Just bitching....

I managed to piss of my MiL and my husband yesterday. It is carring over to today and started the day off bad. Our oldest son asked my MiL for a pair of shorts that she had at her house and I got on to him about it(well grounded him, had he not been watching tv he would have been ungrounded before we went to football practice). The main reason is he shouldnt be asking someone else (I dont care who) for something he needs for school before he even tells us that he needs it. (they are for athletics, he has some at home but wanted a certain pair). When they are grounded they can not go to my MiL cause she doesnt deal with it. (not because she is being mean just because she doesnt want to. she likes to spoil her grandkids and give them whatever they want) It has now become a big deal, even though he has the shorts (the hubby brought them home for him) and is was wearing them this morning. Just let it go its a Freaking Pair of Shorts. Its not worth a fight.

Of course there is more to this story but do I really need to list the all the things that piss me off about it.

School....

• The kids went back to school yesterday. :) :( *I am happy and sad at the same time*


• I had one start Kindergarten. I cried big tears when I got home, and told everyone I talked to I was fine.


• He did really really well and was ready. I had a hard time getting him to talk to me enough to even tell me bye.


• When I picked him up he was excited to tell me all about the gingerbread man that ran away when they left the classroom. They looked all over the school for him. Someone caught him and they baked him. He got to eat the whole mouth and it was two colors not just one.


• The teacher made my day. She said he did really well and he was very good and very polite.


• The 5th graders were dropped off in the morning at the curb.


• When I picked them up I didnt pull all the way up because I was 20 mins early and wanted to park in the shade. A bunch of people honked at me but there was plenty of room for them to go around and pull up there. It is hot and didnt want to sit in the sun. I had to wait and extra 5 mins because one of them was busy talking to his friend.


• I got the "Fine." and "Good." one word answers to the How was your day question.


• I never did get much more than that from them.


• Now the 7th grader (OMG he is in the 7th grade!) Well he wouldnt shut up when he go into the car. Drove me crazy telling me about all the stuff that happen yesterday, including a schedule change because they didnt put him in his preAP science.

**I will try to get a pic up here later of them one the first day of school but my camera is having problems. :(

SPORTS

FootBall-

• My kids coach from last year asked me if they were going to play. Made sure I knew that they had to be signed up and wanted to be sure I knew to put the head coach on the sign up.
• They ended up on someone elses team. I was somewhat surprised. He (the new coach) coached my oldest son last year. I like him. I am not sure how I felt though because I really really liked the other guy.
• I the old coach yesterday and asked him what happen. He said they were one of the first to go in the draft for their grade. It didnt help him that he and his assistant coaches all have kids in their grade so he had to sit out the first 4 or 5 rounds for that grade.
• The boys missed a few practices when they stayed with my Dad. I was worried but they jumped right back in there and are doing ok.
• One of their teammates broke his arm on Saturdays practice. :( Poor kid. I wonder if his parents are going to get their money back ? We havent played one game.
• I am really excited to see how the team does this year.

MS Football-

• My oldest son is going ot be playing football for the school now. Damn he is getting older.
• We got his pads last night. Well they gave them to him and he put them in his locker. I didnt even get to check them :( Whats a Mom to do?
• This is the first year that he hasnt been in a BYA sport. A few of the moms wanted to know if a woman needed to organize it to make it go faster. :) That is so true. When the moms were doing it, it never took that long.
• He is going to have early practice before school. Damn I have to get up earlier. Sigh.
• I cant wait to see his games though.

Soccer-

• I only have one playing soccer this year.
• I havent heard from his coach yet.
• I think he is going to be in the next age group this year. I am supper excited about it :)
• So is he.
• The youngest one didnt want to play this year. Surprise. Surprise. He never wanted to play in the game last year. Maybe he will grow out of it, or into another sport.

Thats all I got for now. We have one more meet the teacher to night then I will tell you all about them. I am not ready for it. Sigh.

OK For Real now...

