Housework Will Never Be Done At This Rate

Here's a new video click to play then I think if it doesn't start right up there's a play button on the right. Also remember that you may have to 2nd or 3rd time to get it to play without all the communicating. It's about a minute long. This is a mini fraction of what yesterday was like. Nothing like alittle seperation anxiety to brighten your day!!!




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Monday Madness

I'm so glad this weekend is over. I sent the kids off to school this morning, running late as usual. I woke up at 5:00 with Damien and I'm sure that's what made me sleep in till 7. Miss Priss was so upset because she said her throat hurt which I know it's just from allergies and her breathing drying her throat out. She was only up for 15 minutes before getting on the bus. Talk about feeling like a pretty shitty mom. Sent her off to school stumbling out the door with tears in her eyes. Guess Sheri really should have called me as punishment this morning. Got Dom off ok since his bus doesn't usually arrive till 8 AM. I put him in this little green Italian dress shirt since he has pictures today. I hope they turn out good. He's such a booger when getting pictures done that I haven't even attempted it in a year.

I was such a bitch this weekend. Don't know why except maybe because it was that time of the month. I know I feel like I'm the only one who does shit around here and this house is always a mess which makes me pretty pissy. I'm such a profectionist with laundry that I bitched about the way Dave did it, bitched about him not doing the chores around the house that I wanted done first (after getting alittle hysterical he wanted to help), and oh yeah we fought about Phoenix again. 3 more months ya'll, we may be divorced. He's now saying that we'll drive the 14 hours there which I say ok fine whatever but I'm not doing it in 1 day. I'll do it in 2-3 days because I'm not going to have our poor kids confined in the minivan watching hours upon hours of TV or video games for us to get there in 1 day. Ain't doin it. By the end it was a draw and we just said fuck it and shut up about the whole deal. I don't feel flying is still a good option for me. In the end, he'll probably go to this family reunion himself.

We've also been trying to figure out what to do about the house. I found this house for sale in Haven, about a 20 minute drive from Wichita and 20 minutes from where we are in Hutch. It looks nice but the drawback is a very small yard (we have 1.5 acres) I am willing to move to this town though because it's small and will be a short drive to both places and Alex will be going to another small good school district. When I suggested this house he said if we're going to move, we may as well move to Wichita because shortening his drive 20 minutes isn't really worth it. Well if it's not worth it then we may as well stay here but then we're back to our only 1 bathroom problem. We started discussing adding on again. At this point we're thinking about taking the garage of 24 ft x24ft and making it into a master bedroom/bath with french doors onto the patio next to the hot tub. My dad thinks it's a great idea (everything goes through dad first) but he thinks it'll be too costly. First thing before we can consider any of this is we need some ideas on costs because we will also have to have a 2 car garage built first before we could do any work. If it costs $50K complete it all, we'd still be better off doing this than moving elsewhere because our house will be a 4 bd 2 bth on one level and have tons of land plus Alex can stay in her school. We owe $83K on the house and it's worth around $110K so getting a loan to do this work shouldn't be hard at all. I would love to do this ASAP but first I have to pay $5K more on that hot tub before we can do anything.

On Baby D news, he's crawling everywhere backwards but won't attempt forward. He's also going from laying down to sitting up to his knees real easy. He is pulling up now but can't get completely up. He's gonna start getting into everything pretty soon! He's also becoming a total clingy boy. He starts to jump around all mad if I pass him without picking him up and wants me ALL the time which is hard since I'm having so much pain in my right wrist. I've got to get to the Dr soon. My problem is daycare and no time.

Alittle evening B-Ball to Bore Your Kids To Sleep

Took the kids last night to their first Hutch Juco basketball game last night and they loved it, for the most part. Towards the end, Dominic and Damien were getting fussy (and dozing) so we left with about 2 minutes left on the game at about 10:10. The kids haven't been up that late for a very long time! Hutch won, Butler lost but it was back and forth the whole game. Butler has always been hard to beat, that's why I wanted to go to the game in the first place. Here's Damien with his fuzz hair wondering why sissy is taking his picture.
Alex enjoyed watching the cheerleaders. She watched them intensely. Are you diggin those stick on earrings? Both kids ate a huge thing of popcorn that's mainly all they cared about. We were in the van for only a few minutes before they were all 3 out.

