Grandma's Old Saying.

I don't get it at all, but my Grandma used to say, so I thought I would post here to keep forever. We all loved her so.


Shule-shule-shule-li rool
Shule-li-sack-a-rack
Silly-bolly-cool
First time I swan
Silly bolly eel
Dis come boogle
Boo come so real

I want you to know, no matter how badly your dream or your heart feels shattered, know that in those shattered pieces, is where the most beautiful treasures are waiting to make your heart sparkle! Many times our hearts feel shattered, but in that broken-ness, just might be the sparkle to shine light on a new love, a new dream, a new hope.--K. Johnson

Some Music I Like

Chasing Cars............................ Snow Patrol
Stop and Stare.......................... OneRepublic
Whatever It Takes....................... Lifehouse
It's Not My Time........................ 3 Doors Down
Right Here.............................. Staind
First Time.............................. Lifehouse
It's Not Over........................... Daughtry
It's Been Awhile........................ Staind
Never Too Late.......................... Three Days Grace
Over You................................ Daughtry
Blurry.................................. Puddle of Mudd
Home.................................... Daughtry
So Far Away............................. Staind
Let It Rock............................. Kevin Rudolf & Lil Wayne
Love Remains the Same................... Gavin Rossdale
45...................................... Shinedown
Hanging By a Moment..................... Lifehouse

Great......

The most popular day to my blog is the day I posted something I should not have. A broken heart can make one a little insane. I am sorry for my temporary insanity to those who were unfortunate enough to catch it.

TRUST NO ONE...THEN NO ONE WILL HURT YOU.

Wilmington/Wrightsville Beach, NC

I wanted to take my daughter to the beach, before school starts back next week. I also wanted to see my parents, so she asked, "Mommy, why can't we do both?" Not a bad idea, so I called my parents up and asked if they wanted to join us at the beach, they said yes. So I picked one close to their house. I chose to stay in Wilmington. The beaches were nice. Haley and I had a good time with the waves, collecting shells and getting all sandy. We all enjoyed the walks along the beach, one of my favorite things to do at the beach.

I wish my son could have gone, but he had some JROTC Officer stuff to do.

HE PASSED!!!!!

I was worried about my son passing his driver's test. The last couple of days, I had heard quite a few people say how they failed their first time. So I didn't say anything to my son. He was worried he would fail.

We spent quite a bit of time on parallel parking this weekend. I remember when I took my test, my instructor having me parallel park. When I was done, she said, "You did a great job, but I want you to get closer to the curb". I remember thinking, "CRAP".

After he finished with his parallel parking, he knew he had it made. Sure enough, they went out driving and he came back and had passed. He says it was actually very easy. So all the work I did teaching him paid off.

And of course, once we got home, he left on his own in his own car. I just realized I need to get off this blog and go pray for his safety. You want them to reach that next milestone of growing up and then you realize that they are still your little child, who you want to hold on to and protect.

Yeah!!!!!

Daughter graduated!!!!!!!!!! Congrats to her!!!!!

Son asked girl out and she said yes!!!!!!!!!!! Not usually a big deal, but the last girl he asked out, whom we all were sure she liked him, said no. He has not wanted that rejection again, so hopefully he'll have confidence again in that area. And of course the same friends that have been teasing him for not having a girlfriend yet are now teasing him because he has a date. Which is kind of funny since these same boys have only had internet "girlfriends".

And I go to pick up my dogs at my sister's house (we went out of town) and Bailey spent the whole time following me around her house. She sure didn't want me to forget her.

My Dogs

I just feel like saying how much I love my dogs. I do have a favorite, Bailey. I hate saying that I have a favorite, but Bailey and I have a connection. We formed a bond back when I worked nights and she would sleep with me during the day. I was her safe haven. That is how I ended up with her, because she really was my dog, although she was my sister's family dog. They knew it, I knew it.

I feel bad when I go out of town and she doesn't eat, and Sam doesn't either. The look on their faces when I come through the door is priceless. They are so happy to see me. Their little tails going at a remarkable speed.

Dogs are so great.

I was thinking of them, because for some reason, if I lay on the floor, they get so excited. I am a "free for all". They get in my face. Bailey wags her tail and is all in my face, trying to lick me on the neck and face. It just made me laugh and smile and realize I needed to give a shout out of joy for my dogs.

Daytona

I chaperoned a trip to Daytona, for my son's drill team. It was the National Drill Team Competition. It was such an enjoyable trip.
We didn't have to chaperon too much, since these kids are part of a well run JRotc program, they do not act up. Other than spending time on Friday at the convention center, we were free to do whatever we wanted. So Thursday night, Karen and I walked the beach. Then all the adults went out to dinner together at Bubba Gumps. Friday the chaperons went out to breakfast and then spent the rest of the day at the convention center. Karen and I did sneak in a little time during a big break and sit by the pool and had lunch. During another break the 3 of us women went shopping at the gift shop, Mike, the other adult, went and watched more of the competitions. The chaperons went to a Mexican restaurant (Adobe) that was not so good, apparently it used to be, but under new management now. Saturday was free day, so Karen and I went and rented a couple of chairs with and umbrella. Then we went to breakfast. We then spent the whole day at the beach. We could not have asked for better weather. The umbrella kept us protected from the sun. The kids were able to spend a lot of time together, just having fun, playing tag football, going to the arcade, getting henna tattoos, driving go-carts. It was a great day. Some of us women went for a stroll along the beach. I really liked the beach, where we were, the sand was great. However, the water was way too cold. We stayed at the Hilton, so all of our rooms over-looked the beach. Karen, Kate, Mike and I went to dinner at Ocean's Deck. It was very good.

