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Hello all....
Sorry I haven't posted in a few days, with family coming and taxes, I've been busy.

My fam arrived safely on Thursday afternoon. We had been telling my kids that it was my grandparents that were coming, but really it was my aunt and cousin from West Virginia. They were so suprised when they showed up. lol

I took Friday off work so we had our little Easter party Thursday afternoon. While the kids were napping, we hid eggs. Then they got up, had a special Easter snack and we had the egg hunt. It was cute. One of my little guys (who is almost 2) did really good. He was finding eggs that my oldest daycare child couldn't find.

Taylor had baseball practice at 6:30 that night. My parents had to get their pictures done in Anderson so my cousin Jer went with us to Taylor's practice. Last week was his first practice but he wasn't feeling real well, so I went and got his schedule and told one of the other moms to tell the coach why we weren't there. So, I go up to the coach and introduce myself and Taylor and then mention that I saw that they had practice two nights a week (this is Taylor's 5th year in baseball and we've never had more than one per week) and I told him that Monday nights may be a little hard for us but if anything he should be able to be there for at least the first half of the practice... OH MY GOSH, this guy went off! He was like "WELL, where do you live? Can someone else pick him up and take him home? He HAS to be here!" I almost laughed! Seriously... this is little league baseball!! I told him where we lived... he didn't even know where it was and this is in a VERY small town and we are one of the main subdivisions. Anyway, I told him it wasn't about transportation but that we were busy on Monday nights. Then he proceeds to tell me that after the games start they will still be having practice on Monday nights and he has to be there. I told him that we've never continued to have practices after the games started. He said "Is this his first year?" Well, ok, first off that didn't even make sense... but I said "This is his FIFTH year!" and he just said "Oh". So, you are expecting me to bring my son on Monday nights for practice, Thursday nights for games and then Saturday mornings for games. Sorry, but our lives don't revolve around little league baseball. I mean I enjoy being a Baseball Mom like the next person, but I'm not crazy! Then I'm looking around and notice the kids on his team are very small. So I ask the coach what the ages were.... 7 and 8 yr olds. Most in first grade, some in second. Hmmm, GREAT!! My son is 9 and in 3rd grade. This is NOT going to be an exciting baseball season! lol
So, anyway... after his practice, (where I sat and worked on taxes the whole time) we went to Subway to eat and then home. We didn't really do much, just sat around, I finished up my taxes and since everyone was pretty tired, we all went to bed pretty early.

Yesterday morning I HAD an appointment with a NEW tax lady at 10:30. My cousin said he'd go with me, so we got up, got ready and as I was eating breakfast, I was thinking "what if this new tax lady can't get me a refund? what if she starts making me pay quarterly taxes?" So, I called my dad and asked him about his tax lady. (She did my taxes last year and actually bought out the business that my former tax man owned - so we just stayed there and went with her. Well, she messed my parents up ROYALLY last year, and messed me up because she told me she was electronically sending mine, then she didn't but failed to tell ME! So I have been leary of going back to her!) Anyway, my dad mentioned something about her telling him she could just take all my stuff over the phone. So the more I got to thinking about it, I decided: 1. That would be easier, and 2. I have already been to her, she knows what needs to be done for my home daycare and in the past, I have always gotten a decent return. (Plus, she was a little cheaper than this new lady.) So, I cancelled my appointment with the new lady and called the old one and left a message. So, we went on with our day and we were in Walmart when she called me back. She said she could take my stuff but I'd still have to come in. She sounded a little irritated. She's not the most client friendly person in the world... but anyway, so I guess I'll call in my info Monday and then go sign my stuff and pay her on Tuesday. And yes, I know I'm late, but whatever... I work better under pressure and it's making me a nervous wreck that Monday is "Tax Day".... geez... calm down people, have you ever heard of a thing called an "EXTENSION"?
Very easy!!!

So we did some shopping yesterday, went to Cracker Barrel for lunch. Had dinner at home and then... THEN... we decided to go bowling. LOL None of us had been for a long time, so we thought it would be fun. So we went. My mom ended up not feeling well and my dad has just gotten home from a very long day at work and had to get up early today to go back, so it was just me, the kids and my aunt and cousin. We had fun though and they were having an Easter special so the games were really cheap!! We stopped at Dairy Queen and got blizzards on the way home. Got home, played a couple card games and were on our way to bed. We had some nasty rainy weather with hail last night. There is also some major flooding around us too. But, I'm not going to complain... I'd rather have rain and warm weather than snow!!

Today I'm not sure what we've got planned. I know my aunt and I are going tanning and we have to get a ham for dinner, but other than that, the day is ours for the taking. My cousin brought his tennis rackets, so we may go up to the park and play some tennis. Whatever we do, it will be fun!

If I don't get on here later, I hope you all have a wonderful Easter!!!

He is Risen!!

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Anyway... we're all ok here. I think I have a sinus infection but other than that we're just all jumping for joy! Not really, but we pretend to be all happy when we have to. Just getting ready for company and I only have 2 days left of my work week...yippee!!
Oh... did I mention that I still have to get my taxes done? What is today anyway? March 1? April 2? OH ya... April 11th! Hmmmm. Ya. Well. Be nice to me Mr. IRS man. Please! I'm a hard workin single mama... No? That won't work? There will be penalties? GREAT!!
Did I mention I have an interview tomorrow and then the family coming Thursday, and I haven't started cleaning at all??
Don't worry my peeps, it's all gooood... I work best under pressure.

And comments are OFF... Take that!!

Not tonight...I have a headache

I have seriously had a headache since Friday evening. The kind that is right in the core of your brain and hurts no matter how you lay, sit, move, don't move, etc. Let's just say it hurts and let's just say since nothing is taking it away, I googled "signs and symptoms of a brain tumor" this morning. I only have a few of the signs, so I'm thinking it has something to do with hormones instead of a tumor. At least I hope so.

