It was a big weekend here that started on Friday. Me and Laci had to go to the school and count fundraiser money and then after we met my mom and went to Bridgemill for the bi annual neighborhood sale and hit a few sales. I got a lego table for the kids for 5.00! And its nice! I got a few other little things and then finally called it a day around noon. The rest of Friday was spent relaxing.
Saturday I got up and me and brian and the kids went yard saling again and had a lot of fun and hit at least 40 sales! We didnt buy much but we still had fun. Again we were done around noonish and then we came home and relaxed and then I went to Kmart to browse around while brian and the kids stayed home watching scary movies. On the way home I stopped at the boiled peanut guy and got a bag of peanuts and then publix. When I got home me and Brian grabbed some tea and the peanuts and went outside with the kids. I took the first peanut out, cracked it, sucked the odd tasting water out of it, opened it without looking and ate the first 2 nuts out of 3 in the shell....and spit them out!!!! I looked at the shell and seen this odd granual looking stuff and then turned the last nut over to see....MAGGOTS!!! Omg I almost threw up! The peanut had boiled maggots right along inside them! I opened another 5 and ALL of them had either whole big maggots dead and boiled or the weird granuals and what I think to be the teeny baby maggots that flies first lay. Ugh I am getting barfy just reliving this in my head! Brian was so mad! He tookthe bag and headed back up there. I told him to be nice though, because they were just a couple of old country guys and were very sweet to me when I bought them. He went up and showed them peanut after peanut full of maggots and the guys flipped out! He promised he would stop selling for the day and dump the ones he had left and that this batch was from a new supplier bc the other supplier was backordered. That he was freaking out because he had sold peanuts all day long! He begged brian not to go to the local paper and said he would give us free peanuts all fall long. Brian said we wouldnt go to the paper, but passed on the peanut offer. *gag* After that I was pretty much done for the day and we called it a night.
Yesterday we went to the river with Clover and the kids by the house for a few hours. Christopher had the most fun, Laci was good as long as she was sitting on a big rock or in my lap, and Clover was his normal self being wierd and eating leaves and trying to walk along the rocks. Brian did fall and hit his bad knee on a rock real bad and it has him limping pretty bad right now. I am hoping to get him to the doctor sometime this week to have it checked out. Then last night we went to my moms for Joey's birthday dinner. His girlfriend Kelsey was there and it was nice to finally meet her. We all laughed and hung out and joked for a few hours and then it was time to get my exhausted kids home and in bed! They both passed out within a few minutes of being home!
Today is the first day of fall break so I have both kids home all week. I am planning a lot of things this week. This morning I am taking them to the park by the lake to play in the sand and be silly til the heat comes. This is a terrible heatwave that I am hoping is the last of today. Its going to be almot 95* today! BLEH! I want my fall back!!!! So anyhow I have a big week planned and I am looking foward to decorating soon for halloween! YAY!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
COMPUTER IS FIXED!!!!
YAY!!!!
I am so happy! Finally my computer is fixed! Fall is here and I am feeling fine!!! Last week Brian was off work for vacation and we spent the week making changes in the house and it all looks great! The bedroom went from (as someone called it) Miami Vice teal to "Periwinkle Bud" (a nice soft lavender color) and our bedding went to silver and we got a dresser and painted it black to match the other furniture in there. The livingroom went from the old bedroom blue to Ginger Spice to follow the kitchen and diningroom, Laci's dresser went from dark green to "Watermelon" and the garage is getting a whole wall from the waist down painted in chalkboard paint! We took down all the ocean stuff from the livingroom for the fall/winter and we will be changing that theme for the rest of the year. I went ahead and did the mantle up for halloween and its so cute! I love it!
I am no longer with Southern Cross and now I am with "Angels Among Us Pet Rescue" and I have my first rescue pet here, she is a 1.5 year old boxer mix and she is a doll! Clover is in love with her and she loves being here! She is super sweet and I am happy to have such a calm dog chilling here for a while wiating on her forever home. :)
Christopher had his funrun last week and he did great! Me and Brian and Laci went to cheer him on and stayed to pass popsicles to the next group. The laps were bigger this year and he had less time but still managed to run 28 out of 30 laps and was very proud of himself. We were super proud too and he had fun and thats what really matters! Then Friday he stayed at my moms house, (Laci didnt want to go because she is going through a wierd phase right now, but she cried bad when they left and she knew her choice to stay home sucked), and he had a great time! They rented movies and at ice cream sundaes and played and he was very happy to get some one on one time with nana and grandpa. I was happy he got that time in alone. :)
Last night we went to have dinner at the lake with the kids. It was officially the last swim night of the year. When we were done we deflated the arm swimmies and the round ring float. The water has been drained in the lake for the winter already and we could go all the way to the yellow pipe and still be crawling on our hands and knees and be well above water! It was the lowest we have ever seen it! We went way out past the line and searched for things that have been hidden all summer long. We found a few good shells and some good rocks, but nothing amazing. We had fun though and I was actually cold when I would come up out of the water. Next weekend (the 25th) we have our BBQ and potluck at the lake with friends and I am looking foward to it. I told the kids they can play in the water wearing shorts if it is warm enough, but thats all. I finally got some pics of the kids at the lake and that made me happy. They turned out really good! :)
Today its back to the grind or laundry and trying to scrub 9 million paw prints off my livingroom floor from the doggies running outside and running in with dirty feets!
