Squirrel Is In

My weekend, kinda boring really...

I usually don't post on the weekends but it has been such a quiet boring day today.  The weather is great and we should be out doing something but my husband is sick with a cold and he doesn't feel like doing anything but lay around and give me orders while he watches hockey.  I think he's watched 5 hockey games since Friday night.  Luckily I taped the whole weeks worth of As The World Turns last week so I've spent most of today since I got home from church watching that.  Yesterday I went to a new hairdresser and got my har highlighted and cut.  She did a good job but she took FOREVER to do it!  I got there at 9:30am and didn't leave until after 1:30!  That's an hour longer than it takes my old hairdresser.  I changed because they opened a new place here in town so now I don't have to drive 30 minutes to the next town to have my hair done, and this woman charges 10 dollars less too.  This new place has tanning beds.  I've never tanned in a tanning bed and I am thinking about doing it.  She says her beds are really good and I should have a pretty good tan after only going 3 or 4 times.  I know I probably shouldn't do it but I am so white and I know I won't do it all the time because I really can't afford to do it all the time and I know it's not healthy.  I know!  Who am I trying to convince you or me? 

My brother didn't answer my calls this morning when I called to see if he wanted to go to church with me.  I guess he changed his mind.  My dad told me he's been staying at their apartment.  He supposedly is getting his own apartment next week.  He also told my dad that he isn't going to go to court to fight the VPO my ex sister in law is getting against him.  He said he is going to leave her alone and the VPO will just ensure he stays away.  He's calmed down a lot and has made amends with my nephew.

Well I gotta go now, we're going to pick C-man up from his weekend visit with his mother.  Hopefully things went well and I won't have a crazy story for you tomorrow.

Storms are brewing...

It's a stormy day today, in more ways than one.  There are thunderstorms brewing in the skies and in the mind of my brother.  My husband has been on the phone with him for a few hours.  He is completely consumed with anger that his ex got a victims protection order against him.  I tried to talk to him this morning and explain that she did it because he is scary and the things he is saying and doing is the reason she got it but he wasn't listening to me and was just getting more and more angry.  He started talking about going over to her house and beating her up (he has never hit her or any woman before) and then he hung up on me.  I had my husband call him and they talked for a few hours.  My brother just called me and apologized for hanging up on me and told me that my husband is a good man and that he calmed him down.  My brother even said he might go to church with us Sunday.  I'll be shocked if that happens.  I think the man is mentally unstable.  I called my sister in law and told her that she might think about moving out of this small town.  My brother has already violated the VPO by calling her.  I don't know what she's going to do about it.  If it where me I would have him arrested.  I feel so helpless.  I hope my husband talking to him really has made a difference.

Submit your stories!!!

I am having so much fun on this new website reading all the funny stories that mothers have sent in! I haven't yet posted my own story though. I guess I better get to thinking because the dead line for round two is Saturday. The winning submission gets some great prize package.

I got an e-mail update update on Leah Remini's In the Motherhood last night:

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(#1 of 2) The Greatest Meltdown Moments in History

Your pulse begins to race. Your heart is pounding and blood rushes to your face. You want to run, yet your feet feel cemented to the floor. No, you're not having a total meltdown, your child is. Meltdowns are those natural disasters for which one never gets the benefit of a twenty-second warning. Once they're on, all bets are off and they usually go down in public at the most inopportune times. Tell us the worst, most unforgettable meltdowns (public or private) by your precious little darling. Tell us the when, where and "How the hell did this happen to me?!"

(#2 of 2) Unsolicited Mother or Mother-in-law Advice: I Didn't Ask so Don't Tell

Nobody knows how to take better care of your children than you, right? The answer seems obvious, unless your own mother, or worse yet, mother-in-law has anything to say about it. They assume we have no idea what we're doing, and if we don't stop, our children will be ruined for life. Share your stories of all that ‘wisdom' you wish you never got, and we'll turn it into a webisode that exposes how ridiculous their advice really is.

