Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy Mother's Day to all moms, aunts, grandmothers and any other woman who takes care and loves kids!!

Little blog change

I had a few minutes today to play with my blog a bit. I've made one change that I think Im going to just love, now I can click on the title of the book Im either CR or JF and read my review. Of course the link to my bibliophil.org is another way to do this, but I thought this would be easier to navigate. :)

Kids & I will be leaving in about an hour to go to the graduation party. B & A are being really big poops this afternoon, screaming, fighting. I hope their attitudes change in the next hour.

Dh is farming today, they will be done planting today. He will not be working tomorrow. :)

Big milestone for W!!!

W hit a huge milestone yesterday! He got his haircut by a professional!! Kiera at Cost Cutters is the best! It's a good thing that's the ONLY place our entire family goes to get our haircut, so everyone there knows the struggles we've had with W. Until yesterday he wouldn't even SIT in a chair, but Kiera did it!! I could of kissed her!! :) He ended up having to sit on my lap, but that was totally fine with me!! What a big boy!! He loved getting his hair cut and I *hope* he will continue to enjoy it!! :) Did I say Kiera is the best??!! They were soo busy there (graduation this weekend) and I just wanted to see if I could get W to sit on a chair, he wasn't scheduled to get a haircut. He (umm..we) got on the chair and Kiera talked him into letting her just trim it. She started snipping and I said "You can't stop now.." She said "I won't" I said "Im sorry..I know you're busy" and she said "We've worked a looong time to get him to this point, the others will have to wait..this is as big of a deal to us (cost cutters employees) as it is to you & dh." Did I say she was the BEST!!!

Today was a fantastic day here in Nebraska. The temps were in the 70's. The kids & I went to the library and then went to the school park. They had soo much fun, but were exhausted by the time we left. B actually asked to go home after an hour. lol The boys are sound asleep but my little nightowl is still wide awake, watching "Jungle Book 2" which sounds like it's ending now..so I'd better hurry up and finish this up. :)

Tomorrow we have a graduation party for a girl down the street and Sunday (Mother's Day) is graduation for the seniors. We have another graduation party in the afternoon.

Speaking of Mother's Day :)) I got flowers today. Red/white carnations with 3 red roses. :) And a card saying I am a wonderful (underlined 3x) Mom! :)

Im almost done with "More then You Know" and it's a really good book so far, Im having trouble trying to figure out how old the main character is. The year references are hard to follow because the story goes back and forth from the present to the past. I should have it done this weekend.

Ok A is demanding some serious mom/daughter time. :D

Went to the dr. today

Today I went to the dr, just for a chueck up and to have some bloodwork drawn. No problems folks, I'll be blogging for the next 40-50 yrs. :)

Yesterday the kids had their last day of mock preschool at the high school. Then to celebrate their graduation we went out for ice cream and went to the park. Later we went to the YMCA so I could work out and the kids had a BLAST playing upstairs and later playing with balls in the racquetball court. There were lots of kids there, so lots of kids to play with.

Im still fighting this cold, but haven't coughed to the point of throwing up in a couple days..so I think I'll live. :)

The weather has been in the average temps (mid 70's) so we've been outside a lot enjoying the nice weather. Only 3 more days of preschool. :(

4 days and counting!! WWWAHHHHHH!!!

Yep that's right, 4 days left of school for my kids. WAAAHHHHHHH!! I am going to miss my 2x a week afternoon breaks!! Im sure the summer will fly by and before I know it we'll be gearing up for another year of preschool.

Last night I was up until 3:30am tossing/turning about the school issue regarding A. I don't think I want to send her to another school. I know the teachers said "it would benefit all of them" blah, blah, blah. But I just don't want to do it. It's going to be to difficult, yea..I guess I *could* pull it off, but why should I have to? The kids are doing great at their current school, both boys have excelled on all their goals. I just don't want to the hassle, 2 days of school pictures, different schools, different halloween parties, different christmas programs, different days of school, different field trips. And the biggest decision factor..I want my kids to celebrate their b-day together!! I don't want to make 20 cupcakes for 1 class, 20 for another class!! It's just to much. Call me a baby, call me a wuss, call me lazy, I don't care. I ain't doing it. There..that's settled. I feel better already, now I just have to break it to the IEP team.