Glad my comp is finally fixed! I am so happy to have it back! YAY!
Now to try and figure out how today is the halfway point of September already!!!!!
I am so happy! Finally my computer is fixed! Fall is here and I am feeling fine!!! Last week Brian was off work for vacation and we spent the week making changes in the house and it all looks great! The bedroom went from (as someone called it) Miami Vice teal to "Periwinkle Bud" (a nice soft lavender color) and our bedding went to silver and we got a dresser and painted it black to match the other furniture in there. The livingroom went from the old bedroom blue to Ginger Spice to follow the kitchen and diningroom, Laci's dresser went from dark green to "Watermelon" and the garage is getting a whole wall from the waist down painted in chalkboard paint! We took down all the ocean stuff from the livingroom for the fall/winter and we will be changing that theme for the rest of the year. I went ahead and did the mantle up for halloween and its so cute! I love it!
I am no longer with Southern Cross and now I am with "Angels Among Us Pet Rescue" and I have my first rescue pet here, she is a 1.5 year old boxer mix and she is a doll! Clover is in love with her and she loves being here! She is super sweet and I am happy to have such a calm dog chilling here for a while wiating on her forever home. :)
Christopher had his funrun last week and he did great! Me and Brian and Laci went to cheer him on and stayed to pass popsicles to the next group. The laps were bigger this year and he had less time but still managed to run 28 out of 30 laps and was very proud of himself. We were super proud too and he had fun and thats what really matters! Then Friday he stayed at my moms house, (Laci didnt want to go because she is going through a wierd phase right now, but she cried bad when they left and she knew her choice to stay home sucked), and he had a great time! They rented movies and at ice cream sundaes and played and he was very happy to get some one on one time with nana and grandpa. I was happy he got that time in alone. :)
Last night we went to have dinner at the lake with the kids. It was officially the last swim night of the year. When we were done we deflated the arm swimmies and the round ring float. The water has been drained in the lake for the winter already and we could go all the way to the yellow pipe and still be crawling on our hands and knees and be well above water! It was the lowest we have ever seen it! We went way out past the line and searched for things that have been hidden all summer long. We found a few good shells and some good rocks, but nothing amazing. We had fun though and I was actually cold when I would come up out of the water. Next weekend (the 25th) we have our BBQ and potluck at the lake with friends and I am looking foward to it. I told the kids they can play in the water wearing shorts if it is warm enough, but thats all. I finally got some pics of the kids at the lake and that made me happy. They turned out really good! :)
Today its back to the grind or laundry and trying to scrub 9 million paw prints off my livingroom floor from the doggies running outside and running in with dirty feets!
Glad my comp is finally fixed! I am so happy to have it back! YAY!
Now to try and figure out how today is the halfway point of September already!!!!!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
SEPTEMBER!!!!!!!
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOO FALL MONTH!!!
Starting the month off with one kid sick enough to stay out of school yesterday due to his flare up, but another one headed to the dog today...oh and did I mention I am sick as hell too? Yep, gotta love the fields of grain...or ragweed and golden rod....in the back yard next door since the whole idea of keeping it down was a lost cause and the wind blows through it making it look like a dust storm all day and night...mix that with cooler dry termps in the evenings that had us spending way too many hours at a time back there and its a recipe for disaster. Hayfever at its finest....or...the fall crud?
Anyhow its finally September! The beginning of the 2 most favorite seasons for me. The weather is already screaming for fire pits and ghost stories. I will just be glad when we all are sleeping again at night and can truly get the most out of this time of year! :)
So the week has gone by pretty much uneventful again. Just the same same day in and day out...its that lull between the seasons where you get your plans together and gear up....but change is coming! Brian is off all next week and its going to be our paint week! The livingroom is getting painted the brown to match the diningroom and kitchen, the bedroom is getting painted a silvery blue or lavender, and the dressers are getting painted for the bedrooms...ours black, laci's pink...and changing the theme in the livingroom as well as curtains to prepare for the colder seasons.
The big halloween stores have all started opening so that will become a weekly or multi times a week event I am sure with the kids, lol, of course I am not sure who likes it more, me or them!
Anyhow I have to get ready to take Laci to the doctor, and then its time for my day to get to gettin'. Have a happy 1st of September!
