Aging.... (Very personal)

It's funny I turn 24 in a couple of hours and this is my 24 blog posting.....Just thought I would share that.

I am sitting here and I was talking to my Lil/Big bro and we have realized that being a kid is much easier than being an adult.  Each year we get older and as kids we wanted to get older, but now the odd thing is now that we are adults we wish we could be kids again.  Looking back it seems like just yesterday me and my siblings were  just kids.  Running, playing, and all of us alive and well.  Today sitting here I would never imagine me being married with a child, my sister have a lil girl, and my lil/big bro have 2 great kids.  We use to get into trouble together, didn't care what happen to us, but now it's so different.   I remember my 18th birthday like it was yesterday.  I wanted to stop aging then.  I know this sounds odd, but everyone looks forward to their 21st birthday and that is a birthday I didn't look forward to.  My oldest sister never lived past the age of 21.  Each year when my birthday rolls around that is the first thing I think of...is that I am older than she got to be.

One good thing about aging is that you start making new memories.  You add new people into the family and you have your own kids that you get to watch grow up.  I am sure when Zander turns 24, it will seem like just yesterday that he was born.

So here is to another year of living life to the fullest...never miss a beat.  You only live once, so make your life worth living.  Cheers

Near the end

So we are near the end of this deployment.  There's so many things that I am hoping will make the last couple of weeks fly by.  I am going to start babysitting my friends kiddos so that will kill some time and then almost a week from now the in laws are coming down.  Tuesday March 30 is my birthday and a really good friend is cooking me dinner, so I am super excited about that.  I am just hoping that time will go by really fast.  I hate waiting.

A lot has happen since the last time I wrote....First, I have to go to the dentist and have a root canal.  It isn't done yet I go back the 6th to have it finished up.  I hate the dentist, when I say hate I mean I hate the dentist.  There are many reasons for this.  Dental work is more than going to the ER if something is wrong and of course in m opinion  dental insurance sucks.  I know our insurance only pays half...Only half that means whatever is wrong it will be expensive.  Your teeth is eventually going to fall out, so why does it have to be so expensive.  Second, I hate the pain.  I think pain in your mouth is worse than almost any other pain.  The reason I went to the dentist is because I has having pains here and there, so I decided to go before it got worse.  I WAS NOT in pain everyday...it seems since the dentist has bothered my tooth I have been in some kind of pain in my mouth, minus today.

Oh a good note...Of course I wrote that I found the perfect dress and now I have found my son the perfect shirt for homecoming.  It matches the blue that is in my dress, so I am so excited.  I also bought him these jeans that are really cute.  They have that dirty look to them and with the shirt he is coming to look so handsome.  Talking about homecoming, one of the things I am excited about this homecoming is the In Laws are going to be up here for homecoming.  They have never been here for homecoming so I am super excited about that.  They get to see what it is all about...YAY!!!

Lil man is on this new med to help him sleep at night and it works great....he takes halves during the day to calm him down.  I am so glad that the doctor finally decided to do something about everything that is going on with him.  He has testing on the 14th so see how delayed he is.  He just had almost the same testing last summer back home in Tennessee, but I guess Virginia is way different than Tennessee.

March 30 I start back to school officially...yay for me.  I am use of doing 2 classes at a time with each of them being 9 weeks, but I guess I am doing one class at a time with each class being 5 weeks.  I am excited to see how this is going to turn out...

I am going to go, sorry I haven't wrote in awhile, but I have been super busy...I will try to write more another time.

Real vs Fake Friends

Fake Friends:

• The number one thing that fake friends do it tell your business.  Just not any business, the business that you have shared with them and should be left private.
•  Fake friends always expects the other person to come and visit them or expects the other person to call them and plan something.  They do not want to put forth the effort to plan something or leave their house to go hang at other friends houses.
• It is always about them.  This kinda goes with the last one.  Every word that comes out of their mouth is about THEM.  No how are you doing...I hope you are doing well.  Right off bat they have something to bitch about or have a million and one things that is wrong with them and they tell you everything and when you try to tell them something they turn the subject back around to THEM...once again
• They also don't keep their word.  They make plans every time and never follow thur with them because once again it is always something.  

