such a busy day
well yesterday was my niece zoey’s birthday party… i was great to get to see my nieces, but i wish it wasn’t so stressful when we get to see them. my brother in law’s family are pretentious and i really can’t stand being around them…but i bite my tongue just so i can see my nieces. it’s been such a strain on our family. my sister has kinda gotten better since our dad died, telling her husband that we are her family and he can either be part of it or stay home when she wants to come visit, but he wasn’t stopping her from seeing us anymore. i honestly don’t know what his deal is, but he is completely insane at times. he doesn’t like my mom at all, he seems standoffish with me at times, but then there are times he’s nice as can be. he hates my brother, mainly because kia told him exactly how he feels about the way he treats our nieces. He is worse on harlie…she can’t really do anything right in his eyes. she got yelled at during the party because she was sitting on mom’s leg while they were talking with his grandmother. mom and his grandmother were sitting on the love seat talking and harlie went over and was talking with them… he came in from outside, stopped in the middle of the room, looked to see where harlie was and then told her to get up and go to her room. i just don’t get it. i mean before they got married, he was nice as could be, and now for the past year he has pretty much went off the deep end. but i kind of got off topic there… lol…
the party was good other than all the drama… i loved that i got to see my nieces, and to spend the time with them. i’m closer to harlie and zoey than i am to addyson, but that’s because we haven’t been around her as much as the other two… i mean she just turned one in january, and she’s just now getting to where she is comfortable being held by me… zoey had a great time at her party, lots of gifts and lots of giggled of delight from her as she was opening them… but after a few hours everyone started leaving and we did too… i hope we get to see them soon… it’s hard not seeing them everyday like we used to…i know families move apart, but well i don’t want that to be the case.
after the party we decided to go into parkersburg. mom wanted to check out the sales at kmart. i ended up getting me some shirts for $3! i so need the clothes right now…. i also got malachai’s easter dress… she looks adorable in it… i’ll have to post a pic soon. other than that the only thing i bought was a pet shop toy for chai. i know it’s close to her bday, but she’s been doing so well in school, well she always does well, but she’s been better here at the house… she was having jealousy issues with the daycare kiddos, but i told her she had two choices… either i get a job where i might not be home when she gets home from school, or i have the daycare, where i can get her up for school, and be here when she gets home from school…. i think once she realized that if i worked a different job she wouldn’t get to see me all that much.
today i got up at 645am… woo hoo lol… one of my daycare kiddos was here by 7… we pretty much lounged around all morning, and then we got ready and went into athens… we do the whole couponing thing… and actually get free stuff most of the time… sometimes we do spend a bit more money, but when you get half of it back in store cash to use on other things, i mean it’s worth the extra money… today was awesome though…we went to cvs…love that place… and they had the zuzu pet activity sets on sale for $1…yep $1 for a $25 toy…. so i let the girls both get five of them…. so for $10 each girl got $125 worth of toys…. i say that was definately a good find…
we went to rite aid too…. we had $8 of their store cash we had to use today… so they had tide on sale for $5.99, plus you got $1 store cash back… so we picked up two of those and pretty much got them free….. if you count the $2 we got back for the next store purchase… otherwise we paid $3.98 for the two things of tide…either way you look at it… it was a great buy…
then once we got home, dad had started putting chai’s bunk bed together while we were gone… i got that for her birthday…of course that part she got early, because i really wanted to re-do her room… i also got her matching comforter sets for the beds…but she doesn’t get those until her birthday… i know i kinda went overboard already… but she’s my one and only…and she deserves to be spoiled every now and then… plus she isn’t that spoiled kid who gets things just because she wants them… she has chores and most of the time when she gets a new toy (this weekend not counting) she has to buy it with her money. most of the time she just wants to put it in her bank account… so i guess i must be doing something right… either that or she knows mommy will eventually buy it for her… it might not be right when she wants it, but eventually…
anyway… i have got to get off here… i have to get up at 445 this morning…so like 4 hours and 15 minutes… more later…