FieldTrip Saturday ~ WWI Museum and Memorial

Today I took G and his friend Mason

to visit the Liberty Memorial and the WWI war museum!

The day was beautiful and we had a great time.

The boys were in boy heaven with all the weapons!

guns, cannons, gernades, shell casings....

you name it they had and the boys loved it!

all the airplanes!

hanging from the ceiling, the trench!

and the stories!

then we headed to the Liberty Memorial ....

We started at the bottom .....

Then rode the elvator,

and walked the 45 steps to the top ......

What a view.....

the boys saw a 64 car train all the way from the front to the back !

it was amazing to be up there.

The boys actually looked over the edge ....

I just stuck my camera over the edge and snapped a picture

(to be looked at when my feet got back on the ground).

We had a great time!

Life on Thursday ~ Thanksgiving

It was a quiet Thanksgiving morning.

I woke up to 2 pies (pumpkin and pecan) made by W,

5 cup salad made by G

and a salad made by me!

All done the night before

We weren't eating until late so I got to leisurely got to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. It was very chilly! so I found my coziest blanket to snuggle up with. G came in and out to watch but he was more interested in practicing his ping pong game.

I finally stuck the Turkey in the oven at noon, but quickly returned to watching the Dog Show!

Then I taught G how to play CLUE. He hasn't won yet but he loved it!

When the Big kids got here they played games with G while I finished getting things ready.

We finally ate around 5, but quickly returned to playing Clue and ping pong.

I'm thankful for my family.... all of them!

Life on Thursday

OK, I'm confused. I know that's nothing new but I saved this post yesterday and I uploaded several pictures from my phone for the post.

Today, I can't find the post nor most of the pictures! If I remember I'll upload them again.

Thursday was a busy day on the road all day!

I took the morning off from working out. It's always nice to get a break from working out AND it's always nice to get the daily things done around here early.

At 11 I had a dental appointment to get my teeth cleaned. That went well, I have a filling that needs to be redone. Great thing ... this dentist put it in so he'll replace it free.

I get done at the dentist then rush ... lead foot it to the school, for G's school assembly. He'd earned an exemplary level on this state reading test last year and was getting a medal for that today at 12:30. There's a picture of this floating around somewhere of this!?!?

I get to come home for a few minutes where I love to walk in my front door because I get to walk through this wonderful fall confetti, it just makes me smile. My burning bushes usually don't have time to burn really well, but this year there hasn't been that much wind and the weather has been perfect for them! They've been beautiful this year. I absolutely love the piles of burned leaves!

I run back to school to pick up G. Run him to the Dentist to get his teeth cleaned ... NO cavities!

Then on the drive home we experience the most beautiful sunset.

Wordless Wednesday ~ Emperor Jerry the 3rd

not so wordless ....

Our local paper is having a Pet contest.

G's teacher thought it would be funny for

her class to have Pet Rocks and enter

them in the Pet contest.

So meet Emperor Jerry the 3rd

Great Loss

(As a parent you pray that there will be people in your children's lives that will make a difference for the good. People that you trust and know that they will make your child a better person, just by being around them.

And Derci Pinto was one of those people for W.

He coached W in Soccer for a year but was apart of his soccer life ever since. Derci encourage W to be his best, drawing more out of W than W thought could.

W spend hours trying to implement the things Derci had taught him, from being a better keeper, to spending hours trying to get a ball to bend just right. Every game the sideline was filled with their names in a strong Brazilian accent. We will never forget our "WHEel"

Derci was respected and loved by all his players.

And now will be greatly missed by his players as well as they parents .....

Derci recently went home to Brazil where he died of Pancreatic cancer.

(and just in case you're keeping track this is the 2nd soccer coach this HS team has loss to Pancreatic Caner.)

Sunday Thought

“God help us to be grateful.

Someone has said that an ungrateful man is like a hog

under a tree eating apples and never looking up to see where

they come from.”

(Ezra Taft Benson)

Where I have gone? you ask

I've been no where! I've been sickly. A blasted head cold, it took days to get here, a couple days of head pounding and now a few days to leave.

I subbed on Thursday and Friday. I would work, and then come home and sleep, then back again. It all worked out. I'm still on the mends but at least I can see the light at the end of the tunnel very brightly now!

Hubby kicked me out of the bed a couple nights for snoring! I then told him that that was my bed and I was sleeping in it, he needed to just bury his head if he didn't like the snoring!

I really thought I'd stopped snoring since he didn't say another word about it. I hadn't I then started waking myself up snoring! Yesterday morning I got up early, cleaned a few things and then decided I could go back to bed so I did. I was going back just as he was waking up, I slipped into sleep only to be jolted back awake by "you can't snore all day in here too"!

Gotta love that man!

Wordless Wednesday ~ just making sure I'm paying attention!

OK this can't be wordless.....

