Word to the Wise!

Teachers at FCA please don't ever even hint to Jalen that their might possibly be a snow day!! It took me quite awhile to convince him tonight that he DID have to do his homework---our conversation went something like this: Me: Jalen, go do your homework
Jalen:But, Mom we have a snow day tomorrow!
Me: No, Jalen you don't know that for sure!
Jalen: Yes, I do---it is 100% chance that it will snow!
Me: Yes, but how many times has that happened in the past--only to not have snow!
Jalen: But, Mom if we would happen to have school then I would have an excuse for not doing my homework!!!
Me:GO DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND DON'T YOU DARE SAY ANOTHER WORD ABOUT IT!!!!
Jalen: BUT........as he slumps his shoulders and dejectedly heads off to do his much dreaded homework!
(This is actually a very much shortened version of the conversation!--how is it that kids can be sooo smart and yet not understand something that is very simple????)

Sheets and Comforter

This is Jordans sheets and comforter. I STILL don't have his room painted!!!GRRR! I started with the dark blue color. I have part of it done. I was planning on working on it last night and our lights went out around 7:00 P.M. We finally just went to bed at 9:30 and they came back on around 9:40(another GRRR!!) So, everything that I had planned to get done didn't get done!!!(p.s. the kids had a blast with the whole candle light etc.)

Angel

This is angel--the injured cat who blinked everytime I tried to take her picture. She is Karris' cat. She is our cat's niece(hehe)--she is all white with one blue eye and one green eye. She is so sweet!

Broken legs

I just read Carries blog on vet tips. I just have one question ---- Karris and Kyler's cat got hit the other day so Janae(as usual)took it in to nurse it back to health. Anyhoo---it has a broken leg so I took it to the Vet. How come it was going to cost $75 for a teensy weensy x-ray of a kitty's leg and Jenny went and got an x-ray of her big person leg(hehe) for a mere $60????? Just really curious!!! (Yes, Jenny thought she had broken her leg too!) I might add that I decided against the x-ray since they would have had to do surgery on the leg(the cat's that is) and I figured if an x-ray was $75, sugery must be in the thousands!ha We went home with pain meds and the cat is doing great except for a leg that will be a little crooked.(Jenny is doing fine too!)

Heat Wave Continued

Continuing the heat wave post---on Sunday it got up to 35 or 40 and Jaida didn't think she needed to wear a coat because it was soooo warm. I was telling Rachel about it and she said Ava wanted to go to the park!!!Ha!(I'm posting this because I'm pretty sure Rachel won't:)!

Work

I'm just sitting here in my warm fuzzy slippers, sipping my hot cappicino, gazing at all the piles of dirt that I just swept up!!! Oh how I wish I had a cleaning lady, then I could just kick back and relax! But, since I don't(kind of ironic because I am the cleaning lady to alot of people--on the other hand maybe I should hire myself) I guess I should get back to reality and sweep up the piles, vaccum the rugs, clean the bathroom, mop the floors, fold the laundry, and straighten up the place. Then maybe just maybe I can relax--of course then it will be time to pick up kids, cook supper, practice piano, do homework, etc. Oh, the life of a mom!! I wouldn't trade it for the highest paid executive position in the world--well, maybe some days but not right now~HA~(Notice I didn't post this this morning at 7:45 A.M. when I was trying to get everyone out the door into the van!)

Heat Wave

There is going to be a heat wave today!!!! It is supposed to get up to 26!!! Yippee!!
That should feel alot warmer than 3 like it was this morning!

Long lost brother

Thought it was cute today at school. Connor and Samuel were walking around with their arms around each other just laughing and playing. I said boys what are you doing? Samuel said "we are brothers" I said "really?" and he said "yes, we just found out yesterday that we were brothers!" Thought you might get a kick out of that Angie!

BRRRRR!!!

You know it's been really cold when... you walk outside and think spring has arrived and it's only 28 degrees!!!

Yippeee!

Well, we are almost done with Jordan's room. Seems like forever but we have only had work done on it off and on. I picked out a bedspread for him so I can get the paint colors. He actually liked it! He is alomst 15 now and seems to be getting quite picky about certain things. I'll take pics of it and post so maybe you all can give me some really interesting ideas:) He wanted navy blue(not my choice!) the bedspread has blue, grayish taupe, and brown and has geometric like shapes, etc. So, I'm hoping to be creative and paint with those 3 colors and maybe do some horizontal stripes or squares or something! Any ideas???? We need to paint so the trim can be put up and the flooring(I think wood of some kind), and the ceiling isn't finished. I think we are going to put that gavanized metal on the ceiling. We did that on one wall in the boys room and it is really cool.(I give Rachel credit for that idea) I got the primer for the walls today so we can go to town painting!yippeee!
Have a great night!

Kids

Just thought it was kind of ironic that Jordan and Janae just shared this experience with me today after Keith's post on ACE schools. Here's what they told me: Janae said that sometimes she falls asleep while waiting on her flag to be answered(hmmmm wander why she doesn't get her goals done??)so the other day Jenny happened to answer her flag and she was drifting off(Jenny didn't notice)she asks Janae what she wants--Janae wakes up and panicks because she has no clue what she really needs so she says---"white out"! I about cracked up!!!! Of all the things to come up with and all she could think of was white out. Jordan says he has had the same problem but he just usually says "I need to go to the bathroom". Kids are pretty sneaky!!! I did enjoy a good laugh over that!

Christmas cards

I made Christmas Cards for the first time ever! I don't profess to know what I'm doing at all and have never had a class on it so they were very simple. I had fun doing it though. I asked for some supplies for Christmas and Jeff got me a box of stuff. It looks fun!

Christmas card pictures

These are just some pictures I took for Christmas cards this year. I grabbed the kids put coats and hats on them and ran outside. I spent maybe 10 min. so I wasn't real picky---it was the easiest pictures ever taken around here! I knew I would get them developed in sepia so I didn't worry about the green gloves, gray sweats with red pinstripe, and army pants(hehe)! These look a little dorky in color!

Jaida's 7th Birthday Bash

This was my feeble attempt to decorate the cake. Jaida didn't want me to buy it she wanted me to make it. Janae drew the cute little dog on the poster board and we played pin the nose on the dog. The little cupcakes are supposed to look like dogs in case you wondered. They all seemed to have a great time!(the girls that is--not the cupcakes)