Sick of the cemetery

Sick of the cemetery in my front yard. Would you believe there are two new crosses today. This is something great for Chase, what are my legal rights as a homeowner and tax payer? I realize the state has the right of way but the family placing the crosses in my yard does not! I think its funny they don't do this stuff when we aren't at home. We have a friend with DOT so maybe he will pull them next week. I don't understand their grieve. I hope I never know their pain, however, my children are traumatized by the event, much less the reminder every day. I offered to place the crosses in the woods were the two people died and I offered for them to plant a tree in my yard where it happened. I think I'll get a piece of plywood and paint drinking and driving kills and nail it to the top of the crosses. Wouldn't they just love that. Chase check into it and let me know.

After church Annie and I went to BJ's and Target. I am so tired I could barely get my car unloaded and the items put away. This morning Annie bathed in my tub and did something to the facet so the water will not turn off completely. It's much more than a drip. I had to go downstairs in the basement and turn all the water off. I turned it back on to do some laundry. Ricky should be home in a little while hopefully he can get it fixed before the well runs dry.

That's all for now, I really have a lot to do.

TGIF

I think I use that heading a lot! What a day. My week has been fairly calm. I have a parent in the center who is the most arrogant ugliest jerk I have even encountered. They have been in the center about seven weeks. Everyday its something with this man. I don't know that he has a paying job, he does some kind of warrior swordsmanship stuff. I don't know what that is, he wears a lot of camo with wife beater t's in a variety of color. Anyway, he crossed the line today. I called him at 8:15 am to pick up his child, he finally came at 10:30 am. When the monsoon came on Tuesday the roof was pouring water in, in two different places. We were able to get that taken care of yesterday.

My sister says I don't blog enough. I do not run the air conditioner where my computer is, some days it is too hot to come upstairs.

Oh how could I forget that there was a letter about me in the letter to the editor section of our local paper. The girl that wrote the letter had a child in pre-k last year. I don't have anything to worry about, she is local white trash. Her opinion doesn't upset me at all.

We are off Monday. I'm sure Ricky will have something to do. I want to go to Murphy to the flea market but I think he has some archery stuff this weekend. I don't want to take Brance and Annie by myself, they will drive me crazy.

I watched the Bucket List last night. Have you seen it? I loved it. Michelle got me hooked up with Net Flicks for $5 a month.

How bout John McCain with a female running mate! John McCain nothing, how bout them dawgs! We play tomorrow.

It's Raining!

We had a little excitement yesterday with the cemetery in the front yard. When we came in from church a crowd was gathered. They had already put a cross in the ground and decorated it. I asked them not to do that, they started yelling at us like the white trash they are. Ricky told me just to drive to house and we called the sheriff's dept. The deputy told the people they cannot put anything in my yard without a legal document stating so. Although the state has a 50 foot right of way, the crazy people do not. The property belongs to me regardless. Our county does not have any say so because it is a state highway. I called our attorney today, he said if it continued we would file charges against them but hopefully now they would stop. We had posted a no trespassing sign on Thursday, anything they do on my property, whether it is in the right of way or not, can cause they prosecution. How petty is that? We did offer for them to plant a tree in our yard but they don't want to do that, they only want a cross in the yard. I hope this ends soon. I don't have time for this extra drama in my life.

It appears to be raining a monsoon! We are so excited about it. Of course Ricky will not work at all this week, but he isn't sad about it. He unloaded three pieces of pipe today. No housework or anything, that would be too much. He still has a few pieces of beard board to finish and some trim work so maybe he will get that done for me. I'm not going to hold my breath.

I am a Republican. I am so sick of hearing about Obama Mama and Democrats that I can't see straight. Why don't they talk to any Republicans on tv? My US Weekly magazine always shows Democrat supporters, where's the Republicans? Melissa Joan Hart is Republican, do you hear anything out of her, NO!

I bought a 48 inch tv from a friend that is getting a divorce, it doesn't fit anywhere in my house. It has been in the garage for three weeks. Ricky and I finally rolled it into the bedroom and I have been watching Annie's EHSS dvd's on it. You have to roll the tv out of the way to walk into the bedroom. Is that stupid or what?

I have laundry to do...

We are already home...

