First Week of School

Somehow we survived the first week of school. Jacob and Lucas were very excited to go on Wednesday! There was so much traffic that day, it seemed like we had to walk a mile to get in there! When we finally got in, Jacob tells me that he is walking to his class by himself. I did not want him to, I wanted him to let me walk him, but he wouldn't budge. I got Lucas in his class, and he didn't say a word. Told me bye, and got down to business. I cried the whole way back to my car because Jake is too big to let his momma walk him to class. That night, Lucas came down with the stomach bug that Nicolas had on Monday. He was heart broken when I told him he could not go to school the next day. He did not get better on Thursday, so I had to tell him that he couldn't go on Friday either. When we picked Jake up Thursday, he locked himself up in his bedroom so he could stay away from the 'sick people'! Early Saturday morning, the stomach virus hit me and Jake. It was horrible. Jason turned 30 on Saturday, and we were supposed to go to Greeneville to Harlow's casino, but I wasn't sure if we would get to go. The stomach bug wasn't around for long, so we did get to go. SO, finally the stomach bug is gone, and Jason got to go out on his birthday. Now back to normal, kind of. I am starting a job tomorrow, we will see how that goes. I will be helping in the office where Jason works. I think my first task is to figure out if certain trucks are making money or not. I have no idea how many trucks there are, so I have no idea how long that will take. I'll update tomorrow after my first day.

It is almost over!

Nicolas is growing up, way too fast I might add! I was sitting in the bathroom talking on the phone (that's the only place I can semi be alone). Nicolas had to come in and he had no diaper on. He went straight to the potty chair and sat down. He was just playing at first, but then I sat him on there the right way. He PEED in the potty!!!! After he peed, he would not put a diaper on, he had to have underwear. He then walked around the house with his underwear around his ankles. He wanted to sit on the potty again, and he peed again! He is still in underwear, and refuses to wear a diaper. I do not know if it will last, but we will see.

Odd time...

It is such an odd time of summer for me right now. We haven't done anything really. The only real outing the kids have had so far is going to see Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. We have gotten messed up on our schedule and don't get up until noon. I have just been saying, well we have time to do this or that, but I just realized summer is almost half over!

I got a letter in the mail and Lucas got accepted into Pre-K. He will be at school 5 days a week now. That is odd in it's self. It does not seem like he should be old enough to go to school for 5 days. Worse, it will be weird only having one kid at home during the day. I do not know what I will do when Nicolas goes to school.

As you all know, Jason has been looking for a new job. He may have found one. It will be truck driving again, but he will be home more than he was before. He will be gone all week, but they only require him to work one weekend a month. The only problem will be working out where my kids will be bunco nights! LOL!

Nicolas has decided on a couple of different occasions to take his diaper off and get on the potty or try to pee in the shower. Nothing has happened, but it may if I start sending him in there every time Jake uses the bathroom. I am not going to stress myself this time. I am not saying a word, I am just going to let him do it when he is good and ready. I am determined to make this the smoothest potty training I have ever done. With Jake and Lucas being in school 5 days a week come August, I may have the time to work with him more than I could the other two.

I guess that's about it for now. Until next time...


Kathy

The most un-cool story of my life!!!

I have never had a broke bone in my whole 29 years. Until yesterday. I had to run into the Dollar store for a minute. If I knew for sure I would not have the cops called on me, I would have left the kids in the car, but I had to take them in! I got what I needed and was about to check out when they started the I wants. I told them they could have a soda. They were getting them out of the cooler when I asked them if they wanted a beef jerky. Lucas was not listening of course, so I was trying to show him. Jake had 2 sodas in his hands and tried to grab the jerky out of my hand. When he did, one of the sodas dropped and landed very hard, on my toe! I could not do anything. I wanted to scream and hit something. When I finally got to the car, it was okay, still hurt a little, but okay. It started swelling before I got home. Later last night when I looked at it, that toe and the one beside it, and half of my foot was purple! So I have taped my toes up. Jason has had broke toes before and said that is all the hospital would do. When there is no tape on them, my flip flops do not fit right! I do not know what I will do if I cannot wear flip flops anymore!
What tops everything off is all this happened on our way home from taking Nicolas to the doctor. When he woke up yesterday, his whole left eye was swollen shut. He acted like nothing was wrong, but I took him anyway. He had a mosquito bite on his eyebrow that caused his eye to swell. He always gets big red welts, but this has never happened. Since we live in Arkansas, he will be drugged up on allergy meds all summer! Hopefully he will gain some kind of immunity to mosquitoes.

