Friday, October 31, 2008

Kids Halloween






Tonight the kids dressed up. Jenna went trick or treating with me since she can not be out without me after 6pm. Mycah went with the neighbor boy and also took a friends dog for a walk with him, dressed as darth vader (the dog not mycah) and Kendra threw on her forma dress my mom bought her last year (yeah mom, thanks see she wore it again!!) and she put a crown on her head.. and she was a princess. She handed out candy for me :) YEAH KENDRA!! She said lots of little kids were getting there pics with her.. I wouldnt doubt it, she did look wonderful and just like a princess.






Halloween at work..
















Today my bank branch did the Theme of Monopoly. We worked on decorations and we all dressed up with SOMETHINg to do with Monopoly. I wasw a train conductor to represent the rail roads. One guy was a police man and one girl was the jail bird. Another girl was a bag of money, and another girl wore a sash for the banker. It was lot of fun and we had a great time working today. Here are some pics from today!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

late night ramblings

Well Jr has been gone about 2 weeks. UGH, it seems like so much longer and yet still a week to go :(. How come when he is home I am bitchy and moody, and when he is gone I miss him so much. How come every song on the radio no matter what it is about, reminds me of him..? So sad. We havent gotten to talk but like 5 minutes every night. He took his laptop but his internet isnt working on it.. we even had a computer geek come to the house he charges $60 PER HOUR and was at our house over 3 hours.. well even he could not fix it.. so he did not even charge us. On the other hand, he took Jrs old lap top (mycahs computer) and took a look at it.. it needs a whole new mother board.. over $500.. would be better off just getting him a new computer.. guess he will have to wait.

Jenna has been doing spirit week all week at school. Monday was Red Ribbon Week Kick off.. wear red. So she got to wear her red dress that she always wants to wear, but I never let her, its too nice..LOL.. used to be Kendras, and kendra does not like seeing jenna in it (kendra was very glad to find out jenna could not fit into her leather pants I saved..lol) anyways.. so she wore her red dress, then Tuesday was camouflage day. She wore jeans and her camo tshirt.. plus she had on a long sleeve black shirt under it cause it was COLD.. then I had a camo jacket that was alittle big on her, BUT it was a jacket were the sleeves unzip and it becomes a camo vest.. which that fit her fine.. so she wore it too. Wednesday was sports day. She wore jeans, another long sleeved T shirt and one of Jrs baseball jerseys with HAMLIN on the back.. and the number 28.. its our special number, everything is he 28th.. WE first kissed June 28, Jr joined the army July 28, jr left for basic Oct 28, we got married Dec 28, my last day in Cali before I moved away to be with Jr Feb 28, Jenna was born July 28, Jr left for Iraq April 28. OK so anyways, she wore his jersey which i knotted in the back to make it shorter and tighter on her. Today was tropical day. DId you know this time of the year you CAN NOT find anything tropical.. so I went with tropical colors, which wasnt easy either. She had a pair of jeans, a pretty aqua blue shirt with some flowers on it.. plus over the shirt she had a BRIGHT pink fuzzy vest.. and in her hair were fake hair waves from a pony tail holder.. in pink, blue, orange green.. tomorrow is super hero day. She has a wonderwoman cape.

At work we are doing a Monopoly theme. I have been working on stuff all week. WE did a fake board that is HUGE. We made Title Deeds and Jail and Parking (will take pics tomorrow). I am dressing up as a Train Condutor (for the rail roads!) Another girl is being a money bag, another girl is going to be "the banker" and wear a sash with something about a banker on it. and the other guy is gunna be a policy officr. It should be fun.

Ok wel time for bed its after 11pm. gotta get to work EARLY tomorrow! BYE

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Blood work

I have had to get my blood drawn for afew weeks now, maybe a month. But trying to prep to get it done is very hard work. First off I had to not eat or drink anything other then water for 12 hours.. IMPOSSIBLE for me to do. I just can not go that long without eating at least one bite of something. I normall have a light snack like Apples and cheese or some beef jerky at like 10pm or 11pm, depending on if I worked until 10pm.. ok so by having a snack that late I would have to wait until 10-11am the next day to do blood work... YEAH RIGHT .. do you know how hard it is, to NOT take a bite of Jennas breakfast when I make it for her in the morning??

SO last night was the night for me.. I took a muscle relaxer and went to bed by 930pm.. it was SOO hard to not take a bite of something.. I got jenna up and off to school.. did not take a bite of her breakfast, even though it smelled WONDERFUL!!

