HARRY POTTER HARRY POTTER HARRY POTTER!!!

NEED I SAY MORE!!!!! It opens today and we are all jazzed here!!! Or at least Caleb, Hannah and I are. We are going to the 6:30 showing this eveing. It's the first showing they have after school. I will be going at noon to get the tickets for me and for a friend of mine that is also going. I will return and report after I have seen it. Did I mention that I am excieted!!! LOL

Okay on to other news.....we are pretty much over the flu. For the most part. Hannah threw up again this morning, and I'm not sure why she isn't totally over it yet, but I think it may be her tummy just still being sensitive. I still have the other part of it a bit. Having to make some quick trips to the john, but other than that we seem to be past the worst of it. THANK HEAVEN!!! I sure didn't want a tummy bug to hamper or cancel our trip. Speaking of trip...we leave tomorrow evening for 9 fun filled days of visiting my family. Can't wait....To be honest...not looking forward to the actual traveling bit, but the visit I am anxious to get to. 18 hrs in a van with an 18 month old is not my kind of fun. But we have the dvd player and I wil bring some things for the kiddos to do, so we should be ok. Well, off to do some more preparing. Got a lot of time and not much to do! No...strike that. Reverse it! Later Gaters, Kai.

Puking Ickies.....

So I wake up at 5 am to pee...nothing unusual there. But I notice Caleb and Hannah's bedroom light is on. Very unusual for 5am! So I go in and find poor Hannah with her head in a bowl puking her guts up. And a pair of dirty panties on the floor. UGH!!! She has spent all day throwing up in an old ice cream bucket and wearing pull ups (that I went out at 5am to Walmart to get) so she won't make a mess. NOW....Caleb is doing it! Again...UGH!!! This is all I need. We are supposed to leave for Colorado on Saturday. I sure hope if we are all gonna get it, that we get it quick and get over it quick. I would hate to have to not go cuz we're ill! Or be ill on the trip. NOT FUN!!! Ok...time to pray and hope it all blows over really fast! Kai

***YAWN***

Ever wake up...thinking it's for the day...and just wanna go back to bed after about 30 or so minuets??? Well, that's me! Emma is still asleep and the middles are watching Saturday morning cartoons, and all I wanna do is crawl back in bed with E and snooze until she decides to wake up. Which would probably give me an hour or so. You know...that does not sound too terribily bad to be honest. Am I lazy? Is there something wrong with me?? Why can I not just get up at a decient hour and get busy on all the many things I need to do? I usually go to bed sometime between 10 and 12. It is usually right at 11 when Josh wants to watch that nasty South Park and I can't even stand to listen to the thing much less watch it! So...in bed at 11 and when I get up at 7:30 with the kids, that is 8 1/2 hours sleep. Why is it that it doesn't seem to be enough? Why is it that I can't get my butt up and going until after 10am most days? I just go back to bed after the kids go to school and don't get up until the baby does sometime between 9 and 11 usually. What the heck is my problem??? So...do I go back to bed for a bit or what??? And taking afternoon naps...that's another post all together!!! Kai

Thank God for Small Favors!!

So...we are leaving to have Thanksgiving with my family on the evening of the 19th. I am really excied about the trip, but I don't fancy traveling for 16+ hours with 3 kids under the age of 8. And one being under 2! SOOOO....as I did last year, I am borrowing a portable DVD player, kinda like the one to the left. It has 2...count em...2 screens that are detached from the base and can attach, via a strap, to the backs of the font seats in our van. Needless to say, this helped us ALOT last year!!! We actually didn't own any DVD's when we used it last year. We borrowed movies from a friend and Marks brother. BUT we bought a DVD player since and now own about a dozen or so films. Now...the kids have watched our movies a lot, but that's ok. I am going to buy one new one. Probably Robots or maybe Charlie and the Chocolate factory. Not sure which yet. Then I am also going to try to borrow a few others from my friend again. Anyway, I digress. The point I wanted to make was.... though having their heads stuck in the TV screen all the time isn't the best thing in the world.... having movies on a long trip is the BOMB!!! I would really like to get one of our own. I am going to look into maybe putting one on layaway at Wally world after Christmas, and finish paying it off with Tax returns. That way I don't have to borrow it whenever we want to use one. I think it would be well worth the investment. Peace and quiet goes a long way on an arduous journey!!! Okay, time for bed y'all! Later Gaters. Kai

Fall has fallen!

IT'S FALL!!! FINALLY IT IS FALL!!! It has been record heat here for more than a week here, but it is finally feeling more like autumn. And it puts me in the mood for PUMPKIN!! So this evening I made a pumpkin cake. It's a recipe that my mother inlaw gave me and it's a super yummy one. You use a cake mix and make up pumpkin like you would for a pie and after it's baked the cake is on top and the pumpkin is on bottom and it is to die for!!! I can't wait to dig in!!! I'm gonna get a big piece here in a minuet. I love pumpkin. I don't like it as a pie...Unless I can just eat the filling and not the crust....LOL. But this cake is wonderful and I make a MEAN pumpkin roll as well.

We are off to my parents for Thanksgiving here in about 9 days and I am VERY excited about it. We went last year and it was a lot of fun. I am hoping to get a lot of scrapbooking done with my sister and have the kids all do some crafting and just kick back and relax and attempt to forget my troubles for 9 whole days! God watch over us that we will be safe from harm.

Well....Survivor is on...so off for now to watch and snarf some cake. More later, Kai!

Update....and a bit more

Well..........It's over. HELLoween is over...LOL. I suppose I would probably enjoy it more if I just broke down and bought my kids their costumes. Instead of making them. But what fun would that be. I know that they don't really care where the costumes come from. But then I wouldn't have the joy of making them.....But then I wouldn't have the headache either. I suppose I will decide along time for school to start next fall what I'm gonna do. I am pretty sure I will at least make the Emma's. They had lots and lots of fun, though. They went trunk or treating at our church and at my inlaws. Then door to door trick or treating Monday night. I put all thier candy together in a big bowl and am handing it out a piece at a time. My MIL said she just let her kid have their bags and eat it until it was gone. But I don't really like them to eat that much at a time. PLUS I don't want to deal with a fight when one is out and the other has some left and won't share. She said that they have to learn to deal with it sometime. But (((I))) am not willing to "deal" with the fighting. Mommy is a whimp...LOL. I have enough of arguing and fighting without putting candy in with it as it is. But it's over. THANK THE LORD!!!
Now, Mark and I are painting the windows at Family Dollar for Christmas. It's lots of fun, but also lots of work as well. I had 2 people ask me if I would do their windows while I was working on them last night. I hope this will turn into a little side business. That would be way COOL. I could get money for Christmas and maybe some for our trip in 3 weeks as well!!!
Going home for Thanksgiving!! I'm really psyched!!! Can't wait. We had SOOOO much fun last year. 3 WEEKS 3 WEEKS 3 WEEKS!!! YEA!!! LOL....I know, I know....I NUTS!!! But at least I'm in a good mood today.
Off I go. Got lots to do. Need to clean and shop and maybe finish the windows today. Catch you later gaters! Kai