I have been MIA for the past few days.  I have had some co-workers from another building here in my work area for the past few days so I have not been able to blog.  I am sure they will be here any minute and I will have to end up cutting this one short.  They have been fun but have been driving me crazy as well.  They will ask me to do something so I will go start to do it and they will then interrupt me and ask me to go do something else....so off I go to do that then two minutes later they will ask if the first thing is done.  Luckily I know them pretty well so I can tell them what knuckle heads they are and to give me a cotton pickin moment to get the things done!

I don't know where to begin.  The weekend was nice.  My hubby and AJ had their first basketball game in which they lost.  The team played pretty good.  The other team had a kid on their team that was already well onto being 6 foot or taller and boy was he good at basketball! He was great to watch!  His ability made me a proud momma as well.  Usually AJ is always upset after a game when they loose.  He will even cry.  We have been working so hard to teach AJ in order to win you have to loose and how to be a good sport about it.  After their game on Saturday AJ went up to the guy that was really good on the team and said "Good game.  You played a real good game."  On the way home I told AJ about how proud I was of him and how that shows he is maturing and growing.  I could see by the smile on his face he was proud of himself too.

Sunday evening my husband, Hylari and I went to what is called Christmas in the Park.  Our Parks and Rec department for our city puts it on.  They take an area (the campgrounds) out by the lake and put up huge aminated light displays that you drive through and look at.  We take several trips out a year to drive though it.  We always put on a Christmas CD in the car and sing while we look at them all.

Monday evening was Mike's football banquet which was really nice.  The parents of seniors had to bring a meat dish and the others brought the sides, desserts etc.  Everything was so delicious.  The football players got called up one at a time to receive their letters, various additional awards and had a blurb said about them about how many yards rushing, tackles etc. that they got.  It will be our last high school football banquet we will get to attend with Mike so it was very special.   After the ceremony we went into the auditorium and watched the highlight video which was also very good.  I signed up to get one of them ordered.

Tuesday afternoon I went in and checked Mike's grades on the online gradebook access website and I came unglued by what I found.  My husband and I check his grades on a daily basis and we talk about it each evening.  As I know I have posted here before Mike is NOT putting forth effort into his school work like he should be....especially if he wants to go to college.  We have talked to Mike and talked to him over the past few weeks because he is not turning in assignments.  I counted up that he is missing 798 points between November 1 through December 1 throughout all of his classes on assignments he just didn't bother to do.  That is completely unacceptable to us.  Not only did I see that but I also noticed that he got 3 days of in school suspension.  And what made me upset about that was he recevied the in school suspension during the school day on Monday and didn't say a word to us about on Monday evening.  Mike has alot of problems with being honest.  My husband and I do not trust him because he has lied so much to us.  We have told him that he is building a terrible character in himself by being a liar.  And we have told him that leaving information out is the same as lieing. Which is what he did to us Monday evening.  And what makes it even more worse is I asked Mike's mom to come and sit with us at our table and we conversed together the whole night long....she knew about the in school but did not say anything about it.  I get so sick and tired of my husbands kids' mothers treating him like all he is, is a child support check each month.  I know Mike's mom tries to protect him from getting in trouble but the thing is we always end up finding out anyway.  So, we were supposed to go to a financial aid workshop at his school tomorrow night and my husband called him and told him we were not going.  Oh, I forgot to mention that he has 2 F's and a D on his current grade card.  There is no way he can succeed in college if he cannot do the high school work.  There is no need for any of us to put out any money for college if he is not going to plug in. And quiet frankly, he is not going to be accepted into a college with these grades anyway.  His mother agrees.  And the reason he got the in school is because some guy said something about his (Mike's) girlfriend and he told the guy he would deal with him after school.  The guy went and told the principal about Mike's threat.  We have told all of our kids that even though they might get in trouble at school we will not be mad at them if they ever get into a situation where they are DEFENDING theirselves but we will NOT accept them starting anything.  And that is what Mike did. Mike's mom told my husband she blew the in school punishment off which in our minds was not good parenting. 

I have to call my doctor here in a little bit.  That pill she put me on makes me feel really weird so I am not going to take it.  I don't like taking medication anyway.  I will try to work on my diet and exercise instead. 

I can't get enough ranch dressing here lately.  I have been craving salads and want to put ranch dressing on almost anything else I eat.  I don't know what it is.  And noooooooooo way....am I a pregnant. 

Have a great day!