When we added a line last month the salesman

forgot to click the "unlimited text" feature.

They fixed it, retroactive!

By the way the bill was 139 pages!

Monday Ramblings

Several years ago my Sister in law told me that

once you hit 40 you start to fall apart.

Wwweeellll, in my case it has been 45!

I think today could very well be a Wordless post!

This weekend I've started this odd cold/allergy thing.

It's not getting any worst, just staying the same.

At our house Hubby and I have always had this deal

that we couldn't both be sick/injured in bed at the same time

and up to this point it's always worked out.

BUT I think Hubby has over stayed his time in the bed, cuz .....

My shoulder is frozen!

Yeah, you read that right....frozen.

It has always been alittle stiff

(or at least for the past few years)

but over that past few weeks the range

of movement has gone to almost nill.

Last Monday when I couldn't get my bra on without extreme pain

I decided it was time to call the doctor.

I got a cortisone shot and

a month's worth of Physical Therapy appointments!

I don't seem be to aging with grace,

at this point I just want to stomp my feet and pitch a fit!

Well no time for that,

cuz that would make my pounding head cold pound more and

I've got to make myself wince in pain,

while I force my shoulder to move!

Our Every Day America!

I just wanted you to be the first to see .....

Our Every Day America

it's a new blog that some friends and I started.

Go visit it, and enjoy!

Life on Thursday

First of all when I work up at 7am it was 34 degrees! Brrrrrr! I finally gave in a turned the heater on, just to take the chill off!

Today was a day off, I had subbed the last two days. I actually turned down work today since I really really needed to get somethings done.

Like ...
paperwork
mail
Hubby's work stuff
get Hubby's absentee ballot
groceries
laundry
change the beds
and
vote for my self.

In our state you can vote early! Hallelujah! When I went to get Hubby's form for absentee voting, they gave me a website where I could go get a sample ballot! Hallelujah #2

I wanted to vote but I had no idea who, what or where to do it (well, ok I knew where). Ya see we live on the state border, and all the ads we see on TV are for the other state and man is that annoying. To sit through hours and hours of negative campaign ads and it's not even anyone I can really have an opinion on!

Then we live just next to a big metro suburb. They run some tv commercials. They are in the same state BUT I can't vote for their representatives!?!

Then one the people running for governor (of our state) is from the next town over, so I had no idea who was even running against him! Seems his opponents didn't think they should waste their time in our neck of the woods.

Oh I did have an opinion abut this one lady that is running for state representative! She didn't get my vote simply because she uses automated calling. She calls me about once aweek, (at least) telling me her opinion! She needed to go! simply because I was tired of having to answer her phone calls only to hear her automated message! I think she should respect the No Call List!

SOOOO today I looked over my sample ballot and researched! and then went to vote!

I've cast my vote, now I want all the ad campaign commercials to JUST GO AWAY!

Tonight, we (hubby and I) are helping G with his school's mock state election ballot. He was quite disappointed that all the people he had opinions on (come the negative commercials) weren't on his ballot! He see all the mud slinging on tv and on the radio, too!

We had roast and potatoes for supper. See a real meal when I have time!

Halloween Doodle

5 fer Friday

1 ~ Since both boys were home this morning (at least until 9:20), I fixed Cinnamon Rolls. Well, fix is abit strong, Rhodes fixed the rolls, I opened them pan and turned on the oven. OH BUT I did put the cream cheese frosting (that Rhodes fixed and put in the pan with the frozen rolls) on the Rolls! There was some fixing on my part.

2 ~ G and I moved the Cacti in. It's suppose to rain this weekend and they are so much easier to move when they don't have water in them! I just don't see that the weather will be warm too much longer, it is the last week of October afterall. Then he was off to play with a friend. It's so nice to work with him when there is a pot of Gold at the end for him!

3~ Did you know there are new Pennies? I didn't either! until W brought a few home. They are lighter than old pennies, and not as uniform (the edges) as old pennies. As a matter of fact I began saying, I don't think they're real until Hubby gave me that look and said, "Who would counterfeit Pennies?" Of course he'd seen a show (sometime while he's been bed bound this summer) about how they were making the new pennies.

4~ My neighbor's trees seemed to have peaked this week! They are just beautiful!

5~ G has grown an inch in 6 months! He's quite thrilled with himself! I'm not so thrilled, it's time to start buying/wearing jeans again. It's horrible buying that boy jeans!

Life on Thursday

Today was G's Parent Teacher Conference. The Kid is amazing! He's bright, makes good grades,

his teacher loves him and he TALKS.

I simply told that that wasn't going to change.

He talked early and has been talking ever since! I just have to show you my neighbor's tree!

Isn't a wonderful. They have a great mix of color in their yard.

It was also Friend day for G. He had Mason over.

They been great today, playing boy games inside and out.

They just came to me asking if they could have all the pillows

from upstairs for a tent downstairs.....?

