Aiya's Crew

My poor husand! We both agree that I am the one who keeps track of things.  Like birthdays. Like this next week-end.  He knew there was one, he just wasn't sure whose!  lol  He was sure it was Alia's, no honey, her's was in Feb.  "Oh yeah, she's 7 now!" Yes dear.  lol  He does remember mine, and our anniv. so I really don't complain, he's just so cute!  Maybe by the time they're teens, he'll get it straight.  At least there's just the 4, and that's it.

Current Mood: amused

Current Mood: frustrated

Been a while since I posted.  Ready to kill my in-laws, and smack my mother.  They(ils) are a post unto themselves, and my mother says that my 1 yo is behind because she's not walking yet. WTF?!  She says check the growth charts, they should be walking by 8-10 months.  Whatever, I don't remember my sisters walking that soon, but she says yes they did.  My mother with the selective hearing to make men and children envious.  She was already mad at the girls and charlie(my stepdad)  He's going around trying to find them, getting mad at them, and they have no idea what he's trying to do or say as he can't speak anymore.  So they get flipped out, he won't go sit back down, Alorra calls mom in hysterics,  Mom can't figure out WTH is happening, so she calls me to go referree.  And soon I'm moving closer. Oh JOY! There is a way I could get paid to sit with him, I'll have to look into it.  It would solve both problems, I'm supposed to get a job, she needs someone to keep him safe.  We'll see.

Current Mood: amused

My stepdad Charlie is doing a little better, some movement in the right side, more talking, he just can't always remember the words he wants.  My sisters got to talk to him last night, they were glad, but pretty upset, understandably so.  My mom is sressing about how she will pay the bills without his income, disability takes time, and is never as much as the wages were.  I wish I could help, but I'm barely making it as it is.  I might get to see him Friday, if I go up there to retrieve my hubby.  He has to go back to work, been gone since Tuesday.  I wonder if he has any sick/vaca time he could use?  We'll see.  We have two birthday parties to do this week-end, and I really don't have much heart for them right now.  One is Alia's 5th , and the other is my sister Tiffany's 17th.  She was going to cancel hers, but my mom talked her out of that.  Said it would help take her mind off of it for a while.  I can't really cancel Alia's, how do you explain that to a 5y.o.?  You can't.  But, at this point, her dad might be home for it, which only makes me feel worse for Tiff, neither one of her parents will be there.  O.K., enough pity, other stuff to do.

Current Mood: drained

Alia's birthday was Sunday, she's 5. OMG!!  Monday she tells me that next week at her party, she'll be 6.  I DON'T THINK SO!!!  So now she says that she is just barely 5, and has to wait a long time to be 6. LMAO!  

In other news, my stepdad had a massive stroke Friday night, but wasn't found until today(Tuesday).  Which means that any stopping/reversal drugs are useless.  He's all the way in Sacramento, and we all live in Riverside county.  So now my mom and my husband are driving up there to assess the situation.  Here's praying for the best.

Current Mood: anxious

I love my kids, I love them, I truly do.  But there are times, when I think of the fact that a jury of my peers would never convict. lol.  As Alex is now taking a shower to rinse off the ENTIRE bottle of bubble bath he dumped into his water. After I'd put some in. It was a brand new bottle.  Arrgg!!!  After his not so good week in school(other classrooms for disruptive behavior), then to hear his teacher is suddenly retiring.  I can't imagine why!?!?  Alia is very sensitive this week, crying easier than usual, I'm spotting for the first time since Ana was born(almost 10mos, can't complain much), and if I have to work, please let me know if I got this job or not!  Ana got shots Thursday, and couldn't be put down yest.  We're invited to the races tomorrow, his co. sponsors a car in it, so we get comped for everything, get to be on the infield, pretty cool I guess.  But it starts at 8:00 am, wonderful.  Like my day doesn't start early enough during the week.  Oh well, done venting for now, time to put some to bed, others in the tub.

Current Mood: grumpy

Alia cracks me up sometimes.  Ana kept sneezing, I was asking why she kept it up, Alia tells me maybe I put sneezing potion in my boobs.lmao.  Only her. : )

Current Mood: silly

Today has been a long day.  Since the phone call at midnight from Stacey ('daddy' said I could yell at you for that, it could wait til morning!lol) to see if I could pick up her dad in where ever it was that he works, today has drug along.  Maybe because my hubby is at his second job.  It's only one night a week, just for a little extra, but that almost makes it harder.   And my kids took FOREVER getting to bed.  I was just about ready to send them to Stacey, and run like hell!!  But now the house is quiet, which is almost a foreign concept, so I think I will join them.

Current Mood: drained

My daughter, Alia, has her own way of saying things sometimes.  We call it her verbal shorthand.  The other day, Stacey and I took the kids to McD's for lunch.  Bella likes the parfaits, so Alia wants one too. "Mom, mom I want a fruit & yogurt latte".  I told Stacey, we like to fell off our chairs, as Bella is correcting her.  And I don't go to Starbucks really.  As I'm typing this, Alex is telling my how he couldn't even get into his classroom today, because someone came & stole all the electricity for it.  LMAO.  He gets so mad when I start laughing, but really, I can't help it.  The other night, he & I were up here playing on the comp, and I started leaking.  He brushed against the wet spot and said 'Ewww! What are you leaking, breastmilk?' I said 'Yea, I'm not leaking Kool-Aid!' lmao  Ana has decided a nap is a good thing.  Earlier, she debated between nursing and a clean diaper.  She wanted to nurse first, but then we both agreed the diaper needed to go!  Speaking of which, there goes my quiet time, thank you Alex!!  Oh,well.

Current Mood: happy

I was watching a show(in between taping a show for my husband!lol) honoring one of my favorite singers, Reba, last night.  One of the imes I flipped back to it, they were singing a song that I had tried to get played the night my brother was killed.  The tape I had of it had been destroyed, and the description I gave the radio station wasn't enough for them to get it.  I hadn't heard it for years even before that night, but hearing it last night brought back that night like it was yeserday, and it was almost 3 1/2 years ago.  I found another song to play for him, Sherrie Austin's 'Streets Of Heaven', which seems more appropriate in hindsight, but the fact that that song was my first choice seems to have locked it in the back of my brain all this time.  My children love the other one, they're always asking to hear 'Uncle's song' . They're too young to really remember him, and my youngest won't meet him in this life, but they'll learn about him from the rest of us.  Ana is really Analyn Mckenzie, her middle name for uncle MacKenzie. I adapted it some, but my mom still had a fit, because I stole his name, and am trying to make her forget him, and replace his memories with her.  Ana was originally going to be Mckenzie Lynn, but I came up with the other name, and ended up liking it better.  It didn't help, and except for once in the hospital, Ana was almost a month old before my mom held her or really acknowledged her. We seem to have gotten past it, but I'm not sure she'll never really forgive me for it.  Oh well, I guess.  I can't force her to accept my reasoning.  My other 2 think it's cool that  Ana share's uncle's name, I can't ask for any better result than that, they're the ones who are most important to me.  My husband took the longest time to understand that I didn't chane the name for my mothers benefit, that I truly loved the new name better, but he came around.  I feel better now, but I think I need to go see him again, it's been a while.

Current Mood: contemplative