Anything But Mexican Food

We have a fantastic Mexican resturant here in town. We go there a lot because we don't have much to choose from really. It's inexpensive and has the good mexican food that has the white cheese sauce instead of the yellow cheese and it's fantastic. We usually spend about 18 bucks for the boys and I to eat there.

The problem is that we eat there a ton. I always order the same steak fajita nachos and they are so freakin good! I'm okay with that! I could eat it every single week no problem! It would make me a happy girl!

Amber, Brandy and I were going out to dinner a couple nights ago. The question came up: "Where should we go?" We had to choose either the Mexican restaurant, fast food (gag), Cracker Barrel (boring) and a couple other more expensive places. Amber said "I don't want to have Mexican tonight lets go somewhere else." So I agree to go to Miller's, they have great burgers and fries and steaks and seafood and stuff; good enough, just more pricey.

We go in and get a table and browse through the menu for a while all trying to figure out what to have. I ordered a burger, Brandy ordered a burger, the kids all got grilled cheese or pasta. Then out comes the food and we hear the usual "who had the burger, the pasta, the chicken strips" and then I heard those words that set me on fire! "Who had the chicken quesadilla?"

ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME? The person keeping me from my steak fajita nachos because "I don't want Mexican tonight" ordered Mexican food from the damn steak house! Seriously? She could have had a GOOD quesadilla from **El Jimmy's!! I picked at my burger and was not impressed but we had a nice dinner overall too bad the food and the atmosphere did not top the Mexican restaurant AND it cost much more!

Amber will not pick the restaurant again! I will and I pick El Jimmy's!

**The name has been changed because we think it's funnier!

Giveaway's Galore!

Everybody is giving stuff away and I love it! I stumbled upon this giveaway on Brandy's blog and had to get in on the action!



This is a great giveaway! I checked it out and they have short sleeve and long sleeve and kids shirts! I'm impressed! And I want to win! Click the picture to check it out!

Kat's Assignment

I've decided to join MamaKat in her weekly writers workshop.

Begin with “I wish someone told me…”

I wish someone would have told me:

Boys do not all like to get muddy and dirty.

Laundry is a never ending cycle and will one day drive me to drink!

Two boys raised in the same house with the same rules will be so completely different!

Friends are not forever but love is. So I should love my friends.

That Missouri has more bugs than all of the three other states I've lived in combined, multiplied by the square root of Pi and then doubled!

My sarcasm will bite me in the butt when my youngest turns 5 and acts just like me!

To check pockets of all little blond boy clothing regardless of my fears of what I might find because when I slip on my jeans in the morning I might find a woodchip in an unfriendly area of my anatomy....thanks boys!!!

That wrapping up 120 hot wheels cars and over 100 Pokemon figures individually on Christmas Eve would result in having to unwrap 120 hot wheels cars and over 100 Pokemon figures on Christmas morning because naughty little blond boys were not impressed with having to work so hard!

And last but not least I wish someone would have told me how love I could have for three people and how lucky I'd feel to have the family that we've made .......nevermind this just in.....Korbin and Tayton are fighting Korbin just picked up a little table over his head and probably would have launched it at his brother if I hadn't intervened.

I wish someone would have told me that today I should have stayed in bed!!!

I would never!!

I was riding in Amber's car with her yesterday and she started to bicker with me about something, I can't remember what it was but I know that I was right it doesn't really matter.

What does matter is what happened next!

One of these two scenarios is what really happened.

She pulled the van over, the windows were down, we were in front of the fire department, she was yelling and screaming at me like a crazy woman. The fire men were sitting in an open bay and looking in our direction. I tried to jump out to make a run for it but she grabbed me by the hair and yanked me back in and sped away! I was scared! I was certain the MP's would be coming after us soon for a domestic dispute!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~OR~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

She slammed on the breaks and pulled the van over right in front of the fire department. She and I were laughing and yelling back and forth at each other arguing. Then I looked up and saw the fire men sitting in the open bay looking out at us. We both cracked up laughing! I yelled help me but no one did. Amber sped away with me still in the car! I was certain the MP's would be coming after us soon for a domestic dispute!

You decide which ones true and whatever Amber says it's a lie!

She claims that I do crazy things like that all the time. But I would never!

There was never a time that Roxy and Amber were being whiny in the back seat and I suddenly pulled over to "call God" to ask him to stop the wind from blowing because they couldn't handle it and blamed my driving. No sir I did not!

Do not believe Amber when she tells a story of where after spending a few hours with both families together....in the daylight even... Amber's daughter said "Miss Michelle Korbin's mohawk came back"! I did not pull over the car tonight, jump out, pull open the back door and shriek in amazement as if I hadn't noticed it...........or cut his hair the night before!!

I have never pulled over on the side of the road and told my passengers to get out. I have never pulled over and put naughty little blond boys on the side of the road for being naughty.

Nope not me not ever! I would never do any of those things....nope not me!

Korbin and Those Damn Legs

Korbin came home "on red" again today. I spoke with his teacher after a classmate piped up "Korbin's on red today" when I was picking him up from school. I've mentioned before how much I love his teacher and this is still true. Thank God she has a good sense of humor!

Me: I hear Korbin is on red again?

Her: He is so far beyond red!

Me: Oh dear what happened now?

Her: He wasn't doing his work. I went over to remind him to get on task and he told me that the battery right here (pointed to her upper leg) was dead and it's invisible and no one can see it but it's dead and we can't fix it cause there's not another one. And he said "I do not eat salad!"

Me: What the heck does salad have to do with it?

Her: I have no idea! It was just out of the blue.

Me: I'm sorry, tomorrow I will send him in with duct tape.

She laughed and he gave her one of her big strong hugs! Thank god she loves him!

He's so naughty!!!! And creative and ............. well just like me. I will admit that he gets the whole making up stories out of the blue with no motive other than to see if anyone will laugh is all my fault.

Yesterday a friend of ours who I'm just getting to know said to another friend after I made a smart remark about something "only believe every third thing that Michelle says"!

That sounds about right!

The Secret is in The Sauce Blogathon

A great Blogathon with awesome prizes!

I found The Secret is in the Sauce (SITS). a while ago and only visited every now and then. That was until I actually took the time to realize what it was all about. This blog is designed to increase the comments and traffic on your blog by introducing you to other bloggers. There is a world of real life experience and information as well as tons of laughs and plent of tears. SITS is a way to connect and form friendships!

I have a few bloggers that I know are a part of the SITS community. Brandy, Amber, Tonya (who just won a Cricut....lucky girl), Seven Clown Circus, and The Petersons Go Public.

The last two I have just started to read because they were featured on SITS back in July.

Enjoy and remember when you see this button

LEAVE A COMMENT!!!!

The Kids Didn't Sign Up For This

I feel like a horrible mom.

Kirke joined the Army by choice.

I married a soldier by choice.

The boys didn't get a choice.

They were born into this lifestyle.

Sometimes it hits hard and I feel guilty for making this choice for them.

