Fluff your Peacock

I'm sure you're wondering what the heck I am talking about. Well even if you don't realize it we all have at least a couple of peacocks in our lives. I first came up with the name when I was on my beach trip with my friends. My tried and true friend, Nicey, Is my Queen peacock. We were sitting on the beach and this guy came up to talk to us. The rest of us were just laying there because we all know we look better laying down than standing up and showing all of our feathers. But not Nicey, this bird always gets up and has this kind of cocky, upright posture and this air about her when strangers come along.. She is the Queen, mother peacock!

So after this very married guy "just being nice" leaves, I sat there and thought........ Oh my gosh, you just totally spread your feathers when that guy walked up and totally took over. You are like a peacock!!! Then I realized that her feathers need to be fluffed now and then. What I mean is that the peacock will do anything for you but you have to fluff her feathers now and then. For instance, lots of thank you's, lots of positive reinforcements, and lots of compliments. These things will take you a long way with the peacocks in your lives! I mean this in a very good way. Actually, we should treat everyone like peacocks. Very beautiful birds that have wonderful colorful feathers that need to be nurtured and taken care of and fluffed in order to keep them thriving.

I have realized that I also have a daddy peacock in my life. It is absolutely my dad. He would do anything for me but he requires a lot of fluffing and sucking up to. I have fought this bird my whole life. But after my epiphany at the beach I finally realized that its not worth the fight. The end results are well worth it!!

Lets thank all of the peacocks in our lives, what would we do without them??????

How do they do it??

Just got back from a long weekend of baseball in lulling. I still don't get the whole baseball thing. I feel like I am the only one that complains or thinks that the whole tournament thing is a racket. This is the drill... I usually complain about where it is and the fact that we have to get their an hour early, just to get everyone in and all of the snacks is a fortune and I literally sweat my ass off. Everyone else brings food, toys, drinks, battery operated fans, bug spray, sun block, and are all color coordinated, I seriously don't know how people do it!!!

So my housekeeper decided to not show around 2 months ago and since then I am in charge of the cleaning. How do people do it????? I feel like all I do is clean my house. OK so maybe I don't get up till 11:00 but from then till 11pm I do not sit down..Literally do not sit down between the cleaning, cooking, carting kids, going to grocery, working out, watering the garden, yelling at the kids, doing the laundry, more yelling at the kids, making sure all of the baseball uniforms are together for the games we have 4 days a week, not including Cameron's weekend tournaments...

What the hell! I know I signed up for this whole stay at home mom, wife thing but I swear it is so damn hard. By the end of the day all I want to do is have a glass of wine and chill out to watch Bravo. But one glass turns to Two then Three and then I find myself not wanting to get up at all the next day so I try not to drink at least Monday till Thursday, although the summer is a little different and the rules are bent a little bit more but I still try to abide.

So we get home late last night after we won one game and lost one the weirdest thing happened. There was a frog in my house and I swear he or she had the biggest dust bunny hanging on its leg it could not hop. Then I found a June bug with the same problem. I have never seen this in my life. I know I mopped Friday afternoon and swept twice since then so why are my floors so damn dirty. I give up!

In the mist of all this I found Bella eating lettuce on a fork which I thought is much more healthy than Chicken on a stick and actually tasted really good. Maybe I should start selling these at fairs...Lettuce on a stick????? Bella may be on to something.

Sex in my city

OK so in anticipation of Sex In The City 2 the movie which out on Thursday, I just wanted to give my take on the S word. We all love it but sometimes were not in the mood. My thoughts are that maybe were not in the mood but who really ever is??? Actually, sometimes I am really in the mood, The fact of the matter is if we want harmony and peace in our home you better give in or you are screwed!!
I am not saying this to be funny, I'm telling you no matter how great your marriage is if there is not a continuous pattern of sex or something that resembles it you are going down!! Really, our husbands are like primates. It's not their fault it is the way they are wired The fact of the matter is that if you don't make him happy he will definitely find something or someone else that does.

