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It has been very stressful waiting for the puppies along with everything else, but they have finally been born.

I had to work night shifts on Sunday & Monday so Noelle would call and text me all the time. Every time was for something like... "She is panting", "She looks sad", or "I think she stopped eating". We have been reading many web sites about dog birth lately. All said that the first stage of labor lasts 6-12 hours. Most said they stop eating 24 hours before hand. They also said that they strain and struggle in pain for about 30 minutes before they get to the pushing.

So I kept telling Noelle that even if it was the first stage we would have time for me to finish work and come home. We were very worried that the web sites said that the first time dogs give birth you have to help because they do not always know what to do. Every night I got home hoping and thinking this would be the night.

Well, when I got home Monday night (which was my last night at work) the girls were asleep and I found these poopy slimy globs on the kitchen floor. I figured maybe it would be happening soon. She seemed fine otherwise and ate and went to bed. Tuesday morning she went out to go pee and was jumping at the birds in the tree. She came in and ate a ton so I started to feel like she would never give birth. She had some more of the slimy diarrhea globs so I looked it up online to find nothing.

I started to feel very tired because I didn't get much sleep so I took a nap around 2pm. I started to wake up and saw Jack in Hermione's nest. I told him to get out as I still lay there on the couch groggy.

Again he jumped into her nest, so this got me up to yell at him. I did not want all that time getting Hermione comfortable in her nest to be ruined because he was all of a sudden getting in it. So he got out and went over by Hermione who was sitting in the kitchen.

I heard a dog cry in the nest and after a second it dawned on me that no one was in the nest. I looked and didn't see anything. We had put a blanket in the bottom, then an old comforter, and then sheets to soften it for her. I started to pull everything out and then I saw a little puppy. Hermione had cleaned it all up and chewed off the umbilical cord just like she was supposed to.

I take awhile to fully wake up. James and the girls always laugh at how out of it I am when I wake up. It started to dawn on me that she had her first puppy and I didn't notice. Then I started to freak out because my house was becoming crazy and the girls were still at school. Jack was running around trying to see the puppy, Hermione was leaving a blood spot anywhere she sat but she would not go back in her nest because Jack was running around, and I still had not checked the puppy.

I decided to first put Jack outside. I ran back in to get Hermione in her nest. Then Jack started crying like someone was killing him. So I went back outside to find that he had stuck his head in the gate and popped it. Any time he really wants to come inside he shoves his head in the gate.

He has learned that when he pulls it back out the gate pops open. After running around the neighborhood a few times we got smart and put 2 bungee cords on it too. So I latched the gate again and went back to Hermione to put her in her nest again. Jack again was crying bloody murder and popped the gate so I had to bring him in and put him in the kennel.

He continued to cry and bark but at least I could tend to Hermione and know he was not getting out of the yard. He REALLY wanted to be by the puppy.

Just as I got able to check on the puppy the girls came home. All of this from me waking up until them getting home took 15 minutes. So I figured we had awhile to rest. The web sites all said they rest around an hour to 4 hours between puppies. Hermione kept trying to come out of her nest so Ally sat inside of it with the puppy. Right away she had another puppy.

This one had the sac very tight around it so after she kept licking it and it would not pull away. I tore it a little for her. We got that one all cleaned up and then another one came. We let her clean them as much as she wanted and when she walked away from them we would take them and dry them, tie the cord, and cut them shorter. We ended up rushing as it went on because they just kept coming one after another.

Finally after the 5th one she laid down to rest. We left her alone for awhile to rest and see if she would have more. After about 30 minutes she got up and started looking for her puppies. She really wanted them so we figured she had to be done and so we gave them back to her to start nursing. She nursed for about 15 minutes and out came puppy #6. Finally she was done for real. She did great !!! She made it look so easy. She just turned to lick herself and by the time we got there to check she had a puppy already cleaned off.

She ended up with 2 girls & 4 boys. Of the puppies 4 are black with white spots and 2 are all white.

