Cody baby has decided....

or he "THINKS" he's decided he wants to try his hand at riding bulls.

Big sigh...I keep saying...what doesn't kill us makes us stronger....OVER AND OVER...LOL. He said something to Charles about it...but he also added, but I don't think Mama wants me to...WELL DUH!!! Lawd love that youngin' And people wonder why I don't let some things faze me...it's because I'm sorta kinda numb...**giggles**

Charles said...oh let him...**mama look** to him. He said...well I did it...then he adds...don't look at me like that...LMAO! I said...my point exactly...**giggles**

I guess it's one of those wait and see...and PRAY ALOT!!!!

Oh I think I've bitten off more then I can chew....

Breathe in...breathe out...DO NOT PANIC!!!!! Okay the shirts are here...and I've just started on them....cross ya fingers....breathe in...breathe out!!!

I do embroidery on the side to help pay for little things...you know like...KIDS...LOL

Anyway....I embroidered a few red polos shirts for a guy that I do embroidery for. He showed the samples to the school and I get an email from him YESTERDAY saying that the school wants 40 shirts, and that he's sending them to me.
THEN he says in the email...oh by the way...they want them by Monday, due to the fact that they have a FALL event on Tuesday...**insert BLANK stare**. I sent him a reply of ROFLMAO. He sent me back one that said....OH PLEASE...OH PLEASE...TELL ME YOU CAN DO THIS. He's NUTS! He has failed to tell me WHEN I would be getting the shirts.

I emailed him back and said....ummm Frankie...it takes me 30 minutes for EACH shirt....that's gonna be 20 HOURS!!!! Funny...I haven't heard back from him yet. So if they show up today...I'll start working on them...and I'm having Cody's 17th birthday tonight...so when everyone leaves...then I'll start back to work on them again. And hopefully will get them done and out of the house by Friday evening.

English teachers.......aaarrrrrgggghhhhh!

Katie came home from school Friday, on one hand she was tickled to death...she made the volleyball team, but on the other hand she was almost in tears.

She told me that her English teacher had called her and another little girl to his desk on Friday and said to the one little girl...you have 7 AR points and Katie you have 8.5 AR points...it seems that the two of you aren't trying. AR points are points that you receive after you've read a book and take a test. Katie told me Friday that they are optional, but she had told me that she was trying for a goal of 100 this year. And I said more power to ya.

The teacher told of the girls that he was going to give them MORE work so that he will know they are reading, he said maybe even get your parents to sign it. I looked at Katie and said...fine with me, you read to me every night...or if you don't actually read to me, I can see you sitting on the couch reading. She has read 3 books in the last 2 weeks...which is a GREAT accomplishment for her. She read...I Would Tell You That I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You and Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy both by Ally Carter. She loved these books, and I said to her while she was reading the last one...do they have the AR test for these books, she replied back to me...I dunno, but I can ask and see if they can get them for me. She's still waiting on the answer. Then we got Heaven Must Look Alot Like The Mall last Saturday and she finished on Monday after school...and again, I said to her, is there an AR test for this book...to which I got the same reply. Now she is reading Twilight and this book does have an AR test worth 12 to 16 points. I asked Katie if she told her teacher she was reading this book...and I got a no ma'am.

I'm afraid that the teacher is now going to take the love of books that she just found away from her because he doesn't think she's trying hard enough. I asked her if she wanted me to call him or email him to tell him what she has read and is waiting on whether or not there's an AR test. Again, I got no ma'am.

AARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

Boy miles sure do rack up fast......

Over the weekend I helped my bestfriend move...from Atlanta, GA to Falls Church, VA. I'm not sure exactly how many miles it is...all I can say is...MAN OH MAN is that a LONG ride/drive.

We (Charles and I) left on Thursday night driving to Atlanta...we got there around 11:30PM and I immediately went to bed. We got up around 6AM on Friday morning...that's what time the movers showed up. And they moved boxes and furniture ALL morning long. Charles was driving the rental truck. At around 2PM we left Atlanta and Maril started out driving my car, and when we got to SC I took over the driving. We got to Charlotte, NC around 5PM...just in time for rush hour AND race traffic...LOL. We made it to Winston-Salem, NC around 7:30. Her hubby met us and the 4 of us went to eat. She and Luigi went back to their hotel, Charles and I came home. We hit the sack....ZZZZZzzzzzz (out like a light)by 830PM.

