100 day of school

Welcome back train wreck mom. I did not miss you this past week.
Christian AND Lily had homework this weekend because tomorrow is the 100 day of school. Christian had to decorate a super hero cape with 100 of something. Lily just needed 100 snacks.
Well we all forgot until...tonight at 630. :-(
So Christian very quickly put 100 stickers on his cape, well his cape is vinyl so the stickers won't stick to his cape. PEACHY! So I had to glue all his stickers on his cape after I got everyone to bed. Then I had to get 100 of something snacks for Lily. Well she wanted 100 cheerios. Were you aware that 100 cheerios is really not that much? So she is also taking 100 marshmallows.

https://youtu.be/vyBzjOsH-gI
so this is mostly what dinner is like with Addison now. Lots and lot of talking

There is Christian's cape.

Ok well I am exhausted. So I will talk to you later. I have a really early dentist appointment tomorrow...yay! :(

I love you. Have a good day.

It finally happened...

Well...it finally happened. Someone got really hurt getting their fingers slammed in the doors. Thankfully, none of our children are the injured or the "injurers" (did I just make up a word?)
Apparently Riley and Christian were playing in Christian's room and Annabelle was trying to talk to them and Riley slammed her fingers in the door. It was bad...it was very bad! THE DOOR CLOSED! That's how bad it was. It makes my stomach hurt even thinking about it. Her fingers were bleeding and her nails are all purple. It.was.so.bad
But I felt better knowing none of ours did it to her. So I could just be concerned for her and not upset that my kids injured her.

So Lily is now a flyer. I can't put emojis on the blog. But if I could there would be a BIG concerned face! Scared face. Sad face. Then concerned face again.
She is so excited. She has been practicing the stunts at home and apparently the girl whose spot Lily stole wasn't doing well in her spot. So Lily told her coach that she had been practicing so they told them to switch and they said Lily nailed the stunt on the first shot. So she won the spot. CONCERNED FACE!
I liked my baby not being a flyer. I was perfectly happy with her being a base, or a spot. Apparently she got dropped on her face. She says it like it was no big deal...yea I wasn't tight and I fell and my face hit the mat.
WHAAAAAAA!?!? I like your face, please don't hurt it.

But we had a good day. They all stayed until 8 tonight. It was an exhausting day. But I think they all had fun. I think we are going to plan an adult sleep over. Well the kids will get a sleepover too. LOL. The only one I'm having an issue putting in a place is Chloe. I can't quite figure out where she can sleep. Unless she sleeps in Addison's room and I put Addison in our room with me. She is such a stinking cute kid...I just love her so much.

Well have a good day baby! I love you! Good night 

Ears...

We did it! She cried a little. I did not cry. She literally drew a crowd. Everyone and their dad stopped to watch the poor cute little ginger get tortured. There was NO ONE in the store when we go there. We stopped...looked at the earrings picked out the cutest most expensive pair they had...LOL...not on purpose I promise. By the time I got a bottle made in preparation for her tears, and got us all situated there was literally a crowd around our chair watching. I felt bad for her...everyone stopped to see the pretty little girl get her life shattered for a few minutes. She didn't cry as bad as I thought she would. The second ear was the worst. She was throwing her hands around. She was mad mad mad. But she looks so very pretty

I couldn't get her to hold still long enough to get a good picture.
This last one is my favorite. I am going to miss her so very much when I go back to work. :(
She fell asleep with her mouth all open and everything.

So we got the baseball stuff. Not as bad as I expected it to be. YAY!
they didn't have any of the original bats he wanted in his size, which was a little disappointing. Well they had the Mako. But when we got there Christian said he didn't want it anymore. Thank goodness.

So after that we went to dinner to celebrate greatness at school. Lily getting the first place for the science projects. Christian winning the most read books for the kindergartners. No matter what else happened this week...they had a great week. I call it a success. Then to top it off...I got so many compliments about how wonderful my children were while they were having dinner. Parenting win.
I think Lily is feeling attention starved when a couple stopped to tell me how wonderful they were THEN they saw the baby and they commented on her too. So Christian asked what they said and I told him they stopped to tell me how wonderful and beautiful y'all were. Lily says "you mean they stopped to say how beautiful Addison is". I said noooo they didn't even see the baby until they got here they stopped to comment on how great y'all are. I think I need some QT with my big girl. :(

They really were good. We all sat and talked like civilized people. There was a tiny baby in one of the slings at the table right across from us and when we were leaving Christian almost ran into the sling. I was like watch out watch out for the baby!!! They had one of the canopy covers over here. Christian looks at the man and says "is there a tiny baby in there?" The man says "yes she is in here." well she was so tiny you couldn't see her in the carrier. So Christian moves the canopy cover and sticks his head in there to see her. He says "O she is in there. She is so very tiny. Our baby was never that tiny. She is very cute" and then just walks away. No boundaries...he has no boundaries. LOL

So I put my application in tonight. YIKES! Chris text me while we were at dinner telling me the job opened up. Sooooo when I got home I put in my application. I am so very nervous! So I guess it won't be too much longer.

