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Name: Miranda
Birthday: 10/25/1978
Gender: Female
Interests: My kids, my husband, our pets, my friends, reading, hobbies, politics.
Expertise: Reading, correcting people's typos and grammatical errors in my head, painting, scrapbooking, blogging, photography, raising my kids, questioning my sanity.
Occupation: Mom
Industry: Momming
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Member Since:
6/19/2006
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| So last weekend was Sophia's ninth birthday. Saturday we started off with breakfast at the OCB. Yum. Then we went to the Pumpkin Farm. We looked at all the painted pumpkins, the kids went through the maze, then picked out some pumpkins to take home. Mom bought some ginormous mums. It was chilly, so we then needed coffee and pie. It was a fun day. After we got home, the kids painted their pumpkins. Sophie's is some sort of monster lady with a beard - I don't know. And I helped Aiden paint his like Elmo, but then he wanted to keep his in the house. So Sophie's is on the porch, and Aiden has been carrying his around all week.
Sunday we went to a fun birthday lunch with most of Sophie's grandparents at Hacienda. Sophie picked Hacienda because she wanted the staff to sing to her, and because she wanted a sombrero. Mom couldn't make it because all the pie, pumpkins and chilly air the day before gave her bronchitis. But she's better now. The lunch was a lot of fun, Sophie got great presents, the food was good, and Aiden stole her sombrero. Good times.
Tomorrow is my birthday. I will be 31. Ick. This week will also be my last week of my first two college classes. I have to finish my two final projects, and then I will be six credits closer to my first degree. Right now I'm getting a 98 in one class and a 96 in the other, so I could not even do the final projects, and still pass, but I will do them anyway, because I love projects!! And A's. I love A's!!
              
Ole!
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| In preparation for Halloween, I bought Aiden the Luigi costume he so desperately wanted, and so he's decided that it is regular clothes, and now wears it all the time. It's a nice change from the constant nudity however.
This is the little companion Aiden decided that we needed to get to keep Caramel company. His name is Licorice.
Sophie got a bunch of make-up to play with from my mom last weekend, and has been dolling herself up everyday. This picture is not so bad.
This one, though, is a picture of how she looked before we went out yesterday.
Out in public. Yeah.
Anyway, yesterday I took the kids out to the mall. For selling ten items in her school fundraiser, Sophie had her name entered in a drawing for a hundred dollar bill. And she won. So, shopping she went. Video games, jewelry, pizza, ice cream, and she spent the whole shebang.
She bought some candy for her brother too. The photo below documents the boy's first experience with Pop Rocks.
So the kids had a great day, but my evening was far from over. After arriving home, we discovered that Aiden's blankie was nowhere to be found. Crap. So I called every store we'd been to at the mall, and nobody had seen it. But I knew it must be there somewhere, so we got back in the car, drove all the way back to the mall, and found that the guy at the pizza place had thought it was a scarf and turned it in to the lost and found. Crisis averted.
After we got back home, I let the dogs out, and Belle, our beagle took off running before I could get her on her chain. I mean, full out running, down the road, gone. Crap. I had to chase her down in the car, and when I finally found her, she was on another road, and covered in mud. Crap. Now my car needs cleaned out. I'm glad the relaxing weekend is almost over. I need a break from all the fun.
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| We made our last beach trip over labor day weekend. I can't wait for fall to get here, but it's still hot out. Very annoying. One hot day last week I went into the 7-11 for a cold soda and came out with a pumpkin spice latte. At least they have the right idea.
 
Then there was the whole pre-school debacle. Which is a complete no-go. He hated it. He screamed, he cried, I caved. Oh, well, he doesn't actually NEED to go until next fall. We'll call this time practice for next year.
 
Aiden's birthday is in December, but we usually have his party in the summer, so we can have it outside and all of the grandparents can come. This year, since the city was digging up our yard, we waited to see how that would turn out before planning anything. When it dragged on and on, and it became clear that our yard was going to be a mess for a WHILE, mom said that we could go ahead and have it at her house. Mom's super nice. And now I have about a month to plan Sophia's birthday. Jeez.
         
I am in my third week of college, and up to my ears in writing assignments. Considering I have not been required to write anything more daunting than a grocery list in a decade or so, I think I'm doing pretty well.
P.S.- Isn't it sad that Patrick Swayze died?
P.P.S.- Isn't Kanye West a tool?
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