Hi again...

--Another Monday. And it's a beautiful one in NYC.

--Took Liam to his irst ever Ranger game on Saturday. Of course, they won...7-1. It was a fun time...for both of us. We walked all the way around Madisoin Square Garden and looked at all the banners hanging in the rafters. Rangers, Knicks, it was great. He thoroughly enjoyed the Ranch 1 chicken and french fries and Haagen Dazs ice cream. Fof3 hada coffee.

--Noelle had basketball practice before the Ranger game Saturday. She was great. She is quite popular with the other kids.

--Caitlin was beautiful this weekend. We went to dinner Saturday night to a fancy Italian Restaurant and had fun ,then to Toys R Us to get gifts for a family of 3 boys that we are very friendly with. The boys lost their grandfather earlier in the week so we did a little ring and run and left the bag o' toys outside. Giving truly is better than receiving.

--Yesterday we had n open house for the kids' school and got to see their classrooms for next year. We had fun doing that, then to a craft store in order to build Liam a rocket that somewhat resembled Apollo 11. Liam is Neil Armstrong in today's oral report. Oh, yeah, Bertucci's for lunch.

--Phew...tired just recapping the weekend. Thankfully, I am at work where I can relax a little bit. Tomorrow, we discuss Flavor Flav's latest episode.

--OUT!!

Hi again...

--Hey gang.

--Sorry... I am still trying to recover from Flavor of Love Sunday night. It kinda left me speechless.

--Fof3 has missed the last 2 American Idols!! Someone fill me in.

--Basketball for Fof3 tonight. Planning on scoring 40. (Half of what Kobe scored the other night!)

--Caitlin... I love you. You are fantastic. You too, Noelle. <---Enjoy drama tonight, both of you.

--Liam... dressing up like Neil Armstrong Monday for school and giving a speech. <---You are my main man, buddy boy.

--Rangers Saturday....Liam and I sitting in section 200.

--Steelers will win the SB. <---I know it.

--Sorry there's not more... Trinity...leave word. OUT!!!

Happy Monday

--Hi all.

--Hoping your weekend was as good as mine.

--We partied for my sister's big b-day, we played basketball, watched football and hockey, went to mass, a Greek restaurant and even went Barnes and Noble and bought a bunch of books that no one will read.

--Fof3 taking Liam to his first Ranger game Saturday. Game is on NBC. <--Noelle, you're next.

--Watched Celeb Fit Club and Flavor Flav last night.

--Mof3 looking great... better and better every day. <--Maybe you'll become a personal trainer!!

--Rangers win 3-1 vs. Devils.

--I think I will rooting for the Steelers in the Super Bowl. <--I think.

--ok...not much else... drop in and say hi and thanks for reading.

TGIF!!

Friday. Another Friday. Life is going to fast.

--Thanks Sandy for the suggestion regarding the girls softball names. Good one. Shife, no MLB team names. (But I do like the Cardinals.) <--Stan the Man's team. Bob Gibson, and Lou Brock and Ted Simmons. (most underrated catcher.)

--Played hoops last night. Best game so far for Fof3.

--Rangers win. Bruins win, Andraste...congrats.

--Gearing up for a bday party for sister Jeanine. That's tomorrow.

--Bball for Liam and Noelle tomorrow.

--Sunday...Church and football. Then Celeb Fit Club and Flavor of Love. <--yes, we watch this.

--Hoping you're all doing great. Enjoy your weekend. OUT!!

Wednesday

--Who saw A.I. ? Mof3 and Caitlin and Noelle did, that's for sure. They enjoyed it.

--Little League meeting in January. I need your help. This someing year we will be giving the teams actual names. Up to now, it's been a local sponsor. (No one wante to play on the Funeral Home team.)

--My assignment is the name suggestions. I am thinking that the tee ball kids would be all named for outer space things...like comets, galaxy, stars etc.

--The next group would be cool fish like sharks, barracudas etc.

--Then cool cats like panthers.

--We need girlie names too for softball.

--I'll take any suggestions...no names of actual baseball teams though.

--Not much else going on. My sister has a big b-day today. A biggie! Happy --th, Jeanine!

Tuesday

--another week. Another short week.

