~~ NEVER FORGOTTEN~~

It's the tenth anniversary of 9/11, such a sad reminder of lives lost. Saturday night I turned on TLC one of my favorite channels and it was a show on about 9/11 as we all sat still quiet and watched on the edge of our seats,I looked around the room at my babies sitting there so quiet watching in disbelief of the horrible violence that America went thru. The air traffic controllers are talking about the hijackers and how they had hurt the pilots and flight attendant Michael who is nine and usually is in a world where it's safe and no harm will ever happen the way this momma likes it He turns to me and says mom i don't understand WHY those people would kidnap all those poor people and hurt them and the people in the building and themselves why did they do that. As I looked at my beautiful boy with those big blue eyes The only thing i could do is try not to cry so with tears in my eyes looking into his eyes I only said I don't know buddy sometimes people just are bad and don't know right from wrong. After the show was done we had decided it would be fun to sleep downstairs well fun for them this momma on the other hand could barely walk the next morning. But I'm sure they felt safe in some way. Sunday morning my husband surprised us with breakfast and again we sat in disbelief watching the TV i wanted to scream please turn it off please but i couldn't scream words wouldn't come out of my mouth and believe me anyone that knows me would tell you I'm not at a loss for words. ;) The faces on the TV just made me so sad the brave fireman that the cameras caught going towards danger just made my heart ache for their families knowing what i know now of how their lives would turn out the police officers screaming for people to run to safety all the while they sat in that spot of danger helping others. Then the screams that came when people noticed the people coming from the windows oh please make it stop please!!!! So I got up from the table cleaned up went upstairs pulled out our shirts with the most beautiful flag on it. For the first time i wasn't dressing my kid for the theme of the day i was dressing my kids for America for how we will always remember 9/11 and never will we ever forget ever.

~~ My Family ~~

Hi!! My name is Jeanette and I have the wonderful pleasure of raising eight awesome and crazy kids with my wonderful husband Dave. My oldest is Jenna she will be twenty three soon and is in college studying to be a guidance counselor,( she will be awesome at this) my second child is David he will be 19 this month and starts school Friday for auto body which is going to be a great journey for him he is very excited,third is Matthew a true gift he is fifteen and goes to a tech high school for automotive next my son Nicholas who is fourteen and as any boy his age is into video games and tossing the football outside and my daughter Brittany is twelve and a very smart kid both with her mind and her mouth lol then we have Michael who is nine wow he is just very active and never a dull moment with him makes everybody smile then Brianna is eight and very sweet and awesome like the rest then there is Zoey she is the baby of the family she is going to be six (gulping holding back the tears) and of course last but never least my awesome crazy cute wonderful husband who god has blessed me with Dave we have been together for twenty five years he is a hard working man always a good provider and father never a dull moment with him around he loves to fly small airplanes and some of the kids also love to fly with him.

We live in a awesome school district and the kids so far are having a really good start to the year..... so far that is!! We love the fall time we have many things planned from apple picking to pumpkin patch to one of my favorite places Hershey and crayola factory! We kinda got get all that in because before you know it they will be grown and on their own.

~~ SCHOOL SUPPLIES~~

well here's a few pictures of a couple sitting getting school supplies ready and labeled and in a book bag!!!! They were actually very excited to get this stuff done! When ever school starts it always reminds me of fall apple picking, pumpkin's, school pictures, crisp fall leaves in the awesome colors of red orange and a very crispy brown that as we all know are the best to step on!!!! I did save a bundle on school supplies as always i went to walmart we always buy extra supplies for the year so if one of my little ones need something they go right to the supplies and we are good to go!!! I will be putting first day of school pictures up soon.

POWER!!!!!

Wow with hurricane Irene hitting our area we lost our power for about an hour....... not bad at all but then the next day (sun) the winds were crazy strong and knocked our power out until just about one hour ago!!! Awe life is good hehehe!! My food spoiled my wash left undone including Dave's work clothes so he went to work with an old set of work clothes decided well we will eat from the grill still, but oh so nice to be able to use the washer and dryer the lights to power up the laptops it's just crazy how we take little things for granted. The up note was we camped out in the family room sleeping. My back is sore my neck stiff but all in all we are all good like i said before life is good!!! sorry I have to go gotta get those book bags filled with school supplies!!!

Must be doing something right..... for once!!!

Well I must be doing something right, my kids came to me with their learning boxes and asked to do work!!! I don't home school but i do keep them current for the coming school year. We basically go over what they learned in school all year . They do math reading and flashcards of words for all of my babies and alphabet flashcards for zoey along with number flashcards. I try to make it fun and um yes fast to keep all interested. It is raining and thundering out nasty I totally dislike the thunder part but really don't mind the rain too much. The kids actually folded the clothes and took them up for me and put them away! So nice when they get along and help out sometimes i want to pull my hair out when they fight!!! I always say hey guys when me and dad are gone and your friends aren't around your family is all you got to hold you up! I do hope one day that comes across and they realize i was right!!!! Zoey is super excited to start school she was just crying a bit because her sister said we have seven days until school well apparently she wanted to start today! well that's all for now.

License To Drive!!!!

Well it's official my son David passed his driving test. He has had the same guy for the last four times and yup you guessed it the same wonderful man hopped in the car today to give him his test.My thought was oh well he failed why bother well I'm so super happy to report that David is a license driver soooo stay OFF the sidewalks!!!!

NEIGHBORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have been in our house for about five years now... it's been OK except for a couple of wonderful neighbors we were getting our lawn done by a nice kid who use to live on the street well i asked him how the neighborhood is and when he said well for the most part then raised his arm and pointed to the neighbor across the street i knew we should sell and fast!!! well the neighbor in question was outside when my boys were in the front yard playing street hockey with a plastic ball the kind you find in kiddie ball pits soon enough the older man was in my sons face i mean eye to eye who at the time was only fifteen screaming at him they cant play street hockey in the street it's illegal. well when this momma saw that i went between them an let that man know a few things......... I'm not the type that will just take crap without giving some back well the police came told the man they would be across to get his side the man then tells us all he has videos and voice recording outside!!!!! the officer looked at me and said did he just tell me hes been recording everything? as i stood there dazed and confused as to why he would the officer said listen you have your boys at home playing they are not out robbing or vandalizing any ones property and that street hockey being played in the street is in fact not illegal!!! the older man tried to say my kids aimed for his car and were in fact hitting his car well the officer said oh really show me your video.......... let's just say he had no proof and was told to stop calling for normal children playing in their neighborhood not just his neighborhood!!!! still to this day he records and i don't know if I'm correct when i close my front room window to give a few faces or not but it does make me feel better!!!