Ironed Sheets, Almost Set House on Fire, Played with Dead Snake

I just want to start this by saying, even though I like to write, being able to put commas in the right places or even stay within the same verb tense or whatever, passed me by a LONG time ago.  I struggle with it when I am writing something that I want published or let's say, made into a movie... but that's what editors are for!!!  Thank God for them! HA! So if you are a grammar or english snob... just deal with it, okay?!? =)

Yep.  That's just about how my life has been this past week or so since I've last written.  It's amazing all the small little things that are just so cute and funny and yet, forgotten when not recorded.  And I have always wanted to record them all so as to never forget!  I call my Mom every time something worth recording happens because I found out one time that she actually writes it all down!! Awesome!  Uhh... I hope she still is because I look forward to crying my eyes out to all of it one day when my babies are grown!

One of the most exciting things happening around here is the construction of our "library"!  I have always wanted one and few people know that I actually put together one in our basement when I was a kid.  I'm pretty sure I even had a card catalog.  Yes, super dork here!  But who can resist rows and rows of books?!?!?!?!?  My favorite scene from a Disney movie is when Belle gets taken to the library! WOW!  I will have one like that one day... but for now, what we are building will be awesome!  And if I get my way (which according to my husband, I do) it will look as though you've stepped into the Gryffindor Common Room (and if you don't know what that is...we're not friends anymore!!! JK=), just smaller.  Oh yeah, Mom and Dad?  Can I have a persian rug to go in there?  =)

This is what it looks like now...

Olsin stayed home sick today... complications you really don't want to know the details.  Long story short, he's been tested for salmonella poisoning, E-coli and something else I can't remember.  The Dr. asked me if he had been playing with turtles, frogs, etc. recently... uhhh... most likely!!!! Ha!  I had planned to work out today, but that didn't happen with my little friend in tow.  He managed to manipulate me into taking him to Toys R Us, little stinker, and buy him new transformers.  So, my day then consisted of me learning how to turn transformers back into their vehicle form while watching Tom and Jerry.  I gotta admit, I'm pretty darn good at it now.  Picking the girls up from school, Olsin wanted to visit the butterfly garden.  We found the one caterpillar left on the butterfly weed and it pooped on Olsin's hands as he held it.  We went straight to the school restroom to wash his hands, walked back outside and he started playing with the bird poop on the ground.  And we wonder why he's been sick?!??

Dylin has been doing so wonderfully well at school it really surprises us all!  She did bring home a B last week though.  It was a worksheet with two categories "real" and "make-believe" and they were supposed to glue the words underneath that matched.  Well, we were reviewing it and what she got wrong was "ELVES" that she had glued beneath REAL.....  hmmmm.... so I asked her why and she said, "Well, Santa has elves so elves are REAL!"  Couldn't argue there.  What are they trying to teach them in school nowadays! =)

Aedin has been taking gymnastics twice a week now in a preteam class so they are working harder on the skills she has.  They were doing beam yesterday and practicing jumping.  Well, most of the little girls got maybe a couple inches off the beam... it was scary... and Aedin's second time doing it the coach was really encouraging them to jump high and... she did!  Like a complete tuck! It scared the living crap outta me, probably why there's a nice thick glass between the parents and kids to stifle the screams... but she landed great and then did it again and again.  I don't think it got any better each time she did it... that is, for me. =)

On the way home from school yesterday, Olsin had stopped on the sidewalk to look at something.  When we finally caught up to him we saw that he had found a snake... a dead snake!  So, of course I picked it up.  So did Aedin. =) Dylin pretty much screamed the whole time, totally takes after her Daddy there!  Olsin kept telling me that he wanted a pet snake.  I kept trying to explain to him that it was dead.  But he wants it... but it's DEAD.  I really couldn't figure out how else to put it.

All my kids love candles... and they try to sneak them into their rooms too, sometimes successfully.  But, I explain how dangerous that is and always try to be such a good example to my kids with fire so that they too will be safe.  We have fire escape ladders in every room upstairs!  We are safe!  And they all know how to use them, apparently before I taught them, but that's a story for another time.  Well, last week before my contractor was to show up to start work on the library, I had to clear out the room.  I kept putting it off, as many times as Terry offered to help me with it, yet insisted that it wasn't that much stuff, no big deal.  OH MY GOSH.  There was so much crap in there it took me an hour longer to get it all out than I thought.... thank goodness the carpenter was late!  We always joke about lighting a match and just looking the other way... cause it gets so overwhelming... ha.  Well, I had on my brand new headphones, those big ones that block out all other sound, that Terry had just gotten me for my birthday, while cleaning out the room.  When my contractor (Terri) showed up I took them off and threw them and my iPod onto "the black thing" (that's what we call it because we are not classy enough to know what the darn thing is called... Annemarie, what do you call yours???) and started talking logistics.

About an hour later we are still talking and the carpenter's helper showed up and I heard him saying something like, "en fuego?"  It was then I could smell it.  I rounded the corner to find 18" flames coming out of the candle on "the black thing" dancing along the frame of the picture I have hanging above it.  Apparently, when I tossed aside my headphones I didn't exactly look where I threw them.  WOW.  How irresponsible of me!  I would've never known! Thank God those guys were there to pick up on my stupidity!!!!

The damage... doesn't look near as bad as it did with flames shooting out of it.  Should've taken a picture then, actually contemplated it, but thought saving the house might be more important.

I called Terry to say that I ruined the birthday present he'd given me.  He immediately thought I was talking about the car.  But, he did show up the next night with a new pair.  What a sweetheart. <3

As for ironing sheets... I really cannot believe I have turned into this person... but it just really irritates me if they are wrinkled!!!!  I used to make so much fun of my roommate Candice in college for ironing her sheets, I mean, really?!?, but here I am.... =)

Here are some pictures of our little movie stars.... we had a blast.  The rain ruined much of the shooting schedule but both Aedin and Colin got into ONE good scene.  So we're very happy about it! =)

Outside Kerby Lane... one of my favorite diners!

Breakfast for dinner!  Yeah!

Turns out the kids really liked it too!

I have had to take down several photos because we could potentially get in "trouble" for having them up on a blog.  The costumes they were wearing in the photos were NOT used because they never got the chance to shoot an additional scene, but they were on location, NOT on set... but just wanna we safe here. =)