Cake Dominic

The best day ever ended pretty well. What a difference your day can make where you're minus 3 extra kids. We ended up going to CiCi's Pizza to eat for dinner and after that my cousin Cody was in town so we went to my Aunt Cindy's house to see the family. Cody, 21, is in the Marine's training in California to go over to Iraq. He showed up on Valentine's Day on the door step of his Mom's house, she had no idea he was coming home and since they live in BFE too, she answered the door with handgun. He's leaving monday to finish training in California before he goes overseas. My aunt had a big Birthday bash for him, who knows how many people were there, young and old we all had alot of fun. Dominic was so excited about the birthday cake with the 1/2 naked barbie doll on top. Everyone asked, "what's your name?" His answer? "Cake Dominic! Cake Dominic!" So my cousins and their friends started calling him Cake Dominic. Everyone thought he was so funny and just a load of fun. Maybe they should come live with me. Most of the "younger" peeps, were drinking and playing beer games on the back porch. WE should have been out there too drinking having a good ol time too but instead we were inside with the Aunts, Uncles, parents and grandparents discussing the kids. I kept looking outside and telling Dave we should go out there and his answer was "we need to keep an eye on Dominic" since there was so many people there, but I'm sure one of them could have watched him for us. Oh well.

Tonight our Hutch Juco team is playing Butler Co and I think we're taking all 3 kids and going. It'll be a blast because Butler is the hardest team for HCC to beat. I love basketball but Dave's more of the football type. He's really just going for me, but that's what he should do huh?

No Daycare Kids!!!!

This is just a quick post. Today I had NO DAYCARE KIDS! Can we say VACATION?? Holy crap this is the best day ever!!!! The kids have been outside, Damien's napped, I got lots of housework done, and we all got to play together. I wish this happened more often! It really got me ready for this summer since I probably won't be doing much daycare since I watch for a teacher. I can't wait to take the kids to the park daily and to the water parks. Dominic's old enough now to do alittle crawfishin and Oyster huntin in Cow creek. Mandi maybe you can play with us this summer?? Remember those days behind Grandma's house?

My Nose Hasn't Been Itchin

Yesterday was the strangest thing. I had 2 friends call whom I haven't talked to forever. The calls were within hours of each other almost like they saw my name on TV or in the sky and said "ya know, I need to call Sabrina!" One of them has gotten a divorce and called to fill me in. The other a still single no kids gal, is working at DisneyWorld and called to fill me in on what's going on there. I was happy they called me as I just mentioned a few posts ago about losing touch with people after having kids. They don't read my blog so it's just weird that they checked in!

Today I had a job referral interview with a business in town about a friend, Jennifer. This gal I haven't talked to since October yet she's listing me on interviews as a personal reference. I don't mind....too much....but at least call me to say hi every once in awhile. I felt a bit strange doing the interview because I hadn't talked to her for quite a long time. This has happened before it's not the first time. A friend in Wichita was having businesses call for interviews left and right and I hadn't spoke to her in a year. Now it's been almost 6 yrs. Sad. (sigh) Here's the deal. I feel like people assume they can count on me because I know what to say. You'll believe in Santa Clause by the time I'm through with you on the phone. I had this woman today thinking Jennifer was an Angel sent from above. I can sprinkle so much BS through a phone line and you'd think I was the most honest to God person, that's how good I am. My experience is from years of customer service on the phones and being a Manager myself. I know exactly what these people want to hear, what they're going to ask, etc. I remember doing those interviews and being such a nervous wreck. Now I know those people were probably lying through their teeth because alot of my employees were pieces of crap! My phone experience can be credited to a telemarketing firm and an account phone position I had before becoming a SAHM. I learned there how to word things perfectly to make people believe even the dumbest crap. Anyways the point is, don't make me do this unless we've been in contact lately. I hate doing it when I haven't spoken to someone forever and I don't want to look like I'm really not as close to the person as I say I am. There.

The Shelf

Today I took my first Birth Control Pill! I actually took 2 months worth in 2003 and then before that I hadn't taken them since 8-1999. I don't really mind the pill, never had problems in the past except for the weight side effect. When I got these 2 sample packs a few weeks ago, they told me this was just to start and I won't get a prescription till I come in for a blood pressure check. I've never had to do that before when on the pill so I'm not sure why this is a requirement now except for maybe because I had high blood pressure with the pregnancies and now they are concerned? Dunno. This is a new start I suppose. I wouldn't mind having another kiddo down the road although my OB's office would probably shit giving me a 4th C-section, but I'm pretty sure Dave is done with having kids so therefore I started on the pill again. We had talked about a V or tubal but it's just too permanent for either of us to consider right now. Our parents would all shit if they heard that. They are SURE 3 is enough. LOL Dave's already told me that he's afraid he'll regret doing the V later on.

