So here they are...G's birthday pictures. She had a great time opening all her gifts....although she's really not getting to play with many of them as W is taking them all over. She didn't et into her cake until Uncle Bubba shoved her hand into the cake and then it was ok. The puppy in the pictures is my nephews' new puppy and W was fascinated with it. The older gentlemen in the pictures is my paternal uncle. Unc is kind of like my godfather; I love him to pieces. Enjoy!
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY G!
Happy 1st birthday to my baby girl, G!
It's hard to believe that almost two years ago (on my birthday) I had this funny feeling that I needed to take a pregnancy test. One positive (and a few confirmations) and 1 year 9 months later, here she is...one year old! How crazy is that!
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It's hard to believe that almost two years ago (on my birthday) I had this funny feeling that I needed to take a pregnancy test. One positive (and a few confirmations) and 1 year 9 months later, here she is...one year old! How crazy is that!
Friday, October 17, 2008
Happy Birthday W!
Happy Birthday to my little man, W! W is bringing his birthday in with style. Memaw made him chocolate chip pancakes this morning for breakfast, and then M, W, & G all got to go to the zoo today with Memaw. And then to top it off...
He said his first dirty word today. What a way to bring in the new year, eh? The word, of course, used in its proper context was the word for hiney. Oy vey! Well he at least waited until 3 to say it. M's was at 18 months and was the other word for feces. While M's word can be directly attributed to his father and I, W's CAN NOT. I've got my hunches as to who it is....
GRR!
Thursday, October 02, 2008
I thought I was done with school??!?!
So, as parents, we spend the first 18 years of our life scrambling to get out of school so that we can either (1) enter the workforce or (2) go to college. If you chose option 2, you then spent those undergraduate years waiting somewhat impatiently for that light at the end of the tunnel where you get that piece of paper called a degree. You either decide you are done with school or, like me, decide to get that Masters degree, which may or may not be of future benefit to you. Finally you are finished and you can actually say, "Yes! No more homework! No more tests!" Then you have children.
M is in the first grade. The child started bringing home homework when he was in Pre-K. The amount has progressed to where he now has reading, math, and spelling Monday - Thursday. And since he is young, that means that B & I now have homework as well. Yes, that's right...as a parent you now have homework AGAIN. It seeps back into your life. You can't escape it. UGH!!!
M must read to us every night, and we have to log his performance into a log sheet that goes back to his teacher the next day. We must guide him through his math homework (notice I said guide as he must answer the questions and we provide assistance and guidance to help him arrive at the correct answer). We then quiz him on his spelling words by having him use them in a sentence, spell them out loud, and have him write them for us on command. By the time we finish homework, eat dinner, take baths, etc., it's now time for bed.
You know, I don't remember having this much homework when I was his age. If I did, I feel for my parents. It's exhausting. Don't get me wrong, I love it that M is reading well above grade level and that he is so smart and intelligent but I am longing for the days where he can do his homework on his own and I can be there to answer questions. However, I'm beginning to believe that day may never truly come until he has went off to college.
On other fronts, my sister-in-law got back to me about the time of my nephews' games. It was just as I feared. We do have a conflict so I have now pushed his party back to a Sunday. So, I fixed the invitations to reflect the new time and sent out the ones that could be sent out via email. I just need to print the ones that I will need to mail and get those ready to go out tomorrow. I can cross that task off my to do list for this month. Now I need to go around and look at John Deere cakes to see where we will buy the cake, because this mom is NOT domestic and doesn't do homemade cakes (although I did bake coookies the other night, but it was with cookie dough I bought through a fundraiser at work). The hardest part will be getting the house clean before the party. UGH! I'm getting tired just thinking about it....
I'm looking for volunteers???
M is in the first grade. The child started bringing home homework when he was in Pre-K. The amount has progressed to where he now has reading, math, and spelling Monday - Thursday. And since he is young, that means that B & I now have homework as well. Yes, that's right...as a parent you now have homework AGAIN. It seeps back into your life. You can't escape it. UGH!!!
M must read to us every night, and we have to log his performance into a log sheet that goes back to his teacher the next day. We must guide him through his math homework (notice I said guide as he must answer the questions and we provide assistance and guidance to help him arrive at the correct answer). We then quiz him on his spelling words by having him use them in a sentence, spell them out loud, and have him write them for us on command. By the time we finish homework, eat dinner, take baths, etc., it's now time for bed.
You know, I don't remember having this much homework when I was his age. If I did, I feel for my parents. It's exhausting. Don't get me wrong, I love it that M is reading well above grade level and that he is so smart and intelligent but I am longing for the days where he can do his homework on his own and I can be there to answer questions. However, I'm beginning to believe that day may never truly come until he has went off to college.
On other fronts, my sister-in-law got back to me about the time of my nephews' games. It was just as I feared. We do have a conflict so I have now pushed his party back to a Sunday. So, I fixed the invitations to reflect the new time and sent out the ones that could be sent out via email. I just need to print the ones that I will need to mail and get those ready to go out tomorrow. I can cross that task off my to do list for this month. Now I need to go around and look at John Deere cakes to see where we will buy the cake, because this mom is NOT domestic and doesn't do homemade cakes (although I did bake coookies the other night, but it was with cookie dough I bought through a fundraiser at work). The hardest part will be getting the house clean before the party. UGH! I'm getting tired just thinking about it....
