Where Are My Angels

WTH is my Cicada Icecream??????????????

2011-06-05T15:11:00.010-05:00

I saw this article online this week "Sparky's sells out of cicada icecream". If you notice in the photo, it leads you to believe they will be making more.

Being the adventurous person ~~attention seeking whore~~ I am. I loaded up my van with some kids and headed to Sparky's today. When I arrived there was a reporter and a huge line of people outside. Woo Hoo Cicada waffle cone, here I come.

But there was none in their case ~~can we say "Marketing Scam"?~~, only boring stuff such as pineapple cake, coconut, and cookies and cream. Why would ANYONE want that stuff!! I'll go to HyVee if I'm looking for those kinds of flavor's!

So I got this disappointing shot outside of Sparky's after we got our unimaginative icecream.

But as we walked downtown with the roar of the cicada's over us............................an idea came to me.

I'll just make my own!

Complications during the rebirthing process.....

2011-06-02T22:33:00.011-05:00

Well, I'm sure you are all wondering what happened after my Rebirth.

There were some complications that I didn't expect. You know my rebirth couldn't go easy. There would have to be something to mess it up!! And that something once again is part of the male species!! Men are so dang needy aren't they. I need a Blog name for my new man, I need some idea's.

So why don't you my readers (all two of you that are left) assist me with a name for him. I'll describe him to help you out. He is 24 years older than Ex-Child Husband, which means he could of been his father. He is an architect just like Mr. Brady was.If he had 3 kids, we could of called him that! He only has two sons (Ive got the 3 girls though), course maybe he could adopt Ex Child Husband and then we could be the New Brady Bunch. Ok, let's move on..............he has these two horrid pee and puke on the floor, bark at the air, stinky breath little ankle bitters that are named Indy and Anna (they got their name from some movie about a big rock chasing Harrison Ford down a tunnel). I like to refer to them as Scooby Snacks. By the way, I need to introduce you to my newest man.

Say Hello to Scooby

Anyway, back to "He who shall remain nameless, until you name him". He's a runner and currently training for a marathon (he has only done half marathons in the past). We have so much in common, I like to watch people run. Course, normally it is on the TV. Lets sing "Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do, what you gonna do when they come for you..".

Guest what HWSRNUYNH (He Who Shall Remain Nameless Until You Name Him) does???

Get this..................... your not going to believe it........................... remember the issues I had with Ex Child Husband (head here if you don't remember)?? Well HWSRNUYNH does dishes!!! Yes Yes, I kid you not!! I've seen it with my own eye's. He doesn't think the Dish Fairy will come do them for him if he lets them pile up enough. Hmmmmmmmm maybe he should be called "He who does Dishes"?????

Now the worst thing about him and it is pretty bad............... He is a Jayhawk.

If your confused about this, you must realize I live in the Tigers Den, this blog post from AJ will sum up the hate I have for the Jokehawk. This post was written some time ago (but still applies) and has some pretty bad language so beware.

My Rebirth

2010-11-20T20:15:00.008-06:00

So..................................... my last post "Stay Tuned" was like almost 2 years ago. Some of you have wondered where I have been. Some of you probably had visions of me sitting on a park bench with a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20, popping Ativan like Tic-Tacs, hair not brushed and mumbling about Mercede hiding my shoes. Course a few of you would be thinking that I have taken all this time off to finish those dishes that Child Husband was always leaving me. Which would be near to the truth since one of the reasons I haven't blogged in so long was due to Child Husband. Let me rephrase that..............EX Child Husband. Yes I am finally down to four children. One less mouth to feed. Can I get a "Hell Yeah!!" You know I would never sit and whine about it , that wouldn't be me. ~~Now bitching that is another story.~~

In June EX Child Husband moved out and then filled for divorce, by Aug 24th we were divorced. The 60 day divorce! Life in the fast lane. Ex Child Husband is engaged again, which is a very entertaining story but not mine to share ~~email me and I'll tell you ;)~~

Here is what the rest of us have been up to...

We got to visit with my son Chris this summer! I hadn't seen him for four years. We had a great visit and ate some Mexican Spice Larvae!

Mercede is still obnoxious, who would she be if she wasn't!

Cheyenne is still flirting, she recently had a MU basketball player sign her shoulder! I'm glad she hasn't watched Rock Of Love or she might of had him sign something else.

Aysha is obsessed by Justin Bieber, pray for me! She is only 6 ya know!

As for me, I decided I will only date older men. ~~Older than Ex Child Husband that is!~~

It's almost winter time and I'm going to be enjoying alot of laughter. You see Ex Child Husband sold his car and bought a scooter. I can't wait to see him riding this through the snow to work.

I pee my pants just thinking about it.

Stay Tune....

2009-05-21T20:22:00.001-05:00

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Family Freak Fest

2009-03-11T22:14:00.013-05:00

I just have not have time to be on blogger to read or post, because my nutty family keeps me busy.

This is how I found child husband when I drove into the driveway one night.

And he had the nerve to be mad because cars kept driving by, slowing down and staring at him. Gee honey, I just don't get why they would do that.

Nope baby, I just don't get why people are staring. ~~Maybe it is the fact that I married a NERD!~~

Oh and get this. This is a photo of some of the stuff he has packed up. It is a survival kit. Today he made a primitive fire bow, so he can start fires without modern ways. Is this normal man behavior?

Then there is my dear sister Kristi. We met at HuHot last week for lunch. My sister thinks EVERYTHING is a blogging opportunity.

I mean, who takes their camera to a restaurant to take photo's of waiters half their age??? So they can post this picture on their blog and talk about how Hu Hot the waiter was.

Meeting with my sister meant I had to put up with her calling me a complainer when I talked for a minute about my arthritis. Meanwhile I had to spend 30 straight minutes listening about all her new imaginary wrinkles and how much it would cost to fix them. In fact she wouldn't let me post a close up of her face. But she had no problems with me using a photo of her bottom, that she wanted also for her blog cause she sat on a wet plant.

Kristi, your beautiful and stop fretting over your wrinkles ~~shhhhhhhhhhh I know I do it too~~ , people that worry about their wrinkles too much end up looking like this..

Then there is me, whom takes the kids to a State Park and tells her 4 year old she is going to jump in this cave..

So I can get the photo of the shock on her face for my blog

Then there are my kids who drive me to drink carbonated caffiene beverages..

I'll end this Freak Fest with a photo of my Mother-in-Law

and these words

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Your Fifty!

Fifty and thank goodness I don't have to say that "my Mother-in-law and I are both in our 40's" anymore!

Happy 50th Birthday!

LOST my heart tonight.

2009-02-11T21:26:00.007-06:00

Warning, could be a spoiler if you missed LOST tonight.

I had to work tonight and LOST was on. What is a girl to do. I told my staff that LOST was on, so count me lazy!! ha ha Thank god for comercials, so I could get some work done.

I swear this was the BEST LOST episode ever.

I got to see my heartthrob John Locke ~~I don't use his real name cause it's his character on LOST that excites me~~

But that wasn't the only person that made my heart go pitter patter. Jin is ALIVE. Ok, so that really is no surprise since you saw that last episode. But it had been awhile since I have gotten to drool over him on an episode, since last week was brief. ~~Although, I'm not liking his hair this season. Don't they have a barber on the Island?~~ Oh Jin, you don't need the shirt!

My staff that I was working about asked me if they ever explained what the black smoke was, since he hasn't watched it in forever. I told him, I hadn't seen it for awhile and lo and behold. They gave us it back too.

This made my night and it is a good thing too because for the next 4 days, I'll be working 12 to 16 hour days. Oh John and Jin, take me away!

FRIDAY FRAGMENTS

2009-01-30T22:23:00.007-06:00

I want to be on a VH1 Reality Show, cause I have always wanted a cool nickname like Bay Bay Bay, Lusty, Stalker and my all time favorite Cornfed. Wouldn't you?

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Cheyenne can't pull herself away from watching Mamma Mia, cause she says Pierce Bronson is "HOT, HOT, HOT" Now when he sings, she just looks at the screen with a sour face and says "OoooooooooooKayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"

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Child Husband has been doing dishes now for two weeks straight and cleaning house. Should I be worried?

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Twitter is giving me a royal headache this week. I cannot get tweets sent to my phone from my peeps, only direct tweets. NutHouseShannon tried to help me, not working so far:( Anyone got any ideas for me ~~yes, most of you aren't going to have a clue what I am talking about~~

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Today I got upset about something someone said to me at work. They hurt my feelings and after I left work, I was talking to my supervisor about it and doing that thing where you can't get your breath, cause you were crying so hard. You know I sounded like a three year old going "I wan, I wa wa wa want". I was laughing at the same time cause here I am a 40 year old woman regressed to a three year old and trying to hold a conversation with my supervisor. But Never Fear, Ativan to save the day. Heather, tell your mother Nancy, I miss her!

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I'm sick of the C word. You know that word that your afraid to say, cause then it might get you. I'm sick of it being around everywhere I turn. God make it go away!

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I hate Facebook, but it does have it's purposes. Last week as I was reading a bloggy friends blog. She has a photo of a man holding a big beer. Turns out it was her ex-husband. She has recent court documents that say he doesn't drink. Yet it was a recent pic he added to his facebook account. Can we say LOSER!

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Well it was a bad week for Mii, You can tell by looking at my

BEFORE

And AFTER

Photo's! But I am getting close to kickin some Sherrill bum on Advance Step.

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My SIL Scott came over and bought my nephew Jason and nieces Ireland and ~~Evil~~ Lauren. Jason loved singing to our Wii's Sing It. ~~Evil~~ Lauren even smiled. Mercede cracked me up with her moves in the back ground.

Cheyenne watched Ireland, while the kids sang and danced and My SIL Scott and I gossiped.

I do wish my SIL Scott would try to do something about ~~Evil~~ Lauren's hair.

Does it remind you of Kid and Play's?

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To be fit, or not to be

2009-01-24T22:12:00.009-06:00

Yes, my blogging is down. It is because of something sinister!! Something that brings the worst out in me.......

My dang Wii Fit!

There I am, that's me in the light blue, I'm the Mii ready to go. All the others are sleeping except Aysha. Cause we are the only two that are constantly battling with the Wii Fit.

Just a close up of me

Here's a close up of Child Husband. For some reason Wii won't let you put in more than 8 or 9 charactors in for a Mii.

You know Wii Fit is EVIL because it doesn't sweet talk you.

Oh that is 3.1 pounds since yesterday!!!!

Evil Wii Fit then gave me a list of choices of why I'm gaining weight. I skipped the honest answers like "eating too much" and choose "I don't know".

There is no pulling the Wool over the eye's of Evil Wii Fit.

Now I was kicking some Sherrill butt on Wii Fit's Advance Step Aerobics, but then she passed me, which is good, makes me work harder at it. But for some EVIL reason, my Wii Fit is not recording all my side steps on it. Notice the gray area's on the bottom. Gray means I missed those steps. I didn't miss them and now every time I do it, it shows missed steps.
I will NEVER beat Sherrill if it keeps giving me misses and I think it is off on the "perfects" also, cause I'm pretty sure I've done this enought to be "perfect" on each step.

I spent this long doing the Advance Step Arerobics today and Sherrill is still way ahead of me!

One day I almost passed out doing this and had to lay down. I told Child Husband to make sure he dressed me if I stroked out. Oh wait, did I just admit to exercising with nothing on? hee hee
Good thing I can't make my Mii naked ain't it! ~~Actually I do wear a tank and undies.~~

Evil Wii Fit even keeps track of how often it controls you.

I do like the fact that after working out for over an hour, EWF does make me lose some weight.

No it ain't just water weight, cause I drank water while working out. I swear I saw fat dripping off of me.

And a word out to my beautiful Brazilian Friend Karine. I know you probably tried to translate this post and didn't get far. But all you need to know is this......

Nintendo bad, very, very BAD!

A billion years ago

2009-01-11T00:48:00.013-06:00

My mother was born on this day. Ok, not a billion years, but it was a long time ago. I can't tell you how many years , cause I, ummmmmmmmmmmm, can't remember how old my mother is today. But trust me, she is really, really old!!
ha ha Just joking mom, well not about forgetting how old you are. I don't remember that. Try to remember that, when it comes to my birthday !

My mother is the hardest person in our family to get a good picture of, because this is what she typically looks like in a photo.
Now I looked on my fathers blog to find photo's of my mother. My parents are retired and travel alot. Dad post photo's of their travels on his new blog. Mom, dad can really catch you with some odd facial expressions. I swear you said you liked the sheep, but maybe this is the 1000th photo father has snapped because you look like your going to snap! I'm not sure what he was thinking with this photo either, and I can tell your thinking the same thing. Now I will give dad credit as this is a good photo of you. Tell dad to get out the tripod to take photo's of the both of you at the same time, I know that makes you happy ~~cause you keep hoping he'll trip over the legs of it and break that Cannon into a million pieces, so you don't have to be tortured by hearing dad say constantly "Open your eyes, Viola"~~ Growing up, I always wished you dressed younger and more stylist. Having grown up, I find myself borrowing your outfits, never to give them back ~~You know I wear this outfit like once a week~~ Someday we will have to play Scrabble again Mom, your the best, your always there when I need you and you have the biggest heart of anyone I have ever met. But there are some times I get upset with you. Like when you leave Missouri for Texas three months out of the year ~~leaving me no babysitter~~, when you road trip to Maine, go to Branson,

and when you attend parties where there's a MALE policeman.
I remember the time I told you a dirty joke and you got upset saying you were really going to have to pray extra that night. So mom, how hard did you have to pray after that party? I couldn't resist mom!

Happy Birthday to one of the most important people in my life. I look up to you so much. Your everything a Christian should be ~~I know you prayed hard after that party, hee hee~~, your caring, non-judgemental, a role model and so many other great things that I just can't think of at 1:30am in the morning.

I love you and wish you many more.

Our Story is being featured

2009-01-07T10:48:00.003-06:00

On KIDZ today.

Click Right HERE to go read!

FRIDAY FRAGMENTS

2009-01-02T22:43:00.005-06:00

Saturday: I worked all day (nothing new). Staff called in for the next day (nothing new).
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Sunday: Sick and worked all day.
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Monday: Still feeling sick, kids all sick. Worked some. Spent alot of time laying around and coughing.

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Tuesday: Did I work, was too sick to remember. I know I had a staff meeting which probably wasn't a good idea cause now all my staff will be sick with what I had. Mercede has been well behaved. She must be really sick!
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Wednesday: New Years Eve, we did nothing. It was the first year my husband and I haven't had company. Normally we have at least once person over. Last year we had a whole two people. This was my first year not fixing Rum Dum. You take 2 gallons of Hawaiian Punch, 1 lg frozen lemonade can and add rum to your taste and then freeze. Serve as a slush. My father would load us kids up on that every New Years Eve! Oh I wish I could see his face right now. Okay, he didn't load us up on it, but we did have a tiny cup of it. Well, until the year I came home drunk, and he blamed giving me tiny taste of Rum Dum caused me to drink. Hello Dad, it was the 80's, 9 out of 10 teens were drinking. That was the end of Rum Dum for me, til I got married, moved out and made it myself a few years later. Now we don't drink at all, so it will just be a memory~~and I guess I don't have to worry about my daughters coming home drunk cause I gave them a sip.ha ha ha~~
Anywho, I spent the evening reading The Memory Keepers Daughter and crying my eyes out. I didn't even notice when the clock hit 12. I was upset that I didn't have the girls bang pots and pans. I always have them do that because my Grandma did that with us.

