Mid Winter Break

The kids are off school today. It's their mid winter break. They ended up getting a 4 day weekend out of it since they had a snow day on Friday, Ryan actually got a 5 day weekend since he was home Thursday with Pink Eye. I got Ryan's teacher 3 large cans of Lysol, Strep, an intestinel thing and pink eye is hanging out in thier classroom... So far we've had it all but the strep ( we did have it at Christmas time, does that count?) Ryan's pink eye decided to move into his other eye on Saturday, it looked worse than the first one. Needless to say, now the first eye is looking nasty again....
Bradley had his Blue & Gold ceremony Saturday night. He is now considered a Webelos 2, Brad is geeked about that. Next year at the ceremony he will become a Boy Scout. He loves being in Scouts, he is learning and doing so many cool things!! He is with a large group of kids and his leader Dave is awsome with the boys. Dave's son Matthew is one of Brad's best friends, in fact Brad stayed the night over there last night. We love to get together with Dave & Denise to play cards. They also have a daughter Sarah who is a little older than Ryan. Ryan and Sarah were in Speech therapy together a few years ago. It's nice to have all kids get along so well when we get together!
Sunday was the Daytona 500 guess what Doug did.... sat downstairs in front of the fireplace all afternoon..... I am starting a honey do list for him.... there are SO many things that need to be done around here, it's driving me crazy!!!
It is a beautiful sunny day it's in the mid 20's.

Winter is back!!

Wow, winter is back, it is a chilly 18 degrees and it's snowing, a pretty snowfall. We got a couple of inches over night. Doug got called to an accident this morning around 5am, so I knew it must be slippery. There were no school delays though, bummer... I would of liked another hour or 2 of sleep! ha ha.
More on hopeing to not forget Bradley at Webelos. Last week, Doug took Bradley to his den meeting, Then he never came back home, I just assumed he was there or just hanging out at the Fire Dept until it was time to get him.... around 8pm I was thinking, why arent' they home yet??? Then at 8:15 Denise ( Den leaders wife) called and asked if she should bring Bradley home.... I said, He's still there??!!! I totally forgot that Doug had his fire meeting that night! I felt so stupid... Doug went out and picked him up, since his meeting was done by then! What kind of terrible parents are we??!!!! Dave & Denise thought it was funny, the kids were thrilled! Lucky for us Dave & Denise are good friends of ours too! Last night Doug took Bradley, then didn't come back home, at 7:30 I called him and asked if he'd picked him up..... he had!!
Ryan is home sick again today... I have to see if Mimi will come over and watch Ryan so I can take Bradley to the Dr. ( sounds mixed up doesn't it) Ryan's got an intestinal thing going on, he seems to feel fine, until he cramps up and has to go NOW.... So I won't send him to school until it's over. Brad has had pain on his left side for a couple of weeks, so I made this appt. last Tuesday. I'm sure it's nothing. I also have to stop at KnR and pay for my "new" car... Then we can start buying parts and fixing it. I can't wait to get it!!!

Glad the sun was out

Well, it was a really cold day today, but the sun was out, which is a good thing, It was four years ago today that #1 One of my bestest friends became a mom for the first time and #2 I lost my mom..... The Olympics is odd for me this year... Last time I watched the Winter Olympics, my Mom was alive for the opening ceremonies and for the closing ceremonies... she was not. It's hard to belive that 4 years have gone by, and I still feel the hurt so vividly... I really miss my parents.
Ryan was also home from school today sick, and it doesn't look like he's going to be going tomorrow either, so that brings me to another dilema... Brad has a Dr.s appt. for some pain he's had for a couple of weeks on his left side, and Ryan won't be at school and can't leave the house.... I need my Mommy!!! Doug is NOT very helpful in situations like this!!
Guess I'll go back downstairs and sit by the fire.... Hope we don't forget to pick up Bradley at Webelos tonight!!.....

Found a car

Well, Doug called me yesturday from work and said he bought a car. It's a 1994 Corsica with around 80,000 miles on it. Not too bad for $250. It needs a new hood, front fender, headlight and windshield and the frame needs to be straightened.... You guessed it, he got his way and finally got a wrecked car. They get a lot of them at work. We're sort of thinking, we will buy this , fix it up and then, when he finds another one, buy it fix it up and sell the first.... Thier value goes up a lot once they are all fixed, and that's what he does for a living. If you do this enough times, you'll get enough money saved up to buy a pretty decent used car with no payment!! Just takes a lot of time and sweat equity. At the moment until we get the "new" car done, we borrowed a car from my brother-in-law. They have one for the kids, but Steph doesn't have her license yet even though she's 16, her parents said she needs LOTS more practice driving before going solo, apparnetly she's tried to kill herself and parents more than once by turning in front of someone!! The car is a definate kid car, the windshield leaks, so it's damp and stinky in there and I need to shovel it out before I take it for a ride today. It's also full of rust... but, at the moment, for the next few weeks, it's transportation.