It's been a while

Hey there! Sorry it's been so long since I have been on here to update. I have actually been busy!
My youngest daughter, Drama Queen, just left on Saturday to her g-pa's house, she has never been able to sleep away from home, so this is the first trip away from the family!! Of course, I got the call last night, fairly early, that she wanted to come home. Uh, not happening. She is in New Hampshire, which is about an 8 hr car ride from us. I hope she will have so much fun she will get over the homesickness. My poor baby, maybe that's the problem, I baby her to much!
My son, who didn't go to g-pa's this trip, is home complaining that he's bored. We went and got a trampoline yesterday. It's been fun so far. Hubby has even gone on it, it was so funny to see him doing some kind of activity with our son. When he got off, he said his legs felt giggley! Yes, I jumped too. I am going to get on that thing a lot, I gotta lose some weight and I tell ya, that things makes me tired very quickly!

Weekend in review

I was bored yesterday so I thought I would get out and use my camera a bit. I took some pictures of the flowers in the backyard. I am not, by any means, a photographer so taking nature photos is kinda cool. Here are just a few. The one up top is my kitty, Sunshine. She is so sweet. She likes to lick my legs for some odd reason. The birdhouse is very old, obviously. The flowers are one bush that has 2 different colors on it. Cool.

The family and I were supposed to go to see fireworks in Laurel, with my friend and her family plus a bunch of other families that we know, but I didn't feel like it, so we stayed home. I layed in bed, I am PMSing, and watched "deadliest catch" for about 3 hours. That show is just insane! I did feel a bit better and thought that my life could be worse, check out those guys.

We decided to sell our Little Tikes playground. When I say playground, it is huge, with swings. I had to go out and pressure wash it to clean it up for the people coming tomorrow to look at it. I think it probably took about an hour to get all the crude off of it. We've had it for about 7 yrs, but it looks new. That rocks! I want to get a trampoline for the kids, and for me too. It will be so awesome for us to get out there and just have fun. I can't wait. Hubby thinks someone is going to break a bone in the first 2 days, he's a party pooper!!

So, I ended up pressure washing the entire house!! I love doing that! I like that I can clean just about anything with that machine. Sididng, gutters, windows and I even cleaned the patio in the backyard. Good times. I am really tired and soaking wet but it was all good.

My brother and niece came over and stayed all weekend. It's cool to have my niece over, she's that same age as my daughter, Drama Princess. The kids went in the basement and proceeded to trash it, with polly pockets, barbies, race cars and some other misc. items. At about 11pm my bro says he's gonna leave and leaves me with a big mess to clean up. No, my kids don't clean up after themselves, whatever. My whole thing is "if you want something done right do it yourself." I know it's a pain in the ass but my kids a lazy and I don't want them just throwing the toys wherever.

So, that was my boring weekend.

Blast from the Past

Have you been sitting around and wondering what ever happened to your best friend from middle school or the guy you used to be great friends with in high school? I have been doing that for the past year. Well, I found 2 people to whom I was very good friends with back in the day. I found myy friend John, who was a very close friend, we lost touch for about 15 years, and a woman that I was very good friends with , Lisa. It is so funny how you find out that these people have grown up and have their own families just like you. It seems like time stands still and they should not have all these great things, not that I wish that on anyone. Both are married with great jobs, marriages, and kids. I am so glad that they are happy and made a great life for themselves. It's also great to reminese(?) about the past with people who were "there" in your crazy past. So, I talk to John just about every day, catching up on life and Lisa I have been emailing. Lisa sent me a picture of a group of us girls at homecoming, in 1985!!! It was a good laugh! I miss the old days but don't want to go back!
Happy Fourth of July.

Ebay is Evil!!

My son, who is 8, is obsessed with ebay. He surf's through all the toys he wants and then tells me he needs some money so he can buy them. He doesn't understand how auctions work yet, but he does know about Buy it Now! Well, today, he saw a Ben 10 alien force jacket, yes I know who this is and all the characters from the show, along with their special powers!! It's crazy, I bid on the jacket, I was outbid by someone else, then I bid again, my husband raised the stakes, I was still outbid. So, I had to explain to Son that I was not going to bid any higher then I already did. Then comes the crying. That is the saddest thing ever, him crying tears my heart out. You will be glad to know that I held my ground and told him he will have to deal with the disappointment because I am not bidding any more. He now has moved on to the action figures. Here we go again with the bidding, but at least it's MUCH cheaper then the jacket. Oh to be a kid. He is soooo cute!!

Boring day

Well, the weather is nice, not to humid today. The kids and I have been pretty bored for the past couple of days. They have been watching every movie we own, which is quite a few. There really isn't much to go and do around here that doesn't cost a ton of money. I guess I could take them to the park, but I don't feel motivated to go out anywhere. I got my new scrapbooking stuff in the mail yesterday, really cute stuff. Now, I have to get some ink and paper for my photo printer to print some pictures to scrap. Blah, Blah, Blah.