They deserve two parents home with them.

They shouldn't ever have to experience this pain of missing someone so much.

They shouldn't have to see their mommy cry because she's worried or missing their daddy.

They shouldn't have to go through this amount of stress at such a young age.

Unfortunately they do.

Tayton came down after being put to bed. He was really sad and missing his daddy so we decided to make daddy a video.

Here it is. Enjoy.

Please Excuse and send a Temp.

This "Monday Mission" is brought to you by the creative minds at Painted Maypole!

The Mission:

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a post in the style of an excuse letter.


Dear Whoever Cares that I'm Going Under and Can Help Me,

Please excuse the Mom of these two Naughty Little Blond Boys from all household duties for the next 2-4 weeks. You see, she has been working her tail off and is stressed beyond belief. Since these household duties are not going to take care of themselves I'm also asking that you send in temporary assistance to aid in finding out what this house looks like clean maintaining a clean house. This should include but is not limited to laundry, kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, floors and scrubbing grubby little hand prints off the walls. This temp should be prepared to complete all other tasks requested during this leave of absence of the mom. These duties may include such things as helping with homework, cooking and getting kids ready for school in the event that the mom is placed on voluntary bed rest in preparation for the upcoming R&R and needing some serious beauty sleep.

Thank you for excusing said Mom and in advance for the Temp I'm certain will be ringing the bell bright and early tomorrow morning.

Mom of The Two Army Brats aka Naughty Little Blond Boys

New Layout

I loved Brandy's new layout so much I needed my own too! I couldn't let Brandy upstage me on her computer genius skills and blog design so I had to find a new layout too. I actually had to ask her for a little help but she got me through it.

What do you think?

Another Weekend

Another whole weekend has come to pass. That's one more weekend gone before we get to have husbands again even if it is only for two weeks! I'm so ready for our R&R I've been feeling super stressed lately so we did things a little differently this weekend. We normally have everyone over both Friday and Saturday night and spend our evening listening to kids fight and listening to each of us take turns yelling calmly disciplining the kids.

Friday night I had a need to fondue. Which basically is just a fancy word for fasting! We did hot oil fondue with different types of meat and tater tots! Cause we're high class like that! The problem with fondue is that you cook one bite at a time. We decided to make cheese dip and chips so that we wouldn't actually pass out from hunger while we patiently wait for our next bite to finish cooking. Eventually we gave up on the bite by bite method and we threw in a handful of tater tots. Apparently that didn't work out so well because they were frozen and tossing so many into the little pot of hot oil being heated by Sterno cooled the grease too much too fast. The tater tots turned into mashed taters and Taryn scooped it out, added salt and ketchup and ate them with a fork. I'm pretty sure that if you have to use a fork for tater tots somethings just not right. But that's just me.

Then on Saturday I grounded myself to the house to do laundry. That lasted until Amber told me the Fire Department was having an open house. My love for firefighting comes out every now and then but I generally keep it at bay but when I have the chance to pass it on to my kids I jump!

Unfortunately my kids who were excited to go to the open house must have fallen out of the car on the way there because the ones I showed up with stuck so far up my tail end the whole time they didn't want to do anything. So I did what any good mom would do and threatened them and forced them to participate. After that they were a little more involved. Here are some pictures.

We met Brandy there but didn't get any pictures since they got there as it was all ending.

Saturday we invited ourselves to dine at Amber's. Funny thing is that I still cooked. I'm okay with that, I grilled while she made the sides in the house. It was great. We get our meat from the "Cow Guys". They drive around in white truck with black spots like a cow. They sell us really good meat at really high prices but we're hooked. By the way we soooo don't pay the price on the website. Then we let the kids play outside for a bit and we headed home. It was really kind of a nice change.

Everyone else put their kids to bed while I take a more laid back approach to parenting and let my kids watch movies and bug me for a while longer. And then Korbin came to sit with me and was so sweet to fall asleep with his fruit loops in his lap. I took them away and again did what any normal parent would do and made faces at him so Amber (she came over to watch TV with me after he kids went to bed....the luxuries of having a grandparent living with you) could take pictures.

Then I woke him up and sent his butt to bed!

Today we just bummed around the house. I asked Tayton to get his backpack out of the van and he went to the garage and came back in empty handed. He told me he needed me to move the van forward. He opened up back door of the van and then tried to open the garage door, or close it or something. Either way the garage door got stuck on the back door of the van and I had to move it forward to solve the problem. This is the damage. I was a little upset then I remembered that my van looks like it drove through a freakin forrest after the kids have driven hot wheels cars on the side of the van so that there is a very clear race track engraved in my paint. Oh well. Here's the latest addition.

Gifts from Daddy

We got our first package from Kirke yesterday! We were very excited! He sent each of the boys a t-shirt with their name sewn on them in English and Arabic. He sent me a blanket with an American flag and the Statue of Liberty on it. It was so great to get to hold something in my hands that his hands had touched only days before that. Being able to sleep under the blanket that kept him warm a few days ago is an amazing comfort to me also.

The boys loved their new shirts so we took pictures. Kirke did so good by getting them each their favorite color!

I did not make them stand this close to the wall, they're killing me! Silly boys!

Like I had to force them to stand there or something, come on guys, relax a little would ya?

Kirke,

The boys and I love you and we miss you so much. Our days will go on with a missing piece until you're home to hold us and make us smile again. Be safe baby we love you and thank you for the gifts!

Love us forever,

Michelle and Your Boys

My Favorite Things Swap

I signed up on Sunshine and Lemonade to participate in her My Favorite Things Swap. Our job was to buy the person we were assigned OUR favorite things. We got a list of what they liked and most importantly didn't like but we basically ignored what they liked to introduce them to our own favorite things and to get to know someone new.

I received my package in the mail today and was so excited! Mandee from Dover Family Circus and Some of This and Some of That.

She sent me this gigantic, cute bundled basket of goodies!

It included:
Cookie mix, birthday candles (her birthday is her favorite holiday!), a Halloween tea light holder, photo frame, Chill Out Scooby Doo (book), a journal, a set of stamps and ink from Stampin' Up, some smiley face glitter stickers, a Whatchamacallit and a journal.

That was all fantastic but there's more!!

My two favorite things out of her favorite things was a little jar that was decorated and inside are several strips of paper. Each strip of paper has a question. These questions are to be used as journal writing ideas (or blog writing ideas) for when my brain is sleeping! It was so thoughtful! I love that!

And my number one favorite thing in the basket is a book! It's called "Great Kids Are Homemade" and is filled with the best ideas ever on how to plan fun family nights! They are so off the wall.........like me........that it's perfect for my naughty little blond boys! I'm so excited to try some! Our Friday night dinners at my house **that have coincidentally turned into Thursday, Friday, Saturday and at least one weekday too lately** might have just become a bit more interesting for the masses of children who show up hungry!

Thank you sooooooo much Mandee!!! Go check out her blogs they are great great great!!

