another friday

I am up early for me. I have no idea why, but  I am upright so that must be a good thing.

Today I just have the same old shit planned. Clean up the house. Does anyone want to join in on all of this fun.

So last night I told Rusty about talking his dad and about hearing my dad talk. He just smiled and said "well you know they both loved you".

I called Dustin ( one of the marines) last night and asked if I could talk to his mom. So I called his mom and she was so shocked to hear from me, but that is o.k. I am good at shocking people. Talking to Dustins mom really gave me some insight into him, Now that I have talked to his mom I have something special planned for his quilt. I can't tell you guys because Dustin reads my journal! LOL

Amber was on my last nerve yesterday. What is it with teenagers? I have to remember that she is 17 and knows everything. So with that said..... Rusty found out last night that it is going to cost about $250 a month to have Amber added to our insurance. So we will not be adding her. That really pissed Amber off. I had to explain to her that while we can afford the $250 a month I do not feel that it is our responsibility to pay her car insurance.

Amber things I am being very unreasonable because I make her pay for her own cell phone and buy her own clothes.

I believe that it is called reality. I noticed that her shopping habits went way down when she had to buy her own stuff. Don't get me wrong we still buy her clothes for her birthday and for Christmas, but everything else is on her.  We will see just how bad she wants to drive once she gets back from her vacation.

I am so looking forward to next Wednesday, yes that is the fourth of July, but for me it means that all of the children will be going to my moms house! Yes, two weeks with no children. I can so see myself sitting on the beach for a few days.

After they are done at my moms house Amber will be going to Iowa for a few weeks to visit our friends. Nikki and Ryan will be coming home, and then Nikki will be leaving for a road trip to northern California.

It must be nice to be young and be able to just pick up and go.

With that said I am going to go get dressed and start my day.

 

I need to get it together

The other day I turned on the computer and I found my play list and hit play. I went about cleaning up and doing other things. I was standing in the kitchen when I realized that the music over. I am a music lover and I have to have tunes going all the time. So I looked over at the computer and I said "Hey Rick put some music on". Nothing happened. I just knew that I had just seen him sitting at the computer. I looked again and the chair was empty. Rick is my late father in law and he has been dead for a few years. I swear to you guys the other day he was sitting here, just like he use to do.

Then today I was standing at the ironing board and Nikki was at the computer. I heard my dad say "I am so proud of you for going out there and changing the world. You will have a lot to write about when they tell you to write what you did over your summer vacation" I turned around to answer my dad, but we was not here. Those word that I heard today were the last coherent words he spoke to Nikki.

Am I loosing my mind?

Anyway last night everyone was gone and Rusty said that he was staying after work to cook out with the guys. Then four marines walk in. They said what's for dinner? I just looked at them/ I had no idea that they were coming home. Then Rusty showed up! So much for a nice calm evening of sewing. Oh well it was good to see everyone. I do not usually get to se the marines during the week.

Today I have pulled out a bunch of meat, since I know that they are coming back tonight.

I have finished another quilt for one of the marines. I will take a picture of it once I give it her. I must admit that while I love to quilt, it also brings me great sadness. I am making yet another round of quilts for yet more of our friends that will be leaving for Iraq. I would to make them quilts just because.  Maybe one day I will be able to make some baby quilts for them.  That is once they have settled down with and started a family of their own.

Well I need to get back to my day. Lyn and Heather I tried to read your journals, but aohell was giving me a hard time.

 

story time

Yesterday I got Nikki up and took her to McDonalds for a cheeseburger. Nikki said that she does not want to see chicken or rice for a very long time, so she requested McDonalds! LOL

Heather, if I had known that Nikki was going to be stuck in Atlanta I would have had you go meet her. They were suppose to have like a 20 min. lay over, but then they got delayed for two hours!

So while we were talking she told me that they did great things down there and that they in return were so blessed.

