Work Detail Sunday... Funny Stories....

Okay so today is the day that my kids are going to go help do some yard work at Nana & Papa's ... some landscaping.  I woke up a bit late ...  (thanks CFS/Fibro) ...  and called my mom to see what time she wanted us over there at.  We're gonna have a bit of a BBQ ....  so she said about noon, so I had to start getting the gears running to get everyone ready, and I just wasn't *there* yet myself.

But after getting Kaed dressed had to put his drop in his right eye (to make it blurry and make his left eye struggle to work better) ....  Well, it didn't go over real well today - AND he picked his nose!  (See yesterday's blog about how he was so excited he didn't "pick his nose one time!" and he was all proud of himself.  His nose itches a lot from allergies) ....

But I have to say ... I cracked up when I saw the cat laid out on the couch covered up like he's cold or something.

 I am rocking the bangs today!  Let me tell you!  Heehee...

Kids are all happy to be going to Nana & Papa's ... until they were told they were going to be working!  Ha ha ha ha *snort*

Papa had already done most of the weeding by the time we got there, but the kids helped finish it off.  The new mulch was pulled out of the Tahoe and piled up about how many bags needed to go where.  Meanwhile, a break was had and lunch was consumed ....

I got to be Foremen cuz of this.  Hand is numb.  Thank you Carpal Tunnel

My lunch ....

The kids ....  Noah, well, apparently he is super duper thirsty.

My mom had some fresh cut Lilac in the house.  Nummy .... I loooooooove Lilac.  Hashtag Favorite Flower!  Not kidding, I pound signed that shiznit on Instagram ....

Me....... stopping to smell the Lilac ---- ooooooooooooooh yeah!

Some flowers around the yard....

LILAC!!!!!!  I'm taking some home!  Yep - youbetcha

The kids doing work .....

It really doesn't look that much different, but there is *more* lolol....

And we got to see Jaxson ...   here he is playing with Spike ...   they are BFF's

Jaxson loves it at my Mom & Step-Dad's place...   he's there because someone reported him as a "Pit Bull" at our apartment complex and wouldn't believe us when we said he wasn't.  Told them that he was a German Shepard/Boxer/Husky mix and we were then told Boxers weren't allowed either - but yet the maintenance guy has Boxer/Husky mixes, and so does his neighbor!   And there is a strict leash rule here too and they don't follow it, those dogs are always out without leashes.   So Mom and Russ agreed to take him for at least a little bit while we look for someplace else to live.  Incase you missed that memo.....

 Nana and Papa spoil him!

 Calahan playing tug of war with Jaxson

Papa with Ellie Mae and Jax ...

Nathan rockin the 4-wheeler

Kids decided to play in the trees in the back yard....

These are the Lilac I'm bringing home.

And when work was done (and my one load of laundry) we headed home.

But first.......

Nana took Calahan and I shopping to get him new clothes and Nathan some new shirts.  Cal was supposed to take his laundry over and his comment to me was "I don't have any underwear that fit, and one pair of jeans I can wear!"  So yeah, I told Nana that, she took pity on him ...  Kaedyn got a couple of shirts, and a new sweatshirt, and 1 pair of PJ's and Nathan got a bunch of shirts, a couple PJ's ... Noah got a pair of pants ... and Cal got 4 pairs of pants (2 jeans, 1 camo, and one khaki) a couple shirts, some new underwear and oh shorts.  I snuck in two shirts for me.

So on the way home Calahan saw this car.  A Mustang. Anyone who knows Calahan knows how he has this love affair thing for Mustangs.  Both the car, and the horse.  Not even kidding.  Notice the horse photo on the side of the car even.

A very very common reference is our house is that of the Shelby GT 500 named Eleanor from the movie Gone In 60 Seconds (1967 Ford Mustang depicted as a Shelby GT500) ,,,, it's the car that Cal wants BADLY ...

Anyway - I started joking with him about it.  I said "So if you get it, are you going to paint it up just like the one from the movie?" And he's all "hell yeah!" ... and then I said something about painting "Eleanor" on the side of the car.  He was all "HELL NO" .. ha ha ha... so like the super amazing smart ass mom I am, I kept going with it.  "Well if you don't I'll get those stick on stickers for cars, and I'll put 'Eleanor' right above the licence plate."   He says "The licence plate is going to say 'Eleanor'"   And I said "That's if it's even available, if it's not - I'm doing the sticker thing."  He goes "And I'll kill you."   And my mom goes "And if you kill her, I'll have to take you out for killing her."   HA HA HA HA....  Thanks mom.  Feeling the love.

This also stemmed from or turned into a conversation about how guys with big trucks who have big kits on the big trucks have small penises ...  according to Cal.  (and Kale.)   ... and any guy in the world, I suppose, unless you are one of those guys with the big trucks and the small penises who will out right DENY to your DEATH that your dick is the biggest thing and should be in the Guinness Book of World Records!  Like seriously, do they have a record for that?  I know the do for finger/toe nails, which is super gross.....

Speaking of penises, I read a news article about how this guy spray paints penises (and other images) around pot holes in Manchester (England) to get the city to fix them.  Not kidding...... His name is Wanksy (here is the article, read at your own risk:  How Wanksy gets the roads fixed!)  Which lead to another article about a woman in upstate New York who plants Pansies in the pot holes to get them fixed.  (Read article here: NY Woman Tackles Pothole Problem by Planting Pansies There )  Which I think is genius but then ... I don't.   Cuz seeing this (2nd Pic) would make me cry!!!

