i'm back! '-)

my phone line has been down since saturday! kane and i have been dying! we have been trying our best to use my phone for some stuff, but all you can really do is look at email. i was so glad that i did have my email...but i NEED my Internet!!! the man came this morning. when i got home from taking shep to school (he is the last drop on the but route) i was so happy! it was too bad that he had to come inside and see the huge mess left by the morning rush. oh well, i'm not that worried about it. he said that he had raised four kids and now has three grandkids. i usually DO NOT let repair men inside if i am home alone (crazy phobia i have, long story) but i HAD to have the Internet! anyway, he didn't kill or rape me. that doesn't mean he won't come back tonight! i always think the worst.
so, casey is still gone. it totally sucks. he has been gone twelve days now. we have seven more days to go. it has been VERY HARD. wow! no more three week trips! shepherd has been so mad at casey, anytime i am on the phone and the other kids talk to him shep refuses. i will put casey on speaker phone and shep gets sooo mad. he hides his eyes and covers his ears. eleanor has slept in one of caseys shirts and then she holds one at night.
so much has gone on since the last time i blogged. i will be trying to get it all in , but it may be random.
all my kids have been sick this week, but are better now. i took all three of them to the doctor on monday. that was a treat! casey's dad (jim) went with me, thank god! what a life saver..so nice to have great family. i really don't know how i would do it without them. kane and eleanor had strep, they thought shepherd might have the flu, but he didn't. good thing that we went when we did. they are all better now. thank god for amoxicillion.

is my tv broken??

i wake up at like 5:30 turn on the tv and down half a bottle of water (trying to drink more water). I lay there for fifteen minutes think about the day ahead of me. did i pack everyone's lunch last night? does kane have socks in his drawer? are there any more diapers in shep's closet, or do i need to go to walmart today? so i decide i should get up, my alarm is about to go off anyway. i go take a shower come back downstairs and what do i hear?? " school closings that we have in are: bentonville and berryville, we will keep you updated on anymore that come in." I grabbed the remote and hit rewind, then play.....yes that is what they said. bentonville schools are closed. wow. i look outside...its not even raining at my house. so i'm like, well maybe channel 9 was wrong. i switched the tv to channel 7, they just said it too. it must be true...........bentonville schools are canceled. but why, why, why, why??? don't they know that the only time i have any free time is while my kids are at school? did dr. compton not get the email that my husband had left me to find him an asian wife? (he decided that he better get a head start for whenever i loose my mind) with school being out we will have to get out and do something. kane will want to go to the mall, which would be great if we didn't have the other kids with us. el will want to go to chuckie cheese, which is okay, but its alot of work for me to keep up with shepherd and keep eleanor happy. shepherd will want to go to walmart, and im sure we will get to go there. and i want to go to the spa...for 12 days!
thanks to life&kids for posting the kids eat free nights and where. we will be at one of the free spots for thursday! i love free stuff! and not having to cook!
kane has baseball practice at the batting cages tonight. thank god for my wonderful family that helps us so much. nate is on pick up patrol while casey is solving walmart-japans problems. it is great too, kane has practice 3x a week and they all end at 9 or later. it would be so crapping to have to get the other kids out just to pick him up.
kane got his hair cut yesterday! i wish i had my camera so i could post a picture.(casey took the camera) i need an excuse to have post a picture of my baby boy! he looks great, and i can see his eyes! it is hard to except that my little boy is growing into a young man.

ok, my first post today was so old. I'm not sure why i didn't post it on that day?? who knows, I have been REALLY BUSY. casey left this morning for his three week tour in China and Japan. he will not be home until March 7th! he has never been away for more than a week, maybe two weeks once or twice. it is going to be crazy....it might make me crazy....if you find one of my children on your door step, please take care of them.
shepherd has already been asking 'where my daddy go?' he knows that casey didn't ride his bike, and his truck is still at home. I could never be a military spouse. it would be soooo hard. on top of taking care of the kids and the house, you have to worry about if your husband or wife is going to be blown up. I feel like such little b**** complaining about 3 weeks.
I hope that i will have a little more time to do things that i want to do. hahahaha

Happy Very Late Valentine's Day!

ahh, yes....valentine's day......class parties where sticky little fingers are doing their best to read and open valentines.....the men at sam's looking like they have never seen flowers before. tell me what is better?? i personally really dont expect much, just a card. anything more than that is bonus. this year we made an inside rule that we have to make each others card.

i had told casey's grandmother how casey didn't like valentine's day, and that i didn't expect anything from him. she showed up with a basket full of cookies and said that she wanted to make sure that i had a valentine's day present. it was so nice!!! grandmother is so great!

last weeks snow!

eleanor came home from school last wednesday with an early pick up form. the school was so scared that they would have to let school out early because of the bad weather. i'm glad that it snowed over night. the kids were so excited to get up and see that it really did snow while they were sleeping! casey and eleanor went out to build a snowman. shepherd didn't want to go out much, it was too cold. kane went out to throw snowballs, mostly at el. after the first round in the snow we had waffles with strawberries and whipped cream..yum! the kids were in and out lots, with hot chocolate in between.

so happy its monday....(kinda)

it is monday and my kids are at school, my husband is at work, and i put the dog outside. finally, i am in an empty house......listen.....its sooooooo queit. then i walk to the washer and realize that there is enough laundry to swim in. i have ran the dishwasher twice today, and will need to run it again after dinner. i didn't get anything done over the weekend. casey worked all day saturday and most of the day sunday.

casey replaced the floor in the kichen this weekend! YAA! it is 1,000x better that the **** tile that was on the floor. i can't beleive that he got it all done. he finished just in time to watch the super bowl. what a game! i am so glad that the giants won! go eli manning! its to bad eli is so goofy. i could put up with goofy if i got to see him take off his football pants and had access to the bank!-i didn't say that-

enough dreaming.....i have to go empty the dishwasher and change over the laundry