Well, it is Sunday night and I am at work. Tomorrow is my last night. It feels so unreal that it is coming so fast. That gives me 5 days without work to get things done before James comes back for the move. I have been so busy that I just never had time to blog. Let me see... I have some catching up to do.

I did the normal working thing Friday - Monday. Tuesday I finally had time to go out to some stores. We picked up Noelle's new glasses and got stuff we needed for the up coming puppy delivery. The one girl I work with mentioned that they kept their dog in a baby pool. It helped with clean up from the delivery and allowed the mom to get in and out for feedings,but keep the puppies in.

So we bought a baby pool and it just fits in the front door way. We put in towels from the hotel that got a stain on them so they can't be used. I also got carpet that was removed from a room because it got a stain. I can put that in the back of the Jeep during the move. It should be enough to make a few layers and we can just pull out a layer if it gets dirty along the way.

Next comes us looking for a house to rent in Wisconsin. We have had a hell of a time finding anyone that will allow dogs. Here everyone has dogs and it is no big deal. There are barely any houses for rent there and none allow dogs. James asked if we should get rid of the dogs and I said no way. So we had to start checking into townhouses. There are some townhouses that allow dogs but most are not in areas we wanted to live. I have been busy making phone calls and James has been checking out places. It has been horrible.

We are stuck choosing between a neighborhood we didn't like or a house that is too small. James is waiting to hear from one more person tomorrow and then he said we will have to just decide. He wants a lease signed tomorrow before we run out of time.

I also spent my days off scrubbing my whole house so I did not get any packing done. The land lady called me and said she wanted to come through and do an inspection of the house so she could get an idea of what work might need to be done after we leave. With all the people we are applying for a house with worried about the dogs we wanted a great reference from her so I scrubbed and scrubbed and shampooed carpets for 2 days.

I have had a package of those magic eraser things under my sink for ages and never used them until this week. I LOVE THEM !!! I went through 7 of them. I had to go to the store to buy more and also get oven cleaner and carpet stuff. I scrubbed everything.

When she came she didn't even open the fridge or oven. I was sooo mad that I spent all that time and she didn't even look. She did how ever say that it was very clean and looked like I had a maid clean it all. Little did she know that I cleaned like a crazy woman.

Next comes the dog issue. Hermione still has not had her babies. Average is 62-63 days. Which will be Tuesday or Wednesday. We had just hoped it would be sooner so the puppies would be older during the move. She looks so big and sad. I feel bad for her. Every night I hope she will have them but nothing yet. James keeps telling me to try to get her to deliver them. I don't know what he expects me to do. Squeeze them out of her? I think on Tuesday if they have not come yet I will take her for a little walk. Maybe that will help and I won't have to worry about going in to work.

Lastly, Mother's Day. I didn't feel like trying to make the hour and a half drive to my Mom's house since I worked all weekend and I worry about driving that far when James is no where near here to help if something happens. So I decided to send flowers. I ordered FTD online and spent over $70.

Mother's Day came and went and my Mother received nothing. I let it go thinking maybe they ran late and she will get them Monday. Tuesday I called to complain. I sat on hold for 30 minutes to be told the florist is not answering their phone so we have to wait until they respond to a message. Wednesday late at night I called again to be told they still have not responded.

They would try to call Thursday morning and if the florist does not answer they would call another one. I was promised a larger arrangement with an apology for my Mom and 20% off. Friday came around and I still had not heard anything from my Mom about getting them so I called FTD again at 4:45pm. They said they had to call a different florist because they still could not get a hold of the first one. They also said the place still had until 5pm to deliver them. I pointed out that they were supposed to be called Thursday morning to deliver them and it was Friday.

She said all we could do was wait since it was not 5pm yet. So after work Saturday I was busy calling ads for rentals when my Mom called me around 6pm. She said, "You are never going to guess what your Dad did while I was shopping. The flowers came and he yelled at them and told them he would not sign for anything and they needed to take them back since they were a week late." I wanted to scream at him.

The florist never called me to tell me what happened so I waited to see if FTD would. Nothing, Not one call from anyone. Finally after two weeks my card was credited the full amount that was originally charged. I will never again do business with FTD.

