Em and the Possibilities There are no guarantees in life…only the possibilities

Allergy season, everyone! C’mon in, pull up a chair, bring your decongestants, antihistamines, PLEASE gawd your kleenex, and snork/hack/sneeze right along with my family.

All 3 kids have snotty noses, throat-clearing coughs, and the general malaise that comes along with it.

I spent all day yesterday with two VERY fussy boys right.on.my.lap all day long. Could they behave while snuggling on my lap? Of COURSE not! Little would smack big, big would retaliate, little would duck which meant *I* got hit. GRR!

Hopefully today will be a better day. Updates later.

Oh! And I’m going on a job interview Friday. Wish me luck!

I’m very sorry I haven’t been very good at communications lately. The truth is – there’s really nothing new to talk about.

I’m still single.

The kids are still their goofy selves

I’m still looking for a job.

I’m still fat (even if I *am* modifying my diet).

We’re still living with my parents.

So, as you can see…there’s really nothing going on. There’s only so much you can write about daily chore doing, and I’m not really in the mood to be whiny and depressed.

Sorry to be such a disappointing read!

Love, Tink.

Say a prayer
light a candle
send a shout-out to da man upstairs

ANYTHING

I don’t care if it *is* part-time, I need this freakin job.

As you know, I’m searching for packaged homeschool curricula for my children. The Very Expensive Curricula has been ruled out. The way their pricing page is written was misleading. To save you a click – it says

Complete program, Grades 3-8 1595.00 price 49.95 shipping

If that price were for a complete course for grades 3-8, it would be a good price ($319 per grade), comparative to other homeschool packaged curricula. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. The $1595 price tag is for each individual grade.

Ouch.

So, I’m perusing a catalog from another company. This one has a decidedly Christian bent, which doesn’t bother me too much….HOWEVER

In the back of the catalog (where they have the elective courses listed) I came across this:

MAN IN DEMAND

This is a Christian character course designed to train junior and senior high school boys to become dynamic Christian leaders in tomorrow’s world. Topics include physical and spiritual fitness, habits, manners, hygiene, dating, grooming, and attire. Excellent for individual study. The 221-page Teacher’s Guide provides expanded lesson information and supplemental activities for the student.

Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? What parent *doesn’t* want a book like that to teach our sons to be Real Men? If they have that for the men, what wonders are in store for our women?

CHRISTIAN CHARM COURSE

This course for junior and senior high school girls is a complement to Man in Demand. It teaches methods for improving appearance along with spiritual instruction on developing the true inner beauty that comes from a heart surrendered to Christ. Topics include diet, posture, personal appearance, hygiene, wardrobe, and etiquette.

So uhm, where’s the stuff on women being Christian Leaders? or needing spiritual fitness?

I gave some thought and careful consideration to writing a letter. That is enough to keep me from purchasing ANYTHING from their company *ever*. Unfortunately, I’ve found this attitude to be rather common in the Christian community. It’s one of the many reasons I don’t affiliate myself with them anymore.

punctuated by a few days of HOLY SHIT!!!!!

The last few days have been of the latter variety. Alannah was bouncing on the neighbors trampoline and ended up with a broken arm and pins in it. Fortunately, a broken arm is ALL she ended up with.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to erase the vision of my babygirl walking down the street holding her arm and crying. Y’know that backpack full of parental guilt we all carry? Yeah, that one. Mine’s now a 12-piece matching set with custom locks on every case.

She’s resting as comfortably as we can make her, and she’s REALLY digging being waited on hand and foot. When the stitches come out and the cast goes on, the party will get kicked into high gear.

The boys handled me being gone quite well. They went to sleep in Mom’s bed, and then Mom put Dan in his own bed later. My boobs were about to explode with milk when we got home, but Joe handled me being gone all night well. This is a good thing – it means that I’ll be able to sleep in my bed all alone sooner than I thought.

And so, dear Internet, I bid you a very exhausted

Good Night

A new week is coming up….hopefully I’ll have some good news coming in. Employment would indeed be nice.

I can’t drink raspberry tea. It reminds me of Tig, and with the stress I’m under right now, I don’t want to add “could’ve been” thoughts to the mix. I miss his friendship, but respect the fact that it’s difficult for him.

We need to get out of the house for an outing. I don’t know if I can hang on long enough for Homeschool Day at the NCZoo. Unfortunately, it’s the closest “big” thing there is that I *know* is worth the trip and expense. Looks like we’ll have to make do with the library and playground at McD’s or something.

And now, for something completely different:

I almost had an orgasm when I saw this.

I’ve been researching new/different curricula for the kids to use in homeschooling. Since I’m having to return to work, the curricula I’m using isn’t “good enough” as per my Mother (since none of my children are chained to a desk for 6-8 hours and forced to spout gobbledygook). I also wanted something computer based other than games for the kids to do. I want them to know the computer isn’t JUST for kidstuff.

The good news is I’ve found EXACTLY what I was looking for.

The bad news is it’s $1600. They also offer a scholarship, which I will most CERTAINLY be filling out.

$1600. DAMN.

My dear darling daughter is spending the night with her cousin, Joe’s in the bed, and Dan is getting ready even as we speak. I don’t quite know what to do with myself… time “alone” is something of a rarity.

Suggestions?

Wake up to feverish puking kid.
Make dr appt for non-feverish kid for checkup.
Make appt for feverish kid for checkup.
Complete insurance paperwork.

Call temp company No references, no job.
Call temp co #2 Nothing right now, check back next week.

Complete paperwork for Mom Just need to copy it and drop it in the mail.

meh

I wish I could tell you that my day went better after I wrote that stress-laden post. I will tell you that my day did eventually improve.

At 9PM. After I put the boys to bed.

Sooooo many times I just wanted to crawl back in bed and hide under the covers screaming “I’m NOT DA MAMA!” but I persevered, AND (bonus points) didn’t kill anyone in the process.

And no, I’m not gonna go into detail, because I really don’t want to relive it, thankyouverymuch.

Tomorrah is anothah day.