Janaland: November 2008

Sunday, November 16, 2008

They were just hanging out outside while we were doing yardwork, I snuck in and grabbed my camera, I wanted to catch the moment.

My niece is taking a class at school and needed to do a group of at least 5 for an assignment, I needed to do family and kid pictures so we got dressed and headed up the street to an empty feild by our house. She did quite good...

I took the kids shot... I don't buy school photos, so here are out 2008-2009 school year photos, what good lookin' kids, can't say for sure which side of the famiy it comes from...

This is so much the personalities of these two brothers...

My girls!!!

You couldn't ask for two brothers who love and take care of their sisters more, they are the best!

Anouther week gone already... I had some planters warts on my right foot treated on Tuesday, talk about pain.... Loritab has gotten me by. 5 days later the warts are not as painful, just tender, but my foot is killing me from having to walk on it sideways!!!! I don't know if I can bare to do it again..

Wednesday I went to my sisters home and canned applesause. I was hobbling around her kitchen, and because of my weakend condition got to sit a lot and hold her baby... What a hard life.

My 12 year old is such a good student, likable, friendly, lots of buddies, but flunking three classes at school because he simply doesn't hand in the assignments. I am beside myself on what to do. I have threatened to remove the T.V. from his room. Take away his computer time, not sign him up for winter community basketball, and anything else I can think of to motivate him to pay attention in class and hand in assignments! I gave him the whole "this is your job, just like dad has a job and if you act like this when your a grown-up you get fired, and if you continue I'm going to fire you and simply....go to....school for you....." To say the least we have gone the rounds over this one. To add to my angst if you talk to his grandma she says that his dad was the same way! I'M RAISING MY HUSBAND! So I ask him, what would have helped you when you were that age and he says getting after him... I ask "So that's what would have helped you?" He tells me he wouldn't have liked it, but it would have helped. So here I am practically going to school everyday (checking on his grades and assignments) so that he will get better grades than my husband did at that age, where is the justice, maybe that should be dad's job, yea, let dad deal with it.... Ah, I feel better already.... OK! Fine, the control freak, "you won't stay on top of him" side has just won, guess I have a new job...

Sunday, November 9, 2008

What a week, life is continually busy. We spent a glorious saterday doing yard work. Last week was Halloween and I finally got to going through the images from the day. The kids always have fun picking their costumes, Tayla (4) was easily swayed to a costume that we already had in the costume box (A clown.) She looked precious. Esther (5) found her costume at the thrift store and I told her that it was the kind of clothes that her Grandma's wore when they were her age. Cris (my nephew;8) played flag football this year, so his costume was a shoe in for him. My sister Joy took shin gaurds for skating and stuffed them in his clothes to be football gear. His sister Lizzy (9) picked being an Indian, Joy outdid herself with this costume, at least I think so. I don't put that much into it. Malachi (9)went from wanting to be a mad scientist to a cowboy, and then settled on a football player with Cris. Elijah (12) last year said that he wanted to be a pirate again. Then as the day came he didn't want to do anything. Then he went for a Zombie and was all dressed up with ripped clothes and white make-up then the next time I saw him he was normal Eli, he is not into dressing up much. He doesn't like alot of attention, he could be so good at drama, but he is too shy and won't do it! Reston(13), my nephew, dressed up as a character from his favorite game, battlering, he made the sword himself! Paige, my neice, turned 16 a few days before halloween and so her BIG party was that night, what a great party! She had a costume party and dressed up as an angel, I have an obsesion with old wedding dresses and I have a dozen, so she took one and remaid it to work for her costume. I should have taken before and after photos of the dress, so you could see the work that she did! She had about 40-45 kids show up. We have left over dessert from it still! Amee, neice, and oldest of the clan at 18 dressed up as a pirate, she put it together herself, what a great job!