New Blog Announcement

I know, again right? I’ve been working on this other one for a few weeks now, just trying to figure out what I was going to post. Well, I couldn’t sleep this morning after I was rudely awakened by my orange cat laying on my stomach and scratching at the covers so I’d wake up. I’ve been up since 4:00 and for two hours tried to go back to sleep, but it just didn’t happen. I started thinking of all the things that are stressing me out right now, sometimes I feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders, but I’m not here to discuss what my stress is. Trying to get my mind off of those things that stress me out I started thinking about what I’ve been doing over the last couple of days, and why I find it so interesting and important to understand. I started thinking about some of my ideals and philosophies and decided that is what I’d post on the new blog. I know a lot of people visit this blog for family updates and probably don’t care so much to read the other stuff so I want to keep it separate. So, now it actually has a post that I’ve published and it’s ready for the world to see.

thediaryofacrazywoman.wordpress.com

What else would it be?? The crazy follows me wherever I go, it just a different kind!

Kindergarten Here We Come

So, today my mood drastically improved after receiving a letter in the mail from the school in regards to Dylan attending Kindergarten. It brings me such excitement to say Dylan was accepted into all day Kindergarten!! I am so thrilled because I think he needs it, and he’s almost six so he’s definitely old enough to be able to handle a full day. I think it will be good for him (and for me) to be in all day kindergarten receiving the “extra” time to help him be ready for First Grade especially since he’ll be pulled out two days a week for 30 minutes for speech, and 30 minutes every day for resource. It will be a much needed break for me, and great structure and routine for him.

I hear people say all the time that they are so glad when their kids are home for the summer. I must be a bad mom because I dread it. If my kids would just get along I wouldn’t mind it so much, but the fighting is unbearable and very stressful. Plus with two special needs (Adhd) children, and one also suffering form other disorders it is very taxing on everyone!!

This was the best news I could have gotten!!

A Blast From the Past!!

I Want To Rip Someone’s Eyes Out!

I’m so irritable today I could rip someone’s eyes out!! It’s days like today that I need to be by myself on a sparsely populated island somewhere (you got to have staff) laying on the beach (although I really don’t like sand), basking in the UVA/UVB free sun (but still getting a nice tan without the risk of skin cancer), sipping down a virgin pina colada, with my model like body (I wish), listening to the ocean waves hit the shore in peace and quiet while my hunky waiter with rock hard abs brings me a platter of delectable exotic fruits, and chocolate that wouldn’t cause weight gain. Maybe I could even sneak in a little nap…oh, a nap would be so lovely. (A girl can dream can’t she?)

It’s days like today when the constant echo of bickering children makes me want to beat my head against a wall or rip my hair out. It’s no wonder some mothers go crazy…the constant fighting of one’s children is enough to drive anyone to the looney bin!! Oh, school couldn’t come too soon!

Grocery Savings!!

I went to Walmart today after taking quite a bit of time to gather my coupons and check all the ads of the local grocery stores. I made a list mostly based on those items, and wrote down how much the items that I needed to by were and at which places. My goal is to not have to go to a bunch of different stores for all the ads, and luckily Walmart price matches. Bread was on sale 3/$5, and Chocolate Milk for $2.29 a gallon at Reams. Yoplait yogurt 40 cents at Dick’s. Butter $1.49 per lb., 8 pk bottles of diet Coke $2.50, and milk $1.50 at Smiths….you get the picture. I don’t usually bring my ads in because I’ve never been questioned, but I wrote everything down. Anyway, when I price matched the yogurt the cashier obviously didn’t believe that yogurt would be 40 cents – she was ok with 44 cents, which is what she thought it would be, but not 40 cents. So she went and tracked down all the local ads. I didn’t care because I was telling her the truth, and I know it’s her job to make sure customers are being honest. When she got back to the check stand and saw plain as day on the Dick’s ad that yogurt was in fact 40 cents I think she felt kind of stupid. She didn’t check one more thing I price matched so I could have told her any price I wanted at that point, but of course I was honest. After I handed her a hand full of coupons my total was $127 and some change. By price matching and using coupons I saved over $25, coupons alone saved me about $10.

I get my coupons in the mail with that local ads, which just started happening a couple of weeks ago. The others I get online. There are some great coupons out there…the best site I’ve found is www.couponmom.com and she has links to a BUNCH of other coupon sites on her site. There are exclusive RedPlum coupons that you won’t find in the mail. I got one for $150 off ONE stick of deodorant. After the coupon it was only 75 cents. It’s kind of exciting to see how much money you can save. My grandma was always a penny pincher…I should have used the things she taught me long ago – she never bought anything unless it was on sale and she had a coupon.

Pictues would have been nice, but I already had it all put away when I decided to write this blog. Sorry!

Another Mom update

I talked to my mom last night and she told me she should be coming home today.

Mom Update

I talked to my mom this morning, and she said that they sliced her open from pubic bone to breast bone, took out her intestines, and searched for a hole because air was getting in there somehow, which was causing all of the pain. Her surgery for her throat has to be put off until she gets some of her strength back, and she isn’t sure when she’s getting out. She’s been off of the feeding tube since Sunday night, and they are putting it back in today. She’s very tired, and resting.