5 Things Friday - 5 Favorite TV Shows, that are no longer on the air

5 Things Friday
5 Favorite TV Shows, that are no longer on the air

So sometimes its hard to come up with the 5 things to put on my 5 things Fridays lists.  Sometimes I get to 3 and I have to really dig to get 2 more.  Today I thought, oh I can put my 5 favorite TV shows.  Then that turned in to a pretty long list.  Then I thought ok, widdle it down to favorite 5 shows that are no longer on the air. 

And they are....

1.  LOST
The show Lost was TV at its finest.  It is one of the best shows I have ever seen.  It made you think, it was entertaining, I just loved it!  The writers were so smart and decided a couple seasons in when the show would end.  That made the show more like a REALLY long movie.  The beginning laid out all the characters, the middle was kind of boring but with a lot of infomation that you needed to be able to appreciate the end!  It had everything from love stories to smoke monsters!

2.  Sex and the City
Are you a Carrie or a Charlotte?  Miranda or Samantha??  I love this show!  Oh Big...    :)


3.  Friday Night Lights
It had a football plotline to keep the guys interested and drama to keep the girls watching.  It was a perfect show for any couple out there.  I cried watching so many episodes...

I may or may not have got Lyla's name from this show...


4.  What About Brian
This show was only on for two seaons but I loved it.  I later came to find out that one of my current favorite shows (Parenthood) is written by the same people.  Conincidence???


5.  E! THS (True Hollywood Story)
THS can pick any person, no matter how dull their life is and by the end of that hour I will be so sucked in and want to know even more about their boring life!!  This show is amazing to me!

Finally Something Goes Right!

Its really comforting after you make a tough decision to get the feeling like you absolutely made the right decision!  Let me explain:

It was not easy at all to decide to send Lyla to a different daycare.  I have always said that I was keeping her where she was because I trusted them and until she was old enough to tell me she wasn't being treated right, I wanted her to be in a place that I felt she was safe and being well cared for.  So when we decided to look at a different place and then start her at the new place, we had our reservations.  We just hoped that we wouldn't regret our decision.

So yesterday morning was her first day at the new place.  When we got there in the morning to drop her off she was down playing before we even left!  She told us a quick goodbye and went back about her business.  I called at lunchtime to check on her and they said she was doing fantastic!  They said she was playing with the other kids, ate all her lunch and was laying down for a nap.  When we picked her up last night, she was great!  They said she didn't cry once the entire day!

We took her home and its just really hard to explain.  She was like a different kid.  I have not ever seen her so at ease and happy and just carefree after coming home from spending the day at daycare.  It was amazing!  It was like a huge stress had been lifted from all three of us!

So we take her this morning and I am expecting it to be totally smooth since yesterday was so great.  Well she started crying and clinging to me and didn't want us to go.  The teacher took her from me and we left, well Gary sort of dragged me out of there and I think I said something nasty to him about not telling me what to do.... I get upset when my baby is crying - sue me!  haha  We are in the car, probably 5 minutes later and my phone rings, its the daycare.  My first thought is they are going to tell me she is too hysterical and I need to come back and get her.  Her old daycare (where she was for 2 years keep in mind) only ever called with bad news.  And I left her there crying like that lots of times.  So I was prepared for the bad news, I tentatively answer the phone.... Its her teacher, she says I just wanted to call and let you know that she is calmed down and playing with another little girl.  They are cooking a truck in the play kitchen right now to feed it to the baby doll. 

WOW.... I mean... just wow!  That was the nicest, most caring thing that teacher ever could have done for me.  Letting me know that Lyla was ok and not sitting there upset.  Giving me the peace of mind to go ahead with my day.  That was just so unexpected and incredibly appreciated.

I just look back on the past two years at her other daycare, which I always raved about and thought was so fantastic, but compared to the experience of just the last two days at the new place, we are so much happier already!  I see good things in our future! 

And just to give everyone a little smile and a glimpse at what a good/silly mood Lyla was in last night:

She was playing with her kitchen and cleaning up "messes" with her cleaning kit.  She wanted her baby doll to help and plopped her right in the cart, I was laughing so hard!

Saturday - In pictures

Started the day off in the backyard with Lyla:

Then Gary and I went out Saturday night for some grown up fun while his mom watched Lyla.

After a few drinks here is the best my drunk butt could do... haha

The girls:

Group Shot?  I mean, technically all six of us are in the picture... haha

Why would we ask somebody to take a picture of Gary and I when I could attempt to do it myself??

So I tilt the camera to get Stef and Phil in the picture together.... you know because we are standing on a hill and the height difference and all that (it makes sense when you have been drinking) and then Stef leans to go with my camera... Then when you look it at and rotate it... you just can't figure out which way is the right way!!

Last but not least... me and Stef.  She COULD NOT keep her eyes open... oh well!  :)

5 Things Friday - 5 Favorite Clarks Songs

Top 5 Favorite Clarks Songs:

We are going to go see The Clarks tomorrow night.  If you don't know who they are, they are a local band and I love them!  My girlfriends and I used to basically be groupies!  We went to every show, would wait after and talk to the guys, we have pictures with them, autographs... the whole nine yards! 

