Bread.Butter.Cheese. Does It Get Any Better Than That?

Why does this girl look deranged staring at that sandwich? Is it me or does she look like a really small sociopath??

That's how I feel most mornings. If I can at least get their hot panini's in their lunches along with a few other choice food groups, and they actually eat it, it's been a good day! Guess what just happened? A guy comes to the door selling meat, yup, meat door to door, in a cold styrofoam ice chest. WTF? NOOO WAY JOSE!

So hope all of you had a terrific Mother's Day. Brent and the boys were very sweet to me and I loved their gift. Here are the charms each one of the boys gave me and I absolutely love them. They are too adorable.

This one is called "Brothers" and it has two little boys hugging. Which is soooo not them, but adorable anyway! Just a little sidenote: these little boys are pretty wide and chunky looking, which does not look like Liam & Ian at all. lol

This one is a "Mom" one and it is really cute.

My bracelet is about halfway filled now and it's been about a year since they gave it to me so that's not too bad, I just can't wait to have it all filled up so I can enjoy it and not worry about which charm I want next. So we grilled steaks and enjoyed the day with Granny & Poppie which was really nice. The boys had fun and we just relaxed. Friday night we were busy and out at Pappadeaux's for Mark's surprise party which was really nice and enjoyable. Brent and I had so much fun because it's been a while since we went out by ourselves. We came home to an empty house and stayed up talking. I love when we get into those deep conversations and the next thing you know it's been like three hours. They are a part of our relationship and he makes me laugh so much then I cannot be serious which just makes me keep laughing. We went to the crawfish boil Saturday and Liam and his friend pigged out on the crawfish and when we got home a few hours later they were like "we're hungry." Ummm, didn't you already eat? So I threw some pizza rolls in the oven and his little friend said "I've never had pizza rolls out of the oven." Excuse me, how do you eat them? He said "We put 'em in the microwave." WTH? We just died laughing because I have never cooked them in the microwave. He said they are always soggy and gushy so he loved that mine were crunchy. He's too funny.

My friend sent me this text on Mother's Day and I hope you take it to heart like I did. She thought of this on her own and it really echoes my sentiments exactly:

To all mothers: Children are a reflection of our diligent work, the effort to teach them manners, respect & responsibility shows so never give in and always be patient.

Brent really made Mother's Day special and I just wanted to send a little prayer to him today because it's not just what he does for me on Mother's Day but the other 364 days a year that makes my heart go pitter-patter when he walks through the door. Lovin' him more each day of which on June 16th we will be celebrating 19 years of being married. I cannot believe how fast time flies. We are already talking about plans for our 20th anniversary next summer and hopefully it'll be everything we want and more. But I'll be telling everyone about that later.

Lord Jesus, grant that I and my spouse may have a true and understanding love for each other. Grant that we may both be filled with faith and trust. Give us the grace to live with each other in peace and harmony. May we always bear with one another's weaknesses and grow from each other's strengths. Help us to forgive one another's failings and grant us patience, kindness, cheerfulness and the spirit of placing the well-being of one another ahead of self. May the love that brought us together grow and mature with each passing year. Bring us both ever closer to You through our love for each other. Let our love grow to perfection. Amen.

We've been talking a lot lately and we really have some plans for the future that we are excited about and that we want to see come to fruition. It's not just about the materialistic things but the values we want for our family.

Super Duper News: (but of course my family already knows)

Liam is gong to be inducted into the National Honor Society tonight and we are just so proud of him. He kept his word that he'd keep up his grades this year if he got to play his computer games and that child has really been working hard on balancing school and his extracurricular activities and still being into his online gaming. You gotta give the boy his dues. He also received the BullPup Pride Pin which is a big deal at his school about showing character, values, leadership, and academic excellence. It really does show when you make the effort, then they too will make the effort. Hopefully I'll have pictures to post soon after all the award ceremonies for both of them toward the end of the year.

Guess I better run and do my errands before I have to pick up and deliver children all about town today. Excited for Liam's induction tonight and the field trip for Ian this week and spending Wednesday evening with Brent. Ian has two baseball games this week along with practice and batting cages and Liam has two soccer practices and a game on Saturday. Busy, yes!

Yes, I'm Actually Posting Today...

