I despise the Rubik's Cube!!!

I just had an issue with the Rubik's cube! I HATE those things! We've been working on learning the process and Terry is the only one who can do it successfully. But he's been teaching me and Brent...of course, Brent is MUCh better than me! :( Anyway, Brent had it messed up and asked me to fix it. So I got the one side done (like you're supposed to do) and started the next step.....which messed it up all over again. I just got so frustrated. I told the boys that I was getting it back to the way I had it and then I was putting the stupid thing up till Daddy came home and could help me! (Yes, I said the S word! :( ) Well, they looked at me like my head was spinning, and Clayton said, "But mom you said a bad word." So I had to explain why I said what I did and that doing the R-Cube makes me feel stupid and that I don't like intentionally on purpose doing things that make me feel stupid! Anyway, I ended up crying cuz of how bad I was feeling about all of it (I knew I was acting like an idiot, but did that stop me? NO!). I assured them no one was in trouble and i wasn't mad, I was just stopping myself from getting grumpy and being in a bad mood all afternoon.

Oh gravy....what a bad mom I was!

On another note....

Brent was feeling very sick to his stomach last night...well all afternoon yesterday. He basically layed on the couch from about 3 on. He asked to sleep with his daddy last night and we decided it would be okay. So, then while I was reading (on the couch, getting ready to sleep) Terry came in and said, "Honey I need your help...." Yep, you guessed it....Brent had thrown up all over our bed. :( And he'd had Ramen Noodles for dinner cuz he wanted soup. Yuck! Puts a whole new perspective on Ramen Noodles! LOL Anyway, we got him cleaned up, stripped the bed (sheets, comforter, pillows, and mattress pad...all soaked!), put down a towel where the wet spot was and put on fresh sheets. I started a load of the sheets (yes, at 12:30 AM!) so it would make today go better, and everyone went back to bed. Then he woke up this morning runnin around and acting crazy! Obviously he's feeling much better, so I'm not sure what caused it. :(

And I JUST washed my comforter last week (at a friends', cuz my washer isn't big enough!)....so frustrating. :) Oh well...not like he did it on purpose! LOL

What a weekend...

Wow. Well, we went into Salem this weekend to help out with Janice and to be half-way to a birthday party for my cousin's baby (who isn't a baby anymore...he's 2!). We got into Salem after 11, then had to go to town to get a birthday gift, and by the time we got back to J's and got to bed, it was after 2. Well, at almost 3 I woke up to J coughing and sounding like she couldn't get her breath, so I woke Terry up to check on her. By the time he got to her door, she quit! LOL Anyway, with him jumping out of bed like that, he got a leg cramp that he needed rubbed. :( So by the time that was all said and done, it was after 330. So tired.

We went to the party, had a blast and ended up staying for dinner with the family. Had so much fun with baby J! :) Got home, got to bed around 12, but it was actually 1 with the time change.

Sunday morning, I got up and was getting ready to start the coffee when Janice called from her room that she needed to potty. She said, "I just need to sit on the pot". So I helped her up and was supporting her (with the walker) so she could go to the bathroom...when she stopped at her pot-chair in her room. Which was covered with things. I misunderstood where she was headed and so when I saw her reach over to take off a pillow that was up on the pot-chair, I moved my arms to move the rest of the stuff. Wrong move.... Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her tumbling to the floor. I moved quickly and was able to get my hand under her head to keep it from hitting anything, but she still ended up falling. I called out to Terry and he came and between the two of us, we got her up and all was okay. But Terry could tell I was not okay. He got her settled back in bed and came to find me. I asked if she was okay and he said, "Yes, but I came to check on you." I just lost it. I ended up crying this hysterical sobbing cry over what could have happened and how I felt so bad for letting her fall...it seems like when she starts to make progress (like she has...she's walking more with her walker this time!!), something happens to set her back, and this time I would have been the one at fault for that happening. I felt so bad. :( Of course, he reassured me that it wasn't my fault and the sister's told me later that it could have (and has) happened to ANY of us, and that it's no one's fault when it happens. Falls with older people are gonna happen. It took me a while to feel better, but Janice heard me crying and wanted to talk to me...she felt bad that I felt bad. She told me to laugh about it cuz it was silly. I'm still not quite there yet, but I'm getting there. At least now I can think of it without crying. So scary.

