Gary was taking dinner out of the oven last night and the smoke detector started going off.
Me: Hey Lyla, do you know what that sound means?
Lyla: Eat!
Monday, March 26, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
St. Pattys Day - The 2012 Edition
March 18th, that can only mean one thing, another St.Pattys Day is over and we have to wait another year before we get to do it again!
We had a blast yesterday! Easily one of the best St. Pattys EVER! :) Here are some of the highlights:
And now for some of my pictures:
We had a blast yesterday! Easily one of the best St. Pattys EVER! :) Here are some of the highlights:
- First of all, the weather! We had absolutely AMAZING weather this year! The temps were in the upper 70s and bright sunshine all day long!
- When we got down to the South Side we found an actual parking lot (not a random spot on the street). They were charging $10 to park there for the day which was more than worth it in my opinion! (13th to Muriel - In case I'm trying to remember where that great parking lot was next year!)
- We were ahead of the crowd getting to Fatheads so we got to have an awesome lunch without having to wait for a table.
- We were able to watch the Pens play while we were at the bar & they won & Sidney Crosby got to play! (that was for you Stef - lol)
- We saw a midget dressed like a leprechaun.. more than once...haha
- Quote of the day: "I need a VIIIZZZAAA" - thanks Ree!
- Casey snuck in to Local with the trash guy.... "Shut up Casey - you came in with the TRASH!"
- The line for pizza was too long so me, Gary and Erin ate dinner at Bob Evans on the way home. Our waitress just loved us! haha
- And last but not least, Lyla had a super fun day with her Auntie Em and Uncle G! They played outside all day and were all three smiles when we got home!
And now for some of my pictures:
Friday, March 16, 2012
St. Pattys Week
Tomorrow is the big day... ST. PATTYS DAY! Easily my favorite day of the year! I like it better than my birthday because I know I will see all my friends, that doesn't always happen on my birthday. I like it better than Christmas because its much less stressful, no presents to buy, no traveling from one family members house to the next. I like it because you don't have to put fancy clothes on, the more green and the more silly the better! I like it because I get to drink a lot of adult beverages. There is just not anything bad to say about St. Pattys Day!
So since it is my favorite day of the year, I have been getting ready for it all week! Here is a little look at how I have been preparing:
MONDAY:
TUESDAY:
WEDNESDAY:
THURSDAY:
FRIDAY (with my favorite Irish Princess):
So since it is my favorite day of the year, I have been getting ready for it all week! Here is a little look at how I have been preparing:
MONDAY:
TUESDAY:
WEDNESDAY:
THURSDAY:
FRIDAY (with my favorite Irish Princess):
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Time/Technology Changes Everything
I just read a headline that the Encyclopaedia Britannica is ending its print after 244 years. As sad as this is, I actually had just assumed that they had been out of print for a while now! Its just another reminder though about how different Lyla's childhood will be from my own.
When I was in school and I had to write a report, the first place you would go to get facts would be an encyclopaedia. Then you would go on to other reference books. And you had to site all those books at the end of your report to prove you didn't just cheat and copy it word for word. Now kids just hop online and google or wikipedia any facts that they need. No more turning through the pages of a book or asking a librarian for help.
I imagine some day Lyla will wonder what her mom's first job was. I will tell her I worked at Hollywood Video. Then I will try to explain to her it was a store where you could rent VHS tapes for $4 and you got to keep them for two nights. It will be such a foreign concept to her! I always laugh when I think about how we started the switch from VHS to DVD while I worked there and what a big deal that was.... wow do I sound old!
I can tell her about cassette tapes and the big change to CDs and how cool it was that you could listen to whichever song you wanted to instantly without having to fast forward! And how we had cases for them with the pictures of the singers and the lyrics to the songs. Soon there won't be CDs anymore, I'm sure of that. Everything will be digital. Gary just hates that!
I believe in the not so distant future that you won't buy books anymore either. I hate to think it, but I believe that is how it will be with all the Kindles and Nooks and other e-readers that are on the market. I have such great memories of being a kid and sitting on the floor in the back of the bookstore at the mall and trying to pick out just ONE BOOK to buy! I got way more excited about going to the bookstore than to the toy store... I was such a nerd! She has such a love for books already at this young age and I hope it continues as she gets older and I hope that she can still have that magical feeling that I remember from getting a new book!
I will love telling her about how I used to take pictures! I used to buy tons of those disposable cardboard cameras (do they even still make those?) and you would take a bunch of pictures, then drop them off to get developed. You always got double prints in case you wanted to share them. It was always so exciting when you would go and pick them up! You never knew what you would find, maybe some really good pictures or you could spend the money getting them developed and there wouldn't be one good picture in the whole batch. I could do a whole post about my love/hate relationship with digital cameras.
I can tell her what a big deal it was when computers first came out. We had one in our classroom in 3rd grade. I remember it so clearly. Everyone would get to have a chance on it once a week I think and you would get half an hour to play Oregon Trail. That was seriously the best game ever invented! And everybody didn't have a computer at home, and hardly anybody had their "own" computer that they didn't have to share with their family.
