Mo' Fun In Da' Sun

Ahhh, A Day At The River. Blackwater River. A Southerner's Paradise Is What It Is & We Had A Blast! The Day Was Hot But The Water Was Cool & Not Crowded Like At The Beach. We Go Canoeing At This River Every Year And Were Gonna Go Camping There When Hubby Gets His Vacation In A Few Days. I Can't Wait! Anyhoo, Little Man Had A Blast At The River, Unlike At The Beach Where He Stayed On Shore The Whole Time, He Was Like A Fish At The River. I Got Burnt Again *SIGH* But It Was More Than Worth It To Just Sit Back & Watch The Hubby & Kids Have Such A Good Time. I Went & Bought Everybody A Radial Tire Tube So We Can Walk Up River And Float Back Down The Next Time We Go... That'll Be Fun....hehehehe Alrighty, On To The Pictures...

Well, Today Is My Daughter's Sweet Sixteen Birthday & I've Got The Family Party Tonight & The Week After Next Were Gonna Throw Her A Suprise Party. We Couldn't Do It This Weekend As We Had Planned Because Hubby Had To Work All Weekend, None Of Her Friends Were Gonna Be Able To Come & Hubby Has Got Some Tests To Have Done Tommorow. He's Got To Have A Procedure Done To Check His Acid Reflux & His Dr. Said That While They Were At It They Would Go Ahead And Do A Colonoscopy. At This Point I Know Were Being Tested With Everything.....Yes, His Dr. Said Liver Cancer, But Were Gonna Stand Tall & Stay Strong.

At This Point, There's Not Much We Can Do But Leave It & God's Hands & Pray. We Have Been Told That It Would Be A Good Idea To Start Making Arrangements But Were Taking Things One Step At A Time Right Now & Staying As Positive As We Can. Anyhoo, Just Wanted To Share Our Day At Da' River With Yall, I've Got To Get Busy Cooking Dinner And Making Sassypant's Cake. Hope Yall Have A Super Sunday! Later Gator!

Fun In The Sun

Ahhh, A Day At The Beach. Fun, Fun, Fun. Especially Since Our A/C Decided To Go Out On Us Tuesday Night. We Had A Guy Come Out And Look At It & He Said The Inside System Died, Fried, Went Bye Bye. He Said It Would Cost Anywhere Between $1500-$2000 To Fix. Uggghhh!!! And With The Temps In The 100's, I Ain't Staying In This Hotbox! No Way! So We Were Off To Drop Hubby Off At Work & To The Beach We Went. Kind Of A Lot Of Seaweed But No Jellyfish, No Red Tide & With A Green Flag Flying...We Were Good! Sassypants, Big Boy & Little Man Were Like Fish In The Water And Were Having A Ball! Doodlebug Was Happy Playing At The Shore. We Weren't There Long And I Saw A Fin About 10 Feet Away From Us, And Getting Closer, My First Thought Was That It Was A Shark. I Panicked And Screamed At The Kids To Get Out Of The Water. When They Were All Safely On Shore We Stood There And Watched As This Thing Surfaced And It Was A Dolphin! I Couldn't Believe It Came That Close To Shore! Apparently He Had Gotten Himself A Pretty Big Fish And Was Tossling With It. I'm Not Sure What He Finally Did With It But That Fish Was Half The Size Or More Of The Dolphin And He Turned And Went Back Out A Litttle Bit, Doing Jumps And Flips Almost Like He Knew There Was A Crowd Forming And He Was Putting On A Show For Us. It Was Soooo Neat! Too Bad That I Didn't Think To Grab A Camera But I Was Just Amazed By This Dolphin That I Couldn't Do Anything But Oooh, & Ahhh. You'd Think That This Was The First Time We'd Ever Seen A Dolphin But It Was The First Time We Had Ever Seen One This Close. Funny Cause There Is A Gulfarium About A Mile Down On The Beach Where We Have Always Taken Kindergarden Feild Trips And Watched The Dolphins Perform And Other Sea Creatures Perform But This One Was In His Natural Habitat And Comfortable. It Was Great. The Three Oldest Kids Stayed In The Water Most Of The Time & Doodlebug Made Friends On Shore Like You See In The Pics I'm Fixin To Post. Anhoo, We Had A Blast & Plan To Go Again Tommorow Cause Hubby's Off & He Wants To Go With Us. Alrighty, Here Come The Pics.

