It's been a while

In my defense, I have neglected my blog duties because the Oct 97 list has been migrating to facebook. So blame them. I've caught up with the girls who have been missing in action. Like, Laura - who I had no idea has chickens - real live chickens. :-)



Plus, for as good as Sal was as a baby - slept MOST of the time. Well, not so much anymore. She's really coming into the "talk back" "I know it all" "big fat boss" kind of kid. She's always demanding something, or talking back, or correcting or just in general being a regular pain in the arse. And then there's Jack. Who has ALWAYS been a pain. Thank God he's cute and at intervals really makes your heart melt because otherwise you'd kill the boy.



So life has been "sticky" for a while. There has been some good stuff. Sally met for #2 track practice yesterday and we were told she's VERY good at softball through and 50 meter. *I* thought she'd be good at running. Even though she's a chub she really has a nice, smooth, stride. Definitely NOT like her Mom. :-)



I've also noticed some things.: Dealing with Special Needs children - I REALLY hate to say it - but Jenny McCarthy is right about men detaching and woman over indulging. Ok, I admit she was right about one TINY thing - but otherwise - she's an idiot. :-)



Bill is running for School Board. He has some really great ideas and I realized last night that this is *his* way of *helping* Sally. Men help in ways that kind of take them away from the "dirty work". And that's not a bad thing - just different. Me - well, I don't even think of things that *I* want to do - oh, sure - there's the thought of an hour quiet time with NOTHING to do - no children no hub no laundry - that kind of thought - but as far as career or future goals - well, just getting her independent, surviving long enough to make sure she's ok and then trying to prepare her for me to be gone. Makes me tired just thinking about it.

The house is still crazy - Mabel is still alive, for the time being. She has taken to chewing shoes - and the thing that really corks me is that she gets them OUT of my shoe rack!!!! I've always let her slide on chewing things because - well, we don't pick things up well enough and she finds a LOT of things lying around. BUT - today she took the cake. I have a pair of old blue shoes that I haven't gotten around to throwing out yet - they are laying on the floor in the dining room. She took the brand NEW shoes (bought yesterday) out of my shoe rack and chewed them. I tried to explain to her that ruining shoes is the surest way for me to take her to Uncle Tim's farm and SOON! (Uncle Tim owns a gun) :-)

We refinanced today. When we got to closing we were informed that the bank that bought our mortgage stopped taking notes today. We're praying we disperse. Mr Dan didn't seem to be too worried - so we won't either. :-)

We have our last basketball game on Saturday. Sal's looking forward to it. I'm in the process of looking into getting Gma and Gpa to see a game at state. The only thing is that means ALL of us in a motel room. You know how Sal doesn't do quiet on command - I've slept with her when she was sick and it gets very much like a Bugs Bunny cartoon : "I be quiet" " I no talk" " I be quiet for you?" over and over and over. Till, just like Yosemite Sam you want to yell: "Shut up, shuttin up"!!!! So, we shall see how that goes.

We found out some friends have been laid off today. Makes my stomach hurt to hear of people in such dire straights. And the worst thing is there is so little hope. Bill and I are truly lucky to not loose our jobs.