Just Babysitting

Dearest hubby came home with something yesterday. It was furry and cute. It was NOT staying here. Little Miss said it was, I said it wasn't. She went to Grandma's to spend the night and I WON!

Seems they found 4 of them in a tree, 3 were already dead and then this one. The tree had been cut and the momma was long gone. In fact the tree was already on the truck when they were discovered. How anyone missed this loud mouth little shit I will never know. Hubby brought it home because (pay attention, this gets confusing) The Boy's friend's fiance's (yes after 6 years, they are finally engaged! WOOT!) mother works for a vet and is licensed to take on wild animals and she told The Boy's friend anytime they found an animal, she would take it.

Hubby wasn't going to mention it to Little Miss because the future vet in her wouldn't allow her not to want to keep it. Only she wouldn't be the one to tend to it. You know where the responsibility of that would land. Right squarely in my lap. But when he walked up on the porch with a box that was making a lot of noise, one of the Little Hellions asked what he had. Like an idiot he told him! Of course he went straight to the other hellion who promptly made a mad dash over here to see it. And of course Little Miss was right there when he said Hellion #2 told me what you have. And then it was all over but the ohhhs and ahhhs.

Needless to say she wanted to keep it. I would have liked to have kept it, but....... Oh, hell NO! Not another thing to tend to, another mouth to feed, another loud mouthed little shit! OH. HELL. NO! So I babysat until The Boy's friend came over. Thank God, he actually showed up when I wanted him to. He had NO clue it was here waiting for him, so I couldn't have blamed him if he didn't show up, but don't think that I wouldn't have tried to.

Little Miss will pout when she finds out it is no longer here, but she will get over it. I got to sleep without having to get up every couple of hours to feed it and that makes me happy. Wanna know what I babysat?

That my darlings, if you don't know, is a very tiny baby raccoon. His eyes and ears aren't even open. I would say less than a week old. He was very active, very hungry, and very LOUD!!!!!!! Cute as he is....I am glad that he has a home. Now if they find another baby deer...... I may have to keep it. I have always loved Bambies. Until next time...........

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes you just need to laugh

Ever have one of those days....or weeks.....or months, where you just don't seem to laugh? Nothing is quite funny enough to get more than a quick chuckle. I have been having a lot of those days here lately. Last night I got just what I needed..... A good laugh.....courtesy of.........



OK that is an old picture......But ain't she cute?



That is more recent. (I swear sometimes I think I have more pictures of her than the kids.....Oh wait, I probably do because she will sit still and get her picture taken without griping! These are the kinds of pictures I get of the kids lately.....





so damn lovely aren't they?)

Aneeway.....Daisy has this game she loves to play. "I can beat you to the corner". It is her favorite game lately, she plays it every time I try to make the bed. The game is as follows....

I try to pull the sheets up and she runs to the corner to prevent me from pulling the covers up in that corner. All four corners. It is best if I cover her up in the process, because then she gets to attack the sheets. She rolls around and *play* growls and lunges at me and all and all has a wonderful time and I end up with a very wrinkly bed. But she has a fun time and it is entertainment.

Now she has a new version of "I can beat you to the corner". And it is called ,"I can drive the man CRAZY!" And it is HILARIOUS!!!!!! The rules are as follows..........

She jumps up on the bed before hubby can get in. She lays on his pillow and covers and refuses to let him pull the covers back. This is accomplished by a lot of *play* growling and snarling and lunging at him. When he seems very annoyed and yells for her to move, she runs to the end of the bed and the second he makes a move for the covers, lunges back up there and protect his pillow from him. Wash, rinse and repeat. Until the woman, dies laughing and falls on the bed in tears. Then check on the woman and make sure she is really OK and attempt to beat the man back to the pillow. If this can not be accomplished, make sure you end up under the covers so that you can attack the covers. Daisy's motto......Never Give Up!!!!!!