Dover Family Circus AND Some of This and Some of That

They Got the Best of Me

Today was another rough day with the naughty little blond boys. To start off I spent the entire school day at the elementary doing health screenings. We had three parent volunteers, me, Amber, and another Mom and then we had a group of probably 10-12 Marines who are here at the Fort for training. They were more than happy to skip out on two days of training to help us out.

Every year the nurse has to record every students height, weight, vision, hearing and do a head lice check. We have over 300 students from kindergarten through 6th grade. Out of those 300 about 120 are sixth graders! We got through all but about 60-70 students today!

It was fun, but it was a long day of directing students to the right stations and maintaining crowd control. At the end of the day Amber and I met up at my house to sit and look at each other and hope the kids could behave so we could get off our feet for a few minutes. We had dinner then took them to the park. I know how mean that sounds of me! I fed them dinner and took them to the park to play with Brandy's family! By the way they acted in the car on the way to the park you'd have thought they were being punished by going to the park! They were terrible!

My frustration continued to build while we were at the park. I was trying to have a serious chat with Tayton about his behavior and this other kid kept coming up and saying "don't worry I can take care of him for ya!" The dad just sat on the bench and would say "leave them alone his mom is talking to him"! But he never got up to get the kid away from us. Even when I very openly ignored the child. Then the kid turns to his dad and says "would you just leave me alone"! This kid was only four. That was aggravating!

Then we had to go to Wal-Mart for a few things. My frustration continued to build as I had to listen to the boys whine and ask for everything within their view! I was so frustrated with them. At this point not much of what they did could please me. I had already had enough and that just pushed me further towards that edge.

When we got home I told them to skip showers get pajamas on, brush their teeth and get into bed. I went upstairs and Korbin was acting like a fool. Neither kid was in bed and I had just lost it. I tucked Korbin in and told him I love him and that I need him to start acting like a five year old. Then it happened....on came the tears. My tears. I'm so frustrated with them not showing me any respect. They aren't listening or even pretending to care that I get so upset. Korbin said to me "I know that you miss daddy and I do too. Mom I'll scoot over so you can sleep with me okay." And he hugged me.

I pulled myself together and went to tuck in Tate and he said "mom are you okay?" I answered honestly and told him no. I told him I need him and his brother to start behaving better and start helping out more so that I don't feel so stressed out. He said "come here Mom I want to kiss you 15 times". He kissed me and hugged me and I told him good night and that we love him.

Aren't they just so sweet? Keep reading....

Then I went into my room to change and as I came out I caught Korbin in Taytons room. SERIOUSLY?? It had only been about two minutes! I sent him back to his own room and came downstairs. Same thing a few minutes later. They pretend to care and then turned around and blew it. I need chocolate...and a vacation.... and something for my eyes if they push me to tears anymore.

Tayton's a Star and Korbin's on Red

How can I possibly have two kids who are so completely different??

They have similarities.

They are sweet little boys.....when they're sleeping.

They always think of others first......... in case they might toucing their toys or standing too close!

They are known for their humor........no matter how far fetched it might be.

They are both smart........even if it's only used to plot against me!

They love me very much......or so they say!

They want to be good boys.......when they are writing sentences for being naughty.

They are cute as can be.......too bad they know that and use it against me!

So here's the situation.

Today at school Tayton was awarded the Star Award. This is an award that one student from each class is chosen for each week. They have differnet colored stars for each month that will represent a character trait that the Star Students have displayed and they hang from the ceiling in the main hallway at school all year long.


Tayton was presented the Responsibility Star. He said to me "I know it's for being responsible but I don't know what I did to be responsible." I told him it's probably because he does his work and makes good choices and does what he's asked to do. He told me "yeah at school I do those things!" As if to remind me that it ends when the end of the school day arrives! Little Snot!!


So while I'm so happy that my little Tayton had no idea his name was going to be called because I wondered what he would do and thought it was best to find out through experience rather than protecting him like I tend to do. Anyhow he heard his name, stood up, hesitated a moment next to his teacher and with a word of encouragement marched right up in front of over 300 students and 20 something teachers and parents and stood proud with his little award! I was so happy I could have cried! That's a big step for him!

Then I walked to Korbins class with him and heard from about half the class "Korbins on red, Korbins on red!" And I wanted to scream! First off Korbin's teacher and Korbin's mom can handle it without every kid worrying about his business. And second that totally ruined my mood. Red means that he made very bad choices in school for the day.

How can I have two kids who are so incredibly different? They came from the same gene pool. They are raised in the same house with the same rules and discipline. However, they could not be more different. Tayton is quiet and reserved and cautious. Korbin would dance on the tables for a crowd of 50 for the right price. Tayton withdraws and cries quietly to himself. Korbin can kick and scream with the best of two year olds! Tayton is naughty at home and not at school. Korbin is naughty pretty much most of the time.

The dad can come home anytime now before I lose my mind please!!

Laundry Mishaps

I was swapping the laundry over last night and as I pulled the clothes out of the washer I could hear things falling back into the washer. That's never a good sound especially with my two naughty little blond boys. I continued to move the clothes to the dryer and then I braved a peek to see what had been lucky enough to be washed. Here is what I found:

Now you'd think that after the crayon mishap last week that I would have started checking pockets. Especially when I'm washing an entire load of blue jeans. Nope! I'm an idiot. So much of an idiot that I didn't even check the pockets of the jeans before moving them into the dryer. If I had then I would have found all this before it got baked into the dryer.

So maybe next time I will check pockets....or not. I can't believe they wasted cheese! That is sinful in this house! And thank god it didn't melt all over the jeans because it was string cheese not sliced cheese! The can tabs are for the school by the way we aren't doing weird things or anything here. Well sorta........

Vonage Eff Ups AND Korbin Thinks I'm a Saint!

Here's the latest in Vonage Visual Eff Up's!


"Hi Michelle. (??) We do find a tough tractor and we have to splint that thing. So all you had to do is. I'm gonna have a tracker girl. I'm trying to get hold of you. Let's see if I could make an appointment and see if we can catch up there, and (guess? up that properly. Ok? So, I'll try to get hold of you, for tomorrow or the next day. Ok. Meantime, your buddy tape, Tathan. (??) Ok. Bye bye."


--- Brought to you by Vonage ---
This email was sent from a mailbox that does not accept replies.


What it really said was that my little boy has his first broken bone. The tip of his finger is crushed. It had to be splinted and they said it will cause pain for probably 3 months. Life in our house will be full of tears.

I took him to the doctor this morning because he's been on breathing treatments every four hours with a fever off and on since Friday. They said he had a throat infection (since he can't have tonsilitis without tonsils) and put him on meds.


Thursday he had been playing on the playground in the rocks. Well he and his pals had found a ginormous rock and one little boy tossed it and Taytons finger caught it.....or cushioned it's landing at least. So since were being seen today I asked them to do an xray to make sure it's not broken.