Well, we got home late last night, cuz yesterday morning just wiped me out emotionally....I HAD to have a nap yesterday. It was good for all of us to be able to visit some extra time, anyway. My arm is sore today (very sore) from trying to catch her, but I think it's just a pulled muscle or something. Oh the joys.... :)

I'm working on some school for the boys today and we have TKD tonight. I was told last week that they would most likely test this week for their next belt. :-) So exciting! :)

Up really late...

Okay, for me this is late. It's 11 PM. I've been working on our Ladies Bible Class (Revelations) for tomorrow night (since I'm teaching for M) since about 8 this evening. I finally finished and was just rechecking email, listening to some music, and looking at PBS. Had some messages to answer....and well, okay now it's after 11. Hmmm....

I must be really stupid. And then I made it worse by coming here and sharing it all with everyone! LOL

Think my brain has disappeared somewhere....

Too many things to keep track of....

Well, this past weekend we were able to get some rest. I say some, cuz the rest was only on Saturday. The weather was beautiful and the boys got to play outside for a couple hours....which they needed desperately! Well, and I needed for them to do it too! :)

Sunday was spent shopping and getting restocked on some items we were out of. Meat was one of them. Hamburger to be specific. And since we have our sealer machine, we just planned on letting them freeze like we normally do, then after church that evening we would vacuum seal it all. Well, it didn't turn out that way. First, Terry had some computer work that needed to be done and he had put it off all weekend. So while he was doing his computer work, I started 'making bags' with the sealer. When he got in there and cut the meat (mind you, these rolls of hamburger are 10 lb logs...and we have 8 of them), we started to seal it and it wouldn't seal. It never drew a vacuum. So, Terry worked with it a bit and got one to seal...only, it pulled juices from the meat up into the sealer (a big no-no) and didn't vacuum it properly, so it wasn't really sealed. Ugh.

By now it's midnight. The boys are still up. :( And we realized that we can't seal the meat until it's more frozen...but we don't' want to get back up at 3 AM to do this! So, Terry tells me that he can get a saw from the garage (which I can sterilize) and we can just let the logs freeze SOLID and he'd saw through them to be able to do it on Monday night. Well, last night, we eat supper and proceed to 'saw' through this meat. Oh, what a sight it was. We got through ONE log and Terry's arm was so tired that we had to quit...plus it took well over an hour to do one log.

I convinced him that at this point, I would rather have a major cooking day every week or two and thaw out the 10 lbs and just cook it and divide it into meals. Really, this is a good way to do the week since it will make cooking much easier on our busy nights. It's just more work up front. Anyway, it was just comical to see him with gloves on and a hack-saw making 'beef shavings' on my kitchen table. Oy.

Plus, we found out that Little Chase is having trouble eating.... He'd been doing so good and then stopped eating so well. They aren't sure why, but I think they were gonna run some tests and see if everything was alright.

We got another ice storm last night....our third in about as many weeks. I can handle snow...but ice really bums me out. I get stuck in the house and can't do anything. Plus it makes the boys CRAZY! And now it's snowing on top of the ice!

We got the van worked on yesterday. We have known for a few months that the brakes were making funny noises, but we just didn't have the time (or money) to sink into the van. Well, it was getting to a point that we knew we had to do something. So Terry made the appointment and when I got over there the guy wanted to ride around with me for a bit so I could explain to him what we heard. Well, he tells me (after hearing it) that it sounds like 'normal brake noise' to him. But, he'd look at it anyway if Terry wanted him to. We wait for an hour and a half to hear back from them (when they had said it would only be 30 minutes) and find out that yes, there was a problem and they need to replace the drum (?) and the pads. All told, it will be well over $300 for the whole thing. Ugh. We hadn't planned on spending THAT much. :(

Hopefully, life will slow down one day soon, but I'm not counting on it. LOL