The new start will also consist of vigorous exercise to get rid of these extra pounds. It's pretty depressing that I went from 122 lbs my senior year of highschool to 180 lbs ten years later. Something has to be done. Now the weight is not just the only problem though. Some C mommies reading this will know of something on our bodies called THE SHELF. Dave has come to accept The Shelf he's ok with it for the most part, not impressed but he knows it comes with the territory of having C sections. Some reading this are probably saying "what the hell is the shelf?" The shelf is this horrible bulge of skin that sags about 4 inches on your tummy from dead muscles that doing 5,000 situps a day, you will not and can not lose it. It's depressing. How weird is it to have a size 9 waist but you can't wear anything but a size 14 jean because your lower gut is too big to fit into smaller jeans. This is my dilemma. I know that a tummy tuck is the best way for me to get back to normal but this is totally useless if we're not done having kids. My objective for now is to lose as much as possible and I guess live with the shelf till we are for sure done with kids. I thought about taping this post on the mirrors throughout the house and by the toilet. Reading it, I'll never miss a pill or want to have another child ever again.

Damien's First Ear Infection

I knew something wasn't right this morning with Damien when I went in and woke him up. He'd been messing with his ears on Monday some but to go in while the guy was asleep and find his hand on his ear while asleep, I knew it probably was an ear infection. The kid's Dr had always told me when your child is calm the best way to tell if they have an ear infection is to press the ear from the back of the lobe sorta in and up alittle. I did it on the right, he whimpered in his sleep. Then I tried from the left and again he started whimpering and also started to get really mad. Not to torture him, but I did it again from the right and his lips puckered up. I called and told the receptionist I was sure it's a double ear infection but he hadn't had a temp yet. Took him in and sure enough it was a double with both ears blazing red and he now weighs 20lbs 8oz!! The backup Dr. (ours was off) also looked at my daughter since she's constantly saying her ears bother her. Just fluid again, no infection but the drums are streaked with some red. It's a never ending battle with her ears. I was glad that she looked without pulling her chart and charging me an extra copay because some Dr's will. I've had pretty good luck with the Dr's at this clinic and get a 2 for 1 deal everytime I hint. Now I don't just come out and say "By the Way, can you look at her ears too?" It's more like "she's been in here 3 times the past few months on her ears and she's still saying they are bothering her. I don't know what to do." After droppin that bomb, she wanted to look at them and see if they weren't infected again. Tonight, after double dosing him with Ammoxicillin, he's doing better but I've used up all the Motrin and Tylenol on him. Those little bottles go so fast. He hates the eardrops though and I've had to hold him down, put his head in a vice grip just to put them in his ears while he's screaming bloody murder and turning purple from being so pissed at me. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day.

Dominic at School

I went to Dom's school for the first time today to give cupcakes to eat for his birthday. He saw that I was there but can you believe he pretty much ignored me the whole time huggin on his teachers. Figures! When I got there, I couldn't find him. His teacher said that he was in the swing. Swing? They have a therapy swing I think would be the correct name for kids with disabilities and he was in the netting swinging away. I guess they say it relaxes him and he is more settled down at circle time. Whatever works right? I watched them do the weather, sing the Good Morning song and dance around. It was nice to see alittle bit of what goes on. He acted really well I was impressed! I only saw him smack once at one of the teachers. He came home with a flyer saying Happy Birthday and a Happy Birthday hat.

Dom's 3 years old!!!

It's offical! He's 3! I think he had a really good party and he may have realized more this year that it was his birthday. Birthday parties have been rather hard with him in the past because he doesn't quite understand IT'S HIS BIRTHDAY. We never can get him to open presents, he just thinks everyone has came over to say hi. His favorite toy was the Thomas video with a Fergus train in it. Second is this dinosaur my sister got him.



It was fun seeing him getting into it though. That shirt he's wearing is from an AWESOME store I found online called All Aboard Toys and was only $7.49! Parents you will love this site because they carry all the cool characters that kids want everything of and they do free shipping if you spend over $69. I tried to hold back some on how much I spent for his party this year. I wanted him to have a few friends, give goodie bags, have cake n icecream, and play a few games. I tried handmaking a few things. Please don't laugh! I made this Thomas on posterboard and we called it pin the #1 on Thomas. It was so cute seeing the kids blindfolded putting these #1's on him.
I got the whole thing done in a hour, thank god, and after that Dominic went straight to his room to watch his new Thomas show and went right to sleep. I had NOTHING to do after that either since my house was so spotless from being a cleaning freak before this party. I felt lost!!!!!

I Can't Believe How Far She Has Come

I was thinking today on how long it's been since I've talked to a good friend of mine named Kathy. Kathy and I have been friends for about 10 yrs, I met her through another friend, Brenda. Brenda used to live with Kathy till one day Brenda got pregnant, moody and their friendship went down the tubes. They disliked each other quite a bit and I was always the middle man listening to it from both ends. Kathy and I hung out quite a bit at the bars, working out, shopping till one day I got pregnant with Alex. Now we've went from talking 4-5 times a year to maybe once a year. It really sucks, I miss her. Same thing with Stephanie, Char, and Terri. No kids so we just don't have much in common anymore. It just sucks so bad.

