BACK TO SCHOOL BLOG HOP

"Back To School" Blog Hop"

Welcome to Our First Blog Hop

It is a small one, but some really wonderful projects. I would like to say "Thank You" to everyone that shared their talents and to everyone for coming to hop with us.

this is a layout i did of my daughter kelsie in 4th grade with her teacher. she is in 6th now so that tells you how far behind i am lol.

this is my other daughter kiara in 3rd grade, she's the one who hates school and begs me to homeschool her.

this one is of khloe, my little weirdo kid lol, she loves loves loves school and is begging for summer vacation to be over so she can go back. this is her first time on the bus for kindergarten, she is now going into 3rd.

so thanks for stopping by and leave me a comment. follow me and i'll follow you. also if you choose to follow put that in your comment and i'll pick a winner for a cool little goodie pack on tuesday.

Thank you for stopping by and now it is off to the rest of the hop you will now go to:

Colleen - http://www.sassycrafter13.blogspot.com/

Tina - http://www.craftyandgreen.blogspot.com/

Candace - http://www.mypassion4scrappin.blogspot.com/

Dawn - http://www.strawberryrainsdelights.blogspot.com/

Thank you again for hopping with us and I hope that you enjoy all the projects and talents each one has brought to this hop.

Happy Crafting!!!!

maya road sneek peek

ok heres a cool peek to check out scrappers. of course maya road is always cool. but check it out and enter for your chance to win.
http://mayaroad.typepad.com/mayaroad/2011/01/day-1-of-maya-road-sneak-peek-week.html#comment-form

has it been a year?

omg i can't believe its been a year since i have blogged. i guess my life is busier than what it seems. hmmmmmmm i guess i am as bad at blogging as i am at keeping a journal. so what has happened in the past year? a lot actually.
 kelsie is now 10  and going thru puberty and asking all sorts of questions that i hate answering but i do and truthfully too. not to mention she is almost as tall as me and her feet are now bigger than mine. she passed 4th grade with flying colors and is now wanting to join band and walk to and from school, which i said she could do in 5th grade, back when she was in 3rd grade, but i am still not sure if i am comfortable with the idea. maybe on the warmer days i will let her ride her bike or something, i dont know. i know i used to walk to school at her age but i am just so worried about kidnappers and stuff. but we are becoming so much closer and a lot less fighting between us. it used to be world war 3 between us, but with this puberty thing and all the questions and me being honest and her being more responsible, it has really changed our relationship.
kiara is now 8 and going to be 9 in october. she has came a long way. her reading went from begining first grade level to begining 3rd grade level, which is awesome. and they are still going to be working with her when she goes back to school. she is in a program called fast and it has helped tremendously. it also helped that she got glasses too. she is maturing but still a bit behind for being almost 9. she is really in between right now. she cant decide if she wants to grow up or stay little and reverts back and forth between the two and it causes a lot of anger and frustration for her. she wants to do the big girl stuff but still wants to have that mommy security. it really frustrates me too. at least there is no more mud covered bathrooms anymore from her lol. her autism is really hindering her but she is breaking thru it bit by bit. she even made a best friend last year and is going to be in the same class with her this year. her teacher made sure of it, like their a package deal. this girl beth is really advanced and smart and helps kiara and makes kiara want to do better and doesn't make kiara feel stupid. she is a great asset to kiara and i am so glad that she has found this best friend.
khloe is just khloe, she is still refusing to flush toilets and being my snuggle. she is reading awesomely and got glasses also. her most exciting adventure was getting stitches this summer instead of cleaning her room she was laying under her desk pulling the drawer in and out with her foot and pulled it to hard one time and it slipped out and the corner got her right above the eyebrow. she was so lucky it didnt get her eye. she had to get 5 stitches and it took 3 of us to hold her down to get the numbing shot. not that i blame her, if someone was coming at my eye with a foot long needle i would be screaming too. but getting them out she just sat there and didnt cry or anything. she was so happy cause it meant she could go swimming again.
they all got their back to school haircuts today and i am ready for school to begin.

