I Am No Susie Housewife

I hate house work, well who doesn't!! I was trying to clean up my kitchen floor yesterday and was getting so frustrated from sweeping my floor and than trying to mop it only to find dog hair! I have come to the conclusion that when you have children and animals it is a never ending battle!! I am no Susie homemaker that is for sure! I love to cook and bake I just don't like the cleaning up part! It is just never ending! Dusting is the worst! What is the point I ask you really? You dust and two seconds later it is all back! My dog has long fur and it doesn't matter what time of year it is she has her fur all over the place. I am always after my kids to pick up after themselves, do they listen, Heck No!! I try to keep my house half way decent, but does anyway care or help me along the way, NO. Dishes are never ending as well even when I have a dish washer there are somethings I just don't put in there and sometimes if you put to much stuff in the dish washer it fills up to fast. I blame my mom for my lack of keeping up. She had O.C.D. really bad!! I can remember growing up and her wanting me to do chores, well I never could get things as clean as her, because after Iwould do what ever chore she had ask me to do she would go back and clean again! My mom's house was always spotless! We had hard wood floors and she would strip and wax them once a month! That is a bit extreme in my books. I think once a year would have sufficed. If there was a speck of anything on the floor she was picking it up. She ironed just about everything! After a meal she would tell me to clear off the table and if I didn't jump up and do it right than and there she would be off in a huff and tell me never mind I will do it myself. I was an only child and I couldn't imagine what it would have been like if she had more than one to contend with!! I think growing up with a mom who was over kill, killed it for me! I know I shouldn't blame my mom, but do you know what it is like to live in the shadow of someone with O.C.D.? Than not doing a good enough job in her eyes that she had to go back and reclean everything! Than I have so much stuff that I don't even know what to do with. Well see I have my stuff and than my mother in law passed away and we have her stuff and my mom passed away and I have all her stuff plus my dad's stuff. I had got a little organized before my mom passed away I had put stuff that I had and wanted to keep in plastic bends and put them away and things were looking pretty good until my mom passed away and I brought her stuff over. I just dont know where to put everything! Christmas time was really something when we went over there the last few years, I would tease her. The kids would be opening up their presents and the paper was all over and I could just tell by looking at my mom she wanted to get up and pick everything up. It drove her crazy to see something on the rug she had to pick it up! I don't know it is a never ending battle that I am just going to have to try and deal with, but I really need help. I need to put my foot down and say to my family I NEED HELP!!! That's my soap box for the day.