The only people I hang out with now are at school functions, Daisy meetings, or gymnastics. I would consider some of Alex's friend's mothers really good friends now like April, Lori, Carole, Kristi and Kylie. We gab about everything dealing with the kids, TV shows, food etc and I don't feel like I need to shut up because I'm boring them. My good old friends however I do. It makes me sad.

So this next paragraph is something I can't just jump on the phone with one of my old friends and say "OMG! Get this!" Because they probably wouldn't find it much of any interest or would just say "neat!" to be nice. Alex's Parent Teacher Conference went great. We rushed around eating quickly to run out the door with all 3 kids in tow, my crockpot of Chicken Noodle soup for the teachers, and brownies/Valentines for the Daisy troop. I got there right at 6PM, dropped off the soup and we ran to the conference. Alex is doing extremely well in school. Her teacher went over everything and had nothing but positive things to say on her progress. It's amazing how this little person you've watched grow from birth has achieved so much in such a short span of time. She is reading like a champ, doing very well at simple math equations, and FINALLY can tie her shoes. She's trying to write sentences. Seeing her sentences floored me. She seriously knows what she wants to say and tries to write it. It is awesome.

Overworking Myself Again

Today is a busy one and not a good day to be doing daycare. I volunteered months ago to cook Chicken Noodle Soup for the teachers at my dd's school for Parent Teacher Conferences. Not really that big a deal but factor in 6 kids (three under 14 months and three at age 3) and it's going to be a tricky one. I made brownies for my daughters Daisy troop and have to still prepare the goodie bags I have for them. So far while I've been slaving away in the kitchen, I've had Nicholas dumping the diaper bags out and climbing on things and Kaelynn decided to pick up Damien and drop him on his stomach. He was more scared than anything. Tonight when we get home, I'm throwing the kids in bed and running to bed. My mother was going to watch the boys tonight while we went to the Parent Teacher conference and Daisy's but after her spat about the house the other night I decided not to have her do it.

Has anyone heard this? I heard today that Neil Estwhistle, MA, the dad who killed his baby and wife and then ran off to England, has pled Not Guilty. The Defense is saying there's no evidence as proof that he was the killer. No evidence? What about his father inlaws gun with her and his DNA on it? It makes me sick seeing that precious little girl on TV and just to think he shot her in the stomach and she was alive for awhile after he did it. He needs to rot in hell and I will tell you now when he goes to prison, he'll die within the first year. Know why? My husband worked for the Kansas Dept of Corrections and I guess child molestors and child killers are the ones who are beaten and tortured to death by other inmates, especially by the ones who have kids. Oh well!

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day was really nice but busy. Dave woke me up at 6AM to give me my gift since he was going to work. He really knows me well as I got 4 tubes of Bath and Bodyworks Lotion and the new Nickelback CD. I bought him a Men's giftset from Avon. We bought Dominic a Spongebob play kit and Alex the last missing set for her Dora Talking Playhouse. We went to Gymnastics at 6 (I worked out) and at 8:30 we went to the cheerleading Little Cats deal which I plan to post the video as soon as I can get to it.

My night ended pretty shitty however. We showed up when the flyer said to for the Little Cats performance but my sister was yelling at me about being late. She thinks I'm late to everything. I just about punched her ass for trying to make a fool out of me infront of all the other parents. When we came home, (my mother watched the boys) my mom made a point to tell me my house was a disaster. It was so perfectly clean at 2 in the afternoon, naptime. As soon as school gets out, kids get up from nap, and supper is served, it gets dirty again. Put that into perspective plus running out the door at 5:45 and returning at 7:15 after gymnastics then getting the boys bathed and ready for bed, and then running to this cheerleading thing, I just hadn't had time to clean for the evening. Well she made sure I knew it looked like shit and she does this EVERYTIME she comes over. Dave says my mother and sister can't find anything wrong with our perfect life so they have to find things to shit on me about. For example:

They are both in debt to their eyes vs we owe just on our house and a little on our van
They both always have problems with their hubbies vs Dave and I for 12 yrs now have never had any major spats on anything.
J my sister also HATES that I get to stay home and makes it a point to complain about that

Anyways until that evening I had a really good day. Alex's school party went well and the kids had so much sugar from the cookies and brownies us mom's brought that I'm sure they were all jumping off the walls last night. She brought home her Valentine's and opened them all up, almost everyone gave candy so all the candy I gave away in grab bags pretty much came right back. (sigh) She loves her balloons that I bought and the highschoolers delivered to her class. I bet she felt pretty special! Dominic got his Valentine bag today. The teachers made their bags with canvas cash bags and sponge painted hearts on them. They are so neat! He got tons of candy too although I didn't send any because I figured the kids were so young that no one probably would. Oh well. Now I have to hide it so I don't try to eat it all.

