Crown me!

Roughly 18 years ago, I was diagnosed as a fleshly headed mutant with a baby tooth. Translation: I had a baby tooth without an adult tooth underneath it. So, my wonderful dentist - and I'm not kidding, he was a great dentist, a little odd, but a great dentist - put a crown on the tooth with strict instructions to never let another dentist pull it. Because then I would look like I'm from Kentucky have to get some sort of implant.

For a few years now, my new dentist has been talking to me about replacing that stainless steel crown to a tooth colored one.  It wasn't a huge priority for me because it wasn't like my front tooth - who really cares? I am in the camp of "if it ain't broke don't fix it" so I ignored their attempts to make me feel insecure about my mouth bling.

Well, I few weeks ago when Trophy Hub and I were getting wooed by a car salesman, I lost a filling in the back on a Sugar Daddy. OMGoodness, that's embarrassing. But, it's the truth. He gave me a Sugar Daddy thinking it would get me to buy the truck and instead it pulled the filling right out and I was spitting metal for the next hour. Damn car salesman anyway.

So, I had to go to the dentist. They fixed the filling and I made appointments for the 4 of us to get our semi-annual cleaning and verbal spanking for not flossing. Well, Trophy Hub gets the verbal spanking. I actually DO floss most of the time everyday. At that time, I figured it I could handle this filling fiasco I could handle them replacing the crown. The dentist assured me it was no worse than the filling replacement.

Monday were the marathon dentist appointments. The boys both did great - Bubba actually got his teeth polished for the first time! Yay! Peanut has always done well at the dentist. I was nervous most of the day about this. I'm not a big baby - I actually think I handle pain very well - dental stuff just freaks me out. I got my teeth cleaned then the shot for numbness, then they put on the temporary crown. They take an impression of your tooth and then a dental lab has to make it. So I get to back in 2 weeks for more dental fun. Even with my face feeling like it was 4 times bigger than it is, I could feel that the temporary. It feels nasty. You know if you don't brush your teeth at night, how they feel in the morning? Imagine that feeling times a million and that's how nasty is feels....like popcorn, splenda, hummus all caked on the tooth.

It's going to be a long 2 weeks.

I'm trying

I'm trying really hard to be a better wife, mother, sister, daughter, housekeeper, co-worker, boss, employee and cook. 

It's exhausting.

To camp or not to camp

Last year, we visited some friends while they were camping. We started to get the itch for a camper. We got over it when fall and winter came.

Late spring, we visited some other friends while they were camping. The itch has returned. 

It's amazing as I've shared our itch with others, most of them have poo-pooed the idea. (Yes, that's a technical term.) It's so much work, It's so expensive, You'll have to empty the pee tank...

I'm sure it is a lot of work. Packing and unpacking is a lot of work. And most of that work would fall on me. I'm sure I could leave the packing to Trophy Hub, but no one would have underwear or a toothbrush. And just to be fair, it were up to me to empty the pee tank, we'd be staying in a hotel. 

There's just a little difference between what we can afford and what we want. 

 

I'm no princess, but I've had 2 babies and I'm not trucking through a campground to pee in the middle of the night. Having a potty on site is crucial. 

Now, I'm off to check Craigslist for the perfect camper!

Peanut the Exterminator

One night, I came across this show. I'd heard of it, but never actually watched it. Peanut was still wide awake, so I invited him to watch it with me for a little while.

That's when the obsession began.

It was a marathon, so I ended up recording a bunch of them for him.

Now, if you've seen it...don't judge my parenting. I know that sometimes there are situations not having to do wish exterminating (as in all "reality" shows) and some words that 6 year olds don't need to be saying. He's only allowed to watch it if Trophy Hub and I are there also so we can do past inappropriate parts.

And as far as the language...I think kindergarten introduced him to all bad words. And he knows which ones to not say. He does still think that the "s word" is stupid and the "b word" is butt, so I think we're ok for awhile.

He now wants to be an exterminator when he grows up. I'm just curious...does that I mean I can stop saving for his college or is there some kind of exterminating program somewhere?

Updates

You like me, you really like me! I haven't been writing and I've been hearing about it.

So here's what we've been up to...

Things have been pretty busy around our house and lives in general. Trophy Hub finished his 3 week summer course in Religion with an "A". His GPA keeps going up and we are SO proud of him. He is now staying busy being Mr. Mom during the day until he goes to work.

Work for me has been really busy. I am looking to fill an open position and interviewing candidates is exhausting. I am a hard worker and have high expectations. I try to warn applicants of what they're getting themselves into. Ha! I think I found a winner though! Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Peanut is enjoying t-ball and can hit the ball extremely well. He has a wildlife camp through UI coming up in a few weeks that I am sure he will love.

Bubba is doing well despite a few injuries of late. A few weeks ago, the dog took him for a walk down the sidewalk and he didn't have a shirt on. He skinned up his ribcage, head, cheek, elbow and both knees. Then last week, he hit his head on the concrete (twice, actually) and ended up with a concussion.

Mothers of boys need to have some sort of ER quick access card or something....there is NOTHING worse than having your child sick or hurt. NOTHING.

Our summer get away is right around the corner. As a reminder, since I haven't been writing and all, we are going to Florida where my parents have a house. We are pretty low key when go down there. We usually just like to hit the beaches, some shopping, a few favorite restaurants, the pool and go in the boat for some fishing. Plane tickets are booked, rental car is booked...now July 15th just needs to get here!

We'd like to do a couple other day trips this summer - we already did Adventureland - like the Niabi Zoo and maybe Lost Island in Waterloo. I can't believe it's only a few miles from my parents house and we've never been. Travesty. Any other suggestions?

End of an era

This week our family experienced the end of an era.

We retired Ole Red. Ole Red is the truck that Trophy Hub has driven for the last 12 years. The truck has seen him as a single young man, a boyfriend, a husband and a father.

And it was time. Time for an upgrade.

Trophy Hub took it just fine.

He got over it real quick when he got into this and drove it off the lot.