So I learned something today

I got to learn how to keep score today. J watched the kids while I watched the game (oldest's softball team) and keep score. Man you can't even have a decent conversation and do that job, you might miss something!! (I sure did!) All in all a good learning experience though. Looks like that gets to be my job from now on, so long as J makes it to the games too. Oh we won, 16 to 6.

Petroglyphs

What the he!! is a 2nd grader doing with petroglyphs as a spelling word!?!

Do you even know what it means? I didn't, my sister didn't, my husband didn't. We had to look it up to get an answer...



It's a carving on a rock. Go figure. I still can't believe this is on the second grade spelling list!!

Wedding day blues?

My mom got married today.


Not sure what to say now. I'm glad she's happy. I liked seeing all the people that I knew there and getting to talk to them.

My sister wasn't there. It's probably better since I was stressed out and I can only imagine what it would have been like for her. My borther left after during the meal becuase his kids were acting up. I think it was hard on him too. Seeing mom with anyone other than dad is just too hard to deal with. I wish dad was still alive. I wish mom didn't rush into this marriage. I wish a lot of things but it doesn't change what is.

After the meal they cut the cake and my kids decided to have a cake fight, good thing they had changed cloths by that point!! It definately helped me that my kids were having fun. I probably would have left sooner if it weren't for them.

We went to see my dad. The older girl left her flowers at his grave site. The younger one took some of her flowers to my dad and some for each of my grandparents that are there. The easter flowers were still there too. I think I cried most of the drive home. I feel like the last nail in the coffin. The end ya know?

This sucks.

Shoe shopping

Have I ever told you how much I HATE to shop?!?!?!

Ok so I had to take the girls shopping for shoes tonight for something to wear to my mom's wedding tomorrow. I know nothing like waiting until the last minute to get shoes. So we finally get to Kohls around 9pm today and we go looking for shoes for the younger one. They had to be white since her dress is white with blue butterflies. She starting say which ones she liked and I had to keep saying no, no no... Finally I sit her down and start handing her shoes and after the thrid pair we find one, ok so now for the older one.. Nothing fits in the kid section so we go to junior/women and everything is high heels. Come on can't we just find one pair of nice looking brown shoes that aren't going to make my 9 yr old, size 6 foot, look like she's 16!!! We tried on around a dozen shoes before we could find one that I would say yes to and that fit her foot and would work with the dress. So will she's trying on shoes I decide to look at the clearance rack. Nothing there in my size, but wait there's a pair of size 6 hiking boots and right next to them is a size 1 for the younger girl, ok at $8 each we'll try them. So now we have boots and shoes for the and we still need to go back to the kids department for tennis shoes for the younger one since she's out grown all the ones we have at the house. An hour later I'm at the end of my rope. We've tried on every single size 1 tennis shoe they have in the girls department and nothing fits. I'm ready to give up, the girls are tired and we all want to go home. So we decide to forget the tennis shoes and start to gather all our stuff so we can go... Then I look over, there's a pair we haven't tried, and their the right size, ok so one more try... And the FIT!! YA!!!

An hour and a half from the time we walk out of Kohls with 5 pairs of shoes for the girls (aren't you suprised I didn't get any for me!!) and the total cost for all these shoes you ask... $70!! I can't believe I lucked out with this. I am sooooooooo happy to get shoes for so little, especially since my one pair of my shoes on sale are around $70!! We even had enough left over to get milk shakes on the way home. I'm just going to have to remember to NEVER try and shop for shoes with the younger one again. At least for a while, it's way too stressful!!!

YA!!! Science Fair day

Today was the science fair at school. The older girl and her partner decided to do a project on the digestive system. It was really neat. It showed all the organs and they had info on what they main ones do, and they were able to answer any questions regarding them too. They also had a demonstation on how the digestive system works. They put some corn into a bag (the stomach) with some vanilla (that was the stomach acid) and smashed it up; then dumped it into a strainer (the sm. intestines) to get all the juice out (that was the nutrients) and everything left in the strainer was waste that then went to the large intestines (another bowl) and then out of the body. Oh and to show what happens then actually had a working poop shot at the bottom of the display that shot out malted milk balls. It was a really neat display. Ok so ya I'm the mom I have to say that, but it was cool, they even had examples of how long it takes various people to digest there food (using corn of course).

So anyway the judging was during the school day and tonight was to open house/awards. And I am really, really glad that I can't the scout meeting so that I could go to this thing, cause guess what....

Ya you guessed it, they took first place for they grade!!! In fact they had a perfect score, the only one in the whole school!!