Just watched a movie.....

I have never ever ever liked Bond movies...NEVER! Michael knows this but we watched Casino Royal together. By the name I really did not get that it was BOND....So then it starts and I was like NOOOOOOOO! "I am going to bed to read." BUT he pursuaded me to stay and said Sunday or Monday night he will watch The Holiday with me. I am gonna hold him to it.........I am sure he will "doze" off. He did not at all "doze" off with this one. No he rewound 2x's to rehear and rethink hat the outcome may be...I think it is a guy thing! It is 11:20pm and now he is putting together a media stand for the new family room that is so close to being done, the family room that is. When I came home w/ the movie he stopped. We did watch a little of the Kids Choice Awards with the boys but they went to my room while we watched BOND! I must say he was a good Bond despite he looked nothing like Bonds of the past. Oh my with his buff body. I did not think his face was all that but my was he fit and buff. If you are a Bond fan I would highly recomend it. It had a good story line and one that had a purpose, unlike some of them that I could never take a liking to. Now off to sleppy land I go, I may take a look at how he is making out with the project. Have a wonderful night....and don't forget tommorow is Palm Sunday!

I Love Flowers........

I wish I could have a green thumb. I found this picture and wish I could do this to our oh so very wet backyard. My favorite flower is the Tulip (just in case you have the urge to send me flowers) lol ........I love any color tulip but liliac or purple are my choice ones. For 5 years now I have had a vase on the breakfast bar with silk ones and every time people come over they say how real they look. I dust them often to make them "last" lol ..........I think it would be a treat to have real tulips on the counter every week. Just about 2 dozen is all I ask. There may come a day when money is not an object and that indulgence may come to pass. Until then I have the pretty silk ones that can pass for real for a while.............

What is a BLOG?

I had a friend ask me that when I was talking about Blogging. I hope she takes a look at ALL the blogs out there. I told her it is like theropy without the theropist bill....LOL LOL Why we all come here at some point to vent about things...talk about things, and even share our inner most toughts. I really think it is a little bit of theropy with a smidge of laughter and friendship all balled into one........So keep on Bloggin' and vent all you want........

Fudge Frenzie Update.........

Back from the fair......with 3 packs left. well maybe 7, I gave 4 away to my neighbor who ran the fair. She did not charge me for half of her table so that was the least I could do, barter....lol The foot traffic was scarce but of course the other crafters bought their share as well as some kids with their parents. A women came back because her mother who was in the car wanted fudge and she got a good amount. I put my e-mail on cards if they had orders for a pound or more. Lets see how that goes. Then this nice crafter says "put out some samples and you may get more takers"...Now why did't I think of that ...DUR! Really I am so good with those kinds of things and it totally slipped my head. Wouldn't you know after a try people did not pass it up. Good Thinkin lady, thanks...........I may a pact that I was not going to spend money and I did a good job not. I spent $3.00 on soup to take home and $3.00 on soup for me to eat for lunch, it was good and I know I can make it just as good maybe better,,,,lol.........But hey the work was done for me, I liked that.............I got some cute packing ideas from a lady who sold covered strawberries. I need to go to Michaels Crafts and get these boxes to make it look that much more appealing. It was nice to get ideas from others and I hope to do this in the future. Even the President of PTO was like that would be a wonderful fundraiser. Once again the cards are out there lets keep our fingers crossed and see if the orders stream in. My right arm needs a rest for a while but I ma making a batch tonight for a party tom. so here we go again.....Off to the Fudge Factory.....................I can smell it now........

Fudge Frenzie......

My frige is now a fudge frenzie. I am selling fudge at the craft fair that my neighbor who makes the oils/soaps is running. I am told that I make really yummy fudge and hope that it takes off that I can take orders from e-mail to locals that they can come and get it or I can bring it to them. I think to fill an order I will have to require they buy at least a full batch. It is easier to price that way. When we came in from hockey this afternoon it still smells like a fudge factory from last nights fudge making. I still have lots to do from now until Saturday. I will give you the update on how it goes. Yum Yum ............

