I’m fine
I met up with a fellow OD’er tonight, she lives nearby. She gave me a BUNCH of stuff for the kids for Christmas, I was amazed at it all! Oh, and lest I forget, she gave me SCRAP stuff! Whoohoo. My favorite was two pads of glittered paper, one for baby girls, the other for bigger girls. YEA! I love glitter and anything that sparkles. I want the Martha Stewart Christmas paper and stickers I saw at Wal mart the other day, because it was just all so SPARKLY… loving it. I’ve got to clean off my table so I can scrap… this stuff was just so awesome. There were also some stickers and some vellum sayings, and some candy… the kids were bugging me for my candy. I told them to just keep their mitts off my candy… they don’t know what Santa might bring. LOL ;).
She mentioned the bad day I was having, and you know, I had to think a minute. Oh yea… what I wrote the other day. And I told her, You know, when I get it out, that’s usually it. I’m okay after that. I just have to get it out. On the other hand… my trip to Walmart to meet up with her was all by myself, and that was totally wonderful! I couldn’t exactly take the kids, the presents were for them! I needed to do some shopping as well, so I was probably there for an hour. Jerry ended up feeding the kids, and waiting on me to eat (isn’t he sweet? He’s just the best DH. It’s always the little things.) So it was short, but sweet. I like going shopping by myself. I’ll see if I can get to a crop.
Oh… on a rather sad note though… spoke to my SIL on the way home after talking to my mom, who told me to call her. Mom said Chaunce was being bad, so I called Aurora, and Chaunce and she had a fight, a major fight, and he left. She doesn’t know if she wants to stay married to him. They’ve been married 12 years, and have a boy and a girl… I forget ages, I think Nick is a year older than Shabree, or a year younger, and Andrea (pronounced ONdrea) is around Sammi’s age. So she doesn’t know what’s going to happen. I offered her that she could come stay with us, if she needs a place to stay, I knew Jerry wouldn’t mind if I did that. Oh, and how Chaunce was being bad? He got violent with Aurora. Doesn’t surprise me. Man’s always had a temper, we call it the Vantine family temper. I have it, I have to control it with every inch of my fiber sometimes… it’s partially why we don’t hit in this family. If I was a hitter, I would probably not stop at a pop, I’d be beating… so that’s part of why *I* do not subscribe to physical forms of punishment. Jerry wasn’t raised that way. I wasn’t either, which is the odd part. Well… when I was little, dad brought out the belt as punishment, but they divorced when I was 7, and mom didn’t hit, and after the divorce, dad didn’t hit either. So go figure. I’ve had dogs though that I hit, and my ex husband can tell you I’m a hitter. I really had to grow up and stop that behavior… it’s not something I’m proud of. So the temper… well, even Shabree inheirited it. She flies off the handle sometimes SO quickly. I can really see the trait in her. Honestly though… married 12 years. Actually… I’ve always wondered how she did it. I grew up with him, and I always thought he was a jerk. Well, not to be unkind and mean spirited towards my brother. HOWEVER… well… he’s a jerk. I mean… oh… I will stop at that. You know the whole "If you don’t have anything nice to say…." I can’t think of anything nice to say. He’s a good dad, he was always great with kids. There… something nice. Otherwise… jerk. So yea, doesn’t come as a big surprise. Their staying together so long, THAT came as a big surprise. I never thought ANY woman in her right mind would put up with him for so long. And she said she’d like to stay together for the sake of the kids. Oh… no. Well… she’s a saint if she can put up with him. I rather hope she takes me up on my offer to come here.
Oh, I’ve been working on cleaning up the scrap room, and I’ve ACTUALLY made some progress! I can barely believe it myself. There’s "holes" in the floor, lol… where there used to be garbage and piles of stuff, there’s nothing, and I am close to being able to vacuum. I did however, pile a bunch of stuff on my workspace, and now I need to work on getting that cleaned off. I am thinking I need to rearrange the room, to make it work better for me. I just hope I can… I think that space was a consideration for where I originally put the scraprack, so it MAY not fit on the wall I want to put it on. But I’ll try anyway. Oh, I was MAD… I found about 30 dollar’s worth of paints on the floor, gotten to by Sammi. Now *I* did not leave them within her reach. Sydni said it was her, and I kind of read her the riot act a bit… told her it was akin to everyone in the house, me, Bec, Shabree, Sammi, etc coming in to HER room, making a mess and leaving it for HER to clean up. NOT cool. On a happier (sort of) note, I found the missing heart corner adorner I’ve been looking for, for what feels like a year now. It was in kind of a cubby they had under the desk behind an iris cart. Wish I’d known it was there before. I need(ed) it to finish up Sammi’s baby book… so now maybe I can. In any case, it’s good to have it back. The other two things that made me growl were baby confetti all over under there… they’re for a shaker box, and I picked up as much of it as I could and put it in a plastic baggie, and then there were some Disney stickers… but that was like a dollar out of Hong Kong, and I think I have a ton more, so no big loss there… and I’ll pick up and salvage what I can. It’s just a big pain in the keister to have to pick up that stuff, especially when *I’M* not the one who made the mess! I’m to the point where I just want them to stay out of my scrap room…. I love having them here, I love that they can make "forts" and what-not of my room (I’d have LOVED that as a kid myself…) but this whole "make a mess and leave it for mom to clean up" is getting capitol O, capitol L, capitol D, OLD.
I’m still trying to figure out Alex… that’s just a tough one, because babies are natually so needy. She’s just needier than most. She’s sitting behind me in a bouncer, and she’s cooing between little cries and upset noises. I don’t think there’s anything REALLY wrong with her though… well, it MAY be getting to where she needs to be fed. I’m starting to have a lot less milk, and we’re starting to feed her a lot more formula… oh, there’s another GRRRR… SYDNI, she put baby cereal IN the formula! Oh, crap! Now we can’t use ANY bottle with a normal nipple, we have to hunt down the ones with big old holes in them. She thought it was just a good idea. Actually, Jerry said she thought about lying about it, but quickly came clean. I don’t know what’s up with that girl and her lying. She had to have a hot pepper, what, yesterday? for lyin
g to Jerry, and BLAMED it on Becca! Double offense. Gotta love the hot sauce method of discipline… hurts like HELL, leaves absolutely no lasting damage. We reserve it for big offenses, usually only for lying. Anyway, Alex… yea, I am not sure. I’ll just do the best I can… as I always have… as I always will. It can’t possibly last forever, everyone grows up eventually. LOL. In the meantime, I’ll try not to lose my mind.
Eh… I’d better get around to wrapping this up… she’s getting unhappier by the minute. And I can’t think of anything else… It’s shaping up to be a much better Christmas than I originally thought… though mom… her absent minded professor self reared its ugly head, lol, and she lost the gift cards she was going to send… she has to get them cancelled, reissued, and we’ll probably get them after the holidays. LOL. Oh well… hopefully there will still be some sales, and hopefully still some bath stuff left for Becca to use her card on. If the heavens are with me, I’ll have money to hit the after Christmas sales, and I’ll be up at 4 a.m. on Friday to participate. Goodness, I LOVE the after Christmas sales. I can spend 2 hours at Wal mart alone filling my cart with stuff that’s 50% off, half of it I can’t even use til next year, but dang it… I got a DEAL on it! LOL!!!! I missed it so badly last year.
All right… I’m off.