drama

my girl is crying. sitting on the floor crying her little eyes out. inconsolable. i tried. it is breaking my heart too. i hate to see my kids unhappy... for any reason.
why is she crying like someone stole her favorite toy, told her Santa isn't real or broke her heart? why? well because she can't go to the doctors today to get a shot. she has to wait till tomorrow.

yes. yes I am VERY serious! this is why she is heart broken and she is crying terribly. i tried to tell her that she is going tomorrow and that it will be here before she knows it... but that didn't help. she almost got more angry when i told her that they were all going to get shots tomorrow. SHE only wants to go get a shot... not everyone. I tried to tell her that she will get to go next Tuesday as well, but again, it didn't help.

I'm guessing this is just the beginning of a lot of crying, upset and heart break with having two girls. I'm hoping that one day they will be at least a little bit easier to talk to and reason with. at three it seems that NOTHING is easy with them.

who ever it was that said, when having twins it gets easier... they left out some major information... it gets a LOT harder before it gets ANY easier. but another twin and mommy mantra that i love is: this too shall pass. thank God it is pretty true... it just sucks like hell when the passing takes a LLLLOOONNNGGGG time... like a year (for them to turn 4).

wish me luck and LOTS of patients... i think today is going to be a rocky day. ;)

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i'm out of clever titles these days. just in case you didn't notice. lol

well, good news. Trevor seems to be feeling better. he hasn't thrown up again... thankfully and he even managed to eat some breakfast... which he has kept down for about 30 minutes. AND he wanted to eat... i didn't force him or even suggest it really. so those are all good things. i really hope he keeps it down and continues to feel better all day. :)

it is flurrying here. yuck. although i'm not too happy about it... it is quite pretty out. the kids and i are going to get ready and leave in a little bit to get some groceries. i hope it doesn't decide to snow more and make the roads a mess while we are out. i don't mind driving in snow at all, but now that i have three kids with me it is a little bit different and with moving to the new house... the roads are curvy and woodsie, no lines on them, and they get plowed absolute last. so i worry some.

we'll just take it easy and take our time driving and it should be fine.

Worth Noting

~ The wind is blowing and the rain is coming down. It is only hovering around 40 degrees... not what you would call paradise.

~ Inside though the fireplace is on and if you listen closely you can hear little girls talking softly to their toys and the tv. It is a great day!

~ Lauren is the play room playing with some of her dolls, brushing their hair and talking to them, and she also built a really cool Mr. Potato Head guy that I over heard her walking to school. :)

~ Brooke is in the living room watching tv and building a very long train of blocks and talking in Chinese with Kai-lan... which is utterly amazing to me.

~ And while my lil' princesses are playing peacefully I am getting to clean and organize in Trevor's room finally! So today is going really well. I'm hoping to be able to get something NOTICEABLE done today! :)

~ That's all from us for now...

Things to Remember...

Brooke & Lauren love to refer to each other as "my sister" when talking to anyone, except each other.

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Trevor doesn't care if I go to the store with out him, while he is in school, because he knows I'm really busy and have to things without him sometimes. (his words) AND if I bring him home Skittles. :)

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Trevor ~ "Kids at school and in my class don't all dress fancy, they just dress the best they can."

Mommy ~ "What makes you say that honey?"

Trevor ~ "Because I have a lot of clothes and some of the kids in my class don't. But that is okay.

Hey, maybe I can give them some of my clothes."

Mommy ~"That is so nice of you. You are such a good boy to want to share what you have with

your friends."

Trevor ~ "oh. they aren't my friends. they are only in my class so I have to talk to everyone."

Mommy ~ "oh. okay." :)

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Lauren ~ "mommy when are you getting your voice back?"

Mommy ~ "I'm not sure honey. But I hope soon."

Brooke ~ "well who took your voice?"

Mommy ~ "no one took it honey it is just gone for now."

Lauren ~ "well you shouldn't loose it Mommy."

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While packing the kids are sort of understanding about things going into boxes, "just for now" to go to the new house... but today the girls are asking me when we are going to bring the boxes back home. I'm not sure they totally get the moving thing just yet.

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Trevor thinks we are going to always have two houses. Wouldn't that be nice?? Well, as long as I don't have to keep moving things back and forth and also don't have to clean both. ;)

that is all for now.

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since every day I feel like I'm loosing more and more of my mind and mostly my memory I want to try to post about little things the kids do and say so I won't forget.

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OH!! speaking of that... there is more...

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Lauren has been singing up a storm... and the other day she was singing a song that went like this...

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F U love your mom.

F U love your dad.

F U love your mom and dad.

F U you love your sister.

F U love your brother.

F U love your mom.

F U love your dad.

F U love your mom and dad.

~

and so on.

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at first I wasn't quite sure I was hearing her correctly but she kept singing away and sure enough that is what it was sounding like. Although she was really meaning IF you love.... pretty funny!!

Growin' Up... Potty!

36,000 minutes or
600 hours or
25 days & nights or
3 full weeks!! ~ no matter how you look at it Lauren and Brooke both have been potty trained FULLY since June 15th ! They have NOT worn a pamper one time. Not even for nap or bed time. Although we have had some bed wetting accidents, we are getting past that too. Brooke says it rained in her bed, and is usually really angry to be "soaking wet"!! She refuses to agree that she wet the bed. It is pretty funny to hear her tell you all about how it rained in her bed from her window. :) Lauren didn't start off doing so well at night, but now is becoming a little pro. :) It seems that they are just so tired from long play days and doing a lot of running around that they are just exhausted and then sleep so deeply and soundly that they don't know they are wetting. It's okay. We don't get mad or upset, we just wash more bedding. :)

This morning I was watching tv while everyone was sleeping and I saw a commercial for Luvs... and I thought... "Wow. I don't ever need to buy diapers again." What a revelation. It is amazing for the last 4 3/4 yrs I have had to buy and change diapers. I probably have bought them for a lot longer than that b/c I tried to stock up on a bunch while I was pregnant with Trevor.

