WHY AM I STILL AWAKE!!!!

Okay....maybe I had a little bit of caffeine, but it wasn't Diet Coke....it was sweet tea....from Chick-Fil-A. Doesn't that make it okay? I am going to have a loooooooooooooooooooooooong day tomorrow. my 12 year old has a soccer tournament this weekend, 2 games on Sat. and 2 games on Sun. All 4 games are about 1-1.5 hours away and we have to be there @ 815am in the morning. I still need to pack lunches/fill water jugs/shower/charge camera batteries (they are dead from son's football) and then sleep a little before driving. Oh, darn, i just remembered that I need to get gas as well.....GREAT!!!
Other than that, everything is good. The children survived the 1st week of school. my 7 year old fell off of his bike and busted his lip and the meat of his gum and lip inside his mouth, it's really nasty looking.....maybe i can take a picture of it....hmmmm....
thank god he was wearing his helmet...it could have been worse.
Well, i better go and make some sandwiches before bed time. I hope you have a great weekend....

Command Post......Out!

SUPERBAD was SUPERGOOD!!!!

Especially if you love dirty humor!!!! I, personally, thought it was hysterical!!! The entire audience was LOL and applause broke out on several occasions.... It was well worth the $9.75 per ticket to see! How could this happen, you ask? Did you lock your kids in the closet to go to the movies? (we usually lock them in the basement....lol)
Actually, my oldest sons father and his girlfriend took the kids camping!! for 2 days and 3 nights as a last hoooraaahhh before school starts. Boy are they brave! We ended up with one of the worst thunderstorms that i have seen in a long time so the poor kids were stuck in the tent for 3 hours and yes, they argued the entire time, i think.........I wonder if they will ever do that again.
In the meantime, we managed to get some supplies for school, pack a few book bags. the kids are worried about which teachers they will have. my 9th grader is worried about such a long day at school....lots of work......
now they are sleeping and i am going to make their lunches and plan my day for tomorrow.
I hope all your 1st days at school go well!

My Best Good Friend

There is so much that I can say about my best good friend, but first, I would say that I miss her due to a recent move out of state. I met her when I was pregnant with my now 8.5 year old son. I never thought at the time that I would meet someone who was as bold as me, as mouthy (probably more mouthy than me), who had a large Bi-racial family like me, who was an anti-neat-freak like me, who had seen hard times, suffered loses like me and shared in a love for our FUNCTIONALLY DYSFUNCTIONAL families. So many of what we thought were negatives in our lives were kinda what drew us to each other. We didn't have to explain so many things to one another and the more time that went by the more we had fun. We have often compared ourselves to cartoon characters like Sponge Bob and Patrick. Then one day.......we realized.....that we were like PEAS & CARROTS! LOL My best good friend.....JENNY (yes, i know......that makes me Forrest, but wasn't Forrest smarter than Jenny?) LOL!!!! What will I ever do!! Who is going to make midnight trips to Wal Mart with me? Those spur of the moment Costco trips? And worst of all, who will get the absolutely, uncontrollably, tears down your face, pain in your cheeks and wind through your teeth giggles with me at the most emotional part of a quiet movie b/c someone is moaning in the back of the theater in a most er....sexual manner? Have you ever laughed until you thought you would pee yourself? Did you every actually pee yourself? Who did you laugh with? Does everyone out there have that 1 best good friend? Do we only get one and if no, where do I find another? I have felt such a loss since my best good friend, Jenny, has left. I know she is only out of state, but when you are a busy mom, it's not the holidays and birthday parties and events that make your friends so memorable. It's the everyday phone calls and knowing that they are right down the street if you need them for anything. it's all the small things.


I will miss you dearly and have felt the hole in my life already! I consider you family (yes, that means i want Christmas gifts and birthday money) For everyone else out, feel free to leave a comment about your best good friends. i would love to hear your stories!


WE WAS LIKE PEAS & CARROTS!


FOR MY BEST GOOD FRIEND.....JENNY

I'm Back....

