my new iphone

just kidding i don't have a new iphone.  i can't deny i would like a new one though.  

i realized why i have taken up blogging my day-to-day nothingness.  rose summed it up when she said it would be cathartic.  talking to little people (and i don't mean little people, big world people) all day has its advantages and disadvantages.  on the positive side there is a lot less judgement when dealing with kids.  they don't care what you're wearing or even if you are dressed at all.  meals are pretty easy.  you can make my kids anything with warm cheese in or on it and they think you are a chef.  i pass veggies and grapes off as awesome snacks all day long therefore making two choco chip teddy grahams look like a banana split!  

but when all you do is talk to and interact with kids during a given day, when you hear yourself about 1:15 you think what the crap am i talking about that for.  "no honey, a mouse can't be your brother."  "we can't keep a chicken in our backyard" my brother says i'm losing my mind. it's possible he thinks i was smarter than i really was to begin with.

so the blog will be therapeutic?  i guess maybe.  although i have to admit it's easier to write when i'm pissed about something.  so i guess i'll be trying to get angry more often so i can feel better about it faster.  

ultimately you should know if you are reading this, you are one of about three people and that's enough of a following for me.  it's too embarrassing to send this to more people.  and cindi hears all the crazy stories i have to tell anyway so sending to her was like cheating.

this photo's old but i love it

go green

i'm very well aware

just so you know...i know about punctuation and capitalization. and capitalism for that matter. i'm just not that into  it.  so i wanted to pass that on.  or get that out there.  

thanks for your attention to this matter.

oh yeah and i'm cute!

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i'm so not at the beach

another day that kent is far away working. and i am very much not at the beach.  kent is at the beach (working).  i talked to scott his morning and he is at the beach.  at least that's where he was headed when we spoke.  

the last time i looked good at the beach was captured in a photo that you can see below (or to the side).  i am with aunt mona in the pic and as luck would have it, i'm topless.  first and last time for that, too.  unless i have that work i've been thinking of having.  

so yesterday i took the kids to a place that kent played called "new carlisle days".  if you love indiana then plug your ears for this next part.  where the hell do we live people!  the crap people were selling at this unbelievably crappy "fest" was mind-blowing!  and i am not overstating this.  now i will attempt to describe what blew my mind.  all of the booths seemed to have most if not all of their merchandise on sale.  have you ever even seen a booth with stuff on sale at a festival/fair-like thing?  some even had extra classy hand written signs that said, "everything must go"  Why?  are you running from the law and you can't keep toting this stuff around with you while you're on the lamb?  

then, more than 3/4 of the "products" (loosely used term) were of the bean bag nature.  whose playing all these rounds of the bean bag game.  i finally stopped and asked someone what was meant by the term corn-hole.  it sounded like porn so i wanted to be in the know.  nope just the beanbag game.  so we live in the sticks, huh?  just one more thing about the bean bags for sale before we move on to more crap.  you cannot name all the different patterns on the fabric that these bags are made in.  nascar, budweiser, elmo, colts, dora, spongebob, even toyota?  "dude, i'm so reppin my corolla with these beanbags." 

i know i can't do justice to the next item that i came across.  have you seen the nuts?  someone lacquers a piece of wood and then gets out their handy hot glue gun and sticks a miniature item to the wood and then puts an unopened walnut next to it.  so here's the finished product...and tiny tv + a nut=tv nut.  a tiny pickup + a nut= a truck nut.  a mini poodle + a nut= a dog nut.  are you getting this?  how much would you pay for a "nut"?  $3 if you go to new carlisle.  

so p just woke up which means i'm done.

go green

big weekend for sarah anne

so sarah anne graduated. which of course we all knew would happen sometime.  

sarah's a smart girl and she has a sassy attitude too. i'm so glad she's going to st. mary's.  i think it was a great choice on her part!! it made me think back to my high school open house.  where i was very nervous about my ultra coolness being messed with by my not-cool-at-all arab family.  i say that because i remember even being a little embarrassed by some of my family members names and the possibility of introducing them to my friends.  nice (and shallow).  

i just love the picture of samira talking to evan.  she loves evan and emily so much and i think she looks so happy there.  then there's uncle scott.  samira recently said "is rachel's scott gonna be there or just auntie babos' scott?"  it's the best how he has become "rachel's scott" ahh samira the intellect!

anyway, i recently got back together with a long lost college friend so i am very excited about that.  i've missed him the whole time we were not in communication!  great guy!  wish i knew a great girl to set him up with.  maybe my sister but then she would have to move to flint and who the hell wants to live in flint (no offense Darin)
anyway the picture to the right is one of the pics i sent to darin so he could see the girl.  

so one of these posts i'm actually gonna copy and paste the email message from my bro about mom's party.  i would like to have my readers tell me if they think the banter is as funny as i do.  

go green!

sea

so it begins...

i think i'm going to do this.  not that anyone will be interested in hearing about the day to day goings on of the arnsbarger mom but i have the time and i have the urge to write down what happens with the little people in this house so that someday we can look back and remember how cute they were.  

So, Kent has been working like crazy.  he works when he's home, he works when gone, he works on being gone when he's home.  if kent could figure out a way to work while he sleeps, he would do that.  he is the most dedicated person i have known besides my mom.  she's a whole other story!  the people around me work like crazy and i'm just trying to have a mellow, let's have some fun summer.  

speaking of fun...Sunday the four of us went to the city we love.  and just so we are clear, not south bend!  we went to a place called Oakbrook Center with the intention of buying the new iphone.  we were wrong.  the line was really stupid long.  so we had a yummy pretzel dog and enjoyed the beautiful sights and weather.  we got some of those great cinnamon pecans that we had last year at the Germanfest.  

we then drove through the city, around by the beach and to the zoo.  Lincoln park zoo was the perfect way to spend the rest of our day.  the kids are not usually in love with riding in the car but sunday they were amazing.  it may sound silly but if you have ever experienced screaming, crying kids in the car for any length of time you know why this is important.  

Samira loved the animals.  pierce was so happy to people-watch while samira and her dad went over to the animals and checked them out and got back in the stroller to walk to the next one.  of course kent knows things that i have no idea why or how he knows them.  like which animals would naturally be near other animals.  did that make sense?  how the crap do i know what might be near the giraffes?  a hippo?  some bats?  pandas?  not to be an idiot but is there some sort of secret method to the way they set the place up?  he just seemed to be able to "predict" what might be in the same area and then sure enough we would turn a corner or walk ten paces and there it was.  i find it hard to go on without admitting that there were times on sunday when i found myself looking at an animal that i couldn't have identified if my child's life depended on it.  if someone came over and said, "tell me what that is or i have to take your son"  i might be forced to say, "see that little girl over there"  just kidding i totally said that for my mom's benefit because she insists i like p more.  so not true.  

ok so we left the zoo eventually and we called izumi and ordered sushi for carry out and took it to mom's and ate.  it was a great finish to a great day.  it was the best way to spend a sunday with the fam.