The first time my life was touched by the death of someone I was close to, I was honestly too young to remember how it felt, but I do remember the sad looks and tears on the faces of the people that surrounded us in the room at the time. That was when my maternal grandfather passed away. I won’t pretend to remember when it was, but if I had to make a guess I’d say sometime around 1970. Next came my maternal great grandfather, I don’t remember much about him other than he always had a pocket full of pecans.
Why am I talking about this? I just received a phone call telling me that one of my cousins made the choice to take her own life just a few days ago, the day after her 52nd birthday. She is not a cousin that I am close to, as a matter of fact I haven’t talked to a single member of her family in over 13 years. They never liked me at at my paternal grandmother’s funeral, they made it more obvious than they ever had. Being the person that I am, I simply decided that it was best to cut all ties to them. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t thought about them over the years, because I have, and hearing that she chose to end her life really bothers me.
She is the 4th person whom I’ve known in my lifetime that has made the decision that death is better than life. Being one of the people that is left behind wondering why, I wish it were possible to make people who think suicide is an option how WRONG it is! I may not have been close to my cousin over the past 13 years, but I do have some VERY fond memories of things we did as children together, and those are the memories I choose to keep close to my heart! I’ve called her parents and offered my sympathy, they took it warmly and thanked me.
So PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE…..if you EVER think that suicide is the answer to your problems, think about a song, written and sang by a VERY young man named Blaine Larson, that perfectly explains my feelings on it! You can watch the video HERE but be warned, it’s a country music song and will possibly make you cry! Rest in Peace CLP, may your demons finally be at rest!
I’m TOTALLY loving how the house is smelling right now! Tomorrow is “THE” day, besides being “my” day, it’s also the day that I’m taking a short road trip with a few family members. It used to be that we’d make this trip once a year, pretty much about the same time, but for some reason we haven’t done this in a couple of years. Where are we going, you ask? We’re going to Shipshewana, Indiana where the most AWESOME Flea Market in the world is at! (If you don’t believe me, just click on that link!)
Anyway, originally it was going to be me, my mom, my sister and one of my niece’s going, but that’s changed just a little bit. Now it’s going to be me, mom, my sister, both of my niece’s and my FAVORITE Aunt! We’re heading out from mom’s house at 6:30 tomorrow morning and have a couple hour drive before we get there. I decided that we needed some yummy snackage for the trip and decided to bake some AWESOME sugar cookies and I also made a really creamy and fluffy frosting to frost them with. We’ll also stop for breakfast on the way, we stop at the same restaurant every time we go! And there will be TONS and TONS of good stuff to buy to snack on as well! By the time the day is over I’ll end up needing some really good weight loss pills to help take off the weight I gain from eating all the goodies…LOL!
I’m really looking forward to tomorrow though! I normally don’t do anything on my birthday, it’s kind of a “tradition” for me…LOL! So it will be nice to get out of the house, and I’ll get to spend some time with some very special family members as well, which makes it that much better!
Since before we took the kids out to their sisters house, my hubby and I have been planning to go out to dinner with my sister and her husband. At first we had decided on one restaurant, then we talked about another, and another and yet another…LOL! We finally narrowed our choice down to a restaurant that we all had heard about that was almost smack dab in the middle of both of our houses.
We met them at the restaurant at 6, they actually got there a few minutes before we did and were waiting for us. We sat down and my sister looked at me and said she wasn’t very sure I was going to be happy with the menu. We had heard that this restaurant had a great seafood menu, but amazingly they had just recently changed their menu and seafood was nowhere on it. It pretty much consisted of things like burgers and subs, which wasn’t what the 4 of us wanted to go out to dinner for. So, we drank a cup of coffee and talked it over and decided that we’d go eat elsewhere…LOL.