Then I got that visual voicemail around 2 today and called them back. I wanted it handled today because I don't want him to miss school tomorrow. So I did what any stupid responsible mom would do and I took Korbin out of school and then rush to the hospital to have Tayton see his doctor, this was around 2:30 and we had to be at the other end of the hospital at 2:45 for Korbins ears. At 2:45 the doctor hadn't come down to splint his finger yet so I started pacing. You see at these military doctors they require us to be 15 minutes early for our appointments. That's to allow them plenty of time to sit and laugh us idiots wasting 15 minutes of our time sitting in germ infested waiting rooms. So I was worried they wouldn't see Korbin at ENT if we got there at his actual appt. time of 3:00. I mean he hadn't sat in their waiting room inhaling enough germs so he might not have qualified to be seen.

But they did see him and it went fine. His ears are still infected because he was only put on an oral antibiotic and not the ear drop one. His other tube has come out but is stuck in his ear canal so we have drops for that side now too. That's what we do for fun in our house!

Anyone wanna come play at our house?

Here's the damage five days after the accident. See the bruising halfway down that finger? It's ugly in person....Kinda like some people I (nevermind I'll keep it to myself)!
Here's his fakey fake sad face!
And here's what he thinks about me making him let me take pictures of his painful injury!!!

This just in:

Korbin came downstairs well after I put him to bed.

Korbin: Mom my belly grumbled

Me: Go to the bathroom

Korbin: No my belly grumbled for you.

Me: what?

Korbin: It said it needed you! And then I said it too.

Me: GO TO BED!!!

Korbin: I was ner-biss upstairs up without you.

Me: Why aren't you asleep?

Korbin: Well I was alseep and then your tv woked me up.

Me: go back to bed

Korbin: I will when you go to bed.

Me: When I was five years old I went to bed way earlier than this.

Korbin: Ohhhhh. Were you in trouble?

Me: No! I never got in trouble I was a good kid!

Korbin: Awesome!

I have him fooled! He still thinks I'm 21 too!

My Kids Have Issues

Exhibit A:
Tayton just told me his teacher taught him how to make applesauce. Tayton said "You just need apples, cinnamon and sugar. We have to cut the center out of apple and then you peel it and throw them into the crackpot. We have one of those right mom?"

I was trying to stop laughing and was not successful so he said "don't we have a crackpot mom?"

I'm pretty sure I'm not a crackpot mom.

Exhibit B:
Korbin is reading a cookbook and wanted to write our names in it. I pointed to our wooden sign by the door that says each of our names. He was very upset that his name was last. I tried to explain that it was because he was born last. That wasn't good enough for him. In his mind we clearly favored Tayton more because he got to be born first. Then he said "Was Tayton on top of me when I was a baby?" I'm not sure if he meant in the womb or what but I just shook my head in no particular direction so that I didn't mistakenly justify something to him.

Exhibit C:
A couple days ago the boys were fighting about showing their butts.....seriously....so I called them both downstairs and made them stand by the door. I asked them "what were you thinking when you did that?" and Korbin's response was "ummm my brain was sleepin".

Exhibit D:
I told the boys it's time to go to bed. They had brought down their blankets and sheets to be washed. I asked them to grab a blanket to use for the night while their other ones were being washed. Korbin says to me "no thanks, I'll just use a towel". GRRRR Who does that?

For more examples of their issues scroll down or click a month from the sidebar in the archives.

I might lose my mind soon. Very very soon!

Amber Takes One for The Team

My two great friends and I played swap the kids all day today. It's a great new game everyone should play and see who wins by who lost the least amount of kids by the end of the game!

Let's see if you can follow this.


At 8am I had Tayton and Korbin and then I went and picked up Ambers kids, Lil C and Cadie along with another friends son to take them to school. I dropped off the four big kids and then Lil C and I headed to Brandy's for breakfast and got there around 8:30 with her and Megan.


Korbin had an appointment at 9:40 because at 1am last night he came to my room crying in pain from his ear. Pain that was so bad that an hour after motrin he was still crying and kicking in pain. I gave him tylenol. About an hour after that he felt better and went to sleep. I knew his tube was working it's way out so that's what I figured all the fuss was about since he had no fever.


At 9:00 I left Brandy's went to the school and got Korbin. Brandy kept Lil C for Amber who was at her own appointment. When I picked up Korbin he had ***STOP READING HERE IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH*** snot like fluid oozing out of his ear. The doctor looked in his nasty little ear and said the tube was gone but that he had a major infection....the snot was my first guess! Then he looked in the other ear, said the tube was in place but that his other ear was also infected! Poor kid! So we went back to school picked up Korbins things because he would be out the rest of the day.


Amber finished her appointment and went and got Lil C from Brandy. Brandy then came on post and dropped off Megan at another friends day care for a couple hours while I took Korbin to Amber for a couple hours because the two of us (Brandy and I) had hair appointments at 1:00. Then at 2 I had to go pick up Brandy's daughter E from school and take her to the dentist because Brandy's hair was taking too long. This meant Amber had to pick up Tayton and Cadie and our friends little boy from school on post. Plus pick up Megan from Day Care.


So at 3pm I had E, Brandy had no one...lucky b......and Amber had Korbin, Lil C, Megan, and picked up Cadie, Tayton and M. Brandy had to go get her son N and I got Megan, Korbin and Tayton from Amber at the school because Tate got hurt and needed his Mama. I gave Amber E so she could play with Cadie.


Are you tired yet? Did you keep up with who had what kid at what time? Me either!! All I know is that at least Brandy and I got cute new hair out of it and all Amber got was a headache!!

Thanks for taking one for the team Amber!

Here's my new hair. I still have to color it brown and do my highlights again but I haven't made it to store lately. I don't know why since it's not like I'm ever doing anything!

Here is Brandys new hair. Her ten year old didn't notice that she had a inches cut off he just noticed that she got the "gold back in it". BOYS!!!

The Minds of Kids

Today we were in the car after school and Korbin told one of our little passengers that he has a Capliced Car! His friend quickly said "no it's not"! Tayton jumped right in and said "let's not get all scientific about it!"

After school I had planned to take them to the park. Nope they wanted to stay home instead. I'm a little confused who these two little boys are and why they are pretending to be mine.
When we got home we came inside and Korbin said he'd like to do his homework please. He didn't want to go play upstairs with his brother and other two friends. He didn't beg to watch cartoons. Nope he wanted to sit next to me and work on homework.

I wanted to order pizza for dinner. The boys wanted pizza right up until Tayton saw IT on the counter and begged me to please let them eat at home. Please just order pizza for myself and they will eat IT instead. I was so not gonna order pizza just for myself so we are all eating IT instead. Want to know what IT is that lured my kids away from pizza? Ramen Noodles! That's right! Here I sit eating the last thing in my cupboards I'd like to eat while my kids are all smiles with their no nutritional value what.so.ever ramen. They even said "thanks mom it's so good!" I'm skilled with a microwave and hot water what can I say?

I'm scared.