She has been playing this for a couple of weeks now. But for some reason, last night she was especially rowdy and would not give up for anything, not even the threat of death or worse, being put in her box. Hubby was laughing, but annoyed. I got tickled and the rowdier she got the funnier the whole thing seemed. I had tears rolling, I couldn't breath, my lungs hurt. I could not stop laughing. Even when Daisy left the room. I kept my face buried in the covers and honestly cried it was so funny. All hubby would say was, "HAHA, its not funny. I hate her." And of course that would send me into another fit of hysterics. Daisy had to keep coming and checking on me, which would start hubby up again and get me going again.

Hubby finally told me to leave and take the damn dumb ass dog with me. I told her I would find her a treat, she deserved it. Pissed hubby off. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Giving the dog a treat for driving him crazy. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

I guess I just needed a release of some sort. With all the late nights here lately and the stress of dearest darling being so ill and of course Little Miss' mouth and attitude. And don't let us forget, The Boy and all he gets in to. (His black eye has healed rather nicely, only took a bit over a week for it to go away. And believe me, I took every chance I could get to make fun of him. One hit was all the other boy got in! ONE HIT!!!HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Guess it was all he needed. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! ) Of course MIL is always a stresser. The constant pain and fatigue is getting to me too.

So I needed that laugh. And Boy Howdy, did I get it! I really needed it this morning, I didn't get to climb in to 2:30am! Damn movie! And she watched 2 movies right before going to bed!!!! And the little friend called wanting to spend the night. I just couldn't do it. Too much going on here. Maybe another time. I will take EternalSunshine's advice and sugar her up before sending her home. Teach her mom to scare my child. heh! I will scare her back, a hyper child on sugar is always scary. OK, I am going to go for now. Until next time............

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is wrong with some people?

Have parents lost their cotton picking minds? Now I will take a bit of responsibility, I didn't specifically say don't let my 9 yo watch a horror movie, but I thought that was a given. Little Miss went to her friends house last week, her mom let them rent a movie, this is what they got.......



A small town lies in limbo some 50 years after a horrific accident that saw a train plow into a school bus filled with children. Can a troubled teen (Leah Pipes) fresh out of rehab unlock the truth about what caused the terrible tragedy? Lou Diamond Phillips and Kristin Cavallari of MTV's "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" co-star in this supernatural thriller from screenwriting brothers Brian and Jason Cleveland.
Starring: Leah Pipes, Kristin Cavallari
Director: Harry Basil
Genre: Horror
Format: Widescreen ...
Language: English

For violence, language, some sexuality and drug/alcohol ...

No doesn't look the least bit scary! The mom......didn't look at the movie........The girls didn't read the back......No one dreamed it would be scary! GIVE. ME. A. BREAK!!!!! Not scary, didn't know it would be scary! BULLSHIT!!!!!!! I give the mom a bit of credit, when she noticed it might be scary, she suggested that they turn it off, but the little friend said NO, we want to watch it. Little Miss? Oh, she couldn't look like a baby, OH. NO!

Here's a heads up, apparently the movie says it is based on a true story. In 1957, in Tennessee, a group of children come up missing, no one knows what happened to the children. But apparently a group blames this man and they hang him, his children avenge his death. The children were tortured (mouths sewn shut and such). Legend says if you park on the bridge, the children will push the car across. People are tortured and killed. Ghost show up. These are the things Little Miss has told me about, other things she can't bring herself to tell. WON. DER. FUCKING. FUL!!!!!!

Surprisingly, she slept at the friend's house. She slept the next night at Grandma's house. She slept Friday night. She slept Saturday night. This brings us to Sunday night. A night she wasn't completely exhausted. So she is laying in bed and trying to go to sleep. This movie starts running in her head. Yeah, this is a wonderful thing! She gets spooked to say the least. I tell her to think of something else, doesn't work. She wants me to sit in her room until she goes to sleep. I did. She spent the next hour and a half, peeking to make sure I was still in there. She can't go to sleep doing that. Sometime after 1am she finally goes to sleep. I went to bed and within minutes she was in the couch. At which point her brother walks through the living room and scares the hell out of her! (he didn't do it on purpose, he didn't even know she was on the couch.)

