in the terry house is sickly!
don't come near us!
...ken handed me his cold when we got back from TN. kimber has a stomach bug. she has it coming out of both ends. poor thing. and miranda and laura gale are starting to sneeze and get the sniffles. yuck! and on top of that aunt flo came to visit! i feel like crap! just thought i'd let you know!
i'm going back to bed!
feeling a little worried tonite...
a couple of weeks ago ken, my hubby, was on his way back from houston and decided to stop and stay the night with his parents cause he was really tired and it was close to where he needed to be the next day for work. his dad has been suffering for years, long story, 5 or 6(lost count it might be more) back surgeries later, he can't feel half of his body and the half he does feel he can't move very well. he is in constant pain. his next step would be morphine, but he won't do it, cause he would basically be in bed 24/7. we have said it for a least 5 years now that we all think he won't last much longer. and we try to mentally prepare ourselves. but he keeps truckin along. never complains. ken has tried to come to terms with letting him go. and it has been hard watching him try. when he stayed the night he said his dad slept in the recliner and could only sleep about 15 minutes at a time. he said he looked so tired, not just from lack of sleep. my heart breaks for them both! when ken got home the following night he said he was ready to let him go. it took all he had to see his dad the way he did when he was there. i don't have the words to comfort him. i mean how can i? i've never lost someone so close to me. my heart aches for him. i myself can't imagine life without "pop pop". i'm so scared i won't know how to handle it when the time does come.
the hospital "says" they have been trying to reach him for TWO months. wtf!!! come on people a letter would have come faster! anyways, he has 90% blockage. don't know all the details yet but he has a surgery scheduled for tomorrow and another tuesday.
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my grandmother has recently moved from PR to philadelphia due to health reasons. the best doctors for her "just" happen to be where my dad lives. (THANK YOU GOD). they found out what was causing the bleeding, after almost a year. she only has less than 30% of one kidney left and it was clogged with a mass. turned out to be cancer. they removed it. she is on chemo now. this all happen about three weeks ago. my brother only lives about 9 hours from me and has two young babies so she is there visiting for a month. we've been trying to get up there to see her. but one thing or another (money!) has stopped us. i got a call from my brother yesterday that she went to the hospital for chest pains. she had 75% blockage. she is resting now so i'm just waiting to hear from family.
i had a lot of "proud mommy" moments this week and i thought i would share some pics...hubby took the younger ones out for halloween while i took miranda to the high school football game. she had to preform at half time. now i like football but i'm glad i brought a book. i waited two and a half hours to watch her for six minutes! but it was worth it. i was so proud. she did awesome! she is the one all the way to the right, back line.
sorry it so blurry but I HATE MY CAMERA! if it is not outside and sunny and still, i can't get a good pic! i soooo need a new camera >:(
so here are ms hannah montana and the storm trooper aka kimber and laura gale. same as every year, lg picked out a boy costume. god love her! she does make a pretty darn cute storm trooper though.
here is miranda at her last volleyball game on thursday. they finally won!!!! (again...crappy camera) she got just about every serve over. she is one of two setters on her team. she has come a long way since the start of school. 
this is laura gale at her game on saturday and i think the private lessons are making a difference. i think we have a future catcher on our hands. she catches just about every ball that comes her way. she was great! even slide into home!
didn't get any pics of kimber's soccer game saturday morning. but she kicked some serious butt i tell ya! she was on fire! she didn't make any goals but she did a lot of passing and defending. she earned three patches from her coach.
miranda stayed with a friend sat night so i took the other two out for ice cream and made it a blockbuster night. hubby was, of coarse, at the deer lease. and he will be gone til thurs with work, so it is just me and the girls this week.
DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT SYC!
yep, that's me...queen of crap for november. hop on over to SYC and take a look. i know halloween is over so don't be scared of that great big pic of me. i did a little jump back when i saw it...
anyways there will be a new challenge up soon so make sure you check it out!
i have some new pics of the girls i will post tomorrow....hopefully. been a little crazy over here. but volleyball ended last week so that is one less thing to stress over.
