found another diary tonight looking for our 2020 taxes Kevin needed for paperwork...
no date. found a Reese's peanut butter cup christmas tree melted into register under couch cleaning LR. ain't motherhood grand? Brother Markum called to tell us services will be held in the not quite completed new church since furnace in old church isnt' working right.
Jan 9 another red letter mom day here in north Missouri. it all started driving to work the low collant light flashed on and off, stayed on all the way home, had Kevin check it out, I'm throwing fluid so it goes in shop tomorrow. I wanted to borrow Koren's car and she told me I always slam the door too hard and it's gonna fall off. Katie hid the money she was supposed to pay Kay today. (her sunday school offerings often end up in her money jar.) . Kate found the money, then we took it to Kay's. Katie likes to pay her, so just leave the money in her bag that she takes with her. I was pissed about something online I was trying to do, then Kate was pissed and throwing stuff all over the already trashed LR, so I told her if she threw anything else, she's never be allowed in the LR ever again, which is the lamest threat ever since this is a main exit/entrance point. she put on her boots and went out to build an igloo like she'd seen on tv. we're all in a mood today, it seems.
Jan 8. made the preschool snow ice cream recipe after we got home from Family Reading Night. Donnie Stark is the new school janitor.
KJ got his lip caught in his braces twice yesterday. Ortho told him to rince with saltwater for the bruise. he didn't want to and announced it didn't hurt anymore.
JAn 7. Kevin called to see if I was ready to be picked up, we were waiting on truck to show up for 3rd load feeder pigs, so Martha brought me home.
Jan 5. all area schools cancelled. Kevin brought me home 2L of Pepsi and put in fridge. Kj to orthodontist. 9.5 degrees at 6:25 a.m. Kate was in snow to her knees helping me feed dogs.listed books on eBay.
Jan 4 snowed in. I got Lumina stuck on curve trying to get to town for Pepsi. Kevin had to save me. I. am. out. of. Pepsi. Lije came in on tractor to check cows and brought me a bottle of Pepsi and bladed our road and driveway. said roads were almost impassable by tractor.
Jan 3. I am grateful for many things. that we are together and healthy. for Midol, Always with Wings and Sudafed. Puffs Plus with lotion. for our jobs such as they are. for a landlady who lets us get behind on the rent when times are tough or I just flat out forget to pay it without evicting us. that our December bills are paid except for property taxes. a washer and dryer that work. vehicles that run. that we're so far surviving Debtscape payments. that I haven't completely lost it yet that our first child is about to fly the coop. we have food in the house and gas $ till payday. that Finding Nemo made it to satellite, cheaper to rent than buy the vhs. and that I finally remembered to buy Koren a phone. I am grateful that it is my weekend off and I can wear jammies all day. that I have time to read and scrapbook. that I'm still tough enough to work in the barn. and that I've made it almost 2 years without surgery. the computer. Koren checked out Grandma Grace at HyVee today and bagged her groceries.
Jan 2.not going to go into details here, but I was in a mood. You think he'd throw water on me if I was on fire???? Marriage.
Dec 28. Kj's bible he lost at church camp came back!
Dec 27 Katie has been falling asleep on floor working on her projects. Kate loves to play with Max.
Dec 14. Kj's Book It Pizza at Pizza Hut.
Dec 19. how time flies. when I was 18 I was head over heels in love. I had no career plans. now I think I'd like to be a paleontologist. or live in a Victorian mansion on a cliff overlooking the sea. or be a Civil War scholar scouring attics for old journals and letters, or work in a zoo or a book store or as a photographer. a writer. a librarian. travel in time to solve the Lizzie Borden or Jack the Ripper cases. or to feel the hot prairie son and be afraid of half dressed Indian braves and trying to herd too many small children in a wagon train? I try to keep genealogy current and scrapbook family memories, not an exciting life, butr it is my life. will I be remembered as a hog barn drudge or a mom who did whatever she had to for her kids? will you rememeber me lying on the bed staring out the window forgetting to make supper? our messy house? the rare trips to Pizza Hut? how I always tried to get you what you really wanted? for xmas and your birthday? the sleepovers? building snowmen? walking endless zoos and cemeteries? me telling you to 'put that back' at the store? how much I loved you? how much your dad and I loved each other?
Dec 20. Koren got a list of apartments from the college and soon she'll really be gone. no more piles of laundry, mountains of Mountain Dew bottles, no bidding on eBay from school, no stale cigarette smoke smell...going to see SAnta on the square, then take the kids to see Cat in the Hat although my cousin Robin warned me it. is. not. a. kids. movie.
