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What comes to my mind when I think about shoes.

1. How cute Katelyn looks in her ballet slippers.

2. Summertime means I can wear my flip flops, and enjoy treating myself to a nice pedicure.

3. It amazes me how many pairs of shoes, Josh has gone through this school year. Not only, that his feet have grown, but he loves to play hard. Since last August, I’ve bought him 4 pairs. Thank goodness for Payless shoes prices.

4. When Marissa left for her trip to D.C., I told her she’d be doing alot of walking, and would need a comfortable pair of walking shoe. How do you convince a teenage girl, that comfortable is more important than stylish. What Marissa would have liked was to match shoes with her other two friends who were going with her. Unfortunately, they didn’t have her size. I always have the same problem. When this shoe caught her eye. It really matches her personality.

5. The funny thing about Lindsay, you can’t keep shoes on her feet. She loves to be barefoot. Which I can’t blame her, I love to kick off my shoes all the time too. Especially after a long day of being on my feet.

6. One day last week, I read something about getting ready for prom, and how you should buy your shoes first, and then match it to a dress. Marissa has a few more years before she gets ready, but I thought this really made sense.

7. I’d like to know how fashion models can do thier catwalk on the runway in 4in stillettos, without falling off?

8. If you’ve watched S@x in the City, you know about Carrie’s love for Manolo’s. One episode, she was at a party, and the hostess asked her to take her Manolos off. When it came time to leave, someone had walked off with them. Carrie thought the hostess should pay her for her shoes, since they got stolen from her house, and the hostess thought it was Carries responsibility to take care of her shoes if they were that much. I think they should have split the cost.

9. Is there nothing softer than baby booties? I am still wanting to learn how to knit a pair.

10. When Marissa was about two years old, and we lived in an upstairs apartment. The couple below us, worked the graveyard shift, which I was unaware of, until one day, Marissa was having fun walking around in my high heels. Clopping around, and laughing with every step. I got a knock on the door, and the man asked me to keep the noise down, when Marissa came to the door and with a big smile told the man, “I am wearing my mommy’s shoes”. I couldn’t keep from giggeling, she was just too cute.

11. At my go away party from the resort I worked at in California, my friends knew I was moving to Texas, so they all pitched in to buy me my very first pair of Cowboy boots. On my trip to Mexico, I thought my legs would be safe from the mosquitos, because how thick the leather was the boots were made of. You know, those suckers either pierced through that leather, or found a way in, under my jeans, but I still got all bit up.

12. The best pair of shoes, I ever wore, were a pair of nursing shoes, that I used to waitress with. I could work a ten hour shift, and my legs, as unbelievable as it would seem, felt like they were still attached. Without those shoes, my legs after that, would get all numb and feel like jelly.

13. For more about my shoes, you can read this Fun Monday post.

This post is written for Scribbit’s May Write Away contest.

Hope you all had a very special day yesterday!

My week didn’t go at all like I had planned.

On Wednesday I had hoped to post this video from Josh’s performance at his poetry fair. He told the nurse how nervous he was. All week long he practiced his poem, and just had so much fun learning it.

The poem he recited is, “You can argue with a tennisball” .

Than out of nowhere after he took his shower before bed, he came out crying. He said his ear hurt him, so I took him to Urgent Care. Where he did in fact have an ear infection. All day long he was fine, that’s how fast it came on. We wited two hours to see the doctor. The Urgent care closes at 10, we got there about twenty minutes before they closed. The doctors will see those who are still waiting. With Josh’s prescription in hand we headed to a 24 HR Wallgreens, where the pharmacist who told me it would only take 10 minutes, 45 minutes later informed me, he couldn’t fill Josh’s antibiotic, because the doctor prescribed him double the normal dose, and he wanted to double check with the doctor, to make sure that it was correct. By that time, all of the doctors and nurses had left, and there was no one to contact. I was able to get the numbing ear drops, but I know I have never been so upset in my life. Next time I will just go to the Emergency. By the time I got home it was close to 1am, and I only got about 4 hours of sleep.

Then the next morning, wouldn’t you know I started feeling like my head was stuffed with cotton, and my throat was so scratchy I couldn’t swallow anything. I thought for about a day I might have strep, but it went away after the second day. Yesterday, I started feeling much better and today, I have a little cough, but nothing like the first couple of days.

For Mother’s Day, Katelyn helped me bake a chocolate cake, and Josh gave me a decorated pot with a pretty pink flower in it. Then for dinner I made Chicken with Mushroom-Dijon Gravy.

How was your Mother’s Day?

I don’t know where I came across this meme, but thought it would be fun one to play. Here are the rules.

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4. from J. Evanovich’s Metro Girl
The office wasn’t totally trashed, but logbooks and computers were wrecked.

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.
I can touch the top of my laptop screen.

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
The 10 oclock news last night.

