15 posts tagged “my kids”

My daughter is twelve and she was playing with her toy horses and dollhouse dolls. It sparked the following conversation.

Her: Look it's you

Me: How is that me, because I ride horses alllll of the time (sarcasm)

Her: no, because your old (It was the grandma doll)

Her: this one is dad.

Me: oh I never knew he was bald (was the grandpa doll)

Her: he might be for all I know.

How sad is that? She doesn't even know what he looks like. It has been six years since they have seen him. He could be bald for all we know. Sad....

My daughter has moved out of her baking cake phase and has gone into her bread baking phase. We have been buried in bread for a week. Here is a picture of a bread wheat stalk she made...

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My son is about to turn 16. He has Aspergers syndrome. Lately I have been thinking he should find a job. Not because he has to have one, but because I think if he is ever going to be able to make it on his own he is going to need to start now to work out any issues he has before he is on his own. The problem is this. I don't know what kind of job he would be able to hold. There is no way he would ever be able to work as something like a cashier. He doesn't talk to people. I also don't know how to go about finding him the kind of job he needs. I mean when I need a job, I just go apply at anywhere and get a job, but i pretty much have no special requirements. I don't know how he would ever get past the interview. I am a huge believer in being self-employed, but for him at the moment I think he needs to have a "regular" job for a while. I think  he needs to be around people..even if it is forced.:-) I don't know, this is stressing me out. The fear that he is never going to be able to function and have a normal life has just suddenly started creeping up on me the closer he gets to 16. I guess because I see other people his age and think of what I was like and see the huge gap with where he is at now. I guess denial is easier when they are younger. Now he is getting close to being an adult and being on his own. I have a fear he will never be able to make it on his own...

When I got up this morning my daughter had left a note on my purse with a lunchbag. The note said...

"Here is your lunch. There is a tubber-wear with cream cheese and jelly in the fridge."

It cracked me up. One because she thinks it is called tubber-wear and two because I have no idea where she heard the word tupperware. When I ask them to hand me some,  I just say hand me a plastic container. I don't actually call it tupperware.

We went to the pumpkin patch yesterday. They had a cornfield maze, hayride and lots of play areas. They were grilling food and had all kinds of baked good. We bought three pumpkins to carve and one pumpkin to make pumpkin pie out of. After we carved the pumpkins we roasted the seeds and we also made pumpkin cookies and brown sugar glazed pecans. They were all yummy.

Here are some pictures...Flickr pictures

For halloween I wanted a costume that was awesome,  something sexy, something that would make men's jaws drop.

So here is my smokin' hot outfit.:-)

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 It's a woopie cushion....ok I am a dork.lol

Here's my daughters in their costumes.

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We just spent a week in Seaside, Oregon for my brothers wedding. I loved it.

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My kids went on vacation with my mother. They have been gone for two weeks and I am bored out of my mind. It wouldn't be so boring if I had some money to go do someting fun, but I am completely broke. It is still at least a week before they come back. I think I am going to go crazy. My house is so quite, too quite. Now I know what it will be like when my kids move out and I don't like it.lol

I actually went today and got a massage, I had money left over on a gift card that someone bought me. I have been painting my daughter's room, but mostly I have just been sitting around reading, renting movies and doing nothing. Boring...Oh yeah and I haven't cooked. When they left I figured I would cook myself all the foods I like to eat that they don't like, but I don't want to bother cooking for just me, so I haven't been cooking at all really. Nothing exciting anyway. My grocery bill was fifty bucks for enough food for the month. I wish it was always that much usually we spend about four or five hundred a month.

The only thing that I absolutely love about them being gone is that I cleaned my house and it has stayed clean. I don't have to follow behind a couple of tornados flinging their stuff everywhere.

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My daughter looking at the fish in the creek near our house.