We ended up at another restaurant that hubby and I had been wanting to try and had such an amazing time! (More on the restaurant in another post!) We each had a drink, hubby and I were THRILLED to find out that they had Blue Moon on tap and my sister said that they make a fantastic strawberry daiquiri. Hubby ended up ordering steak and shrimp and I ordered Mahi-Mahi encrusted with macadamia nuts that was to die for!
I do wish that we could have taken the time to take a small trip or something while the kids are gone, I even seen some really great deals on laughlin hotels the other day that made me REALLY want to go away for a few days! But with the price of airfare being sky high, it just isn’t in the books right now ya know? But we’re enjoying our time while they’re gone even if we can’t do much more than go out to dinner a couple of times and enjoy a quiet cup of coffee together! We made the comment the other day that we’re feeling like honeymooners again…LOL! Now THAT is a good thing after being together almost 17 years!
Well, as much as I wanted to spend today getting the rest of my stuff ready and priced for my sisters garage/yard sale, doing so just wasn’t in the cards I guess. I got a phone call from my mom last night asking me if I’d come up and help her work today. My mom has owned her own cleaning business since the early 1980’s and on Friday’s my sister in law works with her, but my sister in law is sick and mom really doesn’t want to clean this house by herself today. I can totally understand because it’s a HUGE house (like 6 or 7 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and a total of 3 floors), so I told her yes, I’d help her.
My mom amazes me! She’s been cleaning houses and offices since just a couple of years after my father passed away. She is now 70 years old and still works 5 days a week, sometimes doing 3 or 4 jobs a day. Us kids keep telling her she needs to slow down and even consider retiring, but she won’t, she says her jobs help her keep her mind sharp and her girlish figure without having to rely on weight loss pills. Personally, I think she’s afraid to stop working, but that’s a whole different post!
So I’ll be heading out here in about 15-20 minutes and won’t be home until later this afternoon. If you’re the person that left me a comment on my Boost Mobile Update post, I promise that I will get back with you when I get home today, so bear with me! I’m more than happy to work with you about this situation, I just have a few things I have to take care of this morning (i.e. my mom). Have a great day everyone!
While I applaud BoostMobile for getting back to me in less than 24 hours after I contacted their customer service department this morning, my recent phone conversation with their customer service department leaves me with steam rolling out of my ears! Yes, I know, it’s a crap ass prepaid cell phone company, I shouldn’t expect stellar service from them, but I also don’t expect to be lied to and told something that I know 100% for certain is NOT the truth, and THAT is what pisses me off!
While I contacted them via their website they were unwilling to “deal” with me via email and asked me to call them at 1-888-BOOST-4-U, which I did. I was fortunate enough to get not only a customer service rep that could clearly speak English, she was also a very pleasant person, UNTIL the lies started. I do not fault her, she is simply doing what BoostMobile and Nextel tell her to do.
According to her, someone downloaded an application to my Boost phone for a program called “Hookt”, although she could not tell me exactly when this was done because they only have access to the last 45 days of my account activity (BULL$H!T). She did however tell me that EVERY day since June 26, 2008 when Boost so lovingly gave me that wonderful $15 account credit, someone has used the Hookt application and that is why the account is being charged every day for it. Amazingly, the phone was never even turned on from June 26th until at least July 8th, during which time I was in 100% control of the phone. And since neither she nor I can find any account activity prior to June 26th (I’m supposed to have access to activity for the last 90 days, she’s supposed to have access for the last 45), neither one of us can tell exactly when this application was actually activated.
I’m DONE! Although I’ve enjoyed most of the service we’ve received for the past 4+ years from our Boost phone(s), my time with them is OVER! I’ve had argument after argument with them over the years for charges that I could prove weren’t warranted, but they’ve not once refunded the charges. Their services are BLATANTLY overpriced and frankly, they SUCK!