Starting the month off with one kid sick enough to stay out of school yesterday due to his flare up, but another one headed to the dog today...oh and did I mention I am sick as hell too? Yep, gotta love the fields of grain...or ragweed and golden rod....in the back yard next door since the whole idea of keeping it down was a lost cause and the wind blows through it making it look like a dust storm all day and night...mix that with cooler dry termps in the evenings that had us spending way too many hours at a time back there and its a recipe for disaster. Hayfever at its finest....or...the fall crud?
Anyhow its finally September! The beginning of the 2 most favorite seasons for me. The weather is already screaming for fire pits and ghost stories. I will just be glad when we all are sleeping again at night and can truly get the most out of this time of year! :)
So the week has gone by pretty much uneventful again. Just the same same day in and day out...its that lull between the seasons where you get your plans together and gear up....but change is coming! Brian is off all next week and its going to be our paint week! The livingroom is getting painted the brown to match the diningroom and kitchen, the bedroom is getting painted a silvery blue or lavender, and the dressers are getting painted for the bedrooms...ours black, laci's pink...and changing the theme in the livingroom as well as curtains to prepare for the colder seasons.
The big halloween stores have all started opening so that will become a weekly or multi times a week event I am sure with the kids, lol, of course I am not sure who likes it more, me or them!
Anyhow I have to get ready to take Laci to the doctor, and then its time for my day to get to gettin'. Have a happy 1st of September!
Friday, August 27, 2010
Do you feel that?
(severely angry to be re-typing this massive entry and sitting here with my head pounding!)
Its FALL creeping in! Now, I know the way GA weather works, just when we cant take another day of the sweltering heat we get a breath of relief (currently we are mid 80s during the day with pure sun and 60s at night) but then just as we think its fall, BAM! it becomes hot again for a week (by next week we are expecting highs back in the low 90s) and then just as we think we have been screwed, almost overnight it becomes cool and dry and fall officially falls in GA. The older locals around here say the signs are in order for an early and colder fall, and the almanac calls for a colder and wetter winter...so maybe we will have a white christmas and a frosty halloween? I can only wish! The trees at Lowes are all bright red, and gold, and yellow and some of the bigger trees are starting to have their color drain from them and some even have a lot of yellow leaves. My elephant ear in the front yard is already starting to shrivel and die, my snowball bushes are all turning brown, and the sod is starting to lighten in color and I see patches of gold coming through. (the sod turns a straw color in the fall/winter), and yesterday for the first time I think since I put it in, my mountain hybiscus had NO flowers on it all day! That has never happened that I can recall, and my neighbors daylillies are all dying off around her tree already....and I can remember years when she had to fish through lush green leaves for halloween decorations that fell off her tree in them. I am very excited for fall and winter this year. Mostly because my 2 kids are finally old enough to enjoy everything the seasons have to offer. From firepits and marshmellow roasting, to hayrides and corn mazes, to pumpkin patches and decorating! They are both as excited for it all as I am which only makes me more excited! I have a feeling this year we may even end up buying a bunch of firewood because we will be having so many firepit nights! :)
Yesterday Clover celebrated his 3/4 birthday! I cant believe my baby puppy is already 9 months old! I am still so in love with everything about him and he makes me so happy. He loves us more than ever in return. He seems huge to everyone in the world but me. To me he seems like a big lapdog! All 90 pounds of him! LOL! I have to start working more on his training now that the cooler weather is coming, but at the moment he is limping from pano. It is a common but painful issue many GSDs suffer from and is an inflamation of all his bones which causes limping and pain constantly. I am giving him baby asprin and keeping him indoors as much as possible though and soon this attack will pass and he will be back to his active self again.
The kittens are now ready to go too and I am hoping to find them a home this next week so I can start getting my house in order again! They are very cute and very sweet and I think they will all make great family members to peoples homes. Now I just have to find those homes!
Yesterday I also surprised Christopher with 2 new action figures, Chewbacca and Darth Vader. I explained that this was a gift for doing so well in school this first month and adjusting so well and that this will only be a one time gift because we are so proud of how well he has done with the huge workload he now has and class changing and responsibility that comes with 1st grade. His teacher told me that he is one of the best kids in class and that he is always polite and respectful and helpful and he has been doing great on all his work. I am also amazed with how great his handwritting is coming along. Its shocking to me to see how well he writes! He went to school this morning with Darth in one pocket and Chewbacca in the other to share with his best friend during recess today. My little man is growing up and I am so very proud of him! Laci is doing well at home again full time and she is really starting to show an interest in the world around her and colors and shapes and numbers and letters and has started asking me all the questions I remember answering for Christopher not that long ago and I am so happy and thankful for every day I get to spend with them in my life. They make me happier than words could ever explain.
Today I promised them that I would take them to Party City after school to see if they finally got all their Halloween decorations out. I know finally is a funny word to use on August 27th, but bare with me. Anyhow they are both rediculously excited for Halloween this year which is only making me more excited! We started working on decoration props last night and I now have two nasty jars (one growing a monster and the other full of ping pong ball eyeballs) sitting on my counter in my kitchen! LOL! I am going to treat them to some Dunkin Donut holes on the way and maybe get myself a coffee...I need one after last night!
