Shot of Tequila..Please!

After this weekend, I've learned a few things.

1.) We told our son Mason that to get dressed Saturday morning cause we were going to the game and He replied, "You mean were going to the Superbowl!"  I realized at that moment I raised a dreamer!

2.) I knew exactly what Bill Cosby was talking about in his one man comedy show back in the 70's when he was talking about a girl and his son named Jeffery.  Everyone at the South O'Brien Basketball Tournament's know my kids names very well.  They found them out when they were getting yelled at for running on the court during a game, for making a scene in the cafeteria because she (guess who) wanted a sucker.  Someone had the nerve to come up to her and ask her if she was lost when I was standing a few feet from her.  She didn't think I was old enough to be her mom.  I have to stretch marks to prove it lady!  Although thanks for thinking I look young.  It does make me feel better!  2 of my kids thought it would be fun to shake up their pops and open them.  My oldest did it in the gym.  Not cool.  But the joke was on him, it looked like he peed his pants.  And my little girl did it in the cafeteria.  This was all within a couple of hours.  I nearly cried. If it wasn't for my wonderful nieces I think I would have!

3.) I did get carded at Buffalo Wild Wings this weekend!  It was an amazing.  Almost 30 and I still got it!

4.) The Superbowl in my opinion was boring.  I'm sorry to all the people who loved it.  But I was doing my homework during it.  And felt no love.  All though, I'm happy of the turn out and the last 5 minutes were great!  I made a great feast for it.  Buffalo Chicken Chalupa, Party Sub, Ceaser Salad, Better than Robert Redford Dessert!!!  And I almost died doing it.  It was great!

5.) Nick fell down the stairs on Sunday night and I tried not to laugh until I saw his back and felt bad.

6.) I fell down the stairs Monday afternoon as payback.  Nick was behind me and I'm wondering if he pushed me...no he wouldn't do that...would he?  I sounded just like my mom when I yelled, "OHHH! ohh, oh, ohh, oh, ohhh."  Now being almost 30 I realize I don't got it anymore.

7.)  I still can't move..Someone get me a shot of Tequila so I don't feel the pain!

Happy Tuesday Everyone!!!

Dishes...Check...Kids Alive...Check!

I will start with just a few things:

1.  It is hard to discipline your oldest when you turn around and your youngest child has his arms crossed and is mimicking you.

2.  It is hard to keep a straight face when in the morning, you wake your daughter and asks to sleep in and says she doesn't like school but doesn't like winter or snow days or hot days or her feet, or short hair, or long hair, or a paper cut, or a booger flake, or thinks a lady bug is her pet.

and 3. I laughed so hard that I had tears in my eyes at my husband when he stubbed his toe on our foot board and acted like he got shot in the back almost 7 years ago.  I still laugh hard about it.  I'm laughing now about it.

I don't know if I have mentioned lately, but I have spent sometime on pinterest.  Okay fine, Mike is thinking about sending me to PA (Pinterest Anonymous), it's gotten that bad.  But really there have been some really great finds on there.  Like my Laundry sign I wrote about this last Tuesday. And now my latest a check list that I got from a website that I can't remember but she first got from this wonder of a woman. She goes by, http://simplemom.net/tools/downloads/ .  And like the second mom who saw these wonders, I redid them to fit my way of life.  I got onto Microsoft Word and fooled around and made these babies:

Sorry for the pictures...I'm new at this and can't figure out how to put my file on here.  Any suggestions to give me, let me know. 

 Anyways.  There are 3 papers that I got my husband (the miracle worker) to laminate and I got a expo marker with spray...it just doesn't work without the spray.  It is a daily, weekly, and monthly checklist.  A basic brake down of what to do in one month.  For my brain to work, I need the basic day to day stuff that can come easy and natural for most people, broken down in the most simplest way so that I don't get overwhelmed that I shutdown.  This is not good for my family.  I will sit in the corner and just stare in space and say " bubb bubb bubb buubb."  I play a young Goldie Hawn in Overboard. It has everything from the days schedule to 1/2 year's cleaning chart.  Whats for supper tonight to did I drink enough water?  I started them yesterday and I love them.  My next project is a laminated Menu planner.  Hope that works.

  I'll leave you with this,

Does this not just scream "I just got caught!"

Just Another Manic Monday….

