Bags of Crap!

I called my dad the other day to see if he can spray my house, I've seen some spiders roaming around and it freaks me out. I asked him what I needed to do to prepare to get the house in order. and this is what he said (in his italian voice) "Franje, you need to clear around the base boards, no toys can be on the floor. You have alot of stuff in your house!" WHAT! I was a little irritated with him about the "ALOT OF STUFF" comment.

Today I have to wait for the stupid fridge guy who is coming from anywhere between 8 and 11...It's 9:56am! So I went to Jessica's room and started to go thru her totes....4 bags later I realize where at the "STUFF" came from, my parents house. I don't buy tons of toys for the girls and I haven't been paying attention to what they have in their hands when we leave my parents house. Some of the "STUFF" I came across was: rocks, 2 camcorders, wallets, old stuff animals, broken toys.

I called my mom and told her I'm sending all of it back to her house. My mom comes back with "It's your dad, not me." Nice lecturing me yesterday guys on my cluttered house courtesy of you two...lol I laugh now but was not happy earlier!

Freezer Jam!

This is my first attempt at making freezer jam~ My friend Laurel told me she makes this for her family and it's a hit in her household. On our recent trip to Lake Mead she brought some and won over Jake and Jessica with this stuff. Today I decided to give it a try. I'm sure it will take a couple of times to get it right but I tried right??

Open House

Jake and I went to Jessica's open house to meet her teacher and see some of what Jess has been doing. I know on a previous post I was a little upset about the teacher but I think I made myself clear with her and things got worked out. We seem to now be on the same page with Jessica, which makes me feel a whole lot better.

This is the note Jessica wrote to us and we in return had to write one back to her.

I would have pictures from Kaelyn's open house buttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

<---------this dork forgot to go when I was at school....Way ta go Jake! lol So I don't have pictures from Kaelyn's class.

Love my sweet neice

I love being an Cocia! I get all excited when I see my brothers little girl. She is definatly a wonderful addition to our family. I was at my mom's and I was able to get some cute pictures of my neice and the kids.

Babcia and her 5 cuties!

Baby Katie look is priceless..."Do I really need to sit next to him?" haha

She looks scared of him here!

Crazy baby!

when I study usually baby Jake is crawling around and finding new adventures that make mommy get up and said "No, don't touch that!" This is usually the view I have and it makes it hard to study with this crazy little man.

Trying to stay on track

I'm so tired lately! I thought the kids back in school would be a breath of fresh air but it's been alot harder. I've been running around ragged and I feel like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Jake has been working like crazy so I don't see much of him and the weather SUCKS!

On Sunday as we were getting ready for church Talia was sitting on the floor and she looked up at me and said "Uh Oh mommy," she had peed her pants. Lately she has been HORRIBLE with peeing the toilet and Jake and I thought it was lazyness. Boy we were wrong! I finally had enough and took her to the Urgent Care, all the way there Talia was balling because she associates the doctor with shots. When we got there she calmed down and the doctor tested her urine and sure enough UTI. I have had her on the antibiotics for the last 3 days and she has been excellent, no wet undies :)

Today I recieved Jessica's homework packet from her teacher with a note that says she is behind in school. WHAT! I was like, you have only seen her for what four days. I called the teacher and spoke with her regarding this and she said that Jessica was not focused in class. So like any concerned mom I asked her what I could do to help or what can we change with her in class. The teacher responds "I have 29 students in class, I cannot focus only on Jessica." Oh snap did she just say that to me. That is when pist off mom came out and got stern. I told her that I was not going to let my child fail because there are too many students in her class and with that her attitude changed and then proceeds to tell me that she has only been in class 4 days and it's best we give it time...WHAT THE HELL LADY! If she has only seen Jessica 4 times she needs to get a clue herself. With that I wish I was rich to put her in private school, I wish I could volunteer more, I wish there was two of me and more hours in the day.

I feel like a ton of bricks are on my back and I'm trying to stay afloat. Most would say you should just not do school but sorry that is my time to get out of the house. I think it's only fair!

Little Stinker

My friend and I were studying the other day and I looked over and saw this cute little monkey in my cabinet. We watched him for a while and laughed at how determined he was to get everything out of that shelf. I didn't realize that boys are this active, jacob is in everything and he finds everything to put in his mouth.