I went to the clinic to have my blood drawn. It was ordered from my original NON military surgeon from missouri. I got a letter in the mail and an order for Labs. Well i guess some of the blood work confused the lady because she had to go across the hall and ask someone about something. After about a 15 minute total wait I went into the lab, she rolled out the white labels I gave her.. WOW it was like 3-4 feet long.. SERIOUSLY.. like the length of a yard stick at least. Then she started pulling vials from the shelf.. and then she had to go ask someone about something too .. (guess they dont do a certain one very often).. as she was gone, I counted my vials.. 13!! 13 freaking tubes of blood they were taking from me.

She came back and we got started. My blood wasnt pumping too fast. About tube 3 she seemed to be having problems.. she pulled another from the shelf and tried it.. guess it was the tube itself.. but boy it took forever to get it all done.

After the lab I stopped by the starbucks coffee stand in the hospital. It was decent.

I went to the pharmacy and got mine and mycahs meds.. (I havent had my B12 shot since MAY.. supposed to inject it monthly).

I am now home, its 945am and I am headed back to bed, becuase my meds are still kicked in from last night!

Monday, October 27, 2008

Mycah Update

Well I havent posted about Mycah in awhile, so I will update.

I had a DRs appointment scheduled for Friday last week, so I called and asked if I could get him an apppointment also, which they said yes. My appointment was at 11, so they said be there around 103o with him.

It was a LONG morning to start with. I had to take Jenna to school, and I had forgotten Kendra needed a cake for school, so I ran to the store as soon as I dropped Jenna off. I made Kendra her pinepple upside down cake, and I made sure everything was ready for work that evening.

Mycah and I dropped off the cake at the school and we headed to our appointment. I was running late, and the weather was rainy, so I called ahead and let them know we were running late but on our way.. they said no problem. SO we get there about 10 minutes late around 1040 maybe 1045. There was one other person in the waiting room when we got there. I think 2 other people came in while we were there.. we waited until 1:00 until they FINALLY saw us..ugh.. we were there 2 hours waiting. I had to be to work by 2.. I finally asked if it was gunna be much longer cause I didnt have time to sit around..

Finally the PA comes in. The DR wasnt even there. So we saw some young girl, who I did think was nice.

It was mine and Mycahs first time at this DR so they did a history on each of us.

I will update you on me first: My blood pressure was AWSOME, best its been in along time. My weight was good.. it has been the same now for 2 full years. I am 80lbs down from my start weight 3 years ago. :) I got a refill of my B12 shots, so Jr can start giving me them again. I havent had one since MAY!!!

Mycah is 5foot 9inches and 193lbs. His blood pressure was good too. She went over the lab work from the ER with me and she was saying his liver levels were alittle up. She said it could have been because he was sick OR she mentioned it might be his gallbladder. She said that he is alittle young for that, but he is over weight and a big kid and that makes it a risk too. So she re did his blood work.. to see where the liver levels were at now.. With his being sick, severe stomach pain and also when she was pressing on that area he was in alot ot pain. We will be doing an ultra sound also.

She said he sounded good, his lungs, but to continue the anti biotics. His ears looked good minus the wax.. At home he is feeling better. His cough is almost gone completely. As you can see from the pics he had a good time this weekend.

He was very helpful in cleaning today..

Things are getting back to normal..

Sunday, October 26, 2008

MORE PUMPKIN PATCH PICS











Saturday, October 25, 2008

Corn Field

Today we went back to the Corn Maze/Pumpkin Patch farm. I took 100's of pics and so many of them turned out good. Here is a picture I got of all 3 kids together. And not just together, but in close range of each other, with Physical contact (non harming too) and they all actually look HAPPY.. including Jenna, who is trying to look pissy, but you can tell me is trying not to have a good time..lol . I have lots more pictures to add tomorrow or in the coming days.

JR went to Washington DC today, but he did not take a camera with him. He sounded like he had a nice time though and saw alot of neat things. He wants to take me and the kids back up there sometime. He was thinking maybe the Christmas Holiday time to see the white house and other places decorated for the holidays.

I am off again tomorrow (Sunday). Don't know what our plans are. I need to get the laundry done and put away.. done isnt the problem, its the putting away part that I get stuck on!!

