I can’t believe it’s already 2009. Will, Rhiannon, Trey and I went to a party at my sister’s friend’s house.  We shot fireworks and ate pizza.  I would have had a better time if my head wasn’t so stopped up. I couldn’t even taste the pizza.  That’s aggravating considering that Will and I bought them.  I also got a little aggravated because there was still some pizza left and I guess my sister just let her friend keep it.  She didn’t even ask if we wanted to take  it home (I mean we paid for it).  I guess I’ll know to speak up the next time lol.

Jake went to his step mom’s.  She is going through a divorce with Jake’s father and it hasn’t been easy on her.  She has two kids (twins) with him and the only way that Jake gets to see them is if he goes to her house.  I don’t mind though.  We’ve become friends over the years and she’s always been good to Jake.  His father on the otherhand, is one of the most selfish people I’ve ever met.  He never calls Jake, but yet he tries to blame me for that.  Jake has a cell phone and he has the number.  So there’s no reason for him not to call him.  But I don’t think it affects Jake much.  Will has raised him since he was around 22 months old.  It affects Jake’s brother and sister a lot more because they lived in the same house with Jake’s father for like 9 years. They love to see Jake though.  I’m not sure how long he will stay over there.  I told him to just call me when he’s ready to come home.

Well I need to get off this computer because Trey just got up and I’m sure he’ll be wanting something to eat lol.  I hope you all have a very blessed New Year!

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I hope everyone had a great Christmas.  Mine was pretty good.  I had a great time with my family.   It seems like I’ve been busy since last Saturday (the 20th) .  Rhiannon’s 8th birthday was on the 20th .  We had a party at our house and I figured that since it was so close to Christmas that it would just be mostly family here.  But there were about 5 girls from school that she invited that showed up.  A friend of mine brought her little girl here.  I think in all, there were about 6 or 7 girls here.  I am glad that there weren’t more kids here because they were so loud lol.  Then later on that night our family had a little Christmas party. It was fun and there was really good food there.  On Christmas Day, my kids got up at 7 am.  I didn’t get up until around 8.  I would have slept later, but I knew that my mom was going to cook breakfast so I decided to get up.  The kids loved what Santa brought them.  Trey got a Vsmile Pocket and has hardly put it down :D. Will got me just about everything I had on my list .  We don’t spend a lot on each other at Christmas.  We’d much rather get our kids and the rest of our family stuff.  But he bought me some perfume, some makeup, and a bath set (I love those!).  I got him Stargate on Blu-ray, a new pair of jeans, and renewed his subscription to Game Informer.  Those were all things he’d asked for.

We had Christmas dinner at my aunt’s around 2 or so.  All of the food was really great, especially my sister’s Poppy Seed Chicken.  My kids like it too, so i am going to have to get the recipe from her.  Will doesn’t like it so I guess he’ll just have to eat something else when I make it.

Trey has a cold and has been running a fever.  I’ve been alternating Children’s Motrin and Tylenol .  It seems to help.  He gets so aggravated though because his nose is stuffy.  I am hoping that he feels better soon. He hasn’t been eating a whole lot, but he is getting plenty of liquids.

Ok, well I need to get started taking my Christmas decorations down.  It seems like I just put them up yesterday…

Tags : Christmas, family, kids

I think I have finally got all of the kids Christmas presents (well I think Trey may get one more from us).  I have even wrapped several.  I just haven’t been able to get in the Christmas mood this year.  I guess it’s because we’ve had a little financial difficulty lately because of Will not getting as many hours as he usually does.  But I am thankful that we have a roof over our head and food to eat.  God takes care of us and for that I am very grateful.