insanity!!! july-16

ok seriously is there like something in childrens dna or psyche or something that drives them to make their parents completely insane? i am not even kidding i need to know the answer to this because i am about ready to litterally string up my 2 youngest kids by their feet and hang em from a freakin tree and i don't even care if there are witnesses!!!! and you may ask omg, what could possibly drive a mother to feel this way about her children? well ya know what you dont live with my children. so dont judge me!! now yeah i chose to have them all and normally i love being a mom and i love my children always no matter how mad i am and i expect the normal idiocy of kids, i mean their kids, you know skate ramps in the backyard, dirt, messes whatever, but i did not sign up for unflushed toilets and mud that completly covers every surface of a room. and both problems obviously occur in the bathroom. so lets address problem A first.
now my dd khloe who is 5 has some sort of problem with flushing the toilet, she knows how, she is more than capable but she refuses!!!!! and it is driving me crazy cause then my whole house smells disgusting. the kids have their own bathroom and generally i stay out of it except to clean it once a week. they are responsible for keeping it tidy, and i always have to yell at them about it. but i went in there this morning because i am missing 5 towels so i figured i would check if they are in there and the smell hit me instantly and i swear i gagged it was so gross it was like that toilet hadn't been flushed since last week, which it probably hasnt, the kids we using our bathroom becausse they said their sink was clogged but i bet it was the smell and the nasty toilet the kept them out of there (for the most part anyway), and i kept smelling pee and i couldn't figure out where it was coming from and figured the stray cats were peeing by my front door again and so i poured bleach out there but i still smelled it. so i found the source of the nasty smell. so after flushing the toilet i paused and took a good look around the bathroom, OMG!!!! i am telling you my hair stood up on end like a rabid wolf or something. i was out for blood!!!! just thinking about it now makes me want to take and rip somebody apart limb from limb. there was mud caked on every wall, across the rugs, on the floor, covering the sink and countertop, and all across the bathtub. and i am not talking about a handprint or a tiny smear, i am talking like COVERED in mud, and yes the sink was clogged and unusable because of mud being caked in the drain. now some people would be like ok well just clean it up but hell no you didnt see this, i was livid. this is going to take hours to clean up. and not only that but when i spend 500$ on wallpaper, 1,000$ on a sink and cabinet thingy (on sale) 100$ on rugs, 40$ on those litte towel hanger thingys, 2,000$ on tile i expect it to be used as a bathroom and kept at least reasonably picked up. not treated like a freaking wallowing hole for a big fat pig. and i know exactly who the culprit of this little escapade was. it was the one and only kiara rain, who is 7 and completly knows better and when she gets back from vbs she will be cleaning it all. so needless to say i went off this morning. i made them cry and feel bad and i even cussed at them, and you know what, I DON'T EVEN FEEL BAD about it, i hope to god that i hurt their feelings and i hope that their scared that i may beat them until they bleed from their ears, i hope that their fragile little self esteem is broken, because thats how they should feel. and you can call me a cruel heartless bitch all you want, but when my husband works his ass off to give this family a great life and for us to have nice things and i work my ass of taking care of these kids and loving and feeding and do everything humanly possible for these kids and putting all this time and energy into my family and home, and for them to turn around and treat it like garbage and trash the hell out of it, yeah i hope their little hearts are broken. cause i will tell you this, they will never pull this kind of crap again, NEVER!!! and not one of the other kids said a word to me about it, so they got yelled at too.

oops i forgot the pics

i forgot to post the pics with the july15th blog so here they are

July 15th

man i have been busy busy around here. 4th of july was crazy, we had my sil and her hubs and kids here and also my bil and then 3 of my nephews and my stepson and our 3 girls, i mean we have the room and could've had more people over but i just wasn't in the mood for people, i dont know every since i got sick last year i have just been becoming more and more reclusive, i hate even going to the grocery store because i have to deal with people. idk maybe its just the people i am around. because nobody appreciates anything and they all leave big messes for me to clean up. we used to have big fireworks shows and bbq's and all kinds of parties and stuff but i put an end to it because of all the work i put into and then i cant even enjoy any of it because i have to constantly clean up after people. and i know thats how it generally is when you the hostess but still hubs could help a bit and people could at least say thank you, o but anyway i am not here to rant. so the 4th was cool we all went to clawson for the fireworks show and of course people were driving around the parking lot like idiots so i put the kids in the trunk of the car so they wouldn't get run over or kidnapped or anything. and they ooooh'ed and ahhhh'ed and had a great time. then we all came back to the house for a bonfire and it was cool. we didnt serve drinks or food so there wasn't anything to clean up :). it was pretty mellow esp. for us. and then on the 12th we went to the beach just us and we all got sunburned even with spf 50 sunblock on. and we put it on 2x while we were there. i dont know i think we need like spf 5 billion or something. but the kids played in the water and buried each other in the sand and hubs went out with the for a bit and was throwing them into the air and stuff, not so much with khloe he would just kinda skim her under the water cause she doesnt know how to swim yet and had her arm floaties on. and that poor girl is just as white as i am, kiara on the other hand got more of the italian genes and is darker and tans really well. lucky girl. and monday started vbs (vacation bible school) for the girls and they are having a blast at that. today they are making wooden crosses and had to wear daddys workshirts to class so they dont mess up their clothes. usually i go back to sleep after they leave but i really missed my coffee this morning so i got up and made me a cup. now i just got to find the energy to paint my toenails cause saturday is KID ROCK and hubs got me tickets for mothers day....wooooooooooohoooooo. i cant wait. my dd kelsie is in love with nick jonas from the jonas brothers and we keep telling her that we are going to a jonas brothers concert and that we have backstage passes to hang out with the band and that we only have two tickets and she can't go. she keeps coming up with plans to try to sneek into the concert or begging for daddy to let her go and he can stay home. i told her she cant go but that i will bring her back an autograph, and daddy keeps telling her i am going to kiss nick and she is freaking out, its totally too hilarious. i am just trying to figure out how to sneek in my camera. i know a million people are going to and its going to be up on utube faster than you can blink but i just dont know how to do it. so i got to work that one out.
oh and one other thing on the 12th i dropped a magazine on my toe and sliced it open. yes from a damn magazine. i seriously thought i broke my toe. its just unbelievablly crazy. i was getting things ready to go to the beach and had my hands full of stuff and it slipped and landed right on my toe, a big thick gardening mag. 3 days later and it still hurts. geesh. but ok i am off to paint my nails. hagd e1.

june 24

hi ya hi ya ladies how is everyone? doin ok here myself. my rugrats have behaved themselves pretty good today so not a lot of stress there. and i am ready to choke the hubs but thats nothing new lol, cause he left the attic door open and yelled at me about it but all in all a fairly good day. yesterday i got my bedroom all rearranged and the air conditioners installed so thats a plus i also discovered the mess my girlies made under my bed and got that all cleaned up and found ny diamond earrings so another plus. today i got my bit of grocery shopping done and made a layout that i really really like. it of my hubs for fathers day. but other than that life is pretty much the same. just really hot and sticky. it was 92 freakin degrees here, i dont mind the heat but in michigan we have 9 thousand layers of humidity and it just kills ya. well i am off to scrap some more.