To The Members of The Patriot Guard

This is a shot from the PGR website that a member took that day, not I. I LOVE this picture and the view given.
I would like to thank all of you for visiting my blog and commenting. I had heard about the Patriot Guard on the news before but never actually knew much about what they did and that was why I was so interested that day in driving by. It was the most amazing and touching thing seeing all the American Flags flying high and all the people there to honor a fallen soldier. I am so glad that I was able to do this and blog about it. When I read in the paper about the protest by WBC, words can't express how pissed off I was. I still don't understand how this church or anyone else for that matter could possibly have it in their heart to disrespect an American Soldier who died for us. I think maybe THEY are the ones who should be over there fighting. Anyways again I wanted to say thank you for all that you do and I also wanted to post the website for others to read as I know there are a lot of people who look at this blog and a few gals with husbands in the military. I tried finding a link for my last post but couldn't through Google but JoeRocketIII of the SouthEast Region left the link. Thank you Joe! Pappy- maybe you saw that maroon minivan driving taking pictures and thought "what a freak!" Well that was me. :)

Visit the Patriot Guard by clicking here I visited myself after seeing Joe's comment and must say WOW. The message boards are awesome seeing all the planning that goes on ahead of time. You guys are so great!

You will never see IT Manager on my name tag

Well the Shitiba (Toshiba) died again. Dang thing keeps overheating and just shuts off so Dave got out the Compaq laptop for me and said he'd take The Shitiba back to Best Buy for the 3rd time now in a year! He tried connecting the Compaq laptop pictured last night (it has a wireless card) and it wouldn't connect. Then IE kept giving him those error windows that say SEND or DON'T SEND so out of all the things to do, he deletes IE and says to reinstall it in the morning. I am a DUMBASS when it comes to computers but I did what he said to do. Every time though, I'd try to start up the IE disc it would say it was missing Iexplore.exe something or other. Finally after lashing my tongue through the phone line at him he told me to try installing the SBC software which has IE Ver 6.0 and it worked! I thought for sure I would get a connection now. NOPE. So being the smart networking geek I am, I thought disconnecting the modem and router would SURELY get the connection back. NOPE AGAIN. Instead it dropped the connection on the other two computers in the basement meaning no internet. Yeah I said computers. We have a total of 5 active computers and 2 out of service in our house. Usually 3 are networked at all times but today 1, the laptop, is out of commission. So after calling SBC and getting my connection back up I thought the connection would certainly be fixed now on the laptop. No again. The other 2 are working fine now but they are in the basement and with doing daycare I can't keep running downstairs to jump on although I have for a few minutes and maybe I'm losing a few pounds! I'm only on here now because it's nap time. I'm about to scream. I am a internet junkie. I need it to live!! LOL Sounds bad but without it I freak out. I can't figure out what to do with myself without looking at the computer for something. Ebay, blogs, Babycenter, Yahoo, my bank acct. I've got to have internet. Oh internet how I love thee!

Praying for a Winner

The other day I entered Damien in Regis and Kelly's Most Beautiful Baby Contest. Now I know the odds of him being a semifinalist are quite a long shot so seeing that I would have to FLY to NY to appear on the show didn't bother me much because most likely they'll pass him over. I know myself that Dave and I's genetic material = cute cute cute (I'm conceited I know) but will Parent's Magazine, Regis and Kelly? On Feb 20th we'll find out I guess on the show when they announce the semifinalists. This is the picture I submitted. If he was to win, I guess I'll have to fly and take lots of drugs.

Laid to Rest

The other day, I posted about a 18 yr old soldier killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb from our area. Well the funeral was posted in the paper to happen today at a nearby church only about 2 miles from my house. The other thing posted was that this church out of Topeka, KS called Westboro Baptist Church was going to be picketing there because of their hardcore oldschool No Gays in the Military way of thinking. How I feel about homosexual people is you can do it, just don't do it in front of me. I don't think it's the best but whatever. If you visit that link be prepared these are some screwed up church people. They are glad Katrina hit, glad for roadside bombs, and super happy about AIDS. Those are some really fucked up things to be happy for. Thankfully the Patriot Guard came as well. The Patriot Guard is a group of veterans, motorcylists, and others, based in Kansas, who make it a practice to disrupt protests against the Iraq War at funerals of members of the US Armed forces killed in Iraq.

