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Still Alive And Kicking Hiney
2008-02-28 07:55:00 I owe an update and hope to have it up by tomorrow. February has been a longgggggg month to say the least. Lots of fun including me almost dying (seriously. no joking there) and the possibility of breast cancer. Yeah, I told ya... good times good times. *smile*Anyway- the heathens are all doing fine and I'm feeling much better. It seems that the last time I posted I had a sinus infection and bronchitis plus extra. Those are both gone now and we get to focus just on the cancer and upcoming surgeries.I've missed everyone and thank you to those of you who have loyally read and been checking for posts. It means alot to me. Hopefully I can get back to blogging and commenting again. It's definitely been dull without my blog buddies. I think the kids are sick of me and wishing I'd blog too. It's amazing how many things your teenagers don't want to talk about. I mean, what's wrong with pointing out that your teen daughter has boobies now or that the name your teen son uses on MySpace...
Yes, I Cluck Too!
2007-12-05 06:06:00 Because I'm a great big chickenshit! My face was hurting again this morning and the idea of going out in the cold to THAT appointment didn't sound like a good idea so I turned off the alarm clock and went back to sleep thus missing my colonoscopy today. *sigh* I feel like a total jerk now. I wasn't having it done for any cancer scares or anything just to see what was going on with my stomach (before the B12 shots) but still. So I basically chickened out no matter what my excuse might be. I'm sorry. :(I have spent two days out of the last seven in bed past 11am and I just can't figure out what's wrong with me. There are no symptoms that I can use to pinpoint anything specific and doctors honestly don't care about my lack of appetite and nausea since I'm not losing tons of weight (because of the steroids I have to take). Only once I look like a stick will they worry. Until then I just feel exhausted all the time, nauseous all the time, no appetite, of course thanks to the fibr...
Soggy Heathens At The Fair
2007-09-22 20:00:00 Last year I took the kids to our first New Mexico State Fair and we honestly had a really good time. So much so that I've been looking forward all of this year to going again. When our local homeschooling group said they were setting up a day we could all go, get in free, and have free parking... I was there!Wednesday the weather was great so why shouldn't it be on Thursday as well? Why? Because I didn't go to the damn fair on Wednesday that's why. I went on Thursday so instead of sunny weather we got downpours and drizzling rain for four hours! *grouchy*We had to arrive at 10am with the group in order to get in which meant looking around at booths, souvenirs, and displays for two hours before the rides opened up. The sky looked icky but my hope was just that it would be overcast but not rain. Do you want to know what happened? You do don't you?I took MonkeyBoy to McDonald's Farm the same as last year where he had fun again but was a little miffed that instead of ice cream as ...
That's So Not Fair...
2007-09-13 01:02:00 The prior TIA/mini-strokes that I've had were very small and hardly noticed by me much less anyone else. They were okay but the larger one I had on Sunday that sent me to the ER (larger mini-stroke not a regular one) seems to have affected my kids in a way that not even cancer was able to and it's breaking my heart.Sis is stuck to me like glue now. She's in a constant state of worry and nothing I say makes her relax any. If I go out of this house she calls my cell phone several times to make sure I'm alright. If I'm in a room she has to be close by. She won't even plan anything for her 13th birthday besides spending the day with me/the family. Your 13th birtday is special or at least it should be.It's sweet and I've talked to her about things and let her know that it's my job to worry about her not the other way around but it doesn't seem matter. :(MonkeyBoy is pretty bad too. Everytime I leave the house and come back he gives me a hug and tells me he thought I died and ev...
Proud Mommy Moment
2007-08-11 01:56:00 My oldest son, Big B, started a music related MySpace profile a few months ago at my urging to "do something that interests you". He worked hard on it, contacted bands, and even did his own weekly Top 40 Songs list. It was nice seeing him actually put some time and effort into something.Last month he started an actual blog where he could post his music list, have an artist of the week, add song samples, display new bands, and hopefully do some interviews with various signed and unsigned musicians. When he was ready to start contacting different bands about the interviews I helped him word the email and we sent it off to one of his favorite new singers.As the days passed it was sad to see his disappointment in not hearing back from them but that all ended this morning when in his inbox sat an email from the agent telling him to send the questions and they would be given to the artist. :)My boy is officially a music reporter and interviewer! Heck, I've never even had an email intervi...
