Advents Corner

Ok I have been thrown into the world of buying and selling property. Sometimes I just can not believe the things that come out of these Realtors mouths. You can send them an email answering questions for them and they respond and you would think they did not even read the email you sent. One of the girls that sits next to me has a great button in her cube that I think would make very good funny t-shirts for the girls on the team. SORRY, I DON’T SPEAK STUPID!!!!! I just cracked up when she showed it to me.

This video is courtesy of two boys from the Big Island.  They are the number one subscribed comedians  on You Tube.  They have about 40 videos uploaded.  Everything from How to be a Ninja to How to be Emo.  Ryan Higa age 17 and Sean Fujiyoshi age 16 are students at Waiakea High School and according to them they produce the videos because the Big Island is one of the most boring places ever.  LOL 

I love being a Mom.  I think I am better at it now that I am older but I have always loved it.  Lani gets the benefits of more patience that I wish I had when the older girls were little.  My oldest is 17 years old and last week she asked me to get the tangles out of her hair.  It is little things like that that make me happy.  Just knowing that she would ask me to brush her hair means the world to me.  Here are 21 things you can do to help you enjoy being a Mom.  One of my favorites is number 3.  I loved taking a bath with Lani.  Now that she is older and can stand we take showers together.  It is nice to just bring her in there with with me after a long day of work and she thinks it is so much fun to be in there with Mommy.

1. When you’re tired, hand your kids a brush, point to your head, and tell them to play beauty parlor. When you’re really tired, pretend that you’re Sleeping Beauty.
2. Take your mother to a spa. While you’re both getting seaweed wraps, tell her all your favorite memories of growing up.
3. Take a bath with your infant. Make sure your husband is around for the handoff, so you can relax until the last minute. (Don’t forget to smell your baby right afterward. Heaven!)
4. At the end of every summer, take a family photo for the holiday card (you’ll be happy to have this accomplished once December comes). Every year, add a framed 11-by-14-inch print to your front hall. Your kids will be proud now and laugh later at the funny styles.
5. On St. Patrick’s Day, dye the milk and eggs green and turn the furniture upside down so your home looks like total chaos. When your little ones wake up, tell them that the leprechauns came.
6. The next time you have to go to a boring kiddie activity, invite another mom-friend along. Hide wine in sippy cups for the two of you to nurse undercover.
7. Play Freaky Friday with your husband and switch roles for a day. Enjoy his renewed appreciation for his Super Mom wife.
8. . In the dead of winter, fix some snacks, get under warm quilts, and watch Happy Feet on DVD. Tell your kids you love them even more than the penguins love their chicks.
9. Go to the beach in the off-season. Throw rocks in the water and collect shells. Put them in a vase and use it as shelf decor in your living room.
10. Skip the Raffi and Barney. Turn your kids on to Bob Marley, They Might Be Giants, and Gwen Stefani.
11. Take your baby out to the movies at night. (Infants love the dark, and loud trailers make them snooze immediately.) Then you can sip your soda and munch your popcorn in peace.
12. Buy yourself that fancy watch, strand of pearls, or whatever piece of expensive jewelry you’ve been lusting after. Justify your purchase by rationalizing that you’ll pass it down to your daughter (or son’s wife) eventually.
13. Take your kids to live music performances from very early ages. Cheap ones outdoors are great to start with in case you need to make a hasty exit (like when a diaper explodes).
14. Use your kids as an excuse to do the things you want to do, like going to silly feel-good movies, eating mac and cheese for dinner, and jumping in the moonbounce. Use your kids as an excuse to get out of things you don’t want to do, like going to a wedding or office party.
15. Every Mother’s Day, have a picture taken with your kids. Keep the photos all together - along with special cards, ticket stubs, mementos, and anything else that makes you feel good about being a mom - in a shoe box. (Of course, you must get those new shoes you love in order to do this correctly.) Every year, look through your Goddess Mom box and see how much your kids have grown.
16. Give your kids quiet time every day. Let them learn to be by themselves with books, crayons, or blocks.
17. Let your whole family take a day off and hang out in pj’s all day long.
18. Rent Sex and the City on DVD, and reminisce about the days when you were single and the biggest problem you had was whether the “He” of the moment was going to call. Let the romance of your youth seduce you. Then remember that, despite your freedom, all you really wanted was to fall in love and have beautiful babies.
19. Pitch a tent in the backyard. Use it as your outdoor reading room. Or when there’s a full moon, plan a family campout with sleeping bags, a transistor radio, and s’mores, of course.
20. Invent a house fairy. Give her a name, and tell your kids that she is always watching them and counting up their good deeds.
21. Listen for the deep, happy sighs that come after your kids play or laugh really hard. Tuck them away in your heart.