Last week while we were sitting at the PX a man approched jr and I and told us about his church and invited us to come. He called tonight to remind me about it. He said he would call us tomorrow at about 10am to remind me that church is at 11am. We are still looking for a church we like here and find comfortable. We left a great church in TN. We miss the one down the street from Grandma's house.

winner

I am excited. I have been working for 2 months. We have this award called the Wyatt ERP award. ERP stands for Employee Recognition Program. Each month employees can nominate each other to win this award. The bank officers read through the nominations and pick one as a winner. Your odds of winning depends on how many people actually nominate someone. So my first month I was like.. I am gunna take advantage of this program and nominate someone each month.. you never know. What is no one really tries. So I nominated a girl I work with. And guess what.. SHE WON. I dont know if there were no other nominations or she just won it..LOL.. but they showed up yesterday and gave her a framed award, $100 cash, AND at the christmas party all 12 winners from the year get entered into a drawing for a trip.. this year it is to New York. HOW EXCITING!!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Still sick

Well its been afew days since I took Mycah to the ER and we had all of that excitment. You know it just crossed my mind that Jenna was asleep by the time Mycah and I came home that night, and so she knows NOTHING about the ambulance coming to our house, and taking Mycah to the hospital.. Sometimes life is so busy and it just passes us by..

Anyways. So it was Monday that I took Mycah to the ER. He stayed home on Tuesday with the DRs note, and he went back to school Wednesday. He took all the meds he was still on, before he went to school. Well late morning, the school nurse called me at work, and said Mycah had a stomach ache, and I needed to come get him. UGH so I had to leave work and go pick up Mycah. I told him I am sorry that he doesnt feel good. His stomach is gunna hurt at home or at work, so as long as he isnt in SEVERE pain and throwing up, he needs to just stay at school.. he has missed so much, and I am missing work (I will be short 5 hours this paycheck due to picking him up from school and going home early to get sleep)...

OK so this morning, I got him up for school. He was feeling ok. He ate a small breakfast and I DID NOT give him his meds before school. I figured, if this is making him sick, then he can take it AFTER school and feel crappy once he is home. SO off to school he went (he later told me he had a small headache). well 930am rolls around.. and I get a call (I was home in bed, because I work night).. its the school nurse.. Mycah is sick, throwing up.. I needed to get him..

SO I go get him. He is upset. He was worried about coming home since I told him to try and stick it out.. which makes me feel bad cause if he is really sick I dont want to make him think he cant come home..

He said he was in 1st class, and his stomache was really hurting and he was crying, and his teacher was asking him if he needed to go pull himself together and he said no..LOL.. he just didnt even care if he was crying. She asked him if he needed to go to the nurse he said No because he cant go home.. (awwe makes me feel bad).. then he said all of the sudden he was gunna be sick, so he jumped up and ran out of class towards the bathroom. He said he threw up in his hands.. so he went to the nurse and I got him.

I am just not sure what is wrong. I have a DRs appointment tomorrow so I called and I got him an appointment also.. we will see I guess.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

ER trip part 2 with Free Ambulance ride

ok so, all was well last night, when I last wrote. Mycah had a million meds to take. We picked up dinner ate dinner and mycah took his meds. I went to my room he went to his room. This was at about 1130pm.

At this point in the evening I had been awake since 6am, that is 17.5 hours. To include 9 hours at work, about 3 hours in the ER.. so I was ready for some sleep and Mycah was too. Mycah sent me a text message that said he had a severe stomach ache. I told him to go to sleep he would be fine. He messaged me back and said he could not take the pain.

I DRAGGED myself out of bed, and went to his room. He was curled up in ball writhering in pain yet seeming kind of "out of it" in attitude. I was like OK THEN get some clothes on I will take you back to the ER.. and I went to kendras room to let her know and I went back into mycahs room cause he was coughing again.. and all of the sudden he got a massive bloody nose. He has gotten bloody noses many a times him and jenna both have. Its no longer a big deal, they both know how to take care of it themselves.. but thi was different. I can discribe it.. but it was different.. so.. now I have Mycah acting alittle off, his stomach in severe pain and a massive bloody nose.. THEN he jumps up and runs into the bathroom and starts throwing up, pretty violently.. and he cant pinch his nose while he is throwing up so then there is blood pouring out his nose while he is throwing up.. I am like OMG what is going on, is it an over dose of all his meds, is it an allergic reaction to a med.. so I called 911

They sent an ambulance. when they got here, I had mycah dressed and in the livingroom. He was calm, but still not himself (with his ADHD he is usually somewhere annoying in a Mycah sort of way).. they took him by ambulance to the ER and started lots of tests on him. we did blood work, urine, started an IV fluids, meds, pain meds, anti vomit meds, they did chest xrays (which they should have done earlier)..

they are blaming everything on Prednison and a version of Vicodin that they gave him and told me to pull him off those.. they had him resting well.. we were there until 430am..

