Last weekend...

• I cant believe how cold it got Friday and Saturday.
• All the soccer games were canceled. They told us Friday night. It was nice to know before we got up and got ready. I was a little disappointed though. It was their first games of the season and the first one ever for my littlest one.
• Sports are in full swing again. Its not too bad because they all practice in the same general area. I say general because they do have to cross a road if they finish before the one I am watching.
• I love that we I have known their coach for a while now and know if they do finish that he will walk the over for me. He is a good guy.
• I wanted to go on vacation this year with the kids but I am not sure that we can afford it.
• The oldest kido told me today that he was going to start saving so he could have a better car when he is 16. He will be 12 in August. They get around $100-200 a year between Christmas and Birthdays. I didnt have the heart to tell him that another 1000 wouldnt get him a much better car. I wish I could give my kids as nice of a car as I had when I was 16. I wont be able to but it wont junk either.
• I cant believe how big my kids are getting. I have one that will be 10 and another 5 in April and the baby will be 4 in May. When I think about it I get big Mom tears. :(

Stuff...

• My hubby forgot my Bday yesterday :(
• I feel awful today. Sinuses are killing me.
• My mom with the help of my step dad has created Birthday month instead of just a day. This only works for the women. I like it.
• I was told twice I answered the phone wrong yesterday because I didn't answer with "It's my Birthday!"
• While it may sound like a bit much it is all done in fun and the women in my family are very grateful for the things and life that they have.
• Did I say how bad I feel?
• The first soccer game is this weekend. Baseball is next week. I am excited.
• We have been close to late all week. I cant seem to get going this week.
• More than just my hubby forgot my Bday. Is it because I am getting older?
• My cousin was very nice yesterday and pointed out that I am now in my Late 20s. I just want to remind her that she will always be older than me! Oh and I still get carded everywhere.

It's MY BIRTHDAY!

Thats all that needs to be said today....well unless you want to say Happy Birthday.

Spring Break

Ok so I didnt post at all last week, even when I said I would. I enjoyed the break :)

• My SiL was in town for the first part of Spring Break (the Thursday before until Sunday evening).


• We had dinner out the first night she was here. While one of our kids were at UIL. He was a little up set.


• On Friday we missed soccer practice. Not because I wanted to but because I forgot. Instead we had dinner at the MIL's and played Monopoly. (I played this game alot last week)


• On Saturday we went the Chuck e Cheeses. It was fun but very tiring. After we played a game at the MIL's. My SiL threw a fit worst than the kids do because she was losing. She quit. It was bad. I felt sorry for her hubby. I would never to mine like that (well at least not in front of everyone).

• Sunday was long...We were supposed to go the Zoo at 10. Well we finally got there around 1. Once we got there it was really fun. The kids loved it. The little ones had never been when they could actually look and talk about the animals. The big kids just kinda took off with the hubby so didnt really get to talk to them about the animals.


• The oldest told one of his brothers that he comes from a monkey because he is so hairy. I told him that they didnt have his relatives at the zoo because they didnt have donkeys. He knew I meant Jack ass.


• Ok the rest of the week was not so busy.


• The older boys all went to their other parents Monday and came home on Wednesday.
• We played Monopoly with the boys Wed, Thurs, and Fri. and then they went back to their other parents for the weekend.


• 
• I had never seen the elephants play with all those stupid balls in there with them. That changed this time. It was really kinda cool to watch them play. One was playing with 3 different size balls, pushing and bouncing them everywhere.

• Our dog scratched and bit our neighbor on Thursday. I felt really bad about it. I think he was trying to play with her. Otherwise he would have really hurt her because he is huge. He is a Saint Bernard. There was a scratch on her back from his paw and little marks from his mouth (but it didnt break the skin)


• We built a pin for him to be in when there are people over and in the back yard. I think its 20' x 45'.
• I also got rock put in the driveway. Well they call it base I think. When it gets wet and drys it is supposed to set up and be really hard. I am super happy about this! It looks alot better too.