'Whether fate decides our course or the imagination persists through the generations, I cannot say.'
Dec 23. I fell through a gate today carrying my AI supplies, smashed my head into a gate, my hand through a gate, and banged my damn knees up on the slats. Earlier I had leaned over and got my hair caught in the electric tail burner I had plugged in overhead. Katie has been 'too sad to sleep" and 'too scared to sleep'. 'the curtains scare me because I can see the black.'
xmas eve. I hurt like a mother from my little fall yesterday. katie got a Dora doll and guitar. Kj got new GameBoys games and a Video Now.
Dec 1. KAte spent $18 of her birthday money at DG on a Bratzy dress up doll, light up wand, and Kelly toys.
Dec 2. Kevin lets Kate open her advent calander and eat the chocolate before school. sleet.
Dec 3. Kate stayed home cough and fever. I went to work with cough and fever. (gonna be 100% honest here, I've went to work contagious with about every damn thing over the years....)
Dec 4. KAte woke me up at 2:30 with a fever. Kate and I to dr. my ribs hurt from coughing. we have 'the new strain of flu.' Rx of Promethazine. (nasty tasting magical no more cough and comatose sleep medicine.) Kate 47.5. I'm 222.
Dec 5. KJ went to school nurse FOUR times today with headache, he is now feverish and puking.
Dec 7. do I feel better? I work up at the exact time I'm supposed to check risers. will I get fired today?
Dec 13. Katie on day 4 of 10 day antibiotic. sent Koren off to work with the car phone. the roads make me nervous.
half day. can't buy 3 cold medications at Dollar General on same day. Walmart doesn't give a fuck how much cold medicine I buy for the 5 sick people in my house. ugh.
Nov 23. Katie was supposed to be a cow in the church Christmas play, but she wants to be a monkey, so I'll make her a costume. Kj is sick. Koren called in sick to work. Can't get her to take NyQuil. my firm belief is if you take it for a week you'll feel better or you'll die. either way, problem solved. blundered into Chillicothe the day of the damned Xmas parade. ugh.
Thanksgiving, Kate & I helped do chores at farm until she got sick and had to come home. KJ still has diarrhea. he missed school again yesterday.
Day after Thanksgiving, saw Brother Bear at Corydon theater. bank said 16 degrees.
Nov 29. Kj says he still has diarrhea. KJ, KATe, and I to Mom and Dad's for supper.
Nov 30 Brown family dinner. KAtie took a blanket from Koren's bed for her tent and Koren took it back.
no date. Miss Val told Koren when she picked Katie up from preschool that when asked how the kids Thanksgivings had been, Katie said hers was horrible because Cody was there and she hated him.
Jan 11 Kevin asked me when I woke up at 2a.m.ish to go to bathroom where Koren was. she doesn't appear to have come home from work. he thinks she spent the night at Cody's. Cody called about 3:30 a.m. to say she'd fell asleep at his house and she came home with Cody about 4 a.m. and asked why I was up.
Jan 12 KJ stayed home from school with cough. Kate rode the bus for the first time.
Jan 13. I love the way death is presented in Sins Of The Seven Sisters. when grown up Hughie goes to cemetery, he sees his great aunt Almeda striding around like she looked the first time he met her. she tells him she wants moved to a different cemetery, there is no one to talk to there. they can only go so far away, and John Wilkes Booth gets up twice a week and takes a shot at Her. when someone else comes, she just disappears. low antifreeze light coming on again. used KJ's Book It at Pizza Hut. used Koren's 10% HyVee discount. she checked us out. KJ home from school again. c/o ear pain. sinus and ear infection, bag of antibiotics, weighs 112. fire at Mercer city Hall a.m.
"Many famous people never got a college degree, people like Thomas Alva Edison, Harry S. Truman, and John Wilkes Booth." Kj home sick again today. Princeton Post said City Hall fire was suspected arson, objects thrown in thru back windows. Koren requested an early out note so she can go to O'Reilly's on her way to work for more car parts.
no date: the church van kids didn't get to take part in Moving Day. KAte fell on ice in driveway, KJ half carried, half drug her to house. she was screaming because his pieces of pizza were bigger than hers, and her poor nose is raw from her cold, she finally locked herself in our only bathroom with her box of Kleenix. she opened up color books all over livingroom and placed piles of crayons by them so she could stay up all night coloring. bitter cold.
Jan 17. Kevin took KJ to BB clinic, I picked him up after work. he won his 2nd Gatoraide at the Gator shoot! and Katie and I again got to see it!
Jan 16 took $18 to fill the Lumina.
