Entries from November 2009 ↓

So today, Forest walks into the room. “Mom”, he says, “Would you have to be smart to create a model of a real, working space shuttle?”. “You sure would be”, I replied. “Would you have to be really, really smart to make a diagram and then build the shuttle yourself?”, he asked. “Yes!”, I said. “Really, really smart!”. He looks at me and smiles, “Good! Then I guess you won’t mind me taking off of school for several months while I try.”  It was a nice try [to get out of school work] but it didn’t work. Next time he might try something more easily accomplished by a (newly turned) six year old, like building plasma tvs or something.

I still haven’t given up the idea of getting a college education. Fancy Cheeks kind of put a hold on it but I haven’t given up. One day I will hold a college degree; I’ve promised myself that.

An online university, like Western Governors University, is a great alternative to the traditional college experience. I was checking out WGU today and was amazed at how flexible their schedule is. The flexible schedule also rewards hard workers by discounting their tuition if they work harder. Also, they are NCATE accredited. Amazing!

Reading about places like this gives me hope that one day my dream will come true.

For now, I’ll just focus on getting Fancy to sleep through the night!

The other week our toilet wouldn’t flush. I tried plunging the disgusting thing — of course it happened in the morning while my husband was at school and I couldn’t just wait until 8pm for him to get home to do it. It splashed awful toilet water all over me and I wanted to immediately jump into the shower. I could not get the stupid thing unclogged! When my husband got home, he realized that even he couldn’t plunge it, after several attempts. Thank goodness he’s a building contractor and knew were to get a spare toilet ring at 8 o’clock at night (his work trailer!) because the thing had to come all of the way off of the floor so they could see what was clogging it. Oh, the smells. Oh, the mess! I could NEVER, EVER, on God’s green earth be a plumber! Oh my. I get faint thinking about it. Do you know what the culprit was? Or what the culprits were?

1. A rubber duck
2. A spy alarm sensor  (from Forest’s spy alarm kit)

Do you know who the suspect was? And there was only one. She loves to flush the toilet and she’s know to her siblings as Baby Monster. Good thing her Daddy and Grand-Daddy love her because did I mention the disgusting-ness?! We totally need those safety products that hold the lid down so that does NOT happen again!

QUICK! Someone catch her!

We recently purchased a new (to us) vehicle for my husband. Our old 1995 Buick LeSabre that he was driving to and from school finally bit the dust. We tried being a one car family for a while but it just wasn’t working with the large amount of time my husband was gone. I felt guilty that we couldn’t pull it off. I mean, we could have pulled it off but I was going crazy only being able to drive one weekday each week. We found a great deal on a functional, newer car. The payments are totally managable, although it bites having payments after we went for so long without one. Even the insurance quote from our car insurance company was reasonable. So it’s not that bad. Although I still feel like I should have just accepted life with one vehicle.

I suck. I meant to update my life insurance policy and add more coverage when Warrior was born. I didn’t. So when Fancy was born, I decided I absolutely was going to increase it’s value. I even called around to some places but they all included health exams, which were hard to find a good time to do, and I never found that great of rates so I never got around to it. That is lame, I know. Did you increase your life insurance with each child? At least I have a pretty fair amount but I definitely don’t think it’s enough for them to live super comfortably.