Crap, Sorry for the pause

 

    Ok, I know, I know.  I am still alive.  Kinda.  Been having alot of pains.  Meds just zing me out.  Still trying to get things together in my head.  Had lots to do.  Baseball is one of the things.  I am loving it.  I so enjoy watching these kids try so hard.  Nosey is really enjoying it, but isn’t very good.  Heck, none of them are.  They haven’t won a game yet.  But I keep the faith.  I just know they will.  So since I haven’t been here for a while and don’t really feel like writing much these days.   I have added some other photos of the game on flickr.  I’ll try to keep up with writing this summer, I can’t wait till the kids get out of school.  Later

Happy Birthday Gail

 

This post is for a dear cousin of mine.  Today is her Birthday.  Happy Birthday girlie!!  I know I need to call you, so I will sometime today.  I hope you have a good Birthday.  I didn’t get you anything, but the kids wanted to send you a message.  I told them you were 39, you are 39, right??  He he.  Love you.  Oh and I didn’t forget this year.

Oh and Katie’s picture is of rain drops, you know, for April Showers?  She was mad at me because we were running late for school and I wouldn’t let her finish it.  That explains the mean evil look on her face.

I Love….

 

I Love Bad Photos.

I took a few photos like this, but none of them came out like I wanted.  As per the SPF post, I have been having trouble with batteries.   No, I still haven’t bought any more yet.  So I took these photos with batteries where the camera kept shutting off.  Anyway, in this one I got Nosey’s shoe.  Argghh.  But I posted it anyway.  Oh well.

Spring Break

This week is spring break for the younguns, so I probably won’t post much.  Right now they are both busy with their own things, Noisy is playing in the bedroom with her fairies and Nosey is in the living room building planes and such from legos.  I have a had the last 30 mins to myself which is amazing when they are home. 

I love it when they are home, I don’t worry about where they are, what they are doing, and if they are getting in trouble.  But sometimes you just have to sneak off for a few mins.  This is of course only the second day, but I am still glad they are home. 

We are supposed to have some pretty bad weather here this afternoon, and I feel better when they are with me in case it gets really bad.  It’s a mother thing I think. 

 When they are home, I try to get all my work done early so that I can spend sometime with them instead of passing them all of the time and saying things like, ” Yea, that looks great.”  Or, “I see”, or um, “just a minute”.  So this afternoon, we are going to sit down and watch a movie, what yet I don’t know.  But I am going to sit and relax, not do nothing, but watch a movie. 

The rest of the week is play by play, we’ll see what happens.  Nothing really planned yet, so I’ll let you know what happens..

Donuts for Dads

Next week is spring break for the kiddos.  I will enjoy their time at home.  I miss getting to spend time with them other than after school and weekends.   I do have somethings planned for next week, I just hope my pain will allow them. 

Today at school is Donuts for Dads.  Every year the school has this thing where for three days, they get to have breakfast at school with a parent and grandparents.  It’s a pretty big thing.  The kids love it.  Yesterday was Muffins for Mom, and tomorrow is Goodies for Grandparents.  You get to go to school and have breakfast with the kids.  Like I said, they love it.  Of course you can go have lunch with them anytime or breakfast if you want, but most parents and grandparents don’t.  Most work.  So alot do not.  This gives them at least one day a year to go and have breakfast and visit with the teachers and enjoy spending a little time with the kids. 

Bud went with the children today and they were so excited.  For the past few years he has gone.  It makes me happy that he does this.  It makes them happy.  So Thank you again Bud for doing this for them.  I love You.

I Love….

These Two.  Nosey and Noisy

Kids Room

Ok, I know I said a couple of weeks ago, I was going to clean the clutterfrom the kids room.  Well the day I wrote that post, I didn’t do it.  I know, just get over it.  I meant to and did go look in the room.  Stood there for a moment, then decided to clean the bathtub instead.   I did get the floors vacuumed first however.

Yesterday I did it.  I came home from taking them to school, saw Bud on his way.  Then started the gruesome task.  The reason I decided to actually jump in yesterday was because I was laying in bed.  You know when you are kinda half awake and half asleep?  Well I was in that fog of 1/2 and 1/2.  And for some reason, I was thinking about cleaning it up.  I don’t know why, but I started feeling really guilty about that room.  And so when I got up I kept telling myself that it had to be done. 

So, like I said, I jumped right in.  I had things piled up all over the house.  Little piles of books, stuffed animals, Lego’s, planes, jewelry, dirty clothes, etc.  After 8 hours minus lunch, I had it half way done.  3 big lawn garbage bags full of junk, broken toys, and just trash I was only half way done.  I still need to get under the beds and in the closet.  Arrgghh.  Then I will be done.  So today when I get finished with this post, I’m going back to the battle field to finish the job. 

