Monthly Archives: August 2009

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Where to start???

August 30, 2009 – 6:16 pm

I really don’t know….
how about with the bad?

1~there will be no new photos from me for who knows how long
2~my computer crashed…lost all my software and some photos
3~i want to scream and cry and throw it’s candy ass out the window
4~i have three clients booked in october that i may have to cancel
5~went to take JJ to school and the burb wouldn’t start
6~my laptop crashed
7~lost my wedding ring again
8~the boys have nasty coughs

Now for the good
A~we have a new fridge and its pretty and makes ice and has cold filtered water and keeps everything frozen. it’s shiny inside and out!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! ( i did have plans of taking photos and it was going to get it’s very own blog post but my computer died and lalalala)
B~Mr. Fun figured out that it was just the battery in the burb and that was under warranty.
C~Mr Fun fixed my laptop and I lost everything which wasn’t much at all.
D~ i had a rocking birthday party and enjoyed good company…THANK YOU to y’all.

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So hard you cry….

August 27, 2009 – 9:43 pm

or you laugh because you if you don’t you will cry…..

today was a day that started off bad and continued to stay bad. It made me long for summer. that sounds funny since the temp read 116 in my burb today…gaah!! i mean really? 116?
i do long for the lazy days of summer, staying up late and hanging with friends with no where else to be and nothing else to do.

I miss hanging with the kids without having to be on them to do homework, clean their lunchboxes out, hang their backpacks up.

I miss their flip flops and sockless feet!!!

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Stuff…

August 26, 2009 – 1:51 pm

It seems G is getting the illness that Mr. Fun has…you know what that means. 4 sick kids and a sick mom before it’s all over.
T didn’t want to go to school today, claimed he was too tired and school was boring. What a silly kid. He went through the door happily without looking back.
JJ has a prick of an english teacher. I am thinking very long and hard about switching her out. She had HOURS of homework from him. It was all busy work too. She had to research 8 philosophers in two nights plus her vocabulary for both nights. It took us, yes us, HOURS to finish last night. JJ did some Monday night. Then last night she started on it at 3PM after finishing her hour of vocab work and 20 minutes of math. At 8PM we were all still working on it. She didn’t even stop to eat dinner. She ate while she typed. Finally at 8:30 I told her she works until 9 and what isn’t done doesn’t get done. She finished at 9:05. And had 25 minutes to be a kid yesterday :( That is so unfair and wrong. If this continues I will see what I can do about pulling her out and switching her to a different teacher. There is only 2 Honors english teachers so her whole schedule will have to change. I am pretty sure she is okay with that. One of her friend’s facebook update was “8 hours later and still doing my english homework”. This just ticks me off. I can see 2 hours of homework but 8 hours which would have been more if Mr. Fun didn’t do 2 and I didn’t do 1.5. She was in tears several times, I felt awful for her. This brings me to the fact that we have NEVER helped her with her homework NEVER!! I don’t believe in doing my kids work, projects included. Sure, we supervise and help where needed but I have NEVER actually researched and wrote things out for her like we did last night. It was all busy work and her teacher is an ass.
My neighbor commented by guessing what teacher she had. Her son had him two years ago and she said 5 hours minimum of work every night. This can’t continue. She has other classes and I want her to be a kid at some point ever day.

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T’s first day….

August 24, 2009 – 4:10 pm

I can’t believe it!!! My baby is in his last year of preschool….not only my baby but my LAST baby. He was so excited to go that he wanted to live 30 minutes early, we compromised and left 15 minutes early.
Once we were in the class he was a little clingy and I could sense he was a tad nervous. The parents stayed and we all learned the good morning song together (i forgot it already because you know, i am parent of the year). After that I went over kissed him and we said our goodbye. Just like that, no tears, no stay with me…nothing. He did look a little unsure but that was because of the one boy screaming “BUT I AM SCARED” and another boy sobbing “I want my mommy”. I told him to be a helper since his teachers had to give those kids a little extra love today. He nodded and I walked out.

When I picked him up he was quiet and didn’t say much….Now if you know T you know this is extremely odd and so not T’s style. I tried to make conversation with asking questions. I got all short answers. This confused me for he usually answers with paragraphs and you have to cut him off to get a word in. What I learned about T’s 1st day.
1~He painted but only his hand print with blue paint on blue paper.
2~He has lots of new kids in his class, Luke is not one of them.
3~He played in the water table and it was boring
4~He, of course, had a snack which was goldfish and water and juice. He didn’t drink the juice because it was apple and he doesn’t like apple juice.
5~He played on the monkey bars while on the playground but didn’t play with anyone.

I think it’s going to be another great year!!!

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Week 2…

August 23, 2009 – 9:57 pm

Ready or not it’s here. Only after a week of school it seems as if it never ended. All the same faces just fall back into place.

The new principle, well umm…not sure I am totally in like with her yet. We will see, it’s only week two.
I am dreading the first yearbook meeting. I am still not sure how I got suckered into doing the yearbook.

I LOVE G’s teacher….This is the year he says goodbye to EPSN and hello to ABCDF. She is a no excuse teacher yet so nice. I think she is the perfect fit for G. When I handed in my forms at back to school night she said “he seems like a sweet kid”. I told that that’s what all the teachers say.

I also love Wy’s teacher. She is a no nonsense teacher but seems fun. I am happy that she individualizes the kids and gives them work that won’t bore them yet isn’t too hard for them. Wy has a lot of kids in class from last year and those girls haven’t missed a beat with their fondness of him. He still just shrugs his shoulders and smirks as all the girls ask him for a hug and get excited to see him EVERY MORNING!