We got to see excitement at Walmart today.

There were 2 police cars in the parking lot.

with 2 policemen handcuffing a woman!

Funny thing is, she was behind a car, standing with her hands behind

her back, handcuffed while the police stand around her,

AND her friend is casually putting her Walmart bags in the car.

Just like nothing unusual was happening.

I had G and Mason with me so they were full of questions.

"Mom, what did she do?"

"What could she do at Walmart that was illegal?"

When I got inside we heard they (or she'd) shoplifted.

I let G program the ringtone on my phone yesterday. Today I received a phone call......Very Extreme Heavy metal! I had to laugh, thus was laughing with I answered it!

Tonight is soccer practice

and we'll have spaghetti for supper.

Hubby and W don't really like spaghetti

so I'll pick up frozen pizzas for them!

Oh and I made my own laundry soap today!

Wordless Wednesday

Day in the Life of our Lounge chair

Our Lounge Chair by day .......

Our Lounge Chair by Night......

Life on Thursday

I got a good workout in this morning! I despise the stair climber machine and this morning we had a date! I was glad when I was done.

When I got home W was still here. This is his early day at school, so I thought he'd overslept, even though I'd sent him a "Smotherhood" text and a phone call to make sure he was up! He was still here casually eating his cheerios! I decided not to fire my guns at him as soon as I walked in the door, but finally mentioned that I was surprised he was still here and not in a rush...... He didn't have school today! Fall break! but didn't bother to tell anyone else about it! That's what he gets, smotherhood, if he's not going to inform me!

Then to finish the PTO Carnival Thank you Notes. 70 of them to be exact. Yes, I know they were on last Thursday's to do list. Can you say PROCRASTINATION! well, you can say it but I live it! I did get them done but not before it was confirmed that I'd lost my mind. I had 20 note cards from the lady last year, so I need to make 50 more. I figured out a new format that had 3 on a page and I started printing. I printed 30 pages before I realized I didn't need 50 pages, I just needed 50 cards. I'd like to think I'm just helping next year's lady out by getting her Thank you notes all done!, right......No, I've lost my mind!

Then I came to home to work on some Insurance paper, only to discover that I'd used all my printer ink on the Thank yous!

Off to pick up G after school, and a quick trip into Walmart for Printer ink!

Home to finish the Insurance papers and then off to work in the yard. The rain had made the weeds grow and then grass alittle bit! I was almost done mowing but ran out of gas! My boys used MY lawn mower gas for the ATV .... rotten kids!

So I moved to cleaning up my deck and working on my Cacti. I love cleaning up the deck in the fall. I love it about as much as I love getting the deck ready in the spring. I love my little Cacti, they usually just get tucked away in a rush in the fall, but today I worked with them, repotting some and moving them around on the deck. I don't understand a cacti that doesn't like the sun, but I have some. Today they all got some attention and a new place to sit in the cooler sun!

G had a friend over so we had Mac n' Cheese with Ham for supper.

Doodle

Monday Ramblings

It rained!

About 17 days ago I winterized the yard. I hurried because it was suppose to rain that night. The rain missed us. So our weatherman has been telling us just how dry we are since it hasn't rained in 17 days. For us it was well over 20 days. We were dry. The trees looked like they were all brown but it was just dust all over them.

AAAaaahhhhh what a refreshing day. Today everything was washed cleaned.

I was enjoying the rain until I noticed that I'd driven the Van with wipers that have issues! Oh, well, the rain was still nice! AND guess what, it might rain ALL night LONG!

Hmmm, now the winterize will take effect and I'll have to mow again. Oh Well, it is what it is!

Saturday's weekly recap

This week was a good balance, some busy some slow.

Since Hubby is bed bound I try not to leave him for very long. PLUS the fact I thought I was waiting on a piece of medical equipment only to discover the piece never was coming. I did this for 2 days! I guess I'm either gullible or slow to catch on!?! I'm just too nice and believe whatever the customer service girl tells me! Oh, wait shouldn't have started with that.

This is a better place to start ....

G made a cookie of the United States.

Notice the Mountains? the desert?

and the Mississippi River?

I went to get my Obitz tooth replaced.

OK, this isn't me

(just in case you needed to know)

but my temporary crown seemed to sparkle

like this! it was much much whiter than my

old yellowed teeth! On Wednesday I got my

new old yellowed colored crown!

I started another blog with some friends of mine.

I'm excited to share it but you'll just have to wait a few more days!

We ordered Mexican take out on Friday night

it was so yummy!

This morning we were back to Saturday morning

soccer! G had 2 games back to back.

Look I was there!

I took my own picture!

Third Surgery the Charm??

Last week Hubby had Surgery #3 of the summer! This was suppose to be the only surgery this summer, but other things arose wanting surgery also! but we won't go into all of that, just to say FINALLY Hubby's shoulder had it's surgery.

