Kindergarten

I can't believe that Kyra is in kindergarten. My oldest is going to be a decade old!!!! What is up with that? I'm not old enough for that. I still feel that I am the same age as when I had them. Anyways, Kyra's school pictures came in today and I made a layout using it. She of course thought that it didn't have enough pink on it, or sparkles, but oh well.... I created it!

I just realized that I need to go back and put the date on it. One day I may forget what year she was in kindergarten....

Doesn't she look so grown up? I can't believe it just yesterday she wouldn't sleep unless she had her little hand on my cheek and now she's in school.

Well, the kids want dinner so I guess I should feed them!

Kids!

I need to start a support group for Mom's whose children refuse to pick up after themselves. I am sure that all Mom's could be a member. But seriously, I am tired of walking into my living room and it looking like a bomb went off. They don't even pretend to see what they step over! They just step right on it. "Hey! Pick it up!" They look at you all innocently and say "What?" Do I have any hair left?

The other stress around here is that the classes that I am taking over at the Game Institute are difficult. I have spent the last two weeks on chapter 3. I did complete a program simulating a small slot machine today that came out easy. It only took about an hour to write. Of course if I had those odds in a casino I would be a wealthy girl! But it worked!

Emily wants to start girl scouts, she is the first to really be interested in it, but of course there isn't a troop here. Someone please shoot me, because I think I heard the words "I could help" come out of my mouth! What was I thinking. That's a lot of work, don't I have enough on my plate?

Well, dinner's coming in a box about 15 inches square today... pizza. I love gas station pizza on nights when it is 2 for $10! How can you go wrong?

And another one bites the dust!

A lot has been going on here lately. I started selling Juice Plus! I love it, the girls and I are taking it and I have been feeling better. Check out my website here. My dad is in town and of course that means that all three girls had to get sick in the last week! Murphy hard at work again! Taryn was sick on Friday and Kyra on Tuesday and Emily last night. Well after three nights on the couch with the girls in one week, I am really looking forward to sleeping in my own bed! School is going well for the girls, Kev and I are struggling. He just doesn't enjoy school. I am finding it hard to sit down and focus. Too many things are going on. I am still trying to get into a routine during the morning while all the girls are in school.

We have had a new addition to our family! Meet Baby! Isn't she the cutest kitten you've ever seen? Well she is. The funniest thing is that she really thinks she is a dog. One of the girls has a "bitty bunny" you know from American Girl? Anyways the cat carries this little bunny around in her mouth and wrestles with it. It is so funny.

She was so little we had to put her on the kitten replacement milk and expensive can food for a couple of weeks, but now she is off of it and growing like a weed!

Well, I should go and be sociable with my family! Take care.

I'm getting better!

Well.... Here I am again, and it hasn't even been a month! Yeah for me! I have started taking a couple of programming courses from the Game Institute. I am drowning and only on chapter 2. Who knew it was this hard to make a program just to average a bunch of numbers? Seriously with computers advanced as they are can't I say to the computer "Please write a program to average x amount of numbers." And it should spit out a perfectly written program for me.... someone needs to write that program. Of course then all of the very smart programmers out there would be out of a job!

I need to scrapbook, but I am feeling seriously creatively challenged. Not to mention that my girls are growing up. I just don't get nearly as many photographic opportunities as I did when they were toddling around the house after me all day. Now they want me to leave them alone! Can you believe it? When I do get the camera out my oldest either has the cheeziest grin in the world on her face or she runs and hides from my camera! Doesn't she realize that when she is older she will wish that she let me take pictures???? I mean really!

I suppose I should go and actually watch the movie I rented. I will try to check back in soon. (Not a month!)

I know! I KNOW!

I get it already! I really do. I should be fired from doing this blog thing. But I think it is really good to vent into space and not have to worry about a response, because really, how many people read this? If there is anyone out there that is interested in my little life. Let me tell you that I have found my hero! lol. Check out her blog here! She made me laugh until I cried. I can only aspire to be as eloquent with my words as she is. But I can totally relate!

My nine year old has a problem with me today (When doesn't she?) I sent her to her room because she wasn't obeying and now I am the meanest person on earth:

Me: You are not allowed to watch that channel please change it to channel 3 or 11.
Her: But Mom, it's the only channel that has Saddle Club on it.

(I am okay with saddle club. When it is on on Saturday morning and the commercials are age appropriate, but the commercials playing on this channel are not!?)

Me: Turn the TV to channel 3 or 11 (PBS Kids) or shut the TV off.

(I mean how hard is this? You have 3 choices do one of them!)
She then proceeds to the guide and starts using the up arrow to get from channel 519 or something like that back down to channel 3 or 11.

Me: Use the numbers and type in the channel you want. DO NOT use the scroll or whatever its called.

Her: If you do that it automatically changes to that channel. (Duh!? It really doesn't not when you are in guide mode.

Me: Change the channel to 3 or 11 NOW.

She proceeds to ignore me and does what she wants anyways. Let me explain the reasons for not wanting her to "surf" the channels.... there are ADULT ones in there!!! I have them blocked through the parental control, we don't subscribe to them so you can't actually watch them even if they weren't blocked. BUT, you CAN read the names of the programs.... I really don't want to explain why Debbie does Dallas!!!! Seriously.

So at this point I am totally fed up and just tell her to go to her room as she hollers about how I never let her talk. Of course not, you haven't obeyed. When your conversation starts "But, Mom can't I just...." It means you are going to talk back and are trying to avoid obeying anyways. Why can't they just understand that to get want you want you have to DO what I want?

Is that so hard?

Okay there is my vent!

See you guys in another month or so! :D

Well, Once a month is okay...right??

What happened to summer?? I have not seen much of July... I know it was there but it flew by so quickly that I don't remember specifics just a general feel of it! What can we do to make time our friend?? I would think that scrapbooking makes the days last longer because we have them permanently engraved in our minds, but then are we just living in the past? I don't know, that is just my wondering for the day....should that be wandering?

The Amazing Digital Scrapbooking Race is well underway, and sadly those are the only layouts that I have been accomplishing this summer. Check out all of the wonderful layouts over at NDISB

Gonna go clean my house!! (It's really a never ending battle!)

Bad! Bad! Bad Blogger!

I am the worst blogger! Really I am. Anyways...I am participating in the Amazing Digital Scrapbooking Race! Check it out at http://www.ndisb.com They are doing a great job. I am part of the Scrappin' Mamas team.

Kevin is gone this weekend....playing rambo, well not really, but that's what I call it when he is out doing his military stuff. Crazy boys playing with guns....but no ammo! They go up there to qualify for a shoot and somebody forgot the ammo..... Just how exactly can you shoot a weapon without ammo? Oh well they are probably having a great time being away from their crazy lives for a couple of days.

The girls and I visited with my friend on Friday. I really wanted to go and get my copy of the new Harry Potter book, but I didn't. I'm going to get it tomorrow. I am so very excited!!! I hope it is as fabulous as the others. I think that she is an excellent author!

I spent all night tonight organizing my non digital photos! Yeah! I am so excited. I have a little bit more to do, but all of the prints are separated from the digital prints. So at least now I know that I can look in one box for all of my non-digital photos and be able to scan them and then move them to a new location. Now, if I could just finish organizing my digital photos. I have most of them sorted by month and year, but I know that I have duplicates on my hard drive and I am running out of room, but I hate deleting a file until I am sure that I know that it is really a duplicate.

The girls had a good time yesterday, we took them on a walk and went to the park and let them play and them we went back to my friends house and watched Premonition. Crazy movie. I liked it, but man, it was CRAZY!

Okay....I will try to update sometime before next month!!! Have a great day!