I'm looking for volunteers???
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
They say it's your birthday...and other random thoughts
Well, it's October 1st which means that the countdown to W's 3rd birthday has begun. We finally settled on a theme!!! Since moving out on to the 30 acres, W has really become fascinated with tractors, trailers, and trains. Ok, the trains probably threw some of you for a loop. W has always been fascinated with construction equipment, so it is no surprise extension that construction equipment also extends to tractors. He is also fascinated with trailers because of the towing of the tractors, ATVs, etc....and this also includes livestock trailers now. His like of trains has really come about because we pass by the power plant on the way in and there is a constant barrage of trains entering the power plant with coal and leaving with...you know, I don't know what they are shipping out. Anyway, this birthday party will not be Superman or Spider-man or Star Wars or Iron-man or whatever is the rage of the moment. We are going with a John Deere theme!
I bought W this toy at Walmart that had a Ford truck like dad's, a trailer like Pepaw's, and a tractor on it since he has been doing so well at potty training. He has to make sure he takes them every morning to Memaw's now. After commenting to B about his excitement over the tractor and such and the shrieking and wailing that occurs if they fall in the floorboard on the way home, we decided we definitely needed to go with farm life or tractors or something similar for his birthday. We landed on John Deere. So...for the relatives...if you are looking for something to get W that he'll love just hit Atwood's and hit the toy aisle there and you won't go wrong.
So I have the invitation ready to go out because I like to get those out on the first, but I'm waiting on my sister-in-law to get back to me on when her two boy's football games are those two days. I may just have to send the invites out and hope they can come. That will completely suck as W just loves those two boys.
Off the birthday subject....
We have the batch of new college recruits starting here at work. My company brings these kids in at the beginning of June and moves them through the company where they go to classes about the different divisions within the company and then they place them into their new positions at the end of September. Well, while my immediate group didn't get one this year directly, we did get a new one into the overall group. I tend to be a step-in-and-help kind of girl, and they were trying to set him up on instant messenger yesterday and it wasn't working. I got him set up, but I had to ask him his birth date for the Yahoo form. He disclosed he was born in 1985. OUCH! Geez, that made me feel OLD! I AM NOT OLD! I'm just inside the dirty thirties, but 1985 hit me hard yesterday. I thought, sheesh, in three more years, these kids are going to be born at the same time I was entering middle school. They won't know the true 80s. I've already ran into this with my younger counterpart here who hasn't seen some of the 80s movies, but good gravy!!! Let me reiterate...I AM NOT OLD!!!!
Well, I am off to the library to see if I can procure a CD for the boys to listen to tonight. (We let the boys' listen to books on CD after lights off...) They've went through all the books on CD in our house at least 3 times and I know they are growing bored with them. I might even pick one up for myself. It's sad when that's the only kind of reading you can fit in.
I bought W this toy at Walmart that had a Ford truck like dad's, a trailer like Pepaw's, and a tractor on it since he has been doing so well at potty training. He has to make sure he takes them every morning to Memaw's now. After commenting to B about his excitement over the tractor and such and the shrieking and wailing that occurs if they fall in the floorboard on the way home, we decided we definitely needed to go with farm life or tractors or something similar for his birthday. We landed on John Deere. So...for the relatives...if you are looking for something to get W that he'll love just hit Atwood's and hit the toy aisle there and you won't go wrong.
So I have the invitation ready to go out because I like to get those out on the first, but I'm waiting on my sister-in-law to get back to me on when her two boy's football games are those two days. I may just have to send the invites out and hope they can come. That will completely suck as W just loves those two boys.
Off the birthday subject....
We have the batch of new college recruits starting here at work. My company brings these kids in at the beginning of June and moves them through the company where they go to classes about the different divisions within the company and then they place them into their new positions at the end of September. Well, while my immediate group didn't get one this year directly, we did get a new one into the overall group. I tend to be a step-in-and-help kind of girl, and they were trying to set him up on instant messenger yesterday and it wasn't working. I got him set up, but I had to ask him his birth date for the Yahoo form. He disclosed he was born in 1985. OUCH! Geez, that made me feel OLD! I AM NOT OLD! I'm just inside the dirty thirties, but 1985 hit me hard yesterday. I thought, sheesh, in three more years, these kids are going to be born at the same time I was entering middle school. They won't know the true 80s. I've already ran into this with my younger counterpart here who hasn't seen some of the 80s movies, but good gravy!!! Let me reiterate...I AM NOT OLD!!!!
Well, I am off to the library to see if I can procure a CD for the boys to listen to tonight. (We let the boys' listen to books on CD after lights off...) They've went through all the books on CD in our house at least 3 times and I know they are growing bored with them. I might even pick one up for myself. It's sad when that's the only kind of reading you can fit in.
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