Ok. So right before I woke up this morning I had an odd dream. I was on a plane going to an unknown location and the flight attendants were advertising that they did wedding receptions right there on the plane... I guess for destination weddings... unknown really. Anyway they had a table set up with all sort of neat foods, Hawaiian based it appeared, and were serving the guests. Turns out a wedding was taking place or was going to be taking place but many guests did not show up... at this point I think we were now in a reception hall place at a hotel or something. People were eating and mingling when the flight attendants mentioned that it cost $27.50 for a plate and we were all going to be charged. I think they had croissants, fruit tray, some sort of ham, etc. Everyone freaks out because we thought it was free or being paid by the groom and bride that was to be but many is no more... That is when all the food started going bad. Someone yelled that there were maggots in her food and another started to throw up. I was sipping coffee and started noticing that the cream had turned all lumpy in my cup. Bleck. And then I woke up.
I have no idea what that meant and why I would dream it but I will say that I checked the milk before putting it in my coffee this morning!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Vacation 2010
Gulf Shores, Alabama June 14th 2010 The brown sand is the oil. We weren't able to get into the water but we did enjoy being able to be there and played in the pool. Trips with your children are fairly exhausting and wonderful just the same. Cullen was way more comfortable in the water this time around and Bennett kept on being Mr. Cool floating around with his floaters on. Cullen discovered swimming with his head under the water and really started to excel. We got him some goggles that he loved too. I hope we are able to take the boys swimming every weekend in local pools so they stay comfortable in the water. One day I hope we have our own pool... dare to dream!
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Fabulous Weekend Ahead!
I love long weekends. I have hopes to get some projects around the house done and do a bunch of family outings. Today we are heading to the McWane Center with my parents coming along. I really want them to see how much the boys enjoy it there. Mom and Dad gave us a year membership and it has been awesome. My parents live in the same town just down the road a bit. We still don't see them all that often. My parents are people with serious schedules. Mom is a teacher and has a million commitments and Daddy is a preacher with a church to tend to and he is also very involved in a children outreach program here in Alabaster. Needless to say they don't just pop in from time to time. At times it can hurt my feelings when I compare it to the way Matt's parents are always wanting to see the boys and keep them. Then I have to remember that my parents are very independent people and really just unique. They are also more on the side on introverted than extroverted so I don't get daily/weekly/monthly calls from them checking in with me. If I want to talk with them I have to call them. This is just who they are but at times in my life it has hurt my feelings. Not much you can do about it though. I have chosen to live close to them for this reason and I take my family to Daddy's church as well so that the boys are able to spend time regularly with them.
Monday I am having some friends over for a cookout and am really thrilled about it. Time to get as much hanging out with the gals and their guys before many of them move off to various places, mostly in Texas. What I have learned from them is that friends are important and you need to put yourself out there to make friendships even if you feel insecure. You know you need to push yourself sometimes in order to get what you want in life. These gals are beautiful smart women with such drive! I am so proud to call them friends and now that many are moving off I am just going to have to open up an account to put money in for the Bookies Adventures.
Sigh. It is storming outside and after two cups of coffee I am feeling the urge to curl up in bed once more. Bennett is on the couch watching Dinosaur Train while Cullen and Matt are still sleeping. Well after a morning at the McWane Center and then lunch I am sure the boys will be ready for a good nap and maybe I will be able to indulge in one with them. They have started a Sunday School class at Shiloh for the children and Matt and I are going to try to teach it I think.We have our two sons in it and it will help us become involved more. I want us to linked in and belong. I think we will go ahead and join the church sometime soon. I wonder what will happen once Daddy really does retire but I don't know when that will happen and if we find that once he leaves the church has lost its appeal well we will start looking elsewhere. For now it is a great church for us to go to where we feel welcome and not judged. That is important to me as we struggle these days to find our footing.