Ricky and I left yesterday for Pigeon Forge and we are already home! We went to the stores we like, ate dinner at the Alamo and went back to our room. How nice is that. When we were getting on the elevator yesterday afternoon, Lee Greenwood was getting out. He spoke to both of us I think Ricky and I were both a little surprised at seeing him. I told Brance and Annie about it and they were mad because I didn't get an autograph. This morning as we were leaving the lobby to go back to our room, he came in to check out. We went back upstairs to get our stuff. As we were walking though the lobby, Lee went to sit down on the lobby sofa with his Soduka book. I went over and talked to him about the kids. He was so kind. I didn't have anything for him to write on so he went outside to his car (A 700 series BMW) and got two photos out to autograph for the kids. He shook our hands and said he hoped to see us again sometime. I told Ricky I really hated to bother him, but if he didn't want to be bothered he should have stayed in his room not the hotel lobby.

We left Pigeon Forge and went to Sweetwater, TN to the Flea Mall. It is suppose to be the largest flea market in Tennessee, well it's not! After three hours we finally made it home. I want to go back shopping with the girls. They are opening two new shopping areas in Pigeon Forge later in the fall so I want to wait until they are both opened.

Enough for now...

What a MESS!

Okay I told you about the wreck on Friday. On Monday there was a really large flower arrangement in my driveway, I put it in the garage. Last night when we got home from our softball game, there were two big wooden crosses. Ricky pulled those down. He loaded everything in my car this morning for me to put in the dumpster at work. The GSP called to tell me they were finished but it would take at least a month before they would have a crew to clean up the yard. When I got home today there was flowers, yard ornaments and two teddy bears in the yard. Ricky and I got it all cleaned up including the orange flags and the crime scene tape and posted a private property no trespassing sign. Enough is enough. The local newspaper said that the driver of the car is lodged at the county jail. He is being charged with DUI, two counts of vehicular homicide in the first degree, failure to maintain lane, reckless driving, and failure to maintain tires.

My work is pretty calm this week. Heather is back in school taking 14 hours. I sure missed her this morning. Ricky and I are taking off on Friday for the weekend without our kids. We are going junkin'. We haven't been off together in several years. Mom is staying with Brance and Annie. She offered to stay with them for a weekend early in the summer and we just couldn't get any time away. We have our first championship softball game tomorrow night at 9 pm. It is single elimination so I'm sure it will be our last game.

I have a lot of laundry to get done and I need to get the house picked up so mom won't feel like she has to do it. Ricky has some archery friends coming over tonight since he won't get to play with them all weekend.

Until then...

Ready to start the week

I can't believe it is Sunday already. We skipped church today. Mom and I took the kids to the Croy reunion, that's my papa's side of the family. He is the only sibling left. Can you imagine out living all your brothers and sisters? It was really nice, I spent most the time with my cousin Kelly and her friend Maggie. They are really sweet.

So about my weekend. I'll start with Friday. About 5:30 pm a car crashed into a tree in my front yard and ejected two of its occupants, killing them in my front yard. Apparently speed and a little alcohol can do that to you. What an ordeal. Ricky and I walked out to see what was happening, we told the kids to stay in the house with Beulah. Brance called me on Ricky's cell phone to find out the scoop. He and Annie were hanging out his second story bedroom window with his binoculars checking it out for themselves. The bodies remained in my front yard for nearly three hours. The car was finally removed about 9:30 pm. My front yard and drive way look like Grand Central Station. Everybody in North Georgia is riding out to check out the "crime scene". The Georgia State Patrol called it a crime scene. On Friday we couldn't use the driveway until they finished laying out their reenactment. Lots of orange paint and flags. There is yellow crime scene tape around the trees. The road we live on is a state highway so it was shut down for more than four hours also. The GSP told me they would be back out here Monday and Tuesday and possibly more. They would shut the road down again to reenact the entire screen. Because the driver of the car lived, it is a prosecutable case. My kids have talked a lot about the ordeal, but more about drinking and driving. I was afraid they would have nightmares but so far, so good.

