On Wednesday November 18 2015 night at around eleven at night I heard a loud bang! I looked all around the house looking for what made that sound and then looked outside. One of the trees fell on our house!

Look!

The tree was all the way hollow. Good news no damage! None at all. I am just glad no one was outside when it happened. If one of the dogs got hurt or Jeff, I would cry.

One of Jeff’s co-worker got excited that it was a Cedar tree that fell on our house. Not that a tree fell on our house but that the tree was cedar. He came over and took the tree from house. We didn’t have to pay anyone to take the tree and he is going to take the other tree that is leaning towards our house.

On last Friday November 20 2015 Jeff lets the dogs out and see’s eagles. Lucky. They are pretty!

Wednesday November 11 2015 was Veteran’s Day. That day we honor our military. I sent my dad a card thanking him for his service. He was in the Navy during the Vietnam War. He liked it very much. No other sibling ever remembers to send dad something for this day. He served and should be honored for doing so. That is brave.

Thank you Dad!

On this day it is also a day off. We had much to do in our yard. Leaves! I hate leaves! I hate when they fall off the trees and I hate cleaning them up. But it has to be done because snow and leaves make a mess.

It took a long time to clean them up and we had to drive them to the compost place. Also this day the forecast looked gloomy. Rain and strong wind heading our way. Needed to get all the leaves done before then.

Jeff had a good idea. Put the tarp in the bed of the truck, fill it with leaves, and put another tarp over to haul. It worked so well! We only had to take three trips to the compost place. I am glad we are done with that.

Last Saturday October 7 2015 Jeff and I went to my dad’s house. Jeff, my brother in law Andy and my older brother Corey were tasked to help my dad to put up walls in his garage. I went a long thinking I would be able to spend some time with my mom, alone.

Wrong!

When we arrive mom tells me we get all three kids. No! And that we are going to the movie Peanuts. NO! She says I will buy you Starbucks. Fine. I have been wanting to try the pumpkin spice latte from there. It was okay but it was so busy at ten o’clock in the morning! I tend not to go to Starbucks. I think their coffee is strong and overpriced. Also when I go there the staff isn’t as friendly and doesn’t really matter what Starbucks I go to either.

When we came back all the kids come to the house. Sigh. Mom tells Corey we are talking his son to the first movie. His face was priceless! She is like what? He tells her that his wife is going to be mad. She wanted to take him to his first movie and to Peanuts because he loves Snoopy. Mom was like well can I? He says yes and he will just deal with his wife. I thought that was funny. His wife was probably really mad. I can see that.

We took the kids to McDonald’s and that wasn’t bad. Then we went to the movie. I was so surprised by Crayne. First that kid can eat! He ate all of his happy meal plus two Ziploc bags of Chex mix and a small popcorn. Human garbage disposal. Silly. He sat through the whole movie and was really good. The oldest kid who is seven was the brat.

After the movie we went home. We watched Inside Out movie. I only got to watch half of it because I had to help mom with the bratty kid. He was just being so bratty! But the youngest ones where being good.

We stayed at mom’s house for almost twelve hours! That is a long time.

Here are some pics of the day.

I am only human

However it would be cool to be a robot for a day or a week. But that is it I wouldn’t want to be a robot all the time.

Got to have humor in this life.

Monday I was pretty emotional but I am okay now. I ended up getting my tooth pulled. My dentist actually did it. Last time I had to go to the oral surgeon for a tooth pull. Made the dental assistant laugh. That is always a good thing. I am getting another implant. I told her when that is done I will have a full set on one side of my mouth. She thought that was really funny. They all know I have horrible teeth. I asked the dentist if the tooth fairy comes for adults. He laughed. He said yes but instead of money the tooth fairy leaves an IOU for husband to take wife out for dinner. I said that sounds better!

I guess when I smile you can’t really tell from the front but off to the side you can see it. I am not really worried about it.

After we did pumpkins I took out the seeds. Like I stated before I love eating those. It takes several days to make but they are worth it. They are so yummy!

This weekend Jeff’s dad Ken and Elena are coming over. We are demoing our bathroom. We are taking out the vanity and the toilet. Soon we will redo our bathroom. Then maybe we can just live here without people coming over. Yes I would like that very much.

On Saturday Jeff and his friend Jeff. Yes they are both named Jeff. It’s silly. His friend Jeff sort of gives me the creeps a little. I don’t know why because he is nice. I just get this creepy vibe from him. Anyways Jeff my husband has what I call ‘his baby’ his Chevelle which he has for like forever. He finally got it out of storage. Now it’s at our house. He can finally work on it and someday in my life I will be able to be passenger in it. I hope so.

I know Jeff dislikes carving pumpkins but he is a good sport for the most part. We got pumpkins and he carved one. I carved two. I don’t care how old I get I will always want to carve pumpkins. It’s fun and I love eating pumpkin seeds. They are only good if I take them out of the actual pumpkin and not the store bought ones. Also Jeff cooks the seeds for me. It takes a day to do. I will show you a little later about the seeds. Here are the pumpkins we carved Jeff did the scary tree. He always does such a great job even though he doesn’t like to do it that much.

Last Thursday I noticed a bad taste in my mouth. I have another tooth that is going bad. I have really rotten luck with my teeth. And now I am experiencing emotional distress over my teeth. I practically live at the dentist office this year. I say emotional distress because I emotionally getting to the point where I can’t handle teeth pain anymore this year. I basically woke up on Sunday crying because of the pain in my mouth.

Today we find out if it’s another tooth that got to come out. I am going to say yes. This time when this tooth comes out when I smile everyone is going to notice I am missing teeth. And this year I was informed because my brother Adam is coming home for Christmas. My parents want to take a professional photo of the family. I can’t wait to smile with missing teeth. It will be great! Being sarcastic of course.

And that is a whole another emotional thing I have to deal with this year. Last time we had a photo of all us for Christmas you couldn’t even see me in the photo. What is the point of me being in a photo where I am covered up? I dislike Christmas as it is. Now it’s going to be worse. I know my mom chooses grand kids over me. I know I sound jealous but if you only were in my shoes and see how it plays out every Christmas you would understand. I wish I didn’t have to go to Christmas. I don’t care about presents and I don’t care about having dinner. I would love to have Christmas if we all could just enjoy each others company but that this not how it is. It’s all about the grand kids and how many presents they got to open.

During this time of year as well. I miss Darlene my mother in law. She died three years ago and I know Fall was her favorite time of the year. I miss her always but I really, really miss her around the holidays and Fall the most.

I feel very emotional right now and I hate it.