Any additional life lessons....

need to happen when daddy is in the car....



So while we don't live in the country, we aren't really in the city either....in that we are in the country that has been built up....



and it some places it has been built up to fast....



So this morning we were driving down Main Street, and I thought I saw something dash out in "traffic", but it was still a few cars ahead of me....



Didn't see any major swerving, or anything to show that something had dashed out so just as quickly as I thought about it, it left me....



Well come to find out, 2 cars ahead of me had hit a deer.



Didn't hit it enough to kill it, but Main Street is a 4 lane road, with a center turning lane....



So the truck that hit the deer stops, and the car behind it stops...



Now the deer is flopping like a fish out of water...so I stop cause I don't want to hit it and "finish it off" nor do I want to do any damage to the new car....



So the car backs up and I roll down the window to make sure it had "flopped" into the other lane. The gentleman says yes, and that he was going to pull it to the side of the road, and he and I exchange the "knowing glance" since he can see the boys...as it I was going to move it but it's not dead yet....



So as I pass the truck that hit it, I see a lady in the passenger seat, and her husband is walking back to where the deer was, I roll down my window to make sure they were ok, and she says yes she was fine, just hated to see the animal suffer like that...of course the front of their trunk is completely ruined....



So as we drive the kids start with 50 questions....



The first being what happened why did we all stop. So I try to explain that there was no accident, that no other car had hit another car, but that a deer (an animal had tried to cross the street) and got hit by a car. Johnathan asked if he wanted to go eat at the fish place (yes we eat there on a fairly regular basis) and if he was crossing the street why didn't he look both ways....



Christopher asked me if the animal died, I said no, but I didn't know if he was hurt to bad that if they took him to an animal hospital if they would be able to help him....would anyone other than a mom with kids in the car actually take a deer to an animal hospital????



Of course the mention of hospital gets Xander going, and he wants to know who at hospital....



So needless to say a 10 minute car ride, and atleast 50 questions later mommy was very tired....and had a headache....

So Santa Came and went....

The boys were very excited to see all the fun things that were left for them!!

We got legos, and wooden building blocks!!

Xander got lots of trains, and clothes!!

Mommy and daddy got useful things like socks and sheets!!

Then the sickness came again...

I'm tired of holiday sickness!!!

I have broncitis, and both Xander and Johnathan have sinus infections!! Makes for lots of grumpiness in the house!!

Pictures and video are up on www.dropshots.com/mom_of_3_boys

All in all a great Christmas, and now to get ready for birthdays.....

Where to start???

Christmas in my house is done!!

The tree is up, and decorated thanks to Johnathan and Christopher!! I didn't hang a single ornament. It doesn't look "perfect" and there are lots of places that are missing ornaments but I think the boys did an awesome job!!

Thanks to Caryn, ALL my presents are wrapped and nicely tucked away until Santa comes!! It was nice to be kid free and be able to wrap until I was done!!

I finally got my Christmas cards addressed and mailed!! Although I didn't mail out near as many as I have in years past, it was just enough to cover the family!!

I decided that I really love some of my friends!! How strange is that??? I have met 2 really important ladies in my life, and we all have 5 year olds. One lives in Tennesee, and One lives in California. Just amazes me how close I can get to someone just through phone and internet chatting. Although I've met Julie, we haven't seen each other in years, and she has yet to meet Alexander, and today when I talked to Lisa she just had witnessed a terrible accident and was really shaken up...it scared me that I would really miss her friendship if something should happen to her. She has really become a part of my life and family!

The dizziness is OFFICIALLY gone!! I've been feeling great since Friday!! I'm sooooo excited!! Had a normal workout! Even did the 45 degree leg press. Didn't push 540 pounds, didn't even come close, but was able to do a lot of my normal things. I told Jim we would take the good days as the come and just go with them for now. Hopefully they will continue to come and the dizziness will stay away!! We are starting slowly with the weights again, and I'm not even giving him a hard time about how light some of the stuff is!!

Had a doctors appointment on Friday, and through this whole mess I've lost 5 pounds!! I'll take it anyway I can get it. There is a group of people at church that will be starting a "Biggest Losers" club after the first of the year. It cost $25 to join, and while I don't watch the show, and don't know a lot about it, I'm thinking of joining. If you fall below the "yellow line" it will cost you $5, and so that will help to keep you motivated. There was a couple from Greenville that participated this past season, and they go to church with our CDC Director. They are going to come in and meet with us and tell us about how they got started and how it changed their lives. I know that Amy went from a size 22 to a size 2. I'm not sure about her husband Phil. They also work out at Sportsclub (the gym I belong to). It is suppose to go for a 3 month time frame, so hopefully I can report at the end of 3 months that I've lost quite a bit of weight! That's my goal!!

The rain is here, and school is out! Oh what to do with the boys??? I'm sure of how to fill the rain filled afternoons, but I'm sure we will come up with something fun!

Hard to believe 2008 is almost over, I'm just hoping for an accident free 2009!!

Can someone please take my dizziness away...

I worked out at the gym again today, and I did about 90% of my workout sitting on the floor!



Poor Jim, he is having a rough time thinking "out of the box".



The very first exercise we did, I thought I was going to hit the floor. Then of course it doesn't make me feel any better when I'm back down to "baby" weight. But I know I've got to build back up to where I was.



What is really bad, is that it could take up to a year for the dizziness to go completely away!

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All I want for Christmas...

Seems so unreal that Christmas is just a few weeks away.....

I've finished shopping, all I have left is the wrapping....I guess ideally I would love some wrapping fairies to come and empty my trunk and the Contour trunk of the stash and wrap away...barring that I guess the energy to stay awake long enough to wrap for my monsters!!

I got the best present last week from Michael...he bought me a new car! Thanks to Fr. Hayden we were able to get a great deal and bought a 2008 with 200 miles on it for right at $20,000. I now feel a lot safer running the boys here and there in a car that I know isn't going to quit on me!

When you ask the boys what they want for Christmas you get a variety of answers....

Here are their wishes...

Christopher: an X box, a Wii, and a Nintendo DS. All gaming systems. None of which he is getting. They only thing he is getting that is on his list is an Eagle webkinz.

Johnathan: a guitar, a new set of drums, an aircraft carrier and a webkinz. Thanks to Nana he will get the aircraft carrier. I won't buy it. Christopher doesn't play with his. I told him to steal Christophers :)

Xander: He just wants Choo-Choo's!! And anything his brothers have!!

So since the boys have a list, I figured I know I've gotten my car and that's all I'm getting or need, but I'd make my Wish list as well!

I want....

Money for the gym, since my paid personal training session are just about up
New sneakers
A new griddle
Another pair of blue jeans
A haircut and possibly a color to help hide the greys
and my final wish would be 1 day with out fighting or tears between my 3 monsters!

So my baby is 5 today!!!

So at 11:01 Johnathan entered the world!!

I can't believe in less than an hour he will be 5 years old!!

Next year we will be heading to kindergarten....

Pictures will be up later!!

We had a party on Sunday at Gattitown, he seemed to have a good time, and today we will do something small at home.