24 posts from January 2008

Tomorrow is the day my baby girl has to have a catheter stuck in her.  I know it could be worse and be something serious medically so I am trying not to whine.  But I still am not looking forward to watching this and trying to hold my baby down during the procedure.  :(

Fresh off the presses at National Weather Service ........

300 AM EST THU JAN 31 2008

...HEAVY SNOW WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 7 PM EST FRIDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A HEAVY SNOW WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 7 PM EST FRIDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

SNOW WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA TONIGHT AND BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES ON FRIDAY. TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO 8 INCHES ARE EXPECTED BY EARLY FRIDAY EVENING...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE OVER SAGINAW COUNTY.

A HEAVY SNOW WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

grrrrrr.....anyone want to come watch my 5 year old?  Since kindergarten is closed again.  We haven't had a full week since early December!  And this one has the 50 mph winds and -15 wind chill factors.  yay.  and blowing snow - my favorite.  ugh ugh ugh

Now we have to scramble for childcare.  ugh.  And then a BIG storm is supposed to come tomorrow night into Friday with 6 plus inches.  yay.  NOT!

Spring oh Spring where are you?????

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Is this a hard concept?  Am I the only parent that thinks it's part of your responsibility when taking your kids out in public?  Does anyone else care if their children are annoying the piss out of people in their vicinity?

Picture this.  We are at hockey game on four end seats in front row of our level.  A Mom and Dad are sitting in the middle of the row behind us.  They have a 2 year old on their laps which they devote all their attention to (besides the game).  They ALSO have a cackle of boys with them.  Not sure if they were all their biological offspring or friends and assorted other hellions.  The 7 year old behind me was the last one in the line of brats (I don't use this term loosely).  He continually kicked the seat in front of him, which resulted in my seat being shaken and a vibration of the metal (and therefore me) taking place approximately every 1.7 seconds.  My headache ensued quite quickly.  I made a few annoyed glances in his (AND THE PARENTS) directions to no avail.  The parents were clueless.  Finally I could hold out no longer and turned around and NICELY asked him to please stop kicking the seat.  He never even said sorry.  He stopped for a while.  Then gratefully they left for a dippin' dots run.  Unfortunately the dippin' dots line did not last the rest of the game.  I would have loved that.  Spawn returned and instead of kicking he began making this awful grating humming noise, LOUDLY.  It was on and off.  In between the musical tribute to tone deaf america he was arguing with the other brats and saying mean things to/about refs and players.  By the 3rd period he was back to kicking on and off.  My most evil face did the trick that time.  Just think....it was tied 2-2 with 2 minutes left.  If we would have gone into overtime I may have been forced to tie the kids feet together with his jacket and stuff his socks in his mouth! 

I just don't understand how you can ignore your kids for 2.5 hours.  Is it that odd to expect the parents to spread out and keep better tabs on their row of children?  grrrrrr....off for advil. 

I see about 2 movies a year (no counting kids' shows), so I am pretty clueless.  Anyway, at the hockey game tonight they showed a clip of 2 guys in a car at night.  On the radio is that song by Wilson Phillips (I think it was called that....remember Carnie Wilson and her sister and maybe a 3rd person??) called "Hold On....for one more day."  KWIM?  Well the guys suddenly looked at each other and then started singing along and drumming on the dash etc. 

SO the 1 million dollar (pretend money) question is......What movie was it? 

I'll forever be in your debt.  LOL

Both kiddos received fantastic report cards this week. 

Rachel's first report card for 3 yr. preschool.  We were truly shocked at how well her teacher said she does at school.  She said she "listens well", "shares all the time", "is quiet during story and learning time", "shows respect during Jesus time and chapel."  Insert SHOCKED smilie face here.  DH and I were both picking our jaws off the floor and said, "OUR Rachel?  Ummmmmm, can you come to church with us on Sunday morning?"  See, the Rachel we know and adore is what you'd call a "drama queen" at home.  She's 0-60 either the most loving adorable child or the full tilt crying woe is me/poltergeist girl.  So, I guess we're glad that she gets all her "antics" out at home and turns on her angel side at school.  :) 

Luke is your typical 5 yr. old boy.  He is doing well on the learning side but has had some issues in kindergarten with listening and goofing around (as do the majority of his classmates).  He has difficulty settling down and not joining in with anybody else talking out of turn or squirming etc.  Basically doing what he's not supposed to do.  Nothing horrible or disrespectful (believe me we've talked to the teacher a lot and set up our own charting system for him because I'm anal like that), just self-control issues.  So the first report card in the fall had a lot of that stuff on it and quite a few "N" for "Needs work" instead of "A" for "Acceptable."  There are probably 40 different ratings or life skills on that report card.  Last time he probably had 50% "N."  So this time he got ALL "A" except for 2!  The only 2 were "throwing with control and tracing."  Teacher's comments were that his self control has improved and just needs to maintain control.

So there was much rejoicing in this household last night.  :)  So we got some movies at the library and watched Mulan, Aladdin and Batman (the cartoon - not real movie) last night.  Today we are finishing off the Movie Marathon with Shrek right now which the kids are absolutely loving (except for the dragon).  The kids had never seen any of these.  I had seen Aladdin and Shrek, which is one of the funniest movies ever for my money.    But the best reward is tonight we are going to take them to the local Hockey game Saginaw Spirit.  DH and I have been wanting to go ourselves but the kids love going and they were ecstatic when we talked about it last night, so it's a family event. WOOHOO!

I realized something on the trip to Florida.  I've always been mystified by people that say they are "ready to meet their maker" or some euphemism.  I've known old people (my gram and great aunts) who actively prayed to be taken to heaven.  But I could never imagine feeling that way myself.  I've always thought about the people who would be left behind that I would miss too much.  Well, when we were flying to Florida, I of course entertain the thoughts about the plane crashing just as I do every time I fly.  When we're landing I play that "ok we're close enough now that we'd probably survive" game.  I guess I think that by keeping the possibilities fresh in my mind I am warding off the unexpected.  Tragedies never occur when you are ready for them...kwim?  So anyway, I realized that if we did crash, I was ok.  I had my kids, my husband, my mom, my nieces, SIL and BIL along with me.  That's all I have now for immediate family.  So if I had to "go" that's how I would want it.  With all of us together so none of us would be sad and missing the other.  And we'd be with dad and gram again.  It was shocking to me at least a little that I felt that way but the more I reflect on it, the more that it sounds ideal.  Don't get me wrong...I am not suicidal or anything like that.  I just think that that's the way I would want to leave this earth if I could pick, which of course I can't, with all of us together.  KWIM?  Or am I speaking crazy?

Airplane is on right now.  As in the original movie.  For my money this is the funniest show ever.  I LOVE it!  Haven't seen it in years but DH and I are cracking ourselves up right now.  Luke is trying to understand it all and keeps wondering why we are laughing.

Favorite scene:  The nun with the guitar pulling out the IV on that sick girl.  ROFLMAO

Well a day late.....I knew it was in January but I just looked it up and it was yesterday!