Now shoulder surgery is a big thing on it's own, but when you already have 2 legs that don't work, it's a HUGE thing to take away an arm. It must have really REALLY hurt for Hubby to decide it was time to go down to just one arm!

Going into this surgery we knew that Hubby had a Slap Tear, which is where the bicep has torn away from the Labrum, ALONG with a torn rotator Cup. When they got in there, they found just what they thought for the Slap Tear (wasn't a big deal), but the torn rotator cup was fringed on the outside (between the collar bone and the rotator cup). That was odd, and all the surgery could do was smooth it out. When I asked how this would have occurred, it's comes from pushing his body up with his arms.... ahhhh, exactly what he does all the time.

Also at this point, the surgery discussed a motorized wheelchair with me, NOT HUBBY. Evidently they can only fix rotator cups' 2x and Hubby has now had both of his fixed once. I informed the doctor that HE'D have to tell Hubby that bit of news!

Hubby has now been home and totally bed bound for a week and a half. We 're working on getting a lift so I can get him into his wheelchair BUT there seems to be some customer service issues with Apria Healthcare. I won't go there, but I will be writing a letter of complaint!

Hubby goes to the doctor in another week and an a half, BUT can't put any weight on that arm for 12 weeks after surgery! It will be a Merry Christmas when he is turned lose!

Life on Thursday

Here is my list of to do for today ....

*clean kitchen - just to get dirty again!
*pay bills - done and mailed
*laundry - constant work in progress
*clean back bed room - done
*deal with customer service - done
*paint the ceiling - did some, but need a taller ladder
*work up stairs for 45 minutes - it'll be there tomorrow (and the day after....)
*make supper - late but done
*bank deposit - forgot it, move it first thing tomorrow
*exercise - walked 2.5 miles on the track and climbed the bleachers
*soccer practice - done
*Move Hubby's van inside - done but should have taken it to wash first
*PTO thank you notes - aw drats, totally forgot about these!
*recycling out- Most of it gone!

add ons.....
*Helping with homework - passed that off to Hubby
*cleaning the bathroom - almost done
*Helping Hubby - done
*unexpected nap on the couch - ughh done

*now to shower and head to bed!!

Doodle

American Royal BBQ 2010

This past weekend Big Bro (aka Smitty of Smitty Smoke Patrol fame) competed in the American Royal BBQ.

We went

we experienced

we watched

we had fun

we tasted(my favorite part)

we watched Big Bro (aka Smitty) walk away with an award

In the Open**, Big Bro's chicken finished 8th (out of over 500 entries).

See that picture with the glorious green ribbon?!?!

Smitty's Smoke Patrol finished with an overall 40 (out of those same 500 entered).

Now Big Bro (aka Smitty) is off to Lynchburg.

Then the pressure to qualify to come to the American Royal again!

**side note ... Smitty's Smoke Patrol had the honor of being in the invitational American Royal BBQ on Saturday. They finished 68 out of 138 that day.

Monday's Ramblings: amount due

Several years on a dentist visit, I was accosted by the exiting office staff. You know the lady that sits at the desk as you leave and has you sign things, tells you what you owe, or (like me) simply say, "we'll bill your insurance."

This very person who abused her dentist office authority (in my opinion), stated in her most uppity tone, looking down her nose at me, "Mrs ******, you have an delinquent account, and you'll have to take care of it today"

I was shocked! I didn't know I had an delinquent account, by the tone her voice I was sure I was lower than lower by not paying my bill. Finally, I gathered my deadbeat self and said something like (I don't recall my exact response as I tried to picked myself out of the hole), "I'm sorry I didn't realize I had any balance with your office."

She lowered her glasses (I'll never forget her) and said, "well, I'll check your account." My embarrassment level has just shot through the roof! Then she said it, "you have an amount of $7 and some change due." I couldn't believe HER, she made me feel like this for $7 bucks????,

I then said, "I'm surprised I didn't pay that bill."
that's when she said her gem ..... "WWWWelllllll, we don't send bills for less than $10"

She made me feel this way for something she never told me about????

This whole ramble comes from a bill that we got last week .... Hubby got a bill for $1.78, we also got another one for $9.49 ~ these bills would have NEVER been sent out by my OLD dentist but needless to say, these are my favorite kind of bills!

It works the other way too! A couple of weeks ago, the US Treasury sent my boys each a check, W's for 90 cents and G's for $2.10. I have no idea why, but they did.

Life on Thursday

This day started WAY too early.

Hubby had surgery on Tuesday and had rough night and day yesterday. He's back in the back bedroom recuperating. He text me if he needs something, thus I got a text 2 something AM. I got the Advil, and then couldn't get back to sleep.

I picked up my phone to read/clear my emails, when I saw that I'd gotten a "out of office" message from someone I hadn't emailed in years! Huh? I laid there pondering this until I finally drifted off to sleep!

