Rin,

The baby is kicking and FWW is getting bigger. We are busier then you can imagine.

So we will have 3 boys. LOL. OS is still struggling with school but not as much. We are really staying on top of him but he doesn't like it so much. His grades are staying higher though. We have him in a mixed martial arts class now as well. So 3 days a week he gets some serious excercise.

YS is still doing his thing. Soccor and baseball. He is in a baseball camp and at 8 he is playing with the kids that are 2-4 years older then them 10-12 and more then holding his own, he is still actually at the top. The guy that runs the camp gave him a little tryout to see if he could hang with the big boys. He couldn't get him to fail, he even fed him MAJOR League pop flies and my son caught them. He seems to be the Mascot of the class. He is really just a pleasure. Cross my fingers.

I was able to buy myself a newer car a few months ago which was nice. It did set me back a little on becoming debt free but that is ok, I was able to get the price I wanted and my other car needed major work so it was worth it.

So I negoitated another debt down and that will be paid just leaving one more. I could have paid this one long ago but I needed to wait so they would negotiate down more. That makes about 20k in debt or so down to about 8k not bad for an amature. At least we never had to go BK.

My job is great. My team is just kicking some serious butt.

On the M front it is ok. I am not feeling it for my FWW right now. Maybe that will change.

What is probably funny about it is I would say we have a decent M. We don't fight or argue that much etc I just don't feel in love. Maybe that will return who knows.

Well that is my update. Busy busy busy.

Hey, Rin.

I used to get bronchitis twice a year, too, ever since I was in High School ... couple of times it got to pneumonia stages, and once it was even whooping cough. Nasty stuff!

Mucinex or plain robitussin (or something similar - look at the ingredients) has been a lifesaver for me. Gets all that junk out of there before it gets too nasty and turns into bronchitis. It's more coughing up front, but they are productive and not so painful.

Works especially after a cold when you've got sinus stuff running down (Gross, I know. Sorry!). I haven't gotten bronchitis in almost three years now since I started using this stuff. Makes the bad coughing only last about 3 days, and if you can find a way to get enough sleep in that time, then it clears up even faster.

-AmI.

HI everybody! I left work at lunch, grabbed a piece of pizza and went take a nap...I woke up to GOGO chewing on my slip on tennis shoes...so they are trashed now...

I just grabbed another piece of pizza and my phone rang, work asking about a delivery...part of it was separated from teh rest...they were wondering how to handle it...I took my cough med. again...

SL- We don't really have a problem with moisture...no sheetrock int he house...paneling, no insulation in the walls...really old house...I have to add insulation after we moved in...MOF, I did the insulation in the attic myself...

Installed Reflective Foil, took me two days working by myself but was worth it, $200 decrease in my energy bill from one August to the next Aug...just that month...later, I hired two of our guys to install the Foil under the house and came back an blew cellulose in teh attic...I hired my company to do that...still nothing in the walls and the energy bill is good, manageable...

Now, the boy's bathroom, I need to change the toilet and vaniety out, a small problem with water there but nothing bad...that will come AFTER I own the house...nothing to increase the value, right?

It's just so amazing the dust that's in here...we live right on a main road and get a ton of dust...something I can't handle alot of...

AmI- That's funny! I started with Broncitis when I was 17, senior year and have had problems with it ever since...usually if I can get meds. in me right when I start sneezing, I can stop the process...been pretty good about recognizing the signs over the years...

MOF, I've been really healthy this past year, looking back, the year before I was sick all the time but since I left POWS, my stress level has been down and I've been really healthy...that was one of the first things I noticed after I left...

Hum, I'm feeling better, come to think of it...my head seems alot clearer right now...

Anyway, Frog...I'm so happy to hear that you guys are doing good...I would love to be there to feel that wonderful baby move...it's the greatest feeling in the world to me...I loved being preg. for YS...I was always showing off my belly and I GOT HUGE FOR HIM! WEll, huge for a 4'11'' little person! Swallowed a watermelon, I did! Basketball for OS! LMAO...

