Sigh....I have been busy..

• Ok so one of the little ones had tubes put in his ears yesterday.
• I got him up at 4am so he could have breakfast because after 4:30 he couldnt eat anything because they scheduled him for 12 o'clock surgery. grrr.
• He had 3 pieces of Cinnamon toast, 2 cookies, a yogurt, and a glass of chocolate milk. Can you say PIG.
• We are supposed to be there by 10:30 so we need to leave by 9:30 with no stops on the way.
• After I get the other boys off to school and give the little his last drinks until after surgery I start getting ready and get the hubby up...sorta.
• The hubby gets up 30 mins. before we leave and ask if he has time to shower. GRRRR.
• As we are getting ready to leave he wants to stop and get a drink to wake him up.
• We stop and he forgot his wallet so we have to go back and get it. Then stop again and he gets himself something to eat too. I have more than one problem with this. He didnt ask if anyone else wanted anything and he was eating in front of a 5 yr old that couldnt have anything to eat or drink.
• The big breakfast at 4 am worked cause the little one didnt ask for anything to eat or drink until after the surgery.
• The other little one that had to go too not so much. He was hungry before we even got to the hospital.
• Thank goodness for moms :) My mom took him to play and grab a bite to eat while we were waiting.
• The MIL came too but she had to leave early cause we still were not in yet the kids were going to need to be picked up from school. Thank goodness for MIL's. She was not happy about this though. She wanted to stay.
• Surgery scheduled for noon didnt happen till after 2. I was starving cause I didnt have breakfast cause I ran out of time :(
• Surgery was quick when it finally got started. He was only away from us for about 20 mins at the most.
• Poor thing. His ears hurt and his leg. I had no clue so I had to ask if they had done something to it. Turns out he got a shot there. Poor thing.
• I may have held back a few tears when he was crying cause his ears hurt.
• He had 2 pop cycles and we got to leave. We were only in recovery for maybe 30 mins.
• We finally got to eat on the way home:) His choice McDonald's, of course.
• He was so good all day :)
• Now we are just hoping that this fixes his hearing problems. They will test it again in a few weeks.

Blah Blah Blah...

• MIL's.. sometimes they are great, sometimes not so much. Well right now I am loving mine. She comes in handy being so close. You know for those times when damn it I have already started diner only to remember I forgot one thing. The kids can run and borrow it for me :) My MIL is really pretty good.
• One of the boys will be getting tubes put in his ears tomorrow. :) and :( We are hoping this will help his hearing. If not we will have to look into something else. I am kinda worried about that.
• He cant eat after 4:30 in the morning. He will be getting up early for breakfast otherwise I think the day will be unbearable for him...and me.
• I pulled over on the side of the road today to talk on the phone because it was the hospital for registration info. A really nice cop stopped to check on me and make sure I wasnt stuck. It was raining. After he walked off I wish I would have gotten his name. As much as I like to complain about when people mess up I really like to complement them to their bosses when they do well :)
• We had some great dentist appointments. Some were last week and some today. Apart from that scheduling mix up (the one where they scheduled us for after the office closed) they really are a great dentist office.
• Only one cavity :( It will be fixed later this month. That was the earliest they could get him in. The rest were all good and the littlest ones brush their teeth the best. Hard to believe. They brush so well the dentist asked if I was still brushing their teeth.
• Sigh. My oldest just came in and said I forgot his math meet this weekend. I didnt forget because I didnt know. He told me they would be having 3 more and he would get a paper telling me about them. Well he got the paper he just didnt give it to me so I didnt know to take him. Now he doesnt get to go to the other ones. I am really irritated at him for this. He got his bag and I found the note inside but he still insist that he gave it to me.
• He watched me take it out of his bag with his other mess of papers. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
• Cheating or Not Cheating? One of the boys had a paper to do. He had the rough draft that the teacher had already looked at and helped him with some but was hard to read and had alot of miss spellings. This is the only child that really struggles with spelling and writing so..... I copied the rough draft but corrected all the misspellings and had him help write the beginning and ending. He then copied it on his own sheet of paper. I see it as I corrected his rough draft before he made his final copy but for some reason I kinda felt like I might be doing something I shouldnt.

Life is a beating me to death....

• Practices are about to start and have started for one.


• My oldest wants to run track and play soccer.
  
• He didnt know they when practices were for track because he only listens to half of what is said.


• This drives me insane. Not just because he never completes anything I want him to but because it also affects his school work and sports. It also isnt very responsible and I think he need to be.