So it has been almost one MONTH that the girls have been out of diapers. I think it could have been a lot sooner, but I was slightly lazy busy and didn't always try to work with them on potty training.

We haven't had a day time accident in so long... I sometimes forget that they have only been out of diapers for less than a month... but then at the same time I can't believe it has been that long either. So I can now add to my mom record that I have had all three of my children fully potty trained before they were three years old. :) GO ME!! Trevor started in the summer too, but it took us a little bit longer... but I also had two infant babies to take care of as well, and Brooke & Lauren were dreams, I think b/c they had an older sibling to follow.

So that is that... we are potty trained!!

HOLY...

Holy fucking SHIT!!

I'm not sure what to do or say about this...

Since I can't call their dad, he doesn't give a flying shit is busy at work. And, I'm sure that no one else really gives a flying shit either has time to listen to me while they are at work... I thought I'd come here! :)

MY with their fathers bad DNA children are making me totally fucking CRAZY today!! I want to send them far, far, far, far, VERY far, away to boarding school for the REST of their lives SCREAM!!

I'm not exactly sure what the little cranky, whining, pathetic, fighting, arguing, talking back, mess making NON-listening, attitude giving, fit throwing, snotty ass, cry baby little turds angels problems are today, but whatever it is... I hope they get the hell over it soon.

This, by the way, is the longest effing day of my life first day of Trevor's Summer vacation from school. GREAT huh??? ugh!!

I'm off to make medicine cocktails lunch for the beasts children.

toodles

What the???

Really!


What the???


Today I was reading some blogs from my rollin' with the homies!!
(or whatever I have it labeled!lol)

Kellan is new on my list, but we are becoming fast friends! I feel I
have known her FOREVER! She is honest and hilarious and a great
mom!! (go check her out... go ahead, I'll wait.... )

Well today her post is so freakin' funny and so relateable, I'm sure
we all have a story like this one...

That is reason for my post today... my story like hers just happened
this past Saturday...

Bryan had to work, so Heather (hubby's cousin and my BFF) went with
me and the kids to my friends Kathy & Louie's triplet sons' pre-k
graduation! Thank God for Heather! So it was in this school I have
never been in and it was packed... we started off in the auditorium...
then after the ceremony went to the dungeon cafeteria. We were
there for ETERNITY a little while for everyone to chat and take pics
with the teachers and what not. There were lots of kids and people
every where. As we were getting ready to finally leave, some of our
group went towards one door while others were saying we should
leave out the other door.

My kids followed the group going out one door, which was going back
into the school. So I walk over by Lou some others looking for my
children.

I ask... "Where is Trevor?" (since is the one that would think nothing
of going off with whom ever or on his own)

They all point to him. Okay relief.

Then I ask, Heather, where Lauren is... she has her. Okay... good!

Then I notice that Brooke is no where to be seen. I start to panic a
little bit. She is usually glued right to my big fat butt hip. I ask
Heather where she is, I don't wait for an answer, I ask the group
standing before me... Does anyone see Brooke? I am getting really
worried. I have Trevor right in front of me, Heather is holding onto
Lauren...

BUT...

OH. MY. GOD!!

Where is Brooke??

People are leaving, I start to panic more and more... everyone is just
looking at me. I start to look around the room, I am feeling really
stressed and over whelmed... why is everyone just standing there...
I start to think, what if she went outside, what if she is off in the HUGE
school, where the hell could she be?? What if someone took her??
Everyone is still just standing there looking at me... when I finally
realize just where Brooke is...

Brooke is....

right....

in....

my....

arms!!

duh!!

And she wasn't hiding... she was there the whole time.

So, it is official...

I. HAVE. LOST. WHAT. WAS. LEFT. OF. MY. MIND!!!


To console me, after laughing at me, my dear sweet Heather
tells me, Oh. I have done that before with my cell phone... or my
sunglasses.

Oh. thank you. But seriously have you ever done it with a 29 lb
child on your hip???


ugh!

It's been ONE week since you looked at me...

Cocked your head to the side and said "I'm angry"
Five days since you laughed at me saying
"Get that together come back and see me"
Three days since the living room
I realized it's all my fault, but couldn't tell you
Yesterday you'd forgiven me
but it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry

yeah. so it has been ONE week since I posted... sorry I'm a poop. Things have been semi busy here... and then there has also been all the "normal life" stuff that isn't really all that normal when you have three children, a dog, a cat, 4 3/4 sugar gliders, other family members and friends. Ug!

So anyway... where do I begin...

Lets see... Thursday was were I left off...

***** below is all family health info if you want you can read, if you don't you can skip to the next set of ************'s!! Thank you....

Bryan's grandfather not doing well, has super bug and MRSA...

WRONG... he only had MRSA... serious? Yes! Deadly? Could be! Is he doing better?? YES!!! He is doing GREAT... I think Bryan's family has the pesimist bug up their butt.... maybe that is wrong to say/type, but whatever, he is doing better and that is all that matters. He did great with heart surgery... open heart surgery for that matter. Is done with the MRSA thing... and is actually out of the hospital at a rehab facility getting strong enough to go HOME!!!!!! yay!!!

