School sillies and perfect moments in time....you really don't get many perfect moments.

Well today we were talking about fears and how when we get hurt  it's hard to get back up and try again.  We watched a clip from the movie Blue Crush about a surfer who got injured and then was too scared to get back to surfing.  Well lots of bikinis and girls are in this movie, so the boys in the class were commenting about that. 

 As the discussion went on a student asked, "What would you do if you were being chased?  Another student, still stuck in the last discussion added, "Yea by a bunch of naked girls?"  One of my other boys who can't sit still to save his life was walking around, like usual, during the discussion and suddenly he stopped and said, "Well I would just stop if a bunch of naked girls were chasing me." 

The way he said it and the look on his face...BOOM! Well, 

 I lost it and couldn't stop laughing, I even had tears running down my face.  He never is still but when he made the above comment he just stopped dead and stood there and then he just stood watching me.  Everyone started laughing at me at that point and he looked at them and then at me and just burst out laughing with the rest of us.  It was a perfect moment.  You don't get many of those in life.

My kids think I am a super hero....

I guess I can fix the unfixable-Qatar called me and wanted to know how his suit got bigger and what I was going to do to fix it?  Fix a suit that is the same size it was, he was just very nervous...He relaxed and things were fine and he looked great for Prom.

Cenny thinks I can do things I really can't, I think I have them all fooled by my amazingness.  I can fix things most of the time and sew on buttons if needed.  I guess I can do quite a bit of things-some may even be called incredible so I guess I am pretty incredible at times.

JT is sure I can fix the issues with his teachers, but I usually talk him around to realizing that he is in the wrong and not the teacher, of course I did save math for him by talking to the teacher and the GT teacher and he gets extra instructions if he passes the pre-test and doesn't have to take the unit with the rest of the class...pretty amazing I guess.

Of course there are the times, more often then not, that they think I am an idiot barely able to feed myself- so this all evens out in the end I guess.

Qatar and Lydia going to prom

 The flowers were beautiful, but you cant see them here since they are still in the box in the frig.
After prom Qatar and Lydia came back here and had breakfast that Qatar made on a blanket in the living room.  Qatar had put glow in the dark stars on the ceiling and we had a lamp set on them so when they got back here the ceiling glowed.  They then watched The Life of Pi good movie, but very long.  Late night and naps today after church for me and him.

Well Cenneidigh was weighing herself on my scale, fully dressed with shoes she weighs 119 lbs now and is about 5'7"
I jumped on and Cenneidigh screamed...I was fully dressed with shoes and weighed 121 lbs...but I am only almost 5'5"....she now wants me to gain 100 lbs...but I told her I cant right now because of the cruise we are planning in January..the 100 lbs will have to wait.

Old West Murder Mystery Party -

 We had a blast last night participating in the murder mystery.  Davids work group put it on at the country club and the food was top notch.  I was a saloon girl trying to make money by dancing with men at the poker tournament....everyone laughed when I asked them to pay me for a dance so I started to sell secrets and then my drink tickets...I made about 4000 dollars for the night.  I came in second in that area....but I won for best character - meaning I stayed in character and played the game....I still had no idea who dunnit? But I won a Ham...mummmm my favorite...not.   But it was the best party I have been too yet for Hormel.  I rented my costume from Dillon, who just opened a store at the mall, so I made sure to plug it every time someone commented on the outfit.  Zeke works for Dillon dressing up like characters for parties-birthday and things like that.  Enchantertainment is the name of the store I think.  David played the outlaw Jesse Wales...he was dangerous..very!!!  Fishnet tights are itchy...very itchy.

 So fun and then I edited these photos with some fun items.

Busy life and Mommy Strike Update

I have a class at Ellis that I am teaching until the end of the year now.  8 weeks to go.  I have a student who knows Zeke and they must talk every once in awhile because...my student told me about the strike and that Zeke figured out a way to get me to do stuff I wasn't going to do while on strike...how dumb are my children some days.  I knew what I was doing when I did anything at the house...I was hoping to encourage better work together feelings with my children when I helped with dinner....I was not being tricked.  My student also told me something Zeke told him not to tell me because Zeke had been annoying that day....funny kids....I have to say.

I am doing more, but so are all of them.

Mommy Strike Update and maybe an extension

OK Zeke hates it, he tells me all the time he didn't mean it and it was only one thing he said and he wants me to buy him some food.  Qatar is OK with it so far, JT is worried it will affect his birthday in someway and Cenny is too busy to really notice and as long as there is microwave popcorn available may never notice.

I am negotiating for better working conditions and have some terms I want met  or I will be extending the strike.  I have been asked to long-term sub at Ellis for a teacher I worked for earlier.  The job will be for the rest of the school year, about 8 or so weeks.  So with that in mind I am going to draft new working conditions I am comfortable with to end the strike or at least end this portion of it.  Both parties must agree, but I think my terms are fair. 

1.  Watch what you say...no one cares to know everything you think..unless you would want someone to say it to you...keep it too yourself.
2.  Everyone will make dinner once a week...choose the dish and put the needed ingredients on the shopping list before the week you are making it.  You are responsible for that nights dinner.
3.  Jobs will be done every night and checked on and if not done they will be done twice the next day...once before school or in the morning and then again in the evening or afternoon.
4.  We are a team in this house and will work as one and support each other...I want the words stupid, dummy, idiot and many others they are aware of to stop.
5.  The number one rule of the hours is to keep their dear MOMMY happy...because if I'm not happy aint no on happy.

  I am looking for a fair contract between me and the rest of the family.  Fair working conditions should be a right not a privilege for the hard working mothers of this country.