Proud Mommy Moment
2007-08-11 01:56:00 My oldest son, Big B, started a music related MySpace profile a few months ago at my urging to "do something that interests you". He worked hard on it, contacted bands, and even did his own weekly Top 40 Songs list. It was nice seeing him actually put some time and effort into something.Last month he started an actual blog where he could post his music list, have an artist of the week, add song samples, display new bands, and hopefully do some interviews with various signed and unsigned musicians. When he was ready to start contacting different bands about the interviews I helped him word the email and we sent it off to one of his favorite new singers.As the days passed it was sad to see his disappointment in not hearing back from them but that all ended this morning when in his inbox sat an email from the agent telling him to send the questions and they would be given to the artist. :)My boy is officially a music reporter and interviewer! Heck, I've never even had an email intervi...
Shhhhhhhh It's A Secret
2007-05-07 00:08:00 Secret Agent Josephine that is!! She's used some of her intriguing spy techniques to give LWH a completely new and personalized banner. Isn't it great? Dontcha wish you had one? Aren't you just soooooooooooo jealous? HA, I knew it!This lady's talent is amazing and I am honored to be one of her chosen winners for a free web graphic (see her site for details and enter to win your very own). The first time I saw Jenn at Mommy Needs Coffee's banner I fell in love with SAJ's awesome talent and ability to transform people into drawings/art. Jenn's banner looks just like Jenn does (check out those eyes!) and wouldn't you know it, ours looks just like us! SAJ knew that I look good in red and I think I even have BOOBS up there! Can ya see them?? ME. With BOOBS!!! Amazing!By the looks of it the picture she chose for inspiration was one I have on flickr of the kids dressed up for Halloween. It's even titled "See, Heathens". Oddly enough, I think all but the oldest were costumed (in th...
Kelly Says I Gotta Get Goals!
2007-04-24 07:50:00 A few weeks ago Kelly at kellymentology tagged me for a "Gotta Get Goals" meme. Here are the official rules and it has taken me this long to post because I truly put a lot of thought into this. In the end though, I?m afraid I wasn?t able to do it justice.The rules state that you list and write about the top goals that you have to achieve so you can truly say you have achieved your wildest dreams. Your best, most exclusive, and over-the-top goals.I went through the long list of goals I have and realized that only two of them meet that criteria. All of my goals save those two are minor goals. When I was diagnosed all the goals I had set for myself just didn?t seem important anymore. Being a better writer, visiting Italy, and things like that just no longer mattered.So I?m afraid I only have two simple ?gotta? get? goals to share with you and I hope that is okay. Thank you Kelly for tagging me because it made me do a lot of thinking and that is how I realized that it all boiled down to...
Rotten Little Children!
2007-04-21 00:36:00 Let me just set the scene for you. It?s almost dinner time and Mom is washing her hands in the kitchen sink before preparing the food. Nothing abnormal about that since she always TRIES to be a good Mommy and teach hygiene even to three little heathens.Suddenly, the youngest child notices three new ?booboos? on Mommy?s fingers. For this story's sake let's just say the Mommy is such a clutz that she can't remember how she even got two of them. The older two of Mommy's children come over to the sink to look with youngest child. It's just some cuts, no big deal and Mom says as much.What do you think comes next? Genuine concern from her three children? Two teenagers lovingly telling mom that they know cutting onions will make those cuts burn so please, let them make dinner? Someone who can actually reach the bandaids without climbing onto the toilet, then the sink, and then balancing to reach the medicine cabinet offering to fetch a few for Mom?Yeah right! I don?t call them ?heathe...
