Mama Fasha

Want some cute?

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:07:00 +0000

'Cos I have some :)

Halloween 2009

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:29:00 +0000

Ian as Buzz Lightyear

Ben as Darth Vader

Leah as Princess Leia

Ben, Jacob as the Wolfman, Leah, Ian, My Husband as a Broncos Fan, me as a Burbank Police Officer (wearing my husband's old academy shirt with his patches and stuff, it was cool) and Connor as a Toddler because he decided to be scared of his Elmo costume. He had no problem trick or treating though.

Happy Halloween!

Sad state of affairs....

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:03:00 +0000

Ok well see, my lovely internet friend (that sounds bad, but... I don't know her in real life, though I'd love to, so creepy sounding or not, that's the only way to describe her) Susan from Friday Playdate wrote about the five movies she could watch two days in a row and then asked her readers which ones *we* would pick. And ya know? I don't know. Because I couldn't tell you which movies I'd watch *one* day in a row, because anymore, the only movies I watch belong to the kids.

So I could tell you which 5 kid movies I'd watch two days in a row (and mind you, in my house that means continually for two days). In fact I know I've watched these 8,234,786 days in a row. *sigh*

1) Toy Story
2) Bolt
3) Wall-E
4) Beauty and the Beast
5) Finding Nemo
5) Kung Fu Panda (it's a tie)

Except that we've lost all of these movies. Or they are so gummed up that they are unwatchable. We even lost the 2nd Transformers movie and we just got it. The Bermuda Triangle West, that's what I like to call our house.

Now then... if I could even *think* of movies that *I* like and would watch a couple days in a row....

Um.....

Errr.....

Well now... I'll have to get back to you on this one....

Your Mattress is FREEEEEEEEE!!

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:20:00 +0000

Ok so, the mattress wasn't free but look what my husband came home with last week, which was TOTALLY free:

Not the kids, naturally...though... they were free too come to think of it.

and also? This. My future purse:

HAHAHAHA JUST KIDDING. Now, don't eat me.

Anyway both the couch and the iguana (or giuana as the boys say it) were totally free thanks to a friend of my husband's who is moving up north. Awesome!

an apple a day....

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:01:00 +0000

Today we took a trip to yee olde apple farm to, you know, pick apples. Now due to my peculiarly Snow White life (married to Prince Charming, I have 7 dwarves...er kids, missing a heart, like to whistle whilst I work and I attract butterflies unnaturally) I tend to eschew apples. It's a chance I don't want to take. However, today was an exception. (I did it for the kids, what can I say).

We drove an hour to the quaint little village of Tehachapi, CA (driving quickly through the not-so-quaint and quite-frankly-horror-movie-creepy town of Mojave. If you live in Mojave, I'm very sorry. Not sorry that I said that, but sorry that you live there! Yeesh! Spooky!). Knaus Apple Ranch is quite literally at the end of the road and I nearly ran into it actually looking for it but I didn't and I'm glad 'cos it's a super cute little place and I would have hated to put a hole in their fence.

We got a little lesson about apples, some apple pieces to taste test (again, something I was exceptionally cautious about)... very good btw. Red and golden delicious and really nothing like the varieties you get in the store. Then we got to pick some (limit 6 per kid due to early apple shortage). So we left with 24 apples, 2 apple turnovers and 2 apple cakes.

If you live in the area, I highly recommend a visit, though right now you'd pretty much have to buy your apples in their little store due to the aforementioned apple shortage. But it was worth the drive.

Oh and everything was short. The buildings, the house, the barn, the trees in the orchard: short. Not the people though, they were normal sized.

Be patient. It takes a few to get to the apples.

Do NOT look at my arms:

You looked didn't you. UGH!

The Sun. It burrrrrrrrrns.

The Sun. Still burning.

Told you the trees were short.

Enjoying the fruits of his labors.

Pamper yourself while helping others

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:57:00 +0000

This holiday season, pamper your feet, pamper someone else's feet (or both) and I'll donate 10% of my profits to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (Susan G. Komen for the Cure). Contact me to order: Here

Pampermint foot care set: Foot scrub, foot cream and toasty warm socks, $44 retail, plus s & h, etc.

Create Polaroids from your photos at www.rollip.com

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:50:00 +0000

Just so you know, this can be extremely addicting.....

Create Polaroids from your photos at www.rollip.com

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Welcome to the World!

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:12:00 +0000

This is my new nephew, Rhyen Lee Palmer, born on Sept. 16, 2009 to my baby brother Matt (he's 25, he's a baby) and his wife Corey.

Welcome to the world little sweetie, may God bless you and keep you safe all the days of your life.

The proper way to make cookies, Ian-style

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:40:00 +0000

First, it's very important to gather all your ingredients, especially your safety goggles

It's also very important to ensure that the butter will not escape.

Didn't get any shells in the dough. I was impressed.

It's VERY IMPORTANT that the dough be taste tested. Do not miss this step!

