The End Cap

I was gonna do this long azz post about my after holiday adventure with my family but my Hunny did such a lovely picture post I decided to just steal what he did instead. LOL. The collage he put together pretty much sums up the 5 days my parents and sister were here. I must say it was wonderful seeing them. My mom and sis were just up here less than 3 months ago to help me with baby Sumehra. But my dad hadn't been up here at all. I didn't realize how much I missed my father until I saw him walk thru my garage door holding a white cake box. It's good to have family. *smiling* Enjoy!

*smoochies* Lady Richardson


My Hunny made a great picture blog with some text. It sums up our holiday nicely.

Big Mamma

PaPa and Granny with babies

TiTi and Lil Bit

The Neighbor Ms. Barbara


And lastly our 10am to 5pm Black Friday shopping in Lynwood. Of course my azz wanted to do more (even tho I was walkin funny cuz of my bad right knee) but my sis and mom were like "un-un" LOL. So I guess I'ma have to hit the road again with my family in tow. The hubby says he's down, but I don't think he's ready. *singin* "yall ain't ready, yall ain't ready" *chuckle*

The Loot


More loot


Whose yellow bird?

Much todo about Nothing

I swear my azz watches entirely way to much teLIEtoMYvison cuz everything I think or say got something to do with some dayum t.v. *shakin head* Maybe I need a job outside the home. LOL.

In other news, I was trying to order some "ethnic" educational learning books for my older daughters. Well, actually I did order them like about October 10 or so. Well here it is a month later and guess what? Still no product. Now I'm a patient girl and know how it is if you a one man shop or even if you a conglomerate, sh*t happens. So I politely email regarding ship date and even called the Lansing, MI number listed and left a message. And guess what, I got no reply email and I never received a return phone call. So I'm going to email yet again and call again. But if I don't hear back from them after that, I'm just gonna have to get our money back. I mean $100 bucks ain't alot of money but dayum. Close your pay pal or something if you not in business anymore. Don't just take folks money and be done. Let me not jump ahead, maybe they had to rewrite the text or reorder cuz the text were on back order. Hopefully after I email and call again I'll get a response. I really do want those books. *sigh*

In holiday news with family, I'm trying to get my house in order so it will be ready for my parents and my sister when they touch down on Wednesday at 9am. Yes y'all their flight gets into Washington at 9am. Happy for me, bad for them. Cuz not only are they getting here early a.m. that day, but then they gotta go right to the grocery store and run a few errands. I suppose this is why my mom is not cooking. Altho to her credit she's cooked a holiday meal every year since I've been able to remember. It's only been within the last 3 years or so that my sister and I have done the cooking. My mom would just make the mac and cheese and the dressing, cuz don't nobody do it like her. We would have my dad do the ham or some greens and my sister and I would do whatever else we wanted on the menu. Well I tried to be slick this year since they were coming up here and not going to the yearly Native American
sunrise ceremony. I thought my mom would then cook. Ummm yeah, well that's what I get for thinking. Cuz she told me in a not so nice way that she was not cooking. LOL. My moms be having me rollin yall. She a got a gang of credentials and letters after her name, but she real folks and don't get caught up in titles or how you THINK you suppose to be because of such and such. Must be where I get it from. Both of my parents are like that. Like my daddy would always tell me "you catch more flies with honey than you do with salt" LOL. So anyway, as far as who's gonna be doing the REAL cooking I have to thank my friends cuz they're doing it all. I mean yeah I probably could get it started until my sister gets here. But dayum, I'm tryna do prep and pre-cooking all by myself until she gets here the day before. And then expect her to hit the ground running and cooking a bunch a sh*t. That ain't even right. I wouldn't put that on nobody. I probably wouldn't mind if I didn't have to also tend to my babies. I know my limits and ain't even tryna stress myself out over some food. Besides I don't want to be too tired to go here and here and maybe even make a last stop here once we get back on our side of town. Cuz who wants to miss black friday shopping cuz they was too tired from slaving in the dayum kitchen for 10 days and 10 nights?

And lastly in "my high azz food bill" news the new total (minus the 1 receipt I probably threw away) is now up to a whopping $703.40. And if you add in the holiday catering meal it's gonna be $920.84. And still, no food. We gonna be in trouble when our children become teenagers and really start eating all day, everyday. They azz gonna have to get a job to support our families food habit. LOL. I wonder how many other folks out there spend way more on food and other things than they think. I would never have known had I not made a conscious decision to keep the receipts so that I could see the dolla amount with my own eyes. *shakin head*

Okay folks, little Sumehra is wriggling and giggling (meaning feed me mommy) so I'm off. *That's all* ha!

Love, Mama Aly