I truly believe this!

Take out the local girl

Sooo I always feel guilty for ordering out on the weekends because it is about 70.00 every time, and I can cook a really good meal for about 25.00. For example, tonight I told Rick I wanted to stay in and cook and I figured out last night I wanted to make veal parmigiana with pasta and a good salad. I really love to cook and it is very therapeutic. I put my music on really high and I go to town... So after going to the grocery, cooking for two hours, being sick of the food I cooked for two hours, and everyone eating at totally different times, I'm like "What the hell did I do this for???" I truly think my 3 hours of cooking and cleaning is worth way more than 45 bucks. Seriously I am a much happier wife and mother when someone else can wait on me and pick up after all of my kids.

I told Rick tonight if I have to unload the dishwasher one more f -ing time I am going to puke. 4 times today and another load is waiting. Wait a second... I thought that was Julianna's job to unload and load the dishwasher????? R u kidding me?? She only does it when I threaten her with something like no forever 21 for a month. I swear to you that I would rather do it myself than bug the shit out of them to do it.

Meanwhile Millie's boil had been popped numerous times and she is now taking Bactrum, thanks to her yaya that called it in and hopefully she will have only 2 tits tomorrow instead of three.

Oh yeah, if you didn't see Rick in the paper today, front of the living section in a piece called "The best revenge".....talking about his exercise regime, it was really cool and he looked so hot ,but little did anyone know that me, Millie, and Georgia were on the sidelines waiting for him to finish because Georgia was screaming in pain because of her strep. You would never know by his face....that is the difference between men and women. I could never look so good when my husband and baby are lurking in the background. I have to say my husband is the best!!!

The only weird thing is that the photographer saw us and was really interested in our family...."So, you have 2 girls???" I'm like, "No actually I have 4 girls and 2 boys." OOOHHHH really? Yep! I said ...One Million questions later and I was described in the article as a "local girl" Can't I get a little more credit than that??? No you don't girlfriend........

Boiling over

OK so I have not given all of my kids a party every year of their lives. I truly believe I should have but it just didn't happen. Bella had a party on her 1st and 3rd birthday but this year she wanted a big "Princess Water slide" party. We were so graciously given all of my nieces extra candy and lollipop decorations from her sweet 16 so we had a candy bar, big water slide and 40 of her closest friends. OMG!
I love it when its over and I love planning it but the actual event kinda sucks! First of all Quint had Bella before the party and thought the party started one hour later than it actually did so the birthday girl arrived very fashionably late. My dad has always taught me to make lemons out of lemonade So I thought how can I make the most of this weird situation where a 5 year old is almost an hour late for her own party???? So I thought about it and knew that all of my kids have always asked for a surprise party and I was going to seize the moment. I gathered up everyone in the house before Bella arrives and when she gets there I met her on the porch and told her no one came and the look on her face was so pitiful but when she she saw everyone in the house yelling "SURPRISE!!" It was priceless.

There you go... one more thing off of my bucket list....."THROW BELLA A SURPRISE PARTY" DONE!

Bella and Georgia had an ENT appointment on Tuesday for their ears. Georgia and Bella's ears were good and Georgia will get tubes next week! The bad news is that Millie woke up with a big boil on her knee Tuesday morning, I think from the nasty water slide. Anyway, with such a large family we are no strangers to boils. I swear I have never seen so many boils in the last couple of years. I know exactly how to pop them and drain them. Soooo gross but it has to be done. So Dr. Mike drained it and sent us on our way. Prior to seeing Mike, which by the way, is an ENT doctor and very graiously lanced it for us while Bella was getting her hearing tested Millie would yell ."Don't touch my boil!" ......... "Watch out for my boil!".........But being the funny girl she is by Wednesday she was saying, "SPANK THE BOIL, COME ON SPANK THE BOIL!" What the hell does that mean?? Who does she possibly think would spank her boil......I swear that child reminds me of myself.