Today was another beautiful day! The kids painted outside (boy am I glad they can do THAT outside now!!) and played outside, etc.

Dh had to work at the farm tonight. He got home at 9:15pm and was in bed by 10pm. Grr..

Gonna go watch my soap now, and finish "Plain Truth".

Darn cold vs. me..who will win?

Yep that's right..Im STILL sick! This is 1 week straight of coughing to the point of throwing up. UGH!!!

Today (after I realized I had consumed all the cough drops we have in this house) I went to the local store and bought some cough medicine. Im NOT one to take medicine whether it be over the counter or not, Im not one to get sick and I usually don't require any medicine, just ol' fashioned time and taking care of myself does the trick. So today I bought some Robitussin Cough meds. I must say..that crap works! I also bought some more cough drops. None of those yummy tasting kinds for me, if they are going to work, my theory is they must taste like crap. If I something that tastes like candy, I'll buy candy then.

On another note..

The weather outside wasn't too bad today, a little breezy and just a great spring day. Dh & I were talking tonight and we think this is the first *actual* spring we've experienced since we moved to Nebraska. I think I jumped the gun a bit when I did the flip of the kids clothes, I wish I wouldn't of packed all their sweatshirts away yet.

God it is soo late!

But I wanted to blog real quick before I do go to bed. I just got done doing my roll call for my triplet parenting group. Thankfully I only do this 1x a year! It's a lot of work and the really hard work won't start until the end of the month when I start deleting anyone who doesn't respond to my email. Anyway..so that's why Im up late.

I think I mentioned a few weeks ago about a robin building her nest on the back of our basketball hoop. Well..3 little birds fell out of the nest today and fell to their death on our concrete driveway. Poor little things. :( So the kids got a quick lesson about living and dying. Tonight while A & I played barbies the theme was all of her barbies going up to heaven and seeing God. Yea I know..so many people are going to say "animals don't have souls, blah, blah." That *may* be true, but try explaining THAT to a 4 year old.

I have gotten close to 0 reading done the last several days. Today was an awesome day and the kids & I were outside from 3:30pm-7pm. Dh made supper tonight, what a great treat!!

Im still fighting this cold and now dh & A have it also. UGH! Nothing worse then sick hubby AND a sick kid, on top of it all when mommy is sick too!!!

We had the kids IEP meeting today. It went sooo well! Here's a copy/paste of an email I already sent out about it..

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Last month we decided to have A evaluated, even though she did not qualify for services last year, we saw some potential problems and Im sooo glad we had her evaluated. She qualifies for services now with language delay. Because she is sooo bossy to her brothers at school, it was again recommended to us that we enroll her in a different preschool (on our dime) to seperate them. Dh & I are seriously considering this now, even though we were dead set against it a few months ago. So now Im going to start calling preschools again and get info and hopefully find a spot for her. If I can't fine one (definate possibility because preschools start filling up by March), she'll remain at the boys school.

B..we were suprised as can be to find out that he is by far the farthest behind now. His language tests came back with low grades (in the 50's). Major, major speech delays. I think 99% of that is because we found out wayyy to late (last fall) that he needed his adenoids removed (removed them in November). He's also appears to be having panic attacks at school. We're not sure what is triggering them, but we're leaning toward him maybe being afraid to fail. So when asked to do something new his first response is screaming "I can't!!" and he starts breathing in short bursts. The panic attacks seem to go away as fast as they come and eventually can be talked into trying something, but needs to have a lot of one on one help until he feels he can succeed in the new task.

W..holy cow. This little boy has done a complete 180 since school started, excelling in almost everything. His language comprenhension (sp?) is still a bit delayed (he has trouble answering simple questions), and his social skills are at an age of a 3 yr old (he still doesn't want to play with anyone at school consistently). But his math results came back with 143%!! Unreal!! We were also told that he's on the verge of reading, he knows all his letters and their sounds and is now starting to sound out words. His teacher said "He is like a sponge that can't get enough water, he constantly wants to learn and wants to know the answer to everything." One of the evaluators also said that when he got an answer wrong during the evaluation, he would not move on to the next project until she explained to him what the right answer was (blocks in a wrong order, etc). Anyway..he's doing an amazing job and we were told that he is acedimacally ready for K, but due to his social skills he isn't ready.

