Notes from picture morning

Thankyou for all of your opinions and cracks about me being phsychotic. I think it was the whole idea of myonly girls first school pictures. And I didn't have a favorite outfit, everything was just average to me so everyones help was fun! Last night Elle decided she wanted to wear the ogg white shirt which was #1 so I said fine. But this morning she decided that the pink shirt went better with her freshly painted pink nails so we switched but it was a lot of pink so i put the black vest on. She liked until we were walking out the door and then began to sob that she didn't like the vest. I admit I was hasty and said Elle just get in the car we are late!! When I got in the car I saw she had taken it off and stuffed it under her carseat. I didn't say a word about it until we got out of the car at school and I said are you sure you don't want to wear the vest? I said Dad and Aunt Becky liked it... and then Aj says yah I like it too, adn then Connor agreed it thought it looked nice. So she gets these big eyes and coos in this flirt little girls voice, "You do? OK i'll wear it." and was thrilled to put it on once more. SO there you go. I thought that only happened like in Father of the Bride, but no it happens now.
Did anybody read on the Stephenie Meyer website? someone she let read her partially finished Midnight Sun novel leaked it on the web. SO she is so distraught over she doesn't know if she'll ever finish it. And she doesn't want her fans going to find the illegal copies so she went ahead and posted what was leaked so anyone can read it. I think thats sad, and I really hope she gets over it so we don't all lose out because of one person!

Connor earns Arrow of Light!

Raspberries

Ok I realize that most of you will not be as excited at this vision in red as I am. These are raspberries from my own garden! I have been trying to grow them for 4 years and I finally have success!! Much of this success is due to the fact that Kirk built me a raised garden bed in the backyard! He does not like that it is filled with food plants, he pictured it a neat orderly place with rows of flowers. But I am trying to show him how great it is with all the food we've grown this year. the raspberries being the highlight of course. However this is difficult to show him when he doesn't eat any of the things I grow. I have green beans, tomatoes, strawberries and several herbs. So anyway Goergia is filled with wild raspberry plants but none of them produce, I tried cutting them back to see if that helps but it is no use, such a tease! My mom and sister who live in WA spent the afternoon picking blackberries on the side of the raod to make jam, how fair is that I ask you?? I who would love wild berries on the side of the road have barren plants. But to my extreme happiness I have successfully started a raspberry patch and here is the first fruit of my labor! I look forward to yummy fruit for years to come! Guess I am stuck in this house forever!

Kids

Don't get me wrong, my kids are great! They do soo many things right, but occasionaly they do things that probably aren't right, but maybe funny. I don't put those things on my blog page to make fun of them or anything. But to share a smile with everyone, kinda like the smile or cry. If I smile maybe I won't cry, you know what I'm saying? So thats why only a few days after my Matt post here is one for Connor. I wish you could see the picture because it is exceptionaly funny! Connor got in trouble for burping in the lunch room. So the lunch room lady made him write an apology letter to her which I now have to sign, here it is...
Dear Ms Dorsey, I am sorry you don't understnd that I couldn't help it! I had to burp. The burp was loud so they taught me to say excuse me! And then you got mad at me for burping!
It then has a very funny picture of him burping and then saying hah hah. Nice one. I don't think i will send berry juice boxes to school with him again.

Matt

OK so i can't give you the exact wording so this may not sound as funny as it is, even though really it's probably disturbing... but i have to laugh. Matt has been begging to quit band at school, he is tired of the trumpet and his band teacher won't let him switch instruments and there really isn't a lot of fun incentive to be in band, they only play twice at school and never travel anywhere fun to play. I've been trying to keep him from quitting. One night he was having one of his drama mama meltdowns and tried to get kirk to let him quit Spanish, band and scouts. So he brought a paper to Kirk to have him write a note so he could quit. Kirk wrote really funny, maybe slightly rude letters that he and I laughed and laughed over. The Spanish one was like Buenus tardas, Matt is running for the border and thinks he knows enough Spanish to survive so he will not be needing Spanish class. the band one was something like we regret that Matt wants to quit band how we will miss his angelic trumpeting floating through the hallowed halls of your school. SOO Matt tells me after he gets home from school today that he got his new schedule, and I said why? it's not time to switch schedules? He Totally turned in the band note and quit!! He told the office I'm sorry my dad wrote kinda a funny note, and the secretary said they get a lot of odd notes, the accepted it and took him out of band! What can I do?? I said well I'm bummed you will miss out on the learning opportunity, I think you would have fun playing the trumpet and you are good at it, but if you don't want to play that's your choice. I called Kirk and of course he almost fell off his chair laughing when we remembered what things he wrote! Gotta respect the inititive right??

2 birds

OK here I am showing 2 items i mentioned in previous posts. First this is AJ's favorite outfit, the cute plaid shorts with the bright tye die shirt, he would wear it daily if he could! It is cute, and he does like it.... Next this is my carpet, you can see it is light but there are dark flecks in it. Kirk liked it as a sample but he can't get over the feeling that it looks dirty because of the flecks, so it will have to grow on him. I am loving it! Although I did clog my vacuum twice yesterday andmy kids get off the carpet looking like we have a tan cat!

carpet

OK the drama of my week was we got new carpet in the whole house! It was over 10 years old and really needed to be put to rest! We went with a company that gives you a discount if you sign up to do it the same day they measure your house and if they can come the next day to install! So I had one afternoon to move everything off of shelves out of drawers off walls everywhere! I stuffed everything in bathrooms making 2 unuseable, the kitchen counter was wall to wall books, the basement, the garage... it was chaos! Then I couldn't leave while they installed so I sat on the blankets in the laundry room and called and texted everyone I knew to keep myself occupied. Totally worth it, after 8 hours the house looks great!I am slowly putting things back so maybe some of the stuff won't make it back! I am really enjoing the kids rooms with nothing in them but beds, however I assume I will eventuallu want the bathrooms again and so I will take the toys and pets out.
maybe i'll take the pets out, like all the way out and set them free!! The hamster, the snake, the 3 difffernt lizards, the turtle currently swimming in the bathroom sink, the 2 birds and the partridge in the pear tree!
I will post a pict of carpet once I can find my camera, and children...

