School Shopping DONE!!!!

I finally finished my school shopping, not only did I get the boys stuff all set but I managed to get a few new things for me too (for school that is)
The only bad part was I went with my Mom and left the kids at home with the husband...in a clean house. Well long story short the kids and hubby are still here but the house is no longer clean! I am at the moment sitting on my butt watching Claud pick things up, and I will continue to do so until he is finished. As it wasn't me here this afternoon! I truly wish I was Supermom and could do it all, but I am tired of that role and plan to change the way things go around here, as soon as I watch enough Supernanny to tell me how to get the family to help me out!
Well I am finished complaining for now, I hope you all enjoy the rest of your long holiday weekend!

TMI : ok you have been warned

I am so sick and tired of the week before my period!!! I am a total basketcase for the week before and the week of that it is insane! I go from tired to wide awake, from crying to yelling and every emotion in between. Not to mention the physical pain that I am in, my back, my stomach(right on the line where my c-section scar is) and of course my breasts...I hate this time of month!!!!
I know that my weekend is not going to be getting any better as I have to do the school shopping that has been put off the last 2 weeks, I am not looking forward to dropping over $200 more dollars down! I just went on Weds. and ordered shirts for the kids....$110.00 and I got to leave.
I know that kids are expensive, I know I spend a lot on them that is spread out and I don't realize it then, only when I have to spend it all at once does it bother me this way.
Anyway, I hope you all have a good weekend I am going to curl up and be lazy the rest of the day!

Surgery Date Has Been Set...

They called me today from the dentist office about Dillion's surgery. It is scheduled for October 3rd. On Spet. 26th I have to be available to take the call from IRMC for the pre-op interview. As of right now I know that the surgery is scheduled for 12:30pm but I don't know what time we have to be at the hospital, that I won't know until the 26th.
I am slightly less nervous than I was before, I have decided that this is the best option for him and it will be a great thing once it is done and over with. My neighbor will be watching the other kids for me that day, so that is one less thing for me to worry about.
Please just keep Dillion in your prayers that day, it will help more than you may realize.

I Did It!!!

Last night I had to retake the math portion of the compass test, I went in there with the attitude that if I passed...good....if not the only thing that would happen is I would have to take basic math. Well I passed and was bumped up to pre-algebra!!! I guess the last 6 weeks of refreshing really did pay off for me. The only negative thing about passing was that they had a limited number of classes left that would work around my schedule, so I ended up stuck with a Thursday night class (6-10pm) I had really tried to avoid taking classes that ran until after dark because my eyesight is not so good at night and I hate driving in the dark. Although it is all highway from here to there, so I suppose I will do ok that one day a week...and the other positive is it will cut my babysitting costs a little.
Today will be a major cleaning day for me, last week and the last two days have been so busy that I haven't had a chance to do much around here, but finally my week is coming to a slow down.
I have been doing a lot of thinking about how it will feel to only have one kid home with me during the day once my boys are both in school? I have a feeling it will feel funny to me, but who knows. The one thing I do know is that I will be able to get more errands run and things done duing the day than I can currently.
Well I have nothing else exciting to write about....I hope you all enjoy the rest of your week!

Wedding Time!!!!

This weekend we were very busy! My nephew got married on Saturday...it was a beautiful wedding and I was very thankful to see that it all went over so smoothly, which was all that Kyle and Rachel had hoped for. I have watched these two "kids" since they started dating in high school. I have watched Rachel go from a shy and quiet outsider in our family, to a really big part of it. I have of course seen Kyle go through all of lifes stages even the 16-18 year old stage where it took all my energy to even be around him for 5 minutes and even more not to kill him. I have been witness to this relationship growing over the years, I have seen the good times and some of the bad. I got to see Rachel stressing on Wednesday over the last details of their special day, and I tried my best to help calm her, and let her know that no matter how things went over the day would be beautiful because her and Kyle were going to be married by the end of it and after all that is the whole point right? But even I have to admit what I saw Saturday was the most precious thing I have ever seen in my life. I saw how much love those two truly have for each other, it was expressed so obviously through the night.

It was emotional for me, as in most ways Kyle is more like a baby brother to me than a nephew because there is only a 5 year age difference. Although I wanted him to get married, it is still hard to let go of him being a child.

Well now that I have rambled on I will let you all enjoy some of the pictures from Saturday!

Medical Problems...please pray

This morning we took Dillion in for his dentist appointment with the specialists in Lansing, wow that is one nice office with a great staff! But here is the part that I knew in my heart would have to happen but I prayed that it could be taken care of differently. See Dillion has bottle rot more or less on his front teeth, and some things in this back teeth that were caused from the decay on his front teeth. Well there is needless to say a LOT of work that must be done in his little mouth. I was given 2 options: The first was doing the work in the office under a sedative(such as giving an adult a valum) but having to go there 3-4 times to get all the work completed...in the mean time scaring him from the dentist which at this point he is a tough boy when he goes to.
My second option is him going to the hospital, and being put under gene ral anestiea (sp?) in an operating room and all the work being done and over with in a day's time. I chose option 2...although I REALLY didn't want to, the thought of having my baby put under scares the living hell out of me! But I would rather he got it done and over with so he does not get any more decay and is not scared of the dentist for all of eternity.
This is going to be sometime within the next 6 weeks, and when we go it will be an all day thing...the Dr. told me to plan it for all day as it can take with all the pre op etc....like 6 hours to be done. I plan to find a sitter for CJ and Savannah and then make Claud go with me so I don't have to sit with only my nerves the whole time.

On top of this, I had to make an appt. for Claud to go to the Dr. on Monday as he finally showed me something on him (that has been there a year) that I am concerned about. At this point I will not say where or what it is, hopefully I am overreacting and it is nothing, but I want to be safe rather than sorry. I will let you all know more about it when I do.

Oh and I have yet another kidney infection, I get them once in awhile and I have to say I am sick of them. For the most part it only hurts in my back but the pain sometimes is worse than others, so I am laying around today...and trying to feel better.
I hope you all have a good weekend!

Random Ramblings

Here it is Tuesday and I already have a long list of to do's for the week. Last night I worked at the resturant until 11. Today I have to clean the house...again. Then go get my niece so she can babysit in between my going to class and Claud getting home from work. I have class from 4-7 then I have to go and try to find a pair of flip flops for Savannah to wear this Saturday in my nephews wedding.
Weds. I have a funeral to go to for a friend of the family, the nicest man I think I knew...no matter what others may think of him I think he was a wonderful man who wore his heart on his sleeve. He was one of those few people in this world that really had nothing to give but who would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it. Also on Weds. we have to go to Jackson and pick up Claud's tux for the wedding...hopefully it fits!
On Thursday we have to take Dillion for a dentist appt. that I am not looking forward to, he has some teeth in pretty bad shape and I assume they will remove them, but they will have too sedate him to do it..and that is the part that scares me to death! Plus I again have class on Thursday.
On Friday, we have rehearsal and rehearsal dinner to attend....which will take us well into the night.
Then on Saturday is my lil' nephews wedding day...it seems impossible to me that he is getting married...but all I can do is wish them both all the happiness in the world.
So as you see I have a long week ahead of me, and at the moment it is 10am and I have a house waiting for me to clean it...so I better go and do that now. I hope you all have a good week!