I know, I have to be a horrible mother to let it get so bad.  Oh I feel like I’m up for the Worst Mother Of The Year Award.  I’m going to win it. 

Book Fair Anyone?

This week has been really hectic, so sorry about the pause in posting.  This week the kids school held a book fair.  They do this every year.  This is the first year I have been able to help out.  Let me tell you, if you have never participated in anything like this, you are missing out.  I had the best time.  What happens, is, this company brings all of these books, and I mean “alot” of books to the school.  They bring the shelves and all kinds of things.  Book-markers, pens, notepads, erasers and such.  The PTO pulls this all together and it is an amazing program.  As a volunteer, you help set up the books, there are hundreds of books.   The week before, papers are sent home with the kiddos so that parents can help them pick out some books they might like.  There are order forms for them to choose from.  When Monday comes, the classes take turns coming to see the books and either pick from their list or browse around to see and read or look at the pictures in the books  themselves.  They are also allowed to fill out a “wish list” to take home in hopes of coming back the next day for the book they want.   This would last for 3 days.  Monday thru Wednesday.

Each class gets about 20 mins, to browse.  Of course the pre-k and kindergarten need a little help to decide and that is where the work comes in.  I had such a blast helping the little one decide.  The aww factor they all have at the sight of so many good books is just inspiring.  The glossy covers with the colorful pictures just pulls their minds and is wonderful to watch. 

Sally wants the one about the fairy’s and Johnny wants the one about the dinosaurs.  The books were not expensive.   And I think all of them  got at least one.  Some got 4 or 5.  Just to see their faces as they left for their classroom with their new books was so cool.  So if you ever get the chance to help out with something like this, do try it.  I know I will be back next year.

Thank You Bud

Hope you all had a wonderful VDay yesterday.  I did.  I had a wonderful one.  Bud is the sweetest man.  I won’t say why, but just let me tell you, he is a sweetie.  Normally he has this “gruffness”, “hardness” about him.  But this week he has been especially understanding.  All week I have been feeling ”out of sorts”.  He has been really busy  as one of the guys at the shop has been sick.  Every night he has come home dog tired.  Yet he has made time to talk to me. 

Yesterday was a busy day for him as usual, but he still took time out for me.  He knows me and I know him and I know that the time he gave me yesterday meant something.  Took alot for him.  So I say thank you Bud for yesterday. 

The kids parties at school were alot of fun and a needed break from reality for me.  I had the best time with them, Nosey’s was around 10:30 am and Noisy’s was at 2:00pm.  I really enjoyed watching the kids interact with each other and visiting with the teachers.  My hat is off to the teachers of the world.  You guys rock.

Today however I am back to being me.   Time to come out of the clouds of Valentines Day and get back to reality. 

I am accident prone,  I am clumsy, and it is a “blue eyed miracle” that I have even made it to 41.  I drop things, run into things, and fall.  All my life I have had to learn to be careful when I do anything.  Ha, but still things happen. 

This morning after taking the kids to school and going to town for things for the weekend, I get home and gather up the laundry.  This is a simple task.  Nothing too risky there.  Our laundry room is outside about 10 yards from the house.  So I am walking out the door with not one, but two baskets full of clothes I hope to get done with before the end of the day, and fall. 

I fall off the concrete steps, there are two, onto our concrete carport.  Laundry flies everywhere.  I smack my head, of course I hit the left side of my ear and skull on this surface that is cold, wet and HARD.  Talk about stars, I had cluster bombs going off. 

As I was falling, in slow motion, I was thinking, “Oh shit, here comes the lightening”.  And as I hit, I could feel the crack of my noggin all the way to my feet.  Of course I just knew that I was going to have a TN moment.  But the strange thing was, I didn’t.  The only thing that hurt was my ear and head.  I cannot believe that this didn’t trigger an episode.  Of course the day is still early so I expect to have caused some damage.

Don’t suppose I could get so lucky as to have shaken my brain enough to be cured now.  Could I?? 

You Asked for It

A Typical Monday  
This is how I spend my Mondays.  For those of you who ask me, “What is it that you do all day?”  Here is your answer.
 
Disclaimer:  This post may be very boring and take a lot of time to read.  It is very detailed and exact, so prepare yourself for a long read.  Remember this is my day and I leave nothing out.  Not one thing, people.  Nothing.  Read at your own risk.

