mommys quiet spot

new puppies and new cell phones

2009-10-05T04:59:00.000-07:00

So this post is about new puppies. They are so cute and cuddly. Draven got one, a pretty lil red bone to take hunting (courtesy of papaw Jay). The names lady. She is really pretty with her big long ears and all her wrinkles. But there is a catch with new puppies. They have small bladders and no matter how long they are outside they wanna pee or poo as soon as they come in. I can clean that up and keep working with her so that will be ok. She also makes a huge mess with her food. she can not eat it out of the bowl, she had to dump it all on the floor first, again its ok i can clean that too. However, this morning my brand new cell was dieing and went to plug it up. Oh but no, lady had chewed the end off of my charger. I had to hunt tools and duck tape just to fix my phone. New puppies and cell phones do not mix!

Long time no type

2009-01-12T21:09:00.000-08:00

Well where do I start???? I took a long break from blogging. With three kids, a hubby, a house, a part time job, its been CRAZY. Running here, doing this taking one youngin here and another one there, being in two places at one time it gets hectic. Its hard to really get anything done. Laundry is the worst. You know somedays I just want to be the laundry queen, you know the girl who has all the laundry finished sitting on the sofa reading a book, but no who am I? The laundry loser with the bottomless basket lol. I tell you its never done.
I am still in church and love my church family more now than I ever have. I help with the youth (chior, sunday school, wendsday night services). Those kids are precious. I get such a blessing out of them. They are so eager to do God's will. They can sign the song Jesus and are so good with it. Our little church is growing so fast and its wonderful to see how God can move!
My life is wonderful and full. I am still with Daniel, almost fourteen years now. Agggg I am also the mother of a teen age boy, yep thats right Draven is thirteen now. It doesnt seen possible, I can remember picking him up and playing with him, now he picks me up and slings me around. Kirkland is doing great, he is so handsom, even though he wont admit it, he quiet the lady killer. Not so sure if thats good or not. He is 10 and its older girls that he seems to attract, but dont mention a girl to his, girls are still gross. Grayson will be 8 before long, January 26, he can not wiat. He wants a Wii and a drum set and about a million other things to go with it that mommy cant afford. Oh well hes a kid right.
I am going to go for now. Its late and Daniel was in bed an hour ago.
God Bless you guys!

hello

2008-08-08T03:47:00.000-07:00

Well howdy how are you all today? I am good sleepy, but good. I am not going to be coaching the cheer squad, but that is ok. There may be days that Daniel has to take Grayson and I can not make practice. My Kirk starts middle school this year. We had orientation last night. I think he will like it. Grayson is the only one in the primary school this year. I dread this year for Grayson really bad. One of his teachers name is Ms. Perry. I have known her for years and years, we used to stay the night with each other when we were little. She is a little bit younger than me. You would think that this would make me confident that all will be well with Grayson this year, but it don't. She is strict, can be hateful, and mean. We will go round I am afraid. Our primary school is very strict anyway, almost like a prison. It stinks, but maybe we will be ok! Has school started back where you are yet? It starts on the 15th here. I am dreadin it. I have to go now, got to get breakfast. I will talk to you all later though. Take care

Mommys quiet spot????

2008-08-05T04:58:00.000-07:00

I think I need to change the title of my blog. Mommys quiet spot just does not fit my life anymore. I have no quiet spot, no quiet time on the computer, the only mommy time I get is when I go over to Hopes house. Summer has been crazy. We went to Washington Dc and then on to New Jersey around the fourth of July. The kids stayed in New Jersey for about two weeks after we left. My mother in law and sister in law brought them home and stayed for about a week with us. We had a nice visit. Last week Draven had band camp from 4-8 three nights, this week he is going 8-3 all week this week. School is getting ready to start back, but instead of things slowing down and getting back to normal, they are only getting more hectic and chaotic. YAHHHH cant wait. So anyway, we have Grayson playing little league football and Draven starting high school marching band, even though he is only in the seventh grade. Grayson will practice Tues and Thurs. Games on Sat. Draven will have to be present for all high school ball games which start on Aug. 22nd. So we will have ball on Tues, Thurs, Fri and Sat. Church is Wends and Sun. I have a total of one free day a week for the next 3 months or so. Also Daniel will be home this year for Grayson. He did not get to see him very much last season because he worked second shift and most of the games and things were at night. This is good because he can do with Grayson. I was a cheerleader in school and I always wanted a little girl. I did not get one though. I wanted to do pageants and coach cheer leading. Having all boys this is hard. Thank God he gave me a rent-a-girl, which is my sister salena.

She is 11 years old. This year I have signed up to coach her cheer squad. I will find out tonight if I get to or not.
I did get to do some fun stuff this summer though. I went with my sister, my brothers girl friend and my sister in law to a new store in Kingsport. We all got make overs and shopped until we dropped. LOL. Last night my brothers gf went shopping for her sister a wedding gift. I was exhausted by the time we got home!
I hope everyone is doing well and this post finds all happy and blessed!

AHAHAHAHA

2008-06-01T20:48:00.001-07:00

This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen!

update

2008-05-30T10:08:00.000-07:00

Thank you all for your advice and I quit today. I know i need the money, but its actually just mad money Daniel does very well providing for us. We can make it on his income. I just have to plan on making it with his income. I actually sent her a text. I know what you are thinking, how mean and how gutless, but let me explain here. When I call her she does not answer either phone nor will she return my calls, this has been going on since I started keeping the kids. Tuesday when i was supposed to keep them, I got a text 20 mins before they were supposed to come saying that she would not be bringing them. Today I did not even get that. No call, no text. I told her in the text that I would not be able to keep her kids anymore because I needed to know when I work, because I depend on the income and also i need to be able to plan things with my family. So far, I have not heard a thing from her yet. Oh well. Daniel is cool with it, he does not blame me at all. If I wanted to be this stressed, I would go out into the work force and find a job outside the home. I then would also have the added stress of finding a sitter myself. So its back to pinching pennies. I want to thank you all again for all your support and advice. Love you guys!!

Hey guys

2008-05-29T04:16:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone is doing great! I am good, school let out on Tuesday for the summer, so I am a little stressed out right now. Nothing to worry about though. I have just gotten used to my quiet time is all. I have started a new rule at my house. My kids fight over everything under the sun, so from now on, community service is in full force. They fight, they stop doing what ever fun thing they were doing and I make them clean. If they wake me up before 9 in the morning, unless it is a true emergency, then they have dish duty for the day. I am hoping that this will help to keep them in line. We will see.
I have been trying to find an online job that is legit, and does not cost an arm and a leg to start. Any suggestions?? I found one called four points mom that sounds really good, but I have not got a phone call from them yet. I am hoping that they call because I think that it would be a good one to get into.
It is supposed to be hot here all week. In the 80s, thank God the pool is up and running now. We have a pretty big one, its 4 1/2 feet deep and like 24ft around, i think. We switched over to chlorine free this year. I haven't been in yet this year, but the kids have and they liked it.
I need some advice today. You all know that I have been baby sitting, right? Well its getting frustrating. The kids are great, that is not it at all. Its just that I get paid $120 every two weeks and really count on this money. Well from the get go, the mom has waited until the last minute to let me know when I am supposed to keep the kids. That is the frustrating part. Then it gets worse. I was supposed to keep them this Tuesday, but that morning of course i call her because i haven't heard from here to make sure that I am still keeping them and she says well there dad may be off today i am not sure. I will call you back and let you know. I got a text 30 mins before she was supposed to keep them saying that she didn't need me that day. I am supposed to keep them tomorrow, but who knows. What should I do guys like I said I need this money but I also need to be able to plan what I can do with my own kids. If I don't keep them, then I don't get paid. Its just getting aggravating. She also has switched jobs and gets off at 8 in the evening now. She took for granted that those hours would be fine with me, but they are not so I have to take the kids to their grandmothers at 6 when I do keep them. I just want some outside advice. Would you keep them??

I got an award to from Lisa. I love it, she is such a sweet person! If you guys don't know Lisa yet, go by and check her out!!

Thank you Lisa!!!!!

Sexy red hills

2008-05-20T07:54:00.000-07:00

Shoes, pause think about this, are shoes merely what we put on our feet, or are they more? Can shoes represent our mood, and where we have been? Well certainly if our shoes are muddy, then yes they do tell where we have been, we have been somewhere in the mud!! I really do think that they represent our mood quit frequently. If you are feeling fun and flirty, maybe a nice wedge would be the choice. Perhaps a pair like this.

Or maybe if you are having a lazy day, a cute pair of flip flops.

Of course neither of these would work if you are in the mood for outside activities. A more suitable choice would be tennis shoes.

Also a good pair of shoes can really make a woman feel very good about herself. My favorite way to make myself feel special and sexy is high heels!! High heels are my favorite kind of shoe. They make me feel pretty. They work great with dresses and jeans.