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Crazy brother, cavities, mud and secret pleasures...

My brothers ex wife got a victims protection order against him yesterday afternoon.  My nephew now hates my brother and told him he never wants to see him again.  I called my brothers ex and told her I don't blame her and i'm not upset with her or my nephew and if they need anything to just call me.  My brother is out of control and should never have gone to her job or called her making threats.  He is lucky she allowed him to stay at her house at all and just because he gave her a few hundred dollars does not make her his property.  I would have done exactly the same thing as she did.  Of course to keep the peace I am not attacking him, i'm just telling him to back off.  I told him this is step one to her having him thrown into prison for stalking and he needs to get a grip.  I'm not saying what he wants to hear so of course today I've not heard a word out of him.  He's now at my parents again, probably sleeping on their new and uncomfortable couch.  My mom and dad bought a new pretty but uncomfortable couch when they moved into their apartment.  When I asked why they bought an uncomfortable couch they said it was because they didn't want anyone getting too comfortable that tried to sleep on it!

On another note I took the boys to the dentist yestrday.  Eight freakin' cavities between the both of them!! I have been a pain in the ass bugging the crap out of them to brush and floss and they still have all these cavities.  C-man wants to brush his teeth for about 30 seconds so I have to literally stand over him to get him to brush longer.  T-man probably only brushes his teeth when I tell him to which is only every couple of days.  I tell him to do it every morning and night but I bet he's only doing it when I say something to him.  I guess I'm going to have to stand over him too, he 's 15 and has to have his mommy brush his teeth for him! 

Arghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh great, C-man just roller bladed into my bedroom bringing a trail of mud all the way through the house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to just let it go.  I'm going to shut my bedroom door and lock them all out and forget about everything.  I'm going to immerse myself in my secret pleasure.  I'm pulling out the secret stash...

More nuts in Squirrels life...

I have a younger brother who is 36 years old.  He married a girl when he was 21 years old and she left him three years later.  My brother (this is the one I talked about in this post) never remarried.  He has pined away now for 13 years saying he will never love anyone else.  In all these years he has one girl friend and that lasted approximately 6 mos, this was about 10 or more years ago.  Today he just called me and told me that he got a criminal trespassing ticket for sitting in his car in the parking lot of his ex-wife's job.  A couple of months ago my brother and my 15 year old nephew were told by my parents that they had to find a place to live (my brother and his son had been living with my parents).  My brother freaked out because he didn't want to support his son on his own so he paid his ex wife to move from the town she lived in and move to our town and let his son move in with her.  My brother assumed that since he was footing the bill for her to move here he was going to live with her too (she's not married).  The ex wife lets him stay over there on the couch for a couple of months but she tells him that he's got to find his own place because she has now found a boyfriend.  My brother lost his mind.  He's nuts like that.  Now he's taking off work to stalk her.  He just called me and asked me if I would help him fill out child support enforcement papers on her to get back child support for all the years my nephew lived with him.  He says that tonight he is going to get a police officer to go to her house with him to get his refrigerator and his washing machine.  All of this sounds like a train wreck waiting to happen.  And I don't know what to do.  I don't think there is anything I can do.  I think he needs to go to jail but then he'll start burning up the phone calling me collect making my life miserable.  Why do I have to have all these CRAZY people in my life!!!!  I swear if we win the lottery I'm moving as far away as I can get and leaving no forwarding address.

Squirrel in the 21st century...

Today is a good day!  First of all it's the weekend!  Second of all, I at the age of 40 got my first cell phone today.  Well I had a cell phone before but it was one of those prepaid phones and after I ran out of minutes I tossed the phone in a drawer and never used it again.  This is a real grown up phone with a 2 year commitment.  A phone relationship of sorts.  I was pushed into it by a VERY aggressive salesman.  My teenage son.  We were going through Walmart today and there was a T-Mobile salesman there.  The kid got me to talk to the guy and after a few minutes kinda pushed the real salesman aside and went to work on me with some serious sales techniques.  Like what if there is a serious emergency and he NEEDS to get ahold of me?!  What if he is in danger and NEEDS to call 911?!  Then the "you should get one too mom because mobile to mobile is free".  So here I am finally living in the 21st century.  I barely know how to use the thing but I've got it in case I need it.