Today has been one of those days where you want to run and hide under the covers, praying that God would have mercy on your soul and just end the day.  But such no luck has happened yet.  I have 2 children home today that have given me my 1000th gray hair this year. I know because I’ve been keeping track of them very, very closely.  I mean very, very closely!  I almost saved my first one and put it in my daughter Anna’s scrapbook cause I found it while I was having a fight with her in the bathroom about hair.  It was a good memory.

Anyway, on to the subject at hand.  This morning was filled with so many trials and errors that I don’t even know where to begin.  It all started with pink eye, Mason not even realizing it was morning and remembering how to get dressed, Anna acting nice and letting me do her hair, and Matt saying, “Noooo! No, No No!”

Side note.  Let me take one moment to brag about Matt.  You see, I have a little genius on my hands.  Yes a genius!  He can pick up on things I never realized was possible.  Mike and I started telling me no, no, no when he wasn’t supposed to touch something or get into something and now that’s all he says.  I bet you can’t beat that!

Getting back to the my crazy morning.  I new I had to prioritize what had to happen first.  Mason memory loss and Anna’s weird notion of being nice to me, had to be put first.  After of threating Mason’s life to get his clothes, shoes, and coat on.  I let him catch a few more zzz’s.  Then I turned more attention over to my adorable, wonderful daughter and did her hair.  She even let me comb it.  It was magical.  Mike came home and dragged Mason out the door; dragged the perfect daughter out of my arms and brought them to school. 

Then I had to turn my attention to the destruction brothers.  Nick and Matt.  I do not lie when I call them the destruction brothers. They are tornados, tearing through a room destroying everything in their path.    I had to face the fact that I had to get drops in Nicks eyes for his pink eye.  A situation I was not looking forward to.  As a mom there are a few things you’d rather do than others.  Like I would rather have a nail driven through my foot than deal doctor my kids.  Oh you don’t have this?  Lucky you!  When they are sick it’s different.  But when it has to deal with a splinter, paper cut, one time Mason put a zip tie on Anna (because she was arrested) to tight on her hands and we had to try to cut them off, you would have thought we were cutting off her hands.  Trying to get drops in Nicks eyes are kind of like driving a nail through a foot.  Today he was screaming at me cause he couldn’t see.  Never mind that he was closing his own eyes and I wasn’t even touching his face yet.  So after, ohh about 15 minutes of getting his 1 drop in each eye.  I tried to relax, because that’s what the doctor’s have been trying to tell me.  Matt spilled my orange juice.  Okay clean that one up.  Go to the kitchen, Nick goes to the bathroom.  Funny thing is Matt loves the bathroom.  Nick doesn’t really think about small things like flushing, or shutting doors.  Matt zones in.  And because I’m cleaning other things up that Matt did in the kitchen, like throwing papers on the floor.  His mind zero’s in on the kitchen and then my mommy senses pick up that Matt is not in the living room. I look and yes, he’s in the bathroom, looking in the toilet at his prize washcloth in the toilet,  surrounded by pee.   He had fun though.  Cause there was a whole bunch splashed on the floor like he took that wash cloth and flung it in a circle over his head.    Fun, I know.  Quick clean up.  Before I knew it, the laundry was done.  I  got the laundry out of the dryer and when I came back I found Matt like this:

 

Nick had to pose real quick with him.  By 10:00 a.m.  I seriously was looking at my wine and wondered if it was too early to drink the rest of it right now.  The rest of the morning went much of the same as the first half.

Have a good rest of the Monday everyone!

It Was The Run Of My Life...

 Here we are, Sioux City Spring Thaw 5K.  I thought I was prepared.  Look at me...I have it all going!  The setting was beautiful...the weather, perfect!  The kids were left at home!

With my game face on, I did my stretching....had my mind into the game....was going to take this seriously!

The other girls were ready...they were complaining cause I'm too dang short to find in a crowd.

Susan did great!  I admire her, she did all that she wanted to do.  She ran the race without walking and her time was great!  My list of excuses of not accomplishing this goal:

1.  I didn't start running outside until last Sunday.  I "trained" on the elliptical.  Starting now, I'm run outside

2.  The dog ate my homework

3.  I have terrible shoes

4.  I have sinus problems

5.  I forgot to unleash the wild wolf that was supposed to chase me.

6.  I think I just plan gave up.  (Prideful tear falling now!)

But I did finish, with an okay time.  42:56 seconds.  Lets just say a very pregnant woman finished before me!  I don't want to talk about that.  But I will talk about how great this lady is besides me here.  She didn't finish with me like this is showing.  She came back to help me push the rest of the way.  Not only did was she done but she sprinted the last like half of block with me!  Now that's a great friend.

