Cool mom... oh wait...

This is so me. And here I always thought I would be the "cool" mom. Wrong!

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Going on strike!!!

Apparently the phrase "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" does not apply to my family. Lately it seems like every time I cook, someone has something to say about it.

Take for instance tonight. A yummy surf and turf dinner that consisted of bacon wrapped fillets with caramelized onions, fried shrimp, sour cream and chive eggs noodles and mixed veggies. Sounds good right?? It was. At least to me.

First of all, everyone thought the steaks were too rare. Well I like my steak rare. No one told me how they wanted theirs cooked, so I cooked them the way I like them. Then someone says that spaghetti sauce would be better on the noodles instead of the cream sauce.

Oh really?? I don't remember asking if you thought something would be better a different way.

I did storm off and tell the family that I am NOT cooking for them anymore. I ate my dinner on my bed. In MY room. With the door locked. Boy was it nice! So quiet.

Maybe I am being overly sensitive...

but I can tell you this....

My husband is in the kitchen right now. Washing the dishes.

That gets me thinking....Maybe I should let them hurt my feelings more often... I hate doing the dishes more than I do cooking. :)

Caitlin's 10th Birthday Party

We had a BLAST at Caitlin's birthday party. Here are a few pics of the big day.

The cake I made. Clearly I can not write pretty. Note to self.... learn to write pretty.




Caitlin with one of her BFFs, Aly.




Opening presents.




Holding onto the sides for dear life. It was VERY dark in there.... and my camera HATES dark places.




Lots of this going on with all the kids.




See.....




Caitlin and Tori... her mommy makes very pretty bows!




Here's Lilly going down the slide the 1,453,345,345th time. She loved that thing.




Gramps, Lilly and the back of Sophie's head.




Daddy and Sophie.



See her outfit... and Lilly's too??? They are those super cute outfit from Gymbo I wanted. I broke down and bought them and they were perfect for the party.

Everyone had a good time and Gramps took Caitlin shopping afterward for her present. She wanted skates of all things. Bless her heart. She is very determined to learn to skate.

While Chris, the babies and I were on our way home, I realized that the skate place didn't give us all the things that were included in the price of the party. See, Caitlin won a free basic party, but we decided to upgrade. So for $40 more, we got one extra attraction and a pizza, also 12 tokens, a glow stick and return passes for each child. They forgot the last 3 things. We turned around and headed back. I figured the least they could do was refund the difference for those items. So like 15 bucks or so.

I talked to no less than 3 people... I was persistent I tell ya! I just wanted a refund that was all..... until... the manager made me an offer I couldn't refuse! He told me for $20 he would order Caitlin a pair of skates! $60 skates for $20!!! Woo hooo!!!! They also gave me about 15 return passes so she can practice all she wants!

She is gonna be so excited. She has asked everyday for a pair of skates. I can't wait to see the look on her face when she sees those skates. I'll be sure and post pics!

Can't wait til next Mother's Day....

Saturday evening, the night before Mother's Day, the power started to flicker. Then the air went off and never came back on. Turns out, we weren't the only ones that it happened to either. The 4 condo units on this end of the building were all without air. It was HOT outside that night too! I called the office and someone else in the building called the power company.

They both showed up sometime around 10:30ish PM. Turns out not to be the power company's fault. The office calls an electrician. He shows up around 12:30 AM and starts digging holes. I think he left around 2 AM. He did turn the power back on but it was running only at about 25% so we still had no air. Only fans.

So here come's Mother's Day. Still no air, or hot water, or anything else that requires any sort of power. The power got completely cut at around 8:30 AM and stayed off until 9 PM that night. We grilled hamburgers and hot dogs for lunch which was so good. Since we really weren't prepared to cook for days on the grill, we had to go fill the tanks with more propane in order to cook dinner that night.

Luckily, I had a chicken in the fridge so we had beer can chicken for dinner. Along with some quick cooking Uncle Ben's rice and black eyed peas that we also cooked on the grill, dinner was magnificent!

I was so thankful that we were able to at least run the fans all night. There is no was we would have made it without them. The power ended up being out for nearly 3 days. Out of those 3 days, 2 of them were at least 95 degree days.

Next Mother's Days can't come soon enough. Hopefully the power won't be out.