Kathy

It has started...

Lucas notices girls now! He has always noticed the girls he is around, but not this time! We had to run in the store Friday afternoon before we picked Jake up from school. Since I drive a bus now, I can not park very close to the door, so we parked down one of the aisles. A car pulled in after us and parked right at the door...
Walking up towards the door, Lucas notices a little girl getting out of that car. The look on his face was priceless!
Lucas, "Mommy hurry up!"
Me, "OK, I'm coming."
We get in the store and the girl and her mother are still outside.
Lucas, "Mommy, did you see that girl?"
Me, "Yes."
Lucas, "I really like her hair cut." He meant he liked her hair, I don't know why he says that.
Me, "You did? Do you like girls with brown hair?"
Lucas, "Yes and with long hair, like that girl."
We do our shopping, then we end up on the meat aisle with them...
Lucas (whispering with his hand up to block one side of his mouth) "Mommy, there she is."
Me, "I know, I see her."
Lucas, "She is so pretty."
Me, "Yes Lucas she is pretty."

It wasn't a great conversation, but if you could have seen his face while he was telling me this! I was looking into a teenage boys face that had just seen what they thought was the most beautiful woman in the world. It was hilarious!

It is very weird too, Jacob has never said anything like that about girls, just different kids I guess!

Kathy

Mother's Day

Today is Mother's Day(not technically, but I haven't been to bed yet!) and I have to say that it has not been the best one. Jason and the kids were great. Jacob actually gave me a kiss! I can not remember the last time he has kissed me, I sometimes get a hug out of him, but not often.

Last year since Jason was going to be gone on Mother's Day we brought gifts to my mom, his mom and his grandma about 10 days before. Since it was so long before, I thought nothing of his mom and grandma saying nothing to me, the mother of their grand-kids. Well Mother's Day came and nothing. By the way, I am used to them forgetting me, they call me a week late to wish me a happy birthday or us a happy anniversary every year, even though it has been 10 years and they should know these dates. A year later and they never said anything about it, neither did I. Today being Mother's Day and Jason being home, we go out there today with gifts. Guess what? Nothing for Kathy! I do not need or want them to buy me anything, Jason got me the only thing I wanted! They could at least say Happy Mother's Day, or something. Also, we even got Jason's aunt something because her own kids do not, and she said thanks and that was it! If I were talking to my mother, I would have gotten dinner, a card-whether she made it or bought it, and some crappy dollar store candle, but she would have acknowledged me. Is it wrong of me to want some acknowledgement?

Jason and I had to go buy these gifts today, you know that my middle name is procrastination! We took all three kids in Wal-Mart, it was absolutely the stupidest thing I have ever done! It would not have been bad if I were just going in for gifts, but we needed groceries...

On Wednesday Jason bought me the Twilight movie and soundtrack. Lucas has said that he wants to watch it every time it goes off, so I was surprised when I tried to take it out of the DVD player that it had not been melted in! I have not been able to just sit and watch it without being interrupted, ahhh the joys of having kids! So, on our way home I asked Jason to please keep the kids entertained while I sat and watched the movie in peace. He had them cleaning their room and watched it with me. I had to stop it ever so often because I was cooking at the same time, but I ended up falling asleep and still haven't seen it in it's entirety! Now I am just wondering when this day will ever end!