So yesterday, she was fine. She wouldn't go in her room by herself, but she was fine. Last night, she watched a movie (Cheaper by the Dozen 2) and when bedtime rolled around, I thought she was fine. I was WRONG! She couldn't get the movie out of her head. I used to tell the kids to go to Candy land. It was a wonderful place, just like the game, it was made of candy and they could take anyone they wanted to and they could eat anything they wanted to. Usually it was just enough to take their minds off whatever was bothering them and they would go right off to sleep. (Easy E would take the Terminator or Robocop with him. heh!) Well, Little Miss says that is a baby place and she is too old to do that anymore. I told her to think of swimming, camping, playing with friends.....you know the usual. Of course it always ended up with them all be attacked and tortured!

I can't lay with her, hell there isn't room! She has her blankie, her stuffed dog, Rose, and the bulldog, Misty, all piled in the bed with her. But this isn't enough for her. I tried to sit at the end of the bed. Hurt my back and she wouldn't go to sleep anyway. I tried sitting at her desk. This is one of those Little Tykes desks, my legs went to sleep, my back hurt like hell and she still wouldn't go to sleep! (Those desks were not made for adults!) Her bean bag chair, that she suggested I sit in, full of birthday party loot and clothes. Besides after sitting in the damn thing I can't get up! (I hate getting old!)

My point is this.......Why didn't the mom say turn it off? What made her think a 9 year old needed to watch a movie about children being tortured and killed? Why didn't she look at the movie cover and make sure it was appropriate for children? At the very least she could have called and asked if I let my child watch a horror movie!!!!!!! And I would have told her, "Hell NO!!! I like to get a little sleep around here!!!!!!"

When Little Miss has company and they watch a movie, I try to make sure it isn't inappropriate. A rated G or PG usually. A rated R if it is for language and I know the parents have a mouth like me. heh! Nothing scary, nothing with a lot of violence, nothing with a bunch of sex or nudity. OK, I admit, a movie or two has slipped by me......Nudity is sometimes hard to avoid in movies. But it is not like porn has slipped by me. Hell porn might have been better than this horror movie she watched. I could explain that some people are sickos and let it go! heh!!!

Try explaining to a scared 9 year old, that just because it said it was based on a true story, doesn't mean it all actually happened. All that had to be true about it was that a busload of kids went missing. That if they didn't know what happened to them, they couldn't know that all of that happened. And if 20 or 30 years later the man's kids were avenging their father's death by attacking, torturing and killing kids, well, it would have made the news and I would have known about it! Just try to explain *legend* to a scared shit-less kid!!!!!!

I haven't talked to the mom, I doubt I will. I have thought of calling her at midnight and asking her to calm my child that won't sleep because of the movie that she let them watch. But I haven't. If she goes back, By jangles, I will inform her that Little Miss is not to watch Horror movies!

If that is not bad enough, she took them swimming and Little Miss got her toe hung on something on the slide and one of her toes is about to lose the nail and is all swollen and another toe had the nail ripped down into the quick and of course both hurt. Of course she has whined about it to no end. It has to stay all bandaged up because the nail catches on everything and it pulls it loose again, it only has a very small amount of the nail actually holding it in place. I think it may be cracked, but whatever! So I get to bandage toes and calm nightmares! Damn I am never letting her stay anywhere else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got any suggestions? I am thinking of becoming an alcoholic........At least then I wouldn't care if I slept or not. Or I would pass out and not care if she slept or not. Or hell, I just wouldn't care period! Until next time................

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!!!!!!!

I survuved the weekend

In fact I had a really good time. The leading up to it days were a bitch, but I got done.

I spent all day Thursday and most of Friday cleaning the house and getting rid of cobwebs and such. I spent Friday afternoon making my flower garden appear to not be a weed garden. I accomplished that much. I had no idea that hubby dearest was throwing weed seeds in to my garden when he was weed eating around it! After I finally finished that, I managed to pick up some garbage in front of the shop. Damn kids and working on cars out there and not picking up behind themselves! I swear they need a crash course in what a garbage can is!!!!

