FRIDAY!!

My mom, sister and niece get here today. I am so excited.

It's raining. I hope it stops early this morning. Cassie's first softball game is tonight. She not real excited about playing this year. Her team consists of girls taht are just there for the social aspect. There are only 3 girls on her team that want to PLAY softball. I told her not to let them bring her down. There are plenty of oppertunities to play with the team up one level, she just needs to make it known that she is willing to play for them if they need her. The coach of that team is out neighbor and her daughter and Cassie have been friends forever. Hopefully they will pull her up a few times this year and she can play for a team that wants to win.

Today is the last full day of school for the kids. Mason is super excited. What he doesn't realize is that now the chore list starts and MUST be done if he wants to play once I get home.

Well, as you can tell, I didn't get pics posted the other day, not enough time and the computer is tooooooooo slow. I will get some up here, it's just gonna take me a WHOLE day to get them uploaded.

Well, I gotta get Cassie's uniform out of the dryer and get myself ready for wrok. Have a great weekend, I won't have time to pop in.....

Hump Day!

Well, it's finally Wednesday. Actually the week has gone by pretty fast. I guess it's because I'm excited about this weekend. I can't wait to see my sister and see how good she looks after losing weight. I'm so proud of her.

We had our ladies meeting at church last night. It's always a nice time when we all get together. I was lucky though. Last night was the night they nominated new officers. I wasn't nominated for anything. YEAH! I just don't have the time. I am already Trustee Secretary and Assistant Church Clerk as well as being on the Board of Christian Education. That's plenty for right now.

I need to get movie night going again. I was hoping to have one at the end of May but I haven't started planning it yet so I guess we will wait until June to have the first movie night this year.

Well, I am going to see if I can get some pictures up here. I'm not promising anything but we will see how it goes.

Tuesday Tidbits

Well, here it is Tuesday morning and I am dragging my feet. I know I haven't posted since Thursday but I have been a little busy and our computer is acting up.

Saturday I finally took my mother-in-law to look for a dog. She was hesitant about going but she went "just to look". She found one she fell in love with but there was already a hold on it for someone else. She is now thinking about taking a dog from her friends daughter. She raises and shows Jolianda Shibas. They kind of look like a small Akita. This woman is having to get rid of 2 of her dogs because her husband has cancer and they are getting out of showing dogs. She wants the dogs to go to good homes and thinks one of her dogs would be perfect for Helen. She is going to go look at them sometime this week. She has decided she is definetly getting a dog.

The kids are in the home stretch now, they only have this week left and then they go back on the 28th for 20 minutes to get report cards. They are looking forward to summer. Except now Cassie still has to get up early 3x a week for volleyball. We'll see how that goes.

I'm so excited! Mom and Laurie will be here in 3 days. We have such a busy weekend planned while they are here. With Grandma B celebrating her 80th birthday and Cassie having her birthday and graduation from 8th grade and memorial day, we are going to be celebrating all weekend.

Well, I need to get going and drag the kids out of bed. Cassie sure is going to hate it when she has to get up and Mason can sleep in. He is usually an early riser though so he may still be up before her. Have a great day and I will be popping in again soon (hopefully)

Thursday thoughts

Well, here it is Thursday morning and I've been doing some thinking. Summer is almost here, the kids only have a few days left of school, and we will be off and running with summer activities.

We got Cassie's softball schedule last night. She plays on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons. That should be easy enough to handle. He first game is the night mom comes back from AZ. That will be really cool because mom is never home to see Cassie play ball. Cassie says the team sucks because most of the girls are only there for the social interaction instead of for softball. I hope she doesn't let it bring her down.

I just want to say hi to all of you that stop in and read occassionally, I hope you find something interesting in my blogs to keep you coming back. Sometimes I feel like I might be boring some of you with all the talk about the kids but other than work, I don't really have much else that I do.

Well, it's getting time to get to work so I better sign off. Don't forget to leave a comment if you like. Have a great Thursday.

Monday's madness

I just cannot get through a Monday without wanting to strangle someone. I really don't know if it's me or the people I want to strangle.

They day was crazy at work, lots to do, lots of clients and never enough time.

Mason had his guitar lesson last night, he came home and played his four songs for me. I still cannot locate the lesson book Andy wants me to get for him. I am going to have to have it ordered.

Cassie informed me last night as I was driving home that she NEEDS a tie for tonights chorus concert. All the 8th grade girls are going to wear ties. I told her to wear one of Mason's. It's not cute enough. DUH!! I asked her what shirt she is going to wear because she doesn't own a button down. They are not wearing the kind of shirts you wear with a tie. UGHH!! And the chorus teacher doesn't care.

I will take lots of pictures tonight and see if I can get them posted on here. Wish me luck.

Mother's Day

We ended up having a pretty good mother's day. Helen, the kids and I went to church and then went back to Helen's for a cook-in. It was too cold to stay outside so the guys cooked out and brought the food in.