• I havent been too busy, just not in the mood to blog lately.
• We did get one of those blue pools. Its great. The kids love it. Hell I love it. Its really nice just to be able to get in and cool off a little.
• We went school clothes shopping a few weeks ago. I am glad because now I dont have to fight the crowds and there was more to choose from. Last year waited for the tax free weekend. It was a mess and I couldnt find anything.
• I bought all of my younger sons' (?) clothes from JCPenny's. I love that place at school time. They have great sells and their kids clothes are super cute.
• The older 3 boys and I went to the mall to go shopping. Sigh. It took forever. They are not quite big enough to go to the specialty/named stores. So we went to every department store there. Man I remember finding alot of stuff at sears last year but man that store looked really run down and didnt have hardly any clothes.
• I didnt buy all the school supplies until this week and of course there are some things that we cant find. My opinion about this is o' F'in well. I think the list is....well...BULL SHIT.
• Why are we asked to supply the teachers supplies? What I mean by this is the 10 red pens, the dry erase markers, the card stock, rolls of tape for their tape dispensers, ect..
• If 20 students bring 10 red pens that is 200 red pens. They are only in school for 169 days. Really teachers need more than one red pen a day? I know they need them for grading but damn thats alot.
• The school should be providing the teachers with teaching supplies. I dont mind supplying all the scissors and glue or even the 3 packs of 24 and the 3 packs of 8 crayons. I know they will us them and go through them. I draw the line at rolls of tape. I am not doing it!
• My kids were gone for 5 days. Well they left on a Thursday and came home the next Tuesday. They stayed with my Dad and Step Mom.
• It was PEACEFUL! The house stayed clean. I got to have a date with the hubby. We went out with friends. I got to sleep in without having to be woke up a million and one times. It was really really nice......for the first few days.
• By Sunday we missed the kids. I needed some little guy kisses and hugs. It made it so much worse that the hubby wouldnt shut up about it and was in a bad mood. He wanted me to pick them up early. Ok so I wanted to, too but I wasnt having any of it because I knew they had plans.
• They got to go do some things that I had planned to take them to but found out later that it would be to expensive. I was really sad that I missed it but glad they go to do it.
• On the too expensive note we are saving for a trip to disney world next year. We havent told the kids about it yet because I have looked up the prices and man they are high. For the seven of us to go we are looking at around $8000. This is hard for me to swallow, because I know there are alot of things we could do with that much money.
• We are looking for cheaper means of going.
• I am already thinking about Christmas. We have a large family and I would like to be done shopping except for the kids big presents before November. I know this sounds crazy, but life will be easier and less stressful for me.

Update

Ok this is an update because I am told that I need to up date this.


Is that a good enough update for you Michele?

We went to Las Vegas!

• We went 4th of July weekend. The World Series of Porker was starting.
• I cant believe how many players were there for it, but then again I couldnt stand to lose $10,000 in one day.
• We saw a few of the big pros there.
• Man the room where they were play was crazy. You could hear people talking outside but when you walked in everyone seemed to be much quieter. The only sound you heard were chips clicking together. It was neat.
• We had a great time, but we missed the fireworks on the 4th and I really missed my kids.
• We lost way too much money :(
• My favorite part was Down Town. It has all the old casinos. Its not nearly as flashy as the strip though.
• Most of the women are fully clothed, too!
• The whole street has a theme. It was back to the 70's.
• There is a screen over the street that is great shade during the day and at night they have a light show on it.
• Everything is cheaper Downtown, food, souvenirs, and even the gambling.
• The strip is cool too. It is flashy and most of the casinos have something special to see.
• I would have liked to see more of them but it was so damn hot! The heat wore me out, not to mention the hotels/casinos were like a mile long each.
• We didnt see any shows while we were there. I wish we would have gone to see at least one while we were there.
• The only other thing I really wanted to see but didnt was the aquarium in one of the casinos.

Pool

You know those little blue pools that have the ring around the top that you blow up and you just put water in and it raises the sides. We have a small one. I think the smallest one that is made (8' x 30"). I paid $20 for it a year or 2 ago. We never used. I decided to get it out this summer and the kids love it. It is the perfect size for just the 2 little ones but when all 5 boys get in it, its a way to crowded. It also doesnt have a pump so we keep having to empty it and refill it so they dont get to play in it as often as they want to.

We are thinking of getting a slightly bigger one. One that is only a few inches deeper but several feet wider. I have always said that these look so ugly and I didnt want one but they are the perfect depth for the kids to play in. The little ones can touch and the older ones can swim (in the bigger one).

Long Time...