     

 Real Friends

• A real friend is honest no matter what...if you look like complete shit they will tell you exactly how it is.
•   They accept you for who you are and they love you regardless, even if you are being an ass.
•  Very supportive of you goals and your ideas.   
•  One of the most important ones is that you can trust them.  You can trust them with anything and you know at the end of the day...they won't judge you are go run off and tell someone else.
• The most important one is that.....they stick with you through the good times and the bad times no matter what. 

 

Enjoying life

Today I actually succeed in getting some sun....It's funny because my legs won't tan but my upper body will....it is so nerve raking.  I am going to go outside and lay in the sun everyday till the hubby returns and then hopefully my legs will have a little tan on them.  I am hoping at least.

So tomorrow I am going to the dentist.  I HATE the dentist, always have and always will.  I am hoping I just need a filling something cheap and easy.  My tooth just hurts off and on so hopefully no root canal.  I know they are going to tell me I need my wisdom teeth out, but I have been putting that off for years, they don't bother me so way put myself in pain to have them cut out.  That is how I see it.  Friday my son has a doctors appointment for his sleeping.  I am hoping it is just a phase, but I guess we will see Friday.  Talking about lil man....it seems like he is just getting more and more hyper everyday.  Any of you have any suggestions on how to handle a hyper kid, lol.  They are going to start his ADHD testing once he starts preschool.

I have came up with the prefect gift for my hubby's birthday/homecoming gift...What sucks I cannot post it on here because he reads my blog...sorry baby...I love you though.  When he comes home we have a lot of yard work to do during his leave...I am so excited about working in the yard.  I done a little yard work in the back today, but not much.  I mostly done it to get some sun.  Once hubby is home we are going to start working out as a family....going to the park and walking...walking around the neighborhood....just something.  I need to lose weight.  I was losing weight till I moved back to Virginia, but I am slowly gaining it back.  I have gained back like 3 pounds and I hate that.  I will lose those 3 pounds before hubby returns.

March 30, which is my 24th birthday...I start school again YAY.  I am going to go my bachelors without any school loans.  That is my goal.  I already had an account set up with MyCAA, so I get to use that money for my first 7 classes.  I am so excited.   Now I just have to find me a job and I will be fully satisfied.  I love staying at home with lil man, but I need a job.  I start watching my friends kiddos next month till I find a job.  I am also excited about that because I love her lil kiddos.

 Well, I am going to go for now...Bye

A day at the beach.....

I decided to go to the beach today.  Perfect weather or as some call it beach weather.  My husband told me not to go till he got home...but his parents are coming down before he gets back and that will be one of the places that we go to first.  We had a blast at the beach with some friends.  Played in the sand...shopped in the boardwalk stores (even though we bought nothing)....and we walked the boardwalk.  Lil Man loved it until the walk back to the truck.  We parked on 14th St. and we walked down I would say about 28th St. and on the way back a woman ran him over with a bicycle.  He is fine, but she didn't even say she was sorry.  What kind of woman is that.  We are thinking about going back tomorrow and if I do I am going to wear so shorts and a spaghetti strap top to get me some sun before the hubby comes home.

So..I have been working at getting some things done here and there...One thing I am dying to do is plant flowers, but I cannot till the hubby comes home.  He wants to help me and I am really excited about it...I know I sound like a dork, but I am.

Talking about the wonderful husband I have, I received my birthday package from him.  It is the best gift ever.  He bought me the Twilight books gift set.  I have read the first 2, so now I just have to read the last 2.  I cannot believe he remembered to get me those.  I owe him BIG time, lol.  I love you baby.

I have less than 2 weeks before the in laws get here so I have to start getting some stuff done.  With only 2 weeks until they get here, which means homecoming is coming up soon.  I am so excited.  I am trying to make the time go by fast, which rarely happens.  I keep on telling lil man that daddy is coming home soon and he will take you to Chucky E Cheese, lol.

Well I am going to go..I have a 4 year old to go keep up with.

Counting the days.......

