its pumpkin time!

 

Did I mention that I freakin love this season! 

It's time to start picking & decorating pumpkins! 

I always take Josiah to pumpkin patches. 

He has a blast every time. 

This time he actually went on a hay ride

and jumped in the bouncer! (surprisingly)

Did you know?

Bleach will kill bacteria
(DUH) and help your pumpkin stay fresh longer. 

Never even thought about this!

After you scoop out & carve your pumpkin, dip it into a large container 

of
bleach and water (use a 1 tsp to 1 gal mix).

Once completely dry, (drying
upside down), mix together 2 tablespoons

of vinegar and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
to a quart of water. Put it onto

 your pumpkin to keep it
looking fresh for weeks. 

I will be going to pick up some more pumpkins & decorating

them some time soon and keep you posted on how long they last! 

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Fly Swatter Painting

I saw this on a blog about a few weeks ago and I've been waiting on a nice day to do this with Josiah and my mom's daycare kids. Yesterday was that day! 



What you'll need ;

Fly Swatters

Finger/Poster Paint

Long pieces of paper 



I would like to think of this as an outside craft just because I know Josiah all too well.... painting inside and Josiah is never a good thing. LOL We got the fly swatters from the dollar store. The big ones are awesome right?! The kids didn't even want them they wanted the small ones. 



The name is pretty much self explanatory, I'll just get to the pictures! 

Fly Swatter Painting !

 

Happy Thursday!

Terrible 2's ...or is it 3's??!!!

Alright So I know I've told everyone that my son is bad... and if I haven't told you, I'm tellin you now! It really does drive me crazy that I can't even go into a store without him showing his ass, acting out, yelling, or throwing a tantrum. I thought his terrible two stage was over!!! But no.... I guess I heard right.. it lasts longer then age 2.



Saturday night we tried to go out to dinner, for my eat anything I want day, but Josiah had other plans! We were good, he was playin on his Ipad I thought that he was in a good mood, I'm trying to turn the wifi on for him ... 



then all of sudden I hear a (PING) and (GASPS)



I looked up and there was a little boy and his mom at the next table just looking around like what the hell just happened.. I don't even think they knew that he just slung a fork at them. I felt like everyone in the place was staring at me, so I said "I'm sooo sorry I think he just threw this fork over there".. They didn't even say anything to me like, 'it's okay'  or 'wow you need to check your child'.. NOTHING......... I'm pretty sure my face was blood shot red. Joe had went to the bathroom, so he wasn't around to help me figure out what to do. lol  I could have done somethin to him right there but I just slapped his hand & told him NO THROWING and asked the waitress to get my order to-go..



It was time definitely time to GO...



He of course threw a fit on the way to the car and the whole ride home, saying he didn't want to go home. I'm still curious to why he threw the fork in the first place.... Do you know what he told me??? 



"It wasn't his fork."



  --_____--



I should have gotten a picture of his cry baby face telling me that. We usually have a routine down packed, ya know... move every object on the table away from him right after we sit down.. but for some reason it didn't even dawn on me that Joe had opened this napkin filled with silver ware .. 





also i found a blog post about dining out while being a parent on another blog...you can  read it ---> here 

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goals for last week ; 

1. STICK TO MY BUDGET - i failed, i went to the outlets and used some of my tax return for some new shoes for Josiah, after all it is his money too!

2. WORKING OUT AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK -I worked out, for about 20 minutes two times... 

3. GET MAIL OUT - i did not, and i am blaming it on working 6 days this week and having class thursday night.

4. NOT SPEND ANY EXTRA MONEY - fail. went shopping and ate out a lot this weekend..smh

5. START PAYING OFF MY CREDIT CARDS - i did pay half of one card and that is a START!

two out of three isn't bad for me! lol



goals for this week ; 



1. ASK MY BOSS ABOUT MY PROMOTION - i know this may seem blunt or even wrong thing to do but i need to know, this is basically to determine whether i need to start searching for a new job. 

2. WORKING OUT AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK- I'm actually also in the middle of transition for a new meal plan... with NO CARBS! so this will def be hard on me esp with a three year old that eats nothing but pizza rolls and noodles  but I think i might have my mom help me through this process

3. GET MAIL OUT - ok, i didn't do this last week so i need to do it this week

4. GET TO KNOW MY HOTEL & SURROUNDING AREA BETTER - for some reason i have been getting calls from people who want to know everything and anything from ME  about the hotel area (Williamsburg, VA) and they get mad and rude with me because I don't know (for instance) how much tickets are to certain places, or what a store sells. LOL this also goes with my promotion, i guess i should know a lot more. (i'm here at work and i have already had two callers ask me questions that i couldn't answer, like they dont know how to use google, and wanted to speak with someone who could help LOL ... i need to be that person!

5. START PREPARING FOR MY NEW MEAL PLAN - like i said before i got an email from Tara, to help promote REVOLT revoltnowfitness.com  it's a 12 week program that includes workouts, meal plans, cooking and more. i'll get more into it on or around March 4th when i officially start the program!

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 this weekend i......

 hiding from us, playing on his ipad (thank goodness for that or this could have been a bad trip to eat LOL)

 he makes the most craziest pictures for y'all. I told he him smile for the blog .....

my family

 me =)

and a serious face hmmmm




1//I didnt take a lot of pictures this weekend, because I actually pulled a double Friday at work 7 AM til 11 PM. I was pretty frustrated by the end of that night, my throat kept feeling like it was going to get sore but it never turned out to be anything. AND I had found out through my cousin that it was National Margarita Day, and I couldn't even get one.



2//THURSDAY night I had my ASAP class.... And boy let me tell you. Walking in a room full of people, that alone scared me! But we had to introduce ourselves and all that shit! I knew I was going to have to do it but damn I would have rather NOT.  And come to find out I have to go once a week to AA meetings. smh I just can't deal!!!!!! pray for me please!



3//We had lunch Saturday (I was off) so we went to Chedder's with Josiah. I'm a terrible blogger and forgot to get my picture of my lunch! It was Salman and veggies. Also I did a little shopping for Josiah... few new kicks and outfits for summer. Which reminds me that he has none, and I AM accepting donations (5T) LOL (but seriously, i'll bargain with ya) Saturday night I went out with my family to celebrate my cousin, Gary, turning the BIG 3-0. Again I'm a terrible blogger, so I don't have any pictures of me and him.



4// Sunday I had to work and this morning I'm at work again! Later this evening I will be headed to the airport to pick up my stepsister who is flying in from Germany! I'm super excited to have her here for 3 WHOLE months!!!! lol did you hear the sarcasm in that? I love her to death, but anyone that has had guest stay more then two weeks, can tell you that after those two weeks... well you get the point. Love you Michelle! (if your reading this) hahaha



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