So in a nutshell, another year for preschool for all of us this fall.

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Im off to bed, it's riduciously late..

Im so damn sick!!

I HATE spring colds! H-A-T-E them!! I can't breath, I can't sleep. It just sucks!!! If I could, I'd rip off my face and scoop the goop out of my nasal cavity and sinuses.

The early childhood development class at the local highschool is finishing up the school year with a mock preschool, and my kids were invited to attend. It's only 2 days a week for 35 minutes, today was their 2nd time going and they loved it! It's soo hard to believe that the school year is winding down. We've gotten 2 invites to graduation parties, the seniors graduate on May 14th.

Today was a real nice day, a bit windy but nice temps in the upper 70's low 80's. Kids played outside while I fought for air, damn cold..

Saturday

Today I took the kids swimming at the YMCA in a town nearby. We had such a great time! We got there around 2:30 and stayed until the pool closed at 5:30. Then because they were practically eating eachother because of hunger, I took them to good ol' BK. Wyatt didn't want to leave because he was having so much fun w/ another boy there. At least I *think* they were having fun, the other boy was older and seemed a little rough to me, but Wyatt was laughing so I think all was good.

You'd think that my kids would be beyond tired and begging to go to sleep. But hahahaha..not even close. It's 10pm and everyone is still up and going strong.

Tomorrow we (kids & I) have been invited to Jane's house for lunch, Cameron will be there also. So dh is going to bring the kids 4-wheeler and jeep to the farm tomorrow and we'll have fun riding around on those for the afternoon. Should be fun. :)

Im going to go kick my feet up and read for awhile. Im bushed!!!!!

Dh's first day back and...

his next business trip is already on the calendar for May. :( I think this year is going to be a very stressful traveling year for our home.

Today was a rainy, gloomy day. Abby went outside for a little while in her raincoat, but didn't stay out long. Other then that we didn't do a heck of a lot. Played and watched TV about covered our day.

Dh worked at the farm tonight and has to work again all day tomorrow, so I think Im going to take the kids to the YMCA in a nearby town and go swimming. They'll like that and it'll be something different for us to do. That is unless someone get sick, Wyatt complained of a tummy ache all day yesterday and threw up a couple times. Hopefully it was just something he ate and it won't affect the rest of us.

I have to go update my side bar now, I finished "The Ghost Orchid" and "A Child Called It" the last couple of days.

Dh on his way home!!

As of approx. 10 minutes ago dh was leaving the great state of MN and is on his way home! He should be *home* in about 4 hours! I can not wait!!! He said since he's coming in so early this morning he will NOT be going to work tomorrow! Y-E-A!!

Today was another real great day here. The kids had school this afternoon and left and came home in great moods! We played outside pretty much all afternoon until 9pm. We went for a little walk, picked tons of dandelions, etc. The weather was only in the mid 50's but it sure felt warmer then that. No wind, sun just beating down and not a cloud in the sky.

Im hoping to finish "The Ghost Orchid" this weekend. This is an awesome book!! Im completely lost on where the book will be going next and Im loving it! I can't predict it at all (so far)!!!

Real great day!

Today was such a great day! The kids had an awful day yesterday (fighing, arguing) and today has been such a pleasure..I hope Im not speaking to soon! lol

Yesterday it rained all day on/off, (that could of been why the kids were in a sour mood) but today it was just gloomy outside. The temps were a little chilly (probably mid 50's). We played outside and just had a good day.

We are all missing daddy terribly!! :( Hurry home daddy!! We miss you!! He called this afternoon and said he is checking out of his hotel tomorrow at noon and is going right to the airport to get on standby. FINGERS CROSSED he gets and earlier flight!! Otherwise he's not scheduled to fly in until 10:50pm, which means he'll actually get *home* around 1am.

