good day

Today progress reports came home letting parents know how grades are half way into the making period. Things are looking good:+) I love when my kids have good grades. The world is in balance with everything else as long as they have good grades. It was also cold here today. I hope it soon warms up.. I'm ready for summer.

Children

Well today James got sent to the office in school for taking part in a prank. Spaying foul smelling spay in the hallway. Yes my son helped to spay "FART" spray at school. Well else can I say:+) Well it is getting closer to vacation time for us. I can't wait. I'll be soaking up the sun in a few short weeks.

Happy Valentines Day

I got some lovely roses today from my man. It snowed here last night just enough to make a two hour school delay. It is all gone already and the sun is shinning. But it is cold. The weekend hopefully will be bringing warmer weather.

Super Bowl

In all the sickness last week. I forgot to post The super bowl pre-pictures of Aunt Lisa. She is and always has been a NY Giants fan.

What a week

Where should I begin........ Last Friday James got his big break and got to wrestle varsity. So we drive 40 minutes to watch him. Aunt lisa was here for the super bowl so she took care of Matthew. James goes out and not even a minute into the match the other guy head butts him. Of course his nose is bleeding all over the mat. They stop the match, pack is nose with cotton and continue. James gets pinned in the next minute. But before that the other guy throws off his head gear. the guy should have been disqulified for that. Jack goes down to see James, then calls me down. James is in so much pain that the tears are rolling down his cheeks along with the blood. Coach says "it will be OK" We leave the match James stays with his team. As soon as he gets home I take him to the ER. And yes he has a broken nose and a cucusion. Doctor says no more wrestling for the season. We go home after the drug store at 2:00am. Next night Aunt Lisa Jack and I go out to see a local group. Had a great time. The next moring I wake up sick as a dog. Throwing up and yes the other end too. Now two weeks before Jack and Matthew has this and I was making fun of Jack for yelling" I'm so sick" well I'll never make fun again. Because I felt his pain. And this is Super Bowl Sunday and we are having a party. Only I can't get out of bed. Aunt Lisa and Jack do a great job hosting the party. I didn't get out of bed until Tuesday. And I still don't feel great. And of couse the dog got sick aging too. I hope that all the sickness is out of this house. Then James comes home this week "Coach says they have a face mask I can wear too wrestle." So we take him to the doctor and he said OK with the mask. His nose is still swollen a little bit and they said in a few weeks they will decide what to do about it.

More Sickness

We have another victim. At 4:30 am today "THE BODY" woke me up vomiting. Yes dog vomit.... At least she didn't do it on the rug. And she has had dog diarrhea today also. But she has made it outside for that. I never thought that dogs could get human illness but she has had the same thing Jack and Matthew had several days ago. The poor body. She is looking better this afternoon. But she hasn't eaten all day. I'm sure tomorrow she will be back to her old dog self:+)

sickness

For the past 36 hours there has been the most disgusting germ in this house. It infected Jack and Matthew. Hopefully that will be all it infects. They both were sitting on the toilet while having their heads in a bucket. Not a pretty picture. But what was worse was the sound that a grown man can make when he is ill. The whining sound of a full grown man compares to nothing else I have ever heard in my life. I informed Jack that the next time in his life that he makes this sound I will video tape it. It probably would be put into the science books as a spices in some sort of pain. I am however amazed at how you can be expelling body fluids from two separate orifices and screaming at the same time. "I'm so sick" like I didn't already know that. Unlike the female species who would just be sick with the door closed and then return to bed quietly to finish her slumber. No we had to have every light on and the bathroom doors open yelling at the top of his lungs. "Help me I'm so sick." Good thing they don't give birth:+)

69

That is the temperature right now in lower Delaware. What a great day. My man and I took "THE BODY" for a walk on the beach. I have the windows open in the house, and wash on the line. Life is just perfect today.

Saturday

Well today is a quiet day. One son is wrestling all day, and doing well (he called) and the other son and my man are golfing. Which is crazy to me because the weather is warmer the two days ago but not warm enough for me. When you have to wear long under ware to golf it's not warm enough. So I did what I do best, I went shopping:+) I got some good deals. I had to scope out the Coach store for next weekend. The girls are coming for a weekend shopping trip.

COLD

It is so cold the past few days. I hate it please summer hurry up. I can't wait until my children are grown so I can move some place where the is no cold weather, no blustery wind and certainly no snow. Until that time I will just stay inside for the winter.

The End

Well here it is again, the end of the year. The time when everyone looks forward to a clean slate, a new beginning, a start-over:+) Also it is the time to make promises that most of us don't keep. That's why I don't do resolutions. So I wonder why people do this at the end of the year. Why not do it every week or even once a month. Why only once a year. If we did it once a month we could have at least twelve times to get it right.

Gone

Christmas has come and gone already. We had a really nice quiet holiday. Grandmom and Grandpa Carl come for the holiday. Now Sandy and Gary are here for a few days. The hotel filled again. I love when the hotel is filled. Christmas weather wise was so great this year in the 50's. Today is going to be another great day. I got a new Coach bag from my man for Christmas, which is beautiful. I also bought myself a new Coach bag because I'm so special.

