News

Oklahoma news is such a joke. Every time something interesting happens they have to get the biggest, gap toothed, hairnet wearing, hick to give us the details on it. Seriously, this is not the way to represent the state. How annoying!!!

Funny

Maddox at dinner tonight-

"mom, did you take the crabs out of these?"
me: "What buddy?"
maddox: "Well these are shells aren't they?"

Who knew shells and cheese could be such fun!

I haven't felt much like blogging the last few days. I did take a great picture of the flowers outside my bedroom window. My mother-in-law planted them a few years ago and I have to say this is the best they have ever looked. Just another reminder that life goes on. We are coming up on the third anniversary of her death and I am starting to feel that anxious feeling that I get in September. The sadness still seems to linger in this house, thicker over the next few weeks than normal. I miss you Treva and life may have gone on but has NEVER been the same since you died.

Back to School

How do you know school is back in session in my house? It is 7:30 and all four of my children are asleep!!!! We are back in business! This photo was taken this morning before school. I know I am biased but my kids are pretty dang cute!!

Wondering

So I found out today that my neighbor passed away last week. His name was Sonny Briscoe and he was in his eighties. He was an amazing man and he always gave such wonderful complements. His passing has made me wonder what people would have to say about me if I passed tomorrow. I know this is probably morbid but I can't help it. Would a smile pass by their face? Would I be known as someone that people loved and wanted to be with, or would there be that underlying quietness of a life unfulfilled? I want to do better, to be remembered with such fondness, to have really made a difference in people's lives. How will you be remembered?

Unexpected

So in a nutshell our weekend at the lake didn't go as planned. My friend Hannah and I decided we would go down a day early with the kids and get everything set up for the weekend. Six kids and two moms and a load of manly labor to do. I have to say that we managed to get the boat and seadoo out without the loss of any children. I had no idea it was going to be so difficult. This was also a weekend of great injury. Hannah broke her toe the first night, when the boys arrived on Friday they got everything set up for their bike ride the next morning. They returned from the bike ride with a Kevin hurt and bleeding. Oh yes, he crashed. So a shower and a couple of Aleve later we were ready to get out on the water. That is when the mother of the accidents occurred. Karson tripped over the boat tie up and landed on her elbow. She is one tough cookie and it didn't take very long to see that something was really wrong with her arm. So after an afternoon spent in Eufala ER we were told that she had broken her elbow and we would need to see a surgeon on Monday. Are you effin kidding me!!! We already had a heart appt. and a neuro appt. set for Monday because school starts this week. Now we had this too. Anyway, we received pretty good news at both the heart and neuro appointments. Today we went to see the surgeon. More x-rays and we were told that she had broke her elbow and there is a crack in her growth plate. The surgeon asks if he can try to straighten it out right there and see if he can get it into place without surgery. He got is straight and wrapped it in a bright pink cast (picked out by Karson). He feels that her bones should fuse back over the next four to six weeks. Thank goodness, no surgery. School starts on Thursday and she is set with a package of Sharpies. This girl is AMAZING. She did not even shed a tear today, and you know that is had to hurt like a mother. We picked up her best friend Victoria on the way home and Matt took the two of them to see a movie. They even had their picture made in a photo booth. A great end to a not so great weekend.

Kenzie

This is a picture of my niece Mackenzie. She leaves for college tomorrow. What a day of mixed emotions for her parents. My sister in law Tammy adopted Mac eighteen years ago and it is absolutely killing her to let her go. It is easy to be an outsider and say "oh this is just a part of the growing up process" but I cannot even begin to imagine what it will be like to send my girls off to school. I think it will be different with the boys. Girls seem much more vulnerable, fragile. I have had the pleasure of knowing Mac for the last nine years. She is an amazing young lady who in my opinion puts way to much pressure on herself. She has done everything in her life with great passion and perfection. I have no doubt that she will be successful in whatever life path she chooses to pursue. Keep your head on straight and follow what is in your heart, and remember to take care of yourself first. I love you so much!!!!!! Know that our door is ALWAYS open no matter what hour it is. Be good and strong and I will keep your mother company.

Us and Them

Yesterday we had a reception for Bob(my father in-law) and his new wife Mary. They were married in April and they wanted to get everyone together for a little meet and greet. Mary has three daughters, Bob has two daughters and Matt (my hubby). They are all around the same age, the older two being ten years older than the youngest, just like Matt and his sisters. Mary is absolutely wonderful, it is impossible not to like her. She is very down to earth and she loves my kids as if they were her own. This makes a mama very happy. She has a special fondness for Maverick and shared with me that she lost her son when he was two. She lost her husband to cancer several years ago, I thing maybe five? Bob lost Treva almost three years ago. They both have very much in common. Her daughters are great. Very easy to talk to and a lot of fun. I have always heard that these types of meetings can be really difficult, but everyone seemed to mesh together like we had known each other for years. Bob and Mary looked very happy, I am sure they were a little nervous about all of us meeting. Bittersweet would be the best way to describe it, Bittersweet.

I have a lot of back posting to do. We have been at the lake almost every weekend since the rain stopped. The kids start back to school next week so I will have a little more time to blog. I also have to figure out how to do the picture mosaics. Add it to the gigantic list of "to do's". I have managed to get absolutely nothing productive done this summer. Oh well there is always fall, right?