Thursday Thoughts

What a day! All kinds of running around and such.

My nail lady TOOK FOREVER to do my nails today.

I had to change shops because my other guy never showed up for my appointments.

I really loved the way he did my nails too.

C'est la vie!

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Tonight was the big night though. Contract signing at Will's new school.

So many fees I saw my pool resurfacing go bye bye, and we still have to buy books

and pay for summer school!

BUT! The investment in my kid is more important! Right? Right.

I have to keep telling myself that. Over and over again.

I signed his butt up for summer school too, so he can get an academic course out of the way.

Their curriculum there is H-E-A-V-Y, and any jumpstart will be worth it I think.

So he will be taking a Health course in a 3 week stint and be done with it.

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Bill is outside right now snaking our kitchen sink. That poor guy, it's always something around here. Now I understand why so many people want to rent and never own. Sheesh!

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One more week of school and we are done for 2 1/2 months! Well, except for Will. ha ha.

Next week is it! And it's Johnny's Birthday on the 4th!

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I'm gong to go pour over my new Artisan Bread in 5 minutes a day cookbook.

So fabulous!

Thursday Thoughts

Ellen Degeneres:

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the heck she is.

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Benjamin Franklin~

You may delay, but time will not.

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David Viscott~

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

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Eleanor Roosevelt~

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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George Bernard Shaw~

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

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Ralph Marston~

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

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George S. Patton ~

You're never beaten until you admit it.

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Lee Iacocca ~

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.

Thursday 13... V

THIRTEEN OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS

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1. MAYA ANGELOU

2. JOHN GRISHAM

3. FAYE KELLERMAN

4. JONATHAN KELLERMAN

5. JAMES PATTERSON

6. JANET EVANOVICH

7. LUANNE RICE

8. NICHOLAS SPARKS

9. CHARLES DICKENS

10. ALEXANDER DUMAS

11. HARPER LEE

12. ERMA BOMBECK

13. SOPHIE KINSELLA

This is the short list and in no particular order. I really enjoy the Bible too, but I consider that an instructional book, more than a novel.

I tag everyone that reads this.

THURSDAY 13 Things I love about the Beach!

1. The ocean spray on my face.

2. The clean smelling air.

3. The sound of the ocean.

4. Making sand castles with my kids.

5. Everything tastes better at the beach.

6. Bonfires every night.

7. Shells, lots and lots of shells

8. Seeing dolphins swim past every evening before dinner.

9. The sheer joy my kids have while surfing.

10. Lifeguards... need I say more?

11. Sunsets that blow me away.

12. Standing on the very edge of our country... the very edge, is kinda cool!

13. The calm I feel knowing how powerful the ocean is, and there is nothing I can do to control its strength. It's one thing I don't want to control.

Thursday 13

THURSDAY REASONS I LOVE BEING A MOM!

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1. I love watching my beating heart walking around outside of my body. It's scary, joyful, heartwrenching, fantastic and awful all rolled into one!

2. I can say "Because I Said So" and it makes sense! (to me, anyway)

3. The second I became a Mama, I understood my Mama better, and liked her more, instantly.

4. They love me, flawed, broken or bad, they love me. It is truly miraculous.

5. Deep down I know the TEEN years won't last forever, and my wonderful children will eventually come back to me.

6. It is so exciting seeing my kids turn into people I would totally hang out with if they weren't my own kids. They are all so different and unique and have all their own likes and dislikes! It's like living in a mini United Nations!

7. Unlimited hugs and kisses from gorgeous men!

8. I LOVE BEING THE ONLY GIRL IN THE HOUSE! I RULE THE ROOST!

And they know, and don't mind!!!

9. I always have someone to play games with.

10. One day I will be a Nana! Then I can spoil them rotten!

11. My children have taught me things I never knew about myself. Some good, some bad, but all worthwhile knowing.

12. Having my breath taken away from me, in moments of sheer bliss, realizing that Bill and I MADE these people. They are uniquely who they are because two people loved each other so much, they were blessed to make a whole other person. I believe adoption to be the same type of thing. I think there has to be even more oozing love from people when they open their hearts to adopt.