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Thursday: Worked cause both my day staff wanted off and that was fine with me, got a 50 dollar bonus for working 8 hours. That will buy, like a loaf of bread and a pound of apples these days.

The girls have really been into the Webkins. Unfortunately, I can tell Aysha takes after Child Husband as she likes to buy overpriced things, keep them for a small amount of time and then sell it for a much lower price.

The girls tried to tell Aysha where babies come from. Thank goodness she didn't believe their "butt" story ;)

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Today I worked, then came home and had some game time with Child Husband before he headed out for work. We played Boggle on Wii. One of my friends joked "The Dyslexic versus the ADHD'er" Child Husband is the worst speller EVER, even worst than me, which is really bad. But yet he can beat me. It overstimulates me and I shut down.

My parents left for the warm weather for 3 months. This is the worst three months of the year cause it means I can't get them to babysit. Child Husband thinks we need to send the kids with them. I agree.

Hope you all had a great New Years Eve.

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Have to enclude this photo my sister took of the girls.

Ummmmmmmmmmm DAD!

2008-12-22T20:08:00.006-06:00

How many times do I have to email you trying to get the link to your blog ~~that is anonymous, cause you think everyone wants to stalk you~~ .

And stop leaving Anonymous comments on my blog now that you have a blogger id!!

Oh and by the way, thanks for the George Foreman Grill (the one that can even do waffles). Child Husband is earning his keep. He grilled some chicken and made chicken and dumplings for us.

Oh and can you beat this photo Kristi took?(wink wink)

Is this a different form of Re Gifting?

2008-12-16T18:10:00.006-06:00

This is the look on Cheyenne's face two years ago when she got a cell phone for Christmas. Unfortunately, the phone didn't stay her's long. She would call my sister at 1am and for some reason, I felt the need to carry two phones on me at all times. Then Child Husband took the phone. Well, she needs a phone. We don't have a house phone, so this year she is getting a cell phone again. Only it isn't a new phone, it is one I have had around, but it hasn't been used much. I'm going to decorate it with some bling, so it looks cool.

I'm wondering if she will have that same look on her face. Or will it be a shrug and a bland "Gee thanks Mom"

How does one live to be 100?

2008-12-14T22:36:00.005-06:00

On my weekend getaway last weekend. I went to a birthday party for a woman I went to church with all my life growing up. Dathea is one of the nicest people you would ever meet. Very sweet, polite and always very well dressed. She is 100 years old now. Many people ask how she has lived such a long life. I have never asked, as I have it figured out.

She NEVER Married or had KIDS!

That's how you live to be 100!

I'm lucky to have made it to 40.

FRIDAY FRAGMENTS

2008-11-21T16:35:00.010-06:00

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On Monday, Mercede's teacher called me because she wondered why Mercede was saying "I'm going to go home and smoke cigarettes." over and over... Hmmmmmmmm WHY could that be????
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What do you get when you cross some electrical cords, electrical tape, Styrofoam cooler and a thermostat?

I'm not sure, but I will let you know when ,~~MacGyver~~ Child Husband gets done with it. ~~As long as it doesn't end up like his project with the pvc piping, flashlights and mini cam.~~
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Cheyenne probably feels negleted that I don't post about her much. But that is cause she is the "good" one. ~~Except for 6 days out of each month.~~
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The 18th was my son Christopher's 25th Birthday. I haven't seen him in over 2 1/2 years. He lives in Ohio with his birth mom. My girls and I miss him and need to make a road trip to see him.
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Yesterday I stopped by the Pennies in My Pocket blog and bought $150 worth of certificates to some great restaurants for only $12 dollars. That sale ended yesterday and I almost missed it because I stopped by her blog so late. I've got to remember to hit this blog early everyday cause I'm going to be eating good the next two months :)
UPDATE: Sale on gift certificates now ends on Monday.
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I lost three pounds last week, but then Child Husband brought home Krispie Creme donuts and I ate 5 of them in 12 hours.

Please don't tell my peeps at

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Today, Friday, Mercede came home from school with this shirt, I think her teacher is trying to make a point!

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I think tomorrow, I should get rid of my puking pumpkin. I don't think he will be with us by Thanksgiving. What do you think?

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What to do with Child Husband!

2008-11-18T21:30:00.009-06:00

Yesterday I headed upstairs for a meeting. If you haven't read my blog long and are confused about the "upstairs" statement. Let me explain. I'm a Home Coordinator for an organization that provides supports to adults with disabilities. I also happen to be the live-in staff, which means I do overnights from Sunday to Thursday (I have Friday and Saturday nights off, as long as my weekend relief staff isn't on vacation). It is a large home, and my family and I live in the bottom and the individuals live upstairs. I have two staff at all times(during the day) that assist with the three people that live upstairs. Anywho, yesterday I was typing up some paperwork and had to run upstairs for a meeting. I told Child Husband not to let the kids near one section of our apartment, because I had the work laptop on the floor. I was in the meeting with my supervisor and a case manager from the regional center, when the phone rang upstairs. One of my staff answered it and handed it to me. Child husband was on the phone and says "I don't know who this lap top belongs to, but I just stepped on it and broke it." I hung up and sat there stunned and with tears brimming in my eye's. How was I going to pay for this lap top. The case manager asked me if I needed time to compose myself "I told her I didn't" But I did. I then ran down stairs, only to find out.......................

That it was a JOKE!

Oh yes.......... I was so mad at Child Husband. He told me he didn't realize I was in a meeting. I said "What part of "I got to run upstairs for a meeting" did you not get?"

Anywho, since this is my 100th post, ~~really was my 101 post but I deleted one so it could be my 100th~~ and I told you I was going to give away Child Husband.

Instead of having you comment to see who wins him. I have already done the honors of picking out someone whom I think he will be perfect for.

I have called this woman a "skank" and I was a little worried about the word, since I wasn't for sure about the meaning. I didn't want to be using a very fowl word, so I had to look "Skank" up.

I found this definition for it that fits her to a T.

Skank is a term for a person who may be repugnant for reasons of hygiene.

Yesterday on her blog she posted this post about her odor, ~~she also must of guessed I was going to refer to this post, since she made it easier for you to access the descriptive events that lead up to her needing to carry Lysol in her purse~~

Today Skank Heather won George Clooney. Now, I know that NikkiCrumpet was afraid that if she didn't rig her contest by rubbing raw meat on the Skank Heather dog biscuit (confused? Then go here), that Skank Heather would stalk her and leave her "repugnant" imprints upon the lovely home of Mrs. Crumpet.

I do want to thank those of you who backed me up against the Evil Skank. Kari and Heathersister, you gave it your all and I thank you. Sometimes it may seem that evil prevails, but in the end The Good triump!

So Odorous, Skanky Heather, winner of my George Clooney photo, here is your prize from my 100th post giveaway.

Care Instruction: He likes to sleep til noon, eat only fried meat that comes out of a window, and perfers to sit or sleep on sofa at all times while in a home invironment. He likes to be watered frequently with Kool-ade, Gatorade and Pepsi. He perfers to spend all his wake hours playing War Of Warcraft and communicating with other tecno nerds. If he seems aggitated or bored, a broken TV, video camera or computor may be placed in front of him for short periods. If you are needing to distract him for longer periods, you may put an XBox, Playstation or Smart phone in from of him to modify. Please be sure to leave him a meat strainer, duct tape and a soder iron for these larger projects. Important to remember: He gets sick easily and you must have ready at all times a vocabulary of "Poor baby, what can I do to for you?" phrases available to assist him thru his "I'm so sick and can't take care of the kids" days:)

My BAD Girl, Mercede

2008-11-16T11:43:00.004-06:00

Remember this photo of Mercede from August, with the cigarette package she had found?

Well, Mercede has this thing for people in wheelchairs and also people on oxygen. She is drawn to them and always has to talk to them. I think she is a wheelchair magnet since I have always worked with people in wheelchairs. The oxygen thing, probably because she has been on it quite a few times.

Anywho, we were in Wal-Fart yesterday and an elderly lady in a motorized scooter and on oxygen, passes by us. Of course Mercede has to go up to her and ask her about her O2. The lady says "You know how I got on this oxygen? Smoking! Your not going to smoke are you?"

Course Mercede responds with, "Yeah, I'm going to SMOKE!"

Would you rather.... (Hosted By Tattooed MiniVan Mamma)

2008-11-15T23:04:00.009-06:00

Tattooed Mini Van Mama has let a bunch of us ask "Would you rather?" questions, and now we get to link up and answer them. Please DO NOT read this is you are easily grossed out or easily offended.

1. Kat wants to know: Would you rather eat a cockroach or a bull nut?

Those of you that have been reading my blog since July, know the answer to that....

Bull Nuts are tasty, to see my family(yes my kids also) eating them, go here

2. Brandy wonders: Would you rather not shower for a month or not brush your teeth for a month?

I go a month without brushing my teeth anyway, so that was easy ;)

3. April asks: Would you rather....have to have sex everyday for a year straight or go six months without it?

I could easily go 6 months without! But everyday, I would loose some weight. But this is about what I would rather do. So NO to sex.

4. Ashley wants to know all kinds of good stuff: Would you rather find true love or 1 million dollars?

Why a million dollars because then I could buy true love ;)

5. Would you rather always have to say everything on your mind or never speak again?

Anyone that knows me well, knows the answer to this. Cause having ADHD makes me say everything on my mind, pretty much.

6. Would you rather know it all or have it all?

Easy, if I knew it all, I would have it all. So know it all!

7. Katie wonders: Would you rather have extremely bad tourettes or uncontrollable orgasms?

Neither, because it would almost be the same.

8. Would you rather skip Christmas for a year or skip your birthday for a year?

Birthday for sure.

9. Heather asks: Would you rather be followed by a cloud of dust or a cloud of gnats?

Yikes, this is a hard one. I would say the gnats, cause you could kill them off, not sure how I would get rid of the dust.

10. Michelle wants to gross you out: Would you rather eat a toenail omelet or a hair sandwich?

Well, since I have already eaten hair in stuff, the hair sandwich. Mercede would really love that, since she has this pica thing with hair and fuss.

11. Would you rather lick the discharge from a cats eye or lick the dried spit from the corner of a teachers mouth?

Ok, this is very nasty. But the second one, I would take. It would even make it easier if it was a good looking male teacher ;)

12. Jennifer wants to know: Would you rather have dinner with the Obamas or go on a date wiith George Clooney?

Gee, I don't know, that is such a hard one. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

Well George for sure.

13. and as an after thought she wanted to know...Would you rather be paralyzed or blind?

Neither, I don't want to answer this one as their are many in this world facing one of these disabilities and it just seems like something, I shouldn't comment on.

14. Jo-Jo said: Would you rather blog or sleep?

Blog of course.

15. G from Where's My Angels (that's me): Would you rather take a cheese grater to your sunburned back, or pour alcohol in a new hole in your toe:)

(I liked Tattooed Mini Van's answer, so I am taking it for my own)

Alcohol on my toe. But I'd take a swig first. And again after. Til the bottle was empty.

16. Yaya: Would you rather use the woods or a port-o-potty? (her hubby came up w/ that one!)

Porta Potty, cause I can't sqwat, I need something to sit on.

17. Jamie: Would you rather walk across hot coals or drive a nail through your foot?

Nail thru the foot would take less time to heal.

18. Magpie: Would you rather have city street water splash on your bare feet (ew ew ew) or lick a shovel from a horse barn?

Water splashed on my feet. I've had worst things splashed on my feet.

19. Heather: Would you rather join a charlie horse orgy or take ten four-year-olds on a field trip to some ancient Indian burial grounds? (Hit the charlie horse orgy link, read the post and my comment for explanation if you're wondering. So much work today!)

(Again, I liked Tatoos answer so I am keeping it as mine)

The 4 year olds. Cause you can't lock a charlie horse up in a cage.

20. AngieDe:Would you rather have to go pee ALL the time, or have to go pee really bad but never be able to go?

Again, anyone that knows me, knows the answer to this. Pee all the time, I do it anyway.

21. Would you rather drown in Coke or Pepsi?

Diet Pepsi, cause I don't want to get fatter doing it!! ha ha

22. Would you rather eat a bar of soap or drink a bottle of dish washing liquid?

We could ask Cheyenne about this one. She has eaten a bar of soap before. I asked her to wash her mouth out with soap after she said some bad words. Next thing I know she is eating it! lol I'm so with bar of soap.

23. Would you rather be stranded on an island alone or with someone you hate?

With someone I HATE, cause then I could always torture them for some entertainment.

24. Angela: Would you rather papercut your eyeball or step on a nail?

The eyeball one

25. Black Betty asks: Would you rather receive a golden shower or a roman shower?

I had to look one of them up and finding out the roman shower was puking, I have been puked on a million times by my kids, well, thinking about it, I have been peed on by my kids also. Now yes, they don't mean by your kids, but they are both equally nasty, so I will stay undecided.

26. Cyndy, a fellow Dysfunctional Mom wonders: Would you rather lick a frog or drink rusty water?

What, has not everyone licked a frog? Course it was fried at the time, but yum!

27. Live.Love.Eat asks a very thought provoking question: As a blogger, would you rather be famous like Dooce and too busy to really connect with bloggers, or not so famous and have connections?

Well that would be easy. If I could earn a living like Dooce does sitting on my rear blogging, then yep that would be it! (I could always have a second blog where I connected with people using another name)

28. Hula: Would you rather live without water or electricity?

You could't live with out water, you would DIE!

29. Captain: Would you rather shave your head with a cheese grater or be audited? (Hey the Cheese grater idea is mine! Actually it wasn't it was from an old episode of Saturday night live with Billy Crystal)

Cheese grater for sure.

30. Sassy: Would you rather drink a gallon of dirty hot dog water OR a shot glass of foot sweat?

I HATE both, but the hot dog water is the one I pick.

31. Would you rather loose your 4 front teeth after bouncing your head off a cement curb OR get a paper cut on your eye?

EYE

32. Would you rather have explosive diarrhea OR uncontrolled vomiting?

Either way it would be good.............I would loose weight :) Oh on second thoughts, the vomiting would ruin my teeth.

33. Drama Mama : Would you rather have a Permanent Yeast Infection or Permanent Hemorrhoids?

Not sure as I haven't had hemorrhoids before.

34. Ann asked : Would you rather be able to read your husband's mind? Or have him be able to read yours? (Good one!)

This is so easy. Him to read my mind. I can already read his. Most women can read men's minds (except Tattooed Mini Van Momma) cause their isn't much in them.

