Always Hug the bears you love...........

I was able to have a wonderful John F scan some pics and send them to my e-mail. I would LOVE to post them but I am not computer savy like that. I have been sittin here from 505am till now @540am and trying my best to do this. I want to wake up Michael but will not just because I am impatient. At 530 am is when I start my day and I am now late in the start. SO keep an eye out for some pics b/c by 630 he has to get up lol....I will nab him before he showers (I hope) and get him to take a look...........Hope you can see them soon........

The rich get richer.....

Well the BOGGER won......6 votes to one. I do not have much to say about it. Also Americas Choice vote gave Janelle $25,000. I really wanted Chicken George to get it but Jani gets everything when it comes to America voting for her. Oh well BB allstars is done....Got to move on..........Hope next season is a good one. I look forward to getting to know HG's that have not already seen play.......................That's it .....End of story.............Oh well.....I feel like Eyeor, Pooh Bears friend............OH BOTHER!......Not Brother.....

In a few hours......

the Big Brother winner will be announced............I am waiting on the edge of my chair......I will be back later to VENT on how this played out...........I am going to have BB withdrawals when it ends. I will have the Amazing Race to look forward to but not this years Survivor...no that gets a no go for me.......So Yippie for BB FINALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Years later.......

When I went to take Ryan to school this morning there was a poster in the front foyer of the school with the time and place of the 9/11 memorial tribute that the school will be having in front of town hall across from the school. It is nice to know it is 10 mins after school starts and I will be able to attend. I would however request to go to work late if needed. I hope that as the years pass we never forget the families that lost loved ones. Time is said to heal all wounds but I am sure total healing may never really happen. With the help and strength of God I can pray and hope that these families as well as my fellow Americans can give our emotional support not just on the Aniversary of this tragic event but always. ......I have put together a few words to "NEVER FORGET"


This is titled HISTORY,
I shed a tear for History...............
His story, her story, our story......History is not just a story, it is true life. We may not have been there to see it but to hear of it makes us feel like we've lived it. I have learnt of many wars and hear people speak of Vietnam, WWII Pearl Harbor and other historical happenings that took place before my time. I have to shed a tear for history. I may have not been there or had lived it first hand but my heart acks all the same. I hold a place close to my heart for the brave Americans young and old that keep us "safe". Though to shed a tear is a true understatement when it comes to a day that will be forever etched in our hearts and in the history books forver. The differnce with this well known date is that I was able see the true horror unlike how years ago they are just stories. I know many other dates in American history are a terrible reminder of loss, this day is also a horric day of distruction and lives lost. This ever life changing day will be with us always. I have so many emotions from this day that words can not describe. This gross event has changed not only Americans but the world. I look at it as the brain is like a camcorder, once recorded it can play over and over. Time may fade the picture but it is always there. It may not be as clear as the first recording but made clearer with memory. In a way some do not want to remember and have it be a blur over time, but on the other hand it would be a total injustice to try to forget. So as the saying goes "9/11......NEVER FORGET" God Bless America! Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!

Twas the Night......

Twas the night before the first day and all through the house...lots of creatures were stiring, mom moving her "mouse". Typing away lots of numbers and keys to find out what the supplies might be. Iron the school clothes, clean off the shoes, got to get ready for the back to school blues.......All the parents excited to send off the children, for it's been a long summer and the time is a brewin'. Gotta love the first day of seeing them off and knowing their brain may never shut off. SO too all of the kids waiting for the first day, get lots of sleep there's no time for play!!!!


Have a great back to school time all you deserving parents out there!!! We all know I am sad to see them off to school once again b/c I love to spend time with all the kidos but it is a part of life and we must move on ...come on Old Man Winter BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no I did not mean that...so sorry....I was foolin old man please be nice to us!!!!!!! ; )

A funny Stephie story!

