Howdy!

I haven't been online much this week. I have been so busy with helping momma and the kids have been giving me pains with schooling. Momma is better, but still not able to clean house, buy her groceries and a few other things. So, with home schooling 3 kids that don't want to mind and keeping up 2 house holds I haven't had much time to be online. Maybe my kids will settle down and give me a little peace time for my self. I will try and come and visit. Maybe things will be a little more settled this week. I hope so, because if not my kids are going to find their self hung to the ceiling. Well, not really, but you know what I mean.
Hope all is having a great week!

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Fun Learnig Games

Thanks to Hootin' Anni the kids and I have enjoyed hangaroo. Boy! Was she ever right about it being addicting. Since then we have found Chicktionary. The kids and I have sit around the computer the last 2 days playing these 2 games. This sure has put a new meaning to sharing the computer. LOL! So, if your bored or just want to challenge your wits, I strongly suggest these 2 games.
Enjoy!

Band meme

I found this meme at Lil Mouse's blog.
I may not of done it exactly, but I tried. Check below to see my band then head over at Lil Mouse's and see what its all about.





Social Threefolding

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Fun Monday: Your favorite web site

This week our host for Fun Monday is -Ann and here is her assignment...I want to hear about a web site and not just about any old web site. I want to hear about a web site that's changed your life. A web site that you can't live without. A web site whose inventor you'd like to see win a McArthur Genius Grant.

Maybe you want to sing the praises of a dating web site for helping you meet your spouse. Maybe the only thing getting you through the dark days of winter is an Internet comic. No story is too big, no story is too small -

I couldn't think of nothing at first and almost didn't sign up, but then after thinking a while I finally came up with a post.
My brother Mike is completely different than me, but we have always had a special connection. A couple years ago he came over on Mother's day because he knew I was going through a hard time. (He's not much on words)(He don't even go to church) (You'll see my point in a minute) Okay!, he came over and handed me this little slip of paper and told me to go to this site. He knew I had problems falling a sleep while reading because of my Narcolepsy and had other issues with reading that we didn't know what they were till 3 years ago. We found out that I had Dyslexia. So, I had 2 negatives against me even thou I love to learn and I Love to dig to find answers when given the challenge. On the sheet of paper was a web site to Audio Bible I was now able to read my bible and start retaining what I read. It also taught me how to get around reading. I can go to sites and read on the web and that helps, but what helps the most is hearing and reading at the same time. So, thanks to my brother I can enjoy reading now. I also use this method with my 3 kids. At least they are getting it young and can enjoy reading and learning.
Even thou I do have other places I like to go on the web, this is the site that 1st helped me figure it all out.

Locked in a box.

What do you do when you feel you are locked in a box? Surrounded on all sides. The most logic answer would be reach up, but what if the top feels so far away? You feel trapped and no solutions of what to do. What do you do? You try and talk to people and no one listens. You just have no clue. What do you when you feel you are locked in a box?

Road Rage, NOT!

They are always doing a story about Road Rage and what causes it. IMO they need to do a Grocery Store Rage story! OMGees! The last few times I have went and bought groceries for momma or me it has Heck! I mean H. E. Double Hockey Sticks! I went to the grocery store for momma today and every time I turned around some one would almost run over me, rush by me then stop, put the buggy on one side of the isle and then stoop over on the other side and other crazy crap like that. These people are just plain out RUDE! I was standing there trying to stay out of the way looking for something on momma's list and this lady walked and slightly pushed me with her shoulder and said, "DO YOU MIND" How Rude!, I say! I understand people being upset because prises going up on everything, but I have never seen people act like this before in a grocery store. And it's not just one, but several. It has been this way the last few times I have gone to the store.
Yesterday when KB & I were doing our shopping some of the same stuff happened. KB was doing her little dancing as we were walking down the isle and this lady looked KB up and down and gave her a dirty look. I had to turn my buggy around and go the other way. I could see this lady getting up set if KB was bothering someone or getting in people's way, but she wasn't. She was just dancing/wiggling in place right beside me.
I have no idea why people have to be so mean & ugly over going to the store. Gosh if it upsets them that bad, send someone in their place!

