Mama Mia Chronicles

DD...girl, I am super sorry to be neglecting you!! We have had such a chaotic last few weeks...hell, months really. Anyhow, I am happy to report that we are now wallpaper and ugly carpet free!! Free at last. It really feels completely different here:-) I will post pics soon!

On another note...my kids are driving me batty lately (thank you school system for 3 months of this to look forward to...*snigger*), and the constant bickering and noise has driven me to a cocktail..or two. They do come up with some doozies though. S told his older sister yesterday that if she kept needling him, it was "going to be a PROBLEM!" *Ahem* Where have I heard that before?! LOL. Guilty!

She cracks me up because she keeps quoting "King Julien" from the TV series "The Penguins of Madagascar". The other day S was just too much for her, and she told him in her little adopted (King Julien) Indian accent to "shut up a little bit". I was in hysterics:-) Bad mommy, I know...but that was darn funny!

Anyhow, we are piecing the upstairs back togther, but I have some pics to post of a party that Caitlin went to this past Saturday...a 6 year old birthday party, BOLLYWOOD-style. Cute!

Ciao for now;-)

B.

Sing...

All by myself
Don't wanna be
All by myself
Anymore

I hear an echo as I call out to my friends! Where is everyone, I look but yet I do not see are you hiding from me? Okay I'll try and stop rhyming now. Seriously where is everyone? I know that Buffy is in VA but D you have been so quiet, what gives, not that I have a whole lotta room to talk.

Life is good in Malaysia! The kids are on summer break and I love having them home, for the most part;). We spend a great deal of time in the pool but that is it so far. We have a good friend that lives in our condo 2 floors up that we see often. I think I've mentioned them before, Jenny (mom) and Connor and Bradyn are her children. Connor is Parkers age and are best of buds and Bradyn is between Hannah and Emily and plays well with Emily and sometimes remembers that Hannah is around too but he like to play with Hannah when Emmy is at school. I really enjoy Jenny's company she's a sweet woman and her husband is very nice too. I can see a great friendship blossoming.

We are going to go on a trip to Borneo in the next few weeks and hopefully once we get back from our trip HOPEFULLY we will have our maid arrive the day after we get back, she was suppose to be here this Sunday but there was issues with her visa so now she will need to wait till we come back from our vacation.

Well I must wrap this up b/c my middle child is being sassy with her dad and dad is cooking so I need to get her out of our TINY kitchen before he loses his mind, what he has left of it:).

I hope to hear from you 2 soon, I miss you!

DD

We are pregnant and we will have baby no. 3 some time late November. I am set on keeping this pregnancy quiet until I pop the baby:-)!

S. has opinions lately...and lots of them. Yesterday he was "spy-ding" my hair through his Diego binoculars, and got really close to my hair. He steps back and goes, "Mom, you need a hairs cut"...My response..."Really, why?" He squints at me a little and goes, "Cause you have crazies in the back":-) I asked if maybe brushing it would help (Lawd knows it was one of those days), and he goes, "NO, you need a hairs cut!"

Later on...same day...we are driving to pick C. up from school. He is on the phone (his new love is my old cellphones), and we hit a bumpy stretch of road. This apparently annoyed the heck out of him because I got a "Mom, you drive too bumpy!" (insert the big frown on his part...and picture the phone attached to his ear while he says this). Okaaay. "Oh, sorry," I say. Two minutes later, more bumpiness, so I wait for it...He didn't disappoint. "Moooom, I said be CAREFUL". More big frowns.

*sigh* Pleasing a two year old is SO hard on a mother.

-Buffy-

So I'm talking to my son who is going to be celebrating his 7th birthday next month and I asked him if he wanted to invite the entire class and my son very seriously says NO, mommy I want to only invite the boys. So I say well I think it would be nice to invite the entire class (you have to I think anyway) and he says NO, not the girls, so I say why not? He says, mommy girls are way to bossy. TEE HEEEE. I just smiled and said your too funny. He is like I'm serious, no girls, not even you! I was like hey who do you think is going to put on your party? You. Well then how do you think your going to have a party if no girls are invited? Okay mommy you're the only girl allowed.