Peanuts our bird/dog

Press pause on the music below before you hit play on the video so you can hear it. This is Connors bird Peanuts, sometimes I think he is a dog. He screetchs when he hears Kirk come home or wake up and come down stairs and when he is feeling neglected he makes this noise that sounds like a puppy crying. Sorry you can tv in the background, I couldn't get it off before I started recording.

Success

OK it seems the first day was a success. It was so great to see them walking out of the school! Elle was thrilled she loved everything! AJ was his usual it was good mom kinda reply while Connor said was it good without a lot of enthusiasm, but it was good none the less. Elle is making me come up with homework she wants to so bad. AJ is doing his grudgingly, while Connor is in front of a game arguing with me about starting home work at a certain time. Matt is home and really liked the 7th grade! He really enjoyed getting a upper locker even though he has to stand on his tip toes to see the combination.
OK poll time. AJ really likes to wear these green plaid shorts with a tie dye shirt. Is it my job as his mom to not let him wear this ensemble and explain fashion to him, or do I just let him go and be himself since he is only 8? Everyone give me your opinion.

1st day of school

Ok I didn't cry!! I don't know what is wrong with me, it's probably that the kids were just so darn excited to go to school that I couldn't be sad or even happy teary! The boys were sitting on the stairs this morning like it was Christmas! Connor is a little concerned that people will think his backpack is girlish, it's blue. But I told him it doesn't matter what anyone thinks but I will always buy him a new one if he has problems with it. They had to be one of the first students there, they were just so impatient to go already!! The last picture was me totally embarressing them so the boys didn't look and Elle whipped her head around at the last secound so this is the best pict I got of them going into school! Maybe I should celebrate by going back to bed! HAH! Now I have to get Matt on the MS bus...

The start of another school year

OK it's 9:40pm Sunday night and it is not all quiet through my house! The kids, well the younger three kids are in bed practically jumping on them they are so excited for school tommorrow. Its funny, school starts way too early and yet they are still just as excited to go back as we were when school started at the end of the month. I know the excitment will fade but for now I am thrilled they have it! Elle has the kindergarden teacher that AJ had and she seems much more relaxed and happy then when AJ had her so i am excited. AJ has the 3rd grade teacher that MAtt had and she loves me and hugs me so whats not to love. When Matt had her, her husband was going through cancer treatment and she was still tough but fair. Connor has a grandpa teacher which can go either way. But the secound he meet Connor he said "Oh Connor I have been waiting to meet you! I hear you are quiet the fisherman and my grand daughter loves to fish so any pointers you can give me this year would be great!" I felt so good leaving that classroom and it was not just the loopy drugs i was on from leaving the hospital only 3 hours earlier! I am not allowed to walk Elle in, so I will drop her off with the boys and they will walk her down to class. I imagine I will cry tears driving home, of happy and sad I admit. I will post pictures in the morning. for now I have to go fill out 4 sets of forms, get three backpacks and lunch boexes ready and pack some tissues in the car!!

14 Years!! Happy Anniversary!

14 wonderful busy years

Twlight weekend

Forks weekend

I am not done with my girls weekend in WA but I had to at least start my post about it! Mostly because Celeste told me I had to, hi Celeste I will be home soon! This has been a riot! I have laughed soo hard I've cried on several occasions! The area is so beautiful we were at the very tip of the united states, I looked across the water toward Victoria, where I will have to go next time.  It is so green, the dirt is green, moss everywhere, slugs the size of my hand!  we ate at the Bella Italia restaurant where the characters from our book had their first date and the food was soo amazing! The best food I can remember having in a long time! We got three desserts and passed them around which finished off Port Angeles beautifully. Forks WA is as small as it is described in the book and you couldn't pay me enough to live there full time. The area was gorgeous but there was no mall and NO movie theatre!! The grocery store was also their hardware/ clothing store!! Eck. We went to the midnight party to get our copies of the Breaking Dawn book and then Becky and I read the first chapter in the car with the light from our cellphones as we drove to the bed and breakfast where we stayed. We all read until 2:30 am and then were up by 7 to read again. We stopped only to eat breakfast and then drive to the La Push Indian reservation and read on the beach and could imagine Jacob behind every tree!! It was fun but stressful to be reading with 4 other women! Mom would gasp or laugh out loud Bex would say DON"T SAY ANYTHING! So we tried to read as fast as we could so nobody could tell us anything too fast!! Once in awhile I would ask what page everyone was on and if someone was close to me we would smile or grimace knowingly to each other. I won't ruin it for anyone but I LOVED the book. I was happy, estactic, stressed, worried, every possible emotion was used in the book and I loved it! We were done with the book by about 4 pm on sat and we immediately started again. I've now been through it twice and it's about 750 or so pages. Good stuff!! We are leaving with lots of inside jokes about chasms, hamsters, little dam road, and the pictures we did not get!! The pictures I did get I will post as soon as i get home from this marvelous trip! I feel rested and ready to attack school starting next week!! But only because i have to, because it really is too soon!!