Getting Ready

Everyone in our house is getting ready for Christmas, even "The Body". Today she got a bath, brushed, and got her bed washed. She is also wearing her Christmas collar so she is ready. I wish that's all I had to do to get ready. I'm almost done wrapping gifts, which to me is the worse part of Christmas. They should come already wrapped. Just think of all the money you could save on wrapping paper, bows, ribbon, gift tags, and tape. You could use all that money to purchase other things like the pair of most gorgeous Cinderella shoes I saw last night at Coach. I would wear them everywhere even if they do have three inch heels:+)

Christmas Time

This weekend we put up a Christmas tree, it's beautiful as always. Why is it that this time of year there never seems to be enough time. It doesn't matter if you are working outside the home or a retired queen like me there is never enough time to go around. Today I will also bake more Christmas cookies. Last weekend I baked millions of them and they are almost gone. Next weekend Grand mom comes for Christmas I'm excited we will have our first Christmas dinner in this home. Today we also started wrapping Christmas gifts. This is the part I dislike the most. I like putting the ribbons on but not wrapping them in paper.

Also as you can see in the picture my annual gift to myself, Holiday Barbie is under the tree

Home Again

So much has happened since my last post. My trip to Germany was great, I got to be Oma Kathy for 10 days. Seeing my German family is great but leaving them is hard. I wish Germany and Delaware where closer. The pictures are of Paulina and Finn. My two sons are now deer slayers. James got his the first day and Matthew got one today. The holidays are fast approaching and I feel "not ready". So today I tried to start feeling ready. I baked Christmas cookies all afternoon. The house smells great just like a cookie candle. I baked three different kinds and tomorrow I plan to bake two ore. So now I have lot of cookies tins sitting on the counter.

Packing

Today I started packing some things for my trip to Germany next week. You ask why I started so early. Well let me tell you my schedule starting Wednesday morning. We get up and drive 3.5 hours to PA. for Thanksgiving. The men in the family are going deer hunting on the Monday after the holiday so I need to pack for them. I need 5 days worth of clothing plus hunting gear. After we eat our holiday dinner on I will travel back to Delaware with my cousin to go black Friday shopping. We will shop all weekend. Then I will travel back to PA with her on Monday. Once arriving there I will go to the airport with my sister since she is also going to Germany. BUT I have to take most of my luggage with on Wednesday to PA because when I go back on Monday we are traveling in a mid size car with all of black Friday shopping in it. So there will not be a lot of room for all of my luggage. I'm tired just thinking about this. So today I packed one suitcase filled with Christmas gifts for my German family. ( I will say a little prayer tonight that it is under 50lbs.) 50 lbs.!! that's all your suitcase can weight:+( I can take 50 lbs worth of shoes and purses. What is the sense of being a great packer when you can only put 50lbs. in a suitcase. The challenge has always been to see how much you can get in a suitcase. The airlines really need to back off the weight restrictions. Because 50lbs. just is not enough. I think men should only be aloud 40 lbs. and women should be aloud 60lbs. Men only need one pair of shoes and no purses. I hope someone from the airlines reads this and takes my suggestion.

Sunny Day

What a great day. The weather was 60 degrees today. It was so nice we drove to OC and walked on the boardwalk. Why can't the weather be like this all winter long? I woke up today and my children still had A's on their report cards, so it wasn't a dream. I'm the mother of kids with A's I also took some pictures today of the house and "THE BODY" I will attempt to put her picture in this post. She was also enjoying the beautiful day.

Heaven

Today I feel like I'm in heaven. I feel like I'm floating on air. With a chocolate cupcake, a beer, and weighing in at 110 lbs. I know you are all wondering why I feel like a queen today. Well let me tell you: Today is report card day and my children came home with A's. One son had three and the other had four. I have not seen these good grades since 5th grade. Middle school was the worst. I only hope that high school continues to be this good.

Heads UP

The 22nd annual World Championship "Punkin Chunkin" was held this weekend. And again what a great time. If you have a list of things to do in your life this should be on it. To witness the throwing of pumpkins (some almost a mile) and all the hoopla that goes along with it, is an event you can only experience in person. I could write about all the ways the color orange is used, and all the lingo that goes along with this event, but I would not do it justice. We tailgated, witnessed the "Chunkin", drank beer, danced to the live music, and always watched for "falling pumpkins." Because the do misfire sometimes.

Football

Last night my sons had their last game of the season. And it ended in a tie!!!!!! A tie!!!!! What good is a tie? A tie is like taking your sister to prom and embarrassment. Let's have OT. When you have a competition you have to have a winner and a loser. So they ended the season with 4 wins, 1 lose, and 1 tie. They had a good year considering they only had 16 guys on the team. All the other teams had enough for an offense and a defense, but not Cape they played all the time on both offense and defense. So now I'm done with stinky sweaty football jersey's and it is on to stinky sweaty singlets.