In between all this his heart stopped and they put in a pace maker. The doctors said this may be a possibility after surgery and they didn't seem alarmed and/or concerned really and said the surgery is minor... He did great with it.

Bryan's uncle had neck surgery on Wed. he is recovering well, but still in the hospital because he is having another surgery on Friday.

Bryan's mom has something going on with her eyes and needed to have steriod shots, so she did that... and then while getting everything checked out... they found her heart rate and blood pressure to not be good... heart rate was eratic and bp was high... so she is now in the hospital where Bryan's grandfather was in the ICU and they are monitoring her.

My uncle had to go have a sent done, and it went well, although he had some minor chest pains while doing the procedure, b/c you are awake for it... so they kept him over night in ICU as well but a different hospital and he is on his way home today or possibly already home.

If you didn't follow any of that it is okay... b/c really I'm not sure I got it all either!! ugh!!!

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COS ------->

On Friday we colored a million and one Easter Eggs at my parents house!! And I'm only slightly exaggerating... we colored (I think) 14 doz eggs, I have pics to prove it but not in my computer yet... I'll get to that one of these days... promise!!

Who was there, you would like to know?? Okay... It was my Dad, my nephew Walter, age 3, my niece Julia, age 3, my Mom, my Brooke, age 2 1/2, Ellen, my Lauren, age 2 1/2, myself, my Trevor, age 4 1/2, my nephew Matthew, age 12!! It was like WORK, but it was all worth it in the end!! :)

Then we hung out and did nothing at my parents house for the rest of the day, until about 3 PM or so, then came home and did nap time... boy was I happy about that. :)

Saturday is all a blur to me, but I think it went like this... went to my parents house, Bryan went to play paintball (looser!! I wanted to go too!!), then came home and thoroughly cleaned and organized Trevor's bedroom, then did a few things, got the kids ready, Bryan came home, we went to eat dinner and get some groceries, and Easter stuff, then came home, put away groceries, cleaned up some, got company (Des, Ryan, Jillian, Jerry, Heather and Chris) put the kids to bed, hung out.... um... till 3:30 in the morning. :) But it was all good... we had a nice time and we love 'company' although they aren't really company b/c they are family/really awesome friends...

The Sunday morning, Trevor woke us up at like 8:20 AM or so, that they Easter bunny came and left a whole bunch of stuff... I have pics of this too, but not in my computer yet... I know I'm lame... so sorry.

Hung out did our thing... let the kids eat a crap load of candy... how much is a crap load you ask?? I'm not sure, but I do know that they each ate about a 1lb of candy. lol but really they probably did. :) Gave the kids baths, put them to nap, went to my parents house to work on some stamping projects, came home got everyone ready to go back to my parents house for Easter dinner and of course Easter desert... YUM!! Ate dinner, talked/hung out had a good time, then ate desert... YUMMY... the home again home again jiggity jig!!

Then on Monday I got up got the kids ready, feed them breakfast and off to Liberty we went... took someone some papers/packet I had to give them, and then went to my mom's job to say hi since we were in the neighborhood, then went to McDonald's for lunch and to play on the playground... had THE BEST BEHAVED KIDS at the ENTIRE playground!! SOOOO PROUD. :) Came home, put the girls for naps, and let Trevor go outside with Bryan and Zoe. :) Straightened up and made dinner.

Tuesday, Bryan bowled, my Dad babysat and I went to Stampin' Up thing... came home tired and exhausted but good. Talked to Bryan and went to bed... oh and I totally left out the entire day of Tuesday... I was at my parents house almost all day trying to get things ready for the Stampin' thing... it was okay but the kids were rough on me with getting into everything and whining... maybe that is why I left it all out.

Wednesday... what the hell did I do yesterday, I can't even remember and it was the closest day I am writing about... duh!! I guess we hung out, I got a lot of laundry done and put away, then we went to KFC for dinner, b/c I saw a commercial for it and then was craving it... see the millions of dollars they pump into commercials does work... at least on me. lol came home, and hung out... watched American Idol show, went to bed. ~ oh yeah and some where in there, I played w/ the girls, Bryan and Trevor and Zoe went outside, then I got the girls ready for bed, after picking up their bedroom AGAIN, and I also gave Trevor a shower. :)

And today, well to tell you the truth I'm too tired to even think about posting for what we did today... but it was pretty much NOTHING... and some house work. :)

I want to post a Thursday Thirteen, but just do NOT have it in me right now to do... I might be back later...

peace

Gotta Love Em'!

Yeah... so ya'll remember that lovely post from yesterday?? "The Best". Yeah that's the one where I posted the BEST quote ever!! It was from my little boy! It was sweet and over flowing with pure love for his momma!!



Here it is if you can't remember....

*and here is the BEST quote ever!* I love you always. Every minute. Every day. Every night. Always. I love you to the moon and back, and even when you are being mean yelling. I love you because it is for your own safety.

It touched my heart deep inside, choked me up and made me teary eyed. And, from my comments, it did the same for some of you too. It was so loving, mushy gushy and sweet. :)

Well this morning my lovely little spawn child yelled this lovely sentiment at me, which will be a remembered quote as well, but I'm not sure it will fall into the same category as THE BEST... well here it is and you can judge for yourself where we should place this "quote"

The scene...

