Last night I ended up just picking up Hylari and I Chinese and taking it home.  Partly because we got more snow than what was predicted and because it was sooooo incredibly cold outside.  The temperatures lingered in the teens and we had very high winds so any exposed skin when you were outside felt like it was being pierced by knives.  Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!  And that didn't make us feel good when my husband found out that AJ's mother let him wear shorts to school.  What was she thinking???

After we ate and Hyl finished up her home work we decided to go ahead and venture out to the bookstore because Hylari is just about done with the book she is reading.  We quickly found her a book and a new diary...she always suckers me into something extra!  I also found a new book to read.  It is called No Way to Treat a First Lady.  It is about a first lady that is on trial for killing her husband, the president.  The first few pages are a little racy because the president is having an affair with another woman.  The first lady then contacts the best attorney in the US which happens to be an ex boyfriend of hers that she for some reason ruined his life 25 years ago.  I haven't found out what happened there yet.  I am hoping to read it before the end of February when we go out to eat with my friend Lori Beth and her husband because I know she is looking for some books to read and I will pass it along to her and a few others I have. 

Not only was there a whirlwind of snow outside yesterday but we ended up having a whirlwind of drama with Mike.  I never thought I would get to a point where I would want to give up on our kids but my husband and I are both there with Mike.  Mike is being completely disrespectful to me and my husband and his mother.  He is also making choices that are incredibly immature and are going to affect the rest of his life.  Mike THINKS he knows it all and the adults in his life are doing nothing but blowing hot air.  Unfortunately this child who could have a good life ahead of him is choosing a path that is going to bring him nothing but trouble.  I am tired of us spending our efforts and money to try to help him when he is going to do his own thing in the end.  I am done with it.  And when he makes the mistakes I am sure he is going to make we are not going to be the ones digging him out financially nor will give him support because he is choosing to do things that are against the way we brought him up.  Of course we are legally responsible for him until May but after that there is not much we can really do at this point.  The boy is going to have to find out the hard way.  He has only been over to our house once since Christmas and I really don't care if he comes again.  We have 3 younger children that we have to raise and I really do not want them to be aware of the poor choices he is making.  He is supposed to be someone our younger kids look up to and it is unfortunate but our younger kids act more mature than he does.  I will continue to pray for him but that is all I can offer right now.  I have talked to some people and they say he will eventually come back around.  I hope so.

Have a great day!