And another reason today is a good day is because I was notified that I am the Top Momma over at Top Momma!!!  Keep me on top by going over there and clicking on my picture!  Thanks!

Where's the red carpet?!

I have received the Thinking Blogger Award! I have never wanted an award before, but I've got to admit that secretly I did kind of want this one!  I proudly accept this award! I want to thank my friends Titania and Crazed Dreamer over at Finding Life's Enchantments and Crazed Dreamers Thoughts for giving it to me!!  I am now suppose to honor 5 other blogs that make me think. This is not going to be easy because all the blogs on my blogroll make me think!  Before I start I want to say that you all make me think!  A few of you have already gotten this award so I am going to try and give it to the people I don't think have gotten it. 

Here it goes.....

Here are the five blogs that make me think and why:

1. Josh at The Gabbatha Journey: His blog is one of the first blogs I started reading.  He always has a compelling and thought provoking post.  This is one who urges all his readers to stretch their minds and search their hearts.

2. Will at Job's Tale This is a wonderful man who has had his share of hardships and heartbreaks but always manages to post the most amazing heartfelt posts that fill you with hope. He has so much wisdom and love to share with others and he graciously and humbly does.

3. Jerry at Lazy Blogger This guy has been to the ends of the earth and takes me on a web vacation every week to the awesome destinations he has traveled.  He takes me out of my mundane small town life, making me feel as though I am a world traveler right along with him.  It's great to learn about a new place each week!

4. Wanda at Wanders World She is a sweet woman!  I want to grow up to be a wonderful grandma just like her!  She has great posts and every Friday she does odd news and a Friday joke.  And she is a wiz with a computer!

5. Okiedoke: This guy has the scoop on all the important stuff going on in my state.  This guy seems to know it all, and he usually has a strong opinion about it!

Should you choose to participate, please make sure to pass this list of rules to the blogs you are tagging. The participation rules are simple:

1. If you get tagged, write a post with links to five blogs that make you think

2. Link to the original post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme

3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote.

The kid lost his mind yesterday...

My stepson C-man has turned into a world class munipulator.  Yesterday I went to his school to pick him up and his teacher walked him out.  I put him in the car and the teacher begins what turns out to be a 1 hour rant on his behaviour in the classroom.  Apparently he got mad because she told him because of his talking that he cannot do fun Friday.  He throws himself onto the floor and begins to throw the biggest flopping fit she has ever seen in 16 years of teaching 2nd grade.  He then starts screaming that if he can't do fun Friday he is going to sneak into the kitchen and get a knife and kill himself (last night) at home.  He is doing this in front of a classroom full of kids who are all mortified.  The teacher said all the other kids are now making fun of him (that is the ones who aren't afraid of him) and no one wants to sit by him.  She also said that the school couselor was called and she is going to report it to child services that he is suicidal.  When I get him home he tells me he was just being "dramatic and sarcastic" (these are his new two favorite words right now) to make the teacher let him do fun Friday.  Oh yes I forgot to tell you that when he was talking to the school counselor he was telling her that his stepmother was Satan and she was evil.  It took them 20 minutes to figure out he was calling me his mother and his real mother his stepmother.  Close call there because they were about to turn ME into child services!!!!!  I love this child and I want to help him but i'm telling you that last night I almost decided I can't take it anymore and moved out.  I actually called about a house for rent but changed my mind.  Today I am searching for a suitable child psychiatrist, one that takes our insurance specifically.  I am unsure whether to get a female or a male.  He acts all weird around men.  He was raised by females and doen't seem comfortable with men.  But my husband says he thinks a man.  I think that's just who my husband would feel most comfortable with.  I'm trusting my mother instincts and choosing female.  Wow that's a record I made up my mind by the time I typed 6 sentences.  Last night when I was posting the post below this one about the In the Motherhood website I was thinking "wow I wonder how they would like my submission of my childs craziest fit throwing or our most embarrassing moments".  I don't think this is what they had in mind.  Those people must not have read much about my mommy experiences before they chose me!

