Swine Flu anyone?

I am not the typical parinoid mom. I don't line my coffee table and firplace with cushions. I don't care if my kids go outside with wet hair. If Owen's binky falls on the ground, I pick it up and hand it back to him. I don't even stress out when both of my kids ate bugs. What does get me all crazy is sickness, and grems. It angers me to no end when people are in public and they are sick. I can hold my tounge to some point, but when someone walks up to me and says, "I feel like crap!" I will, 9 times out of 10, say, "well if you are sick, stay away from me, and go home so you are not spreading your germs to all of us that are not sick!" If it offends people that I say that, oh well. It is offensive to me that people to go out in public when they are sick, have no regard for my kids health. All of this to say...I am hating this swine flu stuff. I do not worry about my kids dying from this, but I don't want to have to take them to the hospital because they have a high temperature. My biggest problem is that I don't feel confident in giving my kids the h1n1 vaccination. This is a new vaccination, and I feel like it is rushed out to the public, and no one will really know the true side effects for a while. They have directly linked gillian barre syndrome with this vaccination, which scares me. I want to know what other moms think. Who is going to vaccinate for this and why or why not? Thanks.

Here it is!

The long awaited picture of Owen! This, right here is exactly how I found him!

My baby is growing up!

Today is biiter sweet for me. Four years ago today, at this very moment, I was lying in a hospital bed a little depressed that the medication they had given me was not starting my labor. They told me I was going to have to have pitosin to get things going. At noon I was given pitosin and at 2 I decided to stop trying to be tough and get an epidural. Scarlett Grace Remund was born at 9:55pm, and it was one of the best moments of our lives. One of my biggest memories was watching tv as I was pushing. Hurricane Rita was hitting the gulf coast as I was bringing Scarlett in to the world. What a memory! My mom and Holly got to be there to help with pictures and my mom got to hold my leg. But then, as Scarletts head was crowning, my mom got so excited, she dropped my leg. because I had an epidural, I could not move my leg, it was just hanging on the side of the bed. I remember the night she was born I watched her sleep all night long. I could not take my eyes off her, and I kept thinking that this baby was mine and I was actually a mom. I was so happy she was cute and she was perfect.
I remember walking out of the hospital when we were taking her home thinking, these people are just going to let us leave with a baby, they are not going to stop us! We will be responsible for her for the next 18 years! It was all hitting me fast. We stayed at my moms house for 1 week to have help. I am glad we did that, because Scarlett wanted to stay awake all night and sleep all day! I was exhausted.The day we went home was the day after our 1 year anniversay. I remember sitting in our living room with Scarlett on the floor sleeping, and we opened a bottle of dom perignon and toasted to our new life.
Now 4 years later, I have the sweetest little girl in the world. She makes my life so incredible. She is smarter than I ever was. I am constantly proud of her. Thank you Jesus for giving her to Mike and I, we are so lucky that we were chosent o be her parents. Last night she gave me her last 3 year old hug and kiss. I told her we coudn't call her baby anymore, because she was a little girl now. Kind of sad, but I am so excited to continue to watch her grow.

Oh I forgot!

Last night, I walked into our bedroom where the computer is and saw that Scarlett had drawn a picture on our computer screen with a permenant marker. She looked up at me before I could say anything and said, "Ahhh who did that?!" I ran in the kitchen and grabbed the windex and a towel and rushed back to our bedroom. By now Scarlett was hiding in the depths of our closet. After scrubbing for a couple minutes, the marker came off, amazingly. I said, "Scarlett, you get out here right now!" she dug her way out of the closet, and I turned her around and spanked her twice. She looked at me and said, "this does not make me happy when you do this. I never ever get away with anything!" then, "When you spank me it makes me think that you don't love me anymore!" "all you ever want to do is hurt my feelings!" I said, "what would make you think it is okay to draw on the computer?" she said, "I did not want you to be on the computer, I wanted you to play with me." (meanwhile I can here Owen in the other room growling loudly into the karaoke machine) I said, "well the next time you want me to play with you, all you have to do is ask, and you could save yourself a punishment!" she said..."oh"

Oh bloggins!

I have not been really good about my blog lately. I have a ton of pictures to post, but I keep forgetting to take the camera to work so that I can post the pictures. Scarlett 4th birthday was this weekend, and it was great. A lot of people showed up and she had the best time ever. We also decided to have a garage sale this weekend. It rained the whole time! IT was horrible. I did sell a washer and dryer which was great, because now we have more room in our storage shed. WE got Scarlett a karaoke machine for her birthday and she has been singing on it since she got it. She also got a bike for her birthday, and she was so excited! School has been kicking my butt. I am taking accounting and finance, and I hate them both. I really don't see why I have to take Acccounting. I plan on hiring an accountant! All of the students in the class get so into the discussion about where to put money and what types of accounts to use, and I am sitting in the back of the class going, "what is wrong with these people?!" Mike is likeing his classes a lot. I wish I could take some of the classes he is taking, because they seema lot more fun than mine. But lets face it, shoving nails in my eyes would be more fun than accounting! Any way, that pretty much catches you up on what has been going on.

Yo Gabba Gabba!

All you haters are crazy! This show is AMAZING!

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I have so much to blog about lately, but I have been so busy, it is hard to find the time to blog. With Mike and I both in school ful time, and work full time, and kids, I am too exhausted to do anymore typing at 11pm. This weekend was our second weekend together as a normal family. We decided build shelves in our closet. When we moved into our house, we had huge closet, but no shelving in any of them. We literally thre piles of clothes into the closets in April, and have not moved those piles since! We have not had time to mess with it. Finally, I am having a garage sale that forced us into organizing. It was not a fun weekend, but it was very productive. But what is the deal with kids? When life is out of their norm they act like they can just act like maniacs, and it is no big deal. Here is a list of the things that they managed to do while we were working on the closet:
1. Friday morning, as I was getting ready to dress Owen, I discovered that he had emtied an entire bottle of Elmers glue all over his clothes in his closet.
2. Scarlett dumped an entire bottle of baby oil on our carpet.
3. Owen took my good lipgloss and painted our toilet seat and rug with it.
4. They both colored on our brand new coffee table.
5. They took their makers, some ribbon, a toleit paper roll, and lots of toys, and dumped them in the bathtub full of water, and just so you know, when you put markers in water they leak color all over everything!
6. Scarlett peed in her doll potty instead of the normal potty.
7. They broke all of their colors into small pieces.
8. I found Owen in the living room naked, with a beanie on, two different shoes on, eating apples, watching backyardagins. Don't you worry, I will be posting that picture real soon.
9. They faught over everything!
10. They painted their panda's but with my good eyeshadow.
There was lots of time in time out, and a few more spankings then they have had in their lives, but the closet is done. I know what you are thinking, "where the heck were you...because aparently you were not watching your kids!". I was watching them! they are just really sneaky these days. My kids have a pretty good schedule, but when it is switched up at all they obviously can not cope! But the closet is done!