talented!

Last night we went to the Fall band/choir concert at the high school. It was amazing! First they had the band and choir up there together. They have 4 different divisions of the band. Then they did a choir skit for Halloween where all the choir kids dressed up, danced and sang on stage. It was wonderful! Marco is in the marching band Sarah isn't she is just in the regular band. After the choir got done they said we have a surprise for you... all of a sudden we heard the drumline rocking it out and they all proceeded to march into the audotorium! OMG I could hardly stay still it was amazing! Marco plays the bass drum on the drumline and they are amazing. I love the sound of them! They went to a competition a few weeks ago and took all 1's! They are marching in the Thanksgiving day parade in Detroit. Just amazing! I am so proud of my kids. They are all musically gifted! I was in band in school too although I didn't take it as serious as they do I wish I would have.

I can't believe Halloween is tomorrow! We plan on having a bunch of kids over before trick or treating. Then the parents are gonna stay have a bonfire and a few beers! It should be fun. We get a ton of kids at our house every year. I love the little ones they are so damn cute!

I hope everyone has a good weekend and a Happy Halloween!

I posted some pictures at the top because I can never get them where I want them lol. One is of Marco in the parade he is the one on the far left. The other is Sarah with her cheer friends. She is in the middle.

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I didn't think the last picture was big enough LOL

Wow

Time goes by so fast I can't even believe it is Thursday and Halloween is Saturday! It just seems like it is flying by! I went my class reunion on Saturday and it was alot of fun! I don't know if I mentioned that in high school I was not nice. I feel bad for it now but there is nothing I can do about it. I teased people... alot! I always cringe about seeing some people because I know they remember how mean I could be back then. I am a totally different person now. I guess it is all the pot I smoked back then or the drinking. See I grew up in a lower middle class area and that is what us kids did back then. The funny thing is my mom had no clue. She still says to this day my kids never smoked pot or drank LOL. I keep letting her think that. Anyway, getting back to the reunion. Nick, me and Marsha drove together. We got there late because I needed a nap so everyone was pretty much there. After being there for awhile Marsha came over and said OMG Henry is here. I was like the Henry we used to tease? See we all thought he was gay and you know that was back then it was unheard of. We were in the 7th grade and he was in my first hour. Alot of my guy friends were in that class too. Most of us being pretty high... isn't that horrible? We got this great idea to find out if he was gay. The idea was they would hold him down and I would kiss him and see his reaction. He ran and cried so we were all sure he was gay. I continued to pick on him thru out high school too. When Marsha said he was there I thought to myself OMG I wonder what he is thinking of me. We went over to him to say and asked if we could take a picture with him. His response when he seen me was you used to always flirt with me. I was like WTH??? He said remember when you kissed me well I never washed that cheek for a week. I was shocked! He is not married and never has been so still not sure if he is gay not that it even matters now. I was just glad that he responded to me with a positive attitude instead of hating me. If I could take it all backI would but I can't. Here is a picture of me and Marsha with him and one of Nick and I.

Have a great day!

blog absent

I know I have not posted in a week and that is not like me... we have been really busy! My kids are keeping me running and running! I am glad football season is almost over that will make life a little bit easier. There have been so many things going on I just don' t know what to blog about LOL.

Lets start with Dom's birthday. He ended up going to dinner with his friends and then they all came back to the house for cake. There was about 20 of them. In Michigan the newer houses only have what we call a great room which is one huge room. So they were all in there and I decided to go in my room and hide LOL. I kept coming out and talking to them because I do truly enjoy them just in small does. The last one left at like 1:30 a.m. We got Dom a Blackberry for his birthday and he is loving every minute of it. The poor kid is exhausted half the time. He took 16 credits this semester. I told him 12 would be enough but ya know what does mom know? He goes to school Monday - Thursday and works Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I was feeling kinda bad for him last week he just looked exhausted.