06:30 –  Get out of bed, start coffee, administer meds.  Get dressed.
07:00 –  Get kids up and dressed.  Pour first coffee for Bud and I.  Urge kids to eat.  Drink a few drinks of coffee, urge kids again to eat and stop playing.   Make lunches.  Again, urge kids to eat or finish up.  Wash faces, including mine.   Teeth brushing for kids.  Comb Nosey’s hair, style Noisy’s hair, (ponytail).  Get backpacks and lunches altogether.  Hug Bud for the morning.  (we hug every-time we leave each other for awhile)  (every-time). 
07:45 –  Off for school.
08:10 –  Me time…. Sit outside and smoke 1 1/2 cig and drink a few drinks of my (cold) coffee.
08:20 –  Sort laundry – 5 loads
08:30 - Head to laundry room, (which is not in the house, but outside in shed).
08:45 -    Prep bathroom for cleaning.  Next start kitchen, pick up cereal from floor and chairs, put dishes in sink, all dishes.  Clean up coffee pot, wipe out fridge, put away clean dishes.  Mandatory bathroom break, back to kitchen to wash dishes, wipe counters, and table.  Sweep floor.
09:00 - Make beds
09:10 –  Trash detail, pick up toys from living room and straighten up.  Get vacuum ready,
09:20 –  Take a drink of still cold coffee from earlier.  Prep self for trip to town.  Brush hair, brush teeth 1st time for day.  All this mentally preparing list for town.  Transfer mental list to paper.  Stand still for a few seconds to make sure nothing is forgotten.
09:25 –  Gather up keys, wallet, cell phone, shoes.  One more drink of cold coffee.  Grab kids jackets that I forgot this am.
09:30 –  Check lists, lights, door and anything else like fire hazards.
09:31 –  Out to laundry room to switch laundry and smoke 1/2 a cig
09:35 –  Off to school for jackets
09:40 - Take jackets into office of school
09:42 - On to town. 
09:57 –  Bank  
10:01 –  Pharmacy 
10:02 - Grocery store.  (small town so everything is close together)
10:15 - car wash 
10:20 - Back to pharmacy to pick up
10:40 - Back home, unload car, put away items, pop frozen sausage bisquit in microwave, replace paper towels on rack, eat breakfast.
10:50 - Out to laundry room to switch laundry again.  Check animals water bowl on the way back in house with first load to fold. 
11:10 – Turn on The View to “listen to while working”. Start on bathroom.  Real cleaning this time. Toilet, sink, tub, floors, mirrors.
11:30 –  Vacuum bathroom, living room, bedrooms, and kitchen.  Not even really good, just a quick run through.
11:45 - Put away vacuum, pop lunch in oven, (left over from last night).  Get table set for lunch. Put away dishes washed from earlier.  Prepare salad for my lunch.
12:03 –  Shower Time.  But check on lunch in oven first to check progress.
12:10 - Bud calls to see what is for dinner.    
12:15 –  Realize no time for shower.  So I redo hair, rebrush teeth, change shirt, add makeup this time.  Go outside to smoke a cig.  At last.
12:30 –  Fold first load of laundry, towels and put them in bathroom and kitchen for later storage. 
12:40 –  Bud arrives home as I am putting lunch on table.   We eat lunch.
12:55 –  Clear table and wash lunch dishes.  Feed dog. 
01:05 –  Next trip to laundry room to switch loads again
01:10 –  Fold second load of laundry. 
01:15 –  Sit down and watch Headline News with Bud.
01:45 -    Bud leaves for work.  Send trash out with him.  And see him off to work, with a hug.  Always.
01:50 -    Outside for a smoke.  Yes….
02:05 - Transfer notes to computer.
02:10 –  Prepare to go back to town and the bank….again, yes, something I forgot to do while there earlier. Gather up wallet, my shoes keys and head out the door.
02:15 –  Notice dead mouse on carport, needs to be removed before children get home.  Leave for bank.
02:30 –  Arrive at bank, take care of business. 
02:45 –  Back home, forgot to get Noisy’s meds.  This has  to be administered before we get out of school parking lot so that by the time we get home, she will be ready to go on homework.  I’ll explain that later.
02:52 –  Leave for school 
02:59 –  Arrive at school and wait in line. 
03:01 –  Kids in car.  
03:10 –  Home again, backpacks unloaded, homework taken out and ready. 
03:15 –  Snacks for kids, mom doesn’t get one.  Go over homework and get computer ready for spelling words.
03:25 –  Homework begins, one on computer doing spelling, the other on other homework or free time if no other homework.
03:45 –  Back to laundry room to switch loads……again.  

Ok I am going to spare you the rest.  Lets just say you know
 what I am talking about here.  So this is what a Monday is
 like for me.  Sucks doesn’t it.

Told you it was boring.
Also this post was prepared with my trusty note pad I carry every where with me.