Got home right ater 430 (I got up the day before at 6am so I was up 22.5 hours), went to sleep until 6am when I had to wake kendra, back to sleep 30 minutes until I had to get jenna up for school and then myself ready for work.. I was running off the 2 hours sleep I had, after being awake 22 hours.. I got ready for work where I was hoping my boss would send me home.. but she could not. I was in charge of the vualt today and she had to take her husand to the dr for a surgery that he could not drive himself home from, so she needed me there is no one else (we are short staffed on knowlegable people).. luckily she called around 12 and said I could go home.. she was on her way back.. so I am home now and Mycah is resting still

Monday, October 20, 2008

Jrs gone, ER trips and funny sayings

OK before I forget, this was the funny saying of the day. Jenna calls me at work and if I am not at my normal spot (which I sit at cause it is next to a phone with my own number so when the kids call I am the one who answers it..) any who.. if I am in the back room doing supervisory training stuff I am not at my window so when someone else answers it, they transfer Jenna to the phone I am at.

So today, I am headed home and I have to drop some paperwork off at the main bank, and I call the kids to tell them I am on my way. First time I call Jenna and Mycah BOTH pick up a phone. I talk to Jenna.. so then I hang up and I decide to call back because I want to talk to mycah, but Jenna answers, so I tell her we will just hang up and I will call back and her not to answer it.. so she says to me "why dont I just transfer your call to him".. LMAO.. I had to tell her we dont have the transfering option.. she said "oh"..lol

ok next stop.. the ER. Kendra got sick when she first got to Georgia. Not sure what it really was.. allergies, bronchitis.. who knows.. but it lasted forever or so it seemed, she missed some school, she had an ER visit with breathing treatments and chest xrays, etc.. Next JR and I started to get it but LUCKILY it was not with us long Then Jenna had it. She missed one day of school and had a cough for quite awhile, but I kept her drugged up on Niquil at night and she was good to go. Now...

its mycah.. he has been sick for like 2 weeks. Massive cough.. he has been sent home from school afew times because of fever, non stop cough and on friday he was hyperventalating and could not breath. He was coughing so much he was throwing up this morning, so he stayed home. SO I took him to the ER tonight we were there afew hours. Seemed like forever, but really from check in to check out was about 3 hours.They gave him LOTS and LOTS of meds. I dont even know what they are all for. I plan to look them all up tomorrow.. I do know this:
1)antibiotics 2)Predneson (to relax his lungs) 3)ear drops (for his ear infection) 4)something for the cough wow I dont even remember what the other 2 things are.

and now.. Jr is gone. He went to Maryland for 2 1/2 weeks. UGH so tressful. Not even just him going and being away from us and me having to work full time, take care of 3 kids (sick, complaining, bored, etc) 3 dogs, but what makes it worse is.. He has to to pay for everything first, and get money back later from the Army. He has to pay for his hotel room and food .. so he went and got an advance. They gave him part of his money up front and he will get the rest when he comes back.. well that is all fine and dandy but it BARLEY covers the room.. leaves him nothing for food..

Speaking of his room. They let him pay at the end, so that will help, BUT they checked in last night and then today were informed that they HAVE to stay out at the training site during the week they CAN NOT stay at the hotel.. but they have to keep there rooms for all of there stuff.. so he is paying $100 a night, for a room he isnt sleeping in, with money he doesnt have!!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

corn maze

Friday night after I got off work, Jr the kids and I loaded up in the car and went abou 30 minutes south to another town where they have a pumpkin patch and corn maze. Unfortunatly everything closed at 5pm except the corn maze, and we knew that before we went, but we just wanted to get out before JR went away for afew weeks.

So we get there and we hear a chain saw coming from the corn maze.. GREAT .. the website said the scare maze was on Halloween night..not EVERY night.. so we went over to pay at the country store and find out that there are 4 trails and only the one on the far right was scary.. so we start off with our CHEAP ASS walmart kids flash lights. Mine didnt even work most of the time. We all started together but some how Jenna and Kendra got sperated from us..