35. Toni asked: Would you rather suffer from incurable baldness, everywhere, or wolfman's disease, everywhere?

Baldness.

36. Would you rather share your house with a skunk or a porcupine?

I have always wanted a pet skunk. You can have their stink taken care of and have them as pets. But they are illegal to have in Missouri, or you bet I would have one. Aren't they so cute??

37. Betty asked: Would you rather eat opossum roadkill (thats been jacked up) or bambi.

Another easy one, bambi!

38.Tatooed Mini Van Mamma: Would you rather be able to say anything you want on your blog and risk offending people and/or losing readers or would you rather keep it edited?

Edit of course :) Saying anything I want gets me into trouble. Plus my parents read this blog.

JUST an FYI for those of you wondering how long I would let the dishes sit trying to get Child Husband to clean them up.......................

I finished up the dishes tonight :(

FRIDAY FRAGMENTS

2008-11-14T00:18:00.004-06:00

My new bumper magnet must be working. It says "Sorry Officer, I thought you wanted to race" Because so far all the cops behind me haven't pulled me over. Even though I was speeding and also my tailight was out. I tried sticking my hand out the window and making handsigns, even though I can't remember which driving siganl means I am turning right. So I just tried to finger spell it in ASL.

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My father finally worked up the courage to post a comment on my blog. His ID was Skifeet (don't ask). Now after all these months of lurkdom, I wonder if I can persuade him to open his own blog ~~he can post his own naked pictures~~
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I got into my only pair of jeans again. Yes, I had a HUGE muffin top, but that is beside the point. Tomorrow I start a one week adventure of going vegetarian. Child Husband is fixing my favorite meat dish as we speak, the jerk!
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I've had no calls about Mercede's bad behavior at school this week. But maybe that is cause they are sending it home on notes now.
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NikkiCrumpet is giving away a Fab signed George Clooney photo, unfortunately ~~skank~~ Heather is trying to undermind me by paying ~~or threatning~~ others to comment on her behalf. Feel free to go over and tell Nikki how I deserve George ~~each comment on my behalf, will earn 100 dollars~~
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Tomorrow, I'm going to have to put on the gloves and do those dishes :(
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thoughts

2008-11-11T20:45:00.005-06:00

Mercede, Mercede, Mercede (said to the tune of Marsha, Marsha, Marsha)

Why do you feel the need to put on your coat and back pack over your pajama's, while watching TV?

And why do you insist on wearing shoes that are over three years old?

Aysha, why won't you wear clothes in the house? And why are you laying under the cushion of that NASTY, UGLY sofa, your father picked up off the curb of a neighbors home ?

Child husband, please do the dishes! I decided I will not do them. I did fill the water for you (added half beach since I know your allergic to it). I'm going to add more bleach everyday til you do them!

Deep thoughts

2008-11-08T19:47:00.003-06:00

Ok, I'm lying to you. No deep thoughts at all. Heck, not even sure I have a thought process anymore, it is gone, in a black hole.

I worked 101 hours this week, yes in one week, yes it is possible. Not possible to keep your sanity though. I haven't read but maybe two post this week, all I had time for. I only checked my email every 3 days and then didn't check much of it.

I had staffing issues and health issues come up at work, which affected how much I had to work. I slept very little. I'm getting ready to do a shift that starts at 1030pm and will end sometime tomorrow evening.

My kids are with my parents (I love my parents) and my husband is NOW at work, though he was home ALL week and didn't do one dish. I worked my butt off and he couldn't do a lousy dish. Cause he didn't feel like it. I'm almost at a 100 post, should I have a giveaway involving Child Husband?? Would any of you comment if I did? Or would you be afraid to win him.

Now off to do a WEEKS worth of dishes and will also be leaving a note for my child husband to tell him that Santa ain't leaving him any gifts this year!

We Were The 80's

2008-10-29T22:19:00.036-05:00

Welcome to the 80's! It's 80's day! Click here or on the button to either add your blog link or visit all the other Ladies of the 80's!

In the 80's I carried a Disc Camera at all times
that is why my pictures are all blurry.

In the 80's, you didn't get your hair colored at the Salon, you got a bottle of Sun In
then you regretted it and went to the Salon

In the 80's I shaved both sides of my head thank goodness I have no photo's of it, and was

also able to hide it under the rest of my hair. But my sister totally rocked the Cyndi

Lauper hair style!

In the 80's, it was scary to eat at Taco Bell if I was working there!
Yes, I think the cheese fell out of my mouth and back into that pan.

In the 80's you could wear your underwear over your clothes as long as you had your Swatch Watch on and Add a Bead necklace.

no I didn't really wear the outfit out like that...........that I can remember.

In the 80's it was a male magnet to wear two swatch watches at the same time, a bonus if one had a swatch guard
Yes, I found a photo with me wearing two, just look closely, but that shirt is hideous and those glasses.

In the 80's, blue eye shadow was in with green mascara

In the 80's I also went thru ALOT of blue eyeliner
ok, so I thought it looked good then

In the 80's I didn't have a Raspberry Beret
but I had a nice Cherry one

In the 80's it was popular to take photo's with your friends in the bathroom
with that handy dandy disc camera

In the 80's it was also popular for your boyfriends parents to take photo's of you doing your hair in the BATHROOM after you went swimming
and were running late to your Taco Bell job
had to get their in time to drool in the cheese bin again.

Yes I will get on with the story now

In the 80's on Christmas night 1986, just hours after this photo was taken
of me rocking my swatch watch shirt and swatch watch, and 80's hair and earrings

Little did I know that I would be arrested. Why you ask? Well I was at my Taco Bell Christmas Party, which was held on Christmas night right up my street at a supervisors home. My sisters boyfriend asked me to drive him home, which was clear across town. I should of said "no" and drove the 2 blocks to my house. But I drove him home..........well okay, I didn't drive him home. I drove him all around town cause I was stupid and he asked me too. He had me drive him to a hotel which he stole the exit sign from, then he had me drive him around to find those big signs on ground that are lit up and have the letter wordings on them. He was stealing the letters off of them. I was the get away driver. We also ran another errand I will get to later. Well on about our 10th sign, he was juggling light bulbs when a police car drove up. The cop made us go all around town putting the letters back on the signs. BUT then the cop found out that one of the hotel exit signs was broken. So he arrested us.

In the 80's, if you were arrested, you got to drive yourself to jail, okay, maybe not for everyone, but he had me drive to the station to be processed. Weird huh. I should of out ran him;)

You also called your mother and told her to bring $100 that you had just gotten for Christmas, to the jail to bond you out.......hanging up on her when she started screaming.

In the 80's it was best to try and stop your mother from calling the newspaper to keep your name out of the paper. Because that would cause them to make a HUGE article with your name in it, when it normally would of been your name in little print under the arrest part of the paper. Not a WHOLE separate piece. Sadly, I didn't keep the paper. I didn't realize it would make for good blogging over 20 years later ;)

In the 80's, it was probably not a good thing to go by your ex boyfriends

HOME, and leave the sign letters that were stolen in his yard spelling out some bad words with his name in the beginning. Because he NEVER would of known it was you, if it wasn't for that HUGE piece in the paper about you being involved with the theft of letters off of signs.

I was Double Dogged Dared

2008-10-27T18:09:00.005-05:00

By Lynette to post a lovely photo of my father......right after he got out of

the shower, in only his shorts (but holding his pants) prancing

around. I was Double Dogged Dared to post this photo for his

71rst birthday today.

BUT..........First I want to say a few things.

Dad, I love you, and I know I always get you the crappiest birthday gifts ( a month or two after your birthday, if I do get you anything). Then there is that problem of me never remembering your birthday. You know how I always get the dates mixed up and think it is the 29th (I called Kristi on Sat to confirm the date), and mom NORMALLY gives me a reminder call (your lucky I remembered mom, your slacking), and I am normally too busy working to come visit you (nothing has changed in that area). But I do love you and you have been the best father a daughter could want. You are always there for me when I need you (with twenty dollar bills...... ok, you know I don't do mushy well), your'll drive three hours to my home to babysit on a three hour notice. You do so much for me and I'll never be able to repay you. Over the years I have learned so much about you that I never suspected. I would of never pictured you as the caretaker you are. I'm choking all up thinking about how you cared for your brother and sister during their last stages of life. How you didn't want to leave their sides because you wanted to be there if they needed you, til the end. You amaze me with your strength father. I'm glad I took after you (with the exception of the quick temper, of course, lol).

Happy 71rst Birthday Dad.

And because I was dared, here is that half naked picture of you...

Whew, now that wasn't so bad was it??????

Just a reminder to everyone else...

Don't forget about We Were the 80's Day on this Thursday (Mr. Linky is up)

I need a drink!

2008-10-25T21:08:00.007-05:00

But since I don' t partake in spirits, I'll settle for the Diet Moutain Dew beside me. Now it will do nothing to calm my nerves, but at least I can truefully spout out my favorite line from Talladega Nights "I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew"

Today was my one day off, my one day to do some housework and spend time with the kids. I've been helping out at some other homes lately and am averaging 80 hours a week right now. If you saw my blog post about what happens when I am gone, imagine this times 5 (one of the 6 days I work, my girls stay at a sisters home). I haven't had time for anything but sleep and work lately. but today I need to clean the mess the girls and my biggest kid Child Husband made. By 2pm, I had already gotten EIGHT calls from my staff. Finally by 4pm, I was getting pretty annoyed and my staff now know it. lol But I couldn't get a thing done. But it is my fault, I told my staff to always feel free to call me. Now they know I lied!!

Also why is my four year old reverting to two year old tantrums??? She threw herself down on the grocery store floor over two times. She didn't even do this when she was two. It was down right embarrassing and I hope that her not getting the candy will prevent this in the future.

My house is a mess, it will remain so for life I guess. I'm going to try and read some blogs. I have to attend early service at Church tomorrow and then off to work for the next 12 hours. I think I figured out Mr Linky. It only took me a few hours (insert a drink here). If you were wanting to partispate in the We Were The 80's Day, then click HERE. And see if Mr Linky is working. Also, if you do drink, have a drink for me!

Wait, hold that drink, SITS is giving away a Bissel vacuum. I had just finished this post and went over there and saw this! Okay, I could really use that, as my girls love to dump stuff all over the floor. Things like tiny rocks. I go though vacuums faster than Sara Palin's say Maverick. (I actually love her, but hate that word).
Now if I could just get Heather and Tiffany to include George Clooney pushing that vaccuum cross my floor!

"We Were the 80's" Day

2008-10-17T20:20:00.014-05:00

Grab a seat and Welcome to the 80's Click on the following links to see the Ladies of the 80's ! ( you will have to click on #1 to see my post, cause this is not it)

The Great Gift of being a SITSTA!

2008-10-13T23:40:00.005-05:00

In June I ran across a contest on another persons blog about SITS

From that day on, I have been a SITS girl. Thru SITS I am able to get the word out that having children with disabilities doesn't make me different from other people, nor does it make my kids different. We are just like any other family, just a little crazier (it's my ADHD responsible for that). Thru SITS I am learning about differnt cultures and different people and making new friendships. Really there are so many SITS girls I love, that I really am not happy to pick just five. There is way more than five that I am bloggy friends with. I'm going to list the first five that have been with me the longest(although don't quote me on that)

One of the first two SITS girls to come and stay at my blog were Lazy Boys Mom (KooKooForCocoaPuffs ), and Sinner (Don't get Married...You Won't Like It.). These ladies would crack me up, inspire me not to sin,(wink) and also offer bad advice. I also met another bloggy friend thru them, that has not stepped over to the SITSTAHOOD yet. Come over to the Darkside Lori.

My first and only contest I have ever won YET (I'm waiting on my George Clooney photo from SITS, and my Gas Card from Insane Momma) was from Christie's Pretty Paper Blog. I won this fabulous Mini Album. She is so talented and I like to steal ideas from her ;) She also has a prize you can win in the SITS contest, which I would love to have if I can't have George that is. Cause ain't nothing as good as something George has touched. Sorry Christie, I love you but you understand, it is George Clooney after all.

Stephanie (Because I Pause) has been a great bloggy friend. She is full of wisdom and makes you think about becoming a better person, although she sure can embarrass herself at times and also does gift exchanges for used deoderant. I still like her, even thought that is really weird ;)

Missy (Roots and Wings) was quite a surprise to bump into on SITS. She is from my husband's hometown and her mother even remembers my husband (her mom worked in one of the schools he went too). She has these freak FreakFlag Friday post about the nutty things people do.

There are so many of you that have came into my life thanks to Heather and Tiffany and their SITS Dream. If I had more time, I would include you all in here, but I'm still recovering from being a featured SITS girl yesterday and from being Fixed yesterday.

Welcome to my Ativan induced Blogstophere!

2008-10-13T00:36:00.016-05:00

Welcome all my SITSTA's! You came at the perfect time. While you are visiting, I'm might be at the hospital getting fixed, refer to this post for more information on that lovely topic. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and it is also Down Syndrome Awareness month. Something I know alot about, since my two oldest ~~brats~~ teen daughter's have down syndrome. Mercede is 18 and Cheyenne is 16. They have a rarer form of down syndrome called Translocation Trisomy 21. It is the only form of down syndrome that can be inherited. And you guessed it, I am a carrier. It's all good. God knew I would love one of them so much, he gifted me with two. I'm married to Child Husband, so called because he is 11 years younger than me, and also cause he acts like a ~~baby~~ child. I've got two other children Chris and Aysha and a pet fish ~~that I hate, cause it ate 75 dollars worth of snails, crabs and fish~~

I started this blog after a friend of mine Meredith adopted two children with down syndrome from the Ukraine. She went thru Reece's Rainbows International Adoption Ministry. I started stalking adoption blogs from Reece's. They are saving children with down syndrome (and other disabilities) from being put in a institution where they may die early from starvation and neglect. I first heard about SITS on a site where a woman had adopted three children with down syndrome. I'm so glad I did. I've made many new bloggy friends but I'll post about that tomorrow on the BIG SITS DAY!!

In honor of it being Down Syndrome Awareness month, I'll direct you to my friend Renee's Blog She has a beautiful daughter Kennedy with down syndrome whom has braved cancer and neck surgery this last year. She is blogging 31 days for T21 and has a contest going on where you can win a gift basket. You can also learn alot about down syndrome over there. Over here your just going to learn how crazy my family is and why I carry a script for Ativan in my purse!!

Oh and I'm going to host a We Were the 80's day on October 30th. It will be a day to show off your stylist 80's photo's (if your were born before then). Just email (email is listed in my profile) me a link to your blog and I'll post it up on the 30th.

Thanks for stopping by. If I make it out of the hospital, you should hear from me by Tuedays night, if you don't, then send money to my family;) Do say some prayers for Tiffany today as she is going into the hospital today for a more serious surgery than I.

Yikes, they posted early today!! I'm not done with my post, oh no!! I'd better get this thing up!