Nikki said the children that stick out in her mind were these two little girls that just looked so sad. She found out that their parents had left them and that their uncle beats them. In one of the pictures you will see a lady holding these girls. Nikki said that what you can't see is that the older one has a cut on her head from uncle hit her. The cut was sown up with blue thread. Nikki went to these girls and told them that she was once beat by a man that was suppose to protect them. She also told them that they too can over come this.

Nikki said that Nicaragua was very hot this year and that putting on the clown makeup just made her face itch.

On the last day that they children were there they got to go horse back riding and four wheeling on the beach. That sounds like a lot of fun to me.

I got a call from Nikkis team leader yesterday. She had to laugh at Nikki because the bus that the group was traveling on kept breaking down. Nikki was always the first one to get back on the bus while everyone else was not to sure about this.

I had to laugh. I have two cars that are just like that bus! That is why Nikki was not afraid.

The leader also told me that they are going to do another mission trip to Mexico this year. This one has a price tag of only $350 dollars, because they are driving down there. The group will be building a church. Nikki is so excited about this trip because she has never been on a building trip before.

It also looks like they are going to cut the Africa trip short and do both Africa and Nicaragua next year.

I better get moving. I do have a lot to get done today.

Walmart at 1 a.m.

So Amber and Sam come home around mid night. I was ready for bed and all I wanted to do was sleep, but we went to wal mart instead.

It was just like a scene right out of the movie forces of nature. I was just amazed at what people buy in the middle of the night. One lady bought a jumbo industrial thing of t.p. Man it must really suck if some one is at home waiting on her.

I tried to buy some fabric last night, but their fabri department closed before I got there. Whats that about? I thought this was a 24 hour wal mart. That's o.k. I should not be buying fabric while I am trying to stay awake.

Then I found Amber and Sam in the Barbie aisle. They also had some of those children recliner chairs, so we all sat in them and played with the toys. Can you believe that we got kicked out of wal mart? Well we did.

So we went back to the church to wait on Nikki. We were all so tired that we fell asleep in the car. We did not wake up until Nikki opened the door! It was so good to see her.

I have not heard to much about the trip. I do know that Nikki was sick most of the trip and that her leader wanted to take her to hospital, but Nikki would not go. Nikki got me a hammock! I have so been wanting one of those.

The reason I want one is because I have never had sex in one. I thought that would be something fun to try. Now I just have to figure out where to hang it so that we won't scare people while we are trying to have sex in it.

I was thinking that I should hang it above the bed. There would have to be studs up there that we could drillonto. Then if we fell out we would at least land on something soft. Now I just have to convince Rusty of this.

I am going to go drop off Nikkis cameras and go back to wal mart. I think we are doing tacos for dinner. There is a little local place that has them 2 for $1 on Tuesday. Oh crap Nikki will not want that. Nikki said that she does not want to see chicken or rice for a very long time.

I am to worn out to worry about dinner right now.

Karma

As many of you know, my life is an open book. There are times in my life when I do not share what is going on. I do not share them because I do not want people to think I am bragging about myself, but I have to tell you what happened today.

I was going through the mail and I got a letter from someone that I did not know, that only live a few blocks from me.

I opened the letter and I was shocked at what I read. This lady had gone behind a thrift store and had picked up some of the donations that we had dropped off. The lady told me that she was doing that to help make ends meet.

inside one of the boxes was home video's of a baby born in 1997, and she wanted to return the videos to me. I do not know how she got our address. She said that she found a piece of paper with our address on it in one of the boxes.

They were not our videos. I did not have a baby born in 1997 and I do not have many videos of the children anyway.

I grabbed a bunch of grocery sacks and I started filling them with food. Then I went out to the garage and started grabbing stuff off the shelf.

That is when Amber came out and asked what I was doing. I told her that I found out that a family needed some help and that SHE was going to do something about it. Then we went back inside and started grabbing some meat from the freezer.

I gave Amber and Sam the lady's letter and the envelope with the address on it and sent them out the door.

Amber called me and said " mom, the lady was not home but her husband was. He did not want to take the food at first, but he took it and smiled. Mom I know they needed food."

I do not know how that lady got our address, but she did and her letter did not fall on deaf ears.