Reading another bloggers post recently about concernts brought up this funny Stephie story. In the comments it was stated by other bloggers that a certain place that the concert took place was a place where the "pot" smell did not linger. Well funny story.............In High School I was a "good girl" and still am.lol. I had the notion that when the kids went behind Donut Maker (the donut shop acroos from Pope John XXIII H.S. in Everett, MA) they were "smoking cigs". I was put off by that notion alone. Well it took about 4 years after HS to realize it was the wacky tabacky. My good friend Michelle let me know in a conversation about "Corbett" a boy I dated for about 2 months as a Freshman. I wondered why all the Fendi girls(richer types) would ask me where is Corbs. I really really was so nieve that I did really think in was cigs. Reg everyday cigs. That alone made me grossed out so without a doubt I would of never thunk "pot". We go to a Catholic School and I am on SADD (Students against Drunk Driving) and I am on Campus Minisrty. How would ANYONE ever do a thing like that? It is illegal! SO my first POT smelling incedent happen when Micahel and I had our first house in Revere with an inlaw apartment in the Basement. When Nonie(Micahels grandmother who needed a place to rent when she got evicted) God Bless us for taking her in ... left to go to the home we had a renter named Eddie a kid my age at the time (24) that was a boyfriend of a girl M worked with. We thought what a nice Spanish/American kid. (I point out his ethnic backround b/c later in the story you will see what that has to do with him) I was surprised to see that all of his young like myself friends had such expensive nice Beemers and Caddys and Lexus cars. Wow these labor workers do really well for themselves. (Yeah ok little girl) SO on the Friday nights I would waddel in from my Bank job at around 830 pm (bank closed on Friday at 700) all 6 months pregnant with our second baby. (first one tucked in his room /window above Eddies door) yes! I would smell his aweful smelly "Spanish cookin" so as I pull up to the driveway Michael is yelling from our sons window "Eddie 3 strikes your out" "You are out of here at the end of the month" ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! ok now I am like Micahel I know this food stinks so bad but we evict him for it?
Well as I get to the door Michael explains how he has been sheltering me from the TRUTH that the smell of the "bad" food,it is POT! AHHHHHHHHHH I start like a bat out of hell down to his apartment. Screaming and yelling how dear you bring that into my house I have a baby on the way and a 2.5 yr old upstairs and the smell is out side his window.......He almost got a slap in the face from me because I was so mad. Well his reponce was "my sister does it and she has kids, whats the big deal?".....OK you just do not know me well engough Eddie b/c I have NEVER IN MY LIFE DONE THAT EVER! He told me I was a lier! I fought for almost an hour about how I was not lying. Well Sorry kid I tought you cooked really bad Spanish food and come to find out you are smoking POT/DEALING in my house! He told us he was going to sue us for evicting him. I was like yeah and what judge was going to be like yes illegal pot is fine to smoke outside the door of your apartment. I am all stressed out typing this let alone when it was happening. So little Miss Stephie was so not with the whole pot thing that she had the notition it was smelly Spanish food.......I hope I got you to laugh and I wish I made this story up but it is the Gods honest truth...Thats the funniest part of the story ...HUH!

I was in a tizzy.........

I was trying to post and I LOST the link to Create a new post. AHHHHH...I get on the phone licketty split and called Normie to "find" the link. I wanted to vent about yesterday. Our friends took us to a place in Marblehead yesterday to a semi-private beach. We were in the area of GRAND homes in Old Town right on the ocean. So the boys had tons of fun and hours of entertainment. Then all of a sudden the crazy lady looking out her window came all the way down to the beach to YELL at Stephen, Ryan and their friend Joe that they moved a ROCK! So my first instinct as a "nice" person is to tell the boys put the rock back.I did not know moving rocks was illegal. I had them put it back just to appease the lady. My friend JoAnn was like "why did you let her get her way?" I am not one for confrontation so I did not want an argument with this "Abners wife" lady. Get it from Bewitched, the nosy neighbor. So I will not be making the trip to this place soon because my sons like to move rocks.....lol

It's STICKHA time again!

So it is the last day of the month and my inspection stickha expired. I will not go till September 1st b/c now next year I can get one year and one month longa (so Bawston). Last year it was up in July and I waited till August, so see year after year I will go one more month than the last. I am not one to "play" with the system, but I did figure this one to be a win situation on my end. Please tell me people don't go many months with an expired stickha????( I know it is STICKER! but when you grow up here it is a cah with a stickha.....lol.....U know what I mean Pam and Dana). So I was told by my MIL you can not do that. Well I have been doing this for atleast 4 years when I figured out that if I wait till the 1st day of the next month of experation I will get that months # and have an additional 30 or so days from the previous year. Like I am "screwing" TAXACHUSETTS in any way? Massachusetts has more things for us to pay for, this is one more way to get $29.00 every year from us. ( See Normie I now know how to spell MASSACHUSETTS lol) So with hope on my way bright and early Friday morn to the inspection station, I hope not to encountha a trooppha....yah! those Mass. state troopphas!

It's that easy!