By the time I finally did get up this morning, my email was full of messages from people telling me that I had a virus! Well, that's a fine "How Do You Do" morning! I got my anti viral software updating as I took G to school. Evidently I'd sent emails (several) out to everyone in my address book with links to "Male Enhancements" I didn't look but others told me about them!

I ran some banking errands and to the grocery store before coming back home. I started the software running. It takes forever!?! Nothing it found NOTHING! Fortunately, I'd sent the virus to one of smartest computer guys I know, He's a genius in my book, as well as other's book too! He emailed me and asked if I needed help! YES, PLEASE after several email exchanges (and several hours like by 6pm) we found a anti viral software that found a Trojan, and deleted it!

Now back up in my day, Hubby felt better today (much much better than yesterday), he was able to get washed up, thus feeling so much better. He's still just every tired. I'll have to post this whole surgery's ordeal later!

When I went to pick up G, I ran to the grocery store again! I'd forgotten that I'd volunteered to take Potato Salad to school tomorrow for teacher appreciation. I made the wonderful potato salad that I told you about here Potato Salad.

I purchased a pumpkin and a mum for the sweet lady that had taken care of G after school when Hubby had his surgery. As we were leaving she said, "Oh, I couldn't get your email opened this morning, is it important?, am I going to enjoy it? I just can't get it open!" Aggggrraahh, it was sent to everyone. I couldn't say/yell "NO, don't open it, stop trying" fast enough. Yes, my computer had not left out the wonderful ladies I go to church with!

Since G is under heavy grounding this week, we had a nice quiet evening at home. You know it's nice not to run around, not have the TV on or any other electronics! Really peaceful. You know G is in a much better mood without all this stuff too!

We had Hamburgers for supper with celery and chips for supper!

Doodle

Monday's Ramblings: He or She

Last week when Hubby and I went to his fancy shmacy doctor's office we had a conversation that I'd like you're input on.

The fancy shmacy office is a free standing building with it's own small packing lot. It's really only one row of sidewalk parking lot. There were 2 Handicap spots that were full, so Hubby pulled into the next available spot (about 4 down from the door and with no one parked passed us in the lot). Hubby pulled WWWAaaaaayyyy over (the tires were on the line) so he could get out with his wheelchair.

We had our doctor's visit.

We come back out and there is someone parked right next to us. Hubby gets in, and then I take the wheelchair over to the other side (due to the seat configuration inside the van). The space was not enough to get the wheelchair (3 feet) between the cars, so I just put it in the back.

As I got in Hubby having a mini rant "did you check if SHE dinged my door?" "I bet SHE dinged my door!", SHE, SHE, SHE.....

Whoa, Whoa there Mister, "what makes you think it's a SHE it could be a HE!" was my obvious response.
Hubby ~ "It's a SHE, SHE just pulled in not thinking about anything" "SHE didn't think, SHE just parked."

Me~ "I think it's a HE", "HE just decided to show you what you'd done wrong!" "Yep, it's a HE"

There wasn't any gender markings on the car, No bumper stickers, no flowers, just one thing ... a wooden choker hanging from the mirror. I've seen similar on both HE and SHE.

So what's your opinion? HE? or SHE?

Fall Saturday

Last night I sat in the kitchen with Hubby and W while they chatted I made a list of things I wanted to get done today. At one point I was overwhelmed by the urge to strangle them!

Here I was planning all this out side labor and they were discussing which college football games why were going to watch. Just what's wrong with this picture??

W is sick and Hubby is still laid up in bed, that's what's wrong with this picture!

Any way, I love yard work, when the temperature is cool, and today give me just that!

I started out early ~ 7am.

Remember when Saturday mornings were meant for sleeping in? No, I don't really remember those days, probably since I've had children! I can remember one the first Friday nights after I came out of the New Baby fog, thinking, oh, good tomorrow is Saturday I can sleep late....WRONG! that baby didn't care if it was Saturday or not!

Oh, I got sidetracked there! sorry.....

Dropped G off early this morning for a day of Cub Scouting!

They're celebrating Scouting's 100 years. He's going to have alot of fun, and be tired when he gets home. I was so glad I wasn't going.

I then ran to Home Depot to get winterize for the yard. Why does that have to be soooo expensive? I did find some cheap perennials.

Had an impromptu to trip into Target

alone, quiet, leisurely, lovely, meandering....

did you know that you DON'T have to go to the toy section

every time you go to Target? NO, it's not required.

purchased only impulse items!

Then home to work in the yard.

I mowed

I weeded

I planted

I made suspicious discoveries

I fertilized.

I worked up a stink sweat

I showered

I loaded the dishwasher

I folded clothes

I washed more clothes

I worked on Cub awards

I fold more laundry

I discovered I didn't start my planned meal for supper early enough

so now I'm trying to figure out a supper plan again!

and

I blogged!