Update on storms yesterday

I got that picture off the web. LOL! I didn't take pictures because there was nothing exciting to see.

Yesterday was a crazy day

Even thou everything started out normal, it didn't stay that way. The kids have not wanted to wake up this week, so yesterday instead of fighting with them, I went back to bed till they got up. We got up about 11 and started our day off like normal. My husband called at lunch and asked what the weather was doing and I told him it was just cloudy here. Not even 5 minutes after we got off the phone and the kids and I started back to schooling, the city wide alarms went off. I ran and opened the front door and turned on the news. To me it was dark and the clouds were moving funny, but no rain. When I turned on the TV, they said that a tornado was in Thaxton (a small community in the country part of Pontotoc) and was heading straight to the City of Pontotoc. (That's were we are) I told the kids to get their blankets and pillows and head to the hallway. I stood in the front door watching outside and stepping back to watch the weather on TV. After 20 minutes passed I realized that the tornado turned and went to New Albany. (That's a county next to us) It still wasn't even raining. I had the kids to come back to the table, but leave their stuff in the hallway because there were still more tornadoes all around us. About 30 minutes after the kids and I got back started with school the city wide alarms went back off. I jumped up to the TV and seen that the tornado that had went toward New Albany had went to another part of Pontotoc on its way out. After all that, it started raining. Even thou here were I live it never got that bad, I can't say that for other parts of MS. Here is a few stories. (Caledonia) Even thou the News coverage here not complete, this town was hit the hardest. This town was tore up! School buses went into the school and many many homes destroyed.( Clay County ) They had a few homes destroyed and 2 hurt, but not severe.( North of Iuka,) This story is correct so far. Veron Alabama was hit yesterday also. I know my sister in law is okay, but not sure of the damage done there. (That brother is a truck driver and is the one I had to go to NC because he had a heart attack while he was on the road. He's doing good and back to work.) Even thou to me it looked worse to me Tuesday, yesterday storms out done Tuesday's storms.

Yesterday's storms

This is the 1st picture when the front came in.


This is the second.


This is the 3rd.


My silly self walk out in the storm to get a picture of my mailbox, because in the above pictures it was so dark you couldn't see it.


I should have took a picture after, but didn't think about it. I was so amazed over how dark it got then turned back light and that wasn't even the front that was suppose to hit us. The News said there were so many funnel clouds, but they were to big and wide spread to cause a tornado. It is 35 degrees this morning after being 70 yesterday and we have another storm coming in tomorrow. I wonder how big that one will be.

Update on burned body in Pontotoc

Our local News Story.
This is just awful! and just beyond my comprehension. They say the family dropped him off and came back later to pick him up and couldn't find him. They also say he walked into the woods and fell a sleep smoking and burned his self to death. The whole story don't make any since to me, but I guess somethings are not to be understood.
My heart really goes out to this family!

Fun Monday- Show me your pets!

Lisa is our hostess for Fun Monday this week and she wants us to show our pets.

Daniel and I have had a lot of pets over the years. As I was always a cat lover and he was a dog lover, we have learned to compromise. The animals we have at this time is 4 dogs, a cat, a bird and a lot of fish.
Our Dogs:
5-6 years ago (I have no since of time, so I get confused on dates, that why I can't really remember exactly how long we have had Sammie)a friend of ours gave us Sammie, because their land lord would not allow them to have a dog. Dan Dan have a soft spot for animals so we gladly brought her in. At 1st she was an inside dog, which she was for a long time. Every now and then we would put her on a chain right out side the door step to get fresh air, because here in town we have a leash law. We never intended to allow her to have babies, but never got her fixed, soooooo. 3 years ago we had her out on the chain and I kept telling Dan she was going in heat and he told me I didn't know what I was talking about, so during us home schooling one day, the kids and I got a 101 on how dogs hook up. The neighbor's dog had got loose. Sammie had 13 babies that December. (I remember that time because it was our 1st year of home schooling. LOL) We were going to get rid of all the puppies, but the cat we had at that time got hit by a car, so I allowed each child to have a puppy. Don't ask me why 3 puppies have to replace 1 cat, but that's how it worked out. DJ named his KoJo, JB named his Buddy and KB named hers Vicious Rex. They all 4 stay in a pen in the back yard and every once in a while we will clean Sammie up and bring her in.





