I don't know if I'm ever going to have a few moments to breathe!! With Jeff working the graveyard shift and the two little girls being in sports, it's insane! Caya is in cheer and has practices on Wednesday nights. Kenna is in volleyball and has practice Monday nights. The "ex" is the one that signed them up, but I'm the one that has to play taxi. How the heck does that work? LOL Of course, it just so happens that they both have games on Saturdays too. Go figure. Perfect example ... this weekend, Caya has a game AND team pictures, then we go to Kenna's game AND team pictures. After that, we go to my brother's for my nephew Zane's birthday and then after that ... Trick or treat!!! Serious!!!?? Aren't weekends for relaxing? That is soooooo not the case for me ... never has been. The summers are the worst because I think 95% of our family was born in the summer.
Take all of that and combine it with finding out that my oldest daughter has informed us that she was drinking at school again. WTF??!!!!!! Grounded again. I don't know what to do with her anymore. We've taken everything away and she's done the whole grounded thing already and it obviously didn't work, so what now? What do you do to a 16-yr old girl that just doesn't seem to have any idea what common sense is? We have nothing else to take away from her. I'm at a total loss on this one!!!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
See!!! I'm doing a little better at updating! LOL
So, let's see ... where do I begin with what's going on. I'll give a brief run down of each of the kids ... as usual. Miranda is bustin her butt to get missing assignments in because she wants to be able to go to Homecoming this Saturday. LOL She has also made a very major decision in her life. She is going to be baptized this Sunday in front of the entire church ... including our entire family. I can't even begin to put into words how proud I am of her decision. I already know that I am going to bawl like a baby when I see her walk up onto that platform. My whole family is going to be there too. She's growing up on me and I don't know how to make her stop.
Now onto the boys. They are another story at the present moment. I got a call a week ago from the Glendale Police because they needed a guardian to pick them up from the mall because they had been caught shoplifting. SERIOUSLY???!!! What in the world do you do with that? My husband was home, so we headed up to the mall. I called Chase's dad (my ex) and Jeff called Trevor's mom (his ex) and all 4 of us walked into the office en force. The look on those boys' faces was pitiful devastation. That is probably the best way to describe how they looked sitting in the store's loss prevention office with a police officer and ALL of their parents. Needless to say, the boys are seriously grounded. They are in their rooms with nothing but their backpacks, their beds and books. Both boys have read like 3 books a piece so far. I am pretty sure they have learned their lesson ... at least I hope so.
Kenna is currently up north with the entire 5th grade for Outdoor Ed. She left yesterday and will be home tomorrow. They're up there at a camp site that has cabins and learning about nature and how to survive in the wilderness. She's just joined volleyball too, so I've been busy shuttling her back and forth for practices and games.
Caya has just joined cheer and is super thrilled with the fact that she is finally a part of what she's best at. LOL She is constantly on the trampoline doing little dances and different tumbling moves. Now that she's in cheer, all I hear is her singing them and she always wants me to watch her do them ... over and over and over and over. LOL She's so cute!
Besides taking the girls to practices and games, I haven't really been able to do much of anything. Jeff's new schedule has him home til about 8 every night, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we get to see each other. I'm constantly running errands after work and shuttling kids all over the place. Of course, Jeff gets a little bent, but he's got to understand that this is my life and I don't get much of a chance to just sit and "hang out" with him. He sleeps all day because he doesn't get home til around 8 or 9 am, so it's not like he can really run any errands for me. I just wish he would be a little more understanding instead of throwing a fit because I'm not at home with him. Things have been a little rough with us lately because we have such different parenting styles and we view things differently. We're supposed to go to a seminar next month that is supposed to help us in our marriage and in raising kids. I tell you what ... we can use all the help we can get at this point. I am sick to death of arguing with him over stupid crap all the time. It seems like the only time that we truly get along is when the kids are gone for the weekend with their "other" parents. That's NOT how it's supposed to be. I don't want to play referee all the time between him and the kids because he treats them like hoodlums instead of kids. I'm sick of them arguing all the time and having to get phone calls everyday because someone is fighting. Usually the fighting involves Jeff and either Caya, Chase or Miranda. There have even been a few occasions where Kenna has gone toe to toe with Jeff. I can't handle it anymore though. Let's hope that this seminar will help us because if it comes down to it ... my kids will win.
So, let's see ... where do I begin with what's going on. I'll give a brief run down of each of the kids ... as usual. Miranda is bustin her butt to get missing assignments in because she wants to be able to go to Homecoming this Saturday. LOL She has also made a very major decision in her life. She is going to be baptized this Sunday in front of the entire church ... including our entire family. I can't even begin to put into words how proud I am of her decision. I already know that I am going to bawl like a baby when I see her walk up onto that platform. My whole family is going to be there too. She's growing up on me and I don't know how to make her stop.
Now onto the boys. They are another story at the present moment. I got a call a week ago from the Glendale Police because they needed a guardian to pick them up from the mall because they had been caught shoplifting. SERIOUSLY???!!! What in the world do you do with that? My husband was home, so we headed up to the mall. I called Chase's dad (my ex) and Jeff called Trevor's mom (his ex) and all 4 of us walked into the office en force. The look on those boys' faces was pitiful devastation. That is probably the best way to describe how they looked sitting in the store's loss prevention office with a police officer and ALL of their parents. Needless to say, the boys are seriously grounded. They are in their rooms with nothing but their backpacks, their beds and books. Both boys have read like 3 books a piece so far. I am pretty sure they have learned their lesson ... at least I hope so.
Kenna is currently up north with the entire 5th grade for Outdoor Ed. She left yesterday and will be home tomorrow. They're up there at a camp site that has cabins and learning about nature and how to survive in the wilderness. She's just joined volleyball too, so I've been busy shuttling her back and forth for practices and games.
Caya has just joined cheer and is super thrilled with the fact that she is finally a part of what she's best at. LOL She is constantly on the trampoline doing little dances and different tumbling moves. Now that she's in cheer, all I hear is her singing them and she always wants me to watch her do them ... over and over and over and over. LOL She's so cute!
Besides taking the girls to practices and games, I haven't really been able to do much of anything. Jeff's new schedule has him home til about 8 every night, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we get to see each other. I'm constantly running errands after work and shuttling kids all over the place. Of course, Jeff gets a little bent, but he's got to understand that this is my life and I don't get much of a chance to just sit and "hang out" with him. He sleeps all day because he doesn't get home til around 8 or 9 am, so it's not like he can really run any errands for me. I just wish he would be a little more understanding instead of throwing a fit because I'm not at home with him. Things have been a little rough with us lately because we have such different parenting styles and we view things differently. We're supposed to go to a seminar next month that is supposed to help us in our marriage and in raising kids. I tell you what ... we can use all the help we can get at this point. I am sick to death of arguing with him over stupid crap all the time. It seems like the only time that we truly get along is when the kids are gone for the weekend with their "other" parents. That's NOT how it's supposed to be. I don't want to play referee all the time between him and the kids because he treats them like hoodlums instead of kids. I'm sick of them arguing all the time and having to get phone calls everyday because someone is fighting. Usually the fighting involves Jeff and either Caya, Chase or Miranda. There have even been a few occasions where Kenna has gone toe to toe with Jeff. I can't handle it anymore though. Let's hope that this seminar will help us because if it comes down to it ... my kids will win.
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