Who we are - 2015.

OMG, we've made it 3 years now.   Blogging has kind of taken a back burner, but I am working on getting things back to a level playing field.  

New things that AREN'T on the ORIGINAL "Who we are" blog

Kids have got older & changed:

• The Oldest is now 19, and is back home.  He went back to Oklahoma for a while, made another stab at building a relationship with my brother - his bio dad, he never did finish school, and got into some legal trouble (but he didn't call home to get bailed out!), but now he's back home, and I'm glad, I really need him - and I'm getting him on the path of "growing" He is a super help with the younger kids, helping around the house, getting things built around here since Babe is working so much!

• Drama Rama is now 17, she has only been gone since June - and she's back.  She's made a stab at staying with all kinds of random people and her father, and bio mother - none which worked out.  She got very sick last week - she had cellulitis (bacterial skin infection) there is a link below.  She has psoriasis - there are 7 different major types, and she now has all 7.  You can google that on your own!  So she is back home recovering after being in the hospital on heavy steroids and antibiotics for 4 days. She didn't finish school either, so as soon as she is capable of moving around freely, I will get her started on a forward direction of education! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001858/#adam_000855.disease.cause

• PeaceKeeper is now 11, turning 12 in March, in the 6th grade and started middle school this year, he is taking band, and got 1st chair, his first year, we are all pretty proud.  His grandmother played brass in school and so she has been able to teach him quite well, and done an amazing job, and he loves it!  He is almost as tall as I am, and is such a fun kid.  He's a comedian at heart and I love it!  School is more of a challenge for him this year - 1st year in Jr High, 1st full year at this new school district and its more advanced than their old school, I had no idea 2 schools 12 miles apart would be so different!!! He got a cellphone this year, he has started going to friends houses and doing independent things, and so my Mom decided since she never uses her cellphone and we are paying for it - might as well give it to the kid for doing so well in school and making 1st chair.  He was super stoked.  Its not a smartphone - its a blackberry q10, its touch screen, BUT it doesn't have all the access to the crazy apps, most of blackberry apps cost money and it has parental controls on it so he can't buy anything - and he wouldn't anyway cus thats not currently his nature!
  

• Wild Thing is now 10!  He is doing so much better in school, has claimed down soooooooo very much!  I would believe its the same kid!  He's sweet, loving,  and full of cuddles whenever you want them - he is always running around moving - but stops by everyone for a hug and a kiss at least twice a day, and thats a school day.  He's very tender hearted!  School isn't such a battle for him anymore because he's calmed down so much and learned to pay attention.  I can't reiterate just how sweet he is!  Now give him a chance, and he will get fired up and my house can look like a tornado went blowing through.  He is playing basketball this year, he is doing great.  His team has only lost 1 game so far.   He is loving that we moved to closer schools because he gets to do more activities than before.

• Darling Diva will be 9 in April.  She has a very strong connection with God and church.  Example, I've been sick and thank God we live where we do, and she went next door Sunday morning and told them we were all sick, could she ride to church with the neighbors, and they gladly took her - they text me and said that she was the first to voice up when ask if there was anyone who needed prayer requests.  She's now the reason that I try to on a nightly basis working a bible study - its a bible study/mix of us getting to know about each others day.  Its cut down some since basketball season started.   She's playing basketball also, she's doing great.  She loves it and is very athletic - her and Wild Thing will at least be the 2 that keep me on my toes learning about all the sports I never cared to play!  School is a breeze for her, but she's having to learn to study, because again, school here is harder than where they were!
  

• Leggs just turned SEVEN - 7, yes my baby is SEVEN.  His birthday is in December so this year he was in 1st grade.  We had some major issues with his teacher so we pulled him out of school, he started Kinder at this new school end of the year last year, and he was already struggling and behind, because of his surgeries, and then had another one this year and it just seems like a never ending cycle for him sometimes - get caught up. . . fall behind.  So we pulled him out and are homeschooling him.  .  . . we are on week 3 and so far its going great, I am getting way more accomplished than I thought, even with me being sick and not getting to work with him as many hours as I had planned.  He knows its going to be a fight to get to 2nd grade next year, so we are probably going to end up working though end of June, but I am in hopes that it wont have to be that way for him.  He wanted to play basketball BUT because he had to have surgery, he missed sign ups :( 
  

In other news:

            My parents are living with us, my Mom has dementia, and needs assistance/isn't comfortable living alone.  We got screwed by a contractor on turning Babe's man save into a bedroom and laundry room and finishing the downstairs bathroom. . . The Oldest has been working on it but its a slow process because we are out so much money.  It sucked...BAD!  So we are kinda packed in like sardines.  Mom and Dad have a room, our live in has the tiny room, The Oldest is on the hide a bed couch, Drama Rama is sharing  room with Mom and Dad, Babe and I have a room - and the 4 littles are sharing a room stacked on bunkbeds with multiple TVs in one room so they can multi-task.  They are all being really awesome about it and know its not forever, but know that we have no end date in mind.

Babe is working a full time job, a part time night job, and even a Saturday job when they need him.  he's trying to cover all basis.  God love him, and I pray that he doesn't fall out, I worry about him A LOT!

Hello 2015!

     There are so many things that have come and gone since the last time I blogged.  I seriously had forgot all about this place.  I get so tied up with day to day things, ME - well the things that bring me joy sometimes get thrown out the window, run over by a semi and then get sent back to ME.

     So I am saying good bye to previous years, and hello the 2015 and going to hold on tight to it and hang on for the ride, cus if you follow my Facebook page, you know even that gets left behind sometimes and that my life is one hell of a roller coaster ride, depending on the day!

