Easter all Week!

So, last night I looked up traditional Easter food, actually I looked up tradiational Palm Sunday food. Didn't find much that was really dinner food; and the stuff I did find wasn't exactly...palatable by my family. Since we are not Catholic, we don't observe lent (should that be capitalized?), which means we don't no eat meat on Friday. However, today we had a meatless meal, to "observe" or maybe educate is the word I'm looking for here, that certain cultures follow Lent and the "rules" set up by them. Tonight we had salad night. Tomorrow we are having pretzel pizza's. I know that the pizza thing isn't exactly Easter-ish, but the pretezel thing is. There is lore out there (oh noes, my MMORPG words are showing) saying that a dude (ok, I'll be a bit more political) that guy first starting giving Pretzels to the children in reward for saying their prayers. The pretzels were shaped like hands/arms folded in prayer. This is just lore I found, so to honor that lore, we are going to have prezel pizza's. I didn't want to serve JUST pretzels-although the girls would probably LOVE IT. My diabetic husband would probably love it too-but our doctor--not so much. So, anywho...onward and upward right? Tomorrow night, I'll figure out what to serve the kids Tuesday night. Tuesday is Passover. I know we're not Jewish either, but like I said, we are observing Easter (yes, I know Jews don't celebrate Easter, but Passover is a religious holiday that falls this week) this week in meals, and I don't want to leave something out-I mean it's right there people...really, it's just right there. Well, I came online to check out some school stuff...then I got all caught up in this blogging stuff. LOL I should see if I could blog from my phone. That would be awesome. I could lie in bed and you guys could NOT read my ramblings. I mean, c'mon for realz (oops, WoW words again)

A new way of eating

So, as I said just prior....we have to eat an entirely different way.
Bill has been the reciever of some 'WONDERFUL' news. He is diabetic, hypertensive, and has high cholesterol. We already knew about the high blood pressure, but the other two were just recently added within the last two weeks. Matter of fact, today we get to go and meet with a cardiologist. Yay...much fun! (humph)

So, we've been eating a lot of different things lately. More healthy crap, and less of it. We have a salad almost EVERY night of the week. I say almost, because some nights it's just too hard to open a bag of salad and dump it in the bowl. The kids were already sick of chicken; now they are going to be uber sick of it, because, well-Bill doesn't like fish.

Tonight we're going to have empanada's. (How ever it's flippin' spelt, or spelled, or wrote, or writed, or what have you.) I'm looking at the list thinking...I only need to buy 2 things. Then I start thinking about how I can't possibly go into Winn-Dixie with my pajama bottoms on. Of course then I think of my friend Mel who's in the ARMY and her pajama siteing at the airport. However, just because I live in Seffner, doesn't mean I have to look like I live in Seffner. So, I'll suck it up and go put on some real clothes. After all, I can't go to the cardiologist in my pajamas either. No one wants to see my Christmas jammies-which is sad, cause they are really cool. :-D

So, on my mission to eat healthier....also on a mission to be healthier.

Z, Apegirl and I are doing the couch-to-5k thing.
http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml
the girls keep me honest about it. (I keep saying that. Like it's my mantra or something.) I've also decided that to keep me REAL honest about it, I want to run in the gasparilla 5k next year. The dates are not posted for next year yet-since the run hasn't happened this year yet and all (lol, figure that gives me 13 months to 'train' for it.)
http://www.tampabayrun.com/

anywho...this is not getting me going thru my coupons (which I have totally slacked on) or even making the rest of my grocery list. I have a lot to plan for. Next week we are going to Disney. We were going to stay at the Nick hotel, but apparently it just wasn't in the cards this year. For some reason when I went to finally reserve the rooms, the price almost doubled. So, we are going to stay at the celebration suites. It's only about 15 minutes to magic kingdom, and they have a free shuttle, which is REALLY ok with me...then I don't have to deal with parking and shuttle-trains and all that jazz. However, I hope that there is some kind of goodness that comes out of the free shuttle, like...scheduled trips. That would be a great thing. Don't want to be stuck there waiting, regretting the whole "Lets take the shuttle".