• Dentist and doctors and different doctors and then back to the dentist soon.


• The last time I made appointments for the boys to see the dentist they set the appointment for when the office was closed. I was pissed. They then couldnt see them all at the same time so I get to make 2 trips. Oh happy me.


• Thinking of talking to the doctor about depression.


• Is there a teachers union around here? . How much of students failings are the teachers responsibility and how much the parents and how much the students.


• I think this responsibility changes from parents and teachers to students gradually. I also think that as they get older and are supposed to be responsible for the work and grades and parents are not as much a part of homework and schoolwork it is a teachers responsibility to notice when grades are low and when students are receiving zeros. At that point they should contact the parents. If parents dont know there is a problem until report cards come out then it too late.


• Most of the time when I ask to see my oldest sons papers that I know he has not done so well on he doesnt have them. Either they gave it back and he threw it away or they require them to keep them in a classroom binder. One of his teachers is hard to get a hold of. That same teacher doesnt post grades until the end of the six weeks. This annoys me greatly.


• By the way I love grades being on the internet for parents to access. You can see absents , tardies, and grades (as long as they are posted). If they had that when I was a kid I would have been in trouble. :)

Life

• I saw the donut shop burn today :( I dont like the other one in town and sometimes when we were running late that place was a life saver.
• I hate the weather lately. I wish it would stay like it was today. I had all the windows open and the heat and air off. Yea for the electric bill. I didnt realize that so many people were upset about their bills. It wasnt just me or my MIL.
• There are so many clothes in this house but no ever seems to have something to wear.
• We are finally going to get to see our new niece. The last time we had this planned we didnt get to go cause the hubby was going to have to work but then didnt. I am getting excited about it again.
• This summer we are going to Disney World. My uncle and his family are going too. The kids are excited and I am excited to watch them talk about it.
• My oldest got to miss 3 days of school this week. Tue and Thur for UIL and Wed. the entire grade went to a museum. Well they got to go if they did all their work and didnt get into trouble. That was the condition because sometime ago the school was banned from that museum do to behaivor problems.
• The UIL has some great news and not so great news. He placed 2nd in the test that he took on Thurs. :) Greats little one! The not so great news.....well I kinda want to bitch about so....
• On Tues he went for one test. It is timed. It takes 10 mins. 10 mins. He gets up to go to the bathroom in the middle of it. 10 mins I say. He couldnt wait 10 mins? I could maybe understand if he was sick or something but no he just needed to pee. 10 mins! He was disqualified for it. Sigh 10 mins....
• The littlest one and I had a great convo today as I was trying to figure out why my kids mattress was falling through on one end. (a slat was missing and another moved)
  

Me: What happened to the bed? It wasnt like this yesterday.

Him: I can hold it (the mattress) up with my head.

Me: No thats ok I got it. What the heck how did this get like that?

Him: I dont know.

Me: (as I move a slat down) What happen? Did they break another one? (we have had to replace a few of them do to the kids jumping on the bed)

Him: I know where it is. (he goes and gets it)

Me: Where?

Him: Right here.

Me: How did you know that was there?

Him: Cause I'm a genius.

Did I mention that he is only 4.

Why???

• Why do I do this to myself? I am so stressed out over stuff that I can not change.
• My Valentines Day wasnt great.
• In fact non of my weekend was great or even good.
• The only good thing that happen was my little one got to go to a bday party and had a great time.
• I let my children play in the snow for a while. We went out in it twice. The next day it was melting and a muddy mess.
• Some children came and asked if my older ones could go out and play. Nope we had already been and just finished drying everyone and everything. I felt bad cause they came from a good 6 blocks but they just headed to the next kids house.
• We bundled up and we didnt stay out for more than and hour or so each time but one of my kidos has an ear ache this morning and didnt go to school. Poor thing.
• I was so ready for the kids to go to school this morning. My house has been extremely loud lately.
• I am worried however about the kids grades since the last 2 days of the sixweeks they were not at school so all the late work I made them do might not be accepted, not that I would blame the teachers.

Life...

