Tropical Storm Fay clip 2

I know I sent every one links I just was trying something new.

The official Daytona 500 pace car. I will get a better picture of it soon. It sits at a gas station up the road from us. Miranda's day care program
Sarah fell asleep watching TV. I had to get pictures it was to funny.

Truck with balls. I pass this truck almost everyday after work when I pick up the kids.

We went to Miranda's day care program last night. It was great. She looked and looked until she found me. I thought I would share her wonderful singing.

I was tagged by my sis Brandee.

1. I have trouble getting around in the morning if I don't have my coffee.

2.I really like the sit come Grounded for life.

3.I really like chocolate covered raisins.

4. I hardly ever have to cut my fingernails. They break or just look freakishly long.

5. I get up early in the morning and do my house work.

It's getting HOT

This is the back of Coleman and Sarah's school. I really like the flowering tree. Things are so different down here. Yesterday I was driving to the store and out of know where two green with a little yellow parrots flew in front of my car and I almost hit them. Sarah told me two days before that that she saw some green parrots on her way to school. How cool. I'm tring to get use to the heat but it is hard. It's bad when you have to run the air in your car on the way to work in the morning.

This is a picture of the play ground at Miranda's day care.

There are trolley's that pick up the elderly and take them to appointments, the store, here and there. I have been tring to get a picture of one for a couple weeks and lucked out to day after work.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Mother's day humor

We celebrate the Mother's Day to show honor and respect to one of the most influential persons in our lives. We all have spent most formative years of our lives with our mothers and shared all joy and sorrows. Such is the greatness of our mom that she always tries to make us feel happy even in times of distress. This occasion of Mother's Day would become more enjoyable if we add some flavor of humor to it.

"The hand that rocks the cradle usually is attached to someone who isn't getting enough sleep."- John Fiebig

"I'd like to be the ideal mother, but I'm too busy raising my kids."- Unknown

The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. "Yes," she replied. "But not the same ones."- David Finkelstein

A little boy forgot his lines in a Sunday school presentation. His mother was in the front row to prompt him. She gestured and formed the words silently with her lips, but it did not help. Her son's memory was blank. Finally, she leaned forward and whispered the cue, "I am the light of the world." The child beamed and with great feeling and a loud clear voice said, "My mother is the light of the world." - Bits and Pieces, 1989

A teacher gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question: "My full name has six letters. The first one is M. I pick up things. What am I?" When the test papers were turned in, the teacher was astonished to find that almost 50 percent of the students answered the question with the word Mother- Unknown



Mother in different languages

French - Mere
German - Mutter
Hindi - Maji
Urdu - Ammee
English - Mom, Mummy, Mother

Italian - Madre
Portuguese - Mãe
Albanian - Mëmë; Nënë; Burim; Kryemurgeshë
Belarusan - Matka
Cebuano - Inahan; Nanay
Serbian - Majka
Czech - Abatyse
Dutch - Moeder; Moer
Estonian - Ema
Frisian - Emo, Emä, Kantaäiti, Äiti
Greek - Màna
Hawaiian - Makuahine
Hungarian - Anya, Fu
Ilongo - Iloy; Nanay; Nay
Indonesian - Induk, Ibu, Biang, Nyokap

A Big Week

We have had a lot go on this week. I started my new job. It is going great. Sarah lost a tooth last Saturday. Then Coleman and Sarah both lost a tooth on Tuesday. The tooth fairy visited both of them that night. It seemed weird having them both loose one in the same day. They also started in their new after school program. They love it. I was able to sign them up for summer camp through the school also. They do a lot of things during summer camp. Vince has been working late almost every night. We received Cloverfield from Netflix and was able to watch it Thursday night. We both really enjoyed the movie. I was going to take the kids to the beach today but when I checked the weather there was a rip current warning. So we will go another day. I really worry about a rip current grabbing one of the kids. The last few people to work in the position I had were unable to catch up on their work and had piles of work sitting every where. I'm told. It is hard for me to believe that because I sit around waiting for work everyday. Have a great week everyone.

sunsets and coconuts

I was at our friends house and looked out her window to see this sunset. I had to take a picture.

