Am I still here?

Ok so I'm recyling my myspace blog post and adding a bit more info. Tonite I had class. That means Chance is Mr. Mom. Usually it's a pretty low key nite for me. I come home, eat a bite and watch American Idol. Then the kids go to bed. Sometimes Tristan is already bathed, sometimes I bathe him. Usually homework is done.

Well tonite I come home and eat. Have a small trauma with Taylor and a request for at outing we are not sure we approve of. While Blake and Jordan are singing! Ugh! That is fine and then I decide to look in Tristan's backpack. Evidently, Daddy forgot. So inside I find his homework books along with a big fat red ticket. Daddy just took his word for it that he had a good day. Well that's a definite NOT. And he never checked for the homework. So by now it is a bit after 8 and we need bath and homework. So we immediately cut off his privileges and let me say he is not happy. He and daddy are having a big discussion about not telling the truth and how that upsets Daddy. He tells Chance that he is upset with the teacher cuz she just wants to give a red. So that pursued. And here I am trying to calm the mood down to read. He is threatened within an inch of his life to not give me trouble.

We sit down together and discover we have 3 stories. He picks the one he wants to read and since it is our first nite of reading them, I read them and he repeats it and we point to the words. We read each book 2 times. Well, he is not happy about doing any of it cuz he is mad. So he recites back to me under his breath. Let me tell you, I fully expected to hear, "Danny's not here Mrs. Torrence." He sounded just like that little kid. He was pissed to say the least. But he repeated it and we were done.

Next came bath. Got in without a problem and the mood is actually better. We are talking and playing and Chance is in there visiting with us. I decide to look at his tooth. He had his grown up tooth come in right behind his baby tooth. Well, the baby tooth is now hanging by a thread. So we start telling him we should get it out. We try a while in the bath tub. Then he gets out and we go the living room. We tried for 2 hours cuz it is so loose. He's screaming, crying and laughing. We are trying everything we can think of to get him to hold still. At one point we had all three of us in there holding something down and trying to get it out. This was almost as bad as the 8 hours Taylor and I spent in the bathroom trying to get lice out of her hair on the 4th of July when she was very small. We were both in tears and Mamaw Kay Kay came over and got in the bathroom with us. I feel so emotionally drained.

It ended up that Taylor left to take her shower and go to bed. Chance gave up and fell asleep on the other couch. So there I am trying my soothing mommie talk to get him to open up and let me in. He is so exhausted that I finally give up too. I am so worried he will swallow that tooth or something. I hope he is able to function tomorrow. If he doesn't it's our fault. But that tooth really should come out now. Chance said it's not any different than any other nite that he fights sleep until 11 or 12. (Last nite, we put him to bed at 8:00 and it was 11 before he gave in.) Tonite, he was out as soon as he hit the pillow. I think I will be doing the same. I don't think my heart rate is back to normal yet. I had every emotion going on at once. AAAAAA

So that was my nite of mommie hood. I had planned to play on the puter but I don't think I'll be on here as long as I thought. Tomorrow is but another day.

I meant to mention in my last entry two small notes. One is that during a shopping trip with Taylor a couple of weeks ago, she informed me that she is no longer "emo" but is now a "prep". So that means she's gonna wear color again and girly things! Yeah. That makes me happy! LOL

And about me. I did something and I can't believe I did it. I actually applied to teach the new freshman orientation class that we are now forcing students to take for credit. I have a major major fear of speaking in public. I've done it before and I have talked to small groups, but it is way out of my comfort zone. However, I know the topic I will be teaching like the back of my hand. But they gave us the opportunity and I felt I couldn't pass it up. I wanted extra money and the little resume boost. So with encouragement from my friends, I applied and now have my first section... Thursday evenings in the fall semester. It's a small start and hopefully I will get to teach more than one section in the spring. I really want to teach online but she wanted experienced teachers to work out the kinks. So I may get to do that in the future. I got brave and am trying something new. Only took me almost 40 years to grow some kahoona's. LOL Oh and the best part is they are training us and providing a pretty specific curriculum. But I plan to cover stuff that students always ask even if it is not in what they tell me I have to do. I'm excited and scared all at the same time. I train in May.

