I hit the lottery!!!!!!!

At least I feel like I did. So I got the vitamins from the clinic, and I'm happy to report, I'm a million dollars feeling richer!!!! Didn't really hit the lottery, but ya know we can always dream. LOLOL

I had another bout of symptoms yesterday morning though, where the confusion was there, headache, and head was swimming out to the east coast and I couldn't catch up with it. I napped, then got up when David called, to tell me to take some benedryl. By the afternoon I was much better, by the evening! I'm all smiles! Sweet!

So I'm on top of the world and fidgiting like crazy cuz I want to get on the treadmill again so bad.
But at the same time I've dropped a few lbs. since this all started, but it's nothing like getting my excitedness and jumpiness out during exercise. I feel like Kevin locked in a closet. LOL Although I've never done it, I think that Kevin would tear the door down.

Oh speaking of, we have a leak in the basement, from the infamous SHOWER in the house. GAR...so the bathroom remodel may be really soon...since it's rotting out a wall, above a SUPPORTING BEAM....wish us luck on this one! So tonight, I have to get measurements and what not, and we'll be graphing out how we are going to do it. :0) Not happy about spending the extra cash we have because there's not much left, but what do you do? It's not like we didn't know that we were going to have to do something!!!! We were just procrastinating. We can't have the house fall out from underneath us either, so we have to do it. Blah.

Kevin and I have taken a break from preschooling this week. Randomly I will ask life questions...what I mean by this, is everday when I come across a color he can simply pick out, a letter, and such, I ask. His attitude this week has been less than desirable, so he gets stubborn at times. But we are working through it. Just like Grace, it takes time to get them to transition from one home to the next easily. And even then, Grace isn't a pro at it.

So once again, I have to say I am proud of someone. My cousin Mary Jo, she's now on Gmail...if you don't know what it is, you need to figure it out. Cuz when I'm online, I can chat with people without downloading a bunch of stuffs on my hard drive. Tera uses it to talk to me at work, so she doesn't have to download stuff on her work computer. AWESOME! So she's now online with me. And using her blogs on myspace. I have a tear in my eye, she is staying connected to my information age. LOL, I say mine, cuz it seems if it isn't by email, text message, or blogs, I don't seem to get to talk to anyone. LOL

The next thing on the agenda! Lunch with David!!!! I haven't got to see him in two days for lunch and I am missing him BADLY, yeah I see him every night, but dang it...his handsome face is just so welcome during the day, and that smile.....oh.....LOLOL okay enough mush....

Halloween will be sad.....

So I just got an email, with a sneak preview to the halloween candy coming out this year. Yes, being a mom, I have avenues to buy candy in bulk if I like, and it keeps me up to date with the latest fad. So what's so sad about halloween.....Red Dye #40...think about this one.

Kevin is not going to like me.

Fund Raising Time!!!!

Two weeks into school and it's fundraiser time already! Boy do I not miss this stuff, so if you get an email that says Grace M Shaffer, open it.

If ordered online by the link provided not only does she gain prizes, but it also gets shipped directly to you!!!

Thanks so much ahead of time.

Busy Mom's Brain Commits Suicide....

Guilt sticken and lost....mom turns to men in white coats. LOL...this is a twitter I posted yesterday. I thought I was doing really good seriously. But alas, I was not. Where do I start, I got up yesterday got everyone ready. David has been so good about things even though I feel like an absolute failure.

I ended up coming home to tearing the house apart looking for supplies that I had gotten a few weeks ago to finish up Tera's bridal shower stuff, to no avail, I did not find it. That was the first disappointment. During this rampage, I cried, did all the laundry, and cried some more. David called on lunch, and after I got off the phone and my phone was going dead, I plugged it in, only to get a voicemail a few minutes later. It was the school. It was a half day. And I didn't remember it, Gracie didn't remind me, and wham! I'm racing across country to pick up the frantic little eight year old! I felt like an absolute heel. It makes me feel bad to not be functioning like I used to. And it is driving me INSANE!!!!

So needless to say I try to make it up by getting her a banana split, kevin a shake, and David something to drink from Sonic, from 2-4 it's half off or something like that, but for $7 you can't go wrong for what they got. I stopped by Honda to tell him all the crazy stuff that I did. :0(

As it goes, Grace's attitude has been fowl ever since I got her back from her dad, and she's about made me have a coronary two days in a row. Gar, I just don't know how to get her past it. Kevin got into an aggressive streak the past few days, where he likes to hit things with other things, and run and bump into you and hit you. :0( This is disheartening, because before he went to Denise's I had him pretty calm. I hope this is just a phase.

I managed to make a tater tot casserole, that I had no complaints from Kev other than it was too hot to eat, then once it was cool, he did not say a word, he kept shoveling it in!!!! It took him 15 minutes to eat instead of an hour!!! LOL...The kids didn't know that it had zuchinni in it, they just kept shoveling. LOLOLOL So don't worry, they got their green food too, just didn't know it. I love being sneaky like that.

The score today is that I am sluggish and very tired. My brain is somewhat foggy...and I think I overdid it yesterday with the rampage of the house and the work in the kitchen, and the fast and furious drive to the school. :0( So I have to take it easy today.

