Thank you all

for everything you have given me. But do to my life falling apart at the seems this will be my last post. The stress in my life is finally more than I can handle. I will be shutting down the computer and turning off the cells. I will be disconnecting the internet and cable tomorrow. By next week I am planning on doing the one thing I swore I would NEVER do . I will be moving back home. I wish you all luck and happiness in your lives.
God bless you all, you will be missed greatly

Please........

Can I just start the whole day over?????? NO???? Then I am going to hide in my room till time for church............and then maybe just maybe............I might try again.

A typical summer day

Hot weather, snow cones, bikes, water fights with the hoses, kids everywhere. Somehow my kiddos talked me into joining their water fight. It was so cold. Then it was chicken nuggets and fries for dinner and they put on a dance for me to Alvan and the Chipmunks. It's great to just be able to enjoy them and have fun.

a really great stroller

The ladies over at Momdot are giving a way a really great stroller from strollermama. The rules are simple and the people are great. Go give it a look.

My mission for the day

Okay you all know how much I LOVE my house. I really do. I love the house, I love the yard, I love the neighbors, well most of them anyway. Some of you are aware that BOTH my mowers are broke :( I have been using Mrs. A push mower for the front (Thank you Mrs A.) and have been able to keep it up pretty good. (When we are not on vacation be it here or there.) I have made it my mission today to FIX my rider. It needs a belt for the blades and it has 2 flat tires ~ AGAIN. I really really really want to get the back yard cleaned back up. It doesn't look to bad since I have been paying *J* to mow the front 2/3rds of it, but I want to get it all mowed and mowed my way. Me and the kiddos (to include *Charlie and *P*) can mow and weed eat the whole yard in a day when all the mowers are running. This means I will be spending the morning laying face down in the garage getting greasy and gunky again. I just hope I don't have to lift the front end of the rider again. It is VERY heavy!

I would also LOVE for the pool boy to actually come out and fix my pump!!!!! I have spent over 200 on chemicals because he hasn't showed up in over 3 weeks!!!! I keep asking they keep giving me excuses. I guess they are trying to wait out the season?? I don't know......all I know is it's starting to add up :( and you know I'll spend the money on chemicals. cause I want to use the pool. (blame the Realtors not the owners last I heard they didn't know anything about it) When I woke up this morning my pool was GREEN. That is NOT acceptable for me. My pool will be CLEAR by morning!!! Considering tomorrow is Saturday ~ morning means by noon :)

Wish me luck I just might need it!

VTC

I got to do a VTC with hubby today. It was good to see him. He looked good but tired. It was hard to sit there and see him so close and not be able to touch him. We got to talk for about 20 minutes. I am hoping BDE HQ will do at least one a month till they get to come home. We are entering the countdown phase of the deployment and are around 100 days out. I wish we had an exact date but knowing the Army like I do I know there is no such thing cause dates are always subject to change. Either way it was good to see and hear his voice live. I can't wait for the next VTC or for him to come home.

Back to school

School started on Friday here in the lovely state of TN. I was under a hugely mistaken trance that led me to believe that My life would slow down and my days would be less hectic when the kiddos went back to school. I am more tired and worn out now then I was in the summer time.

~glad I have a good sense of humor:)~

My lovely state of miss~believe went like this:

5:30 oldest 2 up and off to school by 6:30 ish
6:30 youngest 2 up and off to school by 7:30 ish

Oldest 2 home by 2:30ish homework done and off to finish chores and out to play but the time the youngest two got home.
Youngest 2 home by 4:00 ish and have the table to themselves to do home work.

sounds easy enough right?!?

NO cause that would be to simple for my life and make sense and you know we can't have that!!

SO this is how my day now goes.....

Brat~baby 1 has to be up at 5 AM(way to early).
She gets home around 2:30ish unless she has drill team practice which seems like every day right now. Then it's pick her up at 4:30. (We are proud of her for trying out and making the drill team. I think JROTC will be good for her and she is very good at it.)
Brat~baby 2 has to be up at 5:30 and gets home around 2:45
Brat ~babies 3 and 4 have to be up by 7:15 and get home around 4:00 (late I know)

so my mornings are constant until 8:30 when the youngest get on the bus and then I get to clean up the mess, feed and walk the dogs, feed the cats. work on the house, do any running I have to do (and that's been a lot lately).

Then from 2:45 on its get the kids off the bus, pick up Brat~baby 1, make it to all the appointments (dr., dent., school, vet, FRG, etc), and church functions on Wed and Thurs. night. By the time they get home work done, dinner eaten, and showers taken it's off to bed to wake up and do it all over again. :)

Needless to say our house is gonna be very busy for a while. I am hoping things will have fallen into a doable routine by mid Sept. One that is not only manageable but one that allows play and relaxing time for all of us.

Williamson County Fair 08.09.08

At the beginning of the month I got an email from HHC saying that "Franklin and Brentwood Tennessee have offered a special day ~9 August~ for 100 of our Battalion family members. They are offering a bus ride to and from the fair, free rides (We all received 10 free passes each for the rides) and free food." (in honor of Veterans Day)The kids were excited about it so I signed us all up. *Charlie* and *P* were able to go with us too. It was about an hour and a half ride on what the kids described as the coolest bus ever. We had an escort all the way there and back.
When we got there COL(ret)Tyson asked *P* to Carry the Division Flag. What an honor. As we all filed out behind him every body outside the bus was clapping and thanking us and our soldiers as we walked by. We had a lot of fun on the rides, playing the games, and watching the shows.

Please bleach my eyes PLEASE

Okay......I have no problem with people going to walmart in their jammies. Nor do I have a problem with people wearing their slippers to walmart. I DO however have a problem with people walking in to walmart with their hand shoved down the back of their jammy pants to fix their undies. I mean SERIOUSLY!!!!! Yes there is a bathroom just inside either door you chose to use. PLEASE do not spread your fungus all over things I or my children might be touching. PLEASE do not offend my eyes by doing it right in front of me. PLEASE somehow someway find some manners or at least pretend you have some when out side of the privacy of your own home and excuse yourself to the restroom and "adjust" yourself in private!!!!!! Trust me the rest of the world will thank you for it.

Summer break is over

My brother and sister in law and the babies left today:( I really enjoyed having them here this weekend. We had a lot of fun. I hope they get to come back soon. We all went to the Nashville Zoo Sunday and it was a blast. The zoo was really nice and the kids loved it. I posted all the new pics on my myspace page along with some swimming pics I got right before they left.My brother and Brat~baby1 aren't in the swimming pics. They went golfing on post this morning and had a lot of fun. School starts Friday for us so we will be finishing up getting their stuff tomorrow. We got most of it during the tax free weekend but had to wait for freshman orientation to see what we were missing. I can't believe my baby is old enough to be a freshman.