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Saturday, August 22, 2009

August 22nd

ah here i am again not up on my postings here and my daily blah blah blahs that i know everyone just loves to come and read *lol*

well lets see what is the latest and greatest...

went to *little* rons school on thurs but only to get his bus schedule to see if it had changed or not, everything is the same as it was which is cool, we thought for sure that he would be moved up the street again because the other 2 kids on the block are entering high school this year but nope, they will find their ways to our driveway on the first day of school.

wyatts school we hit on friday.. got to find his classroom and meet his teacher, double checked his bus schedule and all was the same for him to so thats good. i feel very confident that he will find his way to class on the first day and keep asking simple questions like *which way do you go when you get into the school?* and *what building is the classroom in?* and than followed by *what is your classroom number?* hoping that it will slowly start to sink in and he will be okay on the first day..

for some reason i always worry on that first day that the kiddos will get lost..

in other news, little ron got a truck *ack* yes i said *little* ron.. its nothing over the top special .. just a mid 80's chevy s-10 than needs a bit of work but will be an awesome project car or rather truck for him to work on over the winter.. hard to believe that he will be 16 in just a few months!
so can you guess what he has been doing the past few days? *lol* yesterday after he did some sanding on it we went out and washed it and got all the yuck off of it.. the truck hasnt been registered since 2007 and from what i understand has been sitting pretty much since than. i know what he wants to do is put his engine in it.. hes had the engine forever now, a 350 i think.. and you can put them into the smaller trucks with a conversion kit thats not to cheap.. guess someone has some clamming to do *lol*

owen is a walking fool now.. walking all over the house in every direction imaginable.. you cant keep him down thats for sure, he is such a great kid.. i love when he wants to snuggle after waking up or as he gets tired and just wants to get *loved on* i think its my all time favorite time with him.. well that and seeing his big beautiful smile and them sweet eyes filled with love.

as for me, well im still in the 2ww and just twiddlen my thumbs and trying to be patient.. ah whos kidding, im about a basket case and over looking at everything and reading reading reading.. but still trying not to get my hopes up.. its not the dreaming that is bad, its the suddon crash that hurts you ~ only time will tell if we move on to another cycle or not..

rons been working tons.. lots and lots of hours this week, i will be happy if i get to see him early next week other than our few minutes as he is waking up and running out the door or as he is crawling into bed.. ah how i miss him so much when he works so much.. but i do know that he does it for us..

thats about it really.. just the daily grind of things going on..

Sunday, August 16, 2009

lately ive been

looking at different aspects of schooling (for reasons i wont get into as of yet) and considering all different options out their..

ive looked into home schooling and unschooling which i have to say although im not that familiar with either (im learning slowly) i am pretty impressed with unschooling and what bit i have read on it. not knocking homeschooling by any means but the unschooling had an interesting side to it that appealed to me personally.

ive also looked a tiny bit at correspondence schooling .. ack i know i killed that word ~ ah i love spell check *lol*

ive also looked at our state requirements to do say home schooling or unschooling and they seem to require the same thing.. and although i am killed by big words (i need a decoder sometimes) i will say that they seem a bit *unreachable* if our future plans fall into play.

makes me wonder how people do these things... or how do you decided which way to go or what is best for you? and what if you have a child who is *learning disabled* i believe that is the fancy label they gave wyatt the end of last year.. i mean i know where he stands sort of thanks to all of the testing threw his elementary school.. but i do wonder, how does one decide what grade level to teach if the child isnt exactly up to that grade level in every aspect?

i do think that this year will give us a good base start on wyatts special education classes (yes they will continue governement aka public school this year) however.. what the future holds only my broken crystal ball would have been able to tell..

and... if you home school, or unschool your kids, well than how do you maintain that *home school* if you travel? like lets say that you decide to take a road trip or vacation to the grand canyon for a month (hey its a long drive from here *lol*) from what im finding on NC home schooling jibber.. if your out of state for to long, than you have to *close* your school and re-open it later...

and how do you determin a name and all that jazz for your home school? i mean it said that you had to come up with your own name etc (guess that makes sense and uh ron.. the F. U. NC school wont work.. although i see the humor in it with what i can semi understand)

and why do you have to take the standardized testing for the state if they wont provide you with a diploma (gotta print your own) and if they wont put the state seal on it as they do a regular goverment aka public school? i mean you have to jump threw their hoops and yet you have to get a seal of your own?

ah so many questions.. at least we have time to find answers to them...