Rhiannon’s birthday is Saturday (she’ll be 8!) and she’s going to have a birthday party.  She invited some friends from school, but it’ll probably just be my family because everyone is so busy this time of year.  But I’m sure she’ll get nice gifts and I think she’ll love what Will and I got her.  Since she doesn’t read my blog, I think I can say what it is.  We got her a nice little digital camera.  She’s been wanting one for awhile now.  We got one at Wal-mart the day after Thanksgiving for a really good price.  I think she’ll like it.  I’ll have a couple of months to save up for Jake’s birthday..he’ll be 12.  Wow..I feel old.

It amazes me how well Trey is talking.  I mean he’s 3 and a half,but still.  He picks up things so quickly.  He has learned to suck up too :D.  His favorite thing to tell me to butter me up is “You so purdy” and “I love you sooo much!”.  And yes, it works everytime

Tags : birthday, Christmas, kids

Wordless Wednesday

And yes, my two younger sisters got one too (of course they say middle child and youngest child lol)

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Every year, Demopolis, AL has a Christmas parade on the river. It’s really neat because they have all kinds of different floats on the water.  After the parade, they have a big fireworks display.  We went a few years ago, but since then, we’ve forgotten about it. I think that’s because we are just so busy with other stuff.  But I’m glad we remembered this year.  Trey is old enough to enjoy it.  He didn’t pay much attention to the floats but when they would shoot fireworks in between the floats (it took a few min for the next float to come by), he would look up and say “Oooooo, purdy”.  Everytime they’d stop, he’d say “I’m ready1″ (meaning he was ready for them to shoot more :D) .  He really enjoyed the display at the end of the parade.  I got several pictures and I have to say, I love the way the fireworks showed up in the photographs.  I’ll post a few pictures.  (I have more, but I am thinking about starting a subdomain photoblog)

I have been stressing out so much lately.  I have always been the type of person to get overwhelmed very easily.  Some people remain calm when their bills pile up, I don’t.  That’s just one of the things I’m stressing over.  I’m also stressing over school.  I want to hurry up and finish so I can get a decent job, but it’ll probably be at least another year.  I have to take some courses in a certain order so that’s why it’s taking me that long.  Then last night, my sister got mad at me over a blog post on another blog of mine.  I use the other blog to make a little extra money and to post random posts (which often include rants).  In a way, I could understand why it would make her mad, but then again, she’s done the same thing to me. Except when she got mad and posted a blog about me, it was on her myspace. She didn’t mention my name, but people who know us would be able to figure out it was about me.  She actually has people on her myspace that know us in real life and live around us.  Most people I know in real life don’t even know I have a site.  Also, the blog post she read, she had to look for.  It was not on the front page.  I was not in a good mood yesterday and her email about the post just set me off.  She has a very confrontational  nature and doesn’t think twice about firing off an email to someone she’s mad at.  And I’ve always been very fiesty and quick tempered.  So when I got the email, I pretty much told her off.  We emailed back and forth several times.  I’m sure she’s still mad at me.  I probably should have just deleted her email but I just get so tired of people thinking they can tell me off and I’m not supposed to say anything back.  The blog post I wrote referred to her being bossy (she’ll tell you she is) and wanting to plan everything.  I don’t think it was mean, it was just me venting about how it annoyed me.  She rarely ever visits my blog so I didn’t think she’d even read it.  But I don’t care that she did. I think I’ve figured out why some people don’t like me..well certain people anyway.  Control freaks don’t like me because they can’t control me.  I’m not a leader or a follower, I’m just me.  I like to do my own thing.  And if people don’t like me because of that, fine.

Ok, I didn’t mean for this to turn into a rant.  I’ll try to make my next post more cheerful .

I used to feel silly for being addicted to a book series. That is, until, I saw my 50 something mother reading it.  She’s into it just as much as I am.  I actually sat in her kitchen talking to her about the characters as if they were someone we know in real life.  I usually don’t have time to read, but I can’t seem to put these books down. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about (is there anyone who’s never heard of the books?) there are 4 books (published anyway) that are in the series.  The first one is Twilight, of course.  Then there’s New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.  The books center around a girl who falls in love with a gorgeous, charming vampire.  But really, the books are better than that.  I mean Stephenie Meyer is one of the best writers I’ve ever read. She puts so much emotion into the characters and it’s so easy to visualize them.  It’s almost like having a movie playing in your head .  I’m reading Breaking Dawn now and it’s awesome.  If you like fantasy type books, I would definitely recommend reading them.