Now guys on the other hand can not appreciate shoes like a woman can. My husband thinks that I have way to many shoes, my motto is one can never have enough shoes! i have tons, but want more. My shoes make me feel happy, I know that sounds silly. I buy shoes when I am sad. It makes me feel better. And in the words of Cinderella, a good pair of shoes really can change a girl's life!

hello all

2008-05-16T11:03:00.000-07:00

I am not doing anything much today just babysitting. I am so glad that I do not have to work outside the home right now. It is so stressful on the kids. The little boy that I keep does ok if his mom drops him off, but when his dad does, its really heart breaking. He hangs on for dear life, crying his little eyes out. It is really sad, and his poor ol daddy is tore all to pieces when he leaves. It usually only lasts about 20 mins or so, but it is still sad. I am feeling down in the dumps today. I think it is because of Draven still, I am just so worried about him. I am also really tired today, I stay that way a lot lately and I just want to sleep. One of Kirk's friends is coming home with him tonight. He is all excited about that. So how is the weather where you guys are? It is cold and rainy here. It has been that way all week long. Maybe that is another reason why I feel down in the dumps today. Who knows? I just know that I am sooo ready for some sun shine. It is supposed to be back up in the 80s by next Thursday. That we will be good because we are going to a fossil museum and dig some bones. Then Friday we are going to the pool for a private pool party that the school is having for the fourth grade! That should be fun!

Oh did you guys see the news today? New Kids on the Block have gotten back together. That's fine, except when I watched the show I was not impressed at all. Their singing is not what it used to be. Also they need a new name, those guys are older than me. New kids on the block???? Yeah they need a new name.

K enough rambling I will go visit for a while now and maybe look for a publisher for my children's book wish me luck!!

Prayers are needed

2008-05-15T04:34:00.000-07:00

I would like for you all to please pray for Draven my oldest son! He is not doing well at all. He had a doctor's appointment yesterday and we got a bad report. All of what we discussed yesterday is treatable, but it is has got my little man down and feeling sad. First of all he is very over weight for his age. He also has a dark ring around his neck which is very bad. That means that his body is starting to become insulin resistant. His migraines are getting worse, so he had to be put on amytriptalin, which is an antidepressant that doubles as a pain blocker, which in turn should prevent the migraines if all goes well. He has to have an ekg done to see if there is any heart problems. His blood pressure was borderline high. Diabetes heart disease, and high blood pressure all run on both sides of the family. We have to have fasting blood work done on him to check his thyroid, cholesterol, and sugar levels. He is upset with all of this, but mostly it is his weight that is bothering him so bad. He does not eat a lot, he is outside a lot and we don't know what we need to do to get the weight off. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. I just feel so sorry for him. Please say a little prayer for him when you pray tonight. He needs all he can get! Thank you.

hello

2008-05-12T04:21:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone had a great mothers day!! I know I did. The festivities actually started on Friday here. I picked the kids up Friday from school and the two oldest wrote me letters for mothers day. Dravens was this,

My mother, always there for me
On my heart all the time
Tender hearted and loving
Here on Mothers day, your day
Even thought it is Kirks day too
Remembering to celebrate
So here's a coloring book for you
Dancing
Around
You on your day!

It was a coloring and Mothers day was also Kirks birthday!

Here is what Kirk wrote for me

My mom

Do you have someone who does good things for you? That person is my mom. She is Very funny. I love her very much. She has brown hair and brown eyes. My mom is sorta tall. My mom is skinny. Her face and smile make her pretty. My mom is funny, She tells funny jokes. She makes everyone laugh. She calls me a Dork Fish! My mom is the funniest mom ever! My mom and I watch TV together. We like to play board games. My mom and I like to swing together. We like to swim together too. That is my mom!
Happy Mothers Day

They both made me cry. Kirkland also got me a beautiful flower and Grayson got me a beautiful one as well.

After I got all my goodies we met Daniel. Draven and Daniel got contacts Friday night. I got new glasses, they told me contacts would not help. Saturday, we had a birthday party at five. It lasted until 10! What a party, we all had a blast. Kirk got lots of nice things. He got a new controller for his xbox 360. He got a tent, an ant farm, 2 shirts, 2 beach towels, 2 pair of swim trunks, 20 dollars, a stuffed dogie, 6 chicks and chicken feed. He probably got more, but that is all I can think of right now. Hope, he loves those lil chicks and feeds and waters them himself.

I also got a present Saturday. I got the most awesome purse from my mom and dad for mothers day. It is so cute. Tan, with pink trim, lime green polka dots on the trim, fuzzy stuff around the top. Its so pretty and the best part is the verse on the front. It says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

We went to church Sunday morning and we had a really good service. The kids also got things from church to give to me. I got more flowers and some jewelry. After church we went to my mamaws and then to my friend Lisa's house. It was nice.

OHHH my husband fixed my breakfast yesterday, I didn't have to do it!! He made Sausage balls and then last night he made me chili! I didn't have to lift a finger all day!!

I hope your day was as great as mine!!

open or closed??

2008-04-29T10:10:00.001-07:00

I want your opinion are her eyes open or closed? This was a piece of art at Wonder works. I think it is so cool, and I cant decided.

Here goes nothing.

2008-04-25T04:32:00.001-07:00

I am going to try to do another post about our vacation. We took the kids to an inside amusement park for the mind (no joke that's what it says in the brochure). It is called Wonder Works. I decided to do a slide show because blogger made me mad. We got to experience a hurricane with 70mph winds. We also experienced an earth quake. We drove spaceships and drag cars. The kids created a roller coaster. Grayson did ours I was a little sick after we rode it. Twists turns and flips. The bike thing in the pictures below was an extreme 360 Draven and I rode it. I was bruised, but we made it around several times, it was peddle power by the way. I climbed the rock wall with the kids. Huge accomplishment for me even though I didn't even make it half way, I am terrified of heights. When I was coming down though, I fell. My shoe flew off and went across the room. I was embarrassed. The last picture is Paris Hilton, I dont really like her, but the pic is cool. It is made out of bubble gum and its done on plywood. I will go for now, I hope you all enjoy the slide show.

HOWDY

2008-04-24T05:13:00.000-07:00

I am way behind on here. I have been having some problems with blogger. I came on day before yesterday to do a post, and my back ground had been changed, no clue how if happened, but it did. I spent all my time finding a new one and chose the Lucy one. I was going to do a blog, but no time left. I have tried several times to do posts about vacation and it would not load my pictures. I been trying guys, it just ain't working out to well lately. Has any of you all had any problems with blogger? Any advice? Well I know it was short, but I have to go my mom has a dr appt today and I am going with her. Take care guys!

Happy anniversary and more

2008-04-18T04:27:00.000-07:00

Happy anniversary to Lisa and Wade. Lisa has a blog called A Place to Land. They are celebrating today. Congrats guys!!

I will be adding more onto this post a little bit later on, so come back by today if you have time:)

I am a Grandmaw!!!!

2008-04-17T19:37:00.000-07:00

No its not what you are thinking, none of my boys had a baby (thank God, they are much to young for that!) My kitty had five little kittens tonight! They are so pretty. I have two black and white ones, one smokey one and two grey and white ones. Kitty is black and white. One of them looks just like her. They are so cute. Kitty will let us near them, but not the other animals. She and fat cat got into a big fight. I may have to get rid of fat cat, I am not sure yet, they have never clicked though. Well I just wanted to let everyone know! Oh by the way, she had them in my wardrobe. With all my clothes. I have a lot of laundry to do. Take care all!

Howdy all

2008-04-16T09:35:00.000-07:00

Where to start, hmm lets see, I have started baby sitting now. I keep a two year old all day and a 6 yr old after school, three or four days a week. I dont know if you all knew or not that the house that we live in was my grandparents, my grandfather built it. It belonged to mom and dad. We have talked them into letting us pay the payments and we are now buying the house. I am so excited!! Our rooms are coming along great! We now have two rooms fully equipped right now with insulation and partially sheet rocked. One room will be a walkin closet, the other will be my laundry room. We can't wait until they are done!

I believe that I promised you guys some pictures from our trip. The first thing that I want to show you is our cabins. Yes it is plural. We started out in one called wooded haven. It was a lovely little cabin.
It was a two bedroom with a sleeper sofa. My husband, myself, our three kids, and my mother-in-law and sister-in-law all went.

(This was mine and my husband's room.)

(This one is my mother in laws.)
It was a little cramped but doable. We only stayed there one night and that was because when we went out for supper, and came back, my mother in law got stuck in the drive way and had to walk the rest of the way up. She has a bad hip and a bad back.

(Grayson enjoying the pretty weather)

(Kirk and Draven enjoying the view)

(my sister in law in the garden)
When she caught her breathe from the long walk, she called the office and we were told to come to the office in the morning for another cabin. The second one we got was immaculate. Three stories, three bedrooms, an extra bed out in the loft, two sleeper sofas, a game room, and a hot tub!! It was gorgeous!

That is the outside, I guess we will start with the main floor of the cabin.

This is my mother in laws room

Now we will go down stairs.

This is the game room down there.

Here is the bedroom down there.

Now I want to take you up to the loft.

This was our room and our bathroom. The bathroom has a Jacuzzi, notice the window, as I was taking my long baths, eagles would fly by our window.

This is Daniel and Draven outside on the bottom level

I also want to show you a funny picture of me. I had ate shrimp the night before and I am allergic. I am very swollen, but I can't help it I just love the stuff and I waited to long to get the allergy meds in me.

That is all I am going to post today. I will post more about our vacation later on!

I am so upset!

2008-04-03T05:41:00.000-07:00

I am so upset today. I have been following the children in Georgia. Let me copy and past the article here, just in case you haven't read about it.

