need a good laugh?

i don't know about you but this week has been a major drag... 
this week is like major TAKS (state standardized test) week for 3rd, 4th and 5th.  well, I don't teach any of those grades but let me tell you- i almost wish i were.  we have basically been on "silent lockdown" mode yesterday and today and its about to make me insane! oh and did I mention we don't get to have recess or go to specials?????!!!! yeah, and try keeping 20 7,8, and 9 year old's SILENT for an entire day.... oh man. tomorrow I have a sub for the day and I am taking my PPR exam (prayers are happily welcomed) to complete my certification.  I feel bad for the sub tomorrow but better her than me at this point ha!   


anyways, to say i need a GOOD laugh... like a good, BELLY laugh, is an understatement.  
when I saw this video I LOST it completely... it is hysterical! ENJOY and I hope this makes your week a little more enjoyable! :) 


ps- the more you watch it the more you will laugh along.
pps- this video really makes me want a dog AND a baby... and I'm getting one of the two! eeee! makes me so happy to think I will have my own little one of these in just a few short months! :-D

Hottest Baby Names for 2011

K & I had picked out a name for both a baby boy and a baby girl before we conceived.  Call us crazy but we knew what we liked.  I must say that I am very happy to know that neither name for our future pumpkin is on this list.  Here are the projected names:


Biblical Names:
girls: Delilah, Jemima, Magdelene, Ruth, Susanna
boys: Abel, Asher, Eli, Gideon, Levi
Celebrity Names:
girls: Anniston, Evangeline, Isadora, Isla, Seraphina
boys: Arlo, Dexter, Flynn, Penn, Rufus (Rufus? really? Rufus?! sounds like a puppy)
Hero Names:
girls: Ada, Eleanor, Hillary, Kennedy, Mandela
boys: Barack, Clinton, George, Jackson, Lincoln (are these a joke?!)
Literacy Names: 
girls: Anais, Darcy, Eloise, Isolde, Ophelia
boys: Archer, Atticus (haha my sisters boyfriends name!), Dashiell,  Holden, Truman
Nature Names:
girls: Clover, Dahlia, Ivy, Juniper, Lark
boys: Cole, Jasper, Oak, Ranger, Rider
Nicknames:
girls: Daisy, Edie, Kate, Maisie, Minnie
boys: Buddy, Buster, Jack, Theo, Will
Vintage Names:
girls: Aurelia, Clara, Cora, Imogen, Theodora
boys: Arthur, Everett, Hugo, Jasper, Thaddeus


What do you think? Found your future child's name?

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Thoughtless Thursday!

Today, its Thoughtless Thursday, over at Life in the Fulmer Lane ! 

 

1)BABIES... everywhere... or on the way! It's crazy insane right now and you all know it!  Even the media screams it! 

how can you not want one when you see pictures like this 

(from here- I stumbled across this photography but she has amazing photos!)

BUT....

2)I am thinking like this... :) 

For all of you with baby fever you can listen to this and find some comfort in God's timing with your life :)

oh and if you still find yourself needing help-- check out the post I had a few days back titled: Are You Ready???

AND

3)...

Are you ready?

Okay so this is HILARIOUS!! K even read it and was laughing out loud the entire time... I found this over at Stephanie's Blog-Many Reasons to Smile and she originally found it at Amy's Blog- Eat, Live, Laugh and Sometimes Shop .  I will go ahead and tell you -- if you are pregnant you might not want to read this... okay probably you do because it's too funny not to :)
ENJOY!!!


11 Step Program for those thinking of having kids:

Lesson 1

1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the paper.
5. Read it for the last time.

Lesson 2

Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already are parents and berate them about their...
1. Methods of discipline.
2. Lack of patience.
3. Appallingly low tolerance levels.
4. Allowing their children to run wild.
5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's breastfeeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behavior.
Enjoy it because it will be the last time in your life you will have all the answers.

