Too weird

We went to a little chinese restaraunt tonight because the kids have been dying for chinese. We had a pretty nice meal. The kids behaved pretty well. Alissa was in a good mood and in no way cranky. Close to the end of our meal a man who had been setting behind us approached us. He said, "I just wanted to comment on how well behaved your kids are." I almost passed out and Jeremy actually laughed. The man said, "No, I'm serious. I didn't say they we're perfect but they we're very well behaved for such young kids." Now if that doesn't make a Momma proud I'm don't know what would. It's nice to have a little reassurance from a stranger that your doing a good job raising your kids. :) Eating out with 4 young kids is always a bit of a chore and Jeremy and I both get a little stressed thinking the kids are disturbing other people. When we go out to eat from now on I'm gonna try very hard to remember that my children are very well behaved and other people do notice that. :)

New obsession

I decided to take advantage of the Netflix free trial. I set up my account and started adding movies to my queue. Between Cassidy and myself we now have over 50 movies we are waiting to see. :) They have all the old Disney movies! Anyone remember Candleshoe? The Gnome-mobile? The Moon Spinners? We're also waiting on the first season of She-Ra: Princess of Power and Punky Bruster. I loved those shows when I was a kid. How cool is it that I can now share them with my kids? I know that the animation is not as good. I know that the Punky Bruster set doesn't look as real as sets do now but still I love those show! It's much cheaper and much more convenient then the movie rental places here. At almost $4 a movie they'll break you. Then there's the whole due date that we sometimes get so busy we forget about. Well now I can keep the movies as long as I want and expect to get a new one within about 2 days of sending one back. All that for one very low price. Us being movie people it's a heck of a deal. :)

Everyone needs a little spontaneity

I know the pictures look like a big blob and some grass but in fact it's The Big Unit! on some grass. For those of you who don't know that's Randy Johnson, one of the greatest pitchers the game of baseball has ever seen. In fact he's the greatest left handed pitcher of all time! And as for the quality of the picture, camera phones suck. We had not intended on driving 2 hours both ways to attend a baseball game Monday but we found out our, Dylan and my, favorite player, the afore mentioned Johnson, would be pitching in Arlington. So we got up bright and early Monday morning and headed that way. Not only did we get to see Randy Johnson warm up in the bullpen but we also got to see the likes of Derek Jeter, A-Rod, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, all future Hall of Famers. We now have home video of the New York Yankees warming up before a game. Dylan even brought Flat Stanley along for the adventure. The kids had a great time, with the exception of the heat. It's good the take a spur of the moment trip sometime. :)

"Hurry before I die!"

This seems to be Alissa's new favorite phrase. Last night she needed to go potty and of course the light were off so I had to go with her to turn them on. Apparently I was not moving fast enough because she yelled down the hall "Hurry before I die!" With much urgency. Again today she decided she wanted to read a book. She got in my lap and once again yells, "Hurry before I die!" It was too funny. Can we say drama queen?!

The Offer

Jeremy is working for a company as a temporary employ. They had every intention of making him a full time employ but wanted to get him working sooner then they would have if they had done the whole interview, background check, ect first. So he was suspose to fly to Houston Monday for his interview on the company's tab. That was great for us because we have no money to get him there. One big problem, he can't make the flight arrangements because the company never gave him a confirmation # and he didn't learn this till after hours Friday. So, on Monday he makes the arrangements to fly to Houston at 4:00 that afternoon. He comes home at noon, we rush to get him packed and everything in order. We get him to the airport with time to spare and the kids and I come home. Then he calls...The flight was cancelled! Not a big deal if you live somewhere like Amarillo where there's a flight leaving for Houston every 30 min but here....nothing! They can't get him on another flight until 9am the next morning. The exact time of his interview. So the company rented him a car, he drove to DFW, flew from there to Houston at 5am, got another rental car and drove to his interview.

The interview it's self went off without a hitch! They liked him and he had all the right experience. They said they would call him later in the week with a salary offer.

He gets back to airport to fly home at 2pm only to find out that they have him flying back into DFW! ACK!!! What a hassle. He gets back on the phone with the company and gets everything fixed with only minutes to spare before the flight to Abilene leaves.

HE got the call first thing this morning with the offer. I personally think it's a good offer. Jeremy wasn't as happy. He's guaranteed $40,000 a year on 40 hours a week plus his time and a half and double time for his overtime pay. That works out to roughly $19.25 an hour. I think that's a great offer considering we will have medical and dental insurance for next to nothing. He will also have a retirement fund, vacation, paid holidays and he will not have to worry about being laid off. Did I mention he will get that salary for 40 hours EVERY WEEK?! Whether he works them or not?! Huge plus in my book. No more worrying about him not working enough hours to pay the bills. Although Jeremy is more worried about the fact that some of the other, less experienced guys are making the same amount as he is. I can understand being a little put off but look at all the benefits! It's a start right? They said he would get a raise in January. SO prove to them that your worth a nice one, problem solved. Sometimes it just seems like nothing is every good enough for him. :(

Money Tree?

A friend of mine was recently searching for it. Has anyone found it yet? I could certainly put a few branches to good use. Isn't funny how everything seems to snowball all at once? You plod along thinking your keeping your head above water just until those brighter days show up and WHAM!!!! I think it's a conspiracy. All the people you own money too get together and decide to hit you with the disconnects all in one week. Lucky for us the gas and water are paid. So we will have hot water but no lights, stove, ect.... No phones as both the cell phones and the home phone are set to be turned off this weekend... WOOHOO!!! Can't win for losing... Saddest part is that by taking the job in Oklahoma Jeremy actually did us more harm then good. It cost more for him to stay there them what he would have made setting on his heiny drawing unemployment. Anyone need a old gas guzzling Dodge pickup? It runs! And at this point selling it is the only way I can see to get our head back above water till we get another check. Depression has officially set in. :(

Little Miss Bossy Pants

OK, Hawk is a monster. He's practialy tripled in size since we got him 5 months ago. We finally remember to pick him up a new collar today while we were at the store. Of course I haven't gotten around to putting it on him yet. It's setting on the kitchen counter. I was cooking supper and Miss Bossy Pants walks in, initials AJL. She gets on her chair to see what I'm doing, spys the collar and says to me......."Get off your butt and go put this collar on!" WHAT?! She's got to quit listening to her Daddy and we're gonna have to start putting our foot down with Miss Boss or we're in for a world of trouble when she get older.

This is Mater

Our new little motherless kitty. Yes we're pushovers. The girls brought her home from Mom's house. I told them they had to ask their Dad if they could have her. His reply to me, "I couldn't say no because Cassidy said she loves her!" Pushover!! Of curse now Alissa absolutly loves her too. She says "she's just my size!" We named her Mater for the towtruck on Cars that we went to the drive-in to see. Such a cute movie! And Alissa can say Mater very well. :)