And lets discuss the fact that our computers had to dial up to the internet... over a phone line... no honey, not a cell phone line, an actual landline that runs in to the house, through wires... oh nevermind. For now I can still take her to grandma and pappy's house to show her what those old time landline phones look like! For now... until they move over to just a cell phone too. The day will come, sooner than later I think.
Speaking of phones, I can tell her about life before cell phones. People couldn't just get in touch with you whenever they wanted to. It was a totally different world. If you wanted to call your friend, you had to call their house and possibly speak to one of their parents (gasp) before your friend could get on the phone. Or maybe they had a dad like mine who would hassle them and tell them to put a quarter in the phone before I could get on! haha
There wasn't any facebook or blogs, oh but we did have ICQ! Oh yes... Eventually we had AOL Instant Messanger, but ICQ had that cool flower thing... haha And an Uh Oh when you got a message!
Things are just so different now. But that is how the world works. And as time moves foward, technology is always going to get more advanced and things are going to just continue to change.
When I was in school and I had to write a report, the first place you would go to get facts would be an encyclopaedia. Then you would go on to other reference books. And you had to site all those books at the end of your report to prove you didn't just cheat and copy it word for word. Now kids just hop online and google or wikipedia any facts that they need. No more turning through the pages of a book or asking a librarian for help.
I imagine some day Lyla will wonder what her mom's first job was. I will tell her I worked at Hollywood Video. Then I will try to explain to her it was a store where you could rent VHS tapes for $4 and you got to keep them for two nights. It will be such a foreign concept to her! I always laugh when I think about how we started the switch from VHS to DVD while I worked there and what a big deal that was.... wow do I sound old!
I can tell her about cassette tapes and the big change to CDs and how cool it was that you could listen to whichever song you wanted to instantly without having to fast forward! And how we had cases for them with the pictures of the singers and the lyrics to the songs. Soon there won't be CDs anymore, I'm sure of that. Everything will be digital. Gary just hates that!
I believe in the not so distant future that you won't buy books anymore either. I hate to think it, but I believe that is how it will be with all the Kindles and Nooks and other e-readers that are on the market. I have such great memories of being a kid and sitting on the floor in the back of the bookstore at the mall and trying to pick out just ONE BOOK to buy! I got way more excited about going to the bookstore than to the toy store... I was such a nerd! She has such a love for books already at this young age and I hope it continues as she gets older and I hope that she can still have that magical feeling that I remember from getting a new book!
I will love telling her about how I used to take pictures! I used to buy tons of those disposable cardboard cameras (do they even still make those?) and you would take a bunch of pictures, then drop them off to get developed. You always got double prints in case you wanted to share them. It was always so exciting when you would go and pick them up! You never knew what you would find, maybe some really good pictures or you could spend the money getting them developed and there wouldn't be one good picture in the whole batch. I could do a whole post about my love/hate relationship with digital cameras.
I can tell her what a big deal it was when computers first came out. We had one in our classroom in 3rd grade. I remember it so clearly. Everyone would get to have a chance on it once a week I think and you would get half an hour to play Oregon Trail. That was seriously the best game ever invented! And everybody didn't have a computer at home, and hardly anybody had their "own" computer that they didn't have to share with their family.
And lets discuss the fact that our computers had to dial up to the internet... over a phone line... no honey, not a cell phone line, an actual landline that runs in to the house, through wires... oh nevermind. For now I can still take her to grandma and pappy's house to show her what those old time landline phones look like! For now... until they move over to just a cell phone too. The day will come, sooner than later I think.
Speaking of phones, I can tell her about life before cell phones. People couldn't just get in touch with you whenever they wanted to. It was a totally different world. If you wanted to call your friend, you had to call their house and possibly speak to one of their parents (gasp) before your friend could get on the phone. Or maybe they had a dad like mine who would hassle them and tell them to put a quarter in the phone before I could get on! haha
There wasn't any facebook or blogs, oh but we did have ICQ! Oh yes... Eventually we had AOL Instant Messanger, but ICQ had that cool flower thing... haha And an Uh Oh when you got a message!
Things are just so different now. But that is how the world works. And as time moves foward, technology is always going to get more advanced and things are going to just continue to change.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Heard Around the House #7
Lyla Sneezing.
Gary and I not saying anything.
Lyla: Bless You Lyla.
hahahahaha
Gary and I not saying anything.
Lyla: Bless You Lyla.
hahahahaha
Lyla's First Haircut!
Saturday morning Gary and I had an appointment to get our hair cut and while we were there we decided to get Lyla's hair cut for the first time!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Just a Little Update
So my whole "No cussing in March idea".... is NOT going very well. And Lyla said shit last night... so there's that. Oh my.....
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Life with a toddler
Here is a perfect example of why you should NOT give a toddler a tissue to blow their nose when they are in the backseat by themselves....
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