February already?

I seriously cannot believe that today is February 1st. That means CJ's birthday is in a month and Deqlan's is in two. I hate this week usually because it is a busy week for CJ at work which means I hardly see him. Like he probably won't be home for dinner tonight and he left the house at 4am...Have I mentioned lately that I hate his job???

I was supposed to go meet with a therapist today but the bank account is telling me otherwise...$110 for the first visit is just not in the budget this week unfortunately. Maybe once we get my financial aid refund and do our taxes (assuming I ever get my W2 since my old job mailed it-but they never changed my address from 3 years ago!) I can go. I was so happy to have finally made an appointment with someone and now I have to cancel...grrr...I just don't want to leave us short on money this week!

I need to go to Target after I take the boys to school and get some stuff for dinner tonight & Sunday night. I think Sunday we are just going to do wings. Even though we probably won't watch the Super Bowl (again this is assuming CJ will be home for dinner, which he has already informed me is not likely) I won't be too upset if he's not home Sunday night since he is usually at the bowling center on Sunday nights. But for Super Bowl Sunday the league bowls in the afternoon so they don't miss the game.

I need to take a test for my Personal Finance class today. I would really like to get my butt in gear and try to get ahead in both of my classes. Maybe I can make that happen this weekend. Tomorrow the boys have bowling in the morning and that is all we have planned for the day. Sunday we have a birthday party to go to in the morning but then when we get home I'll have laundry to do and lunches to make and all the fun stuff that I do on Sundays.

I haven't worn jeans in 5 weeks!!! I've been wearing sweats and yoga pants. I still keep saying my knee is too swollen to wear jeans but I think the swelling has finally gone down enough where I could wear jeans. Maybe I will try on Sunday so I look somewhat presentable at the party. I did my hair and makeup last night for the first time in 5 weeks too, and I had 3 different people ask me how much weight I had lost because my face looked so much thinner. Felt good!!!!

My financial aid refund should go out in the mail on Valentines...That money needs to hurry up and get here! Found out yesterday that two of my aunts are coming to visit the weekend of Valentines. I haven't seen them since this summer so I am so looking forward to their visit! I love having family here. May and June of this past year I saw at least one of my dad's siblings every week and none of them live locally to us. My grandfather had a stroke at the beginning of May so all of my aunts and uncles rotated with my dad to help out. My grandfather is doing much better now :-) He spent almost two months in the hospital/rehab center. Mom and I started looking at flights for our trip to Reno in May...It is so expensive! We have never had to spend this much money for airline tickets for our Nationals trip (and this is my 3rd time going to Reno). Right now we are looking at almost $700 round trip a person. We both have $100 vouchers from Southwest because last year none of our luggage (our entire group of 7) made the plane from Phoenix to Reno-it went to Vegas. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal but the people working at the airport that night could have cared less. It was like pulling teeth to get them to help us fill out the information needed to get our bags sent to us the next morning. I bought a new carry-on bag that has a check-point friendly laptop section so I will be carrying a change of clothes with me on the plane this year. Nothing like sleeping in jeans with no toothbrush when you wake up in the morning!

This has been one random post :-) I hope everyone has a great Friday!!!

January Cara Box!

I have nothing to show for my January Cara Box...which is COMPLETELY my fault. I was paired with Gayle (who I sent a box to) and Andrea. Andrea sent me an e-mail asking for my address the day that CJ and I went to Duke for his blood patch. I got her e-mail and was like alright I'll reply when I get home (I hate replying to e-mails on my phone because half the time they don't go through). Well then we ended up spending three days in the hospital and I COMPLETELY FORGOT until this past weekend when I was cleaning out my inbox and saw her e-mail!!! Maybe next month I will actually have pictures to show of my box :-)

Umm What??

CJ and I have never done Valentine's presents. I think he's brought home some Hershey Kisses once or twice but let's be honest...those are for him. So yesterday morning we are laying in bed watching TV while the boys are at school and he asks what I'm getting him for Valentines. Umm what??? I told him we don't normally do Valentines and he goes that's ok I already got your stuff anyways. So now I need to get him something and money will more than likely be tight for the next few weeks until my financial aid refund comes in. I don't know what he was thinking. We didn't even do anything for our anniversary so why would we celebrate Valentines?? I love him but sometimes he confuses me (actually all the time).

I'm having to cut my PT from twice a week to once a week. I hate that but I cannot keep paying $150 a week especially when we have blown through all of our FSA money that was leftover already. I do my exercises at home so when I go next week and we add some more exercises I'll just keep doing them at home. Tomorrow is 5 weeks since the surgery and I feel surprisingly good. My range of motion is back completely and I can walk up the stairs normally again! The biggest thing we are working on now is strengthening the muscles again. Friday morning I have an appointment with a therapist. Well I am supposed to I may have to cancel and wait for a few weeks because that's going to be expensive.

I have been really slack with school work the last week or so. I hate waiting until the last minute to do it. I have a quiz/project due tonight in personal finance that I haven't started. Guess I know what I'll be doing when I get back from taking the boys to school. Yesterday was wonderful! CJ did ALL carpool for me so I could rest and relax. You don't realize how tired you get when you are constantly running around!!

We still haven't heard the official word about Select Team that Deqlan tried out for this weekend. They carry 12 on a roster and there were only 10 kids that were there. Chances are pretty good that he is on the team. I don't know what they will do if someone can't be there or gets sick with only 10 kids. I didn't really think things through but Deqlan has a tournament coming up in March. I know he will bowl in the morning so hopefully if they have a tournament that weekend it will be an afternoon game. We've already paid for the tournament.