After hearing about this hoop-la, I came up with a whole senerio of wild ideas. I could fire off some fireworks at the church bastards, shoot off a paintball gun, or throw eggs! I wanted to even have my sister Mandi in for the ride because I knew she'd be one to help cause a scene with me. I decided though, it wouldn't be a smart idea since I would have 5 kids in tow in the minivan. Instead I decided to drive by because I needed to go to the bank anyways and take these pictures. I'll just say at the end, driving through the Patriot Guard tunnel of flags was absolutely overwhelming (tears formed LOL) and GOD BLESS THEM FOR ALL THAT THEY DO. I rolled down my windows and told them they are awesome and keep up the good work. This is the funny thing. I didn't see the church protestors. I don't think there were any! LMAO! If there were, they were no where to be found. On my way there I drove one way around the church and on the way back I drove another way and I didn't see them. HA HA HA! Cowards! Here's the Pics...

This first pic you can't tell much but that is the major intersection near my road. YES I LIVE IN BFE. That thing sticking up is the church where the funeral was at.

Ok, since I wasn't sure how big this was going to be and if roads were going to be blocked, I decided to take this dirt road a mile from the church because since the church is on the other side of the road, I figured it wouldn't be blocked and I was right but.......
As I got near the intersection "Holy Shit" was about the only word I could muster out of my mouth. Hard to tell but there's American flags all over and the road had tons of Patriot Guard people all over it. They were on the other side of the road by the church so I wasn't blocked.

This is where I turned from the dirt to the pavement and headed towards town. The cars there on the left are in the other church parking lot across the street from where the funeral was. The First Church Of the Nazarene where the funeral was had no parking at all. On the right side is a blog of Patriot Guards at the enterance to drive in the parking lot.

This is the church and the bikes. They were like this pretty much around the church from what I could see. This is when I went into town now below are the pics when I came back home.

I didn't think I was going to be able to get down the road coming home. It's kinda blocked if you can't tell! I drove all the way up there and the police officer said "go but go slow"

On the right where the cars are, that is the church parking. This is about 15 minutes into the funeral. Getting ready to drive through. WOW. I bet there was atleast 200 + people there.

All I can say is it was an awesome to witness what these guys do. I really don't like the fact that we are still in Iraq, I don't care for Bush, but I do support our soldiers and I believe that standing up for them at a funeral in the 20 degree Kansas windy weather is a great way to show our appreciation like they did today.

All it takes is one minute for me to about kill myself

I actually woke up at 6:30 ready for the day. No pushing of the snooze button. After taking my shower I got Alex in the kitchen for breakfast. She wants a Toaster Struedel. Hear Damien crying. Hurry to pull the Toaster Strudel out of the toaster oven and burn the shit out of my hand. Boo Boo #1. Slap some frosting on it and start for the bedroom. Try to slowly walk over the babygate and bash my toes into the top. Boo Boo #2. Get to Damien's room and step on a Hot Wheel Car. Boo Boo #3. Pick Damien up, screaming only to get my eye scratched and pinched by my pyschotic infant. Boo Boo #4. Best part? Damien was so wet that when I headed back to the kitchen with him I had a nice huge wet spot on my shirt. It's only 7:00 AM. Damn this is going to be a LONG day.

The Teacher Called

This morning I sent Dominic off to school. He was resistant. GULP. I hope it was just a fluke and this doesn't become an everyday thing. I received a phone call on Monday from his teacher Kristi. She wanted to call and let me know how things are going. GULP. His teacher says he's starting to warm up more to school this week. The first two weeks he was confused and didn't understand they have a schedule they stick to. She provided him with cards and then he would match the cards to a center in the room to do an activity such as a card with a house would mean go play in the house area. Monday, he was tired of the cards though and she told me he started throwing them when given to him. That does not surprise me. She said now that he's settled in, he's also starting to show some aggression. He says "no" "go away" and has started slapping at the teachers when they try pulling him away from what he's working on. He absolutely hates snack time because they never have anything he wants. He'll try to run off from the table if they sit him down for snack. She told me that "he will not win" and that she's not going to give into what he wants. God I hope she can stick to that because here I give in all the time just to shut his freakin mouth or so he doesn't beat the shit out of me. On a positive note though, she informed me that he is a lovable guy and during circle time he sits on one of the teacher's laps. He just wants his way all the time and when he doesn't get it, he gets angry and acts out. Well this is what I've been dealing with forever, I'm happy to hear someone else is going to try fixing the problem. When I joke about needing Nanny 911, I'm not kidding. When you see those kids beating the crap out of their siblings on TV and beating their mom, that's what it's like here and he hasn't even turned 3 yet.

