Cantini #3

This is my favorite movie quote. Nope, it's not "You had me at hello" or " I feel the need...the need for speed" or "I'll have what she's having." There have to be more good one liners from The Wizard of Oz than any other movie. Take for instance:

Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore - Dorothy

Only bad witches are ugly - Glenda the Good Witch of the North

Ding Dong the witch is dead - The Munchkins

I'll get you my pretty...and your little dog too - Wicked Witch of the East

Follow the Yellow Brick Road - Glenda

My ! People come and go so quickly here - Dorothy

A lot of people without brains do an awful lot of talking - Scarecrow

If I only had a brain - Scarecrow

If I only had a heart - Tin Man

Lions and Tigers and Bears, O My - Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Man

Put 'em up....put 'em up.... - Cowardly Lion

If I were the King of the Foreeeeest - Lion

I'm melting...melting...melting - Wicked Witch

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain - The Wizard

There's no place like home - Dorothy

As you can tell, we all just watched The Wizard of Oz..love that movie. Anyway....so what's your favorite movie line??? All of you who like to read my blog, just click the word COMMENTS (not the envelope) just below this entry and tell me your favorite line......I'd love to hear from you....thanks for reading

Posted by Cantini #3 at 4:49 PM | Permalink | Comments

Ok...so I haven't had the best day in the world. So my hair still isn't doing exactly what I want it to. So my kids don't always obey me the first time like they should. BUT...God is still so good to me. God shows me grace every single day. God gives me little things at the end of my day that say, "Michelle, I love you so much." So undeserving......but grateful.

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I found out last night at church, that the place where we have Aubrey going for his dentistry work, may not be the best place to go. This makes me a little sad and mad too. Apparently this place has a reputation for doing much more dental work than maybe actually necessary. A very good friend of mine, who's opinion I totally respect told me about her experience. The same doctor told her that her son had 7 cavities, and her regular dentist said that he had none!!! How horrible. Then another church member said the same thing. And they know others with the same experience. So....I went and got his x-rays and treatment plan and took it to our regular dentist for his second opinion. I think that even if he agrees with the treatment plan, that I will still go somewhere else. I just don't feel comfortable about it anymore. Plus Aubrey silver tooth makes him look like "bling bling boy" (My hubby came up with that one). Imagine his mouth with 3 more silver crowns.......

Like I learned at the "Women of Faith" conference this weekend.....it's not a problem, just an inconvenience. The conference was ok this year. Something was different from last year, I'm just not sure what it was. But, I guess if I can come away with one truth to hold on to, it was worth it. Plus AVALON was there and they were AWESOME. They are so good.

Poor Parker, I guess one day I'll have to blog about him....it's all about Aubrey these days.....

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Yes, I never thought I would say this. I promised myself that these words would never come out of my mouth.....but today, they did. I said "If your friend told you to jump off the roof, would you?" Aubrey and I got into a discussion about his "bead up the nose" drama. He tried blaming his friend again. "But he told me to." I still don't think that it got through, we will have to see.

The kids are having a great summer. My friend Lori M. is taking care of them this summer. She has two older boys....11 and 13 (I think). Her boys are totally into Star Wars, as are mine, so they have a blast playing with all the toys at their house. Lori has taken them to the library, a movie, a magic show and the park. They really are having a real summer. I didn't want them to have to come up to the church/school everyday. I wanted them to be able to just play and have fun. I pick them up at 3:20 and will still have time to come home and play in the pool. It's amazing how God always works things out for the best. A lot of prayer goes into who cares for them while I am at work.

I'm going to the "Women of Faith" conference this weekend. I'm actually just going on Saturday. It really is a lot of fun and inspirational. I'll let you all know how it goes and post some pictures. Beginning last year, a group of girls from the office went. Of course us office girls can have fun doing anything.......but this is a special time. Stay cool everyone!