• Kids are great. We are great. I am happy! :)
• We havent really done a whole lot lately, but I seem to be busy busy busy.
• The kids taught me a new card game. Golf.
• I want to teach them Spades, but I think only one will have understand enough to enjoy it.
• I grew up playing card and board games with the family, my children not so much. They play alot of video games.
• I cant seem to get them interested in much other than video games and sports outside, but I suck at those. :(
• We went to see the new Ice Age movie. I love kid movies, but I really love funny kid movies. That damn squirrel that chases the nut is back. It wouldnt be Ice Age without him though.
• It was the first time we have taken the little ones to the theater. They were really excited. They got to pick there own candy and share a drink. So we ended up with Twisslers, Skittles, Starburst, Gummy worms, and a pickle. We went early to make sure to get them all seated and quit before the movie started so naturally all the candy was gone before the movie started. Man those little ones can put away some pop corn. We let them it was their first time :) I think I enjoyed watching them and talking to them about the movie as much the movie itself.

Party

• We had a bunch of people come down last weekend. It was alot of fun.
• I drank way to much.
• So did everyone else!
• I was to told that I was cock blocking someone. I hadnt heard that in a while.
• The man who told me that is someone I have never seen even talk to a girl with interest in more than friendship. It was weird.
• The girl he had his eyes on hasnt dated anyone since her break up almost a year ago. She wasnt ready for what he wanted but she was interested. Too bad he passed out!
• I never get head aches when I have a hang over. I am just sleepy and grumpy. Well I am still sleepy and cant seem to get my body to do much.
• I had planned on taking a bunch of pictures this weekend. I managed to get about 8 pictures taken. I fail.
• My little ones were only gone for one night. I missed them though. I love hugs and kisses good night/morning. I dont know what I am going to do when we go to Vegas for 4 days.

I feel like..

I fell off the face of the Earth! My home phone has been messed up. It was busy for several days before I noticed it. Everyone had been trying to call but couldn't get through. I talk to the tech support online. I hate the phone company! I finally got someone out here to look at it. I have to have the damn thing rewired from the box to the phone jacks. The good news is that its no longer busy. I have line guard on my phone which means they are supposed to fix it. Well they want me to pay for it...I am really not happy about it. What is the point of paying the extra 2-3 dollars if they wont fix the damn thing? If they wont come and fix it I am going to be asking for my money back every month that I have paid to have that damn service on my phone. Boo for Embarq!

Its over...

All sports are now over. I am truly grateful. I love to watch all my children play and do well but man I am tired. Here's how it ended.
Older soccer team

• The first game the oldest breaks his arm.
• No one ever seems to know that they were supposed to bring drinks. (Not even received their drink schedule.)
• Everything seems to get out of whack because of weather and the swine flu. Took a while for me to figure out if I was coming or going.
• Undefeated Regular Season.
• The oldest gets cast off and can play the play off games. (I think he wont play much because he hasnt been practicing and he hasnt played any of the games. The hubby says he better because he hasnt play cause he broke his arm play for the team. I would agree if he would have gone to all the practices and stayed with the team at all the games and worn his team jersey. But he didnt sometime other things (like tv and video games) were more important.
• Won the first game of the play offs.-Great game! (this was the team that broke my sons arm). The oldest one played more than the younger one on the team. Both teams played there heart out. One poor girl kept getting hands called on her and she wasnt even trying to touch it, it just happen.
• Lost the Championship. :( This was a great game too! I didnt like the ref though. He missed a lot of calls. The team lost very gracefully for children who hadnt lost all season.

The young ones soccer team:

• Sigh. What can I say but I was really disappointed.
• There were not many practices. We had more games than practices.
• Most of the games were canceled.
• The little one do not play make up games. This was the case until parents complained.
• Had we not played some make up games we would have only played 3 games total.
• The games that we did make up kept changing. I was never sure we were going to play or not. They scheduled a game the morning of one of the games. Not much time for parents to plan.
• They last game it seemed like the kids had more fun than the rest of the year.
• The last game is also the only game that the youngest one played the whole game. All it took was for Grandma to bribe him.