Update: I had no idea they were putting me out and putting a breathing tube in for this procedure. I almost walked out. All is good though. I just slept my SITS day away!! lol

The Pumpkin Festival from H...................................

2008-10-11T21:16:00.006-05:00

Saturday, my only day partially off. I say partially because I am still on pager, and I get at least six calls from my staff on Saturdays. Today I slept in and then while I was still in my undies (I knew you would want that information) I emailed Rhea a few times about the trip my family were going to take to the Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival. We finally got on the road and were two miles outside Hartsburg at 1pm. AT 2pm, we were still two miles outside Hartsburg. Mercede was throwing a fit in the back of the car. I had Cheyenne and Aysha spraying her with their squirt water bottles, as I couldn't reach her myself. We finally hit Hartsburg right before 3pm. Then I saw the population sign, I was scared. This town puts on a festival that has thousands of people that attend and THIS is their population.....

I did find out why it took two hours to move 2 miles, look at the detour they had us go thru..

We finally hit the festival and I spot a pumpkin ~~snow~~ man. So cute..

Then we have to drive thru, yes thru the festival!! Do you know how long it takes to move thru all these people walking in front of you?

Then I finally find a parking place next to the corn field and Children of the Corn scenes race thru my mind. I wait a few minutes in my car, to make sure Malachai doesn't pop out at us.

We have only two hours to spend at the festival because it ends at 5pm. It was two hours too long!lol Mercede was on a roll, and I had to call my husband to tell him I might have to sacrifice Mercede to "He Who Walks Behind the Rows". Mercede got lucky as I never ran into Isaac. We did find some pumpkins. Mercede had some choice words when she found out I wasn't going to carry one of them back to the car.

Their were some interesting sights to see like this dog, his name is Cajun (bet you couldn't figure that out)

Oh and they had funnel cakes, wait it gets better they had funnel cakes with lots of bavarian creme on top. I wanted to snap a picture, I really did, but we ate it too quick but I did snap this photo of Aysha with some traces of it on her.

Ok, so it wasn't all bad, I found these crafts, and I took the lady's card, so now my family will know what they are getting for Christmas (the lady's card, ha ha).

After Mercede and I wrestled near the Baptist Church (I was just trying to baptist her), we decided it was time to head home, well that and the fact it was 5pm. I noticed that we must of missed Malachai, as he had left some marks of his sickle in this pumpkin next to the corn field.

As we are pulling out of the corn field, we are made to detour to a country road. Then it ends and their are two ways to take, no directions on either way. Cars in front of me turn both ways, so I choose right. A car going the opposite way flags me down and ask if I know how to get to the highway. I was going to ask them the same. So after I go that way awhile, I turned around and went the other way, and then I turned around again and headed back the way I started.... and then I turned again, cause I stopped someone whom knew where to go. I traveled on this back road to "no where" forever. I can't see anything from the dust.

Then there was this bridge, yikes, are their words..

I really thought that this was going to be like those movies of them small towns that lure tourist to their deaths. But we did make it home. I stopped at Wal-Mart to buy Mercede a pumpkin ~~to stuff her in~~, I also got a picture of the crafts the girls picked out. I had to take the photo by my favorite spider Bert. Bert is only one of the few hundred spiders that have taken over our home.

This post is dedicated to Insane Momma and her Halloween contest. Go check it out here.

My Favorite Antique: Pee Boy

2008-10-10T18:12:00.004-05:00

Ever since I was a child I always loved looking at a curio shelf at my grandmothers house. She had this little figuring that was so interesting. My mother said they have had it since she was a little girl, they bought it at a fair (or maybe won it). Pee boy is now over 50 years old !! He has a little container of pee that has stayed intact for over 50 years. As a child ( and an adult,lol) I loved making the pee go back and forth in it's little container. I always told my grandmother that after she passed, I was going to take Pee Boy. And Pee Boy is now unfortunately mine. He still fascinates me. He is dirty, he looks the same as the day I brought him home.

I store him in another antique I love, that was my grandmothers. The bowl matched a piggy bank I had. I later found out that same person made them. I don't have good pictures of them, they have lovely color swirls going thru them (you can kinda see it on the pig).

The sad thing is, with my kids, I doubt Pee Boy, the Pee Boy Bowl or my Piggy bank will survive the next 5 years.

Out of the mouth of babes..

2008-10-07T23:15:00.004-05:00

Today I sneezed, yelled something and then ran to the bathroom.

Aysha comes into the bathroom and says "Mommy, did you pee your pants?"

Me: "No, No, no I didn't. What makes you think that?"

Aysha: "Cause when you sneezed you said a bad word."

Well that is nice to know that it wasn't my action of running to the bathroom pulling my pants down!

Mercede takes on Richard Simmon's

2008-10-06T00:40:00.009-05:00

Mercede was a huge Barney fan while growing up. Needless to say, a mom can only take so much. So I banned her from Barney. Mercede was so upset that she went thru all my video's looking for something she liked. Then in the corner cabinet, under five inches of dust, she found Dancing to the Oldies. For the next few years Mercede worked out with Richard every single day. During the summer she worked out 3 hours a day, while I laid on the sofa eating chocolate and cheese curls shouting "Go Mercede! Go Mercede!" She was his biggest fan........well okay, probably his smallest (wink, wink).

To cut a long story short. I pulled Mercede from school so she could attend a Woman's Conference in our home town that Richard Simmon's was going to be at. Surrounded by hundreds of large women (me being one of them), little, tiny, skinny Mercede worked out with them/us. She was near the front of the stage and Richard called her up on stage. Mercede is so happy to meet him! Oh Look at her face. When she does that mouth open, eye's rolled up toward heaven look, you know that she is on super excitement mode.

He pulls her to the front of the stage, and then Mercede lost it. She slapped him away. While we didn't get THAT photo, we did get the priceless look on his face after it happened.

If you ever meet Mercede, she will tell you her version of the story. It goes something like this......

"I slapped Richard Simmon's and made him cry."

While she did slap Richard, and while he did cry. It isn't a whole truth, since he was crying on stage about 15 minutes before she slapped him. But hey, her version makes for a better story.

Awareness

2008-10-03T23:05:00.022-05:00

October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month. I thought I would post some pictures of my girls when they were younger,as I don't have time to do anything else! lol

I also want to say that this is also National Breast Cancer Awareness month. I'm very fortunate to not know very many people affected by this. I do have one bloggy friend whom is a survivor. Give Kris a shout out, she deserves it!

I'm Alive!!!

2008-09-29T23:21:00.010-05:00

Yes, Mercede is okay. Thanks for your prayers and thoughts. She hasn't had anymore spells and actually the only reason she wouldn't be okay now is for doing this mess..

This is what happens when Mercede has nothing to do. School was out last Friday and I had a 10 hour work day and Child Husband was home with the kids. This only happens this bad when Child Husband is ~~not~~ watching the kids. Mercede took everything out of her closet, everything out of drawers and anything else that was around. She can't stand to leave pillow cases on pillows and even went into my room and took mine off, as I can see them in this picture. So I would say that Mercede is feeling fine and that prozac isn't really affecting her that much! lol

In other news, I have been gone over a week because I had some mad days at work, then my internet company had some issues and it took them over three days to fix the problem. I just haven't had time to get on the computor. I did check my email a few times at the office but was out of time for anything else.

Good news is that Ben left the hospital a few days ago! Thank you so much for all your prayers. He is done with his chemo and still needs many prayers as there are still so many challenges that he could face. Aysha was running up to everyone in the store telling them how God had healed Ben. It is the best news ever!

My SIL Scott could use your prayers, we just got a call tonight that she was in the hospital. Her arm and face were going numb and her blood pressure super high. I was just in her town on Saturday and took these pictures with her kids.

This is 9 month old Ireland getting a bath. Look at them eyes.

This is the coolest tree. The kids all loved it.

My BIL Devin says he is riding a rhinoceros.

Last is a picture I took last week of Scott with her two youngest kids ~~she pops out kids like a rabbit~~ , she was having a hard time holding them. I should of made her hold all three at one time.

I've got a super busy work week and I'm going to try catching up with everyone when I can. Again, thanks for the thoughts and prayers.

Mercede update

2008-09-22T00:12:00.001-05:00

Thanks for all your thoughts. Mercede is doing well with no issues this weekend. She will be seeing her physician this week.

This is odd

2008-09-19T23:19:00.005-05:00

The nurse from Mercede's school today called and said that while Mercede was on a work site, they thought she passed out. They said her head fell forward and they had trouble bringing her too. The nurse thinks if she would of passed out, she would of fallen over, so she think she may have fallen asleep. Mercede has never fallen asleep while doing something, so that would be odd. Her teacher thinks she passed out because she was working with some bolts and then her head went down quick. Mercede started prozac on Wednesday for her OCD, so that could make her more tired. I'm making her an appointment just to check her out. I forgot to include earlier (just adding this in this post now) that Mercede's last blood test showed her having low glucose, and I was told if she seemed dizzy or faint to feed her! Geez, maybe they should of gave her further test.

Here is something interesting. Mercede was born with a Atrioventricular Canal Heart Defect (Cheyenne had the same defect), she had open heart at 6 months of age and then when she was 16 she had to have her mitral valve replaced with a mechanical valve. I just looked up photo's of them. Weird to think of her heart having one of these.

Flood Safety

2008-09-15T18:20:00.003-05:00

Yesterday was a day I taught my daughters all about the dangers of flooding.

First thing to teach them was that Flooding makes for good pictures.

Second thing to teach them is that you should always stay behind the police tape.(especially when there is a policeman behind you while you are snapping pictures)

Third thing to teach them, is to go to the other side of the flooded road (cause the policeman can't get to you there without a boat.)

Fourth, don't read signs, they mean nothing.

Fifth, police tape don't mean a thing either.

"MERCEDE GET YOUR BUTT OVER THAT TAPE NOW!"

Six, get as close to the flooding as you can.....

and snap a bunch of pictures that will make your dad call you and scream at you about the harm your putting your kids in.......

also making sure you get a photo of how swift the water is.

Seventh, take a picture of the people on the other side of the road... and then wonder why they are now crossing the police line.......then notice that the policeman is now not there.

Eight, tell your kids to run like heck cause you heard the policeman either got a boat or is now taking the long route to get to you.

Nine, say a prayer for all those who aren't as fortunate as we are :(

Abilities

2008-09-12T20:52:00.000-05:00

You all know I have two children with Down Syndrome, but some of you may not know that I also work with adults with disabilities. I work for a good size organization that provides support to people with developmental disabilities. I supervise a medically fragile home with three individuals. I occasionally do a crafts class for my organizations day program. I have to look for a craft that can be done by people with different abilities. We often hear about disabilities, but it is important to look for a persons abilities. Everyone has abilities, and that is what I try to focus on.

Christie over at the Pretty Paper Blog always has cute idea's for projects. She had a post about a bucket she had fixed up for a gift and I borrowed her creativity to do crafts with the individual's I work with. Christie was so great and answered my emails to what kinds of supplies I needed such as Modpodge! OMgosh, how could I have never used this before. I have since bought over 3 big bottles of it. Anywho, at work we had a family luncheon and they needed a craft project to use as table settings. I knew this was the perfect craft. I had two individuals whom couldn't use scissors because their hands would be unable to manipulate them, but they were able to tear scrap pages for what we needed. Everyone had fun using ink to stamp and antique the paper. But Modpodge was the favorite part for most. This bucket was made by a man whom was bedridden at the time and he was so happy to be able to put this together. I so wish that it wouldn't be a violation to show you a picture of how big of smile he had, making this. For most of our buckets we put a wire handle that looked like a twig, with a ribbon on it (none of these were photographed because I forgot to take pictures before they were given away). For the table setting's, plants were placed in the buckets, but I killed the one that had been in this:(

This bucket was made yesterday by an individual I work with, for another individual whom is in the hospital. She also picked out a cheap dollar frame and put a stamped message in it, to replace giving a card. I think it turned out great.

Yesterday I went to a BBQ that was put on by another organization that serves people with disabilities, one that my girls receive services from. There were people with a wide abundance of different abilities. I was having a conversation with a man named Will (I changed his name.) Will has CP and uses an electric wheelchair to get around town (I say town, cause I see him all over the place). Will has slurred speech due to his CP and can be hard to understand at times. A mistake many people make is that they treat individuals such as Will, as a child. Will is not a child and should not be treated as one. If you have trouble understanding someone with a disability, don't be afraid to say "I'm sorry, could you repeat that, I didn't quite understand." Because many people (including me at one time) make the mistake of pretending they understand a person and totally ignore what the person is trying to say. Will asked me a question and I had to have him repeat it several times before I understood. He asked me what led me to work in the field of disabilities. I told him I had two children with disabilities. He shook his head "yes", thinking he understood. But I told him that even if I didn't have my children, I think I still would of been led to this field of work. I think I always had a calling for it. Will asked me if I thought I would always work in this field. I said "Well no, if I win the lottery , I'm going to sit on my butt, watch TV and eat chocolate." We enjoyed a good laugh over that fantasy. Will has the ability to make good conversation, only most people don't give him the chance. Remember...... see people for their abilities, not their disabilities.

This is freaking me out!

2008-09-10T13:54:00.001-05:00

Yesterday, I made the big appointment to take place on Oct 13th. To see about having no more babies, a sterilization. And they want to put these nickle coils/springs in my tubes.This is the Essure method that most OBGYN's recommend now instead of Tubal Ligation (Tubal can be reversable, Essure procedure can't be). Ok, no big deal..... til I see the picture. Okay, I was picturing something the size of a tack. Oh and the skin grows thru the coils blocking up the tubes. I'm freaking out and think Child Husband needs to go get neutered. He cringes at the thought of it and says he can't do it. But I'm wondering if Bob Barker can talk him into it ;)

Turning 40 Sucks

2008-09-06T21:55:00.000-05:00

It's taken me almost a week to recover from turning 40 on Labor Day. Mercede turned 18 the same day. We had a Luau party to celebrate. Here is my fab punch bowl, it bled the punch out of the eyes, I'm not sure if you can see that fly in it or not. Sadly there was no alcohol in it :( Just flies.
My Child Husband grilled (which = charred food). This was the only picture we got of Child Husband because Child Husband got "hot" he had to drive around in the air conditioning and miss most of his wife's birthday(probably his excuse to go find a younger woman.) Child Husband's brother Quinton sported a lovely apron, are you eyeing his coconuts? He is single.

We had a pinata, and the body fell off (with candy intact), so I rigged it up, cause I am so clever. Thats my lit BIL Devin swinging his invisible bat. He has super powers.

Cheyenne sang Karaoke, she has a wonderful singing voice that matches Pierce Bronson's (in Mama Mia).