I am so lucky in so many areas. I have two beautiful boys who are smart and fun and just as sweet as can be. I have a husband that I have been with for 10 years now. I have a home that is really growing on me and it fits our family's needs perfectly. We found a church family to belong to and Cullen has settled in to his school, Bright Horizons. I have great friends and a good family. My job is fairly secure for now and the only thing I expect to happen is for me to start moving upward within the company. I am smart and hard working and that counts for something where I work. I have my 2 cute shih tzus and will probably allow them to start breeding this next year as well. If we make a profit off the sell of their puppies we will go ahead and buy another one. Just a small time breeding thing that maybe if Matt cannot find a job he can manage this and that can supplement our income with some other odds and ins. My hope is Matt goes back to school and finds something he is good at and gets a degree in and can enjoy working for the rest of his working years. If I had the time or money I would go back to school and get my law degree. I always wanted it but wanted a family first. Well now I have the family and all I want is to be able to support them without worry. I think I might study up on the LSAT and just take it and then just apply to Cumberland and see what happens. The worst case scenario is that I am not accepted and if that happens well I can finally scratch that off my daydream list.
Biggest daydream currently you might ask... To find a check for a million dollars in my mailbox from some sympathetic relative who is loaded (I don't have this relative but in a daydream does it really matter?) Do you know what I would do? I would simply pay off all our debt including our home. Make all necessary repairs to our home and cars and then put the remaining balance in an annuity. I would continue working and simply enjoy life within our means and never know debt again. That is my dream and even without a benevolent benefactor I am going to work hard to where that is the life I have. Tawanda.
Monday I am having some friends over for a cookout and am really thrilled about it. Time to get as much hanging out with the gals and their guys before many of them move off to various places, mostly in Texas. What I have learned from them is that friends are important and you need to put yourself out there to make friendships even if you feel insecure. You know you need to push yourself sometimes in order to get what you want in life. These gals are beautiful smart women with such drive! I am so proud to call them friends and now that many are moving off I am just going to have to open up an account to put money in for the Bookies Adventures.
Sigh. It is storming outside and after two cups of coffee I am feeling the urge to curl up in bed once more. Bennett is on the couch watching Dinosaur Train while Cullen and Matt are still sleeping. Well after a morning at the McWane Center and then lunch I am sure the boys will be ready for a good nap and maybe I will be able to indulge in one with them. They have started a Sunday School class at Shiloh for the children and Matt and I are going to try to teach it I think.We have our two sons in it and it will help us become involved more. I want us to linked in and belong. I think we will go ahead and join the church sometime soon. I wonder what will happen once Daddy really does retire but I don't know when that will happen and if we find that once he leaves the church has lost its appeal well we will start looking elsewhere. For now it is a great church for us to go to where we feel welcome and not judged. That is important to me as we struggle these days to find our footing.
I am so lucky in so many areas. I have two beautiful boys who are smart and fun and just as sweet as can be. I have a husband that I have been with for 10 years now. I have a home that is really growing on me and it fits our family's needs perfectly. We found a church family to belong to and Cullen has settled in to his school, Bright Horizons. I have great friends and a good family. My job is fairly secure for now and the only thing I expect to happen is for me to start moving upward within the company. I am smart and hard working and that counts for something where I work. I have my 2 cute shih tzus and will probably allow them to start breeding this next year as well. If we make a profit off the sell of their puppies we will go ahead and buy another one. Just a small time breeding thing that maybe if Matt cannot find a job he can manage this and that can supplement our income with some other odds and ins. My hope is Matt goes back to school and finds something he is good at and gets a degree in and can enjoy working for the rest of his working years. If I had the time or money I would go back to school and get my law degree. I always wanted it but wanted a family first. Well now I have the family and all I want is to be able to support them without worry. I think I might study up on the LSAT and just take it and then just apply to Cumberland and see what happens. The worst case scenario is that I am not accepted and if that happens well I can finally scratch that off my daydream list.
