Ready for school....sort of

I cannot believe another summer has flown by, the year too for that matter. Katlyn will be starting 8th grade this year and Travis 2nd grade...wow! It seems like only a short while ago Katlyn was starting 6th grade and her first year in middle school and Travis his very first day of Kindergarten.

Even though Travis went to a Pre K and that was a BIG deal for me, and him. It was not the same as his first REAL day of school. I cried the whole first week. I would drop him off and remember that it was only a few months ago my baby girl was in the very same school. Now I was taking my middle child there and my big Baby girl was going to middle school. I don't know which was worse, my daughter starting the first day of Kindergarten when she was an only child, or both of them starting a new school at the same time. What is really going to be hard is when Katlyn starts High School and my youngest starts Kindergarten.

I am anxious to get them back in school and out from under my feet, but at the same time I wish they'd stay little forever. I told a friend the other day that I was looking forward to my youngest starting school, but I know that will in a way seem like a finality in the sense that my babies are all growing up. Last year in Mothers Day Out at my church, I was assisting in the Pre K room, and the teacher I was helping was one of the very teachers that Katlyn had when she went there. She's 13 now...u do the math..LOL. Anyhow, they have a graduation ceremony just like schools do for the Kindergarteners, and the 5th graders when they leave for Middle School. Serveral of our kids were graduating and getting ready to move on to kindergarten. We had several practices in the small chapel the last couple of weeks and wow...I cried. I have pic on my fridge of Katlyn on the very same stage getting her little diploma, wearing her graduation cap and it just brought all that back to me. Since I am a teacher there, Caleb gets to attend for a discounted price and I am dreading the day when it's his turn to be up on that stage. I will bawl like a baby I know it already!!!

Anyway...guess I'm just sitting here being sad that all my "babies" are growing up and one day they'll be all grown with babies and families of thier own. Okay...going to stop there, before I really do start to cry.

I'll be back to post again soon....

Really Long time......LOL

I don't know if anyone ever reads my blog at all anymore, but if so then thanks for listening.
Hmmmm......Not much really going on with me. Life and family, like everyone else.

I did quit babysitting and am now working as much as I can at my church. I love it, not only do I get to get out of the house and be with other adults..hahaha, but I can bring my kids with me. Of course, I can leave them at home with their daddy too. I started out trying to babysit when I got laid off which was nice for awhile, but soon got annoying. Don't get me wrong, I love kids, I really do. Suppose I must since I have three right? :)

I just couldn't take the parents and the wishy washiness, "how much do I owe you?", "what time do you put "?" down for a nap?"...seriously?!? I even had a set time that the kids had to be picked up...5:30....me calling at 5:30..."you almost here?"....mom reply"I'm leaving now.."....AAAAAHHHH!!!! Not only that, but drop the kid off at no later than 9 am and pick up at 5:30 or later and only send maybe some fruit chews and a can of spaghettios and not one thing to snack on for later. I only charged 20 a day....no set amount during the week. Hell, there were days when the kid had no change of clothes...no diapers or wipes and occasionally nothing at all to eat in her bag. Not to mention bringing her over when it's maybe 50 degrees outside in a light jacket and sandals? Geesh.

Ok...enough about that. I started working at my church Wednesday nights, watching kids for the parents with choir and other things going on and then they asked me if I could work in MDO(mothers day out), in the preschool class. I jumped on it. I am now going to be a lead teacher in the 2 year old room next year and am working every other Sunday Morning as well as an occasional Sunday evening. I get to work with children which I love and be around other great people and still get to be there for my kids...could I ask for anything better? NO!
It's a win win for me...work but not work and that's hard to find. I worked the music camp with my daughter and my friend and it was a blast.

I am looking forward to seeing my firstdaughter and my grandson at least once this summer before school starts back up..haven't seen them since Jan 1st, and I know that little boy is getting so big. Hit a milestone bday this year...the big 40! Ugh....then to top it off my daughter turned 13....wow how time flies. I was lucky enough to go to the Jonas Brothers Concert with my daughter who was thoroughly ticked that I got a better seat than her. Her best friend and her won tickets and so I had intended to wait in a tent outside with all the other parents. About ten minutes after I had gotten in and started reading my book, a woman came in and offered me a free ticket...wow! It was fun, but a little awkward being a grown woman with no teenage or younger child sitting next to me...I felt like a pervert..LOL! Even though I knew that my daughter was there, no one else did! Anyhow, I love that I was there for my daughters first REAL concert.