Sorry I haven't been around much this week. I have been running around like crazy. I know that when I go downstairs this morning I will scream because the dishwasher won't have been emptied and the dishes from dinner last night will be all over the counters (not even in the sink!) Have a great day!!!

Lazy Day!

Yesterday morning ended up being hectic because the winter storm moved in early than they expected. Deqlan ended up getting out 4 hours early (instead of 3) and so I had to pick him up early so I could get Hayden on time. We came over to my parents and just hung out. CJ was able to make it home by 3. They called all trucks in and sent them home and then told them they couldn't go out today until sunrise. We probably won't see him until about 8:30 tonight.

Deqlan has baseball tryouts this afternoon (assuming the roads thaw out enough). We got about a quarter of an inch of ice yesterday so we will see. He is super excited for select team tryouts because it's a travel team! I don't want him to get too excited because there is a very good chance he won't make the team but we'll see.

I should probably go shower so I can dry my hair and eat lunch before we need to leave. Gotta make sure I'm bundled up good to sit out at the field for an hour and a half!

Crazy Day!

We are supposed to get hit with an ice storm this afternoon so my peaceful Friday has been shot down.

The school system is releasing 3 hours early (which means picking Deqlan up at 12:45) and then we will head to my moms for the night. CJ is more than likely not going to be able to make it home from work so he will go to his moms. I don't like staying at the house with the boys by myself overnight, it just makes me uncomfortable, which is why we are going to my parents. We just decided that last night while we were at the bowling center which means I've been up since 6:15 working on laundry so I have sweats to wear. Especially since Deqlan has baseball tryouts both Saturday and Sunday (where the high is barely 40 degrees).

A good friend of mine is from New Hampshire and just can't get over the fact that we had a 2-hr delay last Friday because of a little bit of snow and that they made the call at 4pm yesterday to release 3 hours early. I am totally on board with the decision the school board made yesterday. 8 years ago this week (I was 6 months pregnant with Deqlan and miserable) we got hit with 1/2" of snow and ice starting at about 11am. It took people HOURS to get home from work and school. Kids ended up having to sleep at their school, people abandoned their cars on the side of the road. It took CJ and I 8 hours to get home from his work, 5 and a half miles!!! I don't want a repeat of that. Once I get Deq from school we are staying put!!

Have a great weekend & stay warm!!

The Facts of Me!!

I'm linking up with Whitney today!

I have one brother who is 6 years older than me. We fought like cats and dogs growing up but now we are the best of friends!

My husband, CJ is 9 1/2 years older than me :-) We started dating when I was 17.

I got married 6 weeks after I turned 18. My parents had only known we were together for a week.

My oldest son, Deqlan, was born the day I turned 18 1/2. I love that our birthdays are exactly 6 months apart.

Both boys were born by scheduled c-section. And their birth times are only 4 minutes apart!

I have been bowling since I was 2 1/2 years old. I haven't picked up a bowling ball since December 27th and it is driving me insane!

I have absolutely no clue what I want to do with my life. Which makes going to school difficult!!

My husband has a chronic illness that will end up putting him in a wheelchair at some point in the hopefully not so near future. It is what it is and I can't change it.

I hate my husbands job. He doesn't have consistent hours and his days off change every 4 weeks. We are currently on day 1 of 7. Single mom status til next week.

5 for Five

I haven't linked up with 5 for Five since the New Year started...Things have been a little crazy around here. We are slowly getting back to normal!!!

This week I want to...

1. Get all of our Christmas decorations down and put away. Yep all three trees are still up (only 1 still has decorations on it). That is the extent of the decorations that are still up. I got everything else down last week. I need to get another storage container to organize things a little bit better.

2. Get all homework done for the week. I mean this really shouldn't be negotiable but let's be honest...it totally is! I have a discussion board assignment due Wednesday and a test due Friday.

3. Take Deqlan to Durham on Tuesday to get his new ball drilled. We got Deqlan a new bowling ball for Christmas and haven't had a chance to take him to see my brother to get it drilled. He doesn't have school tomorrow so we will go once Hayden is out of school.

4. Cook dinner at home the four nights we are home this week. We've been so lazy about not eating dinner at home. We ate at home two nights last week which was an improvement. Now let's go for all four that we are home!

5. Drop off a birthday present for a party we missed yesterday. Hayden was supposed to go to a birthday party yesterday but I woke up with a migraine and CJ doesn't know the neighbors so we had to miss it. I need to wrap it and run it by this week.

The biggest thing is obviously Christmas decorations. I am tired of staring at the trees!!

I didn't blog much last week. I have been so down emotionally and mentally after all of CJ's health issues in the last week. I did some research and found a therapist near us that takes our insurance. I am going to try to get in this week to see her. I never thought I would need to see a therapist but I need someone to talk to about these things that is an outside party. I can talk to my mom about ANYTHING but she is going through this with me, so to tell her how stressed out I am, will only stress her out more! I wish I could say that CJ's family was helpful through all of this but they aren't. My parents drop whatever they are doing to help us. Meanwhile, his family just wants to know how he is. Talk about frustrating.

I have another follow-up with my surgeon this morning. I am bringing my Political Science book with me to get some reading done which means he will see me on time. That's usually what happens. My knee is looking good. Still pretty sore but physical therapy went well last week.

I hope everyone has a great day!!!