Until Tommorow When I Post Part 2 Of "Fun In The Sun " Pics, Love Ya All!
Rachel

Happy Father's Day

It Has Been A Pretty Uneventful Day Around Here, Too Hot To Go & Do Anything So Were Staying In With Pizza And A Movie. Hubby Don't Feel To Well Either. Now As For The Teenage Drama With Sassypants.....She Now Knows Why I'm On Medication. I Hate The Teen Years, I Just Hope & Pray To God That My 3 Boys Don't Pull Any Crap Cause They'll Have To Put Me In A Freakin Looney Bin For Sure! Anyhoo, Just Wanted To Wish All The Dad's Out There A Happy Father's Day. Any Man Can Be A Father, But It Takes A Man To Be A Dad. My Hubby Is A Great Dad And When He's Feeling Better We'll Make It Up To Him Cause He Desrves It. Until Tommorow....

Family, Friends & A Found Turtle

I Know, I Know, But I Had To Take A Few Days Off, I'm About To Hit Crisis Mode And Just Needed To Shut Down (Emotionally) For A Few Days.

(Turtle) We Found The Turtle! & Alive! Thank Gawd Cuz Littleman & Doodlebug Would Have Had A Broken Heart.

(Family)
I Have 3 Sister's (2 Older & 1 Younger Than Me) And After My Mother Died We Made A Pact To Be Closer To Each Other Through Phone Call's Visit's, Etc (Never Happened) And They Can't Say I Didn't Try Because I Did & Honey That Phone Line Goes Both Ways. My Youngest Sister I Called And Talked To Almost Everyday And Was Much Closer To Than The Other's. Well, Now Shes Pissed Becaused I Didn't Call Her On Her Birthday. I Called The Next Day Because I Was So Busy With Dr's Appt.s And Such On Her B-day That By The Time I Remembered It Was Like 10:00pm & I Thought It Was Too Late. I Said To Myself...Well, She'll Get Over It When I Take Her Out Tommorow & Explain The Day I Had & I Was Gonna Suprise Her With Lunch & Shopping, Nail's Done Etc. Etc. But Before I Could Explain To Her Why I Didn't Call Her On Her Birthday She Told Me To Go To Hell And To Not Ever Call Her Again, I've Tried My Home Ph.# And My Cell Along With Hubby's And She's Got Them All Blocked. If She Only Knew The Crisis I'm About To Go Through She Would Understand. So I've Cut My Ties With My So-caled Family. I've Never Asked Anything Of Them & I Never Will. I Will Not Go Out Of My Way To Call, Contact, Visit Etc Anymore. I Have A Husband And 4 Beautiful Kids To Think About. I Had To Be Put On Meds When My Mom Died And Remain On Them Because Of All The Damn Drama With The Way That Was All Dealt With And Is Still Being Dealt With 2 Years Later...

(Friends)

Other Than A Few Very Good Online Friends, I Have 2 Best Friend's (My Husband & Our Best Friend) You Really Get To Know Who Your Friends & Family Are When You Need Something Like, A Shoulder To Cry On, A Buddy To Drink A Beer With, Just Somebody To Talk To Who Will Listen & Respond Honestly. Or Whatever It May Be He' Always Been There. I Know He Always Will Be Just Like We Are There For Him In The Same Way.


O.k., I Feel A Little Better....Until Tommorow

OMG!!! Turtle On The Loose!

The Other Day, Little Man Found A Little Turtle And Of Course Wanted To Bring It Home & Keep It As A Pet.. So I Said O.k. But I'll Have To Find A Bigger Container Or Something To Put It In Or He'll Get Loose. I Put Him In The Little Container That They Brought Him Home In On The Entertainment Center And After The Kids Watched Him For A While & Oohed & Ahhhhed Over It, Everybody Went About Thier Own Way & I Finished Dinner Etc... Well I Walked Around The House After Everybody Went To Bed & Was Asleep Just Checking Everything Because I Had A Nagging Feeling That I Forgot To Do Something But Couldn't Remember What. It's The CRS Syndrome (Can't Remember Sh*t) I Forgot About The Turtle!!!!!. I Panicked For A Moment This Morning When I Was Seeing Hubby & The Kids Off And Checked On Him And He Was Still In There. Whew! O.k., Now To Feed Him....We Had Some Turtle Food Left From The Last Turtle We Had, Gave Him Some Of That And Gave Him A Coke Bottle Cap Of Water And Again, Went About My Daily Chores. As I Was Dusting I Figured That I Would Look In On Him And He's GONE!!!!!!! Sh*t!!!! Now What Do I Do??? It's Not Like A Turtle Is Gonna Come To Me When I Call It And I've Looked Everywhere! Now I've Got The Task Of Telling The Kids That Thier Turtle Is Gone Because Mom Forgot To Find A Bigger Container. Wow! Now I've Got A Turtle On The Loose, A Heartbroken Child To Comfort & A Wanted Poster Of The Turtle To Put Up, Alive Or Dead Befre The Stink Sets In. Good Grief! What's Next??? I Was Gonna Get Out & Do Some Yard Work And Mow The Grass But Now That This Turtle Is On The Loose, I've Been Wandering Around All Day Trying To Find It. Guess The Yard Work Will Have To Wait Another Day *Sigh* Don't Know What Were Having For Dinner, I'll Let The Kids Find Something Quick To Throw In The Microwave Like Hot Pockets And Chips Or Something. I Know, Bad Mama But I Just Don't Feel Like Cooking Tonight. I Just Have This Phrase In My Head "Turtle Soup" And Can't Bring Myself To Cook Diner Thinking About That. lol Until Tommorow....

