Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Almost 3... But not quite...
Sunday morning we are leaving church... David is talking with his mom and I pull across the parking lot to pick him up... I could tell they were having a "big" talk... So I didn't want to seem nosy... So I parked a little bit behind her car... Dawson started to roll down the back window........I said: "Dawson, roll that window back up."
D said: "I was finna tell daddy to load up!" (he's so freaking country!!)
I said: "He'll be here in just a minute, just chill out!!"
(as I rolled the window up and used my magic "locking" button to keep him from rolling it down again... hehe!!)
D said: "Ju betta stop that, and don't do it again!!"
I said: "You better stop telling me what I better do!!"
D said: "Ju betta get rid of your attitude!!"
Okay.... What is wrong with this picture??? I am still the adult, right!!??!! If he talks like this now, what's it going to be like when he starts to school... Or even worse when he's a teenager...
All I could say was he needed his mouth washed out with soap... What else could I say... I mean, how should he know what an attitude is anyway???
Next time he will... Because I will demonstrate the ol' "attitude adjustment"!!
I've been tough on him about saying yes mam and no mam, yes sir and no sir... I told him that he better say it everytime that someone talked to him.... He said " I'm not, cause I just don't want nobody to talk to me again!! "... That's hardheaded if you ask me!!!
I think he must get that from his daddy... Cause he sure don't get it from his momma!!!;)
From now on... It's not funny... I mean business... Really!! And he's not even three... Close... But he still has five days to go!!
Friday, February 24, 2006
Will Natalee Holloway Ever be Found??
Call me crazy, but I'm a sucker for Primetime on Thursday night ABC... They always have very interesting stories on hot topics around the world today... Last night Chris Cuomo interviewed
Joran van der Sloot the young man formerly from Aruba that is supposedly the last person to see the missing teen from Alabama, Natalee Holloway...
I was watching last night and I couldn't help but get a sick feeling in my stomach watching this "cat"... He had supposedly left her on the beach alone the night that she disappeared... I personally think that he was lying throughout his interview and knows a lot more than he's letting on...
I can't help but feel sorry for this poor girl's parents and friends who have no closure because they have yet to find her body... And this has been going on for eight months now... My prayers go out to her family...
I got Tiffany to watch this show a couple of months ago and she loves it!!
Hopefully next week I'll have more interesting things to write about!!
Calendar thought for today: Life is like an onion-you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you cry..
If you watched Primetime last night, and I hope that you did... What are your thoughts on this subject matter???
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Insurance & Doctor Rant
You'll just have to click away if you don't want to hear me bitch about the ridiculous healthcare that we have to choose from around here... I'm so fed up with doctor's and insurance I could scream!!! And I gotta get it out!!
First of all, everyone in our family is in I would say good health... No one is over 30, no major health problems except for tonsilectomy's for David and I.. Of course we all have allergies, but that comes from where we live... That's just part of life that we've learned to deal with..
We have been paying $900 a month for health insurance... Yep, that's right... $900!!! For David, Dawson and I...
When we got this insurance about five years ago... It was only $400... That's still ridiculous, but you can't afford to be without it in a time that you need it!! On top of that $900 a month... All of our prescriptions were $50 per bottle if they even decided that they wanted you to take that particular medicine... No matter what your doctor prescribed... How can an insurance company tell you "don't take that, take this"... Look, punk, did you go to college for 10 years?? If you did and practiced with licensed healthcare providers I might listen to what you have to say.. But you are only being paid minimum wage to sit behind a desk and talks to people on the phone telling them what is good for them and what is not... WHATEVER!!
Another thing... While I'm on my rant.... Did you know that if you have a C-section and decide to change insurance companies... That insurance company will not cover you for maternity???? Because a C-section is a "pre-existing condition" WTF??? That makes me livid.... It's not like you can actually say... Okay, when I go into labor, whatever you do don't give me a c-section because then I can't be covered by insurance to have another baby... Come on people!!
Okay, off of that junk and on with the real story of how doctor's around here are a joke!!
Saturday morning David got up with a pain in his neck... And it wasn't me... It got a little better in the afternoon only to get worse that night... David never misses church... But this Sunday he didn't even feel like going to church... Monday morning he was having some ear pain like it was stopped up or something... So he asked me to make him an appointment....
So of course, we did have a slight ice storm over the weekend and it was President's day, but the office was opened cause they answered the phone... "Okay send him over because we are leaving at 3 o'clock" is what the lady at the desk told me... So David gets off the couch and jets to "tha doctor's office".......
Here is where the story gets shady... They do lab work and he asks him some questions... This doctor basically told him that there was nothing wrong with him and to go home and take some Tylenol or Ibuprofen..... HELLO....... If Tylenol and Ibuprofen was working, he wouldn't be at a doctor's office..... So needless to say when he leaves... Dave-O is PISSED!!!