My brother and his wife had their baby on Thursday. Jacob Michael is three weeks early at 10 pounds and 22 inches. Mom and I took Brance and Annie to Warner Robins yesterday to see him. He is beautiful but HUGE! Brandi was her sweet self, I think she is pretty miserable. She needed a c-section and didn't get one. She has since received two pints of blood and not much rest. Michael has turned into this nurturing unbelievable person. He has always had a good heart, just something is different.

I'm sure I won't see them again until Christmas, then I have to divide the time up with Hayden and Walker also.

I hear the kids downstairs tearing the house down. It's time to intervene.

Hump Day, two days to go...

What a way my week has started. We have 60 pre-kers. 50 of these kids have not been in care before now. They have stayed home with mom or grandma. Trying to get them away from their momma's is heartbreaking. I generally unload them in the morning at the door by myself. On Tuesday, I got kicked by three separate kids, I drug one into the building before his mother ran over both of us with her car, and another one kicked me and hit while she told me she hated me until I took her into her room. And the third just laid down and yelled for 40 minutes. I am totally exhausted before 8:30 am. My arm is hurting so bad I'm sure the skin is the only thing keeping it attached. The doctor gave me this brace to wear that is so big it would fit a 500 pound man, I asked for a pediatric brace but they don't come in pediatric sizes. Yeah, right. They gave me a pediatric blood pressure cuff both times I was in labor, why not a brace that actually fits. Needless to say, I'm not wearing the brace.

Today was a lot better. The two boys got out of their cars willingly and the little girl told me good morning when I opened her car door. Much, much better. We still have those typical first time away from their momma kids, but mostly, they are a pretty good group. Michelle, the other bus driver cut her thumb last week on a candy lid and cut her tendon in two. She had surgery Monday and probably won't be back until next week. I've had to drive am and pm. I'm really sick of that. Did you know it's probably more than 100 degrees on that bus when I'm sitting in school parking lot. Today I got so sleepy waiting for school to dismiss that I almost went to sleep. Can you imagine those kids finding me dead while I was waiting for them? Yuck! Being a director isn't a very glamorous job, regardless of the pay. Ms. Sara was out two days last week and I had to cook for 125 kids. Maybe I should look for another job!

We had a church softball game last night at 9 pm. On the way to the game I noticed Annie had tape on her Crocs. She cut the straps at school yesterday because she was bored. She has to sweep the house to work off the money I paid for them. She wasn't so happy about that. Maybe she will learn to take a book to read or something.

I think I have just enough time to get a nap before Ricky comes home. It looks a little rainy outside and I saw his truck at the gas station when I came by in the bus so he is probably at the shop lolly gagging around. He doesn't have time to start anything today.

My brother's wife is being induced in the morning at 4 am. Maybe we will have a new baby tomorrow. The first Morris since my brother was born. My dad and my brother are the only Morris'. Michelle has three kids and me two, but none with the Morris last name. Michael is planning to name his baby Jacob Wayne after my daddy or Jacob Michael after himself. I asked if I could call him JW or JM like I call James Brian, JB and he said NO! We would call him Jake. Jake's a dog name. Anyway I said okay Jake the snake and he said no again. Jake the "Super Snake". I knew a car would be involved in this one way or another. Its a good thing he isn't having a little girl or he would probably name her Carol Shelby!

The beginning of a new week...

I can't believe its time to start a new week. School is off to a great start, Amy has taken Brance to school for two days. We don't have a lot of aftercare kids yet, I'm off about 15 kids. I'm sure this week the numbers should change some at least I hope so!

Ricky left Friday for Columbus with some of his boyfriends for the ASA Archery Tournament. Heather and I went to Ernie Haase and Signature Sound Friday night. I'm pretty sure Heather only went with me to keep from hurting my feelings but she really enjoyed herself. I can't believe I spent my Friday night at a gospel singing! It was well worth it. When I get through blogging, I'm going to youtube sigsound and watch videos for a little while. I did the kitchen really clean yesterday. There is nothing on the cabinets or the table. Also all the laundry is done. Unless of course Brance and Annie have something tucked under the bed that I haven't found yet. I'm watching something on VH1 so its hard to type and watch child stars.

That's enough for today...

Where do I start?