 Here's my biggest supporter during this all.  I hope he enjoyed to race and watching his little cupcake accomplish this.  Little fun thing he did get to enjoy...someone calling for dinosaur's right after the race!  It was a proud moment for him....and her, whoever she was!

 

I was happy I did the race and I plan to do some more this year and the years to come.  I know I didn't achieve the main goal of finishing under 40 mins.  But I did do something I thought I would never do.  Run long distance without being chased!  I liked the challenge and it's hard work. 

Till we meet again 5K....till we meet again!

It's all about ME!

Okay.  You've met my kids and now I wanna talk about me. 

Why?

 Because I can.

Because it's my blog.

Because I'm self-centered...it's a problem...

Mike doesn't like it....because he's self-centered tooo.....

It works for us!


SO,  I have a list of fun facts about Lisa.  Things you should know about me but doesn't really matter!  Let's just say if you wanted to get to know me better, these are things you want to know.  Get it??  Good!

Fun Fact #1
When I get nervous talking to people...the way I word things, somehow makes me sound like I'm Yoda.  With zero wisdom behind the words.  I can't explain it, but yup!

Fun Fact #2
My Favorite color is Blue.  Midnight Blue to be exact.

Fun Fact #3
My Favorite Books are Christian romance books.  I'm a sucker for romance.  In Jr. High and High School when I was sick, I would watch Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and many, many more fairy tales.  I loved it when Prince Charming would come and sweep the girl and find true love. And now that I found that myself, I don't know I just keep reading them!
 I also love thriller books.  There's nothing better in a novel where they make you want to become a detective and solve the complicated case that has happened.  When thriller books collide with romance books..I'm in Heaven.

Fun Fact #4
My favorite thing to do as a kid was swim.  I loved to swim.  There is just something about floating in the water that makes you feel almost like your flying.  I love the feel of the water, it is so easy to dive into the water and let everything just go away!

Fun Fact #5
If I could live anywhere on the in the U.S., it would have to be Colorado.  Just fell in love with it when I went to Estes Park for Rocky Mountain High in High School. 

Fun Fact #6
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a beautician.

How many more fun facts are there???  We'll have to wait and see...

I think I have a problem..

I'm just saying this because I think I have a problem.  It's not a serious problem....well maybe it could be.  I am addicted to craft and food blogs.  I have them all over here in my little Crazy Life blog.  But oh the wonderful things I've found.  The sewing projects, the thought of being a knitter and crotchet, the food...the glorious food!  Could there not be anything better!  I have found some of my favorite things on here.  And it all started with The Pioneer Woman.  She started a bad thing in me.  Thanks a lot!  The Pies, the pizza, the thought that Mike would look down right wonderful in a pair of chaps, (sorry Mike!)  I did bring up the idea of packing up everything and become ranchers in Oklahoma.  He didn't think that would be a great idea.  He knows nothing of farming...give him a paint gun and he's the king.  Give him a cow and he'd run the other way.  Not a dis honey....just not a talent of yours...it's okay...I love you just the same!

Side note....we are having a snow day today.  No school=no peace for mommy=no peace for daddy, kind of day.  And my kids are "playing"  the three stooges. Someones going to get hurt.....fast!

Back to my love for blogging and all the blogger's out there!

My newest favorite little spot has just happened today...called:



They have tons of wonderful easy foods to do.  And a added bonus you can do them easily with your kids! 

By the way the side note I added moments ago....it happened...Nick is now wounded and is in need of assistance! 

I hope you guys check these two websites!!  They are tons of fun and I love reading them!

New Year....New Start

The best gift given to me on my birthday was my husband Mike saying...for your gift this year we are going to have a new start.  I loved hearing that.  After many years of struggling with whatever God through our way. It was nice to think of the year 2011 as a new start to new things. 