--American Idol tonight! The family of Fof3 (FofFof3) is all excited. (I will miss it for a little league meeting....a little league meeting in January!! <---Mof3 thinks I am meeting an old girlfriend or something since there can NOT possibly be a LL meeting in January!)

--Good football this weekend.

--Caitlin's team WON on Sunday!! 22-15. <--Congrats, Ladies.

--Noelle... <---Daddy has noticed that you are reading so muxh these days! <---Genius and beautiful!

--Liam... my little man. You are awesome. <---I know that that is the word you use to describe me, but it fits you better.

--Noelle and iam started their basketball program on Saturday. <--What fun. Fof3 spent 4 hours in a gym full of kids bouncing b=balls and then went to a bowling party. <---Aspirin...please!

--Mof3... you rock. <---Hardbody.

--Mof3 brings hme lessons from her trainer and trains me... and she is ruthless. <---I can hardly walk, can't bend at the waist or raise my arms above my head. <---Take it easy on me, I'm over 40, remember?!?

--Shife, Sandy, Motherof2boys, ???, Conundrum, Ken, Peggy, Lo, TRin, Suzy, BigMama, Andraste, Todd, Jeff, Lzlee, hi to you all. 5cfam, I'll see you tonight. <--LL meeting in January, hrrrmmmppphhhh!

--Enjoy A.I. tonight, everyone.... Fof3 ....OUT!!!

Hi all.

--Hi... it's Thursday.

--I haven't been around much here this week.

--I'll get you caught up in a hurry.

--Liam...he and I and Noelle went to the ball field yesterday to hit some baseballs. He swung at 5 pitches and told me he wasn't feeling very well. We went home and he slept for the next 14 hours. 14. No fever. He finally woke up as I was leaving for work. Strnge.

--Noelle...drama tonight. She had fun at the field for the short amount of time we weere there.

--Caitlin... basketball game tonight. <--Good luck, CR.

--Mof3...working out hard. Getting rock hard.

--Fof3...basketball tonight.

--That's it. Sorry. I got nothing. More of same tomorrow.

A New Week

--Here we are at the the start of yet another work week. Second week of the year, and I am already looking forward to my annual Christmas to New Year's break.

--Celeb Fit Club 3 last night. Mof3 and Fof3 love this show. This year's loser is Jeff Conaway. He joins Daniel Baldwin and Gary Busey as the drugged out, drunkards of the show. <---Very entertaining, in a strange way.

--After Celeb Fit Club is something called the Flavor of Love.. with someone called Flavor Flav. <--Yes, we watch this too.

--Caitlin's team lost another heartbreaker last night. 22-20. <---Nice effort though, really.

--Liam and Noelle's basketball clinic starts this Saturday. <---This ought to be fun.

--Caitlin and Fof3 saw a really fun Ranger game on Saturday. Rangers won 4-0.

--We then found a cell phone in the train station parking lot. We picked it up and I called the first number in the memory. It was the owner's brother who met us to retrieve the phone. Caitlin loved all of the phone's features and now wants us to change ours. <---How does doing a good deed end up costing me more money!?!?

--Giants lost. Season over. Now, it's all hockey. (Because the Knicks are awful.)

--Still pushing Mof3 to go for the dog. She's almost ready.

--ok, kids, that's really all for today. I'll try to have more tomrrow. (But I doubt it!) OUT!!

TGIF!!

-Well it's the end of a short work week... and it feels good.

-Going to the Ranger-Panthers game tomorrw with a date. Caitlin.

-Played basketball last night. Did pretty well. Not great. My older brother joined me. He was always better than me. Still is.

-Mof3 watched Dancing or Skating or Cooking With The Stars last night. She told me, but I have forgotten. Note to Mof3: Talking to me about Reality TV when I get home from bball is useless. I am doing all I can at that point to catch my breath, prevent a heart attack and stop sweating. (If you were really devious..and you're not...you'd choose this time every week to ask me for something really important that I don't want to do.) Except go to the Poconos again. Shife, you promised help in this area.

-Fof3 listening to Harold Melvin. <---I know, I know.

-Rangers lost in OT last night to the first place Flyers.

-So, like, uh, er, this blog exists for all of us. Where are my blogitiation friends these days? Friends from Boston, Ohio, new one from Texas, St. Louis, right here in NYC, Long Island. Big Mama...where are you? Andraste? Erwin? Ken? ??? ?, Peggy?