Jan. 15 found out on the yearbook order form that Katie brought home that Koren is on yearbook. KJ was top speller in Spelling Bee Tryout! Kate brought home her first book bag. (at this point and time I ahve no idea...guessing this was a big deal.) Koren's graduation trunk arrived today, also going to order her a picture frame. not a lot to send a kid out in the world with....I wish we could do more.
Jan 19. left work early and picked up KAtie to go to dr we both have sinus infections. she weighs 48, me 232. Dr. concerned with my tonsils and possible sleep apnea. wants me to do a sleep study and consider tonsil removal.
JAn 20. Kate rode bus to and from school. last week Kevin called me on way to work, he saw a bald eagle by Gary Porters. (this used to be a rare thing. now we see eagles often. it is amazing.
JAn 23. KJ wore his shirt backwards to school for picture day. the poor guy really needs a mom who's home in the morning. Katie hid her Rx and acted like she took it. Koren decided Teen Court was gay.
Jim Palmers conservation column didn't address the mountain lion checked in at Robinsons Station, but did say the fuzzy pic printed in The Mirror was an internet fraud. it was taken in Washington in 2002.
(I have this in no particular order) JAn 30. cold, cold, cold. my riser day. busted my ass on a divider lying under the snow. actually fell flat on my back. KA-BOOM!
Jan 28. tax day.
Jan. 27 satellite disconnected. said they didn't receive payment, Kevin argued over phone and finally got it turned back on with a reconnect fee. Miss VAl says Katie, Kelsey, and Destiny put on shows on the picnic tables at recess.
JAn 24 Koren checked me through her express 12 or less items lane at HyVee. Katie ate her ENTIRE Happy Meal, down to the last french fry. Dixie called about 8:20 p.m. and started the conversation with "I'm going to ask you a something and don't you lie to me." someone had told her they saw a little truck with Iowa plates at Lije's and that Barbara who used to run the Lineville cafe would ruin Lije and her 4 boys would take everything and throw Kevin out on the street and he better tell his dad.
Jan 23. to Mom's store. Sears had sent us the wrong portraits, they called, I will mail these back and they'll send right ones. Financial aid meeting for college. KAtie is excited learning about whales, the ocean, and salt water. Chery Berndt had another daughter, 5 lbs. Trinity.
Feb 2. Groundhog Day. he saw his shadow. Kevin took me to work, slick and snowing, all area schools cancelled BUT Mercer, they really value the lives of their students. I'll give them that. Martha brought me home. KAte set up an elaborate camping game. with bed and blankets for her babies, a gun for protection, food & dishes, a dinosaur to type on her toy computer, and a realistic campfire made out of sidewalk chalk.Markham's garage caught on fire about the same time Brian Hardin fell off his roof.
Jan. 31 KJ is coughing again. Valetines Photo Shoot at Jody's Little Photo Shop. spilled my plate of roast, carrots, and potatoes on living room rug. Kevin went to borrow a 4wd and met his dad's new girlfriend. not who Dixie thought it was. took the littles to Cold Mountain, when we left all the other adults were scowling at me (another inappropriate movie). Kj took her to bathroom during movie for me.
no year given. Feb. 3: left work early for dr appt. B/P 130/90. blood sugar 94. hemoglobin 12 or 14. weight 232 in boots and holding George Washington book. Dr. didn't say one word about my weight (this time) but did get on me for caffeine addiction.
Feb. 4: Kate bought herself $2.49 in snacks at Ragan's with $ from her change jar. while studying for Spelling Bee I learn that my hair has a description: "hoary." can I remove the proofs on the kids picture packs and not order them? I kinda think I've done it before. and I'm still walking around a free woman.
Feb5: Kevin took me to/from work, blizzard white out conditions. school out at noon for weather. Katie gave her Dora a haircut. black wisps of hair everywhere. KJ got on deathwatch.com to see when we'd all die. me 2004. Kevin 2019.
Feb. 6 stayed home with kids since I'd already taken day off and school was called off. hit my not quite healed shaving boo boo at work and about bled to death.
Nov 18. Kevin got his deer, a little 6 pt. button buck. make beer bread and cheesey potato soup from mixes for supper.
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Nov 17. Breadeaux Beat The Clock pizza for supper. requested I make a Thanksgiving dinner since it is her last one at home. (so this entry is 2003.)
>Nov. 16. hb $2.69/lb. at Ragans. took Katie and KJ to see Scary Movie 3. (I always was the best mom for taking kids to inappropriate movies.)
Nov 19. Katie helped Kevin cut up his deer. she bummed rides with Grandpa Lije on 4wheeler and tractor, showed us the Indian dance she learned at school.
Nov. 20. where is the mop?