Yep, I'd cry cuz I love flowers and I would hate to see them run over or dug up and trashed when they fix the hole :(

Anyway - back on topic ...  oh wait, my blog, I'm always on topic!

New shirt (for me) #1 .... it was $4... yep.... #FOLLOWME

And a new Game of Thrones Shirt!  Although I really wanted a House Targaryen one to go with my House Stark one - but they only had it in small and I am noooooo size small.   Cuz those are my two favorite houses.  Right?  Right!  So because I'm not a small (gasp) I ended up going with a House Lannister, House Baratheon. House Stark, House Targaryen shirt.

 So after we got home.... this child claimed my bedroom window as a window seat.... now if it were some random child, I would have a problem, but since it's one of mine... it's okay.

My Lilac at home....... heck yeah!!!!

 so we totally lost Kaedyn.  Everyone was searching for him.  No one could find him inside, or outside ... it was about 5-6PM ...  and then, we found his toes.  Oh thank goodness we found his toes.  Not sure the rest of him is, but as long as we know where his toes are.  Whew....

Nathan wanted to wear these new PJ's he got ...... Kaedyn was going to wear his too but .. ya know...  we lost him but found his toes.....

I have to say - they have changed so much in the last year.....

Anyone looking for a job?

You might ask where Kale and Shila were, well - they spent the weekend at a friend's house.  Came home late tonight.

Oh Happy Day ....

I woke up this morning ...  Oh HAPPY DAY .....

 Geez ... the first picture I almost look like I'm crying....  nope, just super super super tired.

Lookie this dirty "I made myself hot chocolate" face .... He was upside down because I was about to put his Atropine Care drops in to help fix his left eye (hopeful) ....

After the drops (notice the clean face) .....

 These pictures crack me up a bit.  He asked me if he could put the drops away and so I gave them to him, and he was still wiping the meds from his eye....  (we put them in his right to to make his right eye blurry to try to get his left eye to try to pick up the slack and work.   He has perfect vision in his right eye and at the moment 20/80 in his left.  It's really bad.  It's getting worse too..  so yeah, it stinks.

 So then he puts on his glasses and he found the name sign he brought home from school the other day and wanted to take his picture with that too....  not to miss the whole "You're the Best" award on it.

Today my son came in my room yelling "MOM!!!" all proud of himself ... he goes "I haven't picked my nose ONCE today!" .....

What am I supposed to say to that???

I realize though, that his allergies have been super bad, especially because he's been off his daily dose of benedryl and also just started Zyrtec ... and his nose has been crazy itchy.

SO I said. "Oh my gosh Kaedyn that's awesome!" Yep.... cuz I am a rock star!

Tonight at dinner, Nathan goes.... "I eat meat!"  I said "Okay you Omnivore!"

I made bags for tonight and tomorrow.  He's doing the dino one tonight, the cupcake one tomorrow.

There there was this.  I found dried milk on the tube, but I thought, maybe it was just something that got on it.  And then when I went to unclasp it for cleaning, I noticed all this junk.  Never has that ever happened before.  I *assume* it's leaking inside the clamp somewhere.  I ended up tossing it and using an older one I had saved because his shipment that was supposed to show up on Friday, didn't, and I don't have anymore new ones.  So I had to use an older one.  I have two older ones I had hung onto because they were still in pretty decent shape after their week.

Walked out into the living room and saw this.  The cat was snuggling up to my "rabbit" cup that holds the colored pencils that have all (::: cough ::: Bubba ::: cough ::::) magically disappeared out of the cup.  Might need to threaten a certain little boy ....  but at least Marshmellow likes the cup!

 Tonight a little certain Bubba decided to use me as a bed.  Oh wait, that's nothing new.  It happens every night.

 So this was my last handful of my favorite jellybeans from Easter and ....  I felt sad.   The poor little green one had no friends.  No friends at all.   So I picked up that poor little green jellybean and I lifted it to my mouth.   And it screamed like the ninja it always wanted to be and fell out of my grasp.  I no long know where it is, but I do believe it is happily living under my bed somewhere, doing jellybean ninja things.

Soooooooo in my insomnia boredom I came across this on Facebook.   Read.....  "These famous last requests by notable criminals that are sure to give you the CREEPS."  So like the true True Crime lover I am, I click on it.

I start clicking through the pictures, waiting for something CREEPY....

I mean other than the photos, the names, the things they did.  Because there are "15 Real Death Row Requests That Will Send A Chill Down Your Spine" ......  I mean....... I can't wait to hear this!  Who wants the fava beans with his side of human organs????  

No one.  Let me save you the read - the 5-10 minutes you can never get back.  No one.  Not one death row inmate requested anything "Creepy" or "Chill" developing.  They all requested very normal things.  Soda, Coffee, Milk Shakes, Ice Cream, Pie, Candy Bars, Steak, Eggs, Fried Chicken....  I mean it was NORMAL.

I am so disappointed.   But I did giggle at the guy who left his pie and told the guards who took him to get executed that he was "saving it for later."

And now..... I will sleep!

No wait, what was that?   Oh...  the ninja jellybean doing his thing.  Carry on....

So just a few minutes ago the tow trucks showed back up.  There were three of them, like, "We're gonna do some damage" type of feeling.  Ha ha.  They towed one car (pretty nice one) from our parking lot.  And really - I think that it's some visitor who probably left their car here, and took the tenant's car....  and they are going to come back and find their car missing.  I don't know if I should be gleefully waiting for the drama.... or afraid.