So that is the slogan that Staples tries to convey in the numerous commercials that are playing over and over. Along with the song "It's the most wonderful time of the year" they are hyping up how wonderful back to school is. Every August we get our letters from the schools stating what is needed for the upcoming year. We got lucky last year and Ryans school did not want any parents buying the stuff. PTO "gave" the supplies away. I guess they were very much in the positive when it came to money in the account. So this year we ventured to 3 different stores with two lists in hand. The Sunday fliers had lots of good bargans so we went to check things out.
I must say the last store Staples was the EASIEST! The most crowded too. It did indeed feel like Christmas shopping because everyone and their mothers (lol get it) were in the 3 "it's that easy" isles. We were glad to get some of the other sales items at Office Depot and Walmart because the sales were great, but it was a mess trying to "find" what you needed. As for Staples, Kudos to them for really steping up to the moto...b/c it was that easy......And to the little first grade boys mom that let her out of control son push the wagon into me and all the other mothers...Thanks lady.......It is called control your son...maybe he will get a really strict teacher this year and put him in his place!......So I hope you all have it that easy .....lol lol

TAG>>>You're it!

TAG...... I am it now....Normie taged me........

1) The one household chore I don't mind doing is....None of them lol B/C I love to clean..freaky huh?.2.) The last person to make a surprise visit to my home...My friends Ex-Husband to return a clean dish of something I cooked for him back in April.3.) I cannot comprehend...the money people waste on needless items.4.) At this moment I wish...that the war would end and we could be at peace in the world and not have to worry about terrorist. ever again!5.) The last serious discussion I had was....about Stephen taking E-Rays for his braces.6.) The thing that made me laugh the hardest today was...While watching my neice Selena (2) she kept saying "I love aunties truck" the entire time we were driving in it. "we go bumpy bumpy"///The funny thing is Uncle tries over and over to correct her that it is "Uncles" truck/and maybe tied for 1st is when we were at the bank, (where Michael works) Ryan said "is there a helapad on the roof to remove the big bags of money?" We broke out in laughter and said that is what the Brink trucks are for...lol
So if you get tagged.....make sure to answer all the questions..........

A HOLE IN ONE!

I guess to all the golfers out there a "hole in one" is the ultimate thing to do in the game of golf! Well at Stephens last clinic today he was on the 3 hole loop.....(a practice area of three hole all par 3 each hole.....) His first hole was a HOLE IN ONE!......"SO kido what do you win????" "Well mom, I get to put my name on the "board" for my age group"...."WOW! no free 3 hole loop pass, no free bucket of balls for the driving range???" No none of that, but he got to put HIS name on the 13 year old board.......Guess how many names were up there???come on GUESS!!! on the 13 year old board....NONE....well now there is one.........my RAF///// His uncle who is a lesson instructor at the place is so proud to see that name on the board...My FIL, who was of course there as he is all Saturday mornings with his 4 grandsons was one proud papa today.....You have to know my BIL's and FIL they are the ultimate GOLF family......These Raf boys have had custome made clubs since they were old enough to walk.....Owen my 2 year old nephew drives a mean straight ball....really u gotta see the kid......AS for the eldest Raf grandson to get a hole in one before age 18...(none of the other Raf boys ever got one...not even Uncle Tony the ex golf pro...lol ) He has made Raf history......I am sure Mil and Fil are bragging to all their Sat. Night dinner friends at the Golf Club as I type...So thanks papa Rob for all the clubs, shoes, gloves,bucket of balls and lessons b/c without your generous donation to the "golf" Ry and S would not be this good today....Love you Papa.....Glad he made you proud....

Golf ends and Hockey begins.....

Saturday is the last golf clinic for the boys. I have liked our Saturday morning out early in the summer air, to go bright and early and start the day with some fresh air. After tom. there will be no more early golf outings but very,VERY early hockey practices. They say ice hockey is not for everyone. The 430 am car rides to a cold rink 1 hour away is not some peoples idea of fun. I must say though that the day does not fly by when started at 400am. That is the plus about getting out of bed before the birds. The funny thing is when we get home around 930am the boys are asking for LUNCH.....lol Yes lunch.....I respond to LUNCH! IT IS 930am......but if you look at it 5 hours after you wake up is almost lunch time........SO I start cooking dinner at 100pm on a Saturday b/c it is like having lots of time on my hands. I look forward to preparing my many meals on one day freezing them and pulling it out to cook for a night that is crazy and to busy to cook. It beats take out b/c it is less expensive and better than fast food junk. I have done this only two times this summer b/c it is better to do it in the fall and winter and we are not pressd for time like during the school season. So you all know in two weeks I will be having me Sept. fall cook off....lol Two days of cooking morning noon and night ...........I do look forward to it because a GOOD WIFE always has dinner waiting for her man when he gets home form work.....lol .............well in the 1950's she did ....wink wink .........

