What a weekend....

This weekend was a major milestone in the lives of my boy's...they both killed their first deer. W.W. started out the weekend with a nice eight point that he was so proud of. He thought it was perfect to kill an eight point when you are eight years old.

Then this evening Q brought home deer number two for the weekend! He killed a five point and I don't think he would have been any more proud if it had been a thirty point.

I am so proud of both of my boy's. While I don't care anything about hunting, I am so happy they do. I love you boy's!

You have got to be kidding me....

I am sitting here and not really believing my ears...it is thundering...AGAIN! I however do know my ears are not deceiving me because I looked at the radar and yep..it is almost here. Not only that, I just found out that there is a chance of rain four day's this week. I am not sure how I am ever going to get back into my walking routine if it is going to keep doing this. I think we are like 15 inches above the state average for rainfall and we are approaching all time records with two full months left to go.

Not much else has been going on. Michael rarely works anymore due to the fact that the whole state is almost a pond. They seem to work about one or two days a week for about the last three months. He is suspecting that it will quit raining now that deer season has arrived and he wouldn't mind being off of work. I really do hope it dries up some, it has been terrible for so many businesses.

Last night an amazing thing happened...I had the whole house to myself! I am not sure the last time that I was alone in my bed for the whole night but it has been many years. Tinkerbell and Q went and stayed the night with their Aunt T and W.W. and Michael stayed at deer camp. It was a great night! I cleaned and everything stayed clean..I turned off everything and listened to the silence. Nothing exciting but I enjoyed every minute of it.

Tomorrow the boys go back to school after a week of being home. It will be nice in some ways to have my old schedule back and to have my one on one time with Tinkerbell. Not to mention that the boys get bored with me quickly now that they are older. I think I will try to get some cleaning done in the back half of the house...otherwise known as nightmare zone or the kids half of the house. I would like to purge before Christmas and there is a chance that we may have company in the next few weeks. I am sure it will be time that I will never get back and it will be totally wasted but I suppose that I have nothing better to do than waste my time.

Well, I am off to bed...at least rain makes for good sleep. Until next time..April

Caught in the act...

This is an old picture but I found it today and it made me laugh so I thought I would post it. This is my Uncle Kaywood and it is a picture of him doing what he loves to do...harass young children. I love him very much though...

Has anyone else noticed???

That it is just a little over two months till Christmas?

How in the world did it already get to be that time of year? It has really caught me off guard this year. I am normally ready for Christmas sometime in June but this year I haven't bought much of anything in advance.

I have had the boys home from school the last two day's due to some kind of unknown illness. They have not been sick enough to take to the doctor but they have ran enough fever to get to stay home and fight all day long. I am hopeful that tomorrow will be the day they can go back because otherwise they will miss the whole week.

Thursday is parent teacher conferences and the have canceled school for the whole day. Then on Friday the school is taking one of those no parent allowed field trips that I refuse to let the kids go on. I may be a mean overprotective mom but I just am not letting my eight year old and especially my six year old go on a field trip without me. I have a hard enough time letting them go to school without me.

This weekend will probably be a long boring weekend but that is good I suppose, before long we will have ball games taking up our weekends so I need to enjoy our home time while I can.

Well, I am off to bed...tomorrow will be my first day taking the boys to school myself since I started taking the heart medicine. I am not used to getting up anymore and leaving the house before ten in the morning so it may be interesting. Wish me luck....April

Things that make me happy....

I wanted to make a list of the things in life that make me happy. Sometimes it is easy to focus on the negative and forget all the small things that make you smile so I thought it would be nice to make a list...

My kids.
My newest family member..Nessie the kitten.
The sunshine.
Nice cool days.
The smell of vanilla.
Being in the arms of the ones I love.
My Uncle Kaywood and the fact that he is on Facebook.
My dog Baby.
When Q talks about Deer "Sneezin" almost being here.
When Tinkerbell sings and dances to her own tune.
When W.W. tells me that if he could he would take his heart out and give it to me.
Listening to my kids laughing and playing together even though they are supposed to be cleaning.
My flannel sheets on cool nights.
Music.
My cds that were made with just songs that I love.
Walking in the park.
Swinging.
Pictures...old and new.
Oak Bower.
Watching the boys read and Tinkerbell pretend to read.
A long hot bath all by myself.
A short cool bath with Tinkerbell telling me not to forget the "air conditioner"..meaning hair conditioner.
Great friends.
Great family.
My flower beds.

That is all I can think of right this second, although I am sure I could go on for day's. It makes me proud to know that if I was to sit down and write out a list of the things that do not make me happy it would be a much shorter list. Thanks for reading! April

Long Time No Blog....

Well, lets see...I guess it has been over two months since I last blogged and I have no excuse. We have had plenty going on to blog about but I just haven't. Life has been very full of stuff and for some reason I just haven't cared to write about it. I will try and give a recap of some of it.