After accomplishing all of that...I swear I was busier than a cat covering shit in a litterbox......I managed a shower and going into town to pick up all the party stuff! Three stores and I managed to forget half of the shit!!!!!! Hel-Mart's bakery was closed but we managed to find a cake anyway!

The Dollar Store provided the plates and cups and Kroger's provided the groceries! That was the place I forgot half of the stuff. I swear it cost us a fortune to do just a simple hamburger and hot dog dinner for a few dozen people!!!! And I managed to forget the important things......Pork-N-Beans, buns, celery, ice cream.....you know the things you have to have.

So that meant when I got up Saturday morning and started getting to cooking, I had to stop and go get all of those things. I did make macaroni salad and baked beans. I wasn't going to do it, but the SILs kinda guilted me into it. One of them wanted macaroni salad and the other wanted baked beans. I couldn't do one without the other so.....

Surprising hubby managed to get back to grill and managed to get a shower before most of the guest arrived. We ended up with about 15 people show up. One BIL had to work and the other was helping a friend, Bug was at her fiance's and one of the Hellions stayed at his dad's. The Boy's friend and his family, had other things to do. It went well, all things considered. No arguments and everyone got along. MIL actually was nice. The food was good, even if I fixed most of it myself. Daisy was cabled outside, so she couldn't be a crack head to the guest and Misty was put in a cage in our room, Socks was in The Boy's room until he escaped. Most of the family left right after cake and ice cream.

The boss and his wife had to go to his parent's but came back after that. We had a good time. The boss, hubby and The Boy sat out in the shop and drank and got drunk. Nice! Me and boss' wife sat in the house and had daiquiris, she was the sober driver so she had just one, early and then I was on my own. Little Miss and their daughter swam and played all evening. They left somewhere around 1am. I was give out! We had fun though.

Sunday, I had a couple of slightly hungover men and I felt fine until about 4pm. That is when the headache from hell showed up! It managed to make my stomach upset, made my nose run, and my ears ache! I swear I felt like shit! I kept that sucker until I went to bed. Thanks to Little Miss and a damn movie she watched at her friend's house, I managed to climb into bed at almost 1am!

So that was my weekend.....How was your weekend? I have one more picture to share...........



Ain't she a beauty? She was still pissed about being outside all evening! I have a few pictures of The Boy from Saturday night, but I won't publish those, I will keep those for blackmail purposes! heh!! Oh, but I will mention that he drooled over the boss' oldest daughter, who was here for the party, but not the evening. Of course she is gorgeous, so it is understandable. Though it embarrassed him when the youngest daughter came in and said that her sister thought he was HOT. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Lord help us all. Until next time............

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta get busy!

Since that darling man I call my husband has decided that Little Miss will be having a birthday party on Saturday, I now have to do an actual cleaning. Not one of those swipe at shit and go on cleanings! OK, I admit, we do a small party every year. This year was to be no different. I had planned a cake and ice cream and let the Hellions and Little Miss run wild for a few hours. OH. NO! The man who at this point is on my last nerve, has decided that we will again be doing the hamburger, hot dog, more work for me thing again this year.

Oh, but this is not the best part.....OH. NO! This I could handle. Where it is usually 11 people plus us (15-17), all family, all know I often feel like shit and tend to ignore my dust and such. (Or at least don't mention it to me.) No this year he has invited a few more people. His boss, his cousins and The Boy's friend and family. Bringing us to a total of about 30!!!!!!!!! Now the cousins, probably won't come and even if they do, they won't come in the house. And if they manage to come in the house, they know I often feel like shit and would ignore cobwebs streaming down into their face. They are men after all.

The Boy's friend and his family, they also don't bother me, he is here a LOT and knows that my house is clean and a mess all at the same time. Hell, he makes part of the mess!

