Short list for today

I don't want to:
wake up every 2 hours
wipe any more asses
share my tea
discuss SpongeBob Square Pants
get anyone a drink
do the dishes (to add to our list of Crap..the dishwasher went out last week)
put away the laundry
keep repeating No No No
cook dinner
run any errans
go to work
listen to Whaaa Whaaa's

Just give me a break today..... come on just one!!

Sisters...hummm

I have never had a "sister" per say but I do have some girlfriends that fit the mold plus some. I think it has to do with growing up in a small town in the south. I don't see a whole lot of it here (there are a few) in Texas. People seem to be more of acquaintances than "for real" friends or as we call em back home Sistas..One of my Sistas sent me this a few months back after my second baby and after all the challenges I have been thru in the past year, I now have this printed out along with this super cute picture. I read it everyday because Life is soo worth it ...every single minute. Ashame some people take it all for granted especially the sista friendships.
They are the best I say!!!~ Love ya Sistas.
Sister

Life is too short to wake up with regrets.

So love the people who treat you right.

Love the ones who don't just because you can.

Believe everything happens for a reason.

If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.

If it changes your life, let it.

Kiss slowly. Forgive quickly.

God never said life would be easy. He just promised it would be worth it

Oh Yeah.....

ok so it is T minus 9 days and counting until Vol Nation starts up the Roarrrrrrrrr...I am so excited and just LOVE football. Of course the "real" Orange is my team but I have to go for the copy cats (aka Texas) too, thanks goodness they are in a different conference. My house is always full of crap talk but I have to remind my husband quite often that we were established 100 years before them sooo zip it.

The coolest part is we have a HOT new coach and his son Knox is the same age as Luke (my little). Weird I know, but that is kinda cool. I really miss going to the SEC football games..they have to be the best in the Nation not to mention watching them in Neyland Stadium (one of the largest). It is sooo loud and yee haww so much fun!!

I know we will have a rough year this year and too bad we don't have the mickey mouse schedule Texas has but we will be back to the same team we were in 1999... Like they say what goes up must come down...

"Rocky Top you will always be home sweet home to me.... good ole Rocky Top Rocky Top Tennessee...."

Bring 'em on Bring 'em on

It is that time of year again..... "bring em on bring em on" let the "big lick" begin

The Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration starts today and it makes me a little home sick. This event has been going on since 1939 way before my time... it is a 11 day event with all kinds of cool things going on like dog show, barn decorating, craft vendor show, and of course the horses. The food is great, the horses are simply the most beautiful in the world, and a bunch of good friends getting together. There is nothing like it....I remember going every single night as a kid and before I had kids I would fly home for this event. I LOVE this place!! During the show the organist always goes thru the songs of the states.. I have always enjoyed singing along, of course Rocky Top is always the favorite. People from all over come to this show to compete and join up with friends they haven't seen all year. I can't wait until my boys are big enough to go and enjoy as much as mommy has all these years. At the rate my oldest is going he will be showing next year.. now that would simply be a treat!!

Is Your Hut on Fire??

One of my girlfriends sent me this and I thought I would share...

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few possessions. One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. He cried out, “God! How could you do this to me?” Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had come to rescue him! “How did you know I was here?” asked the weary man of his rescuers. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied.
The Moral of This Story: It’s easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn’t lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.

Thru the eyes of a Big Boy

So over the past few weeks my oldest has been telling me "no Mommy..me Big Boy". So in order not to shoot his little ego down, I pretty much let him carry on as long as long as it seems pretty safe and all. So he has learned how to crawl up in his car seat (pretty big crawl), sweep the floors and use a dust pan, put on his own clothes and take them off, put on his own band-aids, fill up his own cup with water, even feed his little brother. Makes me kinda sad but I am so happy for him gaining his little Independence. At what point is the "no Mommy..me Big Boy" gone far enough ?? Well I think it was this morning when I took him to school (in home daycare) he thought for some reason he should be standing on the corner with the big kids and getting on the big yellow bus. He kept telling me "No, Mommy me bus" little does he know he will look back and wish he had just skipped right on into daycare where there are no bullies, no homework, and no stress. Heck, some days I wish I could go along with him...LOL :0)

Karma Aint it a Bitch??