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

August 11, 2009

Owen had his one year check up today and is a happy healthy little man. He weighted 23 pounds 12 3/4 ounces and is 31 1/2 inches tall.. Do you realize how close that is to a full 3 foot tall? I mean we are only talking 4 1/2 inches off ~
Poor guy also got 4 shots today.. But its (imo) better to get them than not.
Luckly he isn't to fussy yet.. Had some lunch when we got home and ready to play.. Although he does seem close to wanting to take a good nap. Part of me thinks I should nap with him specially when he wants to visit at O'dark hundred in the morning.. But I have wyatt home so mom curl in bed and nap with the sleeping daddy is totally out *pouts*
I know I'm on little rons bad mom list already today because I won't go down to the water.. I have the baby pool filled for owen and wyatt (if he chooses to jump in) but no little beach today. Instead owen is going to hopefully get a good nap in soon and we are going to relax here at the house by the plastic pool.

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Had to laugh...

I was watching the great american roadtrip on an in demand channel and their was a commercial where jay leno asked a woman
*who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?*
And the woman blankly was like *i dunno*
Than he asked
*who lives in a pineapple under the sea?*
And she proudly said *sponge bob*

For those that don't know the answer to question one...
Its the address to the white house.. So the president lives there ~
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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Busy day

Didn't get to bed until 4am or just after.. When ron works till 3am and the younger boys are at moms spending the night I stay up to spend a few minutes with him and get my hugs and kisses before heading off to bed.
Woke up later than normal due to my late night stay up.. Once awake, little ron started *can we take my boat out*
Little ron bought his small boat off of *uncle* chris for $20 and a trolling motor .. So I give and get ready to go.. He only has a trolling motor on it now but has huge dreams of a bigger boat motor ~ anyways we head out and first went to explore the small island at the end of the street, you know it would be the perfect place for primitive camping if I was sure it wouldn't flood in a high tide.
After leaving the island, we headed across the sound and up a few channels, was a nice 2 hour boat ride checking things out!
After getting home we had a bit of time with ron before he was out the door and off to work again.. Than clyde got his bath, I jumped in the shower and than got ready for some night time cast netting with little ron ~ he's still trying to catch a bunch of bait but having little luck at the times we have been down at the end of the roads.
Took clyde with us tonight and tossed in a small walk for him than headed back to the house to rest a few minutes before owen and wyatt get home from moms.
Wyatts been having fun playing with his cousin at moms and owen now waves *bye bye* can't wait to see him do it.
Well I'm off to change and toss that last load of laundry in and get it going.. Back swimming we will go tomorrow and tues is owens 1 year check up.. Wonder how much bigger he has gotten in the past few months..
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Saturday, August 8, 2009

August 8th

i think.. ack days running together again for me.. so not cool ~

well wed. august 5th we had a quick toss together party for Owen.. not my *ideal* party, the one i had planned out in my head but everyone was there (with the exception of grandaddy who had to work) and we had cake and presents .. so yeah it all worked out.
of course he wouldnt open his presents .. he looked at me half crazy when i tried to get him to *tear* up the paper as if saying *uh you tell me not to tear paper and now you are encouraging me to do so* ..
however the cake he had no problem tearing into.. at first he was like *there is something on my thumb* and than he tasted it and it was all over with from there! i was pleasantly surprised that ron had a piece of birthday cake with us, he isnt much into sweets and this i think was one of the few times that he has ever eaten a piece of cake...

fast forward to today...

we have rented some furniture from rent a center ~ yes yes i know cringe cringe cringe at the thought of that, but hear me out, now although im not a huge fan of the cost once completely paid for, i will tell you that when you need something replaced and when you dont have the cash up front they are good in a pinch and well lets face it if you dont like it, cant afford it, or whatever.. you send it back and there is no questions asked..

so what brought us to this point...

my mils couch and love seat.. now mind you they are decades old.. okay maybe not decades but at least i would guess 12-14 years old maybe.. and if you didnt make sure the wood was in the right place on the love seat.. yes i said wood.. as in 3 pieces of wood under the cooshin .. well than you would fall into the gaping hole and end up stuck in it with your butt on the floor.. (honestly seriously yes that bad) the couch wasnt as bad off and i believe they are going to toss it into our storage unit for now (just incase) ~ the couch however did have this huge hole and although tossing stuffing from the couch to the floor became one of owens favorite past times.. its one that just wasnt cool ~
so ron and i opted to rent some furniture until we can find replacement stuff.. we went and picked it out.. and although when seeing it today for the first time other than in a picture from their book.. it had to have time to grow on us.. i will give it that it is comphy as all get out.. we are still on the *fence* about if we like it or not.. but in time we will see.

at least we arent on the floor.. Owens not playing toss the stuffing and no one has any more fears of being swallowed by the love seat any time in the near future!

well im being bugged to go with lil ron to bait catch so i will update this some more later...