Well I hope you have a great day. I love you so much. Good night

GUESS WHAT!

Well first...I have news. But here is how my mind works. Right now, my brain is so friend from the day I couldn't remember what I wanted to write to you about. UGH! I need to slow down.

ANYWAY! I heard from Chris again today! Matt officially got promoted today. WHAAAAAA!
So the ABM position should open next week. Chris is going to call me again when it is officially open so I can send my resume back in. Guess I should finish it. LOL. I am a procrastinator I know. But I am excited...but terrified. But excited and sad. I am just a big ball of emotions right now.
I am so so ready...then I look at Addison and realize how much I am going to miss our time together.

 sweet little baby pony :)

 But those eyes...ugh...they get me. I am in love with her eyes

I have so much fun watching her eat. I swear skipping baby foods was the best decision ever. She has so much fun, and she will eat everything....EVERYTHING. Tonight she had asparagus and teriyaki chicken and she ate all of it. I'm sure some got slipped to Whiskey, but she ate most of it. 

 But feeding yourself comes with a price. But she doesn't seem to mind the bubble baths. She splashes and has a good time now. I have to put her in the sink most nights because she splashes so much the kitchen gets trashed so she can't sit in her bathtub often. The sink contains most of her chaos.

O and Lily won first prize in the contest for science projects. :-D
She was so excited! She worked really hard. She won a neat little pen and note pad.

Alright well I love you and I miss you! Have a great day! Goodnight love

O.M.G!

Well....reality slapped me right in the face again tonight. O you think you're being a good mom...BAM here's a nice big dose of everything you've been over looking.

I can't even put it online. It is awful. I mean nothing is wrong but it is extremely disappointing. But we are handling it tomorrow.

I helped in the nursery tonight at church. It was fun. Much better than sitting in the car. Addison had fun, she got to play instead of sitting in the car with me. We may just start doing this on Wednesday's now.

So I played make up today. I got sucked into watching those youtube videos of those girls that are normal when they start their make up process and freaking models when they are done. (I could feel my brain cells dying listening to this girl talk. I honestly think they were killing themselves. Thinking "clearly she doesn't care about us anymore. listen to what she's watching") Anyway...I did not look like her when I was done...dammit. LOL. At least I still sound smart...sometimes. I didn't even look like the men that do their make up on those videos...drag queens do their make up better than I do. It makes me laugh and makes me sad all at the same time.
Anyway, so I figured I would take some pictures to show you. LOL. So Addison and I played with the camera before bed.

 This was the best one we got. She looks drunk. LOL
I laughed so hard when I looked back at it.

Anyway, so I also did before and after pictures. I can't tell a difference. Dammit. You're supposed to be able to notice a difference. What did I do wrong?! I am bad girl...I am convinced, I am horrible at doing female stuff. GRRRRR.

I love you and miss you so much! Have a good day baby! Good night

GO.TO.SLEEP!

Do you have any idea how hard it is to stay awake while you wait for an infant to fall asleep? So Addison went to bed early tonight, and I was thinking "Mom Win!"

Kitchen was clean, floors done, diapers washed. This is awesome I am getting to bed early....FALSE!
As soon as I sat down in bed she woke up. So I went and got her and she is all stuffy. So I sucked her nose out, which she hated, then she was awake. So she tortured the cat for a little while had a big bottle and still wouldn't fall asleep. So I figured since she was stuffy she could sleep in the rock n play. Because it will keep her at a slight angle and maybe make it easier for her to breath. So I just lay her down and end up stuck in the bed, in the dark, waiting for her to fall asleep. I am surprised I managed to stay awake. It was very hard.

But now I am exhausted. I had stuff to say too.
We had a pretty good day today though. Probably one of the best days we all have  had together in a while. It was nice. No one was really mean. Christian had a moment but he apologized.

The kids helped me cook. They enjoyed that. Well I let them season the chicken. We had a talk before they started about listening while helping in the kitchen and being careful with raw meat. Well Christian is still a little short for the counter. So he is standing on his tip toes seasoning the chicken and his arm touched. Well we had just talked about cross contamination and how I didn't want them touching raw meat. You would have thought his arm was going to rot off when it touched that piece of chicken. It was so funny.

