5 Question Friday :-)

It's that time! It's 5 Question Friday! If you'd like to participate just stop by Mama M's and link up with her!




1. Do you sing karaoke? If so, what is your go to song?
Uh no. If I did, bar owners would pass out pictures of me and say if you see her coming don't let her in, her voice will chase all customers away.

2. What is your favorite coffee drink?
YUM! I love coffee. But can I be honest and say anytime I've gone to starbucks it has been terrible but dunkin donuts and sheetz coffee...yum! Plus, I like the Christmas drinks. LOVE the Peppermint mocha

3. If you could choose your own name, what would it be?
I don't know. I wouldn't have chosen Wendy but after 31 years I'm used to it.

4. Were you ever bullied?

Nope. And I didn't put up with bullies either....so did that make me a bully? If you bulied the bully? Seriously, I just hate to see someone pick on someone else simply to hurt them for no reason.

5. How often do you eat fast food?
Way more than we should....we've tried to switch to sit down restaurants where we can get salads and stuff though.

Food Menu for 2/28-3/6

This week I'm going to try to use stuff we already have in stock. I'm going to try to pick up only a few things for lunches and a few things so groceries aren't so expensive the next week.

Sunday: we will probably eat out while my daughter is at a birthday party at chucke e cheese

Monday: Stuffed cabbage rolls

Tuesday: homemade veggie soup and homemade bread (yum)

Wednesday: Leftovers

Thursday: NY strip steak. Was bought for V-day but I wasn't home to make it.

Friday: I work this night so the kids and hubby eat out (they do every Friday) or maybe the rest of the veggie soup....whatever strikes their fancy at the time I guess.

Saturday: Once again I work, so the kids and hubby will have something easy like pizza, fish sticks, tomato soup....whatever the husband thinks is easy...heck it could mean eating out...LOL!!

No we don't eat out this often in a normal week. But with my daughter having a party to go to from 2-4 and then taking 45 minutes to get home, it is just easier. Normally Sunday is our big dinner day at home.

Tomorrow I'll do my grocery list so I will have to see what I need. I'm hoping that if I can stick to my weekly menu that it will help keep down the grocery bill. But I have to still do the weekly lunch menu for the kids. I don't know if they are packing or buying yet and they haven't sent March's menu home yet so I can't plan too much.

5 Question Friday

It's that time again! It's 5 Question Friday! Make sure you stop by Mama M's and join the blog spot!

1. What are you most afraid of?
Dying! It's always been a huge fear! I watched my grandma die of liver cancer and it was the most horrible thing. But I mean there is no getting out of it so I have to come grips someday...eek. It's not the dying so much as the suffering and pain. And the worries about what happens to those I love.

Otherwise, snakes. I can't even look at one on tv. I get panicky and have dreams at night that I'm getting attacked....seriously. So I've decided the reptile house for me on the zoo is a no, no!


2. Do you use a flat iron or curling iron?
Neither one. Just a good 'ol blow dryer.


3. Hands-free or phone to the ear?
Depends what is going on and where I am. I will do both.


4. Do you have a matching bedroom set?
I used too but when we moved my huge big dresser wouldn't fit in our new bedroom so I gave it to my daughter and now I've decided that we need a new bedroom suit. Won't happen for ages but it's a nice dream....


5. Do you believe in the paranormal?
Yes! I posted on MckMama's community sharing my experience. And now I hate that feeling I get in the middle of the night when I get up to use the bathroom. I hate thinking there is someone behind me. Makes the hair on my arms (legs too in the winter...but shhhh!!!) stand straight up!

Whew! I finally got to answer 5 question Friday! I'm normally busy, busy!

Why can't people just get along?

I have a wonderful group of friends. They are fantastic. The women get along and the men get along. I've just never had a group of friends like this before and I feel incredibly blessed.

Until this week.

We had a get together at a restaurant because two of them just recently turned 30. Then after wards we went out dancing. Well, thank goodness I couldn't make it til the dancing part, so I missed all the drama. Although at this point, I don't feel like I did.

Today, I get a phone call from my bestie explaining what went down and how on Sunday one of the girls(she is new to the group) was talking about her(my bestie) on Sunday and her kids in front of OTHER kids and adults. And when confronted about it the new one got real snotty. She got snotty because she was caught not because she did it! Oh how I dislike those kind of people. the kind that don't feel sorry but just sorry for themselves because they were busted. So needless to say our little group has a bit of division in it right now. BUT even though this happened with my best friend, I'm trying hard not to pick sides. Because you know....I'm 31. I'm not in high school, but all sides of me want to stick up for her. You know rush out tell the other girl to mind her business. But the small part of me just thinks the new girl in the group is jealous and I know darn well she wants to be the center of attention. She's hard to deal with and hard to work with in all aspects. She expects people to walk the line around her and heck she talks like that to her husband which is rude. And no, I'm not a do every single thing my husband tells me to do and like it. BUT I respect him enough to not talk to him like this other lady does especially in front of people.

