did ya ever notice?

when you put the recycling out the night before like you are supposed to

they never show up until 2 pm to pick it up

but

the one time you get lazy and wait until morning to put it out

yup

they got here early

sheesh

busy day

today was hectic
my schedule didn't work today, a combo of a few minutes late leaving and traffic caused issues, we didn't get back to Messy's bus, so we had to take her to school, which she actually handled WAy better than she has in the past she usually doesn't like anything to be different from her normal routine.

then it was picture day for the boy and I forgot the paperwork, so I had to bring it to him
I didn't want to drive there and back, and then turn around and go pick him up, so I tried to grocery shop near his school before I picked him up....what a mistake LOL I like my store, maybe I am a bit like my daughter

ok does anyone else think it's odd that a nine year old (Mapboy) wants me to tivo the debate so he can watch it???


when I was that age I hated anything to do with any of that
if they interrupted my tv shows then I would be upset but other than that the government ran without me noticing.

ok was that a poor job done by the school I went to? or a great one done by the school he goes to...or the opposite? is it healthy for a nine year old to understand what "lipstick on a pig" means?

I know they were learning about it in school, they were talking about planning a field trip to the campains' headquarters, but it fell through.

seriously the kid didn't ask me to tape the redsox in the play offs, he asked me to tape the presidential debate

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on another note MB is going on a field trip tomorrow
freedom trail, I wish I could go! it is cool living here sometimes :)

Oh darn I forgot some things at the store

is there a twelve step program for furniture?

So one of the things I remember when I was a kid was a bed, it looked like a castle it was a loft bed with a play area underneath, my father had plans to build it for me, we would sit and talk about how cool this bed would be we drew pictures of it and I really thought he was going to make it...but the bed never got made :(


OK so that may explain why I am really too emotionally attached to this bunk bed, we bought it, and painted it to look like a castle....ok it doenst *look* like a castle to you and me, it is no way even close to the one my dad dreamed about, but to a five year old and a two year old, it looks like a castle! LOL

So Now the epilepsy Dr says NO to bunk beds
Ok I'll be honest I didn't think of it as an issue, but what can I say?
We can't put the 5 year old on the bottom, because the 2 year old really is just too small for bunk beds KWIM?

so silly me thinks, OK we will sell the bunk bed and use the money to buy a trundle
ROFL

Dh didnt think anyone would buy a painted bunk bed (why is he always right?)

OK so apparently a bunkbed loses value when it is painted by a mom and her kids to look like a castle ROFL

here am I thinking I have this thing of value and I can't even give the thing away.

so the new plan is to take the thing apart and put it away until the littlest one is old enough to climb up to the top, of course you do know that by that time it wont look like a castle to them anymore. ROFL

a whole month

I am keeping my blog pink for the whole month of October!
well I am going to TRY and keep it pink

As you may know I like to change my blog around a lot LOL

rambling on

The news had a horrible story about a 7 year old boy who broke into a zoo and killed some of the animals

how awful


I have a headache

and I see Messy's bear today is bear day at school
and I thought she put the bear in messy's backpack :(

gosh can I be more pathetic?

it's picture day today at Messy's school

you know one of the good things about her going to school, is that at least now I can have a nice picture of her at least once a year...because we know I just don't have enough pictures of her LOL

seriously the fact that she was interested enough to tell me she wanted to wear her hair down, and she wanted to wear her sparkly wale shirt

is AWESOME

of course I let her wear the 2 dollar walmart shirt I CANNOT believe that she asked to wear it :)


She also told me she wants to be a witch for Halloween I can do THAT too :) although a few minutes later she asked if she could be santa claus

I'll be honest I think she really means she wants to *BE* Santa ROFL

gosh she seems almost normal ROFL

Wacky Wednesday

Wednesday is turning out to be my really busy day

the school specialist comes over today

so even if I did have everything all done I would still be fretting over how clean the house is.