JJ is enjoying her schedule and friends. She is loving the early release. I am so glad I didn’t let her change my mind. I have worked out a carpool schedule so that I don’t have to drag the boys out so early on Mondays and Fridays. We also found out that her geometry class at the high school is a honors geometry, I think the term Mr. Fun used was “MATH STUD”. Can girls be studs? I suppose they can because she rocks the math thing.

One thing I am excited about is being able to volunteer in their classrooms. Mr. Fun has already claimed ALL field trips so I’ll take this. Every other year I had a nursing baby with no babysitter. Last year I was doing daycare. So this is my year to step up as a mom to four and be super woman.

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For Ava..

August 22, 2009 – 10:00 am

Ava’s story really pulls at my heart. It really hits close to home. We live in a climate that is not forgiving when it comes to the heat. It can reach 110 any given day 3-4 months out of the year. So when I heard about Ava….I cried. I cried hard. I thought how quickly life can turn around and leave you upside down.
Every year that has passed I have wanted to do something. Something to remember Ava (though I never met her) and to bring awareness to the danger of hot cars. This year we had a tea party for Ava.


We explained to the children why we were doing what we were doing and we hoped that they would also learn from Ava’s story. My younger boys questioned to why we were having a party and explained that we were celebrating her. So we drew her pictures…..pictures we thought she would love.

and we ate cupcakes

We let pink balloons float up to the sky and we watched.

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We may not have a fridge

August 22, 2009 – 12:23 am

however…..we have rockin’ friends and neighbors….

who are willing to just hang with us, bring us booze and let the kids pretend we live in a trailer park with plastic pools. Shoes, clothes and scooters/bikes dropped wherever.
Sometimes they stop singing to a tired baby to pose for you…gotta love Twister

on another note…WE FINALLY HAD A STORM ROLL IN!!! The sky was killing me….I was wishing I was out in a field somewhere with a sky like this. I mean COME ON!! look at it!!

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A Day with Megan

August 21, 2009 – 12:05 pm

Megan’s mama had to attend a class and needed a babysitter. Since I watched Megan’s older sister all last year of course I was the right choice. Here’s the tricky part…Megan is breastfed,no bottle taking baby. I was not worried, I knew we would be fine. We tried the bottle, she HATED it, screamed the moment it hit her lips. So I knew I had to try something else. I remembered back in the day when I was nanny for a baby girl named Willow. She also hated the bottle. That is when I did research and heard of feeding babies with a syringe. So that is what we did. I only had a tiny syringe in the house but it worked.

This was a full bottle of booby juice when we started. She drank all that from the tiny syringe as she lay on my legs facing me. She would coo and smile as I squirted that milk in the back corner of her cheek. She soon started trying to suck on the syringe. We did good, the two of us. I kept telling her that her mama would be so proud of her for eating and she would smile letting a bit of milk dribble down her chin.
Of course I had help this day since I also had her very busy 2 year old sister. I think my helpers were more than happy to help.

By the end of the day we had a happy baby and mama was surprised when she arrived to a happy smiling baby. She was preparing for a screaming bundle of hungry.

So in conclusion…I realized that I have many talents. I even got the very busy Maddy down for a nap without a crib. If you need a babysitter sure to come through and conquer any problem that may arise, you know who to call *wink wink*

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Rolling on…

August 19, 2009 – 2:01 pm

this week has wore me out and it’s only half over. it is nice to be back on a schedule however putting the boys to bed so early is a challenge for me. eight comes so quickly. with dinner, homework (yes,homework the first week), back to school nights and sessions(not mine,second shooting for free but i take all the experience i can get) i find myself rushing bedtime. we made it to chapter 3 last night of harry potter and Wy seems to be the one most interested in it. G was struggling to stay awake and T was reading his own books, haha!!

T got to meet his teachers and check out his classroom today.

he was scared arriving but when it was time to leave he didn’t want to. After his teachers told him they would see him monday he asked if tomorrow was monday. he can’t wait to go back. i love that.
i LOVED his teachers, Mrs. N has been at this preschool for 20 years and Mrs. B for 16…..we got so lucky. there are 8 kids in his class from last year, so we saw lots of familiar faces. lets just hope this tuition doesn’t break us…one downfall. i keep reminding myself that it’s our last year and we HAVE to make it work. i can’t pull him out, he deserves this experience.

our fridge is completely broken, i emptied it out yesterday…..this broken fridge/freezer thing is already old.
the kids keep opening it up to get a drink or a snack and there is nothing…they sigh and shut it. now onto figuring out how we are going to get it out of the kitchen. won’t that look weird with a big empty spot for who knows how long…..we carry on.

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Without a hitch….

August 17, 2009 – 11:09 pm

The first day came and went..just like that. A few nerves, a couple of tears BUT A LOT of smiles!!

Yep, Wy had a few tears but he held it together really well. I am so proud of him.


the tradition of notes continues…. and i am aware of the A missing on JJ’s note..it was early…..


Would you look at this?
There she is, so happy to be back. I meant to take a photo of her in the car when we got to the parking lot of the school. That backfired because i didn’t know it was going to take 30 minutes to get to school. The high school is on the corner of a dead end road with one lane in and one lane out…who designed that? Morons I presume. So I have to leave 10 minutes earlier than I had planned just to make sure she gets there on time. I thought about having her ride the bus but an 8th grader on a bus with a bunch of high school students just doesn’t sit well with me.
Another thing that doesn’t sit well with me is I have to sign her out EVERY.DANG.DAY. I was like??? I have to do what? I was planning on just pulling up and her jumping in.They know she doesn’t have an 8th period so why do i have to physically sign my name EVERY.DANG.DAY??? So the three boys and I have to park the car, walk into the office and sign her out? That is STUPID!

So are you wondering what T and I did today, just the two of us?

we got along just fine……we talked a lot…okay he talked a lot and i listened.

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