We had a great weekend! Hope everyone's Mother's Day was quiet and relaxing ... I envy you because mine was not! However, we all had a great time. Did the games and graduation party on Saturday. Got to see everyone in town and no major disagreements or anything. Actually, I can't think of one person that pissed me off. It's only when I get around little babies that I realize how big my own boys have gotten lately and how much they've matured. Well, we were exhausted Saturday night. The boys and Brent went to the fishing tournament Saturday morning before the game started at 9:30am but we made it. Ian and I went to Tricia's to hang out with her and Christene while Liam and Brent went to Liam's game Saturday night. Oh my God we laughed and cracked up the entire time. Christene was snoring and pushing me off the couch and we were making fun of her. I hate having to be out there twice in one day. For some reason that just aggravates me. I CANNOT wait until baseball is over. With each game and story of chaos that all the other moms seem to impose on each other, the last game cannot come fast enough. I have never heard of such turmoil for the parents of 7 year olds. For some weird reason, I am not even in any of it. It seems that psychotic moms can make their own chaos and don't need help from us little people. Gosh, I think their medications need to be stabilized. However, Ian did great and had a hit that was was "beautiful" to quote his daddy.

Mom's Day was fun actually. They woke me up with two new beads or charms for my Chamilia bracelet. I love that thing and there are thousands of different beads. Brent gave me the yen/yang one and the boys got me a pretty one with hearts and my birthstone. It was really sweet. All the boys got in the kitchen and helped their daddy make blueberry/banana pancakes which if I have to eat pancakes, then they have to be blueberry and banana combined. They were great! Then we headed out to Lowe's and bought plants and things for the garden. Brent bought his mom an oleander. He loves them because they remind him of growing up and staying at his grandparents beach cabin. We just call them beach trees because they are everywhere on the Gulf. I guess that's why he planted three in our yard. So we headed over to our Mexican meat market where they have this great tasting chicken that has been marinated in this red marinade. I have no idea what it is but we got some of those and some fajitas that were marinated in the same stuff. So then we headed over to Granny's to give her the boys gifts and plant and a really sweet letter Ian wrote. He is so precise. When he knows he has to give it out or someone else is going to be looking at his work, he is a perfectionist. I think she liked the plant then we headed home to grill all the chickens and fajitas. Tricia and Drake came over to eat, swim and ride 4-wheelers all afternoon. I was so happy to be getting my marinated chicken that we completely forgot about dessert so me and Tricia took the kids to Dairy Queen. Then it was home to clean up and get all the stuff ready for school. Needless to say it was 9:30 and I just gave up and went and took a long, hot bubble bath. It was heavenly and all was quiet. I can truly say that although it was busy as ever, it was just what I wanted.

What I'm Reading: The Nanny Diaries, great for endless hours of baseball practice, baseball games when your child is not at bat, waiting in the carpool line and if you're not reading then THEY come to your car to TALK so look busy, even if you have to play a "Paris" as I call it and pick up my cell phone and ACT like I'm talking and really into the conversation and then when they approach the car, turn to them so they can see that you are indeed on the phone, smile politely and do the parade wave. THEY will turn around, then you can put down your cell phone and get back to this book, which seems to be pretty good so far.

Things are really gearing up for the end of the year parties and programs. Trying to find stuff along the rock star theme but so far haven't come up with too much that's cheap enough to get 19 of them for Ian's class. Liam has some kind of band concert tonight so Brent's going to that with him and I'm taking Ian to his game. His coach does not want him to miss this game and I don't know them well enough to just let him go home with them so one of us has to go. I'd rather do the game so Brent has to deal with all the other parents pushing you out of the way to get a picture/video of their beloved, adored little sweeties. yeah right. So I'd rather sit outside and smell fresh air and he is soooo not looking forward to this. Even poor Liam doesn't want to go. He wanted me to call his band director and tell him that we have an emergency out of town. But I didn't. nope, he wanted to be in the band, well here you go buddy it's band time. He opted out for next year so I told him you tried it and didn't like it, so now you know. He's doing athletics next year and soccer outside of school so he won't have time for that and be able to do sports. After all, that child lives for soccer. My friend wanted me to go to Houston with her today but Brent couldn't get off early to pick up the boys so I had to back out. Guess I'll go start on my Mexican chicken casserole. No, it's not left-overs, I have to boil some chicken that's been defrosting and I want something I can put in the oven and be done with because it's going to be so busy after school. Hope your day is halfway decent. Stop and smell the flowers, just watch out for the bugs that lurk inside!! A little Marianism for you today.