My momma always told me what comes around goes around...Over the past week I have witnessed several peoples actions and thought to myself .."did they really just do that and thought it was ok?"
I am still in shock that people just can't seem to do onto others as they would want done onto themselves, nor that they take the time to think about it. Maybe one could blame the fast paced world we live in for people being selfish and hateful.. I beg to differ that one. Either way I have to say this right or wrong.. when karma smacks one in the face I am like a little kid... I just smile to myself saying shewww god took care of that one. I know none of us are perfect but seriously slow down and ask yourself..would you want that done to you? Sometimes when Karma comes back around it isn't so nice ya know...


Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Stuck in my head.....

My mother (aka NaNa) got my son hooked on this cartoon Caillou..I had never heard of it along with alot of other kid things I am now figuring out. It doesn't help that we have DVR with the view on demand so that means at any given time you can get the question "Mommy, me watch Caillou?" "me Magnet man!" I have to say it is a cute cartoon and it beats the heck out of Dora and Spongebob. It has been on TV for 10 years, Calliou is doing something right I guess. Especially when Mommy goes to work singing this song to co-workers cause it is stuck in my head.... ugh

You're getting to be a big boy. I'm just a kid who's four. Each day I grow some more. I like exploring. I'm Caillou.So many things to do. Each day is something new. I'll share them with you. I'm Caillou.My world is turning. Changing each day With Mommy and Daddy And finding my way!Growing up is not so tough Except when I've had enough But there's lots of fun stuff I'm Caillou.Caillou, Caillou, I'm Caillou . . .That's me!. . . And me!. . . And me!. . . And me!

Its ok cause the guy that sits near me has littles too and he sings Elmo's world back... we have our own kiddie cartoon band going around work. Wanna join?

Gimmie A Break

I feel like this big fat pickle....to tired to even drink a beer. I am so exhausted! Let me tell ya my kids have been sick and we have been to the doctor's office no kidding every single Friday for the past month. Looks as though it isn't letting up anytime soon..we have to go see a lung specialist for Luke and then he has to have his surgery middle of Sept (Happy Birthday Mommy!). I am kinda sick of looking at the nemos in the tanks at different offices. The big kid is ok just a sinus infection nothing major. The little kid has been on breathing treatments, antibiotics, ear infection, and coughing his little head off. It sounds awful. He still smiles and acts like he is fine so that is a good thing no fussy baby on top of all the doctor's visits. It is so weird Cooper was never in the doctors office this much as a baby and now I drag him along to to be preventive for Luke's sake. He says "Mommy me Doctor?" at least once a week like he knows he is going or something. Poor Guy! Maybe we will get a break soon and I can sit and enjoy a beer or two or maybe three...

Sunshine!

I love the sunshine.. after all I was a lifeguard for 8 years (best job ever). Seems as though Texas has been getting its fair share of this stuff... I mean 51 days straight of 100+ temperatures. We are cooking down here... the past 2 nights have actually been nice enough that the kiddos can go out and play. Cooper keeps asking me every afternoon on the way home from school "Mommy, what time does da sunshine go bed?".. well Cooper I dont know but I wish he would at least take a nap and give us a break from this heat.

The one thing you leave with....