Biggest daydream currently you might ask... To find a check for a million dollars in my mailbox from some sympathetic relative who is loaded (I don't have this relative but in a daydream does it really matter?) Do you know what I would do? I would simply pay off all our debt including our home. Make all necessary repairs to our home and cars and then put the remaining balance in an annuity. I would continue working and simply enjoy life within our means and never know debt again. That is my dream and even without a benevolent benefactor I am going to work hard to where that is the life I have. Tawanda.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
At the Age of 31
I am tickled because I have been around for 31 years and am just now figuring out a few things. Ok they are not life and death and I certainly lived quite well without these discoveries BUT I am none the less tickled pink to know them now. First off I have discovered my hair looks cute with its natural curl when I do not rinse out my conditioner. It is the only product that leaves my hair looking shiny and soft while still having my natural curl. How cool is that? I just took my hair dryer with the diffuser and dried it allowing my big loopy curls to stay and not be straightened. The conditioner is a perfect thing to keep the frizz at bay. My hair is fun today and that makes me happy. I am going to do this more often I think.
I learned this trick at the gym one morning while taking my shower. I did not have time to blow it out straight and had not brought any product for keeping it curly without the frizz. It worked great that day and now I have upped the notch by trying to blow it out keeping the curls using the same method of leaving in the conditioner. I hate when you use that stuff that keeps the curls but makes your hair stiff. Yuck. Not for me.
Okay the second thing I am so happy about is that while I am going through this period of financial something or another I have had to stop going to the salon to get my hair cut and colored. I am happy to announce I do a good haircut on myself which I never tried to do until recently. Apparently I have natural talent and maybe slaving at a 4 year college was not the right choice for me... Too late now that I have the degree and the job that has absolutely nothing to do with it. But I digress... I put in layers and trimmed the ends helping my hair look healthier and bouncier which is a good thing. The other issue was hair color.
If you've known me pre-babies at least you know that I have naturally black hair. I say this with the disclaimer that it has always been as dark as a Caucasians hair can be. In pictures growing up you can see blue highlights even and in the sun I also would have this blaze of auburn highlights too. I loved that fire underneath color in my hair. When I had to make the choice to start coloring it to cover up the grey hair the salon worked hard to mix the right colors to keep my hair from becoming one dimensional and flat black. I hate that more than anything else. Well jump up to when I could no longer fork over the $$$ to have my hair colored. I had to get my color from a box at the drug store. Oh the pity party I had!
If you too have to cover your grey hair I have found that the best product for me is Nice & Easy. This product leaves my hair feeling the best. I tried them all and I promise if you worry about the texture of your hair Nice & Easy leaves it feeling soft and silky when you used the conditioner that comes with the box. Love that stuff. Ok here is the issue. I don't like the natural black color because while it looks fine it is too solid and really still a shade darker than what I like. I tried the darkest brown and that was not dark enough. The woos! So I had this genius moment of thinking back to the day when my hair dresser did my hair. She did #2 with a shot of #3 of the Paul Mitchell hair color. Well I loved that stuff and the color always gave me just the right shade to keep me happy. I thought why not buy two boxes one of each shade and mix until you are happy with the result? Aha!
So I went with the dark brown and the put a squirt of the black in it and voila! my hair color woes were corrected. I have the dark hair but with multi-dimensional highlights that keep me feeling good. I seriously doubt that one person in the world other than me would EVER notice this but I feel so much better about the color I am doing on my roots. Oh and I am using a brush and bowl like the salon and I feel oh so nifty. The coverage is great and while I know that the ends are going to stay darker my hair will start looking more natural to my eyes over the next year as it grows and I cut and so on. It really is the little things in life that can make us happy!
I learned this trick at the gym one morning while taking my shower. I did not have time to blow it out straight and had not brought any product for keeping it curly without the frizz. It worked great that day and now I have upped the notch by trying to blow it out keeping the curls using the same method of leaving in the conditioner. I hate when you use that stuff that keeps the curls but makes your hair stiff. Yuck. Not for me.
