Dee finally came back after his long vacation with Pop, Grandma and Uncle. Chunky showed how much he missed his big brother by running onto the porch, pointing and yelling "DEE,DEE,DEE" until Dee ran up the stairs and gave the Monkey a huge bear hug. Maybe now the Monkey will actually sleep at night now that he has his brothers snoring back ( Read more... )

Dee left for Florida at 5 am today. This is his first time away from us for more than an overnight. But he'll be home on the 27th. He is so excited to be going but he did tell me he was going to miss me. When I talked to him at 11 he had already gotten 2 pressed pennies and told me he has to buy another book for them ( Read more... )

I caught the head cold both boys had. My head is killing me and the "non-drowsy" medicine ain't so "non". So inbetween short rests on the couch, I am breaking up fights, putting on videos and changing the stinky Monkey, laundry and packing Dee's suitcase ( Read more... )

Horrorfind Weekend and the Women of Faith Weekend happen to be THIS weekend. No problem. Pop will watch the spuds. etch29 & vomit_maggots take off for Maryland. I head to Hartford. Friday all went well. Children took naps for Poppa, so they were up till midnight for me. Thanks dad. Saturday was the not so cool. Mom had an asthma attack in the Arena so we took ( Read more... )

It is 90 freaking degrees outside and 88 *&^#ing degrees inside the house. Somethings gotta give. I took the Sprouts to Micky Dee's thinking that would be a cool place to hang out for the noon hours but that ended up being a bust. Their A/C wasn't handling the heat too well ( Read more... )

Red Buttons has died.

This week is Cub Scout Camp. Dee couldn't wait for this week to start. I volunteered to be a Scout Leader. There are eight kids in my den. The boys are pretty ok behavior wise but I could strangle the other mom scout leader. She has cuddled and coddled her son who is in the den. He is 8 and the oldest in the group and extremely SPOILED. But ( Read more... )

With an Ice Cream Social sendoff, Dee is done with school for the year. It was a teary goodbye to his teacher. She knew just how to work with him and get the most out of him ( Read more... )

Temp of 103, sore throat and just wanting to lay down with his baby. Chunky is sick. He even turned down french fries!!! I did get him to drink a cup of pedialyte and a freezer pop ( Read more... )

We found a caterpillar by Dee's school 16 days ago. We put it in our bug container and it built a cocoon around itself and has been sitting on our printer while we wait for it to come out ( Read more... )