Trevor is begging me to stay home from school, I am telling him what an awesome day he will have and that he is going. He is still begging and pleading with me. He got extra time at home because I was driving him in to school. He got to play the Wii and play with a new toy he got, and just hang out before even getting ready for school. Plus today is Movie Day in school, and they are having Shamrock Shakes in his class. :) What kid wouldn't want to go?? Mine!! Duh!! Aren't ya payin' attention at all?? JK Anyway, he wants to take his slippers to wear during the movie, so I pack them up. He wants to take his new digital camera (I'll explain that in another post) so I pack that up too. I say he can take pictures of his St. Patrick's Day party in school today. *here is where the dialog starts...

Mommy: You can take some pictures of your friends and teachers during your party today, while you guys are having Shamrock Shakes and hanging out.

Trevor: Oh yeah. But, um, I'm NOT GOING TO SCHOOL TODAY!!! I told you already, I WANNA STAY HOME!! I want a day off!!! And, plus, I'm TIRED!!!
**all caps are him yelling at me... wonder where he gets that from??**

Mommy: Yes, you are going. And please stop yelling at me. I'm not yelling at you. Am I? I'm talking nice, but if you don't get up off the couch turn off the Wii and get dressed for me, I'm going to start yelling.... please lets go!

Trevor: Well I WANNA YELL BECAUSE I DO NOT WANNA GO TO. SCHOOOOOOOL!! And, you aren't even LISTENING TO ME!!!! I wanna play the Wii and just stay home today!!

Mommy: *turned off the Wii* It is time to get up and get dressed, lets go. I'm loosing my patients and I really don't want to yell this morning, I know you want to stay home to play the Wii, but it will be here when you get home and you can play it then, IF you get ready NOW! Please, lets go.

Trevor: *stomping his feet all the way to the bathroom, with a horrible mean look on his face, pees and comes out to get dressed* GET ME DRESSED! .........(grumbles under breath) please.

Mommy: I'm not sending you to school to be mean, you'll have a good day! You'll have fun. I packed you slippers and your camera... you're all set, and when you get home, if you had a good day in school, you can play the Wii. And, I'm driving you in and I'll pick you up too, so it will be a quicker day for you.

***This is the key "quote" here that will be remembered for a while... ****

Trevor: *still with miserable face on.* I HATE YOU MOMMY! I DON'T WANNA GO TO SCHOOL! YOU AREN'T EVEN A GOOD MOM!!! I WANNA STAY HOME AND YOU WON'T EVEN LET ME!!

Mommy: *broken hearted and a little bit pissed off for the mean words coming from my son's mouth!!* Please stop yelling at me first of all. Second of all, I love you and even though I'm not a good mom, you are still going to school so lets get your shoes and coat on. And, you are my favorite son, so please stop being so mean.

Trevor: *still grumpy, but calming down some* Mommy, Stop saying that! I'm mad at you!!!

I get him and the girls all bundled up and out the door we go.
I buckle them all in, and we are off... no one is really saying much.
We get to the school...

Mommy: Here we are. Trevor say goodbye to the girls.

Trevor: Bye girls, Trevor will be home soon, he is only going to school. Okay babies? I'll be back soon.

Mommy: *as I take him out of the truck and put his book bag on him* Have a great day. I'll see you in a little bit to pick you up. *we start to walk into the school ~ I only walk him in the door, while the truck is right outside the door, I don't leave the girls in the parking lot or anything, I can see the truck the entire time*

Trevor: *walking right along pretty happy* Alright, I'm going to have a green day!

Mommy: Okay, try your best, and have fun. I'll see you later and then you can show me your pictures that you took today. I love you! *kiss him goodbye*

Trevor: *kisses me back* I love you too Mommy! Have a good day. *walks down hallway like a big boy and goes into classroom*

Gotta love em'! :)

Thursday Thirteen Second Post for Today... check out my other one too! :)

thirteen random things...

because I have no idea what to do my TT about today

and really want to do one just to do it,

but don't feel like coming up with an idea.

1. My house is pretty warm inside today... seems like a while since I was actually REALLY warm in the house. I hope this is a sign that WARMER weather is coming soon!
2. I'm really, very happy about Daylights Savings Time, it makes the days so much longer and brighter and really happier around here and I don't mean to bitch and complain but now I cannot wait for green grass and sunshine all day!!
3. Brooke & Lauren will NOT stay out of the bathroom! They are continually in there **"Washing their hands" which is code for MAKING A MESS & USING UP ALL THE SOAP!!!
4. I have kindergarten registration for Trevor today, which makes it seem a little more real that he will actually be going to kindergarten in the Fall. When did this happen?
5. When I say When did this happen? I really want to know when this happened. I cannot even begin to fathom the idea that my little boy is going to be 5 and go to kindergarten. I honestly feel like I"m making it all up just to have something to talk about, but it is real. wow
6. I have a little over an hour until I have to leave to register Trevor for kindergarten, so I should get up and start getting the girls and myself ready to go.
7. The sun just came out and it looks so nice out, well at least the sunshine does, the barren trees, dead grass and dirty snow looks horribly depressing.
8. Lauren and Brooke are in the living room singing and dancing to Ring Around the Rosie, but all they sing is ashes ashes ashes ashes ashes ashes ashes ashes ashes ashes ashes, we all fall down then they start over again with ashes. Pretty cute!!
9. Trevor took the bus into school this morning, first time this week. He said he had to ride the bus because he knew that Stella (his bus driver) really really missed him a lot.
10. I think I might kidnap Trevor from school after I'm done with my appointment there. Hey, I'll be there already and plus it will save me a trip there later. And most important I'll have my boy home with me. :)
11. Brooke & Lauren both always really want to get into the dog crate, and play, but it is gross in there, although she doesn't mess in there any more and I clean it regularly, it is still a Dog Crate. Gross!!!
12. I actually hung up some clothes on the new bar Bryan made for me in the "closet" in my room today, although it has been up for about 2 weeks. I know I'm on the ball aren't I?
13. I'm actually going to get up from the computer and walk away after I type this last line and hit "Publish Post" and get things ready for us to leave.
    