Saturday Night continued...

After dinner I had a few beers since it was St Patricks Day I had to. Then I went online to search for answers to our Zelda game problem. One night we were hurrying to get a part of the game done so we could save it and eat dinner. The next day we turned the game on and we were stuck in the room and couldn't go any farther. We messed with it once in awhile till we got annoyed and then turned it off for another day.

After over a week I decided to go online and do research to find out that it is a huge glitch in the Zelda game and Nintendo hasn't done anything about it so I am stuck forever and have to start all over again. We spent many many hours on that game and we only had a few hours left to beat it. Now we have to start all over again.

So after I saw everyone fell asleep while I was looking up info, I grabbed a beer and started the game over. I played with all the lights off and the volume off since everyone was sleeping. I couldn't sleep so I just kept playing.

At 2:30am I heard crunching in the front yard. In Arizona we don't have many yards with grass. It would die and look nasty. So most people have decorative rocks. Thats one things I will not be missing. You have to clean rocks up from on the walkways all the time. Then there are the guys that come through the subdivision with blowers to get them off the road. The worst part though is when you have to run outside and don't notice one till you step on it with barefeet. Just think of a yard full of gravel. It looks nicer than gravel but it still hurts your feet.

Anyways so I heard crunching in the front yard and I looked up at the window infront of me and there was a guy looking in it. I jumped up as he quick ran past the next house and around the corner. We have an alley that starts just around that corner. The subdivision has strick rules for parking on the streets. Only guests are allowed to park on the road. For residents we have alleys that all the driveways are on. No cars are supposed to be visible from the front on houses.

So I went back to the bedrooms and looked out the windows to see if I could see him back in the alley. James woke up groggy and didn't seem to care. He looked like he thought I was over reacting. He went to the bathroom and then came out to the kitchen. I then knew he wasn't taking it lightly.

We keep a Ruger handgun that James had one of the border patrol guys order for him above the kitchen sink. As he put the clip in it I started to worry more and kept telling him that I was sure I must have scared the guy and he was long gone. James is an exmarine so he had to be macho I guess. He then got his flash light and walked around the yard. When he came back in, after not seeing anyone, he unloaded the gun and put it back.

He then looked at me and said that next time I just need to grab the unloaded gun and pull back the slide so the guy can hear it. After all this is Arizona and guns are everywhere. One problem with that though. I don't think anyone will wait around while I get a step stool and then climb on the sink so I can reach it. LOL

So James went off to bed and I sat back on the couch staring at the window. Every time I nodded off I woke back up quick after to stare at the window some more. It finally got light out and I figured I would sleep then since I felt safe. The girls woke up and made noise and then James started making corned beef and cabbage so the house stunk. I then gave up trying to sleep.

I had to work Sunday from 2pm -10pm. It was a very LONG night. I drank tons of coffee and that's also why I started catching up with my blog. I had to do something to stay awake.
Well, my battery is about to die on the laptop and I'm too lazy to do anything about it so I'll blog more tomorrow.

I'm at work and bored so I will try to catch up on things. I feel like I will never catch up on here. I am always days behind. Well at least they are not as long as they could be since after a few days somethings don't seem important enough to add. LOL

Friday, I woke up for work like always and had to rush so I could also help carry things outside for the yard sale. Surprisingly the kids are being ok with selling their TVs and entertainment centers from their rooms and their Foosball table.

James told them that they would break going across the country and they will get new ones after we move. I thought they would put up more of a fight. James was going to sell his casino table thing but I reminded him that back home we actually had friends that used to come over for poker nights and they would like it. The kids never knew what was inside of it because the house was so packed with stuff we just always used it with the cover on it behind the loveseat to hold plants and an aquarium. So now that the furniture is all moved they play roulette and craps all the time. James taught them, I'm still not sure yet if I'm mad about that. I can just see the girls telling my over proper mother that they play craps and roulette. Well he hasn't taught them the Texas Hold'em or Black Jack yet. LOL

