Last night we were just chillin and all.  Chad had a beer or so, as usual.  He must have been bored or something cuz he was blowing over the top of the beer bottle so it makes that funny noise.  Norma Jean heard it and wasn’t too sure about the new sound.  It was kinda funny.

I made my signature meal for dinner tonight and it was soooo good.  It’s my favorite meal that I’ve been making for years now.  It consists of seasoned, fried chicken, mashed potatoes with country gravy and corn.  All of which are made from scratch, no boxed stuff or anything.    Yum!  I learned it all from my mom, but I’ve changed and tweaked it all a little to make it that much better.    Too bad Kaden doesn’t have teeth yet.  Although I probably wouldn’t want to share it with him haha.  I guess I’ll have to learn to share eventually. 

I heard it said just the other day, “If you’re angry, it’s because you’re only thinking of yourself.”  And I was like, wow.  It all made sense.  Thinking back at all the times I’ve been angry or upset, I was only thinking about me.  For example,  ‘This person treated me unfairly and I missed out on some things I wanted to do.’  At one time in my life I had so much anger and bitterness stored up that I wouldn’t let go of and I was very unhappy. There’s so many people that live their lives that way.  I’ve learned to let go of my anger and bitterness in my life and am much happier.  We should quit being so self centered and stop only thinking about ourselves all the time.  Not only does being angry hurt you, but it hurts the people around you and makes them miserable as well.  People remember that.  And I don’t want to be remembered as being angry, mean and grouchy all the time.  Living with anger and bitterness is honestly a miserable way to go through life and life is too short to live being angry.

So I was inside our house this afternoon minding my own business when I heard a funny noise from outside.  I went out to see what the poop it was.  I go out the front door to find the fire hydrant in the middle of the yard about 100 feet from where it originally was. I was like huh?  At first I thought it blew up.  But then an ambulance and police car went flying down the street to where an SUV had hit another car and rolled over.  Come to find out that that SUV was stolen and went around the curve by our house doing about 80 and hit the hydrant.  Hooray.  It was all on breaking news and everything. Pretty exciting.  So there were pieces of paint and glass all over the yard.  Finally got most of the big pieces picked up. Somehow cut the top of my foot too.  The city came and picked up the hydrant with a crane type thing and shoved an orange cone in the hole where it used to be. We still have no hydrant and don’t know when we will get a new one.  So in the mean time we have to try not to set the house on fire.

In the last 2 days Norma Jean has lost 2 of her baby teeth.  Way to go Norma Jean!  She tried to eat them after they came out so who knows how many she’s actually lost and eaten.  Oh well.

Today Grandma Pat came by with a bunch of neat toys for Kaden.  One is like a car thing with a steering wheel and it makes neat car sounds. He’ll like it when he get’s a little older. Dad came over for a little bit to see him.  Him and my sister came by for a while yesterday too.  Everyone seems to like Kaden.  He must be pretty cool.  Except for right now because he’s screaming.  So he’s been pretty busy with all his visitors.  Christen will be staying with us over the weekend too.  We’re gonna get pizza for dinner tomorrow and chill.  Saturday, dunno what we’re doing.  Sunday we have to go to Arlington to visit more family.  Hooray.  That’s about it I think.  Yup.

Why is it I’m never satisfied with all that I have?  I always want something different. I get what I want, am happy with it for a  while then want something different.  I want it with someone else, in a different place or both.  But really everything I ever wanted is right in front of my face and I’ve already got it.  Why do I forget that?  I’ve got the most wonderful, loving husband ever. He works hard for me and our baby and even helps out with him when he gets home from work.  Don’t know of many other guys that would actually do that.  He loves and respects me and how I feel, is gentle and never hurtful and isn’t afriad that showing that he loves me will make people think he’s any less of a man.(like some guys I’ve met) He listens to me when I just need to talk. He truely and genuinly loves and cares about his family. I couldn’t have asked for a better husband to spend the rest of my life with.  No one could ask for anything else.  The only thing I’d change is I wish he didn’t have to be gone at work so much but we’re working on that.  He’s trying to think of something he can do from home that will make money.  So why do I still frivolously wonder what it’d be like with someone else?  It couldn’t be any better, it’d be worse because I’ve already got everything a girl could want and the best husband in the world.  Sometimes I have to remind myself of that.  Like I’ve said in some of my other posts, it’s easy to take the things and people in your life for granted.  My husband has given me the life I dreamed about when I was little, and I can’t wait to spend the rest of our lives together. 