Yesterday

My daughter had a science project to do that is due today. She had to make a animal cell out of a cake, which is kind-of ironic because she had to do the same thing in 7th grade. My husband was suppose to pick up a cake when he went shopping, but of course he forgot! So, off to the store we went after school. Well we decide to get a cake mix and have her make the cake because all the cakes at the store are already decorated. We pick out the cake mix and the frosting and we check to see what colors we need for all the stuff she has to put on top of the cake to make a animal cell, well it turns out we have to get just about every color. I also had to pick up something to go with dinner, the funny thing is my husband planned on hot dogs, but he got nothing to go with it. In the mean time we run into my oldest son who works at the store and of course I have to stop to give him a hug! I see this display with thermometers and I saw this one that says "It's not SHOPPING it's retail therapy" Well I had to have it!! I stop to talk to son1 and son2 says, "Did you get a hat yet for your costume"? Son1, "No I haven't", son2 "What about those ones"? son1 "They cost to much", Me well how much are they son1 tells me, well I will buy it for you, son1 oh ok thanks!! I go to the check out and they have one checker and the self check outs I hate the self check outs so I go to stand in the line. Well there are like six people behind me and there's a checker who doesn't have her light on so no one is moving over there and she isn't offering anyone to go over to her, I was a little ticked off and was about to say something when a checker came over and lead me to check out 9, lucky for the gal in check out 13! We get home and my daughter makes her cake and everything I get dinner going and everything going along good, oh I forgot when I was talking to son1 he said he had something for me from his girlfriend he said it was money and a letter. Oh why is she giving me money? Because she feels she needed to pay you back for the dress. Me: I never ask her for the money back I wanted to do it? Son1: I know but she feels like she should. I go over to where she is working to say hello and to tell her I didn't want the money. She says she appreicated everything I have done for her and she felt she owed me. I said I was sorry for the way things turned out and hope that she finds what ever she is seeking. So I get home like I said I read the note, well let me tell you I lost it! I could not stop crying! I know big news there!! So we have dinner and my daughter starts to finish up on her cell and my husband comes home. My daughter finished her cell and ask if I have something she can carry the cake in to take it to school. Well I thought I had grabbed my mom's cake carrier but I didn't so than I thought well maybe son1 had it so I called. He said he didn't either than ask me what the note said, so I read it to him and lost it all over again, but than there was silence on the other end, me: Are you still there? Yeah. Ok by the way I have the hat and I wrote a letter if you want to come by after work or you can wait until tomorrow. I will probably come by after work. I go out and my husband said are you crying? Yeah I just read the letter to son1. So I let him read it well he was a little up set because in the letter she mentioned what a great job I did with raising son1. I see she didn't mention me, I told him, the letter is to ME so of course she isn't going to say anything about you. This whole thing has got us all upset, so I just told her I hope that she finds what she is looking for and that she doesn't give my son false hope. It is hard and I hate to see my son hurting and I want to make it all better! So it doesn't matter how old your children are as a mother you want to be there and protect them and make the hurt go away. Even when you are in your forty's your mom is going to say, You better put on a coat it is cold outside! That is my thought for today: No matter what, no matter how old your mom well always care for you!

Haunted House

I took my kids to the haunted house last night. It's 12.00 but if you bring two cans of food you get two dollars off, so we pay 10.00 each. My husband drove us, but didn't go in with us. He never has like those kind of things. I love horror films and have always like going to haunted houses during Halloween. My kids have been wanting me to take them for the last couple years and I held off because I really didn't think they were ready! So, we stand by the chain and a gal comes out and gives a little speach about turning off cell phones and stuff and that we are going to be really scared, oh and don't touch the actors or props and they will try not to touch you! So, we start to go in and my son is holding on to one arm and my daughter is on the other and it's dark. We get to the end of the first hall way if you will and this gal comes out and tells you a story about Grime's Castle and how it came to Carson City. About how science went wrong. Than she yells back at all the actors saying they have company! We go in and the first room is white with "blood" all over the walls and "organ" parts all over with this mad scientist that is holding on to this girl and she is screaming and as we go through another one is pleading for our help! In this room they have a strobe light as well. My kids are holding onto me for dear life! We go down the next hallway and it is super dark and you hear a gal so a little closer, a little more and I am thinking this hallway is never going to end! Well than it is a maze as well and being that it is so dark in there you are never sure on which way to go. You have people in corners that jump out at you and than follow you and my kids are still holding onto me for dear life pulling on my arms and I am trying to drag them through this maze!! We come to this one corner and there is a mime in the door way and he points the way to go which of course is a dead end so he says sorry I meant your other right so we go back into the door and he jumps out at you and my son slips and falls on the ground from freight!! We come to this room with this big ugly monster standing by a coffin and he is standing so still you don't think he's real until he scares you!! There is also sound affects and banging of the walls and what not and stuff hanging down from the ceiling. We come to the end and there are six doors you open the wrong door and someone jumps out at you, finally get the right door go out and as your leaving one more scare!! It was fun and my kids liked it even they like I said they were holding onto me for dear life and dragging me down while I was trying to walk through this maze! They have a web site www.grimescastle.com check it out you just might be scared too!