So he calls me and tells me to call his ear nose and throat doctor in Greenville... I do and he can't get in until today.... When he gets there and tells the "good" doctor what the "quack" told him... The good doctor couldn't believe it!! He had an infection and the drainage was backed up in his ear causing a lot of pressure... He drained it and gave him an antibiotic... And he is feeling much better now!! Thank God!!!
My point in all of this jibber jabber..... The quack didn't do anything for him.... But we still had to pay a co pay of $20!!! WHY??? The good doctor charge a copay of $20 to make him feel so much better... Why should we have to pay the quack for his day off?? I mean he could have at least told him that he didn't know what was causing the pain and sent him to another doctor... But instead he acted like it David was imagining the pain and gave him nothing!!!
That's the very reason, I don't fool around in this part with quack doctors for my baby... I will pack up and go to Monroe at the first sign of any kind of sickness!!! David could've really gotten sick over this and I hope it doesn't happen to anyone else..
I've heard of a few other bad experiences with other people... What about you??? Come on, gripe with me!!
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
What Goes Around Comes Back Around and I Have Pictures!!
I've heard this saying all of my life... What goes around comes back around.. But I didn't know that went for animals too...Dawson was playing outside, making a road with his bulldozer in the yard when all of the sudden I heard him wailing... He ran in the house tears running down both cheeks right through all of the dirt on his face.. Through his sobs I finally made out that Onyx (our 3 month old Labrador) had knocked him down.. I told him to be tough and if he tried to knock him down again, give him a knuckle sandwich!! So he goes back out to finish his "road"...
A whole five minutes later the same routine of wailing, tears and sobs are coming through the door... This time he screams "momma that puppy is trying to thight me".. (remember all of his F's are pronounced TH)
Bless his heart, Onyx was trying to play with him and he just doesn't realize how rough he really is.. Needless to say he scratched my baby's face...
That night David and I were up late and I heard an awful noise of another kind coming from outside... I told David to go and check on Onyx because he had been chasing the cat all day.. I thought that she was being very patient with him considering he was chasing her tail... And she just don't play!! Needless to say... She got him... Poor Onyx cried all night... She scratched him right over the same eye that he'd scratched on D...
Also keep in mind that Onyx's lip had just healed from an earlier encounter with Miss Kitty Kitty... Looks like he would've learned don't mess with her!! But you know how males are... They just have to chase the cat!!
So Kitty Kitty was the Queen of the day!! She was giving Onyx exactly what he'd given Dawson... Onyx got Dawson, but Kitty Kitty got Onyx REAL good!!
Hope you enjoy the pictures!! I've gotta get Alex on here, he's going to think he's mistreated!!;)
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can't upload pictures using blogger... So I'll have to use Hello and post them below!!
Poor Dawson.. He told me later, "momma it's gonna be okay, we'll worry about it tomorrowday!!" He's such a big boy!!:)
Saturday, February 18, 2006
The Mysterious Fiest
I can't remember the last time that I went and sat down at my aunt and uncle's house.. It's been years.. This aunt is my late papaw's sister... No particular reason we don't get together more often.. Life keeps us all so busy, we seem to lose touch even with the ones so close...
My great grandmother is staying with them until she feels better so we decided to go and visit for awhile... When we arrived we sat down and started to talk about all kinds of different things that we haven't talked about in years.. I learned a lot of things that I never knew about my papaw and his daddy.. I really enjoyed it!!
Dawson of course took plenty of tractors to play with and demanded that grandmother, aunt Louise and I get down in the floor and play too!! Their dog was jumping around and licking Dawson in the face.. I just assumed that the dog wasn't used to children and enjoyed someone being around that was about his size...
Grandmother got up from the chair she was sitting in to go roam around the house... When she returned the dog was in her chair.. She tried and tried with all of her might to get this dog up, but he wasn't budging... David also got up and when he returned the dog was piled up in his chair sleeping...
David and I are thinking to ourselves... Wow, this dog must be pretty special...
I noticed that the dog went over to uncle Bobby's chair and was begging... So politely, he gave the dog a cracker... Aunt Louise asked Dawson what the dog's name was and he said "I don't know"...
After a wonderful two and a half hour visit D was getting sleepy so we gathered up to leave.. David asked uncle Bobby if that dog was a good squirrel dog.. He said "I don't know, he looks like he would be.. He's your dog.." David said "nuh uh, he's not my dog, that your dog".. Uncle Bobby said "Louise, tell them that is not our dog." Aunt Louise said "no that's your dog, he's not ours"...
