I love my house

Today I am loving my home. Usually I wish for a different one. I want more yard, bigger this, better that. But today I just love my home. The flowers are growing outside and look beautiful. It smells like the chicken I have in the crock pot, which later will be turned into chicken noodle soup and chicken salad on croissants. Its fairly clean. Clean enough that I don't feel bad getting on the computer rather than picking up. Maybe its the stress relief of school being over. My happiness abounds on that issue. Maybe I am just grateful that I have a nice home in a nice place and most people don't. Its so easy to take things for granted. Its so easy to always want more. But today I am just happy with what I have. I also haven't updated about the Beast and I parting ways. Yes the Beast is no longer with us. I am now driving a Honda van, one that I have to admit I didn't want. I just wanted my Beast. But now I love it. Its really a nice vehicle. The other day I was driving down the road and my cd player is a 6 disc so it flipped to the next disc and it was Sublime, now this is not news but a song came on and I got to listening to it. Now mind you I have heard this cd a million times and I was like what is that noise. It was the water bubbling in the bong, I have never heard that before, that's how much my new vans stereo kicks ass. I now hearing bong bubbles! Anyhoo the moral of this post is I am happy with what I got and I am loving life, and I hope everyone else is too!

May 13, 1997

Eleven years ago today I gave birth for the first time. I was scared, confused, lost, and in a lot of pain. Today my little girl became such a big girl. We didn't have a party for the first time. She got her hair highlighted and went shopping. We had lunch with her best friend and her mom, and her restaurant of choice was Olive Garden. We had cheesecake for her birthday cake. It's amazing to me to watch this child grow up on her journey of becoming a woman. Today I felt like she took a big step closer. I know that she is constantly growing and changing but it seemed like today of all days she really grew up. Long gone are the days when she wants toys. As I think about the past and the future, I realize I am still scared and confused and lost. I am scared that I am doing things wrong, I am confused by the things that children do, and I am lost in this new tween world of hers. There is also the pain of child rearing, its not much better than the pain of childbirth. Your child has the ability to rip your heart out with a sentence or a act just as easily as they ripped through you to enter this world. But today I am just celebrating my child, trying not to worry and just enjoy her while I have her, as she is fast approaching her womanhood.

Party like a Rockstar!

So last night was my big moms night out. The first since my birthday. I had so many plans. Those plans involve drinks, bars, dancing and high heels. So first of all my foot is still bothering me from the pulled tendon, so I was wearing flats. Then some friends could not make it and started just getting tired and out of the mood. So I ended up having dinner out with the Queen, having a major hot flash and not wanting to finish my margarita. Yes I am aware that I am 30 but I have been having them for a couple of years now due to my pmdd. So we came back home and sat and talked about having babies. Rockstars we are! Really we get away from the kids and talk about the kids. Then she goes home and call my friend who had my kids and get my boys back. That's right my big night out and I am home with my kids who were gone for the night and in bed by 10:30. Jealous aren't ya'll? Maybe next time I will tie one on, last night was just not the night for me.

The end of the year

Its that time of the year again. Its all over with! Yep school is letting out and children are rejoycing. Mothers on the other hand are bitching. No its not because we are about to be subjected to our children 24-7, we knew that part of the job when signed up. Oh no its a whole other complaint. The dreaded teacher appreciate weeks, end of year trips, class parties, teacher gifts. Educaters I beg of you stop the insanity. I can't afford to keep this crap up. Really! Its a pain in my butt and my pocket book. Its just too much to do and they pack too many activites into too little time. I wonder if the teachers ever want to say hey lets not do so much, hey you know I have kids in multiple schools I wonder if the parents have a hard time making everything also, hey this might cost a little too much. I don't know if they do or not but dang it they need to! I am absolutly sick of it! Bring on summer, it's free!

Attention Target Shoppers!

I just wanted to let you fellow target shoppers know that when you are using the facilites, you know the single toliet next to the pharmacy, its a good idea to keep it on the down low. I frequent this bathroom quite often, sometimes have to wait for someone to come out so I can go in. During such occasion I sometimes am party to listening to your sounds. The bathrooms are not soundproof I can hear you grunting in there! This makes me worry that the air quality will not be safe for me to venture into when you are done. So fellow shoppers I warn you keep your grunts to yourself cause they are broadcasted throughout the entire health section of Target. If such thing doesn't bother you, well more power to you and can you please shop at the Walmart across the street. Thanks!

The bad kid

We have a week every school year called teacher appreciation week. Every day you bring the teacher a different thing and a parent volunteers to take the class to lunch so the teacher can have duty free lunch. Today was my day to take the class to lunch. A 4th grade class. Peace of cake right? WRONG! A boy looked me in my eyes and told me he didn't have to listen to me, then he sat down and called me a bitch. Another child would not stop talking about strippers. Almost every boy in this class was acting out and being horrible. It was insane. There are 19 boys in this class. I don't think boys are bad, I just think they put every bad kid together and stuck them in this class. These kids were so bad. I was shocked at how they acted. I used to think Taylor was exaggerating when she told me how good the girls were and how bad the boys were. I thought she was just bragging on her self and her fellow girls. I wonder how much more she would learn in class if the teacher didn't have to deal with keeping these boys in line all day long? I know that it was my choice to put them in public school, ok well not really, hubby refused homeschooling and we cant afford private school times three. But really did I make a mistake? Will my youngest son go apeshit crazy in a few years and become one of these bad boys? Is it a full moon?

It's my birfday ya'll!

In honor of my birthday today I have prepared a very special post.
Thirty things to do since I am 30.

1. Fly in a plane
2. Leave the country
3. Eat sushi
4. Go to baseball game
5. Drive a stick shift and not stall
6. Get a facial
7. Get a massage
8. See snow
9. Go to the Caribbean and get my hair braided
10. Get in shape
11. See the Northern Lights
12. Run a mile
13. Go to a Mardi Gras Ball
14. Make it to Pirate on Horse Isle
15. Catch a really big fish
16. Have matching bedroom furniture
17. Beat expert on Guitar Hero
18. Teach my pug to roll over and play dead
19. Learn to make hospital corners
20. Learn to speak a foreign language
21. Own a donkey
22. Own my own gun
23. Try tequila shots
24. See George Strait in concert
25. Go on a cruise
26. Go camping
27. Clean a fish
28. Eat fried ice cream
29. Learn to knit
30. Learn to not care what others think and live my life to the fullest