On another note, I went to my pill appointment yesterday. When I called in originally (2 wks ago) I told the nurse I was spotting and getting ready for AF. She told me I STILL would need to come in and take a pregnancy test. So when I went in yesterday and dealt with another nurse she said I should have called in and told them AF started and they could have gave me a sample pack immediately to start. Well that's not what the other nurse said. SO I had a blood preg test done for no reason (they did it before the nurse came in to talk to me) and after talking to the nurse they were just going to throw my blood out and not charge me since I was only like on CD12 and there's no way I would have ovulated yet. Instead of wasting my precious blood, I asked if they could test my thyroid with it and see if I'm doing ok since I haven't in about 2 yrs. I'm supposed to do this yearly since my Mother, Grandpa, and Uncle all have Grave's Disease. Maybe that's the reason for my insanely long cycles, I doubt but it's worth a shot. So anyways now because of this nurse and her boo boo, I'm supposed to use condoms for 2 months since the first month of taking the pill, it's not real effective. The nurse tells me I should start my period by the beginning of March and THEN start taking the pills and I had to laugh at her and say "try April because instead of 28 days it's more like 50-60." She told me that breastfeeding can do a number on your cycles for about 6 months after quitting and so she thinks that I'll be ovulating again soon so my cycle may be shorter this time around. Uh yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.

Last night Miss Priss had gymnastics and I went into the gym to workout. I'm not nervous anymore about it and it's nice seeing familiar faces every Tuesday. I think I had posted before about how everyone seems to know each other and I felt like an outsider. Well now I get smiles and I know how to use all the equipment so I don't feel like a dumbass. It's so busy, I wish I could go at other parts of the day but we know that isn't happening unless I go at 5 AM. At 6:15 every machine but this stair stepper was being used. I got the last treadmill out of like 25 of them. You can use each machine for 30 minutes so at each 15's of the hour people would switch out. It was nuts.

Tonight Alex starts the Little Cat's Cheerleading deal again. They do 2 practices and then cheer at the basketball game on Valentine's Day. I can't wait to see what the cheer will be this time. The highschool girls do some really catchy phrases. The last game was "the Little Cats are here....shhh reeer! (sound like a cat there) The other chant was "our team is Red Hot our team is Hot Hot. Our team is Red Hot, we can't be stopped stopped." I camcorded it and LOVE watching it. She's so into it. I'm sure she'll want to pursue cheerleading in middle & highschool.

Awwwwwwwwwwwww

When we adopted Vinnie the other day, his description said lovable, sweet guy quiet and very quick. No dogs. Boy would the Humane Society just love to see these pictures. He has taken well to Bailey and I'm so shocked that Bailey loves him this much. If anyone is aware Dachshunds are German hunting dogs. They hunt rabbits and rodents. Their long tails are used to pull them out of burrows so they wouldn't kill the animal they are hunting. He's always been the dog to run after rabbits as soon as he sees them in the yard but I wonder if he'd actually ever kill any. Anyways the two have become quite fond of each other as you can see here.

7 Months Old!

Here we are already at 7 Months old. It's went so fast but luckily I've been home to experience it all. I actually started having some pain on the right side of where my incision was today. Kinda scary but it does still happen every once in a while. I suppose after having 3 C- sections it's pretty common. The main thing I worry about is whether I have scar tissue growing in my gut. The last thing I want is to have to have a surgery to remove it. Since I have a huge scar on my arm it's something my Dr's have informed me may happen.

The past month Damien has been doing some cool things. Here's the list.

• Turns his body to whatever he wants while up on his arms
• Holds the bottle!!
• Extends arms to be held
• Gets on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth
• Gets around the front room by rolling or scooting backwards
• Turns around in his crib
• Eats French Fries!! Still hates me feeding him with the spoon.
• Is still waking about 3 times a week for a bottle but sleeps thru for the most part

He just loves his brother and sister too. I get a bit scared when I see him watching Dom though. He just LOVES the way he acts it gets him excited, so I'm worried he's going to start acting like a hyperactive monkey as well. Everyone told me before he was born he was going to be TOTALLY DIFFERENT than Dominic. If he's not, and is a hyperactive monkey, expect a bitchslap from me. LMAO

Another Addition To The Family

I'd like to introduce Vinnie our new guy in the household. We adopted him from the Kansas Humane Society today. I found him on Petfinder, showed the pic to Alex and we both fell in love. He's the sweetest little guy a total lap guinea who loves to snuggle. I really shouldn't say little guy because if you look at the pic there of Dominic he's quite big for only a year old! Had to go with Vinnie as the name because of ol' Dave stickin with his roots. Even the animals now have to have Italian names.

