who needs sleep?

It was 5:40 the last time i looked at the clock, then the phone rang at 7:15, so on about an 1 1/2 of sleep, I actually had a really good day, starting to feel tired, so I shutting down turning my TV off and going to bed. hope i get a few solid hours in tonight. I didnt take the sleep aid, because i was afraid it would leave me all groggy tommarow, no matter what time i took it, because of the lack of sleep that i got last night. I think tonight is going to be a good night, keep your fingers crossed.

INSOMNIA SUCKS,

I really hate having this insomnia issue. I have had it for a while now, the dr gave me something to help me sleep a little, problem is remembering to take it early enough, because if I dont, I end up sleeping most of the day, so half the time I dont take it because its too late. I try not to take it too often, because I dont want to become addicted or dependent on it. I have tried everything tonight, warm bath, I hemed some cloths, I mopped the floors, then i just layed in bed wide awake trying to make myself fall asleep. So now i dont know what to do, its almost 5, its been a while since its been this bad, usually fall asleep around 2 3 at the latest, ugh, right now I am so annoyed, because i know that i will get tired, or fineally fall asleep right before the kids get up, ugh!!!! Its reallygoing to be a long day today:(

THEY ALWAYS MAKE ME LAUGH

Anyone that has known me for a long time knows that I have never been the serious type. So sometimes parenting is very challenging for me. They do stuff like Lula did tonight, and i should probablly scold them or somthing, but i cant help it I try really hard not to, but i laugh. Its real hard to discipline them when all i want to do is laugh. Most of the time in these ocasions thats where kimo steps in(i usually have to leave the room) But tonight Kimo was at work already. She scared the crap out of me but seeing her run from the scene of the crime in her koolaid soaked jammies, was hilarious. Yes she was tryng to serve herself Koolaid, and i guess Jimmy (he served himself last) didnt put the lid on it right. So when she goes to serve herself, i hear, bam slpat splash. I jump up because the noise scared me. I run into the living room/dining room area and she's running out of the kitchen screaming "Jimmy you didnt put the lid on the Kool-aid right, now my jammies are wet" As you might have already guessed I cracked up.
Now first who do i get upset him, or her, or both because they were supposed to be in bed. O well, too late to scold them now. They did however help me clean it up,
Hopefully someday I will learn to control my laughter, maybe :)

WHY DONT THEY JUST LISTEN

Last thursday was payday, but yet again someone in omaha screwed up again, and sent the checks to the wrong terminal. This happens so much that we decided to get a bank account and have his check direct deposited. It happens like 4 times a year, and I really wish I was exagerating. So somehow there was a mix-up on the form and it never got done. So since then I have told the man at least 50 times, to resubmit the forms. He has brought it home like 2 or 3 times, but somehow it never gets turned in. So thursday when we went to get the check and that happend, and he got another form from his boss, I sure did make him fill it out and turn it back in right then and there. So now i know that its done. So next time this happens again we will not have to worry about it... Maybe next time he will listen to me and do things, instead of putting them off.

A TRIP TO THE DOCTOR

Sometimes I really hate going to the doctor, it seems like everytime I go, he has nothing but bad news for me... It was an ok visit this time. I am back on my Asthma meds, which I kinda figured I needed, so thats good news. Now I'm just waiting for my blood test results, but since I havnt hear from them, I guess I can assume that its all ok...

ULTIMATE I-SPY

Yes my kids tried to create thier own version of the old classic game. we were on the way to my doctor, when i hear one of them say "hey lets play ultimate I-spy". So what is it you ask, basically its like the old game only thing is, in stead of one item, you see two. Yes i know it makes no sence to me either, but hey it kept them busy. When you live on the outskirts of town like i do and a simple trip to the dr take 30 minutes. You are thankful they are playing a game and not arguing about something silly.

YAY HE FIXED IT!!!!

ok, so he's the one who broke it to begin with lol!!!
So Kimo got me a laptop for my birthday/christams present last year. He was always downloading stuff and getting virusus and stuff like that on his desktop. So to save me the headach he got me the laptop to do what i wanted with it. Well I made the mistake of letting him use it. Yup he downloaded somthing and crash went my computer. He leaves me to fix it, I think I got it, then the mouse pad wouldnt work. So after 2 1/2 days without my computer its fixed... finelly! Yay Kimo!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I can blog about the stuff that has gone on for the last few days.

