octopus

Saige wanted a sandwich and grapes for lunch today. I made her the sandwich and set it in front of her... instead of thank you I got is where are my grapes?

I can only do so many things at once Saige

But mom you have two hands...

Yes, but I only have one body that both hands are attached to and can still only do so many things at once no matter how hard I try

Well you should be an octopus then so you could do 11 things at once for me all the time

Ummm sure, why didn't I think of that?

snow day?

There's no snow but Saige didn't have school today. There was a two hour delay, so no school for AM Pre-K. There was a nasty wind storm last night, the yard is covered in still green leaves and twigs. On the plus side there has been a branch stuck in a tree out there for years that we didn't quite know how to get it out.... the wind took care of it. I think maybe that was Ike for us. Amazing how destructive it was on the coast and by the time we saw it, there was a couple sprinkles and some downed trees, we didn't even lose power. A lot of people around us did but ours didn't even blink. PLUS I got to sleep in 3 days in a row!!

Anyway Saige was all excited for school today, excited enough to go to bed at 7:30 last night so it would be here sooner, lol. I had a heck of a time explaining to her why it closed and why daddy told her it was a snow day but we had no snow. I probably would have described it the same... almost all closed days and delays are snow related around here.

The monsters have been keeping me busy... no Zailor today, Rylan is napping and Saige is watching Charlotte's Web for thr 7000th time. It is oddly quiet (knock on wood) Good TV starts this week!!!! I am excited, new House on Tuesday. I have been waiting all summer long.... I am a TV junkie. I haven't missed Dish Network at all this summer but now that it's fall- I think I will start to miss my DVR real soon. I have to find out what I can do... maybe a DVD burner? I'm pretty sure with tivo or DVR I have to pay for the service and that would defeat the purpose of the free digital tv that I bought the converter box for. It would be nice to watch the actual TV at some pint but I have a feeling I'll be watching almost everything online.... Robby is at work when all the good stuff is on so he can't watch it live.

It's time to get up already?

It seems 7:30 is coming earlier and earlier each morning. I HATE getting up. If I don't have to get up at any specific time I do alright, as far as sleeping goes. However when the alarm is set, be it 5am, 6 am or 9 am.... I can not go to sleep. It does not matter how tired I am, or how early I got up the previous night, I am unable to shut off my brain and no matter how hard I try I just lay there as the minutes slowly tick by. Robby is next to me happily snoring away while I lie next to him hating him for it. Seriously the guy can make himself go to sleep on demand, this is a skill I am incredibly jealous of and as hard as I try I just can not master. I've tried hiding the clock, it does not help. I have tried drugs.... they don't help either and I feel like crap the next day. So when I finally get lucky enough to doze off at 3, 4, or even 5 am it literally feels like minutes before it is time to start all over again :(

Last night there was a car on fire up the road. We stood at the end of the driveway and watched waiting for the fire department. It was scary... I looked this morning and there was nothing in the news. That is a good thing, I take that to mean that no one was hurt. The media are vultures, they are only interested in tragedy so they can exploit it for all it's worth. I don't know how long is was on fire before Robby came home from work and saw it (1/4 mile up, maybe). It was 3-4 minutes between the first cop arriving when we went out and the fire department getting there but that 3-4 minutes felt like forever. No one was stopping traffic, I doubt there was time and cars kept right on driving by and I was just holding my breath hoping and praying it didn't explode. I watch too much tv but cars have gas... gas will explode right? I was thinking if I saw a flaming car.... I would turn around, not drive within a few feet of it. Anyway the fire dept. had it out pretty quickly and then we couldn't see anything other than the black smoke continuing to fill the sky. Miraculously the kids BOTH slept through all the sirens, lights and commotion.

Already?

Two days of school and she is already coughing and her eyes are all gunky, not pink eye gunky just lots of extra eye bugers. I knew that having not really been around too many kids, that she would no doubt get sick plenty but I didn't think it would happen so soon. She doesn't much care though, Derik (who started 4th grade- man I am getting old) is here for the weekend and she is on cloud nine. For the longest time she thought he was her brother, she loves Derik. Apparently he is pretty popular, Zailor is here too. He ran straight to Derik to hug him and didn't so much as whine when his mommy left, that is highly unusual. He got whiny shortly there after and went to bed. It's after 8- It's MY time. Any sign of whining from any of them after 8 pm means a one way ticket to bed.

