The Week from H. E. Double Hockey Sticks

Grrrrrr......

Baby Girl, cheerleading, flip, concussion

Cado Man, football, tackle, dislocated knee cap and torn ligaments

Just keeping it short and to the point.

Perfectly Bad Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day Weekend was so wonderful and so very, very BAD!!!

It started off with Friday Nite Lights, which in a small town in Texas is everything. My teenage wonder boy got the first touchdown of the season and his first of his highschool football career. I get to see my daughter cheering her first highschool game, and my boy happens to be playing in it.

All that's great right? Oh so perfect...


BUT THEN....

Somebody had to go and SCREW it up.

Do any of ya'll have teenage boys? With more hormones than brains???

Oh yes...Cado Man pulled the mother of all screw-ups. He stayed out all night without permission. Cado and his friend did the ole "You tell your parents you're staying with me and I'll tell mine I'm staying with you" routine.

My hubby and I feel like the biggest suckers in the world. We fell for it, but alas....they got busted. They were so sure of themselves....Ha ha :)....that the two little hormonal goobers decided not to show up for football practice the next morning. Thanks to Coach for placing that phone call.

Our Labor Day was spent in Punishment Phase I.

Oh Joy!

The Awesome Sea Shell Quest

Baby Girl's fun during our trip was to load up on as many beach treasures as she could possibly find. A quest for the perfect shell, and no easy task.

One evening while strolling down beside the Corpus Christi Marina, she finally found "It." We spotted a shell perched on a rock in the water beside this area here on the right hand side......

(That's my hubby and son discussing the boats in the marina. Hubby got a kick out of some of the boat names.)

"I can get it, Momma."

"Girl, you will fall in."

"No way, just hold on to me." ( ha...tricky, put the responsibility back on me!)

She steps out onto a slippery, wet rock while I'm holding her arm and she's reaching down..... A precarious balancing act at best.

"Ah ha! Got it!"

Flashes that million megawatt smile :) I feel like the world's greatest mom cause I helped her get it. And before you say anything, yeah... i know it could have gone way differently.

Fast Forward to the next morning.....

I'm standing at the sink washing my hands, and I glance down.

"(Insert Curse Word here.) What the hell is that?"

The dang seashell had sprouted eyes and antennae! Not only that, but "It" was in the sink and "It" was ALIVE.

I'm not sure who took the bigger scare, me or the hermit crab...

I bounce into the bedroom. My hubby is looking at me with that all-knowing, ever-irritating grin.

"Damn thing tried to crawl off the vanity this morning while I was taking a shower. Thought I'd save it for ya."

Needless to say, Baby Girl had to put her treasure back in the bay.

Texas Indian Paintbrush

Today rated on the excitement meter about as high as watching paint peel off the walls. I hate to use the same cliche term the kids use, but I was bored. Bored, bored, BORED!!! There I said it. I think my teens think it's "cool" to be bored. On their space their status is almost always "bored" when it's not "crunk." Did I spell crunk the right way? I never know anymore. I'm not even sure I know what crunk is. I'll have to google that one. My kids' definition makes no sense. Teen speak....ugh! I do know that being bored is not "cool." It's just boring. Sorry, couldn't resist.

I tried to paint. My dog knocked over my water. I tried to work in the garden. The hubby came outside to sit on the porch and watch. (He must have been really bored.) That annoyed me.

So now....I'm going to work on my blog. If the computer crashes, I'm done.

On a more creative note, if only to raise your excitement meter, or lower it, depending on your interests....

I want to share my picture. YAY!

This is an Indian Paintbrush, and is one of my favorite Texan wildflowers. When these appear in the spring, they put on quite a show. They are usually grown along roadsides here mixed with bluebonnets. I don't have any blues growing in my pastures, but I do have these red beauties. The Texas Paintbrush only grows about 6" to 8" tall, but they do make quite a statement for their size. An added plus, our hummingbirds love them!

Daddy's Girl and My World

This is my baby girl, and my reason for being. ha ha! She really is....

All boys that think they might want to take out my daughter, I'm putting you on notice. We go by the Daddy's Rules AND you might want to give a listen to that song by Rodney Atkins.



It's called....

Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)

Come on in boy, sit on down
And tell me 'bout yourself
So you like my daughter, do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl and her mama's world
She deserves respect, that's what she'll get
Ain't it son?
Now y'all run along and have some fun
I'll see you when you get back
Bet I'll be up all night
Still cleaning this gun


Hee Hee!!!