Friday, THE puking conversation and Angel, THE man

Today I subbed in Pre School. It is a half day, and filled with children at all levels from 3 to 5. It's a mentoring class so there are bright preschoolers and then some that need some guidance. It's always fun! Fun mainly because there are 10 children and 5 adults (sometimes 6 adults).

As the children were having center play, one little boy walked by me, stopped and said,

D ~ "Andy can't eat shrimp because he'll puke, but I can have shrimp and I won't puke."
Me ~ "oh, I'm glad you can eat shrimp, I like shrimp too"
D ~ "So it doesn't make you puke?"
Me ~ "no, I'm fine eating shrimp"
D ~ " I like Shrimp and I won't puke too."
just then another boy walked by added to the conversation,
boy ~ "I can puke too"

I walked off leaving the conversation hanging.....


Last week, the doctor's nurse, Angel, the man called and left a message that Hubby's surgery #3 was "taken care of". I didn't know what that meant, and Hubby was willing to just wait until Monday's doctor's appointment to see when the surgery was, BUT I wasn't. As the Mom of the house, there are plans to be adjusted, babysitters to call, a strategy to work out, and NO, I didn't want to just wait and see!

I called the surgery scheduling department to see what day the surgery planned for. Well, the surgery wasn't on the schedule!?! So, what did Angel, the man mean by it was "taken care of"? I don't know but I took the liberty of scheduling the surgery! It will be this week! Hubby is thrilled, he would have been happy if it would have been yesterday, so this week is perfect for him.

This doesn't give me much time but let's open the war room and get the plans working and moving.

Life on Thursday

Today was a day of errands ....

This was the much worried over list

that just couldn't forget!

Last night I kept putting it in just the

right place so I wouldn't leave it at home!

I'm very glad to say, I didn't forget!

G on the other hand forgot all of this school work.

When he forgets his work at home, doesn't have it signed

or doesn't do his homework he has to stay inside for the first recess.

He got the lovely opportunity to read the first recess today.

Laundry, on going task around here!

Finally, the city errands begin.

This is Hubby's fancy, shancy doctor's office.

I'm thinking there is money in plastic surgery

and not Medicare money (like ours).

I do have a question about this office.

We walk in way back there by the EXIT sign,

when we walk in there is a lady sitting behind a fancy marble counter.

She seems to serve no purpose, she doesn't make eye contact,

she has a sign on her counter that points you to the other two places

(a spa facial counter, and then the doctor's offices, who own the entire building)

She does know where the bathroom is, I know this because I've asked her and she told me where to find it! BUT other than that I don't see her purpose.

When I go back I may ask her what her purpose is!

OH, yeah the doctor said,

"everything looks fine, don't come back"

We then stopped at the TMobile store.

We didn't see Mr T, but I did see Juan.

He helped me and I fell in love with him!

Well, maybe not him but what he did for me.

I'm saving $$$$ because of Juan.

We had a business phone in our house that really just took messages.

It was costing us too much, so we decided to go the cell phone route.

BUT the business number is printed on everything,

so it was important that we keep that phone number.

Juan made that happen,

yes, you can take your landline phone number and "port" it to a cell phone!

Then Juan secured my heart by asking "what kind of Credit Cards do you have",

I told him and he then said, "we can give you a 12% discount monthly!"

Zing went my heart strings!

The deal was sealed, "I Love you Juan"

The next stop I pulled out that worried over list

and purchased the cub scout awards.

Alot of them! all due to the Cubs hard work and day camp!

This is a common sight around here now.

I love the burst of yellow everywhere.

Today was Friend day for G.

The anticipation was great, so great that there was a mini melt down

when we had to stop at the grocery store after school and then another one

when we had to wait for a train.

We FINALLY made it to G's buddy's house and not a minute too early for G or his buddy!

G and his buddy, tried to go fishing (too windy) so they ended up riding bikes.

They had a blast!

We had 'make your own pizzas' and salad for supper.

W came in during supper claiming "I don't feel good"

He ate and then headed to bed!

Hopefully just a cold or allergies!

Wordless Wednesday:Sunset

Doodle

Monday's Rambling: The Mayor and her TAXI

Today as I walked to my car after another disappointing Walmart trip, I saw a scene that warmed my heart and brought a smile to my face.

The Mayor of the little town that I live closest to was in front of Walmart. She was helping a older gentleman and his what appeared to be blind daughter into her TAXI. Yea, that's right the mayor drives the TAXI in town. When she finished helping this couple into her car, she slowly pulled to the other entrance, stopped, got out and helped another elderly gentleman and his purchases into her TAXI.

It's not uncommon to see her in the grocery store, juggling several list and a cart with carefully piled items (with items in each corner of her basket and then a pile in the seat area). She's shopping for the house bound elderly in our town.

