“she can eat it cold”

I have sent home letters with my kids stating the food situation. I am not feeding them. The parents needs to, no MUST, pack a lunch for them. The woman before me was feeding half the kids and was barely surviving. This is not going to happen to me. I want the parents to take responsiblity for their kids, you know? It’s only fair. Well today one of my usual kids came at lunchtime, telling me that she was going to be there for 5 hrs. Fine, great, wonderful but the thing is…..there was no snack. Dont you feed your kid some time after lunch? WOuldn’t you think to pack some food just in case they get hungry? You what this mom did? SHe brought in a can of beans and said………”she can eat it cold right?

Blog Action Day

Today is Blog Action Day and the topic is Climate Change. For me this is a think big act globe issue. Living  the desert I see the change everyday. Our monsoon was not what it should have been this year, and last for that matter. I have 4 angel trumpets, which are beautiful when they bloom, and they are in two places at my house. My friend gave them to me, which we rescued from her mother’s place. Last summer they bloomed every couple of days even though they were infested with spider mites. This year, I didn’t get a single one. Until now. The end of summer. It’s not that I didn’t water them or get rid of the spider mites. and grasshoppers. and severe heat. They are just now trying to bloom. This is really late for them to be starting. I am really worried abut them. Does the fact that they are just now blooming mean that they are going to be in for a hard winter? Are we actually going to get snow? What does this have to do with Climate Change you ask? A lot. FOr me anyways.

Savie wanted to walk to school and today was a perfect day. It was warm, sunny and even though I had a lot of stuff, we managed it. The last couple of days we have spent a lot of time outside. This is what I want. I like that we can enjoy the weather and our time but this is something that I also worry about. I dont want to have this on my daughters’ head or my great-great-great-great-grand daughters hit but it looks like it will be. We need to do something. anything. Even if it’s something as small and simple as carpooling, walking to work even for two days a week, can make a difference. All we have to do is do it.

Sunday Scribbling

This weeks prompt is “Bump in the night” how appropriate right?

Here’s a short little poem

The lights are out

You look

Nothing there

What could it be?

A cat?

A dog?

Or something else?

You try to talk yourself out of it

“there’s nothing to be worried about”

You say even though you know

That it’s that time of year

And anything can happen

Head on over to Sunday Scribblings and check out some of the other posts.

Flu update

So remember when I said that the flu has hit? Well here’s some more proof of what’s going on around here. I’m trying to be postive but I’ve had so few kids this week that it’s just hard to be that way. Oh well, this to shall pass right?

The flu is here

So the flu has hit. And it’s hit hard. This weekend I know of 2 kids, other then my own, that got sick. This week I have had 3 kids in 2 days. Not good. Mon I was closed for the morning so I could stay home with Savie and then went in in the afternoon even though I wasn’t sure who I would have and ended up with only 3 until 5:30p. Today I had no one until after 1pm. And that one I had to send home because she was starting to get sick and I am not going to get sick. One more showed up but only stayed for an hour. It was not a great day for me. I am feeling the pain of the flu.

It never fails

Some days you just know that something is going to go wrong. It never fails, it’s just a matter of time right? Well here’s my “it never fails” moment. Hubby goes out-of-town so very rarely that when he does I am a little freaked out by it. Yeah surprise there, right? It could be something small as finding a scorpion in the shower to something major as javelina’s in the driveway. Well this time it was Savie, she woke up sick. Unfortunately it’s probably swine flu but that can’t be helped at the moment. Savie was in so much pain today that it was hard to get things done. Now I’m not about to drag her all over the place, running errands because I need to but there were a few stops that I needed to make 2 stops. Both of them were for her.

It’s so hard to take her somewhere when she feels like this because everything is dramatic. And she cries. A lot. Which mens that people look at me like I’m the worst person in the world for not  trying to comfort my child. If they only knew.

That’s a good question

My friend J asked me a really good question today. “If you could afford it, would you move back to California?” Kinda took me by surprise but it was a good one. I had to say no as son as she asked because  of the following reasons.

1. It’s overcrowded. If I moved back there wouldn’t be much open space like there is here. It just wouldn’t be the same.
2. If I  moved back home then I would stop being the person that I am and return to being “the daughter of….” or “the sister of…..”
3. The weather isn’t as great as I remember it. I think I’ve been ruined by the fact that during the summer I can actually wear shorts and a tank top without needing a jacket. True there are no beaches here and there are plenty in CA but I barely get in the water.
4. I’m a nobody here. Which doesn’t really sound good but re-read #2.

I like living in Arizona for the most part but even if we could afford to live in California I still don’t want to go back. I just like to visit it every now and then. What about you? If you could  would you back to your hometown?

DWTS

I have to find a way to get this on a seperate page but here goes anyways.

Joanna- Dancing the Jive, this is going to be good. She should be able to keep the pace. To much hair for me, it’s distracting from the outfit, and there was a little to much sex in the dance. I have to agree with Kari she looked a little out of control.