Comic Book

I was watching Smallville last night and the character Doomsday was going to be on the show. Well first let me say I haven't a clue. I never read comic books as a kid, but let me tell you my husband and older son are the authority on them. So, Doomsday is this EMT, but he didn't show what he looks like as the "Character". I guess this Doosmday guy kills people. Well this kid shows up as a black shadowy person and proclaims that he did all the damage and kill the people at this night club, my son said that better not be Doomsday because that isn't what he looks like. Well it wasn't of course it was this bad kid who now is in the hands of this evil woman who took over for Lex. She is collecting these kids to do evil. We have been watching this show for the eight years that it has been on, it isn't mine thing, but I watch it after all the show's I watch that my family puts up with it is the least I can do. They have had Green Arrow, Aqua Man and a few others that I don't know their names, but the form the "American Legion". Well now Clark aka Superman is fianally going to use his flying powers on next weeks show, that is a big thing to my husband and sons! So, back to what my point of this blog is: I haven't a clue on all this comic book stuff, I mean I had no clue that Blade was a comic book as well as The Punisher, Ghostrider, and this new movie that is coming out in March call "The Watchmen". Which my oldest son is really looking forward to and in fact he is going to be one of the characters for Halloween. Comic books are just that books! Not those magazines of which I know of. My youngest son likes to get the Ghostrider comic books at about 15 bucks a pop!! I think those comic books of old that cost what about .25 cents and went up to maybe 1.25, 1.50 are way in the past. I remember you could go to the local five and dime store and they had a rack with the comic books and now those comic's of old are worth a lot of money! Who would have thonk!! Well I will just take my husband and son's word on this that and the other about comic books turned into movies or tv shows because I still don't have a clue!

Melt Down

I had a bit of a melt down at work the other day, well let start off with at the begining of my work week which is Saturday my husband came home from work and he had this look on his face, so I ask him what was wrong. He sits down in front of me and says well I just talked to our son about coming over so we could order those glasses for the wedding and he says well I have been meaning to tell you that Rachel is having second thoughts and not to order them right now. I didn't know exactly what that all meant because my son couldn't really talk about it being that he was still working. Sometimes when people tell my husband things he puts more into it and makes out worse than what it is, but I had to work without being able to talk to my son to get the "whole" picture. I did call him to let him know that if he needed to talk that dad and I are here for him. I worked four nights this week and on my fourth night I was looking forward to getting it over with and expecting to work on my unit, well I get to work and I had to float to another unit. I was pretty upset, but I went and two people had called in so the gal that was working was grateful to have me there. We each had ten patients and it was really busy and I was going kind of nuts and just started crying. I couldn't stop. A little later my husband and kids show up with a bunch of flowers!! I thought that was the sweetest thing and couldn't have come at a better time. I was so glad when the night was over and I got home and my husband said how's my girl? I said I am so glad it is over and thank you so much for the flowers it really made my night. He said how did the rest of your night go, I said well once I got settled and I got my mojo on it was ok! I hate when I have a melt down at work it is so awful, but I think having to float and being worried about my son it just all exploded.

My son came over yesterday and I asked him if he wanted to talk and he did so we sat down and I told his brother and sister to go in their rooms so we could talk. Oh needless to say we didn't make it to the DMV, but anyway so I ask what was going on with his girlfriend and he said the wedding is off because she isn't sure it is the right thing to do right now. She has always been afraid of commitment and she wants to be on her own and doesn't want to make a commitment and later down the road think what has she done with her life. Now, my son is talking to me and he is all choked up and I know his heart is broken and all I want to do is make it all better. That is what mothers do and it is killing me inside to see him this way. She has to do this to get her head clear and she wants to move to Indiana. I am like ok here I am going to steel a quote from the mindless banterer "What the freak"!!! Why does she want to move so far? He said because she wants to see places and she feels living in Carson City she isn't going to be able to do that. She said she can get a studio apartment for cheaper than what it is here. I am like yeah and the wages are probably cheaper too. I don't feel right now is the time to be moving and trying to find a job. He said it was a little more complicated and he doesn't understand a lot of it either. I said she is the one who told dad that she was going to ask you to marry her that she felt that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with you. So you start planning this wedding and buying the dress and all the stuff we just got and now she isn't sure? She feels they are too young and she just isn't sure it is what she wants right now, "HELLO", why didn't she think of this a few months ago when she decided she wanted to marry you? I told him I was in unbelief because I have come to love her and it is breaking my heart too, but mostly because of my son. After he left the more I thought the angrier I got. How could she do this? What does she expect my son to do, wait until she has her head together? Than, I felt betrayed and I am not sure if I should feel that. I just can't believe this is happening after all the get togethers, the talking, the planning for her to say now she isn't sure is beyond belief really. All the people I have told and the happiness I felt that my son was going to get married now this. I just don't know.

