Bella Country

Parenting ~ It takes a village

2010-05-25T18:15:47-07:00

It takes a village
Man motherhood is hard
I struggle just as much as every other Mom out there.
I know that us Mom's need to stick together and help each other out.
So that's why when I get something good figured out I have to share it.

Conversation between my 13 year old son and I....

Son: Mom, can we get pizza tonight?

Me: Uh no

Son: why

Me: because we have a kitchen full of food, were not eating out

Son: but Mom Pleeeeease can we have pizza?

Me: NO stop asking me

Son: Why can't I decide whats for dinner?

Me: because you don't get to make the rules

Son: WHY do YOU get to make the rules for me??

Me: Because its MY birth canal you came through!!

Son: walks away totally grossed out

Works every time!!!

A Day In The Life

2009-07-14T21:35:20-07:00

7:00 am – Wake up…. Late

7:05 a.m. Jump in the shower. Run like a chicken with my head cut off getting ready for work.

8:00 am – Arrive to place of employment on time. Whew!

8:02 a.m. finish hair do in employee bathroom.

8:05 am – receive phone call from husband.

Me: This is Kal

Husband: Hey did I tell you I made a dentist appointment for our son and myself for today?

Me: Um no.

Husband: Oh yeah, Son is getting a root canal and I am getting MY WISDOM TEETH PULLED!!!!

Me: WHAT?

Husband: Oh yeah it will be fine.

Me: WHAT? GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!

10:30 a.m.

Leave work super early to assists family at the dentist.

11:30 a.m. Arrive at dentist office

12:30 p.m. FINALLY get Son into the dentist chair.

2:00 p.m. Son gets out of the chair & Husband gets in.

2:05 p.m. Son and daughter decide that the dentist waiting room SUCKS. They go to the trusty family mini van.

3:00 p.m. Get husband out of dentist chair ~ minus 2 wisdom teeth. That he now has in his pocket. (Gross!)

3:05 Get ~~half stoned~~ groggy husband into the trusty family mini van.

3:06 Try to start the trusty family mini van. No Luck! The trusty family mini van ain’t so trusty today.

Please remember now… I have a 13 year old son who just had a root canal. And a 37 year old ~~baby~~, husband that has just had his wisdom teeth ~~yanked out of his head~~ pulled. And a teenage daughter. ( who thinks we super suck & she knows EVERYTHING)

3:07

Me: WHY WON”T THE VAN START?

17 yr old ~~smarter than everyone~~ Daughter: I don’t know why it won’t start? The only thing I did was LISTEN TO THE RADIO AND RUN THE AIR CONDITIONER FOR 2 HOURS. But it should be ok because I didn’t turn the car on all the way.

Me: WHAT!

Needless to say: We now have a very dead battery.

Husband: Beep Bleep Beep BLEEP BEEP BLEEP!!!!! We are censoring what Husband said cuz this is a family blog. He is trying to ~~scream~~ talk with a mouth full of gauze. Can’t understand a thing except those dad gum cuss word come out perfectly clear. Huh?

So now I have a crying female teenager also.~~Thanks to my ever so sensitive husband.~~

3:15 I ask the scary man parked next to us if he would give me a jump.

Scary man: Uh huh

Me: Thank you!

Scary man: Uh huh

We finally get the trusty family mini van running. I pack up 1 son, who bless his heart is being very patient and helpful. 1 ~~crying hormonal teenage~~ daughter and one ~~very grumpy~~, in pain, bleeding husband.

FYI:

If you ever get your wisdom teeth pulled and are on blood thinners for a heart condition, please tell the dentist. That way the proper procedures can be set in place and you will not bleed ~~buckets of blood~~ a lot. And your lovely wife will not get the daylights scared out of her. She may even get some sleep that night. Instead of lurking over you, worried that you are bleeding to death in front of her very eyes.

Just a little friendly advice.

4:15 Arrive home. Drag ~~half stoned~~ groggy husband out of mini van. Put him to bed on the couch. By now Son has recover and is reeking havoc in the hood. Daughter has recovered from the frustration that was taken out on her. I transferred more money into our children’s counseling fund.

4:30 Make a large pot of soup for boys to slurp on for the next several days.

9:00 p.m. Blogging. ~~Lurking over~~ Watching husband STILL bleeding buckets. Wondering why I am not a raging alcoholic.

Soon I will go to bed and start all over again tomorrow!

Well, she did it

2009-06-17T19:29:49-07:00

My sweet ~~baby~~ girl left me for Vegas tonight. She actually boarded a plane and ~~abandoned me~~ flew to Las Vegas for a week. Her and a girlfriend went for a week to be with family of her friend. I just let my 17 year old baby girl go to VEGAS!!! I need valium!
I'm praying that she...

1. Won't become a show girl
2. Won't get married (by Elvis)
3. Will stay away from the tattoo parlor
4. Won't say " I can double your money"
5. Doesn't find out how much strippers can make!
6. I pray she acts like Mommy not Daddy! :-)

I also hope she has the time of her life!!!

I do have a bit of a control issues. So I will struggle the next week with her being away. I also tend to worry ALOT! I'm going to try my best to relax and think positive. I know she will have a fabulous time.

I am concerned about the show girl thing! :-)
I'm pretty sure I busted her practicing her moves today!
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Two of my favorites...

2009-04-13T14:01:16-07:00

Please meet my children...
They make me laugh, they make me cry.
I would be lost without them.

I am so totally blessed.