Well it is that time of year again, SCHOOL TIME Boy I hated school. It was always a fashion show, a place to gossip, and a place you could ignore your teachers cuz they had the hands full with the BAD kids. I am soooo veryyyy happyyyy that this year I have no kids in public school. I get grief from people who think I should have the kids in school. Most of them I ignore. It does get old though. neither one of my kids liked school very much. The daughter had a few friends move away so she did not want to go back to school and be alone. She is different than most 14 year olds, she is not in to bubble gum pop music which is fine with me. that stuff gets on my nerves too. She also dresses different than the rest of the kids she doesn't need expensive clothes to be herself. I love her just the way she is. The public school system here i(n my little piece of hell on earth) sucks more than most. They have teachers who make fun of their students and call them names like skank, freak, moron and other names. Now my son is a different kettle of fish. He is not like many 12 year old boys, he is funny charming, and cute if I can say so my self . The computer does most of teaching I just sit back and help sometimes. He gets to see his best friend everyday ( unless best Friend is camping or hiking) so it is a win win . Okay best friend is home schooled too. His mother my best best girlfriend got me into home school so I took cues from her about some things and looked up alot on net. So far so good both kids are happy, I am happy, no more early mornings unless I want them. As long as I can keep them motivated all should be good. If we want to go vacation for a few days all my kids have to do is have a few more lessons each day and we can take a four day weekend and run. How many parents can say that and not have the child warden out to get them. I honestly think as long as I keep my kids social there should not be problems. They are happy and learning with out the mad house of thirty some odd kids yelling and goofing off. They get more learning done in three days then they ever got in school in a week, and they don't have people calling them stupid or freak. This is just the perfect thing for our family.

jam and jelly the fruits of labor

I have been making jams and jellies the last week. I don't want to see another peach for a while. The jelly turned out a little too sticky but hey if you warm it up first its great. I need some practice on the sure jell. This is the first time doing the jam/jelly stuff it has been kinda rewarding. I made hot pepper jelly first then black raspberry jam and then peach jam. I also canned peaches today so I am a sticky mess. I have canned peaches before like 17 years ago, and I forgot how time consuming and messy it is. The husband is thrilled that I am being the domestic goddess he has always fantasized about. All I need now is an apron .

It's been almost a month since the kids and I came home from our lovely trip to Texas. Our house still looks as bad or if not worse for the wear. I just don't have the energy to clean when its this hot. Its been pretty warm these last few days. The daughter got to go to Cedar point today. ( a amusement park in Ohio) While me and the son got to stay home and clean house. How fair is that? I personally have no problem with a less than clean house, but Hubby dearest is freaking out because our son and lovely daughter in law is coming to visit with the Baby. I get so frustrated with him when he gets in these moods. Any thing I do is not good enough right now. At this very second he is telling our son what he is doing is wrong. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I was a single mother. I know I should not think like this but it just happens that I do when he is being this much of an ass. I am done ranting for now. Till next time.

Accomplishing nothing

This past week I have accomplished nothing. Not that I was really trying too either. I got the bare min done around the house. I have no energy to do anything. There is always lots to do. I have a house full of kids again. Cousin from Mass is still here, and My sons Best friend is here. The kitchen is a mess we are out of milk , bread, eggs, and cheese. these are all staples in our house. That means I have to get off my butt and go to the store which I don't want to do. A belt in my car shredded last friday so even though it got repaired by loving husband he is still worried for me drive it so I guess I will have to take his car to the store, ( I hate driving his car) Since I have been home from Texas I have lost all my will to do anything productive, I guess I need to take my vitamins again. Maybe that will help. Off to the store.

Harry Potter and th eHalf Blood Prince

Another random thought , Why doesn't movies ever live up to the books. We went to see The 6th Harry Potter movie last night. So if you haven't seen it yet QUIT reading this right now. They always leave out important stuff. For instance Dumbledore suppose to pick up Harry at the dursleys, and then take him to Slughorns. It would have been kinda cool to see the dursley fight off glasses full of butterbeer that Dumbledore offered them. When harry got to the burrow everyone was suppose to be a sleep not all waiting for him. There was no mention of Fleur and Bill getting married which I thought was pretty important. The tension between Harry and Jenny was pretty much what I thought it would be. so that did not disappoint. I wish Harry and Ron would have talked about harry falling for Jenny that would have been a quite the talk. I was really disappointed that the death eaters set fire to the Wesley's home, that did happend in the book,where are Bill and Fleur gonna get married now. Lastly what happened to the fight on the tower with the death eaters against the Order. Bill was soppose to get messed up by a werewolf. Not that I wanted that or anything. Snape should have explained more about him being the half blood prince. It left me hanging. (sigh)
Well these are just my thoughts on it.

Deep thoughts in a shallow world

Just a couple of thoughts for my first blog. I have never done anything like this before so hopefully it will be like therapy. AS I set at the computer on this gorgeous day I wonder why I am inside then I realized that I got little sleep last night or this morning which ever way you would like to think of it cuz I did not even fall a sleep until 5 am, so I am dragging ass today that is why I am not outside. It hard to be motivated when you are dragging ass. I have just come home from a very long stay in Texas visiting family. My mother had surgery and I was needed to help out. We (the kids and I) had a okay time not much excitement, It was very hot there like 104-108 we were kind of miserable at times. While we were there we got two more members for our zoo. The daughter got a hamster and a Chihuahua for her birthday. Now Jade has turned into the poster dog for energy. I have never seen such a wild little thing he plays hard and sleeps hard. The husband has gotten really attached to him already which kinda surprised me cuz I never have seen him as a Chihuahua person, but hey I have under estimated him before.