At this time I'm laughing my butt off!!! When we came in the door this mysterious dog followed in behind us.. They assumed that it was ours.. We thought that the dog was in the house when we got there, and assumed that it was theirs... It was neither ours, nor theirs... This dog had been staged up in their house the whole time that we were there.. They were trying to be good host's and not be ugly to the dog that they thought we'd brought with us!!
I assured them that we would never take our dog to their house and let it jump around on the furniture like that... It was sooo funny... My grandmother is not a dog lover my no means.. So before we left, I told her that we'd brought that dog for her... She said "no you didn't"!!
The picture that is on here is not a real picture of the mysterious dog... It's one I found on google.. But it is however what the dog looked like making himself at home!! He did have a little more brown on him...
We had a wonderful visit!! We will be sure to do it again real soon!! Thanks for having us Aunt Louise and Uncle Bobby, we thoroughly enjoyed it!!
***I know there are a lot of people reading that don't ever post a comment... FYI: sometimes you can't comment by usng the "other" button and trying to type in your name... If you use "anonymous" and put your name in the comment, at least I'll know that you stopped by to see how were doing and your not just being nosey!! Thanks alot I really appreciate it!!
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Valentine's & The Grossest Thing..
Warning: if you have a weak stomach... Don't go much farther!! If you do and puke, don't say I didn't warn you!!We had an interesting trip to Monroe on Monday.. Shopping for Valentine's gifts was a hoot... After all I got a card with $100.. Thanks Valentine, that was a big surprise.. But now I can go and buy myself something I'll enjoy for sure!!
We love Johnny's pizza.. That's where Dawson and I always eat when we go alone.. They have the best buffet. And what's even better than that, David, Dawson and I ate a lot and it cost us $15.48!!! You can't beat that.. That's as cheap as McDonald's and lot's better food!! And let me just say that the Johnny's on Desiard street is a rat hole compared to the Johnny's right off of the interstate coming into Monroe. We were going to eat there, but when we got in there, it was gross looking.. All of the pizza on the buffet looked burnt. But not as gross as what happened after we left the GOOD Johnny's....
While sitting in Johnny's trying to finish lunch.. I heard David tell Dawson to stop it.. I looked and he had his finger jammed up in his nose.. Dawson looked at David with this are you stupid look and said "I got a booger".. David said "when we get finished eating lunch we'll go to the bathroom and get it."
We finished our meal, got more drinks, went to the bathroom and got in the car... We were all talking headed back to the mall... After a few miles down the road Dawson said "hey momma I got dat booger". If anyone has ever been with Dawson when he 'gets a booger', then you know that he usually gives it to me to throw out... So I reached back to get it.. He said "I I I I don't got it".. I said "where did you put it?" He said "I I I I just put it in my mouth"............. Yeah, at this point I almost wrecked.... I said "DAWSON THAT IS SO TOTALLY GROSS, YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT BOOGERS, YOUR GONNA HAVE WORMS"... He said "I not gone have worms, it not gross, dat booger was yummy to my tummy".... I said "I can't believe you, if a cop sees you they will put you in jail for eating boogers"... He said "they not gone put me in jail momma, ju finna make me mad.. Do ju need a spankin?' By this time David is near the floor board laughing profusely... I lost it, I kept a straight face just as long as I could, trying to do the right thing..
I mean, what do you say to that??? He apparently likes boogers.... And of course he is never at a loss for words... Guess it true that kids say the darndest things.... Or in this case the grossest things!!
I hope everyone is having a good week!!
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Monday... blah blah blah
First thing on Monday morning I will be making a non-anticipated trip to the gynecologist... This is something that I know all woman dread doing.. However it is something that I believe every woman should do at least once a year... Although I've let almost two years pass before going myself... So it's time for that bi-annual check up in my case!!
I can say that I love my gynecologist/obstetrician!! He is The best!! I had my son almost 3 years ago by cesarean, and have almost no scar whatsoever... I have and would recommend him to anyone looking for a good doctor... (most of the women I know use him and would do the same!;)
With that said, I think that I'm more excited about the trip itself... David and Dawson will be going with me, and I have a sneaking suspicion the doctor's office will not be our only stop!!
I know that we can't go anywhere there's a Target or Wal-Mart and not stop by... I also have lots of pictures from our Bunko night to have printed... And of course post!! Duh!! I'm sure you'll love em!!;)
We've been trying since Christmas to have just one day that is fun for all three of us.. We always have so much fun together, and I'm sure tomorrow will be no different.. Besides the feeling of walking around the rest of the day feeling invaded!!
David has been asking me what I want for Valentine's day... I can't really think of one thing... But I can think of about a hundred.. (note to self: Ya know, Cara, sometimes that's not so good on the pocket book!!)