So BUYER BEWARE!! DO NOT invest a single penny or minute of your time with this joke of a company! Their services are WAY overpriced compared to other prepaid cell phone companies and they will charge you for applications, downloads and services that you don’t use even when you can PROVE you didn’t use them! When we get the phone back from Baltimore I will run over it with my van, put it in a box and ship the broken piece of crap to them! If you’re looking for prepaid cell phone service go with T-Mobile or Virgin, I know MANY MANY MANY people who are thoroughly happy with their service through them as well as their top notch customer service! They don’t put fraudulent charges on your phone and they DON’T give you credits on your phone only to take the credit back saying you’re using a service that you obviously aren’t! STAY AWAY FROM BOOST MOBILE!!!!!!!
With the location of our house, enough mosquito’s to carry a large elephant away, and having 4 dogs that bark at every tiny noise, let alone people coming to the house, having a garage/yard sale here is not something that’s possible! My kids have both changed clothing sizes a few times in the past couple of years and we have an overabundance of clothing that they can’t wear any more. On top of that I have stuff that I haven’t used for a very long time.
So, what does a person do when they have stuff that they can no longer use or no longer want? They have a yard sale! And since we really can’t have one here, we’re going to have one at my sister’s house this weekend. I’m telling you I have so much stuff here that I can no longer use, and it’s time to SELL IT! So I’ve spent the past few days packing up things like clothing, lamps, computer monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, outgrown pet beds, roller blades and some of the strangest looking knick knacks on the face of the earth…LOL!
I’m SOOOOOOO ready to get rid of some of the clutter that we’ve carried with us through the past few moves we’ve made! It’s true that you collect things over time that you really no longer need or use and frankly, I’m just really tired of seeing it lay around taking up space! Come heck or high water I AM going to get the rest of this house organized before the kids come home!
First, for those that have no idea what Boost is, it is a pre paid cell phone company that is, from what I last knew, a branch of Nextel. We have had various cell phones through Boost on and off for several years now. We’ve used the mostly because of the ability to use the 2 way or “chirp” feature with family members who are ardent Nextel users.
We currently only have one cell phone through Boost that my son uses for the rare occasions that he needs a cell phone, which aren’t very often, and he did take the phone with him to Baltimore just in case he would need a cell phone while he was out there. A couple of days after we got home from taking the kids out to Baltimore I got a postcard from Boost telling me that they had given us a free $15 credit on the account, which was cool! I asked my son if he had been using the phone while he was out there and he said it’s still in his suitcase and he hasn’t even turned it on.
Being the meddling mom that I am, I decided to log into the Boost account this morning just to check it out and see whether or not he had been using the phone. To my amazement I seen a daily charge to the account for an application called “Boost Hookt”. I had no clue what this was so I Googled it and found out that it’s an application that allows people to connect to several different things as well as people using their phone, and that it’s an application that you have to actually sign up for. Although my son uses the phone, the account is in my name and I know that I never signed up for this Hookt thing…LOL! And I tried to go into the account activity to find out exactly when this was supposedly signed up for and for some reason I can’t see any account activity before Boost applied the “free” $15 credit. So, even though the phone isn’t being used at all, this “free” credit that they gave me is being eaten up little by little because we’re being charged daily for a program that A). I don’t recall signing up for and B). a program that you’re only supposed to be charged for if you actually use it.
HMMMMMMMMMMMM…….something sounds VERY fishy to me!!!!! And yes, I did contact them and am waiting for them to contact me back. But past history has proven to me that their customer service SUCKS! I’ll keep you posted as to what they say back to me!
You know, it’s almost kind of sad that it takes a family 2 weeks to adjust to being apart….LOL! I guess it’s proof that we’ve either done a good job of letting the kids know that we’re there for them or we’re simply a very boring family that spends way too much time together…LOL!
I’ll admit, I had a VERY difficult time being away from the kids that first week! I spent more than one night crying myself to sleep and was constantly worrying that they were OK and wondering what they were doing. It’s now the end of the 2nd week of them being gone and let me tell you, I am TOTALLY enjoying myself!!!! It’s not that I don’t miss them, it’s just that I’ve finally realized what a HUGE gift this is and I need to make the most of it! My husband even commented this morning about how much more at ease I have been lately and we’ve been able to enjoy our time together!