The smart ones make it easy!

At the Bear shop Monday night and tonight I will continue to train a new "Bearbuilder" who will work there after school when it starts. I have done training a few times before and it could be dreadful if you have to train an airhead type. I am so glad to say this girl is such a smart one. She also catches on fast and has a nack for being freindly. Ya gotta be freindly, I mean really friendly to work at the BABW! It makes me look forward to going in tonight and gives me hope that the teens are on the right track to being our future in a positive light. I hope that many teens out there "get on track and stay on track" so that this country can prosper and not be a disfunctional place. So off to entertain the masses of the bear buying society. My job is a stage and I do all the acting and entertaining to put smiles on the faces of many. Don't forget I also contribute to the econmony of the retail industry. Gotta keep the American Economy rolling.......

I did not miss much...So I hear!

Last night I was going to leave a going away party early to watch Big Brother. Yes once again(NO TIVO) but I was having some laughs and felt the need to stay and not have a TV show run when I go home. My husband watched for me to report the nights happenings. He is not a faithful watcher like I am so it was nice of him to veiw it for me. (Maybe that will get him hooked). I was told by him and the chaters on the BB chat that nothing big happend and I did not miss anything too exciting. Those of you who would never waste your time watching a mundane show like thta do not get how good of a show it is. Yes a great show about watching some people sit in a house day after day with no outside communications or computers or news. They compete every so often for things like HOH and POV and food. Yes they have to earn food. They get lots of it when they earn it but the poor shleps may have to eat BB SLOP (gross oatmeal type food that can have protien powder added for substance) for the week to weaken their game play. It is a moral low when put on slop for the week. The oldest of the HG's is CG (Chicken George) he is a well know HG from the 1st season that is an upstandiing husband and dad type that is not as game as the other lying type players. He is little on the nerdy side but it makes him liked by the older crowd b/c of his high moral family values. He like myself does alot of the "taking care of" cooking cleaning and advice giving to the HG's who are feeling down. He himdelf I know is missing his family and keeps his feeling inside to not seem weak to the others. The game has changed a lot since season 1 so George is a little on the not so with it side when it comes to the currant way to play BB. It is a game of lies and acting like you care and do not. I have said many times on the chat that I am a high standard MORAL person but I do think in the house no matter how moral you try to be you HAVE to lie to get anywhere in that game. You have to swollow your moral pride and lie and hope that you lie well b/c it can be so transparent when a HG is trying to screw one over (pardon my words)....So yes I was sad to miss my first show of this season but was I happy to stay at the party with a group of fun gals and some guys to see off the group of kids going back to college for the year...Yes, it was nice to see them all together at one time and we had a blast despite the lightning and rain.......I will be watching Tuesday, Thusday and next Sunday 'till the game ends on Sept. 18.........Atleast that is my plan.........

Big Brother 7 .....ALLSTARS MY FOOT!

I am so angry at CBS this year. I have been a tru blu BB fan since season 1. I vowed once not to ever watch again b/c a real slimball won on one of the seasons. It was the EVIL DR. WILL KIRBY!....He is now on allstars and is taking the house by storm. Why is it that this evil manipulating man has such a hold on this house. He just better not win again. I am such a die hard fan we left a Lowell Spinners game early one year b/c it was finale night. Yes....I did make it look like I had a masive stomach ache but it was to get home in time for BB! Am I the evil one now? I really enjoy the show and yell when things are not going like I want them. It is my one vice I want to keep///lol.......I sure hope that this year a deserving HG wins. I do very much look forward to next year to get to know NEW HG's /////I am sick of the same 'ol hg's from seasons past. I know in the chat rooms for BB alot of other fans are not happy with the so-called ALLSTAR cast. So to all you BB fans out there.......Jani has got to get the big heave hoe b/c she is one lol, Dr. Will has to get some nice meds in him, and to the Chicken Man...........you are a good guy CG but stop embarrising your family with all the crazy weird clothes....LOL LOL
Go BB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ryans progress......

From the Blog about Rys infection on the birthmark......It has cleared and is back to normal...He still has 4 days on the meds. When we go for a follow up on Thurday next week we will make the appmnts. for the Childrens. I was glad that the meds. cleared it up and he is a trooper on the 4x's a day taking it. He reminds us about the time and makes slash marks on the day when he takes it. He too is a true RAFTERY lol........A real GO GO ORGANIZER! He is his fathers boy......

Water Counrty, Water Country Have sum fun dah dah dah!

