Well I know I’m dangerously close to not keeping my blog up again. So here it goes.

My Mom’s gone AWOL weekend was great. We ate well, we drank well, we stayed in a fancy suite, we got manicures and pedicures, I won $50, and we shopped and laughed. What more can you want in a weekend away from responsibilities?

I am not sure if it was the break or that spring is coming but I really got my rear in gear with doing school with the kiddos. I have so been slacking with Emily. I keep telling myself she is only 5 we have years and years to teach her all she needs to know. But it is time to do way more than I do with her. Great news is Brandon is starting to work more independently. And he has caught his mom’s addiction to curriculum because next year’s stuff has come in and he is dying to start it! LOL

My husband, as any one that knows me will tell you, I adore. I do. He is wonderful to me. I am very grateful to God that He provided me with this man. But he was SOOOOOO great about this Mom’s gone AWOL weekend .Really I have never been so spoiled. Buy what you want, stay gone as long as you want, enjoy yourself, live it up, this is your weekend honey, don’t worry about us, and the whole time he was working and taking the kids to work, and rushing them here and there. What a guy! I could really get used to that. So, I have decided I’m going to be such an awesome wife that he’ll want to treat me that way all the time.

First step in that direction, one of the best ways to be a good wife is to be a great mom. If I have the kids and house running well that takes stress out of his life. So, no more kids in the living room and our room. Both children have TVs in their rooms and there is no reason they should bring all their stuff to the other rooms to play and watch TV. Plus it is soooooo past time for them to sleep in their rooms and not the living room or our room. I’m an attached parenting kind of mom but hey this has gone too far!!! LOL So, this weekend we are working on cleaning their rooms and organizing them so that they are such wonderful places to be that they never want to leave them.

Once I accomplish step one It will be easier to keep our room, the living room, and kitchen clean. My next step is keep clothes washed (not being 10 loads behind in other words), kitchen always neat with no dirty dishes, the bedroom a safe haven to come home to at night (right now it looks like his office) and supper by 6 o’clock.

Since he is working 12 hours a day, sometimes 7 days a week, I also plan to start doing some the chores that are traditionally his. He bought a great self propelled lawn mower that will help. It is not a riding lawn mower but beggars can’t be choosers. But my absolute biggest goal is to clean out the storage shed and purge purge purge all this Ca- Ca this family has piled up around the house, yard and shed.

So if I’m not blogging for a while..... Hopefully it is because I’m working my tail off .....which hopefully will help with my other goal of losing 30 pounds! Send good vibes my way!

OK I haven't blogged in 2 whole months so here is all the wonderful stuff that has been going on that really deserves a full length page all by themselves but aren't going to get one right now.

1. A close friend of mine, Brandon, and myself went on a Biblical Daniel fast for 21 days. We had nothing but fruits and vegetables. It was all about discipline and putting God first for me. It was very hard and very much worth the effort.

2. Heather and Aaron got married on March 10th. Of course that is her and Em at the top of the page. Isn’t she just beautiful? There are new pictures running down the side of the page also. The last picture is of her and Aaron our new son. It was a wonder and sweet wedding service. I pray many blessings on their marriage.

3. My niece that came to the wedding had 2 children with a stomach virus. To top it off my close friend here at home has 2 children with a stomach virus and it was also going around in Houston. Regardless where we got it the whole family came home from the wedding sick and stayed that way for a week. Cecil and I still have moments when we fill the virus is hanging in there.

4. As you may know from my post around Christmas about Santa paying off our lawyer, Cecil is adopting Branflake. Well, the first court date got cancelled. The judge was busy? Anyway it was rescheduled for today. So, here is my morning so far…..

Just to set the scene… Panic has set in.
Cecil wakes me up around 6:30 this morning.

Cecil: "You have to get up and call the lawyer!"

Me: "What?"

Cecil: "You have to get up and call the lawyer!"

Me: "Why?"

Cecil: "I'm scared. What if I miss heard him?"

Me: "He said 1:30 right, the after lunch session?"

Cecil: "Yes but before he said all cases started at 9 AM and they just saw you as the day went."

Me: *lean over and look at clock* “Well honey I can't call him right now."

Cecil" "No, but ya'll better go ahead and get up and be ready to go by 8 in case when you call him it really is at 9 AM.


Me mentally: Sheesh doesn't he realize he's already got this gig? I mean he has had the kid calling him Daddy since he was 2 years old. (For the 1st year he called him SeeSaw.)


5. Tomorrow is my Moms Gone AWOL weekend. I am off for a whole weekend of fun with some friends. No kids, no housework, no spouse, no responsibilities, nothing but selfishness. We are going to stay in a fancy hotel suite, eat good food, get manicures and pedicures, and shop shop shop. I plan to make the most of it. I can’t believe Cecil is letting me go much less has agreed to spend the money this involves. I may never get a chance to be this self indulgent again! God is good. Cecil is good.


Other than those things the days have been pretty much the same old stuff around here. Lots of school work and lots of house work. We did get our taxes in and bought a bunch of much needed stuff and a few things we shouldn’t have. I went ahead and bought my entire curriculum for next year. I’ll tell you all about my new buys later. Your roughly filled in now on my last 2 months and hopefully I won’t fall off the blogging wagon again for a while! LOL

I know it has been forever since I've blogged. I just got side tracked really. And I know this isn't really what you want to read after looking at the same unblogged page for weeks on end. However, I did at least get rid of the snowmen and changed to a spring look. As I really just spent WAY TOO much time doing just That today, you'll just have to wait for me you fill you in on all the stuff we've been up to until...... tomorrow? Ok look I'll really try to update tomorrow. Promise!!!