Someone Moved my Door

Those of you who know my family (well at least family stories) know that this means my day is Not the best!

When my son was 2 - I swapped middle child's and his room. In his room he was right across the hall from the bathroom and had to get out of bed and walk diagonally across the room to go potty. In his new room the door was a few feet from the foot of his bed. The first night after the big "switch" B my middle child came and woke me up saying S was crying. I couldn't hear him so I headed that way and as I walked into his room he was sitting in the floor diagonally from his bed and lightly slapping the wall. I asked "S what are you doing" and he turned to me with tears in his eyes saying "Someone moved my door and I need to potty". Needless to say it broke my heart!

Anyway now when we have a bad day or if something is not going as we wanted it too we will say "Someone moved my door".

Anyway why has my day been a "door move" day? (yes I heard you ask that) First I am exhausted - we went to the east coast of Florida Sunday & Monday (HAD A GREAT TIME) but I didn't sleep too good on Saturday or Sunday night so last night I was exhausted and didn't so woke up tired. Then our drive in looked a bunch like this.








Then having been gone yesterday my desk was stacked and I have a salesman who thinks my whole job is to assist him in doing his job. It is not - I will not do something that you can do - just because you think it is beneath you. I do not get your commission - I do not know what a good product to replace a discontinued one will be - it's not my job it's YOURS! (Okay enough ranting!)

Had to get a report ready for a conference call at 8 a.m. (WIP call - Work in Progress) I call it the WHIP report because I feel beat up each month after the meeting.

Best part of the day was going to lunch with my Honey! Then he blows that - when I thank him for taking me to lunch, I enjoyed it and am glad to be out of the office. He answers with I was desperate - I didn't have a lunch at work. (Actually I know he was kidding - I mean I am able to write in my blog - If he hadn't been kidding I'm sure I would be being booked for murder w/o access to a computer). I do love his humor - laughter makes life easier and that's part of how we survived 27 years in 16 days together!

Well I need to go pick him up at work (we carpool - yes we enjoy spending that much time together still!) So I will try to post about our weekend from home - where I will have pictures to show!

Challenge from my DIL

Your turn: copy, paste, and finish the sentence.
1. My ex is... I really don't have an EX so My Ex isn't...

2. I am listening to...a conference call - so basically people going blah blah blah(please don't tell on me :) for only 1/2 listening)

3. Maybe I should...be paying more attention to the call? NOPE NEVER MIND

4. I love....my family. My parents, HUSBAND, children (including all 3 inlaws) and my grandbabies.

5. My bestfriend(s)....is Awesome! She is always there for me (she maybe a little late - but that's just what she does)

6. I don't understand... people who talk trash about our country, president, or their spouses. Basically if it wasn't for our country they couldn't talk bad about our president for risk of being put to death! As for Spouses - they are the ONLY realitives you have that you actually got to pick so ........

7. I've lost.... my will to diet :) No my trust in people would be I guess the number 1 answer.

8. People say.... that I talk to much? that I'm weird? Okay how about People say the darndest things.

9. 10 years from now..... From my DIL's answer to this question I will have 7 grandchildren (I have 5 now) - Hopefully my whole family will be living within an 8 -10 hour drive from us (I know dear DIL that will mean us moving not you ;) but you never know what God has in mind)

10. Love is.....to be charished, but should never be fragile - it has to withstand many blows along the way. FOREVER (or what was never love in the first place)

11. Somewhere, someone is....asleep from reading my dumb answers. Actually first thought was Crying over the loss of a loved one.

12. I will always...... be weird. Love my family with an unconditional love!

13. Forever seems... too short of a time to love my honey!

14. I never want to.... have to be on a conference call again. Seriously loose a child/grandchild to death

15. My mobile phone is....... blue and has the coolest rings evah

16. When I wake up in the morning.... I want to go back to sleep. Where as my Husband jumps up and is ready to embrace the day.

17. I get annoyed when.... Randy jumps out of bed, talking and is all excited about a new day. Oh yeah and when I am ready to yak his ear off at night and he goes to sleep (they say opposites attract)

18. Parties.....are fun - especially if someone else has had to do all the set up & clean up :)

19. My pet.....Rock? I do not have any pets.

20. Kisses are the best when....unexpected! (gotta agree T)

21. Today I.....don't feel good, am stressed over how to be the best friend I can to someone who is hurting beyond my comprehension.