Our summers have officially begun because I have been spending every evening watching my girls play cabbage ball in preperation of their big opening weekend at Lakeview playground. I swear it is bitter sweet! I seriously don't know why I go to the games. I know all I do is talk the whole entire time!!! I never see Millie or Bella hit and the only thing I do is entertain Georgia and get frustrated with the money I dish out. Lakeview does sell beer, so it does ease the pain a little bit, but I sill think all playgrounds should have a a state of the art nursery so parents can actually watch their other kids play. Of course it would be stocked with pickles, sour punch straws, Gatorade's, hot dogs and nachos so those kids don't feel left out. Maybe this year I will invest in a muzzle so I actually watch my kids play!

What the Hell!

Let me just get started by saying my life never has a dull moment. After having a fabulous mothers day at my mom and dads and helping host my incredible niece's sweet sixteen party, by the time Sunday night came I was pretty exhausted............. Oh no, but the big man upstairs definitely thinks I can manage more. So the madness begins.

Monday morning I wake up to a broken pool pump and filter. So glad the pool will be green for Bella's party. The Joy! We realize our Dryer has Been connected the wrong way for 7 years, hence the blown out motor and we could have easily burned our house down. When the appliance man came downstairs laughing at the fact that he has "No idea how you are going to fix it" I swear I wanted to slap him. Oh yeah, and Rick asked him if he could fix the vacuum cleaner too he laughed again after looking at it and said "ma'am that is a throw away" I'm like, "what is a throw away?" and hes like "You don't fix it, you throw it away." Well I guess I am really stupid!!!! So I call Rick and tell him. By 4:00 I had the dryer and vacuum cleaner in front of the house and a new dryer and vacuum picked out, delivered and hooked up by my incredible husband, Rick!
Oh yeah almost forgot about snack day for Bella. Is it just me or does everyone cringe when they see the Raggedy Ann And Andy bag come home....F_ _ _! I'm always like "NOOOOOO, not the snack bag" and Bella always laughs cuz she thinks its sooo funny. Well, so I was trying to pass on the cup cakes left over from the sweet sixteen but was informed that they were too old. (So what if their a little hard) So I had to go to the grocery and got cookie cake, ice cream, and rushed to school to realize that I had missed snack and they gave the class some oreos that they "found." THE GUILT OF A MOTHER OF 6. The good news is that they woke up the kids early and they got to enjoy Bella's Birthday at school. Happy 5th Bella!!

Soooo after 2 days with the pool man lingering around, and me having to help him jump his truck because his battery died we are on our way to a beautiful blue pool. Feeling good about all we accomplished that day We pass out to be woken up by our precious Georgia at 2am with a screeching cry and a fever.

Holy Crap! We all know when an infant gets sick pretty much the whole house gets shut down and I feel like putting a "Do Not Disturb" sign wrapped around the whole house....Back to Doctor Keith and we are informed that she has a viral strep throat and a bad ear infection. I have never heard of tonsils being referred to as "Meaty" . Gross!!!!! What does that mean? Well apparently it means their very red like raw meat. Time to hunker down for 3 days to totally attend to her. I guess that means no girl dinner tonight, no jazzercize, no cooking, no cleaning, no fun, and I lot of huffing and puffing.

Finally get her to sleep around 10pm getting ready to watch a little TV and the frickin TV and computer went out again..I swear I really couldn't believe it.. Cox was out for about 45 minutes, she woke up and Rick and I decided to go play with her upstairs and have a cocktail on the floor of Georgia's nursery. I have to admit it was kind of a nice way to end a hectic day. FIREFLY SOUTHERN LEMONADE on the rocks is delicious.. I did add a little club soda for the second one... Then all three of us went to bed.

very Rocky night but Megan came over from 8-10 to watch the little peach while I slept........