13. Realizing that I would actually take a bullet for, stand in front of a train for, lift a car off of, risk my life protecting, hunt down and kill for, my three little darling, (sometimes bratty) (oftentimes me wishing I have a padded cell in the house) children.

Thanks for reading!

Ciao!

THURSDAY 13

Thirteen things I have collected over the years… 1. Penguins _ when I was 15 2. Unicorns - when I was 10 3. Cellulite - still ongoing unfortunately 4. Laundry - Will it ever end?

5. Grapes, all things Italian 6. Boyfriends - those were the days 7. Shoes - it is still an ongoing battle to stop, especially sandals 8. Scrunchies - goodbye 90’s 9. Broken appliances - I don’t know why Bill keeps them… I really don’t 10. Gray hair - they just keep coming

11. Freckles - or are they really age spots now that I am almost 40? I really should NOT have sunbathed using Baby oil... I really shouldn't have. 12. Dustbunnies - where do they come from? 13. Purses - it’s an illness

THURSDAY THIRTEEN 3

Just 13 of many favorite memories

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Cracking olives with my Papa when I was little. We would cure them ourselves. Going on Picnics all the time with our friends, the Saccos Auditioning for Dance programs all over California. Babysitting jobs I had with really tiny babies. I never put the babies down. I held them until the parents pulled into the driveway. Helping my Papa build our third house. It was thrilling seeing the inside of your home built by the man you love. The day I met Bill. I was absolutely sure he was "it" for me from that night on. The day after our wedding day. We had such fun preparing for our Jamaican honeymoon. We took off at midnight and he hired a limo for us to be taken to LAX. We didn't live together beforehand, so it was exciting getting ready in "our" house. May 10, July 27 and June 4, the days my babies were born. Making my Mama’s second husband miserable everytime we saw him. He was a terrible man. It was fun letting him know he wasn’t gonna win. Don’t ever mess with my mama. Feb. 7 1998 the day of their divorce. July 2005, doing a Kitchen Show Live at National Conference in Chicago. It was sooo much fun! The day I put on a new pink Easter dress, I was 7 I think, I went out to the garden where my father was pulling weeds and I walked out there in my dress, and he was such a babe, he stood up, wiped his brow, leaned on his rake, and whistled at me and said… "Youa looka very prettya”. I was over the moon. My Papa wasn't very demonstrative, so that was the living end to me. The very first time I was proposed to by my little boys.

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Random "Why" Things

1. Why do people in California KEEP the snow on their car when driving from the mountains? Are they cooler than us low dwellers? My cousins from back east wonder about that every time they visit. They live in Canada, NY and Pennsylvania, and they scrape every bit of snow from their cars, and can't understand why our people don't.

2. Why doesn't Britney Spears just stay in the hospital? Does she really need to be driving our already crowded with crazy people freeways?

3. Why do we drive on a Parkway, and Park in a Driveway?

4. Why does my hair have to grow so darn quickly now that I am (almost) 40 and don't want it to because of my gray hair? Where was this growth when I was young, cute and thin!!!

5. Why can't I stop cutting my hair. Is that a form of "cutting?" Am I a cutter?

6. Did someone come to my house and switch out my lovely first born for another child the second he turned 13?

7. Do I HAVE to live in the same house as my teens, when they are all teens? Is it okay for me to parent from... oh, I don't know... Hawaii?

8. Would it be okay to tell my teen that his eyeballs will fall out if he rolls them more than 10 times in a day?

9. Can you tell I am having teen issues today?

10. Is there any way I can freeze my 8yr old so he stays 8 and will always ask me to marry him?

11. Am I the only wife that play practical jokes on her husband? Like... to be funny, switch the sugar for salt in the sugar bowl? I am? Hmm. That explains a lot.

12. Is it okay that I refuse to fold the DH and the oldest's clothes anymore, because I keep getting ostracized for mixing their clothes up?

13. Do Doctors give "Off Mom Orders?" like "Off Work Orders?"

Bummer... I didn't think so.

Have a lovely day all! I'm off to get some more ammo for posts!

Ciao, Ciao!