One Year!

I stayed up way too late last night playing on the computer. My head is killing me this morning because of it. I feel like I have a hang over, but I didn’t even have a drop of alcohol.

While scooping out the blog some, reading old posts and all I realized I’ve been blogging for ONE YEAR! I was kind of excited. (YEAH, it doesn’t take much.)

I was super excited too because there is another mommy that same on the forum and announced her daughter was in foster care for the past week, she has an adoption plan, but since the moment her daughter was born she fell total in love with her. All of a sudden all of her reasons for the adoption didn’t matter anymore, she wanted to parent her daughter. (Don’t I know that one.)

Of course I replied screaming, GO GET YOUR DAUGHTER!!! I also PMed her and she replied back that she was going to talk with her councellor today and was 100% sure she would be getting her daughter. YAY!! I hope she lets us know how it went.

Elijah called me at work on Saturday from camp. He is having so much fun, however there was a sadness in his voice. There were people in the background so he was also speaking very softly, he doesn’t like others listening to him talk on the phone.

He’s been busy with craft projects. I guess he made a really big castle out of cardboard and is worried he won’t get it home. Anybody got a truck I can borrow? I told him I would leave the stroller at home so maybe there will be enough room in the trunk. He been playing a lot of chess, but is frustrated because he hasn’t won any games. They have have gone bowling and he won 2 games. He’s learning how to cook and said he’s going to make us some almond pudding and gingerbread cookies when he gets home. MMMMMM!

He expressed how badly he was dieing for a soda, but didn’t have 50 cents. I reminded him of the 10 dollar bill in his sunglasses case. He said he knew, but nobody had change. I asked him if he asked one of the adult. “NO! Why would I ask THEM?” was his reply. I had to laugh, guess he figures adults NEVER have any money. He went to the Renaissance Fair on Sunday, so now he has change.

Yeah-he called on Sunday too. This time he had an opportunity where nobody was around and he confessed, “I want to come home!” My heart broke, I want to just hop in the car and go get him, but I knew that he would have fun this week and he could hold out. We talked about all the fun he was having. His attitude got a bit negative, everything was “stupid and boring”. YEAH RIGHT! When he had to get off the phone I promised to call him Monday night.

Talked with him last night and he is fine. Yes, he’s homesick, but he had another fun day and was happy he stayed. He stated it was getting hard to wait to see me and PooWee though. He’s just so excited to see us he can’t wait much longer. He also had his first soda and said it was, “GOOOOOOOD!!”

I have strict orders to call him again tonight at 6:30. I sure do miss him! PooWee and I are trying to keep busy. Last Thurs. evening I didn’t know what to do, so PooWee and I headed to Elijah’s soccer game that he is missing. The coach had to chuckle at me for showing up and my son wasn’t even there. Hey! I’m BORED, and PooWee loved watching the kids play.

I got back downtown yesterday morning to finish shooting the rest of the chalk drawings. I was excited it didn’t rain. I wanted really bad to get a better shot of PooWee on Aaron’s work too. We got down there and the drawings were washed out! I was so disappointed. Mom and I debated back and forth if it did rain, she thought some kids may have gone down there and destroyed them, or that possible the morning dew had washed them out. Then a lady answered our question. Here someone forgot to shut of the timer for the sprinkling system. Yep-someone got in trouble at work yesterday! It’s a real bummer too, because so many people come down to look at them. Betcha this won’t happen again.

Aaron is coming over tomorrow to hang with PooWee and I. It’s been awhile since he’s come over during the week. Usually he picks him up from the sitters on Sundays for a few hours. I guess he has off and seeing he was doing the chalkfest this past Sunday he didn’t get PooWee. I’m thinking I’m going to take advantage of Aaron being here and take a shower when he’s here. WOW! I’m excited, I will get a shower without a lil guy pulling open the curtain and throwing toys in by me! YAY!

Bruce is growing…well…like a weed. I have to laugh, I just can’t pull him out. Bruce has become apart of our family. PooWee truly is proud of him. He walks up to Bruce and says, “WOW” and give him a kiss.

Today I have to do laundry, clean up the apartment and wash PooWee’s pool. I was lazy and never ran to get a tarp to cover the pool and there lots of debry and bugs that found their way in. So we drained it last night and today we will wipe it out and put new water in. Yes, I bought a tarp yesterday.