So I have this huge feeling that our little group is just never going to be the same. And it is sad. It is one of those times that you know people are going to pick sides. And I don't want to. Well I do but the adult side of me is telling me to stay out of it because I wasn't there both days. I just hate to see one friend so sad and the other thinking she did nothing wrong.

Ugh...sometimes it just stinks to grow up and act like an adult.

I know, I know this is such a boring blog post. But see, you can't even escape grade school behavior when you grow up!

Decluttering Plans!

We moved into our new house in October and I can already see where our "hot spots" are going to be.

The main area is in the basement. The area where we come in from the garage gets coats, tons of shoes, backpacks. and whatever junk they bring home from wherever we are. Plus the one room in the basement is the kids play/game room. It has their tv, wii, dartboards, basketball hoop and nerf guns. So it always looks a mess. Which stinks because that is the first area we walk into.
****My goal in the basement is to have an area to place their backpacks. We do have a coat rack but I need to convince those kids to use it instead of tossing it on the furniture. Plus, I want to toss at least 10 items a week. I know I can easily toss more stuff in the trash but 10 items is the minimum.

The second room is the kitchen.
****The dining room table is a MAJOR hot spot so is one section of the counter alongside the coffee pot and the microwave stand. In this room, I want to make sure that all old school work is thrown away and the hot spots cleaned nightly. I work in the evenings so I come home to a messy kitchen area. But we are working on that ;-)

The living room is generally clean but just to be safe, I want the endtables cleared out of the books weekly, unless they aren't finished being read.

Bathroom.
****go through the cupboards and toss empty bottles. My kids have a habit of emptying shampoo bottles and placing them back in the cupboards....kids I tell ya...lol

Kids room.
****Light clean weekly. Deep clean monthly where we toss broken toys or toys missing parts. And go through their clothes to check sizes. I try to do this when we fold laundry but sometimes a few smaller items make it through. Oh and we are going to work on donating so many toys every few months. They get so many toys that they push quite a few to the side.

Remember this isn't my cleaning schedule. These are just my plans to declutter. My cleaning schedule itself needs its own plan but at this point as long as it is getting done, I'm happy!

ugh....Why do we have to share?

This past week I have been so sick. I had a 103 fever for a few days and had the worst sore throat I have ever had and it wasn't even strep! And now I have passed it on to my daughter. Poor thing. I feel like crying for her because I know how bad it hurts. Ugh....why do we have to share again? Good news is that no one shared the impetigo my son had, THANK GOODNESS!!

Friday night we went and played games at a friends house and had a blast. OK so we never got to the game playing but it was a lot of fun anyways. I love having friends with that I can take my kids or the same friends that I can go away without friends and we have fun either way. Our relationship isn't based on just our kids playing together or us hanging out. And the best thing is that our husbands have turned into best friends. I feel blessed that they have come into our lives when they did. My husband and I were the first of our friends to have kids and they all turned their backs on us because our life was different. Sad. But such is life and they aren't in my life for a reason now but it still just hurts when I allow myself to sit back and think about it.

My baby girl had her 7th birthday on Thursday! Oh how I love that munchkin. She was in Zhu Zhu heaven. She has to wait for some of her presents from us until her party which is this Saturday.


And here is the cake. Yes I bought it and in my drugged up fever mode, I attempted to write Happy Birthday on it. Um....yeah should have waited...LOL


*btw, the pics were taken with my env3 so don't mind the bluriness.

Now, I'm in clean up mode from being out of commission all week. My house is a mess. The junk and dishes collected. So I think this week there will be a few posts on decluttering this house of mine! It became quite the mess....real quick!

Until next time......Have a great one!

Snow, ice and impetigo

Last week we got hammered with snow and freezing rain. The snow was wonderful and just beautiful! The kids have been sled riding in the backyard. We had a snow day on Friday and today "C" wanted, well not just wanted, he begged for a 2 hour delay.

The freezing rain caused some massive accidents on the interstate that caused traffic to be rerouted past my house for 18 hours or so. But I would have taken all that traffic longer than that and not complained a bit if the 2 adults and child would have lived. I feel so terrible for complaining about traffic blocking my drive way (couldn't get in or out). At least my family and I were happy and warm while we were stuck in our house. We were all together and those 3 people won't be with their family again. Sometimes I need a kick in the behind to stop feeling sorry for myself. Really I do!

Ugh and lets not forget our visitor last week. My 9 year old son got impetigo from someone. Poor kid. I thought he had a cold sore for a day or so. And then the next day he had a huge rash all over his cheeks! We got him right into the doctor and got him his antibiotic and ointment for his face. So far, the rest of us haven't gotten it. And we've turned into Germ X freaks...lol. I so hope it stays away. But seriously I check the mirror every single day...heck multiple times a day. I'm not counting cause I'd be embarrassed at how many times I look to make sure I don't have a rash appearing.

My daughter is going to be 7 on Thursday so we are going to be having a bday party soon. Ideas, please!! HELP!!! I'll have another post on that soon.

Have a GREAT day everyone :-)