Bowling

We had an awesome day today.

I got my commissary shopping done this morning. J got his soda mess stuff too. I spend my limit and got everything we needed except that lettuce! Guess our Blt's will be Btt's Bacon,Tomatoes, Toast =0)

I ran into a mom i know at the commissary. We both use the gym Co op daycare. She was asking when i was coming back, i told her Tues. She told me her daughters last day was this past Friday and that she stuck her in the Child development center full time. I told her i planned on doing that too with Miss J when J gets deployed, see we get 40 hrs free childcare a week, full time, but i didn't want Miss J there 40 hrs. Just long enough for me to work out so i didn't have to deal with the drama of the co op. She tells me, oh, I'm not leaving Isabella there all day, ill pick her up around 1, but I'm keeping her in even after her dad gets back and just paying @@. WFT. Lady you stay at home and don't work. This little girl is younger then Miss J. She thinks it will be good for her @@. This lady is older, her older kids are teens, like 18-20. She had to have invitro to have this "new" baby for her "new" husband, now she just sticks her in daycare. I was like what ever @@. Lazy ass is all i can say. No way would i ever leave Miss J for 40 hrs a week. She will be there maybe 2 hrs a day. And that is just so i can get time to myself while her dad is deployed. Right now at the Co op. People sign up to sit their days, then don't show up, so my days get limited there with being able to work out since we have such flakes in it and a bigger flake running it @@.

I have all my labels done and figured out for my new clam shell tarts! Tues they will be going into the gift shop! I think they look pretty cute. I opened the bag with a few in it, to take a pic and J asked what i was eating. Huh? Nothing, why? Cause it smells buttery lol. Oh its the tarts. Crazy cause they are closed up in their own container!

Tonight we went

Bowling and had a blast! We haven't done it in a while since J is always gone. I also figured out some settings on my camera, so i played with it too.

Well tomorrow starts my diet/ work out routine again. Since the kids are back in school, I'm back at it. J is getting up to PT early and when i roll out of bed i plan on going to the gym, so i need to go to bed! Night

Hubbys Home

J came home last night. Im so happy to have him home. Everyone missed him, even the cats!
Today we did alot of shopping. I found a camera that i will be getting soon. I love taking pictures and i want them to look professional, so im getting a better camera, This one
http://http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00128SQDC/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&s=photo
Im pretty excited.

I read a comment today that was like a punch to my gut. I know it was directed at me, not that i have any control over what it was about, but.. I wish people would think about others feelings before they say something. Maybe they dont care, who knows. I know i dont like to hurt other people.

I was talking to my friend T yesterday, she was telling me how much our prices at the commissary had gone up. I dont go there often, just the 1st and 15th. $5 a lb for a head of lettuce, $17 a lb for garlic. I have to do some shopping tomorrow and im really worried at home much more this will put is over our budget. I hate taking away from what we are saving.

I really need to get to bed earlier then this 11 -12 crap. It just drains me during the day. Omg Miss J is up lmao, Sneaky butt. I hear her breathing on the monitor. GTG

T's Game

Wow today was busy!

This morning started with maintenance coming to fix that stinky smell in my dishwasher again. After 2 hrs. They came up empty. Of course i ran it last night, so the smell was gone, so i was told, " if it comes back, call us"! You betcha!

When the Japanese squat down, they do it like this, Miss J was copying them.

Its funny, cause you will see them squatting everywhere. They rearranged my cabinet for me @@. Nice job right?

They tell me, OK, all done! I see that lol
Now I had to make it look nice, i mean, i couldn't even grab my cleaners. They were in the way back!

Much better. Now if i need something, i can see it!

I had to bake some stuff today for this fundraiser tomorrow. We went to the 100 Yen store to get these cute little bags to put the things in. There were some elementary Japanese girls in there, and they seen Miss J from a few isles away. All i here is Kawee (cute) and they come down to see Miss J. Now they are following us while we shop lmao. It was so cute! I wish i had my camera.

Got home and the trash guy was here, so i asked him in Japanese if something was ok to put in the trash. He told me " Good Japanese"!!!! LOL It better be good. We have been here for 3 years. It made me smile and i was happy i could communicate with him lmao

Both kids had another awesome day at school. We rushed though dinner and out the door to T's game. She did great hitting the ball!

While i was making dinner, T played with Miss J. It was too cute. She squeals with delight when her brother and sister come though the door from school and pesters them until they are done with their homework.

