Thank God!

The holidays are over and life is finally back to normal. We are at home just relaxing and watching a little (actually a lot) of football today. That usually what we do on Sundays. Yesterday I spent the day taking down all the Christmas stuff, cleaning the house and burning the tree.

I am so glad we are now back to normal. I love the holidays but sometimes enough is enough and I just can't wait for it to be over. Now, it I could just get my account back in order, life will be great!!! Holidays can be a killer!

My kids crack me up. This morning I have been watching them play. I love to do that. Anyway, Smiley LOVES anything with 4 wheels. He got every size vehicle for Christmas from hot wheels to a tractor he can ride. This morning he has been lining up his hot wheels and running over them with a big monster truck he got. Then he turns at me and smiles real big while winking at me. Thinking his daddy needs to take him to a monster truck thing. He'd love it.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Dear family...

Dear Mom,
Thank you so much for everything you have done for me all my life, but what all you have done this month for me really means the world to me. I don't know what I would do without you. I am the luckiest girl to have you as my mom.
Love,
Your VERY grateful daughter


Dear Toot,
PLEASE quit asking me 50 times a day if it is Christmas yet. I know you are excited but dang girl, you are driving me crazy. I promise I will not let Christmas pass without telling you. I also promise that we will make Santa cookies on Christmas so don't worry. I have everything under control.
Love,
Your pinky promising mama

Dear Smiley,
I love the way you are. You are perfect in your own little way. There is just one thing I need from ya. Now I know most parents would love what you haven't been doing but I need a little help. All you have asked for Christmas is a truck and a REAL train. I'm gonna need a little more to work with babe. So, give it some thought and let me know.
Love,
Your mama that is out of ideas

Dear Little Man,
OK kiddo. It's get that it is almost winter break and you are excited. I get that it's almost Christmas and you are excited. And, I get that you are so excited about going to Boy Scout camp right after Christmas. BUT, do ya think you could tone down the attitude a tad. And when I say tad I mean A TON. This arguing with me over EVERYTHING is getting old real quick. And so is talking to me like I am your child. I don't let adults talk to me like that and I sure as heck am not going to let you. So, just go back to your sweet self and all will be well again.
Love,
Your mama that happens to know where she can get some coal

Dear Benny,
Quit stressing. I have everything under control.
Love,
The woman who hopes you are a gullible as your daughter


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Update

Well, It seems Little Man just had a bad cold but then he also got an ear infection. Went to the doc today and got all his meds. Hopefully he will feel better soon but it doesn't look like he will not make it to school at all this week. When a diabetic gets an infection (or has high blood sugar levels very long) his body makes this stuff called ketones. Then that makes him build up acid in his body. VERY bad thing. It could actually put him in a coma if not watched closely and treated. This morning he had moderate amounts of ketones and now we have it down to small amounts. The goal is to get it down to negative. So now I have to make sure his sugar levels stay down and he has to drink 24 oz of water every hour.

To top it all off, Toot and Smiley are now sick too. Seems they caught Little Mans cold. Toot woke up at 5am with 101.1 fever. Smileys was only 99.5. I feel so bad for my babies. I hate it when they are sick.

So now I feel like a nurse with all the meds and scheduling of meds going on. Here is how it goes. Little Man gets ear drops every 4 hours, checks his ketones and blood sugar every 2 hours, antibiotics every 12 hours, water every hour and Tylenol every 6 hours.
Toot gets her meds every 6 hours and Smiley gets his every 4 hours.
And of course none of those fall at the same time.

Hope everyone is having a better week than me and my family. I probably wont be around much because it seems that I have my hands full. Time for Toots meds right now!

Dear Family

Dear Little Man,
I am so glad you finally got to come home. I hope you enjoyed your week with Grandma but now it's time to go back to normal. I do my best to keep you from getting sick because of your diabetes and sometimes that means shipping you off when we are all sick. It's all for you babe. I hope we don't have to go through that again for a long time.
The woman who missed you dearly,
Mama

Dear Toot,
I know you love your harmonica and all but it is driving me crazy! How about you only play it outside or in your room with your door closed? I don't mind if you do it in the living room as long as I am NOT watching my favorite shows. I hope we can come to an agreement on this little annoyance. And yes, I do believe you will be a superstar one day.
The woman with the ringing ears,
Mama

Dear Mom,
Thanks a ton for giving Toot a harmonica for her birthday. She absolutely loves to play it ALL THE TIME! Appreciate it.
The woman who still has ringing ears,
April