Almost forgot, getting the house pressure washed today, and water has been turned off in our neighborhood...Are you kidding me....??????


WHAT THE HELL!

Thank god

I just wanted to than god for my awesome life and the ability to say as I feel without being judged. I am so blessed!

She has some nerve!

Just a quick one... I was wondering if there was any way that I could pinch a nerve in my private part. Well, I think It has happened. And no it was not during some inappropriate behavior it was while I was folding clothes with Millie in the girls room and I got up to put some clothes away and OMG it felt like a burning steak was piercing through me. So since then I swear I have either a hernia in my privates or a pinched nerve. WTH!!! The only pain I can compare it to is when I had my "Three' tummy tucks, yes its true Three...not good....... But for those of you that don't know when you get a tummy tuck you get these two drains that come out of your lower area and it is so painful and taking the drains out hurts more than the surgery.

The last two days I have been complaining about this weird sensation and this morning Rick said something that I could not keep to myself. I am going to do the modest version for those kids that should not be peeking.. He said. "Your p____ has got some nerve!" I thought it was the funniest thing and I had to share it.

If anyone has any thoughts or medical advice on this please fill me in because it is the weirdest phenomenon I have ever felt. Can there really be a hernia down there or not????????

I think I am going to send Rick to medical school... oooops we cant really afford it!

Let me start by saying that I had a great Cinco De mayo. Made homemade enchiladas which were gone and Cameron said "It was my best dinner ever!" That kid can be really sweet when he wants to. I went to "Jazzercize" which is my sorta latest obsession.. Exercise is definitely one love Rick and I share and sometimes I get a little bored with it so I decided to go to Jazzercize in November. OMG I luuuuuuuuuv It!! I strongly recommend it for anyone who who wants to feel like their 18 again. We even celebrated one of the members 83rd birthday one day after class. I am telling you this because my instructor that I love dressed up for Cinco DE Mayo!!! Oh no she didn't!!!! See pix

K so My high school girl friends and I go to Destin every year, well this is my third year, their like 6th. It has to be one of my favorite weeks of the year. Nine of us went this year.....so many funny stories and we keep a running journal and so I am just going to mention a few.... Please don't be offended.

(was going to tell the funniest story but my husband says it is inappropriate , I thought a blog was supposed to be pretty much uncensored but guess not....Your loss) But I will say it involved a razor, a taupe, and a private part. hee hee

So one long day at the beach after drinking a lot of "juicy Juice" I started getting a little bit of a headache and I had no advil so I started digging in my bag and I found this oblong pill with some numbers on it so immediately I told my friend Rachelle to google "oblong pill with **** on it" to find out what it was. They all looked at me like I was crazy, but I am a girl that loves a good pill and I would never throw it away without knowing if it was good or not. So she googled it and sure enough DARVACET!!!! Yes, jackpot so I popped it and my headache went away and within an hour we were dancing to 80's music and doing cartwheels and handstands on the beach... I swear I had the frickin best time that day that if I could have been frozen in time I would have. (Moral of the story, Google is a wonderful thing)

I am really picky about my sleeping, and if If you know me well I am very picky about the conditions of my sleeping so in order to take control of the situation I always take a blow up mattress, sheets comforter and pillow and find the coldest and darkest place in the condo. In this particular condo this place happened to be the laundry room. My fabulous friend, Tisa thought this was "fruit" because she didn't get it because it was her first time with us and so I think they made me move to the bed which my other fabulous friends Jennifer and Nicey and I slept in a queen size bed which Jennifer said, "I pity the fool that has to sleep in the sandwich" Which of course was the "peacock" Nicey who politely crawled in the middle of us two crazies and slept sandwiched in between us. (Thanks Nicey) I cannot tell you how bad my head hurt that next morning... However within hours we were all jogging 4 miles along highway 90A. A good run seriously cures anything. I will explain the peacock later...A whole blog in itself!