I'm pretty much over the whole flowers that die in a week thing... I'm more into "please get me something that I can get some use out of"... I'm thinking more along the lines of that new house we've been looking at... I know that can't be done with just two days left.. So I think I'll suggest more flowers for my yard, or new furniture to fill the new house!!
Yeah I know, this is a pretty boring post!! If your looking for more excitement... Check out Lisa she's been having quite a bit of drama around her blog lately!!:) Not so much with her as her visitors!!!
Best wishes for a wonderful week!!
What are you planning for Valentine's day 2006??
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Jumping on the Bandwagon
Yep, I've read all of your blogs... Well, most of the ones who've took the quiz... Okay, so why not!!??!! I'll try it too....WOW!! I don't think I could've said it better myself!! Try it, you'll like it too!!
discover what candy you are @ quiz me
Monday, February 06, 2006
I'm sitting on the potty when I hear a familiar noise... It's the beard trimmer... So I calmly yell from the bathroom, "Dawson those will cut your finger just like the razor in the bathtub... We have about one hour to get to Punky's ballgame... Dawson walks in the bathroom door and says "mommy, I just cut my hair just a little bit"... OMG, he had a reverse Mohawk.... Right from the front to the middle of his head... No hat could cover this up...
So I thought, okay, it's just a haircut... It's going to have to be buzzed anyway, "come on D let's go out on the deck and finish the rest of it"... I get the back done and start to get close to the front, and I really start freaking out... Because it is so short!! The beard trimmer's are kind of dull and his hair is so thick... There's no way... Plus, I'm getting scared... I don't want my baby running around with a gaped up head... So thankfully I call Cassie and she comes in just to fix my baby's hair... It looks really good especially considering what it looked like when I brought him in... Now I wish that I had a picture where he'd cut it hisself... But I couldn't make myself get the camera... I was tripping.... But now all is well, and he likes the new cut.... And I guess it's growing on me... I think his eyes shine even more now...
What would I do without Dawson to keep me on my toes!! He's so precious!! Even with a semi bald head....
I hope everyone has a great work week!! Ours is going to be busy!!:)
Friday, February 03, 2006
Papaw, I love you and will miss you dearly!!!
I'm sure your tired of re-run pictures, but this is one that I will always hold dear to my heart!! This picture was taken on December 17, 2005.. When we had our Christmas gathering at my home... This Christmas is the first in years that was spent with my great-grandmother and my papaw... Papaw was so excited about having this picture made because grandmother is 86 and we all know that she isn't going to be around forever.. Five generations living is a very rare thing and this week that trend was sadly broken within my family..
My papaw Norwood had a heart attack and died Sunday morning... It was such a shock, he was only 66... He was not only my papaw, but he was allso my friend... We talked on the phone everyday... Sometimes he would call too early and wake me up and I would threaten to break his dialing finger.... But all week it's been so hard not having him call and ask "What's the boy doing??".
Papaw was sure crazy about Dawson!! And Dawson was pretty crazy about "Papaw Wood" too!
Anyone who knows us knows what a mom's baby D is... Anytime that he was fussing about staying with someone, papaw would say "bring that boy up here and we'll do something"!! I guess that it was in November that papaw came and picked him up and took him back up to mom's house to spend the day... But before he would leave him with mom he had to go all over town and show him off... He called me and told me every word of every conversation that they had that wonderful day.....
Papaw was definitely a one of a kind... Sometimes in a bad way, but he was a good man.... He loved his family with all of his heart and that's what he lived for.. He was so proud of his children, and grandchildren and especially his great grandchildren.. Dawson and Emma held a special place in his heart (being the only great grandchildren), but no one compared to Tristan!! She lived beside him for all 10 years of her life... Everyday he'd look forward to seeing her, then he's call me and tell me all about what she'd done that day!! He was such a home body!! He went to town everyday to get a newspaper or just to check on grandmother and ride around.. I guess that 's where the rest of our family gets staying at home so much!!
All of this was such a shock it threw the whole family into a whirlwind... But a very good thing has come out of it too... I feel like our family is closer now than we've been in years and that is blessing that I'm very thankful for!! It's times like these when I realize what great friends and family we have.. There have been so many calls, visits, food, plants and prayers and I really do appreciate each and every person who has bee there for us!!
I'm really going to miss papaw.... That seems so selfish because I'm sure he's in a better place!! But still it's sad... Please say a prayer for me and my family...
I'm sorry this post is so depressing and probably confusing.. Sleep this week has been pretty scarce!! Hopefully the next post will be more positive... Remember, I have to follow through with my resolution!!:) I hope everyone has a great weekend!!
I can't wait for Saturday, UFC pay-per-view!! Chuck Liddell is going to kick butt!!