Angry Birds

I am probably the only person in captivity that doesn’t like playing Angry Birds, but I think the characters are great and I love them.  The game makes me want to throw my ipod across the room after failing at the first level 15 times in a row…I just get so angry!!  I love the stuffed toys though, and when the store clearanced them after Christmas my husband bought me several, including a pig…I truly love the pigs!  I have no idea how they stole eggs from anyone, given the vacant expressions on their faces. 

 My 5 year old little girl loves playing it on my ipod though, and she has gotten farther than me…probably because she doesn’t care that she does the same level 15 times or more.  She has taken my stuffed birds and is throwing them all over the house, knocking things over, and causing messes and mayhem everywhere.  My solution to this problem is to make her Angry Birds bean bags…at least they are smaller and with making the pigs she has something to aim at.  The good news is that she was happy as a clam when I gave them to her, and she played happily for an hour without destroying any part of the house!

  The bean bags are made of felt, and I did the patterns myself.  I have done lots of these: Wow Wow Wubbzy, Team Umizoomi, Mario mushrooms, and Kai Lan.  I quite enjoy making them and my little girl becomes the only one around with bean bags of her favorite characters!  Here’s to felt and the joys to be had making bean bags with it!!

Happy Birthday Ryane!

 So for a couple of weeks now I have been wondering and asking Ryane what I could make him for his birthday.  He just got that pathetic look on his face and say “nothing”.  I offered to make him a sprite, any one he wanted, and I haven’t made one for over a year now…still the answer was “no…not a sprite”.  He was really beginning to anger me.  The night before his birthday I was searching the internet for something and came across a blog where someone made a “candy cake” for New Years or something.  *Light-bulb*  Off I ran to spend what cash I had left in my bag to get the foam…candy I have, LOTS of it!

 So here it is…a birthday cake for my husband!  He loves it so much that we had to take it over to his mom’s house when we visited, and he took it with him to work today so show it off.  I asked him when he was going to start eating it, and he said he was thinking of keeping it forever…silly boy!

 My husband works at a grocery store and is good friends with the receiver who does the markdowns.  After Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas candy is always on markdowns because they can’t keep it and they can’t send it back.  So we have a box full of candy in the garage…so this was the perfect thing for me to make him. 

All I had to buy was the Styrofoam and cut out the circles for the form, and borrow a low temp glue gun from Angie.  When both Ryans were sleeping I sat at the table and glued for my life Charlie Brown!  After about an hour I decided that I needed a lazy susan so I could turn it with one hand and glue with the other.

 Overall I had a great time and my husband says that it is the best birthday cake he has ever had!!  Here’s to you hon, may you remember and love it forever! 

 

Happy New Year Jordan Family…

Written on Saturday January 7th

After spending a great deal of time reflecting on last year, and probably the worst year of our lives, here I sit on the 1 year anniversary of the tragedy that started last year’s series of awfulness.  1 year ago today Jasone killed himself, there it is…said…BAM!  My husband and I have spent the last month or so praying most fervently that 2012 won’t be so bad, and after today I have made the monumental decision that we are not going to celebrate the new year until Chinese New Year comes around…and I think I am going to make this into a family tradition that we will do every year from now on.  But let me tell you why…

 For around a month now the upper part of my legs have been numb, and by numb I mean that I can’t distinguish soft touch from a sharp touch like a pin…they all feel soft to me.  We have a very dear friend who is a Dr., so I posed the problem to him and after a short exam he thought my back was out of whack and that I needed to see a Chiropractor.  I also have had an increasing concern about my tailbone since my son was born almost 2 years ago, as it moves in and out willy nilly, which hasn't caused too much pain until recently.  I went to the Chiropractor yesterday, and after a very thorough exam she declared the tailbone broken and an urgent need to see a neurologist to see about the numbness in my legs.  Apparently my tailbone was broken in the process of birthing my son, this could be why he had that mark on his forehead for like 9 months!  I won’t even go into what the Chiropractor told me to do to help relieve the pain that is currently a bane in my life.

 So after being tortured at the chiropractor’s office…she moved the tailbone back where it is supposed to be…I came limping home and took advantage of some pain meds I had left from my surgery.  I managed to get my kids in bed after burning rice crispy treats, where I had the opportunity to look at my daughter’s hair.  I had noticed earlier in the day that she was itching a lot and I wondered what was going on…headlice.  HOLY CRAP and GREAT GOOGALLY-MOOGALLY!  Where in the world did she pick this up?!  She has not been in school for 3 weeks now, I brushed and braided her hair before we went to Legoland last Friday, and I didn’t see them when I took her braids out and washed her hair on Monday.  Suddenly I realized…Aunt Angie took her to McDonalds play place on Tuesday…this had to be it because we didn’t leave the house really after this.  After speaking to Angie she remembered seeing a kid that she wondered about…McDonalds has just become the enemy! 

 Last night I cleaned Rite Aid out of their lice disinfecting supplies, as there are 4 adults in this house and 2 children…and we all have hair!  This morning started off with lice treatments on everyone…and the laundry started even before I was out of bed.  Mom has done around 6 to 10 loads of laundry at this point and it is only 5pm…and the laundry room is still full!  The couches have been sprayed, all the beds have been sprayed, and I have done the most horrible thing a mom can do to her daughter…took her stuffed toys away.   About 5 have been washed, including Pooh, and the rest are going to be in the garage for 2 weeks.  The crying was awful today, it almost broke me when I heard her ask why I was taking all her friends away. 

 This child has more stuffed animals than Princess Candy on her best day!  If you don’t know, she is from Dave the Barbarian and she has a tower full of stuffed toys.  But even with all of them, she has named each and every one of them and they all play with her.  Ryan was actually swimming in them a few weeks ago when they were spread in the play room.  My husband went and got her a new pillow pet today because she has been such a trooper today…it is Pooh Bear.

We also had to cut her hair…this is when momma cried big tears.  I have it in a baggie and I have been carrying it around all day, occasionally crying about it.  Needless to say I have had a really bad day today!  I have vacuumed under our couches and in every room upstairs…exhaustion has officially set in.  I have decided that I am grateful to Satan for forcing me into early spring cleaning…Yes, you read that right.   Here’s to you Satan, for being your regular self and believing that if you put me under enough pressure I will walk away from God and the gospel.  TTBBBBTTTTBBB!!!!