What a week....

What a week! It's been a while since I have written so I decided since I am setting here at 2:12 a.m. and can't sleep for shit, I should just catch up on my diary.....Where to begin, hummm

I pulled off a surprise for Hannah, she turned 4 on Tuesday. When I say I pulled off, I mean a week before her birthday she pulled a chair up beside me as I was on the computer and says "Mom, we need to talk," acting all grown up and all, she continues while raising her hands and counting down on her fingers..."for my birthday, I want bawoons, party hats, skeemers, cake with candles...and ummm presents, lots and lots of presents!" Ok, I have to admit I thought it was cute as hell especially the "bawoons and skeemers" but I started to panic some.....here I am a mother to 4 children with a mortgage and bills out the butt and I am drawing unemployment and trying to make the dollars stretch. But in the end, I did manage to go buy the stuff to make her face light up and with the help of my wonderful mother, we pulled it off. Ahhh, success!!!

Then, by Thursday, she is sick.....she didn't sleep worth a crap Wednesday night and when she work up, she had a very runny nose, cough, light fever and was just overall a pain in the butt all day. After waiting at the doctors office that afternoon which seemed to be an eternity, I was told she has caught a bug that is going around attacking people's ears......What the hell?!...anyway, she ended up with an antibiotic, steroids, and cough medicine. I was thinking "Ok, OK...I got this all handled".....BOOM...I get sick....By Friday I feel like death warmed over and look worse than that! The real kicker to it, I have no medical insurance, so I have felt like total shit and have been fighting this horrific crap on my own........It's not a pretty site I must say. On the up side, I think my husband felt sorry for me, Saturday he got up when Hannah woke up and let me sleep in.....that NEVER happens. It was so nice. :)

So, I have spent most of the weekend in my pj's in the recliner or on the couch with tissues all around watching reruns of Roseanne, That 70's Show, and Reba. I did venture out a time or two, had to go to the in-laws for dinner.......there is a whole other story for later.....and I went to a freecycle meeting with my mom. :) All in all, I think I am starting to feel better, maybe I am going to fight this stuff.

The Mystery of Potty Training.

Hannah is 3...next Tuesday she turns 4. She is a smart girl, sometimes to smart for her own good, but she refuses to even try to poop in the toilet. Let me tell you, when I say she refuses, I mean she absolutely will NOT even try to do it. She can pee in the toilet all day long without any problems, but let a poop pain hit and she is running in the bedroom to put a pull-up on so she can hide and poop. I just do not get it! What in the hell is the deal? If for some reason she can't find a pull-up, she will hold it in, which just causes a lot more problems in the long run...she actually went almost two weeks one time! 

I'm beginning to think I will have to either hide a pull-up in her back pack when she starts pre-school (I can hear it now...Um, Mrs. Hurt, we have a situation down here.)or just pray there are no "accidents".   UGH!!!! 

The Hurt Bunch!

The Hurt Bunch!

This picture was taken in December 2009. Yeah, I know, we need an updated picture.

Me and Steve

Tanner, 12

Chase, 9

Kayleigh, 15

Hannah, 3

Start of a new month

Well today is the start of a new month...September. It's funny to notice the differences between me and my husband. Steve is addicted to hunting....Duck hunting to be more specific, but non the less Hunting. His thoughts on September 1st....it's closer to Duck season and Bow season starts in 30 days. My thoughts - OMG, Halloween is next month and I get to decorate and Christmas is going to be here before I know it. The first day of August...I stress about getting the kids ready for school to start...school supplies, new shoes and clothes, locker rentals, schedules and open houses done. His thoughts in August...I need to get some brush ready to be put on the duck blind. lol 

Don't get me wrong, I like to go hunting, I think I prefer Deer hunting over duck hunting, but I still do both. I think I would love duck hunting more if I didn't have to get out of my nice warm bed at 3 in the morning and take a very long (actually it's not that far but it seems like it when your spine is aching from the cold) boat ride down the river over to the duck blind. I like to shoot guns, I actually have my own, its a Remington 870 20 gauge that my husband bought me on our first Christmas together. I often wonder if that makes me look weird to other women that I was OK with getting a gun for Christmas, but I have to say I am not a typical women and I don't care what other people think. Of course, it did help that he also bought me a necklace. I like to hunt, go muddin and do all the "boy" things, but I am also a girly girl at times too. :)