Well, I'm going to try to rest some more, I have to pick up the kids early today to get OS to tutoring...if I feel like I do now, I may get a few things done this afternoon...at least finish my bathroom...that WOULD be nice, now whether it gets done is a different story, I'm certainly in no rush...

I have no plans this weekend and the boys will be gone...I can do alot then...it will be my first weekend alone in teh house and believe you me I can handle that!

Financailly, I am doing fine also...paying some stuff, keeping up, not wanting for anything...God is good...All the time!! I haven't had a bad day in a long time...you know one of those where I think it would be easier to just go back but KNOW better...I am doing fine, nothing bad had happened since I left POWS...MOF, I think alot of good things have happened...

Now, being sick I wish I had someone to care for me, but I didn't have that before really so it's not like I'm missing anything except someone BEING here...make sense?

I've started thinking about dating again, but this time it's different...before when the topic surfaced I was thinking about it because I was lonely, this time I'm not lonely...I'm not ready right this minute, but I was thinking that come Christmas time and Mardi Gras time it would be nice to go on a few dates...

I'm certainly not looking for a serious relationship...the "OH, please, lets get to know each other and get married!" NO!!!

I am enjoying my separatness and being able to make decisions without someone else telling me no or you can't do that...I want to enjoy this part of my life for a while...besides I have to do right by my boys and MYSELF...

SEE I got my hopper screwed on straight this time around...I am very at peace with life right now...I have a very laid back attitude...not like before where if something needed to be done it had to be done right then and there...

NOW...LMAO..I'm still cranky when I'm sick or the boys are not listening when I tell them something the first time, but the rules have changes YET again and we are in a different place and I feel that I have to give us all a chance to get use to things the way they are right now...so we should be better in a month or so...all in all I'm happy with life the way it is...

Any thoughts on the dating thing? For my sitch anyway...I'm having a problem with what the law says...final dates...but techincally not married...stuff like that...

HI, I woke up, let the dog out, and figured I'd post real quick...I'm feeling much better...my head's clear for the most part...have a cough now, but that's doing good too...

At least it's coming up and out...YUCK!!! LMAO Another day or so and I'll be back up and running...I did get YS's bed fixed today...ran to the hardware store about three yesterday...so that's up and done...his room's coming together, still have a few things to get out of there, clean the toy box out, and put that 13'inch TV that I purchased while we were living with Spon. in there...

The great things POWS is not a house keeper/cook/whatever...so I've had to get VERY little for the inside of the house like cleaning supplies and we had a cabinet full of food that I had purchased before I left so that has been a God sent...I thought for sure that he would have given it to the neighbors or used it or SOMETHING...

I'm thinking about saling my weight bench and kick bag...POWs never put up my kickbag to begin with it's still in YS's room, where it's been for the last two years...I can always tell POWS later that I donated it to charity! LMAO <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I don't know I might move it to the garage after it's closed in and ACTUALLY INSTALL the kick bag!!!! it's not a priority right now, but I would like it out of my dining room! Cluster free zone is the goal for the house!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Calm, serenity...come to think about it, I have had NO triggers...

Oh, OS told me tonight that POWS was asking WHO ALL WAS over here on moving day helping me out...OS said "See I told you HN1 was on the phone talking about us!" POWS asked it BC was my BF, and OS said NO, his MARRIED WITH A KID, which shut up POWS...I just told OS that he didn't have to answer the questions if he didn't want too...and told him that I was proud that I didn't have a BF, that I didn't NEED to have someone in my life...

Oh, OS overheard POWS refer to me as a B1tc* on the phone and he said he thought "Don't talk about my mom like that!" I tell you want POWS is REALLY digging a hole with OS, he doesn't think very highly of POWS and seemed disappointed when I reminded him tonight that he was going back to POWS this weekend...I had to explain the schedule to him again...I'm sure that he was looking forward to spending the weekend at home, so I'm going to make sure that when it's my weekend I have very little to do, so they can enjoy being home...

