BLOGGER TEMPLATES AND TWITTER BACKGROUNDS »

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Family Fudge

One of my most favorite quotes is:

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.  ~Author Unknown


This is such a very true statement!  Well when it comes to my family anyway!  The holidays are upon us and every year around this time the memories from childhood of our family gatherings come back to me!  It always fun and hilarious to sit here and go down memory lane!  


(one of the many Christmas's spent together)

But after going down memory lane I see my daughter and realize she'll never those memories like we did with the whole family packed in to a tiny house, with a ton a food and games and there was almost always a fight between someone but those are the things I miss about the holidays is our whole family together!

My kid will never have that all because of stupid petty arguments that have taken place since my grandma passed!  My aunts and uncles are grown adults and can't manage to get over the petty stuff and get along for the kids sake!  

Yeah I've done my best to make Alyssa's holidays as memorable and fun as possible but its just not the same!  

So I guess the whole point of this is even though you may fight and not always agree with your family love them and be there for them anyway!  You never when they won't be there!  

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Random Pictures!

The kids (nephews + alyssa) couldn't manage to catch a live one so they found them a dead one to catch!

Back when everything she did was so sweet and innocent!

50's day at school for red ribbon week

One of my most favorite I've taken recently!

One of my weird crazy concoctions that I made for crazy hat day during homecoming week!

The crazy weird things I find in my dryer!

80's day during homecoming week

Poor tiger didn't stand a chance against me and my siccors!


Cool lightining pic I got during a storm a couple weeks ago

Alyssa's hangglider patch she got in awanas

About to meet his fate

A sneek peek at the quilt I'm making alyssa for christmas

Photo challenge day 1!

So starting today I'm going to do a photo (who knows may end up being more than one) a day for a year!  Yeah may seem crazy but I want to see where this ends up!

Ok so todays photo(s):

"Hurry it cold"

The whole group!

By herself!  

The fearless driver!  Man must be nuts if hes gonna drive a limo with 9 kids and only one adult for supervision on a trip to and from mcdonalds!


Today Alyssa got to go on a limo ride to mcdonalds that she earned by selling 15 savers cards for school!  She was excited!  She has been talking about it nonstop since she got home!   Lets just hope that the next time she rides in a limo is very far of in the very very very distant future!  LOL

Monday, October 10, 2011

It says so much!

"God Gave Me You"

I’ve been a walking heartache
I’ve made a mess of me
The person that I’ve been lately
Ain’t who I wanna be

But you stay here right beside me
And watch as the storm blows through
And I need you

Cause God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
And for when I think I lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you
Gave me you

There’s more here than what we’re seeing
A divine conspiracy
That you, an angel lovely
Could somehow fall for me
You’ll always be love’s great martyr
And I’ll be the flattered fool
And I need you

God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
And for when I think I lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you

On my own I’m only
Half of what I could be
I can’t do without you
We are stitched together
And what love has tethered
I pray we never undo

Cause God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
And for when I think I lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you, gave me you.
He gave me you. 






Saturday, October 1, 2011

Day 1

So today is Day 1 of the diet!  Which I stupidly though was gonna be a breeze because you can pretty much eat anything you want and as much as possible (crazy I know but it is a crucial part)!   Well I(we) were wrong 1)the drops taste like ass 2) thanks to the drops its actually difficult to load up!  Like seriously 4 bites of pizza and I was stuffed!  But I will keep pushing it will all be worth it in the end!   Off to go and try and put down the 2 cupcakes my mom has donated to the cause!  LOL wish me luck!

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Motherhood

Being a mom isn't always easy!  I never claim it to be, never thought it would be so easy.  But when you sit here at night watching your little one sleep wondering am I doing the best I can for him/her?  Well thats where I am right now.  She's sleeping and just looks so peaceful and happy and here I am sitting here crying!  I would love to say that this is just so out of the normal for me but its not and I would be lying to you and myself!  I love my daughter more than anything in the world!  I do everything I possibly can!  I would give her the world if I could and thought thats what she needed!  But its not all she needs is my love and support (maybe the occasional M&M's) but thats it!  But for just once in the last 6 1/2 years I would love to have someone to go to bed with everynight, someone to share all of this responsibility and stress with!  But for now since a moms job is never done its off to go finish the hat and then to make the shirt that maths for her for school tomorrow!   <------- (more about the hat at a later date)



What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. -Mark Twain

Wednesday, September 14, 2011


So my kid comes home with a discipline notice.  Note she's only in first grade.  Her and 7 other girls had another student (boy) caught.  They were pulling on his shirt choking him made his neck red and sore.  Had bruises from being pinced and also they were kicking and twisting his arms!  
Now this is the same little boy that was a bully to them last year but in NO way is them doing this appropriate I know!
They all have lunch and recess detention for the rest of the week.  I on top of it have taken away everything in her room but her bed, she's lost game time, tv privlages, her smelly pencial money, gotten a spanking from me and is being made to wrtie letters of appology to the duty teacher, her teacher, the principal, the boy and to the boy's parents!  The principal told them if there is a next time they would all get 3 swats to which I informed her if it happened again I would double the 3 and she would loose everything for at least 6 months!
Ughh Seriously this kid is gonna drive me to a psych ward somewhere!  After everything I did last year standing up for her when she was being bullied she'pulls this crap!   UUGHHHHHH *pulls hair out*