Lets just say that we had a blast from having Ruth's Chris delivered to our room and eating in our pajamas, to laughing so hard our stomachs hurt. Going to end now because I have a huge day tomorrow.

Thanks for such a wonderful trip Nicey, Jennifer, Candy, Richelle, Tisa, Carolyn, Michelle, and Meg.. Only 354 days till next trip

Why a blog?

This is the second time I am writing this because last night while I was posting my Internet, phone and cable went off during , literally during when I posted and lost half of my stuff. Thanks cox, I didn't even know I hadn't paid the bill. Sound familiar?? To boot I realized this last night at 3:00 am while our precious little Georgia politely decided to not sleep from 2-4am. Rick is usually the one to get up with her but if she is not cooperating we take 30 minute shifts and so I decided to check how brilliant my blog was when I realized the frickin Internet is off. omg It had better saved. No luck!

First I have to clarify something I wrote about the "vodka" incident. I just got back from my girls trip and when we were unloading the car some water bottles got divided up and i put them in my fridge. Sooo no it was not my teenagers trying to sneak vodka, actually it was one of my 40+ friends that did. Still don't know who it belongs to but Rick did enjoy some on the rocks last night so thanks!!

So..... why a blog? Well As you all now I have been obsessed with reality shows for years...My first brush with getting close was the show "trading spouses" that didn't work out because I got pregnant for number 4 and actually the show was cancelled, moving on to Oprah Winfrey was doing a show on high security prisons and I was going to spend the night with four other normal women and talk and interact with prisoners...............Well I got pregnant for number 5 and they were not comfortable with that but I was literally put on stand by to fly up to Chicago and take part in the show. It all happened and ended very quick,,,,Then there was a close call on the amazing race and of course my latest obsession The housewives of New Orleans..boo hoo

I thought this was it for sure, it started in November of last year when I had my first chat with the producer, then it all snowballed into this huge audition process where I had to stage things and film them and pretty much film everything during the holidays and send it in to him.

Then I had my face to face filmed audition and I thought I nailed it, he acted like I did too!! Now it was a waiting game but in the mean time it got out that I was definitely going to be on it and I must have been asked, "did you make it?" a thousand times. Just the thought of making it was fun so when I got the call that I did not make the last cut I was upset but life went on and I got over it really quick especially when no one else I knew had made it either!!

I think my biggest reason for wanting to be a "real housewife" was due to the fact that everyone kept telling me your life is like a reality show, oh my gosh you should be on a reality show, and I thought my daily family happenings were so frickin funny that it would be a trip for the world to see. Evidently the producer, who said your family is perfect for the show, I love the connection you and Rick have and blah, blah, blah at the end did not think so.

So I was thinking if I'm not going to be on the show I still really need to document my family follies so everyone can get a kick out of them and It would be like a journal for me as well.....hence the blog

I offended a couple of people yesterday and I am sorry but if you can't take the heat please get out of the kitchen. This is my life for real. Speaking of that I have to say that today I actually had to get out of bed after the kids got out of school because SPX had a mothers day May crowning deal with church, crafts, and picnic lunch. (Oh Mary We Crown Thee With Blossoms Today...it makes me cry) I mean it was fun and all and I love being with my Millie BUT come on I think I spend way enough time with my kids, mothers day isn't until Sunday anyway.I loved church and picnic but I am so sick of doing crafts. Millie is up my ass 24/7 and actually I always tell Nicey If I could literally shove her up my ass she would be in heaven. She would actually be with me all of the time and she would luuuuuv it!!

We had a first day at Lakeview park and I was running to the car to get Money of course and Millie was holding Georgia when I got back Georgia was screaming and I thought she just wanted me, 5 minutes later Millie goes Hey mom you know Georgia's face fell in this crack. I'm like WHAT? What crack? this one in between a big roll of turf and some plywood. she fell off my lap and her head was in this crack. Rick was behind her in the batting age with Cameron and he very nonchalantly says, Yep she fell in the crack. Holy crap I was gone for 30 seconds.

