Day 792: Boys Day In

Hi y'all! Look at here. I have not blogged at all in 2012. I missed y'all. A lot of good stuff has been going on y'all. I will tell you all about it later. Right now I want to brag on my youngsters. Y'all some times being a single mom is hard. Sharing my kids with somebody I don't like is even harder. I have to do all the heavy lifting like correcting them when they disobey, taking off work when they are sick, making them do their home work and clean their room. And y'all he gets to have them for the whole summer. That dumb old judge said so. Not only that they are going to Canada. And every time he calls that Wart tells them of some new thing he is going to buy them. A new bike, a trampoline, new DS, ipods, a dvd player the list keeps getting longer and longer. All the while I have to beg him to pay his lousy $200 a month in child support. And he lives in Canada so they are unable to take it from his check. So y'all I have been wanting to take my kids on a super sized vacation before they go. We had plans to go to Lego Land and Sea World and the San Diego zoo and the beach. But I am STILL waiting for the money from my divorce settlement. The money did not come in time  and our plans fell through. Oh well I tell my self. We can go when they get home. Meanwhile  I am sure it will be here in time for us to take a staycation here in the Black Hills and have some fun. Did not happen. So now it is  a  week before they go and all the bills are paid and we have food to eat and gas in the car but until that money comes I don't have two nickels to rub together. And I am feeling a little down in the mouth because I can not compete with Disney Dad. I woke up in a rotten mood. Yesterday I dragged everything out of my room and my closet, determined to organized and sort through all of the junk getting in my way. So my living room is full of blankets, fishing poles, picture frames and all kinds of other junk. I was so cranky trying to keep the boys and babies from making an even bigger mess by messing with all of the stuff that they found interesting and to top all that off I was so busy organizing and sorting I neglected the rest of the house work and the kitchen was a wreck and the cat box smelled. Things were not going well.  We went to church this morning, Pentecost Sunday. What a blessing it was to my tender soul to sit with my boys and sing and worship with them. It was also communion Sunday. The boys and I have been talking about communion and what it means and why we do it and practicing it at home. Last week we took communion with popcorn and grape juice. Y'all I kept tearing up because I am a cry baby and I can't help it. We went home and had lunch and a rest time. My room and closet were totally clean and empty so naturally that is where every one congregated. Everyone on my bed watching a movie and all of the sudden a massive tickle/pillow fight erupted. Babies, big boys, mom all rolling around and laughing and sweating. Y'all it was the most fun I have had in a month of Sundays. We were covert. Hiding under blankets, peaking around corners, screaming and daring each other to cross the "chicken line" (thank you pastor Brent for that). After our fight we had dinner. For some reason as we ate our potato soup and homemade hummus Christopher started singing "I like big butts and I can not lie" I have no idea where he learned this song so I started a game and changed the words. I like big books and I can not lie, I like big boots and I can not lie, I like big buttons and I can not lie. Soon every one was cracking up and  falling out of chairs and just having the best time. After dinner the boys begged and begged for more tickle fights. Y'all vacations are fun and I sure would love to buy my kids everything in creation to put a smile on their faces. But that is not where it is at y'all. Today. That was the good stuff. Sure I have the tough job. And it does not seem fair that he gets to have them during the easy times when there is no school or home work. But y'all I am the lucky one. No vacation in the world or expensive toy  could ever mean more than days like today. I love those boys and it is going to be a hard summer with out them. But y'all I am not down in the mouth anymore. I don't have to compete. I got all the stuff that money can't buy.