KUNG FU PANDA

EVEN THOUGH WE ARE ALL FEELING THE CRUNCH AT THE PUMPS, WE STILL WENT A HEAD TOOK THE KIDS TO SEE KUNG FU PANDA, WE HAD BEEN PROMISING THEM A MOVIE FOR A COUPLE WEEKS AND THINGS JUST KEPT POPING UP, YOU NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TO DO..... SO WE FINELY SAID TODAY FORGET IT LETS GO, NOT REALIZING THAT THE MOVIE JUST OPEND THIS WEEKEND THOUGH.... I HATE GOING TO MOVIE OPENING WEEKEND. I MAKE IT A POINT TO WAIT TILL THE SECOND WEEK AT LEAST BEFORE GOING. BUT WE WERE SHOOTING FOR THE NARNIA MOVIE, BUT WE DIDNT MAKE IT TO THE THEATURE IN TIME, SO KUNG FU PANDA IT WAS.....
NOW IF TAKING MY 5 OLDER KIDS WASNT ENOUGH, I DECIDED LETS TAKE MY BROTHERS KIDS, TRADE HIM OUR YOUNGER 2 WHO I DIDNT THINK WOULD SIT THROUGH THE MOIVE, FOR HIS 2. SO WE LOOKED PRETTY CRAZY WITH ALL 7 KIDS, BUT THEY WERNT TO ROUDY. WE GO TO THE THEATURE WHERE WE HAVE CARDS FOR FREE POPCORN, SO WE GOT 4 BAGS OF POPCORN, FREE OF COURSE, 5 SODAS, ONE FOR ME, ONE FOR KIMO, AND THEN WE PAIR THE KIDS UP. BENNY AND MY NEPHEW OF COURS BECAUSE THOSE TWO ARE UNSERPERATBLE WHEN TOGETHER, DEREK AND JIMMY, AND THE THREE GIRLS, JADA, JASMINE, AND MY NIECE. WE GET IN THE THEATURE TO SIT DOWN, GUESS WHAT NO SEETS TOGETHER, SO I GOT LUCKY AND FOUND 3 SEETS SO THE GIRLS COULD STAY TOGETHER, FOUND 2 MORE IN ANOTHER ROW. THEN 2 MORE IN ANOTHER, SO THAT JUST LEFT ME AND KIMO STANDING THER, WITH NO WHERE TO SIT.....YES NO WHERE FOR US TO SIT. LUCKLY A FAMILY NOTICED US AND MOVED OVER AND MADE ROOM. FOR SOME REASON OR ANOTHER THERE WERE SEATS IN BETWEEN THE PARENT AND THE KIDS, ANY WAYS WE SAT IN OUR SEETS, I HAD A HARD TIME TRYING TO WATCH THE MOVIE BEACAUSE I FOUND MYSELF LOOKING FOR THE KIDS, NOW I KNOW THEY ARE NOT BABYS, THEY SAT A BIG ONE WITH A LUL ONE, SO I KNOW THAT THE BIG ONES WILL TAKE CARE OF THE LIL ONES, BUT STILL WAS A LIL NEVOUSE,

ANYWAYS THIS WAS THE ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES THAT I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME... IT HAD ME AND KIMO LAUGHING THROUGH THE WHOLE MOVIE.... AND THAT DARN PANDA REMINDED ME WAY TOO MUCH OF MY LIL BRO.... BUT IT WAS A REALLY CUTE MOVIE AND I LOVED IT. SO DID THE KIDS, GUESS I WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR NARNIA TO HIT DVD.....:)

GAS WOES!!!!!!

