Monday, June 23, 2008

Monday, June 16, 2008

Because that is the answer I would have given...bawahahaha

Grandmas don't know everything


Little Tony was staying with his grandmother for a few days He'd
been playing outside with the other kids for a while when he came into the house and asked her, 'Grandma, what's that called when two people sleep in the same room and one is on top of the other?'
She was a little taken back, but she decided to just tell him the
truth. 'It's called sexual intercourse, darling.' Little Tony
just said, 'Oh, OK,' and went back outside to play with the other kids.
A few minutes later he came back in and said angrily, 'Grandma, it
isn't called sexual intercourse. It's called Bunk Beds. And Jimmy's
Mom wants to talk to you.'

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Mail Call or not

I live in a small town and for the most part, it's nice.
It does have a few bleeps. Mail is one of them.
When I first moved here they had no mail delivery at all. You had to get a PO Box. We did. In fact we got two. One for us. One for our company.
Every year the cost of the box got a little bit higher. People started complaining. Then we find out that if you can not get mail delivery, the Post Office must provide you with a PO Box. A small box. The kind of box that a standard envelope gets mangled in.
We opted to stay with our current larger boxes.
Over the years they started delivering to some parts and we fall in those parts.
Last year when the company box hit 70.00 Bill got pissed.
This year when it hit a 100.00 he really got pissed. So pissed in fact he built us a mail box.
This mail box.


As you can see the mail box is made out of stainless steel. Thought behind that was in case some punk tried to take out the mail box, the mail box would take the punk out instead.

On to the change of address.
Putting up the mail box has cause our mail to just about disappear. Well it's out there some where, just not in our box.
It seems our mail comes to our post office and they send it some where else to have a forwarding address put on it and then if we are lucky it gets sent back t our post office and then put on the truck to be delivered to us .......ugh.

My new theory is, if I don't get my bills I don't have to pay my bills. It's the little things that let me sleep at night.....lol

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

They're Dino shaped

Libby has a rule. She has to text me when she gets to school. Two days in a row she forgot. Two days of wondering if she had an accident on her way there was more then enough for me.

So last night during dinner, I told her if she forgets again she would lose the car for a day and she could take the bus.

The look of death, the eye roll and the "How long am I going to have to do this?" Would have been a whole lot more impressive had she not been pushing dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets around on her plate.

In fact it make her look like such a kid I added two weeks to the time frame :P......LMAO

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

No really it's a true story

I wanted some water. So I went to the cabinet to get a glass.
I decided there was no point in dirtying a glass I would just go upstairs, get my water bottle. I needed to get it filled any way.
Got half way up the stairs and decided, I might as well take up the clean close on my way.
So I went and got them. went up the stairs and started putting them away.
I opened the closet and noticed Bill had hung one of his shirts on my side
That caused me to take a good hard look at the closet, which I then had to over haul.
While I was in our room I figured I might as well give the bath room a once over.
After getting done with all of that. I grabbed the dirty laundry and carried them down the stairs. While by the washer I decided to start a load of wash.
Came back in to the kitchen and realized I had forgotten the water bottle
So back up the stairs for the bottle.

No one in this family can figure out how filling a water bottle made me tired

Monday, June 9, 2008

It's a milestone

Well it's official. My youngest is driving.
The milestone is as much mine as it is hers.
No more carting her around. No more phone calls "Mom can you come pick me up, I don't feel like walking. Mom can you drive Kyle home? Mom can you take us....?"
It's a bitter sweet one. We both have new freedom. Which is good.
It also means My youngest child is almost a full grown adult. It makes me wonder what life will be like when the day comes that she is moved out and living on her own.
Of course it has also cause it's own stress. Every time she gets behind the wheel I worry.
My new found faith does not stop that worry. My Pastor and his wife lost their son 2 years ago in a traffic accident. He was 19.
Sort of makes you wonder how any one who has been put threw that can have any faith, never mind faith as strong as theirs.
Well Tammy ( Pastors wife ) answered that question for me.
It all comes down to free will. If God stepped in and stopped all the bad from happening, then we wouldn't have free will. We would have his will.
There is God doing good. There is Satan doing evil.
Just like God will nudge you in the right direction. Satan will nudge you in the wrong direction.
So this is something I have to keep in mind. Believing will not keep my daughter safe. Praying will help, but it's no guarantee. I can only pray that she listens to the good nudges and not the bad ones. That the people on the road with her are doing the same.
I also made her the saying to hang on her mirror.
It says " Never drive faster than your Guardian Angel can fly" Just a quiet reminder.
So until I am use to this new way. Until I'm sure she can handle the traffic and these narrow bumpy roads, with ditches on the sides in stead of shoulders. I will be a little more distracted.I will spend a little more time watching the clock. I will be alot happier when she comes threw the door.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

What keeps you sane?

For me it's turned out to be church.
I realized it gives me a lot of things I've been missing.
Besides the fellowship, which is so important. Today's topic at Sunday school if finances.
HHmmm something I could use some help in.
My point is our church covers real life issues. Things that we can use and apply every day.
It amazes me how when we walk threw the doors to the church. Everything else just fades away. It has turned out to be two very stress free hours, that I look foward to every week.

It has also helped me let go of some things.
One being my myspace. In case anyone noticed it missing. I deleted it.
It was really just a sorce of stress. Don't ask me why, it just was.
Two, I feel calmer inside. My worry level over my kids has dropped.
In fact my worry level over a lot of things has dropped.