Our internet and cable our back up and running!  And kudos to our wonderful service tech from comcast who spent nearly four hours fixing it.  We lost our internet connection completely out of the blue.  One day it worked next day nothing.  Two days later our cable connection on the second floor (same floor as the computer) went out. No tv in the bedrooms. :(   Comcast was at our house last night and we needed to have everything re-wired including the connection from our house to the main comcast box in our yard.  It appears that our wiring was so old that it couldn't handle the new HD and high speed internet connections.  But now everything is right in the world...haha!  I'm sure the kids will be hogging the computer after school today....you know you can't go days without u-tube and i-tunes. :)

On a good note because the service tech had to go into the attic through our master bedroom I will get to do a deep cleaning of our room.  We had to kinda throw everything out of his way so our room is a disaster area at the moment.  I think tonight after dinner I will start attacking it.  It desperately needs a good cleaning.

Enjoy the day!

Lulu

FOOTBALL!

It's Friday!!!  And the highschool football season starts TODAY!  MJ has his first game of the season tonight.  So exciting...I do enjoy watching him play. He might even quarterback a little this game.  It's been a couple years since he played quarterback.  Got burnt out from it so he is looking forward to doing it again.

Not much else going on this weekend.  I've been srapbooking our camping trip so I'm looking forward to working on that this weekend.  And I need to get the hubby to clean the pool.  The usual household chores...ugh.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Lulu

Please ignore Donation button!

I have some family members & friends that want to do a sponsorship to my daughter's softball team so I directed them to my blog and attached our teams "donation" button for them to complete the sponsorship.

Unless....you have a company that would like to sponsor a 13U girls travel softball team...please go ahead and click on "Donate".  :)

Otherwise just ignore it.  Once they process their sponsorship I am going to remove the button. 

Thanks and have a great day!

Lulu

My crabby day :(

It must be "PMS" time for me cause boy am I crabby.  It really hit me hard last night when I got home from work.  Anything and Everything bothered me.  I then realized that I had a touch of crabbiness on Sunday afternoon. And I can't stop eating.  As I write this I am snacking on caramel popcorn and it's not even lunchtime yet.  Ok...I give in it's that time. 

I try really hard to catch myself when I'm crabby to warn my husband and kids.  I tell the kids that it's okay to be crabby just admit it.  It happens to everyone.  We all have happy, sad, and crabby days.  Just say "Hey look I'm felling this way today.  No real reason for it. Just am." And guess what...we take that into account and we will leave you alone.  Otherwise you get the "what's wrong" question over and over and over again until you just explode.  And guess what....YOUR CRABBY!

Don't you just hate it when that happens!  Hehehe!!!

Well, I hope everyone out in the blog world is having a good Tuesday! 

Talk to you soon!

Lulu

Back to Reality!

School is back in session! I took some time off of work last week to get the kids back to school and enjoy the peace and quiet in the house.  I do love this time of year.  J started middle school and MJ is now a sophomore in high school.  J came home from school on the first day and loves being in middle school. She loves having a locker and changing classes.  She is also looking forward to joining Drama Club.  She is my drama queen. HAHA!

MJ, well what can I say, he is in his complaining phase. He claims none of his friends are in his classes and he doesn't get to sleep in anymore.  Teenagers....UGH!!!  He is playing football again this year so he is enjoying that and he is happy that all of his classes are right by his locker so he doesn't have to carry numerous books all over the school.  Again...teenagers...UGH!!!

Last weekend we went camping in Apple Canyon Lake with friends for the last summer vacation trip.  It was alot of fun and the weather was perfect.  It has finally cooled off here in Illinois. We have spent most of this summer in a heat wave and drought. Our poor grass looks so dead.  But the weekend was perfect.  Our friends have a pontoon boat so we went on the lake for the day and went tubing and just relaxed.  It was great spending some time away together with friends!

The Girls!

MJ tubing!

Our guard dog...Smokie!

Have a great day!

Lulu

Wow August has begun!

I can not believe that it is already August 1st.  This summer has just flown by.  The kids go back to school in a couple of weeks and we still have so much to do.  We haven't even started school shopping yet..ugh!  I only say "ugh" because July was such a black cloud month for us.  I am happy that it is August for that reason...I'm hoping that the horrible black cloud that was over our family is gone...knock on wood.  Have you ever had one of those periods of time where just everything went wrong and it seemed like things just wouldn't get better and the hole you were in had no sign of light...that's how July was.  I do thank God for watching over us in July (it was that bad) and keeping my family safe.  I know that God and a lot of positive energy will make August a great month!

LuLu