BEAR HUGGIN' & LOVIN'

As you can see I love Bear Huggin' and Lovin'............Here is a mini bear that is only found at the Fanuel Hall Boston Location......I designed this shrit for the saying I am known for....Is she the cutest or what...Her name is Lilac Lily!

Thanks for the prayers

I just got word from Diana that her sister passed last night in her sleep. I told her of the prayer plea and she was very greatful. Thanks so much for the prayers. I tried to comfort her with the fact of after 7 years of immobility she can now soar like an angel and move like she did back beofre the cancer hit her spine. That was a bit comforting to her. She is creamateing her and then will not bury her until she passes. She said "we made a packt, come in the world together and leave together, or be together always". See that twin bond especially identical is so tight. D stated she does not know what she will do with all her time when only taking care of her mother is her only task now. I told her I will teach her how to make the fudge she loves to eat when I make it. You give a piece of fudge you eat for a day you teach to make a dish of fudge you eat for a lifetime. I got her to smile and laugh a little. She said I was always one to do that. Once again thanks for the prayers, Linda is now at peace.......

A friend with a load on her back....

It has been two years since I worked at the school as a SPED Dept Aide as well as drive the big yellow school bus. Today was a day I thanked the Heavens that I was no longer a bus driver or an Aide. The snow was bad at pick up and I knew it would not be fun. I went to the gym to p/u Ryan and two friends that live near by. The crowd was a mass mayem of middle school kids that never saw snow in their lives,you would of thought. I look at the Aide who is holding the sign out clip board whom I worked with back then and she said "it must be nice waltching me knowing this could be you". I gave her a big smile and tought I LOVE THOSE BEARS>>>LOL .......We made it home slowly but surely and safely might I add. I dropped an e-mail to an old friend of mine from the bus company that I left 2 years ago. We keep intoch through e-mail at least 2x;s a week if not more. Funny thing she lives like 3 miles from me at the other side of town and we have such differnt lives we just can't get together. Since I have known her she has taken care of her twin sister and mother. She is a tropper. Her sister had a rear form of spinal cancer that caused her paralasis and Diana has been her caregiver for 7 years now. She lifts her and bathes her and does all the argous tasks that a nurse would do if she were in a nursing center. D can not be away from her home for more than two hours at a time. She always had the 1 trip route to get home fast. I would start her bus and make sure she could come as late as possible hop in and go. We spent many hours waiting and chatin at the schools if we did local field trips. She and I would get the really close ones, her b/c of needing to be home fast and me b/c I would have the boys with me and did not want them to be bus rats. I sent her a note telling her I hope her ride was fine in the snow and that she was safe. She knew I would loathe days like today when we drove together. I got an e-mail that she has not driven for 2 weeks b/c her sister took a turn for the worst. I know that she by no means feels that she is a hero to take care if Linda though she should. She is so sad that she can't be at the hospital b/c of the snow and the fact that her mother needs her too. It is so sad that she does EVERYTHING for her sister and still feels that she doesn;t do enough. She has needed back adjustments weekly b/c of the weight on her back from all the lifting ect. ...She refuses to have Linda in a home and feels it is her duty as her other half to do this for her twin. I think it is so awesome that she is such a good person to take that on. Her life came to a halt seven years ago to do this, that is why she took a bus driver job. I have to give her credit, that is a big deal. Her sister has not been out of the house in all those years except to drive to the hospital this past week. She uses a voice activated thing that types for her when she is on line and doing her work. She still works as an invester of some sort. It saddens me b/c I was trying to send a happy e-mail and you could just tell D was so down in the dumps. She feels that she did something wrong to make her have to go to the hospital. I tried to tell her that she is not a nursing home and she gives wonderful care despite the fact that she isn;t even a nurse. I wanted to put this out there to say an extra prayer for these two sisters and the mom. There should be an award for this women for giving of herself and putting her life on hold to take care day and night of her twin. I guess unless you are a twin you don;t know how strong that bond from womb to earth is. I think it more than your average sibling bond. You are basicly the same egg divinded in two and most likly so in tune with your "other half" it is like you just someone else. I know you get what I mean. So D my prayers, our prayers to all of you.........She got me through many a snowy/rainy days with "just use good judgement and keep it slow" /////Thanks Diana! God Bless!