After ~~suffering~~ listening to her sing songs like "Don't you wish your girlfriend could be HOT like me." She turned to her "boyfriend" (this is what she refers to him as..... on the days that she isn't screaming she hates him) and said "I love you Tim". Notice ~~the creeps~~ my father and sister catching the moment on camera. They got a competition going to see who can photofake the most photo's )

My SIL Scott made it to the party with my Lil SIL Aidan. Scott's man who turned 30 that day couldn't make the party, he had to babysit the youngest two kids. Cause Scott knows how to treat her man right! Aidan's face was swollen cause she had some contagious childhood disease. Thanks again for coming to the party Aidan, we're so glad you made it. I was really hoping one of the kids would get that cool left eye almost sealed shut look. (I kid I kid, she was past the infectious stage).

My nephew Cole wondering if the party will ever end. My father looking like he's plotting on how to make the party end.

Isn't it great, now my MIL and I are both in our 40's. I'm the one on the right, yes I know that I look the oldest, but I am not. ~~That witch,~~ She will be 50 in a few years.

Child Husband is like something like 49 years younger than my mother. Does that make you feel old, mom? I know your thanking the lord for making you look young, why didn't you pass that gene down to me??? (mom was embarrassed of how old I looked and told me to take my glasses off for the photo, she didn't pass the "don't have to wear glasses until I am old as dirt" gene down to me either)

There was a lake right next to us. I wanted to keep everyone busy running after their kids while I went thru their purses. Course that doesn't work with my SIL Scott, cause she expects everyone else to keep an eye on her son, "Aysha your not doing a good job of keeping Jason away from the water" But that is okay,I needed an extra hand digging thru my mom's purse.

My sister pointed it out that my father is taking pictures of our bottoms in this picture. Your really weird dad!

But we are all kinda weird aren't we

Ending this post, with a picture of a gift my sister made me

Ben is really needing your prayers again

2008-08-31T17:14:00.001-05:00

Little Ben is so close to being done with his cancer treatment(for a very rare aggressive brain tumor) at UCLA, he just got his stem cell transplant but now is having problems with his kidneys and his heart. Ben has went thru so much in the last year. He needs your prayers and so does his family. Please visit Ben's care pages at BentheBrave (you will have to type in the BentheBrave title to get to them) and leave messages for Ben and his family.

You can read the other post I have written about his family and their daughter they lost here, and another link to Ben on my blog here

A HUGE RANT

2008-08-29T22:26:00.000-05:00

I'm mad tonight, actually I am beyond mad and it is killing me not to have fowl language all across this screen. My sister called me this morning to tell me about Sarah Palin being chosen as Mcains running mate. I wasn't surprised at all, since this rumor had been rampant in my community boards for parents with children with down syndrome. But I knew the news was going to bring controversy, lots of it. First I was mad. I thought, why is this woman with a baby running for VP. After hours of thought, it hit me, that if she was a man I wouldn't think twice of it.

Then tonight many of my friends are angry, they are angry with ABC Charles Gibson. This is what a friend of mine posted on a board and.

After he confirmed Sarah Palin as Mcain's choice, he mentioned her yougest baby Trig. He said "She had a Down Syndrome Child, she and her husband Todd knew she was going to have a DS baby and chose to do so anyway...." WTH!? His tone wasn't so nice......

So I'm guessing Charles Gibson is Anti Choice, why do I say Anti Choice?? Because like some (not all, mind you) so called Prochoice people I have ran into, when it comes to a woman KNOWING and HAVING a child with a disability, they believe that woman should of aborted that child . No offense, but no one is going to tell me what to do with my body. But yet there is this group of so-called Prochoice people, whom are pissed that I and the many other woman, who knew ahead of time that we would have a child with a disability, didn't abort. They don't think we deserved a choice. I have heard to my face, many times, "Why didn't you abort!" Only cow, I thought I had a CHOICE, and I made one!

Also Mr. Dear Charles Gibson, it is "a child with down syndrome" not "A down syndrome child". This child is a person, not an object. Your a professional, learn some people first language.

Now on to another rant with this all, it should not manner that this baby has a disability. Woopeedo, so far, the baby seems healthy, hasn't been in the hospitals, so what is the deal? Let's not throw disability into something where it does not belong. As far as her having a baby and running for VP, yes, I do see concerns there.....BUT, do any of your have concerns about Obama's child? He is running for president, and his wife would be very busy also. So are you concerned about his child? If the answer is "no" then you shouldn't be concered about Palin's.

If Palin were a man, none of these things would manner.

I'm temporary jumping off my soapbox, but after I calm down, I may make other changes in this post. I'm so angry that I can't think straight and the valium hasn't kicked in yet ;)

Whining, Wii Fit, and OMGOSH Mercede NO!

2008-08-26T23:54:00.000-05:00

Poor Cheyenne didn't get her special birthday post up :( But I took her out to eat, ate a spice I am allergic too and spent the rest of the evening curled up on the sofa, crying and whining for over 6 hours (not to mention the endless trips to the bathroom).

Child husband bought Cheyenne (and me) a Wii Fit. Wii Fit told Child Husband that his fitness level is that of a 40 year old, and he is only 28. That cracked me up. Wii Fit told ~~cougar~~ me that my fitness level is that of a 28 year old(and I turn 40 next week). Okay, I know that Wii Fit is a Liar. But let me bast in the glow for a bit.

Wii Fit did tell 4 of us that we were overweight (Wii Fit flew into the trash for a nap), only Mercede my not even 4'6, 76 pound girl girl was in "normal" range.

The really cool thing is that my 4 year old daughter did so well on one of the balance games. She got an Amateur scoring her first try (normally you just get Beginner).

I was able to crawl off the sofa long enough to get dirty foot prints on the Wii Fit pad, then I went back to whining.

I wonder if it will ever get used again?

In other news, school has only been in session for less than a week and Mercede just started High School. In that time, she has done so many things that I really want to ~~beat~~ discipline her for. I'm not going to go into them because they are so bad(even though ever one I tell about it laughs their butts off). But I knew the girl would be trying to see how much she can get away with. Last year on her bus, she mooned some kids and told them to "kiss her butt" (you know if I am tell you this story that the other ones must be really bad). How she did not get a bus ticket for that is beyond me. But her sister got a bus ticket for kissing her boyfriend on the bus. Course, Mercede has countless bus tickets, so guess she didn't need more. I could paper her wall with them. Her teacher and para's of past, thought the bus drivers were lying about her. I knew that if she can get away with something, she will. The teachers she had in the pass didn't let anything get by, but I'm afraid this year the teacher has no idea what she is in for. If I sign a note that the teacher can use duct tape, will that be legal?

Don't you wish you were all this cool!

2008-08-24T15:01:00.000-05:00

Tomorrow is Cheyenne's 16th birthday so this weekend we grabbed my little SIL whom is Cheyenne's best friend to celebrate. I wanted the girls to have a memorable night so we spent it at........................................

the Laundromat, cause I'm such a rocking mom!

Now it ain't all that bad, cause between slaving away at washing and folding clothes (from 8pm til 1030pm), they got to play bumper baskets...

Now today, I did decide to take them out to eat. Yes, I know that nothing could top yesterdays fun. We went to HuHot where we were lucky enough to arrive during the busiest time, and got to sit outside with those little pager do dads. The girls posed for the pictures while the sun burned down on their vampire white skin. Hey nothing like getting a burn waiting for some food.

Mercede was bummed to find out that the cigarettes she found on the bench were empty, but she did enjoy showing us what she planned to do in a week when she turns 18.

We finally get in after obtaining 3rd degree burns, and the girls headed to the line to get their food cooked.

Aw girls, they so sweet, and the guys in back of them are cooking our food. Yum

I didn't realize they were cooking our food in sweat, until I took this photo, and the grill....are there even words??????

Mercede says"Thanks for the food that makes me poop!"

Aidan and Cheyenne dreaming of doing laundry again!

Hope Cheyenne enjoyed her early birthday weekend, cause all she gets tomorrow is a spotlight on my blog ;)

Something that went thru my mind today

2008-08-22T21:47:00.000-05:00

Child Husband, Child Husband,
How does your garden grow?
With little care, and rotting plants,
And terra cotta pots all in a row.

When I wasn't looking

2008-08-22T00:03:00.001-05:00

Mercede wore these shoes to school.

They aren't her shoes, they belong to her sister. Mercede at age almost 18 has a child size 12 foot. These are her sisters size 7 shoes. I was so proud seeing her walk off the bus with them on. What the teachers must think of me. UGH

Sorry Scott, I just couldn't do that post I told you about, I know you understand why ;)

Out of the mouth of Babes

2008-08-19T12:36:00.001-05:00

While Aysha was at my parents house, this was part of a prayer over heard by my mother...

"Dear God, .........please may it not be boring..."

When she got home and I asked her what that prayer was about, she said "Upstairs church". Which translate to the sermon, cause "downstairs church" to her, is all about food :)

Still reading Breaking Dawn

2008-08-12T22:49:00.000-05:00

I started the Twilight series last week and now am reading the last book. All along I have not cared for Edward, but have loved Jacob. Now in the last book, I don't even like Bella. I'm only halfway thru but having alot of trouble reading it. It just took a turn that made me ill to my stomach, it just didn't seem to fit in. Maybe as I read on, I will like it again. I did like the beginning of the book, Jacob's character and his comments to Edward crack me up. But what Bella has went thru, just leaves me with a bad taste.

I do need to put down the book and start packing for the move. My parents think they are bringing my kids back this weekend and I need to be in Mexico before then ;)

Educate Yourselves Please.

2008-08-10T01:05:00.000-05:00

I have never used the word "retard" as a slang. I just always knew it was wrong, not sure how, but I did. Maybe God knew I would feel horrible later and assisted me in knowing that it was not appropriate. I have used the word "retardation" as a medical term, since both of my older daughters do have it. I'm not bothered by the medical term, yet most parents of kids with developmental disabilities are, because of all the hurtful slangs that are used today. You might think it is okay, but it is not. There is a new film out with Ben Stiller called Tropic Thunder which I will be boycotting. The word "retard" is used throughout the movie and to promote the movie, shirts with "Full Retard" are already being marketed. You can read more about it here.

A high school senior Soeren Palumbo explained it best in a speech he gave in 2007.

"I want to tell you a quick story before I start. I was walking through hallways, not minding my own business, listening to the conversations around me. As I passed the front door on my way to my English classroom, I heard the dialogue between two friends nearby. For reasons of privacy, I would rather not give away their race or gender. So the one girl leans to the other, pointing to the back of a young man washing the glass panes of the front door, and says, "Oh my gaw! I think it is so cute that our school brings in the black kids from around the district to wash our windows!" The other girl looked up, widened her slanted Asian eyes and called to the window washer, easily loud enough for him to hear, "Hey, Negro! You missed a spot!" The young man did not turn around. The first girl smiled a bland smile that all white girls – hell, all white people – have and walked on. A group of Mexicans stood by and laughed that high pitch laugh that all of them have.

So now it's your turn. What do you think the black window washer did? What would you do in that situation? Do you think he turned and calmly explained the fallacies of racism and showed the girls the error of their way? That's the one thing that makes racism, or any discrimination, less powerful in my mind. No matter how biased or bigoted a comment or action may be, the guy can turn around and explain why racism is wrong and, if worst comes to worst, punch em in the face.

Discrimination against those who can defend themselves, obviously, cannot survive. What would be far worse is if we discriminated against those who cannot defend themselves. What then, could be worse than racism? Look around you and thank God that we don't live in a world that discriminates and despises those who cannot defend themselves. Thank God that every one of us in this room, in this school hates racism and sexism and by that logic discrimination in general. Thank God that every one in this institution is dedicated to the ideal of mutual respect and love for our fellow human beings. Then pinch yourself for living in a dream. Then pinch the hypocrites sitting next to you. Then pinch the hypocrite that is you. Pinch yourself once for each time you have looked at one of your fellow human beings with a mental handicap and laughed. Pinch yourself for each and every time you denounced discrimination only to turn and hate those around you without the ability to defend themselves, the only ones around you without the ability to defend themselves. Pinch yourself for each time you have called someone else a "retard".

If you have been wondering about my opening story, I'll tell you that it didn't happen, not as I described it. Can you guess what I changed? No, it wasn't the focused hate on one person, and no it wasn't the slanted Asian eyes or cookie cutter features white people have or that shrill Hispanic hyena laugh (yeah, it hurts when people make assumptions about your person and use them against you doesn't it?).

The girl didn't say "hey Negro." There was no black person. It was a mentally handicapped boy washing the windows. It was "Hey retard." I removed the word retard. I removed the word that destroys the dignity of our most innocent. I removed the single most hateful word in the entire English language. I don't understand why we use the word; I don't think I ever will. In such an era of political correctness, why is it that retard is still ok? Why do we allow it? Why don't we stop using the word? Maybe students can't handle stopping– I hope that offends you students, it was meant to – but I don't think the adults, here can either. Students, look at your teacher, look at every member of this faculty. I am willing to bet that every one of them would throw a fit if they heard the word faggot or nigger – hell the word Negro – used in their classroom. But how many of them would raise a finger against the word retard? How many of them have? Teachers, feel free to raise your hand or call attention to yourself through some other means if you have. That's what I thought. Clearly, this obviously isn't a problem contained within our age group.

So why am I doing this? Why do I risk being misunderstood and resented by this school's student body and staff? Because I know how much you can learn from people, all people, even – no, not even, especially – the mentally handicapped. I know this because every morning I wake up and I come downstairs and I sit across from my sister, quietly eating her cheerio's. And as I sit down she sets her spoon down on the table and she looks at me, her strawberry blonde hair hanging over her freckled face almost completely hides the question mark shaped scar above her ear from her brain surgery two Christmases ago.

She looks at me and she smiles. She has a beautiful smile; it lights up her face. Her two front teeth are faintly stained from the years of intense epilepsy medication but I don't notice that anymore. I lean over to her and say, "Good morning, Olivia." She stares at me for a moment and says quickly, "Good morning, Soeren," and goes back to her cheerio's. I sit there for a minute, thinking about what to say. "What are you going to do at school today, Olivia?" She looks up again. "Gonna see Mista Bee!" she replies loudly, hugging herself slightly and looking up. Mr. B. is her gym teacher and perhaps her favorite man outside of our family on the entire planet and Olivia is thoroughly convinced that she will be having gym class every day of the week. I like to view it as wishful thinking.

She finishes her cheerio's and grabs her favorite blue backpack and waits for her bus driver, Miss Debbie, who, like clockwork, arrives at our house at exactly 7'o'clock each morning. She gives me a quick hug goodbye and runs excitedly to the bus, ecstatic for another day of school. I watch the bus disappear around the turn and I can't help but remember the jokes. The short bus. The retard rocket. No matter what she does, no matter how much she loves those around her, she will always be the butt of some immature kid's joke. She will always be the butt of some mature kid's joke. She will always be the butt of some "adult"'s joke.

