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!