I tought SPRING was coming.....

As you may have heard "the biggest storm of the year".....Ok Pete Buchard easy now......lol
I am glad it has been warm that maybe the snow will melt fast and GO AWAY! I dread the afternoon p/u at school. So glad there is nothing planned for the boys today. My plan after work and p/u is to hibearnate just like a bear in the winter. Big plans for Saturday....SLEEP IN! I hope & pray all are safe on the road and that the snow does not cause any needless problems. To those of you who like to see the white stuff...Yippie to you but for me it is bah bah yuck go away...Try to have a good day...Stay safe and warm......

Not worth my time....

As you know today is the day I work really early at BABW...The stuff comes in on TRUCK and we unload before the sun comes up. I am up at 520 everyday but Thursdays I am out at 520 so I try to hit the hay around 930 on Wed. Well I did not even bother staying up past 900. I swear AI is not worth watching, to me at least any more. I saw the show the night before....What a let down. The queen Diana Ross a wonderful singer that had her songs raked through the mud...YUCK.....Love Child one of my favs sounded so bad. Ain't no mnt. come on........AWEFUL....
I don't even know who got the boot! ANY OF U? I have not talked to Michael yet about more than a sleepy kiss goodbye and a quick call to set up whos going where with the pratices/games of the boys. I swear I am so dissapointed ...When is Big Brother comin on again...I want something good to watch....UGH>>>>>AI is not what it used to be.......

Stephens Team

Stephen is the tall kid on the left end near the coach with a black/red jacket....This was taken when they won the 1st place throphies...........Sunday.......GO MASCO!

Stephens other poem

For some reason this one did not take here it is from the post.....

Why we are Here:Meaning of Life

He raises my spirit up
Everything feels better
I am stronger, wiser and all around better in His world
My faith grows stronger
I will sit beside Him in a wonderful place
Heaven
Meaning of Life

Sample of a 14 year olds poem.....

I was just going through the documents on the computer to make room and try to free up some MB's or what ever they are. I came upon two of Stephens poems that seem to be really deep. He gets that from me, not to pat myself on the back. I wanted to share. I did not get his approval, is that bad? Hey he has a poem publised in a book from grade 5....It is not like he doesn't let people see his work. So here they are .......

Navy Seals

Grab my chute get ready for the jump
Listen to the briefing my heart a pump
Depressurize the fuselage the door agape
Look down into the darkness try and hold down what I last ate
Green means go I jump out the door
Whoosh the wind takes me I can’t see the plane anymore
I’m like a rain drop falling from the sky
I pull my chute like a bird swiftly I fly
I sail down and down reaching the ground
But my mission is not over I can not be found
Locked and loaded I creep through the woods
I go to the enemy bomb site and get all the goods
I radio in; Echo seven to base the goose has been extracted
I quickly leave the site without any distraction
They send me a boat to pick me up.........I raise through the ranks up, up, up!
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Why We are Here:Meaning of Life

He raises my spirit up
Everything feels better
I am stronger, wiser and all around better in His world
My faith grows stronger
I wil someday sit beside Him in a wonderful place
Heaven

A rough start!

As you can see from the post below the weekend was GO GO GO ! Today is a rough one.....I am not one for late nights......I need catch up........Tonight, NOTHING just homework and dinner...YIPPPIE! ANd we are all off to bed at 8'o'clock....That is the plan....We NEED SLEEP.......

Off to the tourny.....