But I hope you have a good day! I love you so much! Good night

Lost

Of all the purchases I've ever made I have probably spent the most on bobby pins. Yet I never have any when I need them. I don't know where they go. I always buy bobby pins, but never have any when I need them.
So this week is literacy week at school, they are doing theme days all week long. So tomorrow is crazy hair day. Well train wreck mom didn't go to the store I was going to buy color to make Christian hair fun colors. Well that didn't happen. So, since it is so long we are going to put his hair in pony tails all over. Hopefully he likes it. Lily is getting Minnie Ears. Let's pray no one over sleeps...these things take time.

 See! Minnie Ears. Lucky for Lily Addison has a million and one bows that will be perfect to put on her ears. But...no bobby pins to hold her ears down. So I am using barrettes. Hopefully they hold and her hair doesn't fall. that would be sad But knowing Lily, they will fall.

So train wreck mom is gone, hopefully for a while. I got a lot done today. Not quite sure what came over me. A lot done in a short time frame too. Floors vacuumed (which I do every night anyway), kitchen clean, laundry washed, diapers washed, animals fed, kid's bathroom cleaned (BARF!), and all the garbage is ready to go out in the morning, o and lunches are prepped for tomorrow too.
We also got 90% of Lily's science project done. Instead of pictures to put on her board she decided she wanted to use actual items. Which I think it pretty cool.

So here is Lily's science project.
We still have to get 2 balloons. One with helium for a type of gas and the other will have air in it.
I had to mutilate the lighter though, I was scared she would get in trouble for taking a lighter to school. So I took the flint and everything out of it. She still might get in trouble for bringing a lighter to school but I hope not.
Do you realize just how many lighters you have? For someone who doesn't smoke you have quite a collection of lighters. Including the one we used I think we found like 8.

 She does not like wearing her jacket. She looks so stinking cute in it but she hates it.

They just lay there and stare at each other. They love each other.

Ok, going to bed so we can get up early and do everyone's hair. Good night.
I love you so much and I miss you more than you could imagine!!
Have a good day.

Winter in Florida

It's way too cold for this nonsense. I'm ready for spring. Or summer, summer would be nice. But this snow flurry crap...that's for the birds.
We had grand plans, we were going to get Addison's ear pierced and we were going to get her clothes that weren't screaming when she put them on. So I bundled Addison up, and I bundled myself up, opened the door....NOPE! Just NOPE, we are not going anywhere. We stayed home until it was time for Lily's cheer banquet. The banquet originally was supposed to be outside, but because of weather they moved it. Thank goodness. I couldn't have imagined that party being outside. But after the banquet we went to Kohl's to try and find Addison stuff.
That was a nightmare. It was so unorganized, it made me very anxious. It took me forever to find the onesie packs I was looking for. But I found them right as I was about to give up. The Kohl's brand stuff that they sit on a table....o jeez that was a nightmare. Nothing was folded, everything was just thrown everywhere. I can't handle that. But it's done and she won't need anything for a while. Thank goodness!

I can't remember if I told you or not. She is cutting 2 more teeth. These 2 have made more of a difference than any of the others. She is so crabby and if you don't watch her she will bite the crap out of you. Poor thing. Hopefully they will come in quick so she can get some relief. But I checked her a couple days ago and saw the little nubs. I can't believe how big she is getting...it makes me sad.
We should have another baby. HA...kidding kidding.

I hope you have a good day. I love you! I miss you so much. This cold weather would be much more bearable if I had someone to put my cold hands and feet on. :)

I love you! Good night

she is so funny. You should have seen her when they called her name

She says it's way too cold outside for us

She loves seeing herself on my phone for selfies.

Nobody is safe

Or at least Chester is not safe. She will find her and she will rip her fur out and force her to snuggle. I just know if she keeps this up they are going to move her out of our class soon. I don't know what I will do then.

Anyway, I hope you have a great day and aren't too too tired. I love you so much! Good night.

Missing Child

You know...some days I think I could have a house full of kids. Just a ton of them, just love on kids all day every day. Then...reality slaps me in the face HARD! Real Hard!

So Jenna comes and rings the doorbell today and I tell the kids they can't play. Christian has homework, Lily has homework, and a science project. Just no, we have a lot going on today. So then I start thinking about it and sure Christian you can go play that will give Lily and I time to work on her project right. Then Caitlyn comes over just before 5...can Lily come play. No hunny I told Jenna already Lily has a project she has to do.
O, where is Jenna?
What? She should be with Christian.
Well, where's Christian?
WHAT?! They're not out there?
No...