Tonight is our pizza and movies night and it is quickly becoming a favorite for me with the family. Of course I was up pretty much all night last night and I have a pounding headache so I am sure I will be in bed early tonight....maybe even before the kids! Ha!
Well I cant really remember everything else I had written before, but this will have to do for now...I will need to start printing stuff soon. This computer is shot and freezes on me and is a hunk of crapola anymore. I cant do hardly anything on it and I am trying to do everything computerwise from my phone or brians computer in the evening making computer stuff very hard to do! I would love to say we will be saving for a new one, but with the original problem with the blazer being fixed wasnt enough to actually fix the blazer and it still being in the shop, and christmas quickly coming, I have to say that my computer days will just be very limited til next year..oh well...thats life :)
Hope everyone has a great Friday!
Its FALL creeping in! Now, I know the way GA weather works, just when we cant take another day of the sweltering heat we get a breath of relief (currently we are mid 80s during the day with pure sun and 60s at night) but then just as we think its fall, BAM! it becomes hot again for a week (by next week we are expecting highs back in the low 90s) and then just as we think we have been screwed, almost overnight it becomes cool and dry and fall officially falls in GA. The older locals around here say the signs are in order for an early and colder fall, and the almanac calls for a colder and wetter winter...so maybe we will have a white christmas and a frosty halloween? I can only wish! The trees at Lowes are all bright red, and gold, and yellow and some of the bigger trees are starting to have their color drain from them and some even have a lot of yellow leaves. My elephant ear in the front yard is already starting to shrivel and die, my snowball bushes are all turning brown, and the sod is starting to lighten in color and I see patches of gold coming through. (the sod turns a straw color in the fall/winter), and yesterday for the first time I think since I put it in, my mountain hybiscus had NO flowers on it all day! That has never happened that I can recall, and my neighbors daylillies are all dying off around her tree already....and I can remember years when she had to fish through lush green leaves for halloween decorations that fell off her tree in them. I am very excited for fall and winter this year. Mostly because my 2 kids are finally old enough to enjoy everything the seasons have to offer. From firepits and marshmellow roasting, to hayrides and corn mazes, to pumpkin patches and decorating! They are both as excited for it all as I am which only makes me more excited! I have a feeling this year we may even end up buying a bunch of firewood because we will be having so many firepit nights! :)
Yesterday Clover celebrated his 3/4 birthday! I cant believe my baby puppy is already 9 months old! I am still so in love with everything about him and he makes me so happy. He loves us more than ever in return. He seems huge to everyone in the world but me. To me he seems like a big lapdog! All 90 pounds of him! LOL! I have to start working more on his training now that the cooler weather is coming, but at the moment he is limping from pano. It is a common but painful issue many GSDs suffer from and is an inflamation of all his bones which causes limping and pain constantly. I am giving him baby asprin and keeping him indoors as much as possible though and soon this attack will pass and he will be back to his active self again.
The kittens are now ready to go too and I am hoping to find them a home this next week so I can start getting my house in order again! They are very cute and very sweet and I think they will all make great family members to peoples homes. Now I just have to find those homes!
Yesterday I also surprised Christopher with 2 new action figures, Chewbacca and Darth Vader. I explained that this was a gift for doing so well in school this first month and adjusting so well and that this will only be a one time gift because we are so proud of how well he has done with the huge workload he now has and class changing and responsibility that comes with 1st grade. His teacher told me that he is one of the best kids in class and that he is always polite and respectful and helpful and he has been doing great on all his work. I am also amazed with how great his handwritting is coming along. Its shocking to me to see how well he writes! He went to school this morning with Darth in one pocket and Chewbacca in the other to share with his best friend during recess today. My little man is growing up and I am so very proud of him! Laci is doing well at home again full time and she is really starting to show an interest in the world around her and colors and shapes and numbers and letters and has started asking me all the questions I remember answering for Christopher not that long ago and I am so happy and thankful for every day I get to spend with them in my life. They make me happier than words could ever explain.
Today I promised them that I would take them to Party City after school to see if they finally got all their Halloween decorations out. I know finally is a funny word to use on August 27th, but bare with me. Anyhow they are both rediculously excited for Halloween this year which is only making me more excited! We started working on decoration props last night and I now have two nasty jars (one growing a monster and the other full of ping pong ball eyeballs) sitting on my counter in my kitchen! LOL! I am going to treat them to some Dunkin Donut holes on the way and maybe get myself a coffee...I need one after last night!
Tonight is our pizza and movies night and it is quickly becoming a favorite for me with the family. Of course I was up pretty much all night last night and I have a pounding headache so I am sure I will be in bed early tonight....maybe even before the kids! Ha!