WAYCROSS, Ga. (April 1) - A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.

Waycross Georgia Police Department / AP
A photo shows some of the materials that police in Waycross, Ga., confiscated from a group of third-graders who allegedly were plotting to attack their teacher.
The plot involving as many as nine boys and girls at Center Elementary School in south Georgia was a serious threat, Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said.

School officials alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon to school. Tanner said the students apparently planned to knock the teacher unconscious with a crystal paperweight, bind her with the handcuffs and tape and then stab her with the knife.

"We did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely," Tanner said. "We feel like if they weren't interrupted, there would have been an attempt. Would they have been successful? We don't know."

The children, ages 8 to 10, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, Tanner said.

Two of the students were arrested on juvenile charges Tuesday and a third arrest was expected. District Attorney Rick Currie said other students told investigators they didn't take the plot seriously or insisted they had decided not to participate.

"Some of the kids said, `We thought they were just kidding,"' Currie said. "Another child was supposed to bring a toy pistol, and he told a detective he didn't bring it because he thought he would get in trouble."

Currie said the children are too young to be charged as adults, and probably too young to be sentenced to a youth detention center.

Police seized a steak knife with a broken handle, steel handcuffs, duct tape, electrical and transparent tape, ribbons and the paperweight from the students, Tanner said.

Currie said he decided to seek juvenile charges against two girls, ages 9 and 10, who brought the knife and paperweight and an 8-year-old boy who brought tape. He said all three students faced charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, and both girls were being charged with bringing weapons to school.

Nine children have been given discipline up to and including long-term suspension, said Theresa Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school system. She would not be more specific but said none of the children had been back to school since the case came to light.

The purported target is a veteran educator who teaches third-grade students with learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents said.

The scheme involved a division of roles, Tanner said. One child's job was to cover windows so no one could see outside, he said. Another was supposed to clean up after the attack.

"We're not sure at this point in the investigation how many of the students actually knew the intent was to hurt the teacher," Tanner said.

He said the teacher told detectives the children involved weren't known as troublemakers.

"You can't dismiss it," Tanner said. "But because they are kids, they may have thought this was like a cartoon - we do whatever and then she stands up and she's OK. That's a hard call."

The parents of the students have cooperated with investigators, who aren't allowed to question the children without their parents' or guardians' consent, he said. Authorities have withheld the children's names.

Martin told The Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville, Fla., that administrators would follow school system policy and state law in disciplining the students.

"From what I understand, they were considered pretty good kids," Martin said. "But we have to take this seriously, whether they were serious or not about carrying this through, and that's what we did."

Four mothers of other third-grade students at Center Elementary called for the immediate expulsion of the suspected plotters.

Stacy Carter and Deana Hiott both cited school system policy stating that any student who brings "anything reasonably considered to be a weapon" is to be expelled for at least the remainder of the school year.

"We don't want our children around them," Carter told the Times-Union. "The one with the knife could have stabbed my child or someone else's child at lunch or out on the playground."

Not only are these kids going to get by with little or no punishment from the school and law, it is going to teach other kids that hey they can do it and not get in trouble, we can to.

Secondly did you notice that they were trying to blame this on cartoons? The news is trying to blame it on video games and movies. This burns me up. You know the reason that they do these things??? LACK OF GOD. Lack of morals. If these kids had morals and God in their lives, these things would not happen. America made the greatest mistake when they took God from the schools. This nation has been in a downward spiral ever since. I think that if one woman can get God out, why cant a huge group of Christians get him back in??????????

My kids know right from wrong and have morals. Sure they do wrong, that's not what I am saying, we all do wrong, but we know it is wrong. We know these things because we were TAUGHT these things by our parents and teachers. What has happened? This is getting ridiculous!!!

I also want to applaud some schools because they do allow prayer meetings in them, even if it is five minutes in the morning one day a week and free will to go to them. If only more schools would do this. Also some teachers should be applauded because they still speak of God, even though they could lose their jobs for doing so! We all need to be a little bit more like these people! There are great things to be learned in this life and we can teach one another, it just takes some effort and support. We all need to put forth the effort.

I also want to thank some one today. Hope this is for you! You have been a rock in my life lately, you have been there for me when I have been faced with tough challenges with the kids. You have taught me so many things in the last few weeks. I know that you are in my life because of Daniel, but you know I don't talk to a lot of his family, I don't know them that well. I am glad that you are in my life and I have a great friend to talk to about important things and I want you to know that I really look up to! I know that God has put you here for a reason and I thank him for doing that to! So this is for you. I am calling it the rock award LOL!

This is an award I received from Charlotte! Thank you so much! I love it.

I want to pass it on to Mary at Mary's writing nook, Lady Di, at Kitty justice, hope at second time around, Jennifer at Dust Bunny hostage and Karen!

Well I will go for now. Have a good day!

vacation

2008-03-23T17:44:00.000-07:00

We are back from vacation. We had a wonderful time, but i am totally pooped so I will post more about this week. It will take a while, I have a lot of blog fodder. Talk to everyone again soon!

HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY

2008-03-17T04:44:00.000-07:00

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Woohoo watch out for those tricky little leprechauns. They like to play tricks and are lightening fast! If by some chance you do catch one, make sure not to turn your back on him or he will take back his pot of gold and then guess what... if you are like me, you are broke again.

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I have some exciting news today! I won the tee shirt contest that Denise over sew the world was having. She has a picture of it on there, It is awesome. Please go check it out. But if you do click here because she has listed all the available colors and the price for the shirt. It is really a good deal and its related to blogger.

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I had a really good weekend. Nothing special, but good all the same. I think I told you all that my kids are playing basket ball didn't I? Well anyway they are. They were put on three different teams. That's cool to though because they play one another as it is an in house sport. Well this year that changed. They have two gyms there now. So they split the little ones and the big ones. I have to try to be in two places at one time now. Not to easy mind you. Here are some pics of them.

An action shot of Grayson.

This one is just to cute. He acts so frustrated.

Kirkland is the one running and my sister Salena is the red head in the back ground who is cheering not practicing like she is supposed to be.

This one is not so good, but my little man is circled. He is behind the other little boy. That's my oldest, Draven.

Well my friends i hope you have a great day and now i have to go start my day. I have non stop running to do today so lucky me!! Take care!

Looking forward to today?

2008-03-13T04:29:00.000-07:00

Not so much really. I kinda dread it. I have to clean all day. Oh boy you all know that I just cant wait to get started. I hate cleaning. Its not really that bad, but ugg. Oh well its not going to do it its self. I have a couple of things to say this morning. I think God for my hubby. I love him so much. I got a text from him this morning and he called me sexy. Now this is the man who sees me at my worst all the time and he still thinks I'm sexy!! I am so glad LOVE IS BLIND!! LOL. He is my rock. I can count on him for anything, even making me feel good about myself. He works hard, he comes straight home from work, he doesn't do anything with out me. Of this I am thankful. I know women who wonder where and what their man is doing. I don't have to worry about it! Its only one week until our vacation and I am so excited. We are going to Gatlingburg and have some exciting things planned. I can not wait. Also a week from Sunday will be our anniversary. It falls on Easter this year. That was a shock to us both. It seems so strange. It will be 13 years. I have put him through alot and he has stayed right by my side through it all. I love him more than life.

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I also wanted to let you all know that I checked my email this morning and there is an update on Erin's page. Her dad could not sleep last night because he felt that he had to get this wrote down about her. This is what he had to say. I copied and pasted it here. It is incredible how God worked through this little girl!!

"I heard some great news last night from Brian. There were 47 people saved and 43 rededications at the meeting held in Erin's honor at the Crossroads Youth at Higher Ground! To God be the Glory! I know Erin is so happy in Heaven this morning! To hear things like this lifts me from the valley of despair and sets me high on a mountain of Joy! I am so proud to say that I am Erin's dad! I have been blessed just to be able to call her daughter! Erin, I love you so much Honey! Jesus, thank you!! I Know God is still using Erin's sickness to touch people in this city and around the country! Please continue to pray for our family. I have been dreading the next few days knowing from the past experience of losing my Dad in 1992. I want this Friday to not be a sad funeral, instead I want it to be a celebration of Erin's Life! I had no idea of the impact that skinny little girl of mine could have on her friends and this community. I pray that God get's all the Glory! I hope everyone didn't think that Tuesday nights update would be the last. I'll continue to post to this site as long as the Lord lays it on my heart to do so! I am sure Kimberly and Brian feel the same. I couldn't sleep again this morning and I woke up with all these words going through my head. I want to again thank everyone for their Prayers and comments they leave here. It's like an ointment for my aching heart to read your lovely words of condolence. Thanks everyone! Thank you Lord!

Chris (an Angel's dad)"

Again here is that web site if you want to check it out again. http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/erinpage

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I was tagged by Hope for a meme. I will play along. Here are the rules. In the 8 facts about yourself, you share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you. Then at the end you tag at least 8 other bloggers to keep the fun going.

So here goes.

1. When I was three years old I was bit by a dog and it almost killed me.

2. I HATE for my food to touch on the plate. I don't want to eat it if it does.

3. I love to paint. ANYTHING. walls pictures, i don't care.

4. I did a wall mural for McDonald's in Big Stone Gap.

5. I cry when I am super tired. lol. I am a weenie.

6. Somedays I wish I were a man. Nothing disgusting here. Just because they clock out at four thirty and their day is done. I also never hear my kids scream DAD. its always mom.