Well about that time I hear Jenna's Nana calling for her. Ok cool they'll be home soon. So I go back inside. 15-20 minutes go by...still no Christian. So I walk next door.
Is Christian here with you?
No, we can't find Jenna either. They must have gone farther than they can hear...
WHAT?!
"ok. well if you see Christian can you send him home"
Yes, Caitlyn is going around the neighborhood looking for them.
ok i'll wait until Caitlyn comes back and if she doesn't have them I'll drive around the neighborhood and look.

So Caitlyn comes back by...no sign of Jenna and Christian. OMG! I am going to KILL Christian!
I turn the stove off, put everyone in the van, and start driving around. I drive around the neighborhood absolutely no sign of them...NONE! So I call Jacey to see if she had seen them. She said they went to her house about an hour ago (4) to see if Dylan and Hayden could play and were told no. Then they were gone. So I am on the phone with Jacey...losing my mind. She said hang on I hear kids. The people across the street from her had them in their backyard. So Jacey gets them and I send Christian home. I for real could have seriously injured that child. Thank God for Jacey or I don't think I would have found him until he decided it was time to come home. Which he told me was going to be after the sun went down or those people made him leave. I am not sure what was going through his head. To not even tell me he was going somewhere, and not only that but to not follow the rules of being allowed to play outside alone. Clearly he did not stay within the perimeter.

THEN! So, Lily and I worked on her science project all afternoon. ALL afternoon! So she wrote the words for her project first in pencil then she was tracing over that in marker. That way we knew it looked nice. So after dinner I tell her she needs to finish writing all the words on her poster. So she sits down and works for another hour almost. So at bedtime I ask her if she got her writing done. She said no. I asked how much more she had to do.
All of it.
All of it? What have you been doing?
She holds up her poster that we have worked all afternoon on. She has used the markers I bought for her to WRITE with and she drew a landscape and rain and umbrellas and rainbows all on her project.
SERIOUSLY!?! Seriously!!!!
I said where are you going to put your facts? Or your pictures to go with your facts?
IDK...

If this was a test from God...I failed. I failed miserably. I failed the mom test.
WHAT HAPPENED TONIGHT?
I just don't know. I am so very upset with tonight and all of the insane events that took place. I am going to bed. I will start again tomorrow.

I hope you have a good day. I love you! Good night

Always running

So this may not be very long because I am unimaginably exhausted.

So I was able to work it out where Christian did not have to miss church just because Lily had practice tonight. So mom and Christian had dinner at church tonight and then Rob kept Christian until he could go to his class. Lily had practice from 530-730. So that gave me 30 minutes to get Lily out of the gym and get to the church to get Christian. Very little wiggle room. Well...practice ran late. Which meant, I was late picking Christian up. Thank goodness mom just happened to call me before she left the church and Rob took her to get Christian.
I swear my life is so chaotic I don't know how I survive some times. Lily's gym is up by 295 and Collins, and you know where the church is.

But I did get to watch Lily practice some tonight and I got to watch 2 older teams practice. OMG they are good. Like they are crazy good. All of the coaches talked nice to their girls tonight too. That was nice to see. They used encouraging words. Lily is no longer a "nugget" she is happy for that. So that means no one stands on her back anymore. She is not a back spot for all the stunts. So she is happy about that. Apparently one of the older teams coaches told Lauren she was too thin to be a "nugget" and needed to be replaced with a thicker girl. Or at least that is how Lily described it to me. Regardless she is happy about it, so I am happy about it. So I told her she needed to get out there and work hard and show them she can be an awesome back spot so they will quit giving her the crappy stunts.
But it was crazy watching the team one year up from Lily doing those stunts...they were throwing those girls and catching them like it was nothing. Just no big deal at all.

Addison and I went and got some stuff for Lily's science project. Luckily I was able to find everything she was asking for. So we will start on that tomorrow and see what we can get done.

It feels good to have the bunny back. I didn't get to love on him any tonight, but maybe I can tomorrow.

O! So frustration for the night. Lily had practice tonight, which meant we were getting home late. As we're walking out the door for practice. She informs me she has the county writing test tomorrow. WHAT!? Ok...so I was slightly irritated because her coaches are teachers for Clay...so you know they knew that and scheduled practice the night before anyway and no type of notification was sent home to the parents about this. I would have never known she had testing tomorrow had she not told me this evening. It was just very frustrating. I mean I guess there is no way for us to study for it but it would have been nice to know she was walking into testing tomorrow.