When he said this the first song that popped into my mind was Tim McGraw's Don't Take The girl... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP1G5i5q-hk

DD

Where do you guys want to go? I miss you and get lonely for some girl chat, something I haven't had in a while, well I've had chats but not chats with "friends" and I have a feeling it's going to be hard to make friends here, well friends with kids. I guess I'll have a lot of maid friends.

So where do you want to go? Just tell me and I'll be there;).

DD

Yesterday I got a call from school nurse that S threw up his lunch and that he said that he is not feeling well, and that I should come and pick him up (sorry for run on sentence:-). So I go over there and I'm signing him out and he comes to me all smiles and happiness. I asked him what is wrong with him, and he just gave me a stare like I've grown a horn or my ears are green or something.

So we go home, and I let him watch tv before he does his homework just to rest a little. I come upstairs to get dirty laundry. So maybe it took me 5 min total of coming up and getting laundry, and I go downstairs and there is a stark naked woman on my TV shaving her legs. Sure enough S is frantically trying to change a channel, but it is not working. I ask him what he did, and all this while flying after remote. I didn't know weather I should turn off tv or cover my kids eyes first. So, I figured that he ordered the Stripping Sorrority Sisters from On Demand. I didn't even know they had that stuff on demand. It cost over $8! So, I manage to delete the program, and my boy is hiding behind the couch.

So then I call my darling groom who told me to call cable company, who were so nice to remove the thing off my bill and who guided me through parental controls, so that I can make sure this doesn't happen again. Apparently once you are in upper channels on demand they have whole bunch of "adult" stuff. So conveniently, all S's shows are in the same range of numbers. That was way more than any one of us needed to see.

Ms D.

So I went to dinner with a friend on Friday, we went to this really good sushi place. After we had dinner we walked around the mall we're in and she shows me this spa place sounds good to me. So we can get a bunch of things done but decide on the fish therapy. Now you maybe wondering what the heck is fish therapy much like myself.

Basically you sit around this built in fish tank and you roll your pants up and you put your feet in the aquarium and let the fist eat your dead skin!!! My friend put her feet in and they covered her entire leg from the knee down, just eating her dead skin! I was so grossed out and the session is only a half hour long mind you that I couldn't put my feet in it. About 5 mins before our time was up I managed to put my heels in it and it was freaky. I was not about to have my legs covered in little fish for them to eat calluses, dead skin or anything else on me.

It felt really funny there was a strong vibration which I think is from the fish swimming and not them eating, or at least I hope. It tickled and didn't hurt at all, more mind over matter, well for me.

The ironic thing is I had sushi for dinner and then little fish had me for dinner!!! Oh and maybe your wondering how much does one pay for fist to eat thier dead skin? 38 ringgit so about $10 usd.

DD

Often times I find myself looking to the side and wondering if I actually just said that! I don't know if anyone else does that, but these type of conversations have became such a norm in this household. For example, one day my 3 yo came to me wearing just underwear, which was also put on wrong side up front. I look at him, and we make this exchange:

Me: Where are your pants?
Him: They are too wet!
Me: How did they get wet!
Him: I peed myself!
Me: You put your underwear on the wrong way.
Him: No I didn't, see (he shows me the picture of spider man that should have been in back)
Me: Ok, whatever works for you!
Him: Mom, your hair is too pretty!
Me: (speechless) -it must have something to do with peed underwear, now I try to process the conversation.

My 5 yo keeps me entertained all the time, and I can't possibly remember all of it. On one occasion we were driving in the car and he asked me "Mom, are people made out of chicken?". Let me ponder on that one for a sec.

The other day, S came to me all serious: "Mom, dad is allergic to fur, right?", I was like "To cat fur, yes!". He goes on: "Fish don't have a fur." I was like:"No they don't". He goes on" So daddy is not allergic to fish?". (can you see where this is going). I said: " No, last time I checked he was not allergic to fish". Then the bomb: "Can I have fish mom, please? I'll take really good care of it." My response: "Let me think about it:-)". He's been sitting on my head for days now asking for fish.

I see a fish in my future. Could have been worse, it could have been a puppy!!!

Do you ever have those moments when it hits you HARD how lucky you are to have your SO? And I am not talking just the regular..."he's so cute", or "Aw, isn't he awesome" when he buys you something nice, or surprises you with something...I mean the thank you Lord for him, kinda moment.

