Old enough to know better

Okay so I am keeping my little nephew who will be 4 in October because his mom, dad, and 15 year old brother went on a crusie. There is exactly 10 months apart from my little nephew and my little boy.

So anyways he gets to my house yesterday evening and things are going great the boys eat and decided they want to go play outside til dark. I have no problem with this at all. So at dark I call the boys in so I can give them baths and lay them down to watch a little tv before I put them to bed. So I walk in after the boys and can't help to smell an over powering poop smell. My first thought was someone stepped in dog poop. So naturally I look at my shoes first then tell the boys to show me the bottom of their shoes. Nothing, but geez the smell is still so powerful then I notice on the floor there is a little terd. I thought maybe one of the boys stepped in it and it just came off there shoe.

So I go on and get the boys bath water running and still that smell is so strong. So I call both boys in there and notice that the smell gets even worse. Then as the boys are taking their clothes off to get in the bathtub I notice my little nephew is filthy from the waste down. Then when I turn him around to look at the back of his legs I notice it! Holy cow he crapped on himself and kept playing like it was nothing.

Now let me remind you that this kid is almost 4 and has been pottied trained from a year. Now as I mom and human being I understand that accidents happen. However, this was no accident! His pants are completely full and it was running everwhere from him sitting and jumping on the trampoline with it. It is one thing for a kid his age to do the do a little then realize oh crap this isn't a false alarm I got to go. I can even understand if his little stomach would have been tore up, but there again you could tell the difference by the poop. This was I should have came inside and went to the potty but I didn't want to so I took care of it in my pants things.

When my little boy saw it he was disgusted...lol. He told his little cousin that was gross and you don't go to the bathroom in your pants. This is even funnier, then he proceeds to say, "Did I go to the bathroom in my pants, noooo, I go to the potty."

Okay as mean as it sounded I had to take him outside to spray him off with the water hose because it was everywhere. When I say everywhere I mean from the middle of his back to down to his feet! Now I am not exaggerating about this one bit. I had already ran the bath water so putting him in the shower was not an option. If I would have put him in a sink we would have had a bigger mess than we already have.

So naturally while I was spraying him and his clothes off with the water hose I asked him why and didn't go to the potty and if his belly had hurt. This kid has the nerve to tell me "No it didn't and I didn't want to use the potty and I had to go poopoo." I am like wow. So I gave him the lecture that he was almost 4 and he was a big boy and he need to use the potty if he needed to do his business.

I can just imagine what is in store for me until Sunday if this happened just a few hours after I got him.

Summer time!

Wow so I can tell summer time is here.

I woke up the other night hot as heck. I have to sleep with the air condition on 65 degrees at night. My little boy and I like it really cold when we sleep. So when I woke up I was very alarmed. I looked at the thermostat and it said 76 degrees. I was like oh crap this is not happening. I went out side and saw that the outside unit lines were completely froze. The worse part about it was Friday night and the air condition place are not open on the weekend. So all weekend long we had to fight the heat during the day just so we could sleep peacefully.

We had the air condition man come out today and learned that we have a pin whole leak. Over a year we are losing one pound of freon a year. Which only cost about 60 dollars a year. It will cost 400.00 to find the pin whole and patch it. The cost of this stuff it too outrageous.

It seems to get hotter and hotter every year! The air condition people seem to jack up the prices as the summer seem to get worse.

Sometimes I wonder!

Okay so I got a call from my sister the other day wanting me to keep my nephew for a little less than a week because her, my brother-in-law, and my oldest nephew, who is 15, are going on a cruise. I have known about this trip since they booked it months ago but was told that my sister's mom was going to keep my nephew. So naturally I asked her why her mother wasn't going to keep him. She proceeds to tell me last week she had to go to Dallas for a week for work (understandable) but since they are taking my older nephew on the cruise with them that they needed some time alone. So my brother-in-law decided to go up there with her and her mom kept both of the boys for a week.

Now let me inform you they leave to go on this cruise this Sunday. So they were away from this 3 year old for a week, back for a week, and now they are leaving him for another week. Does anyone else see something wrong with this. I do not understand how someone could stay away from their kid so much and it not even phase them.

I can't leave my kid for a whole night without having that empty feeling and that need to be with him. I just don't understand. I am starting to wonder about the parents of today.

I don't understand!

So i haven't been posting much here lately on the blog. I have been really busy and kind of loss for words. It seems I have my off days just like anyone else. I have a rough time dealing with the death of my best friend and it has been 6 years this past March. Life goes on and more memories are built everyday. It just makes things a little harder when I see my little boy. My little boy reminds me so much of my best friend, Lance. The way he smiles, his sense of humor, and his caring and loving nature are all the things that link the two together for me. I guess my little boy was a gift to remember him by I don't know.

