How easy it is to excite me these days...

I have a confession to make.

Do you know what sent me over the moon today?

What made me so giddy with excitement that I just had to call several friends to tell them all about it?

Wait for it, wait for it......


I got my weeks worth of groceries delivered right into my home and placed on the kitchen floor all neatly bagged and ready to be put away. AND, I never set foot in a store!!!

Okay, I know it's a little anticlimactic, but this is what I get excited about now a days!! With full time work, being a mom, and wife, taking care of the house, after school activities, outdoor chores, forcing myself to go to the gym at 5:30 in the morning, my time is very valuable people!! Any way that I can make more time for myself and spend less of it doing things I hate, calls for a celebration baby!

I should have gone grocery shopping over the weekend but we were just too busy. By the time Tuesday rolled around we were desperate! I had to work all day, then the athlete had soccer practice and the princess had a softball game right after, so I knew I would not be going to the store later that night either.

Then I remembered about this grocery delivery service that one of my friends absolutely swears by and decided, ah what the hey, I'll give it a shot.

I logged on to Peapod online grocery shopping, and withing 15 minutes had my own account, grocery shopped, picked a delivery time for 7-9am the next morning and...

Batta boom, the grocery shopping was done man!!!

At 8am this morning, the friendly delivery driver carried them all into my house and within ten minutes I had them put away. What normally takes me 2 plus hours from start to finish, took all of 25 minutes!!! Saving me precious time!!

I think I'm in love!

The view from here

This is what I get to see when I look out the front windows of my home and directly across the street. This my friends is what the people left in the home almost two years ago. They took anything of value with them and skipped town, leaving the property to be forclosed on.

This mind you, is what is left AFTER workers have spent three days hauling pickup truck loads of crap away!!!

Why in God's name the bank didn't just rent a 30 yard dumpster to put this mess into is beyond me. Maybe they left it sitting in the front yard in hopes the neighbors might want to scavenge through the mounds of junk for treasures!

(Ah, no don't think so!)

I wonder how long I will have this for my viewing pleasure.

A cat story

As I mentioned before in one of my posts here, we own two cats. One we got as a 12 week old kitten and the other we decided to adopt from a shelter last spring.

I always knew that if we were to get a second cat that I would want to adopt from a shelter. (There are sooooo many wonderful animals that have been "dumped" by their owners and are in need of good loving homes.) So I wanted to rescue a deserving kitty. Our vet highly recommended getting a kitten to help our resident cat adjust to the new addition. (It was the hope that she would take it on as her own and mother the new kitten.)

Well after much searching and disappointment we realized that a kitten just wasn't in the cards for us and started looking at young adult cats. The coach has a friend who works at the Animal Rescue League of Boston. If you haven't heard of them, check them out!!! They are an amazing group of people who dedicate their lives to rescuing animals of all kinds.

He ventured in to the city and all on his own picked out what would become our newest addition to our family. She came home several days later after she had been spayed and cleared for adoption.

She weighed barely 6 pounds and you could see her ribs and spine through her fur. (She had been abandoned on the streets of Boston after just having a litter of kittens, which took a toll on her body and why she was so skinny.)

We realized right off the bat why cat experts say that introducing a new cat into a home with a cat already can present a challenge. We kept the two cats separated in different rooms but they could smell and see each other and spent the next several days totally freaked out and "pissy", for lack of a better word. (We didn't realize that by separated, it meant no visual contact. Whoops!!)

We had several accidental escapes leading to several loud, fast paced, and scary cat chases. The coach and I ran wildly after them screaming loud nonsensical sounds and clapping our hands while we chased after them. (We must have looked insanely ridiculous, but this is what we were told to do by the vet if they went after each other to get them to break it up!)

After about a week and a half of cat isolation and gradual introductions the two "girls" finally decided that each other was here to stay and they better just get used to the idea.

Now they are the best of friends and play and frolic around each morning and night! Our resident kitty is still the boss, don't get me wrong, but I think if they suddenly got separated now, they wouldn't know what to do without the other. (Kinda like siblings!)

I wonder how they would take to a dog!

Our newest edition: Shusha

You can see she adjusted quite nicely here!

