Maybe I start blogging again...Not sure I remember how.

gratitude 2011

I am glad my daughter is not a fucking bitch like you....

gratitude

I used to do this every night in my journal...I am sure I have said that 20x before on my blog....

#1 having the absolute greatest husband and children ever. We all believe that, but sadly....you are wrong. I won. Sorry.

#2 via SNL ...I AM ABOVE GROUND !!!!! THANK GOD !!

#3 my mom. SHe is the biggest PITA ever, but ultimately she is my rock. I can not imagine how my world will forever be rocked when and IF ( that's a big IF, she will probably out last me) she leaves this earth.

#4 my job and my regulars....going to work every day with such amazing people who make me smile and laugh and make the day fly by. My regulars are there day in, day out... Important people, having important lunches.....My job is to make sure no one gets lost. Sounds easier than it is.

#5 I don't have cancer. Thank you god.....

mahhhhh babbby

So i think we all know that dagny, who has the sweetest heart ever, and is talented and gifted at so many things, struggles in certain other areas .....as we all do.

One of them is she takes just a minute or two more than most to figure something out, "get it", etc....

Tonight I was in her room delivering a banana split while she did her homework because, duh, why wouldn't I? Anyhoozen, in her room she has this lovely cross stitch that someone made for her when she was born. Part of what was stitched in was is her name, DOB, weight, etc. I was looking at it, admiring the work and discussing it with her.

So she says to me.... "Man, I can't believe I didn't even weigh a POUND when I was born...I was so little"

Me : "Wha?? "

D: "It says right there '0 pounds 2 ounces' "

Me: "Seriously?"

D: "Yeah! Look right there! 0 pounds"

Me: "Dagny that is a 6 not a zero....

D: " Huh? I didn't weigh 2 ounces?"

Me: "WTH are you thinking? I gave birth to air? maybe a sheet of paper? perhaps a leaf? WHAT ARE THEY TEACHING YOU AT SCHOOL ???"

Dagz : "OK, so again, I didn't weight 2 ounces?"


Good Lord....

jesus

I haven't posted since JULY !!

WTF?



Dagz is at outdoor school again and I miss her something awful. This year they are in John D@y....I have no idea where that is but apparently it is 5 hours away. She texted me the whole bus ride over and then phones were removed when she got there and there was.....silence. Is it creepy how much I miss her? It is one thing when it is a sleepover at so and so's house, even a three day sleepover....at least I know she's here. But she's not. She's gone for three days and I can't talk to her. College is going to fuck my shit up.....



Friday is home coming and I am working concessions at the football game. Wish me luck and some mad math skillz.

And there went July

Seriously. July is almost over. Peas and Rice.

The kids have been excellent this summer considering there hasn't been a ton of shit planned. I actually think they are a happy about it. I am sure they would love to be vacationing in Hawaii, or some other crazy tropical vacation, I think they are happier not getting up every day and heading to one camp or another, or getting home from vacation, washing their clothes, and hitting the road again for another 7 hour car/plane/boat ride. They are bored and I am glad.

Dagny has started riding her bike with the dogs. If you want to ensure really exhausted well excercised animals, have them live with a 13 year old basketball player who has a month of off training. She walks them up to the park once a day where they play fetch, play fetch, play fetch for an hour. Then they come home where she will turn on the sprinkler! for them and play in the water.....later, I know!! Lets go for a bike ride!! try to keep up puppies!! Jesus, they are going to drop over dead. But hey, they are good and tired when it is time for bed.

Enrolled Jack at Wh!tf0rd yesterday. Vomit.

Might let Dagz go to a H00p Dance this weekend. Vomit.

The 3 on the 3 Bl@zer Street Jam is this weekend which Dagny is playing in. As luck has it, my sister Allie just so happens to work for Speci@l 0lympics and fund raising is her department. She texted me and asked what D's team name was and is trying to get her a game at center court which would be tres cool. Dagny is just excited at meeting and greeting not only all the Pros, but the HS girls and Boys she watches play as well. Should be quite the all-star event. In addition, we are scoring VIP passes from Allie which also means....FREE BEER. I don't like beer, but I will most definitely suck down free beer. I am actually really looking forward to the weekend's festivities and the fact that it isn't going to be 97 degrees just makes me so happy beyond belief. I was dreading spending 48 hours on blacktop watching 3 on 3 games, but a weekend of watching the best of the best play basketball, drinking free beer in a the low 80's is actually a little bit o' heaven for Silly.

That's it for now hombres.

B!eber Madness

Is over....

And that was a really long 36 hours for poor Sillypants.

When Dagny came out of the concert, she was freaking out because, get this, she was scouted by a MODELING AGENCY !! She was beside herself, handed me the flyer and the rep's card and "OMG WE HAVE TO EMAIL HER TOMORROW!!" It was a parenting conundrum as I had to quickly decide to a. let her believe that she had in fact just been scouted and let her ride that high for awhile or b. tell her these people are scam artists sent to events like these to find 6' tall 13 year old girls to rope into their "agency". The best part was of course, it happening in front of her friends, where she was picked out of a crowd of 1,000's and approached and handed the card, and " OMG Dagny, you can be a MODEL!!! "


I have actually done a little research on the whole "model" idea as we get asked that alot and you know what I have found ? She would need to lose about 20-25 pounds to be average model weight. Can you imagine? Because she has been at clinic all Spring as well as playing B-ball 6 days a week, when she puts on a swim suit I am all "OMG HOT DAMN LOOK AT HER BODY!! OMG HOT DAMN LOOK AT HER BODY SOMEONE COVER IT UP RIGHT NOW !!!" She is rock solid head to toe.....No six pack (but she never will because she is my daughter) but damn close.....She is solid muscle . I can't even imagine her losing 5 pounds let alone 25. She could be a swim suit model, but it would have to be for Speedo, not Victoria's Secret. Jesus.