Well I cant really remember everything else I had written before, but this will have to do for now...I will need to start printing stuff soon. This computer is shot and freezes on me and is a hunk of crapola anymore. I cant do hardly anything on it and I am trying to do everything computerwise from my phone or brians computer in the evening making computer stuff very hard to do! I would love to say we will be saving for a new one, but with the original problem with the blazer being fixed wasnt enough to actually fix the blazer and it still being in the shop, and christmas quickly coming, I have to say that my computer days will just be very limited til next year..oh well...thats life :)
Hope everyone has a great Friday!
Monday, August 23, 2010
I am so far behind...
I dont feel like I am never going to be able to get on here daily again! Ever since my computer crashed its been very irritating being on the computer because nothing works right anymore. Its been awful! I wish you could do blogger from the phone so I could actually get on and do this when I get a few minutes waiting in line for Christopher at school or something.
Anyhow, preschool is over. I am not sure if I made an entry on here yet about this, but last thursday morning after all night of thinking I chose to keep her out of school for now. Something that was supposed to be fun had become something to dread, with tears and sobs to the point of dry heaving the night before and crying, and begging, and screaming, and pleading the morning of...just not what I consider to be a good happy situation. So, I made a choice, praying it was the right one to affect me and Laci a year from now and took her out. It sucked and I was so sad, but my heart and gut both felt better once I made it back to my car after talking to the director. Now all I can do is pray that I get a spot there for pre-k next year since there is really only 2 good locations for her to go that wont cause me to have to choose between the two kids as to who gets to get a ride to school...which sadly there is only one who can win that since no buses take them from home to pre-k. :( *fingers crossed*
Then to add insult to injury, the blazer went out and is still out of commission. It has been towed to a mechanic and God only knows how bad its going to hurt us when we find out for sure what the issue is there. *sigh*
This weekend went by in a blur. Saturday we had a birthday party at the lake (Galts) for Francis and Brannons little girl. The party started at 9:30am since saturdays usually get swamped there (well during the actual summer days anyhow) and we ended up staying til almost 5pm!!! The water was nice and cool since Galts is in a channel instead of a cove, and they are moving to Texas now. We got home, exhausted and slightly burned and covered in sand. I got the kids and myself showered and fed the kids and got them in bed. Me and brian got a pizza and watched TV and went to bed early. But it was SO nice there that we have decided that from now on one weeknight a week we will have dinner there until its too cold to swim as a family. :) Sunday we got up early and spent the day working on the house outside. We pressure washed the whole house, changed the broken doorbell out, and went to Lowes to continue looking for colors for the bedroom and planning our huge week of change for colors in the house during the week of September 6th-10th. I am still undecided what to paint the bedroom...But the house looks great now on the outside!
This morning Christopher was off to school, and me and Laci went for a walk (2.5 miles) and enjoyed this crazy 72* weather! Of course now its getting close to 80* and humid...but I have walked and I am showered so I am happy! Starting tonight the overnight temps will me in the upper 60s!!! Thats crazy!!! I am hoping to get to walk every morning now (weather permitting) with Laci since she did so well this morning! I am not walking to lose weight, just to feel better about me...thats all I really care to work on in that department...weight is not even close to my main concern anymore...I am working on it slowly but I have the rest of my life to stress over that crap anymore. I am happier when I just let go and let God. :)
Anyhow I am off to get heaps of laundry and vacuuming done and beds made, and a spice cake with cream cheese frosting baked and tonight I am making Lasagna for the first time in over a year since I stopped making them for a while after I started making them for funerals and had about 5 in one year to make, they became sad and depressing to make and almost felt like I was jinxing us by making one...so I am looking foward to a no strings attached lasagna for dinner! ;) Happy Monday ya'll!
Anyhow, preschool is over. I am not sure if I made an entry on here yet about this, but last thursday morning after all night of thinking I chose to keep her out of school for now. Something that was supposed to be fun had become something to dread, with tears and sobs to the point of dry heaving the night before and crying, and begging, and screaming, and pleading the morning of...just not what I consider to be a good happy situation. So, I made a choice, praying it was the right one to affect me and Laci a year from now and took her out. It sucked and I was so sad, but my heart and gut both felt better once I made it back to my car after talking to the director. Now all I can do is pray that I get a spot there for pre-k next year since there is really only 2 good locations for her to go that wont cause me to have to choose between the two kids as to who gets to get a ride to school...which sadly there is only one who can win that since no buses take them from home to pre-k. :( *fingers crossed*
Then to add insult to injury, the blazer went out and is still out of commission. It has been towed to a mechanic and God only knows how bad its going to hurt us when we find out for sure what the issue is there. *sigh*
This weekend went by in a blur. Saturday we had a birthday party at the lake (Galts) for Francis and Brannons little girl. The party started at 9:30am since saturdays usually get swamped there (well during the actual summer days anyhow) and we ended up staying til almost 5pm!!! The water was nice and cool since Galts is in a channel instead of a cove, and they are moving to Texas now. We got home, exhausted and slightly burned and covered in sand. I got the kids and myself showered and fed the kids and got them in bed. Me and brian got a pizza and watched TV and went to bed early. But it was SO nice there that we have decided that from now on one weeknight a week we will have dinner there until its too cold to swim as a family. :) Sunday we got up early and spent the day working on the house outside. We pressure washed the whole house, changed the broken doorbell out, and went to Lowes to continue looking for colors for the bedroom and planning our huge week of change for colors in the house during the week of September 6th-10th. I am still undecided what to paint the bedroom...But the house looks great now on the outside!