Well. I'm sure there is so much more I've left out and I am sorry that it's been so long. Hope everyone is having a wonderful year and summer!

Much Love and God Bless

Happy 2009 Ya'll!

Wow...another year has flown by. This year has already been plagued by both good and bad luck...no surprise there..lol.
I was lucky enough to go and spend the day with my first daughter and my grandson, her mom and family. We had a blast, myself, Katlyn and Caleb. Ate, and ate and ate, played uno and just talked until the time had flown by. :( Then that is where MY luck went south, trying to get the car loaded and ready to go so that I didn't have to worry about anything more than coat, purse and children, I miscalculated the steps and down I went. I heard a very loud pop and prayed that it wasn't me...and that I would be able get up. I did get up, and at first, other than feeling a little tender and throbbing, I was walking fairly normally. Of course I went back inside and sat down only to feel intense pain when I got back up to leave. UGH! I had to drive for two hours with a sprained ankle on New Years Day...Happy New Year to me lol. I have had a few jammed fingers and a badly sprained toe before, but this was new to me and damn it hurt :(. Of course the one thing that was stressed, STAY OFF IT!, was nearly impossible. My hubby had to work the next day and heaven forbid I ask my daughter to do anything...get the typical eye roll and sigh and then I'm irritated and do it myself anyway. Then for the weekend anytime I asked my husband for anything, it was like pulling teeth, like father, like daughter..GRRRR.
Other than that, it's been fairly smooth sailing, if you don't include the 494.00 violation I got from the Toll Tag office for a car we no longer own. We sold my car in August and just six days after the sale, he went through the toll tag and didn't pay and then for most of December and the first couple of days in Jan too. Enough times to rack up a 500 dollar fine. I could not find the bill of sale and freaked, so I backtracked and found his name and number from an old phone bill. I called him and confronted him about it, to which he seemed genuinely shocked. Bullcrap! He told me that he had already changed the registration..Lie! I called DPS and they confirmed my suspicions and so I had to fill out and mail in a Transfer of Vehicle Notification...blah, blah, blah.
It was not only important I do this to get out of his fine, but when the registration expires at the end of this month, he HAS to switch it to his name....woohoo!
Two more things to ring in the new year, a code violation from the city to scrape and paint our house...YIKES...I guess that's pretty bad huh? Next but not least, the person I babysit for wants to renig on what we discussed at the beginning of the school year. I am going to do a lot of praying for a better year ahead... and hope ya'll have a great one too!

Merry Christmas!!!!

Wow...it's hard to believe the end of the year has arrived. Seems like just a few weeks ago my kids were going to their first day of school. Where does the time go???? I know I am no different from most other moms, some days I can't wait for my kids to get a little older and other days I just want to cry because they are growing up too fast!! :(

Not much new going on in my life, which is a good thing..LOLL. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, lots of family over at my house. My brother finally introduced us to his new girlfriend. That was really a big deal...seeing that my brother has never been married and has no children, and he's already past 45. She blended in well with our family, she seems to be a really sweet person and someone I could do things with like you do with your sisters. We've been emailing back and forth and she's basically just amazed that no one else had snatched up my brother before now. He is a die hard romantic and believes in going all out when it comes to the women he dates. He's always been that way, even in his twenties, when he was living with us. I'd see him taking his girlfriends out to fancy restaurants and renting nice cars so they wouldn't have to ride in his gigantic four by four ...hahaha. One time he was going to take his girlfriend to Hawaii....that didn't pan out though and he took our mom instead. How many guys do you know that would take their mom to Hawaii for a week???? Not many!!! It was just sad that every girl my brother dated only cared about what he could do for them..the money he could spend on them and when they decided he wasn't spending what they thought was enough they just screwed him around. Anyhow, she's moving in with him this weekend and I cannot wait to see where it goes after she gets moved in :).

On another note, I just sent off the Christmas gifts for my first daughter and my grandson. I finally finished the blanket I was crocheting..LOL. It was suppose to be a birthday present back in April...oops! Anyhow, it turned out great...if I do say so myself. They should get them by Tuesday. I sent her a package full of things for the baby a few weeks ago, things that belonged to my baby boys. Most of it was Pooh since that is her theme. I sent one of those No Jo or whatever you call em, sling carriers. It's not like the regular carrier, it cradles the baby when they are newborn(great for nursing!) and then when they get older, up into toddler years even, you can still carry them in it. Came with a tape, but who has a VHS player anymore :)?

She did say I can now post pics of her and my grandson so here goes!!! Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!