Please Keep Out.

I have had my motherhood moments where I've been out and about with my children and some stranger will come up and scold me for doing something to my child. This absolutly infuriates me! I consider myself an intelligent mother and more than capable of taking care of my children yet I see more and more of this behavior going on. Let me provide some examples for you thats happened to me, When my child was 18mos old I was at the store getting some items for the yard i think and he was drinking from a cup already at this point, I had a drink from BK I had gotten and he wanted to have some, so I let him have a sip, as soon as I knelt down a lady ran over and took the cup from me... she said "how could I possibly give my child that?" I took my cup back and told her to please let me be the mother and ty for your input. She kept at it until I finally had to leave the store... Case 2 I was in ToysRus buying a gift for a friends birthday party and I had my 2 boys in the cart, who were 4 and 5 when I put the toy we had finally decided on in the cart my 4 yr old decided to start jumping on it I took the liberty of telling him politely to quit, when he didnt I smacked him , soon as I did an elderly lady showed up and started yelling at me for hitting my child.. She said she was going to report me to the store manager.. To wich I replyied "you go right ahead" I could go on but your getting the picture im sure, what makes me so mad is that these ladies had no right in my opinion to butt in and take my parental rights from me.. Why cant people use some self restraint anymore and quit trying to take over ... just gets me going I guess.

I knew it couldn't last forever...

Well I found out yesterday that I didn't make the program I was hoping for, on the bright side 4 of my friends who tried out with me didnt either so we can share our pain. lol Only now we are all stuck with plan B options. Mine was to try out for the LPN program wich starts this Summer term. I have much better chances of getting into that one since they take alot more people and tryout twice a year. Its funny, when I first started thinking about going to college about 7 years ago, I wanted to become a neonatal nurse, after doing some research I found out you had to work your way thru a lot of schooling to become one, LPN to RN to MSN to Neonatal specialist nurse. In other words about 10 yrs of school. Which is sort of what I'm getting ready to embark on ..lol My husband keeps telling me that maybe God was trying to push me this way all along and he knew it was going to be a hard pill to swallow that I didnt get in so he provided some coushin for me to fall on . lol I hope so. I have faith that I will make this one count. And this gives me time to visit my Mom in Ohio for spring break with my kids and be active in their sports this summer so I cant wait. Being positive is something thats really hard for me usually but ever since Ive came to terms with my depression Ive been dealing with it better.

Getting nervous

Ive only got a week to wait now for my phonecall to see if I get accepted into the program and I'm really dreading it. There were alot of very good applicants who tried out and some of them have a bit better scores on some of the weighted classes, I think what bothers me the most is that I cant get ahead of the stuff I need to do once i get in , such as the military scholarship i need to apply for, ( have to be in the program before you can apply) books , daycare for my older boys, ect.. I am a planner I love to have things planned out months in advance, exp. Antonio's birthday is in June and Ive already planned it out lol. I know im a bit obsessive about things but I like it that way , no suprises for me. So as I wait here for the phone to ring Im contemplating what to do If I dont get in.

It's almost here!

My favorite time of the year is almost here! I love the weather just before it gets really hot here. The smell of everyone cooking out in the air, the kids playing outside in the yards laughing and giggling, all the plants in starting to bloom and come up, its just the most nostalgic moment for me, takes me back to when I was a kids running around Laura drinking from the garden hose, building castles in the sandbox with my Friends, and mom and dad would grill out . We went camping every summer pretty much that I can remember but while I'm not going to do that I can say I look back and can still remember the smells and sounds of it. Spring makes me feel refreshed and rejuvenated. ( I must hibernate in winter) I always like to come up with projects I want to do during this time and I can say I've already have a few on the list. I really want to fill up the sandbox we made for Wyatt the year we got here and didn't buy enough sand to even cover the bottom of it lol. I want to catch up on my scrapbooking that has fallen way behind since my printer went south. So let me know whats your favorite time of the year, that takes you back to being 10 years old ? Post it in comments for me I'd love to reminisce with you !

Devin gets a new cast

On friday of last week Devin and a few of his friends were wrestling in the yard and Devin landed on his hand wrong, it didnt swell so I assumed it was just a mild injury and told him to take it easy and if it still hurt in the morning i would take him in to get it x-ray. So we spent about 2hrs the next day in the ER since we didnt have an appointment and the doctor told us after looking at the x-rays that he was fine so we went home, and I took Devin back to class only to get a call 1 hour later saying to bring him back that he had a fracture and it needed to be splinted. Today we went to the specialists and they told me it was a buckle fracture which is why its so hard to see on an x-ray, it just looks like a few wavy lines in the bone. Long story short he picked out a black cast. He has to wear it till middle of April but should be fine to play baseball this year.

My Karma is kickin!

Although I dont necessarily believe in Karma, I am begining to suspect I must have finally stumbled into some luck. For those of you who are lost at this point see previous posts, I havent told many that we have been thinking of expanding our family now for some time but a few years back we went thru a very rocky past( almost ending in divorce) and we ended up having surgery to make sure we didnt have any more children. Now 4 years later we have chosen to have more children. I'm sure many of you are wondering why? and some are thinking that I'm crazy for wanting more in todays society but we do. We had been looking into the reversal surgery costs and procedures for about a year or so now and figured up that it was going to cost quite a bit of his bonus he will be getting in a few years. But when my husband told me that this procedure was now going be offered to him thru the military for free I almost wet myself! it was like hitting the lottery. Its just crazy insane luck. Of course there is a few risks to this, but its what I truly want and I so does my husband and that is what counts the most.

It's Snowing in Georgia!!!

I've lived in Georgia for only a few years and while I'm not entirely sure snow is unusual for this are, I think its safe to say that in the beginning of March its pretty warm here usually. Just as I was saying it had been in the 50's the last few days and kids and husband were complaining that the houses was too warm so I had turned off the heater thinking that winter was finally over here. I mean after all we are in the south and all.... I woke up the next morning and my husband is telling me " hey Angie, get up, it's snowing outside." I laughed and told him that was a good try but I'm not that gullible. " Alright, see for yourself then and he opened the blinds...." Ok I had to admit I was wrong and he was right ( a very rare thing in our house ) I thought well it will be gone before the evening anyway so I decided to go out to pick up a few things to work on my latest project. While I was in the store it started snowing even harder.. It kept falling all night it seems and so I had to post this in disbelief ....lol