No Kids

With four kids, and our busy schedules, it's a rarity for my husband and I to go anywhere alone. After two weeks of planning in advance, Scott and I took the afternoon off from work and we went to the Ranger Game without KIDS!!!! We really enjoyed it. It was a nice, little, short escape. Plus, the Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals, 2-1.

Disaster

Some of you may remember, a few months ago Scott's younger brother, Jay and his family lost their home to a fire. They lost all their tangible items. They essentially, had to start over with replenishing everything. With the generosity of family, friends, the Red Cross, and total strangers, they began their journey to try to get their life back in order and some sort of normalcy.

Their home was uninsured. In the interim, Jay, his wife, teenage daughter, two tween boys and his adopted child turned their camping trailer into their new home.

Disaster struck again, last Thursdays with the Spring storms. It has yet to be confirmed, but either a tornado or straight line winds hit their temporary home again. His wife was sent to the hospital and is still there. She is scheduled to have surgery Friday. I can't fathom what they are going through, nor the since of loss they all must be enduring.

Report Card

Unfortunately, I wish my kids where perfect all the time, but I have to remember they are just kids. I'm blogging about this so when my kids are older, they can reflect on all these memories, good and bad.

Last Friday, report cards were sent home. It was time for Ricky to go visit his Dad for the weekend, so I called Ricky to ask about his grades, even though I already knew what they were. I check my kids grades online often. Well, Ricky told me it wasn't sent home. I just left it at that.

Then, Monday, I get an email from his teacher stating Ricky turned in his report card supposedly signed by his Dad in pencil. She also said the signature didn't match one he signed before. I called his Dad to investigate. It turns out, Ricky forged his signature to cover up for his one failing grade of 69 in reading.

Ricky knows my pet peeve is lying. I am as honest with my kids as possible with everything. Ricky knew he was in big trouble when he got home. He's grounded at my house and I told his teacher I supported her 100% with what ever punishment she deemed necessary. Now, he doesn't get to participate with his friends on field day. I hope this is a lesson to him.

NOTE: On this same day, he found out he passed the math TAKS test.

Last name

Being a two year old, Allan hasn't quite figured out the blended family dynamics. When his sister or brother ignore him he calls them out by their full name. He says, "KICKY LYN!! and LENA DOW!!!" Bran is just Bran. It's so cute!

Surprise

I have been wanting a ring for my bare right hand for quite some time. If you know my husband, you know he's a simple guy, and extremely thoughtful. He just figured out about a year ago, though, after being together for over eight years, how much I LOVE jewelry. What girl doesn't??

We were eating dinner tonight at the dinner table and Elena asked, "Mom what's in that bag?" There was a bag on the bar. I said, "I don't know. Why don't you look?" I thought it was a gift bag in which Ricky had recently received from my parents with his January birthday gift in it. (Ricky finally made it to my parents house to get it.) But then, I noticed, the gift bag was different. I went to go investigate. I opened the box which I figured had my necklace that I thought I lost at Ricky's baseball game. (Remember?) I opened the box expecting to find my necklace with a new thicker chain. The necklace was in there as I expected along with this RING!!!!! I said, "OMG!!!!" Scott just smiled and said, "Happy Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and whatever else is coming up." Really, it's my early Mother's Day gift. Thank you so much, Scottie too Hottie!!! I love it and you very much!!!

My Sister

I'm so lucky to have older siblings! I get to go places and do things they didn't get to do when they were my age. For instance, my Mommy took my sister and two of her friends to Six Flags, Friday after school. Her friends adore me and think I'm so cute. (Good looks run in my family.) I loved getting to ride some of the rides with my sister and her friends and all the attention. It was AWESOME and so much fun!!!!! I can't wait to go again.

My Daddy

Saturday night, I got to go to the Sanger (Ranger) beball (baseball) game with Mommy and Daddy. It was so FUN!!! I got to sit on my Daddy's lap and eat his Mexi Nachos, eventhough my Mommy bought me a hot dog and chips. I ate her fren fies (french fies) too. Then, my Daddy bought me cotton canny (candy). My Daddy even insisted he buy me a shirt. Mommy didn't want him to, Daddy said I couldn't leave without a souvenir. We didn't stay for the fireworks show because I was ready to go bye-bye.