I got a new set of pots & pans. Boring I know but it is just what I needed. I had one pot and one skillet. I also got a pot of flowers that the kids did in church. Raelynn got me this little book "What Mom's say and What they REALLY Mean" It's an adorable little book and she personalized it with pics of all 3 of them growing up. It even has her baby picture in it and I'm not too sure but what that is the only one she had. I may be mistaken but I know she just got some pics from her grandma in CO and it had a baby picture in it. I laughed and cried all at the same time. I am carrying it around in my purse if anyone wants to take a look at it.

It's one of those things that will be cherished for many, many years. Cassie helped get the pictures together.

After lunch at Helen's we just went home and lounged around the house until time for bed. It was a nice day.

Happy Mother's Day!

Well, here it is, Sunday morning and I should be getting ready for church but I find myself on this dumb computer.

I went out to my Grandma's yesterday and met my cousin Jessi out there. She brought a big plastic tote full of pictures with her that her mom had kept over the years. So, Jessi, Grandma, Aunt Vicki, Aunt Lisa, Amanda and I sat around and dug through these pictures. Oh how styles have changed! I thought Amanda was going to fall off her chair at one point when she saw me with my 'fro. (it was huge)

There were pictures of family gatherings at Christmas and Thanksgiving. There was even one of the WHOLE family at Thanksgiving in Illinois City. What a group we were. Adam was the youngest in the picture and he's in his 20's now with 2 kids of his own.

Hopefully we can get another family photo at Grandma's birthday party. It will still be missing quite a few with Laurie only being able to bring one other family memeber with her and Windi being overseas. I think everyone esle is going to be there though. Better get the wide angle lense ready to take this picture.

We had a nice visit and then I went to Dad and JoAnne's house to see her for Mother's Day. (I was a day early but they have plans for today anyways. They were getting ready to go dancing. I sure hope it wasn't as crowded for them this time and that they had a good time.

I came home and attempted to build a fire in our little fireplace outside. I failed miserably. Joe had to get it going for me so I could have hot dogs for supper.

Mason went with Grandma Helen to town in the morning & never made it back home. I called them about 7 and they didn't know what they were going to do. I went to bed at 9 and decided he must be spending the night. I will have to take him his clothes for church. Which means I need to get off of this thing, get ready, get the girls up and get moving so we won't be late. I made apple cinnamon muffins for Sunday school today. Yeah me!

Dog Update

The dogs have been found! We got a call from the vet in Alpha, they have the dogs. I didn't think about calling them when the dogs went missing. It just so happened that the guy from Henry County Animal Control was there picking up papers and the girl told him they had two dogs and to take a look. He went back looked at them and said "Call Sherri Herring".

I have to go pick them up tonight. Joe wants me to get rid of the pup but I can't. I tried last time they took off. None of the pounds will take her because they are full up. I don't know what to do. Mason will be excited that they are back. I am going to have to figure out something. The pup is tooooo cute to give up. Maybe I can talk Todd & Erin into taking her. hahahahahahahaahahaha!!!

friday follies

Last night we went to Subway and got supper to bring home. When we pulled up, the Principal of the kids school was also pulling up. We exchanged pleasantries and proceeded to go in. He spoke to the girl behind the counter and left, we decided what we were having for dinner.

As we are standing there making our decisions, the principal walks back in, comes over and puts his hand on my shoulder and whispers to me "I have been hearing great comments about him and how he has turned things around this semester and stepped it up, just wanted to let you know" and left.

Mason looked at me and asked "am I in trouble?" "No" I replied, and I told him what Mr. Bizarri had said and that I was proud of him.

Cassie then informed me that Mason has to ask that because I have the same facial expressions for when I am proud of him or I'm mad at him. I say it's my poker face to keep them guessing. Joe says I'm just a grump.

Cassie survived her first softball practice. She gets a little upset because the coach "yells" at her for things and someone else does the same (or worse) thing and they don't get "yelled" at. I told her its because she's one of the oldest on the team and becasue she knows better and they are preparing her for high school softball as well. She accepts this but it still bugs her.

She has some really big shoes to fill coming into softball behind Raelynn but I told her that if they try to compare her to Raelynn, to simply tell them "I am not Raelynn and I will never be Raelynn" and move on. I told her as long as she does her best and shows good sportsmanship and leads them team by example that is all that matters. She's good if you push her and the coaches know that if they back off of her she will slack off. When she gets mad she plays harder. Until you get her really mad in which case she will not do anything.

Time to get back to work. Have a great day and I'll try to pop in this weekend. Have a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all you moms.

Thursday update

My mother-in-laws angiogram went fine yesterday. They found nothing wrong. What a relief. Pasto Andy called and apologized that he was not able to go see her before her procedure. He was admitted to the hospital that morning. I told him we understand and not to worry, we would be praying for him. I just had to laugh that he felt bad for being in the hospiatl and could not make it to see Helen. He's a great guy!