We are heading south in the afternoon tommorow.Kids will be leaving school at 12:45 despite my plea with Michael for them to miss school. It is a Raf thing. So far this year they have not missed school and got dismissed once for teeth. Down to the Cape...we go........if you call Falmouth the Cape.....I think the cape starts at the bridges Sagamore and Bourne.......Stephens hockey team is in a four team tourny vs. Marthas Vinyard players. I am ironing, packing and getting stuff done. I think it takes so much effort to get yourself and the family out for a weekend. The boys wear dress shirts, pants and a tie to every game so that is the worst part of this packing. What can ya do! I will be away from the comp for the weekend. I guess M can take his laptop from work but Nah......We can live without it and I am not really surpose to be "playing" on it, so he says.........I am hosting the team dinner on Saturday afternoon at the function room of the hotel. I guess the Team Manager has to take charge lol......I wanted to cook a great meal here for 13 familes but Michael tought the take out option was a better idea. I see his point. I hear it is going to be in the 50's Saturday and Sunday. Looking forward to the time change also. I will check back in after the weekend. Have a good one all and happy nice weather to all of you...........


We will We are back from Falmouth........Awesome weather!
REALLY AWESOME TOUNRY! We won all 5 games .....Our goalie had 4 shutout games! WOW! We came in 1st place and WON ALL THE GAMES! ALL! They played so weel and so strong. We had one player get thrown out b/c his emotions got the best of him. It is only a game we tell them. He headed home early with his dad even though he was welcome to stay on the bench during the games. The team lunch was awesome, as always being an Italian I over bought but I would rather have leftovers than short food. The first night we did not follow the crowd. We went to eat at a takeout place, thank heavens. The bill was outragous. One mom and her son had to contribute $60.00 for the two of them. This place for pasta was outragous. They wanted $13.00 for ziti and meatballs...I could of fed the team for that lol lol lol ..........SO glad we did not go. Another family also did not go and we were the envy of the wallets after...lol ..........One guy had to borrow $100. for his family of four b/c all he on him was $50.00.....Yes he paid @ $150. for a family of 4 to eat that night...Yeah my veggie and egg pocket, yummy I might add was a mear $5.50. At 8:30 pm who wants to eat a hugh meal? not us.......So Stephen is on cloud 9 and very tired from all his skating and swimming. We have a late regular game tonight and I am trying to get coach to resschd. it for another time. They are all hockeyed out...........

"Whats depression?"

WOW that was the question Ryan asked me this morning. I was like where did this come from. He saw a commercial on ABC Family while watching Family Matters before school. I did the explaining of hormone inbalence and sad feelings ect. He said "oh ok" and went back to watching. As I am making the bed he comes in and says "I don't get it". I am not sure what he doesn't get. The medical part that could be confusing or why would someone be sad all the time. I am not sure if I look into things to deeply or if I drop the ball it will go away. I am going to talk with Michael about it and see what he thinks. Layed back Michael will say drop it intill he comes to me again. I am not the type to brush off. I was brushed off on subjects as a child somewhat and vowed to not give the brush off to my children. Any thoughts out there? Any sence of dealing with this situation before with your own children? Let me know if you may have any insites. I may just be making this larger that it is. See funny how TV puts things out there when you least expect it. You would think that certain programs would chose commercials that target that audience at the time. Like if I were watching home improvemnts shows they have Home Depot/Lowes...>Why when family shows are on they don't put family type commercials? Hey TV exects what is up with that?

Off To Lacrosse

Today is Ryans first lacrosse practice. He has been talking about it for a month now. HE has never been into team sports all that much so we are happy he has an interest. He always loved his Lego Robotics classes as well as golf and art. He is pretty much an in his head type. He told us when we was younger he played T-Ball b/c dad wanted to coach. Well dad coached b/c we tought Ry wanted to play lol.........He is all geared up and ready to play. His inhailer in hand just in case of an attack, he really gets them except in really cold weather and today would be a wind chill of 18 below 0......He keeps counting down our departure time. We are car poolin with Anasteiogist Janes sons from down the street. She unlike Stephens friends parents knows the meaning of "carpoolong"......As you may recal from past posts Stephen has two friends moms that are very one sided and I do all the pooling, if you want to call it that. It is very one sided and Michael and I do all the driving and feeding of these two boys. I love helping people out, I would give the shirt off my back (as long as I have a nice bra on lol lol) but when you are being taken advantage of that can make you feel a little angry. I do not want to by no means take it out on the boys b/c it is not them it is their self centered moms. I would cancel my things over my sond any time and love to be involved as you all might know, it gives me great greef to know they do not attend things for the kids and arn't doing anything to important. Sorry to vent, I should get back on track about the lacrosse. Off we go to do what ever you do in lacrosse. I love the game of hockey and am bias of how great that game is so we will see if I get that concept and understand what it is all about...........Go Tribal!