And speaking of our time together, we’ve made our final decision about what we’re going to do while the kids are gone. After checking into many different kinds of get aways and Las Vegas vacations, we’ve decided that we’re going to save the money that we would spend and just do a few small things close to home then maybe take the kids somewhere after they get home, before school starts back up.
It’s kind of a bummer, but we’re really enjoying our quiet evenings with a good cup of coffee! We even went out to the American Legion with one of his co-workers the other night, our first “date” in a VERY long time! But we just can’t justify spending the money we would for a 2 or 3 day trip when it could be put on the bills or something like that. Does this mean that we’re officially penny pinchers? LOL
I’m sitting here this morning watching The Today Show and Matt Lauer is talking about The Misery Index and how it’s at it’s highest point right now than what it’s been since Bill Clinton took office. I’m like, what in the world is this Misery Index and why have I never heard this term before? So, I did what I always do when I hear or read about something that I don’t know about, I Googled it! LOL
What I came up with was an actual website that shows The United States Misery Index and it goes all the way back to 1948 through the current year. Now, for those of you that are as clueless as am I as to what I’m talking about, the misery index in the US is decided by adding the unemployment rate and the rate of inflation. For instance, the current unemployment rate in the US is 5.5% and the current rate of inflation in the US is 4.18%, which means the current misery index in the US is 9.68.
Now, if we look at the misery index comparison on this page which goes all the way back to 1948, the last time the misery index was higher than 9.68% was in 1993, the year that Bill Clinton took office. During the four years that George Bush Sr. was in office the misery index never went below 10.09%, during the 8 years that Ronald Reagan was in office we started out with a misery index of 17.97% in 1981, it went to it’s lowest rating in 1986 which was 8.91%, then peaked up a bit by the end of his term in 1988 to 9.57%.
In defense of the current President Bush the lowest misery index we’ve had since he took office was in 2002 when it was 7.37% and it honestly hasn’t fluctuated very much during his years in office.
The lowest that the misery index has ever been since 1948 was 3.74% in 1953 when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president and the highest it has ever been was 20.76% in 1980, the last year that Jimmy Carter was President.
Anyway, that is a very interesting website, you can go as far as to see the different ratings on a monthly basis over the last 60 years. So take the time to check it out and maybe even learn something new today, like I did!
I’m sure you’re probably tired of hearing about our recent road trip to Baltimore, but I’m sorry, there are still more things about the trip that impressed me that I want to talk about, so you’re just going to have to bear with me…LOL! Besides, it’s been YEARS since my husband and I have taken any type of road trip, that alone is worthy of at least a few blog posts…LOL!
Since it’s summer time, the roads that we took were filled with miles and miles of road construction areas, which is to be expected! I remember as a kid when we’d take family road trips, dad would be cruising down the road with traffic when all of a sudden traffic would almost come to a stand still, and we’d have no idea what was going on. After driving slow for a few miles we’d suddenly discover the reason why was because of road construction that was going on.
While we did have several areas during our trip where traffic was slowed down because of road construction, the use of digital signage prepared everyone driving down the road well in advance, and I honestly think it does help in the prevention of accidents as well. We drove over 1,000 miles round trip and, knock on wood, didn’t see a single accident. So yes, technology does have it’s benefits!
Although I had heard this word on various TV shows, I honestly had no clue as to what a Pashmina shawl was until my recent road trip to California. During our first leg of the trip I was supposed to rest while my best friend’s daughter drove so that when she got tired, I could relieve her and take over driving. I got settled in in the back seat of the car and was enjoying the drive for a while before I finally got tired enough that I felt like I could take a nap.
