Happy Monday to all!!!

Ruth-hope your arm is better.

Hope everyone had a great weekend. It is STILL RAINING here, we have flash flood warnings in effect it is dark as night outside!

Well I must go dry my hair so I can get my ark out and head to work! I am going today with a new attitutude...I will like my job!!!!

Have a great day everyone.

Good morning Early Chicks and Sleepyheads.

We got snow last night and DH left my car window open. Grrrrrrr! But not a big *****y Grrrrr because he has been a sweetie lately.

Not much planned for today but do have to do some accounting at the Office. The arm in a sling cramps my style a bit but I can type with both hands if I rest my elbow on the mouse pad.

I am concentrating on getting extra calcium so I will have a perfect arm by gardening time. Made a fiber shake for breakfast and have lentil and kale soup in the crockpot - just could not bear to throw out the stock from the corned beef. Not low carb but weightloss is not my focus this week.

Hope everyone has a good Monday. I'll pop in later to check.

Good Morning Chicklets!!

Well .. it has been the morning from H. E. double toothpicks!!! I really don't know what to do with these little poopers I have!! Last night the 13 year old hit the 9 year old .. now there is never a good reason to lay your hands on anyone .. however, I do understand why. It took until this morning for me to discover the 9 year old was using the temp. probe from my old microwave (I had tossed it in the garbage last night) to threaten to stab and kill the 13 year old!! Geeze .. what is going through that head of hers!! So this morning was one big arguement!! Changed their rooms around so the 9 year old is in a room of her own .. now my new Crystal Meth kid will share with the 13 year old!! I think its time to move someone .. before it gets worse!! Both the 13 yr old and the 9 yr old are medicated .. like that is helping .. the 9 year old is on zoloft & atavan .. and the 13 yr old is on ritalin and Effexor. Now I know my next comment may upset a few of you so I will try to be tactful .. what ever happened to parents disciplining their children!!! What have they been taught in their younger years!!! And to think .. they are relatively still young!!! Now as a child I did get spankings, groundings, lectures etc .. and I did deserve them .. but .. what has happened to society where there are so many out of control children!!!! I dont think its all medical issues .. some of it is just plain out and out inability for parents to be consistant and consequence inappropriate behaviour while rewarding positive behaviour. It seems to be easier to let things slide then to consequence them. For instance .. my 9 yr old was on a visit with her mother .. she stole $20.00 from her to buy candy .. mom was able to catch her but did nothing but take the money back and tell how disappointed she was .. whats with that??? If it were my child she would have been back home and in her room!! Maybe some extra chores to pay off the money she had spent .. or something like that. Instead .. off goes mom with the $ and the kid is outside playing. When she came home with the kid .. she also informed me that the 9 yr old had pierced her mothers ear .. and mom had pierced the 9 yr olds ears. Not at a store but with a needle .. no ice .. no nothing .. is it me or is this not odd??

Enough ranting .. sorry to do this .. just think this is just the tip of iceberg as far as how my week went .. Breath deeply Laura .. you will get through it .. I have to keep reminding myself

Hope everyone has an excellent day
Laura

Morning Chicks!

Yowser Laura! Man! You have got your hands full! I certainly understand the consequences thing, we try to do that at home but with the little guy, he is wired differently and things that may seem like the right thing to do for the "normal" kid just don't work on him because he doesn't understand or get it. I sure don't have any advice for you but perhaps the gals over at
www.conductdisorders may. Take care of YOU Laura!

Woke up this morning expecting the forsythia to have popped and to see buds on the lilac bush only to find sleet and freezing rain! I put my head on dh's shoulder and moaned...he liked that and I liked the coffee that he made me so with the kidlets gone to school we may actually have a pretty nice day together!

I am feeling kind of puffy so I am determined to drink 120 oz of water. I really stink at drinking water! I drank the first 32oz and hopped on the tread mill expecting to breeze thru 40minutes So, now I have a change of plan....do 4 sets of 10 minutes with a bathroom run in between I am having a real love /hate relationship with that treadmill...one feature I particularly love is that you can stand on the side board and the darn thing keeps going, tracking your mileage (footage in my case)just as if you were on it!

off to do another 10...but the bathroom calls first!

peach

Morning Everybody!

It sounds like most had a good weekend and are ready for the week!

Not much happening here today. Getting dh ready for his trip this weekend. My friend from Alaska and her new baby and her 5 y/o son are coming in for a couple days tomorrow. They are flying to Montana and on the way back will spend quite a few days. She is talking about going to Disneyland with all the kids. We are still in the negotiation stage of that discussion!

Yesterday was a very insigthful day for dh. He realized that life is much more pleasant when you focus on the really important things and not so much on whether or not the garage gets cleaned out. More or less he's trying very hard to "chill". He's a pretty common type A personality, and looses focus very easily. This can cause huge frustration in our house and he really has to work at staying in control of his emotions. I sure hope he is able to do this continually for a while and then hopefully it'll become second nature. He said something about me "trying to change" him and I've been giving it some serious thought and I just don't think that's the case. If it were just he and I, I wouldn't be so bothered by this silliness, but since we have little kids, I think he really needs to work on getting a handle on it. I have told him for years that if he had more patience he would be the perfect person. He certainly has the rest of it together and is capable of achieving greatness.

So, now that I've rambled about my dh I need to go make some breakfast! I also need to call my girlfriend who I completely left hanging last night on the instant messenger.

I hope all you guys have a great day! I am going to try very hard to keep my hand out of the candy jar! I haven't figured out if I am truly buying it for the girls or for myself! LOL!

Take it easy!

