Rough Week

Last week was one of those weeks I didn't want to get out of bed. I was sick and tired and depressed. It's never fun being sick but was the kind of sick where you don't even want to get out of bed because it would require you to move. I finally started feel better yesterday and all the kids are well so hopefully we got the sickies out of our systems.

There are many things that contributed to my depression. First, missing Jeremy and the daily trials of being alone with 4 kids. Then on the 21st there was a drive by shooting on the other side of town. The first thing of it's sort to happen since we moved here. Some young punks put over 20 bullet holes into a familys home. There were 9 people asleep in that home. Tragically the only person hit by a bullett was a 4 year old girl asleep in her bed in her room in the front of the house. She was killed instantly. She was Alissa's age. This poor baby girl had her life stolen from her by some idiots who "were just tring to scare them". How a tragidy like that could not effect any parent I don't know but it makes me want to cry ever time I think about it. I definanlty hug my babies a little bit tighter now days.

Then Friday I got a call telling me that a very close friend of the family, Jeremy's Grandma's best-friend, had passed away from complications of cancer. Cancer seems to be doing a lot of taking lately. My heart and prayers go out to everyone who has been effected by cancer in any way.

Proud Momma

The kids got their report cards yesterday. Dylan had all A's and B's, he let his spelling grade slip this 6's weeks or it would have been all A's as usual. Cass had all A's and B's also except in PE where she got an L which means limited progress. I always knew she wasn't my jock. :) The best part though was Cheyenne's report card. She has struggled so much with her spelling since we moved here, it wasn't stressed at their school in Amarillo. Finally for the first time this year she got it above a C. An 86 to be exact. That's a high B! I am so proud of her! Then theirs the little pat on the back for me. I knew my kids had not missed very many days of school but had thought they had each missed between 2-3 due to illness. Not so, Dylan and Cass have only missed one day of school this year! Chey did miss 3 because she had some mystery illness back around her birthday that lingered forever. Anyway, the fact that I have been up and gotten my kids out of the house, none of them have missed the same day, every single day of this school year makes me feel pretty good about the job I'm doing going it alone. Add to that how good their grades are and that makes me one very proud Momma!

Got pictures?

I do! Not many but I have some. I only got a few christmas pics and somehow I didn't end up with even one that has Cheyenne in it. Bad Mother, I know!

This is my new (and only) permanant body (lower back) art! It was my 10th anniversary gift from Jeremy. The best part about the whole thing? Jeremy and I had 3 glorious kid free hours.