My sixteen year old daughter

My daughter asked me the other day if since they don't have school on Wednesday if I could take her to take the test to get her permit. I told her I would have to find her birth certificate, but yeah I can do that. See she took the driver's education class during the summer a month ago I had to take my oldest son into DMV and I was going to kill two birds with one stone( not really I wouldn't kill a bird) and have my daughter take the test than, well I forgot you had to bring in the birth certificate and social security number. I work tonight so that is nice the kids don't go to school tomorrow and I can get a little sleep than try to find the birth certificate so that she can take the test and get her drivers permit! Not that I am ready to teach her to drive, but I know how she feels because when I was her age I couldn't wait to learn to drive so I could get my drivers license. My oldest son went to take his test to get his permit when he was 16, but didn't pass the first time. I kept asking him if he wanted to try again until I gave up asking. He finally told me one day when he was 19 that he was ready to take the test he did he past and it began the nightmare of trying to teach him to drive! I was so nervous! I took him to an empty parking lot before I took him on the road which was a good thing! I finally had to let my husband take over because I was making my son to nervous. So we will see how my daughter does and I am sure my husband well end up taking over again!! Another thing is I can't afford more gray hair!

Kitty

My son and his girl friend rescued a kitten from certain death. They now have 3 cats and this kitten. They took it to the vet yesterday because it wasn't doing so well and my son called to ask me to pick his girl friend up because he had to go back to work. I did and this kitten is so darn cute!! They said they aren't going to keep it just get it well enough to give it away. They named this kitten "Chester", I am afraid that they will end up keeping it because they named it! It is about six weeks old and they have to hand feed it with a syringe. Poor little thing is so dehydrated and malnourished, but with a little tender loving care and water, food I think he will be okay. My son is so good hearted and loves all animals I wasn't surprised when he told me about the rescue! If I could I would take this kitten, because I too love all animals! My daughter is allergic to cats though so I can't take it in! I would have all kinds of animals if we lived where we had enough land. My husband's dream was to have a self-sustaining farm. Which is a nice dream, but I wouldn't be able to eat any of the animals, because I would have names for them all! I can go to the store and buy meat and it doesn't bother me because I didn't know that cow, chicken, pig or what ever. If I had seen this animal alive and had any part of its upbringing there is no way I could eat it. I could eat the chicken's eggs, but I couldn't eat the chicken. I could even drink the cow's milk, but I couldn't eat the cow. It is probably a good thing we don't live on a "farm" because I know they would all be my pets!! That would be a lot of pets to feed! Well see how it goes with this kitten and see if they give it away or not. I was holding it yesterday and even Rachel said I was first one she thought of to give it too, but she knows my daughter is allergic.

another tag

I was on the mindless banter blog and thought even though I don't have anyone to tag I would answer the questions just for fun so here goes:

1. In six months I will be: Hopefully getting closer to my son's wedding

2. In one year I will be: Maybe being able to work part-time instead of full-time.

3. In five years I will be: Celebrating my daughter being 21.

4. In ten years I will be: Hopefully a grandmom

5. I will be 73 years old on my golden anniversary and wll: Hopefully be retired enjoying what ever life I have left and having a lot of grandchildren!

