Little Update...

My appt. with Baker went well, I got to look around at the campus and decided that I really like it there, they have a small campus with small class sizes 25 max per class. They also have a surgical tech. program that I am taking a serious look at. I still plan to wait until fall to start, but I have filled out my FAFSA and found out that I should be eligble for lots of aid....which is good. I need to call back today and set up a time to go and take the COMPASS test that will be the equivilent of my GED, something that Baker offers that a lot of colleges don't. The test covers reading, writing and math. 2/3 don't concern me at all but the math is iffy...I have studied as much as I can and plan to study a little more this weekend on that portion and figure by the weeks start I will be ready. Once I pass that test(which I will) lol....I can get the ball rolling on everything else.
On another note I woke up with a sore throat yesterday, all the germs floating around in my house finally got to me...I wish there was some sort of germ protection suit for parents, that way when your kids get sick you could put it on and still cuddle them without getting sick.
My plan is to nyquil myself over the weekend and hopefully stop it before it gets too bad.
Well I just wanted to give you all the update on my Baker appt. now I am off to my domestic duties:)

Does it ever end????

My evening was spent at Urgent Care....Dillion has had a cough for a week or so but yesterday he spiked a high fever 103.3....so despite the ice covered roads I decided he needed to be seen. Luckily it wasn't busy so we got in and out pretty quickly, come to find out he has an upper resp. infection, which calls for mortin and tylenol and sleep. The Dr. didn't make the best first impression on me, she kinda ticked me off at the beginning....she asked what was going on and I said he is coughing like crazy and last night he could barely sleep because of it, to which she replied "mom can't sleep huh?" ummm...no lady actually I am concerned for my child who is not feeling well, normally he is bouncing off the walls and now he is just laying around doing nothing! Now I relize there are some moms who take their kids in hoping for sleepy time medicine... that is not me, I only take my kids in if I feel that they are uncomfortable. My comfort comes second to my kids always has and always will!
This is one of my biggest complaints about urgent cares, ERs, hospitals and in some cases pcp's!
They see your kid once every year sometimes more for 20 minutes, they have no idea what their personality is, what their activity level normally is. They rely on what the parents tell them but there are times when they just refuse to listen to them or cut them off half way through what they are trying to tell them. Now that I have gotten through that little rant, today is my appt. with Baker...kind of excited/ nervous about that me going back to school is a big step and I am looking forward to it but also starting to feel unsure about it.
Well I hope you all have a good day!

Back to School....

Today I set up an appointment with an admissions advisor at Baker, I hope to enroll in fall classes, that way both boys will be in full time school and I will only need a sitter for Savannah. I am not 100% sure what I want to do yet but I am leaning toward medical asst. as we all know the medical field is the place to be right now.
So I am super excited to get more info and get things started...this all comes in light of the idea that Claud will be faced with a choice soon of either working on his own with the carpentry thing or go and get a job with far less pay then he is worth. And should option B come we will need to make up the difference somehow.
Anyway, I was just so excited that I thought I would share.

You Know That Phrase TGIF?....

Well that is far from the Friday we had.
So Claud headed to work Friday morning which was a good thing and I had plans to go to my sisters house in the morning after dropping Cj off at school but at the last minute I decided I better not go since I had laundry to do here and kinda wanted to lay in bed a few extra minutes. So Claud decided to take him for me...good day starting right? No.
About 10 am I was doing laundry and had just started the dryer when Dillion says "Mom this is smoking" so I turn to look and see him pointing at my definatly smoking fusebox. Now I had no clue what to do so I called Claud from the home phone, I said "claud our fusebox is smoking" to which he said "what" and at that exact moment there was a loud POP and the door to the fusebox flew open and a flame shot out...and of course the phone and all power went out. Luckily my husband is fast acting and was in the front door in seconds...he ran in and hit the main breaker (something I didn't think of nor know where it was) This stopped the smoking. It was the water heater circuit breaker that blew or melted or caught on fire whichever way you look at it. Well it melted the plastic on the box and up behind the other breakers so we have now replaced the entire box. Luckily we still have a house!!! I am very glad that I am a slacker and haven't stayed up on housework.
So that was my Friday how was yours?