7. If I could choose any occupation in the world, it would be CSI. I don't like working with a lot of people because they get on my nerves. I don't want to be in the medical field because I don't want to hurt people. This way I could give closure to greiving families.

8. I went to a Pittsburgh Steeler's game and would go again!! It was incredible!

Now for my eight. Oh boy I know most of my people are on Hopes page so lets see if I can find some people to tag.

Sarah, Charolette, Lady Di, Denise, Mel, Draven, you guys are it!! Woohoo have fun. I have to think of two more I know who I want, I just cant find their site right now lol.

update on Erin

2008-03-12T12:37:00.001-07:00

This is very sad and I really hate to blog about it, but I feel I need to let everyone know. Erin Michelle Page passed away last night. She is with Jesus now and will never be sick again.

band and fun monday

2008-03-10T07:03:00.000-07:00

This is my son draven at his band concert, it was incredible when you watch the video keep in mind that he is only in the sixth grade. This group is made up of 6th 7th and 8th graders. I was impressed. He is the one with the blue trumpet, last row, fifth one from the end on your right. Hope you enjoy it!!

I went by Jennifer's page at Dust Bunny Hostage and found this. I decided I was going to play along to! Here are the rules. Give me 5!!

I need YOU (yes, the wonderful YOU!) to pick 5 memorable lines from 5 different movies (if you could tell us which character said it and to whom, would be a bonus)...and tell us to WHOM (who in the people in your life) you could have said those lines. So here goes!!!!

1. "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming swimming." Dorie from Finding Nemo. She sings this to Marlin the clown fish. I sing this to my kids when they are frusterated with something and want to quit or when they stop to look at something at the store!

2. "Why do they call it Ratatoui? It sounds like Rat and Patootti, Rat patooti." The skinny chef from Ratatoui to the head chef. I can't remember their names. I say this to everyone when I am discribing my ratatoui i made for the kids. It tasted like rat patooti trust me!! BLUCK.
;)

3. "Ms Scarlet, Ms Scarlet, I don't know nothin bout birthin no babies!" Gone with the Wind. I say this when someone tells me to do something and I am just like HUH?

4. "Its priest, try the priest." Sweeny Todd said to Mr. Todd by Helena Bonham Carters character, again, I can't remember the characters name. This I also say to my kids but I say this when they ask what is for dinner. HEHE I am so mean. LOL You need to see this movie. Ahhhh Mr. Depp.

5. "Why is the rum always gone?" Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Carribian. I say this anytime something is not here when I need it! Again Mr. Depp AHHHH can you tell I like him? Feel free to click over to Jennifers page and play along.

My Nothing post

2008-03-08T08:10:00.000-08:00

This post us about absolutley nothing. Nothing is going on. Nothing's new. Noone is sick THANK GOD!!! I just wanted to post to let everyone know about nothing in particular really. I have had a pretty good day. Nothing new really. I did dishes, did the laundry, or should i say doing. Draven made sausage bisquits for breakfast. It did not fill anyone up so I just made some scrambled eggs with ham and cheese. Kirks friend is here and dan is calling lol i was gonna write working when the phone rang. He must have ESP LOL. Speaking of ESP, that reminds me of paranormal. Does anyone ever watch ghost hunters? thats one of the only shows i like to watch. It scares the poo out of me, but I love it. I think its fun to try to figure out what causes sounds and noises that people think shouldn't be there. Well guess its back to laundry and i need to vacuum, so i think i am going to go! I also need to do my homework, blah, just cant seem to get into it, but oh well, its gotta be done. Hope all is well. Talk to you guys later!

Such a sad ending

2008-03-04T19:33:00.000-08:00

My oldest son Draven went into his bed room tonight and saw a mouse. The other boys ran into the room and they were all screaming. My middle child, who is very sensitive and wants to be a vet, tried to catch it. He chased it out from under the bed because the cat was trying to get it. I was sitting in the living room in the chair watching them when the mouse ran between my youngest little boys legs through the dining room and into the kitchen. It was huge!! I thought I was going to die when I saw it. My husband and I went into the kitchen. When I got in there, one of the boys said its a chipmonk. Well, it was not a chip monk, but it was a flying squirrel. We tried to catch him and he ran behind the fridge.

I held a bucket and my huband tried to run him out with a broom. He ran out all right, but not into the bucket. Now the kids are hoopin and hollaring. It was so exciting. He ran right past me, through my little boys legs again and started jumping all over my husband who was laying in the floor beside the fridge. He ran back into my little boys room and jumped up onto his sword that he has. I snapped a pic and my hubby tried to catch him.

It didnt work. This time he ran into the living room. My little weenie dog had been watching the whole time.

He was all nervous and scared. He thought the little guy was trying to hurt us. He grabbed it, it got away from him and ran across the room. That is when the poor guy met his untimely end. The dog must have crushed him, because he appeared unharmed.

The kids were devistated. They had immediately fallen in love with it. My hubby tried to revive it, rubbing his tummy and blowing in his face. I just sat and watched it all, my heart breaking for the poor little squirrel and for my baby boys.

I cried. I know it is only an animal, but it was just so sad. Please listen to this I let my kids listen to it last night and it did help them understand. Funny thing is, I recieved it in an email just yesterday. Isn't God's timing simply amazing? I think I got that for this purpose.

We called my dad and he gave me the name of a taxidermy place. Now I am not one for dead animals being around, i think it is quite morbid, but, in this case I can make an exception. The man told us what we need to do to preserve it and that it would last about 6 months in the freezer, we aren't going to wait that long, but we are going to have to wait a few weeks to get it done. I am going to take it to my dads house and they will keep it there in the deep freeze because I can't bare to look at it all the time when I open mine. The kids are happy about keeping it around so to speak, but my seven year old told me we need to say a prayer for it. I explained that it was already to late for that, and that it was all ok now.

PIMP

2008-03-03T18:09:00.000-08:00

I have been very busy building on to the house. We are building a laundry room. So far we have one wall up and one cut and ready to be nailed. In case you are wondering what I am talking about in the subject line, it would appear that my son is a regular P~I~M~P.

I can only imagine what you all are thinking right now. The really bad thing is, he is only seven. It all started back at valentines day when this little girl Elizabeth gave him a ribbon that said 'someone loves you'. As if this is not bad enough, he gave her his phone number. She calls ALOT!! When she calls, they talk for an hour at a time. I listen in on the phone calls. They are pretty funny. Last night, I overheard him say that he might marry her when he grows up. There is another little girl that likes him as well. Her name is Brisha. She calls as well. I checked my voice mail today and she had called. She said 'Grayson call me, you remember what we talked about at school. I love you.' Trust me my jaw hit the floor. Well my husband asked him tonight about telling Elizabeth that he might marry her. He wanted to know if he asked her to. He said he did, but she said she was going to marry someone else. She called again tonight, which suprised me, since she said that. They did not get to talk long because it was late when she called. He giggled as he hung up and asked him what he was talking about and he said that she told him that Brisha sent him kisses. I said Grayson who is your girlfriend? Elizabeth or Brisha? He looks at me and calmly replies "BOTH". I am so glad that he is not older. I think he still has a lot to learn about women, although he seems to be doing pretty good for now!

80's child.

2008-02-27T09:19:00.000-08:00

This is kind of my tribute to my childhood and the 80's. Oh yes, I was an 80s child. When I was growing up, cartoons were only on on Saterday mornings, and they were early. If you didn't get up, you didn't watch them. Here are some of my favorite cartoons as a child in no certain order.

The Snorks

TaleSpin

She-ra

Rainbow Bright

Jem

Gummi Bears

Duck Tales

Care Bears

My movies

The Neverending Story

Children of the Corn ~ scared the crap out of me!!

The Lost Boys ~ ahh Corey Haim ~ I thought he was so cute!

Beetlejuice

A Christmas Story

Dirty Dancing ~ I was never allowed to watch this one, but it just seemed like it would be sooo cool!

Then there was the eighties music. I wasn't that into Micheal Jackson, but I do remember when he looked like this!

I was one of those little girls who swooned over New Kids on the Block! I had their videos, posters, tapes. Yep cassette tapes, cds werent all that in back then. I am not sure if they were even invented then... hmmm, maybe I should google that one! Well I did and they were. I guess I just didn't have one.

Then came my mom's nightmare...the hair bands. Oh how I loved the eighties hair bands and being around ten and eleven at the end of the erra, I started noticing those hair band hotties! LOL. Down came the New Kids on the Block and up went the hairbands. I am sure my mom cringed everytime she came in my room.

Poisen

Guns and Roses

Bon Jovi

Oh and who could forget the fashion!! The neon clothes the huge hair. slap bracelets, you could actually wear the little plastic bracelets with out them meaning anything like they do now (which really makes me mad, by the way).
The huge ear rings and biker shorts. And can you believe this stuff is actually coming back in style?

The hot clothes ~ notice the sexy socks with those high heels, well guess I should say leg warmers.

Oh and the out fit that I wanted so bad!! I didn't get it of course, but I wanted it.