• I have always thought my kids are pretty well behaved. Well I had a few surprises.
• First the one of my brats flipped off his teacher!!!!! I couldn't believe it. She didn't see it but the other students did. I thought I was going to beat him. I spank my children but I couldn't this time due to I didn't know if I would stop....How unbelievably disrespectful. He knows better. That boy will be working his butt off the next few weeks along with being grounded.
• Next one of the boys calls to ask (he was with his other parent) if he can be dropped off at the park to play with his friends. The answer was sure that will be fine. Out of all the kids who would be doing what he was supposed to I thought it would be him. I was going out but he said not to drive by he was calling him so I don't go next to the park just close enough so I could see. There was not one kid at the park. I was pissed and as I was going back home to see if he had talked to him I see him walking up the street. Turns out he was heading where he was supposed to end up but because he wasn't were he was supposed to be it wasn't the street I expected to see him on. Boy was he in trouble....
• The other boy is just going to be beat. He never seems to listen to what he is told. Well half of it anyway. Either its not done properly or only half done. He has a trash can in his room that was so full he had another bag of trash sitting next to it. I told him for a week to take it out but he kept forgetting. He only took it out when I yelled and screamed and threw a fit and grounded him. Then he said he put it all together so he only had to make one trip. Great it was done, I checked didn't see any more trash. The little shit had the same freaking bag sitting next to his trash can yesterday.
• All of my bigger boys have gotten lazy about doing homework and getting it in on time. I know that they are getting to the age where school work isn't as important to them and they want to hang out with their friends more now but that just doesn't work for me and the whole boys will be boys thing can fly right out the window because that isn't happening either.
• These are the biggest things I have had to deal with so far as a parent so I guess I am lucky but damn they are stressing me out and I know that more is to come.

Stuff...

• Friday we took one of the boys to see and ENT doctor for his hearing loss. I liked him. He was hard for the hubby to understand though. He was great with the little on that decided not to say one word to him. He did giggle once when the doctor acted surprised that a monkey came out of his ear when he looked in.
• His hearing loss is not from nerve damage so it can be fixed. Right now he has a lot of fluid in his ears that could be causing the problem, if not its the little ear bones.
• He may have to get tubes if the fluid doesn't clear up on its own but not yet because this is the first time the doctor has seen fluid in his ears.
• He says that he doesn't even consider it a surgery and for adults he does it in his office but they wont let him do children there.
• We are getting our taxes done this week :) Super excited about it cause we always get money back because we have so much with held.
• Anyone know a place that accepts used toys? I will be cleaning out my young ones room this weekend because there just isn't enough room for all their toys. They are still in good shape though.
• My kids are pretty good. Most everyone tell me they are well behaved and well mannered. The oldest one is pushing my limits.
• When my hubby was talking the my MIL about punishing him she told him to remember that he will be old enough to chose to live with his mother in a year. I went crazy pissed off when he told me about it.
• First I wont play the game of I am mad at you so I am going to live with my other parent game. If he leaves he will stay with her until he finishes school.
• Second there are some other issues that would have to be addressed and she would have to take us to court.
• Our kids have cores to do they are set every week and they usually have to help out with other stuff too. They are lucky and have a lot and get to do a lot. I don't think they know that and it drives me nuts.
• I feel like i am just floating through life right now.

Meet...

my new niece, Emily! She was born Jan 19th 2010. She is so beautiful.
And this is just the cutiest little pic of her and her brother! There was another one that was sweeter where he was looking at her and patting her feet but you cant beat the looks on their faces!

What to do?

My kid brought me a progress report this morning. Said he drew on it and scribbled it out. It was on the signature line and just below. It was my initials. I could still see it through the scribbles. :( He says its not. YOU CAN SEE IT!!!!!!!! Grr. I am so mad. Its stupid cause all of his grades are good. 90+ His average is 99. There is a dance tonight and his friend is supposed to come over. I dont want to tell his friend he cant come now because he wont have a chance to make other plans for the dance and his parents may have plans now that he isnt going to be home. Any ideas for a creative punishment? For trying to sign the paper and for the lie.....I dont want to go over board but I want him to know this is not acceptable.

Something happen...

at the school today. A kid was hurt at BIS at the end of the day. I am not sure what happen but the child was going to be transported by ambulance. They blocked off the front of the school and traffic was backed up everywhere. Thats 2 accidents in as many months. Major ones. I am concerned.


****edit**** This wasnt an accident. It had to do with a child with a pace maker and it stopping.

Stuff...

