My husband is ridiculous!

Erin here,

Just read J's prior post and NO! He is not getting OLD! I wouldn't marry an old man! LOL! Anyways, I try not to think about aging so much as I think about the impending doom of my body after childbirth...now that is scary and fast approaching!

So lets see...when J is 40 Alexa will be 21 and Leonard will be 11 and we will probably have a 7 or 8 yr old too...so rest assured that in addition to being a cripple...he will have alot of gray hair (LOL!). Yea right, J will be 40, running marathons and coaching the soccer team and will look exactly as he does now.

I on the other hand will probably be trying out the latest botox remedy and will have to LIVE at the gym in order to stay as fabulous as J.

Noises

Normally, I consider myself to be a pretty active, energetic guy in better than average shape. But I've noticed something lately that is a little disturbing and may be cause for concern. We've all been out in public before, and you see the older guy bending down to pick something up, or to take a seat, and he makes noises when he does these things. Usually these noises are some kind of expletive such as "Oh my goodness", or a simple "Ugh". Well, I've noticed that I too make these noises at times. Perhaps it is now that my birthday is receding rather than approaching and the middle of my life seems much closer than it once did, but I am beginning to feel the beginnings of "aging".
Now, many of you may think that I am simply mad to be feeling the pains of aging at the tender and not so ripe age of 28, but still, it's there like a dark specter hovering in the corner waiting and watching. Ok, maybe not, but it's still a cool image. ;-)
Seriously though, my one hope is that I can at least maintain my current level of energy for when my son grows up. Right now it's great with Alexa, because I can do things. We can ride bikes and run around together, but how much running am I going to want to do at 40? Maybe by then they'll have found some new and amazing plant in the rain forest that keeps us young forever. Wouldn't that be nice? HELL YES IT WOULD! :-) Well, for now, I suppose I'll just have to keep my self in the gym and hope that father time will skip over me for a while.

Until next time, children, stay funky, stay loose and always do what makes you feel fuzzy.

Ciao.

The Candle Accident

I normally dont post on here but I have some funny pics that I wanted to share.

A couple days after we moved in J thought it would be pretty to put some of our candles in the fireplace. He lit them one nite, it was really pretty. No problems.

Fast forward to the next evening, he was out running errands and I settled into my scrapping frenzy for the evening. We found the rest of our candles so the fireplace was filled with quite a few candles so I thought it would be nice to light them.

So I am happily scrapping away when I notice a really strong wax smell and some light emanating from the fireplace. I go in to check on the candles and the entire fireplace is fully of fire! One of the candles had a raffia band around it and I guess it burned low enough to catch on fire. So now there is wax pouring all over the fireplace. I grab a glass of water and douse the fire.

I obviously had some explaining to do when J got home!

This is the damage.

I thought I would clean it up...I started pulling the chunks of wax, but when I went to pull out one of the candles the WHOLE THING came up.

All better now! That was easy!

So needless to say...im banned from candles for a while.