Friday, August 7, 2009

early morning hours of August 7th

wow what a busy past few days.. well sort of ~

Owen turned 1 on august 4th, cant believe he is one already.. seems like just yesterday we were heading to the hospital to start the induction process and here we are already one year later ~ some days i just wish he would slow down! but one thing i have learned over the years.. when it comes to kids, dont blink because you will miss so much of them growing up and just be left wondering *where did the time go?*
ron had to work on owens birthday *pouts* and since it was the day the xbox was to be sent back to moms house via ups and required a signature, well me and all 3 boys spent the day down there lounging in her pool.. oh dont be jealous, its not some huge luxury in ground pool.. its more of the kiddie sized sits on her back porch and is enough to keep you cool and the kids having fun ~ okay owen and wyatt having fun *lol*
thankfully lil ron hung out with me and helped keep an eye on the younger guys while i did some minor help around moms house during the time we were there.

argh.. i started this the other night and never did get it finished.. here i am days later trying to remember what i was talking about to post on it.. so i guess i will move on to a new post and try to finish up from there...

Saturday, August 1, 2009

august 1st

its hard for me to believe that our little man Owen will be 1 years old on the 4th.. just days from now.. i keep thinking back to last year and knowing that it was any day now that i would be heading to my doctors office to find out what the plan was going to be as far as induction date to have him...

and now here we are 1 year later and i cant help but tear up when he looks at me standing in the living room and just gives me that HUGE smile with loved filled eyes ~

its around each of the boys birthdays that i start thinking about the days they were born and how i just cant imagine that so much time has past and how big each one of them are getting..

we went to walmart last night where little ron bought his first bike out of money that he himself earned clamming the past week.. *wow* he is getting way to big and way to fast ~ he loves to go clamming with *uncle* chris during the summer months and is hoping to get in a few more weeks of clamming before school starts back up.. this time he is going to save up to buy himself a kiack (ack at the spelling) something he has been wanting that we just dont have the extra cash to afford to buy him at this time.

wyatt is with owen at moms house this weekend, playing and having a good time im sure. we did pick up a small kiddy sized pool for the house (made of hard plastic to be clyde safe) for them to play in during the days that little ron will be clamming and where wyatt just doesnt want to go to the end of the road, not many kids live in the neighborhood and very few his age ~

ooh a small mommy brag moment ~
little ron had rode his new bike down to the end of the street today to see who all was down there .. the normal *drunkards* but still.. they talked to him for a bit and told him that tyler (a kid who lil ron spent much time with this summer and last summer) might be coming to live with his mom full time (he currently lives with his dad out of state) .. anyways. they told lil ron how they felt that he (tyler) has changed so much the past few years from the kid that orgionally came down for the first time last summer to the kid that left this summer to head home thanks to hanging out with little ron.
that is a HUGE compliment that they felt that he had helped tyler be a better person ~

we always get tons of complimants from parents around here whos kids hang out with little ron .. he is a really great kid!

we are on to cycle 2 of ttc now *pouts* a bit disheartening to me because i was really hoping it would happen quickly and it brings back alot of scare that we will again find ourselves trying forever for baby number 4.. a time period that we just dont have..
thankfully i have the most awesomess husband who is extremely supportive of everything and understands and comforts me when i get down about it. he truly is the best and i am ever so lucky to have him as mine forever ~

ron is working again tonight.. although im not sure till how long, he is trying to get one of the guys to change with him.. he says he just wants to come home and spend some quality time together .. although who knows what will happen..

we are looking hard now for a cheap used has 4 wheels and runs kind of car *lol* our requirements are so low on this one its not funny and the cheaper, truly the better for us right now.
at tax time we will upgrade.. at first we were talking a suburban but now ron is thinking a passanger van might even be better.. not my first choice because i just dont like vans but, he has some valid points on it .. our biggest concern is size.. the bigger the better because we have to fit little rons still growing long legs into it. when we origionally traded our envoy in for our aspen, we had plenty of room and now find ourselves in the same situation of no room again in the aspen..

i am so looking forward to getting back to basics with everything its not funny.. i miss the *simpler* life with less payments going out and more money to do the little things with.. even a weekend trip to the zoo or a nice small close to home camping trip ~ its the little things that we can do to bring and keep our family close together and give our kids the great memories of growing up that is needed... and wanted by all.
somewhere along the lines of over priced car payments and what not, that all got lost but no more will life be that way for us ever again..
i would rather leave a credit'less life than to have to owe everyone..
i once said that *you know when you have it all because it belongs to everyone else* and i realize now what a wrong statement that was.. yes we had our house that we were buying, a brand new car in the driveway, furniture payments etc.. but were these things the things that made us truly happy? no they werent.. what truly made us happy was just being together.
our current situation isnt ideal .. and we are slowly working on that, one thing at a time, one paycheck at a time.. and soon we will be to where we wish to go. as i told ron, the only time i will accept another *payment* would only be to a home and than i would want to have a good down payment and low monthly payments ... it would deff have to be worth our while.. even though i hate the idea of lining someone elses pocket to pay their mortgage or whatever in a rental and know that its *throwing away money* homes in our area are expensive and a move is not anywhere in our future. one thing we also agree on is our childrens educations are important and i will not lower their education to make a home more affordable..