Karen is in for a treat!

Norma is bringing Karen the homemade stuff from my neighbor on Wednesday. She is in for a treat with the goat milk bar and EVOO skin spray. They both work great. The bar however is smelly. Norma described it as "cat urine". I know it smellsfunny and my nose is super sensitive but I did not smell urine. I mostly smelt a sour smell. It does wonders to the face so I hope you like it K...Let us know...good or bad reviews I can take it...lol....The spray on elbows and hands is so awesome. Have a great afternoon get 2 gether......Wish I were there........

He went to the doc....

After two days of hearing it from everyone, he got an apmt w/his PCP and he sent him for X-Rays.......My call to MIL in Florida was the kicker. I got to hear ont he other line her yelling then pleading with him to take care of himself. Also his older brother who is a doctor said it would be very wise to be looked at. Of course he makes it look like there is no pain but you could see it in the way he moves and turnes his neck. I am just glad he listened. Even Ryan said "dad you would make us go" See even an 11 yr old knows......lol ........Yeah, you tell him Ry!

Just when you tought you had your Saturday planned.......THEN!....

We had the entire day planned for Saturday. Ryan needs Lacrosse gear for his first practice on Tuesday, a small list for the grocery store,the transfer station AKA DUMP, outdoor skate park,(hear it is gonna be warm), Church, pot luck after Mass, then hockey practice. Well now we have to throw a bunch more places into the mix. Police Station, Claims Adjustor and maybe rental car place, and last the body shop. When I was making dinner the phone rang and I answered knowing it was Michael with a helllllooooo (Mrs. Doubtfire):sometimes he gives a small chuckle. Not this time, he sounded really shocken up and very serious. I could tell someting was wrong. He started with "I am going to be late"......Ok you let your staff out a half hour early and now it is a half hour after you would normally get out(I would expect that from him) so now how much more late b/c ????? He said I am fine don't worry. Yeah I did not like the way he said that. WHY! What is the matter. "I got hit on the side of the truck and spun around in a circle and I am facing the wrong way on the street and waiting for the police to come. Now I am in panic mode...Is anyone hurt ect......It was not icy just rainy. So why did he spin? Well the 17 year old kid driving his dads pick up totaly tought it was fine to blow the STOP sign and drive onto the main road. I was glad he and Michael were not hurt. The dads truck needed a tow and Michael was able to drive away the back of his truck is in need of repair. Michael said the other truck is a total mess. The boy could not find the registration and the parents came to get him. Michael said the mom was nice and asked him if he was ok and the dad was really angry at his son. Michael is his 22 years of driving has only been in one fendah bendah with an really old man who hit him from behind and was not surpose to be driving. Never in an uncontrolable spin ect. I could tell he was shooken up a little and he won't go for X ryas despite the last fendah bendah thing about 13 years ago had him at a chiropractor for months. He stopped running at that point and has not been able to jog since. He waold go in the mornings and love it after dinner on a Sunday afternoon but his HS days of Track are long gone as he tells the boys.......I am so glad he nor the boy are hurt but come on ........IT SAID STOP! That means STOP look THEN pull out. I think some new drivers don't consider why signs are put on the road. I hope this boy learns that he really has to pay attention from now on. Vehicles can be fixed but some injuries can not so I am thankful that there were none. The boy told the police he was in a daze and just forgot to STOP! He admitted he was in the wrong which he was and will learn from now on we hope to STOP at ALL STOP signs. I pray my sons will use good judgement when they get behind the wheel. I don't look forward to that day b/c of the nervous ninny thing I have going on. Saturday brings a long to-do list of unexpected little tasks......