Soccer

Connor has his second soccer game today, and pictures also were today...hair is getting longer then it has in a long time. He has decided to let it grow out, he wants braids and his ears pierced. I just sigh, we have decided to wait on the ear piercing until he is a bit older and can handle the pain better. I will go with the hair growing out, saves me $12 every other week on cuts, that bald fade grows out with a quickness. So I think pictures will turn out great especially the Team Plaque picture. It was definitely soccer weather this morning, very brisk. We played the first quarter then his asthma started acting up so we had to leave at half time. I got a few pictures of practice and the game. He is doing great with passing and as coach calls it "smaching the blood" (stopping the ball) cracks me up how small the shin gaurds are and the cleats are precious. He is still working on getting in there with the ball and being more aggressive. But his attention before the practice after pictures were done was on the boys his age playing flag football. He desperately wants to play football, he promised to not tackle and be rough. So many next year it will be fall soccer and spring flag football. I just want him to find a sport and stick with it, or maybe two with opposite seasons. Either way as long as it is a team scholastic sport that could get him through college I will be most pleased. I am so proud of him and how quick he is picking up the rules of the game (Soccer) and shows interest in practicing new skills.

Sick Buggies

Saturday after the wedding reception Connor was acting a bit puny but I chalked it up to late night and no nap. Sunday I picked him up from his Aunt Tina's and he immediately fell asleep in the car on the way to the store to pick up some items. We got home and took his temerpature and it was a bit elevated but not anything that concerned me. Gave him some cough medicine to calm down his dry painful cough and called it an early night. I was anticipating getting up early for work and getting my stuff packed for the gym, but being up all night had me regretting not taking a nap sunday when I had the chance. 5:45 Monday morning Connor woke up and I checked his temerpature and it was 101.3 and the cough wasn't getting any better. Needless to say someone wasn't going to work. I hated to use my vacation day but had to be a good mother first and for most. The weather made it difficult to not feel like the day was being wasted. See even when my son is sick he doesn't act sick, he laid on the couch and watched Noggin most of the day when he was in my room wanting to cuddle with me, even though noggin was still on. He was getting cabin fever around fourish and it was nearly 80 degrees, so we took a walk around the neighborhood. He wanted to go to the park desperately and it was difficult to say no, but I knew he wasn't feeling well still so no to the park and being around all those kids.
Last night was scary to say the least. Connor broke two fevers during the day, both were mild not over 100.3. He laid down on my bed around 6:00pm and he felt warm so I wrapped him in cool cloths and he feel asleep. I moved him into his own bed around 8:00pm where I noticed he was burning up. Sure enough after taking his temerpature again it was 103.5, terrifying. I nearly rushed him into the emergency room until I got my whits about myself. He was disoriented and not completely conscience. He had a twitch in his shoulders and was babbling making no sense. I called my mother had her pick up more fever reducing medication since we ran out that afternoon. I ran a cool bath and put his poor little body in it, after a few shutters and shock of the cool water on his body he was able to sit there unassisted while I got ice packs from the freezer and multiple towels and cold compresses. got him out the bath and put him back to bed without drying him off and got the compress on him and the ice packs around his trunk. He was sleeping without the fingers in his mouth (never happens) i knew he was not doing well. We got him up to take the medicine and sip some clear fluids. After about 20 minutes his eyes were looking like normal again and his reactions were coming back to normal as well. It was scary there for a while but we got the fever down to 101.3 and finally this morning at 8am he was back to 97.7. I am watching him for the next couple of hours, resigned to not going into work yet again today. I am not going to feel like we wasted another 80 degree day, once I know the fever is at bay we will go to the gym. Since he has been on antibotices for 48 hours I know he is not contagious and will be accepted into the kids zone at the gym. We will do our grocery shopping and maybe do a picnic lunch. I know he was sick but I don't want to waste a perfect day home with my son.
I wish I could be a stay at home mother but I am not blessed with that ability and am doing the best I can. I hope Connor never resents my decision to keep him and raise him on my own. I must work full time and once I finally get my schooling done things will be much easier. If I am making over 30,000 without a degree just imagine what I could be making with a degree. I am so freaking close, only two core classes that I have been putting off for 11 years now and two electives then I will only have 13 months left until my degree is done. Then on to the masters which will be another 13-15 months to complete. I keep reminding myself it wasn't the rabbit that won the race but the turttle. I will get that degree and when I do it will mean so much more then it does to those who just sail through school without intrupption.