Potpourri

I have been after my youngest son to do his book report. Well it is due today. Last night I tell him to get on it because it is due tomorrow. He said he "lost" the paper. I tell him your grounded!! I go in search of my papers with the teacher's email address and find the one I am looking for which has the forms he needs for his book report. I come out to give him the paper and what do you know he is on the teachers site. Amazing what a threat can do!! It took him to 10PM to get it done, but at least it is done and he can turn it in today! I am always after him about his homework. He has math homework everyday except Friday. Yesterday he says it is extra credit so I don't have to do it, I am you should it will help your grade. Well it is extra credit and it means I don't have to do it. It is so frustrating!

My oldest son I haven't talked to or seen in two weeks. I called him yesterday and he is like what's up? Nothing just haven't heard from you or seen you in a while so I just called to say Hi and see how you are doing? I'm doing good mom. I am at dmv Rachel is taking the test to get her permit. Oh thats good. Ok I love you and miss you. I love and miss you too mom!! Now you have to understand, he has been out on his own for almost three years now. It was a hard adjustment for me, but I am doing better now!! I know he has his own life and all, but I still like to hear from him or see him once in a while. My husband used to always say, Oh you need a Brandon fix!! LOL yeah dear what ever!! He is right of course! Than he calls me later Oh I forgot to tell you Rachel and I rescued a kitty! Oh you did so now you have four cats? Well he was all skinny and what not so we took him in and feed him so he is doing better. This is the child that brought me a stick bug when he was little, Yuck!!! He said isn't it cool mom, I am like yes dear now take it outside now. Can I keep it? You can keep it outside!! He did and than set it free a week later!!

My daughter brought home the other day the catalog for class rings. She said she would rather have a class ring than a letterman jacket. We bought our oldest son the jacket. So I filled out all the information on what ring she wanted and she is supposed to turn it in today at lunch. I told her I got a class ring and still have it, oh can I see it? I went and dug it out and showed her. That's really nice, yeah it is a nice memory to have. So I hope that when she gets her ring she will keep it too!

My husband and I never did go on a date this week, but we did get to spend some alone time together before he had to go to work and that was really nice! He made breakfast for us the other day that was a treat as well. Tonight we are going to go to the movies with the kids so that will be a nice family outing. We try to do that if we can it always depends on when he gets off of work. My kids are wanting to go to the haunted house, but I think I will try and take them next week. My husband really doesn't care about that kind of stuff and I think it is fun! I like scary movies and stuff like that anyway. My husband was happy when our oldest was old enough to watch those kind of movies so he didn't have to!! Now my daughter wants to watch them too!

Specking of scary movies: My favorite well maybe it really isn't so much as scary, but vampires I love movies with vampires! One of my favorites is Dracula! Bram Stokers. I think that movie is romantic in a sick sort of way!! The one I am talking about is the one with Winona Rider and Keaneu Reeves. I also love Underworld, Van Helsing, and Blade. I just pick up another tv series that happens to be about vampires it is Angel! David Boreanaz is so HOT as my daughter says!! This was a spin off from Buffy the vampire slayer. He plays a good vampire! Between pervasive evil and countless temptations lurking beneath the city's glittery facde, L.A. is the ideal address for a fallen vampire looking to save a few lost souls and, in turn, perhaps redeem his own! The other night my shows weren't on so we watched a few episodes of this and even my husband was saying how sexy he is. I love him on Bones as well. I haven't read the books on Twilight yet, but my daughter read the first book and is on the second and we are looking forward to that movie as well! This is more geared to teenagers, but I will still probably go see it just because it is about vampires and a love story!!

That is my potpourri for the day! Thought I would just say a little about different things that were on my mind!