Does It Ever Slow Down??

Brent's At WORK and I miss him!

I know, I know, it's immature. But when he calls early in the morning and says he'll be working overtime really late, it makes the day just drag and drag. Well, we had a great weekend. Friday night we had back to back baseball games and they both did really well. Liam had a good infield hit and Ian, well, he really puts them out there. We were busy with games and in the last two weekends we've been to five birthday parties. Ian has fun but it gets really old, really fast to me. So we headed out to Colorado Canyon and then Brent had to order some stuff at Cowboy Harley for his motorcycle. We found the cutest motorcycle helmet for the boys to wear when they ride with their daddy so I may go back and get it for them for part of their end of the year gifts. We try and do something big on the last day of school so I thought the new helmets would be pretty cool. Still thinking about that. Well, we had lunch and then hit the mall. Went back to MAC (again) and bought the prettiest colors and some funky colors too. That's what makes it all fun and not boring. Sunday went shopping with my friends and left all our kids here with Brent. They swam and rode the dirt bikes. Brent said they were excellent and didn't give him a big of trouble. That was good because I was kind of sweating it but not for long. Liam was a big help and kept the three little boys busy swimming and playing baseball. We had fun and then hit Sams and did some down and dirty warehouse grocery shopping. Bought two new Gooseberry cookbooks. I just have to say that I pay $16.95 each for them at Cracker Barrel and they are $10.82 at Sams so I got two for almost the price of one. Found some really quick, sounds good recipes that hopefully I'll be trying pretty soon.

First Grade School Field Trip (YIKES) is tomorrow. Off to the Julie Rogers for Cinderella or something ? cannot remember and then to the park to let the children play and have a picnic. The weather was horrible today and it literally rained all day so hopefully tomorrow will be better but if it rains, they are going to have their picnic in their classrooms. That sounds boring. So hopefully for their little hearts, we get to get out and have fun. I wanted Brent to take off and come with us but he's so bogged down and trying to learn all this new stuff he's a little stressed. But he's doing great. We have ball games Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday this week and Brent has a meeting tomorrow night with the "elders" and he's supposed to work overtime tomorrow night but he may have to postpone it until Wednesday night. He does not need to miss any meetings right now that have to do with our neighborhood. He called a little bit ago and said he's going to try and get it postponed. Graduation parties this weekend for Jesse from Lamar and Holli from the college for her nursing degree. I have no idea what the name of it is, something like Panola or anywho it's up north close to Canton. So we have an officers fishing derby at Brent's work at 7am Saturday morning, baseball game at 9:30am, cannot make the actual graduation at Lamar at 9:00am so we'll just head out to the party about 1pm and then Liam has to be at the batting cages at 5pm for his 7:30pm game. So I think Saturday is going to be pretty busy and Sunday is Mother's Day. I think I'll just want to recoup and relax. I think Brent's taking me to Galveston but it depends on the weather. If it's really rainy I would rather go to Houston but who knows. As long as I don't have to cook the food or clean the house I'll be extremely happy. He always gets me something to add to my bracelet that he just got me on Valentine's Day so that would be pretty cool. They have some really cool ones for the Chameleon bracelets and I want the ones with all of our birthstones. However, I'd be in heaven with my new KitchenAid mixer. I've been talking nonstop about it and he's like go get it and I'm like no, you go. Basically if he gets it then he can't gripe about how much I spent and if I don't use it every day then he can't say anything. Whereas if I go get it myself, then he'll say stuff like "You wanted it, you need to use it." Uh huh. So I learned a long time ago if it's something like that and costs more than I'm willing to pay, then he can go buy it for me and he doesn't bitch about it so much because then that would be rude. See, I've learned something in the last 25 years of being together.

So what kind of plans does everybody else have for Mother's Day? To tell you the truth I would just like to spend some quality time with all my boys, without any fighting. If they could promise me they wouldn't fight at all on Mother's Day, that would all be worth it to me. Peace and Quiet, now that would be SPECIAL.

Well, my sweetie just drove up so I guess I'll go say Hi to him and see how his really long day was and brief him on the happenings around here. Gosh I missed him today. Ciao!