Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

This and That Thursday

May 26, 2011

Huh – maybe that should be a new trend for my blog! My weekdays tend to be busy now that we are schooling again and this week has had some added stress so I’ve not blogged much.

I live in that part of the country known as “tornado alley” and believe me it lived up to it’s name this week! Because we were at such a high risk for strong tornadoes on Tuesday, I took the five youngest with me to a hotel to be at a safer place. Of course, the day after I found out that a couple of churches in town provided shelter – wish I had known about that sooner! At any rate, we did end up with a tornado warning but it wasn’t too serious and we had only light damage. Within an hour it was all over for us. I think we are all very grateful for that here! The fun part was the stay at the hotel – they upgraded us to an executive suite because they felt there wouldn’t be enough room for us all otherwise. WOW – was it nice! Two tv sets – one for the kids and one for me – a sofa bed, desk, dresser, coffee table, and even an ipod dock with speakers. Very, very nice!! Of course the next morning was a free continental breakfast which the kids all loved as well. I am thinking of taking a mommy vacation later this summer and I may just stay there again. ALONE.

My brother Dave visited us yesterday while he was in town. I was really hoping to get away to Starbucks with him for an hour or so, but he had so many other plans that it was shelved for another time. I think he just really needed a vacation and downtime so I’m glad he got that.

I got a stick blender for Mother’s Day this year! I have really really wanted one for a long time, but couldn’t decide on one, so I’m glad that my kids did that for me. I used it for the first time yesterday making broccoli cheese soup. Man, does that thing have some serious power!! However, I couldn’t figure out how to really move it around and I still ended up with a few chunks of broccoli that my kids left for yours truly :-). I have some butternut squash in my freezer and there are two good recipes in my Simply In Season cookbook so I’m dying to try those out! I think today we’ll make smoothies and work on figuring out how this baby works.

I’ve cracked out my summer music for the season and will be talking about that on Music Monday next week. I still need to replace my 80’s Summer Music cd I burned as I somehow misplaced it. I’ll be blogging about that too – I’m sure a lot of you will recognize many great tunes on it.

I’ve started a morning devotional time and I’m using Small Steps for Catholic Moms and also listening to my Hymns album on my mp3 player via a headset. I’m enjoying the quiet time of prayer and reflection.

I know I started blogging about thirtysomething awhile back and I’m sorry I haven’t kept up with it. However, I did finish watching the First Season episodes for a second time and this summer will re-watch with the commentary and start Second Season in the fall. I kind of feel like watching them once a week like I used to when it was on. I have to say, there were things that I didn’t catch the first time around! AND I also downloaded the thirtysomething soundtrack from Amazon! The music was so crucial to the show and it was almost like another character.

Well, I think that brings us to today which is a beautiful sunny blue sky day and is such a welcome sight after all the tragedy in the midwest this week. My heart goes out to all who have been affected by the storms and my prayers are with you too. God be with you all!

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On May 26, 2011 at 8:17 PM, dxprog said:

I do love the day after a wave of storms. Super blue sky, awesome temperatures. Hells yes!

On May 27, 2011 at 2:17 AM, java_queen said:

I agree! Today was such a gorgeous day, too bad tomorrow there'll be storms again. At least not as bad as what we've had. Then, a good, good weekend.

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May 26, 2011

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