It's Been One Of Those Weeks
2007-04-15 01:58:00 Have you ever had a week where you just know that you have sucked as a parent? Where you kept telling yourself that you really should be doing this or that with the kids but just can?t seem to make yourself actually do it? No? You are such liar! You know you have!This past week was my bad parent week. I can?t say it?s my only bad parent week ever but it?s one of the ones that I actually feel bad for. Unfortunately (for everyone else in my house) it happened to coincide with that time of the month when we women became even bigger raging hormonal bitches than usual. Yeah, fun fun fun.As a bad parent I spent most of the week obsessing over this stupid blog and what I was doing with it instead of partaking in the heathens? lives. Crap like- Was the blog design okay? Should I sign up for this writing job or that one? Was I screwing up the blog with this ?sponsored post? shit? Was what I just wrote funny? Why is this blog called Life With Heathens when I never talk about the little rotte...
Definately Feeling The Love!
2007-04-09 05:18:00 Thanks to a few hits on the ol' Statcounter, I found out that our homeschool blog, Sona Creidhe, has been nominated on Homeschool Blog Awards. We are in the Best Variety category! Isn't that coooooooool?I definately wasn't expecting that one! There are so many great blogs in all the categories and it is definately humbling to be nominated among them. Be sure to check the lists of nominees out and vote (starting Monday) for the ones you really like. I'm not saying ya have to vote for us or anything but.... well, I'm just saying. LOL just kidding! Thanks to ADHDaddy for posting THIS! If you have been subjected to so many years of that irritating little explorer and her monkey that you hear that stupidass theme song of her?s in your sleep then you will LOVE that link!!! Slide asshole! Lmfao. In case you haven't noticed yet, I've added a blogroll on the right of just the daddies. I figured they deserved some linkie love too an there are alot of really great daddybloggers out ther...
A Bitch Has GOT To Laugh!
2007-04-03 20:48:00 First of all, how do you like the new three column layout? It took me two full days to figure it out but FINALLY here it is. I am so proud of myself and you can bet your ass that I am patting myself on the back constantly! Actually, I'm just really excited that my blonde self figured out how to do it. Take THAT Hubby!!Okay, on to the good stuff...I think we should nominate THIS WOMAN as Queen Of The Teenage Moms!! This post is the funniest and most amazing thing I've seen in a long time! Unfortunately, Big B would have been tickled pink to have all those "little condoms" and WE would have found them on everything in the house. Damn kid has grown up with a rotten sarcastic mother and I think he has inherited more than just cancer from me. lol. Crystal, you are my new hero!!Because of all your love, I was lucky enough to last TWO days at TopMomma! It was alot of fun and I'm glad I did it. I even found out that the person I referred to as "That Damn Mud Mask Lady" (to my kids each t...
Who Said Latin Was Boring?
2007-03-14 02:02:00 At least it's not when you go on the internet while drinking a glass of wine looking for phrases for a tattoo and end up HERE. Latin is a fun language dammit! Just look that page! Oh and boy am I glad I found that site because now I have new ways of saying things in my everyday life. Things like..."O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! Hem!"- Which translates to "Oh! More! Go on! Yes! Ooh! Ummm!". PERFECT for the next time I get a facial done at the spa! *snicker*"Ascendo tuum" - Which means "Up yours!" for the guy who cut me off on the I-25 interchange the other day!How about- "Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem" which means "In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags!" for that snotty little brat you can't stand at playgroup? Come on, ya know ya wanna!Do you think I could make the checkout line at Albertson's shorter if I yell out "Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum imm...
100 Useless Facts About Moi
2007-03-10 19:46:00 1. I'm 32, my body feels 82, and my spirit wants 22 back.2. I?m 6? tall and hate it! Do you know how hard it is to find tall men who don?t want to date short women? Ugh!3. My husband and I have been together 7 years this May.4. I have three children ages 15 (16 in April), 12 1/2, and 4.5. This is my third marriage. My first one was at 16 because we were pushed into it, my second was at 24 and just a bad match, and then this one. Sometimes you have to go through the crappy ones to get to the good one.6. I?m embarrassed that I?ve been married three times.7. I am pro-choice and no that doesn't mean pro-abortion. Abortion hurts pro-choicer's hearts too but so does the thought of women being treated like cattle and told what they can and can't do with their bodies. We've already seen what that leads to. I'm also for/pro-troops but that doesn't mean I'm for this shitty Iraq war.8. My oldest two children and I have a rare genetic disorder called MEN2a (Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia ...