So I got on the bandwagon.  I hit it hard.  I started with a list.  My first thing was all the crafts and sewing projects I want to complete this year...hopefully before summer hits.  This has become my therapy...besides venting on this blog.  My next thing on my list was something I never thought I would do.  In High School, I used to love accounting.  But I never used it.  And how stupid is that, I mean we owned a business...I guess when I started having babies, my schooling part of the brain just got lost.  Mike and I found an online class through NCC and I decided to take it.  I think sometime during reading the first chapter....I crapped my pants...no pun intended!  Just in the form of how much I loved it and how much I knowledge I lost over the years.  It was almost like starting over.  I even got to get a shinny new calculator!  Isn't that great!  I wanted to hop over the Dollar Store (cause that's how I roll) and pick up some new shinny pencils.  Buuuut Mike reminded me that we have about a million of those little babies all over the house.  Literally.  I think my kids have got a dog like mind here.  It's like they need to protect them and hid them from everyone else.  There's been some days I wonder, what in the world is that pencil doing there???  How did it get there? 

ANYwho... 

The next thing on my list was cookie and cake decorating.  I asked Mike awhile back what can I do to save money around here.  And his reply was.."do whatever you can homemade and we'll go from there."  So I hit it hard.  I've got a list started.(Remember the craft and sewing list I mentioned)  I've some things done.  Most not.  But on that "what I can do at home" list was cookie and cake decorating!  I found out that the instructor for the class is a wonderful lady that goes to my church!  How much more can God be pointing to the big sign saying "GO THIS WAY"  at me?  So starting on Feb. 3, I am going to start with this adventure!  I can't wait. 

The biggest change I wanted to do this year, was loooooooose this massive weight that's been clinging to me for far to long.  Now I know babies.....right?  I can't keep with that excuse anymore.  Besides, it makes me unhappy.  Mike and I both are trying this new wellness program.  It's been working out great.  Best one I've done so far and I'm down 6 lbs. with only a week in.  With that, I decided to work out.  You know, tone...muscles ache...death could come soon.  I joined Kristen Lassen's Fitness  Boot Camp.  This is serious stuff.  My face was so red, that when I got home I fell to the floor and Mike thought I spent the hour at tanning salon (and fell asleep) then to the fitness center.  My kids grabbed my shirt and yelled, "mommy your shirts wet."  It was a great time though.  I loved getting out and giving this old body a run for it's money! 
Along with this wonderful Boot Camp.  I had a friend challenge me, if you will, to doing a program with her called Couch Potato to 5k, or C25K to us insiders.  And in April, God rest my soul, I'm going to do my very first 5k marathon.

It's taken me about ten years and 4 babies later to realize that I needed to dream alittle more.  I love my family very much. And it's worked out that I can do some of the things from my house, so I'm not away from them very long.  But it's also taken me ten years to realize that, these crazy kids of mine won't be under mike and I's house forever.  There are so many things I want to learn down the road.  Hopefully God will make a way.  I can't wait to see what happens!  Can you?

My Biggest Fears...

I have many fears.  I would love to say that I have been able to work through my fears and come out on top at the end.  Cause almost all of the fears I have, I do not want to work through them.  There are however some very very silly fears that I don't want to ever have to come into contact with.

FEAR NUMBER 1-  I was a very very big lover of the T.V. show E.R.  In fact I watched since it started on t.v.  until the untimely death of the show....still harboring bad feelings toward this...I mean there was so much they could have gone with...they introduced Dr. Greene's daughter as a resident, John Carter was back in Chicago....was he going to get back together with his wife or not..The list could go on and on.  I guess I should get back to what my fear is.  It's from this show that my fear has come into place.  My biggest fear is that I will get into a car accident and they will have to use a saw to cut through my rib cage to do something to my heart.  I don't like saw's.  I don't like cutting of bones.  It scares me.  I'm getting the creepy shivers right now thinking about it all.

And for that...I must go on!

FEAR NUMBER 2-  I don't know if this is my second fear or if it's just in the fear category.  I fear I will be forgotten.  I would love to change or touch just one person.  If I could do that....I this fear would be off the list.

FEAR NUMBER3-- Rats....big big Rats!!!  who likes those icky...creepy big things.  In fact...I hate mice, bats, spiders (but I'd rather have spiders than bats...if I see a spider I thank God that it's not a bat, mouse, or rat.....and then I kill it.  I'm sorry that was mean..but I can not lie.  It's what I do)  Little story on this.. One time, long long ago in a land called Primghar, I was married for alittle over a year and I had just one child at the time.  I was going out to the garage to get something and I heard a squeak.  For sure, I thought it was a bat.  I very fast ran into the house, grabbed Mason, put him in the car seat...ran to the car...got into the car...left home and went to my parents house.   I did not come home until Mike was done on the Garbage truck (cause that's how we rolled back in the day) and he took care of that acky creature.  Come to find out it was just a baby mouse stuck.  I guess there was no need to panic like I did.  But hey, who knew...I wasn't going to check it out!