Getting Organized...

I was conversating with Sandy at Momisodes about the lack of time in the day to get everything done. I'm sure we are not alone in our quest to find more hours to do everything we need and want to do during the day. :) Those that have children and even those that don't know the amount of time you need to devote to other things in life than blogging and your computer. :) It makes it a little hard to do blog 365 and even just regular updated blogging.

I signed up for blog 365, but altered it a little bit to suite me better. I said I would post 365 posts this year on my blog... so far I'm still ahead of the game, even though I did skip about a week of blogging. So this is still a contribution to the blog 365 and it will also keep friends and family and new blogger friends involved in our lives and also give updates on all that is going on... but I'm not chained to the computer either. I know that there will be times when we are away camping, that I won't have access to computer or internet and honestly, I'll look forward to those days of rest and relaxation. I mean really who goes camping to spend the time on the computer? You are supposed to enjoy the fresh air and playing with your children all day long outside and walks/hikes, campfires, eating outdoors and b.b.q-ing.

This might be another idea for some of you too, to post 365 times this year to your blog instead of trying to blog every single day. Some days you may have some extra time, and you want to post about all the updates in your family, friends, work, life whatever is going on and then you may want to post again but with some pictures, or something funny, or maybe even a survey (meme --->sorry Allie). Then you get your fill of 365 posts without the stress of blogging every. single. solitary. day. of. your. life. this year and feel chained to your keyboard. :) Just a thought.

I got up earlier than normal this morning, and it actually felt great! I had slept on the couch last night, STILL COUGHING!!! So I heard something that woke me right up... something actually digging under my house, on the bottom of the living room floor. Great. I know. It is probably a gofer... they always are under our house in the dirt basement. That isn't even the worst part, they have friends... yeah. Isn't that lovely. Wait till I tell you what the "friends" are... they have SKUNK friends, that like to "mark" their territory or mark something... they spray under our house in the dirt basement and damn our whole house stinks to high heaven... this happened about a month ago. Thankfully this morning I only heard digging and there was no skunk smell. I cannot deal with that... it is so strong and so potent that it just kills you... gives me an instant migraine... and I light a million and two candles, literally almost that many, and then I try to air out the house as best I can, although it is hard when it is only 20 degrees out and a wind chill of below zero... but anyway... this is not the point I wanted to make. I got up early this morning only at about 6:40 AM or so... so not too early and not as early as some of you may get up, but earlier than I usually get up, and man I felt great. I got up and started the dryer and then started another load of laundry in the wash, came up stairs, cleaned my bathroom, straightened up my kitchen counter, folded some laundry, picked up toys, made Trevor's lunch and did a bunch of other things. I had to be quiet while accomplishing my tasks b/c everyone was still sleeping, but that is what made it beautiful, before anyone was even up I got to get a bunch of stuff done. I loved it. I think every morning I'm going to get up earlier than everyone else and than I normally do and get some things done. I feel so good still, just getting to check some things off my "To Do List" already makes it a good day. :) And I feel like I have a lot more energy and also time today to do other things. For instance, type on here this morning... the girls are just waking up I hear them talking in their bedroom, and I walked Trevor to the bus, he is off to school I have some "chores" done, so I don't feel guilty sitting here typing away like I'm neglecting anything.

This schedule will work really good come summer time too... or even when the warmer weather comes to this neck of the woods, then I will be able to be up and get most of the house work done so the rest of the day the kids and I can do fun things outside or where ever!!

Who would have ever thought if you need more time in your day to get up earlier... duh?! lol

Seems pretty simple when I put it that way... but really I hadn't thought of it like that until now.

I'll be back in a little bit to do Thursday Thirteen, I know I missed Wordless Wednesday yesterday... but I'll get around to it sometime... I hope.

Toodles...

Before...

Before I do my Wordless Wednesday, which I am going to try to do today, I thought I would post a little something something, since I didn't get to post yesterday.

So lets see what is new?? I'll go through the list of my family.

Bryan. He got news yesterday about the surgery they did on his grandfather on Monday was successful. They had gone in to see if they could get part of the mass that is on his bladder to see what it is. While they were doing that they found something like a flap that keeps covering his bladder when he tries to urinate, which is causing him great difficult to void. The doctor cut as much of the flap off as he safely could, so they are hoping that this helps with his bathroom problem. The other good news is that he did okay during the surgery. He had to be put under, and they were concerned about this. Of course, with anyone that has heart problems there is a greater risk when putting them under anesthesia, but thankfully he did okay. At one point his blood pressure was up, but they got him stabilized and he is now doing great. :) We are still waiting with baited breath to hear word on hear surgery. The blood clot he has in his heart is still there, they have him on blood thinners through intervenes, which we hope help to move this along, but they have to wait until that moves before proceeding with the surgery. Of course, he is antsy and doesn't want to be in the hospital any more. He has been there for almost 2 months now. That is a long time. I know I would be going crazy and want to be home too.
Bryan also bowled last night for a league that he fills in on when they need him, and he did well. He bowled a 230 something and then 180 something two times. I love to go bowling, but when I bowl I'm lucky to reach 100, and that doesn't always happen either. lol