Seriously though, she's adjusted to the country life pretty well. She has a boyfriend that we tolerate. He's a good kid (thank goodness), but her daddy still isn't on board with it. Neither is mom for that matter. I really would prefer that she still thought boys were gross.

For anyone that doesn't know, we went from a 5A school to a 1A. My kids have gone through culture shock, mall withdrawal, and for my son... girl withdrawal. LOL! Meaning he can't switch girlfriends every month. They miss their friends tons. A lot of the kids they have known since they were babies. I miss the little boogers, too. Homesick? Yes, sometimes.

My baby girl wanted to move out to the boonies, but I did have to ask her the other day if she would rather live there or here. She says, " Well, I'd rather live there, but only if I could pick up my school and move it." I guess we'll be staying.

This Photographer's Muses

These two teenage goofy butts keep me constantly inspired. D is giving me his version of striking a pose. I was trying to get some decent shots, but D couldn't even be serious long enough for that. I told him to stop posing and just do his thing.... this is the result. Oh well.... I warned him I was going to post it on my blog. Gotcha!

Floating Away Here

One time...at bandcamp...

Just kidding!

One time in Texas...

Actually today in Texas

Dreary and raining! I really wanted to work outside, but that isn't going to happen. This is our "Little River" that flows when we have heavy rains. Guess what it's doing today...

My teen goofball enjoying floating down the "Little River" last summer.

The kids had a redneck moment and decided it would be cool to ride down the creek on blow up air mattresses. I laughed my butt off. Couldn't do that in the city! Oh what I wouldn't give for one more day of being a kid.

Challenge of the "UnCool Mom" Party???

We're having fun now! More challenges for the "totally uncool mom." LOL!

My son got invited to the "older kids" party. He's a Freshman, but he is 15. Turning 16 in August. He's just a little bit older than most of the Freshman class. A lot of the older girls seem to think he's...well, "Hot," to use their word. To me, he's still my little boy. Goodness help me if he sees that!

Anyway, to continue on....
The party starts at 10pm and ends at 3am. Gahhhh! Well, we are letting him stay out 1 hour later than his curfew, so he better be home at midnight. That's my limit. I don't like it much, but we know where he is. He's only about 2 miles from our house, and I know all the kids. Still, you would think I was just the uncoolest mom in the whole world :( What's up with a party starting at 10 anyway? This small town stuff is sometimes confusing. Don't worry...I will be checking up on them. It doesn't hurt that the police chief lives next door. ha ha!

I always have to think twice about everything that I let my boy do. I've got my daughter coming up right behind him. She loves to use her brother for the excuse...."well, you let Cado Man...." Well you got me there, sweetie. I've decided I'm not giving her any more ammunition.

Ya'll wish me luck on the curfew. I really don't want to embarrass him by showing up banging on the door in my panda pajamas and fluffy house shoes, but I WILL!!!

"ha ha" Mom's got ur back or got u back

Funny Memories posted by the kids on the Space

"Mee breaking my nose....
duhhhhhhhhhhh (: how gay." -Brooke


"Hey, Brooke! How in the hell did you run into that pole anyway?"-Cado Man

"ehh,it was at recess and i closed my eyes to duck under it. and i came back up too soon. and i smacked rite into it puahhh gay (:

i came back to school with 2 black eyes. queer i no. " -Brooke

"haha frickin ice skating and then my mom promised us she would take us again in like 2 weeks but never did and still hasnt to this day! lol"-Jordan


"OR that time we were fighting over taylor! dang that was dumb! hahabut those really were the days! that was a dumb thing to be fighting over tho hahah" -Jordan


"OR that time we were in your truck with your mom lighting firecrackers from inside the truck and throwin them at that chicks house (i forget her name)" -Jordan (OH CRAP!Does this make me look like a bad mom or what???? I really did make them quit that. I swear!)

"OR the firecracker war we had with Brian and DD and all of them dang we have had some fun" -Jordan (Okay....I DID NOT know about this!!!!!)

"selina!!! lol jp fool i got it way worse member when spencer broke up with me for that stupid ass reason! HAHAHA those were the days!"-Cado Man referring to one of Jordan's previous girlfriends and then one of his own :)


Oh my....the things your kids post on the web! Pay back is a bitch....hee hee!