Even though my day did not turn out to be some fairy tale, I still enjoyed parts of the day! I also enjoy being a mother. A few days ago the kids and Jason were getting to me, and I actually said that I was done with this being a mommy thing, but I really could not imagine myself doing anything else. I think that I need those smelly little boys in my life as much as they need me. I have bad days, every mother telling the truth does. Motherhood is not a fairy tale. Motherhood is stricken with constant guilt and worry. If you say or do one thing wrong, does it mean that you have completely messed up? Motherhood gives no time to being stingy anymore. Not stingy as in not sharing a toy, but sometimes I do not want to go out in the rain, and if I did not have kids I would not, but now I have to because someone needs something, like milk, or they want to go to Sonic. Sometimes I think that my children are inconsiderate because I never get asked if I want to do whatever it is they want to do, but they are just children, and they haven't had to give up their stinginess just yet. I do what they are doing, and most of the time I have fun! Being a stay at home mom is NOT a glamorous job. I get so annoyed with people that think stay at home moms do nothing all day but watch soaps. Yeah right! First of all if I get to watch something during the day, it involves weird colored animals and theme songs for everything and usually comes on Nick or Disney. Staying at home means that your entire house gets destroyed 10-15 times a day, depending on how many times you pick it up so they can drag it all back out! You get to do about 3 times the normal amount of dishes because someone can not use the same cup for milk and then juice, and then milk again. You get to spend an hour vacuuming floors because the night before someone walked through the whole house in cleats, and the dog sheds everywhere, just to have them come in at the end of the day covered in mud!
BUT, it is the most wonderful job I have ever had! Where else could I see everything my kids do for the first time. I have been able to see the first steps, see them rocking on their knees and finally figuring out how to crawl, hear that first muttering that turns out to be their first word. I get to go to every school function. I get to make up games. I get to turn music way up and just dance around the living room with them. Being a mom is the most stressful thing I will ever do, but I know that it is the only thing I ever want to do. They only have one childhood and I do not want it to be less than perfect for them. This has been a very stressful Mother's Day for me, I have not been in the best mood for the past couple of weeks. I did not want this to be a fake post about how wonderful motherhood is all of the time, blah blah blah. These are my true feelings this M.D. Take them or leave them. I love those boys more than anything in this world, and the only thing that matters is that they know that.

I do not need my mother in law or anyone else to say Happy Mother's Day to me, it only matters coming from the kids. They both put their arms around my neck kissed me and told me that I was the best mom in the world. That is the only thing a mom needs on Mother's Day.

Kathy

I've been busy!

We have been super busy will baseball, t-ball, school for three of us and I can not remember what else we have done! Jake is doing very well in baseball! He did not like it at first, but after he was one of the only kids to hit in a game, he likes it pretty well now. Lucas on the other hand absolutely hates t-ball! We can not do anything to keep him out there. He would quit if we would let him, I think Nicolas is more interested in it than Lucas is!
We are definitely ready for summer! I think we all need a break. Spending three nights a week at the ballpark is taking a toll on us. I have only 1 1/2 weeks left in this block of class, woo hoo! If I never have to write again, it would not hurt me one bit! I do have one more writing class to do, but it is writing memos and resumes. I think I can handle that.

I have read the first three books in the Twilight series, thanks to Paula for getting me addicted! The only reason I bring it up is because Lucas and I had the funniest conversation about vampires!
Lucas said something about a vampire, but I did not hear it.
I say, "Lucas, you know those books mommy has been reading are about vampires?"
Lucas, "Oh, you don't need to be around vampires."
Me, "Really, why not?"
Lucas,"They are dangerous." He said this almost whispering, like it was really scary!
Me, "Really?"
Lucas, "YES! They will eat your blood out of your neck and then fly away and eat a cows blood out of its neck."
I could not help but to laugh. I guess he thinks I am going to go out and look for a vampire. He really does not know anything about vampires, what he thinks he knows is really information from Animal Planet on Vampire Bats. Anytime he sees a bat, it is a vampire.

One night Christen, Dave and Hunter came out. I cooked chicken quesadillas, mexican rice and brownies for everyone. Last week I cooked quesadillas again and Lucas of course had to know what was cooking.
Lucas, "What are you cooking me for dinner?'
Me, "Chicken quesadillas."
Lucas, "I don't eat that amymore." He says amymore instead of anymore!
Me, "Yes you do. If you do not eat this, I do not know what you will eat."
Lucas, "Did you cook that when Christen and her family were here?"
Me,"Yes, you ate them then, are you going to eat them now?"
Lucas, "Oh yes, I like those."
I'm thinking yeah, I knew that.
After I had a few made,
Me, "Lucas are you ready to eat?"
Lucas, "Yes, I need you to blow it...wait, I can't eat until Christen and her family get here."
He was serious! The conversation went on. I guess he thinks that I can only cook quesadillas when Christen and her family are here? That child is crazy!


Kathy