By no fault of her own, she will spend her entire life being stared at and judged. Despite the fact that she will never hate, never judge, never make fun of, never hurt, she will never be accepted. That's why I'm doing this. I'm doing this because I don't think you understand how much you hurt others when you hate. And maybe you don't realize that you hate. But that's what is; your pre-emptive dismissal of them, your dehumanization of them, your mockery of them, it's nothing but another form of hate. It's more hateful than racism, more hateful than sexism, more hateful than anything. I'm doing this so that each and every one of you, student or teacher, thinks before the next time you use the word "retard", before the next time you shrug off someone else's use of the word "retard". Think of the people you hurt, both the mentally handicapped and those who love them. If you have to, think of my sister. Think about how she can find more happiness in the blowing of a bubble and watching it float away than most of will in our entire lives. Think about how she will always love everyone unconditionally. Think about how she will never hate. Then think about which one of you is "retarded".

Maybe this has become more of an issue today because society is changing, slowly, to be sure, but changing nonetheless. The mentally handicapped aren't being locked in their family's basement anymore. The mentally handicapped aren't rotting like criminals in institutions. Our fellow human beings are walking among us, attending school with us, entering the work force with us, asking for nothing but acceptance, giving nothing but love. As we become more accepting and less hateful, more and more handicapped individuals will finally be able to participate in the society that has shunned them for so long. You will see more of them working in places you go, at Dominicks, at Jewel, at Wal-Mart. Someday, I hope more than anything, one of these people that you see will be my sister.

I want to leave you with one last thought. I didn't ask to have a mentally handicapped sister. She didn't choose to be mentally handicapped. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. I have learned infinitely more from her simple words and love than I have from any classroom of "higher education". I only hope that, one-day, each of you will open your hearts enough to experience true unconditional love, because that is all any of them want to give. I hope that, someday, someone will love you as much as Olivia loves me. I hope that, someday, you will love somebody as much as I love her. I love you, Olivia."

Mamma Mia and Satan music.

2008-08-05T22:05:00.000-05:00

Since I came back from vacation last Tuesday I have worked 16 hour days everyday except Monday (I only worked 10 hours that day). It is mostly my fault cause I let three staff go on vacation last week. Then I also have a pager for another person who is on vacation and one of her staff went into the hospital so I am covering their shift, until today. I got someone to work it and I spent most of the day with my kids. We spent quality time together this morning by sleeping in til 11am. Well that is trying too. My pager went off over 7 times before 11. I also had two phone calls from staff. Then I worked about 3 hours came home and took the girls to Mamma Mia. I really love ABBA and couldn't wait to see this. It was cheesy but so was the best movie of the 80's Dirty Dancing ("No one puts baby in the corner"), which I also watched today. I didn't have pockets on what I wore and I needed to have my pager on vibrate so it wouldn't PO the movie goers. I finally thought of a place to put it that another person I work for uses. My bra!! lol I finally have something to put in it. The girls loved the movie, Aysha slept thru half of it and Mercede only started saying "I want to go home" during the last hour of it. Cheyenne will watch any movie and even after she drinks 64 oz of caffiene, she still won't budge and leave a movie to pee. Pierce Bronson gave a stellar singing performance, if he has a CD out, it will be a must buy. His singing was so incredible that you could hear laughter all thru the theater. Oh and remember when Meryl Streep played in Death Becomes Her, I swear after watching her in this movie, she has actually stubbled aross a magic potion to make her younger (like in the movie), she could really move like a teen. After waking up during the ending of the movie, I took the kids to Barns and Noble so I could get the Twilight books the SITS sisters are always squealing about. Then I came home and read up on Emma Hope and your prayers are working. She is doing so well. Hopefully Emma will be alot sweeter than my Mercede. Mercede like's listening to the radio and turned on some horrid Satan music, I can't believe there is a station that even plays such music, leave it to Mercede to find it. She also refused to turn the station or turn it off. I told her she had at least 26 more days til she was old enough to run off and join a cult. I wish she could be a good child like her sister Cheyenne and just stay in her room all day watching TV and reading and never being seen. I need more children like that ;)

Oh on a note to my father. Dad, you know there are links in a lot of my post that you can click on? You don't have to go and do name searches trying to find out what I am talking about. (please don't get mad at me for poking fun of you and not come get my kids this weekend. Oh, hope mom wasn't keeping that a surprise)

Emma Hope needs your prayers ASAP

2008-08-02T21:13:00.000-05:00

Emma Hope was just adopted this year from the Ukraine. It was a huge leap of faith for my friend Meredith and her husband to take on a child whom they knew was very ill, before she was adopted. Emma spent the last 4 plus years of her life just laying in a crib unstimulated. Emma was under 20 pounds when she was adopted. Can you imagine that? Emma has the same heart problem both my older daughters have, it is called a Complete AVCanal defect. Both my daughter's had surgery for it before they were 7 months old (now days it is typically done before 3 months of age). If this surgery is not done while a child is very young, the child with develope Pulmonary Hypertension that will shorten their life. Emma suffers from the latter rather badly . Meridith and her family had to search hard to find a surgeon who would even operate on Emma. Most turned her down and said that she doesn't have a chance, that it is much too risky. A nurse has told Meridith that Emma won't make it off the bypass machine. This is a risky chance they are taking by putting her thru this surgery, but without it, she has no chance to have a long life. I can imagine how hard it is going to be this Monday when they pass Emma over to the Doctors hand, I know I have been there. I wanted to run out of the room with Mercede. Because I was afraid it was going to be the last time I saw her alive. Do you give your child a chance to live a long life but risk never seeing them alive again, or do you take them home and spent what little time you might have left. These are horrible decisions they are facing. With Mercede we faced a 25 % fatality at the time, I had only a 10 % chance of having a child with down syndrome (yet I had two). 25% felt like 75 % let me tell you(with most babies with this defect there is a 95% chance or higher of survival now, with surgery). I don't know what Emma Hope chances are, but I do know that Mercede had a much higher chance of making it thru. Meredith and her husband are wonderful people, whom not only adopted one child with down syndrome ,but two from the Ukraine. You all have seen the Emma Hope button on my side bar, now is the time that she really needs those prayers badly. She has a mommy, daddy, a sister and two brothers whom love her dearly. Less then a year ago, she didn't have anyone. She was wasting away in a crib and was thought that she would soon pass before being adopted. Now she has learned to smile, she is learning what family is. Please pray that God provides a miracle for this child. She has been thru so much in her short time. She goes to surgery Monday morning, you can follow her blog here (and by clicking on her button in the side bar).

The Perfect Martini Party

2008-08-01T22:28:00.000-05:00

I've been putting down Martini's for the last 20 years (opps, that means I was putting them down before I was legal drinking age). It all goes back to my friend Stacy asking me to go out with her husband and another man named Tom. Tom was a 40 something year old bald man whom lived with his mother. I didn't want to go, because Tom was weird. But I went anyway as just a friend, as I was engaged to someone else at the time. Anywho, Tom took us out to eat at a swanky steak restaurant and ordered me my first martini, did I mention I was underage??? He ordered me a dry martini without asking what I even wanted to drink. Can we say nasty! And it gets even worst cause "Living all his life with Mom" Tom, placed his hand on my knee under the table. I have hated Martini's since.

But Molly is having a contest and she already gives me a hard time over being a "Hater" of Martini's. So tonight I did a search, I'm stupid, I didn't even know Martini's had vodka in them. I can handle that.

So Molly here is my Perfect Martini Party (hopefully in before the deadline).

I would be on a beach, the beach of the set of LOST, with my man John Lock! Mmmmmmm, my dh thinks I am weird on this one.

And of course my other man George Clooney would be there (and he would look just like he did in Dusk to
Dawn).

And we would be drinking Midori Martini's in only the best of the best, this set from Martini Art.com.

I would also be handing out these great napkins from Martini Art.com. (Mom, is that you?? haha, my mom doesn't drink)

And to top off my party, my guest (all two of them) would receive this from Martini Art.com cause they will probably really need it (I got to get them drunk enough to Roll them, that means steal their money, hmmm)

Oh and if their lucky I might also give them these golf balls by Martini Art.com

Yes I am shamelessly plugging to win a contest:)

Vacation Part III: When in the Mountains,

2008-07-31T21:14:00.003-05:00

Eat as the Mountaineers do!

What is this lovely plate of food you ask? The name of it on the menu says "Balls to the Walls".

Otherwise know as Mountain Oysters.

Tasty!! Taste just like ~~chicken~~ pork tenderloins (hmmm, what are Tender Loins made of??) Mercede enjoyed them.

My brother-n-law Matt looks satisfied.

My mom even ate some,even though I think it was because of all the peer pressure.I'm not sure my dad ate any as I can't find a picture of it. My husband was a LOSER and wouldn't eat any.

You know my sister Kristi was eating it up as this is another photo op for her (blah ha ha ha, Did I mention that I love my sister, but I am older so I get to be mean to her)

Now my nephew whom is very tiny for his 11 years of age, he is a very picky eater, he was hogging them all down, heck we hardly got any. I think his momma better start fixing him these tasty nuggets for dinner everynight!

Now Cheyenne had one, but as soon as she found out what it was, she was not too please with her momma. But if your wanting someone to try a Mountain Oyster, you can't tell them what it is, so you tell them it is a Fried Mushroom, then as it is settling in their mouth, you tell them the truth!

I had not told Cheyenne quite yet, dang if I didn't get that picture! Now with my youngest you could never pull the fried mushroom story cause she HATES mushrooms, but friend chicken nuggets, that is another story.

Now this is for my sister Kristi who had to leave before my Child Husband and I had caught enough trout to feed everyone. As Kids, Kristi and I loved to freak out people with trout heads and trout eyes. People thought it was weird we left trout heads on when we ate them. These pictures are for you Kristi, Sorry your weren't there to let your son make the kind of memories we used to make.

I leave you with the lyric's to a favorite Dr. Demento song of mine....

Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum

Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum

In the morning,
Laughing happy fish heads,
In the evening,
Floating in the soup,

Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum

Ask a fish head,
Anything you want to,
They won't answer,
They can't talk

Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum

I took a fish head,
Out to see a movie,
Didn't have to pay
To get it in

Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum

They cant play baseball,
They dont wear sweaters,
There not good dancers,
They dont play drums

Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum

Roly poly fish heads are never seen
Drinking cappucino in Italian resturants,
With oriental women, yeah

Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum

Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum, (yum!)

Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum

Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum,

Yea..

Happy Birthday Sisters

2008-07-31T00:58:00.000-05:00

Happy LATE Birthday to my sister in law Scott! May you have many more green teeth years!

And for my sister Kristi, who turned 37 today,this is for you ;)

Get a Voki now!

Vacation Part II: Picture Overload

2008-07-30T10:07:00.000-05:00

Child Husband and Aysha Brat on the Poudre River

Mercede doing her "Twentyone" hand thing, to remind us that she will be drinking this beer when she turns 21.

Don't worry, it wasn't Mercede's Beer but my sister Kristi's.

My Child Husband messed up alot of my pictures because he set the lens to manual mode and didn't tell me. He told me I should of read the directions, ummmmm like that would help! Geeze. so I got alot of pictures like this. Which would of been a good picture if not for a blur. The second house is the one we stayed in. The boy is my nephew Cole.

My sister says that I never post good pictures of her. Here you go Kristi.

Now a I think a really good picture of Kristi is one that we can drool over her husband in it. she thought I was just taking a picture of her ;)

I always tell Aysha I'm going to find her a new Daddy, one that will take her more places. So here is her new Daddy, Krisit's husband!! lol (Course Kristi, thinks she should be her new mommy too)

Aysha's says "This is why I'm getting a new daddy!" "Wake up Daddy, we are in the mountains, lets go for a walk, we can't spend all day playing your PS3 on the Big screen. Even though I know you really want a big TV now and am begging mom to put one in our 5x5 front room"

Aysha "Course maybe I will take Kristi as my new mom, cause my mom is weird, sittin up on that bar with the coffee drink. My daddy also takes really bad pictures doesn't he?"

Grandpa Orval says "I had that 9 foot trout right up to the rock, before he slipped away"

But my mom loves her story telling man anyway!! lol

"Look Mommie, daddy took a picture and got everyone in it, wow. Maybe I'll keep him as my daddy."

Why do my girls have to do be weird posers for pictures?

Well that is all for now folks, I've still got a few more vacation post. I will leave you with these last pictures of Cheyenne's triumph to get to the ROCK!

Vacation Part I: Tickets and Crickets

2008-07-29T21:48:00.000-05:00

We left Sunday night after my Child Husband got off work at 10:30 pm. I had to drive cause Child Husband made me. So as I am speeding thru Kansas City at 1am, I get pulled over for speeding. Yes, I just know I posted about getting a speeding ticket like a month ago. NO I did not follow my own advice and poke at my eye's to start the crying, cause that only works on the city police, this was a Trooper and that kind of stuff never works on them. They are too busy making diamonds up their bums (Ain't that right E "who never reads my blog", your Sarge probably has a whole mine by now). Anywho I took my ticket, and was on my merry way. Around 4am we stopped in Lincoln, NE to get a hotel. We stopped at a Days Inn and there was BLOOD all around the front door. My husband told me that the clerk said some woman had cut herself and needed to use the phone. So we drive all the way around the building and get out and there is Blood everywhere going in a LONG trail back to the front door. I'm thinking the woman must of slit her wrist cause you don't spurt like that over a reg cut. I'm kicking myself for not getting pictures to post!! lol You know you want to see them. Anywho, we wake up the next day to finish our journey to Poudre Canyon. We need to get there before dark. Child Husband gets obsessed with things and decided he had to have crickets to fish with, even though I told him you use Salmon eggs to catch the trout. So he pulls off in this town in the middle of No Where Nebraska to find a bait shop. He finds out there is a lake nearby and he is sure we are going to find crickets there. TWO HOURS later, we are still in No Where, Nebraska, but found no crickets. But we did find this lovely Soda machine...

WAIT, That ain't a Diet Dew but Leeches... OMGosh

This sign was also in the same town, can anyone explain what pickles got to do with bingo???

Needless to say after our two hour cricket stop, we got to our destination after dark.

I'm Back

2008-07-29T01:00:00.000-05:00

We just got home tonight and I have to wake up and start my 80 plus hour week. Hope to catch up blog reading soon and want to post my vacation adventures that I tried to load up to photobucket but after an hour it still isn't happening.

So stay tuned for stories of troopers, bears, trout fishing and mountain oyster eating.

I'm outta here!!

2008-07-19T22:39:00.000-05:00

Well almost out of here! Tomorrow I leave for Colorado, haven't been there in over 20 years, yet my family and I used to go every year. I'm hoping to meet up with fellow Blogger Kim from Life- Just Not a Cereal Anymore while there. I wanted to leave you with some lovely pictures of the times spent there. My favorite is the one with my dad bathing in the river in all his whiteness and what looks to be boxer shorts, please tell me they are swim trunks !! lol

Then there is a lovely one of my next door neighbor and me, my child husband thinks my hair is really hot, not (he told me that he is glad he was only a baby when this picture was taken).

My sister has stated that she felt like the ugly sister when growing up, which I always thought was a load of poop, til I saw this pic. Not sure which one of us is uglier but she does have some sort of troll face going on there!! lol

I'll have to catch up with everyone when I get back. Don't miss me too much.