Trevor. Trevor is doing good. He got a day off of school yesterday. I let him play hooky. He had asked, and I knew I was going to be doing a few things and going to town and getting to see my dad so I let him. He was a good boy so it all worked out okay. I know that some people think I'm creating a monster with letting him stay home all the time from school.... BUT in my defense, not that I really feel that I need to make excuses for my choices, BUT I will explain my thinking... He is ONLY in pre-school. Yes this is important to teach him that he cannot just stay home whenever he wants for when he goes to regular school, BUT this is still ONLY pre-school. He has time to understand and learn the difference. Really he is only 4 years old, and it is a full day of school, he gets on the bus at 8:10 AM and then gets off the bus at 3:45 PM or if I pick him up he gets out of school at 3:15 PM or so. Anyway you look at it is a long day for a 4 year old. Plus he is a smart boy, once explained to him that he has to go every day next year, and we can't just take days off because we want to he will get it. I'm sure. And, I won't be so easy to just keep him home. This is the last year, that I can just keep him home with me. The summer will come and go before I know it and then it will be Fall again and time for him to start kindergarten, and then for the next 13 years he will be a slave to school and I will miss my little boy. Okay that is quite dramatic, but really he has his whole life in front of him to go to school, this is the time to play hooky and stay home with mommy! You are only little once!!!
So anyway, that is how I feel about that.
Him and Zoe are still loving each other. The newness has not worn off, and I don't think it will. He is still just as crazy for her as when we first brought her home. He sits with her and he still sings songs to her about her being his best friend. Too cute. A boy and his dog, best of friends. They have been falling asleep together on the couch at nap time and occasionally at bedtime too, and yesterday I found her sleeping in his bed with him during nap time. I got some great pictures. As much as I was hesitant on getting a dog while having three young children, a cat, 4 sugar gliders and a house to take care of, she really isn't that much work, she is a good girl and the love between my boy and her is truly priceless. It was a good choice to get her, and it worked out to be the perfect time too.

Lauren. Lauren is cracking us up left and right. She has been making the best faces all the time. She has always done little looks and moved her eyes in ways that just make you laugh! She is doing it even more. The other night at dinner she was eating well at least making a show like she was eating and looking around the table at everyone with this silly face, and Bryan was telling her to stop fooling around and eat. We all tried to keep a straight face, but she was so funny I couldn't hold it in anymore, I started by covering my mouth with my napkin but then my whole body started shaking, that is when the gig was up. Then Bryan started laughing and Trevor and Brooke joined in. Lauren was quite pleased by her results. :) She is so sweet and funny, I hope she stays this way. I think that although we only have flashes of terrible twos here and there, for the most part they are really not experiencing them, so I'm fearful of when they will hit. I know some say at three or four... but I hope we just pass them by. I'm more into the terrific stages not the terrible ones.

Brooke. Brooke has been cracking us up too lately. She keeps on saying "You Know!" and really I didn't even know I said that until I heard her say it yesterday. It was quite funny. She spilled her bottle of water, only a little bit.
I hear her say: "You Know!" quite mad in fact
and I say: "Brooke what happened?"
and she says: " I pill my water! You Know!" still aggravated by it
and I was cracking up by now... and tried to tell her it was okay we could clean it up, but she had attitude and was so mad that she pilled her water. lol
so I said: "It's okay, mommy will clean it up for you."
and she says: "okay. I pill my water over there." and points me in the direction.
so I cleaned it up and said to her: " Mommy cleaned it all up, please don't pill your water again."
she says: " No I PILL my water!" really annoyed with me!
and I said: "Oh! You SSSpilled your water?"
and she says: "Yeah!" with a big smile! :)
Life as all good with Brooke once we got her water cleaned up. :) I think it is so funny how they try to mimic me and Bryan and even Trevor at times. :) They are talking so much and getting so smart and so big it is unreal. Who knows what she will say today even. I love hearing them play and talk to one another too. It is really great how well they get along. And not even just the girls but all three of them, and sometimes one gets left out, but not usually. I hope they all always enjoy playing with each other and including everyone. I know this won't really happen, but I can hope can't I?

And as for me. Well I have another cold or the same cold but it is shape changer. I have a runny nose one minute and then the next I'm so stuffed up I cannot breath through my nose at all and have to breath through my mouth, which is NOT fun. And I'm still coughing up a lung!! :( I didn't sleep much last night do to my coughing fits, and I had Bryan telling me to take something, but I have tried and nothing helps. I was so exhausted and too lazy to get up out of bed, so he slept on the couch last night... which was okay with me, I didn't really sleep much any way, but I slept better because then I would just cough and not worry every. single. time that I was waking him up or bothering him. Oh well. I'm hoping for nice weather and green grass soon so that I can get fresh air in this house and get rid of all old closed up germs. The daylights saving time is GREAT... I'm in heaven with it... but I would love to now have warm sunny days and green grass, NO snow of course!! I guess that is just the way, we are never happy with what we have. :) BUT, I am going to try to not complain about the heat this summer or the humidity, or anything like that, I've spent all winter wanting warm days and hot sunshine and green grass, I'm going to enjoy every. single. minute of it!! Really. (I'm going to try at least!) lol :)

So that is all that is going on here... well for now. But I have to run. I'm going to drive Trevor to school so that means I have to get everyone ready and get out the door soon. I'll be back to post for WordLESS Wednesday later...