So I went off to work. It was the first day back for the girl that just had the baby. For right now they have decided for both of us to work together for 2 days a week. Since I only work 4 days they didn't know what to do so that I wouldn't lose hours. So they are paying us both to do 1 persons job. I don't want to lose the hours but I feel very weird. I find myself trying to do everything so I look like I'm worth the money. Which is hard when I only have half of one persons job to do. The other girl seems like she is bored and wishes she could just have it alone like before and I don't blame her. I wouldn't want to work with someone else. We will see how it goes next weekend. I really am not looking forward to it. I hate feeling out of place. James says to just go to a temp agency till we move, but I would rather not have such a short employment on my resume.

Ok, back to yard sale. I got home from work to find that James only made $23 since the sign at the subdivision entrance had blown down and they didn't know. Then we realised James never defrosted dinner so we had to figure something out. I said Chinese; James said groceries are cheaper. James then came back from the grocery store after spending $90. LOL

Saturday, woke up for work, carried out yard sale stuff, just like Friday. At work I helped the girl get an email account and upload pictures to a photo album so I felt a little more useful. Then back home I went to find that James sold a bit more that day. The rest of the stuff however; was all back in the house just left where ever. So I get to clean and organize again. Yippy. I now hate yard sales and I didn't even have to be at home and do it.

Well, it is almost time for me to go home so I will finish Friday night tommorrow.

I can't believe it is already Sunday night and Spring break is already over. We have been so busy and I really haven't gotten any thing done that I wanted to. Hmm where did I leave off.


Tuesday, Nicole had an eye doctor appointment. James and I have very bad eyes and Noelle & Neona both wear glasses already so we wanted to get Nicole checked since she is in the middle of them in age.



She has recently refered to her one eye as her "good eye". We got to the eye doctor and she was fine till we had to go in the back. She was very nervous and then upset when the doctor said she didn't need glasses yet. She started to cry when she realised it was time for the glaucoma air puff test. The doctor whispered in her ear that is she didn't tell her sisters she wouldn't have to do it this time since it was scary enough being her first time there.



As we were leaving she informed me that her ears were still itchy and hot like they were the night before. I looked and the skin was dry and flakey. She has always had sensitive skin and her old doctor said she probably had mild excema. I dropped Nicole off at home and then it was time to bring Noelle in to get her 2 new pairs of glasses fitted at a differant place and go get groceries for dinner since I forgot to defrost anything.


Wednesday, Nicole woke up with a "hot rashy beard" as she put it. It went from ear to ear on her cheeks and under her chin. She had no other symptoms so I slathered her up with noxema and sat her on the loveseat/quarantine area like when she had pink eye a few weeks ago.



Then on to cleaning and organizing for the yard sale over the weekend minus one helper. I of course did most of it with kids just watching to argue that they need to keep everything. We got Noelle's room done. The worst part being her desk, which resembles a garbage dump.



Then on to my room. OMG, James started "cleaning" last weekend which means I had a rubbermaid in the middle of the floor full of tools that he hasn't had time to put back in their cases. Plus a pile of papers on the coffee table (Yes, he needs a coffee table in the bedroom. I'm just glad the loveseat is finally gone so there is only a chair now.)



The papers are on the coffee table because he "cleaned" the desk and they need to be filed. There is also a pile of cords on the floor by the door to the bathroom because he "cleaned" the desk drawer. I left everything as it was for days waiting for it to get finished and now I can't handle it any more.



I must say that I think when I put cords in the desk they breed. I don't even know what all the cords go to any more or if I even need them. I then go to make dinner since I actually remembered to defrost it today. I made one of those boxed chicken meals that you add water to, put in a casserole pan and bake with chicken breasts on top. It was Southwest rice, James picked it out. We ate a late lunch so only James ate it. I left it on the stove to cool off before I put it away. It remained there till I found it when I woke up in the morning. :( Oops


Thursday, after waking up to find a whole wasted dinner, I woke up the kids to continue cleaning. Nicole was still rashy and now Neona had pink eye. Neona, got the quarantine loveseat now and Nicole after jumping around fine for a day had to clean regardless of rash.