As far as OS attitude toward his dad, I can't fix that...OS also mentioned that MIL told him "Just b/c your mom says your dad's a bad person doesn't make is so!" So I asked OS if I've said that, and he replied no, so I reminded him that I thought POWS was not a bad person but he had just made some really horrible decisions...that I actually think that he is a good person at heart...

That's the best that I can do with OS...kind of show him there is separateness between the person adn the decisions or the person and the sickness...I feel the rest is up to POWS...it's not my place to help create a relationship between the two...

Oh, there was something else that OS mentioned...remember I had mentioned that POWS took the kids to BIL and BIL has a livein OW, well, POWS and her as "getting Close"...Well, POWS told OS that something were not suppose to be talked about...I had told POWS that the clause would include BIL's house too, in regards to teh opposite sex overnight...

Funny, this must be POWS philosopy on life "That something are better not talked about!" Lies of omission...the dragon that I fought and was unable to slay...

OS thinks he's a lair anyway, and I keep telling OS that I don't have to talk bad about his dad that he will have the opportunity to make his own conculsion about him just as I have about my own dad...SO that's where I stand with OS and POWS...

Anyway, better get back to bed to rest some more, I do have to go to work in the morning...LOL...

Rin,

Glad you are feeling a bit better!

Good stuff on your convo with OS. Tough, isn't it? Yet you are doing the right thing. Speak the truth in general terms. As you say, we don't have to say bad things about the XWH,,,,their actions speak loud enough and kids are smart enough to figure things out.

Yes, the Old Lie By Omission. If we don't "talk" about it, then it's all OK? UGH! Drac likes that, too. DSS even said to me once, "Why can't Dad & the Ho have their PRIVACY? Why does Everyone have to talk about what they are doing?" Yeah,,,those were the thoughts of a 12 year old - NOT!

You did good, Rin.

Have a Great day!

Morning BUGS, I'm sneaking on again...bad girl, huh? LMAO

Well, I'm feeling much better today...my voice sounds like crap but I can handle that...LOL

Thanks for the vote of confidence with OS...

Well, i emptied a file cabinet that I'm donating, and brought the garbage to the road...it's the five or ten minutes here and there that's getting things done around the house...I'll be happy when Spon. picks up the stuff for the sale...

I was talking to one of my co-workers this morning about getting someone to pressure wash the house, it REALLY needs it. Perhaps I can hire one of the guys from our crews and get that done...it'll be least work for me, and I don't think that I need to get overheated right now...I'll see not like the dirt is going anywhere...LMAO...

LMAO...main thing for me is I can see the progress...LMAo...because it SURE ISN'T PERFECT... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Well, let me get back to work...I'll try to sneak in later...once I get a decent computer at home, I can keep up better with everyone else's thread! Sorry I'm missing out right now! Take care everyone!

I don't date girls that live on the east side. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

OH< LUCKY ME!!! LMAO...

Stop by next time you're in town the place is really shaping up!!

You'd be impressed! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I have been meaning to write and update about OS and his tutoring...

We've learned from the tests that he was given that he is on grade level with everything except his spelling...with that he can produce the beginning and ending sounds of the word but the middle is gone for him...

So, this program that he's enrolled in was geared more fowards Reading...well, the tutor, a friend also, spoke witht he director and are customizing it for OS and his Spelling problem with some reading...

Thing is if he doesn't improve with Spelling then he will fail this year's LEAP test and have to go to summer school, and if he doesn't get it then that means back to the 4th grade...

So it's a comprehension thing with hearing the sounds that come in between the first and last letter...nothing to really worry about it's just not clicking for him right now, which can be age appropriate from what I understand...

JT, i would love to hear what you have to say! Actually anyone who's familiar with this...I'm overjoyed that we were able to identify the problem!

Hi Rin-

Sounds like OS's tutor is very perceptive and yep-it's an age appropriate thing. One of the things that works with kids who have some sort of processing difficulty with words (whether it's sounds and spelling or even dyslexia) is have them practice pig latin. Emember-ray at-thay? It forces them to hear the middle sounds and put the beginning sounds on the end.