I try to do the right things and I try to teach my children that random acts of kindness are good. This was the first time I had Amber do it on her own. Usually the girls see my acts and never really say anything.

I do hope that Amber learn's to give. Amber is not a selfish child, but I do not think that children today at taught to look out side the box at the big picture.

I want to teach my children to give and to not expect anything in return. Giving is a good thing. Caring for people that you do not know is a good thing.

On another note. Nikki called me from Atlanta and she should be in my arms in just a few hours. I just know that my children are going to change the world for the better.

Nikki will be home today!

I am so jazzed that Nikki will be home today! She will be landing at lax at 10:05 p.m.! I so want to hug her and hear all about her trip. I also can't  to see her pictures, but I will have to wait a few days until we get the cameras developed!

Today I am going to spend the day doing the dull stuff that moms do. I need to get a ton of laundry folded, and I am going to wash all of Nikkis bedding, so she will have nice clean sheets to crawl into.

One of the marines mom sent me a ton of home made soap. Man my bathroom smelled so good. I just love stuff like that. I will have to post her web page when I get it. I did however share the soap with all of the female marines that were here yesterday.

I got one of the quilts for the marines finished over the weekend. I will take a picture of it the next time she brings it back. Anyway, some of the other marines said well where is our quilt? O.K. now hold on a second. I am only one person trying to get 7 quilts done by February. Actually I need to have another one done by August. Anyway, I am trying to use the material that I have, and I was asked to double bat the quilts, so that they would be warmer. I guess I better get busy! Oh crap I will also have to make some service flags for the marines that do not have yet.

Rusty is feeling a little better but his ear's are still plugged up. I feel so bad for Rusty. We have had to yell at him all weekend. Rusty even said that it was hard to be around a lot of people this weekend because he could not hear what was going on. I guess I have just gotten use to a new normal. Once Rusty lost hearing in his left ear, I just got use to making sure that his right ear was toward me when I talked to him. Now the one good ear is still blocked and he is struggling to hear.

I actually got a child support check the other day. It was for a $363. That may sound like a lot, but I will not see another one for 6 months. I could get cash aid and food stamps for the girls, but Rusty will not have any part of that. Rusty said " we will make it and thegirls will grow up knowing that we did it all with out any help". That they have.

Amber has been looking into changing her last names to Nelson. I made everyone wait on the whole name changing thing. Rusty wanted to adopted the girls, but I said no because I wanted the sperm donor to have to pay his child support. Not that he does, but I do not want him to get off the hook. So, now that Amber will be 18 next year, she can just go file the papers and change her name.

Today I am going to stay focused. I have a lot of stuff to get done, and I need to take a nap, because today is going to be a long one. Nikki will not get back from LAX until after mid night. I will have to try to get some pictures of her.

 

white trash

You might be white trash if: You have friends that do nude jello shots.

You might be white trash if : You agree to let your girlfriend wax your chest and she runs out of papers and wax.

You might be white trash if: two of your friends go to the garage to have sex of the sofa that you keep in there.

You might be white trash if: you find two grown men with flashlights looking in the garage window to watch your friends have sex.

You might be white trash if: everyone runs to the garage to grab a firearm, and the same couple keeps having sex.

You might be white trash if: You have thirteen combat veterans with loaded weapons standing in your front yard, sitting on tailgate of trucks, and two on the porch swing.

You might be white trash if: Your husband tells you to go get the 357 and to use it, if you need to.

You might be white trash if: you get the 357 and then go back to your sewing.

You might be white trash if: The peeping tom's come back and thirteen locked and loaded marines start walking toward you.

You might be white trash if: You tell your son to go pee by the tree or to go pee in the lake, and your son pulls his trunks down and pee's into the lake.

You might be white trash if: Two of your friends try to have sex in the lake and some children scream " THEY ARE HAVING SEX.

So how's was everyone else's weekend? I will try to catch up with everyone tomorrow.

OH I was told that I would make a good regimental sergeant major. I went out looked at all the marines, asked a few questions, and then went back to what I was doing.