She sits in her taxi in the elementary school lines dropping off or picking up students who's parents can't do it.

When her husband recently died the TAXI didn't sit still, her son and daughter in law ran it for her for a couple of days.

This town loves their mayor and her TAXI and she loves them!

I feel like there should be a musical number in the back ground of Paul Simon singing, "My little Town"

OH, and I won't go into the fact that she also runs the only laundry mat in town and what she does there!

Sunday Thoughts

"We women have a lot to learn about

simplifying our lives.

We have to decide what is important and then move along

at a pace that is comfortable for us.

We have to develop the maturity to stop

trying to prove something.

We have to learn to be content with what we are."

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

something I look forward to everyday!

I've been reading this blog, Andrea Merriman. I've become so involved with this stranger's life that I can't wait to see if she's posted everyday. I read her FIRST!

You have to go visit her blog and start at the beginning. The very beginning, where her husband of almost 21 years confesses that he's been running a ponzi scheme for 20 years and milked innocent people out of millions, we're talking millions and millions and millions and millions...... 17 to 20 million.

How her life that went from worrying about if her children had the right St Patrick's day attire to being told her husband's life has been a complete lie for almost their entire married life. From being very well off to now a life with her 4 children, and NOTHING (no job, no home, no money)! From not having an enemy in the whole world to almost everyone you know hating you for what your husband had done to them. From living an every day life to having reporters peaking in your windows. From your children having freedoms, to now having to protect them from your neighbors.

This real life story is the best 'novel' I've ever read, I've cried with her. I've actually just sat her sobbing for her, to laughing as she documents her dating life, to cheering when she finally says, "it's time".

Life on Thursday

You know this day wasn't very eventful, and really boring in a get things done sort of way.

I worked out, my personal training sessions are done so I'm trying to be my own trainer. That's funny all in it's own! I have committed to working out for an entire hour 5 days aweek!

I came home and started getting things done. I always wish for a rainy day so I can get things done, BUT yesterday was a really really raining day and I did nothing. NOTHING! so I had plenty to get done today.

Hubby moved off his special bed and back into our room. This left cleaning up all the extras in the back bed room. It's amazing at all the things that can be gathered in just 7 days to add comfort to a life.

There was a phone call from the school, but I'll not be going to that.

There was sorting, faxing, packing, shipping, trashing, mailing, emailing, phone calls, errands to the bank, grocery store and post office among other things in this day.

Finally a soccer practice, and a meal of Hamburgers, Tatar tots and the last of some yummy chocolate chip cookies (that some kind person made for our family .... well, really for hubby, but I like to think they were for all of us!).

I'd like to think I got it all done today, but nope! My house is a mess, there is laundry to be done, plants to get into the ground, dishes to be done, papers to gather, bills to be paid, toys to packed away..... maybe I'll do that on the next rainy day OR the day after the rainy day!

Sunday Thought

Today I sat in our church meeting fuming about something that had occurred in a meeting just minutes before. Just fuming!

When G came in (he'd ridden with another family while I was in my meeting), everything started well, but then he did it. He does this every Sunday, so today wasn't any different.

He hung on me. He doesn't lean his head gently on my arm, he grabs it with both hands, and with his full weight he hung there. It either tugs my sleeve completely off my shoulder, or it rips my skin down my arm. I kid you not, it's painful. I've asked him not to do every Sunday in his short life of 10 years, but every Sunday it happens again!

This Sunday since I was already fuming and trying not to take it out on him. Even though my shirt was hanging half way down my arm, I decided I'd distract myself and not correct him once again. I decided that I'd read the words of a Hymn. I'd let the Lord pick the hymn by just flipping to a page and let that by my message.

Unbelievable but true this was the Hymn I flipped to ......

I believe the Lord knows me,

knows my struggles and

has a sense of humor!

9/11/01

I never turned the TV on in the morning, but that morning I did.
With in minutes they were breaking in with the news that a plane had apparently hit the first tower. That feeling of what a horrible mistake this poor pilot had made, did he have a heart attack?, was he injured? How could someone possibly knowingly hit the World Trade Tower?

Then the realization, as I watched the second plane it, this wasn't an accident.

Then the fear of what was next set in.

This was day I was take W to the lake to fish with his grandpa. There wasn't any music on the radio, when we stopped at Walmart their in store monitors were tuned to the news with a crowd gathered around, hoping to glean some sort of answer as to what was happening.

I remembering telling W he would be safe at the Lake and I would be safe at home, because we lived out in the country away from the crowds of people.

We were safe but the world we lived in was forever changed along with ourselves.

LIfe on Thursday

Today really should start with last night, Hubby came home after being away for 4 weeks. He didn't get home until around 8pm and it wore him out.

So he goes from 24 hour nursing care to.... my Life on Thursday!

up at 6:30am shower, get ready (everything except curling my hair) by 7.
come in get lunches ready for the day, wake up G, fix him breakfast, nag at him to stay on track with getting ready.

