2008---Year of ?????

Trying to decide if I should make my new year's resolutions today or not. Every year I make some goals that I try to accomplish. I did a fairly good job last year on my resolutions. 2008 is going to be a rocky road for us I can already tell. Sad that I can say that and it isn't here yet. With hubby graduating it is going to give us some decisions to make i.e. who will be working, will kids go to daycare, will we move, are we both going to have to work, will I be able to coach, will I have to change schools if I don't coach.

I am already pretty apprehensive about the year starting since we will have all these questions to answer. I want to hang on to 2007 for a little while longer so I don't have to face these decisions. When you say new year it has such a positive connotation and feeling about it. So the fact that I am dreading it is such an oxymoron. Maybe I feel differently as the clock strikes midnight.

Anyways..............

C is for Christmas!!

Santa came by our house last night and left some great gifts for the kiddos. The pictures speak for the wonderful morning we had with the kids. I do have to say that the best gift Santa left was the motorized automatic toothbrushes. Bubby got a Dora and Buggers got a hello kitty. They carried them around for most of the morning brushing their teeth. After presents we got ready and headed to Granmomma and PePaw's house. The kids love going over there. They always have so much fun with their uncle Kirk, who by the way is great with them. We had a great time with everyone. We ate, opened gifts, and played a game. Dad did a great job of kicking our butts at the game.

I have one more week off until I go back to work. I am hoping to catch up on our movies that we have laying around here. Plus we have a bathroom to paint and some light fixtures to hang up.

Hope everyone had a great time with family and friends over the past few days. I know we did and cherish the memories.

HoHoHoHo

We are about 2/3 done with the Christmas gatherings. We did our kids presents last night. They had so much fun opening their gifts. We decided to invest in some movies this year so about half their gifts were dvds. Not that exciting to open but they made it fun. Buggers got her first (well second...her first one is still in the box it is a keepsake since it has her name) cabbage patch baby. She is a newborn and just perfect for her to carry around. Santa is coming tonight and I think he is leaving her a stroller and playpen for her baby. Bubby got a Dora game, video game, and some other toys he has had his eye on for a while at Target. I think Santa might be leaving him a Diego scooter in the morning.

We went to my sister's tonight for my family's get together. Her and her husband fixed a big lunch. It was delicious!!! I am so stuffed still from all the food and desserts. The kids got lots of good stuff. You will be able to tell from the pics. I got to spend some time playing with my niece and nephew. I had a blast and I want a rematch asap. Rea got pretty good and pegging me in the face with the nerf arrow.

We will head to Hubby's family's tomorrow for food, family and fun. I will post pics from that tomorrow night.

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas with their families. Merry Christmas!!!!

Move over so called divas...There's a new girl in town

I know I am corrupting the young minds of my children...but it is just too dang cute!!!

Hip Hop Tods

Creatures from the Great Unknown

You know you need some days off when.....

1. You say to a bunch of junior high teenagers during a game of trashketball, "Grab your balls and come up to the line." You can imagine the comments I got in response.

2. Then you say,"Get your three balls then throw the wads in the bucket." Again I am borderline stupid in saying this.

3. Question to hubby, "Do you want nuts in your fudge?" regarding fudge we receive every year from my aunt. I didn't get why hubs erupted in laughter until I said it the 2nd time.

4. To Basketball girl, "Do I need to have the song "Back that Ass Up' playing when you dribble?"...."You have a bad case of beeper butt...beep...beep...beep." I'm just glad they all thought it was funny.

5. To a few students in my favorite class, "Please all I am asking is that you act your age. I know how to deal with 12, 13, or 14 year olds. But I don't know how to deal with kids as tall as me who act like 3 year olds."

Working with teenagers all day tests your patience to the limit. I try to remind myself that I went to school to become a master in how to deal with these dysfunctional, hormonal, and tempermental children. And I make sure that I also remind myself that I am the adult and I should try to act so. It is sometimes hard not to sink to their level. I just found a perfect definition for teenagers---a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. That is the problem they have raging hormones and don't have the brains or sense on what to do with them. I'm an thankful that I will be getting my much need days a.k.a mental recuperation time in about a week.

Pray for teachers to maintain sanity until next week.

The Queen and her Throne

One night Buggers was suffering from some serious butt burn so I put her in a pair of Bubby's nundies. She was perfectly fine in them until she had an accident in the living room. Just to see if she would take to it, I ran her to the potty. She thought she was so special sitting there. To no surprise she just sat there pulling on the toilet paper and "wiping" then throwing it in the potty. She was such a big girl.

New look

I made a few changes to the blog layout. What do you think? Some of them are very subtle.

"Tis the Season to be Jolly

I have decided to take hold of my Debbie Downer attitude and become Sarah Sunshine. Cheesy and corny I know. Anyway just this weekend there were several things that happened that made me realize that life is good and if not great.

1. I have one of two trees up. The kids and I decorated this small tree yesterday. Surprisingly Buggers hasn't messed with it. She just goes up to it and says Wow. I don't have the motivation yet to do the big tree. I just need to get in there and do it. I know I will be glad once I do.

2. I got $76 worth of fall decorations at HObby Lobby yesterday for only $7.60 since all of it was on sale 90% off. Here is one of my finds. It was originally priced $30.

3. Bubby is willing and eager to do a little housework around here. Guess I need to start giving him an allowance if he is going to do chores. (This actually didn't happen this weekend. I just came across this pic while browsing around and it made me smile)

4. Hubs put up my new lights in the laundry and master bath. He surprised me one day and did it. I didn't expect him to get to it for a while.

5. We have the outside front of the house decorated. We still need to do the back...maybe next weekend we can tackle that.