It's been a while...........

Well, it's been about a week since I wrote anything so I decided I should before Heather tells me I'm being lazy again!!

Troy had a blast on his 1st field trip to Critter Creek farms. I'll post the pics on snap fish when I get a chance.

The boys got their report cards last week. All pretty good considering what we went thru with Zachary the 1st 9 weeks. He had 1 A and the rest B's, so I'm not complaingin at all. We are realy working hard this grading period to bring those up to A's. Wish us luck!!

Ronnie has his 10th chemo treatment this Friday. Hopefully only 2 more after that. YEAH!! I know he is looking forward to the end...... He is still taking the medicine and shots for the blood clot. Hopefully he will know how that's doing when he goes back on Friday. He has to have another ultrasound tomorrow on another part of his body(a little more personnal so I can't tell you which one) which has been giving him some discomfort this week. So, we'll see what they say about that too. Other than the new ailments he feels pretty good this week, just in time to feel really bad again after his treatment Friday.

Friday night we are going to Elkmont, Al to watch our nephew Lee play football. He graduates this year and Friday night is senior night. I heard he was offered a scholarship to Auburn University. Way to go!! We are very proud of him.

My brother Patrick and his wife Heather have just bought a house. Congratulations!! We are really excited for you!! Can't wait to see it.

Tonight the kids at church are going out to Huntington Place to hand out candy and fliers about our fall festival at church next week. Then they are going to TCBY. The boys are excited.
Our fall festival is Next Wednesday night starting at 6:30 if anyone wants to come. It should be a lot of fun. The boys Halloween costumes should be here by Friday I think. Zachary is going to be Indian Jones and Troy is going to be a member of the SWAT team. I am also trying to plan Zach and Troy's b-day parties. They are both having them next Saturday Nov 1st at the gym at church. Troy is having an Elvis theme and Zach is having a basketball theme. Should be a grand time had by all!! :)

Zachary's b-day is tomorrow so I am going to take a b-day snack to his class in the morning. Troy's birthday is next Wednesday so I will do the same for him.

Also, my friend Terri is going thru a rough time, about to file for divorce I think, so please pray for her and her family.

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week!!!!!!!!!

ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long weekend ended too soon...............

Well, so much for my 4 day weekend. It went by like a flash!! But I really needed a break. I hadn't taken a vacation day since July.
Ronnie has chemo Friday. He had to go back saturday to get a shot to boost his white blood cell count. Then he has to go back today to have some blood work done They upped his medication for his blood clot Friday and so the blood work is to check and see if it's doing it's job.

Friday Troy spent the night with his cousins Emma and Brayden. He had a blast once he quit crying. He is always so excited all week long until he finally realizes it's time. But he gets over it pretty quick. He didn't want to leave when I got there to pick him up.

Sunday we went to church and once we got home we didn't leave the house again until 6:30 this morning when it was time to start my work week again...uuuggghhh!! Yesterday me, Zach and Troy spent the day cleaning the house. We got done about 3:00. I took a shower then we went outside and played some basketball. We had a good time.

Tomorrow Troy has his 1st ever field trip. We will be going to Critter creek Farms. I'm sure we'll have a great time.

Well, until the next time I have a chance to blog..................I hope everyone has a wonderful week!!

New development...............

Ronnie's leg was hurting bad all day long yesterday, so he called DR. Dubay's office. The nurse wanted him to come in and have an ultrasound done to make sure he didn't have a blood clot. Sure enough, he did. He now has to take a prescription medicine avery day and give himself a shot in the stomach everyday!! OUCH!!! They said the blood clot was in a secondary vein so they didn't think it was anything to worry about. Hopefully the medicine will take care of it.

He will have his next chemo treatment this Friday at 1:00. Three more after this one and hopefully everything will look good.

Troy had is first and last tournament game last night. So we are done with baseball.........until next spring. Just in time for basketball which is right around the corner!!

The boys are out of school Friday and monday so I have taken vacation days and will be off work also! YEAH!! Although I do have a parent/teacher conference for Troy on Friday it should only take about 30 minutes or so.

Zachary and Troy have both picked out their Halloween costumes. Troy is going to be a member of the SWAT team and Zachary is going to be Indiana Jones!! Thank goodness Halloween is on a Friday night this year.

Well, I hope everyone is having a great week. Take care.

Not much going on........

Well, it's been a while since I blogged anything........it's been relatively quiet at our house the last few weeks. But I guess I need to write something since my sister in law Heather thinks I'm slacking!! :)

Zachary is doing much better in school. Although, he will be doing ALOT of reading over the next week. He has 2 more books to read before the grading period ends on October 9th. I know he can do it if he puts his mind to it.

Troy's last regular season game is tonight. Their tournament will start on Monday. They got beat pretty bad Tuesday night but Troy did get to play 2nd base the last inning. He was much happier about that!! There is not enough action for him in the outfield for him. He really needs to have something to do.