Also, rhymes also help. Shel Silverstein "Where The Sidewalk Ends" is great for boys his age. Plus, there are just some words you have to memorize to remember to spell: no one has ever been able to sound out "through" or even "phonics" for that matter. Maybe he can come up with his own "rules" to remember difficult words. I do that-like the word "separate" 'e's on the end 'a's in the middle (because it sounds like seperate)

Thanks for asking-sounds like you are almost up to Taz energy levels again.

Well, Thank you JT! I really appreciate that...LMAO...I remember Sep-A-rate...A rate...like a fee...LMAO...

As far pig latin...I was one of the one's that just couldn't get it...LMAO...so I'm no help to him on that one! LMAO...

WEll, today my NEW WEEDWHACKER came in...won it in auction...it's not just a weedEATER...LMAO...it's a whacker...of course, I have to start it and test it out and I'm like WOWOWOWWWWWW!! I love it!

Hopefully my BLOWER!!LMAO...works just as well, it'll be here tomorrow...

My whacker was won for $3.02 and shipping was 40...so I'm so thrilled that it works!!! LMAO...GO ME, it's a craftman!!!32CC!!!! WOW BABY!! I just couldn't go for the little 22cc...LMAO...

Yep! I'll feeling better, still got some yuck in my chest and nose but feeling world's better than yesterday or the day before...

Well, I told OS that if he finished his homework that we would do something together around the house and I have a motion sensor light that I need to put up, so I'm going to get him to help me with that...I still want to take it easy tonight...

Okay, so he's waiting on me...got to go! Be back later!

Alright, now I'm upset...two wires, easy swap...won't work...black on black and white on white...waited the warm up period and nothing...

It's always the easiest things that give you the most trouble...

Okay, I'm going cook and think about it...perhaps it will come to me...but I will not deal with it TODAY...

Well, i'm heading to bed...really tired tonight...

Hoping I can sleep well tonight...I'll have the house to myself this weekend...looking forward to it...I can work at my leisure...and my mom is sending a b-day package...that's always great to get!!! WHO KNOWS what she'll have in there for ME!!!

I'm so excited! I really do like surprises...I'll have to see if I can find that in my next partner....one who likes to give me GOOD SURPRISES!! LMAO...

I'll play with that light tomorrow or this weekend...perhaps one of my wires came loose or something simply like that! If I get that one up and working then I'll change the one in the front of the house to the decorative one that's been sitting there for months!

HN2 was scoping me and OS out earlier tonight...hope she got an eye full...must be nice for the HNs with a appealing house across the street versus the abandoned one that was here a week ago! LMAO...

Well, I'm really sleepy, think I'll head to bed early and make the best of tomorrow...

Just popping in to say hi! Today makes 7 months POWS has been served!!! OR I can say that I'm 54% through this D!!!

HURRAY!!!!

HI! I'm up and running! Got my new blower in yesterday and played with it a few minutes ago! I love it! New toys!

WOO HOO!

Spon. came by this morning and we loaded up the stuff that I'm donating to the rummage sale...then, I brought GOGO to the pet store for food, treats, and a new toy SHE picked out! I moved some of my tools to the garage...I went on a shopping spree thanks to my mom and my birthday coming up!

She send me $200 in gift cards...SOOOOO, I got curtains for my room, a new shower curtain for the boy's bathroom, a NEW wet/dry shop vac, that I mounted to the wall in the garage (couldn't do that to the one we had before)...

Got a wheel barrel, which I didn't have before but we didn't need one, I would use the kid's wagon, and we don't know where that is now! Move some Mardi Gras beads, which I plan to sell! Washed a load of clothes and put them to dry...

last night, I went into YS's room, and it's Disney Cars theme, so I used some beach towels for the window curtains, and had little decals that i put up all around the room! It looks soo cute with the sheet sets on the bed!

I've got a BIG pot of red beans in the slow cooker, and I ate some leftovers I made last night for breakfast, well, really brunch! LMAO...

I'm working up the energy to finish my bathroom which I haven't done yet...ONE MORE coat of paint and it should be done...the trim can wait until I do the other trim work...

I have to say that things ARE REALLY starting to shape up and I've gotten compliments too! So I'm very proud of the work that I've been doing!