Anyway, I hope you have a good day. I love you so much! Good night

Amazon

I am starting this early so maybe I won't forget what I want to talk about. Normally I write at the end of the day and my brain is so fried that I never remember what I want to talk about.

I am so very happy you were right about Christian. Hopefully we can be back on track now, and stop having so many yellow days. I will be working in Christian's class again tomorrow but I should be done by 11 again...hopefully.

Now...I want to make a purchase off Amazon. I've wanted to make this purchase for a while now and I have been waiting until I went back to work so I could justify it and just use extra income. But I don't want to wait anymore...I want it now! I want to get a steam mop. I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD you to tell me this is ok. I just don't think I can live any longer without one. HAHA! So...please? Pretty pretty please? I'll be yo best frand :-) for ever and ever.

Lily has her first science project...YAY! (insert sarcasm) why do we have to have all these projects while you are not here!? So I have to go buy supplies for her project tomorrow.
Hopefully it turns out well.

So I got a lot of the house cleaned up tonight, it feels nice. I of course have laundry that needs to be put away still...that is inevitable. But the house is so clean it even smells clean...I love when it looks and smells clean. Best part about it.

I am going to try for another early-ish bedtime. It is a little later than I wanted but the house is clean. :)
Plus I just have to have everyone ready on time, mom is taking them to school tomorrow.
But have a good day! I love you and I miss you so much! Good night

184 miles

184 miles plus 2 stops at gas stations and a stop at the vet.
Stop #2 at the gas station was the best. We were just outside of Hawthorne and Lily had to use the restroom bad she couldn't keep her legs still. It was that stretch where there is absolutely nothing but houses around. I bought them both Gatorades before we left Tampa (MUH-STAKE!). I told her not to drink it all that we were not stopping on the way home. So, she drank all the Gatorade anyway. The horrible person in me could not help but laugh while she squirmed and whined AND there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I stopped at the first gas station I found and she literally jumped out of the van to get inside.

Whiskey was so excited to get picked up. Poor thing skinned his nose all up again. The vet tech, I think she is Dr Hyler's daughter, anyway I like her a lot. But she said he tore his kennel up this weekend and she thinks he skins his nose on the concrete. I almost think I need to pack him blankets from home, maybe his bed smells like another dog? But she said he pretends to bury it and puts all his stuff on top of it. Who knows, but I feel bad he skins his nose up so bad every time he is there. I also had to get him more heart worm pills. It's crazy how expensive those things are, mainly because he is so large. But he lost a lot of weight. He weighs 90 lbs now. Yay for the first time ever, we did not get yelled at for Whiskey being overweight.

It feels so incredibly good to be home. Back to my normal chaos. I love going to see Britt and I hate that they are so far away. But it always feels good to be home. I feel like that is especially true with an infant. You have to bring your entire life with you everywhere you go.

OOOOOOOO My Goodness!!!
So Lily was talking to me on the way home, and she was talking about how she had to sleep in Hunter's bed last night. She slept on a cot the night before. I didn't really understand what she said Hunter said to her, but something about him sleeping on the cot then he put it away. So Christian and Nathan slept in bed together, and Lily & Hunter. I do not have an appropriate emoji on my computer to show my concern with that. I am sure it is all innocent, but that is my baby girl. Who is getting way too old.

But I am trying to get to bed early early tonight. I have to pick up some baby toys but then I am done for the night.
I love you! Have a good day! Good night my love

Sleep is for the weak

****Last Nights Post****

Apparently we aren't sleeping tonight. I got the kitchen cleaned early, house picked up, entryway cleaned and swept. Now Addison won't go to bed...of course she won't. She is ready to par-tay over here.

Well...we had another bad day at school. I don't think it was a big deal, it didn't sound like a big deal. But, I have to stand behind what I told him. He got in big "trouble" today, it was heartbreaking. But I am over getting in trouble at school. I am not going to put up with getting in trouble at school. I think I got through this time. But I completely understand the saying now "this is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you"
It broke my heart, hearing him cry while he talked about his day, hearing him cry on his way to his bedroom. UGH! It broke my heart.
But hopefully I got through because I don't want to do this anymore.

Sorry I missed your call today. I was hoping I would get to talk to you.
Have a good day. I love you!

Green!

YAY! Last day of the week and we were on green! Christian said he was on blue most of the day and had to move to green because he was too rough on the playground. But...he was on green! He was so excited.

I cannot seem to bring myself to get everything packed for this weekend. It is a lot of work. I think the worst part is making sure everything is packed for the baby. She requires a lot of stuff. I guess I am just going to finish it in the morning, I am really tired.