Something fun and new...

I was asked to help launch a new website called In the Motherhood.  This sounds like such fun!  I am having a hard time thinking how to describe this so here's a video featuring the actress Leah Remini.  She will be doing a comedy "webisode" every week and it's interactive!  Real moms get to help come up with each weeks episode.  WE become the writers.   This is a sponsored post, meaning I get a free prize package for telling you about it.  But the great thing is you too can get a prize package of your own...

Ohhh great I found all this info on their site...

About In The Motherhood
Actress Leah Remini knows all about the real-life stresses of modern moms as a busy TV sitcom star who also juggles her role as a wife and a mom to her 3-year-old daughter. Remini's latest venture will literally take her motherhood expertise to a new level as she partners with Suave, Sprint and MindShare Entertainment for In the Motherhood, a first-ever, mom-focused web series, which will appear on MSN from April 17 through June as well as an integration partnership with the Ellen DeGeneres Show .

Beginning in April, moms across the country will have the unique opportunity to write and collaborate with Hollywood screenwriters to create a series of web-based films starring Leah Remini, best known for her comedic role in the “The King of Queens,” which is completing a successful nine-year run this year. Directed by Peter Lauer, whose directorial credits include “Malcolm in the Middle”, “Arrested Development” and “The Chapelle's Show,” each In the Motherhood webisode will profile the ever-hectic yet always humorous lives of three mom girlfriends.

How To Participate:
By Moms, For Moms, About Moms
Professional Hollywood screenwriters will develop the characters and story lines for each of the webisodes, but real moms are the real behind-the-scenes stars. Moms will get the chance to tell their real-life stories by logging onto www.inthemotherhood.com, which will prompt them to sound off about universal experiences all moms share such as “your child's worst public meltdown,” “how to put the ‘me' back in mommy” or “your funniest mother-in-law child-rearing advice.”   Participating is easy – moms literally write out their story in paragraph form and with a few mouse clicks, the story is automatically transformed into a traditional Hollywood script. The online mom community will vote and nominate the best entries, which will then be polished and incorporated into the series of webisodes.

You can visit inthemotherhood.com for the webisodes, information, blogs, games, music, and forums to connect with other moms.   The In the Motherhood web community will launch on MSN April 17 and run through June. The first webisode will air on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on May 11 and subsequent webisodes will air on May 22, May 29, June 5 and June 12.

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Trying to stop the insanity...

After yesterdays rather disturbing post I thought I would give an update on what I have done so far.  I wrote our attorney an e-mail, I tried to call but he was in court.  I told him what C-man told us about his mothers totally inappropriate behaviour concerning bathing him and such.  I told him that considering what transpired the last time we made a report (the judge got pissed and C-man didn't cooborate the story and Rabid got more visits than before) I wasn't sure what to do because I don't want to hurt our chances at winning custody being that the hearing is in less than 4 weeks.  I also asked him to give me the name of a good child therapist as I believe he really needs therapy.  We have been holding back with the therapy because I guess we just didn't like the idea of child therapy.  Making him feel like there was something wrong with him, I guess was our concern.  But honestly now because of his mothers behaviour towards him I am terrified he is going to grow up to be a serial killer who chooses his victims who closely resemble his mother, a child molester himself, or possibly someone like the character Anthony Hopkins portrayed in Pyscho, or God forbid another Ed Gein.  I haven't heard back from the attorney yet.