Dear Benny,
I understand that you do this every year but when it is the last weekend you are gonna have for 2 months, don't ask me if I am excited about it. You wont like the answer. I promise. Lets just not talk about it and just let me get through it. I love you and have never bitched about it so lets not mess that up this year. I will miss you and really hope you have fun so lets just leave it at that. OK?
The woman who will miss you while you party it up at squirrel camp,
April

Dear Smiley,
DUDE! Seriously! What is wrong with you?! You have already poured out 3 pounds of sugar, 5 pounds of coffee, God knows how much salt and a few boxes of cereal. Was it REALLY necessary to crack open a dozen eggs on MY bedroom carpet?!!!! I don't get it. You KNOW you are going to get into big trouble when you do it but don't seem to care, why? Can you PLEASE stop? I am really sick of cleaning up your messes while you hide from me. I am begging you know. This is getting so old!
The woman who is SOOOOO tired of the extra cleaning,
Mama

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Wordless Wednesday

Future welder?

Wordless Wednesday

Dear Family

My good friend ShortMama is starting a new thing and I thought I would join in. It is to write letters to whoever you feel needs them to get get out what you want to say. This week (a day late) I will be writing them to my family.

Dear Benny,

I totally understand that there is a tube leak at one of the plants and that it is your job to fix it BUT, do you think you could still do some of the stuff on my 'honey do' list? It usually takes only one, sometimes two, days to fix those leaks so if you could just do some of it Sunday, I would love you long time. The two most important things are to mow they yards and burn the trash. Then if you feel up to it, I would also love for you to get the trampoline out of the tree. That would be great!

Your wife that desperately wants this done,
Me

Dear Little Man,

I get that Toot can be a, well, a little toot sometimes but do ya think you could go a whole day with out coming to me every 5 minutes about it. 99% of the stuff she does you can handle yourself and the other 1%, just ignore her. She knows how easy it is to bug you and if you just calm down about it, I am sure she will stop. She really does love you and just wants to play with you. It is starting to drive me crazy when my biggest tattle tale is a 11 year old boy.

The woman who is tired of all the tattling,
Mama

Dear Toot,

As funny as it is sometimes (OK, most of the time to you) driving Little Man crazy is in turn driving me crazy. Do ya think ya could slack up a little bit? I know that it is your main job right now as a little sister but come on, it's really getting old. Besides, if you quit pissing him off, he might play with you more. Just a thought.

The woman who is still tired of all the tattling,
Mama

Dear Smiley,

If only one person actually pays attention to these letters, I hope it is you. Could you PLEASE stop pouring out the sugar, salt, pepper, coffee..... every time you get your hands on it?! It really makes a HUGE mess and I really don't like cleaning. That just really puts me in a bad mood and I don't want to be in a bad mood. While we are at it, do you think you could just stay out of the cabinets all together. I already had to put a lock on the fridge because of you feeding the cats all our ham and hot dogs (a bunch of times). I don't have enough locks to lock all the cabinets. Picking up a whole box of cereal AND mac and cheese was NO fun at all yesterday.

The woman who doesn't like all the extra cleaning I have had to do,
Mama


I love my family but if they could just do these small things for me, it would help out my life so much. I don't think I am asking for a lot so this shouldn't be hard, right?

Tuesday whatever's

I know a few of you do the Random Tuesday thing so I figured I would add to it.

• Little Man starts Jr High Monday. It seems just like yesterday when he was Smileys age. It won't be my weekend to have him so his step mom gets to take him to his first day. That sucks.
• Speaking Of Little Man going to Jr High, he decided to be in band and play the trumpet. Is it expensive to sound proof a room?
• I worked out yesterday and was surprised when I wasn't sore this morning. So, I am either in better shape than I though I was or I just did a wimpy work out. I'm going with that I am in better shape than I though.
• Smiley and Toot just about drove me crazy yesterday. They were in rare form for some reason. Somehow Smiley put a hole in Toots head and Toot spent the day torturing Little Man. Needless to say, they both took naps so I wouldn't go completely insane.
• Last night Benny and Little Man played a Sims game on the Wii. That is the MOST BORING THING TO WATCH. I watched them for about 3 hours and finally went to bed. It may be fun to play but I just can't handle watching that again.
• And lastly, if feels so good to have everything done. I have everything in order right now. Nothing to stress over just things to look forward to. The next few weekends are gonna be so good. This weekend will be just hanging with the family with no stress, the next one I will be going on a trip with my mom and the one after that Carrin is coming to see what is so wonderful about being in TX. Can't wait.

That's about it for now. For more randomness, go here.

Oops!