Growing up

I went yesterday to pick up my kids from school and my youngest son wanted to go over to his friends house. Well I decided to let him go over. I get this call from him saying he is going over to another friends house and that his mother was taking them over there. Now, I forget to ask where does this friend live what is his address what is his phone number is his mom going to be home well you get the picture! I am a nervous wreck!! I take my daughter to her play come home and there is a message mom I want to stay at my other friends house for another hour or so ok? AW NO IT ISN'T OK!! So thankfully I have caller ID like most of us have and I call the number it is his friends cell phone which tells me to listen to the music while your party is being reached, ok dum da dum leave a message, WHAT!!!! Leave a message saying this is Kyle's mom have him call me RIGHT away!! He finally calls me back and I say NO you can't stay longer I need you home NOW!! Where does your friend live? He tells me and I tell him to meet me at 7-11. We get home and I am asking all these questions, well come to find out he went to his one friends than they went to the park, YOU DID WHAT!! How did you get there? Who took you? WHY didn't you call and ask me? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING???? MOM, we just went to the skate park! That is not the point is it?? You were supposed to stay at your friends house and you know you are to call me if plans have changed! Before he had called me back I had left a message to my husband that Kyle wasn't home and I couldn't get a hold of him and I am thinking maybe we need to get him a cell phone! I really am not sure I like this growing up stuff, but my son also knows the rules and than I could kick myself for not asking all those questions it isn't like me not to do that!! Later I realized that yesterday he was supposed to go to confirmation class he had missed last week because of the dance. He is home safe and that is the main thing but I can't believe he did that. My husband came home and gave me all these opitions and said it is up to me if I want to get the cell phone for him or not. WHY is it up to me? I just got my daughter a cell phone, but she is 16 and with drama she really needs it and I am glad I got it for her. I am sure if I do decide to get her brother one she is going to be upset and say it isn't fair because she had to wait to get one and on and on!! Or I can just tell my son no going over to his friends anymore if he is going to end up somewhere else!

Gardening

This spring I had decided I was going to start to work in my front yard to try to get it to look half way decent. I have these ugly rocks in my yard that I have hated since we moved in, so I start to rake them up into a pile. I have no idea how I am going to get rid of them all together, but for now this well have to do. It took me a while to get this one area cleaned up and by this time it was the begining of summer and it was starting to get hot. I than decided that I would go get some flowers to put in this area, so off to wal-mart I went with my kids and picked up a bunch of flowers. Now the task of planeting them! Well I kept going back for more and I would drag my kids along with me and they are like oh no mom not again!! It was almost like an obsession. Than my husband started buying me these cool garden tools that are lite weight! He just bought me a couple more just the other day!! One problem I have with getting the flowers is I alway forget which ones come back year after year. I always think it is annual, but I know that it is perennials that come back year after year. Well I did pick up the annuals the first time around and than when I went back several times is when I got the perennials. My favorite color is purple and that is what I got a lot of is different colors of purple flowers. I also got other colors like pink, white, red, and yellow, but mostly they are purple! This little flower garden has been my sanctuary. Now it is fall and the leaves are falling off the peach tree and we had our first cold spell and snow dusting that has left a few of the plants with frost bite. Yesterday was a beautiful day as is today and I decided to start raking some of the leaves up. I got a lot of them raked up the only problem is I know I will have more because there are still leaves on the tree. As I was raking to I would bump into the tree and more leaves would fall. I gave up after a while, but it looks a little better where my flowers are. My yard still needs a lot of work and it is going to take me a long time to get it to what I want it to be. I would like to cut down the peach tree get rid of all the rocks and plant a lot of plants and flowers. I would like to get a different tree as well. I want a lot of lilac and butterfly bushes, honeysuckle and snow ball plants are great too! What really nags me is my neighbor has an elm tree which I hate those trees and those darn seeds that blow into my yard and plant themselves. I have a few that I keep cuting but they keep growing back. I have asked my husband to dig them up, but he says the roots are never ending, so I am going to try what a friend suggested was to take boiling water add salt and pour into where the trees are and it will kill the roots! I will probably go out later today and try to do some more work while the weather is perfect!