Vince stopped at a friends house on his way home from work and grabbed this coconut out of their yard. I look coconut. It was so good.
He spent a long time getting the outer shell off.
The kids really enjoyed watching and eating the coconut.

Update from Florida

The kids at the park a couple blocks away from us. In Florida they have the children have more Immunizations than in Indiana. Miranda had to get five shots, Sarah had to get two, and Coleman had to get one. It took four hours before we were done. I was about to go insane. I'm still trying to get a job. I hope it happens soon. It has been hard because of having trouble finding day care. All I need is for the kids to have new physicals and they can start. I will be getting them on Monday. They can start school on Tuesday.



A picture of the sun starting to set. I went to check the mail and took this picture.
This is a picture of highway 95. The highway comes to a stop at every exit during rush hour. Very annoying.

finally posting

It has been a while. I have been very busy. Vince was in town last weekend. It was so nice to have him here. I was teary eyed most of the way home from dropping him off at the airport. It didn't help that it was raining outside. My last day of work is Feb. 29th. We start loading the uhaul on the 27th of March I believe. Sarah, Miranda, and myself fly down on the 31st of March. The picture below is from Friday the 15th. Vince had to get his box ready to be shipped. It has safely arrived down in Florida. I have been a little down. Vince left on Sunday and I turned 30 on Monday. I have a desktop a work that reads"30 isn't old ...Depressing but not old"

I have been coming home from work or waking up and finding my curtain down. I kept wondering why the cat was knocking it down. I finally caught her in the act. climbing in between the windows. It only has about a quarter of an inch on each side for her to hold herself up.
This is the most interesting three wheeler I have ever seen. I had to share this picture with everyone. It was the best picture I could take between the being late to work and the snowing.

Star Wars Redneck and New Drugs on the Market

Star Wars Version of "You Might Be a Redneck If..."

- Your Jedi robe is a camouflage color.

- You have ever used your light saber to open a bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill.

- You think the best use of your light saber is picking your teeth.

- At least one wing of your X-Wing is primer colored

- There is a blaster rack in the back of your landspeeder

- You have bantha horns on the front of your landspeeder

- You can easily describe the taste of an Ewok

- You can find no grammatical errors in the way Yoda talks

- You have ever had an X-wing up on blocks in your yard.

- You ever lost a hand during a light-saber fight because you had to spit.

- The worst part of spending time on Dagoba is the dadgum skeeters.

- Wookies are offended by your B.O.


New Drugs on the Market

St. Mom's Wort - Plant extract that treats mom's depression by rendering preschoolers unconscious for up to six hours.

Empty Nestrogen - Highly effective suppository that eliminates melancholy by enhancing the memory of how awful they were as teenagers and how you couldn't wait til they moved out.

Flipitor - Increases life expectancy of commuters by controlling road rage and the urge to flip off other drivers.

Antiboyotics - When administered to teenage girls, is highly effective in improving grades, freeing up phone lines, and reducing money spent on make-up.

Buyagra - Injectable stimulant taken prior to shopping. Increases potency and duration of spending spree.

Extra Strength Buy-one-all - When combined with Buyagra, can cause an indiscriminate buying frenzy so severe the victim may even come home with a really bad club music CD or a book by that awful television doctor.

Jack Asspirin - Relieves the headache caused by a man who can't remember your birthday, anniversary or phone number.

Anti-talksident - A spray carried in a purse or wallet to be used on anyone too eager to share their life stories with total strangers.

Ragamet - When administered to a husband, provides the same irritation as ragging on him all weekend, saving the wife the time and trouble of doing it herself.