Last Friday we took Benny's piece of shit truck to the scrap yard. It had been sitting in my yard for 3 years just looking ugly. I was so excited to finally get rid of it. While at the scrap yard, this guy had to show up.
Because Benny's truck BLEW UP!!!! Apparently they were suppose to take the battery out so this wouldn't happen but I guess the chick was too busy because she didn't. The kids thought it was cool as shit. The employees, not so much. Oops!

Also, today is my baby boys 3rd birthday! I can't believe he is already 3. We had a mini party Sunday with Benny's family. Does that cake look familiar? If you read yesterdays post, it should. It was left over wedding cake. We are having his party here this weekend. How lucky is he to get 2 parties?!

Happy Birthday Smiley!!!!!!

I'm NOT a baby!

That's what Smiley said to me yesterday. And I guess technically, he's not.

He will be 3 in August. He's not wearing diapers anymore. He never wore pull-ups. He can talk better than most kids his age (thanks to Toot). He feeds himself and can even cook popcorn by himself.

When he said that, Benny just looked at me and laughed. After I gave Benny a dirty look, I said to Smiley "You will ALWAYS be my baby boy!". He just laughed along with his Daddy and ran away.

Kinda made me sad. I don't have any babies anymore. I never will. That part doesn't bother me because I don't want anymore children. Trust me, three is plenty! And I really love sleeping through the night. And I REALLY LOVE not wiping shitty butts anymore.

But the truth is, they do grow up way to fast. In a blink of an eye they go from tiny babies that can't even hold their head up to crazy kids that run away when I try to clean their face. Then to 10 year olds that think they know everything. It all just happens way to fast but they will all always be my babies to me.

About an hour later, Smiley bumped his head on something. He came to me with his blanky, crawled up in bed with me, and cuddled about 10 minutes. I looked down at him and asked him if he was still my baby boy. He shook his head yes.

And then I looked at Benny and stuck my tongue out at him!

I called it!!!!

Back on Jan 12th (which BTW is also the day I found out I was pregnant with Toot back in 2004) I said we were going to get a boat. Well, hold my beer and watch this shit! Getting ready to go to the lake!He is so happy!Kids loved it too!Nothing like relaxing in the sun!!!! If you told me a year ago that I would be wearing a 2 piece I would have told you that you were insane!!!!!I had to drive it for awhile!

This is what we will be doing ALL weekend, hope yours is as good as ours!!!!

Wordless Wednesday sorta

Award is under this post.

Smiley decided to sleep under the table.

While we were playing in his bed.

I think we got too loud because he gave us a dirty look and then climbed in my bed.

Little update

OK, I cheated and wrote the last post yesterday for today.

Since then, I have come down with a major kidney infection, Smiley cut his foot REAL bad right on the arch of his foot, and a pipe busted and flooded half my house. I can barely walk, Smiley can't walk, and half my house is covered in water. UUUGGGGHHHHHH! I need help! :(

So yes, this week officially SUCKS!!!!

Lots to see

We had such a great time this past weekend. Friday we went to a gator park and Saturday we went to my brother-in-laws house. I was a little nervous about that one but my niece and her little baby were there so I had to go. It actually turned out really good. Anyway, here is a picture recap.

Feeding time!

She actually held it all by herself later but my camera and phone had gone dead.

He was so excited about this.

Of course I had to join in on the action.

He held it all by himself too later but of course, no camera or phone. :(

So cute

That camel bit him right after I took the picture. I laughed and he got mad at me.

The kangaroos were actually really soft.

The donkeys were Smileys favorite animal to feed.

Now Toot wants a mini horse. Me too!

Baby Blaize. So cute and sweet!

First Easter. She loved eating the plastic eggs.

She really wanted her egg back!

Time to clean up. She LOVED being in the bath.

Later on, Toot decided that when in Louisiana, do as the Cajuns. Bad picture but she is actually sucking the head of a crawfish and she LOVED it.

Lastly, I gotta say this. Carrin, you freakin rock! Thank you so much for my Birthday present. After the 10 minutes it took me to get into the box, I found this and used it right away!

I'm home

Well, we made it back home a little bit ago. I have tons to catch up on so I am sure I will be pretty busy for a while.

The trip was good. It was pretty boring until 8pm at night but once 8 hit, it was all worth it. Just spending that little time with Benny was so good. Totally made up with 14 hours of boredom. With so many hours of nothing to do, what's a girl to do.

Well, go shopping of course. And I hate shopping. But with NOTHING else to do, that's what we did. And we did A LOT of it.
We hit up Old Navy, the mall, Victoria Secrets,.... and spent way to much money.