I guess Lily has gotten past her dislike for cheer, or maybe she is just so positive she can't really hate something. They gave her a balance stand so she can practice being a flyer at home (don't like that she is practicing that). She was so excited. It was too late for her to use it tonight but she was showing me what she has to practice. It doesn't look easy. I really had gotten used to the fact that she wasn't going to be a flyer. It is a different game thinking about these girls throwing my baby in the air and trying to catch her.

So the baseball catalog came in the mail yesterday. Christian has been carrying it around with him. I told him we had to get him a new bat this season so she has narrowed down his search in the book to 2 bats. YIKES! Hopefully he finds last years bats when we actually go to the store. He has fallen in love with the Easton Mako and the Demarini Voodoo Raw. If I had to pick I would pick the Demarini. Luckily at this age his bats will last him longer than a t ball bat. Because he better get his monies worth out of this one.

O Chris called today! He said he just wanted to let us know that this process is moving a lot slower than anyone had anticipated. He said it should be a few more months but he didn't want me to get impatient and go somewhere else. I am so ready, and so not all at the same time. I am way overly attached to the kids now, especially Addison. It makes me sad thinking about leaving them.

I really think I want to get Addison's ears pierced. I keep going back and forth on it. But I do want to get it done sometime soon.

So I decided to watch Cinderella Man tonight and I swear it doesn't matter how many times I watch this movie. I love it just as much every time. It's my favorite :-)

I got last nights post to finally publish. Apparently when my computer shut down it saved it as a draft. 

Have a good day my love! I love you so much! I miss you and I cannot wait until you are home. Good night   

you are loved

I found this on the counter tonight. It was too cute not to take a picture of it.

I still have a bunch of letters that I need to send you. I will try and get those out tomorrow. That's important. I should not have let them sit that long.

Here is Lily's project though. I realized after the fact that you probably cannot read what she wrote on there. She did a very good job. She is working on trying to write in cursive. She has her name down pretty good. If you can see that.

 She had fun eating at church. But she was mad mad mad when I cleaned her mess up. She was not done and I started cleaning her area up and she was not happy with me. It almost sounded like she was growling at me because I took her good away. She's a mess.

Sleep in my house? No no, I heard you say sleep ON my house. He is a trip. I had to clean his cage because jerk face got a touch of separation anxiety and while I was gone destroyed his cage. I am not exaggerating either, he destroyed it. So it got all scrubbed out today.

I am kind of nervous going out of town this weekend and leaving Chester out. Mom said something about it supposed to be freezing all weekend too. I feel bad leaving her out if the temps at night are supposed to be that low.

Have a good day my love. I love you so very much! I cannot wait until you are home again...
Good night

Orange

I am going to lose it on Christian if he keeps down this road. Two days in a row he has gotten in trouble. So let me just give you a little insight on how the color chart works in his class.
Purple-Fantastic
Blue-Ready to learn
Green-Great
Yellow-Slow Down
Orange-No Recess
Red- Note Home

So everyday you start on purple. I believe there is no reason why Christian should ever on anything lower than green. Because that means you have been warned 3 times at least by then. So yesterday Christian was on yellow. We talked about it, I gave him a pass. Not really a pass, but more of a slap on the wrist, try better tomorrow. Today, orange! WHAT!?!?
So he was feeling the pain by the end of the day. He couldn't do anything. No TV, no snacks, no toys, no outside, nope don't even wave to your friends you're in trouble. Think it's cool to get in trouble at school...wash the dishes, put the laundry away. LOL. It was fun.
He was mad. I can't do anything but work FOR YOU!
-That's right! Still think you're funny and cool getting in trouble at school?

I told him next time he comes home with a bad report he doesn't want to find out what kind of trouble he is going to be. Especially to get that many warnings. Unacceptable.

Anyway, poor Lily. She worked so hard on her project and I guess they were voting for favorites. Well she didn't win. Which she said was fine but she said she only got one vote. :(
That made me sad for her.

Anyway I am going to take an early night. YAY! Have a good day baby! I love you so much!
I miss you a lot! Good night

Projects

I am proud to say Lillian finished her school project by herself. She didn't want my help, and she definitely didn't need my help. It turned out beautiful. I'll make sure to take a picture of it for you. She did a great job. The only thing I assisted in was making sure she spelled everything correctly and used neat handwriting.