Oh, Chickadee: I have a question, I have a question. Would it be ok if I pm you regarding eBay? I know you are the expert!

here it is, high noon, and what have i done????? watched television. made mom get dressed. got mom started on her bills. answered mom's questions about her bills. found mom's stamps. found mom's checkbook. found mom's keys. do we detect a theme here???

so NOW, it's job hunt time. nothing interesting. a couple of headhunters who saw my resume on monster.com.

and after all those weighing issues dear peachy brought up, i MUST find a scale this week...

and, as usual, all you ladies are busy, and working hard. hope you have a great day.

Good Morning!
I am exhausted from this weekend. Spent Saturday at an auction stocking up on manuals to sell on ebay. It wasn't too fun, but I've got enough stuff to keep me going for months. I sell tractor manuals, which I know is kind of wierd, but I've found my niche. Yesterday was spent shopping and moving a car from the mountains to the plains. It's still really icy here so it was an adventure in trailering! Which brings me to...

Jenniewookie Of course you can pm me! I am happy to help you however I can.

Peaches Keep both feet on the treadmill until the ride comes to a complete stop! You crack me up, my sweetness. I'm sure I'd do the same thing. Does this show how obsessed we are by numbers or what - scale, treadmill, as long as the numbers are there we're happy!

Goomba I am so with you on the discipline thing. Actually it's an issue I was dealing with this weekend, because my son came home at 1:30 Saturday morning, when midnight is the absolute latest he was allowed out. He's grounded now because I think accountability for your actions is very important. If we don't teach them that, what's the point? It would have been easier just to let it slide, but I think the kids need to know (even when they're teenagers and know every single thing so much better than we ever will!) that the parents get to set the rules. My pet peeve is parents who let their kids act disrespectful to people and don't say anything about it. I used to have a candy store and it blew me away how some parents let their kids talk to me and to them too. Sheesh! Sometimes I wouldn't check snotty kids out until they talked to me politely. Their parents looked at me like I'd grown three-heads, but I got pleases and thank-yous pretty darn quick. You must be a pretty amazing and patient woman to deal with all the different kids you do. It breaks my heart that kids like that have had to deal with so much in their young lives.

Ruth Hang in there! Do you have any good books to read right now. If you don't, just holler and I'll send you a tractor manual to peruse!

I am leaving Saturday morning for Tucson. I'm so excited, even though the drive is long and arduous (good word, huh?) I was worrying that I was still too fat to wear shorts to the Rockies games, but you know what? That's just stupid! In reading all the wise words of you chicks, I had a real light bulb moment and realized that keeping off the weight I've lost is a huge accomplishment and I should be proud. And I am! The weightloss will come when it comes but I have nothing to be ashamed of! So I'm packing shorts. Woo hoo!

Your very long-winded,
Chickadee

LAURA!!! You're speaking my name!!! I work in a daycare center and I'm telling you, it's sad how these kids are just CRYING out for attention and will resort to any means to get it!! You're absolutely right--some parents haven't got a CLUE how to parent. I can't tell you how many times in a day we hear "Come on Johnny, let's go to McDonalds"--makes you sick! Never mind the unwillingness to discipline thier kid--I have one kid that is just spoiled rotten and acts out all the time--get this--his dad is a detective and his mom a psychologist!!!! And the reason he's at daycare? They can't manage him at home and they thought a daycare environment would improve him!!! Sheeesh!!!

Anywasy, I'm on lunch now, just popping in to say hi and have a great day!

Our Chickadee is the E-bay TRACTOR MANUAL Queen!

LOL

Hello, happy Moanday to all my LC friends!

Kel
(who is STILL working out at Curves AND has ACTUALLY lost 3 lbs! Will wonders never cease!)

I know I don't post often enough, but I am here sneaking peeks at all of your lives!! Good to know your out there!
I completly understand the kid conversation!! I have been working as a sub in a preschool lately and can not believe what goes on with some people..heres the worst I've heard so far...I was telling a mom how much I adore her little 2 1/2 yr old, and she replied "Yes, I've heard that from many people, I haven't had the time to notice...we had kids as an experiment, and I don't think its working out very well." Ok, so I laughed, SHE DID NOT!! She went on to tell her little one that had been at school from 9-2:30 for the 4th day that week, not to hug her because "Mother just got her nails done" Good Lord what are we doing to these little people???? Mind you she does not work, just sends him to school not sure what else to do!!
I'm off to Colorado this weekend for 4 days, without my husband or little ones!! I'm going to visit my brother and his wife, their baby is due next week, so if shes not late I may get to see the new one!! My parents will drive out from California to meet me. An actually vacation!! I'm really, really looking forward to lots and lots of walking without pushing a stroller and yelling "CAR!" at my oldest on her bike!!
Take care..
Stacey (mcmom)

I completely hear you guys on the parenting issues!! My dad would have knocked my teeth out for talking to him the way some of these kids do today! When I hear that in the store, I'm tempted to spank the brats myself!! Anyway, have you ever noticed that no matter what you do, someone has a problem with it? My dd threw an out and out tantrum in K-Mart not too long ago. She talked really ugly to me so I told her we would NOT be going to the toy section, we were leaving right then. Of course she began to wail and rant, but I couldn't talk to her in front of all those people, so I dropped everything I was going to buy and we had "a little chat" (as I call it) in the parking lot. You should have seen the people talking!! I might as well have been beating her, that was how they were acting. Then, someone else made a comment about "parents who can't handle their kids" and I thought I was handling it just fine! UGH!!

Well, a busy day at work today. We had a 4 hour staff meeting (read b!tch-fest) and then it was whine, moan, complain for the rest of the day. If I worked alone I would get along just fine!!

Hope everyone else had a great day. I'm off to exercise(YAY!!!!!!!!)