I did get my stuff from the clinic in Maine today along with the book on the things I need to be doing, glad I've already got part of them covered. No coffee for me today either, I have to cut it out. Caffeine is what has been saving me, but it's only to keep me awake, you can be awake and not AWARE. David and I are hoping that the stuff from the clinic may improve all the other stuff. Like memory loss and what not. For the most part my long term has been fine, it's the short term that's really shot. :0( But what do you do, it started fading when I became a mother. There seems there is no hope for sanity at that point. LOLOLOL

Off I go to do a list of things ( I mean rest), you know me, I can't sit still. Even though I try to put forth a major effort to try (sometimes) *wink*wink*.

I can't wait for the weekend to get here. I will be able to relax with the kids and such, it'll be exciting. David and I and Josh and Emily and the kids, the beach, the hot tub, the relaxation will be well needed. It seems it has been way too long since the honeymoon already. LOL

Hope life is finding everyone else well!

Haunted Hobby Lobby....

Can you hear the screams from the aisles in Hobby Lobby when you go to visit? Is it being haunted or is it unruly children....well today it was my Kevin. He was haunting the aisles and being a complete poo about attitude.

Low and behold it is Monday, and he did really well this morning, but then he decided that after schooling and some television time, he would try his luck. Starting with lunch with Daddy. We got halfway to Taco Bell and he started demanding (after we were going upon his request) that we turn around and go to Culver's. Then he wouldn't get out of his car seat. So we carried him in kicking and screaming to the Taco Bell restaraunt to have a little chat. He apologized, after a minute of trying to argue as to why he was there and that he wanted out of the restroom.

Lunch from that point up until it was time to go to Hobby Lobby to pick up final supplies for everything I need to do in the next few months was fine. But we got to the store and he wanted to push but would not let me guide, he started pulling the cart backward and after the third warning he got put in the cart, and he threw a tantrum OUT OF THIS WORLD! Where is a hole in the ground when you need one? Never where they should be, or at least never where I'm at. The greatful thing is there was no one in the aisle to witness the exorcism of the child, thank goodness, and then I discussed in every aisle after that, how he had misbehaved and what a bad example he was being to other children. ;0)

So yet another peaceful monday morning/afternoon I guess. He is napping now. I should know better that he needs his recovery from Big D's house this weekend, he went straight to sleep with no argument last night and slept throughout the whole night, he didn't even move. So being tired today also would be expected, after all she does not make him Nap! And I guarantee he didn't have one yesterday. It seems we'll never win that battle. But he'll grow out of that soon enough.

There's a big sign posted outside Grace's school that says do not drop children off until 8:25 a.m. Wouldn't you know it, I'm there at 13 minutes before, the first one, so I pull up, shut the car off and wait. Little do you think the parents read the reminder notes sent home, one child walked to school WAYYYYYYYYY tooo early, and was standing outside, then a mother pulls up right behind me and throws her three children out. The doors didn't get unlocked until 8:20 by the children. How safe is it for your kids to stand outside? Instead of inside, just because they don't have teachers there to watch them for 10 minutes. I say inside the building is still better. But geez oh pete parents!!! Read your notes and get a clue!!!!

** Grace's attitude has been far from angelic from the time she came home and including this morning, her television time was gained last night, only to be lost this a.m. with the runny mouth. Too bad they didn't make maylox for that. LOL Soap just doesn't seem to work sometimes. She also came home to start crying and telling us how horrible it was when she didn't move the clothes to the right place at her dad's house, so far as she ticked him off and he threw her down on the floor and supposedly started threatening her or something. I don't know. But even if her dad did to that stuff because when he gets upset he does some pretty outrageous stuff, she also over dramatizes it. With two drama queens tellin the story you just never know. Another I can't win situation. LOL

Wish us luck on the evenings progress!

Kevin's Preschooling...

Letters to date that we are working on A-G
Colors: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange..... He is still confused about Blue, and I'm not sure why. Coloring inside the lines is a little hard, but he is getting better with his fine motor skills of his hands. :0) This is good.
Shapes: Squares, Circles, and Triangles...he drew his first Triangle by himself today...

Now it's TV time for him, he has been awarded 15 minutes. :0)

Working on nothing....

That's exactly what we are doing, chillin' relaxin' and watching a movie.
Kevin is in bed watching his toons. And Grace is begging for applesauce, although it is her bedtime. :0) Yeah it's a Sunday.

Big D as usual was calling at 2:47 to ask if we were going to get Kevin. After all, I guess she got back with her on and off again married man boyfriend thing. So they went to the ballfield for his kids. And yes, she was there, and so was Tasha and the boyfriend. Kevin was overwired but not too bad attitude wise, he tried to push my buttons, but I was cool and collected, and he settled right down to clean his room when he got home so he could receive tv time before bed. :0)

As all goes, Grace did get positive marks on all her homework this past week. So that's exciting news. None of the third graders in her class, were advanced to a higher math level, so they will study 3rd grade math.

All is well in the Romack/Shaffer household this evening...let's hope that tomorrow morning goes just as well!