Our Cat: I have always loved cats, but there is something with this one. He is mean, but My little brother had gave KB a cat for her birthday one year and we were giving all the kittens a way, but before I gave them all away, the momma cat got in my van. I heard her when I got 1/2 way of where I was going and had planned on shutting the door before she could get out, but it didn't happen that way. So, we landed up with this mean cat.


Our Bird:
My sister in law bought 2 birds, then decided that they were too much trouble, so I told her to bring them here. The other bird died last year, but this one is still hanging in there. We have had her about 4 years.


Our Fish: KB wanted some fish for her 10th birthday, so we got her a lot of pretties. The all have died since, but a friend of ours gave her some guppies. I now know why they did, they multiply like crazy!
(Don't have picture of the fish because I need to clean the tank)

I couldn't end this post with introducing my mom's new play pretty. She bought her Border Collie for Christmas for she wouldn't get lonely. Her cat came up missing about 2-3 months ago, so she has decided to get a puppy. His name is Topper.

OH! Maw's (Dan's grandmother) horse she raised from a baby because here mom abandoned her.


And last but not least, my biggest pet of all. My big ole bear! LOL! He is hairy and can be a mean ass, but sometimes is nothing but a teddy bear.

7 Things about me

Chris B has tagged me for this meme. I had been thinking of doing a 300 things about me post since I just crossed over my #300th post, but thought that would be a long boring. So, this way I can do some things about me, but cut it really short! LOL!
Here's my 7:
1: I was a Cub Scout leader & Cub Master for 4-5 years.
2: I went through Wood Badge through Boy Scouts.
3: Through Wood Badge I was a Buffalo.
4: During Wood Badge I received the name "Bubbles the Buffalo", because of my personality.
5: I was only a Boy Scout leader 1 year.
6: I REALLY miss being a Boy Scout Leader.
7: No! I'm not a pervert! I'm just not girly enough for the Girl Scouts in our area and my boys are older so, we did Boy Scouts 1st.

The "rules" are:

1) Link to the person who tagged you.
First word of this post...

2) Post the rules on your blog.

3) Share 7 facts about yourself.

4) Tag 7 random people and include links to their blogs. With no obligation to accept the tag I hope these guys will let us in on a few secrets!!!

5) Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Here's the 7 I would like to tag:
Holly
jobeaufoix
Terri (June Bug)
Ami
Lisa's chaos
Kaytbug
Pamela

A body found burned near our local Wal Mart

Our local News station's story about a body found. This story is so watered down! The news makes me so mad at times!
My sister in law was there when the body was discovered and I have talked with several employees from Wal Mart. They say that the man was burned beyond recognition. They said that a white truck dropped him off at 7 AM, he went in to Wal Mart and bought something, then walked into the woods. Some of the employees saw the fire and when the management team went to put the fire out, they found this body. They have all this on video, but don't know who was in the truck and if the death was suicide, accidental, or a murder. It is so sad about this man and I guess they will find out who he is when they do the autopsy.
One sad thing is that everytime our little town has something to put it on the map or show focus on it, it is always negative.

Up Date: They did find out the man was from Bruce, MS.

