Dancing with the Stars...

Ok so any of you who have read my blog know that i am a fan of that show. However that being said, and in light of the new cast announcement for the upcoming season, I really think it is time someone speak up about a few flaws on this show. Keep in mind these are only my opinion but since I am a viewer and they expect me to view it then I think they should totally listen lol. First I will put up tthe list of new stars:

Marlee Matlan
Adam Corolla
Cristian de la Fuente
Shannon Elizabeth
Steve Guttenberg
Mario
Penn Jillette
Priscilla Presley
Monica Seles
Jason Taylor
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Kristi Yamaguchi

Ok aside from about 5 of this 12 person cast I dont know who the rest even are. Out of the 5 I know I could care less about a few of them anyway. I thought this was called Dancing with the "STARS"? Shouldn't we know who these people are? That said I will complement them on not having a wafer model in this cast although Shannon Elizabeth is beautiful but she is an actress (ok I bet she started as a model too lol)

One thing I would like to point out, is this show needs to change the voting process so that it is a 60% judges and 40% fans decision instead of 50/50...the reason being? Re watch last season..'nuff said. Sorry Marie Osmond fans..she is a great lady but frankly I thought she made a mockery of the final freestyle and considering she had no business being there in the first place I thought it was tacky. People that were really good last season were voted off probably becasue some people did not know who they were, and also because it was a "who has a bigger fan base" not "who can actually dance" thing. Although I was thrilled that Helio won he actually was good!
Another thing I would change is to get rid of Carrie Ann Inaba...for one thing she picks her favorites the first dance and then drools shamelessly all over whoever she likes the rest of the season, regardless of if they have talent. Remember when she all but hit on poor Emmit Smith? He could dance that was good...but she grossly drooled over him all season that is was irritating.

Last but not least I would love to petition to let the Pro's pick the music they dance too for each Dance instead of whoever else picks it. This way we don't have couples trying to do a paso to music that sounds like a ride at Disneyland. :) Half the problem with the show is the music. NOT THE BAND the band is awesome! But the show sometimes picks lousy songs and the couple dancing has good moves and lots of talent but they look stupid because the music stinks. Speaking of music I wonder how long it will take them to give Priscilla Presley an Elvis song to jive too.

Now that I have picked a part this show and made it sound like I hate it, will I watch it? OF COURSE! Why? Because it is fun to watch even if it can be at rain wreck sometimes! lol.

the cheerio queen

2 posts in less then a week...shocking I know...

Not too much to write about today so I decided to go over some of the things I actually heard spoken in my house. None of these are made up and are in their original form. :)small disclaimer here: the kids really do get along most of the time but then hey there are those days. Spoken from the mouths of babes.

Honey Nut- "mom I have a slight cramp in my left side...I must be getting my first period" she just about hyperventilated..we call her "sara bernhart" for a reason.Keep in mind she is at the ripe old age of 8. and no that was not what was happening thank goodness.

Trix- annoyed that his brother and sister were making noise at bedtime said to them "shutup I am trying to sleep liverlips" I probably should not have laughed but I was annoyed at trying to get them to stay in bed lol.

Trix- in response to his younger brother messing up his artwork "oh man look what you done!" Lucky Charms responded: "oh pipe down boobyhead" where they get these terms I do not know.

Honey Nut- " Look what I can do Mom?" then she proceeded to turn her eyelids inside out...I am so proud.

Lucky Charms- " you better listen to me Trix or I am gonna spit in your cereal" Trix "oh whatever...you do that and I am going to kick you in the privacy" Siblings are so great.

and last but not least...
Lucky Charms- "FIRE IN THE HOLE!!"...which was immediately followed by a loud fart. Promptly sending his brother and sister and dad into fits of laughter, which now means that every time he passes gas is an "event" with the given warning "Fire in the hole". Which leads to me calling out "is that really necessary?"

Oh my pride can just not be contained.

So how was YOUR week?
The Cheerio Queen

Brownies, Egypt, foreign language and more...

Ok so that kind of covers all the stuff or most of what has been going on in the Cheerio Household this week. :)

First I will start with tonight where Honey Nut and I went to the library to meet a couple of her girlfriends from her brownie troop to study girlscout customs in Egypt! That was fun! The girls had to find a picture of the flag, their uniform, what they are called there (it is not girlscouts), food, games they play etc. That is one of the things i love about being a homeschooler...I am learning right along with my children. haha. I don't remember some of this from school. Maybe it is mommy brain.
While we were there Honey Nut found a computer program where she can learn different languages. There is vocabulary for Spanish, German, French, and English on there! I told her to try and limit it to one language at at a time. I was secretly thrilled that she came up with this idea on her own. She has been bugging me for awhile now to learn a new language. Again...one of the perks of homeschooling, she is really loving schoolwork now and I no longer have to fight her on it except for repetitive work lol.