Well, I had a couple recently. My father just passed away...and after putting down the phone after having my brother break the news to me, I had a big ole primal cry for myself. Then when I was sufficiently calmer to be able to be coherent, I called my husband. Well, he said, "I'll be right home". I tried to argue that he didn't need to as he couldn't do anything anyway, but through his own tears he just said..."I'm on my way".

He was home a short while later, and just held me while I cried-no unecessary words...no brave statements...just held me. I was so lost, but he sprang into action and starting making arrangements for all of us to head down to South Africa...pronto.

While there I watched him cry with my mother, help my brothers with arrangements etc. The most touching moment was seeing him break down when my father's coffin was closed. He had only known my dad for a short time...but has become such a part of the family, that he felt the great loss too. I can never begin to put into words what I felt seeing my love being alternatively brave & strong for me, and then hold my mom's hand and cry with her...I am blessed...and I know it.

This is for you Ms. D so you don't feel to silly about your pant issue;).

Today the driver took all of us to the kids school to drop them off, as I'm getting out of the van to get the kids inside I look down and notice that I'm wearing MY SLIPPERS!!!! I was mortified and prayed so hard that no one would look at my big black fluffy slippers LOL. Emmy gets out of the car and says hey mommy why are you wearing your slippers and I said well I have no idea why, not a clue. I told hubby that next time we leave the house to please look at my feet and be sure that I'm wearing shoes no slippers.

Buffy I'm sure there is a similar story that you'd like to share, no?

DD

I had one of THOSE moments!!! I have been debating if I should actually document it or bury it deep down into my unconsciousness, and being that I still giggle about it, I decided to share it:-).

Last Monday, around 10 pm, my darling groom calls me to tell me that he made it safe to his hotel room, and so we chat a bit; and I am really tired and frustrated that half of the wallpaper I took off the bathroom has spilled over into my bedroom. You know that nasty under layer that peals like toilet paper off the wall.

So, we chat and I decide to put on my pajamas, and I am looking for my bottoms. I found my top part it was just there on my bed, but where did my bottoms go. After glancing around few times around the bed and few other different places I decide to just give up. I am still talking on the phone and paying little attention to what I'm doing. I decide to take my pants off and just pull out different pair of pajamas. So I do just that, I take my pants off, put them carelessly on my bed without even looking. Then I turn towards the bed and long and behold there are my pajama bottoms just laying there. I just had to take them off in order to find them!!!!!! Nevertheless, it took me a moment to compose myself. Did I just do that? It was like I was waking up from some dream or something.

Then I do a cardinal mistake and tell my husband what I did.

Ms D.

My children are a constant source of amusement to me...that and aggravation-but more about that another day:) Anyhow, my kids were in the car today when the younger asked the older for some grapes. She was kinda dilly-dallying on carrying out the request, so he asked again...Then I could tell he was getting annoyed. He asked in his stern (aka excorcist)voice. She finally got around to handing him a grape, and he says ever so sweetly, and with a doting smile on his face (can we say Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde?!)..."There. Now was that so bad?!" *guffaw* Kids...we keep 'em just 'cause they're cute.

Here are the prince and princess at Christmas time. My diva-in-training was resplendent, wasn't she?! Hee hee

MSN had this article called "Regrettable Trends in Pop Culture: 2008 Edition", so when I came to no. 7 of 13, I had to lough out loud. According to them that spot belongs to:

So what kind of crazy upside-down world are we living in when the audience is invited to sing along with the professionals? We've all seen "American Idol." Most of us suck. Don't be fooled by your shower acoustics. Chances are, you're no Clay Aiken. You're probably not even a Taylor Hicks.

So to "Mamma Mia!" and "High School Musical 3," we say, "You were darling, dorky, adorable movies that we love like our own embarrassing relatives. But we don't want to have to pay to watch Betty Tonedeaf sing and shake her moneymaker, not when we can get that for free at the family reunion."

In 10 years, this crazy trend will seem like an impossible/insane dream. Trust us.

I would just include "professionals" into the same cathegory as "Betty Tonedeaf".All I can say is that I really hope it will all seem like a dream in 10 year, but we actually got to live through it. And what is up with those outfits!

Ms D.