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hubby and i had our 10 year anniversary friday. 10 years of bliss! ya right! we have been through hell and back! and close back to hell again. but we are here and happy. we went to a dinner and a movie. ( i so do not recommend "body of lies" to long and drawn out) you know i wouldn't go back to being young again for nothing. through my 34 years i've grown and learned a lot. i've learned things are not important, it is the people that are more important. i don't need to impress anyone. i need to cherish who i have in my life and not dwell on the past and what i don't have. i am so grateful for what i do have! i might not have everything i want but i have everything i need! i might bitch a lot but i have a hubby that loves me and i love him. even know we have our ups and downs, we have each other and three beautiful girls that i don't brag enough about. i tend to focus on negative things when i should be focusing on the good!
so here is to another 10 years babe! maybe 20 or 30 or more! love ya!
here are some pics... first kimber at her soccer game with her neon yellow striped hair to match her neon yellow uniform (which they won 3-2!) and the girls at the pumpkin patch that miranda was not happy about(can you tell by her face?) taking a group pic. i think she is getting to old for that kind of thing. she wanted nothing to with it. and i paid to much money for those dang pumpkins. 32 bucks! at least the money went to the church youth group for a mission trip. i could have saved about 20 bucks if i went to wally world. but i rather give my money to those kids going on a mission trip.
miranda apologized after we took the pic for being a snot about it. which i was thankful he realized the way she was acting. she wanted to take another pic and i told her no. this is how we would remember our trip to the pumpkin patch for 2008! ha! we always buy five pumpkins...a great big one for dad, a medium for me and three smaller sizes for the girls. kind of silly but i like seeing the five of us represented on the porch. it makes me feel good.
and miranda won her volleyball game thursday! wooo hooo! she was so proud!
had teacher conferences today. went much better than last year. no was there to tell me kimber was a "disturbance" or "disruptive" in class. laura gale made the a honor role and kimber is right where she needs to me, minus the wiggling and chit chatting. she doesn't get grades yet. next six weeks she will be given number grades. miranda made the a honor role also. she was stress a bit before report cards came out. but she did just fine. i am very proud of my girls!
anywho, i'm tired! so nite to ya'll!
i'm so jealous of karen! she got to go scrap this weekend with our old scrappy friends here in town. i miss them so! hubby had to go to the deer lease and fill the feeders and do whatever the men do on the lease. so i cleaned the house and did some laundry...fun!!
kimber won her soccer game saturday. 5-1. she did very well. she is learning to be a team player. she did not make any goals but she helped her teammates get the ball where it needed to be to make a goal. she got two patches. her coach gives them these little soccer patches to put on their uniforms. she hands them out for winning, good team work, listening etc...then at our next practice she hands out star patches for the "mvp". it is a great motivator for the girls. this is a pic of kimber (bright neon yellow!) and her friend from school. they played against each other, and it was hard to keep them from chit chatting on the field!
miranda and laura gale didn't win their games. but they are improving so much! miranda is getting just about every serve over and laura gale is getting people out! i can't believe the change in both of them. i haven't taken any pics of lg's games cause they don't have their uniforms yet.
back to running tomorrow with karen. i'm actually starting to like it! i can't believe i'm saying that....weird. anywho she kicks my butt every time. she can go without stopping. i have to stop at least once and do the old lady fast walk to keep up with her. but i'm getting better.
heck if i know!!!!!!
i haven't been able to watch my shows all week cause one of the kids lost the remote. of coarse know one knows who had it last. but all of them swear it wasn't them. thank goodness for tivo or whatever we have...dvr? don't care as long as it is recording. of all weeks...when all the new episodes are on! but really i've been to busy to watch it anyways! so i guess there is nothing to complain about.
karen and i have been running this week. i would have never thought i could run that far. 1.3 miles this morning! karen didn't stop, but i walked for about a minute than tried to catch back up to her. i would never do this on my own, so thanks k! i still can't imagine running 13 miles. i have a lot of work to do before dec.
tonight was another hectic thursday night. i'm really starting to hate thursdays more than mondays! i get so frustrated and flustered trying to get everyone where they need to be on time. lg had a softball game at 5:30. miranda's game started early...5:30 instead of 6 so that through me off a bit. and kimber's soccer practice was at 6:30. since i can't leave kimber alone at practice i only got to see a little bit of both lg's and miranda's game. i am seriously thinking about taking them all out of sports. i know it would be so wrong, but i can't keep this up. miranda's is with her school so it is not a problem with her getting to the games and i have a couple of mom's that bring her home for me. but i want to be there! and i can't take one out(kimber) and not the others. that wouldn't be fair so i guess i have to suck it up. i talked with kimber's coach and some other soccer mom's about leaving her there. but i made them promise to "yell" at her if she is not doing what she is suppose to be doing. so i might try it next tuesday to see how it works out before i try it on a thursday. lately all she wants to do is the splits and cartwheels!
