The Six of Us

We made it home.  Lee and Chris did amazingly well.  I could not be more proud of them.  The hour and a half we spent at the OG made getting home last night way later then we planned totally worth it.  Good friends Good Times.  Although I wavered I am so glad I went.  Jake has a party at school today which I am going to go help out at.  We are having a potluck at work for a retirement party. Life is good.  The kids are excited about trick or treating.  Since Lee is sore I will get to take them tonight.

So I put everything off until the last moment.  I blame the flu from last week that I have not 100% recovered from.  Jake is packed but Victoria and I still are not.  I need to clean the house because I don't want to come home to a dirty house.  The newsletter still isn't done.  I just had an idea but I am not sure that the family would be willing to do it.  I will have to check with Lee's siblings. Next week we are going to start Christmas shopping (well we will have the money). Next week is going to be super busy.  Halloween, Parent Conferences, and helping a family member move across the street from us.  Now the newsletter is done. Off to pack and get Jake ready for soccer.  His last game of the season. 

One comment and somebody gets all upset.  Uggg.....Long day at work and I totally messed something up.But it should be fixed next week which should make the judge very happy.  I am thinking about leaving but I am not sure.  We got half of the answers that we were looking for so half way there.  Thinking this may be the beginning of the end but we will see.   Wish I could explain more but I just can't.  Sometimes we need to know our limits.  It is okay to say no.  

Go to Washington Clean the House Pay the bills Pretend I am happy about something that I am not Make a dreaded phone call tomorrow But I will because I am a mom and a wife and sometimes that means doing things that I don't want to.  

I am missing Jake's soccer game I am really sad about.  His dad and grandfather will be there but Tori had to be picked up from the primary practice at 11:15 and the game starts at 11.  So by the time I would get to Caldwell the game would be over. So I am enjoying the 45 minutes I have to myself.  I have found a new show that intregues me.  Lee isn't a fan so maybe it is a good thing there are only a few more eposides left.  Plus I have been feeling under the weather the past week.  I am so tired of being sick but who knows when when it will end.  Next week we should be getting some news although it is the same news we thought we would get this week. I am really uncomfortable with some things that are going on right now.  But I think it is just more uncertainity then anything. My kids are doing so well in school now.  We have parent teacher conferences in a few weeks.  So hopefully we will get glowing reviews from the teachers....

I get the impression that nobody deals well when I make comments such as "when I was pregnant last time".  My friends and co-workers seem to deal with it much better then family which is odd.   Today is A Day of Remembrance for Infant Loss and Miscarriages.  I really wish this topic was talked about more.  I wish people would be more open to discussing this.  I wish this wasn't something that was discussed in hushed voices behind closed doors.   I think this is something that nobody has to deal with until they are going through it.  The first time it happened to me I felt so alone and some of that has to do with nobody knowing how to deal with it.  So they didn't say anything.   I found my own online support groups and found support online when I wasn't getting any in my real life.  The third time it happened I was more prepared and I had an amazing support group.  My friends cried with me.  Some people ignored...

I have 20 posts that I never finished for one reason or another.  Mostly because I am sure that they will offend somebody. Lee's friend is coming into town tonight and will be staying until Sunday when Lee will head back to Tri-Cities with him and then come back on Monday.  I know it doesn't make a whole of sense to most people. But I don't owe people an explanation So I am trying to think of fun things for the kids and I to do but I am thinking that we will probably hang out at home after the soccer game maybe the kids will play with the neighbors.  I want to do some major decluttering in the kitchen.  After all that is my zone for this week and I have done nothing.  Hopefully I can get the little people to help.  I want to try to make some stuffed crust pizza this weekend but we will have to see how that works.  We have decided to stay here for Thanksgiving.  There are lots of reasons but time off is an issue as it the fact that Victoria w...

I am sure the majority of my readers will disagree with me but there was a bill which passed the house today HR 358 that makes me sad.  It makes me sad because there were no exceptions made none at all.  No clause for emergencies nothing for the mother's life being at risk or the baby not surviving birth.  Nope it pretty much says that every pregnancy must be carried full time unless there is a miscarriage.  Really?  What are these people thinking?  There must be exceptions.  There has to be.  But maybe that is based on my opinion that life doesn't start at conception.    The senate is voting next week.  Please write your senators and give them your opinion even it is not the same as mine.

So Amaya did not sleep well.  I need a good night sleep tonight.  Hoping there will not be any children who wake up several times a night.  So this morning we went to soccer game and Tori was so excited to have a friend to play with on the play ground. After the game we took Amaya home and the girls were already planning when Victoria could go spend the night with Amaya.  Lee isn't so sure about Tori staying the night at Amaya's but I think I can make him come around. So Lee was running 20 miles and the kids and I went to the Historical Museum in Boise.  It was fun  The kids did a search of sorts and needed up winning a sucker.  The Ole Pen will have to wait for another day.  After the search the kids and I played hide and go seek in the rose garden. It was fun for us any way.  We got some dirty looks from people sitting in the garden but oh well.  Victoria spend the rest of the day on the couch watching movies and Jake played with his f...

We were going to go to California this weekend since the kids were out of school Thursday and Friday and I am off Monday.  But planned changed and due to things out of our control we stated home and had a fun time at home.  Wednesday the kids had a sleep over at their grandparent's while Lee and I went and stayed at a bed and breakfast.  I would stay at one again and there are family friendly ones.  Thursday we took the kids on a tour of the Idaho State Capitol they have been asking to go for a while.  The tour took three times longer then we thought it would.  Then we went to Donnie Macs which is a trailer park diner.  I would never eat there again but the kids had a blast.  Today we did some major cleaning and went to Idaho State Police because Lee needed to do something so the kids and wander around the Idaho State Police Memorial.  It was a really great place to wander.  Right up until Jake slipped in the mud.  We then went to ...

Happy Anniversary! What an eleven years of marriage it has been.  We have been together almost 13 years.  We have gained three college degrees and the student loans that go with them.  We have been through five pregnancies and two kids.  We have been through building and buying our amazing house.  We have been through major back surgery. We have moved only once.  And we are surviving unemployment and we made it through employment several hundred miles away.  We have soccer games and dance classes.  We are each other's best friend.  And that my friends is why I stay.  I stay because when I think of my life with out Lee it becomes a sad place. We made it through losing a parent and heart problems from another.  We made it through step parents. There are some things that I would change that I would do differently but then again maybe not.  Because all of those things I think I would do differently made our marriage what it i...

October Goals 1) FHE every Monday 2) Submit Comps 3) Set up after school lists for both kids 4) Start Christmas gifts 5) FLY 6) Buy one day/one month cooking book 7)  C25K 8) Drink Water 9) Pay off doctor 10)  Read book club book