Thanksgiving & Black friday

Thanksgiving was pretty decent. We had a nice family dinner with my mom, dad, brother, eldest nephew Nathan, our boys, Brad, and myself. Mom and I cooked the dinner, and everything turned out delicious!

The night before Thanksgiving I had gone to bed late though, and had to drink coffee through out the day to stay awake. I was sooo tired! Of course I knew ahead of time that I was going out later that night to go shopping with all of the other crazy people for black Friday sales. So in the past few days I have had a total of maybe 5 hours of sleep...and that is pushing it.

Thanksgiving night Brad and I left at about 9:50 and when we arrived at the toy store (that didn't open until midnight!!) there was a line wrapping around the store. Here I had thought we'd be close to the front of the line, but boy was I wrong! It really was awful though.. it was raining hard, and freeezing cold. If it hadn't have been for the rain and the horribly cold wind it wouldn't have been to horrible waiting outside for an hour and a half. Instead I was soaked to the bone, and ended up having to leave Brad by himself while I went and warmed up in our car. Brad had worn a jacket... not me! I guess I wasn't thinking and only wore a sweatshirt. Luckily I did find one of Brads fleece sweatshirts in our trunk and threw that on as well. Then went and stood in line again with Brad. Once inside the store it was total kayos. I had to put my hand behind my back to shield myself from people running me over with carts. People are totally insane on black Friday. If everyone would calm down, and not run around and push and shove like crazy people it wouldn't be so hectic. In the end, we only got half of the things on our list. Like so many, we were attempting to get the Zhu Zhu pets. Of course they handed out tickets to only the first 100 people, and we probably were back in the two, three hundreds. Oh well I guess.

Well anyway I am getting ready to finally try and get some sleep. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

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Glasses...at 4?

Bradley had his eye doctor appointment, and it turns out he needs glasses. Bradley has a
stigmatism (unsure of spelling) and some other issues. Brad took him to the eye doctor so I have to rely on what he told me. Which, I really wish I would have taken Bradley myself. I have so many questions, and Daddy just doesn't ask them. He gets the diagnoses, says "ok," and goes on with what the doc wants to do. I on the other hand, ask a boatload of questions so I know more of what to expect. Plus... Brad did get the diagnoses, but can't even tell me what that was! He says he "can't even begin to pronounce it". Ugh!! I really want to know what the diagnoses was.. I want to google it and learn more! lol.

The eye doctor did tell Brad that the glasses should fix Bradley's problem, and he won't need to wear the glasses for too long... hopefully. One of Bradley's eyes are much stronger than the other, and he has been going cross eyed. That was the reasoning he went to the eye Dr. to begin with. Bradley has done the "cross eyed thing" for quite some time. I will catch him doing it some days and will yell at him to stop! He can stop doing it on his own, so I never really knew if it was something he could control or not. I just hope things go good with the glasses, and it is only temporary.

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Where do I begin??

I guess I will start off saying I have the in laws from hell. Honestly! I really made a huge mistake being nice to these people, and contacting them about 2.5 almost 3 years ago. During these years we have never had a good relationship with Brads parents. It has always been rocky, and uncomfortable. Maybe because the relationship was forced. Brad has never wanted anything to do with his parents, or any of that family. Now, it is very understandable as to why he felt this way. I have learned a valuable lesson here lol. That being - when it comes to your spouses family, if your spouse states his family is a bunch of horrible low life people, he means it! Listen to your spouse! I learned the hard way. All because I wanted to see the good in people, and be nice. Now I am paying for it by being bombarded with nasty emails about how we are "white trash", and how my husband is a "loser". Also states how I "talk smack" to my kids about Brads parents. I personally have never heard anyone say something like that (using the word "smack"). I always was under the impression "smack" is what you do to someone who talks badly about you lol. At least that is what they deserve, a good smack in the mouth! I just know I am the better person here. If I were to post everything these people have written, anyone reading this would be able to understand what my husband and I are going through. It's just crazy, and I want my family to be left alone. Especially now that I know, after everything I have done for those people, they have been "trash talking" about me behind my back. It's really sad. It's sad that these people are like this. It really makes me sick that they are involving other people, and making us into these horrible people (which we are not), and receiving a pity party like they deserve one. We are the victim in all of this, not them. GRRR this has me sick. Why do people have to behave like this?