The baseball team:

• The season was good.
• The coaches were great. I think that they were the best coaches that have coached any of my children. (um Tim ranks in with them)
• The head coach coached even though his son never played a game due to a broken arm in one of the first practices. He made the calls and was at every game even though his other son had games at the same time other places. Very stand up man. They all were. They were positive and encouraging. They played all the children even though some were better than others. They even made sure that all the children on the team were able to play in field at least once.
• They won some they lost some.
• They made it to the play offs. They were the last team in and had to wait till all games were played to know for sure if they would make it.
• They played the last game great but the other team was better and won 6-1. They were the first place team in the other division.
• I am not sure how they do the divisions for baseball here. I know that there are 2. I know that the play offs are between the two. 1st place division A plays 4th place division B. And 2nd place division A plays 3rd place division B. and vice verse.
• The boys took the lose of the first play off game better than the lose of the last regular season game. I assume that its because they thought they werent going to get to go to the play offs.

Sigh. Did I mention that I am glad that all this is over?

Been busy and not so busy...

• Trying to get all the end of school stuff done.
• My oldest son had to make a scrap book. He has known about it since Christmas. They started working on it the last 3 weeks or so. It started ok but I dont think he understands that its not just a bunch of pictures thrown on some different colored paper. It could have and should have looked better.
• Trying to reschedule all the games we missed for bad weather and the swine flu is a pain in the butt.
• The little ones soccer team hasnt really done much this season. It seems that games keep getting canceled and practices never seem to happen. We had a game tonight. That made the 4th game of the season and we have maybe had 5 practices.
• That is frustrating to explain to my little ones when they see their older brothers playing so much. Some parents are really unhappy about it. The dont usually reschedule the games for that age group but they also dont usually miss that many. :(
• The oldest soccer team is in the play offs. They have done really well. The one that broke his arm in the first 5 mins of the first game is going to get to play in the 2 play off games.(not in the goal though) I hope he does well.
• We had a baseball game Friday. They won. It was good for them. It game them some steam and confidence.
• We had another one tonight. We were winning. They postponed the game for 30 mins with 4 mins left in the game. Then they started again and then canceled it before it was over. We may have to go back and play the last 3 mins of the game. Not sure though because I thought that the rule was if they are past the 3rd inning that the game is called a full game. I hope so.
• We have 2 games on Thursday. Soccer at 5:30 and baseball at 7:30. We dont need to be early for the soccer game but the baseball we do. Sigh. Guess we arent having dinner that night.
• Looking at my schedule the next few days gives me stress head. I am not sure I can do it all and be at all the places that I want to be. I also would rather do all those things without my youngest 2 but the MIL is going to be with me so I dont have a babysitter but she can help keep and eye on them.
• The kids want to do alot of stuff this summer. I am trying to get it all put together. So that I will be able to keep up with them all.
• One of them has decided that he doesnt want to go to his other parents house as much. He has been asking me for about 2 or 3 months now. It is weird because he has always wanted to go before then. I am not sure if something has happened or if he is just getting older and wants to stay at home.
• He will be talking to them this weekend to see if he has to go this summer for all the weekends and if he has to spend a few weeks there. I am only thinking about this so much because I know that I am going to get the blame for it. The only thing I have told him is he is always welcome to be at home as far as I am concerned.
• 2 of my children have always been given the choice of where they wanted to spend the weekend. I have always thought that was a bad idea because they were too young (since they were 3 and 5). I think that they are getting old enough to make the decision every once in a while. Not all the time. I think they should know their parents. All of them!
• My hubby is working extremely late this morning. That means he will be home in the morning. He has more of these late nights since he started working for a different superintendent than he did before. I dont like it :(
• Sigh. Good Night!

New Story...

Ok so I wrote a note to the teacher and she called this morning after talking to the little one.

• They were playing on swings that they were not supposed to be on because there was water under them.
• He wasnt just a little wet. His whole head was wet and the top half of his shirt. (I am sure from the dripping) His head was so wet that it was still dripping after sitting out for half of recess.
• They were doing it intentionally. They had to be pushed really high so they could lean back that far.
• They did it more than once.
• His face looked like he had been mudding because he had so many splashes of mud all over it.
• She also said had it not been so close to the end of the year she would have sent them all to the office.

I will be having a talk with him. He will be writing the sentences tonight and depending on what he has to say he may be grounded for the lie. :( I think grounding is more punishment for me. (well maybe not with him, he can entertain himself with out any TV or video games. Humm. Is thats really a punishment for him at all?)

A Bit Excessive....