FEAR NUMBER 4--I fear I will someday lose Mike.  Not to some other lady mind you, but in another way.  Someday, it feels to good to be true.  There have been times I wonder....I mean, he's the love of my life.

FEAR NUMBER 5--I fear I am not living up to God's expectations of me. 

FEAR NUMBER 6--I fear the cold.  I live in Iowa and I hate cold.  I can handle the 20 degree weather...but when it gets soo cold it just bits every bone you have...I must freak out. 

FEAR NUMBER 7--  I fear the pool water.  Not the pool, but the water that comes off of people when they get out of the pool and it goes on the cement.  This is a silly fear I know, but I FREAK out when I see it.  I have to tip toe through the bathrooms....(thats a whole other fear in itself...going to the bathroom while having a wet swimsuit on. aoahflsdkfnjalsdkfj.  yuck!) and I tiptoe outside on the cement, unless I have very good sandles on so that my feet can't touch the water.  I'm fine when I get into the water...I have no worries in the world.

I think for now that's enough fears.  I'm trying to conquer some of them..but some will have to just stay in the top 7 of all time fears of Lisa Frangenberg!

Bill Cosby - "Jeffery"

My mom loves Bill Cosby.  I remember when I was a kid she would listen to probably her favorite stand up comedian talk about how life used to be and what life with kids is all about.  Bill Cosby's "Himself" is the one she would watch all the time, and the one she would rewind over and over is the sketch about "Jefferey."  This perticular sketch is about a mother who boards a plan that Bill Cosby is on and she has with her a 3 year old drafting her as she walks to her seat.  Her appearence is all nice and proper.  Bun in place,  clothes all nice and in order.  She looks like a very put together gal.  Well....you have to hear for yourself the outcome of this particual lady and the people in the plane with her.






Needed a laugh?!?!?  Well your welcome!  Have a good snowy day!

Crazy Life: Attack on Life

Crazy Life: Attack on Life: "Have you ever had spiritual warfare so bad that it just chews you up and spits you out? These are things I've been tossing around these las..."

Attack on Life

Have you ever had spiritual warfare so bad that it just chews you up and spits you out?  These are things I've been tossing around these last couple of days.   Case in point, this morning I was at a mops meeting with some of the most amazing women I've ever met.  I love these women, they've become very close to my heart in such a short time.  I was great going in the meeting, but half way through I started what most call a panic attack.  We had to share somethings about ourselves.  At first I was great, I started thinking what I was going to say.  But the more I thought about it, the more I was getting the feeling of self doubt.  In my heart, I knew God wanted me there.  But in the back of my mind, I started to hear, "You are not wanted here, they don't want you.  Who said your good enough for this? Why are you even here? Go away. Nobody wants you."  It started eating at me and eating at me till I couldn't stand it any longer.  When the meeting was done, I got out as soon as I could and walked as fast as I could and just cried.  I started beating myself down, cause that's what I'm good at, asking myself, "Yeah Lisa, Why are you here?  I'm sure they just needed someone to fill a spot."  And after a couple min. of banter and bringing myself down. I started to sing,

 You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains; You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas; I am strong, when I am on your shoulders; You raise me up: To more than I can be.

I started feel alittle bit better.  I picked up Nicholas with alittle bit more zip than what I had about 5 mins. before. On and on it went today with the back and forth banter that's it's been a very hard day, spiritally and emotionally.  I get to the point where I allow the evil one to put me in such a cornor that panic soon follows and I soon begin to believe the lies that are whispered in my ear, alittle to often as of late. 

I've come to a conclusion to why I've been feeling like I've been getting more attacked than before.  I have just recently started to put peace in a place that I haven't allowed to touch in for about 15 years. It's something I knew I had to do.  It was eating away at me and I knew deep down in my heart that if I wanted to move on in my spiritual growth that I had to truly learn the phrase "forgive and forget."  Those words are very important words.  How do you teach that phrase to your kids, if you yourself won't practice it.  Demonstrating to them how to love one another and not hold something over someone else's head and heart.  If I was truly, truly going to grow in life, in love, and in spirit, I needed to look into my own heart and stop hiding from the dark cornors that where slowly taking over all the places of my heart.  I know I need to keep fighting and keep moving.  This old girl isn't ready to give up.