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Brad's Birthday

Well I'd like to think Brad had a pretty good birthday. My mom watched our boys, while Brad and I went out and spent time together. It was so wierd being just the two of us. When we got back home I pulled out one of Brads homemade woopie pies (that took me forever to make!). I put 4 candles on it (made Brad younger lol) and had the boys and my mom come into the dinning room to sing to Brad. The boys were excited to sing to daddy, and the older two sat on Brads lap. I didn't catch the picture of the 3 of them blowing out the candles, but... I did catch the one above at that moment the final candle went out. Brad has this look like "hey, you blew out all my candles" lol. It was cute. Bradley and Parker blew out all of daddys candles before he even finished taking a deep breath to blow. I just hope Brad did have a good day. He got lots of birthday wishes from people, only NONE from his own parents. Just another reason for us to want nothing to do with them. But anyway, happy birthday Brad. The 6th year I have been blessed to spend your B-day with you. I love you so much.

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happy 27th!

Tomorrow, Nov. 7Th is my hubby's 27Th birthday! This is the 6th b-day of his I have been with him for. This year I am planning on making one of Brad's favorite treats... Woopie pies! I have never made them before, but they don't sound too hard to make. Plus I love to bake, and cook anyways. So it should be fun.

Happy Birthday Brad. I love you so much, and am so lucky to have met you. I hope you have a great B-day tomorrow.

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I lucked out

I usually do not see myself as "lucky". But the other day someone was truly watching over me. My mom, the boys, and myself had all gone out shopping. We first went to Target which is right next door to Kohl's. After Target we decided to walk down to Kohl's. At Kohl's the boys were bored, and acting bad! When we were leaving I was just concentrating on getting the boys out of the store without having all eyes on us, since they were being loud.

On our way home we stopped for gas. I had given my mom money earlier on in the day to hold for me, so we could put gas in the van. Well, after getting gas my mom handed me the change. I took it and searched for my purse to put the money in. That was when I realized I had left it at Kohl's. I had left it hanging on one of the stores stroller/carts. I was frantic once I realized I had left it. Not only did it have ALL of my credit cards,my license, health cards for myself and family, money, and my expensive camera. I was expecting the worst, and hurried through the Koh'ls bag to find the receipt to call the store to see if they had found my purse.

When I called I felt a little relieved because the lady from Kohl's said they had my purse. But, I couldn't help but wonder if anything was taken from it. When we got to Kohl's Bradley and myself ran in. At the costumer service desk I was given my purse. This may sound crazy, but the thing I looked for first was my camera. I was SO relieved to find it in the same spot, along with all my credit cards, and money. Nothing was touched at all! A very nice elderly man was kind enough to take my purse to the customer service desk. If that man had not done that I do not know what would have happened. I just feel like god knew I couldn't deal with losing all my identification, and anymore stress than I already deal with on a daily basis. I was just very, very, very lucky!

Now, the other thing that may be happening to make our lives so much better is Brads job. There is a possibility that he could get a promotion. If he did I would be so relieved. Right now Brads new job does not cover all of our bills. After child support is deducted and paid, we are left with about $600 to live off of and pay all our bills. It is not enough! I also do not want to with drawl my boys from preschool, just because we pay so much child support. I do not feel it is fair for our children to not have things they deserve. Samantha sure does not suffer. Brad's parents pay for that child to have everything, not to mention all of the support WE pay(the mother does not work), and we pay a lot!! I have always really liked Samantha, and know it's not her fault. But I also know it is so unfair to my children that they are left with nothing. It's also unfair that Brad's parents show so much favoritism, and do not treat the boys the same as Samantha. But anyway, I am just praying that Brad does get a promotion in a few weeks. We really need for that to happen!

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Halloween is over

After all the excitement, and waiting to take the kids trick-or-treating, it's over! The boys made out real well on Halloween night. The weather was nice too, except for when it started to rain later on during the night.

It ended up being just my mom and myself who took our boys trick or treating down at my dads house. Originally Brad was supposed to get out early from work, to come along with us. I was really disappointed, and so was Brad. The boys still had a great time getting to see pop-pop, and trick or treating with mom-mom and pop-pop. The entire time we were trick or treating, I had to explain to everyone that the boys were in fact NOT triplets. It is so funny how many people stop and ask me if they are triplets. We were even stopped by someone driving by who told me I have the most beautiful children. I always get compliments about my baby boys. Even at the nursing home someone stopped us and asked if they could take a photo of my boys. Daddy also took the boys to the market in town for the trick-or-treat night there. The boys had a good time with daddy and saw the local baseball teams mascot. A lady from the newspaper stopped Brad and asked if she could take a photo of the boys with the mascot, and told Brad we had the most beautiful children she has ever seen. Daddy was definitely proud! They boys posed with the mascot, and had their picture taken. It was possibly supposed to be in the paper, but I have not noticed if it was. We do not get a daily paper, so I don't know.

Well, here are some photo's of the boys. Some are from the nursing home that I did not post before.

Bradley (left), Dustin (middle), Parker (right).

Daddy and his bumblebees

Our baby boys, and Samantha.

Bradley

Parker

Dustin

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