Lesson 3

A really good way to discover how the nights might feel...
1. Get home from work and immediately begin walking around the living room from 5PM to 10PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly. (Eat cold food with one hand for dinner)
2. At 10PM, put the bag gently down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1AM.
4. Set the alarm for 3AM.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2AM and make a drink and watch an infomercial.
6. Go to bed at 2:45AM.
7. Get up at 3AM when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs quietly in the dark until 4AM.
9. Get up. Make breakfast. Get ready for work and go to work (work hard and be productive)

Repeat steps 1-9 each night. Keep this up for 3-5 years. Look cheerful and together.

Lesson 4

Can you stand the mess children make? T o find out...
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains.
2. Hide a piece of raw chicken behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flower bed.
4. Then rub them on the clean walls.
5. Take your favorite book, photo album, etc. Wreck it.
6. Spill milk on your new pillows. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look?

Lesson 5

Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems.
1. Buy an octopus and a small bag made out of loose mesh.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the bag so that none of the arms hang out.

Time allowed for this - all morning.

Lesson 6

Forget the BMW and buy a mini-van. And don't think that you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that.
1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment.
Leave it there.
2. Get a dime. Stick it in the CD player.
3. Take a family size package of chocolate cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Sprinkle cheerios all over the floor, then smash them with your foot.
4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.

Lesson 7

Go to the local grocery store. Take with you the closest thing you can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is an excellent choice). If you intend to have more than one child, then definitely take more than one goat. Buy your week's groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.

Lesson 8

1. Hollow out a melon.
2. Make a small hole in the side.
3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side.
4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone.
6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the air.

You are now ready to feed a nine- month-old baby.

Lesson 9

Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street , Barney, Disney, the Teletubbies, and Pokemon. Watch nothing else on TV but PBS, the Disney channel or Noggin for at least five years. (I know, you're thinking What's 'Noggin'?) Exactly the point.

Lesson 10

Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying 'mommy' repeatedly. (Important: no more than a four second delay between each 'mommy'; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required). Play this tape in your car everywhere you go for the next four years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

Lesson 11

Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your skirt hem, shirt- sleeve, or elbow while playing the 'mommy' tape made from Lesson 10 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.

hodgepodge

a hodgepodge of random thoughts...

...that i have been wanting to get off my chest- don't judge me.  :)

Tonight we went to PotBellys for dinner and had a great time enjoying the music of our great friend, Taylor.  He plays guitar there every week and we really enjoy getting to hear him play.

We also had a great Thanksgiving at our house this year! My family drove in and we at lots of yummy food and my cousin did some amazing work on my flower bed, planted 2 trees for us and created a new bed! He is wonderful and we really enjoyed his company!! I have lots of pics that I will try and post at some point (fingers crossed)!

Last night K and I went to dinner at Panda Express (we go there a lot) and about 1:30 this morning I woke up sick and nauseous! I went to school this morning but ended up taking a 1/2 day and I'm still not feeling up to par.  I'm hoping this will pass tomorrow as lots of things are going on and I want to feel better.

K and I have been wanting to move back home and a post from one of my friends going home has brought it more to the forefront of my mind.

Babies.... and stay at home moms!

This Thursday I have my formal evaluation at school. Nervous but trying not to be nervous.

Marriage, thankful and grateful for my husband.

I'm worn out- sooo ready for Christmas break!

The End... thanks for listening and loving me still :)

thought of the day...

A lot of my close friends are having babies.

• I want to "join the club" and experience this with them.
• I want to pick out cute baby clothes and bedding.
• I think babies are super cute.
• I even think maternity clothes are cute.
• I'd like to eat & not suck in my belly for 9 months.
• I want to have a blog with pictures of my cute baby on it.
• I want to see if our baby looks like me, K or a combo.
• I want the "next big thing" to get excited for.
  

Those, my friends, are not good reasons to start a family. 
And I need to keep remembering that!
Someday, I'll feel really ready... for all the right reasons.
That day just isn't today.
So I'll celebrate with my friends & love being "Auntie Allie" for a while longer.

How's that for being transparent? :)


{Okay, so I did steal this from my sweet friend Jen -with permission- and couldn't have said it better. Thanks Jen for sharing and allowing me to share!}

(photography by: Milwaukee Baby Photographer)