Let's see what else has been going on around here...oh yeah Lucky Charms is back to selling golf balls again. Those of you who have been reading for awhile will remember that Lucky Charms actually made close to 200 dollars last year selling golfballs to the golfers on the course we live on. He is still riding that quad he saved for too! Bless his heart...I don't mean to brag but come one the kid is only 5! And he earned most of the money before his 5th birthday in August!

Trix is doing well also! He is really coming around with some of his sensory issues. I am going to be trying the "Feingold diet" with him and actually all the kids. I don't have the kit and food list yet but from what i understand it takes out the additives, artificial colorings, sahlulites (sp?)and basically all the extra crud that the food giants are now putting in to the food. It will require a lot more "from scratch" cooking from me I think but luckily i love to cook so it should not be a problem. :) It is also supposed to help...some of the sensory issues Trix has as well as reduce seizures. This is good since last week Trix had a neurology appointment and the new neurologist adjusted his medication dosage a bit...then that night Trix wound up having one of his "typical" seizures and when I gave him the diastat to stop it...well it worked in reverse which was odd. It put him into convulsions and he started to actually choke on his saliva. That bothered me a lot. You see most of Trix's seizures are quiet seizures where he gets quiet and does not say much...he will usually plug his ears and maybe shiver like he is cold. I will hold him until he is done and has somewhat snapped back. My biggest fear after seeing him choke on his saliva is that I did not hear the seizure...he was in bed and I was actually STANDING IN HIS ROOM tucking his little brother in on the bottom bunk. It was not until I looked up to see Trix and saw his eyes wide open that I realized he was in a seizure. We wound up calling the paramedics again...it was not quite as severe as the huge Grand Mal one he had last year where he had no diagnoses yet, and it went on 45 minutes that we knew of, however, this one lasted on and off 25 to 30 minutes, he would start to come out of it and then go back in it. He did wind up leaving the house in an ambulance again but just to the emergency room and Hubs went with him because it was snowing and icy here and being the sweet hubby he is he did not want me driving in it and especially not upset.I have a baby monitor in his room, however I am trying to find an actual seizure monitor...this is a lot harder then I thought so far I can only find one in the UK or Canada ...neither company has emailed me back yet and they are expensive, they meausre any movement he makes, and if he does not make a sound if he drools excessively it will set off an alarm in my room to wake me and Hubs up. I personally don't care the cost as long as we are being alerted to him having one, his life is just too precious to put a pricetag on. :) Well enough of that. Other then to say that i have been journaling a lot about it and I find it calms me down. This time when he had one I did not freak out ...ok well a little when he was choking...thank God hubby was there (I am so blessed with an AWESOME husband) and he stays super calm. After they left I broke down and cried but then was ok. Hubs and I the next day though our nerves were shot all day.

I am down to just two daycare families now which has taken a whole lot of stress off me. It also cut my income down but that is ok because Hubs has had two very promising interviews with a great company in which he would be making significantly more then he is now! He is still working at the current company which is a very nice company and they love him there but they are down in their sales big time and hubs is being proactive in looking elsewhere he does not want to get unexpectedly caught in layoffs again this year. However he says if he gets this new job he will be sad to give his notice. As for me...I am about ready to print up the business cards for my new venture. :) I am a life coach for special needs nannies. I will be training nannies for families of special needs children and then I will be their life coach for when they need to talk when they realize what a wonderfully challenging job they have. :) It was my own life coach who helped me realize this is what I am being called to do...well my life coach and God who whispered to me that this is what he wants me to do. Remind me to tell you when I have more time about how I actually heard God's voice pointing me in the direction lol. In any case I have such a big background in childcare and working with special needs kids, especially in the last two years with this wonderful family I was doing daycare for that I felt it was time to help someone else in that arena. :)

Well this whole thing turned into a novel! whew! But I will sign off for tonight and I will keep trying to post more frequently. Those of you who were praying for us to get over all our cold/flu bug the last few weeks...THANKYOU! I got the emails and I really appreciate it!

The Cheerio Queen

what kind of hen are you??