Ronnie had his 8th chemo treatment last Friday. It went well. He felt very bad Sunday and Monday but I think he is starting to feel much better now.

Mercedes cut their hours back to 32 hours per week starting this week. They are letting employees sign up for extra work on the Friday that they are off. Ronnie didn't think he would get picked to work since they were only picking 250 people out of the whole plant but luckily he was one of the employee's picked this week. He doesn't know what he will be doing but as long as he's getting a chance to work that day I'm sure he doesn't really care what the job will be. Keep your fingers crossed that he might get picked again next week. That would really help out a lot.

Well, it is starting to be a very busy time of year for us. Zachary and Troy's birthdays are both this month, Zachary on the 23rd and Troy on the 28th. I am planning on having their birthday parties on November 1st. They both want their parties in the gym at church so they can play basketball. Works out great for me since it doesn't cost me anything ro reserve the church.
Ronnie's birthday and our 7 year anniversary are both in November. Ronnie hopefully will be done with his chemo the week before Thanksgiving. Then you have Thanksgiving and then Christmas the next month. I think I need to try to get some rest now while I can.....ha ha!!

Well, I hope everyone is having a great week so far. Only 1 more day until the weekend!! Yeah!!

Half way thru the work week..............

Well, I had my parent/teacher conference with Mrs. Weeks(Zachary's teacher) today. Overall Zachary is doing okay in school. He doesn't get in trouble much. He just doesn't want to do anything. And thank goodness it's not just him. It seems to be an epidemic this year in 5th grade. Hopefully everyone just got off to a rough start and will start realizing exactly what they need to be doing. I'm keeping my fingers crossed anyway. He did score very well on his SAT so that is great news.

Ronnie has his 8th chemo treatment Friday. He will have 4 more left after that. YEAH!!! I know he is glad that he's nearing the end!!

I hope everyone has a great day!!

What is wrong with my children.............

First off let me say that Zachary's 5th grade year has turned into a nightmare!! I am at my wits end with what to do with him. He doesn't care about anything this year. He doesn't care about his grades, he doesn't care about being grounded, he doesn't care that he is in trouble everyday of the week. He won't bring his homework home. He constantly leaves his text books at school. He doesn't tell me he has tests nor does he bother to study for them. Found out at 8:00 last night that they had a science test last Friday. Apparently the class overall made such bad grades(Zach made a 68) that the teacher was kind enough to give them a make up test today. Did Zachary bother to tell anyone that? NO!! Did he bother to bring home his work to study? NO!! Did he bother to study at all? NO!! Not until I found out about it at 8:00 last night and then he had to study until 9:45 before he finally learned the 9 vocabulary words. This grading period he has to read (3) 150+pg chapter books. It took him 6 weeks to read the 1st one. He now has 17 days to read the other 2 before the grading period ends. And he acts likes it's all no big deal. When he got done studying last night and finally got in the bed. I had a long, serious discussion with him for about 20 minutes. He didn't say a word. Didn't get upset at all................until I turned his tv off!! Then he cried!!!!!!!!! What??? He didn't cry because I was getting onto him. He didn't cry because of school. He didn't cry because I told him if he didn't start taking school seriously that he wouldn't be playing basketball this year. He only cried because I turned his tv off!! What is wrong with this picture?

Then there's Troy...............Troy was the biggest goof off in his game last night I could have screamed. In the outfield dancing, playing, picking up grass, spinning around, his coach telling him to pay attention every time someone got up to bat............you name it - he did everything except play baseball. I have never been so ready for a game to be over in my life!! I told him last night (along with my discussion with Zachary) that I wasn't going to watch another game like that. There is absolutely no excuse for the way he has been acting in his games. It is childish nonsense. If he is going to play baseball then he needs to play baseball. This is not recess!! Otherwise he is just wasting our time and money.

At any rate, I think someone has taken my good, sweet boys and switched them with somebody else's kids!! I hope this behavior is just a phase - and a short lived one at that. I might have to start taking some medication!! HA HA!!!

Wow - where did summer go??????

I actually had to wear a jacket at Troy's game last night. Luckily, I had one in the trunk(I never leave home without one since I am always cold!!) But it was nice not to be sweating thru my clothes for a change.
Troy had a good game. They won. He had a single and eventually scored and then he got out at first. They are now 4-1 overall. He has 5 games left and then will have a single elimination tournament. Maybe he can bring home another championship trophy!

Ronnie hasn't felt good the last few days. I hope tomorrow is better for him.

Zachary and Troy both rec'd their 1st mid 9 weeks profress reports. Both did well. Zachary had 1 A's and 4 B's. Troy was meeting all academic standards. Good job boys!!

Tonight I can actually go home when I get off work. No ball games, no practice, no school meeting. Absolutely nothing!! Yeah!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day!!