Binkie Fairy Visits Van Alstyne!

Megan was a cute baby but a loud one who was all over the place and wanted to eat every hour. God bless the day when we slipped a sweet little pink binkie in her little pink mouth and she was quiet! But that was 3 years ago and it's not so cute for a three year old to whine for the dang thing when she grows stressful or tired. I, like I do everything, have put off the whole withdrawl thing because I've been scared of the consequences. But she's the only one in her preschool class that uses one and I'm tired of pulling it out of her mouth. I'm tired of the muffled words and automatic search for it when things aren't going well. So it was time and the time was Friday night.
I figured we had all weekend to suffer through the agonizing over it before school on Tuesday. We talked it up all week, alerted all the family and asked for prayers (more for us). Friday afternoon we decorated a gift bag with glitter and stickers. We had to be sure that the Binkie Fairy could see the bag in the night. With some chants of "You Can Do It" by the three of us, she reluctantly put her last binkie in the bag for the "Fairy". We put it on the chair on the front porch and was sure to leave the light on for her/him.
She went to bed with great pride in her accomplishment. She was even encouraged by Reilly who gave her one of his cars (Tony Stewart, Yuk)because he was "proud of her". Sweetie. She slept with it instead of the cute pink binkie. She was surprised in the morning with a new tea set and stuffed monkey in the bag where her binkie once was. And that was it.
No more diapers, binkies, cribs and highchairs for us. Am I sad? Maybe a little but I have so much more to look forward to with our two cuties. Hopefully I won't be pulling out tongue piercings someday!!

Plano Balloon Festivas

Well we did the balloon festival this year after skipping it last year for Octoberfest in Addison. I think we're going to switch off every other year. The balloon thing is great for the kids and close to home. But it's kind of a beating with the heat and lack of much to do other than look at the balloons. Don't get me wrong, it's really incredible to see them all but I can't do that every year. I wouldn't appreciate it enough I think if I did. Octoberfest has lots of carny rides, great German food and goodies. But of course the main goodies there is the beer! The kids can catch some dancing dog shows, chicken dancing and the Himalaya while mom and dad smile on with beers in hand and a shrinking wallet. But alas, you can't get the beautiful pics that I got while at yuppy Germany in Addison. The look in Meggie's eyes while the giant Energizer bunny glows in the night is truly pr

iceless.

Catch-up

Well I thought I was in full swing again with this blog thing but alas, I'm lazy. Let me catch up real quick so I don't feel like I'm years behind as I am on my scrapbooks...
Meggie loves school and hasn't shed a tear since she's gone. She can even sing a mean ditty about the Monkey's falling out of bed. I love my tuesdays of freedom. However they go by FAST! I have managed to cross out a few things off the "list". The PaintMor website is still the most dreaded and daunting thing lingering. LoveMuffin is laying on the guilt on that one.
Speaking of LoveMuffin, he has for the past 5 days quit smoking!!! Yeah! I think this it. He's doing really well and hasn't taken out his urges on us and I would call that a minor success. I'm really proud of him because I'm sure it's really hard after smoking for 18 years. I have to say that I was skeptical since he is using "accupressure" to quit. He heard about it on Howard Stern. Enough said. But it's two magnets that he wears for a few hours a day (at home) on the top of his ear. Sounds pretty hokey but it's working for him and that's all I care about. Go Tim!
I hosted the 2nd annual Bunco Bowl a few weeks ago. Fun with the girlies again. Loved having our newest bunco baby in attendance, Catherine. She's just one of the girls already! We ended up with no bunco box so we did our new favorite backup game, Left Center Right. I love it! Way to go Narci and Joni for their big $25 pots.

That's all I got right now. Gotta save some verbage for next time!

The season of firsts

Well Meggie did it. She completed her first day of school yesterday and loved it. The WEE (Weekday Early Education)School here in Van Alstyne is about the only place to go. Luckily I signed her up early a few months ago and relished the notion of two days a week with no little stinkers. The only problem is I feel this enormous pressure to accomplish the things I said I could do without kids. The list is endless but can only be squeezed into the next 9 months and only 1 day a week. I gotta work the other day Megan has school -bummer. So I wrote out a list(I'm big on that) and filled it with closets to clean, a website to do, pictures to organize etc. Butlooking back I left out a few things that are important as well. How about the uninterrupted lunches with friends, extra long workouts, shops with breakables at every aisle? Those are important too!! I want to watch HGTV all day and eat a bag of pretzels for lunch. I want to clean the house and have it stay that way for over an hour! But in the end I know exactly what I'll do. I'll keep peeking at the clock wondering when I can pick up the two cutest things and my biggest accomplishments from school.