The Reluctant Mommy Blogger

I just got back from taking the kids to see Toy Story 3. It was so awesome!! I almost cried four times. When we got out of the theatre Garrick said he almost did too. I am just going to take a minute here to rave about Pixar, once again. I don’t know how they can pull off doing these OUTSTANDING movies ALL THE TIME, but it sure is great. I can count on this studio to always deliver a great movie with fresh ideas and writing. Thank you Pixar.

In other news, there has been so much going on with me this month. I am always wanting to sit down and write about it, but I never seem to have time. I have drafts that I started way back in December that I still haven’t finished yet…. Stuff about movies and vacuum cleaners, Nine Inch Nails and chickens. You know, all sorts of crazy stuff. Between taking care of the kids and (it feels like) a ton of other obligations, I never seem to be able to carve out time to write emails to people, let alone a blog entry. So in the mean time my list of unpublished drafts keeps accumulating. Maybe someday I will get around to finishing them.

In the mean time, I just put a bunch of video up on Youtube of the kids. My user name on there is              . Check out my channel if you want to see boring home movies of Trent and Hunter doing ordinary mundane things that all other children do. I’m not putting down their milestones or anything, but let’s face it, all kids do this stuff!

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A couple weeks ago I had some left over chicken and rice so I decided to make chicken fried rice. This was to prove to be a difficult task as I didn’t own a proper wok and had to use one of my regular frying pans. So on Thursday I went to Ikea and bought myself a new wok and made tofu fried rice that night! It was awesome! So much easier to cook rice with. I wouldn’t have been in such a hurry to buy a wok except that when I made that chicken fried rice I discovered that Hunter LOVES the stuff. I do believe that fried rice is about to become a staple in our house. Hunter eats the stuff like it was going out of style!

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Is it sad that one of the biggest highlights of the last two weeks for myself and the children (mostly myself) is that Netflix added four seasons of Rugrats to Instant View? That being said, Rugrats is just as good, if not better, than I remember. I love that show.

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I just got back from taking the kids to their first ever parade! Since Garrick is taking his first long distance trip on his motorcycle this weekend, and he has been gone since early Thursday morning, I have been trying to keep really busy with the kids. Yesterday we had preschool, so that kept the kids busy, and luckily this is 4th of July weekend so there is lots of stuff going on to distract the kids. I found out a couple days ago that there would be an Independence Day parade this morning and the best part was that it was just a couple of blocks from the house!

Trent was just astounded and couldn’t get enough of the candy that all the cars were throwing. He was also so jazzed about all the motorcycles in the parade. Hunter was just happy to sit back and watch the sites. It was so cute to see them both waving their little flags. They are both so tired out right now. Actually, I am too. Of course, because of all the candy Trent started having meltdowns upon arriving back at the house, but that’s ok. I have been surprisingly patient with the kids all weekend, thank goodness.

Tomorrow we will be going to see fireworks in Manassas. There is a big party that is supposed to start at 4 and then the fireworks are at 9:15. I think we will have a quick snack after nap time and we’ll plan to be there at around 5:30, 6-ish and hope for the best. I hope it won’t be too crazy with them.

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