Ice Cream

Ice Cream. Friend or Foe? Ice Cream is my all time weekness that and captains morgan rum.
Ice cream is my friend, it makes me feel better when I am sad. It is good with a good chick flick. Ice cream goes with whatever I wear. Ice cream makes me smile. Ice cream makes me happy expect when I have gained weight. Friend or Foe?

Softball

Yep. That's right! Softball season. The only problem the weather sucks. We had snow over the weekend. In April. Here in Oregon. Now it is just raining but how are we to play ball? Curtis coaches "Red's" team. I am the uniform cooridnator for all teams. I did not know just how much work this year was going to be. Last year was easy but this year................parents are just down right petty. Coaches are demanding. I am one person and can only work so fast, then it is up to the printer and how fast he can work. Pictures are next Friday, uniforms won't be handed out until Monday and some coaches are ticked about. Hello, I have less than 3 weeks to inventory, purchase, print and hand out uniforms. Somethings were on backorder and then some parents thought they needed to change uniform sizes. Games don't start until 2nd week of May. Thinking this might be my last year. Red will be play high school ball next year. YAH! I can not wait.
On another note. Curtis took his mom to the dr today. She will have to have 6 weeks of chemo once she is completely healed. Lil Grandma is grouchier than ever. Hopefully, Curtis will be back to work soon. (fingers crossed. He is driving me NUTS) I will then have to take her to her dr appointments. I don't mind.
Today is our wedding anniversary. Eight years. Seems like forever. We don't have anything planned. The days and evenings are packed with kid's stuff. Maybe, Saturday we can sneak away. Who knows. Time to finish up my chores. Never ending.......................Tammy

Spring Break

Spring Break what a blast. Washington DC and New York with 42 13-14 year old 8th graders and 12 adults. We left the red eye flight on a Saturday night from Portland Oregon to Chicigo then onto Washington DC Easter morning. We had Easter break at Hard Rock Cafe.
We saw so much and did so many things. Trying to remember everything.........Mt Vernon, The White House, Congress, Monuments, Memorials, Thomas Jefferson's Home, Michie's Taveran, changing of the guard. My favorite. I am sure I left something out and that was just DC. We also checked out U of V. What a beautiful college. I want to go back to school and go there.
We then went onto New York and TIME SQUARE. We road the ferry to Ellis Island, Statue of Liberity, ground zero, churchs, 5th ave (talk about some bling bling), The Today Show, (a couple of students were on tv).
We went to a broadway play. Momma Mia. Wonderfull!!!!!We had 5th row seats. It was great. The kids loved it. We even saw an off beat play, Shear Madness. It is a who done it play.
We ate alot of great food. Hotels were awsome. A whole queen bed to myself. I felt like I was at a spa. I wore a step meter and on an average we walked 7 miles a day. WOW! Now, if I could do that every day at home.
I was glad to be home, missed my boys and Brittani. I am ready though to go again.

Shame on me!

I think I have been lost. I am sure I will have to make three different post out of this beings it has been almost two months. Bad Blogger!
Life has spun out of control. Alot has happened. A week long trip to New York and Washington DC. Been sick twice. The boys have been sick. Basketball ended, softball and tennis began. I am the uniform cooridnator for softball. Curtis coaches. It has taken up all our time. But the worse news of all came just about six weeks ago...............Curtis' mom had found out she had colon cancer.
1st opinion and 2nd opinion the same. She has a tumor growning in her bum hole. It has attached itself to the muscle. We can do radation and chemo. It may or may not work. But the best is to have it removed. She chose, to have it removed and now has a bum hole and a bag on her side. She was in the hospital over a week. She had a very had time recovering from the surgery and getting her insides to work again. She is now home and recovering nicely. She will have to do chemo as it was found in a lymp noid. This has taken up alot of our time due to hospital visits and dr visits. This has been very had on Curtis. His family is very small. He can barely handle the house when I am sick let along having to take care of his mom. As it is he got laid off five weeks ago so, all though it was a pay cut it has given him time to take care of his mom. Hopefully, work will pick up again and he will stop driving me crazy.
I will post more later about my week long trip to New York and Washington DC. What a blast. I promise to be back tomorrow.

Worst Blogger

I made a comment to blog everyday or atleast every other day. No go so far. Things here have been rather out of sorts.
I know God gives you as much as he thinks you can handle but geez my plate is so full. I never thought in a million years how hard four kids could be.
B is starting tennis, leadership, student council and she works. She is also preparing for 3 weeks of Europe. Red is still doing basketball but open gyms for softball have started. We have had 4 games in the the last 4 days. Yes, even on Sunday. Curtis also coaches basketball and softball. His work has slowed down and now they work 4 10 hour days but he spends the rest of the time working on his race truck. The first race is March 29th the day after I come back from a week long school trip to Washington DC and New York with 40 other people. HELP.
Curtis has been sick. They are not sure what is wrong with him. He saw a specialist, he breaks out into hives all the time with a cronic cough. They seem to have the cough undercontrol now but the hives. It has to do with his immune system attacking itself??? He goes back to the dr on Monday, and retest. Hopefully, they will know what is wrong.
I have been trying to finish up home improvements that I have started. I got in hinges and knobs for the kitchen cabinets. 1970s home with the 1970s hardware. I did one cabinet it looks great. 17 more to go. I will have to figure out how to post some before and after pictures. Well, dishes are calling me. I will be back tomorrow. Promise.

Sick kids updated

So far there has been NO chickenpox in our house. That's a good thing. P has ran a fever for 4 days now. Just a low grade on yesterday and today but he must be feeling better. He is the middle child and has the middle child tude. Love my son to death but boy he can be a handful. Whenl, D gets to do something and P doesn't. He will never let you live it down.
D got to go with Dad and Red today to play softball in the gym. He was going to shag the balls. P reminded us that it was his turn and not Ds. D got to go last time. When will it ever end? I just want a little peace and quite. lol

Sick Kids

The school called yesterday to say P had a fever. He ran a 103 all day yesterday. No other systoms. There have been a few reported chicken pox cases at the schools. My boys have gotten their shot but.............Red's best friend has the chickenpoxes and she too had her shot. So never say never. I will have to wait and see.
The boys have asthma and I am a firm believer of living a normal life and not letting it control you but you controlling it. Some of the meds they are on lower you immune system. You may have trouble fighting off infection. Excuse me but what the hell does that help with. It seems like when a new cold surfaces my sons get it. I feel like I am running in a circle.
In the home, I have done everything I can to keep us cold free and asthma related stuff clean. We have hardwood floors thru the whole house, special mattress pads on the beds, anything and everything for mold and dust.
But, we can't live in a bubble. We just want to be normal.