Oops I forgot....

I forgot to blog. For well over a year.

So this is what I've done since my last post:

1. I got hitched to a wonderful man in Niagara Falls (I also brought him home with me).
2. I managed a T-ball team.
3. I became a tiger cub den leader
4. I found 9 stray kittens (no I didn't keep them)
   
5. I cleaned my house once or twice.
6. I made straight A's in college
7. I became a senior in college
8. I declared my Accounting/Business double major
9. I went to Pennsic.... twice...
10. I've hugged my boys 3,495,473,999 times.
11. I was an adult leader at Cub Scout resident camp
    
12. I went to New York City.
13. I lost 30 pounds... and gained most of it back.
14. I quit an unmentionable dirty habit.
15. I bought a new van because my old van's transmission died on my way to school.
16. I got an ipad.. sort of.. (Its actually Hubby's work's ipad)
17. I wanted to say I learned how to manage my time... but I didn't. Because I'm doing this right now instead of working on schoolwork.

Maybe I'll blog again before another 1 1/2 years go by.. We'll see...

Our space ship houses

So when Nathan gets big we are going to have houses that are very close to each other. His house is going to be made out of metal and mine is going to be next door. There will be skeleton hands and if y0u take out the skeleton hands the ship won't work because the house can turn into a ship. Inside the ship thats also a house are invisible hands. You don't even have to dress yourself because of the invisible hands. If you don't want to cook dinner the invisible hands will do that too and it only takes 1 second to make dinner. The flowers on my ship will be in dirt but they will never need water because I don't remember to water them. And even when my ship is flying the dirt and flowers stay there. And my house can make flowers for all of my friends.

If I want a baby Nathan is going to make me a baby girl. He's going to start with the brain and make a baby and its going to be a girl because I'm a mom and I like babies. He's going to use his bridge power with his wand to carry heavy stuff.

Nathan will spray me with the invisible spray so that nobody else can see me. But he can see me because he has the special glasses. But if he loses his special glasses he will get the special invisible seeing people power and he will still be able to see me. And if I want to become visible again he's going to spray me with a hose.

We are going to all have walk through power, so we can walk through anything. Nathan is going to be so generous he is going to give everyone walk through power when he's big, except for Jeremy.

If I grow up and have shape power I can change to any shape head I want to be, and then my face will be different.

When Nathan gets big and we live next door to each other in our space ship houses, if I want to hold him like I do now he is going to turn back into a little kid so that I can hold him.

Back again..

Maybe I'll do better this time!

Well last night Hunter lost his second tooth. He was so incredibly excited about having lost a tooth and the prospect of the tooth fairy visiting and getting MORE MONEY that he could barely get his pajamas on. Seriously. He was half dressed giggling around his room talking about money and adding up what money he already has and speculating over how much he would have depending on how much the tooth fairy brought him.

Finally he got dressed and we did our bedtime routine and the boys all went to bed. Well at 11 p.m. I realized that I almost forgot to tooth fairy. I had told Hunter that I needed to make him a tooth fairy pillow before he went to bed and he sounded really excited about that idea, so I decided to whip him one up. So I cut a couple squares, sewed a pocket on, serged them together on 3 sides, stuffed them and serged it closed. Super simple.

Then I started hunting the house over for some cash.. all I could find were a couple of ones and a ten. Well.. last time the tooth fairy brought him $4 he told me and I knew he'd be disappointed if I only left $2 or $3. So I went ahead with the ten... yes, I've set the bar high now and all future tooth fairy visits will be a disappointment if she doesn't leave $10 but I'll cross that bridge when it happens.

Well this morning at 5 a.m. I was awoken by a very excited boy with his tooth fairy pillow and $10. I told him, at 5 a.m., that I made the pillow but he didn't believe me. Then he went to sleep in my bed, with his head on the tooth fairy pillow. At some time between 5 a.m. and when we finally got up he asked me why it was so small, he was trying to sleep on it silly kid!!

So anyway this morning he was telling me that he "didn't think I made it because of the airplanes on the fabric" but I told him I have the fabric downstairs and I can show it to him if he doesn't believe me! How dare that darn tooth fairy take credit for something *I* made!!

Well I was going to post pictures but I can't find my phone/camera. So if anyone is reading this give me a call so I can find my phone!!

I'm baaaack!

I'm going to try to start posting again.. this one probably won't contain my usual, highly sought after wit because I'm just going to update..

So, after 8 years of marriage, 3 children, owning 2 homes and moving 4 or 5 times my husband has decided that he no longer wants to be married. Now, he doesn't like me to blame it on him and I'm not giving him all the fault for the marriage not working out but he IS the one who decided to call it quits. So that IS his fault. I tried to get us to go to counseling, etc, etc... but he's just done. Which is sad, very very sad. But I am OK!

I have my own place now in Hedgesville, WV. We moved up here right before he decided to end the marriage. Its a really nice townhouse with FOUR bathrooms.. yes I know, its crazy. Nobody needs 4 bathrooms but nevertheless I have them, they are there, and one of them is filthy because I pretend it doesn't exist. Its too many bathrooms to clean, plain and simple.

I am going to school full time, taking 18 credit hours this semester, in persuit of a degree in Nursing. I'll be graduating, God willing, in the fall of 2012.

Jason and I are trying split custody of the kids where we swap weeks with them. I am not crazy about this plan.. ok I don't like it one little bit. But as far as I can read and can tell, this is the best arrangement for the kids. They will have equal (or relatively equal) time with each parent. I do believe that my kids need their dad. Although I'm not the most feminine girl you've ever met I don't want my boys to become pansy asses who bake cakes and sew their own clothes--well, they can do that but I don't want it to be their major ambition in life.. well... its ok with me if it is. BUT they need to learn to do manly stuff that I don't like to do, like hunt. And gut fish. And mow the grass. Because I'm darn tired of mowing the grass. Whats the minimum age you can put your son behind a lawn mower?

Anyway. So thats a little update. I'll try and post something witty tomorrow. And a picture because nobody likes picture-less blogs.

What to do with an unruly child?

What did I do to deserve this? (Don't answer that Mom!)

My friend Tracy used to lament to me over how her son would just get into EVERYTHING. And I would always (secretly) say to myself "Well there must be something wrong with her kid because MINE don't do that kind of stuff!"

Hrumph. God got me for that one, let me tell you.

Jeremy, my youngest, is payback for thinking such a thought! He is CONSTANTLY into EVERYTHING! Yesterday he filled the bathroom sink to overflowing with water and managed to get a good 1/4" of water all over the bathroom floor. He regularly takes chairs into the kitchen and climbs up on the counters to get into the cabinets.

Today he was yelling "I'm making popcorn!" and I decided to go see what he was doing... yeah he had gotten a bag of frozen DEER MEAT out of the freezer, somehow managed to open it (it had been sealed with the vacuum sealer!) and was happily playing with chunks of raw deer. Yuck.

Clean that up, not an hour later I hear what sounded like beads being dumped out on the floor. Thought to myself "hmm thats funny, I didn't know they had beads" and didn't do anything til Nathan started screaming "JEREMY IS THROWING DOG FOOD AT ME!"

Yep. Jeremy got the bucket of dog food and dumped it all over the floor. Then was picking it up, two fistfulls at a time, and throwing it at his brother!

AGHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I'm sorry Tracy, and God. I have put my foot in my mouth.