Funny think happened though. The Easter Bunny was at the mall so I was going to get a picture with the kids. They had other thoughts. Smiley was scared shitless and not going anywhere near the bunny. Toot wouldn't sit in his lap but sat next to him and then wouldn't look at the camera much less smile. So we left. Oh well. Is what is so funny is that we went to Bass Pro Shops next and they have a huge stuffed bear. A real bear. Ya, my kids were all over it and giving it hugs.
Funny kids they are.

Hope everyone was good while I was gone.

Hey everybody

I am stealing this meme from Carrin who stole it from Carty Party Of Three. I have had a week full of strep throat(me), stomach virus's(kids), and kidney stones(Benny). Needless to say, week from hell and you don't want the details. Trust me. Anyway, I will (I'M SO EXCITED!) be making a trip soon but I want to wait until all the details are ironed out before I tell ya. Don't ya hate it when people do that?! Anyway, since I don't want to tell you about the nastiness of this weekend or the details of my upcoming trip too soon, I'm doing this little meme. Enjoy.

1. What is in the back of your car right now? I have a pathfinder and in the back-n-the-back is 2 blankets and 2 pillows.

2. When was the last time you threw up? Thursday. I got choked on some food and threw up. Aren't you glad that was a question?!

3. What's your favorite curse word? The one I say most is SHIT!

4. Name 3 people who made you smile today? Benny, Carrin and Mom.

5. What were you doing at 8 am this morning? Wishing I was still asleep. I was also feeding geese in Arkansas where we went camping.

6. What were you doing 30 minutes ago? Looking up the cost of flights. BTW, April 17th-19th is the cheapest I found! Hint hint!

7. What will you be doing 3 hours from now? Hopefully sleeping.

8. Have you ever been to a strip club? Yes. Once where the women strip and a bunch where the men strip.

9. What is the last thing you said aloud? Night night, I love you sweety (to Toot).

10. What is the best ice cream flavor? Chocolate with peanut butter (this was Carrins answer). I gotta tell ya that I use to work at Baskin Robbins and I hated it when people ordered that shit. It is the hardest ice cream to scoop. Anyway, my favorite is either cookies-n-cream or mint chocolate chip.

11. What was the last thing you had to drink? Busch Light!

12. What are you wearing right now? A purple Mossy Oak wife beater and blue cammo fuzzy pj pants. They don't match for shit but they are sooooo comfy!

13. What was the last thing you ate? Beacon

14. Have you bought any new clothing items this week? Ummmm, I don't think so. Oh wait, I just remembered something. Pink titty socks (what Benny calls them). That means socks that have the breast cancer ribbon on them.

15. When was the last time you ran? Ummm, I guess today when I was chasing the kids but I'm pretty sure I was actually just jogging. Does that count? Hell, screw it, it does to me.

16. What's the last sporting event you watched? The Superbowl. That's what Carrin said but I'm pretty sure that's the last one I watched too.

17. Is your TV on? Yes. It ALWAYS is. Even if we are not home (don't want the cats and dog to get bored). Right now, The Little Mermaid is on.

18. Who is the last person you emailed? Carrin

19. Ever go camping? Ya, we went this past weekend.

20. Do you have a tan? I was told I did the other day but I don't see it. I don't ever get a fake tan. By the second weekend of summer I will have a pretty nice tan though. Don't bitch at me about skin cancer. I know all the dangers of our all powerful sun.

21. Do you miss someone? Sure, who doesn't.

22. Favorite Holiday? Gonna have to go with Carrin on this one. Thanksgiving - No gifts to buy and all the food you can eat! My mom makes the BEST Thanksgiving meal and pecan pie. That is the only day she makes pie and it is the only chocolate, pecan, and pumpkin pie I eat ever!

23. If you had to eat the same meal everyday for the rest of your life, what would it be? Taco Bell!

24. Do you drink your soda from a straw? Only if I got it from a restaurant. BTW, it's not a soda, it's a coke. Even if it's a Dr. Pepper.

25. What did your last IM say? The only time I IM'd was when my phone messed up a couple of months ago and I don't remember what it said but it was to my mom.

26. Are you some one's best friend? YUP

27. What are you doing tomorrow? I gotta go buy dog food (somebody please remind me) and keep Smiley on track on this whole using the potty thing.

28. Where is your mom right now? I guessing asleep but by the time you are reading this, I bet she is at work.

29. Look to your left, what do you see? Toot sleeping on the couch right next to our bed.

30. What color is your watch? I don't wear one but when I did it was silver and gold.

31. What do you think of when you think of Australia? Koala bears. My mom loves them. Oh, and Crocodile Dundee.

32. Would you consider plastic surgery? Use to but not any more. I just can't imagine volunteering for surgery. That shit hurts!

33. What is your birthstone? Diamond

34. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? Drive thru every time!

35.How many kids do you want? 3 is plenty! You can watch them ANY time you want!