Unfortunately, the one thing that I hadn’t packed was any sort of blanket or throw to cover up with while in the car. I honestly didn’t think about packing one, but even if I had, I wouldn’t have had room to pack one anyway. But my best friend came to my rescue, as she always has, and handed me her Pashmina shawl. Let me tell you, this shawl was not only enough to keep me cozy while resting, it was also the softest blanket I had ever felt!
According to Wikipedia, “Pashmina refers to a type of fine cashmere wool and the textiles made from it”, it goes on to say “The name comes from Pashmineh, made from Persian pashm. This wool comes from changthangi or pashmina goat, which is a special breed of goat indigenous to high altitudes of the Himalayas.” While I’ve never ever been a fan of wool, after using Lisa’s Pashmina, I definitely will be scoping out good deals so that I can get one of my own!
It’s amazing the things that you can do around the house when you aren’t dealing with two teenagers that are fighting non stop! I’m honestly not a neat freak, my house has dust and dog hair build up on a fairly regular basis and there are usually at least a few dirty dishes in the sink any time you walk by it.
I decided that I was going to try and take advantage of the kids being gone and get this house in order! For the first time since we moved in here in October my laundry is completely caught up, we managed to make some major changes in our room and move the furniture around. We’re also going to go through all of our clothes and the stuff that is in boxes in the attic, my sister is having a garage sale this weekend and I’m going to take some of my stuff up there to sell as well. We just have entirely too many clothes that either no longer fit or we simply don’t wear and they need to GO!!!!
But anyway, things are really starting to come together nicely. My next “major” project is my sons room, but I have to finish putting the stuff away from my room that I put in there…LOL! He has some shelves that I also want moved to make his room a little more “usable”, if that makes any sense…LOL! Once that’s done, the only thing that will be left for me to do is remove the clutter from the kitchen and get the painting done. But I’m going to put that off as long as I can ;o)
I’m still blown away about how well my van made the trip to Baltimore and back, other than the problems with the transmission. It was the first trip we’ve made with it since we bought it back in February and I was a bit apprehensive about how it would do.
My van is a 1995 Ford Aerostar and we got a really good deal when we bought it. Although it’s 13 years old it had previously been owned by a school district and it appears as if they maintained it to a “T”! It also had very low miles for being as old as it is, it had just passed 103,000 miles. I’ve owned several other Aerostar’s over the years and they are, by far, my favorite mini van and I was really bummed when Ford stopped making them!
This one has been a gem since we bought it and I have to admit that I was tickled when we found out that the A/C unit worked beautifully, mostly because it’s the older system which can be a hassle when it comes to having it serviced or charged. And I was never more happy to have an auto air conditioning unit that worked than I was on our trip because even with the windows down, it got VERY warm! It’s been quite a few years that I’ve had a vehicle with a working air conditioning unit, I’m used to using the 4/60 method of A/C in the summer. You know, 4 windows down, 60 MPH….LOL! And when we make the trip back out there at the end of the month, something tells me I’m going to be even happier about having A/C in the van!
While I don’t proclaim to have all kinds of mail coming in on a daily basis, we do get some sort of bill or notice in our mail box at least a couple of times a week. As much as I don’t like that type of mail, I can’t help but wonder if something fishy is going on since the only mail we’ve gotten in the last week or so has been the junk mail fliers and advertisements!
We’ve had problems with the mail here a few times since we moved in back in October. Shortly after we moved I was expecting a box with some YUMMY mustards that didn’t come several days after I knew it had been mailed. Only after talking to the post office did I find that the package had actually been sitting in our normal mail carriers vehicle for a couple of days by “accident”.
Then we had a period of time where the mail simply wasn’t coming at all. No real mail or junk mail fliers. After talking to the post office that time we discovered that we were actually having a substitute mail person and they had been receiving almost constant complaints about them.