I convinced Will to take me to see the Twilight movie on opening night. I really appreciate that because I know it was not on his “must see” list.  He just thought of  it off as another “chick flick” but went to see it with me because he’d heard me talk about it for months now.  While we were watching the movie, every once in awhile he’d whisper a question about what was going on.  I sat there, grinning, because I knew that meant he liked it.  He even told me the other day that he’s kind of ready for the 2nd movie to come out (even though he doesn’t like to admit it).  I heard that many guys who thought they wouldn’t like it actually enjoyed it.  It’s not a total “chick” flick.  I mean there are vampires and an awesome action scene in it. I wouldn’t mind seeing it again, but I’ll probably just wait to buy it on DVD.  Ticket prices are just ridiculous but that’s a whole ‘nother blog entry!

Tags : books, movie, Twilight

We had our Thanksgiving dinner yesterday because my mom works and wanted to have enough time to cook everything.  We usually have dinner over at my aunt’s house, but she and her husband decided to go out of town this week to see some of his family.  So we just ate over at my house.  My mom cooked a lot of the food. She made her yummy cornbread dressing (not stuffing, there is a difference), turkey, and potato salad.  My sisters brought poppyseed chicken (if anyone wants the recipe, I’ll post it), rolls, beans, blueberry crunch and some pies.  Will fixed some shoepeg salad, sweet potato casserole, and a ham.  I cooked corn meal pies (also called chess pies).  I was glad that I didn’t have to cook anymore than I did.  I can cook, I just don’t like having to clean up the mess.

I did get a little aggravated though because my sisters were like an hour and a half late and I was starving.  If I hadn’t of been so hungry, it probably wouldn’t have bothered me.  I managed to sneak a few pieces of ham though, just to tide me over until they got here .

Oh, I almost forgot.  We went to some sales early Friday.  We got to Wal-mart at 5 am and there were already people leaving the store with their stuff.  I got most of what I wanted to get and got out of there by around 6:30.  I don’t like being around that many people so I was glad when we could get out of there.  There were a few rude shoppers who pushed past me without saying “sorry” or “excuse me”.  But there were a lot more who actually did have manners and were very polite.  I tried to be as polite as I could too because I know that there’s no sense in acting stupid over material things.

Ok, well I still have to finish cleaning from yesterday..so I’m going to go do that before I lose my motivation .

Our Christmas Tree

Tags : Christmas, holidays, tree

While we were at my sister-in-law’s Saturday, Trey started picking his boogers..and eating them!!! Of course I immediately said “Eww, Trey, that’s nasty, stop doing that.”  My mother-in-law ever so thoughtfully chimed in “Well, you know they say that when a  kid eats their boogers, it’s a sign that they are deprived of some kind of mineral.” I bit my tongue, but I was thinking “No, my kid is eating his boogers because he’s 3 and that’s what little kids do.”  It annoyed me because it was like she was trying to make  a jab at me and imply that I don’t take care of my kids.  Then she found out that Trey still takes a binky.  He doesn’t ask for it as much as he used to, just when he’s tired.  But Will’s stepsister’s little girl is like a year old and I guess she had left hers on the floor.  Trey, being a kid, put it in his mouth.  I immediately took it away from him and he didn’t throw a fit at all.  My mother-in-law started telling him he was too old for a binky (this coming from a woman who let her kids have a bottle until they were 4).  I just did my best to ignore her.

When we left, she came up to me and hugged me but the way she pulled my head over, it was more like she was thinking “I so wish I could choke you right now.”  Once we got in the car, I told Will I’m sure that’s what she was thinking.