Saturday morning we got up around 4:30AM...left the house to meet up with them so that we could get started on the drive to DC. We pulled out around 6AM...and finally arrived in Falls Church, VA around 1:30 - 2:00PM. We had to go to a public storage place and have 1/2 of one of the trucks emptied. Then we went to their apartment and had the other 1/2 of one truck unpacked. After that Charles moved the one truck and backed the other one up so that it could be unloaded. At this time it was around 5:30PM. Charles got into the rental truck and I got into my car and we left to take the truck back to the rental place. I picked him up, and we hit the road coming back home to NC.

It was midnight when I pulled into the driveway back at Home Sweet Home. I hit the bed as soon as I walked into the house and did NOT move until 8AM Sunday morning and then I only rolled over and went back to sleep.

Talk about a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGG trip....phew! I did tell Maril that I was NOT going to help her move EVER again....LOL

Why are decisions so hard?

I went outside to feed the dogs yesterday and I noticed that Katie's dog (Rosie) was yelping when the other day just barely touched her. These dogs are around 8 or 9 years old.

Not too long ago Rosie was acting funny, so Charles took her to the vet and she had heartworms (it's a LONGGGGGG story)...the vet treated her and she seem to have gotten better, but now she's back (to me)where she was before and I just don't have the money if the treatment isn't 100% guaranteed.

The hard decision part comes in here...if Rosie continues to get worse, should I have her put down and then if I decide to....do I tell Katie and ask if she wants to go with me or do I act like she just died one weekend while Katie is at her daddys?

I just don't know what to do....I feel like I would be lying to the child (well DUH), but I don't want her to be crying her eyes out.

Big sigh

Teenage Boys...and clothes washing.....

Poor Cody decided the other night that he "NEEDED" to wash clothes. Here's a little side note...the boy HAS jeans, but for some reason he likes only ONE pair. So he decides he needs to wash his jeans...LOL.

He puts the dark colored clothes in the washer and then goes...what do I do now? So I got up off the couch and walked him thru the process...NEVER knowing or even thinking about the drying process...LOL.

After the clothes were washed (I was fast asleep by this time), he put the clothes in the dryer. The next day I came home from work and he had folded the clothes...yep, my bras and panties were in that pile of folded clothes.

Well at that moment I thought to myself...WELLLLLLLLLLLL....you will never get back into THOSE again. I walked into his room and sat on the bed and said....Cody honey?....can I tell you one little thing about drying clothes? He cut his eyes to me and said...ummmm...you'll never fit into those again? I looked at him and just laughed and said....you got it....I went on to say...do NOT EVER dry a females bra and panties...it's just an unwritten law. He looked at me and grinned innocently and said....yes ma'am.

I tell ya what...I love that boy...which is a good thing, or I would make him wear my panties so he could see how it feels...LOL

NAS Oceana Airshow 2007

I went with a couple of friends to Virginia Beach over the weekend and we went to the NAS Oceana Airshow. Cindy had gotten us tickets to sit in the executive chalet. But on the way there while in the parking lot there was a car to our right and Cindy says....I don't care if it's Rudy...don't let him in and Mike...well he let him in...and we all went...OMGosh IT IS RUDY!!!! (from Survivor)...LOL


After we parked and got thru the gate, we were walking to the chalet and this NAVY guy driving a golf car limo stopped in front of us and asked if we would like a ride....we looked at each other and said...SURE! Then we looked at him and said...why us? He said it was his job, and I burst out to laughing and said...what's your job, getting the old people from out of infront of the gate? He started to laugh, and said...nah, just to drive around and give people rides. We were like how cool is this? And if you read Sin's blog she'll do a better job at this then I will...LOL.


But we got there and the show was wonderful...plus the fact we were UPCLOSE too. She, Mike and I got challenge coins from the group of guys that actual fly the F22 Raptor.


We left the airshow, went back to the hotel, got our chairs and Cindy and I walked down to 31st Street Park and listened to the NAVY band playing (Mike had finally joined us)...and after the band finished, you heard whistles blowing and I looked up and said to Cindy....ummm...here come the Blue Angels...and they (the pilots and all the crew) walked into the park and right in front of us



They stayed in the park for a little meet and greet.

I know I had a great time and I would like to thank both Cindy and Mike for letting me tag along. And WOW...I didn't notice that the date was THAT far off on my camera.

Redneck High Dive....Labor Day

I had told the kids that I would taking the pool down soon, so they decided to play in it today. With the ladder...aka....Redneck High Dive...LOL. I was scared to death that they were going to get hurt. And thank goodness they didn't.

Car insurance....

It's a racket...it's gotta be. Got the bill for the 6 month premium. Uh huh with Cody on the insurance now well can you say...I need to take out another mortgage?

