somoa's mmm....

so the other day i was at my friends sons basketball game and there was a little girl walking around selling girl scout cookies. and i thought to myself, oh my goodness it is girl scout cookie season!! yess!!! i love cookies!!! yeah! get me some of those!! so i asked the sweet child if she had any somoa's left. " no all i have are these" (don't even ask me what they were because they were crap, that's all i know, pure crap) so i politely declined.

now what i want to know is where's all the other little girl scouts? no one's knocking on my door! i know that the world is a dangerous place, and that door to door sales is not necessarily encouraged for young children, but i'm a nice person, i have $3.50, possibly more if need be. no one's trying to make money in my neighborhood. or at my grocery store. i want some stinking somao's. they are so delicious! they are just so tasty, i cant stand how good they are. have you ever had one? are you kidding me!

mmm... also known as caramel delights, they are shortbread ring cookies with a layer of chewy stringy sweet caramel, topped with lightly toasted delicate coconut, and finally striped with the perfect amount of yummy milk chocolate on the top while coating the savory bottom as well. mmm...

i just think they're great. it's probably best i didn't get a chance to order any because they are rather small and there is 7 grams a fat in 2 cookies! and i do not have the will power to fight off the all consuming desire to eat an entire box in one day. so it's just better this way. i mean i really just starting working out again, and this baby weight is killer third time around. i don't need to add somoa weight to it. right? right.

maybe jon ordered some from a nice dad at work.

watch out ace of cakes

so sunday was isaiah's big boy four year old birthday. i just can not believe it, but it is inevitable he is going to grow up. ~sniff~ he really is a neat little kid. i love all the thoughts that run through his head that he is always eager to share. i think he's pretty smart and funny. i am biased. i am just trying to find the good moments in every day and cherish them, because i know it is just going to go by faster every year.

anyway i asked him what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday. and he wanted a luke skywalker cake. (he is fascinated with star wars, even though he has only seen about twenty minutes of empire strikes back, that him and his friends "accidentially" put in the wrong movie, lowered the volume and crouched silently in front of the tv) now i told him i wasn't sure if i could make a luke skywalker cake, what else would he like. he then suggested an aniken skywalker cake. at this point i decided to take over the cake decision making into my own hands and offered to make him a lightsaber cake. and that seemed to satisfy him.

i had a lot of fun making it and i just really think that i should just start a small profitable buisness on the side of making jedi cakes. if i do say so myself! ha!

unknown facts of alana

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i played doubles tennis my senior year of high school, and placed 5th in regionals.


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i did not enjoy mayonaise untill approximately 2 years ago

unknown facts of alana

so i feel like the winter may be getting to me, and the long days in the house are becoming repetitive and redundant. i have not left my home in 5 days. which i guess isn't really that long compared to like, invalids, 800lb people or someone of that nature. i am beginning to think, that people may not remember exactly who i am. so out of pure boredom i've decided to introduce to this amazing blogging community "unknown facts of alana".

now as i mentioned previously i have not been leaving the house lately, therefore am lacking in much needed adult interaction. (i do talk on the phone a bit, it's just not the same, and for some magical reason talking on the phone attracts four previously contented children right on top of me, crying, screaming, fighting, and repeating the name mom, mom, mom, mom...!) so some of the facts you will be learning frankly may bore you, and you will find youself not interested one bit. you may even feel slightly led on to something greater than what is being offered. and it is misleading in the simple fact that i am carrying on about it. but it is what it is. and that's it.


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i only wash my hair every other day
(to reduce damage , naturally)



to be continued...

brutal

so the last two weeks were absolutely brutal. two kids in the hospital. lincoln was in the hospital for 6 days with pneumonia, during that time rylan was at home sick with bronchialitus and refusing to take a bottle. i was completely torn between my two babies. i didn't want to leave lincoln, but i had to be home with rylan. jon pulled night time duty with lincoln. i would come home to my hungry sick baby, wake up at 5am and get to jon so he could go to work. we finally came home on a friday and was back in the hospital with rylan on sunday in the middle of the night when we woke up screaming and struggling to breathe. very scary. he had pneumonia and RSV, but recovered quickly and i was able to bring him home that wednesday. it was almost easier to be just at the hospital with rylan, knowing lincoln was better and having fun with the flood kids. still, what a mess.
but we made it. we were more than exhausted. but the kids are all better. and all is well. when we didn't think we could do another day, we did. the Lord was our strength and we persevered. i do not know how we would of ever made it without family and friends. especially my parents who stayed at my house and my dad for taking time off of work. i am so blessed. thank you to everyone who watched my kids, especially those who came at 6am so jon could go to work; thank you for all the meals, all of the groceries, phone calls, hospital visits, and prayers!! we felt very loved and taken care of. and thank you thank you, to my dear friend beth who washed my laundry, cleaned my house, loved on my children, and is now suffering with herself and her family being ill (probably something they caught at our house, sorry bout that).
and you know the whole time i was on that fifth floor of the hospital and would walk past the PICU, and knew there was terminally ill children on that floor, i just kept thanking the Lord for my healthy babies, and i knew we would be home soon, and we don't have to juggle life everyday with sick children in the hospital. our time was temporary. i'm just beyond thankful and grateful.
two days after we were home isaiah said to me "mom, if i get really sick,will you take me to the hospital too?" i said, "of course i will."