Lost my scrappin chi.

i don't know where it went but i just am having a hard time scrappin. i wonder if it is cuz this room is so closed in for me. i need more room. but won't be able to do that until i clean out the basment and move the playroom down there. who knows when that will be.

It also don't help that the kids are in here all the time. on the computer. they have thier own computer but it is now with out a keyboard cuz C ruined mine. also the one i stole is getting ruined. i don't know how they can go through so many keyboards. ok i know, cuz C don't listen to me when i say NO FOOD AND NO DRINK. Also H don't like the kids computer cuz it is too SLOW.

My plan is to move the playroom down stairs. my scrap stuff into the dining room (playroom) and then move H into the den. but dh's plan would be move me to playroom and him to den. and H and sleep with S. how long is that going to last. S is a girl and H is getting older. C can't sleep in a room with other people cuz he gets too riled up and S and H will laugh at him and C will continue. We need a 4 bedroom house. but other than the basment. there really is no where to expand to and no one to help expand it. or money to hire someone.

As for C. he is in need of an up in his meds. we have an appointment on Monday for that. H is doing better with homework. At least this is what he has been telling me. no tummy aches so i think he is telling the truth. S still isn't potty trained and i told her we are going pee on the potty when she turns 4. so she has a couple weeks

but that is pretty much it.

Little girls

When i had my first child, I didn't care the sex. We had a boy. When i was pregnant with my second child since i had a boy, i wanted a girl to just make me complete with one of each. We had another boy. So when we (I) decided i wanted another child, I knew it was my last chance to have a little girl. I tried a bunch of different ways they say on the internet to sway your odds. Finally i just got frustrated and just was trying. and then finally i just said "screw it" and thought i will never get pregnant and gave up. BAM that is when i got pregnant. the most worst time too as we were building our house and moving. Morning sickness and moving don't go good together. So when i went in for the u/s and they said girl. i was over the moon. finally in the sea of blue i will have a pink bundle of joy. i got a pink carseat, pink bouncer, pink pink pink. Her room is a honey dew green though we didn't know the sex when we were painting it but it goes so well with pink. I thought of some cute girly names. Ahhh a Girl. well my husband veto'd my girly names and pouted until i gave in and said "fine you name her" what does he name her...Samantha. yes, while it is a girl name. What do i call her for short....SAM Ok, so i think girly stuff. pink cups and now that she is 3 and has started getting a mind of her own. what does she want to play with, swords, cars and what ever her brothers play with. What is her favorite color? GREEN Not pink, not purple. but Green. and when we went out shopping for cloths i asked her opinion on various things and what is the one shirt she decides she wants. Not the cute one with the butterflies. but a blue shirt from the boy department that has lightening McQueen. while i am glad she isn't a girly girl and will hold her own with the boys. She does let me dress her in girl cloths and isn't all that tomboyish. You need to learn that sometimes what you have pictured in your head, isn't what you will get in the end. Though i don't know what i would do with out my Sam.

Living with ADHD

Well living with a child with ADHD isn't a walk in the park. Lately it has been a walk down a walk covered with tacks. We are off schedule and it is not working. tomorrow I will have to get C up when i get up. as much as i enjoy my quiet time while kids are sleeping, i enjoy my sanity more. i need to get him taking his pill at a normal time. Right now i am trying to find a cabinet lock that will work on my side by side frig. Why you may ask? Cuz of Camden. I would love to go to sleep without worrying is he going to go down stairs and take the milk out to make his own strawberry milk after i told him no more. only to either leave the milk out, leave the frig open or waste so much milk and strawberry mix to get the right flavor. Or how about sneaking in the frig (had to done a sneak as i was right there in the living room and didn't hear a thing) to take out FIFTEEN eggs and proceed to crack them all over the playroom, desk, keyboard and little hall. This just after replacing a keyboard on my main computer. The results is me having a breakdown and all kids loosing privliges to the computers. I am missing an H key becuz of camden and his eating crap by my computer which caused something to get stuck and me pulling it off wrong and breaking the plastic clip. I may let Hunter play the computer for an hour a day if he stays in my room with door locked and only after he does some chore first. i will get a new keyboard in a month for when the kids start school and Hunter will probably need it but not till then. The other day i went to water fitness only to come home to a loaf of bread eaten. a WHOLE LOAF. I just bought it the day before. Today i was going to run out and get some stuff from Sam's club but after the egg thing there was no way i could go out and leave them with their dad sleeping and there was no way i was taking Camden out. He just don't think before he acts. when he has his meds he is fine but in those dreaded hours of coming on or going off them. it is crazy. this morning it was just after he got his pill so it hadn't kicked in yet. I should have had a clue when i caught him at age 2 on the table with hot sauce spilled all over. at the time i thought scrapbook moment. but i think that was the beginning of the end for me. i also can't fill the dog continuous water dish cuz it never fails that after i do, someone comes and fills the bowl with dog food. LIFE sucks somedays. Oh and shortly after the egg thing Camden comes down stairs (sent him to his room) and says " i love you momma" as he gives me a hug. there are days i could throttle him and then he goes and pulls that. Sigh what can you do

