Almost time for thanks

We are finally in November and I'm I thinking about one of the biggest elections in US history? No, I am daydreaming about going to Big Bend National park with the kids during Thanksgiving week. This will be our third year to go.

Our first trip in 2006.

The same spot in 2007

My good friends daughter went with us last year, she is going again this year too.

This is the end of the window trail. The kids are about 10 feet from a huge drop off.

Website name

Let me know what you like better.

youcanhavemilkorwater.com

or

usandthedamnkids.com

Leave me a comment so we can at least register the name.

Still no time

The website is on hold till I can create a 30 hour day 8 day week. I wish I didn't need so much sleep! That takes up way to much time out of my day. Even with getting the iron infusions I am still super tired all the time.



Here is a quick update of all the kids. I will start from oldest to youngest.



Kirsten - She got all A's and B's for the first 6 weeks. CPS extended her stay with us until the end of the year. She has also started to go with her mom on the weekends. She comes back with a little attitude but that is expected.



Kylea - Still struggling with school but has shown some interest in maybe getting into some sort of sports. Here is part of an email her math teacher sent me today. Sigh.....

Ok, here is how tutorials went

3:40 arrives

3:48 stops arguing about being here

3:48 leaves to tell friends that she has to stay

3:50 came back from talking to friends

3:54 left to talk to friends

3:55 back

4:00 left

4:01 back with friends to help her

4:02 finished one sheet and left



Devin - He is finally growing! I think he is pretty much going to skip size 6 and go right into a size 7. He is doing really good in school. He even helped Kylea with some math homework one night. It was just problems like -9 -8= and -5 - -3=, but still pretty good! We still have our battles since he is so hard headed, but at least he tried to dance with me at his school's sock hop.



Natalea - She is doing really good in preK. She is ahead of her class in almost everything. She is doing really good with becoming independent at my house. She still is very sensitive and cries a lot but Shawn and I are working on it. At least the best we can.

He likes to talk her out of it and calm her down to find out the issue, where I would just rather let her cry and then carry on after she is done. We will figure out something, I am not worried about it.



As for Shawn and I, we are doing just as good as always. Trying to find adult time only is impossible at the house so we take every chance we can to go out and do stuff together. Doesn't happen very often but we have a good time when we do.

I hope everyone has a good week!

Website time

I have decided that I am about done with just blogging. Life with Shawn and all the kids is just to busy and blogger is boring for me now.

Shawn said he would help me set up a website for the family. I want to have a photo gallery and blogs for all the kids to update their own stuff on it.

Please let me know any suggestions that you would like to see on this.

Love,
Billie

you buy the food

I have decided to let the girls take turns buying the food for the week. The get the budget and I take them to the store and then they figure out what to get. Kylea went first on Sunday.
This week is easy since we do not have Devin or Shawn's daughter. She managed to buy food for all week and ended up with a dollar left.
Next week will be harder since she will have the same amount of money but will be buying for 6 people and two of them picky little kids.

That is all for now since I have ACL this weekend and will be getting ready for that.

Thanks for stopping by!

New Kid

Everyone knows that I am fixed and am not having any more kids. Well so is my boyfriend, works perfect right? Not exactly, seems you can have more kids without getting pregnant or adopting. And that is what I did.



I am now the temporary guardian of an almost 15 year old. I now have one in Elementary, Middle, and High school. This should be an interesting year.



The good news is she is a good kid and so far no issues. I know I will have her at least another 5 or 6 weeks and then I am pretty sure CPS will extend my paperwork with her. No need to rush things, plus I think her mom could use the extra time to get a place for them to live.

Side note - Kirsten went to school with Kylea last year, that is how we know her.

I won!!!

Well sort of. I wasn't asking for anything so not sure if that means I win. However, Rick's petition to change the custody so he can have him full time and move to south Austin was denied by the judge!

Things stay the same.

Now onto the next battle......