Rough begining to the year

It is starting off to be a rough begining to the year. I by chance called Tracy to inform her Austin made play off's for basketball. Well she said you didn't get my e-mail I said no I didn't. Friends of the family who have lived next to her mom and have been friends with her mom for the last 45 years. Well they were out walking there dog and Red kept saying I don't feel good. Well they got back and he said I really don't feel good call 911. Bev turned around to grab the phone and Red hit the floor. His left ventricle blew out of his heart and he died before he hit the floor. He was only 60.

So we had to attend yet another wake last night. It was very sad. The line was out the door and inside. It weaved itself in and out of the other rooms because he was so well known in the city of Methuen. It was crazy.

On a better note we seem to be finally hitting the end of this nasty nasty virus that attacked this family. Colby had to get picked up at school on Friday with an ear infection. I started feeling human yesterday 6 days after coming down with this. You would think you were doing better and the next day you were down for the count again. It was one of the worst and nastiest virus's I have seen probably ever. Glad it's over.

Okay that's it for now.

Another week down in this crazy month

Okay well between the weather and just my crazy life. This has been one busy month. We had the family party at my parents last weekend. Sadly Colby couldn't attend because he was sick, the next day Austin gets this nasty virus. Low grade fever, funny nose, cough. However, it lasts for a good 5-7 days.

This past Thursday I get sick. I am still really sick. Friday night was Colby's real birthday so we took him out to eat. Saturday Austin had his play off game for basketball. YEAH THEY WON!!! Now they have one more next week and if they win this game they play immediately in the Championship game. Then Jeff ran him over to his friend Skylar's house. Colby had 4 of his friends come over for a guitar hero party. They made their own pizza's and played video games for the afternoon. They were all wonderfully behaved it was a great day. Other than the fact I really wanted to be in my bed.

We started taking in water last night due to all the rain so needless to say another 3 am night for me and with the time change it led to another 3 1/2 hr night of sleep. This is not helping in my recovery at all.

Austin managed to rope his friend Skylar's mom into letting him sleep over so I need to drag myself to go get ready to go get him.

Talk to you all soon.

Crazy Week

Well it is officially vacation week for all the kids. Not only do I have the kids home but the snow just won't quit.

We have had a busy week with the kids being on vacation. I also get Julia Ben's sister and I had Rachael's boys on Tues and Thurs. So a couple days I had up to 8 kids. I am not complaining this week has flown by. I can't believe it is Friday tomorrow already.

Colby got a fun day. On Tuesday he got to go snow tubing at Pat's Peak with Julia, Stephanie and Rich. They were so great to offer to take him. Austin had the opportunity to go as well but opted to stay home and hang with his buddies Dane and Dylan. I was really impressed with him. Although I think he had more fun without his brother here to argue with.

Saturday I have to go to my Mom's for all the Feb and March birthday's since their are a ton of them. Here goes the list mine Feb 21, My sister and brother in law in Florida Feb 24, and Feb 25, My dad's March 1, Colby's March 8, Kelly March 19 and My uncle's March 22. Whew!!! Guess we all like this time of year. No one wanted to spread out. Just hope we can end up making it since we are supposed to get 3-6+ inches of snow not suppose to end until around noon time. Yeah that will be a nice commute. NOT!!! The weather just said possibly up to 9" of snow. UGH!!!!

Then on Saturday evening I am having Rachel and Logan over for a sleep over. I offered to give Stephanie a break. She is really stressed so time to give her a night out without having to worry about the kids.

All my friends are stressing me out too. Rachael with her blood pressure not under control. I am so worried about her that I am even dreaming at night about her because I am so nervous that something will happen that I can't get her out of my thoughts. Stephanie will be going in for surgery soon for a hysterectomy because she has fibroids so badly that their is no other alternative. But because she had had several surgeries in the past they can not go vaginally they will have to cut her open pretty good. The recuperation time will be a minimum of 4 weeks possibly 6 weeks. YIKES!!!! Her husband is not being very supportive either. He is acting like it will just be another day not that she is going in for major surgery. SMACK!!! MEN!!

Okay need to go to bed.

Talk to you all later.

Not such a good nights sleep

Well okay it is now Febuary and I am totally over the snow thing already. Not only did we get another storm last night but are do for more today and more on Friday.