This morning Christopher was off to school, and me and Laci went for a walk (2.5 miles) and enjoyed this crazy 72* weather! Of course now its getting close to 80* and humid...but I have walked and I am showered so I am happy! Starting tonight the overnight temps will me in the upper 60s!!! Thats crazy!!! I am hoping to get to walk every morning now (weather permitting) with Laci since she did so well this morning! I am not walking to lose weight, just to feel better about me...thats all I really care to work on in that department...weight is not even close to my main concern anymore...I am working on it slowly but I have the rest of my life to stress over that crap anymore. I am happier when I just let go and let God. :)
Anyhow I am off to get heaps of laundry and vacuuming done and beds made, and a spice cake with cream cheese frosting baked and tonight I am making Lasagna for the first time in over a year since I stopped making them for a while after I started making them for funerals and had about 5 in one year to make, they became sad and depressing to make and almost felt like I was jinxing us by making one...so I am looking foward to a no strings attached lasagna for dinner! ;) Happy Monday ya'll!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
My Do-Over Week....
Last week started with a bang and gusto! Then everything promptly went to hell...LOL...
So...we are trying last week again...but then yesterday went to hell...so TODAY is the do-over monday from last week...and its fabulous! LOL!!!
Last week was great at first, I made my meeting for Bingo and PTA and Laci was wonderful, I got up and sent laci off to school with no real issues on Tuesday and walked and started my pills....but then monday night, tuesday, wednesday and thursday morning was spent in pain from a bad bad migraine. I chalked it up to my pills and when I decided to stop them for good...within 15 hours the headache went away and stayed gone. On Tuesday of last week I also unexpectedly got my period a week early. It was awful and had me feeling very VERY run down...so walking didnt happen...at all..
Thursday I went to take laci to school and for the first time in my life had to peel a screaming begging crying child off me and let someone hold her while I walked away. She had decided school was NOT somewhere she wanted to be. I cried myself into a new headache and had to redo my makeup before going to work in Christopher's class. I felt horrible!I called her school before I went in to Christopher's class and they said she cried for about 5-8 minutes and then was up running and playing and laughing...that in fact I had cried 3 times longer than she did...and I was ok with that...I was glad I seemed to hurt worse than she did. My whole day was bad though and I seriously questioned if I should be doing this with her at all. I mean it isnt neccessary exactly and if it isnt fun there isnt any real reason for this. I struggled with that badly all weekend. Then when I was in Christopher's class I found out it was his best friend Evan's birthday and we were invited spur the moment to come for dinner...and then his mom broke down crying. Her 22 year marriage was ending and she was and still is a mess. My heart ached for her and I welled up with tears while I hugged her. I put off homework that night and we went to the birthday party. We were the only ones not family there and Christopher and Evan had a blast til 9pm!! But sadly we had to go because we had school to get ready for Friday.
Friday I spent the day cleaning and steam cleaning. My headache had gone and I was sick of having a filthy house from the kids, and dogs, and cats, and myself tracking stuff in and making my light beige carpets dark brown with darker brown and some yellow splotches everywhere. I was sick of the dust, the filth and the overall delapidation of my once beautiful clean house. So I cleaned...and cleaned...and cleaned...I steam cleaned and swept ceilings, I dusted, and wiped down stair banisters, I cleaned cat rooms, and bedrooms, I organized my closet, and moved the kittens into a playpen in the hallway...I cleaned all Friday, and all Saturday. Christopher got to go for the afternoon into the evening back over to Evan's house and they had a great time. Meanwhile I pulled muscles, made my ankle swell, and worked until my hands and legs and back ached...and now I feel like my house is 85-90% perfect again! Sunday Brian tackled the overgrown back yard and we sprayed for bugs and washed the patio down. We went grocery shopping and got ready for school. By sunday night we were all wiped out!
So Monday I decided would be my do-over week....
I over slept...rushed around to get ready for school, and then Brian flooded the engine out in the blazer and now we have to buy a fuel pump. (almost 300.00 UGH!) and we spent the afternoon driving to his grandparents house to pick up his grandfather's truck to borrow until we can fix the blazer. It was hot and rainy and muggy so walking didnt happen and honestly I was glad to see Monday go away!
