Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Mostly Wordless Wednesdays...Cuts by Cousin
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Confessions of a Shopaholic…Biker Babe
aka Street Bike
aka Crotch Rocket
I must admit, I think it's pretty hot.
And I wanna be a Biker Babe
I wanna be this hot girl
In the tight jeans
And gorgeous boots
With a jacket that fits in all the right places
with all her long flowing hair
Shaking and falling
P E R F E C T…
www.bikerornot.com/eviestreasures
This past Valentines Day,
I asked him to take me on a ride
So I could be that
Hot Biker Babe
However-
The reality of it was
I don’t have a cute jacket
So I had to wear one of his jackets
Uggh…men’s cut
Instead of being tight in all the right places
It’s big and bulky
It’s leather,
Which only means it’s
REALLY HOT (literally)
Then I have to wear his gloves
So now I have man hands to top it off.
I put on my helmet
And I think…
I’m g o n n a pass out….
I am wearing some cute jeans
But the whole time I'm worried
My butt crack was on display
Whenever we would stop at a red light
I would look over and see people looking at us
And all I could think about was
My butt is hanging out!
Oh and before I forget to mention this...
I’ll tell you that my head bumps into hubby’s
everytime we stop or accelerate
CLANK!
This is so not the picture I had in mind.
When I take off my helmet,
I feel like I’ve got helmet hair.
Oh well, at least I've got a cute helmet!

We rode to have breakfast by the marina
Then cruised along the beach
On the way home,
I learned how not to bump heads.
And how to hold on tight and lean with him.
After all the stress and unsexyness- it was fun.
But next time I wanna be the Biker Babe.
Which lead me to my search-
I found Levi’s Skinny Jeans for Curvy girls.
These things are amazing!
If you have a larger derriere
And thicker thighs…
Say built like Beyonce
(wink wink)
These jeans are for you.
And I found my own jacket
No more manly build
This sweet jacket was marked down from $149.99
To only $49.99

At http://www.motorcyclesuperstore.com/
There's no more though,sorry!
Although I would to have one of these sexy things...
This beauty is $239.50,
I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much for something I'd hardly wear.
This sexy curvy thing might need to get a savings started for $157.99
Now if I only I can find some new boots!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Hot Chocolate Lava...
Friday, April 9, 2010
Home coming...
with an old friend the other night.
I have no problem with it.
The Boy on the other hand is a different story.
I was able to keep him busy most of the night
shuttling him and the girls from store to store
as we ran errands.
But anytime he had a free moment,
He would start in with the questioning,
Where’s Daddy?
When is he coming home?
I would reply, Daddy went with a friend.
He’ll be home soon Son.
Shower time came and went.
He wanted to call his Daddy.
I let him send some text messages and smiley faces.
Then it was bedtime.
I put him in his bed,
turned on the TV,
and sat at the computer desk across his room.
He watched TV for a while
Then I heard the unhappy exhale
Hmmpphh…
He began as he lay there on his pillow
looking up at the ceiling
with one leg crossed over the other…
I think Daddy’s gonna spend the night at his friends house tonight.
What’dya say Son?
I think Daddy’s gonna spend the night at his friends house tonight Mom.
He’s not coming home, he continued on with such disappointment.
I chuckled, Yes, he’s coming home Son.
It seemed almost instantaneously
that we heard the roar of Hubby’s motorcycle
He jumped up outta bed
and ran full speed to the front door.
My Daddy’s home.
I’m so excited! He shouted!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Today was a good day...
Teen 2 texts me on Wed and asked if she could go to the beach Thurs.
We had our usual back and forth questioning?
Who’s going?
She quickly rambled off 10 kids
5 girls
5 BOYS
How are you getting there?
The bus
Hmmm…my instincts are kicking in
And I ask for half the day off
I prepare my bags the night before
And ask the girls to make sandwiches
And pack snacks for the beach
How embarrassing…Teen 2 replies
Then don’t eat my food when we get there!
These girls are so funny-
They curl their hair
Put on their make up
Find the right outfit
We’re going to the beach right?!
I pull up to the beautiful sunny beach
with 4 teen girls
And one 4 year old boy in tow
We find our spot in the sand and I’m getting the look…
Are you staying with us Mom? She asks
Ummm…I was, I replied.
But I get it.
She wants me out of sight.
So I plop down the cooler and snacks
And leave the girls in position
The Boy and I settle down closer to the water
I text hubby…I think she’s embarrassed of me!
The Boy wants to get in the water
So we tiptoe in
It’s freezing, oh yeah, it’s only April
He teases the waves as he runs back and forth with the water
The girls meet up with their boy friends
And head back to “their” spot
I turn around and look back every so often to watch them from the distance
And just giggle to myself that she’s at that age
That stage where everything about your parents is so embarrassing
Eventually she comes over with her friends
And they take The Boy into their little click
They bring him into the water
They jump with him
Swing him around
I stand in the distance with my camera
To forever capture these moments
Eventually I get to move in closer
The Boy is now one of their friends.
Here’s proof, he got to tattoo one of her friends
About just how cool he is!
They play football,
Go back in the water,
Boys boogie board
The girls tan
We stay and play for about 3 ½ hours
I'm able to convince them to take a group shot before we leave.
We get home and the girls ask if they can go to a bonfire at a friends.
They begin the routine again,
The hair,
The make up,
The outfits
By 7:40 Teen 1 and Teen 2 leave together
The Boy and I sit at the kitchen table
And watch as 5 teenage girls rush out of the house
They wave good bye
He turns to me and ask for a 2nd serving of Salmon
And an apple for his side.
I sigh…
And am thankful
Today was a good day.
Think, think, think...
-Michael Burke
As those little girls of ours are growing into young ladies,
they must go through the
They will test their boundaries,
Talk back,
Argue,
Debate,
Fail tests,
Fail to do homework,
Blame it on the teachers,
Fight with friends,
Break up with boyfriends,
Get caught doing things that they know they shouldn’t be doing…
We will talk,
Argue,
Debate,
Punish,
talk,
talk,
talk,
hug and kiss,
and tell them we love them
even if they did make stupid decisions
We will have to understand that we cannot be the perfect parents
We will not be their friends
We are there to guide them
And teach them
And sometimes we can’t catch them when they fall
But we’ll be there to pick them up and dust them off
We will remind them to go with their instincts,
Because they’re probably right from the beginning…
We will also remind them as I did the other night,
That I love them,
But they need to think of me
“The Beast”
In their face
Before they make a bad move!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
These are the stories of our lives…