Ugh, I thought I was rid of him, but no.  I checked my phone this morning and had a message from a (913) number that I didn’t know.  So I replied back, ‘who is this?’  He said, “Is this Laura?”  I said, “It depends..who is this?”  Then he CALLS me.  I of course didn’t answer because I still don’t know who it is. (By this time I kind of figured..)  Then he sends me another message, “Why didn’t you answer?  It’s David, we used to talk a long time ago.”  I didn’t reply.  A little while later he sends me another message “What’s wrong?”  I still didn’t answer.  A litte while later he sends it AGAIN, “What’s wrong?”  I still haven’t said anything else and don’t plan to.  I tried blocking him on my phone but apparently it didn’t work cuz I still got more messages. I’m sure it won’t be the last message I get, he doesn’t get the hint and never did apparently.  All the times I said “I just don’t want to talk to you.” weren’t enough I guess?  I would even hang up on him and he’d call right back and leave a message and be like, “Hey, I guess we lost connection, call me back!” Uh, no dumbass, I HUNG UP ON YOU!! Retard.  He would call several times a day. After a long while of being harassed, Chad finally answered when he called and said this wasn’t my number anymore.  I didn’t hear anything from him for years..until today.  I thought I was rid of him forever.  Ugh!  I really hope all that doesn’t happen again.  Way to start off your day, eh? *Sigh*

Did a lot of yard work today. I can’t stand yard work.  I hate outside, I hate trees, I hate heat and I hate bugs. Chad mowed and trimmed the bushed and I pulled all the weeds out of the front flower bed.  I absolutely hate pulling weeds.  I met several bugs; a centipede, 2 funny beetles, a few large wolf spiders, a few disgusting bag worms, some rolly pollys, a couple little worms and a small green spider that was hanging on me.  I smashed them all except for the rolly pollys.  I hate bugs!  A random dog came up and was all hot and panting and laid down next to me.  I felt bad for her so took my gloves off and went inside to get her some water.  I came back and she had ran off with one of my gloves.  Rude dog.  Oh well I guess.

That’s pretty much all we did today.  We went to McAlister’s Deli for lunch.  It was pretty good, better than Panera anyways cuz you can get something other than nasty plain chips or an apple for a side.  I got mashed potatoes! Yum!!!  It’s a little expensive for the amount of food you actually get though.  Then Grandma Pat came over for a little while to play with Kaden.

We’re grilling chicken now, it should be yummy!!!

That is all.

Not much gone on recently.  Kaden takes up most of my time now.  He’s getting big.  He’s now eating cereal and doesn’t sleep in his snugglenest anymore.  But I’ve already posted about all that on Kaden’s site.

Norma Jean is still alright.  We hardly ever call her that though.  She usually just gets called, “Dog.”  It’s easier to say.    She has chewed up 2 of Kaden’s pacifiers now so we’re down to 1.  She thinks they’re fun to chew on I guess.

I did a lot of cleaning today.  I didn’t get everything done that I had on my list. Oh well, I got most of it done.  I’ll finish the rest tomorrow.  I still need to finish painting the basement too but I don’t have the motivation.  Ugh.

Nothing else has gone on really.  We went to Chili’s the other night.  It was late so we just wanted appetizers.  I love their Awesom Blossom and have been craving one for a long time.  So that’s what I ordered.  But much to my suprise, I was informed that they no longer have them.  How could they get rid of the Awesome Blossom?!  I don’t know, but I’m pretty upset about it all.  Whoever made that decision to do away with them was a very dumb person because I am going to find them, strip them down, tie them up shave their head and hot glue glitter and confetti to their head and the rest of their body.  Then I’m going to take them downtown, tie them to a street post and make them hold a sign that says, “I’m the stupidest person in the world.”  Then set them on fire.

That will make it better.  Well, maybe not. There would still be no Awesome Blossom. But at least I’d feel better. 

We decided to change the dog’s name to Norma Jean.  Everyone thought “Birt” was a boys name.  So now she’s Norma Jean.  Norma Jean is my Grandma’s name and she’s been trying to get everyone in the family that has a baby girl to name it after her.  Obviously, no one wants to.    So we named our little girl after her.  Hooray!