Today I got up determined to get my life in order. Brian had a sub car, and I had motivation. I got the kids in school (Laci walked in putting up a fight but forgot when the teacher opened the door over excited and she walked in alone so I stopped as she kept going in to play and they said "go! Go!!"...so I went! I felt AWFUL!! I felt worse guilty today disappearing without saying goodbye than I did peeling her off me Thursday. Brian called the school and they said she was fine and playing and that she was OK...but I still felt like crap.) I came home and walked 3.6 miles and showered and then got an email to come work at Christopher's class, so I headed up. I already love this teacher and I already love being a room mom again with this class. Christopher is so excited to see me come in too. It warms my heart to see him light up like that.
Now I am headed back up to his school to get him. I picked laci up and she started to pout and welled up and said I left her and she didnt know where I was at...man that hurt...I wont make that mistake again. Trial and error can be painful! We came home and had a little strawberry ice cream bar and now we are going to get Christopher and head to the Party Store to see if halloween stuff is coming out. The kids and us are very excited for Halloween this year!
I am ready for bed though! Its an easy dinner night thank God and I will be in bed early!
So...we are trying last week again...but then yesterday went to hell...so TODAY is the do-over monday from last week...and its fabulous! LOL!!!
Last week was great at first, I made my meeting for Bingo and PTA and Laci was wonderful, I got up and sent laci off to school with no real issues on Tuesday and walked and started my pills....but then monday night, tuesday, wednesday and thursday morning was spent in pain from a bad bad migraine. I chalked it up to my pills and when I decided to stop them for good...within 15 hours the headache went away and stayed gone. On Tuesday of last week I also unexpectedly got my period a week early. It was awful and had me feeling very VERY run down...so walking didnt happen...at all..
Thursday I went to take laci to school and for the first time in my life had to peel a screaming begging crying child off me and let someone hold her while I walked away. She had decided school was NOT somewhere she wanted to be. I cried myself into a new headache and had to redo my makeup before going to work in Christopher's class. I felt horrible!I called her school before I went in to Christopher's class and they said she cried for about 5-8 minutes and then was up running and playing and laughing...that in fact I had cried 3 times longer than she did...and I was ok with that...I was glad I seemed to hurt worse than she did. My whole day was bad though and I seriously questioned if I should be doing this with her at all. I mean it isnt neccessary exactly and if it isnt fun there isnt any real reason for this. I struggled with that badly all weekend. Then when I was in Christopher's class I found out it was his best friend Evan's birthday and we were invited spur the moment to come for dinner...and then his mom broke down crying. Her 22 year marriage was ending and she was and still is a mess. My heart ached for her and I welled up with tears while I hugged her. I put off homework that night and we went to the birthday party. We were the only ones not family there and Christopher and Evan had a blast til 9pm!! But sadly we had to go because we had school to get ready for Friday.
Friday I spent the day cleaning and steam cleaning. My headache had gone and I was sick of having a filthy house from the kids, and dogs, and cats, and myself tracking stuff in and making my light beige carpets dark brown with darker brown and some yellow splotches everywhere. I was sick of the dust, the filth and the overall delapidation of my once beautiful clean house. So I cleaned...and cleaned...and cleaned...I steam cleaned and swept ceilings, I dusted, and wiped down stair banisters, I cleaned cat rooms, and bedrooms, I organized my closet, and moved the kittens into a playpen in the hallway...I cleaned all Friday, and all Saturday. Christopher got to go for the afternoon into the evening back over to Evan's house and they had a great time. Meanwhile I pulled muscles, made my ankle swell, and worked until my hands and legs and back ached...and now I feel like my house is 85-90% perfect again! Sunday Brian tackled the overgrown back yard and we sprayed for bugs and washed the patio down. We went grocery shopping and got ready for school. By sunday night we were all wiped out!
So Monday I decided would be my do-over week....
I over slept...rushed around to get ready for school, and then Brian flooded the engine out in the blazer and now we have to buy a fuel pump. (almost 300.00 UGH!) and we spent the afternoon driving to his grandparents house to pick up his grandfather's truck to borrow until we can fix the blazer. It was hot and rainy and muggy so walking didnt happen and honestly I was glad to see Monday go away!
Today I got up determined to get my life in order. Brian had a sub car, and I had motivation. I got the kids in school (Laci walked in putting up a fight but forgot when the teacher opened the door over excited and she walked in alone so I stopped as she kept going in to play and they said "go! Go!!"...so I went! I felt AWFUL!! I felt worse guilty today disappearing without saying goodbye than I did peeling her off me Thursday. Brian called the school and they said she was fine and playing and that she was OK...but I still felt like crap.) I came home and walked 3.6 miles and showered and then got an email to come work at Christopher's class, so I headed up. I already love this teacher and I already love being a room mom again with this class. Christopher is so excited to see me come in too. It warms my heart to see him light up like that.
Now I am headed back up to his school to get him. I picked laci up and she started to pout and welled up and said I left her and she didnt know where I was at...man that hurt...I wont make that mistake again. Trial and error can be painful! We came home and had a little strawberry ice cream bar and now we are going to get Christopher and head to the Party Store to see if halloween stuff is coming out. The kids and us are very excited for Halloween this year!
I am ready for bed though! Its an easy dinner night thank God and I will be in bed early!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Tuesday!