But we all got married, we have families, things get busy.  I haven't been to one of their shows in about 3 years, so I am pretty pumped!!

So here are my top 5 favorite Clarks songs, although really, I love them all! 

Actually I take that back, I hate the Snowman song... lol

1.  Penny on the Floor
2.  Cigarette
3.  Shimmy Low
4.  Hey You (fun fact: its about September 11th)
5.  Born Too Late

If you don't know their music, please check them out!  I promise you won't be disappointed!
http://www.clarksonline.com/

5 Things Friday - 5 Emotional Things from this past week

First off I would like to start this post with saying that I have majorly sucked at blogging lately.  I feel like my life has been a bit helter skelter lately and I'm trying really hard to just plant my feet on the ground and breathe!  Everyone who knows me well knows that I don't deal with change or anything unexpected very well.  I like my routine, I like things to be boring, I don't like changes in my every day life.  And God help Gary because Lyla seems to be the same way.  So in honor of it being Friday, I will give a summary of what has been happening lately as a "5 Things" list.

1.  Daycare.
Oh daycare.  Daycare has been an extreme headache to me the last couple of weeks.  I never dreamed to be a stay at home mom and that hasn't changed, but its been hard lately to send Lyla to daycare every day.  They move rooms at daycare as they have a birthday.  So her birthday was on Sunday and the next day she moved to the Twos Room.  And she was sick that week.  And getting her molars in.  It was a bad week and not a fair way to get introduced to a new room, new kids, new teachers.  So I had hopes this week would be better.  Its not.  She doesn't like it at all.  And I honestly don't know that I like the way they do things in this room either.  They expect them to be very independent and she isn't at all, I mean, she's two.  So every morning she bawls her eyes out when I get out of the car and she begs me not to make her go.  Its a good time.... not.

So I'm not loving daycare this week anyways and Wednesday when we pick her up there are letters in every one's bags.  They are raising their rates in September.  Not $1 a day like they have in the past... $35 A WEEK.  Ugh... we can't afford it now, how will we afford it in September?

We have an appointment to check out a new daycare on Tuesday.  Its close to where we live now and I think it might be a good match for us.  I figure might as well move her while she is transitioning anyways.  It will only be worse if she gets all settled in to this new room and then I make her do it all over again.  Which with my luck is probably what will happen anyways... but what can you do?

2.  Lyla's Health.
As my mom keeps says "Lyla is making us earn that parent badge".  Nothing is ever easy.  We have had some concern about her right eye.  In the evenings when she is really tired it will sometimes roll around and not focus.  So we took her to a pediatric optomologist this week.  He did an exam and isn't overly concerned at the moment.  I need to get a patch and we are supposed to put it over her good eye for a couple hours a day to try to strengthen the bad eye.  And he said it looks like she will need glasses soon, but not yet.  Which is not any surprise with the terrible eyesight that Gary and I have!  We have to take her back in a few months to get checked out for that.

Also when she was sick last week part of it was an ear infection.  Her tube came out of one of her ears.  So she has her ENT appointment next month and I don't know what he is going to say.  We might have to get it put back in.  This will be the third time...

3.  I just found out that one of my dearest friends and her family may be moving far away.  I'm so excited for her and I know that she will be so happy if they do, but I'm sad for me. 

4.  Its Father's Day weekend.  I love my dad very much and I'm so thankful for all he has done for me and all he continues to do for me.  I'm so happy that Lyla gets to have Gary for a daddy.  He is wonderful to her, she is a very lucky little girl!  And my heart breaks for Gary because he doesn't have his dad here this weekend and I can't imagine what that feels like.  I can be supportive, but when it comes down to it, I (thankfully) don't know what it feels like to lose a parent and its not fair to pretend like I know exactly how he feels, because I don't.

5.  And to round off this list of emotional things - something with good emotions attached!
ASHLEY GOT ENGAGED!  :)  Jeremy went all out and its a great story!  I'm so so so happy for them!

5 Things Friday - 5 Things that have sucked this week

5 Things Friday
Top 5 Things that have SUCKED this week:

1.  Lyla has been sick.
2.  I have been sick.
3.  Gary is out of vacation time at work.
4.  I am out of vacation time at work.
5.  My stupid phone finally died after going for a swim in the washing machine so I had to replace it.

For the record I'm super cranky and in a bad mood.  So if you talk to me today and I bite your head off, well you have been warned....

Lyla's 2nd Birthday Celebration!

Hi all!  Today was my little princesses 2nd birthday!  I fully intend on writing a post about all that has happen in the last year of her life and how I truly love her to pieces (or m&ms, haha), but at this exact moment I am totally exhausted!  So I'm just going to throw up a quick post up for everyone to see the pictures from her special day and a quick video!  She had a great day!  <3

5 Things Friday - Things I like to see first thing in the morning

On this rainy Friday, let me share with you things I like to see when I wake up in the morning (no, rain is not one of them):

1.  My two favorite people!

2.  A nice cup of coffee.

3.  An alarm clock with a time past 6:00 because that means I got to sleep in...

4.  The beach.... this one hasn't happen in a REALLY LONG TIME...

5.  A calendar saying that its the weekend!