So with us being in our final month of the deployment, I am slowly....but surely wrapping up things at home.  Yesterday, I bought my homecoming dress.  I love this dress.  I have to work on getting me a tan or I will have to get a spray on tan....lol.  I have a list of things I need to do at home before hubby comes home.  Getting a dress was the first thing on my list to do.  Next, I have to find lil man the perfect outfit to wear to homecoming.  Most of the things on my list will be done a week before hand because my in laws are coming down for Spring Break.  Ihave to make sure everything is cleaned.  I was going to start on the yard work, but I figured that can wait till the hubby comes home. 

I rented "Did you hear about the Morgans", for tonight.  I have been wanting to see it since I have seen the previews.  I am hoping it is a good movie because I have waited a long time to see it.  While, talking about movies tomorrow is March 20 and that means New Moon is coming out on DVD.  I am so excited.  I will probably wait till hubby comes home to rent ir or may even buy it. 

Well...sorry this isn't a long entry, but I have to go cook Spaghetti for the kiddos...I am babysitting tonight.

I am also taking the poll down and going to put another one up soon.  Thanks

It's been awhile....

Since I have written we have went through a time change for Spring.  I wanna say I hate the time change....I really do.  It makes me feel like I am sleeping later than i should when we move up an hour.  It makes the days seem shorter and it is always later than you have realized.  It is like when you get use to one time change the other one is right around the corner waiting to happen.

Ok...enough talking about the time change.  So, I have decided that for homecoming for my husband I want to wear a dress.  It's funny actually because I do not wear dresses...I think the only time he has ever seen me in one is when we got married.  I have been looking for the perfect dress, but yet I haven't found one.  I am in a rush because I have less than a month.  I think for my son I am going to order him a homecoming shirt from cafepress.com.  The last time my hubby was deployed that is what I did and I think I will do that again.  we have to look pretty for our Sailor, lol. 

So, the doctor put lil man on these all natural pills that are suppose to help you go to sleep.  Let me tell ya...these things barely work.  I have no clue what is up with his sleeping habits, but he has taken them for 2 nights and I haven't seen a change.  yes, last night he went to bed earlier than what he usually does, but it was still very late.  The first night he went to sleep fast, but the thing was he woke up like a hour and half later and he was fully awake and ready to go like he already had a full night of sleep.  So, if you have any suggestions on how to help him go to sleep at night, please, please, let me know....I think I have tried everything so far.  I have even cut out his nap.  I am hoping this is just a stage that some kids go through.

My hubby called yesterday and I guess he has bought me a birthday present and it will be here Wednesday.  I am driving myself nuts because I am trying to figure out what the heck he has bought.  When he bought me flowers he used the regular credit card so I knew to expect flowers from him.....this time he didn't use the regular credit card and I have no clue what to expect.  All the he has told me is that it is something I have wanted for a long time.  I can't think of what it could be.  So, I guess I will be waiting here this week for me to get a package.

Well, I am going to go...I hope everyone has a good week.

Poll

As you can see I have put a poll on my page...My hubby has a friend that wants to move in....I personally do not like having roommates, we have had a bad experience with roommates.  If we let his friend movie in we would save like 500 dollars a month, which is a lot, but it just won't be just us here....Please vote and tell me what you think....Please..Thanks

How to simulate being a Sailor

1. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for six months.

2. Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls.

3. Repaint your entire house every month.

4. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the bathtub and move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you turn off the water while you soap down.

5. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high.

6. Once a week, blow air up your chimney, with a leaf blower and let the wind carry the soot onto your neighbor's house. Ignore his complaints.

7. Once a month, take all major appliances apart and reassemble them.

8. Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them.

9. Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week.

10. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off. On Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they use too much water, so no bathing will be allowed.

11. Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling, so you can't turn over without getting out and then getting back in.

12. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack."

13. Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc. Re-qualify every 6 months.

14. Have your neighbor come over each day at 0500 , blow a whistle so loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout "Reveille, reveille, all hands heave out and trice up."

15. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 0600 while she reads it to you.

16. Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 1500.

17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not. "Now sweepers, sweepers, man your brooms, give the ship a clean sweep down fore and aft, empty all shit cans and butt kits!"

18. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering the rest.

19. Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one-- the same one every night.

20. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone shouting "Now general quarters, general quarters! All hands man your battle stations!