First cookie out of the oven:

Verdict? It's a winner :)

First Day of K-4

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:13:00 +0000

After a few moments of nervousness (Ian) and a few more moments of major consternation (Mama--didn't know he was supposed to have his own crayons, scissors and that he was supposed to bring a snack--they didn't tell me anything other than "he doesn't get lunch" because it's only 3 hours) everything was peachy and Ian was happy to find his desk and start coloring (with borrowed crayons!). I kissed him a zillion times but I think by the time I left he was happy to see me go LOL

I miss him! I can't wait until 11:30 so I can go and get him and hear all about his first day! But let me tell you, I miss this kid!

Angeles Crest Fire, California

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:22:00 +0000

It's actually not extremely close to us, though it's moving in to towns about 20minutes away. Yesterday the sky was orange all day. Today, this was the view from my front yard.

2nd day of school

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:59:00 +0000

Because my battery died when I went to take her photo and by the time she was home... it just wasn't the same :)

So here's Leah, first day of 8th grade:

The school she's attending (Lancaster Baptist School) requires below the knee dresses or skirts, which I LOVE, especially considering what the girls at the public school wear!

Doesn't she look adorable?

Ian's Birthday part 2

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:47:00 +0000

His super cool shirt, that we only got one good photo of, is from Paper Lili. I had to have it for him after seeing the same shirt on the son of Girl's Gone Child's Rebecca.

Ian's 4th Birthday, part 1

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:48:00 +0000

Monday was Ian's 4th birthday but I had no internet so I'm posting photos now. Tomorrow is his party and I'll post about that then :)

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Chicken-veggies-pasta dinner for 8

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:38:00 +0000

Obviously I'm not a food photographer.

Anyway here's the simple and yummy and slightly healthy dinner:

3 chicken breasts, chopped
1 medium eggplant, sliced
7 stalks of asparagus, cut
3 small tomatoes, chopped
1/2 onion, quartered
3 cloves garlic, smooshed
several handfuls of baby spinach

Spaghetti, cooked

Saute the chicken, with crushed red pepper, thyme and oregano for seasoning, then add everything but the spinach. When veggies are tender, add the spinach to the top and let wilt. Serve over the spaghetti.

My kids eat every single bite, and they aren't exceptionally veggie inclined. It's just that yummy. (the littlest ones tend to hand me back the asparagus, but everything else mooshes together)

Can't really do a cost break-down on this one. The chicken came from a big bag from Sam's Club, the asparagus from a big bundle from Sam's Club and the spinach from a big box from Sam's Club. I didn't use everything in the bags and I've got several more meals out of them.

The eggplant, tomatoes and garlic came from my garden. The onion and spaghetti I already had.

Actually this will be dinner for 9 as the eldest boy has moved back in, but I don't want to go about changing the labels....

Ian and Connor waiting for dinner to be served.

Three minutes in the life of Ian and Connor... or a possible reason I'm slightly coo-coo

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:47:00 +0000

Simple Words of Wisdom

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:45:00 +0000

Ok so I'm ganking my entire post from Christine Spencer, on Posh Mama, in fact I'm just going to link to it. It's one of those nice posts filled with advice you already knew, but probably weren't always heeding. Well, I don't always heed it.

Anyway, here's the link: Simplicity. (oh and the photos are adorable)

"V" is for Victory part...what it is it? 5?

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:47:00 +0000

Garden update, no photos because I'm lazy and mad at my dog who basically ate my garden. Remember the last post? Where I wondered what could have happened to my squash? I figured it out. Shiloh ate it.

Shiloh also ate all 18 of my lovely cucumber plants. And broke several stalks of corn and sunflowers. I have 6 sunflowers blooming at the moment however and it's really lovely.

We've harvested about 30 tomatoes, none of them huge but all of them yummy. The beans seem to have petered out, but we've had days consistently and continuously above 100 so I'm happy to have anything left at all.

The pumpkin and spaghetti squash are blooming.

But until I get a fence up around this garden, I won't be replacing what my dog enjoyed.

Anyone want a vegetarian Belgian Malinois? Free!

Truly an angel, straight outta Heaven...

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:25:00 +0000

After yelling at the littlest boys to just BE QUIET BEFORE I LOSE MY MIND BE QUUUUUUUUUUUUUUIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET Connor threw his arm around my neck, sighed contentedly and said "I'm happy Mama"

Then I declared that he had broken my heart he said "I broke you? I'm sorry Mama, I've got you, I've got you. Here Ian, come hug Mama. Be careful Mama."

And then he really did break my heart.

And I told him to yell all he wanted.

The Downside of Co-Sleeping

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:21:00 +0000

You hear about the downside of co-sleeping like you hear about Fight Club. You don't. No one who is granola-crunchy enough to actively promote co-sleeping will tell you about the contortionist like positions one must sleep in in order to have your darling little bundles of love cuddled up next to you, safe and warm, all night long.