In church last Sunday our priest had a really interesting sermon one that I have thought about and pondered on all week. He was talking about all the things in life people get confused over and how you only leave here with just ONE of them. Its your character. If you look around people try to "keep up" with thy neighbor so to speak kinda like being the Jone's. They accumulate all these material things such as houses, cars, rings, clothes, etc but at the end of the day all we leave this great big world with is our Character... so I thought to myself hummm that one word sums it up. As I thought about it off and on all week I went ahead and looked up the meaning thinking it may clarify ....
character - is an evaluation of a particular individuals moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, and loyalty, or of good behaviors or habits.
Seems to me this may be one little word but encompasses a whole lot. It almost takes a lifetime to build and adhere to the one thing you take with you. So why is it most people never even put an ounce of energy into this one word and waste so much energy on being "the Jone's" or just ruining this one thing for themselves all together??

Cruisin Down the Street in my six-fo

Mommy got a new ride....Happy Early Birthday. We decided we needed more room to stretch our family out for road trips. Well I think this Nissan Armada will do the job, Cooper was upset this morning cause his daddy takes him to school "No mommy me new tar" so we may get to go cruisen around da hood this afternoon.

Get This one....

I had a girl tell me this week she came back to work because being a stay at home mommy was to HARD she needed a break! I looked at her like she was kidding at first... and then no by the look in her eye she was serious as a heart attack. I can talk to both sides of this as I have done both (maternity leave counts my friends), I went ahead and threw her a pair of these "Big Girl Panties" and told her to put them on cause she was going to need them in a few weeks (more like days). As the story went on she proceeded to tell me that she had a mommas day out twice a week, now her boys are not that much older than mine and about the same age distance between them. I am still looking at her and almost speechless thinking she is kidding me!! No No clearly she isn't so I start asking questions... are you looking for a mommy of the year award? cause clearly you are sugar coating this pile of SHIT that is coming out of your mouth... let me get this clear... you are coming back to work cause you stay home and basically have 2 days to yourself, you are required to cook dinner for the hubby and kids every night, take care of the kiddos 3 days a week, while doing that you still have the opportunity to run all your errans, grocery shop, wash clothes, you "PICK" up your house cause you have a maid clean every other week, you also have play dates on your 3 days of supervision, you go to the pool, you go shopping (and that she does very well), you also take your kids to the gym as you work out. Oh and did I mention she has family in town to help out as needed. I am so confused really all that is HARD??

I hope this girl has alot of big girl panties cause she is going to need them... and as far as Mommy of the Year year they dont give those out to Bull Shitters my dear friend.

Seems to me she has life pretty easy and a husband that must be blind... I dont have family in town to help and I do all that plus some and still work 50+ hours a week. I workout, go to work, play with my kids, do the dishes, cook dinner, clean my own house,wash clothes, give bathes, not many playdates cause we dont seem to have time to fit all those in a 168 hour week. Please dont be confused I am not complaining I love my life and I love my kids and thank god cause my husband helps a ton...but please I just wanted to choke this girl with my own big girl panties!!

Make-Up Day

Back in the day when I was much skinnier and had hair ( had to borrow that line from the hubby) I had just moved to Texas and didn't really know anyone worked 2 jobs to keep busy and lived in a 500 sq foot apartment by myself. I used to tell people if I was a dude that apartment was so small I could sit on the couch and pee in my sink..kinda gross but you get the idea... Anyway, as you can imagine any day cooped up in that space would get old real fast. I used to have to "Make-Up" stuff to go do... so during the week I would research things around Austin... for sure make out my little maps cause anyone who knows me knows I get lost going home most days. So I found all kinds of cool things to go do.... things outside of my Box as my friend Gloria says..I went to Central Market for Oatmeal (the best in town) I actually had time to go work out on Saturday mornings and go tan, too. I used to even go sit at the airport and watch people... now that makes for a interesting day... people are just weird including myself for getting that bored. I went and watched the latest movies on super hot days, wondered out towards the lake a few times. I somehow wondered over to my favorite hangout and to this day remains my favorite and meet some of my dearest friends at... The Outback. I have spent many a $$ and drank many a beer and discussed and solved every problem in the book at that bar.

Over the weekend I was wondering hummm do Make-Up days really even exists after you exit your 20s get married and have babies cause I would sure like to have one back....