Andrew’s dad ended up in the hospital yesterday. I took him up there for awhile. Mike was in super bad pain, I believe he had a bowel obstruction. They were waiting to see they results of the CT Scan were and if he would need surgery or not. Of course I had to make sure he had a good doctor and care. His doc is top of the line awesome, so he had my approval to continue on with him. Right after we left Mike got rushed off to surgery. I called Andrew at 11 last night he hadn’t heard anything yet. This morning I got Andrew out of bed at 10:30 and he didn’t know anything yet. I told him to get up and find out! Still hasn’t called back.

Well, I guess I better get going on my chores for the day or they will never get done!

Happy day to all!!

YAY PooWee’s Daddy!!!

PooWee’s Daddy won!!!! YAY!!! We are so excited for him!!

 

PooWee’s Daddy, Aaron won the Artist Choice Award at the Chalkfest this weekend! He is super excited and we are equally excited for him.

Note: Aaron has done the Chalkfest since it started. (not sure how long it’s been going on.) He doesn’t go into it with any planned drawing. He sits down starts drawing and well…here is what he came up with. The picture isn’t the greatest, but there are hidden items, lots of eyes lead to faces or a guitar. Aaron alson got quoted in todays paper, before he knew he won. His quote, “I like people to just stare at my work” and that’s what you need to do to get the real feel of his artwork.

Elijah has been upset that he couldn’t draw in the Chalkfest this year because he is at WCBVI. So he asked me to go and take a picture of every single chalk drawing. So, after work tonight we headed down to check out the artwork. 

I decided taking a video would be better. As I started taping and Grandma strolled with PooWee we run into Amy. Amy is a awesome teacher from the boys’ old daycare. I chatted with her for quite awhile. Then it was off taping again. I was sure not to miss any. Believe me he would find out if I did.

Almost half way through, Grandma and PooWee ran into his babysitter, Brenda. Of course PooWee persuaded Brenda to lift him out of the stroller. (BAD NEWS!!) PooWee started showing off to everyone, doing his little “PooWee dance”, but then he thought it would be cool to dance on the artwork. Oh NO!

It was close to 9:00 already, he was tired and now he wasn’t listening and staying off the artwork, so I decide it was time to go and I would finish getting the rest of the artwork for Elijah tomorrow. We quickly found Aaron’s work to check it out.

PooWee was a bear, so we really just had to get him out of there. Well, PooWee wasn’t having that, he threw a fit! I’m sure the whole downtown could hear him as I was carrying him back to the car. I get to the car and my phone rings. Here it’s Aaron. He asked what I was doing and I told him where we were. He asked me to do him a favor…put PooWee in the center of his artwork and take a picture! (AARON! Do you hear the fit he is throwing! This fit is because I won’t LET HIM GO ON THE ARTWORK!) I just chuckled at Aaron and told him I would. I told him why I had to laugh though.  He said, “He can go on my work anytime! I have to have a picture with him in it. He got to sit in the middle and be like…YEAH THIS IS MY DAD’S!” Aaron was super proud, he should be.

So, back to the picture we go.  PooWee was in seventh heaven! A couple took the picture for me as I tried to get PooWee to sit nice in the middle. Finally he relized these strange people we taking his picture and he looked at them. He even did the “PooWee dance” on it!

I am crossing my fingers that it doesn’t rain tonight. I only got about half way through. Elijah will be so upset if I don’t get the rest, but he will understand. Andrew is going to come help me with PooWee tomorrow so I can finish up.

 

Meet Bruce…and lots of pics!

Bruce is a huge weed that grows in our driveway. In the past years Bruce has been unable to thrive due to us constantly pulling him out. He was always determined to win and constantly grew back. This year Bruce has a friend, PooWee. PooWee loves Bruce and takes good care of him. I believe Bruce may have even gotten a few kisses now and then.

It all started with me watering our berry bushes,

  

or the flowers that grow behind our garage. It’s somewhat sad they hide behind the garage by the alley where no one sees them.

  

PooWee then needs his turn to play with the garden hose.

And as you can see, he waters what I neglect. The weeds truly love him! I’ve pulled them out only to get “yelled” at by him. He truly scolds me for doing so. I have left them alone and he takes care of them.

Bruce…Bruce is his favorite. I think Bruce is a very happy weed this year, thanks to PooWee!

Moving on…

We are missing Elijah. Took him to Janesville on Sun. Here’s a picture of his bed for the next two weeks. It’s the only picture I took when we dropped him off.   