OK, SO THIS WHOLE GAS SITUATION IS GETTING OUT OF HAND, I MEAN ISNT THERE SOMTHING SOMEONE CAN DO ABOUT IT. IT TOOK DECADES FOR THE PRICE OF GAS TO RISE ABOVE $2.00. IT ONLY TOOK ABOUT A DECADE FOR IT TO RISE $2.00 MORE. MAKING THE PRICE PER GALLON OVER $4.00. $4.09 A GALLON IS WHAT I PAID THIS AFTERNOON (OK I GUESS ITS WOULD TECHNACLLY BE YESTER, DARN INSOMNIA) IT COSTED 74.75 TO FILL MY TANK. THATS JUST GAS FOR THE WEEK, FORGET ANY EXTRA TRIPS. OH AND I GUESS NO OUT OF TOWN TRIPS THIS SUMMER. ITS ABSOLUTLY RIDICULOUS. I HAVE BEEN WORKING A PART TIME JOB, AND IT SEEMS LATELY THAT I WORK MY PART TIME JOB SO WE CAN HAVE EXTRA GAS MONEY. BEFORE WE SPENT ABOUT 75 TO 100 EVERY TWO WEEKS ON GAS, IT TOOK THAT MUCH JUST TO FILL UP. WHICH MEAN ITS GOING TO COST 150 TO 200. KIMO AND I WERE TALKING TODAY ABOUT ALL OUR LIL TRIPS HERE AND THERE , TAKING THE KIDS TO THE MALL OR EVEN TO THE MOIVES, JUST GETTING THEM OUT OF THE HOUSE, WITH THESE PRISES, ITS ALMOST TO THE POINT WHERE YOU CANT JUST GET IN YOUR CAR ANYMORE AND GO BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO CHOSE BETWEEN TAKING THE KIDS ON AN OUTING OR SAVING GAS AND STAYING HOME AND DOING SOMEHTING....UGH.....

MOVE CLOSER

SO AFTER YEARS OF LIVING WAY ACROSS TOWN IN A AN APARTEMENT, MY LITTLE BROTHER AND HIS FAMILY HAVE MOVED CLOSER TO US, INTO A BUTIFUL HOME. I AM SO HAPPY FOR THEM, BUT I ESPEACIALLY LIKE HAVING THEM CLOSER TO ME.. SO I CAN GO OVER MORE OFTEN, AND THEY CAN COME HERE MORE OFTEN. THE KIDS CAN PLAY TOGETHER MORE OFTEN. THEY HAVE ALREADY SPENT MOST OF THE LAST WEEK TOGETHER. I AM JUST HAPPY THAT THEY ARE CLOSE ENOUGH FOR THE KIDS TO SPEND WAY MORE TIME TOGETHER.....YAY!!!!!!!

DONT BE SO QUICK TO JUDGE........

THIS ACTUALLY HAPPEND FRIDAY, I POSTED IT ON MY MYSPACE FORGOT TO POST IT HERE. BUT I HOPE WHEN YOU READ THIS, AND HOW IT MADE ME FEEL AS A PARENT TO HAVE THIS HAPPEN YOU THINK TWICE WHEN YOU PASS JUDGMENT ON OTHERES...