Another week underway. Both kids at school this morning, even after Laci gave me the "I dont wanna go to school this morning" a few times. But after getting "Monkey" and giving him lots of hugs to share with her from Mommy all day we got there and she was ready to go. Running and playing with Monkey in tow. :) I was in bed by 8:45 last night feeling awful. My headaches are getting worse and worse. I have decided to I am going to have an MRI done by the end of the year on my head just to be sure everything is ok. The doctor thinks I just have narrow blood vessels and thats what causes the every day headaches...well that and stress...and Lord knows I have plenty of that....but I dont want to stroke out or have something in there that I dont know about so its time to make the step in the direction of putting my mind at ease...even if it doesnt put my aching brain at ease.
Today I started working at losing some more weight. I know I gained some back from last year but I am on my medicine again and I walked 2.2 miles this morning with my friend Tiffany and plan on walking 2-3 miles 5 days a week from now on out. Saturdays and Sundays we do so much running around anyhow that I dont feel like I need to add walking to it. I will start abs and light weights next week as well 3 days a week. I am feeling proud and accomplished and looking foward to seeing the results I couldnt see last year because of my ankle. My ankle still causes me a lot of issues, and I think sitting cross legged on the floor is a thing of the past....but thats ok, I knew there would be long lasting effects from such a nasty tear.
Yesterday was a pretty easy day for me since I made it a point to not do much with my head feeling so bad. The weekend was nice and relaxing. We spent most the weekend being couch potatoes and watching movies on netflix as a family. Sunday I did some running around. Brian bought me a new pair of shoes since I havent had a pair in almost 3 years since my grandma bought me some after I had laci. They are super pretty, and very comfortable! They felt lovely on my feet this morning pounding the pavement. :)
Today I am doing laundry and house cleaning as always, thats a never ending event for me around here. I am not into the "Mom's morning out" thing. I see no reason why I should be out window shopping and spending money we dont have just because Laci is in school for a few hours. Thats just rediculous. This isnt Desperate Housewives, or The Real Housewives of some craptastic city...no, this is Canton, Ga and I am just a mom with a few hours to clean in peace (well unless you cound the German Shepherd shadow I have and the Miranda Lambert blasting peaceful, lol) No, I have too many obligations and this is my job. It is a job, and I am very good at my job. I work hard, play much less than people think stay at home moms do, and have a constant list of tasks to do...I have dinners to make, lunches to make, cats boxes to clean, dogs to wash, laundry, dishes, vacuuming....its nonstop! So its silly to think I should be out and about when I am more excited to clean and see stuff stay clean for a few hours here at my job, while everyone else in the world is at theres! :) And you know what? I am ok with that! I love my job, and I love my life. So neener neener boo boo stick your head in doo doo! LOL!
Welp, I am off to be employee of the month again! Have a great day!
Today I started working at losing some more weight. I know I gained some back from last year but I am on my medicine again and I walked 2.2 miles this morning with my friend Tiffany and plan on walking 2-3 miles 5 days a week from now on out. Saturdays and Sundays we do so much running around anyhow that I dont feel like I need to add walking to it. I will start abs and light weights next week as well 3 days a week. I am feeling proud and accomplished and looking foward to seeing the results I couldnt see last year because of my ankle. My ankle still causes me a lot of issues, and I think sitting cross legged on the floor is a thing of the past....but thats ok, I knew there would be long lasting effects from such a nasty tear.
Yesterday was a pretty easy day for me since I made it a point to not do much with my head feeling so bad. The weekend was nice and relaxing. We spent most the weekend being couch potatoes and watching movies on netflix as a family. Sunday I did some running around. Brian bought me a new pair of shoes since I havent had a pair in almost 3 years since my grandma bought me some after I had laci. They are super pretty, and very comfortable! They felt lovely on my feet this morning pounding the pavement. :)
Today I am doing laundry and house cleaning as always, thats a never ending event for me around here. I am not into the "Mom's morning out" thing. I see no reason why I should be out window shopping and spending money we dont have just because Laci is in school for a few hours. Thats just rediculous. This isnt Desperate Housewives, or The Real Housewives of some craptastic city...no, this is Canton, Ga and I am just a mom with a few hours to clean in peace (well unless you cound the German Shepherd shadow I have and the Miranda Lambert blasting peaceful, lol) No, I have too many obligations and this is my job. It is a job, and I am very good at my job. I work hard, play much less than people think stay at home moms do, and have a constant list of tasks to do...I have dinners to make, lunches to make, cats boxes to clean, dogs to wash, laundry, dishes, vacuuming....its nonstop! So its silly to think I should be out and about when I am more excited to clean and see stuff stay clean for a few hours here at my job, while everyone else in the world is at theres! :) And you know what? I am ok with that! I love my job, and I love my life. So neener neener boo boo stick your head in doo doo! LOL!
Welp, I am off to be employee of the month again! Have a great day!
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