Alright, this time I'm for realz...I'm getting of the computer, getting dressed, and going to the grocery store... after I just flip back over to WOW and see what's going on. :o) Maybe.

o....m....g....

So, we are done wtih 2011 right?

I have to start cooking different. We are done just saying we're going to eat better. Now we have to.

I'm over the whole year and we're not even a full month in yet.

I'm too tired to deal with this blogging thing right now, that and my finger hurts...I'll explain that in the next post too.

argh.

Disney, Nick, Michigan

Why does it cost so much to do ANYTHING???

Well, ok, it doesn't cost that much to do anything but what we want to do it does.
We want/are going to the Nick Hotel in Feb. and are going to be going to Disney World while we stay there. So, that really isn't what I was thinking about money wise. I mean, yeah it's going to cost us an arm and a leg right? But, isn't that what income tax is for? Or maybe it isn't, I don't know what you all use yours for, and I'm not telling you what we use our entire lot of money for, but one of the things we use it for is a family vacation to Disney for a couple days.

Well, I want to go to Michigan this summer. But it's going to cost over $1600 just in traveling costs alone! HOLY CRAP PEOPLE.

That's a lot of over time. I better start adding up the hours now. Sheeesh.

Well, well, well

So, I'm debating starting a new blog when it dawns on me...I don't even do this one, why on Earth would I start an other one? Then an other thought hits me, this blog is "pattee life" why on Earth would I start an other blog about a member of my famil???? WTHeck??
Ho hum.

I guess tomorrow starts with organization. Brina needs a place she can go to so she can do her homework. Well, how can I be a good example, if my desk looks like the living room threw up? I just cleaned the thing off, yet here I am...covered in what? I don't know what half this crap is. :-(

I keep thinking about Brina. It's finally hit home to Bill that perhaps Brina is a "special needs" child. Her meds are NOT working any more. We may as well not even give them to her. We can always tell if she's having a good day or a bad day by the way her hair is. Lately, she's been having a lot of frizzy hair days. Her eyes have seemingly become more distant also. I don't like it. I want my child back. It's time to get off our butts and be parents. W.O.W can wait. It will be there, she won't. Dinner can be made together, she can help. Walking around the block with her...well, that may not be an option...it's a pretty big block, and I don't wanna go down 92...yeah, lets rethink that one. Point being, I need to seriously restructure my time and attention. Brina is in danger of failing the 4th grade, because she is slipping farther and farther into no man's land. She's gotten lazy in class, and is either not paying attention, or CAN'T pay attention.

I can't do this. I am not strong enough. However, I have to be. She is mine. She belongs to me, she is my responsibility; no one elses. It is my job to protect and guide her through life.

Now, I just have to find out what else is "wrong".

Special Needs

What exactly qualifies a child as "special needs"?

I've been thinking about this for a LONG time. I have always thought there was something wrong other than just ADHD with my darling daughter. However, there is no other testing that we have done. (yes, that is my fault) When all I have to go on is mother instinct-how do you define "special needs".

Roger

Roger died this past Tuesday.
I'm trying to share the link, but for some reason I can't. Every time I try to paste it, it won't put it there. Maybe I'll type it in?
http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Roger-Davis&lc=1543&pid=146138323&mid=4416545

I hope that link works. It was a lot of work to jump back and forth to type it out.

Anyway, the funeral was today, and it was beautiful. However, I am VERY glad it's over. So many emotions, and I'm just ahhhhh, blahhhhhh.

I now have one day to recoup and get back to work. I'm looking forward to going to work, but at the same time I'm not so sure I'm ready. So many things....

So much drama too. I just can't believe some of the things that people do, even during a time of mourning. I mean...really-but that is an other blog. I'm too tired to even remotely think about this on a deeper level.