22. Tomorrow I will......sleep late? Do catch up paperwork from work (since I'm spending all this time at work not doing it)

23. I really want....to win the lottery so I can stay home. See my new grandson!

24. I cant wait.......until I see Nyki, Jeremy, Rylee, & Jakob (I would love to see Shawn & Tasha also - but who knows when that will happen)

25. I often.....blog at work.

26. I need......to be a better time manager so I don't have to do as much work stuff at home.

27. I think..... therefore I am.

28. My sibling(s)....lives too far away. Is great to talk to - but doesn't know how to use the phone to call me :) Is someone I have always looked up to even in my bratty days (you know last week) I have admired her.

29. My parent(s)....taught me everything, i.e. Unconditional love, how to cope with stress, how to trust God, how to survive in a world that is out to get you (in a non-paranoid sort of way - so stop talking about me. I know you are.........)

30. Life is..... to short, to be endured and other times moving too fast.

Your turn: copy, paste, and finish the sentence.

1. My ex is...
2. I am listening to...
3. Maybe I should...
4. I love....
5. My bestfriend(s)....
6. I don't understand...
7. I've lost....
8. People say....
9. 10 years from now.....
10. Love is.....
11. Somewhere, someone is....
12. I will always......
13. Forever seems...
14. I never want to....
15. My mobile phone is.......
16. When I wake up in the morning....
17. I get annoyed when....
18. Parties.....
19. My pet.....
20. Kisses are the best when....
21. Today I.....
22. Tomorrow I will......
23. I really want....
24. I cant wait.......
25. I often.....
26. I need......
27. I think.....
28. My sibling(s)....
29. My parent(s)....
30. Life is.....

Out of Town Again!

Twila is usually the one talking about me being out of town and how much she misses me, well of late she has been traveling more. I can tell you from experience that it's more fun to be the one traveling than the one at home alone. While travel isn't as glamorous as a lot of people think, you are busy. When at home you have the TV and food, not a good combo when you want to keep the weight off.

Anyway, I just thought I would post something since she is out of town.

Randy

Friday funny on THURSDAY

Hmmmm Might make it worth filling your car.


Prices are outragious - isn't it funny how when I was driving a small car it didn't bother me as much. (don't get me wrong I would NOT trade my new SUV for anything - well unless Gas hit's $6.)

Blood, Sweat, & Tears (oh yeah and PUKE)

Randy's still gone. I had a wonderful weekend anyway. (Usually when he's gone over a weekend there's a Party at my house - a Pity Party that is.) So here's my run down of the weekend.

Friday night: My best friend and I escaped - with no children. For me this is not an unusual thing but for her - Mother of 3 (one still nursing) it is a special treat. (Actually her husband is awesome about keeping the kids - I understand he even took all three to a ball game the night before so J. could destroy her house. She's swapping the kids rooms around and I think she only got as far as tear down and setting up a bed so the boys could sleep) I digress. We met up at her hubby's office he took the kids she climbed in with me and we were off. I thought we were heading to Kohls 45 miles away for the big sale! Which would be fun - however we did something funner (is that a word? - more fun?) Anywho, we decided on Sweet Tomoatoes for supper - we got there and saw a bar-b-que place and decided on it (again with my chasing rabbits - it was the best BBQ I have found in FLORIDA! - still ain't Texas style but was great) In the BBQ parking lot is an "Old Time Pottery" I have never been to one before - I've been to Cierra Pottery in Texas which is a lot like it but we had a blast! BTW the pumpkin candy dishes are glass - no one else has to test them to see if they are plastic - they are NOT. We closed the place down and still had not seen everything. We stopped at Starbucks on the way home - big mistake - Chai Tea has too much caffeine for me at 11 p.m. I got home and in bed about 12:30 and finally asleep after 2. Which would be okay but I had promised Britt I'd be at her house at 7 a.m. to keep the boys - while her and RC trained on the bikes (they are riding across the state of Florida in October and are in training for it).

I told Britt I would come to her house so that she didn't have to wake the boys up early. However they woke her up at 6 a.m. (YUCK!) We got them dressed and headed out because they wanted to go to my house. So as we are leaving AC said he was hungry so I suggest Chic-fil-A with which he responded. What day is it? I said Saturday. He said good because you said they are closed on Sundays. (I'm always surprised at his memory of what I have said previously - I think it's because of all the years that my kids were teens and didn't listen to me :) LOL) So we went to ChicLay (as Trace calls it) We ate - I let them play in the stinky playroom (Does anyone clean this room EVER?) until the Beauty Shop opened then we went a got both older boys hair cut. I was thinking man this 3 kids thing by myself isn't tooo bad. (THEN CAME SUNDAY!) So we went home they played Mommy and Daddy came to get them and I took a nap. Watched some TV and went to bed.