I gave his father the bill with the amount circled in PURPLE marker and I had written under it, how much he owned. He looked at me and goes...what's this? (now I'm thinking DUH, you can't read?) I said it's the car insurance...you know 6 months? He goes ALREADY?!?! I went...well yeah. He takes it and looks at it and then says to me....well I'll have to take this home and look it over and I'll let you know.

Okay...I might not be the smartest person on the planet, but I'm NOT as dumb as a box of rocks....he'll let me know what? The temperature for tomorrow...the winning lottery numbers...why he's such a butthole?

I paid the insurance and now it's a wait and see situation...but if he doesn't pay his 1/2 I do believe I'm going to tell Cody about it.

Wal-Mart Giftcards......

It doesn't take much...okay it might with Katie.....LOL. But Charles had a gift card to Wal-Mart for about $30 some dollars. And I honest to goodness don't know many men what would take a 13 yr old shopping....LOL. He took her to Kohl's 1st and they waited on MY phone call to say if I had or had NOT won the bid on Ebay to get the TI84Plus (or something like that) calculator. And I called to say...nope with 7 secs left I did NOT win it. So off to Wally World they went....and with a $30 some dollar gift card...I think Charles thinks they will use it for it...but Miss Katie has OTHER things in mind....like a cute little jean jacket and pants that she saw (and when I say little I mean newborn to 6 mos). She saw it the other day and wanted me to buy it for Charles grandson, but I didn't. So now she's going to use Charles' gift card to get it. Which is funny, because she told me before hand that she wanted to use the card for that purpose. I do believe that Charles will be shocked and pleased.

The minds of little ones....lawd love them.

Boys at play...LOL

Cody and a friend of his Dylan were bored the other day. So Cody took his go-cart over to Dylan's and they decided to see just how muddy they could get. Cody took Katie along for the ride and she's the one that did the video taping. And let me tell you, I think his jeans and shirt had to be washed 3 times before anything came off. As for his hat, he's so proud of the new "orange" hat that he has...LOL.

THANK YOU CARRIE!!!!!

I started reading

while at work yesterday and finished that bad boy today!!! I loved it. And a person from the BB contacted me today and asked about getting me a book...soooo I'm the getting from her. I can't wait!!!

July 4th at the homestead...LOL

It was decided that we should host a light show at the house last night...LOL. And me being me was skeert to death, SINCE Cody experimented with one of the fireworks and it went whizzing by my head into the neighbors yard....HOLY HANNAH!!!! All I could say was, my kids are going to be pyros when they grow up...I just know they are :)) And as you can tell, I thought if I turned the camera vertical that it would be able to get the firecracker shooting off and exploding....WRONG!!! You just get a crick in your neck from turning your head sideways...LOL



Katie was running around with an ace bandage on her left wrist...she decided she wanted to be Supergirl, and went from the landing to the bottle step, but missed that one and landed wrong...THEN jumped in the pool and hit her hand. Sooooo, she now has a sprained wrist.

Today Katie called me and told me that she was Student of the Year in 4 of her classes!!

Then her voice turned sad...and she then told me that she was only able (by the school) to receive 2 of them. I was like...WHY????

She said that her chorus teacher told her that the school thought it was unfair to other students. I'm sorry but Katie worked hard in her classes, why should they penalize her for working hard. She was told she had the awards for....1)Chorus 2)Art 3)PE and 4)Social Studies/Science.

She receives the actual award tomorrow and she was told that she would get the one for PE and Social Studies/Science. She said that she didn't know ANYTHING about ANY of them...except for chorus because the audience was told last night at her concert that she was the 7th grade Student of the Year...and now she can't have it. I know that life isn't fair, but dang!!!

My reasons for Mother's Day....

Here are the two reasons why I enjoy Mother's Day.

THEN.....


NOW!


Thanks y'all...I love ya!

Big Party Night....

My middle nephew, Ryan, is graduating tomorrow from UNCG. He's the ONLY phew that has graduated from a "COLLEGE". His degree is in biology and he wants to go into cancer research.



Congratulations Ryan!!

Breath Deep.....

I received a phone call just a little while ago from Katie's grandmother wanting to know if Katie went on the trip to the zoo today. I said....well yeah she went. Then she said....have you heard what happened?

Deep breath....no...what's happened. She proceeded to tell me that the kids got on the bus at school, and while sitting in the parking lot one of the boys got up to go to the bathroom at the back of the bus. He opened the door and to his surprise there was another little boy in there...WITH A GUN!!! These are 7th graders that I'm talking about.

The one with the gun said to the other one...DON'T TELL ANYONE! So the poor, scared little boy went straight to the front of the bus and told the teacher! I can't be grateful enough to him for having the guts to do it.

The teacher unloaded the bus, and then went to the back and opened the bathroom door...got the punk off the bus and called the cops. After that the other students boarded the bus again, and off to the zoo they went.