Here is Miss J's new thing to do. I have now removed the thing she climbed on from the back, but she still is getting pulled off the top 100's of times a day lol

Its late and i need to get to bed. Dang, after 11 again! Where does time go when you have sleeping quiet kids??? J will be home tomorrow. Yippee!

Baseball WED.

T had practise today. She is just doing so well. Im glad she has a coach that worked with her on her hitting the ball, and not letting her run from it, like previous years. Her assistant coach is another story. This man yells at these poor kids like they are Marines. It makes me sick. I have complained once and it was fixed for a day, now i will be saying something again and this time going through MCCS Sports who runs the program, so they know what a looser they have. I was talking to a fellow parent today and she has the same concerns as me, but her dh is about to take it into his own hands lmao. I love our coach and his wife who happens to be the team parent. They are just awesome!! We just have to work on the other fruit loop.
The kids still love school, 3rd day was today lol.I hope their love for school doesnt ever die out. A's fav thing is math. He counts everything. One day, out of the blue, he let me know how many stairs we had. He was in Kgarden. To this day, if you ask him, he can tell you. He was in this wierd habit of counting is cereal too. We put a stop to that this year.Now I make them hot breakfast lol. j/k, thats not the reason i do.
T has already come home with so much homework. I know 3rd grade is harder but damn. She is very in love with school and fashion. There are times she comes down stairs dressed and i just have to laugh. I guess im going to have to let go and let her choose her wacky style lmao, even if it doesnt match in my mind.
Im really missing the states right now. Little things are getting to me, just simple things like, running to the store to pick something up, and find out they dont carry it here. Very fustrating. Or paying $4 a lb for apples, $9 for sandwich roast beef. Gas makes me sick $4.03. wtf?? Its been like this for months and we were told it wont go down anytime soon. Nice, yet they keep talking our COLA away. (Cost of Living Allowence.) I want some fresh green beans, or corn. Red potatoes would be nice too. Omg or even a tomato that you can slice and its not mush! I miss watermelon too.
Enough about all this yummy food i cant have for another year, grrrr.

Well, its past my bedtime, so sleep i must go!

Schools In!!

Monday came and went. It was an awesome first day. Both kids love their teachers and I'm loving getting back into working out! We couldn't get a good picture to save our life. We live a block from the school and walk there. And on the first day of school, there was no way i was driving with all the other 100's also driving, but wouldn't you know our luck, right when all the kids on our base where to walk, it started pouring, thunder and lightning lol. We drove. What should have been a 2 min ride was a 30 min ride lmao. Needless to say, school did not start at 8:30 that day. More like 9! Even the buses were late, they were pulling on base as i was going home. We create a lot of traffic here on the first days of school lol.

It was so nice walking my hill today. We call it Big Bertha. The incline is 16% and its 3 miles long. It was so hot today and i forgot how bad this island smells until today. There is no sweet flower smell on your lovely walk, more like cows and other dying things lol. I don't know what it is out here, but it just smells. When we went home to the states, i could actually smell the fresh air, the wild flowers. It was wonderful. Those were the days.

J is gone till the end of the week. He is playing in the field. No option for a shower either- YUCK! But lucky him, it has rained the last 2 days lmao. Ok so that's not really lucky, but if you got soap, its great!

I read something on AOL news today, It claims we are loosing the war in Afghanistan. Let me tell ya, not what i want to hear. Its all Pakistan's fault and they are pissing me off. They need to let us drop a few bomb on those coward Taliban, who, run across the Pakistan boarder, shoot rockets and crap at our guys, then run back before we can snatch their arses up. That's my 2 cents, not worth much, but its a start lol.

I have been busy testing things for my store and trying to get together stuff, i have been testing for the last year! I'm hoping to have something awesome put together soon. I'm pretty excited. I just got my labels in for my clam shells, so those will be going this week in to the store out here. I hope word spreads! I want people to buy my stuff cause they love it, not cause they are my friend. I worked really hard and tested for months before i started selling. Lots of patience, money and time went into what i do. I love doing it. Its a passion for me.

