The new fascination at our house is bugs. Not just any bug will do either. E loves the grasshoppers and crickets. Not because E is scared of them or wants to keep them as pets. No not my girl. She likes to find them to catch them to feed them to our fish.
A little background I guess is needed. We were at my dads earlier in the summer and D caught some really small fish, I mean really small fish. So we decided to take a few home and put them in our water garden pond. Two bass and one crappie.
Well these fish are rather picky, they refuse to eat the goldfish food. So we have spoiled them and had been going to Petsmart every weekend and buying them two dozen rosy red minnows to eat. At first we just let all the minnows go at once but after awhile that got boring so then we would put the bag on the top of the water and let it float around, but that had to stop because one of the fish figured out how to put a hole in the bag to get the minnows out.
Now we put the minnows in one at a time so we can watch the bass come to the top and eat the minnows. It takes less then a second and really all you can see is a cloud of iridescence from the scales of the minnows but we are slightly twisted people and get a big kick out of this.
So I digress, Petsmart is like a half hour away and was getting to be a pain to drive to if we didn't need to go anywhere else, she we started to look for a closer source for food for our spoiled fish. Well we hit the jackpot in our backyard. It seems that the grasshoppers really enjoy spending time in the kind of grass we have back there.
So now we have a nightly ritual of catching the bugs to feed to our fish. E has the best eye at spotting them. All of the sudden she will yell "Momma grass-hopper" and D will have to go over and try to catch it. Then we all make our way back to the front of the house to our water garden pond to watch him throw it in so we can watch the bass devour it instantly. This totally cracks E up, she absolutely loves it.
Oh the joy of being young.
Friday, August 18, 2006
Friday
Oh I am so tired today. I went out after work last night to a going away party for a guy moving to Arkansas. I only had one drink but I stayed there until 8:30 which meant I didn't get home until after nine. So it was 10:30 before I got to bed and then I was rudely woken up by a yucky storm at 12:30. Then D gets up to get ready for work at 4:00 so I guess you can see the pattern here.
It is so nice to spend the evening in the company of adults. Its been awhile since I have done that. I have the utmost respect for stay at home moms. Sometimes I don't know how they don't go crazy. While I would love to stay at home, I think that working makes me a better mom. It makes me step back and when E gets particularly trying I have a little bit more patience and a lot more love cause I miss her so much and cherish the time we do get to spend together.
So this makes her a little spoiled. I can't help it. If she is going to be my only baby the world will be hers, that's what I go to work for right.
My niece started kindergarten yesterday and I almost cried looking at her pictures, I was there when she was born I can't believe she has grown up so much already. Her birthday is next week and she will be turning six. Where did the time go?
It is so nice to spend the evening in the company of adults. Its been awhile since I have done that. I have the utmost respect for stay at home moms. Sometimes I don't know how they don't go crazy. While I would love to stay at home, I think that working makes me a better mom. It makes me step back and when E gets particularly trying I have a little bit more patience and a lot more love cause I miss her so much and cherish the time we do get to spend together.
So this makes her a little spoiled. I can't help it. If she is going to be my only baby the world will be hers, that's what I go to work for right.
My niece started kindergarten yesterday and I almost cried looking at her pictures, I was there when she was born I can't believe she has grown up so much already. Her birthday is next week and she will be turning six. Where did the time go?
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Updates
Gosh its hard to believe that's its been a month since I posted. What really sucks is that our computer at home died and unless we can get someone that can fix it cheap I don't see us having another one for awhile. Oh well I can always sneak on at work.
Sometimes I don't know why I find my life boring, it seems as if we are always doing something.
Last week my grandpa (my moms dad) passed away. He had congestive heart failure for awhile so it wasn't totally a surprise but I don't think anyone expected it when it happened. So we spent last week doing funeral kinds of things. The nice thing was that I got to see one of my favorite cousins that I hadn't seen in like 12 years. Its kind of sad that we don't make more of an effort to see family except for situations like that. But when airfare to Florida for a family a four is so expensive what else can you do.
The funeral went very well, we had some reservations about it, my mom has seven brothers and sisters that do not get along very well so we were waiting for a big blow out. But everyone behaved themselves. The priest did a wonderful job and the service was sad but also beautiful. I was very glad that I had Doug there to comfort me. I also had a very good friend since the first grade come which was very nice.
My work even sent a beautiful peace lily plant both my mom and I were very touched by that. After all is said and done I am hoping that this experience will help my mom to realize that she needs to be a little bit closer to my family and to my kids. I really hope she starts to take interest and see us more often. Doug keeps telling me not to get my hopes up and he is probably right. I am probably just setting myself up for disappointment, but you never know.
Sometimes I don't know why I find my life boring, it seems as if we are always doing something.
Last week my grandpa (my moms dad) passed away. He had congestive heart failure for awhile so it wasn't totally a surprise but I don't think anyone expected it when it happened. So we spent last week doing funeral kinds of things. The nice thing was that I got to see one of my favorite cousins that I hadn't seen in like 12 years. Its kind of sad that we don't make more of an effort to see family except for situations like that. But when airfare to Florida for a family a four is so expensive what else can you do.
The funeral went very well, we had some reservations about it, my mom has seven brothers and sisters that do not get along very well so we were waiting for a big blow out. But everyone behaved themselves. The priest did a wonderful job and the service was sad but also beautiful. I was very glad that I had Doug there to comfort me. I also had a very good friend since the first grade come which was very nice.
My work even sent a beautiful peace lily plant both my mom and I were very touched by that. After all is said and done I am hoping that this experience will help my mom to realize that she needs to be a little bit closer to my family and to my kids. I really hope she starts to take interest and see us more often. Doug keeps telling me not to get my hopes up and he is probably right. I am probably just setting myself up for disappointment, but you never know.
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