yes i did friday!

friday again and time for me to tell you what i did this week. the good, the bad and the ugly. did i make progress from last week? read and see... thanks to jeanette for hosting this blog carnival!

yes i did take a few day break from the interwebz this week. i did log on to blog, but as you can tell, i've been a bit lazy with the content.

yes i did manage to accomplish nothing much with my newly found free time. i did read a book and a half, and two magazines though.

yes i did continue to ignore mt. laundry, washing only an emergency load of unmentionables. unfortunately i sense mr. h is going to be insisting that i deal with mt. laundry soon. i'd like to ask him to move the washer and dryer into the house so that i don't have to walk outside to get inside to the laundry room, it's florida and it's hot! but i don't think that's going to go over so well.

yes i did drag myself to the monthly meeting for kelley's class. i did have to try really hard to do the right thing because these meetings don't seem to have much to offer. in truth, the only reason i did go is because kelley earns points for my attendance.

yes i did continue to be a good mommy that night after being a bad mommy last weekend. see what had happened was...the girls asked for doughnuts for dinner last week. i said no but promised to get them doughnuts that coming saturday. i *gasp* broke the promise which led to much girly tween drama. so after the meeting we went to get doughnuts for dinner.

yes i did feel a sense of panic when i read about the eggo shortage. i'm still a bit on edge and wondering if i should rush to the grocery stores and clear out their stock.

yes i did place order #4,852 to gap after receiving a discount code from a friend.

yes i did find out about further gap codes* and am tempted to place order #4,853. yes this enables my laundry ignoring habit. (*if anyone is interested in gap codes, here they are: gapsale25 and gap20, i think you can stack them, this may be for sale merchandise only-not sure. thank you fancy! check out her blog for other great deals-living the fancy life).

i think that pretty much wraps up my week, and yep not a lot of improvement. i thought confession would be a good motivator. apparently i'm shameless... be sure to head over to jeanette's to read what peeps did do this week and join in too!

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yes i did friday!

it's friday and thanks to jeanette we get to let it all out. the good and the not so good, it's time to own it! yes i did!

yes i did help the girls with their homework every day this week, and even had them redo things that were sloppily done. no slacking with school.

yes i did run over and smash one of bethany's plant projects. i feel very guilty about this, but it was dark and she did leave it behind the car.

yes i did fall asleep the one day mr. h wasn't home and was not awake when the girls got home from school-for an hour. they were fine, staying in the yard with friends and i think they were quite thankful to have an hour of extra play time.

yes i did ignore the great mountain of laundry all week. however, i simply must give it some attention soon.

yes i did consider giving up the internet for a few days. as you can tell, the "yes i dids" this week were not too impressive. but realized i can't go offline because i have a responsibility with nablopomo.

yes i did stay up til around 4am every night this past week. and i wonder why it's not been a productive one.

so that's the summary of what i did do this week. to join in or read what others have done this week click on jeanette's name and head on over to join yes i did friday!

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yes i did friday!

it's friday and time for "yes i did"! i may share good things i've done this past week, or not so good things. but just know that i've never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed. to join in or read others "yes i did" posts check out jeanette's blog!



yes i did call to reschedule a meeting with bethany's teacher because i was feeling badly...i had a cold.

yes i did attend the meeting two days later. (i'm not that much of a slacker!)

yes i did do a little dance of happiness and cheer when i realized that wednesday was not an early release day from school as it should have been, because of the upcoming holidays.

yes i did a major, never done before, accomplishment...i have not eaten one piece of the girl's halloween candy loot. not a one!

yes i did use that as an excuse to extend my rule of only eating brach's candy corn and creme pumpkins during the month of october. i also did go to the store and forage through the left over, marked down halloween candy in search of the beloved brach's.

yes i did get myself a pack of pretty colored markers and a drawing pad just in case i feel the urge to doodle. i have no intentions of sharing them.

yes i did manage a week's worth of meals never once using the stove or oven.

yes i did receive my copy of the pioneer woman's cookbook. i expect that the stove and oven will really come to appreciate the break that i've given them.

yes i did start my christmas shopping.

yes i did get a few things from the christmas list at an inflated price from amazon sellers because i knew they are hard to find items. i justified the over priced purchases by not only comparing prices among the sellers, but also factoring in the time and cost of gas, as well as the stress that making many trips to wal-mart (yuck) would have given me.