We woke up late because we stayed up late playing video games. So we didn't get much done when we had to go to the bank for change for the yard sale. Then off to the hardware store for signs and to get a hose since the dogs ate ours.


It is almost time for me to leave work and go home so I will continue more tommorrow.

Well, today was a half day at school and the beginning of Spring Break. Today started out almost normal. I woke up early so I could get the kids and I ready to go. Noelle had a science project due so we had to get that all packed up.

It was a half day so she needed a pillow for her class's traditional half day reading on the floor thing. Then off to work I went. I got my second 25 cent raise since I started there in January so I was feeling good.

Then I went home...I walked in the door to find an extra kid,the bedrooms are a mess, and kids screaming; "Can you bring us to the pool", "It's 80 degrees out and we haven't gone swimming yet this year",and "Dad is sick on the couch and says to ask you".

Our subdivision has a pool 2 blocks away but after waking up at 5:30am and having nothing but coffee until 2:30pm all I want is to sit down and eat lunch. Well now Noelle went to sleep over at a friends and Nicole and Neona decided it is too hot outside to play any longer so James decided he is feeling good enough to watch a movie.

I am going to grab a drink, start dinner and watch a movie. This maybe the last time for over a week that I won't hear how bored everyone is.

I can't believe I almost went a whole month without blogging. This has been a busy month and I didn't realise it had been so long.

Well, I will try to do catch up as fast as possible but lord knows I can't make long stories short. I can't even make short stories short.

About 3 weeks ago I got home to find a message on the answering machine from James' aunt. She said we needed to call her because James' dad was in the hospitol. James' dad has had his arteries in his legs replaced twice. We have always worried about his health but whenever we ask anything all he says is that he is alive. He has only called us after he has surgury and that was just while we lived in Wisconsin. He would just call to ask us to take out his dog.

Well, this time he had a blood clot in his leg. He was in ICU when she called us because he had to have angioplasty and the meds he was on. Both of James' aunts are nurses so they could help care for him a bit but they work alot too.

James decided that he had to go and see his dad and see what kind of condition he is in. We have always known that one day we will need to move back there to be there for him. He never remarried or even dated. He raised James on his own so they have a differant kind of bond.

James started to get everything ready to leave. He had to bring a guy in from Tucson to run the store here and he worked on my Jeep. There was small everyday stuff he wanted to check since he was going to be gone and I had to drive back and forth to the airport twice.

The drive to Tucson is only an hour and a half but it is just desert between mountain ranges. No businesses and no cell phone signals. The most you see are border patrol mobile station like things. My Jeep was starting to squeek so he wanted to check everything. He noticed I was leaking coolant the day before he had to leave. I needed a new water pump and he didn't have the tools or the time to do it. That is when I started to freak and feel like this trip was going to be horrible for me.

SATURDAY
I went to work at 8am, worked until 2:20 because the next girl was late, and then raced home. James claimed I shouldn't worry about the coolant leak and that he would feel safer if I drove the Jeep instead of his Land Rover. So we all hopped in the Jeep and headed off. First the bank, then gas, and then A&W of course. When leaving this town there is 30 minutes of empty highway before you hit the interstate. There is a truck stop at the interstate with an A&W in it so we have to stop for food everytime we go anywhere out of town. The kids love A&W.

We inhaled our food and then off to the airport. Tucson Airport is small compared to what I am used to but James did not want me driving the extra 2 hours to go to Pheonix like we did when we lived in Oro Valley. James flew out at 6:20 and we drove back home and played video games all night.

TUESDAY
James tells me on Monday that he does not want me driving the Jeep to pick him up without getting the water pump replaced first. So he has made an appointment for me at 8:30am so I can get back before the kids are done with school. I never have to deal with this stuff. Maybe I'm spoilled but I don't do these things. I rarely even get my own gas. James says it is about a 2 hour job and I should call a cab. I figure that is a waste of money for just 2 hours so I bring a book and plan on finding a restaurant to sit in.

