Put my turkey in the blender.

Last week I had some oral surgery done. Some bones in the top of my mouth had to be cut (It really sounds so much worse than it is) but as a result I'm not allowed to chew for six weeks. So please eat some turkey in honor of me tomorrow, I'll be sticking to the mashed potatoes. Happy Thanksgiving!

$1.67

I just bought gas and it was $1.67 a gallon. I thought that was blog worthy. When gas was around $4 it was nearly $120 to fill up my car, today it was around $40. My wallet breathed a sigh of relief.

I don't drink Dr. Pepper but...

I saw this on Yahoo! News, pretty funny.

Dr Pepper to deliver on its free-soda promise

LOS ANGELES – Dr Pepper is making good on its promise of free soda now that the release of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" is a reality.

The soft-drink maker said in March that it would give a free soda to everyone in America if the album dropped in 2008. "Chinese Democracy," infamously delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale Sunday.

"We never thought this day would come," Tony Jacobs, Dr Pepper's vice president of marketing, said in a statement. "But now that it's here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper's on us."

Beginning Sunday at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper's Web site. They'll be honored until Feb. 28.

Dr Pepper is owned by Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.

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It's Official.

I'm no longer considered to be in my mid twenties. I'm twenty-seven and now officially in my late twenties. I have survived the big day (well I guess there is still an hour and half left but I think I can make it.) Let's face it, I wasn't exactly looking forward to this birthday. Twenty-six was not really what I expected it to be. If someone had told me where I would be when I was turning twenty-seven I would have told them that was crazy talk. Twenty-six wasn't all bad though. The first half was actually quite good. My little miracle baby was born in May when I was exactly 26 1/2 years old. Today he is exactly six months old. And thanks to the wonderful friends and family in my life I actually had a very nice birthday. (I'll have to blog more about the festivities once I have all the pictures :) I've felt so special. Thanks everyone. I guess I'll accept to being one step closer to thirty. :)

You can't change your birthday.

Yesterday Aiden got very upset with me when I told him that he couldn't change his birthday (he wanted his to be in November). He said it wasn't fair and I told him that no one can change their birthday, it's the day you were born, it's already happened so you can't change it. He wasn't convinced.

I'm outnumbered!

When I took on my new roll as a single mom, I had these visions of what it will be like when they are both sick. Two little ones throwing up at the same time while I try to catch it in bowls or aim them towards the toilet. How could I do it for both at the same time? I'm sure a lot of parents feel this way when they have three children. Well with winter settling in on us we have also begun the season of sickness. The week before Halloween Aiden was getting a bit of a cold. He went to bed feeling a little stuffy so I turned on the humidifier and rubbed a little Vicks on him and he went right to sleep. A little after midnight he started coughing that horrible barking cough and was crying because it hurt. Well this startled Liam so he woke up very upset as well. Aiden was having a difficult time breathing and was getting very upset. (This happens every year around this time ever since he was sick with RSV and pneumonia when he was two) Usually Travis would hold him and get him to calm down and then he would be able to breathe a little better. This time around I'm on my own and there are two, so I've got a baby screaming in one arm and Aiden freaking out in the other. Luckily Aiden calmed down when I put him in the tub so I could get Liam calmed down and back to sleep. Even when Aiden had calmed down though he was really struggling to breathe. With every breath his chest would sink in. I knew this was really bad for babies, but I wasn't sure if it was less serious for older children. So what do I do? I called my mom. She wasn't sure either but she came right over for a second opinion. She agreed with me that I should take him to the ER and she would stay with Liam. At the hospital they gave him some steroids and a breathing treatment. We had to stay the rest of the night until about seven in the morning, until his breathing had improved. It was serious and I was glad that I didn't let the fear of overreacting keep me from bringing him in. The crazy thing is that it's just they way he reacts to a cold and they said he could go to school the next day. It took a few days for Aiden to get over the grumpiness of a sleepless night but other than that he recovered so much faster than he usually does with this kind of thing. I think the breathing treatment made a huge difference. I must thank my mom for coming over in the middle of the night. I guess the job of mother never ends. :) I wouldn't trade it for the world though. Today Aiden has the stomach flu and Liam is teething or coming down with something. Either way, neither he nor I have gotten much sleep over those last three days. It's exhausting and never ending but like I said I wouldn't trade it for anything. It's the hardest and best job in the world. It offers the greatest rewards. I'm learning to cherish all of the little moments I have with my children, even the throwing up ones. :) They are only small for a short time. (And it's all about the attitude right?)

Oh, and I must tell the funniest story about Aiden. My dad recently had knee replacement surgery and had to stay in a rehab/care facility. Well that facility happens to be on the road to the hospital. When I was driving Aiden to the ER that night, as soon as I turned on to that road, he pipes up in his raspy, barely can speak voice, "I can't go to the old people one."