As I was getting ready for work this morning and getting Mason up to go to Success, my cell phone rang. It was my loving hubby. Nothing unusual for him to call in the morning but this time I LOVED it. He called to tell me that he had locked his keys in the work van! Finally!! I am known for locking my keys in the vehicle. Now he cannot ask me "How can you lock you keys in the car?"

Anyways, after wanting to gloat and not doing it, I dropped Mason off at school, took Joe his spare key to Monmouth and then headed to work. I wasn't even late. Yeah me!!

Cassie starts softball practice tonight. In about 3 weeks she will begin weight training for volleyball and then its off to DC for a week. Summer will be in full swing by then.

I will check in again at lunch cuz I don't think I will be going anywhere today.

And now it's gone

Well, Mason discovered that VH1Classic was a fleeting thing. It was apparently a free weekend. He is so bummed. He wants to pay the difference monthly just to get it. Silly kid.

Well, I did it again. I have lost 2 of the dogs. The same two that went MIA in January. I let them out of the kennel and came inside to do a few things and they took off. I cannot understand for the life of me why they feel the need to get out of the fence. Coco always stays behind. I am putting fliers up today and calling all of the animal control centers in the surrounding counties.

Yesterday was just a crappy day all the way around. Joe had a rotten day at work, then he came home to play with his dog and she wasn't here.

Anyways I need to get my son up and get ready for work. YIPEEEEE! Have a good day.

Blast from the Past

Ok, last night Mason was flipping throught the satellite channels. We are pretty familiar with the channels we get. Every once in awhile they change the programming and we get channels we didn't get before.

Now for those of you that don't know, Mason is really into the bands from the 70's &80's. He likes Kansas, Poison, Steve Miller Band, AC/DC, and several others. Anyways, he went to VH1Classic last night because there was a Led Zepplin concert on. It came in! He was so excited. (I was excited that we got the channel)

He was searching through the guide and saw that Totally 80's videos came on at 5 am. He asked me to get him up so he could watch them. OH MY GOODNESS!! I laughed so hard at some of the "cool" videos from my day.

I had forgotten all about DeBarge and New Edition. We have seen Genesis, Heuy Lewis & the News is on right now. We saw Elton John in a powdered wig and Bon Jovi when they all had LONG hair. It has been so much fun watching these with my son.

Do you remember "You can call me Al" by Paul Simon and the video featuring Chevy Chase? What fun! It's amazing how ridiculous everyone looked back then. And we thought it was cool. I am so glad Mason found it. Tears for Fears, LoL

Mason also found the Boomerang channel. It is all the old cartoons. You remember don't you. Foghorn Leghorn, Roadrunner and Wylie E. Coyote, Speedracer and all those good cartoons. I feel like I'm back in my childhood.

You should check those channels out if you get a chance, oh the memories!!

It ain't happening today

Ok, I have just spent my ENTIRE lunch hour trying to figure out how to get pictures on my blog. I wanted to do a slideshow and couldn't get that to work either. I'm throwing my hands up! Laurie, you are going to have detailed instructions when you get here. Until then, no pictures slideshow. I think I can post a pic or two to this blog so here it goes...........





Well these should be of Cassie holding Colton and Mason holding Colton. I will try to blog more later, it's back to work time

One step closer

Well, we are one step closer to thinning out our "fleet" of vehicles. We got the jeep and truck down to the auction house last night. Now as long as they sell I will be happy. I have been trying to get hubby to get rid of these vehicles for over a year. He is having seperation anxiety.

Well, my MIL thought she was going to stay at her house last night and then she took her blood pressure and changed her mind. It was low for her so she freaked out and got scared. It wasn't LOW it was just low for her. Her heart doctor has her doubled up on her blood pressure meds because it has been VERY high the last 2x she was there and it needs to come down before she has her angiogram (sp) on Wednesday. Now she fears it is too low nad wanted to stop doubling up. I convinced her to call the doctor before she did that. They told her to keep doing what she was doing and that it was not low. I think she will be staying with us until Irene comes home on Tuesday.

The other day, Cas called me from school. She got a packet for fundraising for cheerleading. Mind you, she didn't make cheerleading. We called the coach and she didn't have her stuff with her and would have to check when she got home. Cas asked her friend who is good friends with the coach and the captian. The captain informed her that yes, she did in fact make the squad. Cas was ecstatic. THEN we get the call from the coach. Cas is an alternate, if someone gets kicked off the squad, Cas is on the squad. She was not supposed to get the packet. The captian had the "wrong" list. How can there be more than one list? Needless to say, Cas plummeted down again. Talk about pouring salt into a wound. I was so mad.

Cas is ok with it all now. She says unless they put her on the squad before summer is over, she won't be on the squad because she is going to commit to volleyball. The coach told her to try out again next year and if she has a full squad, she will move Cas up. (to varsity I guess)

Lunch time is over, check in with y'all later.