Ten on Tuesday

1. I have to take Zac to his basketball team’s year end party tonight at Chuck E Cheese. I would rather take a beating than go to Chuck E Cheese. It starts at 6 and Ronnie doesn’t get off in time so he owes me one! Janna and Josh took Justin to his party there a couple of weeks ago so I guess I should be thankful that I haven’t had to go to twice this month.

2. I had my hair cut last week. It is really short with a lot of layers. I’m still working on styling it, but the gray is gone!

3. Have you heard the song by Taylor Swift “Our Song”? I’m stuck on it lately. Probably because Ronnie and I have a very unconventional song—You never even called me by my name. When we first started dating we delivered flowers one day for his mother in a delivery van that didn’t have a working radio. That was the only song that we both knew the words to so it became our song. Have I mentioned that we have very different tastes in music?

4. I have a new website that I was told about today. I plan on checking it for new linens for all of us. www.kinglinens.com

5. I’m excited about the new John Grisham book. I haven’t bought it yet because I am currently reading Wife for Hire by Janet Evanovich. It’s pretty good so far.

6. Stupid people are job security in my line of work but sometimes they really get under my skin—especially when they work for other public safety agencies.

7. Speaking of stupid people, I found out that a “retired” police officer has been bad mouthing me. Let’s just say, I was not happy. He told someone that I wasn’t qualified for my job and the only reason I have my job is because of who my father was. So let me set the record straight. I did get my job because of who my father was, but I kept it because I’m good at it. I have been promoted multiple times and I have a master’s degree in Public Safety Administration. This police officer was forced to retire because he didn’t follow the rules and he was never promoted, not once, because he is an idiot!!! Thanks for letting me vent.

8. Justin got a 99 on his latest big project. The teacher told him that the coloring job he did on one part of this 3D shoe box thingy could have been better. He is upset!! He said that was a matter of opinion and he didn’t think she was right so he should have gotten 100. I think we are raising a perfectionist.

9. Yesterday the temp got into the 60s and it was nice and sunny. Today—cold and rainy. I can’t wait for spring.

10. I am really in a cooking rut. I can’t think of anything to cook for dinner lately. We don’t have a lot of time in the evenings so I’m looking for some low prep and cooking time meals. Ideas?

I'll do better in March!

Okay, I haven't done very well updating the blog this month, but I'll do better in March! (Hopefully!). So here is some randomness to start the week off:

• Zac's basketball team ended up 3rd in the county. They lost in double overtime by 2 points. As the coach had them all lined up after the game talking to them, several of the players were crying because they lost. Not Zac! He was still talking trash. "We will have more fun at our party than they (the winning team) will." One of these days that little boys is going to talk trash to the wrong kid! Oh well on to baseball.
• I had the flu a couple of weeks ago. I was completely down for a week. Honestly, I thought I would die. That is the biggest reason the blog hasn't been updated. My house is also trashed. How come it only takes a few days to get trashed but much longer to get everything back in order?
• Ronnie has been having a lot of drama with being over baseball this year. Last year was easy in comparison. He had to fire a couple of coaches and find replacements. The replacements are both really good men and I think the kids are better off. He has had several people tell him he did the right thing. I am really proud of him. As my mama said, "the right thing isn't always the easy thing." Hopefully, the drama is about to blow over and everyone will be busy getting their teams ready for the season. Ronnie is coaching Zac this year so that should be interesting. They are soooo much alike.
• Zac got glasses a few weeks back. He is doing much better with them than I expected. He flunked his school eye exam so we took him to an eye doctor locally and he flunked there as well. The doctor had me freaked out because he was saying Zac would need surgery and it had to be done before he turned 7 (on 2/19) and he was getting us in to see a pediatric opthalmologist at Children's Hospital in Birmingham. Zac being the "go with the flow" child that that he is was not the least bit worried. He proceeded to tell everyone that would listen that he was blind. Ronnie jokingly said that he would file for disability if we would let him. Long story short, we went to Birmingham and they didn't think it was near as bad as we first thought. No surgery, just glasses and he has to wear a patch 2 hours a day. During that time he is supposed to do something that stimulates the weaker eye like play video games. Naturally that is all Zac heard--he has to play video games for 2 hours a day. Evidently this is a common occurrence in children who were preemies that were on a vent. Zac was on the vent for 10 days.

That's about all I have for today. Maybe I'll get some pictures on here later this week.

Happy Monday!