So then I have this other issue. I have many many wonderful people in my life. However, two people you need the most are usually your parents. Both of my parents are alive but they don't care about me or my family one bit. Now my mom, for as long as I can remember, always had something else in her life more important than her husband and her kids. That would be drugs and alchohol. My dad, on the other hand, raised me with my step mom. It is the classic step mom hates the kids senario. My dad has 3 daughters and 5 grandkids. My step mom has 1 daughter and and granddaughter, she treats as a daughter, and 3 great grand kids. This lady has pushed 2 of my daughters out the one left is a manager of a credit union. Needless to say she keeps her around for financing and stuff. Anyways, the point is my dad has just let it all happen. She doesn't like for his kids or grandkids to be around only hers. Go figure!

Anywho so with all my bull that I deal with I move on and try to make the best family I can for my little boy. I want him to grow up in an loving and supporting family. He is my world!

I just can't understand how anyone could put ANYONE or THING above the precious most wonderful life you brought in this world.

Okay enough of my sappy life...lol.

It has been awhile!

Okay so things have been a little up and down here lately, which is why I haven't wrote a blog in awhile. I have been so frustrated about some of the things that have been going on lately. I was almost done fixing my little boys room when all the sudden it started pouring down rain in his room. I was so upset and mad that I had did all that hard work just for it to be crushed! Anywho, we have moved past that. It took me a little bit let it go but I did. So we are fixing the roof once again and we are going to pick up and start fixing the rest of the house house over again.

Anyways other then that things have been good.

Some Companies part 2

Okay so you know how I was telling you in my previous blog about my husband's job. He calls Wednesday to tell them to make sure they leave his paycheck at the office so we could pick it up. Well let me just tell you, my husband's foreman said and I quote "oh well, we went ahead and just laid you off yesterday". OMG....are you freaking kidding me! They apparently didn't think that we needed to know! All I can say is WOW!!!! I guess they figured they would just hold out as long as possible so it would take longer to file unemployment on them. Well they were so long and we even claimed it back til Monday.

Dang Companies

Some companies amaze me. My husband is a welder so he works for a construction company out in the plants. There is not a whole lot going on around here due to the economony. Anyways, the company he works for has sent him home the last two day he has went in to work. They tell him they don't have any work for them right now but don't wont him to come in unless they call him to come in. They tell the workers they don't wont to give them a layoff because they will have something in a week or so. So in the meantime, we are suppose to sit on our thumbs and not draw any unemployment. Time are getting tougher and we can just just and wait for a phone call. The sad part is that everyone knows the company is getting paid for the workers service whether they are there or not. It is just a way to pocket more money.

Some inventions!

I was watching a tv show called "Modern Marvels" it is about things people have invented. They have some people inventing this thing sort of like a dolphine fin. It is to help people swim faster. They are also hoping to for people to be able to eventually leap out of water just like dolphins and whales. I am not too sure what a normal person would do with this inventions but I see divers being able to use it. I know how important time is to a diver. So being able to get down to the desired location and back to the boat with greater speed would be very useful. I just thought this was kind of interesting.

Chips

My family is big chip eaters, especially my little boy. So I usually buy the variety pack so there is something for everyone. It makes me so mad that there is always the same packs of chips. Lays makes some really good flavored chips so I wished they would make a variety of the variety packs. That way the variety pack doesn't get old because it has the same chips in it all the time. I think I have seen two variety packs and they are not much different.

If you are wondering why I just don't go buy the family size chips if it is that big of a deal. I would, but they would go stale. If I buy a big bag that bag has to be eaten before the next one is open. My family doesn't like to eat the same chips over and over. They like to have the different kinds, that is them not me. I personally do not care one way or the other.

I also get a little ticked off when I pay almost six dollars for all those chips and the bags maybe half full if you are lucky. We have actually opened up a bag for my little boy and there literally like 7 chips. I am being serious, it was crazy. My husband and 4 year old eat to bags of chips with their sandwhich, or whatever they are eatting at the time. All the chips are like that though. I feel like we are have to pay for the air that they fill in those bags with. I believe that they do that to keep the chips fresh. I don't really know but if that is the case is that much air really necessary.

Have you ever notice that?

Here is another one of those Random thoughts.

In one of my past blogs, I explained that sometimes someone may not like what I have to say. Please do not taking is offensive. If you don't like something I say please leave me a comment so that I can see your point of veiw. I am a very open heart and mind kind of person. So other people comments and opinions are always welcome. Which brings me to my blog today

Okay so I have a myspace account and they have this application call bumper stickers. One of my favorite bumper stickers is Hell is for dead beat moms. Personally I think it should not be directed just toward moms but parents in general. For those of you who know me know that I am a died hard mommy. My world revolves around my son. Every decision I make is based off of what is best for Hagen.