Saige enjoyed day two of school even more, and surprisingly is very excepting that she will not go tomorrow. We bought her an alarm clock yesterday when we went to Walmart and she was thrilled when it went off this morning. Too bad I do not share that enthusiasm for my own :) She was up a bit before it playing quietly in her bed and when it started beeping she was jumping up and down yelling "mommy the clock is yelling, the clock is yelling, it must be morning, I am going to get on the bus now".... in her underwear.

On a sad note our last gold fishy finally died, he has been getting worse and worse. It wasn't the cat- it was that ugly SOB sucker fish, it ripped the poor goldfish to shreds and it just couldn't take anymore. Rob said no we couldn't flush that one too, if I wasn't afraid of it, I would flush it myself. I have weird fear of fish.... all non-goldfish fish anyway.Poor goldfish (who ironically was dark gray) never hurt no one :( and we had him for years, before we were married. I guess though, without the goldfish it is highly likely the nasty sucker thing will starve to death.

First day of school

Well it's over.....
and I survived. In fact I barely cried at all. We offered to take her for the first day but I think she was looking forward to riding the school bus even more than she was looking forward to school. She had no second thoughts. Of course I didn't want her to be nervous or even worse cry that she didn't want to go, but, she didn't even wave bye. LOL The bus pulled up and she ran right up and hopped on without so much as a backward glance. We went grocery shopping while she was gone and Robby insisted on driving by the school a couple times. Not sure what we were looking for, it looked like a school.

We were a bit nervous, school starts at 8:40 and the bus didn't come until 8:35. We were beginning to think they forget her, but the driver assured us it would be earlier tomorrow. AM pre-K lets out at 11:10 and she didn't get home until 12:30. I was REALLY nervous, I kept thinking they must have left her somewhere else. I was about to cry and call the school when it finally came. That bus driver didn't say much of anything. I really hope it's a first day fluke, that is a long time to be on the bus. If not, it looks like we will have to start going to pick her up. Robby leaves for work shortly after 1 and he wants at least a little bit of time with her, the school is only 10 minutes away.

She was happy to see me when she got off the bus and when I asked about her day and what she did, she said they read a caterpillar book and made a train. That was it, no amount of persuasion could get anything else from her. She did say she liked it, well except for the getting up early part (lol- I hate that part too) and can't wait until tomorrow. I asked if she made any new friends and she said no because everyone in the world is already her friend but now she knows what they look like.

what's wrong with wrinkles?

I am watching the republican convention. I figure if nothing else, it's worth a good laugh but in truth I like to hear both sides even if I am biased. It is driving me nuts, I don't know if it is just PBS but the sound does not match their mouths moving. Laura Bush is speaking now which is just strange to watch .... could she get anymore plastic? She looks like a freaking barbie doll, her face doesn't move at all when she talks, it's creepy, where do they put it all? When did it become so taboo to have a wrinkle? baboon Bush is looking quite aged, perhaps he should see Laura's surgeon. I will give him a bit of credit. Tonight's speech was the best one I have heard from him yet, it was clear and understandable and remarkably free of ums and that trademark jaw hanging open looking like an idiot. Perhaps he finally learned to read a teleprompter, too bad it didn't happen 7 years sooner. I know it's rude but I think if man with as much education could sound a bit more... well, educated.

one more day

until my baby goes to school. Tonight she got to meet her teacher and check out her classroom. She didn't want to leave, lol. She is so excited to go and play with all the other kids. They are all so little. Saige is little but you don't notice it as much until you are surrounded by so many of them in their tiny little chairs. She was a bit confused about getting her picture taken. They take a picture to use to label stuff because they don;t recognize their names yet, she knows what her name looks like and was worried that that meant they wouldn't know her name and she was wanted to know what they would call her, lol.


I am not so sure that I am as ready. I have successfully managed to not think about it all too much, but it seems I know longer have a choice. RJ left yesterday to start his new teaching job. I am sad to have him so far away, but wish him the best of luck and hope he enjoys it.