We, like kids now, had our own slang. We said things like far out, totally, not, psych, no way dude, and the whole valley girl talk where like every other like word was like like. And Oh my Gaaaawd. Thinking back it was probally one of the silliest erras in history. I so wish had been born in the sixties and seventies, but nope I got stuck in those 80s. I guess it was fun. I would like to challenge you all to play along and do a tribute to your childhood and erra. If you do, please let me know! It would be like totally far out dude!

Update on Erin

2008-02-26T08:22:00.000-08:00

I have recieved a comment about Erin and turns out her family has a website that they update daily. The last update is pretty bad so she needs our prayers. It seemed as though she was doing better, but they are going to have to take her off the machines due to complications. Here the web site so you can read all about Erin's struggles she has been going through. http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/erinpage Again please continue to pray for her! I just realized that somehow i copied the address wrong on the comments and on the blog, I am so sorry. the one above is the correct one now. Once again i appologize for the inconvienece.

VERY URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

2008-02-22T06:15:00.000-08:00

I know that you all pray and this little girl needs ours prayers. My dad sent this to me in an email and she is a local girl. She really needs the prayers. I am just going to copy and paste the email here.

THIS LITTLE GIRL (HER AND HER FAM GO TO MY CHURCH)
NEEDS ALL THE PRAYERS SHE CAN GET. HER NAME IS ERIN
PAGE SHE IS 14. SHE IS VERY, VERY SICK. HER FAMILY HAS
BEEN TOLD HER CHANCES OF DYING ARE GREATER THAN HER
CHANCES OF LIVING. SHE HAS DOUBLE PNEUMONIA, THE FLU,
AND STREP. She has gone into septic shock and is on a
vent and is in ICU. TUE THEY FLEW HER OUT TO VANDY IN
NASHVILLE. SHE HAS WENT UNDER EXPLORATORY SURGERY TO
SEE WHERE THE INFECTION IS COMING FROM. ( THEY HAVE
SAID THAT THEY THINK IT COULD BE HER BOWELS AND.. OR
INTESTINES DYING). SHE NEEDS ALL THE PRAYER SHE CAN
GET SO I AM PASSING IT ON TO ANY AND EVERY PERSON I
CAN THINK OF THAT MIGHT SEND UP A PRAYER FOR HER

__________________________________________________________________

I posted this request ealier today and I got back on to check my blog as I always do. I was overwhelmed by the comments and the people praying for Erin. I want to thank you all. In one of the comments, I was directed over to another lady's blog. Her name is Brenda. You can click here to go to her blog. She has a very interesting post on there about a sponge and I can really relate to this blog because I have been feeling that way alot lately myself. She also has some prayer requests on her blog as well. These people are in need of prayer and this is the best way that I have found to get these requests out and for people to pray. Prayer does change things!! Uniting in prayer is incredible and I am so blessed that I have people to pray for me and my family and others in need of prayer. Again I want to thank you all for taking the time to come here and pray for Erin. I love you all and you all mean so much to me!

Busy busy

2008-02-19T04:18:00.000-08:00

I have been so busy lately. We got in the two youngest boys bedroom this weekend and worked worked worked. I bought some blue lightening paint, and classic red paint. I was going to just paint and put up border, but that just wasn't cutting it. They had prehistoric carpet that at one time i think was supposed to have been beige and brown, but after years and years of wear and tear had became light brown and dark brown. Their room was very dark, despite the two big windows in the room. Here is the before pic.

I did paint and I put up cars border. While I was painting, I moved the carpet back a little bit because I didn't want to get paint all over the carpet. Well when I did, guess what I found, I found hard wood floor, it was in good shape, but was it in good shape everywhere? Only one way to find out, so I did! I pulled it up and wow it was pretty. It needs to be sanded and varnished, but with some tlc will be beautiful. Here is the finished product.

sorry about the alignment, dont know how to fix it.

That wasn't enough though I had to do my room to. It is still a work in progress but I have enough done to show you how it will look. I am impressed. Here are the befores and afters of it. Hope, this is what Daniel calls the blood bath room!

this was the floor right under the ugly orange carpet.

This is all I have done so far. I love it though. I can't wait to get it done!

Awards

2008-02-17T05:45:00.000-08:00

Back on Thursday, Sarah had a couple of awards waiting for me. Sarah, I am so sorry it has took me so long to come and get my awards. I have been super busy but I have them now and I want to thank you for them! Again sorry it has taken so long.

good morning all!

2008-02-16T06:15:00.000-08:00

I have an update on my little boy. Yesterday when he got up, the swelling in his leg had gone down. It still hurt, but it was getting better. This morning, when he got up he could walk without his foot turning sideways. He even ran through the house for me! I was so happy! Once again, thank you all so much for the prayers.

Yesterday at school was favorite character days! Grayson dressed up as Shaggy Rogers from Scooby Doo! As I was getting Grayson ready, he said mom make me some chest hair to, so we drew a few hairs on his chest. I thought it was so funny.

Kirkland dressed up as pinnochio (please ignore spelling as spell check still is not working).

The winner will not be announced until Monday morning.

I also got my hair cut last night the way that I have been wanting it. Here is my do

I also found a friend's number who I hadn't talked to in about 5 years. I have often wondered about her and how she was doing. I miss her very bad. I decided that I would call the number and see if it was still hers. It was I was so happy. We talked for a while and caught up on the lastest in our kids lives, we also exchanged email addresses, hopefully we will not lose touch again!

cards and awards!

2008-02-14T10:24:00.000-08:00

I recieved a Valentine card from Mary at Mary's Writing Nook! I really appriciate it. It actually made my day because I have been having a rough one. Thank you Mary!

Mary also had this award there for me to, I love them both!

Please take the friendship award along with you all! Also please scroll down to the third blog and get your valentine!

Praise God!! Prayers work!

2008-02-14T08:23:00.000-08:00

(Kirk is the blonde!)
If you prayed for my son, I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. Last night we went to church and an older lady there looked at his leg and told me she thought it was a blood clot. I thought she was crazy, because he is so young. When I took him to the ER today, the doctor came in and looked at his leg. He said "I have never seen this in a child. I think it may be a blood clot." My heart broke, I was scared to death. I know that blood clots can kill you, and I couldn't bare to lose my child. I couldn't cry I couldn't show any emotion at all because I did not want to scare him to death. He ordered numerous tests. They did a lot of blood work, they checked potassium, infection, everything. They also did this test on him that would show blood clots through blood work. They did an ultrasound on his leg. They did x-rays. I could not go in with him when he had his x-rays so I had a good time to pray. I cried as I prayed for my child. I still cry when I think about it. I had no where else to turn. I sent a text to my mom, i sent one to my brothers gf and asked them to pray for him as well. We waited about an hour on the test results. The blood work was normal, the ultrasound was normal and he doesn't have any broken bones. The doctor said that he has no idea what it could be. He gave him some pain meds and sent him home with no gym for a week and no school today. He told me if it doesnt get better he needs to be seen again. The doctor also made it a point to tell me again that he has never ordered an ultrasound for a blood clot on a child that young and he really thought that it was a clot. Since nothing showed up and he has no pulled muscles, I am thinking that my child did in fact have one, but God smiled touched him sometime before the tests were ran and healed my baby. What ever it was I praise God that nothing is there now and again I want to thank you all for praying for Kirkland! Please keep him in your prayers as he is still not up and moving like he used to and is still in some pain.

Also please see my blog below because I have some valentines for you all!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

2008-02-14T03:45:00.000-08:00

Woohoo love is in the air!! Can you feel it? I can. My hubby woke me this morning with lots of kisses and hugs. I loved it! I am so glad he has been my sweetheart for almost 13 years now. We have been married that long anyway. We have been together off and on since I was in the fifth grade! So yeah we were childhood sweethearts. I also love my baby valentines. They are still sleeping this morning and I am going to have to get them up soon. I think I will wake them up with piggy kisses. I snort on their necks and they giggle themselves awake! I wanted to give you guys some valentines but I want to do it a little bit different than most people do. This is for anyone who visits my page. It does not matter if you are brand new or a frequent visitor. If you read this play along. I am going to give you a choice of your valentine. I like lots of different things, so I wasn't sure which one you would like. Please take one and display it on your page. Let me know when you get it up so I can see which one you choose, if you have a hard time deciding, take two. I have lots of love to share!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

It says coffee AGAIN

2008-02-13T04:48:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I went to the clinic and got some medicine to make me lose weight.
The doctor said that all I need to lose is 38lbs. I stopped by Hopies house after the doctors visit. Hope and I had a great time. We talked, laughed and drank coffee. This was speacial coffee though, well, the coffee wasn't speacial, just regular coffee. The cup was whatwas so speacial. It actually said coffee, but that is not all, it also said cocoa and sweet!!!! I felt like a princess since the woman at the dollar store wanted to sell me the cup that said JUST coffee for 15 bucks! I told Hope that I wonder how much she would try to sell me this rare cup for! Below is me with the coffee cup! By the way I do want some they match my kitchen to a T!