Moving on to Marco... this kid just cracks me up. He is so full of love for everyone you can't help but love him. This is his favorite time of year. We decorated last weekend and he was in his glory. Nick is a director of Operations for an alarm company so this past week he installed an elite alarm system in our house fully equipped with cameras outside. Marco loves this because every year someone messes with our decorations. Nick has it set up so we can watch it on my TV in my bedroom. You can see like 4 screens. It really is sweet! Last night we got home and the decorations were messed with so when I get home from work we are gonna rewind it to see who was doing it. I can even look at it from work on my computer. I can see if they have people over after school when I am not home... I like it!

Sarah is a monster lately! She is so hormonal she is driving me nuts! Everything I say is not right or not exactly the way she thinks I should of said it. I guess this is what 16 is all about.

Colleen's daugther had her baby today at 2:38 this morning. He weighed 9 lbs. 6 ozs. We left yesterday morning at 6:30 a.m. to go to the hospital. She was induced and we waited and waited and waited. I forgot how long it can take! I had to work today so at like 1:00 a.m. I left to get some sleep and she had it right after that. I have to say I am kinda glad and disappointed at the same time. I guess she turned into a monster. It was hard watching her as it was it makes you feel so helpless. I decided that I never want to watch my daughter go thru that it would kill me. Anyway it was all good he is healthy and so is she!

Tonight is our 25th year class reunion... the official one. I need to go home and take a nap to be ready for it!

have a great weekend!

Friday

I am so glad it is Friday and I am actually leaving work at 12:00... and I don't work tomorrow! I am looking forward to spending the weekend with my family! It has been a busy Fall and I want to decorate. It will be fun! We normally are decorated by now we are just behind. I hope everyone enjoys their weekend :)

Birthday

Tomorrow is Dom's birthday... he will be 19. Did you hear that my baby is gonna be 19! My oldest niece has the same birthday and she will be 23! These kids are getting too old. I was thinking back today of this day 19 years ago. I.felt.like.shit!!!! I was not in hard labor at all in fact my X took me to the hospital with my sister in tow lol. They sent me home at like 5:00 in the morning. Said I was only dilated to 1 but eat light and they were sure I would be back. Well, it was a Sunday and I went home to bed and just pretty much didn't feel good the whole day. Nothing in particular just didn't feel well. Later in the day when we were getting ready to eat I still didn't feel good. We sat down to watch the 9:00 o'clock movie (do u remember those LOL) and I started having some contractions again nothing regular nothing big. I was so not informed back then. They tell you in your birthing classes that when you go thru transition you will say things like I can't do this or shake. I was doing all that at home but because my contractions were not regular the dr said to give me 2 tylenol and send me to bed. I got up to go to bed it was about midnight and I went to the bathroom and I puked, bleed and had diahareea at the same time. I told my X I am not going to bed you are taking me to the hospital. This was a joke in itself because I didn't even have a bag packed. He had to take a shower and get all fancy before we left and I was sure I was dying in the hallway of our apartment. It was a 45 minute drive to the hospital. I got there, they checked me in and told me to go change in the bathroom. Once I got in the bathroom I could not move. I seriously just laid my head over the handicap rail and cried. The nurse came in to help me. I got in the bed the dr came in to check me. Her exact words were I am gonna break your water and you can start pushing. I was like WHAT!!! She said your dilated to 9. I was shocked!!!! I thought I was being a big baby. It turns out I wasn't LOL. My X was not even upstairs yet from registering me. So as soon as he got in the room I started pushing and the next thing I knew I was flying down the hall to the delivery room. We get into the delivery room I continue to push then all of a sudden the dr says stop. Well what the hell how do you stop that??? Then he said the cord is wrapped around his neck twice. I STOPPED!!! I continued once he got it from around his neck. I never said anything harsh to anyone not one word out of the way until.... I sat up and looked down at the dr and said excuse me... he said yes... I said do you have your finger up my ass... he had this look of terror on his face. The room was totally quiet and he answered no. I said well it sure the hell feels like it. Then the whole room cracked up. After about 5 pushes Dom was born. It just amazes me to look back and think about it. It seems like yesterday and I can remember every detail vividly.