Growing Too Fast
2005-05-30 17:28:00 Today my little one turns 2 1/2. I honestly can't believe it's been that long. :( It seems like the last two years have just flown past when all I wanted was to savor and enjoy every minute. Lil Man is my last baby so it is even harder with him. All of this has been full of "last times" for me. Of course, everyday with him is like an adventure. He is one of the funniest little kids I've ever known and he keeps me laughing. It seems each of my kids have given me exactly what I've needed at different times in my life. For that I am forever thankful to all three of them.So Lil Man is 2 1/2 and not a baby anymore. Eventually I will quit crying when I say or type that but for now I will let the tears fall and try to steel myself for the months and years to come when he gets even bigger and older. Your last baby is definately the hardest one to watch grow up. Then again, watching the other two get older, start to go through puberty, and become small adults has been no picnic either. L...
Lil Man, You're Obsessing...
2005-05-24 23:27:00 "I ossessing Mommy?""Yes, you're obsessing again""I ossessing yike I was er-e-er wif da train table?"*laughing hard* "Yeah kind of like you were obsessing over the train table today""Okay I no ossessing e-more"Two and a half years old and he never fails to crack me up! The things this child says sometimes just amaze me. How can someone so little be so smart and funny?One of his favorite words right now is "crack". Everything is crack. "You cwack me up Daddy", "You on cwack Thissy", "I see your cwack", and so on. The person that started this will pay as soon as we find out their identity! I guess it's better than "dammit" which we heard a few times and went into panic mode over fearing it was going to be the next word de jour for Lil Man.Anyway- time to go play with my baby boy while he is "ossessing" over his dinosaurs laying an egg. LMAO
My oldest "baby" is 14 years old today.
2005-04-26 16:58:00 :( I have no clue why but this is just killing me. I sat in bed last night remembering when I was pregnant with him and when he was born. I remember when we had the u/s that told us what we were having. I still remember the tech saying "Don't go painting the room blue but it looks like it's a boy!". :) I remember the day he was born laying him on my chest while we listened to The Little Mermaid playing on the TV in the hospital room. I remember the shear terror I felt the first year of his life because of my fear of SIDS. I don't think I slept one whole single night that year.I kept a journal for him the whole pregnancy and reading back through it just brings so many memories. I'm glad I thought to do that.My little boy is now 5'7" tall, wears bigger clothing than I do, has a mustache, and is already a cancer survivor. I'm too young to be a mommy of a teenager. No... really... I'm too young! LOL. I had the kid at 16 for crying out loud!He didn't want presents this year just ...
Shoot Me. Please?
2005-03-18 21:09:00 Oh yay, another Teacher In Service day meaning not only do I have Sis and Lil Man home as usual but Big B too. I really do love my kids but when you get the oldest two in a room it's like having THREE toddlers and you just want to rip your hair out! They fight over EVERYTHING and I do mean everything.Tonight I think I'll let Vinny be in charge and just lay low. He'll enjoy the power trip and the oldest two will be miserable but you know, if they can't be nice to me then maybe they need someone to ride their asses a little. Hate to say it but unfortunately it is true.
Me? Stressed? What Stress?
2005-03-17 17:17:00 Well as of the 7th I am now a homeschooling mama. OY VAY!! I was getting ready to do this NEXT year for 5th grade with Sis but it looks like I get a crash course this year instead. We just decided that she is miserable in that school. All her teachers have a really shitty attitude towards her which I know she's frustrating but I'm sorry, our taxes pay you to at least be decent to my child and NOT let her know you hate her! Besides that, she's getting good grades but doesn't seem to be really learning much. I mean, she still struggles with remembering her multiplication tables unless she counts them on her fingers and just has a hard time with math all around yet no one at school will help her. So we're doing it on our own. I've started her back at learning the multiplication tables again and we'll go from there. I want her to be educationally equivalent with children in GOOD states with GOOD school systems by September. Just because this place is hick stupid doesn't mean my ... |
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