Today was fairly uneventful. We went to Zumba today. Which was excruciating for me, but Mattie wants to do it on Mondays. I guess I can give her one day of something she enjoys, that's compromising right? But it was nice that we did that today because I massively overslept today. It was scary late when we got up. No one was late, thank goodness. I even was able to pack lunches before we left, but had it been a normal day it was have been bad. Because I definitely dropped the kids off at school still in my PJ's. That is why I need to start going to bed earlier. Because I wake up a train wreck when I don't.

So I took my book with me to pick up the kids in hopes that I could finish it. Ummmmm no. I am NOT on the last chapter. LOL. I could have sworn I was but I definitely am not.

So I am learning that the prettiest nights are the coldest. I was walking Whiskey tonight and it is so beautiful out. It feels like you can see all the stars, they are everywhere. I could just stay out there and stare up at them all night...except it's like in the 30's outside. Why can it not be that pretty outside and be like 60 or something, something reasonable?

Ummmmmmm so I did a bad thing :) more obsessive than bad. LOL.
So I was telling mom about that house on Panda. Now I have always remembered Panda as a small street. Anyway so I was telling her I had no idea where that house could be because that street is so small, and it's a dirt road. So I say...WTH, let's go see it. So.....well.....ummmm....yea we drove down there. It's not a dirt road anymore...

I was hoping you would have called today. I wanted to talk to you about possibly going to see Brittany this weekend?

Well I hope you have a great day. I love you! I miss you!

I.Regret.NOTHING

don't look at me like that mom.

this is the most fantastic food I've ever tasted. Where has this been my entire life?

That was what Addison was saying tonight at dinner time. Even when she was hating getting her nose cleaned out because some how she managed to get spaghetti sauce up. her. nose. It was up her nose. But she never regretted her choice to eat the most delicious meal she's ever tried. It was adorable.

It's funny how adding more kids means adding WAY more work. I feel like I got so much accomplished this weekend and even got to bed early. But now the two that need the least amount of help and the least amount of attention are back and house is in disarray (but the kitchen is clean...yay for tiny victories) and it is past 11...I'm still up. O how I would have loved to have been in bed at 9PM. O well...maybe tomorrow, but I won't hold my breath.

I love you and I really miss you a lot! Like a lot a lot. I feel like these next few months cannot go by fast enough.
Have a great official first day at your new job my love! I love you so much! Good Night

house

That pretty much sums up my day. We didn't leave the house. We only went outside to walk the dog. It was nice to spend the day with just Addison. Not having anything else to do, we played and talked all day long. I got laundry done, and the kitchen cleaned, even the fridge got cleaned out (it's the small victories that make me happy). Only thing that sucks about the kids being gone and no food in the fridge is...Cheerios for dinner. HA!
But it feels good to want food again. But my head hurts so bad still. It eased up some after I had a little caffeine. But not much. Enough to make it tolerable. It hurts worse when I bend over to pick something up. But I am 80% me...yay!

So....ummmm.....Lily doesn't want to cheer anymore :(
I told her she has to finish out this season and she doesn't have to do it anymore. We had a nice long talk about it. She said it was fun, she used to have fun. Now....they've sucked all the fun out of it and it just sucks.
OOOOOOOOOO the words of an adolescent. They're so eloquent with their words.
I was hesitant for her to do to this. I had a feeling this would happen. I did not expect it to be as intense as it is. But I knew it was a different world from pop warner. I tried to warn her, I tried to tell her it was going to be so much more work. But honestly (and I don't think it is HER coaches) I think how rough the choreographer and apparently one of the other coaches chimes in on our girls but those 2 people are the ones I tell you talk very ugly to the girls. I haven't seen them talk ugly like that to our girls, but I have seen them talk ugly to the other squads. You know Lily, if someone talks ugly to her they are not going to get anything positive out of her. Mattie was telling me a couple days ago that it was really bad at Annabelle's tumbling lesson. Apparently they told a heavier girl that her body type does not allow her to do the same types of things as skinny girls can do. It looks different when they do it and when you do it.
 OMG! I would/will be so angry if I find out that anyone talks to my child like that.
After watching those two coaches, IF Lily does decide she wants to continue with competitive cheer...we will be shopping and auditioning for new cheer teams. She won't be with Davis again. It takes a lot for her to hate something the way she now hates going to cheer. Someone broke my sweet baby and her new found love...

I hope you had a good first day.
Have a good day today! I love you so much!
I cannot wait until you are here and I can actually talk about things like this. Goodnight my love.

This Week...

What can I say about this week besides I survived! I lived and so did all of the children. No fatalities over here. Woo Hoo!!!

Today was better than just about every day this week. I am feeling pretty much better. Still just have a really bad headache, it has to be because I am dehydrated. We over slept but everyone got to school on time.

