Insomnia, fishing, & a boat (?)...

I cannot sleep tonight. This weird little electronic sounding noise woke me up. After hearing it several more times and deciding that it wasn't aliens beaming down on the front lawn, I came to realize that it was happening every 5 minutes...exactly. Brad had brought home a radio from work and had it plugged in to charge and after an hour of "What the heck IS that?", I unplugged the radio and TA-DA, no more annoying little noise! BUT.... now I am wide awake. I have had a couple of nights like this (as I usually do during the summer when I am staying up later and sleeping later) where I have found myself unable to fall asleep and thinking how nice it would be to get up and read or get on the computer without interruptions for a bit. Of course, I end up staying up all night and then being in dire need of a nap the next day!

So, I have been fishing a lot lately. Sam has discovered that fishing is in his blood and he has been relentless in his demands to go to Paw's lake or to go down to our fishing pond here at home. Mom & Dad gave him a set of carp rod & reels for his birthday and that is all he EVER asks to do. I am getting SO tired of fishing (I like it just fine in moderation, mind you) but it is all he thinks of.

I guess I should be glad that my kids aren't in that elevision rut that so many kids his age fall into. Our TV is almost NEVER on. We usually watch it for just a few minutes while we wait on everyone to get up in the morning, sometimes we watch an episode of Spongebob during lunch, and I always DVR The Daily Show, although I usually don't get to watch them until I sit down with Brad on Sunday night after the kids are in bed. I watch LOST religiously when there are new episodes and we will occasionally rent a movie. But that's it. Our days consist of playing outside with the doggies, swimming at grandmomma's, fishing (of course), playing in their rooms & a moment or two of playing a video game here and there. Most of the time, my scatterbrained children cannot find their chargers or their games or both and end up watching whomever happens to be lucky enough to have everything they need to actually play! So the video games don't happen often!

Brad is hung up on buying a boat. A deck boat or a pontoon boat, preferrably. He thinks it would be nice to have, fun for the family, etc. I think the same thing, along with how nice it would be to relax on a boat and get a nice tan while reading a book... but then who am I kidding??? That would never happen!!! If we had a boat, it would be me getting everything ready to take with us, and then chasing the kids around while we were on the water. It would be Sam fishing & fishing & fishing... me worrying about him casting out his line with his sister's ear on the end of it, stinky fish bait everywhere, Lily whining about being bored and wanting to sit on my lap. It could be nice but I'm just not sure it would be... maybe I am just being that eternal pessimist that I always mange to be! Not saying I wouldn't want a boat... just weighing the pros and cons in my mind. And of course, I have been dealing with my children 24/7 for the past month and a half so I am on the "my children are driving me crazy" portion of my summer. That does tend to warp one's sense of what is and what is not a good idea!

So, I will probably post this on my blog and then get on Facebook for a while before grabbing an hour or so of sleep before the kids get up. I am absolutely addicted to Facebook. Sad, I know. But it is SO much fun to get to talk to people you normally wouldn't have the chance to talk to on a daily basis. My high school gang was so close but we just got so busy with life and lost touch but now so many of us have reconnected and keep up with each other through Facebook. It is just a really neat thing. Plus, I have a lot of work friends and family. Just fun. That's all for now.

It's a miracle! She's going to blog.....

OK, so the summer blogging plans have not gone as planned. BUT... I am having am extremely good summer and I really don't feel too bad about not blogging because I am keeping pretty busy otherwise. So what have I been doing, you ask? Well, I am so glad you want to know :)

The first thing I decided to accomplish was dealing with a MASSIVE amount of pictures that needed to be uploaded and ordered so that I could get on with my scrapbooking. I uploaded all of my pictures to Winkflash since OCTOBER (that's right!) and ordered several HUNDRED pics. It took three days just to upload them all! Happy to report that my pictures are great. I have them all organized by date and ready to scrapbook. Any of you who know me at all understand my need to organize. It can be really annoying but when it comes to scrapbooking, I am glad I am that way. I use 12 x 12 sheet protectors and I put everything I may need for a page in that sheet protector (pictures, paper, stickers, memorobilia, etc.) and keep them in chronological order so that when I have time to crop, all I have to do is pull out the next sheet protector and get started. This, I have found, keeps me from completing a page and then finding stuff later that I meant to use. I HATE when that happens. Anyway, on to more interesting things since I know that not everyone who reads this cares about my scrapbooking habits!

Let's see... Sam went to camp for a week at Camp Loy White and now he is gone for a second week to the same camp. We played lots of baseball for the first couple of weeks in June because Sam was on the All Star team for his age group. We went to the beach for 4 nights last week and had a really good time. I love that my kids are getting to the age where they can enjoy themselves without the need to be constantly entertained by me. Well, Sam can, at least. Lily is a different child altogether, but that is a whole different story... she's a bit leechy right now. Does not like for me to be out of her sight. Ugh!

Speaking of the oh-so-demanding-princess, today is her 5th birthday! She is so excited because I am finally (give me a break, ok?) gonna have a borthday party for her. It is going to be small, but it is pretty extravagant as far as birthday parties given by me go. We are having 4 of her friends over and I am turning my house into a beauty salon. We will have three "salons", hair, nails, & make-up. After everyone is adequately beautiful and froo-froo'd we are going to have a tea party in the playroom for all these princesses. I have ordered a really cool flower cake and I have borrowed some of mom's fiesta dishes for serving. I have bought nail polish & body glitter & feather boas & all other girly gear in preparation for this. She is so excited and it makes me feel a bit guilty that I haven't done anything much for her birthdays before now. I feel even more guilty over Sam's 8th birthday (back at the beginning of June) because with school ending and baseball going on we didn't get to have friends over for his birthday either. I have promised him a sleepover before school starts back and now the challenge is going to be WHEN to do that.

Now speaking of Sam, I am so proud of the little man he is growing up to be. He is so pleasant to be around these days. It is amazing the difference in his personality since school ended. It makes me sad to think he doesn't seem to like school anymore (he had kind of a rough year this year). Hopefully he will have an awesome 3rd grade year and his attitude will change. Anyway, he is learning to carp fish and he is an expert catfisherman! The boy would fish 24/7 if we would let him. When we went to the beach he even ran around in the surf trying to catch fish with a toy net. He still needs to work on his patience with his little sister (don't we all?) but I am still so proud of him lately.

I wish I had time to write more but I have to get busy house cleaning for the princess' birthday bash this weekend. Insomnia struck last night and I was up from 3-7am, then I fell back asleep til 10, so half my morning is already gone!