Although I am not really sure where I have been! LOL! I have been busy with the kids getting ready for school and my oldest started football practice this week. He is on the Junior Varsity Football Team and is starting 9th grade this year. I have been to one baby shower, approached to photograph one wedding, have another child who has been asked to participate in a "travel" soccer team (higher level of play...and cost......and commitment), been working out a carpool schedule with 12 year old daughters travel soccer team, preparing for yet another long visit from my father, had one son with swimmers ear (doctors, money, prescription), trying to figure out how to pay for it all and just to put the icing on the cake.....found out my suspicions were true re: my blood pressure....yup....it's high.....and they put me on these water pills. That meant, though, that I had to go to the doctor and take the walk of shame to the scale! Oh yeah, just an FYI.....while my siblings chose to take the path of chemical addictions (alcoholics...both of them.....runs in the family....along with many other lovely things.....let's just put it this way...if we were dogs, we would definitely be spayed and neutered...lol), I inadvertently swapped one addiction for another. Drugs/Alcohol....exchanged for.....FOOD. Yes, I am overweight. It wasn't until about 4 years ago I realized that I had 1. gained so much weight 2. realized that i had changed one addiction into another. In those last 4 years, however, I really haven't done too much about it and I really don't know why. I know what the advice is.....what would be right and good...but I just haven't done it. It makes me think of that bible verse that says..."what i should do, i don't do, what i don't want to do, i do even though i know i shouldn't"
that pretty much defines where i feel like i am at. I had hesitated going to the doctors b/c I didn't want them to tell me to get surgery. I feel like surgery would be the easy way out (for me..not for everyone). I really think that the only way to conquer something like this is to do it the hard/right way. You have to change what you do/think/feel in regards to food. I think that maybe I have been down b/c i tend to see the Forrest, not the tree and I have really been trying to work on that. It will be a good change for me and, i think, everyone around me.
Needless to say, I have been busy. If not physically, mentally. I think when the kids return to school I will have some much needed time to work on some things for myself.
Well, that's enough dumping for tonight....hopefully I will have more time to blog and browse.

Still Awake....UGH!

it's 238am and i have been going through my box of papers that need to be filed. well, in my house it actually gets sorted about 300 times then filed, usually years later...lol. (i know it's terrible) i am watching DANE COOK : VICIOUS CIRCLE on HBO. he is sooo funny! so i am going through these papers and i saw something so sweet that reminded me why i love my kids sooooo much and why i try to be a better parent each day. what i found were last years Christmas lists. now, i have to give a little history so you know how we do things. keep your seat belts on cuz i am going to get a little spiritual. my husband and i don't think that Christmas should be an "ONSLAUGHT" of gifts. we feel that if you are doing your job as a parent, your children should have everything they need, and i stress the word NEED. even if you have financial difficulties, b/c God gives everyone what they NEED, just not what we sometimes WANT. we decided that the Christmas holiday was "supposed" to celebrate Jesus's birthday so what we do is ask the children for a list of their top ten things that they want and we pick out the three that we would like to get them. the 3 gifts are supposed to represent the 3 gifts that Jesus received the night he was born. the kids spend a lot of time mulling over their lists before they turn it in. (side note...they know Santa is not real....but they also know the story of how the legend of Santa started) my now 10 year olds list from last year, i think. (maybe the year before) reads as follows. (and i love all the spelling errors, they just melt my heart):

1. xbox star wars game
2. sony psp (his big brother has one)
3.bionicle
4. more time with Daddy & Mommy (I'll admit it..i cried when i read this....)

The rest of the list is pointless...look at number four....isn't it amazing how kids find a way to get their thoughts and needs met. he is the sweetest, most thoughtful, loving and caring little child i have ever met. don't get me wrong though, he can be sneaky like the day is long, but damn...he's cute! okay, that's plenty of gushing over my child...i am going to make my own self sick...lol.

back to the sorting..don't want to have an avalanche at the command post!

Out Of The Mouths Of Babes....

ROTFLMAO!!!!! Okay...let me start by saying that when my father stays with me, he likes to give the kids $20 bills for school work, report cards, birthdays and sometimes he just likes to see the look on their faces. Now, with that being said, my 7 year old LOVES to count money and is constantly saying, "so Pop Pop, how about that 20 dollars?". He pays attention to EVERYTHING. Anyway, my husband went to cash a check at the bank and took the 7 year old. Upon their return I was fittingly at my command post and this cutie came running up to me with eyes as wide as golf balls and stars around his head and proclaimed, "Mommy, mommy that bank B, B (and he said) plus B gave Daddy 105 dollars!" Now the bank is really called BB&T and it was the cutest thing to see his little face. He was so excited.....as if the bank just gives out money! Ahhhh......the bank giving away money $$$$.....we can dream, can't we?

From the Command Post!

Oh....the rain..

well, it was a rainy and pretty boring day. although, the kids have had a horrible case of the giggles over the last few days. we have been trying to do some laundry and house cleaning...get the house in some kind of order before soccer and football and back to school starts. (can u believe it's almost august already) I have also been trying to work on some photography stuff. I need to put a website together and do some advertising this year, in stead of just going by word of mouth. I should really be doing more with the photography. there is so much to do....school supplies....soccer registration....football equipment....getting up early in the morning (i HATE waking up early in the morning) yes, i know, i have 5 kids. 5 kids who have been thoroughly trained in the art of cereal pouring, oatmeal cooking and i even have a few who know how to cook eggs. Most of the time they even put their dishes in the dishwasher when they are done. Boy, I really don't like mornings...lol
Maybe I am just feeling old...I do have on starting High School this year. (maybe I AM old) LOL

Well, this 33 year OLD WOMAN is going to bed! See you next time...

FROM THE COMMAND POST!