Mr. Crayola Meet Mr. Brand NEW Maytag Bravos Dryer

Today I don't want to be the mom anymore. I decided to wash some clothes because naughty little blonde boys insist on wearing underwear and socks to school! I had left a load of clothes in the washer before I got sick yesterday but no biggie, I tossed it into the BRAND NEW DRYER (did I mention it's brand new?) and went on about my business. I threw in the whites with bleach and detergent and even fabric softener now that I have a high tech washer with a fabric softner dispenser built in! I was just trying to be a good mom ya know?

SO the washer and dryer beeped at me (another new feature I'm not used to) and I took the hot clothes out of the dryer and that was when I saw red! Seriously I saw red..and it was all over the drum of the dryer. AND THE CLOTHES!!! The load had the boys school pants and a few other odds and ends in it. Here's the result:

Thank you very much naughty little blonde boys! Now we'll be going to the outlet store this weekend and I know how much you LOVE to shop! Ha take that ya little punks! I'll show you!

Anyone know how to get crayons out of blue jeans and other clothes? I tried shout but that just made my throat hurt more and the crayon didn't budge. Grrrr! OH and it's 10:30 and they are still awake because I can't yell at them to go to sleep. They are totally taking advantage of me! Just you ya know!

GIVE IT AWAY

Burgh Baby's Mama has gone crazy! She's giving away everything! From coffee to music to cosmetics! But you have to enter by tonight so what are you waiting for? Click here to win
And for some of her best writing yet click here to read her 9/11 post.

I Give Up

I went to the doctor today because I had a 102 fever last night and my throat feels like I swallowed a cat and it clawed the hell out of my throat the whole way down. It hurts to open my mouth, it hurts to move my tongue and my tonsils are the size of basket balls and I'm grumpy. It hurts to swallow which means my body is having some serious diet pepsi withdrawls and did I mention I'm grumpy?

The doctor looked at my throat and laughed. Yep he chuckled. And then he said "well it's no wonder you're in so much pain"! Gee thanks! Actually he was very kind to me but he did laugh at me when he saw how ugly it was in there. He gave me lots of medicines but nothing for the pain. I need something for the pain. An 18 wheeler ought to just do the trick I think!

I took the flea ridden dogs to the vet today. The vet was a very bad word and made me more grumpy than I was before. She argued with me about the age of my dog! Seriously! I've had him for ten years he was a year old when I got him...in 1998! She insisted he must be younger than that because he doesn't look that old! Grrr! My dog ages well, geesh back off lady! Then I told her we had chinchillas and she said "hope you don't expect them to live long"! WHO DOES THAT?? Come on be a little professional already! I left the vet with flea crap for the dogs and stupid flea bombs for the house that I paid way too much for because this vets office sucks bad!

I came home to talk to Kirke. Amber picked up the boys from school for me and I just ordered pasta from Pizza Hut for dinner, not that I can swallow but it's worth a shot. Tayton has been waiting on the pasta to get here and just came in the house and said "what's taking so long? Are they using a pizza delivery bike or what?" He's right it's been almost an hour.

So I quit. I give up. The boys homework can wait until tomorrow, the house can stay a mess. The garage and van have a mysterious odor that I don't care to investigate today either. Instead I'll feed the naughty little blond boys and lay on the couch and pray the medication starts to work soon.

Want to Win Something?

I like to win stuff! I don't really want you to win because if you win that means I didn't but since I get extra chances to win just by telling you guys about this giveaway it's worthwhile to let the cat out of the bag. Mama Kat is giving away a vacuum! Yep! One of my favorite things ever! I love love love them and could never have too many. In fact I've been thinking how much I need one just for upstairs! I hope I win and you should go enter too.

The Korbin and Melissa Saga Continues

I decided I needed to know if Korbin was still mad at Melissa (my 29 yr old bff) because she's getting married.

Me: Korbin are you still mad at Melissa?

Korb: Yes

Me: Why?

Never mind I need to video this. Here ya go!

Don't worry I already scheduled therapy to try to ward off the violent tendencies in my dear sweet Korbin!

Melissa, just so you know we love you and we (and by we I mean Tayton and I) love Chris and will be happy to not sign Korbin out of the asylum on September 19th of next year if he doesn't straighten up by then!

This just in: We told Korbin that his little Megan has a new boyfriend that she was playing with at the park and his name is Chris. He said he was gonna push her in the water too. And I asked why he would push little Megan in the water and he said "Oh not little Megan cause Ms Brandy would whoop my butt!" So Big Megan you better stick with Josh cause if you bring a Chris into the picture you're a goner!

Melissa call your mom and have her call Korbin and straighten him out so that Korbin will be afraid to push you in too okay!

Korbin Come Back Inside!

Today the boys and I were making dinner. A good wholesome dinner of bacon, eggs and toast! The boys put the bread in the toaster and turned the dial all the way up. I of course didn't know cause I was busy cooking the bacon. I found out as soon as it popped up and I smelled the burnt toast. Our trusty smoke alarms went off a few minutes later....good thing we weren't on fire! Korbin took off running out the door. I yelled to him to get back in the house and he said "but what if we burn up in the fire"? He was refusing to come back in!

Darn kid! He heard me say "the toast set off the smoke alarms" but ran out the door anyway! After I fanned the smoke detector for a second it went off.

I got Korbin back into the house and decided we should talk about fires. I asked them where they thought we should meet if there really was a fire. We decided at the mailboxes on the corner. Then Tayton said "yep and we just run right out there and don't bring anything with us right mom?" And Korbin piped up and said "well we have to bring the stove, duh". I jumped in and said "why would we bring the stove?" Korbin replied "because it's really important to have a stove. What would we cook on if it burned up?"

Duh of course!! What was I thinking?

Tayton went on and said "well it's not too important if we, you know (makes a throat cutting movement with his hand to represent dying I guess) in the fire."

Silly boys!

10,000!!! Woohoo!

~Woohoo~

I was just on my stat counter and it showed that I am at 9,999 visitors! So I should do something to celebrate! I think I'm gonna have to figure out something fun! I'll get back to you on that! If you're reading this please comment and tell me what my stat counter says on the left side bar!
Thanks!

15 Things That I Suck At

I am not without flaws. I know you're probably surprised ...... or not ...... but I have many flaws and I thought you should know about a few of them.

1. I suck at folding and putting away laundry. I'll wash and dry it all day but when it comes time to move on to the next step I'm suddenly so tired or my arms and legs are broken so I can't possibly fold laundry. Therefore once a week I build Mt. Laundry in my living room chair and after a few days of diving in to find clothes to wear only to find the most wrinkled shirts ever seen by the naked eye, I give in and fold my clothes and put them away. Seriously have you seen the new GE washer and dryer commercial with the 6 months of laundry ball rolling around? That was mine.

2. I suck at cooking small meals. I always cook way too much! Even with both of my friends and their herd of kids here I still end up with left overs. I have recently realized I also SUCK at eating left overs and end up wasting food. Sad.