4. Without looking, guess what time it is?
10:45am

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
10:43am

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
The girls are watching The Little Einsteins.

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
About ten minutes ago. I went to water my plants, and get my book out of my van.

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
This very inspiring video over at Songbird’s. Be sure to have a box of tissues on hand.

9. What are you wearing?
A pink tanktop, my black pj pants, and my black flip flops.

10. Did you dream last night?
Yes.

11. When did you last laugh?
Last night, Marissa and I both laughed at my husband while he tried to pronounce something.

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
One large window, one smaller window. Five framed scrapbook pages of the kids. A shelf with pics, candles, and Josh’s bowling award.

13. Seen anything weird lately?
Not really.

14. What do you think of this quiz?
Interesting.

15. What is the last film you saw?
The Golden Compass. I wasn’t sure about the ending if that’s the way it was supposed to end, or if there was another disk.

16. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy?
First I’d pay off everyone in my family, their houses. Then I’d take my family on a really nice trip.

17. Tell me something about me that you dunno.
I like to do things outdoors. Some of my favorite things to do are horseback riding, and hiking.

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
Make sure the homeless children all had families who would take care of them.

19. Do you like to dance?
I LOVE to dance. I would love to learn all the dances that they dance on “Dancing with the Stars”.

20. George Bush.
I’ve got nothing to say.

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
My first child is a girl, and I named her Marissa.

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
We were thinking of naming our first child if it were a boy, Travis.

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
I would love to live where Italy and France are close together, somewhere in the Alps.

Anyone who’d like to do this, consider yourself tagged. If you do, let me know so I can visit yours.

Katelyn is about the only one who has fun swimming in the pool right now, because her floatie suit, is like a wet suit. Keeping her warm. Josh turns blue, and Marissa just says she couldn’t stand the freezing cold water. So what is the next best thing for a little boy to get wet in the heat, (it’s only been about 90-95F, again for those of you getting snow this time of year. Personally, it’s allr eady too hot for me), is to have a water balloon fight. Josh and the three boys from across the street had a blast on Saturday, after they learned to tie knots in their balloons. Then after the balloons were gone, they took turns getting each other wet with the hose. Josh was soaked from head to toe.

Marissa spent the night at a friend’s house for her friend’s birthday, and they went to see “Baby’s Mama”. Which Marissa said was really funny.

My SIL got 3D Ultrasound pics of my nephew, Andrew, who’s due to be born, July 3. It is amazing how real you can see his facial features. He had his mouth open, and one eye open. Simply beautiful.

I didn’t make it up to my grandparents, again this weeked. My mother wants to go up for Mother’s Day, so we will spend Mother’s Day up there. Next weekend there are Arts Festivals going on both in Prescott and Jerome I want to go to.

This week, Josh has a poetry fair he’s reciting a poem at I’ll try and get a video of. It’s a really cute poem. And of Marissa playing her violin. I’m not sure if she’s got her song completely learned yet, but I’ll see if I can get her to play a little for you.

Here’s to a great week. Happy Monday everyone!

It most likely wouldn’t surprise you that I have more than one addiction (besides blogging). When it comes to the warm, gooey, cinnamon goodness, I have a hard time in eating just one (OK,two) Cinnamon rolls. We are not talking the little Pillsbury ones, we are talking the GrandDaddy, Cinnabon rolls. This is why I only bake them for special occassions, like someone’s Birthday and every Christmas morning.

Another special time, when I would find myself eating cinnamon rolls, was when I had to take Marissa to the airport, when she was about six years old to fly and see her daddy, just about every month. We’d share a cinnamon roll, before I had to say, “Goodbye” to her. It was a very special time I know for both of us.

Here is another tempting (genius) baking idea, to create a Cinnamon roll cookie. That is just what Lynette Spence of St. Paul, MN did. She entered her Cinna-Spin cookie recipe, in the Betty Crocker “Bake Life Sweeter” contest and won $5,000.

When I saw this I couldn’t wait to get baking. The recipe is simple using a pouch of Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix. As much as I love to cook from scratch, I also find shortcuts easier. I read through the recipe, and the reviews, and decided instead of rolling each cookie individually, I did the roll and cut method.

I placed the cookie dough on floured parchment paper and rolled it out 5in in width and about 18 inches in length. Then I dusted it with 1 Tablespoon of ground cinnamon. Then I cut the dough into 3 equal parts.

I then rolled each part, with the cinnamon side inward into a log. After that I cut each log into 12 almost 1/2 in cookies.

If you really want to make these quicker, you can make Snickerdoodles and just roll the Sugar cookies in cinnamon, but then they wouldn’t be Cinna-Spin cookies with a Vanilla glaze on them. Oh, and they were delicious. Especially right out of the oven. I enjoyed mine with a nice, tall glass of ice cold milk. These cookies would definetly satisfy the cookie monsters in your family.