Daniel also fixed my mommy ride yesterday! I have an awesome van that I missed so bad while it was broken so today I went and got tags for it. It was so cool! I loved being back in my mommy van. Tommorrow I have to take my little boy, Kirkland, to the ER. We don't have any insurance right now and last Saterday he hurt his leg somehow. He had ball practice that morning and then he had a friend come spend the night with him. While they were outside playing, his friend hit a rock with a stick which broke and flew up and hit him in the knee. His leg is swollen from his knee down and his knee is blue. I do not know what is wrong with it. Nothing I have given him seems to help. Hopefully we will find out what is wrong with it, it seems like if it were a pulled muscle, it would be better by now. At least a little bit anyway and the swelling should have went down quiet a bit. I will let you guys know what the doctor says. Please pray for him. We would really really appriciate it! I love you all and I thank you for your posts and letting me be a part of your lives. You mean a lot to me!

I also recieved two awards from Karen H. They are so cute!! I love them both! Thank you Karen! The royal banana is the first one!

and this one is the cool cat award!

I know that most of you are friends of Karen's but if you are not, then please take these with you as well.
Well it is time for bed, we have a big day ahead of us tomorrow, blah!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2008-02-12T03:41:00.001-08:00

A little funny for you!

If H20 is on the inside of a fire hydrant, what is on the outside?

are you ready for this????

K9P

AHahahahahahaha

fat farm

2008-02-11T20:06:00.000-08:00

Well ladies, tomorrow I go to the fat farm. It isnt a fat farm, but it is a weight loss clinic, because apparently I have a problem that is causing me to produce to much male hormones and have to lose weight. I have no will power and a huge appitite lately, which is also linked to the stupid hormones so I have decided to seek professional help. I hope it works. He will do an examination on me and then he will prescribe me some meds to curve my appitite and to increase my metablism. Wish me luck all, I will post more tomorrow after my trip.

ARGGGGGGG post

2008-02-09T19:53:00.000-08:00

I know I have already posted, but I need to vent. Sorry all you don't have to go any farther if you dont want to!
Ever tried plucking eyebrows in the dark??? Not easy, not easy at all. I got so mad tonight. Hubby was out workin on the van, which I am thankful for, but he comes in and I am sitting in the living room pluckin away and what does he do? Turns off the light Hello I am plucking my eyebrows... what do i get a look that says so. ARGGGG! I was already aggravated one of my sons friends is spending the night and they have been wild to say the least. So loud it made my head hurt. My house is a wrech, but I can't clean with five other people here, espeacially not in the dark! Next I went to MY room and turned on the light. What do I hear? Mom turn the light off... ARGGGG. No lights no privacy cause we have no bed room door, what is a girl to do? I guess I will be a grizzly bear and be hairy from head to toe... ARGGGG. Oh well they all gotta look at me so HA!

Oh and now guess what he is doing. Sleeping...ARGGGG!

soap (with bugs in it)

2008-02-09T17:42:00.000-08:00

As you all know, I have a new computer. I used flickr to upload my photos onto my blog spot. With the new computer, flickr will not work. It freezes up when I am trying to load my pictures on it. I am not sure why it does it. I started using photobucket, but when I put my pictures on blog spot, they are huge and only show the left side of the pics. I have tried using smaller sizes, but it doesn't work either. The reason I am telling you all this good stuff is because some people have been asking me to post pics of the house as we are doing the remodeling. I just wanted to let you all know that I am going to try to do that, if the crazy thing will let me.

We had basketball signup today. All three of the boys are going to play. They practiced for two and a half hours today, but they loved every minute of it. It is the only sport that my oldest little boy likes to play. He hates football and he hates baseball. Sports just isn't his thing really, but he really likes basketball and is really good at it.
In case you are wondering about my title, let me tell you a funny story. My brother called me today and asked if he could take a shower here. Something happened to his water while he was in the middle of being all soaped up in the shower. I told him it would not be a problem to come on and take his shower.

I told him when he got out that he smelled much better. He said yea well I had to use your stuff, which is that olay cream ribbons. I said why. He told me there was no soap in my shower. I said there is soap in there. I knew there was because I had natural homemade soap in the shower. He said yea there is soap, but it has bugs in it!!! LOL! It has peices of lavender flower in it. I thought I was going to die laughing!

Hello all

2008-02-08T11:52:00.000-08:00

It is a fairly warm day here. I had to go out this morning for my dear hubby. He needed some tools to fix my van. We started to work on it last night, but we could not find any tools that we needed, so needless to say, we were both pretty upset. I took a hot bath and he went in the bedroom and played on the Xbox. Later on we watched a movie and just chilled out. I think that I am going to make some italian sausages tonight for supper, it sounds good, but I will prolly end up with a migrane. Processes meats seem to trigger mine. I went out today and got me some new good smellys. I got a four pack of Brittany Spears perfume. She may be messed up, but she has some good smelling perfume. Now I can smell all pretty for my man! I have been trying to clean house today, but it isnt working to well. We have building materials laying every where from where we are getting ready to start building on and remodeling. I hope everyone is doing ok. I think I am going to go visit now!

It says 'Coffee'

2008-02-06T12:19:00.000-08:00

Today my friend Alisha and I went out to get coal in a small town near here because Dan and I are out and we don't want to freeze to death tonight. On the way home we stopped at a little store called Silver Dollar. My kitchen is done in a coffee theme. We saw this huge coffee cup setting in the window, one much to large to drink out of, it was just for looks. I asked the lady in the store how much the cup was and she says 'oh the stuff in the window is just to display' I was fine with that and then she goes and gets it and says 'I may be able to sell it to you for 14.99' WAY OUT OF MY PRICE RANGE for a coffee cup. I polietly told her no thank you and she held the cup and kept looking at me saying, "but it is a mug that says coffee." I told her that I wasn't interested and she lowered the price to 12.99. Still no way for a cup. Again, but it is rare. It says coffee on it. She ended up coming down to 9.99 and still did not get it, but the point is, she kept telling us that the cup had the word coffee printed on it. I do not understand why and we did get a good laugh after we left there. I do not know if she thought that we couldn't see it said coffee or if she was only trying to sell us the cup, which she couldn't sell in the first place, because it was a display. She acted like it was such a atrange thing that a cup would have the word coffee on it. I don't know, maybe you just had to be there to get the true humor of it all.
Emily and baby Lily are doing good! I called Emily today and she was feeding the baby and I could hear her eating in the back ground, she sounded so sweet. By the way, I still haven't seen her. Her name is Lilly Beth and she weighs 8lbs 10 1/2 oz, and was 20.5 inches long. She is a big girl!
Well guess I better go cook supper! Talk to you all later!

feeling a little bit better

2008-02-04T15:01:00.000-08:00

Well I am feeling a little better now. I have a lot of news to share with you. Wendsday we got all of our w2s in the mail and filed our taxes!! Woohoo! money money money... Daniel got me a new computer!

I got Mary's package in the mail. Are you ready for some pictures???

This is me and my box, I took it myself, I was the only one home.

Now do you want to see what is inside????

Here is everything that was in the box.

There was also a very beautiful card in there that Mary made. Thank you so much Mary! It made my day!

That evening, we went to my parents house. They asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I had told them just to get Grayson a cake and chips and dip for his birthday becaue we did not have any money at all to get him anything and they agreed to that. They would not do anything for my birthday, just for his. Yeah right. When we got there, I had a whole slew of suprises for me. My dad had got me a huge sketch book and an art set!! I was so happy. That's not all though.

This is my cake that I got.

This is how I eat my cake and ice cream.

Here is me when I thought that my brother blacked my face, as you can see I was mad!

Friday I went to the hospital. Emily was enduced. Here is the new baby.

I am still alive and kicking (barely)

2008-02-04T04:53:00.000-08:00

I am still alive and kicking. I feel very horrible. I am going to have to go lay down now. I had a virus yesterday and was throwing up and diahrea all day long. I couldn't eat or drink anything. I thought I was ok this morning and I was going to do a really good post to catch you all up on everything. I have lots of news, but I think it is going to have to wait until later on today. I am so sorry. I wish I could write more right now, but I think I may fall over any second. Talk to you all later.

From Jennifer

2008-01-29T18:23:00.000-08:00

This is from Jennifer over at dust bunny hostage! She gave me a bunch of cakes she had made and told me to choose my cake, take off the name and replace it with mine! What fun, I had a ball. You all should go on over to Jennifer's page and look at her beautiful cakes!

Thank you Jennifer!

I feel so speacial today!

2008-01-29T09:34:00.000-08:00

I received another card from my friend Mary over at Mary's Writing Nook! Here it is, isn't it pretty!

I also received the blog blessing award from Mary.

I am supposed to pick three friends to pass the award on to. All my friends are a blessing to me and I enjoy all of their blogs. But, since I can only leave it for 3, here goes. Sarah at a bend in the road, Hope at second time around,and Jennifer at dust bunny hostage. Thanks to everyone for such a special day!

from my friend Karen!

2008-01-29T07:01:00.001-08:00

This is from Karen H. Isn't it pretty. She is such a sweet woman. THANK YOU KAREN

Giveaways Giveaways Giveaways!

2008-01-29T05:02:00.000-08:00

This must be the week of giveaways! I have found a lot of them and I want to share them all with my bloggy buddies.
The first one is at The 2 Sisters Blog. Karen H. has this link on her page and I will paste it here as well. Go over and leave them a comment, then tell about their giveaway on your page. Its that easy.
Next there is one going on at Pea's Corner. The dead line is Jan. 31. Better make it snappy!
There is also a blog carnival going on. Here is a link that will take you to all of those giveaways, if you enter and win the Starbucks giveaway, rem. me LOL! That is my fav. place! There is anything and everything being given away on here!
Good luck and have a blast!!!!

