SNOW

here are some pictures my mom took at her house. JC is doing an extra credit report for school so the pictures are of just him but they are good.




The first picture is of JC getting the snowmobile stuck. The young man shoveling snow is my nephew Jeff. JC is showing how high the snow was the day after the boys arrived. Of course they did get more snow.

OF course they did not want to come home but oh well. Of course 5 minutes after my mom left all three males of this house were arguing with each other....calgon....I need a vacation.

Let's try again.

I did it. This is Christopher kicking his all at one of many football games this season. I am so excited I did it. The boys' are bringing home a CD full of pictures my mom took of them in the snow. So I will post them when I get them on Saturday.

Some sad news....Brandi who is the daughter of Suzanne that I used to work with was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer right before Thanksgiving. She had her first radiation treatment today. My thoughts go out to both of them. Breast cancer runs in their family. Brandi is young..just 30..married with a 5 year old son.

Chow for now!!!

IT snowed

well we awoke to snow at 4:45 this morning. Gracie was climbing all over us in bed so I thought I better get up to see what she wanted and instantly went back into the bedroom and told Joe to get his butt out of bed...he needed to get an early start to work. It is sure pretty but doesn't compare to the snow at my mom's.

Ok I am trying to add a picture to this blog. It's a great shot of Christopher kicking the football in one of his games but I am not figuring out how to do this. Guess I will have to investigate further.

It's over

Thank goodness Christmas is over. Wasn't really in the mood for x-mas and this morning was a mess as everything good I tried to do didn't work. JC's brakes need to be adjusted on his bike, I ran out of batteries for their remote controlled quad's and we couldn't get JC's hot wheel toy to work right. So...I decided next year to just give the kids money and let them buy their own damn presents and maybe then they would be happy.

On a positive note....I got my car. It's a 2003 yellow Chevy Tracker 4 door. It is small compared to my van. We are going to sell Joe's car and keep the van. After my mom left with the boys, I took it to get it washed and vacuumed it all out. It needs floor mats as it doesn't have any but I will have to wait a week until Joe gets paid. This is the car John bought a few weeks before he passed away and my mom told me if I got enrolled in school I could have it so I have reliable transportation to school.

I'm off to do laundry...since mine never gets done.

I think I can blog now

I had some pretty hurt feelings over this power outage and I have needed time to process them. It was hurtful to me to know people who had power did not offer my family a place to stay warm or a place to have a hot meal knowing we are short on money. Then another slap was that my family was not allowed in a home unless the owner was there and they are family. It hurt to know these people did not care enough for my children to help me keep them warm and safe. Hello...we were without power for almost 5 DAYS. My friends who didn't have power were more willing to help us than the ones who had power the whole time except for Lisa but there wasn't much she could do because she lives in Arkansas. But her mom had power before us and she was going to have them help us but about the same time, Tiffany got power so the boys pretty muched lived over there until we got power. I know this may sound petty to some of you but until you are in the situation, you don't understand. When your house is between 30-40 degree's on the inside then you will understand what we went thru.

I would open my house to anyone who needed it normally but after this experience I know who I can count on and who I can't. I have truly never been hurt this deeply. It really cut out a part of my heart and hardened it. But I am determined to not let it get me down anymore. I am starting a new chapter in my life soon and my family is what is important right now. We will get thru the sparse holidays with love!

Now I feel better. I have gotten that off my chest. My mom got a much bigger ear full and there were lots of tears shed on the Saturday Night when we didn't have power but I managed to not shed a tear while typing this so I think I have procesed me feelings pretty good.

That's all for now~

December 18th

Well...we finally got power at 4:30 this afternoon. I will post more later on all our adventures!

cannot see the yard much

well with all the rain we have had this morning (it's only 11:30ish) the yard is pretty flooded and now we wait for the winds. GREAT!!!!

Christopher is home today because the winds yesterday blew the transformer at his school and they still had limited power, no heat and no running water this morning. They told me to watch the news and check the school district web site for updates because he may miss tomorrow too. Good gravy...when am I suppose to wrap presents????? Not they are many to wrap but he doesn't need to see the ones I do need to wrap.

That is all for now....let ya know how things are going as they go.

One storm down....

well we managed to get thru the storm today and hopefully we'll get thru tomorrow nights storm without losing power. Poor Tiffany and them lost power most of today but that was good for me because I got to spend the first part of the day with Anthony.

I managed to get the house decorated and the tree up. I got our picture christmas cards printed today. They turned out pretty good. I may try to wrap some presents next week. I have to do it on a day I don't have any kids running around.

We found out we are adding another member to our family. Joe's brother Mike and his wife are having a baby. Kinda shocking but they are really happy so that is all that matters.

Hope everyone has a great week.

Maybe I am ready.....

I think I am ready to decorate the house for the holidays. Today was JC's last football game but since he got in trouble at school on Thursday, he was unable to play. Of course it rained! Nothing new there.

Plan for tomorrow is to finish cleaning what I don't get done tonight and then bring in all the decorations and the tree then Joe gets to put the lights on the house. Hopefully I feel as motivated tomorrow as I do right now.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Why do I bother....

I spent most of yesterday cleaning the house to wake this morning to find that you cannot find the kitchen table again. It was totally cleaned off when the 3 males of this house came home. Same with the kitchen. Dishes are now piled high in the sink and none of them are mine. Some days I don't know why I bother but then when I go on strike someone will show up without calling and I am totally humiliated that my house looks so bad.

I finally slept last night but I think stress over lack of money has kicked in because now that is all I want to do...I hate the holiday season because we never have the enough money. It doesn't help that our house insurance is due on the 10th. Granted we only pay 1/3 this month but it takes a bite out of Joe's check and our power bill doubled. I love the snow but have the winter because our house sucks!!!!

Gosh...anyone who reads this is going to say there are bigger things in life to stress about and never want to come back here to read my blog...sorry...just need to have my own pitty party. I have friends going thru much worse right now in their lives... I should be grateful mine isn't really all that bad. My friend Lisa...her roof is leaking all over the inside of her house and I could not imagine going thru that. My friend Deena is having some family problems ...her step dad is dying and she has some other problems too....see mine are nothing compared to these. But they are my problems and they stress me out just the same.

I am going to try to have a positive outlook on today and get busy cleaning once again. Chow!

It's over

Well the weekend is finally over. It seemed to be long! Probably because we had to be at football at 8:30 Saturday morning. Both boys' won their games. They played great. Christopher is getting off some great kicks! Watch out NFL..we are counting on him to buy us a new house some day. :)

I am pretty much done x-mas shopping. I just have to finish paying off the boys' lay-a-way and I should be done. It will be a small x-mas. Not many gifts but it's the thought that counts...right???

I am hoping to get a good nights sleep tonight. I have not slept too well since I registered for school. I think I am just so nervous and worried that I won't succeed. But I am determined to get the best grades I can and get a good job. I am going to concentrate on getting the house clean and getting the house decorated for x-mas and then get ready for school.

Chow for now!