Something as a FYI. My mom loves hydrogen Peroxide. We call her a Nazi. She gets excited when she sees that you have a cut cause she wants to pour that crap on it and hurt you lol. Well, This isn't really funny, i laughed but in the end it was dangerous. She had a cut in her nose, of course what does she think? Oh, ill heal this up quick, and out some peroxide on it. They were in Canada when she did it. Her nose got inflamed, she ended up in the ER in Montana. Its life threatening to do that. If it would have formed a puss pocket and traveled to her brain, it would have killed her. That's the not so funny part. I was shocked. She is on antibiotics now. Lesson learned lol.

Its been a while so this is really long, but almost done! I got a new book in today to help me with A. His counselor recommended it, and for the first time, i found a book i could use, I swear, they must have known A, cause this book pin points his behavior. I know this will work! I'm so thankful!!!

I'm going to have a little more me time, read and go to bed! I just realized how many different pics i have of Miss J in this outfit lol. I love it but i guess i only grab my camera when she is wearing it. She is showing off her sun glasses!

wHAT A WEEK!

This was the end to a busy week. The kids are done with swim and baseball is in full swing. I bought Juli a water table today! It is the best.
She played for an hr today and of course big brother and sister needed to play too lol.

It was very sad leaving swim on friday. Im happy its over but it means the end of summer and closer to my hubby leaving.

Im having some real mixed emotions right now on this up coming event. I know i can do it on my own with the kids, its just the worrying im having a hard time with. When i think of the "what if's", which is very often, i just want to break down. I have a class to go to this week to help with info i might need, not quite sure how thats going to go. Ive been before but it wasnt a big deal since my hubby wasnt going too far. We are debt free so that is no worry, wills are done ect.. Let me tell you, that is very emotionally hard to do!

Ok enough sad stuff. The kids have 1 week before school starts and they are so ready to go. We will find out on Friday what teacher they have. They have new shoes, tons of clothes, and almost all the school supplies. I just need to buy the b.s. stuff like paper towels and hand soap @@.

I need to go through my past posts and edit them, take out everyones names and just do as a fellow friend does, use an initial. Just for saftey reasons.

I made 4 batches of my fall scents tonight! So far they are Yummy! I cant wait to burn them =0). I may even send out a few for others to test! But it will be a surprise!!!

Here are a couple pics from this past week!

Wearing daddy's cover

Hitting the ball

My boy on 1st

She was done and ready to leave. Too bad we just got there lol. It was blazin hot! Yes we were in the shade too

Been a week

Wow, its been over a week since i last got on here to post.
Too bad not much has happened in this past week lmao.
Miss J has been sick with a double ear infection and a throat infection. She is just now on the mend. Its been a rough week with her.
She is saying a few new words, Puppy, keys, bubbie, sissy, cookie and there are more but i suck. I cant remember.

The kids are enjoying there last 2 weeks of vacation, did i just say that? Yes! 2 WEEKS LEFT! We went today to get their ppd shot. I know they are excited, but i think I'm more excited. Miss J will be sad, but she will get over it lmao. That sounds bad. I love my kids, but there comes a time when a momma needs a break, and that time is NOW.

I had a bunch of clothes adding up over the last year that i finally took to the flea market out here. I swear, i got to take my camera next time, The Japanese run to the marketers like the running of the bulls, it is freakin hilarious. There was a mob of moped's this time, i thought they were going to ride up the steps to be here first. They hopped off so fast, I'm not even sure if they parked lmao. Then the cars followed and i know the doors where opened on the cars before they were even thrown in park. It was funny as hell. But they are annoying as hell too. I set my prices cheap. 300 yen an outfit for baby clothes, now that's less then $3.00, and they want it for 100 yen and get pissed when i say no. hahaha. i ask them, do you want it or not? If no, i take it and throw it back down for the rest of the mobsters to grab at. All in all i did good, $350. Not bad if i say so. It would be better if they weren't such cheap asses.

Ive been busy myself, trying to build up some stock of my claim shell tarts to put in our store out here. Soon i will be putting a bunch of tarts on clearance to just get rid of them, the scent that is, since i only make my tarts when they are ordered. Anyhow, i cant stop ordering scents. I'm up to over 36 right now, new ones hahaha. This is for the fall. winter.
Miss J is calling i gotta go......

Avery's Birthday!!!

Today was my sweet boys birthday! 7 years old. Man time flys fast. It was his special day and i let him pick out what was for dinner, Burger King it was! I also let him choose his cake, and an Ice cream cake was in order! Thankfully the commissary carries them since our luck with Baskin Robbins out here wasn't good last year. I did the writing on it. Yeah its crappy, but crappy with love. His grandma and Grandpa got him a Nintendo DS and we got him a game to go with it.We let him pick out the game he wanted and He chose the carnival game, even though we have it for the wii, its his =0). T got him some Pokemon cards, their new craze thanks to Burger King!