Okay the second thing I am so happy about is that while I am going through this period of financial something or another I have had to stop going to the salon to get my hair cut and colored. I am happy to announce I do a good haircut on myself which I never tried to do until recently. Apparently I have natural talent and maybe slaving at a 4 year college was not the right choice for me... Too late now that I have the degree and the job that has absolutely nothing to do with it. But I digress... I put in layers and trimmed the ends helping my hair look healthier and bouncier which is a good thing. The other issue was hair color.
If you've known me pre-babies at least you know that I have naturally black hair. I say this with the disclaimer that it has always been as dark as a Caucasians hair can be. In pictures growing up you can see blue highlights even and in the sun I also would have this blaze of auburn highlights too. I loved that fire underneath color in my hair. When I had to make the choice to start coloring it to cover up the grey hair the salon worked hard to mix the right colors to keep my hair from becoming one dimensional and flat black. I hate that more than anything else. Well jump up to when I could no longer fork over the $$$ to have my hair colored. I had to get my color from a box at the drug store. Oh the pity party I had!
If you too have to cover your grey hair I have found that the best product for me is Nice & Easy. This product leaves my hair feeling the best. I tried them all and I promise if you worry about the texture of your hair Nice & Easy leaves it feeling soft and silky when you used the conditioner that comes with the box. Love that stuff. Ok here is the issue. I don't like the natural black color because while it looks fine it is too solid and really still a shade darker than what I like. I tried the darkest brown and that was not dark enough. The woos! So I had this genius moment of thinking back to the day when my hair dresser did my hair. She did #2 with a shot of #3 of the Paul Mitchell hair color. Well I loved that stuff and the color always gave me just the right shade to keep me happy. I thought why not buy two boxes one of each shade and mix until you are happy with the result? Aha!
So I went with the dark brown and the put a squirt of the black in it and voila! my hair color woes were corrected. I have the dark hair but with multi-dimensional highlights that keep me feeling good. I seriously doubt that one person in the world other than me would EVER notice this but I feel so much better about the color I am doing on my roots. Oh and I am using a brush and bowl like the salon and I feel oh so nifty. The coverage is great and while I know that the ends are going to stay darker my hair will start looking more natural to my eyes over the next year as it grows and I cut and so on. It really is the little things in life that can make us happy!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Cullen's New Do
Not the best picture but you can see the lack of hair. Cullen's pretty brown hair is nice and short for the fun summer ahead. I was having a hard time keeping his bangs trimmed and getting the sides of his head even as he is not a fan of hair cuts. So doing something shorter is way easier and he is getting to be a big boy! He loves it but the best thing about hair is that it grows so nothing done is ever permanent. : )
Boy do I love this little boy and his brother! They are at great ages and are so much fun to be with. So far we have not really come to a bad age with Cullen to be honest. Bennett gets better with age as he had a hard time that first year of life. Cullen is a little negotiator. If he is not pleased with the plans he gets his eyes really wide and gives you alternatives more to his liking. He closes his arguement by saying, deal? Ha ha. So funny.
Well bottom line is Cullen is a really good looking little boy with and without his pretty brown hair so I think we all will be okay with this new summer do. I know it will be way easier in the mornings for sure! No more bedhead to deal with. Hooray for summer fun!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Happy Birthday Cullen!
The party(s) were great and the cupcakes and cake were good enough to eat! Cullen loves his new toys and can't wait for everyone to come over again today to celebrate his birthday one more time. Hee hee, he now thinks everyone gets a birthday weekend and not one day now. Today is Mother's Day and I bounced out of the bed this morning eager to sip on a cup of coffee, download and then upload the party photos and just enjoy the morning. So that is what I did. The boys are happily playing with the new toys and Matt is sleeping in. Last year I would be angry about that but this year I am with the ones that made me a Mommy so how is that not perfect? Got to run around and get ready for church now. All is well in the world of the Morrison Family. God has given me what I dreamed about my entire life, a family of my very own...
Friday, May 7, 2010
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