O MAN! So I got a call from the school nurse today. I missed it because the ringer on my phone is always off (I've got to change that). Anyway it was right before school let out. I tried to call her back but there was no answer. So I called the kids' dad and told him I just missed a call from the nurse just so you know when you get the kids. He said I know, I just got off the phone with her. Christian hit his head in class, she said he seems ok but he'll need to be watched for a few hours. So I hadn't taken the kids' clothes to their dad's house yet because I really just wanted to go home this morning. So I took their clothes over later. I asked Christian how his head was and he moved his hair...OMG! The bump on his head is HUGE! HUGE! Poor thing! I cannot believe he was able to hit his head that hard at school. But he said it was playtime and he was being kind of crazy.  But poor guy, he said he didn't cry. I would have. 

Have a good first day! I love you! Have a great day! I miss you so much!!!

 just sittin here like a big girl with my toys.

 watching the Today Show lol

 It's ok mom don't help me stand...take your picture first.

 She loves her dog :)

I love this face! It looks like a mix between baby duck face, and the people's eyebrow.
She does it all the time. I love watching her make this face.

Stray Dogs...

So the back of the neighborhood has a new friend. She is a super pretty blue pit. I saw Jenna with her earlier so I asked her if she needed help getting it home (thinking it was theirs) she said no she's got it and she skips away with this collarless dog following behind her. NOPE! Stray! Now we have a big blue pit walking our street. LOL. Dammit Jenna.
I was mainly concerned about taking Whiskey out because she loves everyone and runs up for you to love her. But Whiskey will not want to love her...he will want to eat her face off. However, I was able to take him outside without any issues. So no problem.

O and Vanessa said on FB that rumor has it that poor sweet girl's puppies were dropped somewhere. That makes me angry. It is supposed to freeze! Her babies are going to die. That makes me hate people.

So speaking of hating people. HA! JK. But seriously.
The kids' father FINALLY text me...at FOUR wanting to know if they kids still wanted to come over? Well...DUH of course they do. So he came and got them shortly after that and they are getting to spend the night with their father. Which they were happy about. So mom and I had dinner together, since our St Augustine plans got changed at the very last minute.

I cannot remember if I told you or not that Addison's 2 top teeth are almost in! It is exciting stuff. She smile Sunday and I saw them.

But I am feeling o so very sick, so I am going to bed 20 minutes earlier than usual. LOL.
I love you! Have a good day!
I miss you soooooooo much!

Eternal Summer

So that Florida weather everyone has been griping about all Christmas is welcome to come back at any time! Well...I don't know...maybe a few more days of colder weather would be nice. But it is cold. BRRRRRR!!!
So I am not sure if I injured myself or slept wrong or it is the weather. But when I got up this morning my knee and my hip hurt so bad I could barely move. It hurt all day today. It wasn't as tight as it was when I first got up but it was sore all day long. So then...on top on feeling sick...I have a "pimp limp" LOL!

Luckily school doesn't start back until Wednesday! WEEEEEE!!!!! Hopefully I can get myself back together by then. Poor Mason....I made everyone kind of veg today so I could rest and about the time I fall asleep Mason is in my face. "I'm Bored...Are you sick? Why are you sleeping?" LOL. I said I hope I'm not sick but it sure feels like it.

So I got to use my Christmas present from mom tonight! I. AM. SO. EXCITED!!!! I haven't shown it to you yet. I kind of gave her some hints of things I wanted and I think she did a fantastic job!

I got to make beef stew in my/OUR new cast iron dutch oven.....WHAT!!!!!! It was pretty yummy. Everybody ate everything. Addison had two plates. Christian liked it so much he didn't even question the HUGE mushrooms, just gobbled it down and then ate all the juices. Lily ate everything except 3 mushrooms. She was fine with them until Christian said "are those big black things mushrooms?" ummm...yes, why? "O I didn't know. They tasted like the meat"
Then Lily got all weirded out and wouldn't eat them.

It was funny watching Addison eat. This is the first meal she has had with that much "flavor". I usually leave most of her foods pretty plain. She even ate the meat.

I don't think I am going to go to the gym tomorrow. I feel a little cruddy and I HAVE to go Tuesday....super early. So I may take a lazy day. One thing I am really not looking forward to in the next couple weeks is all the "new year's resolutions" people. I think that makes me a horrible person for feeling that way. But seriously on Wednesday the line to join was out the door....out.the.door! RIDIC!

Anyway I am going to bed. I still not feeling well. I love you baby! Hopefully we can talk to you today! Goodnight!