September 23 is...

My Birthday!!

Come celebrate with me!!

Bad Mood!!

I'm addicted to a parenting message board. It is a hippie message board so I feel a little better about admitting that to the blogosphere. And I also feel the need to justify any and every little thing that I do because of the whacked Southern Baptist childhood I had. It took me until I was 21 to STOP apologizing for my opinion if it differed from the majority of my peers. I digress. I really wanted to check a certain thread on this board that has been going on for a bit only to find that the entire website is shut down for maintenance. This, of course, means that once I finally am able to get BACK on the website, they will have more than likely changed the damn format so that it will take me hours upon hours to figure out where the thread went to. All of this in addition to the fact that my boss has been out for the past week with some mysterious stroke like symptoms. So, I've had double work to do all the while dealing with a co-workers domineering, 'I'm the acting boss even though I have no clue what he or you ever do and only am good to sit on my arse until I can retire' attitude. Top all of this with BeeBabe and her teething efforts (another tooth in, one more on the way) ergo lack of sleep for me and it just equals me in a bad mood. I'm going to get a cup of coffee and hopefully will be in a better mood in about an hour. Wish me luck.

Bee Babe Turns ONE!

My darling little baby is now officially ONE! We all celebrated on Saturday, her actual birthday. Wonderful weather, lots of family and friends made for a great day at the park. Of course, now I'm swamped at work and can't do justice to the day, but here are a few pictures of my TODDLER! Eesh, where has that year gone? And I wonder what the next year will bring!

This picture is after the encounter with mummy's cake - a sugar-induced euphoria followed!





This one is pre-birthday cake...and pre-nap! I think she was too sleepy to smile in this one!

Something to Ponder...

Yet another video collection that I simply MUST have!! Wonder if Bob Jones has it in stock??

Labor Day and I'm Laboring away...

Ok, well, obviously not really. But, I am at work. And I really am not thrilled about it.

Just think, instead of being chained to my desk working on not much of anything (because it is a holiday and I work in a retail type setting and all the stores are CLOSED today) I could be finally finishing the dining room work. I took Friday off from my illustrious job to get a few things done around the house. Ever notice that no matter how many lists you make, time tables prepared, good intentions you may have, only about a fourth of the planned work actually gets done? This means that instead of getting the dining room a fresh coat of paint, new curtains, floors in the entire house mopped, and the grocery shopping done, I managed to get half of the painting and the shopping done. UGH!!! Oh well, at least the paint fumes are good for a few laughs around the house.

The Bee Babe and I trekked up to Wingate, NC this weekend with her great-grandparents for the birthday party of Bee Babe's second cousin. It was quite the festive occasion and looked as if a John Deere tractor threw up at the location. Tractor boy is 4 days older than Bee Babe, and much to her dismay is already walking/running. She got VERY annoyed that he could get away from her faster than she could scoot/crawl after him. She also LOVED his brand new John Deere Gator tractor toy. So much so, that we had to hide the toy to keep both babe's in somewhat of a good mood. Oh, and her new trick...popping balloons. Turns out Bee Babe is a bit more like her dad than we all imagined. She managed to get her little hands on a balloon, and in not even two minutes time popped the thing. All the other little children began crying at the big loud noise. Did Bee Babe cry? Oh no...Bee babe LAUGHED at the other silly children! Looks like I've got a tiny antagonist on my hands. Lord help me when she starts talking and reasoning more. Lest I taint your image of my sweet little girl, she did show quite a bit of compassion towards the other children when it came time to share in the toy bounty. At one point, she had two rubber balls and gave one to a little girl that didn't have any toys to play with. And, I'm quite proud to say, she is the only child that wasn't in tears as we left because she had to leave behind the wonderful toys.

Back to 'work'...