argh I am obsessed


last week I left a cleaning product out on the counter

I NEVER LEAVE CLEANING PRODUCTS OUT!!!!

and of course she noticed it

sooo the rest of my day will be checking to make sure I haven't left anything stupid out

I really stink at this stuff

a cute moo story

she has those magnetic letters from leapfrog that stick on the fridge, or they go into the little thingy and sings the song "A says ahh, A says ahh, every letter makes a sound, A says ahh" and so on LOL between that and the leapfrog movies she has the letter sounds down pat :)

well those magnets are not approved for the car, wouldn't be safe in an accident, but she must have smuggled it into the car

she does have animal, they are mostly beanie babies but she has a few others.
now she sits behind me in the car so I don't usually look at her directly usually through the mirror but she will say "mommy I got a bear" and I will growl at her and she will grown bacl,a bd then she will grab a cat and say "mommy I got a cat" and we will meow You know LOL


Well she said "mommy I got a bee" so in my head I pictured her with her little bee puppet and I said "buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz buzzzzzzzzzzzz" she didnt say a word so I looked in the mirror at her shocked face she held up her little magnet and siad "mommy it says Ba"

ROFL

you gotta laugh

they still wouldn't pay for it

well I got them to pay for Messy's Lamictal, but they would not pay for Moo's Bactrim

what are you going to do?

I so cannot wait to hear the Dr say that the reflux has gone away and I can stop giving her this crappy stuff whoo hoo! October 21s a day of tests for her, they wont be fun, but I CANNOT WAIT see this is me being optimistic :)

not the best parent alerrt (it doenst sound as good as "bad mommy alert" but it's better for my self esteem)

paper he has been working on is due tomorrow
he did well writing the first draft which is graded by peers
second draft is graded by the teacher

Teacher has a list of rewrites
he doest want to do it.

I talk to him about the importance of planning ahead

I tell him that we really need to go to the store and get bread and bologna and milk


the boy said it


"why didn't you get those things yesterday when daddy was home?"

I told him I had forgotten

yup he said it

he really did

he set me up and I fell for it


yes I should plan ahead too


off to the grocery store with three grumpy kids, one who is trying to do his paper in the back of the car LOL

bad mommy huh?

I could complain but.... I am so darn lucky!

So moo's medicine has run out, but her drs appointment isn't until October 21 so you can blame me for that I wasn't paying attention but they wont refill her prescription it's expired

Messy's medication has been increased
no one told the insurance company...the insurance company wont refill it
Dh called the epilepsy clinic because the regular drs office is closed
the on call dr sent in a refill for 12 pills and we are to call our dr Monday
we figured that was set
umm no one still told the insurance company so yeah they wouldn't fill the prescription

Mapboy is on a new medication

Dh had his dr transfer all his meds to 90 supply to utilize the new money saver thingy at the drugstore

So DH's medication with the new cheaper program 70 bucks (it's really a lot cheaper)
MB's old medicine 35 bucks (no you can't return it) new medicine 35 bucks
Messy's 12 pills to tide up over until this morning was 46 bucks ( no it's not refundable )
Moos medicine well that is zero since I haven't gotten a call back from the dr yet

so in the last week the drugstore has gotten 186 bucks from us
and tonight it will be 70 more for the two girls

you know it's really scary to think of all the meds my family takes
:(
but it's funny, like what can go wrong will go wrong kind of thing

"umm yeah sorry I couldn't make my mortgage payment because I had to buy drugs" ROFL

Gosh you knwo it isn't really funny at all

we are so freaking lucky to have insurance to help us pay for all this

sheesh I can't even imagine having to pay for all this in full?

late night blogging

can't sleep got into a heated discussion with Dh...that's never good
I would make a terrible debater, I just lose control of my brain and say things wrong

I wish I wasn't like that

speaking of debates...RE: Presidential Debate, I found it interesting that all the people believe that their guy won the debate

I'm not going to share my opinion of it LOL
frankly I'm not a big fan of politics.
but I do find a lot of humor in it all....even stuff that should NOT be funny...I know I'm pathetic.