JR and I took this opportunity to take Mycah on the scary maze, because he was wanting to.. KNOWING this was scary, we start off.. the corn on this maze was ALOT higher then the other areas.. it was well over our heads to start.. it was dark, it was quiet at first.. not knowing when something was gunna happen.. Mycah and I were arm in arm.. Jr was behind us.. we were talking at first, alittle giggley.. just WAITING for something is the scary part.. then we saw the guy.. we KNEW he was gunna come out at us.. with the chain saw.. MYCAH WAS HYSTERICAL.. kinda like the long innicent. He was trying to get away from me.. (later I noticed I have a hugh scratch on my face from him) Jr and I were joking we are afraid of if he would have gotten away from me, where he would have ran..LOL.. It was horrible..LOL..

While this was going on, Kendra and Jenna were wondering the nice and easy corn maze.. but SOMEHOW ended up getting on the scary trail and the chain saw guy came at them and they screamed and did not ran, they just stood there screaming..lol.. so he asked if they were lost.. and they said yes so he lead them to the end..lol.. they were waiting at the car for us.. when we came to the car.. the guy snuck up behind jenna and turned the chain saw on behind her.lol

here are some pics:

Saturday, October 11, 2008

There are monsters down stairs

So last night, Jenna was on the computer. It is upstairs in the hallway, directly outside my bedroom door. Jr and I were laying in bed. He was watching TV and I was feverishly reading my book, that I was determined to finish last night (and I am now bummed I am done, cause it is over and I dont have any more of it to read..LOL)

Anyways, I think I asked Jenna to go downstairs and get me something and she says something about there being Monsters down stairs.. and I was like JENNA, there are no such thing as monsters.. and she says "Geeze mom, Im playing around, can't a kid be a kid?".. LMAO it was so funny the way she said it so matter of factly. Then she went down stairs.

So alittle while later I decide to go down stairs for something and as I passed her I said, Jenna do you wanna come with me down stairs incase there are monsters so I wont be alone? So she comes with me ..

and wouldnt you know.. there was a monster.. it was in the form of a spider, but Jenna and I know the truth.. this was no ordinary spider, it was a monster, taking on another form..LOL If it were not for jenna, who walked past the fridge, which made it run out.. I would have been down there ALONE! actually this is the first spider we have seen since being in this house and it was quite large (dime size). I picked up the box of brillo pads on the floor to smash it and jenna jumped in and said WAIT and she picked up something so she could smash it for me, but I was already on the down swing and got it..lol

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Dental work

Well I have been having some problems with my teeth.. they are like crumbling/flaking/falling apart.. I dont know what to call it. They arent cavities.. well the one might have been, but the other ones are just wearing away some.. and one cracked. So I went to the dentist last month for a cleaning and xrays and they booked me for today.. so I went back to do fillings and stuff.. but I am on a limited budget, so I told them they could only do one today.. so we picked the one that looks the worst. (non of the stuff hurts me on a day to day basis).. so it was on the bottem, my canine tooth.. it was at the gum line, and it was like just a black hole basically a hole that was rotting away.. she gave me a shot of novicane and went out for awhile, she came back and I was still not numb, so she gave me another shot.. waited then came back.. I still didnt think I was 100% numb, but she went for it anyways.. OMG I was ok at first, but then as she was DIGGING the stuff out she would hit a nerve and the pain was terrible.. but I just wanted it over so we just kept going.. I dont know what hurt more when she would hit the nerve.. or when she would use that cold ass water to rinse.. it was extreamly sensitive with it exposed like that.. and then once it was cleaned out they used something gooey like a toothpaste maybe and flled the hole, then rinsed it out.. UMMM that stuff sitting there on my nerve.. was TERRIBLE.. then they did the white filling and I was done.. I am not in any pain from the tooth, and it is wierd because for quite awhile I have had that hole there and my tongue knows it is there. and now it isnt.. my mouth is VERY MUCH soar where she did the shot though, and I dont think I have ever had pain from that.

Work is going good. 2 nights I have done the complete closing stuff with the other supervisor working also, but she has been leaving everything up to me to do. UGH its stressful, but getting better. Last night I did everything by myself (with questions of coarse) I did more standing then I think I have ever done, and I was in boots with heels which I normally wear, but I normally sit ALOT more then I stand.