It's just SOOOOO quiet around here without the kids! Just me and the dog...who is loving her new toy! SQueek, squeek, squeek, is all I hear! LMAO...

Caught her int eh bed with me this morning! Had to made her move so I could get up...she had been SOOO unloved while we were gone...that's all she wants to be loved and played with...it's the nonstop that I can do without! LMAO

Alright, I'm putting the painting off, let me TRY to get to it!

have a great day! I'm sure that I'll be back around!

Thanks for sharing, SFB. I always get a boost when I come here to your thread <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Thanks EO! I'm so glad that I can help lift you up when I can! LMAO <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I still haven't gotten around to painting yet...I realized I was tired so I laid down on the sofa and I was out...woke up with a headache, so I took something, and decided to pack a few more boxes...organized the pantry so I can see what I have...just really general clean up...my sinus' are still giving me trouble and I guess I don't want to overdo it, so what gets done gets done!

The great thing is I can SEE progress, little by little it's coming together...

I'm really enjoying just being in the house no matter how much work there is to do...I haven't turned on the TV or radio or anything...just me and the dog...

I have all of you to thank for all of the help that you gave over the past year and a half...the support was/is unbelievable...I really ready to move on with my life...I feel like I'm out of limbo and can move in whatever direction that I CHOICE to go in, witht he help of GOd that is! LMAO...

My Spon. said today that "I just needed a little help and the rest I can do!" That's really all that I asked of my M to POWS, just give me some help...I don't think that was much to as, but for him it must ahve been...so I'm in complete acceptance of where I am, and I can do what I need to do, when I need to do it and if I can't I can ask for help from the right people and get it...

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Rin:

Sounds like a fun weekend for you!

More POWER!

And LSU won too!

LMAO!

(((RIN)))

LG

HEY LG! That was an AWESOME game!!! I watched it and painted the living room wall...I waspretty disappointed until the end of the third quarter...

GEAUX TIGERS!!!!#1

WEll, next on the list is to pressure wash the house and I JUST won an auction for one...dirt cheap if you watch and time that bid...This is the last thing I'm purchasing for around here for a while! Tool wise that is...

Thanks for stopping in!

WEll, today I got the last coat of red in the living room done...that in itself make the room look bigger...

The boys just got back...I'm not going to spend to much of my time thinking about it but it appears that they didn't spend the time with POWS...I didn't ask any questions but it seems like POWS met the in-laws half way Friday and then today! Oh, well...I only said THank you to him when he was here...he handed me the kid's school clothes and I handed him his mail, then walked in the house!

OS said that POWS went to church today that's why he was dressed up! Before I realized it, I said "YEAH, RIGHT!" but then I let it go and OS went back to play...

I got a few others things done today...A NAP!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> And I washed all of the clothes and picked them up...got my bathroom organized "a little bit"...it's getting better around here, that's the best that I can do for right now...

Maybe next weekend I can wash the house on SUnday...Sat. I will be workignt he rummage sale most of the day and I'll have the kids with me...I'm sure that they will enjoy their time at home!

Well, I have to go get control of YS and the dog...they are running throught the house, YS laughing his head off, and the dog chasing him, barking at him! I'm so glad that we got to keep her, she's been great company this weekend and she's good for them!

Good Morning! I was thinking this morning and I was wondering what you guys think about it...

I've thought about inviting POWS to go trick r treating with us for Halloween...

I think that I have detached enough from him that I'll be able to do this...any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated!

I know that you guys are familiar with my reactions to things and have great ideas...regardless of the Sitch HE is their dad...I was thinking that I could offer and it's up to him from that point on...

Of course, the attention would be stickly on the kids, in my thinking anyway...

I'm trying hard to remain on the high road...in the past sometimes he would come with us and sometimes not...last halloween he was working nights...

The other thought that no one replied to was me question on dating...and technically being Med according to the law and being Med according to MB principles...I have a hard time with some D's taking only weeks or months and others taking a year like mine...so I would appreciate some thoughts on this too...

Thank you in advance, i really appreciate all of you!