Where Does the Time Go?

Lets see, what has happened lately? Brance made the middle school baseball team! Annie starts softball practice next Tuesday. We will be running is a lot of different directions over the next two months. Luckily Brance's season only lasts five weeks and Annie should be finished by the end of May. Grandma is finally back home, alone and appears to be doing some better.

Last week my kids were out of school the entire week for Presidents Day so on Thursday mom and I took them to Pigeon Forge for a few days. We stayed in a condo with a nice indoor water area and a few water slides. Mom cooked breakfast for us each day and we had a really good time. Probably the best time we have had in a while.

Of course Ricky stayed home to work. Somebody has to make some money. Michelle changed my background, thank you Michelle! State Farm has finally agreed to put a new roof on my house! I filed a claim last July over some storm damage. A lot of the shingles have fallen off the house. Water is pouring in Annies bedroom. State Farm denied the claim. Of course I won't take no for an answer so I argued with them until they sent someone else back out here. A different claim person came yesterday, she was incredible and really knew what she was doing. She told me they were going to replace the entire roof and I would know the entire settlement by Friday for the interior work. We have water leaks in the living room, both kids bathrooms, nine different places in Annies bedroom, and water leaks in both of the bonus rooms. The way she talked, Annies room is going to have to be totally gutted and started all over. YUCK! This is going to be worse for us than when we had the hardwood installed everywhere downstairs and we moved upstairs for two months. I'm really dreading the mess this is going to be. Sometime I have to get everything in the bonus room organized and moved to the basement as well as packing up Annies room and moving her into the living room. She loves to sleep on the sofa so this will be great for her. Plus Beulah likes to sleep on the sofa with her so I will be able to sleep good and have room to move around.

Well its time to get some supper started, Brance will be hungry when he gets home any minute now.

I haven't been Blog-Jacked yet!

My sister hasn't changed my background yet, she is usually on top of things like that. She is in Banner Elk, NC on a ski trip with Grayson so I'm sure that's why she hasn't high jacked my blog yet. She said they have a lot of snow. They are coming home tomorrow. Can you believe Perry got as much snow as North Georgia? I think Michelle said it was the first snow in about 20 years and the most recorded. I think that's exciting. We were in Las Vegas several years ago when it snowed there for the first time in nearly 30 or 40 years. Right now the sun is shining and the sky is clear.

Annie went to Atlanta with Heather today and Brance has stayed home with Ricky. We didn't have a lot of kids at the preschool so it was a fairly easy day for everyone. Mom and I are taking the kids out of town Thursday. Ricky doesn't need to take off, his brother is planning to leave for Jackson Hole, WY tomorrow for a few days with his family. Ricky and I are going to Collinsville, Alabama for our anniversary in April so sometime after that we will take a trip with our kids as a family. We make sure we do something as a family at least once a year. That's about all the time we can stand to be all together! ha-ha! We really enjoy different things as our kids do, we go to church together every week and we are all home most every night during the week and on weekends so we have a lot of family time together. The kids and I like to travel and Ricky doesn't. We can't stay at home forever because he doesn't want to go anywhere with us. My kids are out of school all week for winter break. I love this school calendar, the next school year has been published and its great also!

Well its time to make the doughnuts! Always something to do...

Ball Season has Started!

I can't believe its already time. Brance started try outs today for middle school ball. That sounds so old to me. He said they take 18 out of about 40 trying out, 7th and 8th graders. I told him not to get hyped up incase he doesn't make it. I signed Annie up for park and rec softball today. I think it will start in a few weeks.

I've been a little sad today. I can't seem to shake it and I don't really have anything to be sad about. Sometimes I guess I just wear my feelings on my sleeves and I know that I shouldn't, afterall I'm 37 years old, you would think I would learn by now. Its alright I'll be over it in a few days.

I am feeling 100% better today! Good enough to exercise. I had to pick Brance up in town at 5:30 pm so that we all got home at the same time tonight and all of us too hungry to wait for me to cook something for supper. I had chicken laid out but as I sat by the loaded chicken truck at the red light it kind of took my desire to eat chicken tonight away!