One of my favorite bloggers Dawn over at By Sun and Candlelight has the cutest quiz thingy on her blog and I loved it so I thought I would do it here! Most people that know me would say I am definitely a hen and belong in a hen house with all the other talking hens because I am a talker lol! But here is what the survey said.....

What type of Mother Hen Are You?
by Montessorimom.com: Educational Resource

what kind of hen are YOU?? if you do this please comment me so I can see your answer! ;)

I will write more a little later on in the week been busy as always!

The cheerio queen!

some of what we have been doing this week. :) ..

I could not think of any great topic to blog about although I have one random question I wanted to ask and have not figured out how to create and entire blog post out of it. I always wondered why people jokingly refer to "Ketchup" as being a "vegetable"...when it is made of tomatoes so wouldn't it be a fruit? Ok so I just had to get that important question off the brain lol.

I decided to post some pics of some of the stuff we have been doing this week. :) We have been busy, and some of us have been feeling sorry for ourselves for the cold we are nursing (of course I am not naming myself here) the kids are doing better except for honeynut who is still coughing up a lung going on a month now. I took her to the doc last week and was told it was "just a cold and to give her dimetapp" but that is not working so I am going to call tomorrow and push to find out what is really going on here.
The kids have been working hard in their studies so here is a pic of (some) of the stuff we do in a day here in the cheerio household.
Hope you all are having a great week!

the cheerio queen (yes I realize that signature is not correct grammar since I did not capitolize but hey I am on my fourth round of theraflu today and frankly I am lucky I am able to type at all)





Lucky Charms posing


Lucky Charms practicing his writing while Honeynut looks on.

Trix hard at work painting



Honey Nut doing her online schooling assignment


Honeynut writing out her story summeries.

I SURVIVED!!!!!!.....

Sort of....my back has serious issues with me camping on the floor with all the brownie troops. Lesson learned " bring an air mattress!" got it. Will definitely do that next time. :) Actually the sleepover went really well and the girls had a blast. We put goopy guacamole masks on our face, sang the most obnoxious song about a burrito that is STILL stuck in my head a week later, gave each other hand massages, and put on make up to do "glamour shots" don't you just love mine and honey nut's? haha.

It was brought to my attention that I should have updated the blog before Wednesday since I told you all last time that if I did not post by then it would mean us leaders were still tied up in a broom closet...so thanks for checking in everyone but please call off the search party were ok! :)

Truth be told sore back or not...I would not have traded last Friday for anything. It was a great memory for me and my daughter and since she is my only girl I probably do tend to go overboard. :)

This week has been hectic. A couple of the daycare kids got sick so I took a premptive measure and closed on Wednesday in hopes of keeping my kids healthy, and while they did not get the stomach virus everyone else had...they DID get colds. grrr. Actually it turns out their colds are not new but were the same one they have had for awhile that I thought was gone. So we went to the store and got dimetapp and a new cool mist humidifier to help with their little coughs. poor babies. I will say though it was so nice to have just one day where it was me and my munchkins. I know it sounds silly but I actually miss them sometimes even though they are with me all day...I have so many other kids I take care of in addition to them. :)

Otherwise not much else is new. Hubs and I are hosting game night this weekend I cannot wait! It will be our same group of friends that we have been hanging out with forever. There is 4 main couples that come to this and we have all been married 10 years this year! Although us girls have known eachother since highschool. When we started doing game nights we were younger and used to play and have a margarita or 3....but now we are all older, and some of us have kids and so now we usually party down with games until 9:30 or 10pm. I know we are so shameless.

Then Sunday I am teaching Sunday School so as you can see it is a wild weekend for us. ya right.

Hope you all had a great week!

The Cheerio Queen

menu

Hello all...so here is my menu plan for the week.

Monday: Chunky Chicken Divan, Breadsticks, and salad

Tuesday: French toast, eggs, and sausage

Wednesday: Hot roast beef sandwiches & fries

Thursday: Happy 10 year anniversary to me and hubs...Chicken Pad Thai, and salad

Friday: pork chops, applesauce, and brown rice

I am trying to keep most of it lowfat, however there were a couple nights such as Tuesday when I have a brownie troop meeting with Honey Nut...oh and then Friday my menu will be totally cooked in my crockpot (except for the applesauce of course) because honey nut and I have a brownie sleepover at a local church with about 25 other troops...yay me. lol If you don't hear from me by Wednesday next week it is because the girlscouts won and all us leaders and moms are tied up to a chair stuck in a closet while the girls elope. just kidding...sort of.

anyway hope you all have a yummy week!

The Cheerio Queen