and to top off my day...hubby is going to the deer lease this weekend! so there goes my scrappy weekend :( i really need a break!
after running with k and rushing to the gym for my workout, i barely had enough time to shower and get ready for my jr. high PTA meeting. had to leave that early so i could get kimber to the dentist. now i have to get ready for the elementary PTA meeting tomorrow. so good night! sleep tight!
oh i hear hubby coming home from poker...maybe he won! the deal is if he gets to play every thursday i get the profits! hehe
geezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, i pooped!
(edited friday: oops! i mean "i'm" pooped hehe, sorry)
i didn't think this night would ever end! since the hubby is out of town i had to be in three places all in the same time. miranda had an away volleyball game, luara gale had a softball game and kimber had soccer practice. i didn't go to miranda's game because she rides the bus there and has the option of riding it back or going home with a parent. and what a game to miss...it was apparently the best game yet even though they lost. lots of action! she didn't get home til almost ten. i had a friend bring her home cause the other two were already in bed. she was going on and on about how close it was and how the coach keep telling her (yelling at her) "great job terry" "way to go terry" and "that's how you do it terry" sooooooooo proud of her right now. she works so hard getting up at 5:30 every morn and tries so hard to do what the coaches ask and tonight just proves to her that it pays off.
my plan was to take kimber to practice then leave to take lg to softball. well since i can't trust kimber to behave and listen to the coach while i'm not there, i decided to forget about soccer tonight. which was probably a bad idea since her first game is sat morning and she could use the practice. not just for skill but for discipline. she has the skill...holy moly she can kick butt out there on that field! let's just say don't get on her bad side by pushing or elbowing her cause she will take her time and wait for her revenge. not that we encourage that! but it is something fierce she has in her. it is kind of funny...she will be out on the field and just be standing there playing in the dirt, looking up at the sky, not paying attention but as soon as you call her name and get her attention, she is after that ball in a heart beat. she will chase someone down and steel the ball and take to the other end...but getting it into to goal is a different story. it always hits the post. i shouldn't say always, but 50% of the time.sorry, lately my post have way to long!
there is the scoop...
my barely thirteen year old got a phone for her birthday a couple of weeks ago. she is a "textin" junkie! well yesterday i took it away because she was texting tacky things. nothing really bad just rude things that could have been avoided. so while her phone was in our room she received two texts. both the same. it was a forward thingy.
now you tell me if we over reacted.
this is what it said....
"send this 2 everyone and c what they think bout u
1 - friend
2 - friend w/benefits (yes you read that right!)
3 - my baby
4 - my bf/gf
5 - sexy
6 - cute"
WTH!!! i'm sorry that really shocked us. "friends with benefits" now we know what is out there and have discussed it in detail with miranda. we try to be very open and honest with her. probably to honest, but we rather her know the truth and be aware of things.
our reaction...my hubby texts the two girls who sent it to miranda and said..."this is miranda's dad. these are not appropriate questions for young ladies. do your parents know that you are forwarding these kinds of texts? they will." as soon as he was done with that he called the parents, just as a "fyi"
they both made excuse for their daughters. now i know my daughter pretty well, but if someone was trying to tell me what she did or didn't do...i'm not stupid...kids are kids. i would thank them for bringing it to my attention and i would take care of it. not make excuses and pretend they didn't mean any harm.
i really don't think the parents of any of the kids she goes to school understand what they are facing everyday. they just can't swipe things under the rug like nothing is going on. well i guess their kids are not my concern.
anywho, would you want a phone call letting you know about something like this or did we over react?
are we being to petty?
in our house tonight! COWBOYS vs. EAGLES
i'm a yankee and my dad still lives in philly...so i guess you know who i'm cheering for. hubby threaten to kick me out earlier! if you live in texas, being a eagles fan is not good for your health. so i have to keep it down.
GO EAGLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! shhhh, you didn't just read that!
a few things that are going on here...
*first i'm still in shock over the horrible tragedy friday. i didn't know aleida very long, but she surely touch my heart! i can't seem to get this charming lady off my mind. i have seen the most beautiful sunsets and sunrises the past couple of days and i can only think of her when i see them. she surely must be doing something up there to contribute. her poor husband and those two gorgeous kids! if you happen to been blessed by a comment she left or seen one of her projects and would like to help in a small way you can go here. there are couple of ways you can help.
