car trouble

I hate having to deal with car problems! I was on my way to the high school this morning with all of the kids in the car. When I turned into her school driveway I noticed that dreadful pull on the steering wheel when the tire is flat. I was so mad. I had to drive maybe an 1/8 of a mile before I could turn onto a side street. I didn't want to hold up traffic going in and out of the school. So, I called Ben to come and change my tire and it took a little bit before we were on our way again. I got the tire fixed this afternoon during my lunch hour and found out that there's something wrong with the alignment that is causing the tire to go flat all of the time. aka...more money. I am going over to the shop in the morning to have a friend take a look at it and maybe bring the cost down a little bit.

SOOOO, other than that it was a good Monday.

Tomorrow, Madison will be 15 years old. Where did the time go?? She used to be my only little baby in the house. We went everywhere together, and had a great ol time.

Monday...

Can I just say that traffic during spring break is awesome! No school zones to drag through, no school traffic to go through, and I didn't have to drop anyone off at school.

I made myself some fresh coffee this morning. I like to take my own coffee to work because work coffee sucks. It's weird because everything else in the office is so nice. The coffee...not so much. So anyway, I made myself some coffee and then I left it at home. No bueno! I had to stop and get gas anyway so I decided to stop at quick trip. I always hear how good their coffee is and it's cheap too. I start the pump and go in to meet the throngs of people at the coffee bar. This is a good sign! If their coffee was crap there wouldn't be so many people there, right??

I must be the only one to have gotten the worst cup of coffee that morning. It was terrible. I just paid for a terrible cup of coffee. There wasn't any amount of sugar or cream that was going to doctor that cup to a tolerable level so I just tossed it when I got to work. Ugh. I hate stuff like that happening first thing in the morning. It just doesn't bode well.

Ben is all kinds of stressed out, and out of town. He is working until midnight, getting up at five almost every day. People didn't do their job right, he has to try to fix the goof up and apologize to the presenters. Because of the long work hours, he's not eating right and not sleeping enough which equals illness. Yep. He's getting sick. He won't be home until sometime Thursday and I am dreading the condition that he will be in. I just might take a Friday off to take care of him, and spend some spring break time with the kiddos.

Speaking of kiddos...I am trying not to schedule anything for them this week. They already have so much to keep track of during the regular school week. I just want them to veg out. Is that bad? I don't care if they are on the conputer, or watching tv all day. They don't get to do any of that on a regular basis. I am sure if you ask them, I am still the meanest mom in the world. They do have chores, you know. ;)

Tomorrow is another day!

running errands.

Today we went to church. On time! I remembered to spring forward all the way until it was time to go to sleep. I forgot to set my clock ahead! When I woke up, I had to jump out of bed to get everyone moving. Fast! I hate those kinds of wake ups. It gets the day started on the wrong foot, for sure.

Ben is still in Atlanta. sigh. He will be back on Thursday.

I took Lex to the hair salon to get a haircut. I wanted to get him a regular boy's cut and not just shave it. The stupid girl didn't know how to cut it without using an electric shaver. I asker her to trim it up on the sides with the shaver and she used it on his whole head. Hello??? I just told you that I could have done that at home. I was so mad.

After the hair salon I took the girls over to the store to look for some sandals for Easter. In the past I have waited until the last minute and was not able to find what I needed. Lesson learned. I am starting early. Haley has a dress and shoes. Madi and Becca have shoes and we're looking for clothes now. Lex is easy. I just need to take him to stride rite to find him some dressier shoes, or maybe a new pair of tennis shoes.

Same story as always for me. I need to lose weight. A lot of weight. So, I am going to head to the downtown YMCA during my lunch break. I am going to start off with walking until it gets to be a habit of going. Then, we will reevaluate. Work is about to get hectic and I see myself needing to get away and relieve some stress.

I love the warm sunny weather, it does good things for my mood.

Testing Testing 1 2 3

This was a test to see if I still remembered my login and password....I did!!

I have quite a bit to say, but I have to get it all organized in my head first.

I hope to blog on here more often. Even if no one reads it, I still like to get these thoughts out of my head.