Good Morning

Well I think that my little angel babies have learned how to shut this alarm clock off too now...I woke up real late this morning and rushed the boys to school. I am getting so upset with myself because I can't seem to get to sleep early and then of course I can't wake up early. I try to go to bed at a decent time, but I just lay there and can't sleep. I have pretty much cut out my evening coffee breaks except for Mon. nights when I am working anyway.
If anyone has a suggestion for a really really loud alarm please let me know...I have a big ben and that isn't working in time for me.
So far this has been a busy week for us, I went to work with Claud on Tues. which was ok although there isn't a whole lot that I can help him with until it is time to clean up his mess which is what I do here on a daily basis lol!
But it gives me a chance to get out of the house during daylight hours anyway. And I have learned that when I grow up I don't want to be a carpenter. :)
Also this week we added a new member to our family her name is Ladybird...Lady for short and she is a coonhound mix puppy....and I say puppy lightly because she is the size of my 30# Scruffy! She is Clauds pup, so he is happy that he has a dog to call his very own and I am happy that we have a 2nd dog that is a quick learner which she is! We have only had her for 4 days and she is already going to the door and whining to go outside, staying when we let Scruffy out and she is getting sit down pretty well. This makes me happy as I was not looking forward to another puppy phase. Although she does want to eat the neighborhood cats...mainly because she is a coonhound and that is kinda what they do.
Well that is about the most excitement I can tell you about today, and since claud is headed off to work that means I can go back to my domestic duties which today include a bunch of running and cleaning the house which is in dire need since I haven't really been home all that much this week.
Well hope you all enjoy your day!

Sorry I Haven't Posted....

Things have been very busy around here this weekend, we decided to repaint our living room and hallway I had it yellow and decided I didn't really like it very well. So now it is a dark beige.
My father in law was admitted into the hospital last night with pnemonia (sp?) they plan to keep him a couple of days before they release him. And since he is sick I have been working with Claud, I am not too much help but just enough to make life easier than only having one person...I am a good gopher!
Cj was the victim of an icicle attack Sat. morning also he has a small puncture on his forehead and a lump and he also learned that I was right and ice can be sharp and hurt you.
My big plan for today is to try to catch up on the laundry and watch the race....hopefully I won't fall asleep in the middle of it like I normally do.
So until next time adios!

Finally...

Today we finally had a day without 2 hour delays or no school!!!! Dillion missed yesterday because he had a little case of pink eye...but with antibotics he was able to go back today.
Things are still slow going around here, Claud has been so sick the last three days he didn't even leave the house and although he left this morning he is due back soon to head back to bed, poor guy.
We have plans this weekend to go out it has been a long time since we have gone on a date of sorts without any kids. I am really looking forward to spending some time with my husband. Hopefully all goes well and we don't have to cancel on account of sick kids or sick adults.
There isn't really too much to tell Savannah is back to being Savannah in the sense that she is into everything and her favorite word at the moment is no! I think I liked it better when she wasn't feeling good and all she wanted to do was sit quietly and cuddle...guess that is done for now.
This Thursday is Valentines Day...so the kids and I have been making out their valentines cards to hand out in class, I just got Dillions class list and we already had some of the kids names...wow I spelled a lot of them wrong, hopefully they will still know who they belong to lol.
Well until next time....

What I Want To Be??

As I sit here at 26 years old...I have been a wife for 6 1/2 years, a mother the same amount of time. I have 3 kids who mean the world to me but that I am tired of being home with all day everyday. Not in a I can't stand my kids sort of way but in a is there life out there? sort of way.
I have been home for 5 years and I am sick of it. I want to get out in the workforce and meet new people and experince new things.
There are a few setbacks, #1 when I was in high school I actually had a social life so much of one that I couldn't let school interfere so I didn't go often...then not at all.
#2. I haven't gone and gotten my GED I want to but I am so afraid that I will fail at that too just like I have with everything else in my life. #3. I don't really know what I want to be when I grow up? I have thought of lots of careers but I can't afford to do half of them I would like to be a nail tech but that takes schooling and being able to spend money to make it and I don't have that right now. Anyway, this is my rambling for the day.
There was more I wanted to say but for now this is good enough .

4-1/2 out of 5...

So now the sick count is at 3 for sure, Claud, Savannah, and Dillion. I am not feeling real bad but I have fought it since the minute I felt it coming on. Savannah has gotten a little better over the last day, Claud is pretty much sick and Dillion isn't talking much which means he is very sick!
Cj hasn't even gotten it yet which is a good thing I am hoping it will slide right past him but who knows.
I don't know what we have but after my venture to meijer today it sounds like we aren't the only ones with this cough crap!!
Anyway, I had better get going I have to fill in at the resturant tonight so I need some down time before I go in.
Thanks again for taking the time to read and remember to leave a comment soI know you were here :)

Back to school, back to school....

Cj got to go back to school just in time for the upcoming weekend! Of course poor Dillion only got one day of school this week:(
So I have begun looking a little more seriously for a job somewhere...not an easy feat by any means but I have to do something. One reason is we could use the extra money and the other is that I am tired of being a stay at home mom..I love my kids more than anything else in this world but I have been home full time since Dillion was born (he'll be 5 in June)
There are the occasional nights that I fill in for my Dad but that doesn't help our income too much, and it is only one night a week or less once bowling season is over.
I have been evaluating where we are and where I want to be a lot more lately, and the only way to get where I want to be is to do some changing to our daily life. I won't go into all the details since it is an incrediably hard time for us right now, but we have got some stuff to work on....financially anyway.
Well I have rattled on long enough and I don't think half of it makes sense so I will stop for now enjoy your weekend.

I amaze myself....

