Well it's almost turkey day....

Bought the big bird yesterday-19lbs. I have never made one that big before, so I hope it turns out ok LOL. Stores were a little busy, but not to bad. The kids wore their new school spirit shirts yesterday and they look really cute.
I made Madison a couple hairbows of course to wear and the secretary at school just loved them. In fact she took Madison to some of the teachers to show them off.
Here is a picture of them.....



I actually had to take a picture of the shirt and then use the image for the center of the bow.

The boys have a volley ball tournemnt on Sunday with the other elementary schools in town at the middle school, should be fun. Wanda is coming to watch Hayden for us, he stresses out to much at funtions like that.

I will have a little break from the route, Mark is off for the next 9 days and will do the route for me. I have tons of things to do.

Kim and her family are coming for the holiday and will be here Wednesday through Sunday, so I must clean this abode. She is like the Martha Stewart of home LOL.

Well gotta run.....

Monday, Monday......

Love that song, well I'm showing my age aren't I LOL.

Dang but it's cold around these parts today, 33 degrees right now. The boys had volley ball practice today and they came out to the car in shorts can we say brrrrrr.

Robert got new bands and wires on his teeth today-get this, as of this morning, Robert had a rather big gap in between his front teeth and as of this evening it's gone, can we say wow!!!that is fast.

Hayden seems to be doing very well with the new meds right now and seems more
with it. He went to the potty by himself tonight YES we like that.

Are you smarter then a 5th grader, well no LOL. The boys are getting into some
math, I have long ago forgotten how to do, it's like going back to gradeschool I tell ya.

I finished another hairbow for Maddy to match her LPS skunk t-shirt. She loves LPS and has all kinds of them.....






She wore a white turtle neck with it today and looked very cute.

This morning while the boys were getting their coats on, I noticed a very big tear in Robert's coat, the fabric was GONE, I said "Robert Wayne, what in the world happened to your (brand new from last year) coat. Oh Mom, I was climbing a fence at the park yesterday and I got caught on the top, like it was nothing. BOYS!!!

Well, gotta go and work on a Thanksgiving Day hairbow LOL....

Brrrr, it's colder today for sure.....

It's been in the 50's all week till today, it's 39 right now and Mark is telling me it may snow a little later today, Indiana weather of course LOL.

Well we are day 6 of Hayden's new siezure meds-Trileptal, we have seen some crying jags and temper tantrums, but other then that were good to go so far, it will take a full 6 weeks to get up to the full dose, so we shall see.
When I went to pick up the kids at school yesterday, the power was out! Had been out for about an hour, so the kids were all in the hallways working on homework. The power company had just arrived and was working on it, so Robert and Trevor's volleyball practice was cancelled.

Wanda came and watched the kids, so we could go to dinner and get groceries. We are now taking turns with Mark's mom and Wanda-my sister watching the kids on Friday nights. Seems to working out so far.

Wanda is doing well with the pregancy, she is getting real big LOL. The adoptive soon to be parents are going to pay for a ultrasound sometime in the first of December. Medicaid will only do one per pg and she had to have one early on to see how far along she was and they weren't able to see what sex the baby was. Wanda was so upset to hear this, but it looks like it will take place after all. I emailed the couple some pics of Wanda growing up, she was a cutie as a baby, still is.

Mark hung me a real nice pole in the laundry room, no not for dancing LOL...but for the hung clothes as I do the laundry, which I'm doing again today.

I really should re-name my blog, the laundry womens web blog LOL.

I did get some photos of the new hairbows I made in the last few days along with the clothes they go with....




This is a real pretty dress I picked up at Wal-Mart for $6.00, can you believe it.




Same dress, different color and style....




This is a really pretty sweater, that was given to Madison from Aunt Wanda, her next door neighbor was moving las summer and got rid of some things her kids had and Wanda grabbed this, I love the colors.

Well as always, have a load to fold, tata for now....

I hate Thursday's, they are like a Monday to me...

Don't know why but they suck, there got that out LOL. Please keep my oldest child in your prayers/thoughts, his marriage is in real trouble and I don't know if it will survive this time-thank you.

I failed to note we did finally get our downstairs bathroom remodel done. Well except the ceiling, which can't be done till the upstairs bathroom is done in the spring, but it's really done and I love it.

here are a few pics.....







I used my Cricut to cut out the letters for the poem on the wall and it looks so cool. You should have been here when Mark and Carl removed the old iron tub, it must have weighted 300lbs, poor guys. But I'm so glad it's done, it was the last room in the whole house that had never been redone.

I'm busy trying to get the laundry caught up. We did get a new set this summer, they are the LG front loaders. I love them, although they due tend to wrinkle jeans more then I like, need to figure that one out. Saving tons on my water bill. It usally runs 60.00+ each month, well last month's was 37.00. These things use so little water. And for 2800.00 for the pair, they better outlive me LOL.

Well gotta run for now, bye

I have been a bad blogger, I know......

I must say I'm sorry I have not kept up my blog. I have been so busy with day-to-day life. So I will try to bring everyone up to date....

The kids had great summer, we got a new-bigger swimming pool and they lived in it most of the summer. Swimming is one of Hayden's favorite pastimes. The hosta plants my sister Kim planted for me last fall came in wonderful and very big. I was shocked at how big there were. I was able to separate some and plant some more in the back yard along the fence.

Found out my baby sister, you know the one with past drug issues is pregnant. Best thing that ever happened to her. She is totally clean and sober for the first time in years. She is not keeping the baby, she knows she can't do it. She is adopting the baby out to a very nice couple from Indiana and is due in Feb/09. She is off house arrest and has been visiting with us every other Friday and is having so much fun with the kids.

The kids started back to school in late August and Madison loves going all day in first grade. Hayden's old aid from 3rd grade came back to work with him, her name is Karen and she does very well with him. The boys are in the very last year of grade school and I'm kind of sad about it. Robert and Trevor are in the same room for the very first time ever and Trevor does not deal with it very well. Because of Roberts Aspergers he gets on Trevor's nerves sometimes. I have tried to teach Trevor to be more patient with him, he does very well with Hayden, but of course Hayden does not argue with him.
The boys are playing volleyball 2 days a week and get tutoring 2 days a week and are very busy with homework. Hayden goes to speech on Monday's and now has the Indiana Support Services Waiver in place. What does that mean to us? He gets some paid time with an aid to go out in the community and do things and he also gets an aid for some respite care at home. Were still very new to it and Mark's cousin's daughter Ashley is doing the respite care 4 hours a week. We are still trying to hire an outside aid at this time.
We are seeing a new neurologist, Dr. Lisa McGuire in Indianapolis and she is wonderful. Hayden had a 24 hour EEG on Oct 5 and the results were abnormal of course. He is having seizures in the left side of his brain, which is where your speech funtion is. So were trying some new meds Trileptal, won't know for a couple months if it works. We go back on Dec 4 to see the Dr.
I have a new hobby, like I need another one LOL!! When the kids went to take school pictures this year, which I need to post soon, I could not find one decent hair bow for Madison's hair. Well.....I searched the internet and found this whole circle of people who make hair bows and sell them. Well I didn't want to sell any, just make some. So I bought some instructions and some fantastic templates and some ribbon and the rest is history LOL.
Here is a picture of one of the Halloween sets I made her..



Not a pro by any means, but it's lots of fun.

Well I will try to post more often I promise, but got to run for now....