CELL PHONE/ TOILET/ CHIP TOOTH

Those 3 are never a good combo. I have had service with qwest for years. well they have decided they they were not going to do cell phones any more. So we had to switch. After putting it off for as long as possible we finally switched carriers, we went with Verizon. So our trip to the mall to get new phones. I had the kids stand by the wall to stay out of the way and so i could keep an eye on them. They were horsing around and TJ hit his mouth on the Pole that was close by and chipped his front tooth. Cell phones are already costing us more. The following Saturday i was vegging on the couch until TJ had his basketball game. I was just messing with my new phone that i have had for a week. it was time to go and so i ran to the restroom before we left. Everyone was out in the car waiting for me. I go to run out and i cant find my phone.... Breanna calls my phone and says its turned off it went straight to voicemail. I was like no i just had it. The light bulb just went off in my head. I go check the toilet. Nothing is in there so i flush it to see what happens. CLOGGED. i flushed my new phone and now the toilet is clogged. After doing our run around ofter the game Tim tears apart the toilet. We basically have a whole in our bathroom. He can see the phone in the base but we cant get to it. He says we are going to have to break the toilet. I was like no let me try.... cant get it out. i finally surrender and say go ahead and break the toilet we will have to go get a new one and all of a sudden my phone comes out. YAYA, run down to the hardware store with 15 min before it closes and get the stuff to put the toilet back together. Phone is working somewhat. a little tore up and still drying out but this phone was about ready to cost us a new toilet as well as a dental bill. If one more thing happens i am going to say Verizon is BAD LUCK!!!

LIFE LONG GOALS

Sometimes being a mother has its challenges expecailly when you have such a wide span of kids ages. They all need something and are so different with what they need for their age and boy or girl. My oldest daughter and I have not been seeing eye to eye on things for a while. She is a teen and is trying her own Independence and is trying too hard not to become her mom. I am trying hard not to be a naggy mom at the same time and help her through her issues or should i just say life and growing up. She has really struggled this year in school and we have been really fighting about stuff and i am not relating to her to help her want to get her life long dream or goal in life of being a pilot. She is so smart and has wanted this for a very long time. She has been working at it for years. I finally got to talk with her one on one yesterday and it took a while but i think we finally broke ground. She is so stressed out and i just couldn't understand why. Her goal has changed, She doesn't know what she wants to do and it isn't the same as it was when she was younger and she is feeling like she has to accomplish this goal because it is all she has talked about and breathed for so many years. she is failing her own goal. It finally dawned on me last night through the tears. Its OK to change what you want out of life and what you want to become. She just needs to take what she has and the school that she is going to and make something of it that she wants. Her going to this school is only going to make it easy in life. All the tools that she needs to do what ever she wants is there and she can change her goals. It OK and her mom is right there rooting her on to what ever she wants to become. its OK, we will figure it out as long as she lets me in we can work though it and she doesn't have to think of her self as failing her goal. She is changing her goal to what ever she wants and its is OK to change as long as you do have a goal to work towards and at this point her goal is to figure out what her goal in life is going to be. I think that is why they call it the Teen years and not the Adult Years.

FIRST SLEEP OVER

The pictures didn't turn out too well but here is Treavor getting ready for his first sleep over. I was very sad that he is that old to be going on a sleep over with a friend. he packed all of his swords and toy guns, his toy cop stuff. He had a good time, he didn't even call me to say goodnight or anything. He now knows that the rule is to call mom before he goes to bed. My baby is getting older!! HOW SAD!!

SNOW DAYS!

White Christmas. I would have never thought that we would have enough snow to make a snowman as big as the house and still have that much snow left over. The kids loved it. Glad that it is over with for now any way.

ATKINS UPDATE!

TJ is now playing basketball, the video is kinda long but had to post it for the grandparents. He is having alot of fun!!