It Finally Happened

Saturday my best friend who has always been there for me through everything and always is my strength when it comes to my son's father, his cousin. Jason has been with Kammie for about six years now, I have grown to love Kammie as a close friend and respect her for the strong woman and mother she has become. Jason is the last person I thought I would see get married before me. Dont get me wrong I am thrilled for them and wish them nothing but a smoother road ahead. The ceramony was short and sweet, it brought a tear to my eye how the included all five of their children and made it quiet clear it was a whole family that was establishing the union, the were not only pronounced husband and wife but family as well. The reception was nice and the first dance once again included all the children. After the reception some of the adults got together at O'Brians a local irish pub. I was the photographer of the night, seeing how I was the only one who remembered a camera. We all had a great night celebrating the long awaited union of Jason and Kammie. Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law made up and let by gones be by gones. Which was nice to see after all the drama those two have gone through. If Jason could do it then there has got to be someone out there who was made to put up with me lol. Here are some of the pictures from the Wedding and night out

First weekend of March

Last weekend was great, Friday I got to spend the evening with my son. We cleaned house and he helped me fold laundry as well as a four year can help fold laundry. Lol…We thought we were going to be able to sleep in Saturday morning as for once we didn’t have basketball to go to at 8 am, but alas sleeping in was not in the cards for us. I tried on my new outfit I bought a Maurices for Ashley’s 30th birthday party Saturday night and the jeans even though they were “short” were about an inch or so too long even with my five inch heels on. Upon realizing the problem a solution was needed, the tailor opened at 9am and the salon opened at 9:30. Therefore solving two problems in the same morning was perfect. We got an early start to was to be our lazy Saturday, getting the jeans altered and my eye brows waxed and shaped all by 10:30 and spent some time at a local park afterward. Had to reward my extremely well behaved son somehow, and since it was a beautiful March morning why not a romp at the park. I relaxed watching him play and went down the slide with him a few times knowing that my eyes would not be red that night and that I would not trip on my jeans. Later that afternoon, we gathered our stuff and headed off to my parents house where Connor decided to show his Bubbe and Zayde how he could roller skate, he has the cutest Fisher Price skates that are inlines with training wheels…to cute. It was during this demonstration that I realize he is exactly like me and I would not be able to teach my own child how to skate. I told him something, he refused to listen but when Bubbe said the same thing he listened and did what he was told. Yes, I must let go of the vision of teaching my son to roller skate…lol…At about this point is then when storms started to move to our area and we headed inside. I had to get ready to go and be at the Chalet by 8 and mom was cooking dinner. I boogied quickly out of the house as to beat the storm, I didn’t want to ruin my hair before I even stepped inside. Once there I had quiet the surprise, my good friend Terry drove all the way from Texas to surprise the birthday girl and myself. It was a wonderful surprise and I was so glad to see him, actually spent most of my night talking to him. We played some pool, ate some pizza and drank some drinks. All was going great until about midnight when the lights flickered a bit and went out for five minutes to only come on for three seconds and we were in the total dark after that. At which point our waiter took the opportunity to over charge for everything we had partaken in that night. We will NEVER go back there again and we left for another bar called SouthRock, a kicked back pool hall/bar.
A good night was had by all and a line that I will never forget was said to me and might I add it was not a successful pick up line at all…”You have got to be the most attractive older woman I have met.” OMG!!! Since when is almost 29 old?! Wow it did put things in a new light for me and not in a bad way.
Below are Pictures of Me and Terry, then Me and finally Me, Ashley and Terry

Catch Up

I haven't posted in a minute, things have been busy lately. I have finally focused on a goal that I will accomplish, lose the baby weight finally after four years! I have fourty pounds I want to lose at the least. I am doing this with the help of my doctor and therapist, they are working together to help me overcome previous issues in trying to lose weight. I know I can't do it alone anymore, to ask for help isn't weakness, but strength in knowing you can't do something on your own. So I am working out no less then four times a week and eating a high fiber and protien diet with a steady decrease of calories. Connor is busy these days too, Monday's he has Rock Climbing lessons, Tuesday's is Swimming lessons and Saturday is Soccer. He is loving his new active mommy and all the different things he gets to do at the gym, it is his next favorite place beside Kimmy's (daycare) to spend his time. I am working out with mom on thursdays, which is great that she can finally get back into the gym. 2008 was an extremly difficult year for her and her health, from Back surgery to Intensive Care with no fluid in her brain. She has not been able to really work out for the last two weeks, because of her back and leggs. She use to be in the gym everyday and sometimes twice a day and she is happy to be able to get back in there and kick some ass.

So things are good and my little family is grinding away. Work is great the company just gave us an extra three days of vacation and next month are merit raises...I am hoping I get a decent percentage raise again this year. I am being more social lately then I have ever been in four years. Tonight is my son's step mother's 30th birthday party, we are best friends and nearly sisters! I am so glad we get along great and our children know they are siblings and act like it. lol...So tonight is going to be a blast even got a whole new outfit for the event. I am bringing my camera so lots of pictures will be taken.