It's that time of year that I say "I hate pre-k!". Pre-k drives me crazy. It's a good thing I'm a little afraid of alcohol or I would sure pull a weekend bender. We have lost and replaced about 10 kids in less than five days. The 60 that I have enrolled all have a reason to complain about something. 20 of these pre-kers parents have paid full childcare for at least three years, now that there are getting "free care" in pre-k, they want to complain. I am so sick of cry baby parents that I can't see straight. Today I had a grandparent come by that I have never met to tell me how to run the program as well as numerous parents and kids that wanted to visit their teacher (we don't do that) before tomorrow. We had a lady call at least two weeks ago for a three year old spot. At the time we had one available. She showed up today and got mad and left because we were full and we told her two weeks ago we had a spot. She was also mad because I would not stop what I was doing and give her a tour of the school. It was nap time, I was laminating and sucking down my lunch so I could make it to a 1 pm appointment. She came about 12:45 pm. I think these folks live under a rock most of the time.

Brance had middle school open house last night. He is excited but nervous. He has exploring China as an elective class for nine weeks. China? Who would have thought it. I drive the preschool bus in the morning and afternoons to Annie's school to transport kids so that leaves Brance riding the big bus. Darlene's husband Jeff teaches at the high school so he offered to take Brance with him and Susannah (Darlene's youngest child also in middle school) every day. I am so relieved. Tomorrow Amy (the middle child she is 22) is going to take Brance and Susannah to breakfast then to school. He is really happy, he loves Amy and Susannah so much. Annie had open house today, she has a young teacher that I like, Annie thinks she's mean.

We ate supper at mom's she had just taken a squash dressing out of the oven when we left the elementary school so we went straight over there. It sure was good. I have laundry going, the kids and I are bathed and lights will be out at 7:30 pm. I love having a school routine. We had a 8 pm softball game last and a 7 pm game tomorrow.

Oh, I almost forgot, Ernie Haase and Signature Sound are in Cumming on Friday night. I'm four rows from the front! Annie doesn't want to go so I'm taking Heather from work.

Where had our summer gone?

I can't believe school starts on Thursday. We really haven't had a summer. Both kids went to Perry for a few days but that's all. I at least try to take them to Pigeon Forge for a few days but we haven't got to go anywhere. The summers are really tough for me at work. I have so much happening that it is almost impossible to take a day off. I had planned to take a long weekend and go to Jacksonville, of course that didn't work out either. Hopefully we can do something fall break. That's in October. The kids want to go to Las Vegas over Christmas break. We will see what happens.

I took grandma shopping on Saturday. Mom and the kids rode with me. Mom and Annie stayed with Papa, Brance went with us. I took grandma to BJ's she didn't want to show, she just wanted to add me to her club membership. That works for me. I bought some of the same items I buy at Costco without the $50 fee. Mom feels great, she just looks like a raccoon. She goes back to the doctor on Friday to get her stitches checked.

Ricky's aunt died so we went to the funeral yesterday. Nimblewill Baptist Church is very country. The founding families still attend. Right after we married, Ricky's nephews and niece were in the Christmas play. It was on a freezing Friday night, I remember it being really cold because I wore dressy boots and black slacks with a pretty Christmas sweater. I didn't know you couldn't wear slacks to church. Ricky's mom was mortified to put it nicely. She said I humiliated her in front of her friends and church family. How was I to know? Anyway, Ricky and I haven't been back except for a few funerals. Yesterday it was 95 degrees. I met Ricky at the church because I had to drop the kids of at a friends. My friend Lori kept the kids. She attends Nimblewill Baptist Church. I asked her if I could take a bottle of water in the church for Ricky because it was so hot. She said no way, we don't take water in the church. She made me feel crazy for asking. Anyway, you can't wear pants or take in a bottle of water even when its 95 degrees and the air isn't the greatest. I'm sitting in the parking lot under a tree waiting for Ricky when I see four men, yes four men on the church porch smoking cigarettes. One of them is a preacher. What's up with that? Talk about being disrespectful! I can't figure that out. Only in Lumpkin County.

I need to get busy ironing my clothes. I have pre-k orientation tonight and tomorrow night at 5 pm, after my 5 pm meeting today , I have to go over to Head Start for an after school care meeting at 6:30 pm. Annie has a softball party at 6 pm that Ricky said he would take her to. Tomorrow Brance and I both have dentist appointments. I don't have time this week to buy anything for school or groceries.