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Aubrey did awesome at the dentist. Thanks everyone for praying for him. Believe it or not, he has 3 more times to go! I know that this is my fault for giving him too much juice. I've already gone through the blaming myself and the feeling guilty stuff. And I'm comfortable with that....taking responsibility, that is. It's not his fault. I really do feel like a bad Mom. I've had someone tell me that some kids just don't have strong teeth and take to having cavities more than others. That sounds great, but I still want to blame myself for this. Anyway, he said that the whole thing didn't hurt and he's not hurting now and he got 2 toys from the dentist office. At least he gets toys.

Do you ever have one of those blah days? That's what I'm having today. I feel bad about the teeth thing, my house is up to the roof with laundry, dishes and dust, I am SO hungry and trying not to eat everything in the house, and it took the kids almost 45 minutes to get down for a nap. So, I called my Mom and she made everything ok. Why is it that calling your Mom can make you feel better about just about anything?? Somehow she made me feel better about my status as a Mom - even if I did attempt to lie yesterday...instead of just saying NO - thanks Ang :) Oh, I know what else is bothering me....I hate my hair. I've been letting it grow out a little longer and it's getting on my last nerve...you know, the bangs are too long, but not long enough.....getting it cut on Monday. Don't know in what style yet, but something. I've got my ball cap on right now just to keep it out of my face. I better stop writing...I'm probably making everyone reading this depressed. Sorry. I'll feel better when the kids get up from their nap and want to snuggle on the couch and watch Tom & Jerry.

Posted by Cantini #3 at 3:53 PM | Permalink | Comments

It seems as of late, that most of my posts have been about my #1 son, Aubrey. He's had the most going on, I guess. Well, he had a tough day today. We found out that he has to have some extensive dental work done starting tomorrow. Crowns....yes crowns for my 5 year old. He will have these teeth until he is 12 so, we must get them fixed. Anyway....he really wanted to go to kangaroo Kids which is an indoor playground thing. I didn't really want to bother, I had rather go home, put some H2O in the kiddie pool out back and relax, but he really wanted to go. It was already 4:30 and I was tired. So I came up with this great plan. I'll tell them that it is about to close and we couldn't spend very much time there, so we will go tomorrow after his dentist visit. I was going to drive by the place on our way home and lie. Great idea, Mom!!!!! Ok...not so good. Why???? Well, Aubrey then decides to pray and ask God if the Kangaroo place could still be open because he really wants to play. Thanks a lot, Aubrey. Now I have the future of your faith in my hands, or so it felt. What's a good Mom to do at that point? Well, my little plan to lie had just unfolded. I guess that it what I get for trying to fib to the kids. I guess God possibly might have been using my child to teach me a lesson???? What do you think?????? Lesson learned...

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My oldest son, the one with the hidden talent, has another skill. At VBS yesterday, he decided that he needed to stick a bead up his nose. Ok, he is 5 1/2 years old....we should really be past the "thing up the nose" trick, right? Well, apparently not. So I get a call to come over to the children's area because Aubrey stuck a bead with the letter "R" up his nose. They let me know that he is fine and he can breathe, so that means that it is ok to get mad. He did this one other time at home and we got the object out, thankfully. So why would he try this again? Anyway, on my way over, Wendy J. stops me and says that they got him to blow it out and he did not need/want to see me. Good thing for him, too. I was pretty mad. I mean, he knows better. He finally told me about it later that evening. He said that one of his friends told him to do it....this was a big, fat lie, of course. I did my Mom impersonation and went over all the danger of putting things up your nose, yadda, yadda, yadda. He will probaby do it again. Parenting is never boring!

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My son has a hidden talent that I did not know about. It is a talent that I wish that I had and have tried to accomplish....but sadly, cannot. He can make the Chewbacca noise. Yes, I know, he is only 5 and does not fully appreciate Chewbacca like I do. But.....he can do it. He did it today along with R2D2 and C3PO. He attempted to make the light saber noise, but not so good. I wonder if I should register him in a contest or something??? Just kidding. I will admit that last year me and my friends sat around and "tried" to make the Chewbacca noise. There we were......adult women sounding, well, silly, but having a lot of fun. None of us could do it very well, but there was one who came pretty close. (#6). Anyway, I was just proud of Aubrey and his talent. Brag when you can, right???????