We get home from dinner and Jeff snowblows our driveway and the neighbors hence the intro to my story. The boys and I sit down and play a game. Jeff works again on his laptop that keeps acting stupid and shutting down my conection with Comcast. Jeff goes to bed, the boys and I go back out and shovel around 9:30pm until about 10 pm. I finally get my computer back up and running and get enthralled on the computer until 1:30 am.

Next thing I know I here Jeff talking to himself and pacing back and forth. I look at the clock it is 4:30am. I ask him what is the matter? He says I lost my keys I have already been up and down the street. He looked at our neighbors, his car the house. GONE!!! When he was snowblowing last night we believe they fell out of his sweatshirt and are now either buried under the snow or the snowplow took it when they plowed the street all night.

Oh crap now what do we do. Well what we do is Jeff calls work let's them know and we call a locksmith. Well that's a no go because they need the pass key code from Ford. It will be $30 for a key with the code or $175 without the code. Okay well Ford won't give it to us without proof of ownership. But we can't get their because Jeff's van is blocking my van. Well here comes Jeff Wall to the rescue once again. He drives Jeff to the Ford Dealership and they cut him two keys for $20.

He calls back work and they don't need him. Great another unpaid day off. *sigh* This turned out to be an expensive mental health day.

Furniture

Okay well Thursday was my birthday let's just say it was interesting at best. We bought the new furniture. It is gorgeous. However, whoever built this house is stupid. You can't fit anything in with the narrow angles of the doorways. So we take out our brand new window in the livingroom to try and fit it in. Guess what it doesn't fit!!!! Okay this is getting bad Jeff is swearing and kicking anything and everything across our lawn. So I get on the phone and try and find anyone that can help. Finally Jeff Wall comes over and they take a saw to the casings of the window and cut them out. Okay we have now been at this for many hours the window came out at 6:30 pm and it is the middle of winter. It was a balmy 54 degrees in here.

Oh did I mention that I had an extremely sick child in all this mix and he won't let me even set him down. The poor thing was running a 103 degree fever and was pure misery. This is the day my darling husband decides to get this new furniture.

Well my birthday may have gotton shot and I may have had a sick child. However, it was worth it once the furniture was in and my house was put back together. It is gorgeous and perfect. It matches everything so perfectly.

Now if I could only find an entertainment center we could afford it would all be complete.

Okay I am off it is school vacation week so I have a few more kids than normal. Colby the lucky duck got to go snow tubing today so I am a little jealous.

Well rough weekend

Okay so we get the new tables. Let's just say they look beautiful but for what we paid for them they are crap. I will not buy furniture from Target again. Just glad they don't look like they are CRAP!!!

Then Austin misplaced his game shirt. We searched for HOURS!!!! So he refused to go to his skills competition because he didn't have his shirt. I wish he didn't care what everyone else thought about him so much. *sigh* I just hope he stands up for himself when it really counts.

Brady and I have come down with a slight headcold. So that makes it a rough day.

The older boys room finally came to a head and their was way to much drama and tears over the cleaning of this room. It is not completed but it is way better. It needs to be completed by Sunday at 3 pm or Jeff and I go down with trashbags. Hope they take us seriously.

Okay talk to you all later

Not much to report

Not a whole lot to report. We bought our end tables for the livingroom last night. Jeff will build them sometime tomorrow. Here is a sneak peak as to what they look like. I just love them.

Hmmmm well we also bought a chest freezer. Buying for a family of 5 and only having 1 fridge just wasn't cutting it for us. We were constantly cramming stuff in their and praying it could hold just one more item. Then we took our life in our hands trying to get something out. So we decided to break down and buy the freezer. It is nice because now we can buy in bulk. We went to BJ's today and it was awesome. Now we will only have to go to the grocery store for the basics. we spent only about $50 more than we would have at the store and got so much it will last at least 2 weeks worth of items.

Colby had his tryouts for baseball today. From what I heard it went pretty well. We will hear more about were they placed in the next few weeks. Anxious to see what our schedules will be like. Also anxious to see who their coaches are.

Tomorrow Austin has his basketball skills competition so that will be a few hours in the early afternoon. That seems to be about it for the weekend other than putting the house back together.

Okay guess that is it for now.