The Swingset

So after much going around and around with swingsets. what I wanted i couldn't get as my dh is not Bob the Builder and FiL is too far away to come help put it up. also despite my friends husband saying he would help. we went with a swingset that included assembly. While it is half of what i was looking at for the same price. i must say it is an ok swingset. (still want the one at Sam's club though woodridge i think it is called) We got this from Crown of MN. it is the same set as the neighbors. We originally were going with just swing and tower but dh said might as well get the monkey bars also. it came with also a larger rock wall and then the picnic table which we didn't install. The bottom will be a playhouse when FiL gets here to wall it in. (not sure when that will be)
This is Sam waiting and watching the swingset go up. it took the workmen 5 hours to put it up.

Finally the up. this is actually a few days later. i moved the sandbox over. i started to stain it only to find the stain wasn't matching. so i removed the seating on the sandbox(was cracked anyway) I stained the inside of the sand box so i at least could fill it and will do the outside later. the box was made by FiL. I wanted a wooden box that went on the end for sand toys but what FiL made was WAY too big. so that has been moved. the bottom of the set will eventually be floored and three walls added with a door to make the bottom a playhouse for Sam cuz right now she won't go up the stairs. Funny story is I went up there to see how it was and Bailey (seen in picture) followed me up. she climbed the stairs. it made me laugh so hard, i never saw a dog climb the stairs before. oh and the monkey bars. i thought, hell why do we need those the kids won't use them. oh i was wrong. camden is climbing on them all the time. also when it was going up, i thought man i should have done it on an angle but now that i have the sandbox there it is shaded by the building so it works great cuz Sam loves to play in the box.

This is the stairway to HELL. It goes up the side of the mountain and I nearly died. This is the group waiting for my sister and I to catch up. they had to do this alot. I being over weight and out of shape and she carrying a 2 month old baby. (but also out of shape but not over weight)

Tasteless joke

Farrah Fawcett arrived in heaven and God granted her one wish...she wished that all the children in the world was safe. So God killed Michael Jackson.

sorry I told you it was tasteless. but come on..some of you chuckled

just some meanderings

Well i got the swaps done. Sorry i didn't take pictures of them to post. i was just cutting it so close. ALSO my camera is MIA. yeah i know how shocking that a scrapbooker is without a camera. i do love my camera but i could use a new one. I set the camera aside as the battery died and i couldn't find the charger. so a week or so later i found the charger but lost the camera. i did charge the extra battery so if I do find the camera i can charge that battery and put the charged one in. Maybe that is what i can do on this rainy day but am a little tired this am.

Sam had a fever yesterday, came on all of a sudden. 103.1 called the ped at urgent care. said to give her meds and watch her. if still feverish in am, bring her in to U.C. So i had her sleep with me which made Camden want to sleep with me and then he couldn't sleep, kept bouncing around, was going to knock sleeping Sam off the bed and kept bugging the dog who was also trying to sleep. finally got him in with his brother. So i am a bit tired. also don't help that it is cold and rainy out. i have to cover my veggies from the cold. Average high around these parts is in the 70's and it is a fridged 50*. tomorrow is suppose to be 60. Feels like fall outside and while we need the rain this cold isn't good for the gardens. thankfully i have a patio garden and can just cover it up. Found some clear plastic so they can get light but not the wind.

My sister isn't doing very well. I feel sad that i can't be there for my family but it is what it is. She is in the hospital after having several strokes. Still no end insight. You see on the news about getting to the hospital and people making recovery from these things and she isn't getting better. actually got worse. No one is telling the family anything and in turn I don't get any information. I believe her smoking has a direct cause in these strokes and so please if you smoke, stop. You may seem invincible at the moment and think you aren't doing any harm but you are. We never expected any of this to happen. She just started scrapbooking 2 years ago and now she can't even feed herself let alone scrapbook.

Well i think that is it from here. i better go clean or something. even though i really don't want to