Father's Day Tribute

I know Father's Day is over already, but is it ever to late to be thankful for the kind of Father that made sure you could take flight when the time was right. My Dad was that kind of man. He was certainly the kind of Dad that worked his ass off to make sure we had all our necessitates and then some. He still is working to this day to take care of my Mom. Where character counts, he is in.
He has a lot of kids, but he made the time and effort to be with us. Yes, he yelled about the tools missing or he didn't get enough sleep and was a grumpy old coot, but he still was there. In my teen years we fought like enemies, but when I left home, I cried because he is the one I missed the most. No offense to my mom, I missed her too. But, to a girl her Dad is everything.
I am proud to say, that I am a Daddy's girl! I only hope the same will be for my girls. There is nothing in the world like a Dad's love, and attention.
So I say, "Hooray," for all you Dads who make the effort to be with your children! Byron J. Reed is my Hero and always will be. Thank you, Dad, for all you have done for us Kids!

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Grounding Children Brings Everyone Back to the Basics

Insanity is realizing when grounding your chikdren you are bringing everyone including ones self back to basics. Recently, I have had to ground my two older children because they were getting to big for their britches as my mom would say. Since Andy has started 7th grade his grades are going down and he has thought it cool to tell me my opinions don't matter...wow that one threw me into a loop. Annabelle just likes to tell everyone to shut up including her Dad...I need not say more.

With Andy who has had almost straight A's in elementary, I am at a loss for what is going on. I have spoke to other Mothers and they seem to say that it is normal. I don't know...I do know that he is going to fix it if he ever wants to see his friends again. Annabelle is like her Mom and speaks before she thinks...it is a good lesson to learn early.

This weekend started out rough because the kids were bored. I took all electronics away. So the first thing that comes to their minds is to wrestle and fight...I am not a referee. By the end of the day we all were playing games and enjoying each others company. I couldn't watch TV because I caught one sitting in a corner and being sneaky. So I figured I would turn it off so there were not temptations...I have also blocked all there favorite channels because I caught one at the Tv when I was in bed.

Anyways. after last night I realized that the grounding was good for all of us because without it we are all in our own little spaces with our own little techno gadgets not having interactions with each other.

Blogging via my mobile phone

Insanity is being able to blog via your cell phone. How times are changing! so here we are with technologies that can keep us all connected, but it is hard to feel connected unless we have that physical contact. So with that said I hope to keep up more with my blog. I do love my new phone the voyager.

Annabelle's !0th Birthday Party

Wow, what a day it was for Annabelle's birthday party! Lots and Lots of family, friends and love. I'm going to let pictures speak for themselves, because frankly from all the fun I am exhausted. As Andy says, "It is a momentous birthday!"

Happy New Year

To my brother Ben's persistance I have decided to update. I only have 24 minutes left on my public library computer so I may make fast. Christmas was a blast. This year we kept it so simple that it actually was more enjoyable. I didn't feel the stress that I wasn't going to get my kids exactly what they wanted, because I told them up front to not expect much and that they should be grateful to get anything. With Mike's work slowing to almost a stop money has become tight.

New years we did our normal game of Monopoly. It was fun until my husband decide to hustle me and I told him that I was his wife and that was wrong. I have been informed that there are no marriages in Monopoly. What a bummer, that must of been why I spent most of my game time in jail. It was still a fun night.

School starts back tomorrow so some peace may come to the house. I, however, have not felt peace in my heart since my Mom's diagnosis has been grim. It is if their is a constant pulling on my heart.

I hope everyone's holidays were a beautiful time. Happy Birthday to Tyler(even though I am a bit late). I leave you with pictures of our unuasal snow fall. They were taken via my camera phone because my other cameras batteries were dead.

Love,

Carmen

Getting Rid of Dial up

Insanity is dial-up. Well, I have had my fill of the Internet world and dial-up, so I have opted out of paying for it. So until I can afford another form of Internet service that doesn't require me to wait hours for one page to load, I will be using the free Internet at our local library. Thus I will still have my AOL email account and access my email. But I will not be on daily as I have been known to do. It may free up some time for some other things I enjoy doing, like scrapbooking. So until further notice I may not get to blog like I do. I will be back, as Arnold Schwarzenegger said in Terminator.
~Carmen