Just Keep Swimming =)

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Lila Sing's "The Leaves on the Trees" Song

Lila at preschool singing a cute little song w/ her friends! It is hard to see her she is in the corner w/ the cluster of classmates in light pink and white!

~Love~Smile~Enjoy~Happiness~

~Ra~

Friday, October 15, 2010

Lila's Preschool Days

Lila playing in the mornings @ her Preschool

Sept. 2010

One Very Busy Little Girl

~love~smile~enjoy~happiness~

Beach Trip 2010

Beach Trip

Sept. 11-13 2010

On our way to the beach we stopped at this rest stop that this really cool!

The Boys got out to pee and check out this very cool Howitzer Cannon

in Warsaw NC!!!

Lila was sleeping by this point so I stayed in the car w/ her.

We made to the beach and had to spend the first night looking for

cool sea shells left over from Hurricane Earl that swept through

our coast just days before!!! We were thankful that it was not

very strong hurricane by the time it went up the coast!

Everything look good when great when we got there,

almost like it was never there!!!

The 2 next days we played on the beach and in the pool!!!

Ate great FOOD (found a new favorite restaurant) at Rucker John's

Saw very Cool Things...

like the sand castle someone worked very hard on and the big snapping turtles in the sound behind the restaurant!!!

We also went to Fort Macon on our last day @ the beach which was a very cool place to explore (we did the aquarium last year so did not do that this year)

We So LOVE The BEACH!!!

One day I hope to have a beach house!!!

Until then...

~Love~Smile~Enjoy~Happiness~

~Ra~

Our Trip to Fort Macon

Fort Macon, NC

Beach Trip

Sept. 2010

The Boys thought it was so cool it rhymes w/ bacon!!! Lol ;~)

Everyone LOVED going to a peace of history,

even my hubby that was not sure if he wanted to go or not!!!

The kids keep running from room to room to see

and hear more about the wars that used the Fort!

It was a great stop in our beach trip, we loved learning

and exploring a little of NC history!!!

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Diary of a Wimpy Complaining Mom!!!!

Complaining Session!!!

So I'm NOT complaining at my hubby again and since no one reads my blog I am going to use it tonight as my "Diary of a Wimpy Complaining Mommy!" So here it goes....

We rent our place b/c it is cheap and in the area we want to be, it is a cute town little town house, middle unit. But it is old and has problems, lots of them and once one get fix it seems like there is another one! The AC unit, dish washer, water leaking from the unit on the left then the one on the right, leaky sinks, leaky tubs..... and so on and so on!!! Now it is the shower in the kids bath room, you turn the nob so the water will go up to the shower and NOTHING!!! Now I am no expert but if the water is on and it is not coming out the bottom or the top were is it going AND THAT CAN'T BE GOOD!!!! So now we need to call the land lord to come and take a look at it but he sometimes take forever to fix some thing like the leaky faucet and he has not been able to fix the dish washer that will run all night if you don't baby sit it!!! In the mean time I am currently sick (head and body aches, throat is itchy, tired, but no fever) for the second time (felt fine last week but was like this the one before!). So every one is using the shower in my bath room =( Which is fine for a day or 2 but it is helpful to be able to bathe the 3 yr. old while one of the boys is shower in their bath room!

Another thing to complain about is that I am soooooooo TIRED!!!! I am not doing a very good job of keeping the house clean, I feel like I am living in the van dropping off and pick up all 3 kids, I am having nightmares, and I am very stressed out!!!! I thought (silly me) that once all 3 kids went to school I could get it together have the house clean every day, walk the dog (which would give me the exercise I need to lose those pesky 10 lb that are bothering me), volunteer at the schools, and still have free time to read a book or scrapbook or something for me!!! But no I was in a dream!!! I have 3 kids at 3 different school going at 3 different time to drop them off and then picking them up at 3 different times so I spend a lot of time going back and forth, to and from!!!!!!!!

And a lot of my energy is spent fighting w/ my 8 yr. old to do the simple thing he is suppose to do on his own like starting his homework, getting ready for school, getting in the shower, reading before bed time!!! Everything w/ him is a battle and it is waring me down!!! So while I have 3 very short hours (more like 2 and half b/c I have to drive home and and drive back) 3 days a week while Lila is at school, I usually spend them on the couch w/ the tv so I can relax and breath for a couple minutes and watch someone else problems on a show or 2! Yes I am very productive!!!! Very wise w/ my time!!!

Well it is time to battle the bed time w/ the said 8 yr. old, WISH ME LUCK, even though I know I will win (I always do b/c we all need sleep even him!!!)!!!

~Love~Smile~Enjoy~Happiness~

(So am trying to get there!!!)

~The Wimpy Complaining Mom~

~RA~

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Starting The New School Year 10-11

Boy it feels like I have not been on here in FOREVER!!!!

What has been going on with us?

Well all 3 kids have started school!

JESSE

Jesse started Middle School (6th grade)!!!! Big step for him (and me), he is going to the same middle school I started in the middle of 6th grade when my family first moved here. He seems to like it most of the time but it can be hard and frustrating at times.... and well you get a lot more homework to do with all the classes you have to remember.... and getting a locker for the first time.... and there is the fact that you have to get up earlier!!! (getting up earlier is the hardest for me!) And we also got hit in the car pool line by a truck that did not even stop or seem to notice it bumped me, yes it was the big truck fault for trying to squeeze by a van! Hello I was there first!!!!! I get to line way early so I can be up front on purpose so I can be out sooner!!! But back on Jesse, he LOVES coming home an hour and half before his brother comes through the door, it's like a breath of fresh air, no one picking a fight with him, no one telling him what to do, just an hour and half of freedom!!!!

COLE

Cole started 3rd and got a teacher that is new to the school but is in her 4th year of teaching I believe. She seems very sweet but has picked up on thing I have been noticing for a while, like that he is still writing his 'b's and 'd's, 'p's and 'q's, '2's and 's's. So I am so pushing for him to get evaluated through the school if we can if not I will have to look for someone that is hopefully some what covered by our insurance but hopefully we can get it done soon!!!! I need all the help I can get with him, he is a challenging child to rase!!! But he seems to like the year so far, he has some of his old friends in his class which is always nice! He has signed up to help in the library (hoping that it will get him reading more being around all the books) and he has signed up for the Scrabble Club (that one I am hoping it will help w/ spelling and sportsmanship, loosing w/ some grace, can't always be a winner.... and so on, lol)!!!

LILA

Lila has started her first year of PRESCHOOL!!!!!!!! She is doing 3 day 3's going Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday!!! She has a blast playing with her new friends, arts and crafts (the school a lot, she comes home w/ something almost every day!!!), playing on the new playground (new to her), and making snacks like mud pudding cups w/ gummy worms!!! Lol =) New to me is that she eats lunch there, the boys preschool did not do lunch at school. The hard part is now I have to make 3 lunches in the morning! I think she LOVES going, even though her mommy gets very lonely at home w/out her!!!

The HARDEST part about all 3 of them going to school now is that they are all going to 3 different school and I am driving them at 3 different times in the morning and after noon!!! So right now it feeling a lot like I am living in the car! I not going to push my kids on to the busses (I road them most of my school years) but this is getting hard and the gas I am using!!!! My car seems to be on empty every other day (really a full tank is lasting about week)!!! But if it makes my kids happy and it's one less thing they have to stress about I will be there to pick them up on time (really it's always early but they don't see me till they are out) every day!!!!

~Love~Smile~Enjoy~Happiness~

~Ra~