Im finally 1/2 way through "The Ghost Orchid" and Im loving this book! It's so dark and mysterious that I can only read a few chapters at a time, because otherwise I get completely sucked in! I had a dream about the characters in the book last night and it actually freaked me out a bit! So that means it's a GREAT book and Im going to highly recommend it to a lot of people!!

Aaaahhhh!!

OMG do I miss my husband! And I *KNOW* my kids do too!! They are driving me literally up the f***in' wall today!! And they even had school and were gone for 3 hours. SCREAMING!! FIGHTING!!! AAAAAAHHHHHH Calgon take me the f**k away!!

emotional day

Well let me get the emotional stuff out of the way and then we'll talk about the good stuff..

I am in a funk..one heck of a funk..again. Dh left this morning for a business trip to TN. He'll be back on Wednesday. He had to fly into MN to switch planes and called me during his 3 hour lay over. He shouldn't of even called..just knowning he was there, a little over an hour from family, breathing MN air just depressed the hell out of me. I want to move HOME..N-O-W!! When he leaves on trips like this the reality hits me that I am so alone down here. Having no family around really, really sucks.

Yesterday Jane & I took the kids to Kids Explore. They had a BLAST! B&A ate a chocolate covered cricket!! That proved to me that my kids will do anything for a sucker! At least B&A will! lol Wyatt wasn't to keen on the whole thing, there were wayyy to many people there. They did so much while there, ice skated for the first time, saw Spongebob Squarepants, B&A climbed a blow up relic of the Titanic and got to slide down the sides (W wanted nothing to do with that), got lots of balloons, stickers, tattoos, suckers, coloring books and numberous other silly toys. We got there at 12:15 and left at 5:00. Then we took the kids to Burger King for dinner and I *thought* (oh silly me..) they'd be soo tired, but alas they were up until almost 10pm.

Today we stayed home. The kids played outside allll day while I pretty much stayed in the house and got so much done around the house. Laundry done, and the kids toyroom is pretty much done too. Tomorrow a rep from Dish Network is coming to hook us up to dish. Im pretty excited about that. It'll be cheaper, a lot cheaper.

I'd better get my butt to bed. Not having dh around to rely on really sucks and I'll be flying solo for the next few days.

Friday..

Today was a pretty good day. The weather was really perfect (mid 70's, no wind, nice sunshine). The kids & I played outside most of the day. We went to the library to return some videos, got a few different videos and a few books. I bought a book from the library book sale "Manhunt" by Evanovich. i haven't read anything by her, but I've heard nothing but good things about her writing.

Dh is at the farm now and should be calling VERY soon (it's 8pm) saying he's on his way home. Planting started 04/19, so he's going to be very busy out there helping out for awhile. Dh leaves on Sunday for another business trip, this time to TN. He'll be back on Wednesday. So it'll be a long week for me.

Tomorrow the kids & I are going to Kids Expore with Jane. Dh will be working at the farm until 6pm (he promised he'll leave at 6pm, so he can spend some time with us before he leaves on Sunday), we'll see if he really does get out of the farm then..it has yet to happen that he actually comes home when he says he will. Again..I try not to complain..

Not much else happened today, pretty ho-hum..

Windy!!

Well this is going to be a quick post because I just got a notice blogger will be down for maintence in about 20 minutes. Just my lucky..blogs will be down and bookcrossing is STILL down and has been all day because of maintence. grr..

Today was a crazy, crazy windy day! I've always heard the phrase "the wind took my breath away" but wasn't really sure what it meant, today I found out. I was outside and the wind literally did take my breath away, I had to step into the garage to catch my breath. Very werid feeling.

I have a got a killer headache today. I haven't had a headache this bad in a looong time. I hope dh is willing to take care of the kids when he gets home from work, because I am going to bed. He'll be here soon so Im going to go get my pj's on now and let him know that Im serious about laying down.

2 great days!!

Saturday (when dh was going to take the kids turkey hunting) didn't work out as I had hoped. I went to drop off the kids and at the last minute Wyatt decided he didn't want to go. Then I got sweet talked into helping set up the church for Easter breakfast. So I ended up getting home a little after 7. Wyatt fell asleep at church, slept the whole way home, I took him to bed and he remained sleeping. While he was a sleep the laundry did yell to loud and I ended up finishing that. UGH! Wyatt woke up at 10pm, walked downstairs and said "Good morning Mommy.." Oh oh...He finally went back to sleep at 2:30AM!!!