She has also put on a few pounds since last spring. Check out the tongue sticking out!!

Our resident kitty, Charlotte, named by the athlete, who was reading Charlotte's Web at the time.

Don't let this serious face fool you! This little kitty has got some spunk!

Just call me crazy

Tell me I'm NUTS for even entertaining the idea that I have brewing in my wacky little noggin right now!

Tell me to stop before it's too late!

Or what a hassle it will be...

How much will get ruined in my house for the next few years...

How expensive it will be...

That two is enough..

How my life as I know it will be changed forever...

The sleepless nights...

(I bet you were thinking BABY right????) Well people get your head outta the clouds, I'm not that delusional!

Now to continue with my cons;

How my allergies/asthma might suffer...

Go ahead lay it on me!! I don't know if it will help me to reconsider what I'm thinking right now or not, but what the hey, it certainly can't hurt.

I WANT ONE OF THESE!!!!!!!

A "Cavapoo" puppy.

Not specifically the ones pictured above, but this is what they look like. They are a cross between a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and a Poodle.

They are usually hypoallergenic and weigh between 5 and 20 pounds full grown depending on what traits it picks up from it's parents. They are great with children and non canine animals. (Which is good for us since we already own two cats.) They are people dogs and love spending time with their family.

Friends of ours got one at Christmas time and I spent some time with her yesterday. Her name is Sophie!!

I'm not going to do anything drastic. I need to talk to the allergist and get retested since I haven't been tested in over 20 years. I know that I have an allergy to dogs, but it is more severe with big dogs. I also have to do a lot of research and thinking on the subject. Maybe even spend some more time with
Sophie to see if and how I react.

So for now, I am secretly pining away for a puppy! Whether or not it comes to a reality? Well we will just have to see!

Hand sanitizer warning!!!

There is a reason that those bottles of hand sanitizer come with a warning label on it, one being: Do not get in eyes.

My little princess learned that lesson the hard way today at school when she went to use some. She pressed down on the bottle, (the kind with the pump), and it had dried and formed a "plug" inside the nozzle.

When the plug came loose, sanitizer shot out of the pump and into her face and eye. She got rushed down to the nurse's office and had her eye flushed with water for several minutes and a cold compress applied. Her eye was all blood-shot and teary eyed for several hours, but was able to remain at school.

She got off the bus with a cold compress over her eye, and her super-hero brother with his arm around her, keeping her safe while she exited the bus. (That moment alone melted my heart. It just goes to show you that no matter how bad siblings fight or bicker, when push comes to shove, they will always be there for each other.)

So this is what she looked like when she arrived home.




I put a call in to the pediatrician because I didn't like the fact that her eye was partially closed. They told me to watch her, but it was a good sign that the redness and tearing had stopped.

So just a warning to all the moms out there, if your child uses hand sanitizer in pump form, make sure the nozzle isn't plugged up before allowing your children to squirt some out.

(Oh and also, just so you know it has been several hours now, and her eye is gradually opening up more. Thank goodness!)

Riddle me this

Riddle me that...


What do you get when you cross a foolishly stubborn woman...

And a foot injury????????


My friends, this is what you get:









A foolish lady in pain, who now get to sleep in this stylish, torturous contraption for the next two months.

Taking the plunge

I am going to the gym this afternoon.


There I said it. That wasn't so bad.


Two weeks ago the coach and I decided to join the local community center and get a family membership. (It was our Christmas gift to ourselves.)

Well two weeks ago we joined and I have yet to venture inside and get my rear in gear. Don't' get me wrong, I have gone in numerous times to drop of/pick up the athlete for free afternoons of dodge ball or floor hockey, but as far as going in to benefit my own health....

Yaaaaa, not so much. It has taken two weeks two mentally prepare myself for this. I had to eliminate every excuse I could come up with for not going.

So in no particular order:

bought new sneakers---- check

bought new workout clothes----- check

charged MP3 player------ check

downloaded workout tunes on MP3 player and learn how to use the dang thing-------- check

make time to go------ check

So now dear friends, I am taking the plunge and venturing into the scary unfamiliar domain health room for the first time in a looooong time.

Wish me luck