Eleven Days And Counting!

I am so tired, first there was the all day trip to my sister-in-laws house for birthday/Thanksgiving/Christmas on Thursday, fun but tiring. I would post photos, but my camera died, I forgot to bring extra batteries, and the batteries that I got from my sis-in-law took a grand total of one picture before they too crapped out. It was so cute watching Jackson pull his dinosaurs out of their gift bags and kiss and hug them. Sierra-Lynn's day was also made, she wanted Guess who extra and connect 4 and got them both, now she doesn't know what to ask Santa for.

Then there was getting up at 4:15 a.m. for early morning shopping on Friday. And lastly, we have Jackson getting up at 3:30 a.m. this morning and refusing to go back to sleep. He wouldn't even play quietly, nope, not my sweet little pain in the ***. He screamed every 15 to 30 minutes, thus ensuring that Mark and I would not get any sleep. How do I get this to stop? He used to sleep through the night, why doesn't he now?

Anyway, Jackson will be turning 1 in 11 days, I have nothing finalized. Not that I was planning much, but I don't even know what kind of cake I am making, man I am behind. So far we have invited my little brother Joey, his dad (my step dad) and his wife and 2 girls, and one of Jackson's baby friends. I know that Jackson's friend will be there, but as for the rest of them, I'm not so sure. Hopefully I get confirmations, so I know how much to make for lunch. We will probably just do sandwiches anyway (quick and easy) or maybe tacos, those are always good.

Till later, I hope that all had a good Thanksgiving and I will post again in a few days.

Hot Tub Anyone!

Today has been one of those days. It was a co-op day, so it was automatically going to be long.

Jackson decided this morning that he was going to do everything within his power to hurt himself. He tried to throw himself head first from his highchair during breakfast. At co-op he climbed up on the kid sized picnic table and fell off, getting a gooseegg and a rug burn on his forehead, his nose is bruised too. He then preceeded to slam his little fingers in the cabinets, and got a cheese craker stuck in his throat and threw up all over everywhere.

Sierra-Lynn got to use a hammer in arts and crafts, they made "jingle sticks". It's a stick that looks like you would use has a sling shot and has metal bottle caps strung on a wire between the twigs. She decorated it with lots of ribbon. I can't believe the teacher was brave enough to give 5 to 8 year olds hammers, she's braver than I.

I, on the other hand, hurt my left knee again. I have had a problem with it since I was eleven and the car I was in ran over my leg to the knee. All I did today was straighten it and SNAP, SNAP, POP!

None of that Sissy Crap!

Are you tired of those sissy 'friendship' poems that always sound good, But never actually come close to reality? Well, here is a series of promises that actually speak of true friendship. You will see no cutesy little smiley faces on this card- Just the stone cold truth of our great friendship.

1. When you are sad --I will jump on the person who made you sad like a spider monkey jacked up on Mountain Dew!!!

2. When you are blue -- I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.

3. When you smile -- I will know you are plotting something that I must be involved in.

4. When you're scared -- we will high tail it out of here.

5. When you are worried -- I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be until you quit whining, ya big baby!!!

6. When you are confused -- I will use little words.

7. When you are sick --Stay away from me until you are well again. I don't want whatever you have.

8. When you fall -- I'll pick you up and dust you off-- After I laugh my butt off!!!

9. This is my oath...I pledge it to the end. 'Why?' you may ask -- because you are my FRIEND!

Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth. Send this to 10 of your closest friends,Then get depressed because you can only think Of 4 .

A Tale Of Lies

For the last 15 plus years, my family has been lying to me and my brother. Lies to get us to hate. Keeping my brother away from his dad and two little sisters.

I know this because I have been emailing one of the sisters and she put me in touch with Ralph (the dad). We talked, through email, last night for about an hour. Once I was able to let go of the hate and the anger that I had carried around for most of my life, I started thinking back to what I really remembered. Yes, Ralph had a temper and didn't handle things right sometimes, but he was also between the ages of 22 and 25 when he was with my mom. Anyone who has been around a guy of that age knows that they have a long way to go to fully mature.

Yes, he did hit my mom sometimes, but there were good times too. I remember those now that I put aside the crap that I was told by my sister and uncles. I also got the only thing that I have wanted from him, an apology. I plan to put the past to rest and move on. My family has caused enough hurt. My question to them, how can you hurt a child the way that you did? All the lies make you the bad person/people. As I have said, lying for any reason is never good and will always come back to bite you in the a** in the end.

I'm Cold.

I have never been a big fan of cold weather, but living in this place had made it even worse. I can almost feel the cold air come in through the walls. I could just be imagining it, but I doubt it. I have been in a better mood since last Tuesday, it's amazing how good you can feel, when you feel like your voice counts.

Anyway, Jackson turns 11 months old on Tuesday. When the h*** did that happen? He has finally started using his push behind walker. He is even mastering pushing it with one hand while carrying a toy/water bottle/whatever in the other hand. This morning he even pushed it into the kitchen and was walking around in there. (That is until I told him to get his tiny butt back in the living room.) He started trying to turn around and did fairly well until he hit the carpet and fell to his knees. He is starting to feel better, he still has diarrhea, but not as bad.

School with Sierra-Lynn is going good. She is taking to math very well. A few weeks ago, we started working on subtraction and (I thought that she would confuse it with addition) now we are doing pages that have both addition and subtraction on it and she is doing great. She is still having problems with currency, but then so is the government so I can't fault her too much for it! Seriously, I know that she knows the difference between the different coins but when you ask her how much a dime is worth, she starts at one cent and works her way to the proper amount. Of course she could just be doing it to get a rise out of mommy, and, unfortunately it is working.

God Bless

Happy Birthday, Sierra-Lynn

I would love to say that all was well at little miss Princess want to be's party went well, but during snack, she decided to throw a fit. One of the guests wanted to play a game while we waited for everyone else and she didn't like that idea. She should consider herself lucky that I allowed her to watch "High School Musical 3".

It took everything that I had (during the movie) to keep from laughing. I'm sorry, but there is not a basketball team in the world that is going to break into song in the middle of the game. It's like in "High School Musical 2", the bell rings for summer break, and instead of running for the nearest exit, they sing and dance all over school. Sure they did.

All in all, everything went ok, and the girls had fun.

Halloween Pics

Something happened to my USB cord, and Sierra's party was Saturday, so this is the first chance that I have had to post. Enjoy!