3. I suck at getting up in the morning to get the kids ready for school. Yep last week they woke up and let me sleep in which resulted in them being tardy for school. Oops! Today we got up at 7:30 and had to leave at 8. I suck!

4. I suck at understanding the ridiculous things that come home from school! Today my 5 year old had a note in his folder from his PE teacher stating that because he was absent one day and missed 20 minutes of PE, that he had until the end of the week to make up that work. WHAT? That's right! I have to sign a form stating that he has been physically active for 20 minutes to get participation credit for that day that he was home sick! WTF? Seriously? He's 5! Is it acceptable to write that he completed his 20 minutes by racing from the dining to the living room and diving onto the love seat? Or how about that he practiced throwing by using my clean socks that were supposed to be carried up the stairs and not launched as grenades from the top of the stairs! Or how about the forbidden jumping on the bed? It's not encouraged but does take place and I'm certain that he's done at least 20 minutes of that over the past few days. And like any normal 5 year old boy he cannot walk! He runs everywhere he goes within the house, can I add up those minutes? Because I KNOW he's run from his room to the kitchen at least 100 times!

5. I suck at trying to rationalize with my children! I need them to clean their junk out of my hallway so that I can get to my own room. They can't figure out why it's not okay to have the mattresses, gigantic bear and moose, kitchen stools and every blanket they can get their grubby little paws on into my bedroom doorway! Then they can't figure out why I'm throwing things out of the way like a mad woman! Here's another example from tonight:

Why do we have to do homework? Because you're teacher sent it home and wants you to do it so you can be smart.
Well then why didn't she make us do it at school? Because she ran out of time.
Well then why did we have so much time for free choice centers? Damn it I don't know! Do your work or I'm selling you on eBay!

6. I suck at keeping my car clean! I try. I do. But then we spend a day running around doing things which leads to eating in the car which leads to food on the floor and papers and wrappers. Which leads to me being mad about it but having my hands full when we go in the house so I can't grab the mess and they fail to have enough empty hands too and I suck at remembering to make them go back out and clean it up! Right now I need to fold the seats down and jack up the front of the van and just let it all slide out into the dumpster!

7. I suck at following through with my threats to naughty little blond boys! Mostly this is because I like to think I'm funny which leads me to making irrational threats that if I did carry through with I'd wind up in jail. Like the time Korbin was playing with our friends hubby Big C and hauled off and punched him right in his stuff! I'm pretty sure I threatened to take his stuff right off if he ever hit someone there again! Well duh! It's not like it's stuck on using Velcro!

8. I suck at being patient with these guys when I'm stressed out! Yep I turn into a yelling screaming maniac of a mom who should probably be locked in a padded room except that would require the Dad to come home from the desert and the Army doesn't want that so they tolerate me....for now!

9. I suck at keeping my mouth shut! Yep I do! Don't act surprised! I let things slip right through my lips without even thinking twice about the political correctness of my words. And I like to be right! And when I am right I like to prove that I'm right. Yep that's me! I'm a right fighter!

10. I suck at singing! Yep I have the voice of a coon dog. But that's okay cause I like to sing along with my favorite songs. Especially ones that annoy my friends or make me look silly. I'm okay with that!

11. I suck at saying NO! HUGE flaw! So from now on when I say "yes" take that as a "no" okay? Most of the time this isn't a problem except when people start to take advantage of me. Then it gets ugly. Mostly because the rest of my friends who don't take advantage of have my back and will tell you that you're taking advantage of their "door mat" ! Thanks guys!

12. I SUCK at being serious! I can't do it! I make everything into a joke. I'm the girl making fun of my friends during the sad movies for crying because I can find something funny about the situation. I am also the girl making jokes when everyone is sitting quietly or when we're trying to be a responsible audience. I can't help it, it makes me happy. I am not good at being serious. It's not fun and I suck at not being fun!

13. I suck at doing one thing at at time! I can't just sit and watch TV. I have to be text messaging or playing solitaire on my cell phone or messing around on the computer. I can't just talk on the phone either. I have to be driving or cleaning or again on the computer. Or maybe folding laundry....Oh that might be a plan!

14. I suck at confrontations. I will always end up apologizing for something that I have no reason to be sorry about or I'll end up just getting mad and staying mad! Oh well screw it! See....

15. I suck at turning my brilliant ideas into brilliant plans and carrying through with them. I have all these crazy thoughts pop into my little head and then I tell someone but that's usually where it ends. I need more of a drive to follow through. I suck at following through.

So some of you may wonder what I'm going to do about all of these problems? No? Well you should be wondering because those are 15 things that I suck at doing and should want to fix right? Nah I didn't think so either. I'm okay with those things. I'll work on them some other time....or not cause I suck at following through!

Oh well people love me anyhow! Right? Don't you?

What do you suck at? Would you fix it if you could?

I'm into Swapping and Thought You Should Know!

I just signed up for a swap over on Sunshine and Lemonade!! Woohoo! You should sign up too! It sounds like lots of fun and a reason to shop! But hurry cause the deadline is tomorrow!

What in the World?

I was over hanging out on Burgh Baby trying to catch up on some reading. I was reading about her early Christmas decorating and I clicked a link and it took me to this web page. I was completely confused.

Upside down Christmas Trees? What the....? They hang from the ceiling or mount on the wall? Are you kidding me? Why?

And then it hit me....KIDS!! Naughty little blonde boys would be the reason for this invention and although strange it's brilliant! I spent the first two years of their holidays trying my hardest to fend them off from the tree. The problem was that even with baby gates stretched around the tree these boys managed to find a way to get to the tree, the ornaments and of course the presents!

If I could have hung the tree on the way out of their reach we would have had it made! Except that hanging a tree on the wall is just plain weird! Where do you put the presents? Would we duct tape them to the ceiling too? How pretty would that be? And then on Christmas day do we let the kids pretend they are pinata's and try to get them down?

Now I understand that it's a good way to keep the pets/kids out of the tree as well as to avoid taking up valuable floor space in your home but seriously? Do people really buy these? Would you ever buy and upside down Christmas Tree? Have you ever seen one in real life?

A Flying Head!

When we lived in Alaska we had the best neighbors. Well actually we had the HEAD neighbors because we're the BEST neighbors. You see, our last name is Best and theirs is Head. That's right, we were the Best Heads! Coincidentally *Bendy Head (first names have been changed to protect the identity of those involved)became one of my BFF's ever!

She called me today and told me this great story about her 36 year old husband (see Seal* (again this name has been changed to protect his identity, you're welcome) you know we love you because I lied about your age by three years so everyone would picture you as the young handsome guy you are...or something like that!)! A few months ago he decided to "go green" and ride his bike to work! He works very long days from 4 or 5am or so until well after dark most days.

Little did he know he'd be going green in style! The new style of grass stained skin that is! I made this picture right after she told me about his midnight flight and landing on the hard concrete as he missed his jump up to the sidewalk and flew over the handlebars!! Poor Seal! His arm is in a cast now. And I really hope he feels better soon! I do.. I swear! I can't help it if I laughed myself into coughing fits while she told me the story. She was laughing too ya know. That's right I'm "that girl" who will rat out her friend to make herself look less evil! So there Bendy* laughed first!

