My promotion to Mother Nature!

Yes I got a promotion today! Despite the long list of jobs I currently hold, my 4yr old promoted me to Mother Nature this morning.
Today his pre-school had planned a field trip to Santa Fe to go to the Childrens Museum and to the Legislative Offices. Aaron was very excited because Mommy was coming with him on his first official field trip. I knew we were going to be in trouble because of the pending storms that were due in, and when the big fluffy snow flakes started falling last night I knew that this morning was going to be a joy when I would have to tell Aaron that his field trip would be cancelled.
Now I figured I would have some calm before the Aaron storm hit because he loves the snow, oh was I wrong. So our usual routine in the mornings is hubbie and I are up by 5:30, and Aaron wanders in to our room within 5 minutes of the alarm going off, this morning was no different.

Except the first words out of the Aaron's mouth this morning were "Mom today is my field trip"..................
I will confess for a split second I felt like telling a little white lie and saying "yes Aaron it is" (Atleast let me have some coffee before the Aaron Storm hit!)
But no I said "Well Aaron we will have to see because it has been snowing and school might have to cancel the trip"

Well that was the wrong thing to say because within those first minutes of conversation with my 4yr old his excitement was shattered and the storm of Aaron hit with full force. As far as he was concerned I had made it snow, so I explained to him that I am sure the school would have the field trip another day, and that he would have fun at school this morning. He would be able to get a new library book, have circle time and that we could maybe go on a field trip when he got home. No that was not what Aaron wanted!
I finally managed to convince the boy that it was okay about the field trip being cancelled and that he would have a fun day at school. It is very amusing to me how in the eyes of a 4yr old everything is Mom's doing! I wanted a picture of Mother Nature to post on this entry, but I couldn't find one that showed her blowing snow everywhere and shattering the excitement of 4yr olds!!

My Free Bag from Cost plus World Food Market

Yesterday I had to run to the Cost Plus World Food Market, we were running low on teabags. I love this store, if ever I miss home I can pop down there and pick up some home comforts from England. Which is a good thing but can also be a bad thing because I can do some serious damage, but I have been really good lately! So I get the boxes of typhoo yesterday, and I head to the checkout, now the customer in front of me at the check out gets her items placed in a rather cool bag.................thinking to myself I want one of them!

Not realizing that they were running a promotion that if you spent $10 or more that day you would get one of these bags. I was very happy when my boxes of typhoo tea were placed inside one of these bags!

Inspiration................a New Year

WOW....................when did I last post!
I feel like I have to sit here and confess that I actually at one point last year completely forgot about my blog. So sitting here after exhuasting cooking dishes, growing crops and tending to my virtual fish tank! It suddenly dawned on me that I should start my blog up again, I honestly couldn't tell you why I stopped, life got too crazy, but when I think about it I just never made myself sit here and take that 30 minutes to post an entry.
Life can run away from you sometimes and since my last post that is what the past 6 months has felt like to me. So here we are New Year, and a new start to this blog.

I have been a bad blogger!

I have been a bad blogger, my poor blogs have been so neglected, but these past 6 weeks have been CRAZY. So much to share and now that we are on the final countdown before school starts again (this Mom is doing the happy dance) I can get back into the swing of things.

So stay tuned..................

Blog Drive by

Just a quick post today because our household is crazy busy at the moment and I am catching myself coming back wards, summer hols are in full swing, but I wanted to share one of my favorite websites with you all. Slickdeals is a great site for keeping informed on coupons, deals online and in stores, my family use this site regularly so if you have never heard of slickdeals here is the link and go check it out!

Baseball Clinic for a good cause

This past Sunday Jon and I took the boys to the High School here in Rio Rancho for a Baseball Clinic with the Coaches and players from the State Champion winning baseball team. Not only was this a great opportunity for the boys to experience a new sport (we are a soccer & football household) but we were also going to donate to the Corbin Hayes Memorial Fund. 13 year old Corbin Hayes lost his life recently whilst playing in the Rio Grande River, and as a way for the community to come together the Baseball team hosted a free baseball clinic, we had 11 boys from our Cub Scout pack come and donate, play and learn about baseball.

Now I am first to admit I really don't know a lot about baseball, but the High School team coaches and players put on a fantastic clinic, very well organized and kept the kids interested in all aspects of the sport.

Aaron getting some tips!
Brendan getting some batting tips

Both Brendan and Aaron enjoyed the clinic and we were glad to be able to donate to the memorial fund.

The trauma of going through the car wash!

I have no idea why at the age of 3 and a half that going through a car wash is the most traumatic thing in the world! My eldest did exactly the same thing at 3 and a half, and now Mr Aaron is carrying on the family tradition and freaking out when we go through the car wash. Maybe it is the noise, the unknown, those big scary rollers that seem to be hitting the car and are going to attack in the eyes of a 3 yr old, I just have no clue.

Now I have tried to be the calming force when we go through the car wash, and explain that the car needs a bath and there is nothing to be scared about! Yesterdays trip through the car wash was just hilarious and at the expense of my 3 yr old, I knew what I was going to blog about this morning! After telling him it was okay that the car was just taking a bath like he does, and getting no response but screaming, I proceeded to snap away with the camera on my phone, yes the mean mommy that I am just snapped away, not only for my blog, but as a record so that when the boy is 8 and going through a car wash is so boring I can pull the pictures out and show him that in his eyes when he was 3 the car wash was going to eat him!