Bless You Boys!

It didn't have the fairytale ending that we would have liked, but we had a great time cheering our team. We ALMOST got a family photo! Julie was at work.

1st Down and 60...

minutes to Miami!

WOOOO-HOOOO! What a Saintsational weekend this is going to be! We've getting together with the family AGAIN for a party. Lots of football pools entered. The names Brees, Bush, Karney, McAllister, and Colton will adorn our backs all weekend. We bought jerseys for the entire family! Anybody retires or is traded and the name and number get sewn over! laugh.gif Kevin wore his to school today...Black and Gold Day! It's so electrifying! We've never had this much excitement over our football team before. GO SAINTS!!!!!

Homework with Kevin

He can drive me insane. Seriously! He complains from the time he gets into the car after school until his homework is done...and that can be HOURS. Not that he has hours of homework. He doesn't. It's only first grade and he never has more than a couple of things to write (math sheet, spelling sentences) and maybe something to read or study. But his fussing and stalling and whining make it take ten times as long as necessary. Ugh.

Too Much Spongebob?

Kevin says he's hungry.
Tommy asks what he wants for lunch.
He replies, dead serious, "A peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich."
Tee-hee-hee!

He realizes what he said only after we crack up laughing!

Yep...too much Spongebob.

Anticlimatic Christmas

When the youngest woke us up at 7:00 AM this morning, we woke the rest of the kids too. Everyone went into the family room to see what Santa left and we exchanged presents. Meanwhile, Kevin had been digging into his stocking (Hershey's miniatures, sweet tarts, peanut M&Ms, etc.) and into the bowl on the table filled with Hershey's kisses. Soon he's complaining of a stomache ache and leaning over the toilet. I convinced him to go lay down and he slept for three hours but when he woke up and he still felt like he had to throw up. So here we are at home. On Christmas Day. Everyone is at my mom and dad's and here I am with Kevin and his Spongebob DVD. Hee-hee. I am so glad the cartoon is taking his mind off of everything he's missing.

Laura sat with Kevin while we brought the turkey over and I brought a plate of food back home with me. After they finish dinner, Tommy is going to trade places andI can go visit for a while. Then we'll trade places again this evening so he can go visit his mom.

The weather is fitting...overcast and dreary, looks like rain.

Deja-Vu

I am making reservations for evacuating! (Same day last year we were booking our rooms in Jackson, MS.!!!) I tried to ignore things at first, but my sister AND my mom called this morning saying that they are booking rooms and our favorite places are already sold out! :shock: Where do I want to vacation now? Destin? the mountains? Sea World in San Antonio? LOL! Might as well make it fun this time!

Well, we ended up booking 8 rooms (big extended family) in Memphis for Wednesday 4 nights. I'm hoping that we really don't need to go. But better to have those reservations and not use them than to be a wandering bunch of gypsies, unable to find a room at the inn! LOL! Been there...done that!

Textbook Costs

This just burns me up! Julie is going to college part time with only THREE courses this semester. She came home with her books today. She was able to get one of them used, but the others she had to buy new. (You know...the updated edition where the only update is the change in the copyright year on the second page. Grrrr!)

$600---Six hundred dollars! That is just ridiculous! And of course when she goes to sell them back she will get hardly anything for them...that is if she gets anything. They are good at changing books every year.

What gives? They are taking students (and their parents) to the cleaners.