So Happy Birthday to my big man!!!!! I love you more than you will ever know or I could ever express.

Fighting

Nick and I normally don't find too much. I have learned from my first marriage that I don't say anything until I am calmed down otherwise it comes out nasty and I say things I should not. Thursday night we were off the Sarah's game and it was parent night. The weather was nasty so we decided since they do the parent night thing at half time we would sit in the car and wait. Nick and I started bickering over a phone call. Yep a phone call. I thought we were over it but apparently he was not gonna drop it. So he says to me 2 minutes before half time starts that I have a choice he can drive me home to get my car which there was not enough time or I could have Dom come and pick me up cuz he was leaving. I was like WTF are you kidding me. His reply was no. I said whatever and got out with my umbrella and took off in the game. When the parent night thing was over I texted Dom to come get me and he was at church. I had to call Colleen to come get me. Talk about being pissed... that wasn't even the word for it. I was furious. All the way home I kept telling myself don't say anything until you have cooled down well that never happened. I walked in the door and just blew up at him. After screaming at him I told him to pack his shit and get out. I know the minute I said it I didn't mean it but I just could not help myself. I was so mad at him and embarrassed. So he packed a bag and I tried to talk to him as he was walking out but he was not having it. He left. I was devastated! I stayed up all night pissed at myself for saying that knowing that Ididn't mean it. I tried to text him to tell him to come home and he would not answer. I got online and looked at the account and he had already got a hotel room. I still didn't sleep all night and didn't even go to work on Friday. I tried to talk to him all day Friday and nothing. Friday night he came home but we didn't tallk he was still pissed at me. I was pissed at him too. I worked Saturday and after work I came home and we finally talked. We worked things out but why oh why do we say things we don't mean. I just try so hard to not do that. It sucks! I felt horrible. I still felt horrible on Sunday that we had to go thru that. Oh well you live and learn.

So that was my weekend. I sure hope everyone else had a better weekend.

Weekend

It was a busy yet fun weekend. I can't post any pictures yet because we changed internet companies and I won't get my new one til tomorrow night. Sarah looked soooo beautiful and Marco looked like such a dude. They had a blast. They took a limo bus with 25 kids in it. We did the same thing this time as we did for Snowcoming. We did a pot luck dinner at one of the kids houses. Marco voluteered me to make pasta so I was gonna buy Ragu which I never do but he said nooooo mom you homemade sauce. We got home Friday night at like 10:00 and my plan was to wake up early Saturday morning to make the sauce. The problem was I had to go to the store to get the stuff. I was laying in bed Saturday morning at like 8:00 and I smelled the sauce cooking. I got up and Nick had already went to the store and made the sauce. He also made me a huge breakfast. I was soooo happy!!

The road rally went well Sunday. Our group of girls is so different. We have like 3 that are really shy and 2 that are not. They shy ones are starting to open up tho it is kinda cute to see them all interact together LOL.

I also have a cold from Marco he shares his germs LOL. I guess the weather change doesn't help either. It was freggen cold here all weekend.

Its Monday and I don't have anything else to say so have a good day!

Beautiful

It is a beautiful sunny Fall day here. The air is nice and crisp. I had to turn the heat on last night it got down to 38. Frost on my windshield this morning. Whether I want Fall to come or not it is and I am embracing it with a smile. Its Winter I hate. I don't feel so crabby today :)

The youth group meeting went well last night. I had fun with the girls and they actually think Donna and I are cool because we text LOL. They were all so cute!

This is my schedule for the rest of the week.

Tonight: Women's Bible study
Tomorrow: Homecoming parade and game
Saturday: Homecoming dance
Sunday: Church and road rall at night

whewww I am tired just reading that LOL

I am actually excited about all of it. I love being busy. I got up this morning made Nick's lunch, started dinner in the crock pot and will go home shortly eat and head off with Donna.

I hope everyone has a great day!!!!