situation.  He grabbed the camera and started taking pictures of the muffins despite my EXPLICIT OBJECTIONS! He told me that I needed to laugh at myself.

You know what?  I have no problem finding humor in my stupidity.  I just need a buffer of a little bit longer than um 30 seconds after I do the stupid thing.  I need a buffer!

I was able to get most of the cornstarch off the muffins with a wet paper towel and sprinkle the real powdered sugar on top.  We added a little butter and they actually tasted pretty good.  And now I know that you should label your Ziploc bags when you put unidentifiable white powders inside.  Because cornstarch tastes like you licked the bottom of a shoe.  I am just saying.

So the bottom line is if you haven’t blogged in 12 days all it takes is a baby eating gerbil crisis and a ridiculous baking blunder to kick start your writers block.

Yay me!

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OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME!  I am crazy.  I must be.

I have taken on a task that is absolutely crazy.  I would much rather be in front of my Tivo watching last night’s Medium episodes.  But no…I am in the process of cleaning out our attic.  I started at the top ya’ll.  And I knew it was going to get much much worse before it could get better.

I am way too far in to turn back now.

I am sweating, swearing and wondering why the crap I kept some of this junk.  I always brag about how I like to get rid of things.  How I don’t like to keep things around for ever and ever.

Yeah I guess I just forgot about some of the stuff I stashed in the attic.  When I was pregnant with Alivia I went through everything in the attic and I converted it all into plastic bins.  Now I ask you….WHY DID I NOT BUY CLEAR BINS!?

I labeled the bins with masking tape and a Sharpie.  Well since my last nesting urge I have randomly switched things out and changed bins around and the labels are just about as INACCURATE as they can get.

Let’s just say that I am currently  in attic/bin/stuffed animal/VHS hell.

Ok I have been sitting down for long enough.

Please pray for me….and my sanity during this time of intense upheaval.

Thank you in advance for your help with this.

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I wonder where they are all going.

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Man is like a breath ; his days are like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 144:4

That sort of puts things in perspective for me.  It’s sort of like how fast 10:00 comes on Sunday night.  Wasn’t it just Friday?

Wasn’t I just 17 years old checking my pager while I shifted the gears of my little gray Accord?

Didn’t I just meet Adam?

Nope…it wasn’t yesterday.  It was 9 years ago this month that we started dating.  By August we were pregnant with Addison.  How did get she so grown up?

We got married 2 years later, pushed through life, changing jobs and houses.  Addie wasn’t a baby anymore and then we added Alivia.  A family of four!

Now I look around and I know we are young but I feel so old sometimes.  Tired and impatient.  Happiness and restlessness dance around each other.  Time keeps racing by while we talk and plan and dream.

It’s all been done before but to us it’s just life.

Saturday mornings are loud. The kids are in our bed and everyone wants pancakes, the cats want to go outside and the dog is annoying.  Sleep is a luxury.

I love the chaos…I hate the chaos. We are blessed and we are happy and we are irritated.

The seasons change like days and I don’t want to waste a minute.  But I wish it away.  Daydreaming about our next house…always wanting more.  Something newer with an uncomfortable mortgage.

Then I stop.  I like it here…it’s nice here…I am happy here.  In this season, in this house, with this family.

And what’s not to love?

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