I hope everyone else's nite was much more quiet and relaxing than mine.

Later dudes.

My puter is fixed

I am so happy that my puter is finally fixed. We wiped it out and got all the bad stuff off there and now I can log in to blogger. That makes me very happy.

I'm supposed to be working on my homework but...here I am. It's late and I should be going to bed soon for work.

I am bummed that I didn't know about the family lunch this weekend. I really would have liked to have seen Phil and whoever else from his family that was here. And I'm also sad that I didn't get to see Randy and Susan as well. I had no idea about it or I would've been there. Hope you all had a great time. And next time, you guys let me know when stuff is happening!

We have been fine. Getting back into the routine after spring break. That did not go well for me. I had a hard time. What has happened? Well

Chance's birthday was last week. We had a family party on Friday nite with his Dad's family and then we will have another on Easter with his Mom's side. There was a tornado warning about the time we were supposed to leave the house - sirens and everything. So we put the cats in the cages and got ready to take them all over to their house - they have a cellar. But it ended up fizzling out and never really made. So we uncaged the cats (they were not very happy let me tell you) and left puppy in charge. You should've seen our back yard. It looked like a river. And our pond was overflowing.

We took the boys (Tristan and Dustin) to see Meet the Robinson's. VERY cute movie. We will own it for sure.

Chance's mom went back into the hospital last week after getting disoriented. She just got out today. They kept her and tested her to death trying to figure out what is wrong. She was dehydrated and had low potassium levels. They think it is related to her head injury and may have to come back on a regular basis to get her levels check and refurbished. I don't think they really know what happened but she is definitely glad to be home.

Tristan got a really bad stomach virus on Thursday and I had to stay home with him on Friday. He puked 11 times between 5 pm and midnite. I felt so sorry for him and helpless that I couldn't do anything but comfort him. He was so limp and sick. But he felt better on Friday and was upright. He didn't eat much but he definitely recovered by the time the party happened. It's amazing how resilient (is that how you spell that word?) kids are.

Taylor and Chance are doing well. I don't think much has happened in their arena. This week Taylor's boyfriend is named Stephen. They met at church. Chance is looking to sell football jerseys on his online store. Not sure if he's got that all set up yet. The landscaping business has been going very well. They are busy and flowers start in a couple of weeks. I won't see him much when that starts.

We put a downpayment on new energy efficient windows for the house. I am very excited about that. Taylor and Tristan both have cracked windows and our temperature is never properly regulated in this house. We are trying to do things to help the environment and cut our utility bills. We won't get our windows until late May or early June. But that's alright.

Uncle George is also going to replace our air conditioning units so we will finally have modern units and appropriate ones for the house. That, along with the windows, will definitely help with our bills. He is only charging us for the parts. He's waiving the labor as long as Chance helps him out. I plan to provide him food and drink for helping us out.

And, if we have any money left, we are finally getting new carpet. The carpet in this house is so bad it really shouldn't even be called carpet. It's ugly, dirty and stinks. We have already picked a carpet we liked at Lowe's - and I'm so about getting the odor repelling pad. James (partner James) referred us to a company that lays carpet for a good price. Cheaper than the big places. So, we are going to check that place out and see if they can beat Lowe's prices. I so hope we can have it replaced before Tristan's birthday party.

Oh and for those of you who usually come, I think I'm having his birthday party in late May. We have so much going on in early May (a wedding included) and also the weather is never really right for swimming. So I'm hoping if I have it later, the kids can have fun in the pool. I hope everyone can come. I'll email the details later.

Well I guess that's it for now. Hope everyone is well. Cya!