P.S. Let me know if you win anything!

hello all

2008-01-28T19:39:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have the most delicous apple cake recipe on my other blog, Doing It Southrn Style in the Kitchen.

A week of SURPRISES

2008-01-28T10:56:00.000-08:00

This past week has been full of excitement! Monday was my dear sweet hubby's 30th birthday. It was also his first day of his brand new job, which is great because it is straight days. He had to go talk to the HR man and he found out that he is making .50 more than what we originally thought he would be!

All week long the boys were either on snow delays or being dismissed early or no school at all, so I got some extra time to spend with them to!
Friday my mom was off from work, so we went to awards day at the school and then we went out to see Untraceable! She treated me to the movie and to lunch, kinda an early birthday present! We had a wonderful day!

Saturday was my little red's 7th birthday! My father in law, aka guy (click here for more details) came in from North Carolina with his friend Gene. Daniel had to work, so I got everything done, took my shower and gave myself a hair cut, looks really pretty to! We thought that Daniel was going to have to work until 2:30, but got off at 12, which was great! He made it home before everyone got here. I had my father-in-law stop and pick up Grayson's cake.

He surprised me with a cake of my own. It was chocolate, I like white. I was very thankful anyway because it was such a sweet sentiment.

It was beautiful as you can see, until I set it on the stove...

My father in law just fussed, not mad really just playing with me. The party was going great until time to serve the food... yep you guessed it, it was my cake again. I was getting some one's plate ready and knocked my cake off the table. My father in law wasn't in the room and the cake landed in chair. SAVED, not. I slowly tilted the chair forward to rescue my cake, hoping that it would go right back in the plate. Half of it did the other half went on the floor and smushed, the beautiful roses. We joked about this all evening and I told him that I had already told him I like white cake not chocolate. LOL we had a very nice time.

Then came present time. I had told Grayson that all I was going to get him was bugs for his birthday. The poor baby even had a nightmare about spiders. It made me feel bad. Here is a picture of him with his real present we got for him.

As you can see it is a remote control spider! He liked it though!

I think everyone knows that I won Mary's giveaway. Well that tickled me pink. I got another email yesterday saying that I had one another giveaway to JCNaturals. It is really cool, you should go check it out!

I have had a really blessed week. We also had a wonderful church service yesterday and I have been looking for someone to sing with me, I don't like singing by myself. During church, I asked my soon to be sissy in law

if she sings. Turns out she does and wants to start singing with me at church. Woohoo! Praise the Lord for all my blessings this week.

P.S. My birthday is Wednesday, Jan. 30th. I will be a big 29!

Karen got me LOL Im it!!

2008-01-24T06:51:00.000-08:00

I was tagged by Karen. Its a challenge and I am always up for one of those!! After you get finished here, hop on over to her site and check it out! She's a sweety. Well here we go!

4 jobs I have had
1. cashier
2. insurance agent
3. assistant supervisor of a call center
4. waitress

4 movies watched over and over
1. Nightmare before Christmas
2. Pirates of the Caribbean
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Finding Nemo

4 places i have lived
1. Duffield, VA
2. Gate City VA
3. Egg Harbor Township, NJ
4. Kingsport, TN

4 shows I watch
1. Ghost hunters
2. Paranormal state
3. Home Improvements
4. King of Queens

4 Places I have been
1. Gatlingburg, TN
2. Atlanta, GA
3. Harrisburg, PA
4. Sunset beach, NJ (my fav)

4 people who email me regularly
1. Hope
2. Mary
3. My dad
4. Charlotte

4 favorite things to eat
1. Pot roast with veggies cooked in with it
2. Crouton Salad (LOL Hope knows what this is)
3. Birthday cake with Butter Pecan ice cream mashed up together
4. macaroni salad

4 places I would rather be
1. Sunset beach, NJ
2. At my mother in laws in NJ
3. Ireland
4. Paris

4 things I look forward to this year
1. basketball season for the boys
2. my birthday
3. Hope cookin me some yummy food (hint hint)
4. Halloween

4 people to tag
1. Hope
2. Sarah
3. Renie
4. Jennifer

I hope you girls play along! I had fun and I look forward to reading all about you!

The differences between mommy and daddy

2008-01-24T06:02:00.000-08:00

As all mothers know, there is a major difference in the way that moms and dads care for children. For example, when I was little my mom worked days and my dad worked worked second shift. We would always go eat lunch with mommy and I can still remember my mother griping about how she knew dad had let me dress myself that day. I would go without brushing my hair, my clothes inside out and my shoes on the wrong feet. My husband isn't quiet this bad. He does make sure shoes are on right and clothes are not inside out, but matching, I don't that it is in a man's blood to match things very well. Grayson, or as we call him, mooch, would pick out his own clothes, all mismatched and sometimes stained to go to school and dad would let him go on. I try to make sure that they match and are not stained. I remember those kids in school who came in with their hair still in the beautiful bedhead style and clothes stained or ripped (my kids do wear holey jeans but by their own choice because the think it looks cool. Anyway you get the idea.
Last night we were watching ghost hunters and my seven year old stumbled into the room. If you are not familiar with the show, they use scientific research to try to disprove or debunk the presence of ghosts. Usually on the show there is not a lot going on, but last night they did catch some rather disturbing video clips that creeped me out. My son went on to bed.
Later he was crying because he had a nightmare. Daniel went into his room. Mooch told him that he had a bad dream because of that show. I would have said its just a show babe, go back to sleep, even though it did kinda scare me to. But did dad say that? Oh but not, he says why are you scared? They are just ghosts.
I was like OMGosh. I can not believe he said that to that poor little fella. It must have satisfied Grayson though, because he went right on back to sleep and slept all night long.

Carmel Pie

2008-01-23T14:30:00.000-08:00

In honor of National pie day, I will share a very easy pie recipe.

1 can eagle brand cream
1 graham cracker pie crust
1 tub cool whip

Remove the label from the can of cream. Put the WHOLE CAN of cream can and all, in a large pot of water. Boil can of cream for three hours. Allow can of cream to cool for about an hour. Open can of cream, which will be carmel now and pour it into the crust. Top with cool whip and now you have a lovely carmel pie.

This is for Karen

2008-01-23T10:24:00.000-08:00

I have been tagged by Hopie!

2008-01-22T04:32:00.000-08:00

I have been tagged to do seven weird or random facts about me. So here goes lets see what all I can come up with...

1. I am a Christian and I go to Durhams Chapel church. I have went there my whole life and until I grew up, I thought that all of the people who went there didn't really care about me, and didn't like me so much. I have learned that my church family is very important to me and I love each one of them very much and they all have a special place in my heart as I am sure I do in theirs. It is nice to know that you can call someone night or day and they will be there by your side.

2. I assist with the children's choir at church and love to sing.

3. I have a very faint birth mark on my lip and the only time it is visible is if my lips are dry. How weird is that?

4. I am going to be 29 years old on January 30th. I feel so old.

5. I went into labor with my first child when I was only four months pregnant. I was dilated to two when I got to the hospital. They were able to stop it, and I stayed at two for the rest of the time i was pregnant.

6. My belly is growling. I need food, but the grocery store is closed.

7. I was dog bit when I was three. It lacked a quarter of an inch getting my jugular vein. God must have been really watching over me that day because that was really close.

I don't have seven people who haven't been tagged so I am going to tag Salena and Draven. So guys post seven things that are either random or weird about you. Love you both.

Good news

2008-01-20T17:07:00.000-08:00

Daniel finally starts his new job tomorrow. I am so excited! It is a day job. He will be leaving not long before the kids do and getting home not to long after they get home. I can not wait. I have felt like my life has been turned up side down since he has been working at the mattress factory. I have not had any time alone at all, which is good i had my time with him during the day and the kids at night, but where is the family time? The only day we had together was on Sunday. Now we will have the whole evening to be together, plus I will have some time to clean my house. Tomorrow I have a hot date... with the vacuum cleaner! lol.
Well I am outta here for now I will write more tomorrow.

Snow

2008-01-17T18:45:00.000-08:00

We had snow here today! It has been a very long time since we have had enough snow to amount to anything. We actually had about three inches, it was so pretty. The kids built a snowman.

As you can see, under the snow I have a muddy nasty mess.

The yellow house is my mom and dads house. This is the the view from my yard.

Breath taking isn't it. After I watched the kids play in the snow for a bit

it was back to cleaning! When we moved into this house, we had all of our things, plus most of my mother-in-laws things. Since we moved into my grandmothers house, we had all of her furniture, clothes, trinkets, dishes you name it. The house is not small, a four bedroom, but with all these things and only two closets, all I can say is AHHH! The initial move in was a nightmare. We went through everything, and kept most, things stuffed everywhere because I did not know what to do with my grandparents belongings and my mother did not want me to get rid of to much. Some went in the small attic and most of the rest in the closet in my sons room (which is just a closet under the stairs, which also contained a salt purifier). Today I went through the closet under the stairs. I found some of our things in there and just threw them away. We have city water now, so we got rid of the purifier. My son now has room to put his things and is very happy. It was an all day job though and I am very glad it is finished. Next stop, under my bed. So in conclusion,

Work work work

2008-01-16T18:23:00.000-08:00

You know what they say all work and no play makes jack a dull boy, well that is what has happened to me. Cleaning house, and running errands. Thanks to Karen for asking about me, I am fine. I have just been really busy. Daniel still hasn't started his new job which is really frustrating. The place that he works at right now is a really bad environment. There is a lot of drugs and a lot of hootchies there. I trust him though and know that he isn't doing anything. I just hate for him to be in that kind of place and I know he gets frustrated with it to. He is waiting for the other company to get his drug test back and the company that they use to do them is running a couple of days behind, but he should start soon. Well I have a little more work to do, but I will be back soon!

