The "ToothFairy" hasn't come yet..

Last week all of my children had a break from school.  We had orthodontist appointments on Monday so I decided why not follow that up on Tuesday with appointments at the dentist.  They all needed a good cleaning.  Note to self:  8:30am dentist appointments for 4 children on school break...not one of my better ideas!  We got a lovely ice storm on Monday night so our 15 minute drive took a weeeeee bit longer, as I let the teenager drive...again not one of my more banner plans!!   Anyway, Son3 had to have a tooth pulled.  Apparently the 2nd tooth was in enough to loosen up the baby tooth just enough that food was getting stuck in it and creating an abscess.  The dentist let me know he was going to "help" it a little bit.  Now Son3 has a mark on his lip because his siblings wanted to see if he could feel them pinching his lip.  Anyway, with Thanksgiving and the ice storm the tooth fairy missed our house.  Last night in the kitchen the conversation went something like this..
Son3  "Mom, the "toothfairy" hasn't come yet"  (making little quotation marks each time he said toothfairy)
Mom "Well if you don't believe you don't receive"
Son3 "You said it was because of the weather"
Mom "Well, last week that was the case, now I think it is because you don't believe"
When did they get so smart??

Rub a Dub Get Rid of the chub!  The Weightloss Challenge began today, with weighs from 9am to Noon...now mind you it wasn't as exciting as Biggest Loser their were no competitions for a place on the ranch and the only crying was from those of us who didn't want to face the reality of the scales.  Our team team the "CHUBS AWAY" is made up of 2 men, myself, 1 woman, and Jim.  Their are 20 teams of 5 participating in this wellness campaign.  I am hoping it is the motivation I need to get back on track. (Both the walking track and the healthy eating track!).  Stay Tuned....

Football season is over so our Monday nights from 530-700 will now actually be used for dinner at the table as a family.  It seems that in the past several weeks some of us have forgotten how to sit at the table and use manners and polite dinner conversation...

Soccer has a few more weeks.  We played in McCall this weekend, it was a quick family get a way.  I enjoyed listening to the kids play there DS games in the car.  I guess we need to leave town more often to get them to be civil to each other! 

I have started back to work, at least temporarily.  I was offered a 6 week temp position at the company  Jim works for.  It is also the test to see how working at 30 hour week will affect our home and family.  At the end of last week I was seriously questioning whether it was the right decision.  This week so far seems a little calmer, but then again it is only Monday.

Dear Fred Meyer,
     THANK YOU for the grant money you awarded to Kuna Life Church!!  With this money KLC was able to re-open "The Zone" an after school outreach program.  Now that "The Zone" is open I have something to use as a reward for good behavior and a consequence for bad behavior!  Amazing how quickly the behavior changes!!

Amy

....and I laughed!!

We are down to 1 chicken.  She roosts at night on a chair near the cat's bed, she climbs through the cat door into the garage and eats the cat's food and a few different times I have found eggs in the cat's bed though I have never actually seen her in the cat's bed but....today when I got home from my walk I found this.....and I laughed all the way into the house to get the camera.

 

and then a little while later I found this......

 

Officially 8!!

 

Son3 is now officially 8!! 

Pronunciation and Busing

The routine goes something like this...Middle School is released at 2:50pm, they load onto the buses and drive to the high school getting to the high school around 3:15-3:30, they load the high school kids and are off.  Son2 complained yesterday about being on the bus for an hour and  could I please pick him up.  The pick-up zone at the Middle School makes me absolutely insane!!  So today I went to the high school to pick up Son1 and decided to pull Son2 off the bus when it arrived at the high school.  A fair compromise to having to battle the middle school pick up zone.  Anyway he sees me approaching the bus and waves excitedly, I approach the bus and he leans out the door and says can you pick me up?  "no son, I walked all the way over here to say hello to you so hi how is it going, now I will see you at home" I got the pre-teen eyeroll and he got off the bus.  Son1 drove us home and son2 was extremely chatty.  "hey mom, I was elected as assistant Librarian of the band" "I wanted to be VP but 5 people were running for that and they only pick one person so my odds weren't very good I decided to run for librarian because there were only 4 people running and they elect 2 so my odds were better of getting elected"  This is another one of those moments in my life where I sit in awe of Son2's ability to analyze a situation and quickly adjust his plan to get the best possible outcome for himself.  I may not have the title of his position exactly correct because when I asked him about it, I got the "it is my life and I don't want you blogging about it.
     In other news Son3 is a human bean with eyebulbs who is not afraid of eartwigs.  Obviously he has some pronunciation issues, since he is really a human being with eyeballs who is not afraid of earwigs.

THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO IS HURT YOU. BUT IT IS STILL ON THE LIST!!

Pretty much sums up the most ridiculous part of my day!

Today was payday, not that that means much it comes in, it goes out..anyway the children were starting to get these possessed by the devil looks around breakfast everyday for the past several days, since we have been without cereal and they have had to eat things like waffles and oatmeal. Really we had cereal just nothing that they liked. Deciding to get an early start to the day I laid out my mental plan of where I had to go, what time each place opened and what I needed to get. First stop was a place called Food 2 Store, they sell containers for storing food and already packaged food to put in your storage area. Apparently they don't open until 10am--seriously..oh well there loss on to Kohls...new shoes for me. The arches on my feet have been really sore after my daily 6 mile jaunts around the track. Success! In and out--love that kind of shopping--I also scored the Deceptively Delicious Cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld for $5.00. Onto my next stop-Costco, always a stressful adventure so many choices, -- I called a friend to meet me there it is always fun to shop in pairs. Another successful mission. Now here is where things start to go downhill...as I am loading my groceries into the car I notice I have a flat tire. My first thought cannot actually be published in good conscience so onto the 2nd thought "this couldn't have happened at a better place, service bay diagonal from car. I re-enter Costco and approach the counter.
"Hi I have a flat tire out in the parking lot can you fix it?"
"Are they COSTCO Tires?"
"ummm NO.."
"Then all we can do is put on your spare so you can drive somewhere else to get it fixed. We don't work on any tires but the ones we sell, it is company policy"
"okay so you want me to wait in your first come first serve que (which I am okay with I don't expect special treatment-today anyway) to put on the spare and then drive somewhere else to wait in there first come first serve que to have them actually fix it?"
"Sorry that is all we can do"
"Never mind I will figure it out on my own."
I return to my car and called my wonderful husband. I need to point out at this point my husband puts up with so much crap from me I am surprised he even answers his cell phone when he sees it is me calling. So without so much as raising my voice-no seriously I didn't rant, rave or even yell--I said "I am at COSTCO, I have a flat tire, COSTCO won't fix it because I don't own COSTCO tires, you need to fix this for me now or I am going to have a breakdown in the parking lot" I am pretty sure I heard him choke back a laugh, but I ignored it because I didn't really want to know if he was laughing at me or the situation because I am pretty sure that knowing would have started me ranting and raving like a lunatic, I know this surprises you!. "I think we have towing on our car insurance (technically called roadside assistance) I will call you back" Now I am absolutely NOT a patient person, I know hard to believe right!? What seemed like hours, which was really more like less than 10 minutes, he called me back and said "tow truck is on the way I gave him your cell phone he will call you to find you in the parking lot" This incredibly nice man put my car on the flat bed trailer and I climbed into the cab of the tow truck, it was at this point that every crime show I have ever seen came flooding to the forefront of my mind, pushing those thoughts aside I managed to ride and converse with this man the 5ish miles to the tire place. I made it to Bruneel's tire Factory alive, I wasn't chopped to bits, kidnapped or any of the other horrible thoughts racing through my head, what a great day!! They fixed my tire for free even though I had not purchased my tires there.
After all that, I walked out of the house tonight and lo and behold my tire is flat..I suspect I have a bigger problem than just a nail in my tire.. So if I have to buy a new tire, it WON'T be from COSTCO and wherever I end up buying it from, I will ask them to send COSTCO a thank-you for sending us your business card!!