In The Mind of A Thirtysomething Mom

New Blog

Mr. Smoochiefrog just started a blog today. His will definitely be more, um vocal than mine. He gets these moments....

If you'd like to check him out, you can find him here.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Woo Hoo!!!!

M had her Dr.'s appointment today. This was to be the one to determine if she needed the PIC line for her medicines.

After the blood draw (no teeth marks this time) and waiting for almost 2 hours (without having eaten breakfast-try calming a 6 yr. old down who is starving when you're starving too b/c you refuse to eat so you don't eat in front of her) we got the news.

HER NUMBERS ARE GOING DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is FABULOUS news! That means the oral medicine is working and most importantly-NO PIC LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Hey, this calls for lots of exclamation points!) I was/am thrilled and so was/is M. The Dr. had pity on our starving selves and was kind enough to buy us donuts. He was going to just buy M one, but guess he wanted to be kind to me too. Such a nice man.

We go back in two weeks for another blood draw to again check the numbers. If they're all back to normal, we should be able to stop the medicine. If they're still a little up, we'll continue for another 2 weeks. Hey, we'll take it!

Again, thank you all for your prayers and well wishes. God is good!

Shop Happy? Not at those prices!

Saturday night we went to a friend's church for service and a chili cook-off. Afterwards, we needed to grab a couple of things from the store. The Commissary was closed, so we hit a local store in town. Now this particular store runs commercials with people singing about shopping happy. They (of course) make their store seem great and fun. I wanted to get stuff from there just because it was new to the area and I'd grown fond of the cute jingle. I'm such a sucker for those advertising pitches!

Upon entering the store, Mr. Smoochiefrog was immediately upset at the lack of singing and dancing. He was expecting it to be like the commerical (no, of course he didn't; he's not THAT naive-I am ;) ). We cruise through the wood floored Produce department, into the Meat/Seafood section, through the Dairy/Frozen section and onto the checkout. Here's what we picked up on that short trek:

• 1 gallon of milk-$4+ (are you kidding me????)

• 2 bottles of laundry detergent-$3.99 each on "sale"

• 1 small platter of boiled shrimp (told you he could eat his weight in those)-$6 something

• 2 bottles of lemonade-2 for $5 "sale"

• 1 container of ice cream-$5+(highway robbery if you ask me but I was desperate for it)

• 1 bottle of body wash-$4+

• 1 box of generic store brand cereal-$2+

• 1 box of juice-$4+

• 1 quart of store brand eggnog-$2+

Now I must be TOTALLY spoiled by the Commissary because I freaked when I found out our bill was over $41. $41???? $41???? We only got 11 things. How did it total $41???? I looked at the clerk like she was crazy when she told me the total. I actually asked her to repeat it because I couldn't believe what she had just said. I unwillingly forked over the moolah, meandered out to the car and drove home. On the way, Mr. Smoochiefrog said "Well, we may have shopped happy, but we're not now!"

So true dear, so true.

Guess somebody has to pay for those hardwood floors in Produce.

PSA on a movie

There is a new movie coming out at Christmas time that is being billed as a family movie. Hollywood would like you to think so anyway. D, my 15 year old son, even thought it looked like it might be a decent movie to watch. As I posted yesterday, I don't do the whole email "pass it on or else" thing so I've done my research on it and after reading some background on the books/movie, suffice it to say we won't be seeing this one. D agrees too.

You can read about the plot of the movie here Golden Compass plot.

You can view the trailer here.

You can read more here about the info verified by Snopes.

Feel free to make your own opinion but please be informed.

Hidden Talent

I've spent the past few hours working on a couple of cupcake cakes for M's dance studio's Halloween party. I thought I'd share the finished products.

Betcha didn't know I could do something like that did ya? If you'd like to see more, go here