My other blog site

2008-01-12T19:23:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone. I started another blog called Doing it Southern Style in the Kitchen. It is a site of some of my favorite recipes and it is still under construction but hop on over and check it out if you would like!

hello all

2008-01-11T19:56:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone is doing well! I am doing good. I went shopping with my mom and have a new pirates of the Caribbean shirt now ARRRGGGG! I'm a pirate (sorry silly sleepiness coming out). Anyway back to the reason I am writing this blog. I have a new blog site for all to check out it is under my new found friends. Go to country girl at the beach. This is my mother in laws page. She is a very fascinating person and I think you all will like her, please go over to her page and check her out. I hope you will make her feel as welcome as you have me!

So Excited!

2008-01-10T16:52:00.000-08:00

I spoke with my friend Emily tonight, the one who expecting. She had a doctor appointment today. It is not going to be long at all until Lilly arrives! She is dilated to three and 50% effaced. I told her she better call me so when it is time she is going to call on her way to the hospital and then after she finds out what is going on. That should give me plenty of time to get ready so I can take off and be there in time for the little ones arrival! I am so excited. I cant wait!

Wish I were sleeping

2008-01-10T06:25:00.000-08:00

Oh what a wonderful day to sleep! It is raining outside and it sounds so pretty on out tin roof. The kids are at school and Dan is in the bed. Its so peaceful. Its also kinda chilly in here which makes me want to just snuggle right down under the covers as far as I can go without my feet hanging out the bottom!

Unfortunately sleep does not come easy around here. I am so tired but I have already tried to lay back down this morning, got all warm and what do you think happens? Well, if you guess the phone rang, then you are right! It was my dear little Kirkland.

This morning before school his zipper got stuck and would not zip all the way up. Well apparently, his zipper busted out. His shirt barely covered it and he is a very conservative little boy. For the second time today, the first because we missed the bus, I had to venture out into the rain to take him some pants. When I got to the school, I could see him through the window on the door. He had this look on his face of pure worry, it was almost as if he was thinking 'oh no, i just know everyone can see my drawers'. He looked pitiful. When he saw me with his pants his little face just lit up. Once again Mighty Mom has saved the day.
One day I will have to tell you all about Mighty Mom and Dino Dad, that will be a whole different blog!

For Karen

2008-01-10T06:18:00.000-08:00

Here is an award I thought that you just had to have! I thought about this last night as I was falling asleep! Hope you like it!

update on science project!!

2008-01-09T16:53:00.000-08:00

WE GOT A 98!!!! WOOHOOO!

Kids

2008-01-08T07:51:00.001-08:00

Being a mother is great! I love it but i must admit it has its moments. Last night was one of those moments. My son, my dear sweet Draven, who usually has a good head on his shoulders let some little bitty something slip his mind and did not tell me until last night about five.

He informed me that he had a science project due today and he told his teacher it was electricity. I hate science and my husband works second shift at the moment. My husband like science and he is an ELECTRICIAN. He know all these things and was off all weekend long. It would have been the perfect time to work on his project.
The local hardware store closes at five. I had no way to get all these things he needed. In a panic, I went to my dear friend Mr. Internet. We found a project that only called for simple ingredients that I could purchase at the dollar store. It was a device involving a styrofoam plate, Styrofoam cup, string, aluminum foil, tape, clay and a metal pie pan. Oh and balloons, I forgot about those. I went to the store and got the materials he would need.
We worked on the project for a while. First we had to attach the cup to the pan (which did have a crust in it that I had to crumble out of the pan) with clay. The dollar store did not have molding clay, so I bought silly putty and play dough, not very good gluing agents. We ended up gluing the up on. That was the first glitch.
We finally finished it and it was time to test out the meter. Guess what, it did not work. I was frustrated, he was frustrated, and it was getting late. He accidentally discovered that the little aluminum ball attached to this ugly little contraption would cling to his balloon if he rubbed it in his hair. I was almost like a magnet.
Well back to Mr. Internet. We in the end did not need anything but the balloon, the ball of aluminum foil and the string. We proved that opposites attract in electricity and how.
I was so glad it worked out for him. Even though he can be a pain in the patoot, I did not want to see him fail the project.

To my new friends!

2008-01-07T20:56:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to let you know that I am thinking about you all.

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FOR HOPE

2008-01-07T19:52:00.000-08:00

Hi aunt Hopie! I am positive you can find the humor in my unique way of saying thank you for being my friend!

Time with mommy

2008-01-07T19:13:00.000-08:00

My next two posts are about me and my mom. We are very close and very good friends. I don't get to see her very much but I got to spend some time with her on Saturday. We went to my best friend Emily's baby shower. That's her in the picture below. (There is two here, in the second she is 'trying on baby clothes'.)

We were outside and there were some pretty little horses playing on the hill side. They would run up the hill and down the hill. They tripped over their hooves and skidded down the hill on their bottoms. It was quiet a comical sight.

After Emily's shower, we went for a ride through the country side. It was very beautiful. We saw rivers and ponds partially frozen. One place that we stopped at had leaves frozen under the ice, maybe four or five inches down.

We had a wonderful and I wish that we could have more like that, but with her busy schedule, it is almost impossible. I try to Cherish all the time I get with her.

Feeling silly

2008-01-07T19:07:00.000-08:00

Warning! This is a very silly post...This morning my mommy and I had some time to ourselves. My dad went to work. My mom did not have to go in until 11. Daniel works until 2am so he was in the bed. I woke up this morning in an unusually good mood (I am Mr. Grumpy Gills in the morning LOL). We decided to go get some breakfast at McDonald's and on the way home I was thinking. Now for me, thinking while in a silly mood is not a very good thing. The whole time I was pondering lost in thought, mom was driving. It was very quiet and out of no where, I looked over at my mom and said, 'Hey what if you had to sing everything that you said? Can you imagine this. I mean really just think about it for a minute.' (I am sure all who are reading this think I have gone mad, my friends madness makes us great, makes us unique, keeping reading and think about the things that I am saying here. It really is amusing if you think about it.) Now imagine if you go into the bathroom after shopping and you are in a rush. You leave the toilet paper in the kitchen by the table and half way through, you realize you are out. Oh no! But to make things worse you can't talk, only sing.
"Oh no, my dear, I fear I have no tissue in here. It is in the floor beside the kitchen table, can you please be a deer and bring it in here" If you have ever watched a musical you have to admit that this would be a pretty funny situation that you have found yourself in.
I had my poor ol' mommy rollin by now. Things calmed down and we ate our breakfast and the whole time, she must have been thinking about this little conversation we had. She turns to me and says, "How would scold your kids?" We both cracked up and had to play the silly little game for just a little while longer.
I hope that you have all gotten some humor out of this. I still think it is very funny. If you didn't find it humorous, I am very sorry, maybe it was one of those I guess you had to be there kinda things.

improving on God given talent

2008-01-06T19:06:00.000-08:00

I have some exciting news to share with you all today. First let me start by sharing some information that not many people know about. I love to draw in my 'spare' time (that is not very often, trust me). I have been drawing for about six, maybe seven years. I also love to write children's books and poems. I have not been published yet because I am very scared of rejection.
With all that being said, let me share my news. Yesterday, I received a call from a man about an art school. Normally, I would ignore this type of call, but I was out at the time and my husband, Daniel answered. The man asked Daniel if I liked to draw and of course he told him I did and then proceeded to tell the man how talented I am. (I do not think I am that good). Daniel told him what time I would be home and of course he called me back. I agreed to let him come here and talk with me and look at my work.
He came and must have really liked what he saw. He told me that I had a lot of artistic ability and that this course would improve on my talents that I naturally have. I enrolled in the class, which I will get 24 college credits for and hopefully find the confidence in myself that everyone else has in me.
My father in law has tried for many years to get me in this same course, so naturally he was tickled pink with the news. I am very thankful for the love and support I get from my family and friends.
I am so excited and so nervous at the same time. I hope everything goes well with this and I can become a very good artist. In time I want to illustrate and publish my very first children's book. We shall see, I suppose.

New to blogging

2008-01-04T20:50:00.000-08:00

My name is Brandy and I am a stay at home mom of three beautiful boys. I love my family more than anything else in this world. My oldest child is Draven and he is 12 years old. My middle child is Kirkland and he is 9. Grayson is almost 7. I am married to a wonderful man named Daniel. We where child hood sweethearts, married at 16. I love him now more than I loved him then. It will be 13 years in March.

This is just my place to get my thoughts together and wind down after a long day of kids screaming and fighting like a ll brothers do. I am sure that not all blogs will be pleasant, but like i said this is just a place for me to wind down a bit and chill out.

I look forward to any comments that you may have.