-ok, that's it for now. Rest up this weekend, kids. Big plans for next week.

OUT!!!

Caitlin's Best Game Ever

-Last night was Caitlin Rose's second to last regular-season game. Her basketball team has not won one game in 6 years. They still haven't. But...last night was one well-played, close game. Caitlin, up to this point has been shy about getting too close to the action. Although she is taller than most girls in the game, she is a bit non-physical. She finally took some advice from her dad, (who yells the advice from the sidelines) and got a bit more aggressive. She started getting the ball more, geting repsect from the other team and yes, a two-pointer from the basline that bounced around the rim for an eternity before dropping in. She played really well and can't wait for Sunday's game.

-Speaking of Caitlin, She and I are going to the Ranger game on Saturday afternoon. <--I can't wait.

-Select all, copy, paste. <--My New Year's Resolution is to not lose one post this whole year. <--We'll see, right, Trin?!?

-Saw the 40 Year Old Virgin. <---It was actually too dirty for my taste. I was disapointed, although there were some genuinely funny parts.

-Fof3 listening to Boz Scaggs right now.

-New Year's Eve. Invited to my bro-in-law's house in the Poconos. In a foreign country called Pennsylvania. With the family of 5 and my parents-in-law, we set out from one part of this foreign nation to another...yours truly, driving. Then it started snowing. And it turned to a blizzard. On the hghway. Whiteout. Father-in-law sitting next to me with his straight-arm against the dashboard the whole time... and Mother in law in the back of the mini-van praying the Rosary....in Italian. Any sympathy yet? Thank God we arrive at the house in ok condition, only to "enjoy" the most sysfunctional family holdiay celebration of all time. (Everyone agreed we would sleep at his house... everyone except me, my father in law and my bro-in-law's wife) Nu uh. No way I'm staying there from 4:30 til midinght, then waking up and having the most dysfunctional family breakfast ever. Thanks for your, ahem, hospitality... and ciao. We took it slow to the other house and then drove home the next morning. Blog friends: Please remind me of this post if I ever mentioning doing something like this again. Mention this post, then call me, then e-mail me, then visit me personally to dissuade me. Yes, Shife, I'll pay for your plane ticket.

-ok, thanks for reading. (Unless you are my bro-in-law or his wife..in which case, oops.)

ok..Back to Work

..and things are getting back to normal.

-What a wonderful Christmas and New Year's for Fof3 and Family.

-Started with a really nice Christmas Eve dinner with the in-laws. (Even better: Father-in-law of Fof3 picked up the check)
Reminds me of the line" He picked up the checkall right... took one look at it and put it back down!)

-Christmas was wonderful as always. Had the house filled with family and friends and, even though it rained pretty heavily all day, we pulled off the party without a hitch. (We've had blown fuses, coffee pot explosions, family feuds erupt into all out wars and even some vomiting.) <---This year, none of that.

-Actually, it started Christmas Eve at mass. Caitlin's angelic voice was heard above all the rest and the church applauded their efforts. <--Great job, honey.

-Then, a whole bunch of lazy days...King Kong and the batting range... <---Liam was a hitting machine!! We rented the cage for a half hour and when he got into the batters' box, he realized that their was a birthday party going on right next to him... a bunch of 9 or 10 year olds. Liam was intimidated but had those boys in awe after the first 10 pitches were sent to the back of the cage on line drives. <--Awesome, my main man.

-Noelle handled King Kong very well. Some friends of ours had nad experiences with their children freaking out during the movie ..but not Noelle. She slept thru the frst half, then woke up right during the scary part! She was fine.

-Mof3 got a chance to relax a bit yesterday. Of course, she needed to endure miserable dental surgery in order to get that relaxation.

-I got reaquainted with some old friends... L's.I.B. and saw some relatives that I don't get to see much anymore.

-All in all, it was great. I will tell you about my New Year's Eve odyssey tomorrow...but now, I gotta get to work.

-Happy New Year to Motherof2boys, Bigmama, Shife, WifeofShife, Lo, Trin, Erwin, Peggy, ???, Andraste, 5cfam, Jeff, Todd, Ken, L's.I.B. and the rest of my peeps.

-OUT!!!