Time

I was ready to leave for work last night, but before I go I always give my family a hug and kiss and tell them I love them. So I was saying good-bye to my husband and he says "When are we going to have time alone together"? He is so sweet and I do miss him when I am at work. We work opposite shifts with different days off, so sometime it is tough, but you do what you have to do. It is hard to "go out on a date" when you have different days off. There are days he gets off at a decent hour, but I don't like to leave my kids by themselves even though my daughter is 16 and my youngest son is going to be 13 and it isn't that I don't trust them because I do it's just that I worry about them. YES I am one of those worrier! I can't help it I just worry about everything. When it comes to my children wow they even tell me "Mom you just worry to much". I can't help it! My mom was the same way though. I remember a few years ago when she came over to stay with my kids, I was leaving for work and had a sweater on and she told me that I should wear my coat. I told her I was fine not to "worry". I guess there are a lot of things we pick up from our parents and then there's other things we did differently. I guess I got off track a little, I think my husband and I really do need to have a date night to get out even if it is to go out to dinner just the two of us. Things are so much different when you don't have your parents around any more and I really do miss them and sometimes it is hard to cope, because you realize that you are getting older and that is scary sometimes. It seems too that the older you get the more time just seems to fly by, I mean it is October already! I guess this blog doesn't have no rhythm or reason just kind of going with what I am feeling right now.

On another note, it is sprit week at high school so they have different themes for each day. Yesterday it was class color day so them were to wear that color to school only my daughter forgot. I think today was tropical day or something and one day is each class has a country they are to dress at so I am not sure how that will work out! Friday is homecoming and Saturday is the dance. I think my daughter wants to go, but I would want her to go with a friend. I know there I go being a worry wart again! Dad well have to take her and pick her up if she decides to go because I work Saturday night. We will see how it all goes. That is it for my blog today.

Last week

We had a busy week last week. My daughter is in drama and last week was what they call tech week. The kids in drama have been practicing every week and last week being that it was tech week they had to practice everyday after school, so it has been busy. The play opened last night and being that it was opening night they were to be there at 6 because the teacher figured they were going to be nervous. It was so nice that my husband got off work at a decent hour and we got to go see the play together! The play is called "Murder In The Knife Room" and the cast has some really funny names. There's Mysterious Host, Wealthy Dowager, Respected General, Southern Belle, Decrepit Invalid, Sketchy Foreigner, Brainless Model( The gal that played her played her well!), Bearded Scholar, Tramp, Pompous Millionaire, Reckless Cowboy, Boy Band Reject, Inspector/Faking, Plastic Politician, Washed-up Actress, Santa, Serial Killer, Spooky Pirate, Dirty Hippie, Dolphins Fan, Stand-up Comic, Intimidating Mobster. So all these people are in the knife room of Mysterious Host's Mansion and each one is telling a little about themselves. The Mysterious Host goes to open this chest the lights go out and the host is murdered. Of course each one of them has a motive of which now they tell another part of the story in which my daughter comes in to the picture. She plays three short parts of which the people are re-enacting there story. She plays Idea number 3 which Pompous Millonaire is explaining how he became a millionaire by steeling someone elses idea. Than she plays Kevin who is one of the back street boys, which Boy Band Reject is re-enacting why he is a Reject.
Than she plays Paw, Which where Reckless Cowboy comes in and tells his story. She plays Paw and her of spring (or I should say his off spring) Are Reckless, Foolish, Irresponsible and Negligent!! The play was really cute and all the actors did really great! It was good to go see one of my children in a play it has been a while, my oldest son was in drama also and my daughter only had one play last year and it was at the end of the school year. This was the first of five this year so it will be a busy year for sure. The next play is in December they always do a Christmas play and this year it is "Babes In Toyland". January's play is "John Brown's Body", March/April is "Cats" I am looking forward to this one! The last play is "King Midas and The Touch of Gold". The only thing about going to these plays is my mom won't be there to see them, she loved going to see my oldest son and it is sad she won't be able to see her grand daughter. I hope that there is a play that my oldest son can go see his sister in he has to work and won't be able to see this one, she goes back tonight and the last show is on Sunday the 19th.

