Getting Old..and other ramblings

So, while most 4 yr olds are planning their weddings, careers,w hatever, my daughter is making plans for getting old. We were in the car, on the way to take her to school and she started talking about old people. The last few days she has showed a lot of "interest" in elderly ppl, going so far as to asking why the lady in front of us in line at the store was old. So, I asked her what her fascination was...she goes on to say, "mom, when i get old,will i have a cane? I said, you might. She said, to help me walk? I said, yes that's hwat they are for. Like my grandma with whipe hair? (she means white hair and is referring to my gma). I said, yes, Great Grandma has a cane to help her walk. She gets all excited and says, "When i get old, i want a pumpkin cane." I repeated it back. Yep, she is all about having a pumpkin cane when she gets old, to help her walk. Wow! It was cute. OF course, in the midst of this conversation, she had asked why ppl are old. I explained ot her that you start out as a baby, grow to toddler, and so on...listing each phase and giving examples....teenager like cousin markie, etc. Well, then she was quiet for a few minutes and says, in the most concerned type of voice, "mom, i don't wanna get old." I almost died! It was sad and cute all at once.

Sick of the bedtime hassle, i put my foot down tonight..they are both in their beds...i keep putting him back every time he gets up. He is to the point where when he sees me coming down the hall, he starts crying again...kinda sad, but hopefully the point hits him. Tomorrow night i will start this much earlier, while dad is awake to help out. Although, it must count as some sort of exercise when im constantly up down, down the hall, pivot to get him in his bed, stand in doorway for a few mins, back down hall, back down, back up..and start all over again. Please tell me this is a workout and counts as exersize. LOL. tomorrow, i shall start my work out at 7pmish. Dad can continue it will i pick makenneh up..and hopefully he will be sleeping by the time i get back...then start with makenneh shortly thereafter. This is one thing i hate about them sharing a room and why i have avoided this whole sleep mess. Bc you get one down, then have to battle the other, the first one gets woke up, and repeat. Or, they go in there together and they battle, keeping each other awake. It's a losing fight, sometimes. Makenneh is being easier tonight, bc i gave her incentive. I told her that she cannot go ride the horses until she is going to bed, in her own bed, without a fight. Mean momma. LOL. but as soon as i said that, she said, ok mom, i will go to my bed. I listen. And she did go to her bed and lay down. Now, whether she actually stays in there is another thing. I am just waiting for her to come out, mommy, im thirsty,im this, im that...I still haven't breathed, since the last time i went in to put seb down. It is quiet in there as far as i can tell, but the furnace is running and it's btwn where i am sitting and their bedroom, so drowns out quiet noises. I didn't even let them have the tv on. it is dark in the whole house, except for one little desk light.

I started saving my coke rewards. i never thought to do it until i went to bargain zone on bz. One of the ladies posted how she had just gotten a month of total access from blockbuster for free by saving coke points on the cap. DUH! WE drink tons of coke around here and i may as well get something for it, besides fat! The bad thing is, you can only enter 10 codes a day and I have quite a few to put in. Now that i know, i can get caught up and then just enter them as we drink the pop. A few more days and we should be able to get our total access free. There are other rewards as well, but for now, that's what we are shooting for. We loved having hte total access, but just didn't have the money to renew this month. So, pretty good timing. WE will go about a week and half, to two weeks without it, then have it free from coke! woohoo!

Other good news...my hubby fixed the floor today. The spot in front of the door was very bad and finally gave way. So, he had to come home from work and get right on fixing it. I felt bad bc he even had to eat dinner btwn measuring, sawing, screwing,etc. But, then again, i go go go all the time...and nobody feels bad for me...lol. We still have a few other weak spots that need fixed. They use good for nothing partical board on these floors in trailers and well, it swells, rots, crumbles...useless. My sister thinks she has some OSB that we can have....so hopefully she does and we can finish the rest of the floor. I hate to put money in this place, bc well, i don't wanna be here long.

Im on a roll tonight, sorry! The lady came to get the wedding dress today. When they got home, the mom emailed me, thanking me yet again for the wonderful gift. They are so appreciative. And get this...they are getting married Aug. 11..that's my bday. I will copy part of her email...it made me cry.

thank you so much for such a beautiful dress. the wedding will be august 11 again thank you .. any ideas you have to help save money are welcome. I made her vail and I am doing the flowers. It is going to be small and just family and close friends you know how it goes. Thank you again for such a beautiful dress . would you like it back or would you like us to free cycle it when we are done? we will send you a picture. You must have looked like a princess!

Thank you,Billie

I know i did the right thing. And the cool thing is, she offered a picture. I really wanted one..just thought it would make a neat scrapbook page..b.ut didn't want to come off as some crazy. Even if i might be...lol (can't get italics off now...darn thing). Anyway, I was also impressed with her asking if i would like it back...very thoughtful. I just feel so wonderful! The bride to be told me that they had planned on getting married last year, but had to cancel bc of money. So, im glad that I was able to help them make it a reality! I have also been offering them lots of money saving ideas. We have planned/help plan many weddings and all on small budgets. My wedding was everything i wanted it to be and was around $8000. They say the average wedding costs more like 15-20k. Bleh. That was with about 300 guests. So, not bad at all.

I've tried talking my mom into starting a wedding planning business. She does awesome floral work and we are all quite creative and crafty. And we have enough experience, for sure. I also worked 3 yrs at a party supply store, and i was promoted, if you will, to balloon counter manager, basically (their title..balloon counter specialist) bc i did awesome work with the balloons. We did all kinds of neat things with balloons. Put it all together, and i think we could make a go of it. most wedding planners charge a fortune and push brides to the higher cost...we would focus on having the event you want with the budget you can afford. And we have contacts with a cake lady, a disc jockey (but i would love to go into that business too..i love music and it would be such fun), a church and preacher who will marry non-members for a donation of the couple's choosing, not a set price, my mom on flowers....see, this could work! And then i would have a job that i loved. the thing that turns her off about it, is it will tie up weekends. That is a good point, but we wouldn't have to be a full service business, where we show up at hte wedding...that would be part of the cost cutting...we would give them all the leads they need, the ideas, know-how, they would do the more hands on...i mean, we could call and make the reservations for services, but they would have to send the deposit, things like that. So, it's not like we would have to be present at the actual doing or anything.

Ok i have to stop here...this italic font is killing me. I am anal about these things and i can't help but keep trying to get it to go off....grrr! Im even tempted to start all over..but this is way too much to rewrite. And if i copy and paste it will probably be the same problem, eh? Oh, maybe i will try it anyway...i feel like i could go on forever. And you guys are not busy what so ever and just love to devote your lives to reading my boring blog, right? Say it's so! LOL.

Yeah, copy and paste didn't solve the problem. So italics it is! i don't understand why it won't go back to regular font after you use italics. I will have to remember not to use it until the end. Oh well!

NOw that i have "talked your ear off" but really, bled your eyes out...lol, i will call it a night!