Since this is a military town all of the businesses are all crammed together on the one road that comes out of the base. I get to the place to drop off my Jeep and they are packed full of cars and tell me they won't be done until around 1pm. Where am I going to waste time until then? I have no cash for a cab or even their phone number.

So I call James and tell him how upset I am and then start my walking around to waste time. I see a Jack in the Box and decide to have coffee and breakfast. I sit and read while eating my breakfast burrito and drinking my coffee. I look at my watch to find it is only 9:15. I can not waste all this time like this.

So I start to walk figuring I will find an ATM soon and then call a cab. After awhile I find a bank, get money, and decide to walk till I find more coffee so when I call a cab I can sit and wait. I walk for ages and see the Dennys sign and think well maybe I should just go there and sit and just wait there instead of taking a cab home.

I keep walking towards it thinking about if I could sit that long or would I just go insane. I walk and think some more and remember that the sports bar I used to work at is in that same parking lot as Dennys, but is 10am way too early to be seen at a bar. I decide that 10am is way too early but I will anyway.

...After I talked to old coworkers for awhile James called to tell me he went to visit one of the owners of the businesses he ran when we lived there. They met with the other owner and started to talk about things and next thing he knew they told him they just bought a little island in the U.P. of Michigan together and they want to be able to spend summers there with their kids and not have to be around to run the businesses.

They never hired anyone to over see both businesses after he left so they can't ever both leave. They said that since James had said we were seeing if we needed to move back home they wanted to offer him his old job back with the much higher pay he is making now. They said they don't want him touching cars any more they want him just taking care of the businesses and the money. Plus they don't want to deal with salary they want to pay him the equivalant in hourly pay at 50 hours a week.

Right now he is working around 65 hours a week because he doesn't have enough managers and he is salary. He said he would change around the whole business if he did because he has learned alot since he left. They said they didn't care what he did and they would continue to give him free reign like they always did. The catch is that they don't want to wait that long or they will find someone else because they want everything ready for them to go by summer.

So we talk about it on the phone for awhile and realise that we will be needing to move back home soon and this is a great offer. Heartland is a huge company so he never gets too much say and they will always move us to start new stores or fix them. I tell him to go for it. He says this means he has to move in 2 months and we will have to stay behind a month so the kids can finish off the school year and he can find a house. I said, yes I know, this isn't the first time. So, after just moving here Oct 22nd and not even being done unpacking it all...we are moving again.

So I tell him to call the garage and find out how long. It is now 12:30 and they say 30 minutes more, so I decide that maybe I should just walk back. I would feel silly getting a cab for a 5 minute drive. So off I go walking again. After I start walking I realise what a horrible mistake I made. My legs don't move as fast any more.

What a time to discover I am getting old and out of shape. I decided to stop at a 99cent store and get a few things for the girls. Then start walking again as fast as I can since my legs now feel like they are made out of lead. I finally see the garage and my salvation. I pay and go home. My head is killing me and I have 30 minutes to nap before the kids get home at 3:45. I could have just taken a cab home and back but I'm stupid.

SATURDAY
Saturday morning I was woken up at 5:30am to James telling me that the storm he worried about had started early and it didn't look good for his flight out that evening. They told him that he could sit on stand by and try to leave earlier if he was worried so he was driving to Chicago already. I was pissed that he woke me up early because his flight wasn't scheduled to come in till 10:55pm and I still had to go to work, drive to Tucson have dinner at my parents, drive to the airport, and drive back that late.

At work I kept the weather channel on and all it talked about was Milwaukee getting 12 inches. He did Chicago this time because Milwaukee doesn't fly straight to Tucson, it goes to Pheonix. I got done with work and called him to find out that all the flights are leaving on time and they are all full so he is still coming in late. I check all the web sites and everything looks good for his flight so we leave for Tucson.

We are running late so we drive right on past A&W and the kids are heart broken. We quick stop off at Micheal's to get more jewelry making stuff since there is no Micheal's in Sierra Vista and then race to my parents for dinner. James calls to say they are boarding the plane on time and he will text me when they start to taxi.

