So Weird Current

I was flipping channels yesterday afternoon (around 4 pm) and turned on CNN.  I saw the news about the earthquake in Hawaii.  I couldn't believe that happened.  Anyway i turned to my husband and asked him why he hadn't told me that it had been that serious.  He looked at me like i had horns growing out of the top of my head.   I told him that when he had told me that morning that Hawaii had an earthquake he hadn't said it was serious.  He looked at me and then pointed out that the earthquake hadn't happened until 1pm Eastern time, so there was no way that he could have told me in the morning.  I think i may have dreamed it.

How weird is that??

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:06:00 -0700

What a sucky day!!!

Today was one of the worst days i've had in a long time.

First let me start off by saying that i have been without a voice since Saturday.  It seems that once i turned 30, whenever i get a cold, i automatically lose my voice.

Today I had a vet appointment at 8:30 in the morning.  I shower and have breakfast and get the dogs out to the car.  It's crazy because the two of them together are stronger than me and they are literally dragging me along.  I'm leaning back to counter them.  We get in the car and get to the vet.  When we walk in the girl says that there is no one there that morning so i cannot have an appointment.  I know that i'm not crazy and i made this appointment weeks ago and wrote it down on the calendar so i wouldn't forget.  I ask her to verify then when my appointment is and i didn't have an appointment at all this month.  So i am dragged back to the car and home, pissed off already.

Later in the afternoon i pick up my son and a friends son to drop him off at home because her car broke down.  I figure since i have to pick up my daughter at Chorus less than an hour later that i'd sit and chat awhile.  I go back to the school and apparently the other mom thought it was her week to carpool so i'm trying to get home and catch up to her.  I make it home as they're about to leave my house, because i'm not there.

I must have rolled off the wrong side of the bed or something, cause i've got some seriously bad ju-ju going on with me.

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:08:00 -0700

My heart is breaking

My daughter is 7 years old, due to some circumstances she is in 3rd grade.  Third graders are generally turning 9 during this school year.  I didn't realize how difficult this would be for my little girl until just recently.

When she started school this year, several of the girls from her class last year are in her class this year.  Of course she was excited that her 'friends' were in her class.  It wasn't too bad until i noticed that they stopped walking out with her at the end of school, and my husband noticed that in the mornings these 'friends' would walk by without saying hello.

K. was invited to a birthday party for a girl who lives in our neighborhood, only a few girls were invited, and it's the same girls who are ignoring my daughter.  I talked to her to see if they played with her during school, and she said that sometimes they did.  I had told the mom that K. would go to the party, but now i'm not so sure.  I told her last week that if the girls weren't nice to her this week, that i didn't want her to go.  Today she said that they didn't talk to her at all during the day.

Why are girls so mean?  I don't remember being like this when i was little, but i was probably also the one being ignored.  How do you help someone who is so innocent realize that people are not always nice?  Do I let her go to this birthday party and pray that the are nice to her.  It's a sleepover, and i would hate to have her come home crying.  I just don't know what to do or how to deal with it.

My son who is 5 was discussing it this afternoon in the car and very plainly said it.  "These girls where nice to you last year, now that a new girl is here, they're not nice to you.  You have to ignore them in school and maybe then they'll want to be your friend."

 

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:32:00 -0700

Where were you when the towers fell?

I can still remember it like it happened last week.  9/11/2001.  I had a 2 year old and 4 month old baby.  Turning on the TV in the morning was not high on my priority.  It was a Tuesday and at 10:00am we had our monthly MOMS Club meeting.  When i walked in, you could feel the buzz in the air, but my lack of sleep didn't really let me get that.  I was in my own little world.  I was sitting down, nursing my son, somebody said outloud "The second tower just got hit".  I didn't know what they were talking about.  What tower?  I asked someone what was going on, where was this tower, what hit it?  It was sudden mayhem, we were being attacked, the world trade center.  I didn't really know what the world trade center was, but i knew it was in NY.  I called my husband at work.  I could hear the worry in his voice.  I'm going home, they're closing the office.  I left the meeting in a daze,  the radio told me the story that had unfolded that morning.  When i got home i turned on Disney for my daughter and watched the news in my room.  I watched those planes slam into those towers and was awed by the sheer horror those people must have lived and died through.  The tears were streaming down my face, but i could not stop it.  When those towers collapsed i felt like my heart had collapsed also.  How could this be happening?  How can people be so evil in this world?  Why would they do this to innocent people?

I still can't comprehend it.  I cannot watch the replays of it that happen every September 11th.  Someday my kids will learn about it in History class and i'll pull out my old VCR Tapes and watch the real thing, but for now i shield them from the hatred of the world.  All they know is love from us, they don't need to see that.

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:00:00 -0700

Disney Cruise!!! Whoooohooooo!!!

We're going on a Disney Cruise tomorrow and i am so excited.  I think i'm going to enjoy it more than my kids.  Could that be possible.  School starts in 3 weeks and i can't wait until both kids are in school all day.

Sometimes i wonder where all the time has gone, i can remember the day they were born like it was yesterday.  Then i look at them and i can't believe how big they are and how independent they've become.

People would tell me that time would go by so fast, and now i see that it really does.  I'm so glad that i've taken millions of pictures so my "mommy brain" can remember everything.

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:49:00 -0700

Time is going crazy

Haven't written in awhile.  I guess i got a bit of a life over the summer, but things change.  Some of the things that my son has uttered in the last week, one made me laugh, the other made me say "Awwww".

We're in the car driving.  There's a cd playing and to see how long the song had been going on i pushed the button changing the Clock into the Song Time thingie.  Well he's looking at his watch and he keeps looking at where the clock usually is and all of a sudden he screams "Mommy fix my watch cause time is going crazy!!!", i'd forgotten to change the thingie back to Clock and it was just counting up. LOL

The second thing happened last night.  He was getting ready for bed and i was tucking him in.  He was talking about school and his prayer hands.  He'd been going to a small cristian pre-school and they were used to saying a prayer before snack time.  I explained that they were not going to be praying in school. He thought for a few seconds and said to me "But how are we going to thank God for our meal?"  I smiled and told him that he could say thanks on his own, but the teacher couldn't do it with him.  "Why??"  I tried to explain about not saying prayers because people are different religions and they wouldn't want to be left out or insulted.  So he looks at me and says "Well the teacher should just let everyone say their own prayers that way nobody gets left out."  It's so simple when you look at it the way a child does.

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:03:00 -0700

It's a Small World

I just signed up the boy for a 2 week summer camp starting monday.  On the first day i heard a woman talking spanish.  I went over to say hello and asked her where she was from.  She was from Puerto Rico, so i introduced myself and we got to talking.  She just moved here a few weeks ago, and her kids are around the same age as mine.  We got together and the kids played together great, the older is in the same grade as my older child.

She mentioned that her husbands father was a doctor, and when i spoke to my parents and told them his last name, my father wondered if it was the same person he grew up with.  Ends up it is, they went to grade school together.

How weird is that??

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:55:00 -0700