Today when my kids were doing their homework one of my 4th graders brought me a paper where he had started writing sentences. He got in trouble at school today. He was playing on the swings and his friends were pushing him side to side while he was swinging (they were playing). He leaned back to move away from one of the boys and leaned back to far. His hair and the top of his shirt got wet. He had to sit out the last half of recess for it (there were others too). When he got in they were asked to sit out in the hall while their teachers (he has 2 teachers) decided what their punishment should be (uhh what was the last half of recess). Here is what they came up with. They need to write this sentence 25 times:

"I will choose to follow the rules during recess by staying out of the mud and water and not dragging my head through the puddles as I swing because I know my teachers, Mrs. Fry and Miss VanHoose, have asked me all year long to stay out of the water."

• First off that sentences was typed for them on a piece of paper and it was 6 lines long. That means he missed half of recess and was to write 150 lines for getting his hair and shirt a little wet. (I cant see any water spots or mud spots on his shirt and its bright yellow so they would show up)
• Its really long and has a bunch of by, and, becauses in it. If he would have written this sentence for one of his practice Taks writing papers they would have asked him to break it up into more than one sentence.
• He has not been in any trouble at school before not even one note. He gets straight A's and E or S for conduct. The only thing that I have had that tells me he is any problem or ever even gets called down is a comment on his report card saying he talk frequently. (Not enough for them to drop his conduct grade though) This is also followed by he is a great student.
• I am all for punishing my children when it is needed and I will punish them at home if they get in trouble at school but I find this to be too much. I told him that until I talk with his teachers that he didn't need to write the sentences.

I've got the blah's...

• The kids are back at school!
• My MIL won a seat to World Series Poker Tour.
• The hubby booked a trip to Vegas. I am excited and worried at the same time.
• The kids are back at school!
• Last Friday we had a great baseball game. The little one got the last out:( but he played really well. He is getting better :) This was the kind of game that just came together and was fun to watch.
• Then on Saturday morning we had an awesome soccer game. They had to work for every point and it was a close game the entire game. By far the best game I have watched this year.
• After I went to a Bday party that I had forgotten about. It was fun and I enjoyed myself.
• I have no idea when I am going to have my own kids Bday parties. One was at the end of last month and the other coming soon. We always have one party for both of them. We have been extremely busy and so much going on we havent had a weekend to have one:( My poor kids.
• Mothers Day was ok. I got to stay in bed till noon. I was awake by 10 just didnt get out of bed. It was a nice lazy day!
• My dog is barking up a storm right now. That is very usual for him. I wonder if someone/thing is out there. I am not checking cause I am the only one up.
• My son didnt feel like getting all the trash cans from the street last week when he was supposed to. When the one he did bring up was full he just put the trash bags on the ground. There is trash everywhere now. He has to pick it by himself. He is unhappy and wants his brothers to help. They arent going to. (They switch chores every week.)
• I have added one for one of the little ones. He has to make sure all the clothes stay out of the bathroom floor after bath time. Sometimes he is excited sometimes not so much.
• I had a little one with an inner ear infection. Poor thing. Ear aches are the worse. He cried all night one night.
• Thats all I got for now.

Its been a while

• Ok so either I have been really busy or really lazy...you guess which one.
• I cant believe all this stuff about the swine flu.
• They have cancelled all of our youth sports until after May 11th.
• They will give a new schedule out sometime after.
• They cant even have practice.
• They haven't closed our school..yet. Someone told me today they wished they would.
• I am not worried about the swine flu too much. I wont be unless my children get sick.
• My son turned 5 yesterday. :( Big Mommy tears. He is super excited though.
• After getting his presents (and he was happy with them) he turns and ask where the rest of the stuff on his list was. I had to make myself not laugh because he wasn't being ungrateful he just thought he got every thing he ask for.(And he was so damn cute when he ask) After I explained that he only gets some stuff on the list and that other family would bring him some of the stuff but not all of it he went right back to playing happy as could be.
• He also got to remove his booster chair from the car.
• This morning he sat in the middle between 2 of his big brothers. Huge smile and talking about it the whole way. I am not going to be ready for him to start school next year.
• I have been super happy lately but really stressed.
• I have more to say but I will save it for later!

Pissed off

OK Driving home from picking the kids up we had to wait for a funeral to pass by. Both lanes of traffic stopped a good 5-7 cars deep.