MOST OF MY CHILDREN ARE NOT MINE BIOLOGICALLY, BUT I LOVE THEM ALL THE SAME. SO SOME OF YOU KNOW THAT I RECENTLY ADOPTED THE YOUNGER 2 OF MY BROTHERS KIDS, CERCUMSTANCES BEYOUND MY CONTROL BEYOUND THE KID'S CONTROL, THE STATE PLACED THEM WITH ME & MY HUSBAND. MY OLDEST TWO ARE MY HUSBANDS FROM HIS FIRST MARRIAGE
YES WE HAVE 7 KIDS AND I AM PROUD OF IT. SO WHAT, IT'S NO ONE'S BUSINESS BUT OURS, I USUALLY DONT LET IT BUG ME WHEN I SEE PEOPLE LOOK AT US WIERD ESPECIALLY WHEN WE GO SOMEWHERE WITH ALL SEVEN OF THEM UNTIL TONIGHT. AND WE ONLY HAD THE FIVE LITTLE ONES.
WE WENT TO WALMART, LIKE WE ALWAYS DO. WE JUST WENT FOR A FEW THINGS. WE WERE BACK BY THE DIAPERS, AND ME AND MY DAUGHTER WERE WALKING AWAY FROM THE REST OF THEM TO OUR NEXT PURCHASE, WHEN SHE SAYS "MOMMY WHATS WELFARE". I WAS STUNNED I DIDNT KNOW WHERE THIS WAS EVEN COMMING FROM. I ASKED HER WHY SHE WAS ASKING THAT. "CAUSE ONE OF THOSE LADYS SAID O MY GOD ALL THOSE KIDS, AND I BET THEY ARE ON WELFARE". AS MUCH AS I WANTED TO GO BACK AND SMACK THAT LADY, I JUST GRABBED HER HAND KEPT WALKING TO THE NEXT PART OF THE STORE.
I SEE THE FACES PEOPLE MAKE WHEN THEY SEE ME AND FAMILY, HECK I HAVE EVEN HEARD OTHER PARENTS AT THE SCHOOL WHERE MY KIDS GO SAY THINGS. JUST HEARD SOMEONE SAY'N STUFF AT THE SCIENCE FAIR A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. I HAVE COME TO JUST LET IT GO. IF I LET EVERY STUPED COMMENT OR LOOK GET TO ME, I WOULD BE A BASKETCASE. ITS JUST NOT WORTH IT. BUT THIS TIME MY DAUGHTER HEARD IT. SHE SHOULDNT BE SUBJECTED TO THAT KINDA SHIT.
SO MY POINT IS, THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE A LARGE FAMILY, DONT BE SO QUICK TO JUDGE, YOU DONT KNOW HOW OR WHY THEY ARE SO BIG. AND THINK THIER KID MIGHT HEAR ME... I WOULDNT CHANGE MY FAMILY ONE BIT, ITS MINE AND I AM HAPPY WITH IT. SO I DONT CARE WHAT PEOPLE SAY OR THINK JUST CAUSE I HAVE 7 KIDS, IT JUST ANGERS ME THAT MY POOR BABYGIRL HAD TO HEAR SUCH A THING. I AM JUST GLAD THAT SHE IS STILL INOCENT ENOUGH TO NOT REALIZE THAT, THAT LADY WAS BEING MEAN AND HATEFUL...


O AND FOR THE RECORD WE ARE NOT ON WELLFARE, MY HUSBAND BUST'S HIS BUT FOR EVERYTHING OUR CHILDREN HAVE.......

PULLUPS .COM

ALTHOUGH MY BABY SISTER DOESNT HAVE ANY CHILDREN OF HER OWN, I OFFTEN TALK TO HER ABOUT MINE, SHE PICKS ON ME BECAUSE I READ PARENTING BOOKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT. SHE JUST TEASES, NOT TO BE MEAN BUT BEACUSE SHE THINKS IT S CUTE. ANYWAYS I WAS TALKING TO HER ABOUT THE POTTY TRAINING HEADACH BELLAS GIVING ME, THE OTHER DAY. TODAY I GET THIS TEXT, "ITS POTTY TRAINING AWARNESS MONTH GO TO PULLUPS.COM THEY HAVE REWARD CHARTS AND STUFF THERE....
FIRST OF ALL I DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS SUCH A THING, IT SEEMS LIKE THERE IS AWARNESS MONTH OR WEEK FOR EVERYTHING THESE DAYS.......
I WAS THANKFUL FOR HER TIP.

NOW I HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE, 6 TIMES BEFORE, ALTHOUGH I DIDNT DO DEREK AND JADA FULL TIME, I STILL HELPED WITH THEM, NO TWO CHILDREN ARE THE SAME WHEN IT COMES TO THIS. BUT THIS CHILD SEEMS TO BE FIGHTING ME ABOUT THIS. NOW I DONT DO PULLUPS, NEVER HAVE. THE ONLY TIME I USE THEM IS AT BEDTIME'S. I TAKE THAT BACK WITH ARTIE I DID USE PULLUPS, BUT HIS CIRCUMSTANCES WERE DIFFERENT. I HAD MY REASONS. BUT BELLA I KNOW THAT SHE KNOWS WHAT I WANT HER TO DO, BUT SHE IS JUST AS STUBBORN AS HER MAMA, AND I GUESS SHE WILL DO IT WHEN SHE IS GOOD AND READY, I WLL JUST HAVE TO LEARN TO BE MORE PATIENT..........

I DID GET SOME USEFULL HINTS ON THAT SIGHT THOUGH, IT WASNT ALL ABOUT USING THIER PRODUCT WHICH I WAS WORRIED IT WOULD BE AT FIRST. SO I HOPE THIS HELPS ANOTHER MOM IN MY SITUATION OUT......

