Well, it’s been months a comin’! I wrote a post earlier about a dental product that can help get you through the time it takes to make an appointment and actually get in–I want to order the product, but my tooth has been bad for over a month! I’ve been using a little drop of super glue right on the tooth simply to seal it off and keep it from aching–but now, a month later–even that isn’t working! So tomorrow I get to scan through a list of unknown names trying to find a dentist to fix my poor little tooth! I hate this! But it is definitely time! I’m fearing the words “Root Canal”!!

Yesterday was my sister in law’s birthday. A while back she gave me the sign on for her blog–so that I could put on a newly designed template on it. So, yesterday–I was going to be sneaky and commandeer her blog and write up a “Happy Birthday Sally” post. But wouldn’t you know…I totally forgot her sign on!

I ended up calling her late last night to wish her a Happy Birthday, and to let her know that when she finds a “password request” on her email—it was just me! So I was totally Busted!!

Anyway—-Happy Birthday Sally!!

Does anyone out there have a really hard child? Preferably a boy–nearly 10? I am in serious need of some help! I feel like I’m losing my child–and I don’t know what to do about it.

Today he stayed home with an earache. As we were sitting on his bed I laid out the rules of the day–no playing PS2, no playing outside, and no scout outing in the evening. All of these are laid out for a couple of reasons. I want him to know what he is signing up for. And secondly–I want him to know what he will be giving up even if he’s just faking. Usually by the time I’m finished with what they lose, they are up and getting ready for school. Not today!

So I thought ok, he’s sick! So we started our day with him home, and as time has gone on he’s becoming more and more angry with his inability to do anything. The thing that sent him to his room was the him throwing his 2 year old brother to the floor. I sent him up to his room threatening to leave him there forever!

He’s come down to apologize, and normally I accept it readily–but not today! It was just too heinous an act to have him let himself out of ‘Solitary’!! Like I said, I’m probably doing something wrong. I would have expected some of these things to go away by now, but he’s just getting worse and worse, and I’m not finding any solutions!

Any ideas??

I have figured out Blakelynn’s birthday party! I’m so excited–because it’s so cute, and so easy! We are going to have an “Ice Cream Ball”. We are going to invite the little girls, her cousins, to come dressed in their best ‘ball gowns’ and if they don’t have one–we will have plenty to dress up in here. Then, if they don’t have a crown, it’s OK, because we’ll be making those too!

They will come for a wonderful Tea Party, and at the end we will have birthday cake, er…balls of ice cream that they can create their very own Sundaes. I think it sounds like so much fun! We will of course invite moms and grandmas if they would like to come–but mostly–just a really easy–fun ice cream birthday party! I can’t wait!

I just purchased our “Santa” gift. It’s kind of a “BIG” one–which isn’t fun-but it’s one that I’m hoping will have multiple pluses in our family. We are getting the kids a Wii!

It comes with several sporting games and even a second joystick for more than one player. This is good, as I have four kids.

The nice thing about the Wii–you actually have to play it. You can’t just use your fingers. If you are boxing–you literally have to hold the joystick and box. Bowling and tennis are the same way–I think the kids will enjoy it–and it will get them up off of the couch a little more often!

Tonight is Pack Meeting for Jake’s new scout pack. He is a few requirements away from getting his Bear award. He’s right on schedule since he doesn’t turn 10 until the end of November–but he will most likely get his Bear at the Pack Meeting in November.

Grayson will turn 8 in February, and start his Bobcat/Wolf program in March. This is PERFECT for our family. Jake has been the Grand Champion for both of his Pinewood Derby’s, and with the derby being in February I would have two brothers competing for Champion–and that would be bad. They both want to win all three of their derbies–so the only way to do it is to separate their ‘Derby Days’–and this is how we are doing it!

I’m not looking forward to having a Webelos Scout–they seem to do a lot more “grown up” activities–and my baby is just not ready for that!! Ok, so it’s his mom that isn’t ready for that!

Have you ever done something to injure yourself so badly that several days later you are still kicking yourself?

Friday morning before the boys head out to the school bus, they roll the garbage can and the recycling can down to the end of the driveway for the garbage man. Since the move our recycling can has been filled to over flowing. This last Friday was no exception. There were boxes from our new desk sitting folded on top of the box.

So normally I send them out on their own to take care of it–but due to the boxes I came out to the garage to offer some directions and as I stepped down from the first step to the garage floor, the back of my foot snagged on something sharp on the end of step. It sent a portion of the skin from my heel—up under another portion of skin on the heel. In case you can’t picture this–it ripped the skin off of one penny size area of my foot–and shoved it up under another penny sized area of my foot–causing it now to be pulled off of it’s meaty base!

OH THE PAIN!!! OH THE BLOOD!!! OH THE HUMANITY!!

It’s been days–and I’m still limping everywhere I go. I had to go up the stairs–and use nail clippers to try to unwedge the bottom skin from the top skin. Before attempting this I had to thoroughly smear the entire bloody area with Anbesol, you know what you use for a toothache. It numbed it up a bit, but still nearly passed out from the pain and the blood! It hurt so bad!

After my attempt at minor surgery…I found the last huge band aid in the bathroom, and laid down to try to get some rest! I’m hoping it heals soon–I’m not planning to limp around Las Vegas!!