The original drama to new years eve!

So now that my morning drama with my brother has settled a little. I am now dealing with my original drama to new years eve. We are going to a close friends house that live down the street for new years like we do every year.
Heres a little back story:
They are our friends that went on our wedding cruise with us and they're son was one of our best men. So our friend "K" the entire time before leaving on the cruise said that she would hang out with my mom and take her places with them and kind of take care of her during the cruise, so I wouldnt have to worry that she was by herself. She made a big production how she would take her everywhere and not have worry about anything. That she better not bother us cause K would take care of her. Well the cruise comes along and long story short my mother spent the entire cruise in her room cause K never called or touched base with her to do anything for 2 whole days on the island after the wedding. I did not find this out till we were getting back on the ship the last day when it was pulling out of port. I find out that she was in her room for the 2 days in tears that she felt like the odd man out that she didnt get to see the island or anything. She has difficulty walking and was unable to do this on her own.
So after returning from bermuda I sent an email to "K" asking her what happened cause I was a little upset that my mother sat in her room for 2 days and if she didnt want to help out (her own idea I never asked her) then she should have said something to one of us and it would have been fine. I recieved an email back a few days later that stated "I couldnt find her and knew this would come back to bite me in the ass." Um hello Im confused if you knew if would "come back to bite you in the ass" then wouldnt you make a little bit of an effort to find her. For god sakes my mother was sitting one table away from her "K's" husband the first day. So needless to say I couldnt answer that email and was too upset to talk about it in person with her or on the phone. So that brings us to tonight we usually go there every New Years eve and mike doesnt know this is still going on. So we are still going there tonight and its the first time I am going to talk to her in person since the cruise. So im am little worried how this is going to go. Do I deal with it tonight if she brings it up and have an argument? Do I just say not the time or place? Do I just let it go and pretend nothing happened?? I dont know...Im a little torn about this whole thing so that is my original stree to this day. Im sure I am being a big baby about this but I was devistated that the first time my mother has been on vacation and let alone out of the country in over 30 yrs and she saw nothing. It was probably also be her last vacation as well. So it broke my heart to know she never got to see any of the sites and enjoy her vacation too. I know its all about that she saw me get married and what not but it still hurt me that my friend did this to me and her. If it wasnt for the fact that she swore up and down and made a big production about taking care of her I would have let it go I get that its her vacation too. But to just leave her high and dry breaks my heart.
So this is my drama that begins my new year. It better end tonight cause Im not having a bad 2009! Its gonna be another good year!!!!

Family Ughhhh!!!

So here I was yesterday thinking of all my plans to do today. Do some last min food shopping for when mike and I are home doing absolutely nothing on New years day. Had the whole day planned out. Then at the bright and early hour of 430 am my house phone starts ringing. By the time I got concious and realized it was ringing and get my ass up to see who it is. It stops ringing. Next thing I know my cell phone goes off and it comes up my brother. I answer it all groggy and I hear an odd voice on the other end. This is State trooper Johnson......My heart sunk into my feet knowing something was wrong with my brother. After getting over the initial shock I heard him say we picked you brother up for a DWI. I have never went from such a panic to anger so fast in my life. I listened again as the trooper proceed to tell me that I needed to come get him all the way up in bloomfield, which from my house is 1hr 1/2. Ugh. I was just so irratated and relieved in the same sentence it was nerve wracking. It was the longest ride ever up there. I didnt know wether to be glad that he was safe or beat him senseles cause mike just had this conversation with him last week. "dont do it its not worth it. If your going to drink dont be stupid, Just pull over and put the keys under the car" the whole 9. So when I picked his drunkard ass out of the tank (thank god no bail) Found out that we cannot get his car for a min of 12 hrs from the incident, which they round up to 5 oclock. I also have to drag his sorry self all the way back to blooomfield to go get a release form for the car and then back south 20 min to carteret to go pick up his car If there is someone still there. Yeah of all days it has to be news years eve and they go home at 3. Luckily I called the woman at the towing co. and she said call and see if someone is there maybe theyll release it. So if not it has to stay there till friday cause eventhough they are open on NY day they dont release impound cars. So then he has to pay the storage charge of $50 which at this point in time is the cheapest of his penalties! Lets just hope that this wakes him up. At age 30 he should have been smarter then that after everyone has told him he has been tempting fate. I hope once he sleeps this off he will realize how much of a heap of doo doo he stepped in last night.
SO this is how I have spent my New years eve morning and how the rest of the day goes. Lets hope that the snow and weather hold off till we get his car. So im off to make more phone calls to see if I can pick up his car any earlier but dont think so. Will let you know how my new soap opera turns out!!!