Natalie- Dancing the Quickstep. If she can get the breathing I think she can do this. What’s with the Princess Leah hair? She did it, there was a kick that she kinda missed she didn;t quite get the point but she did it. She needed to loosen up a little more and she wasn’t breathing. Man her mouth is big when she smiles.

Chuck- Dancing the Tango. This is his dance if she can manage to get his moves in there he should have a decent score this week. Ok she managed a few in there. I didn’t realize just how funny his feet looked when he walked. But he had the intensity and the power to pull this dance off. Ijust might have to vote for him.

Mellisa- Dancing the Jive. If she can stop laughing she has a great partner for this dance. Mark is fun and enthustic and should be able to rub off on her a little. Ah that’s so cute. You could she that she was really trying to have the engery for this dance but it just wasn’t there for me. I liked it but she still needs to work.

Micheal- Dancing the Quickstep. This is not going to be good. I don’t know what to make of it, it was…….pink. I wasn’t impressed like I’ve been in the past with other football players. It didn’t seem quick to me and they didn’t seem to move around the floor that much. Oh well

Debi- Dancing the Tango. This is going to be good. She has the chops to pull this off. I hope I love it. Like a well trained puppy Max came when called. That was…..intense. She missed a few kicks but the attuide was there.

Louie-Dancing the Jive. This is should good. They have the energy to do this and it better be good. That was cute but he needs to do something with his arms when they are not in hold. Could have been a little more engery but it was still ok.

Aaron- Dancing the Quickstep. OMG who picked the music? And why does he look like a giant leapurcan? That was just cheesy, made it a little hard for me to focus on the dance.

Kelly- Dancing the Tango. She has to get out of her own head and just dance and she’ll be fine. There was something at the end that she just couldn;t make herself do but that was just amazing. The mnistakes that she made, missing steps and running after Louie, but she solider thru the dance. SHe just has to focus.

Kathy- Dancing the Quickstep. Ok if they can do the slide down I’ll be laughin. The arms around each other was funny but not as funny as that slide thing. And what was with that dress? Is there a reason why Tony doesn’t want to get close to her? Hmmm makes me wonder.

Mark- Dancing the Quickstep. Wow he makes goofy faces whenhe dances. I thoguht it was just the one dance but that was goofy. I like his dance, it was fun and the energy was there. I thought the fall was part of the dance but I guess it wasn’t.

Mya- Dancing the Jive. Whats with the toungue tonight? Everydosy is sticking their toungues out! Ok there was speed and content there. I liked it.

Tom- Dancing the Tango. The poor man is going to give himself whiplash making these tuns. Cheryl quit throwing that man around the dance floor!It was doing so well until that final spin. Oh well cheryl will know better for next time. And why does this man keep sday “Uncle Lenny”?

Donny- Dancing the Jive. OK the “come here little girl” look made me laugh but he pulled it off. I liked it a lot. It was fun, fast and good. His chin is just so big sometimes.

Sunday Scribblings

Long time no blog, lol. This weeks prompt is CHEESE.

Everyone says cheese when they take a picture. WIth the kids it seems easier to get the funny/cute picture if I can get them to say something funny so now it’s “applesauce” or “Halloween” or ” cherries”. When they do I get pictures like this.

Not bad huh?

County Fair

Today was the last day of the Cochise County Fair. We went as a family this year, a first for us. He doesn’t usually go with us so I was shocked when he said that he wanted to go. But back on topic, the county fair. It was fun. This year we went with another family of four and I invited one more to go along with us so we ended up being to families of four and single mom. It was fun. I of course, was running late to leave the house this morning so we got there later than planed. Once we got there and started I almost immediately lost hubby. Now I can laugh about it but it wasn’t that funny when it happened because I had two girls and we were wandering around the livestock, looking at the pigs and cows before moving onto the pygmy goats and lambs.

After eating, which was a little hard for me being on Atkins and all,  we moved onto the displays of clothing and art. There were some beautiful pictures on display while I didn’t see a single thing that was crocheted or knitted. There were plenty of things from the kids, local schools and what not, but nothing I saw that was hard to make but that’s just me. Next year I really will enter something in the fair. I wanted to give the kids plenty of time to let their food settle in their stomachs before going on rides, even though they weren’t that wild of rides but you know what I mean. I didnt want to take the chance that someone would get sick. We never made it to rides with the other family. They faded out before we left the stingrays. But my girls hung tough and did their rides and even won a prize each. They had so much fun. We know for next year to go on Saturday, late in the afternoon so it’s a bit cooler and also let them see the lights. I think last year when Savie and I went we left just as it was starting to get dark and we was sad that she didn’t get to see the lights.

I am totally wiped out and have to really focus to write this. I wish that she had crashed sooner but oh well, take what you can get right? I’m hoping that this week will be better for her in school since things haven;t been so great. She has really been acting out and I don’t know what to do. (If anyone has suggestions I’m all ears) But it’s late and I need to get to bed. Have a great week everyone.