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This is awesome....I've got free entertainment in my own backyard. My neighbor is having 2 trees cut down because our yards are so small, a lot of the action is in my backyard. I'm afraid I'll be blowing out tree mulch for the rest of my life. But the boys are GLUED to the windows. This could not get anymore exciting for a 3 and 5 year old boy. A bucket truck outside our window cutting down trees and there are limbs falling everywhere...just hopefully not on our house. The shredder is right outside our back porch (as you can see). My main concern at this moment is a limb hitting our house, or the grass getting completely messed up. But I guess that is better than the dead tree falling our house during a storm, right????? We are supposed to go see the new movie "Cars" with my sister this afternoon. I hope that is as exciting as cutting down trees.

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Ok...it's 1:30 am and I had to get up in the middle of the night to get something to drink. I've been battling allergies for the past few days and my throat gets itchy at night. Now I'm wide awake and reading other people's blogs. What is it about peering into other people's lives that is so very interesting??? Not like digging into their deepest, darkest secrets or anything, just what they may have had for dinner, or what their kids did that day, or the latest I read about picking boogers. I guess it's like having a mini web-cam into their homes. It's nice knowing that other people do normal or not-so-normal things just like you do. Maybe it's like reading someone's diary and it being ok to do so?????? Whatever the case, I will continue to read and continue to write.....even when I have nothing to write about!

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The kids wanted to get back in the pool today when we got home....so in the pool they went. I was going to grill dinner tonight. We had pork chops, red bell peppers, zuchini, asperagus and red onion. Yummy. The kids veggies were butter beans and creamed corn. While I was grilling the kids played with their toys and had a great time. It was just nice to have a good day with nothing exciting going on. Right now the kids and Tommy are laughing their heads off a "Tom & Jerry". These are just simple moments to enjoy.

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Ok...So I promised my kids a pool for the backyard. The deluxe kind...You know, plastic and about 60" in diameter. Only the best for my kids! My husband was gone for the day and he took THE VAN....which was what I needed to transport the deluxe pool. But, we did have the Escort and I was determined to make something work. So off we went to Toys-R-Us to get the "flexible" plastic pool that would last a little bit longer than the one from Kroger only 1/2 mile away! Toys-R-Us I about 15 miles away...only the best will do! (I actually did have to go to Circuit City too). Anyhoo...we bought the pool and went out to the car to "attach" it to the top of the car. I brought some wire/rope stuff to secure it. I ran the rope through the back windows while the kids looked on and secured the pool. Off we went. Then I noticed that if I went over 35 mph, the top end was flying off. So I stopped in a nearby parking lot to secure the front and ran the rope through the front doors and windows.....only to realize that I could not open my door! Aubrey said "Mom, I'm smart and I've got a brain, and you are going to have to crawl through the window." So, "Dukes of Hazard" style, I climbed through the window and off we went again!. I could not go over 45 mph and took all the backroads. It took us 45 minutes for a normal 15 minute drive. There I was driving with my arm out the window making sure that the pool didn't fly off the top. But, here's the reward....all the way home, the kids were like, "you're the best mom ever, you're my hero, you're awesome." I must tell you that when I pulled into our driveway with the deluxe pool, I felt awesome. The kids played in the pool for almost 2 hours and we had a picnic outside....what a great day!

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This is my first blog posting. I'm not sure really even where to start, or if anyone will ever read what I type. I first became addicted to blogs by reading Terrible Speller's blog everyday...and I mean everyday. It was so nice to read the everyday happenings of a normal, stay-at-home mom and just read the basics. It was refreshing to see that we all struggle with the same things whether you stay at home with the kids or work outside the home like I do. Thankfully, I do not have to work a full day, and this helps tremendously with the kids and the loads of housework. Anyway, if you are reading this..then "welcome to my world." It may not be very entertaining or interesting, but if it can be the least bit inspirational, then it will be worth the effort. God is the guiding force in my family's life. I hope He is important in your life too. Life is only worth the journey if Jesus is with you.

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