 

 

There’s four beds to a room, however only one other boy in with him. His group that he will be with actually only has three kids. One is a girl, poor thing having to deal with two boys for 13 days!

He took his journal along in hopes to write in it each night. OH-I hope he does, I can’t wait to hear what he all has been up to! When I checked him in I had to sign a permission slip for him to learn how to throw knives and an axe! (Yes, you read that correctly!) Being the theme of the camp in Medieval Times he gets to learn these “skills”. He thought that was just awesome! I however am, worried he’ll want to practice at home!

Bought PooWee a pool. Seeing Elijah’s gone I’m not going to spend $5 to go to the local pool for a few hours.

And let me tell you…PooWee OWES me BIG TIME! He will be 16 years old and I will remind him of the day I pumped up his pool…

WITH a LITTLE FOOT PUMP!! I should have timed myself. Let’s just say, I started in the living room at night when he was sleeping, carried downstairs and finished the following afternoon.

HE LOVES IT THOUGH! Anything and everything he finds has been thrown into it. He’s tried to throw rocks in, was successful twice and then learnt, NO ROCKS IN THE POOL!

See that yellow foot pump on the right? YEP! That’s what I used.

Grandma went strawberry picking. She brought some over for the Poo-meister and he LOVES ‘em!

He ate so many, she gave us another bowl full for him. Don’t tell, but I snuck some too! THANKS GRANDMA!

One of PooWee’s favorite games is hiding within the clothes hanging on the line. Isn’t he just so adorable?!

Andrew popped in the other night. He ended up spending the night.

Teddy Bear made himself comfortable. Teddy must have gotten a call on Andrew’s cell and PooWee was gracious enough to hold the phone for him. Sure hope he didn’t rake up the bill on me!

Well, I guess that’s enough for today. It is Thursday, so I want to finish up on this weeks chores and get ready for the weekend, before PooWee wakes up from his nap. Once he wakes up, I promised him a bike ride to the park.

Hope everyone is having as much fun this summer as we are!

Ahhhh Summer

We are having the time of our lives…just enjoying summer. I love summer, I love being outside and I find my boys are the same.

Andrew just returned from a biking (pedal) trip with his dad and stepmom. (He whined and whined about going. I told him he could stay home with the boys and I would go.) They went to Michigan and biked about 35 miles a day and then camped for the night. Overall he pedalled 250 miles. He still says it was boring, but he’s enjoying his tan legs. I passed down my wonderful genes of being either white or red. I DO NOT tan. Now he knows the secret to being tan…bike all day for a week.

Elijah had his sports camp and loved it. He earned a medal at the track meet. His favorite part was sneeking out of his dorm room at night to knock on his friends’ doors and was all excited that he didn’t get caught. Next year he plans on doing it BOTH nights. Oh, why does he tell me this stuff.

He learnt how to flip someone as he was taught some Judo. So far nobody has volunteered to let him show us. ANYONE…SOMEONE…PLEASE - I’d really like to see him do it! (Obviously, I haven’t volunteered either.)

We only have this week left to goof around and then he’s off to his two week camp in Janesville. I take him down on Sunday. The theme is Fairy Tale, Fantasy and Medieval Times. Should be fun. They may even make it to the Renaissance Fair.

PooWee LOVES being outside. He throws a fit whenever we need to go in the house or in the car. He’s learning his boundaries. I should say HE KNOWS his boundaries and LOVES to test me. He walks right up to the neighbor’s yard and watches me, if I turn he’s takes a mad dash for their cool pond with a waterfall.

He is so into balls. I think he has 100 of them. Andrew is turning him into a lacrosse player. PooWee walks around constantly with a lacrosse stick in his hand.

Swimming is pretty cool to him too. We’ve spend many days at the pool. He’s made new friends. His favorite is to stand out of the pool and throw his balls in the water. Then other kids will retrieve them for him and he gets to throw them in again.

Me…I haven’t used the dryer once since the weather has been nice. I love hanging clothes out. Especially bedding, ahhh that fresh air smell as I fall off to dreamland.

I enjoy cutting the grass as well. Infact, the girl downstairs wants me to give her a chance to mow. HA HA HA I’m home more than she is and I get at it first. Although I ran our of gas yesterday and the front yard is only half done.