Christmas blur

So Christmas has come and gone and holy mackerel it went fast. I guess since I waited to the last minute to do a lot of my shopping, I didn't have anytime to just sit back and enjoy any of it. We did have a very good Christmas. Mike is such a good gift giver (thank goodness, LOL)I am not allowed to give him a list otherwise I do not get it!! So I got the Wii I wanted!!! I also got 2 pairs of croc boots (I am a croc addict) Then I also got a new wireless printer for my laptop so I can finally print off here!!!! It really was worth the 4 weeks wait of having them out in front of me torturing me!
Well I guess I should back track a little. I went to Christmas eve at my mothers house. (yes you read correctly I, mike is not a fan of my mothers so he chooses not to go there. Whatever, it is what it is) So any who I went over there for some food and my presents. I got my digital photo frame I had been asking for for our wedding photos and a cool lap desk for my laptop in bed. Then we hit midnight church service at our church, in which my mother sings in the choir. We have been doing this since we were little so my brother and I suck it up and do it for my mother. Then after that we headed back tp her house to have some desert and to give my mother her Christmas gifts, which was our photo book I had made for our Wedding and a portrait of my brother, my mother and me at my wedding and also a portrait of mike and I. Of course she had to pull some drama and make a production that why did I have to enlarge the one with her cause in her words" why would you put the fat cow in the photo!" So it turned into a mini battle cause I was a little sensitive cause I was so excited about giving her them and thought she was be super touched and love them and instead I got flack. So that was the end of that night. I crawled into bed around 2 am and then was awakened by the sound of the town fire signal at 7:30am. ( I think it had to be some evil person in the fire dept setting it off to wake all children in the town up early) Sure woke me up like a little kid. Then mike and I had our nice quiet morning opening presents together and then he make our traditional big breakfast full of hash browns, eggs, bacon, toast, you name it we had it. Then since we were full with breakfast and presents we took our Christmas nap, LOL.
Then it was off to the in laws up the street for dinner with them and presents. Did pretty good got a GPS, some tools for the house, a bottle of wine and some sheets and blankets( I think she was trying to give a hint to get making with the grandbabies). Then we gave them there photo book and they absolutely loved it of course tears were flowing. The reaction I was looking for. We even got some emotion out of his father who is Mr no-emotion. He even called mike the next day and was all sentimental about it and how much he loved it and how nice it was. So score one for the good daughter in law, LOL.
So its been two days of playing Wii and cleaning up my disaster of a house.At least trying :) Well I must goo look like Im being productive before mike comes home!

Finally Christmas eve

Well it finally here. Christmas eve. I am so excited that it is is finally here, but my mind is swirling with the list I stil have to do before tommarrow. I am so thankful that I just found out I do not have to work today and am able to finish up my to do less with a lower level of stress!!!!
Well I am off to finish my list a mile long. Hopefully will be back later with a completed list.

Frazeled eve of the eve!

OK so here it is the eve of the eve, not finished with shopping and cant wait to be done with work for the week. Im feeling a little frazled that I dont have enough for my darling husband and have yet to frame the 22x30 antique map I got for him. So how does one frame something that big in front of him without him knowing....Guess santa KDH will be up all night tommarrow night doing it.
So I feel like a kid this year and cannot wait to open my gifts that have been sitting out for the last three weeks from my husband. I really feel like he likes to torture me more than the giving of the gifts, LOL.
Well im off to try and make this day go by a little faster and hopefully all of my errands will be done before its christmas morning!!

First entry

Welcome to my world. My name is Kristen. I am 32 yr old nanny and I am brand new newlywed. My DH and I were married on October 15, 2008 on the beach in the most beautiful country of Bermuda. It was the most amazing day of our lives and will cherish those memories forever!!
Little background. DH and I have been together dating for 13 years in January. It was a long road not knowing if I would get married but I'm not a nagging person so I never pushed it. I was quite happy living in our world. Finally in July of 2007 he decided it was time to make me an honest woman (no idea what it means but it sounds funny) He proposed to me during our annual Cape cod trip for my birthday. I was completely floored and was so impressed that he picked out the perfect ring for me and I never told him what I wanted. So long story short, bringing it around to the first paragraph. We planned a destination wedding in Bermuda. It was a first vacation we took together as a couple and have fallen in love with the country in the many times we have been there.
So what have we been doing for 13 years. We bought our first home in '99 and we have been restoring it ever since. We are doing all the work ourselves. Luckily DH is very handy. We pretty much have completely gutted the entire house and our starting from scratch. We still have not finished the kitchen , since that is the most expensive part to do. We have a mini temp. kitchen set up upstairs and works pretty well. So hoping this year will begin the massive finishing of the house. I ain't getting any younger and would love to have babies ASAP but construction look is not what I was going for in a nursery so I think Ill wait a little bit. Like I said I am a nanny and watch 11 diff children during a week (not all together) but I do it full time and Love it. My kids range from 3 yrs old to 11 yrs old. I have been with these families starting 10 years ago and they are all related. Mostly cousins. So that keeps me busy full time and keeps my mind off having babies for a little bit too.
So that pretty much is my (our) life in a tiny nut shell. I hope you didn't fade off anywhere in there and are still here. Cookies to all!! My plan for this blog is to tell my stories of my days. Funny, sad, happy, mad, whatever I need to share. I'm gonna vent it here!! enjoy!