So that leaves us with the boss and his family. I love them! I adore all of them. They are sweet and nice and all of that great shit.....but...... they have never been to the house. We always go to their house and their house is always clean and so damn cute! I also have avoided any talk of my health, so my feeling like shit and all is completely unknown to them! So my dust, cobwebs (that I just noticed by the way!), jumbled up mess of a disorganized house will be a shock to them.

I swear the house is clean! Well, mostly. There lays the problem. While I have felt like shit and kinda swiped at the tables and picked up the crap and such, I haven't actually moved things and cleaned under them. Or behind the sink. Or around the ceiling fan. Or the top of the desk. Or under the desk. Or in my room (hell no one ever sees that room). You know those areas that are just a pain in the ass and nobody ever sees that anyway. SO as long as the surface looks good.......

And Little Miss' room, while some what clean, it needs dusting and vacuuming and such. And clothes put up. And bed sheets changed. Oh, hell. I will just admit it......The whole house needs a good cleaning! Yes, I could close off rooms and forbid anyone from entering, but with my luck both bathrooms will be needed at the same time and to get to one you have to go through my room! So.........With the exception of The Boy's room, every room in the house could be seen. And The Boy's friend's little boy always goes to The Boy's room to find cars to play with, so there goes that theory, because that would take M's wife right in there!

So I guess I must get up off my ass and do a week's worth of cleaning in 2 days!!!!! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!!!!!! And as far as the cooking goes.......Chips to go with that grilled stuff. And guess who is suppose to grill and has now announced that he will be gone a good chunk of Saturday helping someone do something! Yeah, I foresee us eating real late! For he who made the decision to do all of this will be doing the grilling, if we are all here until midnight waiting for him to get done!

Where is the RUM? I think I am going to need it!!!!!!!!!!!! Rum, alcohol of any kind will be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!! Just send lots and lots!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Until next time..............

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!!!!!! (And wish me luck! I need it)

Happy Birthday Little Miss!!!!!

Today my baby girl is in the double digits! Holy Crap! Where does the time go? I can see the teenage years barrelling towards me like an out of control freight train and it scares the hell out of me! She already has the attitude, can it get worse? She is not a baby anymore *tears up*. *sniff, sniff* There is something about those single digit years that just make you feel like they are still your little baby. Then hits those double digits and the dread of teen years grabs a hold of your trotters (which I don't happen to have) and yanks!

She is going to spend the night with a friend instead of spending the evening with her family! Talk about all grown up! We are doing a small party for her Saturday evening but still today is her birthday! Oh, well gotta let them grow up. I just can't believe she prefers friends to family already!!!!

So her dad said if she can't stay home and see him on her birthday, she could wait for her gift. (He just isn't as mature as I am. *sticking out my tongue!*) So whats a mom to do.....I helped her make her very own Face Book page! She has been wanting one, so cool mom that I am......I got her one!!!! It is all private so I don't have to worry about any perverts finding her. And guess who was her first friend........That's right.........her very cool mom!

Note that I keep pointing out how cool I am?.............It is because she thinks I am the biggest DORK to walk the planet! And she is standing right here with me and she is absolutely MORTIFIED that I would say such! So since it is her birthday and all and she is dying to get on the computer and do all those cool things that double digit kids do. I will go for now! So until next time............

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THINKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!!!!!

And I am back

How was your weekend? Mine went OK I guess, It wasn't overly eventful.

Friday Little Miss stayed the night with Grandma. Funny, she didn't mention it. She said Granddaddy was taking her to the library and she would return my book for me and get me the 4th Twilight book if it was in (her idea not mine.). I told her it was a bit of a ways for Granddaddy to come just to carry her to the library and she said, "Oh, he don't mind." When she hadn't returned in an hour, I called Grandma. Little Miss was over there, spending the night! Thanks for the heads up! So date night was on. We ran into town and picked up Little Miss' birthday present. SSSHHHH! She thinks we haven't got it yet. Then home to the computer and reading.