I haven't heard from Katie yet, but I did call her cell phone...which is turned off. I left her a message and asked her to please call me when she got the message.

The school has not called me yet to inform me of what happened today.

And my kids wonder why I have headaches...LOL!

All I can say is.....

I have one of the NC Wildlife Archery Champions living in my house!!! C's team went to the NC State Wildlife competition today in Ellerbe. Their 1st event of the day was archery....well my stomach was in knots, due to the fact that Cody had a run in with the coach on Thursday. To make a VERY long story short....I took hats and shirts to the coach for the team on Thursday, and I had to take C's bow case out of my car and C said to me....Mama, please don't bump my bow, I don't want my sights out of alignment. And then he said something like, cuz I don't know if I can get them fixed.

Well his coach heard it and SCREAMED at the top of his lungs at Cody....$10,000 Cody is what it's worth....are you throwing it away.....yadda yadda yadda....and he proceeds to walk into the school and C is following him with the shirts....well the coach THREW the hats and shirts on the floor and then turned and got into C's face and continued to YELL at him. I finally stepped up, when I could move, since I was so shocked by it all, that I froze. And I said....Come on C, WE'RE GOING HOME!!! (he was suppose to be going to practice that day). And then me being the Mama....shoved the door to the room open and said, in a NOT so low voice....NO ONE TALKS TO MY CHILD LIKE SHIT!!!!! NO ONE!!!

We got in the car and I called his daddy...told him what had just happened and he asked to speak to C. C said to his daddy....I don't want to shoot ANYMORE....NOTHING!!! I don't want to go to State. So he and I went home. Next thing we knew the phone was ringing...it was the coach and I wouldn't answer it.

I was FURIOUS....and when I did sorta kinda finally calmed down, C and I went to return the coach's call, only to hear K say...hang the phone up, he's here in the driveway. Yep, the coach had shown up at the house. Jeff (the daddy) had called him and told him what C had decided to do...that he was NOT going to compete. The coach came to apologize to both of us....he had apologized earlier to Jeff, and Jeff had said to him...it's NOT me that you should apologize to....it's C.

So the man apologized to C and then started and I said....NO! You will NEVER talk to my child like that again!!! Then I said to him....let me ask you a question....if that had been YOUR daughter....and someone had YELLED at her....what would YOU do? He couldn't answer me. Instead we got to hear about how he was emotionally and physically exhausted, how he puts so much time into it....and I said....well you know, you are not the only one. These kids do too, and so do the parents that make sure they are at practice and make sure they have shotguns, rifles and bows.

He looked C in the eyes and said....All I can say is...I messed up, I'm sorry...I can't take it back, but I wish I could. I said to him....I want you to know I was so mad at you, that I could have bitten the heads off of penny nails. I looked the coach in the eye and said....YOU CRUSHED HIM!!!! and when you did that....it BROKE MY HEART!!!! The coach then looked at C and said....please tell me that you'll shoot on Saturday. C sorta put his head down and then nodded...and said....yes, sir. I looked at him and said....are you sure? He cut me a look and said....yes, ma'am....so I looked at the coach and said....We'll be there Saturday...but if you EVER think about yelling at him again...FOR NO REASON....just remember, I WILL TAKE A STICK TO YOUR HEAD!!!!

We talked for about 1 1/2 - 2 hours. And on Friday I went to school and signed C out early, then took him to the bow shop to make sure that his bow was okay for the competition. Now getting back to today and my baby boy the champ. Like I said up above the 1st event was archery, and the 4 team members for archery got up to the lines...there were 16 in all....East Forsyth and 3 other teams....and they started. C was doing wonderful.....5 in the yellow....moved back to 15 yds....5 in the yellow.....move back to 20 yds.....5 in the yellow....and by this time, I had my fingers crossed...and asking the good Lord to be with him....move back to 25 yds....5 in the yellow....HE HAD JUST SCORED A PERFECT 200!!!!!!!! He was the only one on the team that scored that and the team won 1st place in the state for archery!!!!! There were only 4 perfect scores in archery.

And Cody came in 2nd place in the state for archery with a score of 200 and 6 x's (bullseyes). When he was shooting and realized that he had shot the 200 he had the world's BIGGEST grin on his face!!!!!!! And I had tears streaming down my face. The art teacher at the high school (who helps them with the orienteering part of the competition) came up to me as tears were running down her face and hugged me, and whispered in my ear...I KNEW he could do it. I was hugging her back and said to her...so did I. Then her son who was in the competition also, walked up to Cody and grabbed him and hugged him while they were walking towards the targets to get their arrows.