Here's the picture I made when I talked to her today.

Meet Seal The Flying Head!!

Oh I would have given to be that squirrel! Just to be there to see him fly through the air and count how many times he bounced help him up and make sure he was alright. Poor poor Seal*! We love you anyway and the training wheels are in the mail!!

**In an effort to protect the identity of the Head family I changed their first names. With Head being such a common last name I'm certain changing their first names will do the trick!

You're Welcome!

My Friends SUCK Rock!

A couple days ago Brandy and/or Amber *for this post we shall call them Bramber because I can't be certain who said what or even if either of them were actually there in real life!* told me that my tail light and brake light were out on my van on the passenger side. Good friends do things like that right? And so being the naieve trusting friend that I am I went ahead and bought replacement bulbs at Wal-Mart (again we don't have a Target, I'm sorry) a day or two after Bramber told me. They sat in my van waiting to be installed until tonight.

We got home from Columbia, dinner and a quick shopping trip for lunch stuff for tomorrow and I decided while my naughty little blond boys showered I'd go ahead and change the bulbs. First I had to hunt for the dumb socket set because I tend to relocate things continuously in the house to keep things interesting.

Once I found them I went out to get to work. My wonderful neighbor came over to see if he could lend a hand and of course despite my feeling the need to prove myself as a competent woman who can change out a bulb I let him jump right in. He loosened the two bolts and then said "wait is this the side?" To which I replied "umm that's what they told me". So he decided we'd better check first to make sure.

So I jumped in the car and stepped on the brake pedal. Guess what? Give up? The lights all worked for the brakes. So he told me to turn on the headlights to see if it was just the tail lights. Guess what? Yep you got it.... THEY ALL WORKED! "Try your blinker" he instructed. I did that too, guess what? Tired of this game? Me too!! "Turn on the four ways so you can come back here and see".(I know he's bossy right?) Not one single one of my lights on the back of my car were out. Not one my friends, not one!

Instead of looking like a perfectly capable 28ish year old woman I looked like the dumb neighbor with a deployed husband who changes out perfectly good lightbulbs just because her friends tell her they are burned out and doesn't check for herself! Thanks Bramber! I needed to look foolish today!

Oh hey Brandy, your headlight isn't really out either! So there! And Amber you're blinker fluid needs filled! Ha ha! So there HA!

Tayton's Take On Smart Water

We bought a couple bottles of that Smart Water at Wal-Mart because they were gigantic and only a dollar. Tayton took his out of the fridge to drink today and here is the conversation that followed:

Tayton: Does this water make you smarter?

Me: Probably not.

Tayton: OH! Then it's just like you are right mom?

(trying not to assume he just called me dumb)
Me: What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Tayton: You know! You always say stuff just to be funny because you're so funny mom! Well they were being funny when the decided to write "smart water" on the bottle. See it's just like you mom!

The Good News Is....

The good news is that Tayton and I went to Columbia today and he had his Cystic Fibrosis test and it came back negative and he weighed in at his highest weight ever of 40 pounds today! The bad news is that he's still having asthma problems and we're struggling to get it controlled. He missed school yesterday because he got a cold and it's kicking his butt! I'm sending him to school tomorrow but I know he's going to have a rough day. The worse news is that I am sick now too. My head might explode and my temper already has more than once today.

What's next? We don't know. We still have a little boy who is not even measurable on the Body Mass Index chart because he is so thin. Thin wouldn't be a problem except that he lacks the ability to fight off illnesses. He gets sick and gets so much sicker than the rest of us. That on top of his Sensory Integration Disorder means that missing school is rough on him because of his routine being upset as well as missing out on the learning. Next we make an appointment his developmental pediatrician and discuss our next path. Everything seems so bittersweet but thank God that cystic fibrosis is not his culprit.

Thanks to everyone who thought about us today and sent good vibes our way, it worked!

Korbin's Problem Is Spreading

Korbin went to school today and he did well up until the last few minutes of the day. It seems that his leg that was having problems following the classroom rules, is no longer the sole limb affected by this ailment!

Mrs. Korbins Teacher approached me at the end of the day to let me know she read the note on his behavior chart in which I wrote that I have scheduled Korbin for surgery to replace the faulty leg that got him in trouble on Friday in case his training techniques didn't work. She told me that the procedure is going to take much longer because now his arm is also going to need replaced because it was causing trouble today.

Poor little Korbin! He's gonna have all mismatched limbs by the end of kindergarten the week!

Tayton missed school today. I knew that hoping to make it a full month without him getting sick was an unobtainable goal. Saturday morning he woke up coughing which caused him to have a bad asthma attack and was so worked up he had a fever of 104. That went down to around 103 by the time he finished his breathing treatment and within an hour of having motrin it was down to 101 I think. We've had to continue his breathing treatments in addition to his regular asthma controller meds. Poor kiddo!

Now in addition to his horrible cough, his ear and throat hurt! Tomorrow we go to Columbia to see his doctor and have the Cystic Fibrosis test done so send some extra prayers this way that we'll get some answers to our quesstions and why he's so sick all the time and unable to get up to a decent weight or at least register on the Body Mass Index charts.

Korbins Heart is Broken

Korbin loves the ladies! Since he was little he just loved girls, women, all of them! It's nuts! He has been telling people they are beautiful for a couple years now. He's a sweet little boy. One of his very first loves was one of my BFF's. I've known her since I was 7 and he knows her as "Aunt Melissa". He said that he loves her and is going to marry her. He's had more loves in his life since then but he's always kept her on his short list.

Today was her birthday! Happy Birthday Melissa!! She called us and not only is it her birthday today but her boyfriend asked her to marry him! Congratulations Melissa! We're so excited for her. Well I am anyhow.

Korbin, not so much! I told him that she was gonna get married and he said "oh no"! He sat with his little head hung down and his lip sticking out. I asked him why he was sad and he said "because she isn't supposed to get married with someone else"! And I told him that she wants to marry Chris cause he's a grown up like her and maybe he should find himself someone his own age. He then replied "there's already too many Chris's".

Melissa called today to find out how Korbin is doing. I asked him if he was still mad and he said yes. He came over and asked if he could talk to her. He took the phone and yelled: "you are a chicken"! He giggled and ran away!

I'm gonna teach him to run up to the alter during the wedding and profess his love for her in an effort to win her back! Certainly she won't be able to resist his charm!

Tayton Wants to Deal

Tayton just said "mom since I had an asthma attack, when we go to the store can you let me get a toy or pokemon cards"



He also said that if "I pay with a dollar and there is change left you can keep the change!" He's a sweet boy. Too bad its MY dollar that would pay for the toy in the first place therefore the change is already mine!

Tayton Knows

Tayton: Mom you know you shouldn't be watching something like Dr Phil. You should be watching something more important like the news.