ReGaining???

Yep..I am regaining.. and not weight I am actually on the opposite side of that finally. I am regaining my sense of humor these days. Several months have gone by and I have been wondering what the hell... I have been fighting insurance people over medical bills. So I have finally come to the conclusion two can play this game...we have a half a million dollar baby on our hands LITERALLY. Somehow they have managed to code things wrong, tell us we owe this and that. Some of the things we were charged for are just crazy.. They even went as far to tell us that since my husbands birthday falls before mine his insurance should cover the first 30 days of the baby's bills..WHAT but I put the baby on my insurance now my insurance doesn't want to cover and wants someone else to cover and encoraged us to sue. Isn't that what we pay insurance for in case of an emergency and not to have such a hassle in tough times?? It has been such a pain and they all want their money yesterday.... cause you dont just get one bill there are about 15 total...just amazing. So I decided we are going to do the best we can and pay 20 bucks a month and when Luke is 95 well he might be paid for by then.... until then we will carry on with life... it is far to stressful to worry day in and day out about this stuff.

So here is the latest one... the baby has to have another surgery in Sept and they are saying it is cosmetic...he has hypospadias (look that one up) REALLY believe me if it were that he is getting a big JOHNSON and going into the porn business and we are all going to be rich.. see I told ya I am regaining it..

My New not so Favorite Drink

So I was loving these drinks at Sonic and had been driving myself by there every afternoon for a little "mommy treat". UNTIL I looked up the dreaded nutritional information...on the Strawberry Limeaides Oh Lord and I thought I was doing good with the chunked up fresh strawberries.

Calories 481
Carbs 126
Sugars 112
Can you say "Holy Cow BECKY..look at her butt..." people already say that now so yeah Sonic I don't need any more of your help. They are good but not that good... so I am back to the wild strawberry Crystal Light drop in's to my water....oooooOOooooo all craZZzzzyy.

Fort God

We finally found a new church we really like... and we like to refer to it as "Fort God"..cause well it is huge and covers a lot of ground every where you look there is another building. Cooper was all excited this weekend cause he thought we was going to get to go to the nursery. So was mommy cause there is NEVER more than just a cry room at a Catholic church. We got to church and needless to say Cooper had to sit in church like a big boy with mommy, daddy, and Luke. Church got started and Cooper was doing really well for a 2 year old...then he got a little restless so we went outside... and about that time Cooper looks over at me and says:

"Mommy.."

Yes Cooper???

"Me MAD..."

Really Cooper, well why are you mad?

Me no nursery

so I guess Cooper was pretty upset about not getting to go to the nursery at church..I am glad he is so passionate about going to church now we just need to work on why we are going I guess... after all on the way there I had ask Cooper why do we go to church? yeah my 2 year old says "eat mommy" ok not the right answer but we will work on that..

My Handsome Men !!

Luv Ya Uncle Bobby

This is a picture of my Uncle Bobby (on the left) he passed this week and his funeral is today... it is so hard being so far away and not being home with my cousins and aunt, and my own family during such tough times. He fought a hard fight against cancer...he has been sick for some time and played golf until he just couldn't play anymore. I have to say I have alot of memories of my uncle Bobby.... he always laughs... and when I say always I mean ALWAYS... I dont think I ever saw the man in a bad mood or not laughing.
A story that always comes to mind about my uncle Bobby...He and my aunt lived in a two story house and my brother and I and my 2 cousins used to bump booties down the stairs and there were a bunch of em... he would lay on the couch watchin TV at the bottom in the living room and they had those rod iron rails you could see thru..and he would roll laughin at us and never said anything to us. You know we were being loud and he never heard a word of those TV shows. Probably cause we were always putting my little brother up to going head first....humm that was a disaster waiting to happen cause there was nothing but a solid wall at the bottom.

Thanks Uncle Bobby. I am sure going to miss your laughs.