wow

lotsa stuff has happened....not gonna go into it now, but all i'm gonna say is...wow!

halloween aftermath

it's been a few days since i posted...been uber busy. had a neurologist appt on thursday, 70 miles away from home. got halfway there, and the van broke down on the side of the interstate. hubby was no help when i called him; go figure. so mom came and picked me up, and we called a tow truck to tow the car to their shop to fix it. ended up costing over $400. then our car ended up costing $175 to fix.
our friend candice had a pre-halloween party at her house saturday. we grilled, had a bonfire, dressed up in costumes, scared the kids, gave out treats, and had a good time. we stayed overnight cuz we didn't go to bed until about 3 or 4am. but it was fun. and the heifer (candice) snuck around behind my back with my mom, and had my mom, sister, brother, and my 2 daughters help make a cake for hubby and me. it said "happy anniversary   sow and cindy!" (i call her heifer, and she calls me sow. rye couldn't say stephen when she was little, and it came out as cindy. lol)
and then we took the kids trick or treating monday after school. rye was astrid from "how to train your dragon", mare was a pirate queen, and logan was a dragon (he said dinosaur, but it had wings. he was an astronaut at candice's party, the girls wore the same costumes both nights.). stephen was a clown (as usual0, and i was a vampire. and granny was santa claus!
hubby and i have been married for 4 years on halloween. it seems much longer than that....lol. since halloween is all about the kids, we're planning a post-anniversary celebration date. thinking about going out to eat and then watching a movie, at an actual theater! can you tell we don't get out much?! lol
so then today, mare's teacher calls me to tell me that amara was pulling down kids' pants at recess yesterday. she said she got too busy with their halloween party, so she forgot to call yesterday. mare has never pulled kids' pants down before. and then i get another call today that her teacher put her in the car-rider line, when i specifically wrote in her folder that she was a bus-rider. so i had to go pick her up because all the buses had already left. so rye rode the bus alone today (mom pulled out my brother to take him to the dr, so he wasn't on the bus), and mare was left at school. i talked to her principal today when i picked her up. i told her about those boys in mare's class that have been picking on her, and that i've talked to the teacher about it multiple times, and nothing is getting resolved. and i keep getting phone calls about amara's actions, but those bullies are obviously not getting disciplined. the principal said she would talk to the boys as soon as they get to school in the morning, and she would also talk to mare's teacher to see what's been going on. amara had to come home early friday because those boys shoved her into a doorframe so hard she has a huge knot on her forehead and a huge bruise (which is still there, and it's been 4 days. i know the bruise will hang around for awhile, but the knot should be diminishing, but it's not.). it's just getting ridiculous that my kid is scared to go to school because some little boys are being horrible to her.
okay, done with my rant. time to make tea, then try and get logan to bed...hahaha, like that will happen!
hope everyone's weekend was awesome!

honey-do(n't)

this weekend has been a mess...remember back to one of my previous posts, when i talked about the hubby starting a drywall project in the girls' room, and then not finishing it? well, he finally did, after many temper tantrums on my part. and it's horrible. it looks like crap. really, really bad. but it's finished, and the wall is sealed up now. so no more spiders (fingers crossed), and no exposed insulation. my sweet grandmother gave me some leftover paint she isn't ever going to use, so we can paint at least that wall, if not the whole room. it will make it look 10x better.
so hubby has not even thought about finishing the drywall in my (our) bathroom. i'll probably do it myself. all it needs is some stinking nails. it'll literally take 2 minutes. and he still hasn't done anything about the nasty carpet in there. i'm thinking about ripping it all out and just putting plastic down on top of the plywood floor (isn't it called a subfloor? not sure about technical names...) and maybe that will get hubby rolling on getting the flooring materials.
and of course, we can't forget about the cars...hubby still thinks i'm wrong about what needs to be done to them. the codes tell us what's wrong! they're there for a reason! car-MAF sensor, van-EGR valve. changing the fuel filter will not fix what's wrong. same as an oil change. yes, they're both good for maintenance, but it doesn't fix the problem! Freaking listen to me!

so, moral to the story....
     1) Don't EVER expect a man to listen; they think they know EVERYTHING! and
     2) If you want something done, done right, and done well, just do it yourself! if you don't, it'll NEVER get finshed! 

oh, boy(s)....and girls!

wow...it's been a wild (in other words boring) few days.

saturday: went to my neighbor's ya-ya party...it was so much fun!
sunday: hubby was off work, so we (as a family) cleaned the yard. it looks so good!!!
today: took amara to lowell for her neurologist appt. dr gave her an A+! no more meds (from that dr, anyway). yay!

so a fun and wild week, wouldn't you say?! lol  

until next time.....

it's bedtime

it is so bedtime for this little boy...if he would just stay there! even tolod him he could lay down in my  bed, and he won't....arrrggghhhh!

really looking forward to a scalding hot shower tonight. if the boy actually goes to sleep!

ok, enough is enough....more later....

life

so i am crampy, irritable, and tired. af just started, i think. it's only 3 days late. anyway, we had a great day saturday. we took the kids to old timer's day, then out to eat at la heurtas. it was so good! the kids had a blast. then we took them to a field by our house (because our yard is so small), and played softball, frisbee, and playground balls. it was so much fun! we should do stuff like this every weekend! anyway, i'm gonna see where hubby went. he disappeared.

p.s. hubby and i are better now. no more fighting (yet), and way more communication! makes me happy!

the day after my birthday!

Ok, my birthday wasn't as exciting as i thought it would be. I've put on a brave face, but I'm just going to say it here. I was disappointed. Hubby kept letting me think he had something big planned. He didn't. So I had kinda gotten my hopes up, and then nothing happened. And this is the first year my mom hasn't made me a cake...in my whole life. She told me about a month ago she would make me a dinosaur cake, but it didn't happen this year. Which is ok. But hubby should have never led me on. Now I feel guilty for being let-down. This sucks. You know what we did for my birthday?! We cleaned the living room. (Btw, I was really proud of my girls for helping so much!) Hubby did take me out to eat, and so we went to a local place that was really good. Then we all came home to find his parents waiting for us. They gave me a really pretty bouquet of wildflowers. Then we went to the bar to shoot pool (and got our asses stomped). That's it. The whole night. What fun. Then today, my mom came over and gave me a book for my present (which I'm going to start reading in a few), which was cool. But hubby had promised me birthday sex and brownies. Did I get either? NO! Maybe I shouldn't bitch. But it hurts my feelings. I know we are on a tight budget. But things don't have to be expensive to be special. I had no money for hubby's birthday back in April (which is the same day as Ariah's). But I decorated the living room. Mom made him (them) his (their) cake(s). I couldn't buy much, but I got stuff for him I thought he'd enjoy. Guess what I got. A pedometer (because I started walking. But that tells me he thinks I need to walk.). And headphones for the ipod, because that's what I listen to when I walk. And a shaper for my pool cue. And a sweater/light jacket, which I really do like. And a sweet card. It's not the stuff I got that upsets me. It's just that he led me to believe he was going all out, and he didn't even make an effort to make it special in any way. It was literally just another day. So I'm a little bit disappointed. Should I be? Or am I asking for too much, and being spoiled? I don't want to be ungrateful. But it just made me sad.

Anyway, hubby is taking tomorrow off as a vacation day. So I guess we'll spend the whole day together. Hopefully it will be a good day. Now, on to read my new book.