No the baby will not be named BOB. My best friend who is also Michael's honorary Aunt/Godmommy is havng a baby boy and the father does not like any name she picks yet cannot think of any himself.. So I call the baby Baby Bob. Her shower is tomorrow. Even though she wants Michael there, I know it will be too much for him to handle, so he is staying home. But I am actually going to ditch the capris or jeans and tshirts and look nice. Which means I will look 2x as fat :( But I need to work on dressing up. I may look fat but it will be better than sloppy. Maybe I will get a good picture of myself and post it here for everybody tomorrow night :)



Never mind all this :( I
Never mind all this :( I told my mother that the car needed looked at. But she is so obsessed with Dierks Bentley she had to go to two concerts instead of getting the car looked at last month. Well it broke down this morning. So yeah and I was supposed to take my neighbor to the shower too. None of us get to go. All because she seems to think Holly is Never Right, yet I am proven correct time and time again.
:( I was so bummed for you
:( I was so bummed for you when I read that you wouldn't be able to go to the shower for Baby Bob. Now you've got us all curious about what the parents will eventually name him.
Your mom sounds like a character. She sounds more like a 16 yr old than a 40-something.
I Know! It is like the last
I Know! It is like the last year she has been going down the maturity levels. I realize that yeah it is her first chance since I was born that she can go out and have a life. Which makes me feel like the reason she has had nothing for so long. I do not think she realizes what a slap in the face it is that Dierks Bentley a stupid country singer is more important than my son. I have to have surgery (major dental work) and she yells at me for putting it off. Well I have to wait until Michael is in school because she won't be around to help. She used all her Vacation Days at her old job for concerts. So if he is in school I only have to worry about getting him on the bus and fed for supper. She was late one day picking me and Michael up to go to therapy because she was spastic on the phone because she got crappy seats at a concert. And my net was down anyways and she threw a fit. David happened to be staying with me that week, and she spazzed out all about it in front of him. What a way to make an impression. He finally realized why I always feel the way I have towards her.
Heather had too much excitement I guess, she ended up in the hospital she was bleeding and contracting. She is out and on bed rest. I want that baby to bake until at least Mid-September!
Well, my mom used to live
Well, my mom used to live about 40 minutes away by car. A few months after my dad died, my mom married a guy 10 yrs younger than herself, sold her house, and moved out of state because her new husband "didn't like California." It's been about 8 yrs now and her husband is just now looking for a job. My mom has always been a homemaker. The money is running out. The husband has always been nice to us and isn't a bad guy, but I feel like all those years that my mom could have been close by and had time with Wyatt have been stolen from us. Not to mention that my mom's money is almost gone. So, it could be worse than Dierks.
At least school is right around the corner so you can take care of that dental work.
My mom did her level best to
My mom did her level best to help out with my son, but it often took more out of her than she should have had to tolerate and I often felt guilty about asking her for help (more in line with how owensmom feels about her in-laws taking her boys on a holiday). Truth is, though, I would not have made it without her - even if some of the things she tried with my son were somewhat archaic and less than successful.
As for her money, well, she just never had much to go around to start with so us kids pretty much had to look after ourselves financially from early on. In addition, as she gets older and her health becomes more and more a concern, I'm sure that it will fall on us kids to help chip in to keep her if say an elder care facility is eventually required. Inflation since she retired has taken its toll and there is simply nothing left in her accounts for her to cover her own costs anymore. She really did her best for all of us, and I can't imagine myself being anything but grateful to her. Still, I admit that I had less "on my plate" than shootingstars - my husband was with me and kept up a good job despite whatever difficulties were going on at home.
I think my plate is broken
I think my plate is broken anyways. I get a little slop and it ends up all over my lap instead. Maybe I need to work on making my plate more durable to handle all these servings. But I guess I am really lucky in ways. My bills are paid (barely but paid) and once Ba starts school it gives me some peace.
I still wish I could find something honest and decent I could do from home. I would love to become a photographer. But would need money for travel to do some amazing shots. :) Lets keep dreaming.
A friend of mine with four
A friend of mine with four kids cleans houses while they're in school. Might be something to think
about.
The going rate around here
The going rate around here for a house cleaner is $18-$20/hr. That's usually an agency rate, but if a cleaner could keep the entire amount for herself then that would be a damn good job. It's tiring though and best done part time, I think.
I suck at house cleaning though. If any clients ever saw my house they would NEVER hire me. The one time I hired a house cleaner she confided that she hated cleaning houses but only did it for the money. No surprise there.
I used to joke with my
I used to joke with my husband that we should put a dollar in a jar everytime we had sex, we
SHOULD have done it lol. After 28 years we would have had quite a bit of money!!
Yeah that does not really
Yeah that does not really work for me. I think it would be viewed as prostitution rather than a couple saving :(
LOL it's only prostitution
LOL it's only prostitution if the man pays the woman or vice versa. What I was talkin about was
savings... in any case we never did it dang lol.