Oh Where Oh Where?

Does The Time Go? It Seems Like Yesterday Was Friday For Pete's Sake! lol The Kids Enjoyed Thier First Day Of Vacation But Thier All So Tired That They Ate Dinner And Went To Bed, Even Hubby. I've Got Everybody's Clothes Together For Tommorow And Everything's Done So I'm Feeling Very Accomplished Now And Will Feel Even Better When I Get The Yard Mowed Tommorow. That's Got To Get Done, So While Everybody's Gone Tommorow I'll Get Out There & Get-R- Done! Hubby Said He'd Do It This Weekend But I'm Just Gonna Do It Myself Instaed Of Putting It Off Until The Weekend So We Can All Relax & Chill. But I'm All To Myself & Watching "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Outta Here!" And Then I'll Watch Intervention And Call It A Night And Go To Bed. Until Tommorow.....

A Very Satisfying Sunday

Today Has Been A Good Day. We've Had A Nice Weekend But Tommorow Comes All Too Quickly For A Lot Of People. The Kids Are All Loving That Vacation Bible School Starts Tommorow And Here I'm Catching Up On Everything Again And Trying To Do 100 Things At Once...lol We Had Pork Chops, Rice A Roni And Corn On The Cob For Dinner And I Was Through With Everything By 7:00 So Now I Can Watch The New Bridezilas Season Priemere Without Having To Do The Dishes And Clean-up In Between The Show During Commercials...lol. Can't Complain, I Know I'm Blessed. Until Tommorow....

But Mom! More School???

Yes Dears You Have One More Week Of School... But It's Vacation Bible School And I Could See A Look Of Relief Come Over Thier Faces. They Love Going To Vacation Bible School And I Love That. Sassypants And Big Boy Will Be Leaders And Littleman And Doodlebug Will Be Actually Attending Vacation Bible School. It Makes The Older Kids Feel Important, Needed And Liked And The 2 Little Ones Love Going With All The Neat Things They Get To Do All While Learning About God. We Went To The Flea Market And Hit A Few Yard Sales But Didn't Really Find Anything So Now Were Home And Were Having Speghetti For Dinner With Texas Cheese Toast And A Salad. We Got A Movie From Netflix "Doubt" And Hubby & I Will Watch That After We Get The Kids To Bed Because t's Not Only Has An "R" Rating But With Reading The Description I Don't Want Them To See It. I Haven't Been Feeling Too Good Because My Sinuses Are Acting Up But No Biggie. Having A Pretty Good ay So Far. Until Tommorow.....

T.G.I.F

Went To Dinner Last Night & Had A Fun Time And With No School To Get Up For And Hubby Has Friday's Off So Everybody Slept In Until About 9:00a.m And I Made A Big Ole Breakfast With Pancakes, Grits, Eggs, Biscuit's & Sausage And After That We All Just Kinda Lounged Around For All Of About 20 Minutes Before The Kids Were Saying They Were Bored And Sassypants Was Either Calling Friends Or She Had Friends Calling Her, Littleman Want To Go To His Friend's House (2 Houses Away) Big Boy Wanted To Go To His Friends House And Doodlebug Wanted To Go To The Beach. But We Just Stayed In And Watched A Movie From Netflix "The Yes Man" Had Pizza Cuz Either Nobody's Friends Were Home, I Definately Didn't Feel Like Going To The Beach So We Just Decided To Stay In, After All, It's Just The First Day Of The Rest Of Thier Summer. Right Now Everybody's Just Being Lazy Here ...Until Tommorow

Last Day Of School!