21. Make your family's menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry or refrigerator.

22. Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have dried ham or hot dogs.Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for hot dogs.

23. Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off.

24. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. (Midrats)

25. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night. At the alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose and put out a simulated fire..

26. Every week or so, throw your cat or dog into the pool and shout "Man overboard, port side!" Rate your family members on how fast they respond.

27. Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup, "Stove manned and ready." After an hour or so, speak into the cup again "Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoe box.

28. Make your family turn out all the lights and go to bed at 10 p.m. "Now taps, taps! Lights out! Maintain silence throughout the ship!" Then immediately have an 18-wheeler crash into your house. (For aircraft carrier sailors.)

29. Build a fire in a trash can in your garage. Loudly announce to your family, "This is a drill, this is a drill! Fire in hangar bay one!"

30. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand in front of the podium for 4-hour intervals.

Best done when the weather is worst. January is a good time.

31. Next time there's a bad thunderstorm in your area, find the biggest horse you can, put a two-inch mattress on his back, strap yourself to it and turn him loose in a barn for six hours. Then get up and go to work.

32. For former engineers: bring your lawn mower into the living room, and run it all day long.

33. Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot, and let the pot simmer for 5 hours before drinking.

34. Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears.

35. Sew the back pockets of your jeans onto the front.

36. Add 1/3 cup of diesel fuel to the laundry.

37. Take hourly readings on your electric and water meters.

38. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go to the scummiest part of town. Find the most run down, trashiest bar, and drink beer until you are hammered. Then walk all the way home.

39. Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you'll take them to Disney World for liberty. At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.

Goodmorning....

I am usually not up this early...I am not a morning person at all.  So this morning I woke up with a major toothache...already started off bad, but thanks to a friend it is gone.  She was a life saver she brought me meds for it and not it is gone....for now.....Today I am babysitting so it is me againest 3 kiddos, which isn't bad at all.  I love watching the 2 kids I am watching.  My goals for today is to wash clothes and at least get my SUV washed and vaccumed out.  I have cleaned it out but not it is time to clean it competely out and after I get done with that one I am attacking the truck which doesn't need to be vaccumed or anything just needs to be washed by hand...I took it through a carwash not to long ago.....It looks pretty nice outside, so at least me and the kiddos won't be trapped inside all day. 

Can you believe it is almost the middle of March....it seems like March just started,  I am so excited i turn 24 this month....I feel old.  I was telling my sister the other day that she makes me feel young because she is turnign 30 this year lol....I was just telling a friend yesterday that I have a bug family...I use to hate having a big family, but I love it now that I have gotten older.  I have 5 sibilings...which not it is like I have 3...I do not see my oldest brother that needs to grown up and when I was younger my oldest sister got killed.  Now it is just like it is just the 4 of us me, my sister, and my twin brothers.  It seems like as we get older we grow closer together and I love that.  I was thinking the other day I never thought we would all have kids together, but me and my sister have kids 3 weeks and 1 day apart and my brothers 2 kids are just a couple of years younger.  I sit back now and I would never, ever see us as parents...its funny because when I think about it I never see myself without any of our kiddos in our lives.  They almost out number us, but thats the good thing...Well if you add my older brothers kids they do out number us Big time.

I am going to go and get working on some housework....

My life....my hobbies....my goals...

Its been a couple of days since I have wrote.  They other day I decided to not do anything set around and be lazy, which was relaxing.  I didn't clean, I didn't leave the house, I just stayed in my PJ's all day.  While I was being lazy I decided to pull out some photos and edit them.  I have forgotten how much I love photography.  Sitting down and playing with them and just doing what ever to them.  The last time I really just took my camera out was when I took some Christmas Dance pictures for my lovely sister and her friend.  I didn't realize I missed it so much....now I am excited about the warm weather to get here for me to take my camera back out and do pictures.  We have this place called RedWing Park and I love going there for many reasons.  They have a Japanese garden, a rose garden, and this huge flower garden.  The flowers should be blooming in a couple of months...I am so excited...Have I mentioned I am so excited, lol.