About 45 minutes later he calls to say they have just been informed that they don't have pilots. The pilots are stuck in a plane that can not unload because all of the gates are full. Over an hour later he calls again to say that they just got pilots but no one is deicing the plane for some reason.

Around another hour later he calls to say they have just been told to get off the plane the airport is closing. They said that they didn't think that they would be unloading the luggage in the morning and that it would probably fly to Tucson and be sitting there waitting for him. He threw a fit and got a hotel voucher because he couldn't even get through to reschedule his flight.

All the calls to the airline were getting dropped. He finally got through to get told that they couldn't fit him on a flight until Tuesday. So we headed back home. As we drove the girls decided they were starving and that we had to stop at A&W even though it was almost midnight. As I turned to get back on the highway I hear oh no that was my rootbeer. A rootbeer went flying out of one of the back cup holders and poured everywhere. We got home at 12:30am and I asked myself if it could get any worse.

Sunday
James called and woke me up before he headed out to buy more luggage and clothes and chargers and food. Stupid snow is costing me alot of money. Then I see Nicole... never ask if life can get worse. Life has a sick sense of humor.

Nicole has pink eye. I being the insane mom that I am have turned the love seat into a quarantine area. Nicole has her own remotes and games and everything she could need. Right next to which is her sanitizer bottle and her clorox disinfecting wipes. She is only allowed to go to the bathroom and back.

Tuesday
It is only a half day of school so the kids get to come with to pick up James. Nicole puts on her pink sunglasses so people don't notice she is still a bit pink. We start driving and I realise that my A/C is blowing out hot air. They must have disconnected something when they changed the water pump. So we drove in a hot car all the way there.

We pick up James and he has the nerve to be rude, and grumpy and say he is tired. I roll down the windows to cool off the car a bit before we hit the interstate. I go to roll them back up and James says to put up Nicole's window. So I push her's again. He sounding rude to me says I told you Nicole's window. I blow up about how I am not a moron and I WAS pushing Nicole's window.

Turns out the window is off track so on top of everything else now my window is messed up. I start thinking more about James being grumpy and saying he is tired. I drove back and forth 3 times, worked all week, took care of the kids, dealt with pink eye, and getting my car fixed. He has the nerve to say HE is tired when the most he did the last 3 days is shop and be stuck in a hotel room?????

As I drive home my mind is going a million miles a minute and I am ready to explode. He taps my hand that is now white clutched onto the wheel and says slow down it is only 55 here. I then realise that I am still going 85. I start to calm down and realise I am over reacting from the stress of the week.

He wants to stop and get movies and groceries for a fun night and then we go home. He tells Nicole she doesn't have to stay on the love seat and looks at me like I'm crazy and then starts the coals so we can grill some steaks and pork chops. We sit down in the livingroom to watch movies and then he sees that there are tv shows on that he likes. I can relax again, life is back to normal. LOL

Wednesday
We are finally up to today....I wake up and decide Nicole is still too pink to go to school and I get the other 2 ready. At 8am I tell them to get there back packs ready to leave for the bus. Autumn comes back from her room and tells me she can't find hers. then comes the realisation that they are still in the back of the Jeep because we went to the airport straight from school.

Well the Jeep is with James at work. So I get shoes on and look for my keys that have a set of Land Rover keys on them and can't find them. I call James, for some reason he put them on the kid's desk and he wants me to bring him some left over pork chops for lunch.

Then we all hop in the Land Rover and head to his work. I tell him I think he needs power stearing fluid or it is just angry that we ignored it for 2 weeks. He says to pop the hood. I say the kids will be late. He says he doesn't want me driving it that way and fills up the fluid. We race off and get to school at 8:35...5 minutes before the bell. How is it that my life is always so crazy?

Well then I go home and here I sit because I missed my laptop (James took it with) I don't like sitting in the bedroom facing a wall for very long. James called a bit ago to ask if I had started going through stuff to pack and throw away. I answered as if I have been busy all day ..."Can I finish all this laundry you brought home first".

So I should probably go do some laundry now. LOL