But I just have this weird feeling that either someone is grabbing my mail before I can get out to the box to get it. I’ve been trying to figure out what I can do to keep a better eye on the mail box, but there are a ton of trees between the house and where it sits, so I can’t sit at the window and watch for the mail. HMMMMMM…..I wonder if ademco makes a security system that would allow me to put a camera outside near the mailbox that I could monitor from in the house? I just know that it’s getting frustrating and I’m on the verge of just getting a post office box for my mail!
It’s been a really nice day here today, I FINALLY got a good nights sleep last night without one of the dogs waking me up at one point or another, so I’m sure that’s helped! The hubby and I spent the morning just kind of chilling out enjoying our coffee and watching TV, you know, the same old, same old…LOL!
He had to take off and go pick up some car parts for a guy he works with, but before he did that we were able to get the shelves in our room rehung. Our room has those white wire type shelves in it, but I did not like the way they were hung and have wanted to move them almost from the day we moved in here. We finally were able to take them down last night and get our bed and dressers moved before going to bed. So before he headed out I had him hang the shelves and while he was gone I got all of our clothes rehung and I have to say that I LOVE how the room looks now, it feels so much larger and open!
This afternoon I had a little fun with the dogs and gave them some peanut butter, which is always a source of laughter! And since my hubby found my daughters missing camera I decided to make use of the fact that I can edit video’s that are made with it and grab some video of the dogs enjoying their peanut butter. So for your viewing pleasure….
Tonight we’re sitting here watching one of my favorite TV shows, Deadliest Catch, while waiting for the kids to call. Right now the crews are fishing for Ophelia crabs in January and the weather is getting bad. Of course we have our usual array of commercials during the show ranging from ads for other shows coming on later tonight, previews of the next episode and ads for things like mesothelioma lawyers, insurance and a really neat commercial for a type of gum that I’ve never heard of.
Thankfully the kids just called, so we can wrap things up for the night soon and hopefully get another decent nights sleep. We’ve got a few things to take care of tomorrow before the work week starts, but for the most part it will probably be another lazy and uneventful day!
I’ve seen a few posts on some of the blogs I visit about the funny key words that bring people to their site, some of which are REALLY funny! So I decided to do a little checking on my own blogs to see what people are searching for that have brought them to my blog, and thought that I’d share some of my favorites with you!
extreme holly covered puke video (OK, that’s just GROSS!!)
gross happenings (More grossness?!?)
holly person young sports car driving not a care in the world (OK, is it just me or does this one just sound very strange? LOL)
hollys hot happenings (I think people are VERY disappointed if this is what they’re looking for LOL)
how do i fix my ruined life aging depression (Oh boy, can I relate to this one some days!)
i wish my family got along (I don’t know anyone that doesn’t wish this…LOL)
letting ex-spouse inside current spouse (Makes me REALLY glad I don’t have an ex-spouse!)
things to make your wife disgusted with you (Ummm…looking for things like this WILL do the trick!!)
Good morning, the weekend is quickly approaching isn’t it? I’m having one heck of a lazy morning, but it’s probably because I had a very rough night! After my little crying spell yesterday I called my friend Lisa and was talking to her. I felt kind of foolish for missing the kids so much, but she really helped me pull out of it by talking about how she felt the first time her kids went on vacation with her ex after they were divorced. She said she really felt lost and lonely those first few days and it took some time to adjust to the kids not being home, but after that she really enjoyed the time to herself.
I did pretty good the rest of the day, but then when I went to bed last night I just could not get my brain to slow down and stop thinking about the kids. Right after I went to bed they called, which didn’t help matters any, but I held myself together while I was talking to them. But after we ended the call I fell apart again and just absolutely could not get back to sleep and ended up staying up until a little after 3. I still couldn’t get to sleep and when the hubby’s alarm went off an hour later I got up with him for a little while. Finally around 4:30 or so, I was so tired I had no choice but to go to bed!
The alarm was set for me for 8:00 so that I had time to get up and wake up before having to get ready to go help my sister in law do some running around today. Shortly after 9 she called letting me know that she wasn’t going to be needing me today, she didn’t have to go to the appointment she thought she was going to have to. She said she found out late last night but didn’t want to call me because she was worried she’d wake me up…LOL! If she only knew, huh?