I do not understand these people who can come in and out of a childs life if they every see them at all. It is a wonderful priviledge to have a child. There are so many people in this world who are struggling to have a child to love and nourish. Yet there are so many people that have kids but do seem to want them. In my opinion, if you do not plan on loving, nourishing, providing for, and putting the child's best interest before your own then maybe having kids is not for you. What does everyone else think?

Alittle fussing but still Very Excited!

Since the hurrican our insurance has been fighting us on paying for the damage done to my house. It has been one physical and mental roller coaster ride. It is just exhausting. We have recieved some money from them but not near enough to fix the house back to the way is was and should be. I just don't get it! What in the world to we pay insurance for? We pay lots of money to them IN CASE something happens. Something may happen maybe every 3-5 years. But when something does happen we are out of luck they are going to fight us for every dime! It is like all that money they got from us all that time without any claims didn't even exists! Does anyone else see a problem with this? It isn't like people are struggling as it is with the inflation of EVERYTHING!

Here is something else to think about. Once you are done fighting the insurance you have to fight the mortgage company to release the money. I mean are you serious. People go throught a diaster fight their insurance but they are a bunch of crooks. Then they have to find people to do the work, which is not easy to find trustworthy contractors who don't take advantage of the diaster situation. On top of all that you have to fight the mortgage company to give you the money to pay everyone. Most of the contractors do not care to sit and wait for the mortgage company to sit on their thumbs because they want someone to come out and look at the work and what ever else they do just to procrastinate the process. I don't understand why these people don't understand people lives have been messed with enough my mother nature we don't need man screwing even more than they already do!

Okay so anyways, where I live it is really tough to find contractors with all the damage that was done from Hurricane Ike. However, we finally found someone to start the work on our house with the little money we got from our insurance. We are super excited to get something started after 6 months of waiting and be able to do nothing. However, we are still fight the insurance company for the rest of the money they OWE us, so I hired a lawyer. You would think this would be a good idea, right! Except, apparently my lawyer has some staff that have issue with calling their clients back! Now what is a person to do?

But at least we are going to get the work started....I guess that is a start to a never ending story...lol.

Red Whelpy Rash

Yesterday, started out a normal day for me and my little boy. Then around 10 am my little boy came in and he had a red whelpy rash all over his body, except on his face. I called all around my family and friends asking them what it could be. Then I call Hagen's doctor and set up an appointment. When I got off the phone I went to check Hagen and it was climbing up to his face. By this time I was freaking out and worried that it could call his tongue or throat to swell. I decided since they dr. couldn't get him in for a few hours that I would head in to town, since we live about 40 minutes from a hospital, and hang out in town just in case the worse happened. That way we would be near a hospital.

Things went fine and we went on to his dr. appointment, The dr. informed us that he had hives. He said that since Hagen had the flu a week in half to two weeks ago and his body was still trying to get rid of the left over toxins. Sometimes bodies do different things to get rid of the toxins.

I was very relieved and informed when I left there. I had no idea that something like that happens.

School

I have recently met some new people in my city. Our kids are about the same age so we have been hanging out letting the boys play. Some how we got on the subject about school. I have a 4 year old so I believe he will be starting next year. Anyways, she informed me that her son will not be attending the public school because ther are 2 teachers that she knows of that are really difficuilt to deal with. Whoaaa....I was completely blown away with this bit of information she shared with me. I am no one to judge for this decision. However, I do have my own opinion. Imagine that my own opinion....lol.

I am sorry but world is full of difficult people to deal with. I love my baby with all my heart but to keep him sheltered from difficult people or hard times is not going to make his life any easier. In my opinion, it is only going to make things worse since he won't be under my wing all his life. At some point in time I am going to have to leave this world and I want to be confident that I have raised a self discipline and strong yound man. I would never be able to rest in peace knowing that I shelter my baby and didn't provide him with the right tools and hard lessons learned through life for his to be a successful person in this world. The truth of the matter is that life is tough, always has been and always will be, but that is what makes us the people we are today.

Texas

Okay so let's talk about Texas. I have lived her most of my life. I love this great state but at the same time I hate it. First of all we have some of the most unpredictable weather ever! One day it is freezing cold then the next day it is hot as hell. A week before Christmas it actually snowed here and then the next day it was .... can you guess....like back up to 75 degrees. Most people get to wear Christmas sweater and such for Christmas in Texas this year we were wearing T-shirts and shorts. Ummmm....very suckish!

So another one of the perks of living in Texas is the wonderful Sinus crap we get. Mostly from all the hot cold weather we have, however, we do have the wonderful pollen crap. So for the last few weeks I have had sinus crap on and off. The worst part about it when you go to the doctor they are like it is just sinus infection here is medicine now give me my 100 dollars. Well if you knew what it was why don't you just give me medicine instead of making me come in and pay you 60 dollars you didn't even work for. Wow some things amaze me.