• The kids are stressing me out.
• Hell life in general is stressing me out.
• I forgot to send my kids homework with him last week and now I cant find it. :( He is going to have to redo the whole thing.
• We got a new TV last week. Its nice but I thought it was LCD when I bought it. Its not its plasma.
• That means it uses more electricity and easier for the kids to rune.
• Its huge. The hubby loves it.
• That also means we had to upgrade the dish because we didnt have HD. We do now! We also had them fix our bedroom satellite so we get tv in there too now. :)
• The guy who installed the new Satellite took forever and did a crappy job. He even unplugged my dvd player and used the cable instead of just using one of the HDMI cables. I didnt notice cause well I was just ready for him to get out of my house. The hubby was pissed. At the guy that did it and me for not checking. Oh well we fixed it and I called and complained.
• Our old tv was in a built in so we had a big hole with nothing in it since we hung the TV on the wall. We Fixed it this weekend. It looks nice and now we have more room for our DVD's.
• My hubbys computer is in our bedroom now since the boys have a computer. I hate it. I cant sleep when he is playing because he pounds on the damn keys. I can handle the talking and the light from the monitor but damn it the click click click just pisses me off.
• Did i mention that the kids are stressing me out? I mean really really really stressing me out.
• I am going to be an aunt again on Wednesday :) The first girl :) I am super excited.

Crap I forgot...

A note from the nurse was sent home with my kindergartner letting me know I need to have his hearing checked. My thoughts were whatever he doesn't show any signs of having trouble. He talks well and is doing well with sounds and reading (well with school altogether). But I took him to the doc anyway cause they asked for the note to be sent back with the follow up info. Turns out he does have hearing loss. It is in the moderate range. I asked how much and its 50 decibels. Well how much is that compared to normal. About half. To me that is not moderate at all. That is a big problem. I have all kinds of questions but I am only getting general answers. I wasnt really too satisfied with them. But we did get some nasal spray and a allergy medicine. There was a little bit of water in his ear that may be causing a problem. We want it cleared up before he sees the specialist on the 29th. I am not real excited about this. I am nervous. I am making the hubby go with me to this appointment. I hope that this is not permanent loss of his hearing and that it is not progressive. Since the first appointment I have noticed that he ask what alot but that could just be me being paranoid.

NO F'in Way...

First off today was a bad weather day for my kids. Why? There may have been a little ice first thing this morning but by 9 the roads were clear. The weather people keep telling me its not getting out of the teens for the next day or so but it was below freezing when I was out this afternoon.

I cant believe they lost. I am not a Texas fan but damn. I got really excited and then was let down. They got so close and then just let it fall apart. I feel so bad for them. It was almost as if I could see the life drain out of them. Oh well better luck next time....Maybe more tomorrow.

I have something else to talk about but it needs a special post all to itself so it will have to wait.

I forgot...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

and

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Here's my long list....maybe made short!

• Crap. Crap. Crap. I hit the back button by accident.
• My computer is still f'ed. I thought is was going to be simple but the one problem caused a few more.
• Where to start....
• The last of school I was going to Christmas parties at school. They are so cute when they are little and my littlest one got to join in most of the fun. He was really excited about it.
• When I pulled up to the next school there were EMT's caring someone out on a stretcher. I panicked. It was awful.
• I get in and get the boys and talk to a teacher who wouldnt tell me who was hurt (but another parent did). I cant believe that a locker fell on a student. One of my children got to see it happen. It scared him. I hope that they reinforced all the braces for them over the holiday.
• The kids were pretty good over the holiday. That is they all survived :)
• I finished all of my shopping about 4 days earlier than I have any other year. Sorta.
• Can you believe all the snow on Christmas Eve? It was so beautiful. It sucked to drive in though. We were at a family Christmas when the snow blew in. Good thing we were just going Moms after cause it took about an hour longer than it should have just to get there and it took my MIL more than 3 hrs to get from Azle to Bridgeport.
• We let the boys have a snow ball fight that night but it didnt work to well because the snow was dry and wouldnt stick together.
• Mom took a bunch of pictures only to come in and notice she didnt have the memory card in :(
• They tried again but it wasnt the same because the boys had run through everything.
• I managed to piss my hubby off and to get any sleep I slept on the couch on Christmas Eve....grrr him. He put the kids in bed with him.
• Everything was smooth going and we made it to another family Christmas for lunch, and one for diner, and then one in Houston a few days later. While we were gone it snowed again so we came home to snow :)
• While we were in Houston it was getting cold and we didnt do much which was fine with me because I was already worn out.
• MIL wasnt happy about it. Her and the SIL were kinda fighting but kinda not. I think the MIL was getting her feelings hurt. She had alot planned that we didnt do.
• All the kids have a cough. I think we gave it to my nephew. :( The SIL got really sick though and after we had left she had to go to the hospital. She is doing better now though. She is also off her meds to keep her from going into labor. She thinks she will still make it to her due date. I said no way.
• We had another family Christmas on Sunday. I am going to kill my step mother. She got the loudest toy gun ever.
• I just took down my Christmas tree yesterday. I made the kids help. We are missing an ornament that I know we had when it was put up. I think one of the kids may have broken it and thrown it away without telling me.
• All the kids are back at school now :) I am enjoying the quite. Well Alex is still here but he is quite (for now anyway).
• Yesterday I was talking to the hubby and he said he was glad to be back at work instead of sitting at the house doing nothing. ....I dont think we did nothing even one day of Christmas break. Crazy man.