Well, all good things must come to an end and we had to leave Sunday morning. You could tell it was going to be another beautiful day.

It was such a wonderful weekend. I kept asking myself, before the trip, "What have I signed up for?" But I would do it again in a heart beat. I am so proud of the kids, especially so proud of my son and am so happy he is in such a wonderful, disciplined program at his high school.

Yeah!

Soon, I hope to be adding many more recipes. My son has agreed to cook 5 meals a week. Of course, he may change his mind after the first week. I told him to pick the meals, give me a shopping list and his dad and I will do the cleaning, which I prefer that end of the meal, any day. I hope he enjoys it. He wants to learn how to be a good cook, so hopefully this will do it for him. He hates my cooking. Of course, I am limited to what I can make, since my husband doesn't like many different things, mixed together (like cheese and chicken). My son gets to make anything that sounds good to him and he is wanting them to be on the healthy side. I have some tried and true recipes that everyone likes, but it doesn't go far. So we are bored of them. He is excited, because I told him I would pay him to cook us dinner. I told him only five per week, and I will take care of the rest, or we will go out. I hope he likes it, for all of our sakes!

Chapel Hill-UNC-Planetarium

This was the first time I have ever been to the actual city of Chapel Hill, kind of made me wish I had moved there when I had the chance. A lot better than anywhere in Atlanta.




This was the most boring planetarium I have been to. Notice, how bored my son was. However, the town was great. We walked around the campus and the town for a couple of hours. A gorgeous day!

We went to Trader Joe's, too. Interesting place. Definitely a different employee atmosphere than at a grocery store. And they didn't have the soy protein chips that Dawn picks up for me. :(

A Movie Line I want to Save

From "Waitress":

"I was addicted to saying things and have them matter to someone".

OK

My daughter wants to know why I always say, Okey Dokey. I don't have a clue how to spell that. So apparently that and the word crap are used too much by me, esp. when my daughter notices I use them too much. Oh well, hard to teach an old dog new tricks. I have been saying them both too long, to think not to use so much anymore.

Daughter

One day, a week or two ago, my daughter was asking me all about Buffalo's. I don't know much about them, but tried to answer her questions. She was mainly interested in what they would do to us, if we saw one. "Would they eat us?", was one of the questions she was most interested in the answer. I was wondering why she had this interest in buffaloes, of all things. Then it occurred to me that a huge snowstorm had hit Buffalo, NY, and I made some commit on how awful Buffalo was the day before.

:)

Stuff from Haley 3/18/08

Yesterday my husband and I were walking when he told me about a conversation that he had with my daughter when he was taking her to school. She told him that I had used two very bad words. The one that rhymed with "duck" and the one that rhymed with "well". And I said them both "two days in a row". (Both words are in the song 'Girlfriend' a song we were singing, she, however, much better than her mom, does not sing those words).

So my husband, being who he is, told her, "Why don't you tell your teacher." Hoping I would get a note sent home. But instead, she told him, "No, I am going to tell GRANDMA and GRANDPA".

:)

Fun with the Mail Today

The difference between Scott's two sons:

We got several pieces of mail for both of them.

My son got an invitation to attend a medical summer camp for high achievers and a notice that he will be invited to The National Society of High School Scholars.

My stepson got a Red Man chewing tobacco advertisment.

We couldn't help but laugh, because the mail certainly knows who is who. Got to love it. We love both of our sons and are proud of both of them, and are just happy if they are happy (even though we dish out advice, that is rarely followed), but it is just so funny how different they are.

Crap I just feel like saying.

**I am proud of my son. He is doing so well in school. It doesn't come naturally, he has to work hard, so he does. He is doing very well in his officer program. He says I don't say how proud I am of him enough. So I figured I would publish it for everyone to know.
**Love the old man at the top of the hill in our sub. Everytime we walk up that horrid hill, he sits there and claps and bows, knowing we made it, and he is impressed. It justs makes us feel good inside.
**I was resistant to digital scrapbooking, until last weekend's crop. My sister was starting. It was so cool. I think I will actually be more creative, which is what I was worried about.
**I think I am going to love digital scrapbooking.
**I am trying really hard not to get addicted to talk radio again. But it is hard, I want to know what is going on in the politics arena, so then I start listening and start getting too into it.
**It hurts to know that someone you think the world of, does not and never did feel the same.
**I hate that I care and let it hurt
**I hate miscommunication.
**I am thankful for the ENT doctor, who didn't tell me to take allergy pills, but that I had something wrong. So is treating me for it.
**I hate when you complain to your doctor about something for at least a year, and constantly told, just take allergy pills. But finally when I got pissed and wasn't going to take that as to the reason I was dizzy constantly, did they finally decide I needed further assessment.
**I hate that I never backed up my computer. A lesson learned the hard way.
**I am so excited that there are so many smart people out there. I thought all my music was lost, except what was on my IPod, but someone created a program to copy my music back on to my computer.
**I hate surprises.
**I wish people would leave their attitudes at home and not bring them to work. Just brings the atmosphere down.
**I love my new church, it is so cool.
**I hate it when someone does not use their turn signal--BEFORE braking.