You know it's not going to be good when

 

Your teenage son calls your cell phone to tell you that there is a skunk in the front yard. This is at 2 in the afternoon not normal skunk behavior.

And in his next sentence he asks if he can shoot it, that was a big loud no on my part. I tell him to stay in the house and to keep every one else in the house to. I will be home in 10 min.

So I arrive home after my DR. appointment to a skunk holding my driveway and house hostage. So I have to park up at the top of the driveway and walk no waddle down the driveway to the house. DD is armed with the frebrezze spraying the windows and doors to help keep that wonderful odor out. The dog and cat want outside so that they can attack the skunk and all I really wanted was a 30 min nap.

Dear son asks again if he can shoot it, I told him when our neighbor gets home he can supervise you, but not until then. And of course yesterday was nice enough outside to play and my children and dog and cat were all stuck in the house.

Well the skunk died a natural death in my driveway, now I just need to get the nerve up to dispose of it in the nearby woods.

And I wonder why do these things never happen when DH is home.

It's not an insect Mom.

Well Nolan woke up with a spider bite on this big toe, when he showed it to me I said that it was an insect bite. So he asks what kind of insect because he had decided that he is not going to like any insect that bites him. Well I replied it was a spider, a little hungry at getting woken up at night, but after one bite decided you did not taste as good as a fly.

 

That resulted in a whole lecture from Nolan that spider's have eight legs and insects have six. So he was not bite by an insect but a spider, and mom spiders are not insects. And the look on his face was like mom don't you know anything.

The new kitchen is done!

Well the contractor came last night and installed the last piece of countertop. So here are the finished pictures.

 

Dh has to finish painting when he comes home this weekend.

 

 

I did add a small tin for mail, and some birdhouse and chicken decoration.

 

 

The island top just finishes it off so nicely and there are plugs under the island so I can plug in crockpots for big dinners.

 

What a week !

Well this time a year I usally avoid the Mcdonald's Play place as to the number of germs there. Well Saturday my friend took my childern for that I could have a day to myself to rest, with the baby due in 5 weeks and dh gone on active duty. They went rollar skating, lunch at Mc Donald's, and then the free science museum at the local collage.

 

Then on Sunday after church we went to Lowe's and I treated them to McDonald's, were the three youngest played in a very croweded play place.

 

Monday morning Nolan was sick to his tummy and Conner had a fever. Tuesday was met with Nolan still sick and Conner a little better. But a phone call to come pick him up from class and he slept the rest of the day. And today was met with Conner climbing in my bed at 4 am hot, and then Kathryn throwing up in my bed at 4:30.

 

Conner did go back to class today and Kathryn stayed home. I hope tomorrow is back to normal.

 

Pat is outside right now clearing a spot for the dumpster that will be coming on Friday, the dumpster is 22 ft long and 8 ft wide and 4 feet tall. I will be having fun over the next 3 months filling that dumpster with not only the contents of the old kitchen but a major clean out of the garage and house.

 

This weekend looks to be busy to, with the contractor coming to install the last piece of countertop, and Nolan going to his gifted science program on Saturday too.

 

And I still have to pick up the badges my troop earned before Monday night.

Please help me judge

The kids are always building lego's and wanting me to judge, which always result in you love him more problems. So this thime I said I would post them on my blog and others could help me judge.

 

Photo #1

 

 

This is a jet with side magents for digging for lode stones.

 

Photo # 2

 

 

This is a picture of giant bunny, in front of a secert tomb.

 

Picture # 3

 

 

This a picture of dragon training, the man is training the new dragon, while the big dragon in back helps.

 

Thank you for your help in judging these new creations of theirs.

Pat's Guitar

 

Our son Pat received an electric guitar for Christmas, and has been practicing playing it. So far he has taught himself a Chris Rice song and some others.

 

 Today we found out that his yet to be born brother really likes Another One Bites the Dust, as every time he played the song Aidan began to move. I had to ask him to stop and play something else as the stretching was hurting me.

 

 

Sarah's new glasses

Miss Sarah is the first of our childern to get full time glasses, she had me drive through the beginning of a snow storm to pick them up. So that today when she went to see the play Cats she would see everything.

 

 I had felt a little guilty about her glasses as she had an eye exam in August and everything was ok, well in November she began to complain about not being able to see as well. So I had waited until now to take her in, and yes her eyes had changed alot. I found out that when they hit the teenage years, there eyes can change very quickly.