So now I sit here debating on what to do. Part of me wants to go back to bed and get more sleep, I’m on my 3rd cup of coffee and it’s not doing a very good job of waking me up at all! I could head outside and go for a nice walk, but it’s really humid out this morning and the mosquito’s are HORRIBLE. It’s times like this that I wish I had some sort of home fitness equipment like an elliptical or treadmill that I could hop on to get some exercise and help wake myself up and snap out of this funk!
OK everyone, we’re all packed and ready and will be hitting the road in just a few minutes! Hubby and I are driving out to the Baltimore area to take the kids for a month long stay with their older sister! We’ll spend the night out there tonight then head back home tomorrow. It’s only an 8 hour drive so we’ll be home before nightfall!
My daughter is probably the queen of procrastinators! Although she’s known for several weeks that she’s leaving tomorrow and will be gone for a month, she’s been putting off straightening up her room for over two weeks now. It wasn’t that her room was dirty, we had just tore it apart cleaning every inch of it about a month ago. She had just let things pile up and get cluttered, mostly on her dresser and bookshelf.
This morning I told her that she had ran out of time, either she picked it up right then and there or I would, and she wouldn’t be happy with what happened if I did it. That motivated her and she got busy. A little while later I heard her yelling for me, so I went to see what was going on. She had seen some papers and stuff under her bookshelf, so she decided to move it out of the way and clean under it. When she moved it out and picked up the papers, lying under them was the gold anklet that she had been looking for. When she had originally told me she couldn’t find it, I told her to look under and behind her bookshelf and her dresser, I had a feeling that’s where it would be, but she didn’t listen to me. And I don’t have any grandiose plans that she’ll start either, but it was nice to be able to tell her “I told you so”….LOL.
To those who know me, it’s no secret that I don’t have a super close relationship with my family. We get along well and I enjoy spending time with them, but I just don’t spend much time with them in general. Mostly because most family “gatherings” result in my just feeling more and more out of place with them.
Anyway, I’ve been waiting on my son all week to tell me what he and his friends were going to do for the 4th of July. They had been talking on and off for a couple of weeks about all of them getting together and hanging out or doing something. I was totally cool with this, I think it’s great that he’s finally got a group of friends that he wants to hang out with! But after asking him almost daily for over a week to finalize their plans, he woke up yesterday telling me that they still didn’t know what they were going to do, so I made the executive decision that he wouldn’t be going out with his friends and that we would be going up to my brothers house instead.
Initially he was NOT happy about this, to the point that we had a very loud verbal argument. But I sat him and his sister down and told them that I was tired of all the yelling and arguing that has been going on and they had one of two choices. They could either live under my roof and go by my rules or they could put their shoes and socks on and leave, that I was NOT going to do this or go through this any more! Fortunately, they chose to stay…LOL!
I made some of my chocolate pudding pies and we left about 5 last night to head up to my brothers. The food was AWESOME, and my nephew even made some home made turtle soup. He convinced me to take a bite of it, MINUS the meat, and I have to admit that it really wasn’t “that” bad.
I also got to spend a good part of the evening holding my 6 week old great nephew. Talk about a PERFECT baby! This little guy was just amazing, even with all the commotion that was going on around him! The whole evening was one of the best times I’ve had in a VERY long time! And my mom was so excited because for the first time in a VERY long time all 7 of her grandchildren as well as her 2 great grandchildren were together, so several group pictures were taken!
The night ended with my nephews putting on a VERY amazing but VERY not so legal fireworks show! Both of the kids talked all the way home about what an awesome time they had and my son even commented on the fact that he knew he had a better time than he would have had with his friends, but a different kind of better. It was just an absolutely amazing day and I’m so glad that we went up there and spent the time with them!