Easter was a fantastic day! We didn't cook a big meal, I made the family favorite, homemade pizza. In the afternoon we all decided to take the 4-wheeler out for a spin. While dh & the kids did that, I sat in the truck and read, and read, and read. Then we went out to the farm, fed 4 little calves (soooo cute!!!) and came home. Dh & I were not hungry, so I made the kids chicken nuggets and corn. Bath and bed.

Today..was another fantastic day! My new DSL equipment came from Qwest and I got that all installed without any problems! WOO-HOO! I went from cable to DSL, DSL was cheaper. Then dh took my car for a business dinner and the kids & I went for our final stroll in the stroller. Im really going to miss the stroller..it means my kids are really growing up, wayyyy to fast. They have definately out grown it :( . We came home from the park, had pizza for dinner, quick bath and now they are watching Legends of the Hidden Temple, on Nick GaS. They LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this show.

It was a great couple of days! I'll have to go back and re-read this post on really bad days.

EXCITED!!!

In 45 minutes the kids & I are leaving to go meet dh at the farm. He's going to take them turkey hunting and I am going to come home and be by myself for awhile! I doubt I'll be alone for too long because Im sure the kids will get bored, but Im still excited! lol I don't know what I'll do while they are going. I probably *should* fold the 5 laundry baskets full of clothes and get them put away but I really don't feel like doing that! lol Im hoping to either talk myself into sitting down and reading (which I have gotten practically 0 done in the last couple of days) or chat on yahoo. I just hope the laundry doesn't yell to loud...

This morning the kids & I went to an Easter egg hunt. They had fun!!

Gotta go finish getting them ready..

The hums of summer...

a/c & lawn mowers.

That's all we've heard the last couple of days. Today was really warm again, but Im hesitant to use the word "HOT". The temps were in the high 80's. We haven't turned on our a/c yet, but I really gave it some serious thought yesterday!! It's really cool downstairs in our basement, but the only one who wants to play down here is Wyatt! Blaine & Abby want to be out in the H-E-A-T!!

Dh didn't have to work today (Good Friday) and silly me, I thought he'd stay home today and be with us, but he didn't. He went to the farm instead, he came home for 45 minutes at lunch and it's now 7:50pm and he's still not home. I try not to complain to loud about this, because I know he's working to help support us. But it also makes me angry because he wouldn't have to work at the farm if he would just budget more. He is such a spender!! But like I said..I try not to complain to much to him about it, so you poor folks are going to have to hear me complain.

The kids have been fighting like crazy all day today. Abby is intentionally doing stuff to piss off her brothers and it drives me crazy.

I finished "Balzac..." today and now sneaking in a non-BC book. I got 2 more packages today with BC rings/rays and another ring sitting here on my desk. I'll get to them this month yet, but I need to read a little romance.

Off to go yell at kids again..I don't know what Abby & Blaine are doing upstairs but it's loud..

The heat is on..

WOW was it (and is it) hot outside today!! It's hard to believe that on March 21st we had 17" of snow and today the temps were in the 90's!! Funny how things change in just a few short weeks.

Today the kids & I missed kindergym (again). I've really been debating how I should be dealing with this. I know most of it is my fault because Im not getting out of bed in time to get them out of bed, dressed, fed, etc and still make it to kindergym by 9am. So I emailed some friends of mine and asked what I should do. Should I..

a) forget all morning activities and just let us all sleep in.
b) am I doing more harm then good on letting my kids sleep in. Should I get them on a wake up schedule.

My friend Krista said it best.."ENJOY IT!! because pretty soon you'll be HAVING to get up early". Her boys have to get up by 7:20am (NO LATER) to make the bus on time at 8am. So Im going to let kindergym and any other morning activities slide unless we are wake and ready to go. Im not going to stress about it. Especially this summer because the kids want to be outside until dark and they are so exhausted from the fresh air that getting them up early the next morning really is a struggle.

Well it's 6:30pm, I gotta go find something to make for supper. Will blog more about our busy day today later.