1. An older lady in a truck slams into the car next to me.
2. The lady driving the car is half way out of the car screaming before she realizes she didnt put the car in park.
3. She put the car in park and starts yelling at the old lady "There's a fucking baby in this car!" Her daughter then tells her to move so she could get her daughter out of the car. They baby was in a car seat properly and she is just fine and laughing.
4. The old lady is very sorry and a little shook up.
5. They move the cars out of the road at the recommendation of the young mother. (She looked like she either she was in high school or just out of high school and they were in school traffic)
6. The old lady is looking at her truck trying to see the damage because when she moved it it made a rubbing noise. The lady that she hit is now yelling at her again about how her truck is fine but she just totaled her car. Now I am no expert but usually rear ending someone doesnt total their car. She is pissed off and yelling and cussing.
7. Thank goodness the old lady got back in her truck and waited there.
8. While waiting on the police to get there the lady that got hit is on the phone telling someone she was just in a MAJOR accident. (Sigh)

The truck didnt have much damage that you could see but something was definitely rubbing against the tire when she moved it.

The cars bumper was cracked and pushed up. The plastic bumper was also very close to the tire but I dont think touching it. Of course it could have messed up the frame but you cant really see that.

I know that it messed up her car but the old lady was in the accident as too. She didnt mean to hit her car and she didnt know there was a baby in the car and decide to hit it. There is no way she should have been talking to her like that. When I say old lady she was probably in her 70s or close too. The lady she hit was in probably in her 40s. I wanted to hit that lady.

Not To Bad...

This weekend wasn't so bad.

• Of course Friday stuff was canceled.
• Saturdays games were also canceled.
• That only left a Bday party. It was fun but I left the presents at home.They are still here :(
• We cleaned my bedroom this weekend. It included the closet.
• I also did the littlest ones room.
• I threw out a bunch of stuff. I felt bad for the trash man. They picked it all up though. They will have a surprise on Friday!
• We threw out a chair, a side table bottom and the glass for a coffee table, and the head and foot boards of a set of bunk beds. They all were picked up before the end of the day.
• Sunday we had a soccer game. They won. :)
• Monday we went to the doctor. They checked out the kido's broken arm.
• He got in a little trouble for being to active. It looked good though. The bone is growing over the break. We thought he was going to be able to play the last few games but the doc said even after he gets the cast off he needs to take it easy and that doesn't include soccer for about 4-6 weeks.
• We had a baseball game last night. It didn't go as well. We lost 6-1. There was drama. There seems to be drama all the time with on coach. He is not from our team though. He sometimes butts in even when no one ask. He isnt a bad guy as far as I can tell though. I just dont always agree with him.
• One of the kido's is having problems at school. If he get into trouble today I am going to have to go to school with him. Not looking forward to it.

Meanings of words...

As I have gotten older the meanings of words have changed. As I hear my sweet little ones run around and scream them I have to try really really hard not to laugh and tell them to stop saying them.

Kid 1: Who wants a shocker?
Kid 2: Give him the shocker!
Kid 3: I got the shocker now. Ha ha.

Now they are really talking about shocking each other with a fake teaser. (I didnt get it for them and I dont think that is what it really is but hey they have great imaginations)

I cant think of what he said but the other day another one of my children wanted to help me with dinner and as he was asking he was saying he wanted to do what ever it was with me. To me it had a sexual reference but to him none at all. I made him quit asking it.

Am I the only one who now automatically thinks of the perverted version of the word even when it is so innocent?

• Man this weekend was really busy.
• I had alot of fun though.
• I got sun burned this weekend :(
• We played kick ball after Easter Egg Hunting and lunch. It was alot of fun.
• We also went to the park to hunt more eggs on Sunday. It was after the rain and there was only one water puddle, of course my youngest fell in it. I was mad, not at him but that it happen.
• We have way to much candy now.
• I am tired of the weather. I either want to put up the winter cloths or wear them damn it. Having 5 kids and 2 sets of cloths for each of them = no room. sigh.
• I have something going every day but Sunday for the kids. Sports/School wise.
• My baby(not really the baby) will be 10 on Sat. I am not dealing with this well. I think its because the oldest one is beginning to act older. He has grown mentally alot since Christmas.
• Why is it big news that the Obamas got a dog? Yea it came from wise county. People get dogs every minute of every day. I dont understand the why it is such big news and that it needs to be an exclusive.