I actually did research the Agency and it is a seemingly credible one. I realize they walk around at these events and hand out cards to all the girls over 5'10" but maybe we will email them?

Tonight is the night my daughter goes to her first concert alone with friends. I am 100% sure they will be perfectly fine alone in that big dome of hormones. The moms and will celebrate on our own after we drop the girls off. They spent last night decorating posters, our street and matching T-shirts to wear tonight. They stayed up way too late watching movies, and then crashed sometime after midnight. They are still fast asleep, but when they wake we will spend the day getting their bodies tanned and their hair straightened.....Nothing like a 48 hour sleep over.

For the past two nights we have ended the evening with a walk that eventually leads us to the school yard in our backyard. It has been such a perfect way to end our day.....the dogs go ape shit crazy running all over, tonight there were a bunch of other dogs turning our backyard into an impromptu dog park. .....we met neighbors with new puppies and old grumpy dogs.....Our dogs eventually get exhausted ( the beauty of large dogs) and roll over on their backs and roll around. The kids do the same... Or tonight Jack and Brian brought the football up and just played ball..... I just layed there and watched the clouds roll by and thought " God, clouds are so freaking CRAZY!!" Cuz they are....when was the last time you laid there and just studied them? I want to grab them they are so beautiful.....

So not going private after all.....I freaked out when I googled dagny's first and last name with the word b@sketball and my blog showed up as the #1 site. Turns out I used our real last name in one post hence the search results.....changed that asap and so now, we are good.....

So here it is July something or other and summer is screaming by me at an alarming speed. I am working about 3 days a week which equals about 12 hours. Not an enormous amount of work but enough to keep me earning a little extra spending money and keep my job along with my sanity as I get to get out and be with adults every now and then. I love my job and I love the cast of characters I work with. I don't even mind the commute anymore....going is never bad. Usually 15 minutes, 20 minutes max. Coming home however is usually a solid 30 minutes door to door....Thank God for satelite radio. Seriously. The kids are at an age where they enjoy their days home with no adults to boss them around, I leave a computer schedule so there is no fighting, a menu of lunch/snack choices and they are good to go.

Brian started a new job almost a month ago and is in heaven. There is nothing he loves more than going into a new place and turing the whole freaking thing upside down and making it right. This place hasn't been properly run in over two months so there is a lot of work to do....and I mean alot. While at work Friday he received a letter and letting him know he was receiving a salray increase in addition to the salary increase he received for taking over the store in June. Wasn't expected but more money is always welcome. Emb@ssy Suites also called last week asking him to come back and take over the Chop House as it "hasn't been run the same since he left". He declined w/o even looking at their offer. This killed me because hello? Free hotels stays where ever we go??? You don't even want to LOOK at the offer? I think he is just so happy being back with his favorite chef, running a multimillion dollar store and of course, the parking pass. What more could a man want?

Jack has started football training at the high school 2 nights a week with the varsity coach. He is taking his training very seriously and even trains on his days off. It is hysterical. He can hardly wait for the real season to begin. We went and got his hair buzzed off yesterday and after crying for two hours he decided he loved it. He does this every time he gets his hair cut.... We have decided to send him to "the traditional middle school" next year as he needs a much bigger pond to swim in. The first two weeks I said that out loud, it made me want to vomit. Seriously. But after lengthy research, and spending all kinds of time up there, I am 110% happy with the decision and I know it will be for the best.

Dagny is in full summer party mode. This week she has three sleepovers planned and I am sure more will crop up. I am spending a small fortune on birthday presents as she has a birthday party a week to go to but she is having a great year, so of course it is worth it. Last week she jammed her finger at basketball and the next day it looked like Popeye's hand. The day after, even worse.....X-rays showed a fracture so we will see what the next doctor says this week. We are all praying for no cast. I am going to go out on a limb and say she is finally 6 feet as 5'11" and 7/8ths just sounds silly. We would all love at least another inch, if not two. She is sleeping 12 hours a day and eating like a horse so I am praying that is all going to height.....She and her friends are starting to do more and more activities alone and unsupervised which is scary but of course necessary. Friday evening they all met at a restaurant where they dined alone. After dinner they walked to a movie theater where they saw Eclipse ( again) and were picked up around 10 ish or so by another parent and then driven to a sleep over. The fact that my baby is able to walk into a restaurant, order her own meal, pay for it, tip her server, walk blocks and blocks unsupervised on a Friday night to a movie theater, purchase her own ticket, maybe buy popcorn if she is in the mood, completely baffles me. Because when the hell did all that happen?


We are in the process of planning our New York trip for September/October and trying to finalize all the details. I want to take the kids to see American Idiot on Broadway, Brian wants to go to Boston, his parents want us in Saratoga. We can't even decide which airports to fly in and out of..... I will say now that Jack is not going to be in 6th grade at RH's I am much more relaxed about how long we stay for. We were in Hawaii for two weeks during D's 6th grade year and paid the price dearly. "The traditional middle school" won't be able to top the amount of crushing homework we are used to dealing with at RH's so hopefully this will make our trip more enjoyable w/o the worry of "we have to get back, we have to get back".

We have the Be!ber concert this week which is turning into a 48 hour party. I may not be teaching my kids how to golf or knit, but I am teaching them how to be a great host and have a really good time....way more important life skill in my opinion. Thankfully the moms aren't going and are planning on drinking wine while we wait for our darling daughters. I love my mom friends and seriously can not wait to navigate high school together with them.

OK, off to start the day....