CATS!!!!CATS!!!!CATS!!!!

GROWING UP, I ALWAYS WANTED A CAT BUT WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ONE BECAUSE MY MOM WAS ALLERGIC. SO WHEN I GREW UP AND GOT MARRIED I FOUND OUT THE HARD WAY THAT I TOO AM ALLERGIC TO CATS. I HAD THE CUTEST LITTLE KITTEN WE NAMED PIPPER. WE HAD HER A FEW MONTHS, WHEN I WENT FOR A PRENATAL CHECK UP AND THE DR WAS CONCERNED BECAUSE I HAD BEEN EXPERIENCEING SOME COLD LIKE SYMTHOMS, FOR THE PREVIOUS FEW MONTHS. SO WHEN HE DISCOVERED THAT I WAS ALLERGIC TO CATS AND THAT I HAD ONE, (THIS IS SOMTHING I DIDNT KNOW UNTIL HE FOUND IT) HE DEMANDED I GET RID OF THE CAT, BECAUSE MY ALLERGY WAS SO BAD, AND I WAS PREGNANT. SO I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO GET RID OF HER. I WAS SO SAD AND UPSET BEACUSE I ALWAYS WANTED A KITTIE.
SO TODAY PABLO AND ROCHELLE WATCHED THE KIDS FOR US, SO THAT WE COULD GO TO A MOVIE AND LUNCH, FOR OUR ANNIVERSERY. LIKE ALWAYS WHEN WE GO TO PABLO'S WE NEVER JUST GO AND COME RIGHT BACK WE USUALLY END UP SPENDING THE DAY, WE WENT SWIMMING AND JUST HUNG OUT WITH THEM AND HAD DINNER. I WAS FEELING GREAT UNTIL ON THE WAY HOME, I WAS HOPING IT WOULDNT HIT ME UNTIL I GOT HOME AND COULD TAKE MY MEDS, BUT IT DIDNT WORK OUT THAT WAY. SO NOW I AM UP CANT SLEEP BECAUSE I CANT BREATH RIGHT WHEN LAYING DOWN, MY EYES ARE ITCHING, AND BURNING, AND MY MEDS DONT SEEM TO WANT TO KICK IN. UGH......DOES THIS MEAN I WILL SPEND LESS TIME THERE, HECK NO.... I LOVE MY BREOTHER AND HIS WIFE, AND NOW THEY ARE ONLY TEN MINUTES AWAY FROM ME, I WILL BE SPENDING MUCH MORE TIME THER. SO I GUESS I BETTER GET MY REFILL SOON....LOL..... I JUST HOPE I WILL BE A LIL LESS SENSITIVE TO THESE CATS, THE MORE TIME I SPEND THERE..... WISH ME LUCK.......

10TH ANNIVERSERY.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, I MARRIED THE LOVE OF MY LIFE KIMO. WE HAVE HAD OUR UPS AND DOWNS, BUT WE ALWAYS SEEM TO WORK IT OUT SOONER OR LATER. EVEN THOUGH OUR MARRIAGE ISNT PERFECT, I AM HAPPY, HAPPIER THEN I HAVE EVER BEEN, NO ONES MARRIAGE IS PERFECT, IF IT IS, IT ISNT REAL, IN MY BOOK, LIFE ISNT PERFECT. BUT I BELIEVE THAT THROUGH ALL OUR ISSUES IT HAS MADE OUR MARRIAGE STRONGER. HE IS MY BETTER HALF. HE ISNT PERFECT, BUT THEN AGAIN WHO IS. BUT HE LOVES ME AND THAT ISNT ALWYAS EASY, AND HE LOVES HIS CHILDREN ALL OF HIS CHILDREN. HE STEPPED UP AND WAS A FATHER TO OUR LIL ONES, WHEN HE DIDNT HAVE TO BE, WITHOUT HIM I WOULDNT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GIVE THOSE TWO BUTIFUL CHILDREN A LOVING HOME, WITH OUT HIM BY MY SIDE ALONG THE WAY WE WOULDNT BE THE FAMILY THAT WE ARE TODAY. HE IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS TO EVER HAPPEN TO ME, I TRUELY BELIEVE THAT HE IS MY SOLEMATE, AND HE IS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE, AND I CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS........OR FIFTY:)