I don't understand why I have allergy symptoms today it's supposed to be very low right now
but it's bad


the sox got killed tonight, I didn't watch it because I had to record the debate for DH, but i watched part of it on gameday and then I had to stop KWIM it's never good when they lose to the Yankees but they got pounded :(

rain is good


my composter has rodents in it :( what's up with that?

so the meeting at the school was...interesting

the whole thing was completely done by the boy

they gave him a form to fill out, and he was supposed to just answer the questions

the good part?

the only academic issue he had was that he has trouble with the the way thsi school does word problems in math.

the bad part

the whole rest of his presentation was about being bullied and trying to make friends and not be shy

again the teacher was shocked to hear him talk about being shy---he doenst seem shy to her


*sigh*

also wanted to mention that I'm more than a little nervous about this banking thing

just a couple pics of moo to get your morning started

Photo by machris



sepia

Photo by machris

ok here is the scoop

I've been kind of fighting the school nurse because she has messy listed as restricted activity, which means she can't swing, she can't climb, no slides...what else is there?

sand box

ok my usual very active jumping all over the place kiddo is sitting still for HOURS all day long and they wont let her get exercise she is happy to sit in the sandbox for recess, but is it what is best for her?

so I was trying to not only get them to let her climb, but to get them to encourage her to be more active

*sigh*

finally I got them to relent if I got a note from the doctors saying she didn't require restricted activity

so I am sure now you can figure out why I am upset...the doctor agreed with the school nurse

even though she has never had a seizure where anyone saw any outward reaction AT ALL!!!
in the hospital study they determined that her spacey times had nothing to do with seizures and everything to do with daydreaming.


but she does have seizures

So she is on restricted activity on the playground


not only do I feel like a rotten mom

but now I have proof *cry*


how am I going to get her to get exercise?

come on, I don't care what they say, it cannot be good for her to not get any exercise except for jumping on the couch when no one is looking.


and you know what? they are wanting her to not climb anything higher than herself....what does that mean in regards to her bunk bed

sheesh :(

I just didn't think it was dangerous :(

the fine line is blurred

there always is more to the story than seems isn't there?

I want what is best for my kids

I just don't always know what that is

love google CALENDAR

Dh changed his schedule and changed the day off of Moo's "all day of tests" day

I got an email

a quick phone call

all fixed

whoo hoo

much better than the arguing

"you said you took it off"
blah blah blah

love it!



sorry really busy this week

with drs appointments and half days of school and all


edited to fix it even though I also like google maps,i was referring to the calendar man I need a cup of coffee

very busy this week

the boy has three half days

this should be fun :)
they are having student led meetings

so instead of parent/teacher
it is parent/student/teacher

I can't wait
:)

did you ever do something and think...

Gosh I am exactly like my mother LOL

MB was acting quite a bit sick this morning...the mommy flag was waving I got an inkling that he just wanted to stay home, and maybe he wasn't as sick and he was acting KWIM so I told him the family rules that from now on go with school

for every day of school you miss, you must be restricted to the house for one week, that means no weekend trips to the zoo, no going out for a treat, no nothing

he quickly decided that he was feeling better

Gosh I hated that rule when I was a kid...but it always worked, it gave me the incentive to go to school on those days when I just didn't want to KWIM?

and of course I am worried that maybe he really is sick, and I am making him go to school sick...he did have a milder version of what messy had over the weekend but he seemed in great spirits Sunday night.

*sigh*

Dh is turning my bbq idea into gourmet

he is making stuffed pork chops
me? I am not too keep on the idea of eating anything today, but it smells good :)

it's nice out but I don't feel like going outside

didn't help that this morning I went outside just in time to see a hawk flying overhear with his breakfast YUCK! I think ti was a squirrel