Ian and Connor both still, STILL, sleep with us. BOTH OF THEM. ALL NIGHT. I do get up occasionally, if my sleep starved brain can function enough, and move them to their beds (which happen to be in our room, and thank the good Lord for that because as it is, I slam some body part or another in the wall, the dresser, the end of the bed that sticks out or somewhere, every night, on my journey in the dark, to and fro, with the boys. No, the boys have never once been knocked against anything. I'm good like that.), however that lasts only a few hours and then they're back.

However...they don't sleep actually *in* the bed with us, or *on* the bed with us. They sleep on me. Both of them. Connor is 36 inches tall, Ian is 43 inches. I'm 66 inches tall. DO THE MATH!

Ian usually sleeps along one of my legs, with his head on my stomach. Connor, with his face ON MY FACE with one or both hands down my top (once a avid breastfeeder, always a boob man I guess) and the rest of him wherever it falls, usually on top of Ian. They can sleep like this allllllllllll night and wake up raring to go. Me? Whatever isn't covered in boy is literally between the mattress and the wall. I have woken up with wall texture on my cheek. Honest, I have peeled my face off the wall in the morning more than once.

My husband? He's lucky enough to sleep mostly unmolested (by the boys *or* me, another major downside to co-sleeping), with only the occasional errant toddler foot to the chin or groin to contend with.

But then... when we wake up to these faces:

And they say something unbearably heart-rendering like "Good Morning! I love you! I had good dreams" and then... then it makes all the chiropractic visits totally worth it.

TMI at Trader Joe's

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:27:00 +0000

This is Ian. Ian is a big boy. Ian can do a lot of things without Mommy's help, like, getting dressed all by himself. I generally don't have him actually choose what he's wearing (though he does that sometimes too, and it does it well, because all of his shorts or pants are jeans, therefore they go with everything.) I pick his clothes, lay them out and he gets dressed. Normally this goes along without a hitch, but this morning I was rushed and the result of that is as follows:

We're in the frozen food aisle at Trader Joe's and Ian comes running down the aisle to me after just having visited the restroom (with my 11 yr old. Ian doesn't do EVERYTHING by himself!), yelling "Mommy! Someone forgot to put on my underwear this morning! See?!" and he stopped in the middle of the aisle and pulled down his pants to reveal, that, indeed, Mommy forgot to give him new underwear today!

*facepalm in aisle 3!*

what to do when it's 106 in the shade...

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:50:00 +0000

Happy Birthday Nicholas!

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:48:00 +0000

Because I am a TERRIBLE step-grandma I completely didn't even REALIZE I had missed your birthday until today, a day later. I'm SO SORRY!

I hope you had a great day turning 4! I hope that you got every thing you wanted and that Mommy and Daddy spoiled you rotten. Your Uncle Ian (I still laugh everytime I say that) asks when you're coming back to visit all the time. He wants to jump on the trampoline with you and hide out in the clubhouse. Of course, it's very hot here, as I'm pretty sure it is where you live, so if you come down, we'll just go to the water park and eat Dots ice cream.

We all love you!

Just because

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:52:00 +0000

Because I've been reading NieNie's blog and because even through the ongoing healing process she is full of such joy and because she posted like, a zillion photos a day of her and her kids and I never post any with me because I hate the way I look right now, still 25 pounds over and my hair is a mess and, frankly, I'm not aging well, I thought, you know... I should do this anyway. Who but me cares? So here are a couple photos I found that my husband took of me and Connor. You can tell they're old because Connor has long hair and there is nothing yet growing in the front planter box. But, even though I'm poooching out (and even though I've put on another 5 pounds since because I can't fit into those shorts now), it's actually a cute couple of pics. Right? Right??. And on Connor's face is the remmants of the last time he'll drink that punch because if it can stain his skin like that, what is it doing to his insides?!

Oh and when you're done reading NieNie's blog you should really read her sister's blog CJane Enjoy It. :)

"V" is for Victory part 4

glamgoddess7609@yahoo.com (Kim) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:23:00 +0000

Not really so much of a victory, more like a small skirmish won at this point... well even that's a stretch, thank God we're not sending food out to the troops or they'd all be getting a benefit concert about now...

in the foreground to the right is th box with the giant pumpkin, the spaghetti squash, the luffa squash and the bush beans.

Tomato cages? What are those?

I have no idea what happened here. I came back after my surgery, having had someone else watering for me and it looked like this. Plus, the broccoli is wasted, it's actually getting flowers on it now. I think it had something to do with the big temperature changes we've been having here, I don't really know though. The squash should be okay but it's obviously not. The eggplant is still looking good though. I'm going to take out a lot of the wasted plants and start something else in there.

I had a pic of me in front of the garden wearing one of the tumbleweed enticing dresses but when I saw it, this was the first thing I thought:

"I don't remember holding a side of beef when that photo was taken... oh wait those are MY ARMS!"

followed by:

Wow, I guess that built in shelf bra really doesn't do squat!

followed by:

Crap I go out in public ALL THE TIME looking like this!

followed very closely by:

I really need to get my husband his glasses because he LETS me out in in public looking like this!

So excuse me while I dash off to do a gazillion pushups.....