Seeing GREEN!!

I think I've posted about this before on here, when Trevor is in pre-k they have a behavioral chart for all the kids. It has all their names on it and a pocket under each name with three cards in it... a red one, a yellow one, and a green one. They try to encourage good behavior and keeping the cards all on GREEN. So green means that you had a fantastic day... you made all good choices and were a model student. Yellow means that you made some not-so-great choices with your behavior, so you had little bit of a rough day but not too bad. And when on yellow you can make it back to green by having good behavior and making better choices. And then there is red. Red cards are for when you are having a really tough day, and you can't seem to make many good choices. :(

Last year Trevor went to pre-k also, and it was with the same pre-school, he went for a few hours every day, well we didn't always send him, just because he was little, it would have been too much, but he did great there. He loved it and made things and learned things and was GREAT with the other kids and made good choices all the time. :) In his class last year they had happy or sad faces. Happy if you were having a GREAT and happy day and sad face if you weren't have the best day and if you were feeling a little sad or making other people in the class sad with your behavior. Trevor only had a sad face a few times. He did really great. Things were going well, so I never thought this year there would be a big difference in his behavior at pre-school. He started off doing great. He started off being the one of the few that didn't cry and have a fit and knew what to expect with the play stations and how they worked and all that... he was an old pro. Most of the other children in his class hadn't ever been in a pre-school environment.

But, then one day it started to go down hill with the green cards and every day almost he was having red. I would talk to him about it, his dad would talk to him about it... sometimes he would loose other things at home for his behavior in school. I think mostly we were so concerned about it was because we knew he could behave much better than he was and that he had done so well last year, we weren't sure what was going on this year. Then we decided we were just beating ourselves and mostly we were being way too tough on Trevor about it. Yes behaving in school and good behavior in general is very important, but how many times should an almost 4 year old be getting in trouble for the same thing? We were beating a dead horse. It was too much. He didn't make good choices in school, and so he was put on a red card. What more needed to be done?? Nothing. We were taking it too far. And honestly what he was doing in school wasn't anything horrible or really anything that any other almost four year old wouldn't be doing also. As a matter of fact what he was "getting in trouble" for was doing what the other kids were doing. He was running around, and they were all chasing one another and they were making noises when they were supposed to be quiet and they were fooling around and "horsing around" with each other. They were being kids. It wasn't bad. They were just learning which behavior was acceptable and which was not. I was over reacting and over doing it with the behavior "issue" at school. There wasn't one. We gave up caring. If he had a green day, GREAT. If he had a yellow day well that was okay too. And, if he had a red day, we would sometimes ask him what had happened and that would pretty much be the extent of it. Oh well he had a red day, life was still going on and he was still the same perfect little guy to us, he just had an off day. We took it all with a grain of salt. We didn't over analyze it, we didn't over parent it and we didn't talk more about it after it was said.

But, low and behold Trevor figured it all out... he figured out that he can have a great day and still have fun and be praised left and right for his good choices. He has been having green days forever now. Am I proud of him. You bet your bottom dollar I am. But, the truth of the matter is that I'm proud of Trevor no matter what color day he has at school. I'm always going to be proud of him. He is a smart boy, he is funny, caring, loving, sharing, entertaining, joyful, energetic, outgoing, shy, intelligent, giving, handsome, hugging, kissing, story telling, playful and a good son, brother, grandson, nephew, friend and student. He is an EXCELLENT little boy! I love him so much! :) And I did feel this way when he was on red in school all the time too. I will ALWAYS feel this way about him. He is my boy!

So today he is off to school again, he only stayed home on Wednesday this week so it was an almost full week of school. He seems to liking school okay. He still asks me if he can stay home. Like this morning he asked me if he could please stay home with me and the girls. I told him he should go b/c today was Friday, the last day of school for the week. He then said okay and was willing to go. I hope he likes kindergarten next year. This year it was hard for me to try to make him go every day of the week. I wanted him to be home with me as much as he wanted to stay home, maybe even more. But next year, although I'll still want him around, we won't have that choice. He will be off to school, full time. Or we will have to answer to others about his where abouts and I'm almost sure that the school will not care that we just are used to being together every day and really miss each other. We'll have to work on getting adjusted to it. Thank goodness we have the entire summer to work up to go kindergarten. I have a lot of plans for our family this summer. :)

So anyway... that is the update on Trevor. He was going to school today to earn the BIG huge sticker he saw on the sticker sheet while he is teacher was giving out good behavior stickers. :) I'm sure he will be excellent today just like he has been. :)

Last night we went to Chuck E. Cheese with the kids because last time we were there it was too crowded, well it got too crowded minutes after we were there so we ate and left. We had left over tokens, so it didn't cost us anything which was kind of nice. We all had a great time. I have some pictures to post a little later in the day of our trip there. It was fun. We also went out to eat and then we ran into Sam's Club. I'm not sure about anyone else, but when I'm in there I could just shop for days. I want everything. But, then again I'm also the one who likes to have/needs to have 8 boxes of pasta and 4 huge jars of sauce and stock of EVERYTHING possible. :) It's my comfort. Not sure why. We have never run out of food and not gone shopping again. As a matter of fact, we have never had bare cabinets or even a bare shelf. lol Oh well, maybe it part OCD or something. But after Sam's Club we took our sleepy little behinds home and the kids too. :) lol

I'll try to post some pictures later during nap time from Chuck E. Cheese. I think I got some good ones. I didn't even go through them to see what I got. The pictures are of my kids so no doubt they are cute!! :)

Kisses, Ice Cream, Monkeys...

