ok so here we are at IHOP last night..the beginning started out just as the rest of my week. We was seated then a couple was seated and then a family of 6 was seated. Well, I look up and happen to notice a waitress was at the party of six (which is 4 kids, all probably under the age of 6, and 2 adults) taking their order, so I was staying calm and nice, thinking ok she just didn't notice us due to our seating, she'll turn around to leave their table and come to ours. NOPE! She proceeds to the other table seated after us, the couple, which I then realize they already have their drinks. SO at this time I'm getting frustrated, my day had been crap..btw NEVER, NEVER go to Meineke. SO the host comes to seat more people, and I get his attention asking where our waitress is and why is it people seated after us have already been waited on and have their drinks. SO FINALLY, we have a waitress. She takes our order, don't worry I was polite! Our food finally comes...we all ordered some sort of breakfast with the exception of the youngest. Thank goodness he only had chicken and apples. My oldest was trying to be a greedy and was offering trades of food, bc he just wanted everyone elses food. Well, to a five year old he doesn't hear trade he hears, oh you're going to share your food with me..lol So when he didn't agree to the terms of the trade, the oldest proceeds to eat ALL is own food..the nerve of him..lol Well, the five year old noticed, and begins to get upset bc he wanted his toast..mind you he had already been not feeling well. SO when what he wanted was getting eaten, he began to cry! food in mouth and all....so guess what happened...he began to choke..I'm trying to calm him down, then you hear that LOUD underlying deep inside burp that comes right before it all comes up....So, yes, we're are in the middle of a restaurant, that already is looking at us bc he's throwing a tantrum for his brothers piece of toast, and here it all comes...I grab the basket his food came in, hold it to his mouth, he throws up his chicken, clean his face and we all proceed to finish our meals. Is that a STRONG stomach or what..lol
Well that was the ending to my crazy day yesterday! Also, my stomach isn't that strong in all situations, there are some that'll take me out and have me puking right along with ya!
Hope everyone's week/days went better than mine!!
Have a great weekend!

what do you think it is that causes the world to open up and say "you, I am spitting on you today!" ? I seriously feel like that is what happened to me this week..... each day I wake up thinking this day has to be a better day, and somehow it seems to top the day before! It gets worse and worse... nothing goes as planned, stupid people seem to be taking over the world, and dealing with ignorance beyond my imagination! I seriously can not make it through another week like this!


God's hands...is all I can say and think!

ughh!

I need a vacation, but they don't stay out of trouble long enough for me to even finalize plans!!
Should I just go, because hey, maybe we all just need to get away...or should I suffer the punishment of making them behave long enough to get the privilege?????

I don't care what anyone says, putting the kids on punishment, aka grounding, is more of punishing me than them!! Why does it work that way??

Living in the south and on the coast we definitely have our share of scares with hurricanes...but here's something most people don't think about....
Did you know..
New York City is actually ranked in the top 3 cities for most vulnerable to hurricanes. Of course New Orleans and Miami taking the top 2. Well, a long time ago, before our grandparents times... New York could maybe average a hurricane about every 7 years. The last big hurricane to hit New York, was in 1938, a category 3. This storm hit Long Island and ran straight north to Rhode Island and all the way into Canada. It's known as the worst recorded hurricane in New England. The storm was so devastating even for back then, people was drowning in the streets, damage beyond any one's imagination.

Could you imagine if one was to hit these day?!!?
All the streets as rivers as the tall buildings seeming like dams harboring the storm surge, all the glass busting out of the sky scrapers, and heaven forbid anyone was in the subways..........

this is for sure a scary thought...seeing how a hurricane hasn't hit since 1938, do you think they'd be prepared?

To see more in depth stories and simulated pics and what the possibility of this happening is..
tune into It Could Happen Tomorrow..on the weather channel!

Just don't understand.........

I really don't understand some people...actually most people for that matter...

Why do people really want to teach their kids to be vindictive or even to hold a grudge...especially at the ripe young age of 6?????
Ok to elaborate on this story....There's this little girl that lives in my court and she rides the bus with my kids and is in my youngest sons class. Well the other day, as they ran home from the bus stop my middle son some how tripped her as they ran. So she fell, and was understandably upset that her knees got dirty from the fall. (this girl plays as rough as the boys on any given day and usually out runs them in any race.) So of course an apology was in order, made and all was done, everyone seemed to have moved past the whole incident.
The following morning at the bus stop, which I always walk my kids in the mornings....this little girl, comes to the bus stop in tears. I had and still have no clue of why she came to the bus stop completely in tears.
Well she comes straight up to me, so I ask her if she was ok, she says no and begins to bury her face in my jacket while crying at the bus stop. I stood there consoling her, asking if she had just gotten in trouble while getting ready for school, if she wanted to talk about what was wrong ...all her answers was no. So after a few minutes, her mother begins to drive out the court on her way to work. Her mom stops and asks why she is crying, and she yells in this loud burst that she was tired. Then her mom looks at me, then each of my boys, and says "her pride is hurt from the fall yesterday"; completely out of no where. Then this little girl, turns her back to me and the boys. Her mom then leaves and I look at the girl, and say are you really still mad about that...she says yes. The bus comes and I give my boys hugs, and she turns to me, then gives me a hug before she gets on the bus....My son said once they got to school she was talking to him as if nothing happened.
So can anyone explain to me, that while I'm the one consoling this womans child, for what ever reason, as this woman rushes off to work, is she trying to cause a rift..when their obviously is none, where me and my family was concerned????
Also, this girl is usually at my home within 15 minutes of getting off the bus everyday, wanting to play with the boys, and has not shown up at the house nor the bus stop since this day???

What is this about?
Should I had just sat there and watched this 6 year old child cry until the bus came?
Maybe they're embarrassed at what they think the girl may have revealed to me? (I did notice that while she was on her way out of her house that her grandmother seemed to be having some intense words at her....) but I never mentioned this, if she wanted to talk about it, she could have, but that wasn't my business....right?

I don't know I just don't understand...............

Chaos!

I always thought the older my kids got, the easier things would get. Boy was I wrong!!! I can't seem to take them anywhere any more. If you know me, we go and go and go...so it's not like they're stuck in the house 24/7 and only get let out for special occasions. Is there ever a time that things get easier???

On a lighter note..It's Snowing!!!

I love to see it coming down, but lately can't wait for its' quick retreats either..lol
Hopefully we get a nice snow day tomorrow to relax; whatever that may be..lol, referring to my 1st paragraph....