Best Grandpa Ever

So my grandpa, who is quite technologically challenged, had my sister set him up on Facebook. He also got an iPhone last week! He's coming into the 21st century with a bang! Anyways, I just think he's the cutest grandpa in the whole world and I just had to share one of his profile pics because well...it makes me smile from ear to ear.

Yes ladies...he's single too!! ;)

Can Brains Swim?

Because I'm pretty sure mine is right now.

So on Friday last week, I got a call from a company nearby that I applied at well over a year ago. It's a company that (other than the office personnel) all employees work from home doing primarily data entry. It's an awesome company. I have a few friends that work there and they make great money. I really love that I can work whatever hours I'd like...meaning, if I'm assigned 4 hours a day, I have 24 hours to complete those 4 hours of work and I can break that up however I'd like so if I am interrupted by one of my kids, it's no big deal for me to take a break. Basically it is the perfect job for a stay-at-home mom with a bunch of kids. In order to be hired there, you have to take a test and once you pass you get the interview and then if you pass that you will be hired. Well...I made it through all those steps and then right before I was to actually start, they enforced a hiring freeze and that freeze has been effective for the last year and a half. Until now!

I am so excited, but I am so overwhelmed with everything that I have on my plate. I start on Wednesday and have to do 3 weeks of in-office training before I can work from home which means juggling kids around to various places, juggling their visits, juggling doctor appointments, etc. I also got a call from CPS saying that they want Big Sister to switch to the school in our district on Monday so I needed to register her for that too. I have so much housework and laundry to do and the kids have been so crabby and have been screaming at each other and me all day long. I am about to lose my mind!!! Just when I get used to more kids and then less kids and then even more kids again and then my husband getting a second job...this pops up!!! I think I'm a glutton for punishment at this point!!

Oh, well...I will just try to remember that "This is the day that the Lord has made." and I WILL rejoice and be glad in it..all of it...even during the crazy and pull-my-hair-out moments.

My Husband's Idea For A Halloween Costume

Wear a white garbage bag and go as white trash. Hmmm...and I married this man??!! :)

Drive or Treat???

So we were gone most of the day doing various Halloween activities including celebrating my hubby's birthday, which is today. Anyways...I digress...

We pull into our subdivision and we see this car driving away from a house and then slowing down and stopping in front of the next house and wouldn't you know...they are DRIVING THEIR CHILDREN HOUSE TO HOUSE!!!!! Seriously! Who does that?? Really?! It's too cold out for your kids to walk 2 minutes to the next house!?

OK, then to top it all off they pull up to our house. Our porch light is off and they still send their kids to our door to ring the doorbell not once, but twice which woke up the sleeping baby I was trying to get upstairs and made the dog freak out who about took me out as he ran downstairs to attack the visitor. So we just ignore the doorbell right...well they circle the block and come back for a second go-around!!

People are insane!

Clean House-o-matic

When is someone going to get on the ball and invent a self-cleaning house?!?!?! For crying out loud they have self-cleaning ovens, DVRs that can learn what you like and automatically record it, vacuums that can go around the house and clean the floors without us having to move …what’s so difficult about having a house that can pitch in with the housework? I feel like writing a letter to my house…

Dear House,

If what they say about “if walls could talk” blah blah blah, then wouldn’t that imply they can hear too?? Why is it then, that you can mysteriously not hear me ask for you to pitch in and clean yourself up once in awhile…

Mom

Our house must be of the male species, because only a man can use selective hearing with such efficiency and expertise. I have begged, pleaded, and nearly offered to trade my soul (ok, not really, but if it came down to it, I just might) just to have the house listen to me and still… NOTHING!!!!!

Where do houses get off anyways?? We take care of them. We make them look nice. We spend TONS of time with them, and yet what do we get in return??? Nothing!!! (Again, my thoughts return to my husband and the male species in general…wonder why that is??)

You may be thinking, why are you being so hard on houses, they don’t know any better. Well, we don’t use excuses in our household!!!!

So here’s my conclusion…

Houses owe us for all that we do for them so I’m proposing a housecleaning strike until we have some sort of contract worked out that includes the house pitching in once in awhile. Lofty goal, I know, but things never change unless there’s someone around who’s willing to ruffle some feathers!! In this area, I’m willing to be that one!!!

Blogroll : Update

Please post your websites again. I am so sorry, but time sort of got away with me and it's going to be a hassle to dig through the old comments trying to find everyone's blog address. Please also let me know which category you'd like to be under. These are the categories I have to choose from...

Foster Blog
Social Worker Blog
Homeschool Blog
Mom Blog
Family Rights Blog

Thanks everyone!!! I will give this a few days so you all have time to get your info up.

My Baby Sister Is Having A Baby

My mom called this morning to let me know that my little sister is in labor and will be heading to the hospital at some point. I'm going to be an aunt for the first time. My niece is going to be born today and I'm having a hard time with it and that makes me feel awful. I want to be happy. I want to be excited. I want to be normal! Yet, here I am with tears of jealousy and hurt streaming down my face.

You know, for the most part, I have handled this infertility thing as best as could be expected. I don't complain. I don't make a big deal out of it. I just keep it to myself (except for ranting on my blog). I have never understood why God has led me down this path, but I have tried to make the best of it by not taking my son for granted and also by doing foster care and taking care of kids already born to this world by other moms.

Today, I find myself drowning in the "why"s and I just want it to stop. This is supposed to be a happy time and yet my knees are buckling under the weight of my pain and sadness. God give me peace and comfort and forgive me for being selfish.