Saturday, October 25, 2008

building charachter.

I am so proud of my boys this weekend.

They are in Boy Scouts now, so for all the home football games they have been raising the flag as the high school band plays the National Anthem.

It was COLD last night, and pouring down raining and I tried and tried to convince them that we should stay home and skip the game, but they wouldn't have it. They were supposed to be there and they were going to be there!

I bundled up in my pink hello kitty pajamas, jeans, a sweatshirt, coat, heavy socks, boots, gloves and a hat and hauled them all down there. I froze my buns off while they hoisted the flag up in the rain.

We skipped most of the game because I had to drop a check off for the new place and I was hoping to just go home, but they made sure on the way home we stopped for the last quarter so they could help lower the flag too.

"Mom, if we don't go there might not be enough people and the flag could touch the ground...could you live with yourself THEN?!?"

Don't you just love a good guilt trip from your kid? haha.

Today we had to be in town at 9am for Scout Achievement day. There were 8 stations to complete, including first aid, bow & arrow, bb guns, slingshots, and a special station for the Bobcat badge.

The guns and slingshots were a blast of course, (for them, i was a nervous wreck!) , the arts & crafts ones were fun, but Jordan decided he wanted to earn his bobcat badge. He worked SO hard on it! He had to memorize and recite the BoyScout motto, pledge, and the pact law.

When we got there we got split up into groups and I ended up being the 'leader' of his Wolf pack. We had ten second graders and by the end of the day every one of them learned everything and recited it and qualified for the badge.

I'm so proud of them, 1. for completing the requirements and 2. for helping their friends who were taking a little longer to help them finish instead of whining about moving on to the next station.

It was a fun, fun day, but i'm glad to be home where it's WARM!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Furniture shopping.

So i'm looking on Craigslist for cheap-o furniture and i'm finding a ton of stuff, but nothing that is quite *right*

I'm starting to lean towards retro yummy or even God awful ugly couches. They've got charachter yanno.

Maybe I can find some talent within and refinish one or something. We'll see.

I'll keep you posted!

My not so smartest moment.

I was pumping gas today and I was reminded of a conversation I had a bit ago with my Pap.

He's a frugal kind of guy so when I drove out here, his first question was "Have you ever checked your gas mileage on this car? Is it pretty good?"

I looked at him and said

"I've been thinking I should check it, but i'm never quite sure when i'm going to be completely out of gas, and I didn't want to guess wrong and end up stranded, Is there a trick to it? "

He looked at me like I was an alien and then burst out laughing.

Not laughing WITH me, he was straight up laughing AT me.

It never occured to me that you could fill up, then record your miles, fill up again, record the gallons you put in and divide.

Oh no, I seriously contemplated it (more than once) and the only way I could possibly see getting an accurate reading would be to drive your car so the tank was absolutely dry, fill it with 9 gallons, or whatever capacity is and then divide.

I'm such a scholar

Just trying to keep up

Well keep *them* up I should say.

You would not believe how difficult it is to buy a belt these days.

I've been having issues with my pants. They won't stay up. I dont remember the last time I actually had to unbutton a pair of jeans, they just slide down.

Great when i'm in a hurry to pee.

Not so great when i'm in front of a room full of toddlers and losing my pants.

So I went off in search of a belt. First stop, Fashion Bug.

"Well, most of our pants come with belts now, so we don't sell them separately."

I looked at the pants with belts, but really didn't want to spend 30 bucks on a pair of pants I dont need because they come with a cheap belt.

Next stop ...the fat chick store next door. Nope. Steve & Barrys. Nope. Surfer Monkey, Maurices, Some other clothing store. Nope, nope, nope.

About ten stores and 3 hours later I finally gave in and bought a good old fashioned Levis belt from the mens section at JCPenney. It's not cute, it's not feminine, it's not made for women, but it sure does keep my pants up.

I never would have imagined NOT showing crack would be so difficult.

When I grow up, i'm totally going to open a belt store.

I'll make millions!