My brace face child :)

Today was another milestone at the Harrod house and for Thomas(14 years old).  BRACES

Here he is on the way to get them.

The equipment. looks scarey and painful. But really it s not.

OPEN up and SAY AHHHHHHH. He had some contraption in his mouth to keep it open. This is probably the only real painful part of the whole thing.

It looks like a needle but its not. She was putting this weird stuff on his teeth. Im not sure what for lol. oh and he had to wear shared you will see why in the next picture.

Those i think ulrta rays or gamma rays or lol what ever they are make the braces stick to his teeth.

It took about an hour and a half he sat like this for quiet a while.

My future so bright I gotta wear shades. lol this was half way through. HE had to take a break and brush his teeth.

Back in the seat for the wiring of the metal wear lol

You know the saying " A picture is worth a thousand bucks"? well this one is worth about 5500 bucks lol.

He has to wear them for about two years. Then of course there is retainers and such.

LOST N FOUND

Jacob had Baseball practice tonight at our Baseball park. There is 4 fields at the park. One for T ball one for pitching machine, one for 9 to 12 year olds and one for older boys. While Jacob was practicing so were t ballers. The t ballers left before we got through so Makayla and Thomas went and played on the tball feild. After a few minutes they came running over. They had found a camera. No one was left at the t ball field and they found it on the bleachers over there. So I inspected it for a name. I even turned it on to look at the pictures. It was one lousy picture on it that you just saw blurs. So we decided that we would tel lthe baseball commisioner and keep it till either some one asked for it. Ten minutes later We saw this lady looking panic stricken all over the t ball bleachers. So I walked over there and asked what she was looking for. She said I left my  camera at the field and its gone and cant find it. I  gladly handed the camera over. She was so thankful. I told her my kids had found it. That we tried to look at the one picture that was on it.
 I can only hope that if i lost something of value like that that it would be turned in. I am proud of my kids for giving it to me. I raise them honest and like to reward them when they show there honesty to me. Tehy wil lget  special treat this weekend:)

when i was your age

If you are 30, or older, you will think this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.  You've got it so easy!  I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet.  If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

There was no email!!  We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there!  Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.  As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes!  If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!  There were no CD players!  We had tape decks in our car.  We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless.  Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby!  Dig?

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting!  If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!!  Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!!  And then there's TEXTING.  Yeah, right.  Please!  You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was!  It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!!  You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics!  We had the Atari 2600!  With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'.  Your screen guy was a little square!  You actually had to use your imagination!!!  And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever!  And you could never win.  The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died!  Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!  You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!!  NO REMOTES!!!  Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning.  Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!
And we didn't have microwaves.  If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove!  Imagine that!

And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long.  Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort.  And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!

And car seats - oh, please!   Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on.  If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place! 

See!  That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten!  You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!
Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

Well, my brother and his wife had someone We know steal a book of checks and write checks on them. over 600 bucks worth so far that we know of. They had recently moved out of a rent house and bought their own house. I guess they left a book of check at the rent house and this person found them and instead of turning them over to them they decided to spend some money.  Luckily the bank  figured it out. They know Isaac wouldnt be writing checks at hte place they were comming from and called Isaac immediatly. I think the police are involved now and Isaac has already been reimbursed the money.  I just dont get some people.

my fourth child

He has got four legs and fur but we love him just the same. This morning he was actually watching tv and saw this on tv.

he just  wasnt having none of that let me tell ya

the following clips are his reaction.

 

Child labor

Wayne put the boys to work Sunday afternoon. He such a hard daddy on his boys. LOL He actually bribed them. He paid them to clean his truck. OF course the boys jumped on this offer.

I think jacob was playing more than helping though.

as you can tell he was posing her for me.

skippy decided he had to get in on the fun.

He was actually the supervisor.Making sure the boys were doing thier job :)

Then My mom and dad came up.I guess tehy got wind of the child labor going on around her and either wanted to stop it or get in on getting there truck washed too lol.

But they didnt offer money so the boys didnt go for that.

I dont think jacob ever got off that ladder and helped rofl. Cant do much washing from there son!!lol

Trust, like, love and other things.

My husband asked me today if I trust him.  ( let me say I try to keep my blog happy and jolly and this post may not be. I am sorry if you came here today for an uplifting happy blog)

    Anyways he asked me if i trust him. I told him I did.  My husband works off. He goes out every monday morning and I dont see him till saturday night till about 9. It gets really hard. REALLY HARD. You only get to see your lover one day a week. It gets extremly depressing. To top it off. This past year has not been the best finacially or emotionally for us. WE HIT a HUGE MARRAIGE road block. But We dealt with it and are still dealing with it. I havent had a "BAD" day about it since "THANKSGIVING". Most of his family has no idea what we went through. It's just better that way. But now back to trust. Do I trust him? Do I really trust him? That is so hard. I really am trying and most days its easy. Then Something happens and I question his faithfullness to me and the kids.  When I do that. He gets defensive and questioning about how I dont trust him. But i have the right as his wife to ask things to check things and to change things that i jsut dont think is right for us. Then it makes him mad.  I deleted some one off his face book and he was upset. But I just didnt feel comfortable with this person and did it.  So hence the question today. Do you trust me? Yes Wayne I trust you  baby but I still have the need to feel secure and check things out  to make my self feel secure. I jus dont want to get hurt again. Does this make sense? Gosh I need advice. If anyone actually reads this blog I am begging some one tell me how to explain this to him.
   I am very insecure about my self. I am the fattest I have ever been in my life. I weigh what I weighed when I gave birth to Jacob. I work out at curves. But unless I starve my self I just dont lose weight.  Hence I feel like my husband doesnt like me. Hense the insecurities. Its a viscious cycle.  I would love to get a lap ban. But we dont have insurance since wayne lost his job and the job he has isnt one to offer insurance. LIFE SUCKS. 
 When wayne asked my dad for my hand in marraige he asked wayne if he liked me. Wayne of course said yes. Then asked why didnt you ask if i love her? Daddy replied. You can love some one but not like them.
Simple but true. So yes i love and now again like my husband. At one time last year I didnt like my husband at all. I loved him. I never stopped loving him. But the like went away for a little bit. I like him again now.
Trust is there. TRUST IS THERE>!!!!!!!!

LIke a lion?

Isn't that the saying that is said about MArch? that is comes in like a lion? Atleast I think it is. Does anyone agree with me that we have had a wet cold Winter here? I live in Louisiana, and let me tell ya we never have winter here. Its a rarity. This year we have basically been pretty much cold from November through now. It is amazing. Usually its jsut fronts of cold where its a few days a week at the most but not this winter. WE have had snow several times this winter. One really good dose of it. But more that just one episode. We usually dont even get one lol.
     With that said, I am so ready for spring. I lvoe winter. It is my favorite season. But honestly I have had enough. Bring on the flip flops and capris. Rofl.

    Now on to my next topic? notice anything missing? Well, my engagement ring :( It is safe in my jewelry box missing a diamond.

I looked down last week and I noticed one of the diamond missing in it. I am so upset. So its put up till WE get a new one in it. I hope its not long.

But unfortunatly it may be. Thomas goes this Tuesday to get molds for BRACES on his teeth. Yup. Myposcket book will be over 5000 bucks lighter.

KIDS are so worth it though.