Another wonderful part of A's Birthday present was his daddy came home today! I think of all the kids, Miss J was most excited! The older kids are use to his coming and going where Miss J has had him around always.

Dh told me in Bali, Indonesia. that he was whisked away by their security, he thought it was a mob. Taken to a back room and interrogated for like an hr. It was all done in their language. Come to find out, they were actually trying to help him. There were some anti American people in a hotel near by, and they kept him safe! They guarded him though every check point! Wow. They weren't interrogating him after all but he has no clue what they were saying lol. All he new was his id and orders were taken from him lol. Poor guy! Now we have him safe and he says f**k that place, he doesn't ever want to go back lmao.

T started baseball practice tonight and is doing very well running from the ball. Luckily her coach is going to work with her on it. I'm nursing a black eye thanks to my wonderful hard headed toddler who loves to fling her head on my face when we lay down. Just in time for daddy to be back. I really hate the way people stare when we are out @@, makes me just want to give them the finger. Hopefully in another day it will be gone since she hit me 2 days ago.

One last thing, my wonderful dh brought me tons of stuff from his journeys, Of course he spoiled the kids too, but something he brought back, i just had to share.

Nothing like a big sac of kangaroo balls. lmao. he is so thoughtful. They are authentic as the tag tells me! I have no idea what I'm going to do with this treasure, maybe hang them from my car mirror???? hahaha

Fun Friday

I totally could not get on here last night, i did try. What happened yesterday?

My van has its JCI now!!!! And I'm minus a hub cap lmao. I guess i didn't kick that driver front one on hard enough. Oh well! Miss J took a super late nap since she was playing at my friend C, who saved me, had short notice- 15 min- to watch the kids so i could do the inspection on the van.I'm so happy, its done. Miss J would not go to bed til 1030. There went my ME time =(. Yes pity me! I deserved it!

C cat also got her shots! And they require every animal out here to have a microchip. As much as i hated the thought of it, if we wanted her to go back with us, she had to get it done. I had them take her to the back to do it since they said she could cry- which we heard- and they had to sue a big needle. The microchip is double the size of a grain of rice. How would you like that pushed under your skin??? Anyways, she is done and all set

On to today! Swim lessons were actually "Fun Friday" Were its the last day of the lesson and they have a pot luck and free swim. So i made Monster Cookies, as the request of one of the instructors- the instructors are college kids from the states out here just to teach swim for the summer.

It was fun! T took Miss J down the water slide 1000 times and A was just happy to shoot down the thing and soak me.

After fun Friday, we headed down to mine and A's counseling apt. We have some issues we are working on, and with a military dad, there are going to be issues. We hurried home so we could attend the "back to school BBQ" the base was putting on. The marquee board said 1-4 so we made it in time, we got there at 115, only to find out, some idiot posted the wrong time, try 1130-4. lmao. It doesn't matter cause we wouldn't have made it that early anyways. We had a blast!!!! I am so damn dark and it wore miss J out, that is the biggest plus right there!!! They had tons of games for Miss Js' age 4 and under and the other kids. T one a race in the pool, she got 3rd of all the kids 9 to 5 in the fastest " swim" across the pool!!!! Then they did drawings. We won, a leapster, which both kids already have, so we are just holding on to it for now, This cool hot wheels thing (its in Japanese), a collectible barbie frame decor, a CD and Miss J won pooh bear flash cards!

I'm sitting here playing with more tarts. I got more scents in yesterday and 2 more molds. Aren't they cute??? I think so lol I'm trying to make mini tarts, but my resources for stuff is limited out here.The gingerbread people are of course gingerbread and the pumpkins are cinnamon buns.

I should close this and take my tired butt to bed. Im exhausted! J will be home in 3 days!!!! He called today, but i missed the call. its really expensive to use the Internet .27$ a min, he is using our other vonage line to call me. But on a great note, his hotel room is........... get this....... $350 a night =0, that's right, i about shit myself. Thank goodness the Marine Corps is footing that bill for the next 2 nights lmao, cause if we had to pay, I'm sorry, hunny i love you and all, but you gotta sleep on the street like those aboriginal people and get a "feel" for Australia lmao. Night!