I have finished "Sense and Sensibility". I went on to a Danielle Steel book and then another romance book (It was a adventure/romance book. Pretty Good.) The last book was the 3rd in a series! Guess who didn't have the other two! It stood alone, but it would have been nice to read the other two first. I have started on an unsolved mystery one, several stories in one book. I must say it is not a book to read late at night when you are up by yourself! I thought these were OLD crimes, UH, NO. Some are from the late 90s and a couple were not too far away. Kinda creepy to think these sickos are still out there and could be close. *shiver*

The 4th was......well......like any other holiday around here! MIL wanted to control all. So I stayed here and cooked the baked beans my dear BIL asked me to cook. Hubby piddled in the yard, Little Miss came home early (because she thought we were going somewhere) and *SURPRISE* The Boy was home all day. (Course he ain't going far without a license and his buddies had other plans.) The dinner that was to be between 4 and 5, was eaten at about 3:30. Thank you SIL. It was decided we would do fireworks at Red's house this year instead of ours. *YAY!! Happy Dance* Somewhere around dark we should be over there, they had another family obligation and would be home by then.

'Bout 4:30 I got a call from SIL, she was making Strawberry Daiquiris. Only she was having to substitute an ingredient. Her recipe called for Limeade and she had lemonade and lime juice. (to be quite honest, I buy the mix, but to each there own.) She needed assistance making them. Well, if alcohol was involved and I wasn't having to buy it...... my assistance was a guarantee! So she run over to get me, since hubby and BIL had run off to the beer store for refreshments for them. The daiquiris, if I do say so myself, were DELISH! With the glasses she was using we got 4 drinks out of each blender we made up. We made up 3 blenders before Red got home (They got home early, seems his family is not as entertaining as ours. heh!). Then we moved the party to Red's. One of the few times I can say.......Thank God we all live on the same road! When we moved the party, we came by and got our dear boy, who apparently had no sober friends to come get him. So we decided, his unsober parents would enjoy his company, with the agreement that he could drink with us, but he couldn't fight. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! Gotta love a tipsy mom! The rest of the night was a few fireworks (AWE! Disappointment, not enough bang for the buck!) and several more blenders of Daiquiris. We got home a little after 12 and Little Miss was gracious enough to go to sleep by a little after 1am, so her rather....uh...tipsy mother could crawl into the shower and bed.

There has been much talk of whether mother was drunk. The Boy said I was. Hubby said I had to be because I quit drinking. Little Miss said I must have been, I was nice. *Ain't she sweet?* I say NO! I quit drinking because they quit making the daiquiris. They kept talking about making more, but nobody's drunk ass would go in the house and do it. Red and SIL made about, I think, 8 more blenders ( or more, the crew says about 12 more, I doubt that many!). (Red makes hers with more Rum! If the recipe called for 6oz.....SIL put in 6 oz. Red on the other hand, would say that looks like 6oz and then add a bit more for good measure. And she was adding something else to the mix but I haven't a clue what it was. It had an alcohol content on the side, but I didn't notice how much. It did add to the taste though.) The Boy accused me of wanting to be like Captain Jack Sparrow, we have been watching the Pirate movies. I still say I was walking pretty much straight and remember everything that was said, so I was a bit tipsy, but nowhere near drunk!

Sunday showed up without a hangover, which I was grateful for. Me and Rum usually don't agree very well. I like it, but it isn't very nice the next day. I pretty much sat around and did as little as possible. Everyone seemed to do as little as possible. It has to be the heat.

Then Monday was Monday. Cleaning and washing. Since The Boy's buddy spent the night on our recliner, I didn't post. I didn't feel so well all day, wonder if you can get a delayed hangover? Anyway.......now you know how my weekend went. I was grateful we had no injuries. I seem to get a horrible burn every year, but not this year. Well, I should go. I have Facebook shit to do and plurking and then of course....more washing. Damn, I hate my dryer! Until next time....................

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!!!!!