I was right it is another snow day! The nice part was they called it off last night so I didn't have to get out of bed to see there was no school. So my oldest son has decided it will be a money making chore day...which is fine by me :) Dillion is just working on a puzzle, and Savannah is laying around like she has for the last two days....she has a little bit of a cough, not terribly sick but enough to make her pretty unambitous. I feel so bad for her. It seems that this crap is going around pretty much all over the place, my sister and my dad both have it and I haven't been feeling all that well either. Well I am off to cuddle Savannah some more...she doesn't like to be away from her mom too much when she is ill.

I predict......

another snow day a comin'!!!! It is snowing big time now and is not supposed to stop in the near future, it is only 2:30 and the kids are already going nuts being housebound, I think we may be going to build a snowman soon! Just to get them out of the house for a bit. Although with the big flakes coming down we may just have a buried snowman by morning:)
well enjoy your snowday!

Another Snow Day

Well I managed to get to bed a lot earlier last night...I went to bed at 7pm, I wasn't feeling very good sore throat and whatnot so I figured I had better take some nyquil and head to bed.
So out of bed I popped at 6 am and came out to turn on the tv and saw school had been cancelled. Again Cj is pretty happy! I think that they are going to be working on some chores today so that they can have a good payday on Friday. Last night Dillion came to me piggy bank in hand and said I am missing my 2 dollars, so we promptly searched Cj and found he had 2 dollars in his pocket, of course they weren't Dillions? So we had a talk with our oldest about the fact that if he did more chores he could have dollars too but he was not to steal them from Dillion. Then I taught Dillion how to hide his bank.
We are learning that trying to teach kids about money is a hard thing to do, but they are slowing catching on to the fact that if they do the work they get the money and if not, well their piggy bank remains empty.
Our morning is just beginning so I don't have much else to tell at the moment. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

What a morning

So I woke up late this morning at 7:30 to be exact! I couldn't sleep for some reason last night so I didn't get to bed until 2 am or after. Of course the boys were up already as they are every morning...typically they get up, shut my alarm (which we never hear) off and flip on the tv to watch cartoons. So this morning I woke up, looked at the clock and said "oh *poop*!!!!" So I yell at the boys to hurry up and get dressed as we are soooo late! They are due at school by 7:45 and 7:50, I dive out of bed and into the living room...turn on the news as I always do just to be sure school isn't delayed or cancelled and low and behold they have a 2 hour delay (or for Dillion no school) So I turned my attention from hurry and get ready to "oops nevermind" So instead I went and woke up Claud so he could head off to work.
Now they are calling for 6-9inches of snow tonight which may mean Dillion will miss another day of school, he hates missing school. He likes to go and see his friends and play, this morning he almost cried when I told him he couldn't go.
Cj on the other hand came up with at least 25 excuses for why he couldn't go to school...his legs hurt, he was having a bad hair day, whatever he thought might work. unfortunatly for him at 9:30 we headed out the door for school.
So that was our very exciting morning....let's see if we can replay it tomorrow....lol

Just Getting Started

So I have decided it is time to really get serious about this blogging thing that everyone is talking about. This first entry will just fill you all in a little about our family.

Claud: this is my darling husband he is 29 years old, he does carpentry for a living with his Dad. Claud enjoys hunting and anything related to guns and shooting (not in a scary kinda way though)

He is absolutely the best friend I have ever had and a great dad. Most people describe him as quiet and mild mannered, yeah they don't know him tooo well. I think he is just one of those people who says what he thinks and will be totally honest when asked a question.

this is our oldest boy CJ(claud jr.) he is 6 years old and in the 1st grade. He is our little "genius" he thinks he has all the answers in the world:)

Anytime we are working on anything he is right there to tell us how it is done or should be done anyway.

He is a pretty smart boy though, at this point he is reading at a high 2nd grade level and is good with math too!

He is also the most sensitive child we have, the littlest things can send him into tears(poor kid)

He also enjoys watching hunting shows with Dad and going fishing in the summer, he even has his first gun all picked out a pink cricket lol

this is Dillion, he is in preschool at the moment and loves going everyday. He hates Fridays because that is the one day a week that he doesn't have school. He is our hyper boy, he never stops moving or talking even in his sleep. i guess he just always has something to say. Dillion loves Tom and Jerry that is his absolute favorite show to watch! He will be starting kindergarten in the fall and we are all looking forward to that!

and finally last but not least this is lil' miss Savannah. She is a princess...or at least she thinks she is. Savannah is devoloping quite a little attitude or the terrible twos have set in we aren't sure which it is.

She can be a cuddly girl too though when she wants to be. Everything that she sees his hers at this point as with most 2 year olds, "my mom" my dad" my baby"" my toy"

She is learning new words everyday and is growing so very fast. She recently learned to say I love you which is so awesome to hear.

So that is everyone in our family, I hope that fills you in a little on who we are. I will come back as soon as I can to fill in a little more!