I tried to post last night, but for some reason blogger was NOT cooperating with me, I couldn't add any pictures. So then I decided to scratch that idea and go with something else, but then my computer was acting stupid... so I just scratched both ideas entirely!!

Here I am though. And I'm going to give you a full recap of what I was planning on having in my post last night ~ mostly because I don't have bupkiss for today... well at least not much and not yet.

So yesterday morning I was laying in my bed, feeling very tired still (not much sleep the night before because of coughing for a completely ridiculous amount of time aka ALL FREAKIN NIGHT LONG, then the damn sugar gliders and that freakin' wheel... UH! and then it started to pour!) and just enjoying being in my bed all comfy n cozy and not fully awake. It was nice. I had decided that I wasn't going to send Mr. Trevor to school yesterday because it was raining so hard. I wasn't planning on having him or myself soaking wet trying to get him on the bus, plus I wasn't sure how long this rain was going to last and I have been picking him up from school every day so it would have been a catastrophe trying to take the girls to get him... we had done that on Tuesday in the rain and let me just tell ya... Not Fun! So anyway, Bryan came in to say goodbye that he was leaving for work. I asked him where Trevor and Zoe were, figuring like most mornings, Trevor was already up. He said Zoe was in her cage and that Trevor was still sleeping. :) Ah, this was good. I could lay here a little while longer. I didn't hear a peep from the girls monitor and if Trevor was still sleeping that meant I had some extra time to lay there and just be lazy!!
I laid there for about 20 mins or so, a lot longer than I usually ever lay in bed in the morning, even on the weekends, I didn't sleep though, but just getting the chance to relax with peace and quiet was so heavenly. Then in creeps my little boy... trying to be quiet so he doesn't wake me up walking in, so he can then wake me up by kissing me. This is something we have done forever... Bryan or myself will pretend to be sleeping and Trevor will try everything to wake us up, he will call our names, touch us, make funny noises, move our bodies, when he was littler he would try to open our eyes... and one of us would say you have to give Mommy/Daddy a kiss to wake them up, and he would kiss us and we would with surprise wake right up. :) He would think it was the greatest thing ever... and laugh his little tushy off... as a matter of fact, he still thinks this is pretty great, and still giggles like crazy. :) He also does this in the morning with us when we are trying to get him up. He is walking so carefully and so quietly, so I quick shut my eyes. He gets to the bed, and whispers "Mommy. Moommmmyyyy. Mommy. Mommy are you awake?" I just lay there. The his sweet little self leans over and kisses me right on my forehead... and viola... my eyes open right up, happy, surprised and so anxious to see my little boy!! :) I give him a big smile and kiss him back and tell him how glad I was that he came to wake me up. We talk about how he slept last night, and what we are going to do today. I tell him he can stay home from school. He is happy. We are just laying there hugging and talking and I'm just lovin' every moment with my guy! At one point he told me "Grandpa Drew was happy when we saw him." (Bryan's grandfather that is in the hospital) and I said "of course he was happy, he got to see YOU. You always make me feel happy when I see your little face!" so then he says to me, "Does your cold feel better today?" and I said "Yeah. Every day I get a little better with it. That is how it works with a cold, it takes some time for you to feel back to yourself again." and he says "Are you feeling happy?" and I said "Yep! I'm getting to snuggle with one of my favorite boys in the entire world... of course I'm feeling happy!" and he says "Good, because I didn't want you to have to go where Grandpa Drew is." so I told him that I only had a cold and although I was feeling really sick the other day that I wasn't feeling sick enough to have to to the hospital and that even if I ever do have to go to the hospital that it wouldn't be for long time and that he could come see me, but I would be home very soon, and that Daddy would take good care of him while I was gone. But that he really didn't have to worry about that happening because I was pretty healthy. :) He still looked a little concerned, but said he understood. How sweet my little boy is, but I feel bad he was so worried about me going to the hospital. Scary thing for children to try to understand.
So we were laying there still when all of a sudden over the baby monitor I hear Brooke and Lauren talking to one another... and then I hear Lauren start to sing "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!" and then I hear Brooke singing "Mommy call doctor and doctor say..." and them both laughing their little pampered tushes off and saying together "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!!" then more laughter. They kept singing and singing their little hearts out, it was so cute! And Trevor and I were cracking up listening to them!! It was great. :)

And for the ice cream part of this post... this morning I let Trevor have a sugar cone with vanilla ice cream in it for his breakfast before he went to school. I really don't see this as a big deal. Really I don't. Ice cream has dairy in it and probably the same amount if not less sugar than some of the cereal we have in our house... so I let him have it. Half the time in the morning, well more than half the time, most mornings I can't even get him to eat any breakfast at all for me before he goes off to school, so I thought this was better than nothing. And I know I'm right. I mean I much rather him have ice cream in his little belly than nothing at all. :) And they say breakfast is the MOST important meal of the day... so there ya go... he had some breakfast! :)
So not to seem like I'm a crappy mom or anything, when the girls got up this morning and were ready for some breakfast, I made them a yummy and healthy serving of sugar cone and vanilla ice cream. You gotta be fair, ya know! :) So they are all happily fed. Trevor is probably at school by now, and the girls are watching some cartoons. :) I'm done typing this am going to go harass Bryan about doing some grocery shopping later. ;) Have a good day all!! ~ Toodles!