Camping

It was lots of fun! It was really hot, but that is what made jumping in to the lake so enjoyable. The lake was definitely up! The bugs weren't all that bad just gnats. There were probably 10 or less spots taken at the campground so we didn't really have to worry about disturbing our neighbors. We also played putt putt Sunday before coming home. I didn't win, but if you have ever played with me, you know I am horrible at it lol. But I was the first one to get a hole in one. Meghan's friend won, Shawn got second, and of course that leaves Meghan with 3rd place. The back of my legs got burned Sunday from floating on a raft. I don't ever remember being burned there. It hurt but I used aquaphor (sp?) on it and it hasn't really hurt since then. I think that stuff worked better than aloe. Anyway, the kids are fixing to be here. Just thought I would tell a little about our camping trip. I will try and get some pics from megs to post! Less than a month till school starts again. I am ready for it!

WOW

Through the McDonald's drive up window this is the sign that we saw hanging on the wall,

"You brake da fan

you buy! No eceptions!

Paul

The Stoor Managar. "

Um wow, I am surprised he made to manager!

That sign reminded me of my junior year of high school. In my English class we had to write a group paper. One of the guys in my group wrote his point out, but while proofing it I had no idea where he came up with half of his spellings or why he thought it was appropriate to put swear words in it. Needless to say, I felt like I wrote his whole part and when turning in the final paper, I also stapled his original version of writing to the back of it. Needless to say I got extra points from that paper and an apology from Coach Smith. My question now is how in the world did he pass his English classes before the 11th grade!

Don't get me wrong, I make spelling mistakes but to me that sign tells me there is more than just spelling problems! And if I worked for McDonald's I would be embarrassed to work there!

A little bit of a rant!

One of the boy's I watch always so down and negative about everything! He is nine years old and just seems so unhappy! The first time we went to the water park a girl came running by and the water came up and splashed his shoulder, it never touched his face. He starts throwing a fit and pouting about it. I ended up telling him that he will just have to get out and sit if he doesn't want to get wet, and next time he just won't come. So instead of 3 rules at the pool we now have 4. The 4th one being no complaining!
Anyway, tomorrow we are going to the zoo. I told him and his little brother about it last week and it was brought up again this morning during craft time, that we would be going tomorrow, they needed to bring their lunch, and we would eat at the zoo. So the other 3 are really excited about going and then there is "w". The phone rings in the middle of all of there questions so I go over to answer it and I hear "W" say the Zoo is stupid and for babies. Ugh! I ask him what his problem is and he says it is just a bunch of stinky animals. I ask him if he has seen the new lions and he says no. Then he says he isn't going to bring a lunch because he isn't going to eat it in the zoo. He is just going to get money from his mom and I can take him to McDonald's or somewhere to eat. So I tell him I am not going to do that and if doesn't want to go we will just tell his mom and he can go somewhere else tomorrow, but the 3 other kids were going to go. That just got him going about how he absolutely hates their other sitter.

Last week he was all excited and then today he is mr. negativity. I am trying to figure out if he is just trying to show off in front of the others or what! It didn't stop there either he gripped at lunch. I told him he was excused from the table until he could come back with a positive attitude and I also said that if I hear him complaining or anything else negative come out of his mouth he will go straight to time out and he will tell his mom all about his behavior today when she picks him up. So after lunch when the other kids are laying down is when he works on his math. They are 10 question tests. He is going in to the 4th grade and struggles with math, so right now he is finishing up the first grade math tests. He normally does 2-3 a day. Today he sits down and gets started a minute later he says he is done so he hits review and wow, who would have thought! He got them all wrong! Can you tell I wasn't shocked? So I knew there was no use in trying today. Now he is laying down on the couch reading a book.

So you might think he is just in crappy mood today, nope, he has a negative attitude every day, today is just little worse than some of the others. But he did just come up to me and tell me he would rather go to the zoo than go to his other sitter's house.

I'm just praying that he shows up in a great mood tomorrow!

Oh the site we use for his math is www.mytestbook.com

ladeda

Summer is going by fast! I think Shawn and I are going to go camping next weekend. I think Meghan and a few of her friends are joining us. We will be camping here at the cottonwood campground. I'm praying that he is able to have that weekend off, he is scheduled off, but with a few people leaving their is no telling! He works tonight from 12am-6am. I don't think he has had a week since April where he hasn't had at least 6 hours of overtime. I counting down until he is on days again, I will finally be able to see my hubby awake! Oh ya, I was blogging to ask how do you make meatloaf? I was looking at recipes today and some of them just sound plain crazy. Anyway email your recipe or leave it in a comment!

Have a great week!

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Home Sweet Home!

We got home around 3:45 this morning. It was a sad, but over all nice and good trip. I didn't take any pictures because my camera kept messing up (the thing that holds the batteries in kept breaking off). However, my mom and sis did so eventually I will post some pictures. Spending time with family was great but I am so glad to be home. I will try and update more. I know this really isn't an update, but so much has happened in the last two weeks and honestly I really don't feel like typing it all out. I can give you a quick run down for those of you that don't know. My parents, sis, and bro, left Friday June 29th for my dad's family reunion on Saturday the 30th. After the reunion things went down hill fast. Shawn arrived in IA Friday morning around 4:30. My grandma passed away Saturday June 7. There was a memorial service on July 10th and then a beautiful Ash service at the river on July 11th. We got to spend lots of time with both my mom and dad's side of the family, and for the first time in years I finally felt like I got closer and formed a relationship with some of my cousins on my dad's side. Don't get me wrong I have always had a few that I was some what close to, but I really got to know some of the others. It was awful watching my grandma die and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but the peace the family felt after her death was an awesome thing to watch and feel.

Anyway, I need to find some activities for the kids to do this week. Today we had a lazy day and for the first time in about a month all the kids were gone by 4:00.

Have a good Friday!

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