Craziness…lol

I know it’s been awhile since I’ve dropped by and said hello to everyone. Every time I meant to something came up.

Oh my goodness. It’s definitely true that we can’t do anything half way. *sigh* If we’re not going at 100 mph we don’t feel normal I guess. We’ll have a few quiet days to a quiet week and then BAM everything changed and has to be done on the same day or bam, bam, bam things go wrong.

We love our son, but gee we fell like horrible parents. You try to not take it all personal, but how can you not feel like a failure when your child constantly back talks, ignores you, sasses, beats on himself, cat and siblings and generally does what he wants? Those rare days he’s an angel, others he makes Hitler look like a saint, but mostly he acts like a 16 yr city punk. We’ve tried everything we can think and then some. We’ve done everything the dr and therapists have suggested and it doesn’t help. We see the road he’s on and we don’t want that for him.

We keep teeling ourselves everything will smooth out after we move. He’ll a huge back yard to play in, plenty of room to inthe house to have his own space, there will be outside projects for him to work on. He wants to play football this year and we know he’ll wear himself out so he won’t be so wound up. We are praying and hoping anyways.

Aimee is being the typical toddler. She wants to do Everything her brother does, bad behavior included. She is now ignoring and beat herself and the cat up. Her speech still isn’t very clear but she tried more new words and sentences. She’s still an extremely picky eater and she started sleep walking!

Poor Cosmo. He’s gone from such a sweet kitty to a lil biter. You can’t really blame him though. Everytime we turn around 1 of the kids are throwing him, hitting him and generally being mean. We really don’t want to get rid of him, but at the same time his reaction is to bite first now and with the new baby coming we don’t want him to bite the baby. We decided today to get rid of him, but Jim is really have a hard time with the idea, so we’re going to keep him 1 more month and see if with both the kids going to school, if it will help calm his biting down.

Then of course you have the settlement stuff going on. We were waiting on the money so we could pay for our house and we signed all the papers Monday and we get our check Friday. yeah! So Friday we’ll be in Alexandria @ 8 am, then we have an apt with our bank in Lafayette with our Financial Adviser at 1pm. Then to top it off…

The house is ours, but we had to do inspections of course. Well that had it’s own issues. The light & gas company wouldn’t turn anything on because the house has been empty for 2 yrs, so we had to get the city inspector to go out and approve it. Which he did and the gas man went out and there weren’t any leaks, but there is only gas onour side, which is fine, but they wouldn’t leabe it on until the lights were turned on. The light company had to install 2 new meters because the others were busted, wel they dragged their heels and dragged their heels and finally went and installed 1 today. They were suppose to install 2! So now they can’t come back out until Friday to install the 2nd meter so we can inspect the whole house. So it looks like we’ll be doing that Friday too! Which it’s of course bringing it to the wire because our last day to inspect the house is Monday. We were really hoping to be doing the closing this weekend on it but looks like that’s getting pushed to next week.

Then…yeah I know. The van! The door behind the driver (the one Aimee goes in and out of) wouldn’t close today! We had to beat on it after Jim’s eye apt to finally get it to latch and close and we’re afraid to open it and more scared of it flying open while we driving down the road. We were going to wait 3-4 weeks before getting another vehicle because we didn’t want to “dirty” a newer one, but looks like that might be moved up too.

*sigh* I told you guys when it rains it pours over here. I just keep telling myself it’s just a test of my patience and to make sure I stay true and it will all work out as long as I have faith.

Oh! Sunday in Primary Str. Caple had the cutest activity for the kids, well James since he was the only one. It was a Family Tree that you wrote out with your name and your families names as the branches of the tree and then you glue on green leaves. James worked hard on it and I did one too and I thought it was just the cutest that I wanted to try myhand doing it in Mic. Publisher. What you think?

Well….I guess I’ve ran my mouth enough. I need to head to bed. Tomorrow I’m working on Sharing Time and CTR lessons because I’ll be all by my lonesomes Sunday so I want to make sure I have something fun, educating, fun, and fills all the time up. =)

*hugs & kisses to my sister Kara* Happy Birthday Sis!