A day in the life of me

 

Today I have decided to blog a day in the life of me. 

The rich and famous are used to magazines wanting to follow them around for a day.

One day in the life of so and so.

Really? Who cares what a multimillionaire does with all his time? 

Seriously as I cook, clean and write that is not the first thing on my mind.

So before I sell my books, before I get mildly well known (I can dream right?)

I would like to share a day in my life - my ordinary everyday lower class life.

Today we did the following items while listening to the classic and beautiful vocal stylings of Zooey Dechanel, in the group She & Him vol 1 (vol 2 is for sale but we don't have it yet - never fear we will).

 

Pissy did homework

Little man said all of his ABC's as well as signed them all!

Then hubby took the kids into the kitchen for a crafting project.

Beading!

While I took on my less glamorous job

Never fear I have a dishwasher close at hand!

Soon all was well.

Sorry I have an ugly sink -it's clean just really really cheap.

After I announced dinner hubby joined in the beading party to make me a pretty.

Yes Little man is in a diaper - sorry he's potty training and half the time he forgets to put back on his pants.

Eggs, salt, pepper, cheese and onion

Add that to a tortilla, a little more cheese and some sausage...

What you get is a little piece of heaven!

Prissy finishes up the necklace she made for her best friend.

Did I ever mention that my daughter gets more pleasure in giving things away then getting them?

She shares everything!

Love it!

She is wearing a dress her grandmother made for her birthday last year.

My new pretty that my hubby made me!

8 years later and I still want to keep him!

Now I am eating my good food while my children play next door. They of course had to run next door to give the new necklace to the best friend.

I will now continue working on the end of book three happy in the fact that something got done today.

Thumb Toe

 

Prissy is adorable!

She just told her papa that she hurt her big thumb toe!

Love it!

How I garden

 

New wind chimes!

Yeah I should just never be allowed to shop sales with Margie!

Although I will say I love it!

 

My onions before transplanting 

 

 

My sweet peas before transplanting

Didn't they just grow amazing!

The table workstation as I transplanted my plants to larger containers.

Little man "helping" Mama transplant just chillin in his upside down carseat

while eating his chips.

Onions after transplant

Cross your fingers with me and pray they make it!

Sugar Snap Peas container one

Sugar Snap Peas container two.

So everything I plant must remain in tubs - veggie wise or its not allowed.

Unless I wanted to plant behind my house which of course is almost year round full shade.

Have I ever mentioned that I hate my mobile home park?

OR that for the 4th time in four years they raised the monthly rates on us.

I can not wait to publish my book and buy a house!

My only sorrow is I have to finish editing, finding a agent and then of course publishing the book before that happens.

Sob sob... to bad I don't have a huge fan base that wants to buy me a house.

I guess I am just not that funny.

Will blog later I have to finish my chores now. 

Dishes

Vacuuming

Laundry

Folding cloths

Cleaning kids after chasing and dragging them inside the house

Board walk in the rain

Hubby and kids riding carousel on the board walk in California

It was raining and cold that morning which meant we had the whole place to ourselves!

Prissy is just so cute!

Hubby and Little man 

Little Man and Prissy

hmmm they really don't seem to care that its raining outside

After a few hours the rain lets up to a gentle drizzle and we head out for some beach time

We found the King of the Sea Lions (LOL)

He was the biggest and the loudest call.

You should have seen him strut his stuff!

Our visit was great, good times with good people.

Hubby fixed the sink yesterday sorry I forgot to take photos, and we also changed out our reverse osmosis filters.

I know your wondering what a stay at home mama in a mobile home is doing with a reverse osmosis right?

Hubby put it in a year ago in the hopes it would improve our health.

Seeing the amount of black junk in the water is enough that I am happy we have them.

Little man is talking more and trying out new words.

I am very excited about this new stage in his life and I am thrilled to see him beam when he gets one right.

Prissy is getting more and more prissy acting every day.

Its driving me crazy!!

Especially her new habit of washing her hands for twenty minutes to make sure they are really clean, how do you explain how that hurts her? She has eczema and this is really not helping.

This is the end of our trip pictures I will try to post our garden photos tomorrow so you can see how everything has grown.

Yosemite day two

 

Prissy

 

 

Hubby with the kids

 

the woods near the restrooms.

Hint: bring hand sanitizer.

I was very happy I did!

 

 

The van we rented so all six of us could be together.

 

Looks like everyone had a ball!

Yosemite

 

Prissy and her Auntie outside our hotel right outside of Yosemite Natl park

 

My sister and her hubby celebrating their 5th year anniversary!

 

Prissy with her new fairy necklace

 

Little man enjoying the view

 

My dastardly duo posing in their favorite poses

Little man as spiderman

Prissy as a ballarina

 

One of the many waterfalls in Yosemite

 

and another one don't ask me the names because I don't remember LOL

 

We had a great time driving, shopping, playing and family time.

I will post more pictures of our two days in Yosemite Natl Park tomorrow in the mean time I am happy to be home.

Happy to have wonderful family and very happy that we had turned off some of the water to our home before we left. Yep tomorrow we take a trip to Home Depot or Lowes. Must fix kitchen sink.

Don't worry I might post those pictures tomorrow as well. 

Did I mention that while we were gone my father almost broke into my home thinking we were dying?

Yup, oops we forgot to tell them we were leaving for a week or so.

Love coming home at four in the morning from the train station to find mothers day and anniversary cards on the porch.

Trains: There and back again!

 

Prissy waiting for the train in the middle of the night.

Little man loving his first real train ride.

Prissy sacks out early so tired from a long day of waiting.

So the train came right on time and we were able to get great seats all together.

We loved the train!

Pros no stress - I mean no stress, just quiet beautiful travel.

They do not double book, lose your luggage or want you to promise your kidneys to ride the train.

They do not violate you, your luggage or screw with you.

LOVE IT!

Cons - the smokers!!!

and of course the talkers! 

Those that see your trying to get your kids to sleep in the middle of the night 

and want to talk to them anyway!

Next time we travel in any direction for longer than nine hours we will pay the extra money for a family sleeper car.

This way we will have more privacy and more room for the kids to bounce around.

Food on the train was expensive and not a lot for what you get.

Good news was we didn't need much food on the way there since we had snacks for breakfast and only ate lunch on the train.

On the way home we were better prepared and packed drinks, snacks, lunch and dinner.

I walked on with a large hamper of food and walked off with it mostly empty.

The best thing is they don't care if you do this!!!

Again can not tell you how much I love the train!!!

Amtrak is amazing!

We took the California Zepher from SLC to Sacramento and will travel this way again!