Stuff the kids got for Christmas:

• Computer to share
• Cell phones -big boys
• leapster 2
• ipod docking station
• cameras - all of them
• wii games
• movies
• rocking horse -one of Alex's favorites
• toys
• clothes
• games -rock-n-sock em robots and others we have played them all now. I like them.
• itunes and money.
• I am sure I am forget some but you get the idea.

Still alive

I havent forgot you but my computer broke and I am just now getting it fixed. I have lots of updates. Should be up and running on Monday!

• I need ideas. Ideas for someone that is high class and has everything. Ideas that wont cost me an arm and a leg.
• Just when I thought I was almost done Christmas shopping. I am not. I just remembered that I have some more to buy for and one of the things I bought looks cheaper and cheaper and like crap every time I look at it, but it looked great in the store. Sigh, I hate making returns.
• I am not doing Christmas with my Dad and that side of my family until Jan 3rd. I am not sure if I like it or not. It makes my life easier because it less to do on Christmas day but its so late.
• I am starting to worry about some of the things I got my boys.
• I felt bad last night. The hubby actually made one of our boys try on one of his Christmas presents to make sure it wouldn't be to big. It was really long but looked good on him. We told him we were going to take it back. He was upset and was trying to hide it but couldn't. He cried. I felt horrible because the whole time I was thinking it looked just fine.
• We told him we were taking it back, but it will be under the tree next week. :)
• My hubby stresses me out to much.

Stuff...

• I have gotten about half of my Christmas shopping completed.
• I know what I am getting of of the other half.
• One that should have been easy I cant think of a thing to get.
• I think my hubby is wanting to get me a new wedding ring. I think he thinks I dont like the one I have because I dont wear it.
• I am just not a jewelry person. When I dont wear something for a while I end up losing it. :(
• I dont want a new ring. I think it would be a waste of money and feel that it will hurt his feelings if I dont wear it.
• There were only 2 things on my Christmas list: Camera and a Video Camera.
• I dont think I am getting either one.
• I was in Wal mart today..Yuck...When I was leaving there was a little girl about 4 looking up and down the aisle calling "Momma, Momma, Momma" I stopped and watched for a min then went to talk to her. One other lady came over just after I did. We looked for about 5 mins (at least) for her mother but couldnt find her. We stopped and asked an employee to page her mother he said he couldnt but we could go to the service desk and they would. When we finally went to have her paged the mother was walking up (I knew because of the way the girl described her) I was pissed and she seemed like it was no big deal.
• Man there were a few people on Sili's blog that really let her have it for no damn reason. I want to slap a few of them.
• I am waiting for her to get back to her usual blogging though, so I am glad she is going back to work and out in the world :)
• I had another post but I am debating if I should post it or not because it is sad and emotional. If you know me you know I am good at hiding both.

Sigh...Life...

• I hate paying bills.
• Its so depressing to see the checking account afterwards.
• I do much better when I spend cash instead of using the check book or debit card.
• I like to hang on to it.
• I dont understand how my hubby can think he can spend his whole paycheck on Christmas, like we dont have bills to pay just because its December.
• I think we are not doing too bad though. We had some money put away. Think he and I had different ideas about it though.
• He wants to get a new car this year too. I dont. I kinda like my van and I dont want to drive something as big as what he wants to buy. Since I have to drive it shouldnt I get a choice?
• I do need to have some work done on my van though. The check engine light is on. I had to checked out and it can wait without cause any other problems but not to long because it effect the gas mileage.
• I am excited about the season but I am never sure what we are going ot be doing.

Let it Snow....

Let it snow, let it snow. :-)

I am super excited about the snow. Oh the kids are too! They wanted to go out and play in it this morning. I said no. I let the little one throw a few snow balls off the car window when we got back from dropping the others off at school.

Wonderful big snow flakes were falling everywhere! They will be melting soon :(