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Surprise!

20 Sep

This is what I came home to yesterday afternoon:

Lovely little yard signs

Lovely little yard signs

I already had the Obama and Jim Roth sign, but Mae Scott came by while we were gone and gave us the John Moore and Obama/Biden sign. So far, there’s been no attempt to steal them so I am thrilled with that. It’s only a matter of time though.

Last night, Dare and Slaylen spent the night over with Jakob and Spencer. You have no idea how exhausting 5 boys, 1 toddler, and a puppy can be until you experience it first hand!

Yesterday, Randal Danger had to go get his mange dip and his final round of puppy shots. He thinks he is tough shit now. He growls and barks at everyone….even Dylan. But once he realizes who he is, he knocks it off right away and becomes the lover dog.

He started throwing up this morning along with uncontrollable shivering and refusing to eat or drink. I called the vet and he concluded that he probably got a nice taste of the dip and that’s causing to have an upset tummy. He said the shivers were a normal reaction to the dip. They said he was a rowdy little dude for the dip bath. He gave me some regalan to give to him to combat the nausea and vomiting. So far so good.

Here’s the most recent pic of our babe:

Randal Danger is handsome

Randal Danger is handsome

The  boys had their parent teacher conferences on Thursday. Maddux is doing WONDERFUL! His teacher said he is very well behaved (yeah, I was shocked too) and that he was doing well. He needs to work on a few of his gross motor skills (standing on one foot, hopping on one foot, etc.) and buckle down on his handwriting but other than that he is doing great.

Spencer is doing good too except for writing a few of his numbers backwards still. That is the only real issue he is having. I haven’t seen his progress report yet.

Jakob’s teacher conference went super too. He is doing great as far as grades go and he is behaving perfectly! I can not tell you how awesome it was to not have the teacher telling me he talked too much. She said that that day at school though, he got a pissy (not verbatim) attitude with her and she had never seen that from him before. She didn’t understand why he was having such a bad day and she asked him, but he kept saying nothing was wrong.

We got home and started talking to him and got to the bottom of what the issue was. They have Honor’s Choir at their school. Jakob tried out for it and was told to go back the next week because he has voice troubles. He went back, still having the voice trouble, and he didn’t make it. He was upset because he is the only one that tried and didn’t make it.

I know he isn’t going to be the next great singer because he does have that thing with his voice that makes him sound like he is losing it and I know that I can’t get mad because my kid wasn’t accepted, but I still ache for him having to go through that rejection at such a young age. Even though I am very much for not coddling kids and hate people who think that we all have to win when there’s only supposed to be one winner, there’s still that piece of me that would like to smack that teacher upside the head for telling him he isn’t good enough.

Anyway, I really need to get up and shower and clean house so I can chill and sew, so I am out! ♥

 
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Oh Sarah Palin, how you make my blood pressure rise!

12 Sep

Seriously, I couldn’t watch 2 minutes of her interview with Charles Gibson. She’s that annoying to listen to. I love how she COMPLETELY changed her opinion on global warming. She really needs to get her stuff together and be consistent while she’s feeding us all her bullshit. And OMGosh when she starts defending her “plan from God” comments. Boy does she do everything she can to avoid saying yes that’s what I said!

When I watch John McCain speak, I feel like I am watching a dang Zombie. He bores me so badly that I can’t even listen to what he has to say (not that it matters to me, but I want to hear both sides). It’s awful. I REALLY can not see why people are voting for him. At all. Though I am sure they think the same about me voting for Obama.

My Shana and her family safely managed to evacuate from the Galveston area. I hope that Ike doesn’t get as bad as they’ve predicted, but it’s not looking good. My Julie, who is in Houston, didn’t evacuate so keep them in your thoughts. I am not looking forward to Ike’s residuals, but I can’t complain about that since a lot of people will probably lose their homes and potentially, lives.