So this has been our weekend:
Friday at about 6pm, I got up from the computer, bent down a little to look out the window to see what my kids were doing on the trampoline and *BAM* instant pain in my head. I actually got a little nervous because it hurt so bad, so fast. I started to sweat a little and wondered to myself when my dad would be home from work, and would I have to spend the night in the hospital or would they let me come home? I seriously though that's where I'd end up. But anyway... I got over the panic attack and continued on with my night. Later on, I was in my room and bent over to get a book out from under my bed and *BAM* there it was again. PAIN! I felt all hot and a little dizzy but decided maybe if I just layed down it would go away. So I did. I got up after a few minutes and slowly bent my head over, OUCH...ok, not. doing. that. on. purpose. again. I decided since I could be in my last hours, I may as well make the most of it and so I called the kids to come up and watch the movie with me. I also took some advil. The movie was cute! It was like a romantic movie for 10 year olds. Of course my 12 year old hated it but my 9 year old liked it. I went to bed after that in hopes of a pain free tomorrow.

So Saturday came, I slept until after 9:00. When I first got up I felt pretty good, then I was in the kitchen and bent over to talk to one of my dogs. OUCH again!! Ok, something is wrong here. I must have looked like I was in pain too because my mom asked what was wrong and told my son to go get his mother some advil. (Advil is the cure all in our house! It's equivalent to a shot of vodka in most people's homes... Get a speeding ticket? Take advil. Hard day with the kids? Take a couple advil. Need to relax? You guessed it...advil. And ONLY the liquid gel caps!!

"Advil... it's not just for headaches anymore!"

So I took my advil and went to bed. I layed in bed for pretty much most of the day. I watched 2 Lifetime movies, watched some C-span, and kind of dozed off and on. My kids must have been scared I was on my death bed, because they were being extremely quiet and good. At 7pm I realized our movie was an hour late and we'd probably have a late fee, so I got up and threw some shoes on and took the kids up to return it. We got home, I went back to bed. At 7:26 I had my son call his grandpa to see where he was and if he could bring them some dinner. He was already back in our little neck of the woods, so we decided we'd order pizza. So around 9pm , we finally ordered it. I wasn't hungry so just got a cheese pizza and some bread sticks for the kids. We went and got it (T1 ran in for me), came back home, the kids ate and I went back to bed. Oh ya, and if you haven't notice, NO, I didn't not get into the shower at all. Ewww!! But I really didn't care.

Today I got up bound and determined that I was going to feel great. I got out of bed...good...so far nothing, then guess what... yep, *BAM* more pain. Oh my gosh. What is going on here? I decided to get back into bed and watch my Golden Girls dvds. My kids woke up shortly after that, so I decided to get up with them and go downstairs. I made sure they got breakfast and then thought to myself, what a skank I was, and made myself take a shower. I thought maybe that would help whatever it is that's wrong with me, but it didn't. So, I got out of my shower and got back in bed and watched more Golden Girls. Hmmm, maybe it's my Golden Girls addiction bringing this pain into my brain? ya think??

Anyway, I guess the pain has taken up residency in the core of my head so I'm just going to deal with it until it moves on. I did get outside this afternoon and played catch with T2. Then I just sat out on my back patio for awhile. The sun felt good.

I thought at first on Friday night that I was getting a migraine since it hurt to bend my head down, but the light thing wasn't bothering me and I know my migraines and this is not one. With a migraine, I could not have stood being out in the sun.

So, anyone know what's wrong with me? Please let a doctor be reading this and please let that doctor leave a comment telling me what this is. Am I going to die?

Is it a tumor? Did I pull something somewhere? Is this all part of being 33 yrs old?

I swear, the older I get the more things start going wrong...lol Little aches and pains keep creeping out from nowhere!!

I'm not looking forward to doing daycare tomorrow, but... I have Friday off and the following Monday, so I really can't/shouldn't take any more time off. So... I will be up, bright and early to greet my kiddos. Let's just pray that they've all had a good weekend and don't come in grouchy and screaming.

Our Friday Plans

This is what we rented for tonight. It looks cute. Just a nice family movie. I wanted to rent "Derailed"...but the rating wasn't that great and I wanted something me and the boys could watch together.

For dinner, T2 and I got chinese... we had sesame chicken, white rice, broccoli, and ordered a side of crab rangoon. Yum! We took T1 to Subway and he got a foot long veggie sub. You know, I am SO sick of people acting like my son is a freak when we order food for him. If we go to a fast food place, he'll usually order a sandwich but without the meat. Half the time the cashier doesn't know how to punch in "no meat" on the register, so we have to stand there and wait while they call the manager up... then they usually have to yell back to the people making the food not to put meat on the sandwich. OF course this would be so much easier if T1 would just order the sandwich and take the meat off afterwards, but he doesn't want the meat and grease touching the rest of the food and I can respect that. Anyway... the girl at Subway took our order, repeated the order, told us to pull forward, then opened the window and questioned the the stuff he wanted on his sub - (all veggies), I told her "yes" that was correct. She looked at me and said "ooookay??" like I was ordering something sick like cow brains. Grrrr. I'm so sick of that!! You have veggie subs on your menu, you moron!

We had some crazy weather today. Bright shining sun and all of a sudden huge hail. Very weird. We had hail 3 different times. It's rained on and off, but somehow the sun just keeps coming back and shining bright. Our tornado sirens went off, but it was hard to believe anything was happening due to the beautiful sunshine. Did I mention the sunshine we've had today? lol Sorry, vitamin D gets me excited!!

Well, that's it for today... time to go relax and let my weekend begin!