On my little sop box about Public School

(I know I have a few friends that don't home school and I hope I don't offend. This is mainly about the school system we live in. I'm hoping to inform people, not cut anyone down.)
Some of you know I pulled my children out of school 3 years ago. One of the reasons was that I was tired of fighting the school system over KB. At the end of that school year the teacher came to me and told me if I didn't intervene with KB she would fall through the cracks. Shortly after I pulled them out of school I found out that they all 3 had dyslexia. DJ's dyslexia is only mild, but JB & KB's is very severe. I was very green about home schooling and took all the help I could get. When I pulled them out Jb still qualified for speech, mainly because he had nodules on his vocal cords. We went to speech the 1st 2 weeks of the next year, then the next 4 months they would call and say the speech teacher was out of town. One week I called to let them know that JB was in the hospital and we couldn't make it. They told me if I couldn't bring him not to bother bringing him back, so I didn't. In the mean time I heard from someone that the only reason they wanted me to sign him up was to get money, but they wasn't really interested in my child. I had made up my mind not to do speech the next year. But when the next year rolled around the new speech teacher called me and promised me that she would make sure JB got what he needed and she did. She was very helpful to us. She would give us all kind of stuff to help with our home schooling. We didn't get to finish out year with her because my mom got sick and it got to be too much on me. At the end of that school year I found out that a teacher had went back to school to learn how to help dyslexic children, because so many kids were falling through the cracks. She went to the superintendent 3 times and asked if she could have these kids that needed extra help. At first he told her the school didn't have enough money, I'm not really sure what he said the 2nd time, and the 3rd time he told her that he didn't want these kind of kids in his school system. She turned in her noticed and opened a center for dyslexic kids. I haven't had the money to send mine to her to get help, but through these 2 years I had found ways to help them at home. This made me mad and with momma's history of getting sick I had decided not to send JB to speech this year, but the speech teacher this year talked me into signing him back up. Plus Dan Dan's mom has talked JB in going back to public school to play foot ball next year. The school had agreed to tutor JB and do a full speech therapy among with helping him with is nodules, but we had to go to the Dr 1st and have him check to see his nodules had grown or not. When I carried him to the Dr he said JB's nodules were gone. I sent the Dr's note the the school and waited 3 weeks for a letter to tell me when they were going to start working with JB. They sent me a letter saying that since the Dr didn't find nodules they couldn't except JB in to the program. I called for 2 weeks to ask why they couldn't do the rest of what they had told me, but never got a reply, which in a way was okay with me.
(Okay! Here is were my gripe really begins)
JB has his mind to go to school and so many teachers and others have told me because of JB's dyslexia that he would probably put in this new program they have to help kids not fall the cracks. It's not called special ED and it's different than special Ed. It would make sure he gets all his basics necessary to graduate. I was sorta okay with it and still not feeling good about sending him to school, but have decided to wait till next school year to deal with all this and ask God to guide me.
Well, the other day my nephew that had went through this program everyone has told me about, went to ICC to go to college, only to find out that the sheet of paper he got when he graduated was not even equivalent to a GED. So, I went to a lady in our church that has a son that is graduating this year and is in this program. I asked her about him getting a diploma, she said that he would get a sheet a paper saying that he went 12 years of school. I told her about my nephew and now she is as up set as me. They say they have a NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT, but what good is this ACT if if only the school gets funding from it, but it don't help the child in the future! I still don't know how to handle this with JB because he has his mind set to play football, but I think it's a crying shame that the school system that really don't want kids with learning problems will prey on them just to get funding! It's really sad.
So, if anyone out there has a child like my JB and the school has that child in this program, I would look in to it! Because in the end you will still have to go get them a GED to be able to go through college.

Acts Drama Team (4)

This is "Behold the Lamb" I really love this song and the drama just puts the icing on the cake.
Don't my baby do a good job? :)

Happy New Year!

This is our Youth Drama Team from our Church. We went to the church last night and brought in the New Year. The big blonde headed boy is my oldest. (14) The small red Head is my middle child. (13) Little Red is new to these dramas since he just crossed over to the teens, but I still think he did a fine job. (That's also why he & the little girl on the end don't have a drama shirt yet.)
Oh! On one of the vidoes I got sissy mocking the bigger kids. LOL!

It has took me all day to get these up loaded, but I did it! Yeah! Me!
Hope You Enjoy!

Acts Drama Team (3)

Acts Drama Team (2)

Acts Drama Team (1)