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yes i did friday!

it's friday, time to share your brilliant or not so brilliant highlights of the week! please join in this fun bloggy carnival by visiting jeanette's blog. you'll have fun reading what everyone else did. and will feel a little bit lighter, i'm sure, when you can just own it and say yes i did!



yes i did sleep in really late a couple days this week. (i did however manage to roll myself out of bed in time to greet kelley and bethany home after school).

yes i did eat one dinner that consisted of nothing but yeast rolls and honey butter spread from the golden corral.

yes i did do part of K & B's homework for them by alphabetizing their spelling word lists. (it's good exercise for my chemo brain).

yes i did take K & B to the grocery store alone! (this is a big deal for me! taking the girls out alone is really exhausting. i don't know how all of you moms do it).

yes i did buy nothing but junk food on that trip! (there is a holiday weekend coming up).

yes i did encourage mr. h to "bond" with K&B by bribing him to take them to the fall fun festival and leave me at home to supposedly do laundry. (keyword supposedly).

yes i did only three loads of laundry in recent days, an emergency load of underwear and socks for the girls, my bedsheets, and my blanket.

yes i did ignore the rest of the laundry mountains.

yes i did put together 40 halloween goodie bags for the girl's parties stuffed full of good junk. (see i can behave like a good mom sometimes!).

so those are my yes i did! highlights. i feel my face taking on a nice blush color.

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yes i did friday!

i can't believe it's that time again, time to tell you that...yes i did it! can't say there was much brilliance in my week, well maybe a little. but there are a whole bunch of things that you shouldn't do, that i went ahead and did for you. i'm a great friend like that!

i did wish that i could replace mr. h with a live in best friend. seriously how much more fun would that be?

i did start working on my laundry mountains this week. and i successfully washed everything made of denim. that's a good showing of effort!

i did fix a broken closet door that has baffled the family for months.

i did eat at least my body weight in brach's candy corn and the mellow pumpkins that bethany convinced me are better, she's right! but hey it's only one month out of the year that i eat them.

i did go to walgreen's for one package of feminine products and left with three bags of junk i had not intended to buy. however, the girl's halloween costumes should be complete and we have a couple weeks supply of brach's mellow pumpkins. ok more like a couple days.

i did go into circle k in my jammies today-a victoria's sleepshirt, sweat pants, flip flops, wild hair and sans bra.

now i know y'all really want to try this oh so liberating "yes i did friday!" thing out. so to liberate yourself, head over to jeanette's blog and grab a banner, tell us what you did and link yourself up on her mcklinky. can't wait to read all about it!

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yes i did friday!

thanks to jeanette it is again time for "yes i did friday!" it's time to tell you things i did this week, that maybe it was best i didn't. (but hey confession is good for the soul!) and i might even have something good to share.

if you want to participate in this bloggy carnival, head over to jeanette's and grab a button! don't forget to link up with her mcklinky so all who are participating can check out what you did and you can check out what they did! it's a win-win...

and, here we go!

i did ground kelley and bethany from speaking to each other-at all. the bickering is out of control with both of them. they were able to communicate via notes and signing but even that went awry. they are now not allowed to communicate with each other at all, atleast not infront of me.

i did take baby wipes to spot clean two pairs of jeans for kelley and bethany just so i could avoid laundry a little while longer.

i did actually leave the house four times this week for a birthday party, errands at the grocery and dollar store, picking up kelley from school, taking one of the kittens to the vet. this is the most i've been out in longer than i can remember.

i did get tired because of all of those trips out of the house and shamelessly took naps.

i did manage to make it another week without making a gazillion appointments that are way over due. (friday's always seem to sneak up on me).

so there you have it...some things i did do. and there's no shame here!

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yes i did!

thanks to jeanette, i have a new, fun thing to blog about on fridays! (just a little late this time though). "friday is the day to fess up to doing something that didn't exactly make us the brightest crayon in the box. to own the things we knew we shouldn't have done, but did anyway. or to share something that we are proud of ourselves for accomplishing! so here is what i DID do this week..."

~i did spend way too much time hanging out with online friends instead of doing the mundane chores that have been waiting on me. not just for one day, a few days!

~i did ignore the fact that i had run out of my heart medication, oh, a week or maybe two ago. really how much difference could it make? after noticing a little bit of racing flutter i decided to check my heart rate. let's just say that it would have been fine had i recently finished a jog around the block. but i don't jog. oops. don't worry mr. h got my refill the same day.

~i did eat waffles for dinner more than one or two nights this past week.

~i did efficiently use my break from the girls last night. after dinner, i took a shower, went straight to bed and slept til noon.

want to join in next friday? it's easy! hop on over to jeanette's blog post about Yes I Did! and get the scoop!

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