Yea, They Went To Bed Not Wanting To Go The Last Day Of School But When I Woke Them Up ( Just Messing With Them ) They Were All Excited About Getting Thier Shirts Signed And Addresses And Phone #'s And Hey Mom "It's Only A Half A Day!" I Was Somewhat Shocked...lol

But The Day Has Been Good. Hubby's Blood Tests Came Back O.k., So I'm Good. Big Boy Will Get His New Glasses Sometime Next Week. So All, I've Got To Do Now Is The Yard Work! I Am So Dreading That Still But Summer Break Has Officially Began For The Kids So For The Moment Everybody's Happy. Dinner...Ummm, Forgot To Take Anything Out And Haven't Really Thought About It...WOW! Well, I Guess We'll Be Ordering Pizza Or Going Out For Dinner. That's Actually A Good Idea....Celebrating Their School Year Success & Toasting A Welcome To Summer And All The Fun Things We Have Planned. Well, Until Tommorow.....

Just Chillin'

Been Raining All Day Here And Almost All Appt.s Are Over, Hubby Has To Go Tommorow To Get His Blood Test Results And I'm Hoping For The Best. Tommorow Is The Last Day Of School For The Kids And It's Only Gonna Be A Half A Day...So Now Thier Asking If They Have To Go With Those Puppy Dog Faces, Haven't Told Them Yea Or Nay Yet But Nobody's Fighting Or Arguing, Thier Just All Doing Thier Own Things, Been A Very Peaceful Day Actually Even Though The Weather Is Crappy. It Will Clear Up & Mr Sunshine Will Be Out & 100 Degrees In The Shade And It'll Be Going To The Beach, Going To The River, Cooking Out And Hanging Out With Friends Time. lol Well, Gotta Get Dinner Started, Were Having Speghetti And Garlic Bread Tonight. Until Tommorow....

To Do Tuesday:

Not Much, Big Boy's Eye Appt. Went Good & Quick. He'll Get His New Glasses In The Next Week. It's Been Raining Off And On Here Today But We Needed It, But Sometimes That Can Make Things Worse As Far As The Humidity That Were Know For Down Here In Florida But I've Gotten My To Do List For The House Accomplished, Now I Just Need Tackle The Weekly Washing And Cleaning Out The Van & Mowing The Grass...*sigh* I'm Such A Procrastinator About Doing Anything. Yesterday Was A Scorcher And It's Been Drizzling All Day.....hehehehehe I'm So Bad Sometimes! But Hey!, I Just Had My Nail's Done.....hehehehe Only Bad Part Of Today Being Wet Is The Kids Are Cooped Up And Fighting Over Something. I Told Hubby Last Night When He Came Home That I Was Going To The Grocery Store By Myself Cuz I Always Have A Kid Or Two With Me When I Go And Hubby Just Gave Me A Look Like.....Are Ya Serious????? I Said Yep! Going By Myself, You Can Watch Them. No Dear....Calling 911 Won't Help A Bit...lol I Was Shocked When I Came Home And Everything Was Clean & In It's Place Wit Hubby Standing At The Stove Cooking Dinner! And The Kids Weren't Fighting...Hmmm, Note To Self: Need More ALONE Time....lol Today Was A Pretty Good Day Though.....Until Tommorow

Monday Mania

Well, Just The Normal Monday Mania Starting With Kids & Hubby Running To Jump In The Shower, Eat, Get Dressed, Getting Thier Paperwork For Me To Sign Real Quick And Once Thier Off To School, It's Just Me & Doodlebug Running Errands, Paying Bill's And Then The Kids Are Home With Homework And More Forms And Paper's To Be Signed. *Sigh* I'm Not Even Sure Yet What I'll Be Making For Dinner Yet But Whatever It Is....It Will Be Quick And Easy...I Assure You. lol Cuz Mamas Pooped Yall! Big Boy's Eye Appt. Is In The Morning & I'm Hoping That Doesn't Take Long So I Can Get Back To The House Cause The Last Couple Of Days Here Have Been A Scorcher And I'm So Dreading Doing Anything Outside, When It's This Hot But This Grass Has Got To Get Cut & Soon. Well It's June 1st, Only 3 More Days Of School....How Do You Spell Relief? CALGON!!!!! Where The Hell Are You??? lol Well, I Won't Have To Get Up Mon-Fri. @ 5am *whew* Until Tommorow...