We leave at 7:40am....Aggghh, later than I'd like
Drop G off at his school, and I go to sub in Kindergarten.

It's Kindergarten on day #16 and I'm their first sub.
I hear alot of "That's not the way Mrs **** does it." and "We're suppose to be doing it this way not that way." It's a challenging morning but things fall into place by the afternoon. Either it's that or I'm just counting minutes by then and in a total stupor! At this stage in the game (stage day #16) I actually get "No, I'm not going to do that and you can't make me!" from a student. Aww that's when you love to see a para teacher come along so you can send this child to the principal! No, I didn't send him to the principal but I did send him to the rescue teacher next door for some help!

Happy Bear came to visit the class today! He tells them about good touching and bad touching. He teaches them the proper name for their privates, from the responses from my class, the boys have been taught the correct name but the girls (and the boys for that matter) had no idea what their private part was called. I didn't notice any snickering when the boys said what their private part was called, but there was alot of snickering when they were trying to guess what the girl part was! it was funny! I can add this to my adventure in Subbing book!

Off to the Book Fair (G got a must have Star War Clone wars book) and then to Walmart to pick up prescriptions! 5 of them (2 for me and 3 for hubby). Only to get a text from Hubby on the way home that said, "I don't want all those Rx, only get the Cipro" Too late! good thing, they were all on the $4 list!

I had (and always do)such a headache when I get done subbing. I came home to pop some Advil and see if Hubby had survived his day alone. Alone, just him, his special bed, his lunch box and his Internet. From 24 hour nursing care to Alone, absolutely ALONE!

Then ran off to take G to soccer practice and I walked 3.5 miles at the track. Home to eat supper, fix lunches for tomorrow (I'll be in 1st grade tomorrow) and off to bed!

Wordless Wednesday

doodle

Diorama Labor day!

Yay, we're pros at this Diorama thing, last year we did a climate Diorama. This year (this weekend) we (G) were assigned a water cycle in 3d. G could pick a 3d poster, a mobile or a diorama. He put his plan on paper, and had strong feelings about 3 things, cotton balls for clouds, pipe cleaners at evaporation and blue glitter glue for the water.

We gathered our items from Hobby Lobby Saturday evening. A place you'd swear G had never been, as he found so many things he needed to save his money for and can't wait to go back and buy things! **a $17 bucket of soldiers and a foam sword that he didn't see the price of!

Well, we worked on it yesterday afternoon and then finished it up today. Wanna see?

UPDATE: we, ur G got a 100% on this! we're, hmmm he's very pleased!

Love this DAY!

Need I say more?

No, time for blogging today,

I've got an cool outside to become more acquainted with!

PS ~ at noon it was 71!

Life on Thursday

I got up early, put G on the bus, did some work for Hubby, got ready was out the door by 9:30am.

Stop #1 Took G's forgotten lunch to him,
Stop #2 dropped things off at the Post office, then head to the city.
Stop #3 my new orthopedic doc, who specializes in shoulders! Good news there I just need PT to loosen up some frozen muscles. Loved that!
Stop #4 pick up one of favorite lunches, Pei Wei Spicy chicken salad, yum!
Stop #5 eat my lunch with hubby. I had just finished eating (or should I say struggling to eat .. wait and you'll understand) when my cell phone rang. It was my Stop #6 saying the Dentist could see me earlier! I didn't let the door hit me, I was out of there!
Stop #6 the Dentist. Yesterday I had cracked my tooth (in 3 places mind you!). Not just any tooth, but the tooth that I bite things off with! AND I didn't even crack it on something hard..... A Bagel! Pain Pain Pain all day yesterday, not even to mention the fact that I now had to concentrate on eating in another part of my mouth, that's just too much thinkin' for me to do while I eat! Fortunately, it was just the tooth and not the nerve so I got a lovely temporary crown. Not covered by insurance for $1246 whole other ouch! and I'll be passing the offering plate when we're done. I missed out of the root canal (YAY)! The good thing is that I got it all done today!

and here is my biggest smile to show how

well it went!

Stop #7 Grocery store ~Ok , you know what kind of smile I had but as I was going through the grocery store, I kept thinking that I had a stuffy nose, when I got back to the car I looked in the mirror and saw this!

Who knew?

Stop #8 Home to what I think is to be a quiet evening at home with a nice dinner, when I get a text from Michelle (of friend/personal trainer fame) asking me if we were coming to cub scouts!?!?!
Stop #9 Church for Cub Scouts (screaming tires into the parking lot 10 minutes late, not really but it sounded good)
Stop #10 Home again, Home again, jiggety jig!
Stop #11 my bed with my head on my pillow! Good night!

Doodle

Sorry, I know I promised this on Tuesday but I had a bit of life going on yesterday!