• The hubby also fixed the water faucet out front. Well put it back in. It leaked and his way of fixing it was to take it out so we havent had any outside water since.


• I am really happy with the hubby right now. He worked hard this weekend and promised to finish some other stuff next weekend.(even bet his mom he would) This is unusual for my hubby. Getting him to do stuff is hard enough but to finish it is a miracle. He always has the best on intentions but he works hard all week and likes to take the weekends and his time off for himself and to rest so alot gets half done and either I do it the best I can or it just stays unfinished.


• The kids were late to school on the first day back. (the alarm wasnt set right) :(


• One of them didnt do their homework even though I reminded him about it at least 4-5 times. I am not happy about it. The only reason he had homework is because he missed 3 days because he was doing stuff with the school (fun stuff). I am almost certain he was supposed to have it turned in on Friday but didnt do it.

**edit: Sigh. I worked really hard ot make this look good in the preview only to see that it didnt work because the preview area is wider than on my blog. Sigh. I dont really want to mess with it any more right now. So its staying like that.

Been TOO Busy...

to post and right now I am too damn tired. I went to check e cheese and the zoo this weekend. We also hung out at the in-laws because SIL was in town. Tell ya all about it next post...tomorrow.

I've been thinking...

about the Death Penalty.

• Who do we give the death penalty to? Those that it would be unsafe to release back into society?
• Why does one get a life without parole instead of death?
• What criteria do we use to decide if one is unsafe and can not be rehabilitated?
• Which is cheaper life without parole or death?
• It seems that the death penalty was handed down more in the past than it is now. It seemed simpler(??) then, than it is now.
• If you did an unthinkable crime you received death. Now I guess that not that much is unthinkable. We can see people killing other people and we can see people raping children and taking someones lively hood in the past they couldn't see someone doing those things.
• Now it seems it requires multiple murders, usually planned, to receive the death penalty.
• What about the others? Why was it so simple before and not now? When was the drastic change?

All that being said, I am not sure how I feel about the death penalty. Can I put someone to death? Can I say that someone deserves to die? I am not sure I could but at the same time I feel like if they had done something to my children or my family that maybe I might be able to but I dont know that I could live with myself if I did.

All this is in my head now because I read the story from LLFTLDQ on the inmate who was executed on his birthday. He killed someone when he was 20, 18 years ago. He was trying to burglarise a home and a man was shot and killed. (it doesnt say if he pulled the trigger. and when did that start to matter?) If that happened now days this man would only receive some time in prison.

This weekend....

• We didnt do much but stay home.
• We played Monopoly with the 2 of the kids (one wasnt home). It was funner than I thought it would be.
• We have the electronic version.
• Before we had gotten that one I had never finished a game of Monopoly. I have now finished 3, maybe 4.
• The youngest one playing won. I thought that I would be the first to go out but I wasnt.
• My hubby did something really embarrassing this weekend. So embarrassing that I say what he did.
• He is really pissing me off right now so I might tell anyway.....

Taks.....

My son is still at school taking the TAKS test.

• At 2:20 today he had not even started writing.
• Why didnt they check his progress before then?
• When I found out I was so mad I had to calm myself down.
• I went back up there to see if I could talk to him.
• He had 3 paragraphs written by then. (They told him they were going to call me.)
• I waited forever to talk to him for like 20 seconds.
• I told him he better get his butt busy and write. It is not acceptable for him to sit and do nothing.
• I feel really bad for the teachers and principle that have to stay there all night while they still do their test.
• It would be one thing if they had worked hard all day but I know most (like my son) have sat and done nothing.
• One girls sister was really mad they didnt let her (the kid) get on the bus.
• Calling to see if I need to bring dinner soon.

***Edit*** He finished around 6:00! His teacher said after I left that he didnt stop writing the whole time. (I really didnt get on to him cause the principle was standing there when I talked to him)