So who watched Bush's State Of The Union address the other day? I didn't because I'm tired of it all plus I never understand what the hell he's trying to say! Did he make up any new words that we can add to the English Vocabulary? I still believe the "internets" is my favorite. Any new funny Bushisms? Did you know that if you still GOOGLE the word Failure and hit I'm feeling lucky it'll take you to President Bush's Biography?? No wonder the White House wants Googles records of searches. When this whole War started I thought it was the right thing to do and honestly I think it was great when they took Saddam out of power but now I think it's gone too far. When will this end? How many more people need to die over there? Dominic was about 2 months old when this whole deal started and he'll be 3 yrs this month.

This 18 yr old kid in our county was killed by a road side bomb a week ago. I think they've said about 65 from Kansas have died. 18!! 18!!! They put his picture in the paper and all I could think of was how sad it is that this KID hadn't even really experienced life except to graduate school and go straight to Iraq. You can't even drink till 21, wonder if the lad had even bought cigs legally? Had he even had sex? It's just really sad and from the way it sounds by reading the paper of the details of his address, it's not going to end anytime soon.

Guess this says it all right here in this pic.

New Pictures

Damien gettin some luv from Bailey. Unfortunately what Bailey likes to go for is the snot that is constantly running out of his nose.
Baby D trying out sissy's 10 Gallon hat. He's quite amused by it.
Bath time Baby D's way. He loves to lie in the tub and splash. The little duck tub is hardly getting used anymore because he'd rather do this.
Pretty happy in this one. Should I throw in a teething picture? LOL
Iza turn the wheel, turn the wheel Iza! This is from Dora the Explorer Live the other day. We spent $70 to go to this and the only one who found it totally awesome? Damien. He hopped up and down on my lap and just stared the whole time. Alex enjoyed it some too but probably not as much as Damien. He was happy as could be.

First off, Thanks everyone for letting me know my kids don't hate me and yes Lisa I'm not looking forward to the teen years and you are just about there!! Mandi, thanks for the phone call to let me know how you were doing and that the kids don't hate me.

I haven't been able to really get online long enough to blog what's been happening around here lately. With the teething, school, gigantic list of chores to be done, etc. I just haven't been able to. I've been feeling completely overwhelmed again lately, anxious, not quite at the nervous breakdown level but getting there. Dave and I have been at each other's throats. I feel like I'm running this house and he's just stopping by in the evenings to say hi before he's out the door in the next morning. I can't even tell you the last time he kissed me.
Here's a new pic of Damien.
He's been slobbering constantly, scooting around on the floor on his back in a pissed off manner, pinching the crap out of you when you hold him. He is not pleasant. Luckily he hasn't gnawed off his hands yet but we expect it soon with how he chews on them constantly. He wants to be held ALL the time. Orajel and Tylenol are only doing so much for him. I'm still having issues feeding him solids. He hates having a spoon in his mouth and spits food or throws a fit but he's content with sucking on a cracker. If he had it his way he'd just drink bottles all day. One good thing is that he's learned to hold his bottle! This is nice because now if I'm taking care of other kids when he wants to eat, I can give him a bottle and he'll feed himself.
Dominic is doing great in school I guess. They tell me what he's done but not much more than that. He plays with playdough everyday though. Everytime she unbuckles him out of the booster chair on the bus he runs straight for the seat and starts playing with everything. He shut the door on me one day when I went to grab him off the bus. I usually have to pry him off the bus just to have him throw a temper tantrum on the driveway. He HATES coming home.
Daycare has been so much easier since I lost C earlier this month. I was actually relieved when his mom pulled him. I knew the drive would eventually get to her and it did. There was just too much testosterone flowing between Dom and C. They fought constantly so I was always doing timeouts. I thought hard on whether to replace him and decided to tell Nicholas' parents I had an opening if they wanted to bring their daughter to my house also. Right now she is in a daycare center that provides preschooling too but after May when school is out they will probably have her stay here.
I was looking at my calendar this month and have noticed that Alex's "activities" have taken over my life. I don't mind so much but it is a bit stressful trying to make sure to attend and do all these functions. By each date this month it goes a bit like this.
1st- Playdate with Allison
2nd- Daisy's- Dominic's PTO Meeting
4th- Devin's Bday party
5th- Jessica's Bday Party
6th- PTO meeting
7th- My BCP appt, Gymnastics
8th- Cheerleading practice
9th- Cheerleading Practice
11th- Victoria's BabyShower
14th- Alex's Vday schoolparty, Gymnastics, & Cheerleading at BBall Game
16th- Daisy's
17th- Take treats to school for Dominic's Bday
18th- Dom's Bday Party
21st- Gymanstics
23rd- Daisy's
27th- Dominic's Class Picture

Any volunteers to come by and help with these dates would be welcomed. LOL Tomorrow night I will drive like a mad woman from Daisy's to get home in time for My Name Is Earl and The Office.