Juicy was sitting there and laughing telling Millie "You re so stupid!" that really helps juice

After picking up Quints car which was in the shop again for a flat tire, broken mirror, piece of bumper missing on the front, broken fog light, and broken wind shield wipers, yeah that's it, we got home and had meatballs and spaghetti. It was a big hit with them all!! Watched 9 by design and Glee which are my Two new favorite shows. I should say tried to watch my shows but Bella was in rare form begging me to smell her feat. Pleeeaaassee Mommy they don't even smell bad. I refused and then I caught myself saying, "Rick please tell Bella to stop humping my leg!!!" What an awesome day!

FYI Rick was 100%alive and willing Monday night and it was all I would hope it would be and more!! I won the bet... Well deserved because we were celebrating that night because my incredible hard working husband left his job with the bank and flew the coup and is going to do it on his own. So please send all business his way, as we know he is the best at what he does! I love you Rick

I cant wait to write about my girls trip which I will do tonight with pixs.....

Adios on this Cinco de mayo

Lynn Crozier

So I posted my first blog and realized I had left lots of facts out, Sunday night we could not find our dog(BIG THUNDER STORM and after 30 minuts of looking we realized that she was hiding out in my car WTF!!!

On saturday, obviousy my son is very thirsty and grabbed a winn dixie water bottle and upon drinking he prcedded to spit it out saying YUCK what is this?? I t was mango infused vodka YumYuM!! Ive had to mop the floor 2 times because of the sticky stuff Still dont know who this botte belonged to ...........K so I am feeling pretty horny and I am going to attack my increible husband I hope he is still is alive and willing....I think I would bet 99% will let you knoW so excited and cant wait will let you know!!

Lynns Re Entry from Destin Girls Trip to chaos 5/2/2010

Put it this way........Julianna said she watched Georgia 24/7 while Quint did nothing and Rick worked out. House was a wreck despite the "surprise" maids rick got me which apparently all they did was clean under the couches and complain that the vacuum cleaner needed to be cleaned out (they didn't either) Oh yeah, forgot to mention that they put all the soup cans in perfect order in pantry.. Georgia had 2 ear infections and we had a baseball tourny in mandeville...Rick told me by Saturday evening that I better stop "HUFFING" and all I could say was "GIVE ME DESTIN OR GIVE ME DEATH" My house guest 13 year old nick lorusso witnessed the whole charade and said he had never seen someone master the roll of the eyes so much as I do...(True story) 9 teenage girls slept over to go to jazz fest sat...kill me!!

Yesterday started with terrible weather, Quint wakes up which by the way screwed up his knee in football Friday and gets on the scale and lost 3 lbs and gets pissed that he needs to gain weight ...Maybe cuz we only have soup in the house I told Rick...Rick was on the phone with good ole Tommy Fabacher at 11 making him talk to Quint about what he should be eating sooooooo off we go to supply our golden child with hundreds of dollars of supplements, bars, weight gain etc, While all the while Millie only wanted to go to Nike to buy the newest and latest shorts...Bella wanted to go get ice cream and Cameron was his regular cocky self. (All the while Chi Chi is screaming cuz of ear infection)

Anyway last night I made trout almondine which only 3 of us liked, watched Kendra and passed out Took a nap from 8-11:30

Rick and I did "reconnect" Sunday morning and it was incredible and he told me how much he loved me and missed me and how beautiful I was even though I was complaining for the last 2 days that" I don't know why I even run and do jazzercize so much when I still look like shit in a bathing suit" Poor Lynn

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Oh yeah, sitting playing with Georgia last night and spot the oddest combo of objects sitting under my island, ready for this an orange, a piece of bubble gum and a tampon, yes I said a tampon, not a used one but one Bella was probably playing with. Going to send picture...As Nicey would say, "How could I make this up????

There you have it, that was a little taste of my reentry