Good Saturday morning to you all

It's the weekend and I think on this blog "quest" I am on I will take the weekends off from writing unless something drastic needs to be said... so with that have a GREAT weekend and I will see you all Monday!

Friday Morning

Good Morning everyone who reads... or doesn't. Today has started as a wonderful day. My loving husband got up with our daughter @ 4:30 this AM, so that I didn't have too; fed 3 boys and got 1 off to school, all without waking me up... God has truely blessed me with a wonderful husband who tries his hardest to make me happy. So yesterday I really wanted to get the front bathroom floor done... well not really really, but I know it needs to get done; and wouldn't you know it... I didn't get it done. And why is that you may be wondering... well, laundry was priority and then it was figuring out dinner and putting that together, then the kids (and mind you there is an extra one this weekend)... and lots of playing, a movie with the husband in the middle of the day... all in all it was busy but full of fun with the kiddos mostly. SO today, I am REALLY going to get the bathroom floor done! lol... we shall see! and I need to start to planning a fun filled day at the park with ALL the kids for tomorrow... and more laundry :) So have a good day and God bless which ever path you take today!

Irritated

So I was going to wait to post another one of these until later tonight, however I'm a little floored right now... My 3 year old Nephew (Danny's son) just came over to spend the weekend here with his Dad and with us... as I'm talking to him after hugs and juice... and as I'm taking black nail polish off of his fingernails (per his Dad's request) he tells me "My Mommy says you're bad." WOW! I knew she still blames me for her breakup with Danny (which btw was ALL his doing thankyou) because we had to move in here... But WOW! So now I'm sitting here floored... absolutly floored! If I were in Danny's shoes I'd want the parent to know, so I took a break and talked to Danny.. outside, away from ears... and I'm thinking to myself if this kid really felt this way why the hugs... why the "I missed you" ... Hmmm so Danny came in and talked to him and this wonderful, sweet 3 year old says "I didn't say that Mommy did," lol I just had to laugh to myself... I'm a good person with faults; his mother and I have known eachother 17+ years and this is not the first time something like this has happened between us... she hsa always blamed me for something or another and that's alright... because I know this WAS NOT my fault. So in the meantime the 2 boys are playing, having a good time and Jesse and I are cleaning things up around here for another couple of hours until it's off to do some running around with the kiddos and guitar lessons for Dakota. I guess this really just floored me because up until now I thought (and I know better) that she was doing really well keeping her opinons away from her kids. Does she not understand that our 2 boys are joined at the hip? It's two peas in a pod, just 18 months apart. Does she think it's ok to bad mouth me in front of her kids yet ok for Jesse and I to watch her kids? How fair is that? It's not, but we enjoy our time with him and miss the other two girls so much it hurts... 17 years of friendship does not discenigrate with a fall out of any sort. On another note (gave that WAY too much attention) I think we are going to the fair tonight if we can swing it... it may be too hot and we may try to go when Danny is with us. It would be fun to go and just see what is there. My sister in-law entered some photographs she has taken and I would love to see them. we shall see if we can make the fincial arrangements to go. I'm looking at everything we have to do by the end of the month and what June is going to provide... June is SO busy! We have a graduation of Jesse's cousin Betsy on the 10th, Danny's birthday on the 20th and of course Eclipse on the 30th! Busy busy month but well worth it! next month is also Dakota's last month of school and I am so looking forward to that... a few weeks at the ranch with his Nanna will be good for him I think; although, Micah will miss him so much! O.K. off to finish my daily chores and then some before I run out of time. Dinner is already in the crockpot and the kitchen is done... laundry is started and the front bathroom is next... oops look at the time I think lunch should be started first! May God be your guide today and may you always follow whatever it is he places in your heart!

Another day here @ home

Good morning readers (or to myself) So today we shall see if I can get more things done ... or not. The kitchen it pretty well scrubbed down and more laundry needs to be done and so forth and so on. So in the spirit of this blog (as I can see it going this way) I will write later on what has happened today - until then here's the outline of what I know is supposed to happen... Lucien comes back to the house today for the weekend so he will be here... The boys room needs to be gone through and re-organized... LAundry of course.. the bathroom and floors in there need to be done... Guitar lessons for Dakota later this afternoon... and perhaps some yard work when it cools off this evening. Wish me luck and lets see how it goes

n the day and the life of me

So today was eventful - to say the least. My eldest son got a referral yesterday and on the referral it stated "recess detention for saying a BB GUN WILL HURT SOMEONE"... WOW! was my thought; why in the world would a 9 year old get into trouble for stating the obvious? So of course off to the principles office I went today, along with my husband... and the #1 answer I got was "It was a conversation that went wrong"... O.K. so the school is now telling me that because my son knows the differance between right and wrong and when another student tells him that BB guns won't hurt someone and my son CORRECTS him it's ok for the teacher and princeiple to over-react and get MY kid into trouble? Umm NO! What has this world come too? So here we sit, in the principles office explaining that Dakota is VERY black and white... he calls them as he sees them and it is NOT ok for him to get into trouble for stating the TRUTH! nor is it ok for him to have to apologize to students who (according to him and this was addressed) are trying to "mob" him in the play ground for a conversation THEY WERE ALL having! This is how my day starts... GREAT! So on to the rest of the day, everything is going well here at the house, grocery shopping and cleaning and laundry... pretty uneventful stuff. But an under-lying sense of something is wrong. If you have or have ever had a spouse you know that when your husband asks you "what's wrong" and you have TRIED to talk to them for weeks this is bad... well a blow up occured between him and I. When I say blow up I don't mean screaming and yelling - we don't do that esp. with the kids home, it's not healthy for them to see that nor to hear it. So a conversation ensued and a bunch of stuff was released that doesn't need to be blown up here, it's a private matter or a sense of pride. But I will say that a lack of communication is not good and the sense of "just being really good friends" is not a good feeling either. Here's hoping he heard me (yes it felt that one sided) and here's hoping we can get through this. We have gotten through worse and with flying colors, I don't see us not getting through this one. Then dinner (burritos) and kids baths, now it's relax time and hopefully some one on one time with my hubby... without heavy conversations... night

The beginning

I've re-written this introduction to this blog more than once and I find myself rmabling, which means I need this blog more than I thought. SO let's try it this way, for today's entry I will give you a slight background on me and this household I live in and go from there. I'm 30-something, have 3 wonderful children; 2 boys and a little girl. I'm a wife to a wonderful husband who puts up with everything this world has thrown at us with support and love, who is also a WONDERUFL father to his children. I am a daughter to the most supportive and loving parents I think could ever exisit and an older sister to a brother and 1 younger sister. My children and husband and I recently had to move in with our longtime friend and his son, who is 18 months younger than my youngest son. There is alot to go along with way and when and I did not set this site up for that. My husband and I have been married for 5 and 1/2 years now and they have been wonderful years for the most part; we are only human and with Gods strength and love we have survived EVERY trial and tribulation together. Jesse is younger than by a couple of years and comes from a differant back-ground than I, but also comes from a loving family. My children are Dakota who is 9, Micah who is 4, and Mikayla who just turned 1. They are adorable and loving, stubborn and hard-headed, just like thier parents. Our roommate (who is my husbands best friend) Danny and his son Lucien are also going to be apart of this writting along the way because, with the cirumstances in today's economy we can not survive without them and them without us... this household is; in my opinon only, today's "Modern Family" and we make it work with communication and support. With all of that said I think as a begninng this is good. I do have to get going with "chores" around the house and will most likely be back later to fill you in with the rest of life that happens today! God Bless