I have to get back to my sewing. I am letting the Dorothy dress that I made for Aud out and giving it to Gretchen’s little girl, Emily. We put it on her yesterday and it was freekin adorable on her, so I have some work to do with that.

I’ll probably be back later….who knows?!?! ♥

 
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Taking back the blog!

10 Sep

Initially when I decided to start blogging, I wanted it to be my outlet. I wanted to bitch if I felt like bitching and pour my heart out if the mood struck. Somewhere along the way, I lost that and it became about mundane things of our day-to-day and just the kids. No more.

Now you are going to have to put up with my political bitchings and praises. Now, I know that sometimes I will say somethings that my family might not get and surely there will be things that my friends don’t get. And that is ok. You just have to deal with that. If there’s ever a password protected post, it’s that way for a reason and if I didn’t give you the password, that means I don’t want you to read it. MmmKay?

My first bitch….If you compare yourself to a pit bull, don’t get offended when you are compared to a pig! Sarah Palin is nothing but one big ridiculous joke! Abstinence only and then your 17 year old daughter ends up pregnant? Riiiight! It’s effective huh?

Anti Abortion for all cases…..That makes me sick! Though, this is the same woman who made women pay for their rape kits at the hospital so I guess I shouldn’t expect much more from her.

She wanted books she thought were objective to be removed from Wasilla libraries. She even tried to strong-arm a librarian to get it done.

She won’t do media interviews until the campaign decides she’s ready? What is she, the Pope? Seriously, is the campaign going to protect her when she’s getting attacked by foreign governments when she is supposed to be fighting for our county’s rights?

She’s a disgusting woman and a WRONG choice to be a literal heartbeat away from running our country!

I digress. I could rant ALL DAY about how wrong this woman is, but I am sick of it for now (until some new story gets to the press anyway).

I am excited for the Obama/Biden ticket and I can’t wait to see the debates. They are going to be outstanding! At least on the Democratic front. I am not sure how the man with Alzheimer’s and the woman who can’t talk to the media without permission will fair.

Kids lie and it’s inevitable that they will be caught!

Yesterday afternoon Jakob came home with his friend Dillon. Nothing unusual, they walk here together everyday. Well, Jakob shows me 2 color pencils (yellow and black FYI) and a crumpled up piece of notebook paper. He proclaims, “I have homework, we have to color a leaf”. Dillon even popped up, “Yeah, we have to outline it in black and color over it in yellow”.

Yeah right I thought! A couple of weeks ago they DID have an assignment where they had to find 2 leaves to take  to school so I gave Jakob permission to go do this with Dillon. He had an hour to get his leaf found. Giving Jake the benefit of the doubt this time, I told him he could go to Dillon’s for 20 minutes. Off they went.

When they got back, I noticed Jake had come home empty handed. I asked him where his homework was. He left it at Dillon’s. I then asked him if this was an actual assignment or had they lied to me? They both swore it was homework until I threatened to call the teacher and ask. Jakob looked at Dillon and said “we are so busted”.

Busted is right my little man. I don’t put up with lying. He knows this. After almost 10 years of me drilling that in his head, I KNOW he knows this. The thing is, had he come home and cleaned his room, I would have let him go play at Dillon’s, but he wants to try to take the easy way out. It never works, but he always tries and always gets caught! He is now grounded for a week for lying.

Sunday we went bike riding! Maddux FINALLY figured out how to pedal his bike! It’s freekin AWESOME! He felt so liberated! So did I.

Spencer took his training wheels off his bike that day and is smooth sailing, kind of. He falls, but he gets right back up to try again.

Jakob was the highlight of the trip! The kid flipped over his handle bars and face planted on the concrete! And I missed it! ;-p He busted his teeth, his gums were swelling, his top teeth went into his bottom lip. Both his elbows have road rash on them and his hands are scraped too. All of that and neither of us freaked out! Hard to believe right?

Anyway….I have to get up and clean house! It sucks, but someone has to do it! I will be back later I am sure! Sarah Palin will always give me something to bitch about! ♥

 
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