Happy Belated Valentine's Day

Hello all...Happy Valentine's Day (a little late). Hope you all had a day filled with lots of love and chocolate! The kiddies all had great valentine's day parties at school on Friday. They each came home from school with tons of treats from their friends. Macie, being in middle school, is much too cool to give traditional valentine's. She took some candy flowers to her friends. She came home with several "real" flowers from her friends. (One of whom happens to be a b-o-y! Shhh! I'm not supposed to tell! ;) She claims they are "just friends". They better be! I am not ready for that kind of drama in our lives. She is still my ONLY girl who does not care one bit what she wears or even if she remembered to brush her hair in the morning. Here are pics of her flowers from her "friends"....:)

Allie and I spent the morning at her friend Ashley's birthday party! Woo-Hoo...fun times!! Pics to come....then I took the big kids to spend their gift cards to Game Stop. They have been collecting these cards for birthdays and Christmas and boy have they been burning holes in their pockets! This is the troop before shopping....(Allie has not yet realized that she has no cards to shop with! Ha!

The spoils of war! Game Stop was packed! They had to really look for the games they wanted and then not put them down or they would be snatched up by other little vultures, umm...shoppers, from right under their noses.

Holley bought the new Super Mario Bros. , Scott decided on a MarioKart and wheel combo for the Wii and Ravin Rabbids for his DS, and Macie picked a (weird) Pokemon' game for her DS. Holley and Macie both have about $20 left but couldn't find any other games they wanted. Scott spent all of his (which is NO surprise!) Thanks Meme and Poppy, Aunt Perry, and Aunt Mary Austin for the gift cards.

Had to throw this in for your viewing pleasure....Allie has OBVIOUSLY realized that she was not going to get anything at Game Stop...Hee-Hee I'm sure there will be many years ahead of video games for her. She does have her own leapster that she loves so rest assured, she is NOT deprived!

Gettin' her play-doh on....

Hello all....I'm baaaack...I'm done with my ranting and raving from my previous post. I decided to take some time off, but have no fear! Time surely did not stop for the Browning clan, in fact we raced through this week at (what seems like) break neck speed. So, to catch you up on the latest will take several posts. I'll start with Monday. If you know my precious Allie, you can take one look at this picture and know that something isn't "quite right"...


I picked her up from preschool and her teachers let me know that she had complained (just for the last 20 min of class) that her "tummy hurt". I got her home and she curled up on Meme and Poppy's bed under a blanket and complained of being "freezing". Uh-Oh....took her temp and it was 102.0. I then gave her the wonder drug (motrin). For whatever reason, my kids respond SO well to motrin. An hour later she was gettin' her play on with the play-doh set she was given for her B-Day (and I'd forgotten about- oops! :-)....

Gotta love motrin!!! She had to stay home from her other school (MDO) on Tues. because of the fever (thanks Meme for changing your plans and taking care of her) but was well and able to go back Wed and Thurs. for her valentine parties!! Yeah!! The next in line for the sickies was Holley, then Macie, and not to be outdone, Scott. Sadly, today I woke up with the telltale signs of a sore throat, runny nose and congestion. I am glad that I am off for the next four days so hopefully I'll be over this by Tues. when I return to work...Take care...stay tuned...Love,S

After an "interesting' day, I'm SUPER ANGRY!!

"interesting" is the best word I can use to describe it. I had a bunch of pictures I wanted to share and wanted to write a sweet post about what the kiddies have been up to the last couple of days, but my mind is reeling after a phone call today and I'm not sure what I should say (if anything) and honestly I'm not sure if this blog will continue. This blog was started so that I could have a journal of sorts for my kids to look back on when they are grown to remember their childhoods and the memories won't always be sunshine and roses....it is sad to me that now I'm not sure who I can and cannot trust....Frankly I AM SUPER MAD!!! and I'm not sure if the drama that has now been introduced into my life has anything whatsoever to do with this blog or if it is from some where else completely. But if it did originate here..... wow! A word of caution to fellow bloggers (the ones who I trust completely- and you know if that is you) be very careful!!! Be super careful to ONLY blog about perfect days and perfect kids....you never know what kind of people are reading your blog....

A rainbow!!

Hello all, today has been a good day in 'the nut house'. Holley had gymnastics this afternoon but everyone else stayed and played around this afternoon. I really don't have anything else to report...nuttin' interesting...pretty plain and boring (and NO I'm not complaining about that, we usually have more than our fair share of excitement), and no amazing pearls of wisdom to share with the world. I'll give a quick update on the rainbow that now crosses under my youngest child's right eye. We have a new lovely shade of green proudly showing itself alongside the blues and purples....I'm hoping for yellow tomorrow!!! Yippee!!

Day 3 of the black eye.... (and yes, I realize that pics of Allie monopolize this blog and will try to remind you every once in a while that I DO have 3 other children that I love and think are precious in their own right.)

Happy Tuesday everyone....I work tomorrow and Thursday , then have Friday off, and then work Sat and Sun. so I may be out of touch for a couple of days. Stay tuned....Love, S

My what a shiner!!

Allie has her first black eye courtesy of her brother. How nice of him to give such a wonderful gift! This is her eye on Sunday.


By Monday evening I do believe it was looking worse than it had the day before....

Can't wait to see what color it will be tomorrow!!! The gift that keeps on giving!

Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

It is totally NOT true that the kiddies have to be woken up EVERY morning because they sleep through their alarm clocks...and it is NOT true that I told everyone at dinner last night that anyone who got up on time would have a nice surprise this morning...and it is definitely NOT true that the three older kids were up, dressed, and waiting for me this morning totally by themselves by 615 am...and I most certainly DID NOT sleep through my own alarm which was supposed to wake me up by 600 so I could start making their surprise breakfast. I do NOT give my kids cereal everyday making a day when I actually make pancakes a major celebration in my house! Nope, not me!!

I did NOT drive all the way to the grocery store, wait for the 5 year old to get out of her car seat (which she will NOT let me help her with-really!), walk in to the store, stand in the pharmacy line for 10 minutes, talk to the pharmacy tech only to realize that I forgot to go by the Doctor's office to actually pick up the prescription needing to be filled!! No Way! Not Me!!

and...I did NOT have to make a mad dash to the Dr's office , then back to the store to drop off the Rx, stand in line for another 10 minutes, and then speed all the way home because I had NOT forgotten to leave the side door unlocked for two of the other kiddies who were being dropped off by the school bus! I did NOT make it back literally 2 minutes before the bus arrived. Nope Not me!!

I am NOT excited about watching Jon and Kate Plus 8 tonight when they make their move to their new house...and there are definitely NOT 4 excited kids in my house anxious to see it too!!

I absolutely DID NOT fall asleep this morning after dropping the 5 year old off at preschool. I got every thing done on my chore list like laundry, ironing, vacuuming, dusting, cleaning, Sure I did!

I most definitely did NOT have to have "The Talk" (again) with my soon to be 13 year old daughter about carrying feminine hygiene products with her to school because she has NOT been acting crazy the last few weeks and months and crying at the drop of a hat and driving us all crazy!! Not me! Never!!

That WAS fun!! Stay tuned....Love, S

Birthday highlights!!!

Here are some highlights of Holley's birthday celebration. Life is good but busy for the Browning clan...am working on a smilebox with pics of Holley when she was little but am having technical difficulties. Take care everyone....stay tuned....Love, S

Make a Smilebox slideshow