Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

Yesterday was New Parent Orientation night at Alex new school. It was very thoughtfully prepared and informative and the PTSO did an awesome job. We ate dinner and were able to see plenty of friends from Alex's preschool and Tball teams that will be joining him in kindergarten. We were given a tour of the school to which the only points of interest for Alex were the library, computer lab, and the kindergarten playground. While in the library Alex picked out "his" bean bag for the year and after the librarian gave her detailed speech of the check out process and AR reading program she asked for questions. The first and most important question for Alex was to know A. can he access the brand new Mac computers whenever he would like, and B. Can he check out a book today as he found one he would like. All to which were answered with a delicate no. After touring the school and going over his day and what to expect we walked home during this walk Alex became introspective and decided to talk about his plans for his future.

"You know mom after college I am going to become a police officer that discovers things."
Me: "So you want to become a detective?"
"No I want to be a police officer that discovers things like hidden treasure and new adventures"
Me: "Ok...where would you live?"
"In an apartment with a kitchen and a bed"
Me: "Yes but where? In Arizona, New York City?"
"Mom your not listening I am going to become a police officer that discovers things and lives in an apartment with a kitchen and POSSIBLY a computer....that is my plan"

I feel that we need talk about possibly shooting a little higher or becoming more detailed in his life plans. But at least I am hopeful to know that that he plans to attend college.




Monday, July 29, 2013

We Are Back!!!!!

I have not even considered this blog for quite a while as life got too busy surviving to blog about. However the almost six year old Alex has decided that he would like to try his hand at blogging. To be specific he asked me to create a website for him that he can talk about video games, Lego Star Wars, and time travel. He specifically asked me to tap into his memories and put them onto the internet. Of course as a concerned and cautious mother I thought it would be best if his voice was spoken through an over 18 consenting adult on a pre-existing blog that his diligent mother forgot about. So now that we are back we will be updating and posting new tid bits from the ADD minds of Alex and Teresa....Stay Tuned.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Catching Up

So we have been super busy since my last update so for my loved ones out in the world that follow our blog I am using this post to catch up. Well Christmas was fantastic he split the time with me and then his dad so he had double Christmas time. YAY. Here Santa brought a bike, a fishing pole, and a ton of toy story stuff. Below will be a picture collage of sorts of our busy two months.
 Alex new bike
 I got BANGS
 Finaly finished my bathroom
 Finshed my Living room and I know what your are thinking (is that the new Sony Blu Ray with built in WiFi?) Why yes it is... Hello streaming NetFlix
 I started my new healthy cooking with my new cook book with all meals under 500 cal. This is grilled fish with home made baked sweet potato fries and a Greek Salad YUM
Dinner number 2 is a grilled chicken Greek salad with feta cheese and half a whole grain peta!

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Arizona Winters..Good ole Globe

 So many of you know that Arizona does not have normal seasons. While the rest of the nation has this season called Fall Arizona has Summer, where it snows in winter Arizona has Summer. So now on December 14th we have fallen into winter. Many of my transplant friends have experienced the bitter winter, the golden fall, and the brightly colored spring, but we beat them all with our summers. Now I know you ask, wait? What are transplants? people that did not grow up in Arizona but moved here willingly after reaching their legal independence because of weather, love of swimming pools or just good old fashioned rebillion.
And to my transplant friends please know there is  place in this Copper State that does have all four seasons. It is the near dear home in my heart, Globe AZ. I remember having snow in the winter, beautfiul gardens in Spring, and football in the Fall ( I sound like a Kenny Chesney song). It's days like this that miss the small mining town, where everyone knows your name...wait that is a small bar in Boston called Cheers. But still I am so excited to be going to my grandparents in Globe for Christmas day. 
  Here are some pictures of the front of my house to show that Arizona can party down with the best of them :).
 Alex crunching fallen leaves outside our house.
front of the house decorated for Christmas.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Apparently the Three Wise Men were Cowboys

So today on the ride home from school I asked Alex the usual how was school, what did you do questions. This was the convo:

Me:So what did you do at school today?
Alex: I watched a movie at school today!
Me: Really what was it about?
Alex: It was about God.
Me: Really? and what else?
Alex: and a the baby Jesus, they had to run away with the baby.
Me: Who ran away with the baby?
Alex: The three kings they took the baby Jesus on their horsies.
Me: They did what did they say?
Alex: Yee Haw Cowboy

Moral of the story Alex knows the story about the baby Jesus and his correlation to God. Revelation, apparently the Three Wise Men were Cowboys!

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Re Gifting

So recently Alex and I had a discussion about Santa Clause. He wanted to know why Santa has reindeer, why he says Ho Ho Ho, why he is so big. Well during this conversation Alex also told me that he wants new everything. He would show me his existing toys and say "I want this guitar but new one." "I want this buzzlightyear doll but new one". So in my infinite wisdom to educate and guide my child to be morally sound I came up with this idea. I took some of his older toys and re wrapped them for Christmas. Tee hee hee insert me twisting my mustache..NOT that I have a mustache I mean I do keep up with that kind of maintainence. Anyways and it was only a couple toys the remainder are new things he did want from Santa. I will keep you all posted on how that develops on Christmas day.

Guilty Pleasure's...I am a NERD


So I recently added a new "gadget" to my blog, Guilty Pleasure. It's basically a breakdown of the books I have read in the past couple of months. Some of them I have read for the 3rd time. This post is a little embarassing becuase it is showing my inner geek-dum (I just coined a new word). I read ALOT I typically have read one book in a one day period. This is something I have only recently found as my passion in the past couple years. I hated reading in school and would not be caught dead reading as a past time, but now I find the smallest pleasure in reading with a good glass of wine (I am also giving away to just how single I really am). This list also reminds me of a conversation I recently had with a coworker this week. The backstory she was telling me that over the Christmas weekend her and her husband are having a marathon of his favorite movies that she has NEVER seen. Here is how it went.

Coworker "we are watching all the Star Wars I have never seen them."
Me "what you have never seen Star Wars? Not even the new ones with Ewan McGregor?"
Coworker "OH WOW you sound like my husband when I say I havent seen Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter."
Me "WHAT? are you kidding me? I wish I could go backpacking through middle earth with legaless. AND Harry Potter is really a Cinderella story of sucess, the boy grew up in a closet."
Coworker " he lived in a closet?"
Me "Yea his parents were killed by Voldemort and his stupide muggle aunt and uncle raised him."
Coworker "what is Legaless?"
Me "Just the hottest Elf with kick ass archery skills"
Coworker BIG eyeroll as she turns to face her computer

To sum it up I realized I am a bigger nerd than I thought, also I have the same interests as a 16 year old boy....FANTASTIC no wonder I am still single lol