I have promised myself because I still have close to 6000 dollars to spend on my schooling and the money is just waiting there for me to use it next Monday I am going to call the school and get started on my Bachelor's Degree.  I am the first person out of my brothers and sisters to have a college degree.  I have my Associate's  in Criminal Justice.  My goal is to someday go to law school, but honestly I do not see that happening because of the money it takes.  Right now I am in the process of trying to find me a Probation Officer job...which I have not had any luck what so ever.  It seems like no one is hiring.  I hate the economy when it is like this.  So I have made myself a post it note and stuck it in the office to remind me to call the school first thing Monday.

So, lil man is sick with a cold.  I take him to the doctor Thursday to see what it is.  The last time he had a cough like this and I thought it was a cold it turned out to be pneumonia.  I hate it when he is sick.  Like a normal child he refuses to take meds and I have to beg him to take his meds.  

So I just got off the phone with my mom....she told me that my oldest brother called her, which he is 40...you would think he has grown up by now...he called to tell her that he may be another daddy that he isn't for sure....if he is he will have 7 kids...7.....I think it is time for him to GROW up...

Before I get off of here for the night..My really good friend Tashia also has a blog that everyone of you should check out.  Its:  http://www.lifeofnavywife.blogspot.com/

I am getting off and going to do my mother duties and relax.... 

Mommy's Day Out...

I got to go out today with lil man....Thanks to my friend...thanks so so so much.  I decided to go to the movies to see Dear John because I have wanted to see it every since I have seen the previews for it.  Let me till you the movie was great...the ending wasn't the ending I wanted.  I cried during the movie...I know I know...but I am a girl get over it, lol...I am allowed to cry during a movie, it is in our paper work, lol.  if you haven't seen this movie it is a MUST see and Channing Tatum or course looked good in the inform....which makes me wanna watch Stop Loss tonight to see him in another uniform, lol.  Well, I was at the movies I see the there is a Sex in the City 2 coming out, I am excited about that.  I never watched Sex in the City until the movie and I fell in love.  Of course I am a Twilight fan and June 30 the new movie comes out and New Moon comes out on DVD this month.  I want the Twilight books...I have actually read the first and second one need to read the rest of them.

Getting on with life....I had a water leak some where the other day and it just stopped.  The home owner came out and looked and seen nothing.  Later on in the day the guy that works on the air unit outside said the homeowner told him to come over to look at the unit outside because it was making a loud noise and surprise surprise...it has been 2 days and I haven't seen him....here we go again with him not showing up and I am not sitting around here all day and everyday waiting on him to show...I have a life, lol

Well....I am going to go for tonight...I have stuff to do as a mommy....

Sorry....

My link has been broken I have fixed it and I have to redo my page....the countdown thing was messing it up...so if yo have a blog don't use it.....

Oh sunny day.......

Today was just another ordinary day.  Today was nice and sunny outside.  My friend brought her kiddos over for me to watch a couple of hours.  I took them outside and they had a blast, but because they were outside my lil man got his first bee stung today right on his knee.  He was so dramatic....saying mommy, mommy a bug bite me kill it and he wouldn't let me see I didn't know a bee stung him.  When I finally got to see it he was huge.  I was a good mommy doctor and I doctored him with my first aid kit....YAY me, lol.

So my sister texted me  just a lil while ago and she was telling me how grateful she is to have my granny still with us.  Growing up our granny was the only grandparent we had.  She kept us in line.  I remember we use to take turns staying with her every other weekend.  My granny is now 92 years old and still kicking.  My sister went to go see her today, because after what happen to Nana my sister wants to see her a lot more.  My sister told me that when she left her today she told her she would be back Wednesday...granted that my granny is in the nursing home...she told my sister call me before you come I might have somewhere I have to go, lol.  Gotta love granny.

 The other day I was talking to my "mother dearest", which is a ex co-worker that kept me in line.  She ask me if I was home sick yet and I told her no, but the truth is I do miss certain things at home, one thing is my family of course (most of them) and I miss working with my mother dearest and my sister dearest, which they loved to play jokes on me.  I realized that back home isn't really home no more.  It will always be home, but it is never the same once you live and return.

Well, it is time for me to go...motherhood is calling me....mommy,mommy, come here, lol.  Gotta love the job.