It has been a very long time since I have utilized this journal, especially in any deeply personal way. 2016 was the last year that I really wrote anything of consequence, and the year proceeding that I wrote only a couple of times. All of the entries during those two years were political in nature. I was having a bit of a political awakening it ( Read more... )

My friend Elaine brought it to my attention that I had not written in here for along time and yeah, wow it has been nearly a month. I just haven't known what to say to be honest. After we went to San Fran I had a week before the kids and I left to go to Disneyland and well I found out that things weren't going as well as I thought with Jason and ( Read more... )

Spring break is over and we got home late, LATE Sunday night from Disneyland. I'm still trying to recover I think from two weeks of traveling, visiting, seeing things, and lots of fun. Maybe sometime I will stop being so busy/lazy and write in here about what we did during those two weeks in more depth but lately I just haven't felt like writing ( Read more... )

I'm frustrated with myself for not getting this done sooner since we've been back from Disneyland for over a week now. It is starting to seem silly and moot to make an entry for every day we spent at Disneyland so I am going to make an lj cut and shove it all in there. Hayden is refusing to nap today which is also frustrating and makes me want to ( Read more... )

Our first full day at Disneyland and my mom's 50th birthday. I forget now if I said anything about how Nicole (the wife of someone Jason works with) and I had tried to set some stuff up for my mother's birthday because my mom wouldn't make up her mind. Then my mom decided to do stuff her own way. I kind of felt she was trying to exclude Nicole ( Read more... )

The drive down was pretty uneventful and easy besides the L.A. traffic, that's always a pain. My dad has NO patience for slow traffic either and really the traffic wasn't all that bad compared to what I've seen before. When we got to Anaheim the rooms weren't ready yet, check-in wasn't until three and we got there at noon. Kind of irritating but ( Read more... )

We left for California on Friday evening (April 21) and drove all night. Hayden did very well but Madison was a little cranky. Who can blame her though? For being a two year old she did great. We got into Anaheim on Saturday afternoon, had to wait around to get into our room and then after settling in we went to Downtown Disney for dinner at ( Read more... )

I just realized that with all the drama that went on after we returned from Disneyland I completely forgot to write any details about how the trip went. I'll have to do that later since right now the children won't leave me alone long enough to write about it, but here is a picture that I took the other day of the two of them wearing their golden ( Read more... )

The trip to Disneyland went very well considering my expectations. There were irritations with Jason's parents... namely the fact that his mother kept feeding Madison marshmallows at breakfast and every other mealtime and inbetween. She was doing it to bribe Madison into liking her but there are another ways to do that which work better! Jason's ( Read more... )

Bright and early we are leaving for Disneyland. Hopefully the trip will go smoothly and we'll all have a great time with few confrontations if any. Mother's Day was somewhat depressing because Jason worked all day and Madison was a twit for most of the day. Jason came home with flowers and cards though and that made my day much better. He had ( Read more... )