Carrie-on Baggage: February 2012

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

“Half of being smart is knowing what you’re dumb at.”

I have a feeling I'm turning into every other Mommy blogger out there, because every time I sit down to make a blog post, all I can think about doing, is complaining about the cartoons I watch with Evelynn. You may have noticed, but I'm super cynical. So I have all of these observations about the craziness that is these tv shows. And the life inaccuracies they show. Oh and the attitude of a lot of the characters. But then the other day, our home visit nurse sent me a link that the government uses to test kids intelligence levels (ok that's not the pc term but I can't remember it right now.) Anyway Evelynn tested at age 3. I was blown away. Some of the things they were testing I know I didn't teach her. I mean we just sat down and learned the motions to itsy bitsy spider and I got exhausted after six minutes. After our lesson deteriorated into just me singing and Evelynn dancing I flipped on Nick Jr for her. Suddenly I found them teaching her some of the things I tested her on earlier. There went all my critiques. But if we are taking a moment to let me be an ass, seriously, what do I need to smoke to understand Yo Gabba Gabba?

Love (that TV can help me be a better Mom/Teacher),
Carrie

Friday, February 3, 2012

“Don't agonize, organize.”

Everyone I'm getting organized today!! In an effort to make things easier for my visitors I've opened up three new blogs.
My first blog is where I will be posting all my pricematching information, including the weekly pricematching for Omaha and also the good deals you can find using coupons. You can find the blog here: http://carrie-onbaggagesavings.blogspot.com/

The second blog is where you will be able to find the menu planning I do. It is updated once a week, usually after the pricematching email goes out, since I try to use the information in the pricematching email to create recipes that are not only yummy but save you money!! You can find that blog here: http://carrie-onbaggagemenus.blogspot.com/

The third blog is where you will find all one billion of my photos that I have been taking. You can find that blog here: http://carrie-onbaggagepictures.blogspot.com/

I hope you will stop on by! If you have any questions let me know!

About me

An almost daily blog of Carrie's ramblings that come from her baggage in life. Carrie lives with her disgustingly smart husband, amazing daughter bulldozer son and two Bengal cats in Colorado Springs. She is an avid reader and an obsessive television watcher. She loves to travel, sleep, snuggle and generally be friggin awesome. She suffers a smartphone addiction. She makes inane pop culture references. She hopes one day someone will give her a talk show where she talks about all the tv she watches, gossip she reads about on the internet, and life observations she has. Comments and followers make me blog more frequently, its a guilt thing.

Things you should know:

Hi All!
My name is Carrie and this is my blog-I know, you are so excited.
Please feel free to leave your comments below, but if you want to contact me directly, shoot me a line at
carriehellbusch (at) gmail dot com
I think that's the fancy way everyone does it so they don't get spam.
And please don't send me mean things. That would just make me delete this whole section and it took me like 15 minutes to figure out how to put it on here. I didn't say I was a wiz at computers, I just married one-and he's busy trying to create Skynet...
Love (to ramble incessantly),
Carrie

About the Kidtens

I have two Bengal Cats-Bagheera and Willow. Willow is the girl and the spotted snow and Bagheera is the boy and the spotted dark. They are fixed so we can't breed them-my Pops is still mad at me for that. I would love to tell you about my breeder, but they were pretty horrible and apparently don't exist anymore. This could be because Bengals are illegal in Omaha (I live in Omaha's Sarpy County, which is not Omaha, it's an SID) or because they had 26 cats in a tiny corner of the basement stacked on top of each other.

Willow was actually our second choice in snows. We decided to get two because Bengals are notoriously active and we didn't want one to get lonely and eat our house while we were gone. Willow gets smarter every day. She recently figured out how to turn on the sinks, which bodes well with her love of water. She loves Seth more than anything, but has been known to cuddle with me too when I'm sad. She's a sweet girl. She also will NOT SHUT UP. If you wonder what a conversation with a cat is like, come chat with Willow. Willow is also known as Willow Bee, the Beezus, and Pretty Kitty.

Bagheera is your typical boycat. He sleeps with us most nights and we have worked out a "snacks for snuggles" barter system. He gives you love on his terms. Bagheera was born with a bad right back leg. The breeders told us that he broke it in the womb because there was too many kittens in the litter. The vet told us that he didn't know a thing about it until days later. So far he uses it like peg leg and it doesn't bother him at all. We talked to the vet about getting it fixed but the vet says the way he uses it, like a pirate, it wouldn't heal properly and he still would try to use it like he does. It doesn't bother me and it doesn't bother him so we are cool. The breeders told me they were going to put him down because they couldn't sell him and the price of the "surgery" would outweigh his "value". I practically snatched him and ran. They gave him to me for free. He has an amazing coat-show quality. I wonder if there is a cat show special olympics... Bagheera is also known as Baggy, Bags,Doots, Stinky Boy Kitty, and Buddy Bear.

Anyway that's me, Carrie-patron Saint of lost causes and handicats.