I’ve been knitting a new purse for myself. My current purse is getting quite rugged looking. I’ll have to take a few pics and post it. I think it’s going to nice. I don’t get too many chances to work on it, but it is coming along. I usually get the most work time during tubby time. PooWee plays and I knit. HHHMMMM-wonder how many baths I can get him to take in one day?

Well, Elijah is harassing me to get ready for swimming. He’s got some friends meeting him at the pool at 1:00. I better go, I’ve got so much to get ready yet.

 

 

I Need Sleep!

Chad was ill Friday night. He threw-up nine times at his friend’s house. (Yes, he counted.) Saturday he spent the day on the couch. He was running a fever of 102. He looked like sh*t. He’s doing much better now.

PooWee…he threw up three times last night. I only have 2 sets of bedsheets too. It was an awful night. I am so tired. So far so good this morning on not throwing up, instead it’s coming out the other end ALOT!!!!

We’ll be laying around all day, I’m sure. Well, in between laundry that is. I have two quilts, two sets of bedsheets and some blankets to wash. Wait there’s also a mountain of clothes. I need a maid.

On a brighter note I got a cute text message from a friend today. I’d like to share it with all you bloggin friends.

Friendship is like peeing your pants.

Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

Thanks for being the pee in my pants!

 

Is Spring Break Over YET!!!!!

What a week! The boys had spring break this week, which means I had a house full of boys. BOYS BOYS BOYS BOYS BOYS!!!!!!!!! Video games, soda, pizzas, chips, and BOYS! Where oh where are the pretty lil girls?

What is it with boys that they have to be so loud when the play the video games. Why do they hoot and howler at the TV? They consume the entire living room with TVs and XBoxes. PooWee would make a mad run for any controller left unattended. He thought he was way cool hanging with the big guys.

I managed to squeeze my way into the couch to fold laundry yesterday. I step out for two minutes and return to find my underwear getting thrown back and forth! My bra (Oh the beautiful nursing bra that it is) is being worn by friend # 13, carefully stuffed with some socks.

I must say it was rather nice when they all decided to go see a movie at 9:30 last night!

However, when I woke up this morning and Andrew was not home with my car I began to freak! He did text me saying he was with B. The text lacked details though. Like, “I’m going to spend the night!” Wise child that he is, left his cell phone at home and I did not have B’s number. Chad had left the house right before I got out of bed, so I gave him a jingle. He was off to his girlfriend’s house, but gave B a call to have Andrew come home. BIG OOPS on Andrew’s part, now he’s stuck going to the grocery store with me! WaaHaaaHaaa- he hates going to the grocery.

Chad’s mother and I had a good conversation. We both would like to see Chad quit a job. Chad is wearing himself out fast. We want him to go out for lacrosse, I will be emailing the coach to see if he can still get in. (Lacrosse started 2 weeks ago.) She wants Chad to communicate more with her on the baby’s needs. He just always tells her he has it under-control. She is looking at moving back to Wisconsin, but not here. Which is why she is in Wisconsin then back in North Carolina then back here. Chad will be going to visit her this weekend. It appears that Chad is treating us as two divorced parents. Getting money from her and me! (LITTLE SHIT!) I can’t be too upset, as it doesn’t surprise me. Kids will be kids. Andrew likes to tell his dad stuff and then me. Andrew found out quickly that his father and I are good communicators and I think Chad is finding that out too!

Well, I guess “my time” on the computer is up! You would think the kids paid the bills!

Hopefully, next week I’ll actually get an INTERESTING post out there!

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What Would You Do?

Once again I have popped out of bed. This time to warm up some soup for supper. As it’s warming thought I’d run through the blog roll. Even though looking at the computer makes me quite dizzy…more than I already am!

Went to check out what Jacey has been up to and you’ve gotta check out what she did for her son! OMG! This woman has truly “UP-ED” the the definition for mother!

Bless her!!!

I just had to share that with all of you!

Just for Laughs :)

Some poor person typed in Roni’s Paradise into their search engine and ended up HERE!!!

I know I really love my blog and all you. But honestly, not sure I’d call it PARADISE!

Baby Shower Anyone??

Once again the beauty of extended friends whom, I’ve never met and may never meet have shown through. So many of you have offered to help April.

Libby commented on having her register. Which gave me a thought. (Scary, I know!) If April agrees I thought about holding a  Baby Shower for her here on the blog. Could be kinda fun! Maybe I could even have a contest on guessing the baby’s weight. Prize awarded of course!

I may just have to talk her into a belly photo!