     I've worked, and stopped working out side the home - I've had 2 children move out, and 1 move back in.  My brother and I are on civil ground, we still have hell when it comes to dealing with the children though.  My amazing husband is now working 3 jobs, my parents are living with us.  My Mom had some major illnesses strike her and caused her to have a stroke and she now has vascular dementia and can't be left at home alone.  She came to live with us and then shortly after - so did my Dad.  My house is full - and I never thought Id say that considering how large it is, and we are even adding on another room and laundry room - and it seems the laundry room will now host as another bedroom as well!  Fun times right?  Right!

     I am going to just see where it all goes and live it all up in 2015.

 I am in sync with the fact that my life will always be hectic and that my family strives on random drama's that come into play.  So here we are.  There are currently 10 of us living in a 4 bedroom - soon (prayers!) 5.5 bedroom house.  Yes I am serious about putting "The Oldest" in the laundry room so that he isn't sleeping on the couch! - I hate having people sleep on the couch!  My brother was staying here for a while, but that didn't work out - so he went back to Dallas to live this girlfriend and I hope that works out for him this time - they seem to have some crazy connection - I hope they keep it!  

     Drama Rama dropped out of school and is living with some boyfriend about 30 miles from here - she ran away in 2014 and went to live with MULTIPLE people but ended up back with my brother who kicked her out - and now she's working on getting her camper live-in-able - she will be 18 in May and there is nothing I can do because when she ran away she took all legal documents out of the safe so I have no proof that I ever had any custody of her what so ever, because I never thought it would be necessary to file them with the county clerks office.  

     Peacekeeper is playing the trumpet in the 6th grade middle school band, and is AMAZING at it.  Darling Diva and Wild Thing start playing basketball this month.  We bought them a basketball goal for Christmas and they have been practicing everyday that the weather would allow - which up until a few days ago was possible - not sending my kids out when the windchill is in the negative numbers and we live in Texas, home of the notorious bi-polar Mother Nature.


2015 for me is going to be wrapped with more time!  

We are going to figure out a way to make all this work - I thought we'd have it down by  now - hell maybe it wont ever happen, and this will be a yearly thing of me trying to figure it out.  But we've made a pretty good start on it so far - basketball goal, pingpong table, fire pit in the back yard, the kids and I even started going to church on Sunday and Mom and I are going on a Walk to Emmaus next week!!  I am super stoked!

Things I like/don't like! (A Work In Progress!)

Ever just wonder - "Damn, am I the only one that hates this?" or "I've got to be crazy to enjoy this?"  Well, here is my "work in progress" - where I will make a list of the things I like - and don't like!


Like: in no particular order!

• Fresh flowers
• The smell of fresh cut grass
• the smell before the rain comes
• sunset
• fresh smell of clean laundry
• dogs
• coffee at random times of the day - prefer it cold
• Fall
• birds
• driving around with no place to go
• the way my dogs get so freakin excited when I walk through the door!
• bright neon colors
• coloring
• reading books
• cooking and having people enjoy eating it
• peeing alone
• taking a shower without anyone coming in to "check on me"
• not having to trip over toys and clothes to get where I am going
• hugs
• the way clean carpet feels on my feet
• not wearing shoes
• the fact that my husband thinks I'm sexy even if I haven't brushed my hair in days and it's piled up on my head in a matted bun mess
• the laughing of my children

Dis-like: in no particular order!

• crickets and grasshoppers
• dirty dishes
• clutter
• rap music
• screaming children
• whining (in adults and children! - though adults its way more annoying)
• taking a "poo" and realizing there is no damn toilet paper on the rack
• how my rottweiler can fart and clear out our entire house
• dirty toilets
• awkward small talk
• my children fighting
• lazy people
• whining
• begging
• "those friends" - you know, the ones that only call when they need shit!

Welcome :)

    

     I'm jumping into all this pretty blind.  I write well, I'm good at it - at least I was in school and college.  Back when "myspace" was cool I blogged all the time, and everyone always ranted and raved about them - I wrote about what life had thrown at me, how the kids were doing, how I wanted everyone to think life was going.        
     Myspace fell apart and turned to TRASH, and Facebook became a hit - I hate it, now I love it.  I live away have out grown most  from of my "friends" and have a really close family that is always around getting into twisting and turning in each others business - and everyone else's in town too.  (That happens a lot when you live in a town of less than 500!! A LOT LESS)  So I felt like I had no out - I wrote a lot - well people find diaries and journals and then do what? Get mad!  So I opened up a Facebook page last month that has virtually NO ONE I am related to have even ever laid REAL eyes on, and decided - damn it - I need to blog...to write...so here I am!

     I have followed/liked a ton (and I mean a TON) of "MOM" places on Facebook - and have started feeling whole again - not so damn alone.  It is freeing.  I can be me - JUST ME - and not have to worry about what anyone else thinks or says or does - cus I can block you, delete your comments or just blow you off!
     I recently bought a plaque at a local pharmacy that says "www.MommyNeedsHerSpaceBeforeSheTotallyLosesIt.com"  NOW I HAVE IT!!  I have my place!  To talk about life, love, kids, home, work, school, other parents, opinions, facts, jokes, husband, dogs, food, crafts, WTF ever I want :) And I like it!
     I hope you enjoy all these Crazy Ramblings Of A Not So Ordinary Mom.  I'll work on doing an "about me" page at some point - a real personal type one - but for now -- this is what you get :)

                                      ----Rambling Mom