Catch Up Time

Where to start. It's been a couple days, so sorry! Today Charly said "Sweet!" for the first time. And no, not just the "This cake tastes sweet, mom." It was "Sweet! This shirt is soooooooo pretty!" Lol. On the inside I went "Yes!" She's such a cool kid. Today she had a friend over for awhile so his mommy could have "me time. " Charly was being her usual bossy self and trying to tell him what and how to play. Good kid, he wasn't having any of it! So she got upset and whined to me, "Mommy, he's not doing what I tell him." When I told her that no one is going to want to play with her if she keeps telling them what to do all the time, she said, "But Mommy, I'm nice to them AFTER I'm bossy!" At least she comes by it honest :) Poor Nate, two bossy women.

Another funny story. Last night I went into the bathroom to potty and there was a roach on the ceiling. Being the shorty that I am I sprayed it with that mild daily shower spray so it would fall down and I could kill it. It fell into Nate's sink, which I have closed so nothing can climb up it. And I had to fumble to get the sink open and turn the water on so the roach could wash down the drain. While I was fumbling it crawled out of the sink, and I was so tired I tried to BLOW IT BACK IN. LOL!! It's so funny that I was tired enough to think I could blow a roach anywhere! So it fell on the floor and I squished it with the stool. True story.

I have Maria's permission to finally announce that I am on the creative team for Ferg Designs (Maria Ferguson). Her new kit SECRET GARDEN was released today (Friday May 16th) and I made a two-page layout (Tea Ladies) to show it off. I'll put it at the end of this post. It's a lot of fun, so far, to be working on a CT, and I think Maria is awesome. I bug her a lot on the Yahoo IM. But hey, I'm a multi-tasker. If I'm online, and she's online, it's hard not to say SOMETHING. On another CT note, I was officially turned down for a position on one of the other CT's I applied for, but I was offered a guest spot instead. So for the month of August I'm slated to create for JenLin Designs. The cool thing about guesting is that I get to play with her kit(s) without having the responsibilities that come with being on a CT. So yeah. Makin friends, makin art, life is good :)

Oh hey, I have a rant. And I have a blog now, so I can be like all the other bloggers and rant! Lately when Charly and I have been out I've been more aware of the way some people talk to their kids. And it's really offensive, at least to me. Like when a mom is yelling at her kid to sit down, sit down! and gets tired of saying it a couple times so she says "Sit your a** down on that chair," it makes me want to go over and tell her that she shouldn't speak like that to her children. Or when I hear a parent ask their child, "What the h*** is wrong with you, get your a** over here?" I want to ask "What's wrong with you, lady?" So what do I do in these situations? When Charly asks me why those people are yelling at their kids, in normal speaking voice I say something like, "Well, those kids must be making bad choices. But that mommy's not speaking very nicely to them, is she?" Yeah that's me, daring. I know. But yeah, it bugs me. And it's not like it's on tv, and I can change the channel. It's right there in Wal Mart or the PX food court.

So anyway, I've been busy busy busy, building up my online profiles, playing silly games in the online forums, making stuff, and socializing in the "real" world. Whew. In the week and a half since we've been back we've had church (Wed and Sun), a church dinner with other military wives, Chuck E Cheese's on Mom's Day, Charly's sleepover, my allergy appointment, the kids were over today (I watched 3 kids today, including a baby!), I joined and did stuff for a CT, tomorrow we've got a baby shower, and Sunday we're going to the Ft Bragg fair. I think I'm going to spend all day Monday on the couch :) Plus I've had to unpack and put 4 suitcases of stuff away and generally clean the house.

Ahh anyway, I think that's about everything. At some point I hope to get caught up on editing the pics from the AZ trip so I can get those out to everyone. And I get to mess around with Charly's MyFamily website. That should be tons o fun. Oh, and it was mentioned to me that I might want to change the name of this blog. I had thought that the name Charly and Those Other people was fitting because I'll probably mostly talk about and post pics of Charly. However, it was pointed out that this is MY blog, not Charly's, and so the name should be about me. It's a good point, but I can't come up with anything catchy. If anyone reading has suggestions, lemme know!

Here's the Tea Lady LO, click it for larger image. The template is by Moriginals and the fonts are Liorah and Lydian. Everything else is Ferg Designs :)


Goodnight all!
-S