Me: ummm ok. (and I finished watching Dr. Phil and then turned on The Weather Channel)

Tayton: Don't you know the news is one of the most important things?

Me: is the weather important to watch too?

Tayton: Yeah. Because it tells you if it's going to storm or not.

Me: Then why do you watch cartoons.

Tayton: It's just important for YOU to watch!

Me: Well that doesn't really seem fair.

Tayton: Well I'm watching it right now with you.

Me: You're right that's more fair. Thanks!

Tayton: I wonder how they know what time it's going to storm don't you? It's probably some type of giant satellite in outer space that tracks the whole Earth to see if there is gonna be a storm and if there is the satellite just registers it right to that place! (how the heck does he know these things?)

Me: How do you know that?

Tayton: I just think.

Me: Do you like to watch the weather? (he's the one who would rewind the news to watch flooding and tornado coverage!)

Tayton: Totally ignoring me because he's fascinated by the weather reporter try not to get blown away by the high winds!

The lady just said "they built palm trees on the coast of Florida because they withstand the weather but they are blowing over here!" Silly me I thought they were planted and they grew there but now I know they are built!

**On another note the dogs think the chinchillas in their balls are new toys for them! LMAO!**

The Teacher Messed Up

I went to school to have lunch with the kids today. Note to self: Bring lunch on the days I'd like to eat with the kids because cafeteria pizza is not the same as it was a million years ago when I was in school. I'm actually pretty sure they used fat free cheese! The nerve of some people!




Today when I picked up the kids from school Korbin ran to greet me!




I said to him "did you have a green day today?" (green is the good color and if he has yellow or red he had to "pull a card" because he didn't follow a rule)




Korbin said "yes I did but she gave me a line anyway!" (a line is a yellow #1 because thats the rule he broke)



I replied "don't you worry my little angel I'll handle this! I'm gonna go yell at your teacher for giving you a line!" I think he was a little excited about that! I turned toward his teacher and loudly said "Mrs. TeachersNameHere (not her real name btw) I cannot believe that my little Korbin had a green day and you gave him a line anyway!"




She tried not to laugh as she turned Korbin and said "I know you remember why you had to pull a card. Do you want to tell mom or should I?" Korbin of course due to his innocence could not remember why he had to pull a card! The teacher explained that he just couldn't seem to do the right thing in the hall. He was walking backwards, kicking the wall, and other random leg issues!"




**She and I are on good terms and she knows me well enough that I can joke like this with her without anyone taking offense.


When we got to Ambers to drop off Cadie I told Korbin that I know it's not his fault that he had issues in the hallway. He seemed delighted at this news. I went on to say "it's not your fault because it's your legs fault. They made the choice to be bad right?"


Korbin liked this idea. He told me "it was just this one" pointing to his right leg. He also said "I'm teaching it and it's getting better".


And being the good mom that I am I assured him that I could fix it. "We're going to need to get rid of that leg. We'll take it off and get you a new one that knows how to behave. I made an appointment for you on Sunday".


Korbin was much less impressed with this news. He assured me that his leg can be trained to do the right thing. I told him we'll wait and see because I'm not convinced we can trust that bad little leg!


Another Korbin story from the day...there's been many! He had red in his hair. I thought it was paint or something but upon closer investigation I saw small red spots on his scalp. I thought these spots were blood and was confused. I let it go because he said it didn't hurt.




When I got in the shower after breaking a major sweat trying to fix Amber's girls bike I saw that my body **wash was spilled** on the bottom of the tub. Then it clicked. He used my red body wash with the little exfoliating beads in it to wash his hair and then didn't get it all rinsed out. Therefore he got a red area of hair with some little flecks of exfoliating thingys on his scalp! When I asked him if that's what he did he giggled. In Korbinese that translates to "yep"!

**(edited because in my first time publish of this blog I had typed "I saw that my body was squirted a little on the bottom of the tub!! Grrrr My friends suck!)


I know I posted this picture before but it seemed so appropriate!

And this one was just cute!

We Can Still Have Baby Chimichangas!

We got our chinchillas almost a week ago. They are so much fun. We got our new cage in the mail yesterday along with a ton of accessories thanks to an awesome auction on EBay!

The pet store lady told us we had a boy and a girl so we trusted her. But I didn't know which one was which. So when I got home I got online to a little chinchilla research. One article showed which is male and which is female so I decided to violate the chinchillas to see for sure. They hate being on their back or held upright so I had to look fast and they both looked exactly the same to me!

I told the boys that I was sorry but we wouldn't be having baby chinchillas because they were both girls. Tayton quickly informed me "Mom don't girls have babies? So since we have two girls won't we just have more babies than if we only had one girl?"

I really wasn't ready for that conversation just yet! So of course I just told him there has to be a boy too to help make the babies. He asked how? Grrr I thought I was off the hook. So of course I did what any mom like me would do. I lied! Well not technically. I told him that the boys have to give the girls some stuff that helps make the baby. But I wasn't about to go into the whole story. Isn't the dad supposed to have that talk with the boys in the family?

Luckily upon further investigation from my dear friend Amber we found out that Pikachu is indeed a male! Korbin is mad as hell that his chinchilla is a girl!

Where were you?

Today I'm sure everyone taken time to remember that day when Americans were brought together in fear, anger and wept for loved ones lost. We all had a million thoughts running through our heads as we sat in front of our televisions for hours and days on end. Waiting to hear that another person was discovered alive. Unfortunately many were not.

Many military wives cried as they answered the phone repeatedly throughout the day to hear that same question from concerned family and friends. For us they were mostly asking how the events of that day were going to affect Kirke as far as going to war. Unfortunately we had no answers for them.

I was sleeping when the first tower was hit. My phone rang at around 6am (Alaska is 4 hours behind Eastern Standard Time) and it was Kirke's grandmother. I had no idea what she was talking about so she told me to turn on the news. No need for the news since every channel was the same. I sat glued to the TV watching the days events unfold.

Tayton was two weeks old. I carried him around the entire day. I was afraid to put him down. I was afraid that if I did something might happen and I'd never hold him again. I thought about the families who had experienced that last goodbye with their family members and had no idea that's what it was going to be. I cried.

Before Tayton was born Kirke's family had bought us plane tickets to come home shortly after he was born to meet the family. Our tickets were for September 25th. Exactly two weeks after those planes had been hijacked. My son was one month old. We didn't want to fly. We were scared but we decided not to let our fear take over our lives. We took those flights and we overcame the fear. We visited our family and then flew back two weeks later.

Unfortunately 7 years later our family just like the rest of the country still suffers in our individual ways because of the terrorists. My family is separated by thousands of miles because of the need to keep the bad guys in their own country instead of having them attack us at home again. I'm proud of my soldier and I miss him terribly but I'm thankful that he along with so many others are brave enough to keep the battles away from those of us here at home.

God Bless the families of all the people lost in the September 11th attacks. God Bless the families of our troops and keep our troops safe.

Remember.

I Have Been Publicly Attacked

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