Anyone want a Blackberry Curve?

2008-07-19T12:33:00.000-05:00

Shelley over at Embracing Life as Household 6 has a contest going to win one. All it takes is a 5 dollar donation on Chip In. The donation is for a little girl with down Syndrome and club feet that needs to be adopted. Shelley has adopted two children with down syndrome, one of them also had club feet, so this hit close to home for her. Please go HERE to read more about it.

Peer Pressure and Free Stuff

2008-07-16T22:52:00.000-05:00

Lori from Garbled Gab ~~tortured~~ tagged me to do some peer pressured blog game that other reindeer play(What is this My Space?). It even came with instructions that are listed below.

Instructions: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to. Blah blah Blah

1. Queen- Your My Best Friend Cause you can never go wrong with Queen!

2. Paul & Winn Grace- Turn your radio on. My girls love their music. They aren't touring anymore and Paul is a friend and co-worker of mine. Him and his wife are big into the vegan life and epistemology.

3. Fluke-Absurb - I just love this line "Captain Kirk from planet earth, fights it out with Papa Smurf" LOL

4. Sesame Street- Singing in the shower. I mean who can resist hearing Ernie sing:

That's why I sing, sing in my bathtub. la-la.
As I soak myself, I let my voice ring loud and clear.
I like to sing, la la, sing in my bathtub.
'Cause I love the way that my voice sounds in here.
And as I sing I imagine what I want to be.
Like a singing sailor on a stormy sea.
Or a crooning cowboy on an open plain.
I can even imagine that I'm singin in the rain!

5. Queen- Another one bites the dust- That is my work place theme song right now. they are dropping like flies.

6. Queen- Boheiman Rapsody (Yes I LOVE Queen) This song is my ring tone.

7. Katy Perry- Ur so Gay - the song is not referring to gay man or lesbian. It is about the new metro sexual men. One verse goes on to say " I can’t believe I fell in love with someone that wears more makeup than…"

I'm suppose to tag seven people

But I know one person with seven different personalities so I will be tagging them seven times.

1. Momma Kat (Check out her new contest, you could win a beige greyhound)
2. Momma Kat (Check out her new contest, you could win a beige greyhound)
3. Momma Kat (Check out her new contest, you could win a beige greyhound)
4. Momma Kat (Check out her new contest, you could win a beige greyhound)
5. Momma Kat (Check out her new contest, you could win a beige greyhound)
6 .Momma Kat (Check out her new contest, you could win a beige greyhound)
7. Momma Kat (Check out her new contest, you could win a beige greyhound)

My girls are LIARS

2008-07-15T21:52:00.000-05:00

Last week on Friday the girls told me it was the last day of Summer school. I believed them. They love school and will normally LIE that school is open when it is closed. Like the two times I dropped them off at school, only to have the school call me and say it was closed (that it was teacher work day or something). My girls KNEW they didn't have school but love to attend it, I think they figured if they showed up, someone would teach them. Instead, I look like the bad neglectful parent I really am (tee hee). Today I just happened to see a bus parked outside my home. Opps, this is the last week of school. They missed yesterday, never noticed a bus out there. Not sure why they lied about it, cause they really do love school. I'm just thankful they have a few more days, cause they are driving my Child Husband NUTS. Cheyenne just now screamed at him "GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!!!!!!" Then she added, "I love you" cause she knew she was in trouble! They are so horrid for him, that it is almost funny, okay, it is funny.

Oh and yesterday Aysha( my 4 year old) informed me that I was a mean mommy (cause I wouldn't buy her another baby doll, even though she has like 50) and told me she was going to call the cops on me and they would take me away and she would just have her nice daddy. She had the clerks laughing their bums off.

Drama Queen Scene

2008-07-14T18:46:00.000-05:00

Cheyenne (A.K.A Flirt and/or Drama Queen) had her last of 5 Dental visits today. She has done really well with getting 11 cavities filled, two teeth pulled and one crown. Course she did well cause she was HIGH off the laughing gas. And she did well cause Dr. Tony is HOT ! Today was the last time she will see Dr Tony for at least 6 months. Cheyenne comes out after getting her new crown in and starts bawling. All the receptionist and nurses are gathered around her. I'm thinking "Oh here we go again". Cheyenne then proceeds to bawl "I just wanna, wanna give, give Dr tony a hugggggg"(sounds like she is a three year old again after 1/2 hour of crying) Good one Cheyenne, they don't see thru that like I do.

I take care of a near 70 year old woman that flirts with her Dr. also, nice to know that Cheyenne may never give this up. Real nice (insert sarcasm)

I will not be naughty

2008-07-12T23:24:00.000-05:00

As much as I want too, I will not post the link to my ex-husbands girlfriends cell number that she posted on a PUBLIC board. Can we say "NOT SO SMART!" I was just doing a search on my ex-husband (father to my older daughters) and ran across a post of hers. She had caused me more trouble then my ex has, so it is so tempting for me to to post it. lol But I will be good, cause I don't want frogs covering my home like Sinner's ~~email me girl and I will give you the link to post~~.

OCD, The Deacon and Root Beer

2008-07-11T21:17:00.000-05:00

My daughter Mercede will be 18 in September. The older she gets, the more obnoxious her OCD gets. In fact, I didn't even realize that was the problem for years, but now it is easy to see. I have worked with alot of folks with down syndrome whom also have OCD. This one lady would know if you moved an object in her room more than 1/4 of an inch. she folded her dirty clothes in nice little piles and cleaned and cleaned. Another woman would swept the floor if you walked on it, so she spent alot of time sweeping. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO my daughter can't have the cleaning OCD issue. Although she does say she is cleaning. No she has the "lets make HUGE messes and hide everything from everyone" kind of OCD. She can't stand for things to be on the bathroom sink, so my drawers will be overfilled with handsoap and anything else I left on the sink. She reranges everything I do. But the worst is what she does to her room. She makes huge piles of things. You walk in to see a moutain or several hills of everything she owns, everything that her sisters own and everything we own. You have to buy at least 8 pairs of shoes to be able to find one pair, because Mercede will hide them. Not on purpose, she just likes things to be a certain place, but you don't know where those places are. Maybe under one of her hills. Her speech is also getting very obsessive. She talks about the same thing over and over. Years ago, for some stupid reason, we told her that beer was called "root beer", we did this because we know she fixates on things and I didn't want her going up to everyone and saying "so and so drinks beer" over and over. Well that is what happened but she says "root beer" instead. Even after I tried to change it to just beer. So moving on in my saga, a deacon from our church came over last week and Mercede answers the door and first words out of her mouth are "ROOT BEER"...um...yes, she did scream it (she has some hearing loss and talks loud). Anyway I am so hopeful that he won't have a clue what she was talking about. But she says it again when he looks confused "ROOT BEER". I try to interupt and chance the subject, but before I can, she shouts "WHEN I TURN 21..........ROOT BEER" Thanks Mercede, thanks! She is my bAD girl. She can't wait to turn 18 so she can buy lottory tickets. She is only 4'6 and weighs 76 pounds and still get's served childrens menu's out. Nobody is going to believe her age when she goes to buy one. I think even with her ID we are in for a battle. As for the OCD, I'm got to go ger her some meds for that!! lol

Dear Apple

2008-07-10T19:44:00.000-05:00

Hurry over to Apple Joos and leave her a question about anything. She will be answering them tomorrow. I asked a special one (insert evil grin).

verdict is in, go HERE to read

Yes, I am back on track with my weight loss

2008-07-09T00:38:00.000-05:00

Well, I have ventured out of my subway comfort zone. I needed to find meals that would help me lose weight fast(as in.... making it come out as fast as it goes in), which you see I asked for some help here. After some comments from a sinner and a saint (ok, she is not a saint but it went well with sinner), I decided to no longer listen to others. lol Today I ate at Main Squeeze. You can mainly describe it as a Tree Hugging gathering place, that people like my coworker Paul like to hang out. So I ordered off their menu The Good Fortune Wrap which consist of tofu, brown rice, carrot, spinach, cabbage, scallions, sesame seeds, sesame ginger dressing grilled in a tortilla (yes I copied it) and then I drank a Curious George Smoothie which was made with rice milk, peanut butter, banana, ice. Tonight I am down three pounds, which I left at Wal-Mart :)

If I had more readers, I think Lane Boys Mom and Can You Hear Me Now, should have to pay me for all this plugging I am giving them ;)

My Rant

2008-07-07T22:02:00.000-05:00

Today a co-worker and friend of mine called to thank me and tell me I was right(guess they didn't know I am always right), lol. Today their grand baby was born healthy. Months ago I had a frantic call from my friend telling me that they had diagnosed her daughters baby with Edwards syndrome. I thought I had heard of it and looked it up. I did know about it. It is mainly known as Trisomy 18. I went online and found this wonderful video called 99 Balloons, it is a tear jerker but well worth watching. Trisomy 18 is almost always fatal but not always. I bought the video to give to my friends daughter. I never gave it to her, because the next time I talked to her she told me how the doctors decided her baby had T-18. Through the AFP blood test. I about died, but then started laughing. Yes, I couldn't help it. I asked my friend what they saw on the ultra sound as markers. Nothing!! Yet they were telling her doom and gloom stories and never telling her there was a HUGE chance nothing was wrong with her baby. They sent her to specialist and geneticist and yet most told her that her baby was more than likely going to have T-18. The mother wouldn't have an amino because it didn't make a difference in the outcome, she also has alot of medical problems and was worried what that could do to her baby. The worst is that they NEVER explained to her that the AFP just tells you your chances, that it doesn't tell you if your child will have a trisomy for sure. They made it seem like, she was carrying a child with T-18. Today she gave birth to a child that was healthy. Doctors can be horrid about dealing with these things.

Lets talk about me. I have my first child, no idea anything is wrong until she is born. When she is two months old we go to a geneticist. whom explains that I carry a gene and have a 1 in 10 chance of having another child with down syndrome. These are his next words exactly as he said them (can't forget stuff like this), "The next time you get pregnant, you will want to have an amino and if IT test positive for down syndrome, you will want to abort." I proceed to tell him I don't believe in abortion and he informs me "You'll change your mind, your baby is still young" Hmmmmmmm, he didn't know me well, as my second child with down syndrome was born less than two years later.

This is suppose to be the age of choices but for some reason, most drs don't give women choices when it comes to this. They make them think they have to have these test, that they have to abort a baby that is not healthy. Some may disagree but I have seen it happen way too often. I run across women all the time over 35 that thought they HAD to have an amnio. I'm not kidding here. It happens. I have never had any of the testing while pregnant except ultra sounds and fetal echo's. I did have to sign papers for the drs. refusing the amnio. That is to protect their butts from me suing them, if my child isn't born "perfect". I can understand that in this day and age, as long as they give me the choice. Anyway I am done for now, but I am sure I will be back on this subject to rant some more.

I'm 3 sizes larger today

2008-07-06T22:28:00.000-05:00

Thanks to two of my commenter's for suggesting Fiber 1 bars for me. I bought a box and ate ONE........okay, one and a half. They were very good I'll admit, but did not have the desired effect. Instead barking spiders followed me everywhere I went during the 12 hour shift I had to work today. Thanks girls ;)

Eden earned her wings today :(

2008-07-05T21:08:00.000-05:00

For months I have been following the EOP DREAM blog. Following a courageous and amazing family whose youngest daughter Eden has been fighting for her life. This is the first blog I check everyday. I so wanted these parents to bring their daughter home, to get to see her grow up, to experience the joy that I have gotten to know thru my daughters. Eden, like my daughter's had down syndrome and heart problems. Unfortunately, her heart problems were worst and after spending her short life fighting to stay here, she has now left this earth. Please Pray for her family, Edens sisters and parents need your prayers to get thru this.

Eden was amazing and she has touched many lives, and her spirit will continue to touch others.

It's nice to laugh at other peoples problems!

2008-07-05T00:06:00.000-05:00

When they aren't your own. Go check out this post It's Getting Worst.

It brings to mine these scriptures............

Exo 8:2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
Exo 8:3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
Exo 8:4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

So I guess the Gnats are next?

Never make a bet you are going to lose

2008-07-03T22:58:00.000-05:00

My Friend Sherrill (Canadian Crackhead) and I made a bet a few weeks ago over who would lose the most weight by July 15. We wanted to lose some more weight but we needed a motivation. Two ladies I did work with (now the witches went and got new jobs, LOSERS), suggested that the loser could make a You Tube video dedicated to the other, having to sing a song of the winners choice. Well that sounded good to me, before I gained 5 lbs in the two weeks we started this and she has lost 5 lbs. Well Sherrill (pictured above in the toilet of a hotel in KC, long story) is going to make me sing a Rod Spewart song. Oh I detest that man and also believe that old 80's rummor. Anywho, if anyone knows some good laxitives I can use before July 15 let me know.

My Child Husband

2008-07-02T22:52:00.001-05:00

Well Mr. "I'm 11 years younger than you" child husband, shaved off his facial hair so he can look 12 again and make me look like his grandmother (since with facial hair, people already think I am his mother). He best grow back some man hair before our vacation to Colorado this summer. Otherwise I might trade him in for some rugged mountain man that is old enough to be my father. That would teach him!!

Out of the mouth of babes.

2008-06-30T19:52:00.000-05:00

Yesterday, while we were in a restaurant eating, Aysha (who turned 4 this month) turns to me and shouts " HEY MOM, CAN WE GO SWIMMING TONIGHT, CAUSE CHEYENNE ISN'T ON HER PERIOD ANY MORE!"

Layout compliments of my sister Kristi, no she didn't make it for me, that selfish witch. But she was nice enough to send me a picture of it.

Ohhhhhhhhh Kristi, lookey what I won!

2008-06-29T21:24:00.000-05:00

One of my SITS SISTERS had this great giveaway at the Pretty Paper Blog, and I was the winner! I never scrap but collect lots of scrapping supplies (like a cat woman collects cats). My sister Kristi scraps but never makes me anything, just everyone else. The one time she made me a paper bag mini book, my mom stole it.

I know you are all jealous of my great win, but if you want something like this you can BUY it (heh heh), just stop by the Pretty Paper Store.

Someday I will have a giveaway, course it will take me months, maybe years to send out the prize. Still haven't sent off my girls pottery that people won a month ago. Maybe in a few more months.........maybe.

The End of our Big Loser Competition

2008-06-28T00:17:00.000-05:00

And my dorky loser of a husband won! He lost 29 point something pounds, woo pee doo! He thinks he looks so nice, walking around 3 sizes smaller, lol. He got 200 dollars that he best save for our vacation!! lol I lost 27 point something and was second place with a 100 dollar prize. Our last weigh in was last friday and I have gained 5 pounds since. I know, you are all saying "You must be so proud" But all my eating this week, kept me from going postal on a Doctor whom had the nerve to tell me a surgery had been canceled after I had gotten up at 3am to drive this person to get it (I had worked til 10:30 the night before). Yep it had been canceled and they forgot to call us. Needless to say, I gave them "Crazy Eyes" and they did the surgery that day. Course they did it at 4pm not 7am!! Grrrrr, but they still did it. I'm scary.