This goes to show you that you can make musubi with anything.  L & L Hawaiian Barbecue needs contestants for its Musubi Eating Contest.  Let me just say if you have a chance to get some food from L & L do it.  They catered Lani’s luau and the food was amazing.  Can’t get there for the contest, make your own.  Check out this quick recipe you can make at home.  If you don’t like spam you can put just about any meat or veggie on it you want.  Have fun with it.

It is beyond me the things people will come up with and the things people will buy.  Here is a clip of Ellen Degeneres using the Hawaii Chair.  You are suppose to be able to use it at work and stay fit while you sit.  I don’t know about that.  People are always trying to find the easy way to stay in shape but this takes the cake.

Being a foster guardian I am always on the look out for pet sites to pass on to my friend that is president of a rescue program. We have four pets, two dogs and two cats all of whom have been rescues. I have come across a site that gives really good Pet Information I want to share with you. Thoughts Fur Paws (very cute title) has information on the health, safety, puppy mills and dealing with the loss of your closest friend. One of my favorites on the site it the Rescue Dog’s Poem, I think it touches my heart because we have adopted all of our animals. While you are there take the quiz to see if you are more cat or dog. I am 80% dog, but I could have told you that.

I just had to post this because it is really funny

RETARDED GRANDPARENTS - (this was actually reported by a teacher)  After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their holiday away from school.  One child wrote the following: We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa.  They used to live in a big brick house but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to

Florida.  Now they live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass.  They ride around on their bicycles and wear name tags because they don’t know who they are anymore.  They go to a building called a wrecked center, but they must have got it fixed because it is all okay now, they do exercises there, but they don’t do them very well.  There is a swimming pool too, but they all jump up and down in it with hats on.  At their gate, there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in it.  He watches all day so nobody can escape.  Sometimes they sneak out, and go cruising in their golf carts.  Nobody there cooks, they just eat out.  And, they eat the same thing every night — early birds.  Some of the people can’t get out past the man in the doll house.  The ones, who do get out, bring food back to the wrecked center for pot luck.  My Grandma says that Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment and says I should work hard so I can be retarded someday too.  When I earn my retardment, I want to be the man in the doll house.  Then I will let people out, so they can visit their grandchildren.  ….  PRICELESS…… 

Again,

Florida is in the news because of an idiot.  This is why we have such a bad rep here because the state is full of idiots.  This mother of the year buckled in her case of beer but failed to buckle in her infant daughter she had in the backseat.  Thank goodness police noticed her erratic driving and puller her over only to find her baby was not fastened in. 

Because of this mom I have added a new categories entitled “Idiots”

This was too awesome I had to share it.  Pepsico had a commercial during the Superbowl last night that was the best Superbowl commercial of the night and possibly the best one I have seen.  There is a joke in the deaf community that it, if you don’t know which house you are going to honk the horn and the one that does not turn on the lights is the one you are going too.  I hope the deaf community does appreciate this commercial and no one was offended.  I have posted the commercial and below it is some information on why it was produced.  Please watch both of them and gain a little knowledge.

These are  interviews with the director and some of the actors from the commercial.

We are still looking for a new entertainment center to replace the one we have now.  It has glass on the front of it and it is not as much as a problem as it was when Lani was smaller but I was always so afraid she was going to fall into the glass.  We are looking at a lcd mount  I think those are so nice because the equipment is off of the floor and on the wall and you can run the wires behind the wall and you don’t see them.  Maybe with some of our income tax refund we can get them after we get a new vacuum.