You know that catchy jingle from the TV! We are off bright and early to Water Country in the morning. We got a hugh discount from the Post Office where my FIL works. It was a $30 ticket fro $17. almost half off. I guess they have to give the government postal workers some kind of a deal to keep them from "going all postal on them" LOL LOL I crack me up!!!! I hope I do you too!!! So we have all the goodies to pack in the cooler b/c we refuse to spend $40 + on crap park food and $2.00 waters. The smell of the food cooking there will give anyone argidah (heart burn in Italian). So we will have sandwiches and snacks with plenty of inexpensive Shaws water............I hope it is a hot day tom. I did hear it was to be the hottest of the week. We had to X our plans on Tues. b/c of the rain but it did clear up pretty early but we did not want to risk it. So off to bed to get up bright and early. Park opens at 10am, leave here at 845 so we can get 4 good chairs right up front near the wave pool. I really enjoy the wave pool but do not like when it gets overcrowded. We are in hopes that b/c it is a weekday the crouds will be small. I do enjoy Whales Tale in Lincoln NH much more than WC, we were there last week and it is not a close drive like WC. So off we go to "hit the waves" //////Have a great sun and fun filled day!!!! Don't forget to wear the sunscn (Ry used to call it that years ago)//////Happy end of the summer day to you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We needed this rain!

I am not one to encourage the rain. I love when the sun is shining. I do think that todays rain is needed. The news said the month of August has only( . ).4" of rain, we are 1" behind our needed goal. I was told yesterday at this point I did not need anymore sun on my skin...lol (thanks Dana)......I guess going back to work after a weeek+ and darker than when I left they could see the change in color more than I can. One of my co-workers (Amy) asked if I changed races....So at that point I ask "am I THAT dark?"......SO thank the heavens for the rain today and try to stay busy without the sun. Hey it must mean I have lots of vit D in me at this point. Maybe that is why I am always so happy....I hear Vit. D makes you happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Sun has Vit D so GO SUN!!! Stay Dry!

A Night with the Bears.......

It was a night with the bears tonight....Not the gizzzlllly kind the fluffy kind. I have been fortunate enough to not have had to work all that much this summer due to the "kids" being out on summer break and the other Kids at the workshop being home from college ect.. They have been doing the hours I would be doing if the kids were in school. I do look forward to after Labor Day going back to my reg. schd.. I do however also like working at night b/c it is just a "differnt" kind of croud that comes in from the 10-2 croud in the mall. I see many mall walkers and moms with kids in tow killing time of the average weekday. We get many preschoolers in the am/noon time croud. I get to do most of my tiding up in the AM so I really like that. However in the eve I try my best to do the once over to clean the entire place but it is not possible when the customers need to be serviced. I guess it is better to have more than less b/c then I would be blah blah in' about no sales...and sales are very important in retail.....thats the "fluff" that keeps us afloat...GET IT!.......SO as for this eve what better place to be (besides with my sweetie and my awesome boys) than with our hugh selection of furry friends. Hey if you don't have a BAB yet you should try it....It is an experience and you will have a cuddly friend for life!! Bear Huggin' and Lovin' .......Beary Sweet Dreams ; )

The Doctors Office......

Well we were at the pedi today for the first time ever not having a well visit appmnt. ........When we got home from the lake yesterday Ryan who never complains of anything showed us the outter part of his ear. He has a small pinhead size bump from birth on the outer part of his ear. We were told he could not have it removed till at least 18? I have no clue why. So it was enlarged and red and looked full of liquid, if you even touched it with the gentlest of hands he would flinch and yell that it really hurt. So we did not want to take any chances. The doctor had his chart and commented like always he never sees us except on well visit days. So he knew I was weirded out by the "growth"........Ryan is now on anti-bis for ten days b/c yes there is an infection. We have to make a visit to Childrens Hospital in Boston for a plastic surgeon and an ear specialist to see if the "bump/mark" is connected to any part of the ear canal inner workings. I try to make guesses at was it the lake bacteria? or the pools at Whales Tales? or just the sand? no only follin on that guess. We will never know. I must say the doctor is a real stickler for looking at things. He gave him a head to toe exam and made sure he was in tip top shape. We also took my neice who is 2 with us b/c we had her for the day while her parents were at work. She also sees a doctor at the same pedi office. While we were there we asked him to look at a rash on her leg. Not a problem I called it prickly heat rash....Like I told my bil and sil....some cornstarch or medicated powder.......I am no doctor but I have seen prickly heat before. I was very pleased that we got to see the doctor asap. I am also glad that we will get to the bottom of the "bump" mystery.