My youngest son this week had a school dance that he went to on Wednesday after school. He said it was awesome oh and a girl ask him to dance, oh boy!!

Wonder if, faith, and God's will

Sometimes things in my life makes me" wonder if", but than I think about faith. I am an only child and I often wonder if I had an older brother. I say older brother because I always thought I would have loved to have an older brother. I "wonder if" my life would be different. I don't know how having a brother would have made things different, but I just often "wonder if". I know God has a plan and he leads you, but I know sometimes we don't always follow in the right path. I don't so much anymore "wonder if" I married Tommy, but when I was young I thought Tommy and I would get married have four kids and live in a house with a picket fence. That didn't happen and Tommy broke my heart. Than I "wonder if" my parents didn't move away where would have my life taken me than. Well, if they wouldn't have moved I wouldn't have moved and I wouldn't have married my husband. Well it was God's plan.

I think when we are young and have all these hopes, dreams and plans it does make you "wonder if". I know when I was young I always wanted to be a nurse. I would doctor up my dolls and my mom would always ask me did you use all the bandaids again? I didn't become a nurse but later I did become a nursing assistant. I "wonder if" I would have gone to school and become a nurse would I be where I am today? I don't think I would be. So, it was God's will that the way my life has played out was for a reason. At the time I didn't think that way, but as I have grown and have God in my life it some how makes some sense.

After Tommy broke my heart and my parents moved away I was very depressed. That is when I decided to move too! I wasn't looking for love, but it somehow found me! I now know it was God's will that brought me here and his will that my husband and I met or you could say it was faith that brought us together.

I know there will always be "wonder if", but with faith I know God's plan is the right thing for me as long as I keep believing that no matter what he has his reasons and grant it sometimes I don't understand, but it is faith that I know he knows what he is doing, He is God after all.

Wedding and other stuff..

Yesterday I told my son to come over and we would go and get some of the stuff they were wanting to get for the wedding, so while I was waiting I decided I needed to go to wal-mart to pick up some "girly" stuff. As I was driving down the parking lot to find a place to park and waiting for the people crossing the street this car is coming toward me on the wrong side of the rode. I am jestering this person to MOVE and the car is not moving! FINALLY, he starts to go on the "right" side of the rode drives past me and gives me the RASPBERRIES!! I am like "HELLO" you are in the wrong!! Sometimes I just don't get people!!

My son shows up so we go to Michael's We are picking out this and that and I am asking what about this, oh we didn't look at that yet. See I don't want to get anything that both him and my future daughter in law have decided on. They are planning a outside wedding so we pick up the arch, the run way, the invitations, the pen and a few other things. They picked out a pen but not a guest book. I wanted to get the pillow for the rings, but they hadn't talked about that yet. There is a few things at believe it or not dollar tree that we can get so that will be good. Now the invitations my son is going to make up on the computer. He has photo shop and he had done up my mom's memorial cards and they came out so good! The arch they well have to pick up the stuff to decorate it with. Now I was talking to him the other day about if they decided where exactly they want to have the wedding, he said not really. Now before they were wanting it up at the Lake which they still do, but they aren't sure exactly where or who they are going to get to marry them. I know they have seven months, but it does go by fast. I was glad I was able to get some of the stuff they wanted and I still want to do more for them just give me the word!!

When my son was over the other day he was using the sewing machine to make his halloween costume, well he was have trouble with it because it wasn't threaded right, now it has been a while since I have used it so I said did you read the instruction book, he is like mom since when do I read instructions, well he had a point there!! We got it threaded and he was on his way!! At least he was sewing it himself and not asking me to do it!!

My daughter is in drama and next week is tech week. Which means pratice, pratice, pratice!! Show opens on Friday night! So looks like it well be a busy week next week!!

My youngest son has a dance on Wednesday, but that is when he has confirmation class, but I think he can skip one class and go to the dance because he really does want to go. They had changed 7th grade class from Sunday to Wednesday anyway which I am not sure why, but anyway looks like a pretty full week!