36. Do you have a dog? 3

37. Last person you talked to on the phone? My mom.

38. Have you met anyone famous? The comedian, Gallagher.

39. Any plans today? I think I already answered that. It said tomorrow but technically today is tomorrow because I haven't gone to sleep yet and it's already tomorrow.

40. How many states have you lived in? 1 and only 1 and I don't plan on that ever changing but ya never know.

41. Ever go to college? Yup. TCC baby!

42. Where are you right now? In bed.

43. Biggest annoyance in your life right now? My cats. I know they know the difference between a litter box and a pile of dirty clothes dammit!

44. Last song listened to? Real Good Man By Tim McGraw. At least that is the last one I remember on the radio.

46. Are you allergic to anything? Benadryl! Which Benny bought me the other day when my allergies were kicking my ass. Thanks Babe!

47. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time? Right now my boots. In the spring/summer/fall my flip flops.

48. Are you jealous of anyone? Not right now.

49. Is anyone jealous of you? I have know idea.

50. Where is your idea of a dream vacation? I don't know. I would love to vacation on some beautiful island but I really want to go to Ireland.

51. What time is it? 1:23am

52. Do any of your friends have children? Yup.

53. Do you eat healthy? Not usually.

54. What do you usually do during the day? Be a mom and blog.

55. Do you hate anyone right now? I don't hate. It's so not worth it.

56. Do you use the word 'hello' daily? Never. I always say "Hey".

58. How old will you be turning on your next birthday? 28

59. Have you ever been to Six Flags? About a million times. I grew up in Ft. Worth.

60. How did you get one of your scars? I had a lump removed out of my left booby when I was 19 years old.


I have no idea what #45 and #57 were because they were not on Carrins or Carty Party of three so don't think it's that I can't count, someone else can't.

Wordless Wednesday

How could this have seemed like a good idea?

Red finger nail polish

Red lipstick
Red crayon

Now we know who the guilty party is and his favorite color.

Worless Wednesday - For real this time!

Stupid me!!

Raise your hand if you have ever done something so stupid and you felt like a complete idiot.
Really? That many of you? Ok, you can put your hand down now.

I had one of those moments that was a pretty bad one. It involved the sheriffs dept.

Last month, I mentioned briefly that Smiley locked himself in my car FOR AN HOUR.

I didn't expand on it because so much other stuff was going on. Well, today you get to hear what really happened.

I put Smiley in the car so we could head to the school for Little Man's Christmas program.
By the time I was going to get in the drivers side, he had locked the doors. SHIT!

For about 20 minutes I begged him to unlock the door or just open it. He just kept telling me no and was pretending to drive. Double SHIT!

At one point, he actually put the keys in and turned the key on but didn't crank it. Luckily, you can't put my car into gear without pushing the brake. I was actually happy about this because now he could roll down the window. Instead, he scared himself by cranking up the radio. Now the tears were rolling. His and mine.

I made the decision to call the sheriffs department. AAA takes about 6-8 hours to get there and I didn't have that kind of time (we went through this with Toot so I knew what to do). If I am being honest, I have locked Little Man in the car too.

I sit and wait, trying to calm Smiley, when the sheriff FINALLY shows up. It has now been an hour. No Christmas program for us.

The cop walks up and I explain what happened. He walks over to the window and tries to get Smiley to unlock the door. Nope, he's not gonna do it. Now what?

Then the cop looks at me and says "I notice you don't have one of those buttons on your key chain that unlock your door. Do you know where it is?"

HOLY SHIT!!!!!

I run into my house, grab it off the shelf and free my son. After I could have done it an hour ago.
Yep, I'm that stupid sometimes.

I have never been as embarrassed as I was that day. I thanked him and he replied that he didn't do anything. Ya, except remind me I am a complete idiot.

I bet they got a good laugh about it down at the station. I know Hubby and all his co-workers thought it was freaking hilarious. As for me and Smiley, we don't talk about it. We like to pretend that one never happened.

I hope everyone has a great Friday!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

We went to the park Sunday and I told Smiley to go stand by the "baby ducks" so I could take a picture. I'm so wrong, I know. He wasn't so sure about the "baby ducks".

First try

Then a little closer
The "baby duck" moved and he hauled ass! Smart kid!
Toot had fun doing flips on the bars.

That is, until she fell and broke her nose. Again. 2 times in 4 years. Poor kid. BTW, she's ok now. It wasn't real bad.

It's all fun and games until someone goes and breaks their nose. It's always something with my kids I tell ya.

And once again, For more WW go check out Punky Monkey's and 5 Minutes for Mom. And everyone else that does it!