I came home and watched some TV with Kendra and my feet hurt, but it was ok.. then I got into bed and OMFG I got a charley horse in my foot.. OH it hurt, but I was ok.. I flexed my foot and it stopped.. whew.. so then I relaxed again and as soon as I did.. I got it again.. for 30 minutes this went on.. i could not just relax.. so I hobbled in pain down stairs to get some ice.. this helped for awhile, as I sat and read in bed.. but I moved and THERE IT WAS AGAIN and this time in both feet.. the pain was hell.. it was mainly in my second toe, radiating out.. and also up my leg. I felt neasuous and alittle panicy.. I started to worry about things like blood clots and stuff. I have NO CLUE if blood clots are anything like this or related to things like this, but I was in SEVERE PAIN and not bing rational..LOL>. this was now at about the 1 hour mark .. ONE WHOLE FREAKING HOUR of charley horses in my feet and legs.. I tried to stand to stretch, I tried to go down stairs to get my muscle relxers.. I could not move, I tried to breath like I was birthing a child, to breath through the pain and let the muscles work there coarse.. NO NO NO.. finally I called Kendra in tears (she had just went to bed..everyone else was knockedout) and I asked her to come to my room.. she freaked out and thought I was dying or something.. when she came in.. she saw me sitting.. (my legs were proped in the air like I was having a child).. she laughed hysterically at me when she found out what was wrong.. laughing at my feet with my big toe all cranked to the side while my other toes were normal looking..

She did go get my muscle relaxers and I took one and I then slept GREAT!!!! When I had to get up with the kids this morning I felt like I was floating on air..I went back to bed until my appointment time, which I over slept and had to just run out of the house and drive there, but I made it.. I dont know if I should have been driving though cause I could still feel my meds (and the directions say take 3 a day..HELLO I took one and I felt it for 16 hours!!!) anywho.. I fell sleep 2 times in the dentist chair.. came home and slept till 5 pm.. gotta love those meds!!!

Mycah is now sick, like Kendra Jenna and I were.. cough, head ache..temp.. school sent him home yesterday and he had to stay home today because he had a fever and you have to be out of school 24 hours.. he is feeling better but I am sure the cough will be around a good week or so.

Kendra started all of her ortho stuff this week. They took off all her front top braces and we got to see what she looks like without them..OMG what a difference.. she would not let me take a picture though ..she wants to wait until she is complely done with all her treatment a year or so from now.

Ok well I guess that is all.. Jr will be gone for 3 weeks end of this month beginning of Nov.. should be interesting to see how life goes without him around.. that has been awhile.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Oct Beach day






Well it is October and here in GA the weather is still very nice. It was in the middle to upper 80's this weekend, and I was off from work so we decided to take a trip to the beach Saturday.

I ended up sleeping in because it was the first Saturday I have had off since I started working at the bank. We had planned on heading out early, but oh well. Kendra was still asleep too.

So I got up, everyone got ready and we headed out. It was a very nice day and we had alot of fun. The water was alittle cold for like 3 seconds when you got in but was perfect withing 4 seconds. Here are afew pics from the day!

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

no more nights!

UGH tonight was the last night I work this week. I had 3 nights in a row. 2-U which means 2pm-Until we are done.. no matter how late it gets.. What I dont like about nights is that you dont get an offical break. If I work mornings than I work 9 hours and I get an hour break, but if I work nights I work 8 hours and dont get a break, although I can go get something to eat or drink and sit in the back if we dont have a line.. and I can use the bathroom when ever.. but still its wierd to work 8 hours and not get a break.

What I also miss when I work nights is my kids.. wierd huh..lol.. we have been eating dinner every night at the kitchen table together. Something we have never done before except on Holidays. But we have made a pretty good effort to do it since we moved into this house 2 months ago.

Every day I try and call home and make sure all of the kids made it home from school and see how everyones day is going.

Kendra has offically moved back into her 90% finished room. I miss her.. I have no one to sit and giggle with while Jr talks in his sleep.I also have to get up and walk down the hallway to wake her up in the mornings instead of rolling over and saying ITS 600.. and her saying "how about 630" so I change the alarm and we go back to sleep.. LOL.. now I get up to wake her, she says how about 630 I walk out.. and go down stairs to get things started..LOL.. while she gets to sleep in.

I DO LIKE the fact that when working nights, I get to crawl back into bed after the kids leave for school (sometimes I am already back up in here, before they even leave..lol).

Tomorrow and Friday I work morning/days.. from 8-5pm, with an hour break (we dont get a break until 2pm..)then I am off this weekend.. I get off at 5pm Friday and dont go back to work until Monday at 2.

Jenna is doing well.. She wrote her letter of apology tonight. She needs to deliver it this week. Next step will be her 1500 word essay.

Kendra and Mycah got to wear regular clothes to school today. It was a dress down day for spirit week. Friday they can wear jeans to school but have to wear gold and black shirts..

ok well I should get to bed since I have to get up early and stay up tomorrow!