I will start with the boy's starting back to school. They are almost to their first nine weeks and so far everything is going great. They both have wonderful teachers this year which I was so excited about. A teacher can defiantly make or break a year and this year they are making ours. W.W. is in second grade this year and it thrills me to see all that he has learned. I watched him tonight sitting on the couch reading to Q and it made me so proud. His books are getting longer and his words getting bigger. Q is also doing great in school. He is reading alot and started taking spelling test for the first time last week.

On the home front I have been full of sickness. Almost two months ago I discovered that I was have some small heart issues that I was going to have to start taking medicine for. The medicine was not pleasant to start and it was also not pleasant when I had to increase my dosage. However...it is working and I am so happy. I spent several day's scared for what my future would hold but it looks like while it is not the best case scenario that I will be back to normal. We have also had several bugs going around the house. The latest is strep throat which Michael had last week and I have had the joy of having this week. I hope that once we get over this that we can stay healthy for a while. It get old being sick every other week.

Tinkerbell has been staying busy talking up a storm to anyone that will listen. She loves to ask "why" repeatedly until not even I am sure of the answer anymore. If I live through her questioning stage I should be able to witness one smart little girl. I think since I last blogged she has turned four years old. It is amazing to me that she is that old already. When I look back at pictures though it was almost as if she was stuck in time. One of our friends said that she had been three forever and it really does seem that way. I am starting to notice more every day how she is starting to look like a little girl instead of a baby. Her face is slimming up and she is getting so tall.

Q also had a birthday which made him a whole six years old. He was so excited for that day to come and as soon as it got here he was ready for seven. He got his first bow and arrow for his birthday and he has spent every spare minute outside shooting it since. He also lost his first much anticipated tooth. I think he was the last one in his class to loose one and he was beginning to question if he would ever loose one. I am not sure that the tooth was actually quite ready to come out but he would not let us rest until it did. As soon as it was out he was ready for bed so the tooth fairy would come. He was not pleased with what she left him, he expected dollar coins like she had left W.W. and he got dollar bills. I could not make him understand that they were the same and that the only reason she left W.W. dollar coins was because she was out of cash and didn't want to write a check....oh well he got over it once he could spend it.

W.W. had a birthday just on Monday. He turned a big eight years old. This seems almost impossible to me. Eight is only two years from ten and there is no way it has been that long since I had him. I still remember every second of the day he was born and it just doesn't seem like it could have been that long ago. He is also almost as tall as I am and can wear my shoes...well he could if they weren't girls shoes. I can not believe how time had flown by with him. It scares me to know in another ten years he will probably be ready to leave me. My time with him is almost half way over. He is going to start playing basketball this year which we are very excited about. I hope he does well with it. I think it could really be a big help to his confidence which he needs.

Anyway, life around here is busy and I love every minute of it. This weekend deer season or deer sneezen as Q calls it begins, which means Tinkerbell and I get to spend lots of one on one quality time together while our men move to deer camp. LOL! No really it is not that bad but we will get to spend lots of time together which I love. This time of year is one of my favorites, I love the weather if it would ever quit raining. I especially love getting ready for the holiday's. I went to Walmart the other day and they had Christmas trees out. There is part of me that is disgusted to see them already but there is also a part of me that can't wait to put mine up. I love seeing how excited the kids get this time of year. There are so many great times in the fall!

Until next time...hopefully before Christmas! April

So, it's been awhile....

Well, I have not done as well with my blog as I had wanted to. Sometimes there just isn't much to say in life. I think that at times we all get in a slump and draw into ourselves and that is the way I have been the last month or so.

The kids are great, growing like weeds and making me laugh at something they do everyday, it is so great to be a mother and be able to experience that. Then there are the other times like the time I had about two seconds ago where I turn around and scream...STOP...at the top of my lungs. At times it seems that all they know how to do is fight. The thing that reassures me is that I know that it is normal and that I am paying for my raising. I can remember the look in my Mom's eyes at time when my brother and I could do nothing but fight.

We haven't done much this summer but at the same time I feel like we have been on the move all summer. Tinkerbell and I went to Texas for a week to help take care of my Great Great Aunt. It was a great trip, the flight both ways was great and Tinkerbell was wonderful. It was a week that I worried about but wouldn't have traded for anything. I learned so much about myself in those eight days. I learned that I can make it without my boys, while I missed them I was not the wreck that I was afraid I would be. I learned a lot about my family history that I never knew before. I learned that when I grow up I want to be a pilot. LOL! Anyway, there is no end to the things I learned that week and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

After we got back it took me a week to really recover but I am back to the grind now. I spent yesterday getting school supplies bought and I took W.W. to get him a few things to start school with. Next week I will take Q and get him a new outfit also. The week after that they will start. I can't believe it is already here, it seems like that just got out in some way's and then in other way's it seems as if though it is a whole different world now. I believe this is the first year that I am actually not dreading them starting. I feel bad that I am not dreading it, I feel like it means I don't want them here but that is not it. I just feel like I am at a point that I am ready for some me time. Plus I think school is good for them, it gives them time away from me.

Well, I will try to do better from now on but I doubt I will ever be perfect at keeping the blog up. Sometimes it is hard for me to find any words. Thanks for reading and maybe it won't take me a month to post again. I hope ya'll have a great rest of the week. April