Now I need to get back on course. Stay tuned in a few days about my Subway experience.

The way I feel about my job right now

2008-06-28T00:05:00.000-05:00

I found this video on Captain Pork Chops blog and it really describes how I am feeling, especially since I have done paxil off and on for years!! lol My job is making me want to do another run at it. This is one of the reasons I haven't been by your blog or posting on my own. Oh now the sexual overtones are not what I am feeling and I could of done with out them. but I do love the remake they did with Justins song!

Contest over at SITS, gotta check it out!

2008-06-22T20:54:00.001-05:00

The ladies over at The Secret is in the Sauce got this great contest going! Click here to check out the contest! I gotta win it for me, can't you see me jumping up and down in it.

Aysha's 4th Birthday

2008-06-22T00:08:00.000-05:00

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Aysha had to celebrate birthday late cause Mamma had to work insane hours. In fact her birthday party was me calling people last minute and saying, can you be there in a hour! She had alot of fun. I just can't believe she is FOUR! A big thanks to my parents for driving 3 hours to watch my kids while I worked the weekend. At least this way you got to be at her party!! lol

Oh and the second picture is my father trying to look like he was young enough to play at Going Bonkers, the first picture shows the age limit. Sorry Dad your just too old!! ha ha

Check this out!

2008-06-12T00:05:00.001-05:00

I just ran across this site Blogs for a Cause. A young woman (19 years old) designs blogs for a very cheap price and uses the money to help others. This is a great way to get your blog redone and give to a great cause. I am going to have to do this soon!

Here is how to get your blog done Click Here

Okay, so is it okay to beat your husband??

2008-06-11T21:51:00.000-05:00

You didn't think it was okay to beat my children, but surely a husband is different. Mercede and Cheyenne are away at Camp Wonderland. I have been working alot and I promised Aysha I would take her swimming at the recreation center we have a membership at (had one for three months and have only been 2 times). I got off work around 5:30pm and Mike went fishing with the boys. Aysha and I had some pizza (thanks to my horrid husband for leaving it in the fridge to wreck my diet, on purpose I am sure), and we drove over to the ARC (that is what it is called and no I don't know what it stands for, but yes, I know it has the same initials as another organization). Well, I didn't have my drivers license and couldn't get a locker so we had to drive back home. I find it and we drive back. It is almost 8pm. I have to have a pager on me at all times for work and I bought a water tight container to put it in. So I get a page at 8:10, it has 4 numbers, I know it is my dh cause it is part of his numbers and even though he works for the same place I do, and has for 7 years, he isn't a master of it yet. So pager goes off again with his proper number. I'm ignoring it cause it IS MY HUSBAND and my phone is out in the car. Well at 8:30pm he pages me with his number and a 911 after it. I want to ignore it, cause I know he just gets upset when he can't get ahold of me (thinks I'm laying dead in a ditch, lol) but Aysha and I want to swim. But I think my phone is out in the car, if the camp calls me they can't get thru so maybe they called Mike. So we had to leave the pool and get dressed. I get to my car and call him and tell him that it better be a life and death manner. Nope, he just wondered what we were doing! Grrrrrrrr Aysha told me she will find us a new daddy that will let her swim longer! She is so smart!

Just Checking to see how often my sister checks out my blog ;)

2008-06-08T23:58:00.000-05:00

This would of been a good Wordless Wednesday post if I did those. That food was good, wasn't it Kristi. Especially that salad you had, yum. heh heh

Oh by the way, Since I think you should be a professional blogger (who would not get on my nerves like the Pioneer Woman), I sent some of your post to be featured later at

20 Things I will never do

2008-06-06T17:16:00.000-05:00

My friend Renee posted this on her blog and I thought it looked fun so here is mine... if you do one too, let me know! (Renee had a more serious tone, but I just ate Chinese so who can be serious)

20 Things I will never do (in no particular order):

1. I will never stop dancing to the music.....music.
2. I will never smoke a cigar......................again.
3. I will never do drugs, unless my Doctor prescribes me some good stuff.
4. I will never like having my picture taken when I am peeing in the woods.
5. I will never enjoy cooking cats in the microwave.
6. I will never become an alcoholic, unless I could afford to live at Tropical Liquors
7. I will never sky write, why spend all that time to have it just evaporate away .
8. I will never bungee jump, unless they bring back Fear Factor, and I can jump into a big pile of vile stuff.
9. I will never understand why Renee doesn't like mayonnaise.
10. I will never say "I understand men" and mean it.
11. I will never think it's ok for a spider to be in my house without inviting his friends (cause I hate flies, whom have maggots.Give me spiders to kill the flies so I won't have to see the maggots).
12. I will never understand how people can be so ignorant that they look at my girls and say they are suffering and will never really live life. Is it cause they might not have the knowledge to cook Crack or something???
13. I will never understand how anyone can look at me and see anything but perfection ;)
14. I will never forget all the Soldiers I hung around with in college. Jarheads all of them (and proud of it)
15. I will never drive a semi-truck unless it is filled with gasoline, then you could um say......I was stealing it.
16. I will never compare a migraine I have, to one my husband has. Everyone knows that men experince pain worst, that is why they are the biggest babies.
17. I will never forget all the time that it is taking away from my kids to post this diddy.
18. I will never think a snake is cute, unless he is wealthy and his eyes aren't too beady.
19. I will never think that it is okay that Cheyenne flirts with our minister (even if he is cute)
20. I will never stop loving the way my Mercede throws back her head and goes "Argggggggggghhhhhhhh" 50 million times a day when she is upset.

When you rob the cradle, this is what you get.....

2008-06-04T17:15:00.000-05:00

"Was that your son that brought the girls in the other day" ask the dental receptionist.

"Ummmmmmmmmm, nooooooooo that was my husband"

The best one was when we were at the laundry mat years ago and Mike looked years younger than he was (then he married me and started looking his age, ha ha). He was getting on my nerves joking around and I was being smart with him. The lady besides us says "My son acts that way too sometimes". I say " Oh he isn't my son, he is my boyfriend." Lady looks disgusted and walks away and says not another word.

Man, I'm dreading the day I turn 50 and he will still be in his 30's and I might hear "What would your grandmother like to order?"

Avertisement for your blog?

2008-06-01T17:43:00.000-05:00

I used to have a long list of blogs I read, listed on my site, til my friend Meredith got upset with people for not asking (which of course I never did) and asked people to ask. So I deleted off almost all my blogs except a few that I knew didn't mind. Now I still haven't asked Meredith for permission...BUT.....she did ask people to add the Emma's Hope button on their blogs. Which to me means that permission has been given!! lol Meredith can be such a pain!! (lol, I tease, I tease, she is a great person and mother and I love giving her a hard time. She also had a reason for wanting people to ask permission). Anywho, I love to Blog hop and I keep finding great blogs and then forget to book mark them. I found a blog, I did book mark. ELLEN has C.H.A.R.G.E syndrome, and I ran across her blog on a day I went thru like 50 different ones. I think I found it off a heart board somewhere Ellen, not sure (she wanted to know, how I ran across her). If you would like me to put your Blog link up on the side, just post a comment and I will add you. I found it a lot easier to go to my blog and click on links there, then going thru my huge bookmarked list I have, thanks to Meredith, lol, (poor thing, but look at all the advertisement she is getting on this post).

Actually I'm just trying to generate some more comments here!! lol My sister has over 20 on most of her post, help me out here guys. ha ha

It is sometimes okay to beat your child, right?

2008-06-01T10:27:00.000-05:00

LOL, Twice in three days, I have went somewhere to get something to eat, only to not have my debit card (and had no cash on me). Friday I had went all day without eating because I was working and didn't have time to stop until 3:30pm to get some brunch. I pull up to Subway and discover I don't have my debit card. I called my dh crying cause I had a horrid headache and was hungry and I knew I wasn't going to have time to get something until 6pm. I had caught Mercede in my purse that morning. Mike found my card on the floor! Whew.

Then an hour ago I ran out to give meds to some individuals I work with, and because it was early decided to go by McD's for yogurt parfaits. Only you guessed it, my card was gone. After much bawling from my part because it took over an hour to find where Mercede put it, I am pulled together now and she is safe. But no matter how much I tell her not to bother something she does. What am I to do????? Off to church now to pray. Don't smite me for my thoughts!! lol

Saying good by to some of my girls pottery

2008-05-29T22:47:00.000-05:00

Oh I want to cry. I started a contest on a support board I am an admin on, and these were the prizes. My girls have taken pottery off and on over the last years. Lately they haven't gotten a teacher whom lets them use the pottery wheel, yet they did so well at it. I have to pack these off this weekend and send them out to the three winners. I'm sad to say good bye cause I just love them, but I also wanted other to enjoy them and realise that our kids can do some great things. I have tried the wheel several times and so far can't make a bowl, only a plate.

Men will be boys! UGH!

2008-05-28T22:00:00.000-05:00

My husband and my husbands brother always joke about the time my husbands brother was playing with a knife and ran it thru his leg, when they were boys. They laugh and talk about how funny it is. Guess my husband thought he needs a story to talk about. Tonight he was playing with my miniature stapler and stapled himself! Do they ever grow up?

Some family pictures

2008-05-24T14:06:00.000-05:00

Aysha had her Dance Recital last night. She did great. Here is a pic of the girls and us and then one of the girls and my parents! My parents drove here for it and then today they took my girls home with them, so I could work (have to work most of the weekend . Thanks Mom and Dad, you all are the best! Also thanks for Dinner!! lol

Mercede and the inside out shirt!

2008-05-15T23:47:00.000-05:00

I went by the girls school today to drop off jackets and saw the girls in the lunch room. Mercede's shirt was on inside out and her teacher says to me "Your probably wondering why Mercede is wearing her shirt inside out?" Actually, I probably wouldn't of noticed, until she called my eye to it. Turns out that Mercede was asking kids if they wanted to pet her horse!! YIKES!

P.S. I think she put alittle too much of my Bare Minerals blush on, don't you?

One of them days you don't want to have again.

2008-05-13T20:16:00.000-05:00

Today was the first anniversary my husband and I actually remembered since we have been married. I was so tired because I was up most of the night with an individual I work with. Mercede and I had a big blowout before she went to school. While I was upset I told the girls to go out to the car. Later as I was taking out trash I saw them sitting in my van. Opps, said go to my car, not to the bus!! lol thank goodness it was late and they made it ( a good thing)My pager went off a million times when I tried to get just a little more sleep since I really needed it. I did have a nice lunch (another good thing), I got Cheyenne a dental appointment for today, they had a cancellation(thought that was the third good thing). I was talking on my phone driving leaving the office (not a good thing) when I heard sirens, then saw them behind me (not a good thing), I screamed "Gotta Go" to my staff on the phone and threw it down. Officer asked me "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I answered with a big fat smile "I don't have a clue" (and I didn't have a clue). 11 miles over the limit. I had no idea I was speeding. I told him "Well at least I wasn't in a school zone, since that is where I am headed" He laughed as he wrote me a 75 dollar ticket! He also thanked me for being cooperative (like he must of thought I was going to take off or scream). This is my first ticket in 10 years, about 6 years ago I got pulled over for doing 35 miles over the limit. Course I was bawling by the time he got to my window so I got a warning (where a non bawling man would of been arrested, tee hee). I forgot to cry today. Note to self :poke self in both eyes as soon as self sees sirens in rear mirror again. Got Cheyenne to her dental appointment and found out she needs 2 teeth pulled (babies that didn't fall from the nest), 11 fillings and one crown. Over $3000 dollars of work and then they also informed me how bad my dental insurance is and how most of it will not be covered. Mike just wants me to have all Cheyenne's teeth pulled and give her dentures. Poor thing is only 15. I read that children with down syndrome have harder teeth but will loose teeth due to gum disease. Not Cheyenne, she has soft teeth. Mercede has never had a cavity YET, so I am hopefull I won't have to sell my kidney to have her's fixed. Now braces are being brought up with Cheyenne but ummmmmmmmmmm, I can't loose both kidneys. Mercede has needed braces but years ago her dentist and I decided she would be too upset by them. That it was more for my benefit then hers (cause I want to see pretty straight teeth when I look at her, and Mercede could care less). To top off my day, my father tells me that gas prices may go up as high as 10 dollars a gallon. Here's to a better tomorrow. Also tomorrow, I will try and get my "You've Been Tagged" post up.

Look At my beautiful gifts for Mothers Day.

2008-05-12T19:08:00.000-05:00

Look what the girls made me at School! Aren't they beautiful gords!! They were the good in mothers day. I spent the day working a 12 hour shift cause no one wants to work mothers day!! lol My husband put the Evil into Mothers day. My husband got me a Big turtle chocolate cake and I am so NOT happy with him cause I didn't need that on my diet. I didn't need the Two pieces I ate of it. I didn't need it to start me on an eating binge that ended with me eating a WHOLE subway sub instead of half. It is all his fault! I would post a picture of the cake but, it disappeared!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOM!

2008-05-10T23:42:00.000-05:00

My mother is a wonderful person with a heart as big as my fathers ego (ha ha, couldn't help that dad). She isn't going to be happy with me for the pictures I am posting, but this is my mom, a person who cares and whom has always been there for me and my children when we need her. A year and a half ago she once again was in the waiting room for the third time for a grandchild undergoing heart surgery. This was Mercede's second open heart surgery. She was there for the surgery and then once again, she was also the caretaker of my other children while I was in the hospital with Mercede. I gave her alot of crap about crying in these pics. Cause they might have been the last picture's we had of Mercede. Course, she couldn't keep from crying for the life of her and I love her for it. She just cared too much. The thought that this might be the last time she saw her grandaughter alive was too much to keep them tears away. My mother live's three hours away yet I can give her a 3 hour notice and she will be here to get my kids if I need it. She is everything a mother should be an more. I only wish I could be half as good as she is. Mom, I love you! Thanks for everything!

Mercede and Cheyenne's first dance recital

2008-05-06T19:43:00.000-05:00

Weren't they cute, so long ago and look how young I looked and how much skinnier I was! Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Wait, I made a mistake, the bottom is Cheyenne's first dance recital pic, but the top one of Mercede, isn't. Not sure where her first one is, that is like her 2nd or 3rd.

Aysha's a dancing princess!

2008-05-06T19:16:00.000-05:00

Look at those wild faces, it was picture day and I hope her photo session went better with the professional then it did with me! lol She is following in her older sisters footsteps. She will be having her first big dance recital in a few weeks. She is growing up so quickly!

More Prayer Request

2008-05-04T21:10:00.000-05:00

This is Eden and she needs your prayers.Like my daughters she also has down syndrome, but has faced many more trials then my girls have in her short time here. She will soon be facing another heart surgery and her future is unknown. She hasn't been able to get off the vent and I know her mom, dad and two beautiful sisters would love to see her well. Please stop by their blog and let them know you are praying for her. Here is the link to their blog EOP DREAM