THE DOG AGAIN

Stockings in the Stovesand house have always been fun on Christmas. You never know what you are going to find. Will it be lotion, gum, toothpaste, a hammock, socks who knows? Well this year I was so elated to find stamps. Not just any old stamps stamps with pictures of my moms dog. Not only do I get to hear about her dog non stop now my mail will have a mention of Milo as well.

Oh yes and when I say elated I am being sarcastic.

PB&J

I love sandwiches any kind veggie sandwiches, meat sandwiches, paninis, fancy sandwiches with weird schmear and plane Jane sandwiches like turkey NO MAYO PLEASE (mayo reminds me of rotting flesh it gross's me out big time)!!!!!

That being said I would have to say the PB&J is my favorite. My reasoning is easy:

1.) cheap

2.) easy clean up

3.) peanut butter lasts forever unlike turkey that goes bad in a week

4.) tastes yummy

5.) you can jazz it up with honey, almond butter, or any other kind of

nut butter

6.) nostalgia: pb&j with a glass of milk reminds me of simpler times you

know when you were 5 or 6 playing outside in the sprinkler.

HOME SWEET HOME

Well the Christmas Holiday is over and I am home yeah me!!! However, I wanted to share some of the great Holiday news with my fellow bloggers:

1.) Molly left for China

2.) Billy's grandma felt me up (long story for those of you that want to hear it)

3.) saw the grandparents in STL

4.) got a hair cut

5.) went to Christmas mass and guarded the baby box with my life .... no touching remember...I do not want the Christmas flu

6.) got to see 6 months worth of dirty laundry from my brother that lives in Chicago (he wrapped it all up in a fish box and duck taped it .... did you know he is 29 and still brings his dirty laundry home)

7.) Got in a Christmas day fight with my mom

8.) Got kick ass Christmas gifts from the Hubby

9.) Did not give kick ass Christmas gifts to the Hubby (we usually do not give gifts but this year I gave him an umbrella .... times are tough people)

10.) Saw my friend Alicia and her cute kids!!!!!

11.) Milo took a chunk out of my cat

12.) Saw my cousin Brian's kids and watched my cousin Anna shamelessly talk them out of a dog

So Merry Christmas Peeps (even though it is over) and have a happy New Year hope every ones Christmas was eventful as mine!!!

DID YOU KNOW

Did you know when you are 7 months preggers you are not to work out you are to sit on the couch and eat Bonn bons. At least that is what all the ladies keep telling my mom!!! I guess if you want toxemia or preaclampsia or a baby with high cholesterol that is a good idea. Come on ladies I am not running twenty miles I am walking for 40 minutes or doing the elliptical or the StairMaster.....PLEASE OH PLEASE KEEP THE COMMENTS TO YOURSELF ESPECIALLY THE STUPID ONES.

I think all pregnant (healthy ones, if your doc says rest you need to rest) ladies should get exercises you know walking, swimming, ridding a bike or something. You need to be strong when the baby decides it is ready to come out of the "baby box." You know it is not just going to slide out of there you are going to have to work at it!!!

P.s.

Gabbie Reese even had her own pregnancy work out video when she was preggers

ROUND TWO

Well it is off to Muffy's house we go (that is what my mom wants to be called instead of grandma).

I will keep you posted about the fun and exciting adventures of Christmas at the Stovesands.

By the way Muffy VanderBear is what came up when I typed in Muffy.

Merry Merry!!!!

GIFT GIVING

Do not get me wrong I love gifts gimme gimme gimme. Honestly thought I really only like getting them from my immediate family (mom dad brothers husband and if my brothers do not get me one i relay do not care either). I get embarrassed when I get gifts from friends (you know not close friends but just friends) I even get embarrassed when my in-laws give me gifts.

That being said my family's gift giving I think is perfect cousins do not give gifts to each other (if we did i would be broke there are to many of us), aunts and uncles do not give gifts to nieces and nephews and nieces and nephews do not give gifts to aunts and uncles (again we would be broke to many of us). My brothers and I go in with each other and give combo gifts. My brothers and I also go in with each other and buy our mom and dads gifts. However, I just heard a different story from a person that will remain nameless we will call her shopper.

Shopper goes Christmas shopping every year (you are like yes Bernadette so does everyone else...no this girl shops I mean like 5 a.m. shopping after Thanksgiving). At first I thought she was crazy however now I know why, she has to buy for her family and her husbands family (shopper make your husband do his family at least one year so he knows how much of a pain it is..... i make billy do his family with a hint here and there otherwise he is responsible for them...However I think he pawns it off on his sisters go figure). Her husbands family gives gifts to everyone: aunts, uncles, nieces nephews grandparents and so on and so on!!! Now that is a lot of gifts!!!!! So to Shopper I say maybe you should just nix that house on Christmas day and go skiing because you could probably take a trip like that if you did not spend all the money on Christmas presents!!!! However, Shopper is too nice to do that, she will continue to be a good wife, mom and daughter-in-law unlike me who would go skiing!!!!!

YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME

You can feel it coming: the sting the puffiness and then in 24 hours the full blown out fever blister!!!! Yeah!!! I love fever blisters especially since they come at the best time you know right before Christmas.

One year my mother in law told me about this chap stick called Herpacin and she said if I used it every day I would not get a fever blister. So I did and you know what, about 11 months later I did not get a fever blister on my lip I got one on my nose, even better!!!!

So for you peeps out there carrying the herpes virus on your lip just let nature run its course or get some valtrex that shit is awesome!!!