We are watching our new favorite show, American Pickers. After this is Pawn Stars, we love this history channel stuff. I think that makes us sound like old married people. We are just a few months away from celebrating 15 years and guess what we are going to do? We are going to Collinsville, Alabama to the Collinsville Flea Market! It opens at 4:30 am on Saturday, they are an hour behind us so we can start junkin' at 5:30 am! We are so excited! Ricky wants to drive the Excursion in case we find some good stuff, he is really worse than I am. We are so sad, some people want a nice evening of romance and Ricky and I get all excited over a flea market.

10 Kids NOT YET!

The kids didn't keep up their end of the bargain so no kids yet. Unfortunately for me they have worked in their rooms all day so I may be in for this weekend.

Anytime I have strep or Missy had strep the other one of us gets it. We only talk on the phone and I know it isn't possible for our germs to carry through the phone line but it does. So I've really been sick for more than a week so I sent Missy a text yesterday telling her I couldn't have any contact with her until I got better. Apparently talking to my sister sent the germs my way. I did start an antibiotic yesterday. Last week my daddy had to spend a few nights in the hospital to have some tests run. When I finally got in touch with Missy to let her know, her daddy was in the hospital for a blood clot in his leg. I'm telling you whatever happens to one of us it just happens to the other one, we even got pregnant about the same time! Both of our dads are home and doing much better. My daddy is 100% and Trammell is still working on getting there.

I stayed with the grandma on Friday. She bought all of her stuff home from Peggys and said she isn't going back. This is horrible for Peggy because she will worry about her all the time. Sadly I think the sooner she falls and breaks something the sooner we can all rest. I know that sounds terrible but she has no short term memory, she can't even dial the phone unless she finds the numbers I wrote down beside the phone. I didn't have to straighten chicken feathers or hunt snakes this week, I just had to look under the beds and in the closets to make sure nobody was hiding in there. Now how she is going to stay there alone, I don't know. But I know that God is going to take care it and I just have to let it go.

Ricky left early yesterday for a bow shoot in North Carolina, I had to make a trip into Canton to pick something up, about the time I was getting in the car to start home, mom called and the transmission was out of her car. She was less than 10 minutes from hom but still stranded. I called Darlene to pick her up, she took her to my house where she got my Mustang. I drove the Excursion because the weather was bad and the Mustang slides all over the place. Anyway, Michael is going to get her car picked up and fixed this week and she will keep driving my car. She hasn't driven it before and she loves it. She told me today that she took her big coat with her so if its 50 degrees when she leaves work she can put the top down. I'm glad she is enjoying it. She finally made it to gmas after 1 pm yesterday.

We didn't go to church today. I have just been coughing my head off and didn't want to cough all during the service. I stayed in the bed for a while then finally put my sheets in to wash, I've just been on the sofa the rest of the day. Sooner or later I'll get up and take a shower I just don't really have the energy for that. I need to exercise but I don't want to do that either!

10 Kids Am I Crazy?

I told my kids they could each have 5 kids over on Friday or Saturday to spend the night! Apparently I was thinking when I said this. If they come Saturday they all have to go to church on Sunday, I'll just get the bus from the preschool and we will go like a big happy family. Ricky didn't say a word he knows I'm crazy.

No snow for us Friday night and not enough ice to keep us at home on Saturday. We went to Home Depot for a new dryer and the boys got me all hooked up. My clothes actually dry in about 35 minutes instead of four hours.

Annie doesn't feel so good so I went to church by myself yesterday. I came home to get Annie and we went by the mall on our way to meet daddy at the funeral home. His cousin passed away and the family is just the sweetest people ever so I met Wayne and Margarett in Smyrna. Afterward we took Annie to Cumberland Mall that looks nothing like the days I went there. They have updated it and taken all the water fountains out. It has a lot of teen/junior stores, nothing for boring adults like me. We ate at Maggios, I don't think I'm spelling it right. Ricky ate the left over spaghetti when I got home and seemed to really enjoy it.

I've already exercised so now I'm just playing until I can decide to cook some supper. My kids are probably ready to eat, its been a long day for all of us.