My uncle a new car and he was looking at all of the stuff you can add to your car these days.  He was looking at this really neat cool Chrysler 300 accessory.  You put them on the sill of the door and they light up with the name of the car on them.  It was really cool.  He is going to get them in blue because that is his favorite color.

This is too funny but make sure you watch it all the way through and it this has not happened to you at least once then you are missing out on something.

This is so cool. I really don’t care for Valentine’s Day but I know a lot of people celebrate it and think it is so amazing. First of all I don’t believe that the person you love and loves you should tell or show you that only once a year. Number two I don’t like chocolate, never have so it is just a waste to get it for me and I really don’t care for roses. I love daisy. Anyway, if I had to get valentine’s gift this what I would chose. Do you have a favorite picture? You can turn it into a painting, how awesome it that?

Some of you might remember that last year we had our air conditioner replaced.  It was not broken but we knew it was on its last leg and we were afraid after the baby was born it was break in the middle of a

Florida summer and we did not want Lani to be uncomfortable.  We bit the bullet and bought a new unit.  We had every thing replaced, the cooper piping, the drainage and everything so we thought we were good to go.  Then our problems started and the issues would not have been such a big deal if we could have gotten someone the phone to talk to us.  Instead what we got was a lot of voice mail or talking to a receptionist that would tell us to leave a message because no one was there to talk to us.  There is a new service that will get you in contact with someone to talk to NOW, not three hours from now but someone live on the phone talking to you right then and there.  ServiceGuyr will put you on the phone with someone that can help you at that moment.  There is not a better feeling in the world to talk to a live person to make you feel better.  No messages, no call backs and most important no waiting.  The service providers call a number when they are available to talk to someone and then their information is posted.  Every number Service Guy gives you is a number to an available live person.  Next time you need service NOW log onto Service Guy.

You knew it was only a matter of time before jokes about how sad Ohio State is and how GREAT LSU is started circling the Internet. Here is the first of many. Of course I am also hearing jokes but they are too bad to put up here, right Mom. I tell you that woman’s mouth would make a Marine blush. Love you

Finally, I see an article about a parent taking responsibility for raising their children.  When Jane Hambelton bought her son a car she had two rules: no drinking and keep it locked.  Well 3 weeks after giving her son the car she found alcohol in it.  She placed an ad in the newspaper and sold the car.  Way to go Mom!!!!!!  We must teach these children that even though it was not your fault or it was a stupid mistake there are always consequences for the things that they do.  Here is the ad she placed in the paper and I love it:

“OLDS 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don’t love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life found booze under front seat. $3,700/offer. Call meanest mom on the planet.”

We are still looking for people to contribute the Our Precious Gift site.  Please pop over and check it out.  We need everyone’s help on this to get it going.  Our local news station has shown interest in doing a piece on it so hopefully we will get the word out about it faster.  I have also starting emailing the site to some military blogs; hopefully we will get some responses from them real soon.

Interest is growing over the new website Our Precious Gift. A few blogs have picked it up thanks to the kind people over at PayU2blog.  I am hoping this really takes off.  It would be so nice to see how many people will send in stories.  If it takes off well we will put up a forum for them to us so maybe we will be able to reunite some people.  Please take a moment to jump over and look at it.

I have started a new site that I hope you take the time to visit.  I am attempting to create a data base for those who have received medals of distinction through their military career.  Stop by and read the stories or register your own.

Our Precious Gift is the freedom that we sometimes take for granted.

I have seen people wearing dog tags lately as a fashion statement and I decided to get one for Michaela. I selected a purple tag because that is her favorite color and had her school name, her name, a music note and viola player engraved on it. I finally received it in the mail today even after having a dumb moment. I ordered the dog tag and thought I entered my correct address when in reality I entered my work street address with my home city and zip. Of course I did not realize I did this until I received an email from the company asking me if I had moved because the tag was returned to them. I replied and told her that I had not moved and she responded with my shipping address. I felt like such an idiot but she told me not to worry about it and she promptly changed my shipping information and I received the tag today on Christmas Eve. She was so helpful and corrected everything even thought it was my own fault. The tag is beautiful and the service was beyond compare. Thank you Quick Trophy for doing such an excellent job on making me feel like you only customer in the world.