*miranda is having a hard time in school. she feels alone. she feels like her whole world is crashing around her. the other night, her birthday to be exact, she had another one of her melt downs. i must say this one scared me a bit. she was crying so hard she was shaking and almost hyperventilating. my hubby was out playing poker and i almost called him to come home. "i just want to die" were her words. now i know she is dramatic but to hear those words come out of my thirteen year old's mouth...i didn't know how to comfort her. i did my best. i didn't want to make her problems seem like they were not important, because to her they are. she begged me to let her stay home the next day. as much as i wanted to cave, i didn't. it would be easy to let her run from everything around her but it will still be there monday. there wasn't a specific thing that happened just to many for one day i guess.
*kimber has a "boyfriend"! this was our conversation during bath...
k - dalton said he liked me like a girlfriend.
me - really? you know daddy doesn't want you to have any boyfriends.
k - not until i'm as big as miranda.
me - maybe.
k - can you do this when you have a boyfriend (she made a really long kissing sound tossing her head side to side)
me - uhhhh
me - you can't do that until your married. (said very calmly)
k - like you and daddy?
me - um...yes. now get out and dry off...
wth? she is in first grade!!!! i tell you raising girls is not easy! and to have to do it three times...please god help me!!!!
*and the reason she is not aloud to bath by herself anymore....last night she decided to squeeze the brand new bottles of conditioner and shampoo into the hair rinsing cup. just to see what color it would make!!! and just the other night i went to clean the tub and found it covered in green slime....hmmmmmmm who do you think poured out all the shampoo and painted the tub??? yes the same little girl! so that is almost six bucks down the drain, seriously down the drain!!!!
*have to figure out how i am going to be at three places at once thursday night! miranda has a volleyball game at 5:00. thank goodness it is a home game. laura gale has a softball game at 6:00, it is right across the street, thank goodness again. and kimber has to be at soccer practice by 6:30, all the way across town! hubby's not sure if he will be here to help. i'm starting to stress!
*tomorrow will be the first time i have to juggle everyone around for practices. it wouldn't be so bad if kimber would do what she is told and behave. i have to leave her at soccer practice and take lg to the other side of town for softball practice. drop her off and go back and pick up k. now, i learned from last year when we had to do this that kimber will go to the playground as soon as i drive away. and as soon as she would she me coming back she would run back to the field and act like she was practicing. this went on for two weeks before i notice her running across the field to get back. and my fellow soccer moms know that i wouldn't put up with that! i don't know why they let her get away with it. kimber told them she didn't feel like practicing....ummm hello! so i had to start leaving my oldest to babysit. so as much as miranda will whine and hate it she will be doing that again this season.
there is more but i'm getting tired! so that is enough for tonight!
EDIT: 37 - 31, EAGLES!!!!
oh yeah! i'm saying bye bye to these dang arm brace! it has been 16 weeks since i had surgery on my wrist and 14 weeks of wearing this stupid thing and 5 weeks of therapy. the brace stinks so bad, no matter how many times i wash it. i must admit that i'm a little nervous...what if i fall or something. i don't want to go through that again! the doc said i could leave it off unless i'm at the gym. he wants me to wear it for a couple more months just when i'm working out. i can handle that. so i'm super excited! that's all for now...i'm about to go help at the school for awhile then head over to karen's house to visit a bit.
from the land of no scrappin! i finally got a chance to scrap last night. gosh i think it has been three weeks since i last made a layout! this is for syc. and there is some serious crap in this one. the pumkin, the paper, the "boo crew" die cut and that little circle prong thing that was a pain in the butt to use. (i just threw the rest of them out!)
and here is "my #19" at her first jr. high game. they didn't win but she did awesome! i was so proud! and the shorts that i had to go hunt down and pay twenty five bucks for....waste. the school ended up providing them. i wish they would make up their minds before i flushed my money down the toilet! anywho, this was more of a scrimmage. a test to see what team the coaches want them on.
now i'm off to take laura gale to buy some new bedding for her bed. the furniture guys said they would replace the furniture sunday. they better! my house is such a wreck! everything is in the living room. i can't stand the chaos! everything is out of place. lg slept in the living room on just the mattress last night. miranda did the same in her room. so i just have to have some patience!
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