Sundays after Fellowship Bible Study - Grandpa and I go get the boys - because if they have to wait on Mommy and Daddy they are the last ones picked up. Which freaks Trace out - because one of the youth workers made a comment one time when he was the last that Maybe Mommy forgot him - so now even though he has NEVER been forgotten (something his mommy can't say - her mom forgot her 2 maybe 3 times - but that is whole nother story). So after the success of Saturday I'm thinking I can handle this by myself (normally I would have gotten just the older two and left Andrew in the nursery for mommy and daddy). So I gather them up we head out front to wait on the Parents. While standing out front in 90+ weather Sweating like pigs (do pigs actually sweat?) Andrew proceeds to puke on me - not just a little spit up but good old fashion puke. I'm trying to clean up from it and a friend of mine is standing behind me watching her grandson's play and I hear Patsy say Oh NO and AC screams. Comes running up holding his mouth crying hard. I'm trying to clean puke off my shoe and so I'm already kind of bent over and I start asking him what's wrong. I'm thinking he's been stung because I had just brushed a bee off of Andrews back. Patsy says - He just hit him with a rock. I get AC to move his hand and he is bleeding and saying Trace hit me. I call Britt on her cell - I don't care if I'm interrupting a class! She doesn't answer. I call RC he doesn't answer either. I have puke, blood, sweat and AC's tears on me. I see one of the Deacons come out of upstairs and ask him to step into the room and get Britt. He does she comes out and takes AC. Trace is bawling at this time - because one of his teachers have come by and I told her what happened and she talked to him about throwing things that aren't soft - reminding him they had talked about it before. So he thinks we are all mad at him. Britt yells over her shoulder as she heads in with AC (we still didn't know the extent of the injury because he wouldn't move his hand for long) to get RC. So again I send Todd in to get RC and he opens the door and says I think one of your kids are bleeding. So RC comes out. Finds out what happened and asked Trace why. Trace just freaks! For the next 1/2 hour he won't leave my side. I reassure him that we love him no less. He doesn't believe me - poor kid. Finally once we have Ice on AC's mouth (the cut is small and beside his mouth but looks awful!) Mommy talks with Trace and he calms down but still wouldn't leave my side. We leave Trace riding with me the others with Britt. We go to our house where RC bakes us Salmon (YUM) and things actually settle down and become normal. After putting Trace down for a nap and parking AC in front of the computer with his game and RC in front of the TV with the race. Britt and I take Andrew to go get his pictures made. We do a little shopping and have a great time. After we get home they gather up the boys head home to be ready for the Football game the AC & RC are so excited about.

So even though Randy was gone - and I had Blood, Sweat, & Tears (oh yeah and PUKE) it was a pretty good weekend. To be followed by the migraine from HELL on Monday.

How was your weekend?

Your Parting Gift is..............

Randy is traveling again (I should be more understanding since I was gone for 4 days a week ago) but before he left he got me a present :). So my parting gift is..........................DRUM Roll - Music Building. No I've decided not to tell you what it is. HA!

The grand babies are growing so fast! Jakob is already a month old and I haven't gotten my hands on him yet. (It's just wrong everyone else has - my mom & sister and Son, Daughter-in-Law and the rest of the family that lives in the panhandle has held him) and said he is a doll. I cannot wait to see him! Looks like it will be end of August or early September due to all the travel Randy and I are doing with work. Here's the latest picture of him and Rylee.

















Andrew is over 4 months old and growing so fast! I take pictures of him all the time but have none here with me (at work- shhhhh don't tell my boss!) so you will have to wait for pictures of him and his brothers.

Trace is 2.5 and he is the funniest kid. He bit his baby brother (no that is not the funny part) but a couple of days after he bit him - I asked Trace why did you bite Andrew? He said "I wanted to know what he tasted like." What do you say to that? I just said "All babies taste the same you don't ever have to taste another one!" He agreed and went on. He noticed my fish tank was gone (it took him almost 2 months but.......) he asked where my fish was. I said "It died" so he asked again where's the fish? answer It died and I flushed it. He said "Did it come out your butt?" I couldn't help but laugh - his mom corrected him for saying butt (that's what mom's do -you know) Anyway I told him no I poured him in the toilet with his water and flushed him. He went running to tell AC and he says - The fish came out Grandma's butt so she flushed it. HELLO! AC came in and said "Did you eat it?" So the whole conversation started again - next time I will wait until they are here to flush.

AC is fast becoming a computer addict he loves playing on the computer. There are worse things he could do with his time!

Okay you've waited long enough if your still with me I'll tell you. Randy got me a new TRUCK - a Ford Expedition - I can now drive all my grandbabies at once :) Happy DAYS!