Vince's Update

Vince has been gone since Monday. He really enjoys his new job and loves the weather. It did get rather cold for FL. the other day and his friend Victor's has a convertible with no back side window. Vince said he was cold that morning on the way to work. He has a cell phone if you would like the number email me. I have been missing him a lot the last few days. I hope it will get better instead of worse. I'm sure it will. We have talked at least twice a day that seems to help. The kids miss him. I have been taking his car and some how that helps them. They don't see his car when we pull into the drive way and Miranda is a lot better behaved. She acts up really bad after talking to him on the phone. I'm hoping that will get better also. Sarah has started whining a lot since Vince left. Coleman has been a big help. He tries to get the girls to understand when they are not acting like they regularly do. The kids have talked to at least once a day. They ask him a lot of questions about the beach. Miranda just says what ever pops into her mind. I tend to laugh a lot when she talks to him. Last night she kept saying never and no to him when he was asking her to give me the phone back. When I realized that she was doing this to his asking her to give mommy the phone. I had to laugh to myself. It's just they way she says it that makes it funny. Today she talked to him about a block she found on the floor.

Need A Smile

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

America's Unique

- Only in America... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

- Only in America... do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

- Only in America... do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

- Only in America... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

- Only in America... do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

Catfish vs. Orange Roughy

Jim had an awful day fishing on the lake, sitting in the blazing sun all day without catching a single one. On his way home, he stopped at the supermarket and ordered four catfish. He told the fish salesman, "Pick four large ones out and throw them at me, will you?"

"Why do you want me to throw them at you?"

"Because I want to tell my wife that I caught them."

"Okay, but I suggest that you take the orange roughy."

"But why?"

"Because your wife came in earlier today and said that if you came by, I should tell you to take orange roughy. She prefers that for supper tonight."

No Pets Allowed

Two buddies were out one Saturday, walking their dogs. One had a Doberman Pinscher and the other had a Chihuahua. As they sauntered down the street, the guy with the Doberman said, "Let's go over to that restaurant and get something to eat."

The guy with the Chihuahua said, "We can't go in there. We've got dogs with us."

The one with the Doberman said, "Just follow my lead." They walked over to the restaurant and the guy with the Doberman put on a pair of dark glasses and started to walk in.

The bouncer at the door said, "Sorry, Mac, no pets allowed."

The man with the Doberman said, "You don't understand. This is my seeing-eye dog."

The bouncer said, "A Doberman pinscher?"

The man said, "Yes, they're using them now. They're very good."

The bouncer let him in.

His buddy with the Chihuahua put on his pair of dark glasses and started to walk in.

Once again the bouncer said, "Sorry, pal, no pets allowed."

The man with the Chihuahua said, "You don't understand. This is my seeing-eye dog."

The bouncer said, "A Chihuahua?"

The man exclaimed, "A Chihuahua? They gave me a Chihuahua?!"

Christmas already

This was the first morning in a long time that the sun rise was not hidden by gloomy clouds.
We went to look at Christmas lights last night. Most of the pictures didn't turn out. The house in these pictures was amazing. Miranda just loved it. I have not felt like it was Christmas. Yet it is only a few days away.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MIRANDA

Christmas party, Santa, haircuts, and a laugh

The mobile home park we live in always has Santa in the park office around Christmas. The kids enjoyed seeing Santa. Coleman and Sarah told me that they were very glad they knew Santa knows what they want. I have Coleman's picture on flickr.

I finally was brave enough to get my hair cut. I had a lot taken off but it is so nice to have a hair style again. The picture below is after a long day of running and chasing kids so it doesn't look the greatest. I had it cut Thursday night.
Friday night was my company Christmas party. I had a good time. It is so funny to see the people you work with all dressed up and not up tight about work. Of course the best part is the drunk ones that make ass's out of themselves. The picture below is of the dance floor. The lady in the middle white shirt with black belt was the craziest dancer. She was all over the dance floor. I can't even explain it. I didn't have a problem getting up there after seeing her dance. A lot of people were taking pictures and videos of her dancing. I think it was the best part of the evening.

AND NOW FOR SOME LAUGHS

(I have add my own names to make it more fun)

Say Something Positive
A husband(Randy) and wife(Sybil) are getting ready for bed. Sybil is standing in front of a full-length mirror taking a hard look at herself. "You know, dear," she says, "I look in the mirror, and I see an old woman. My face is all wrinkled, my hair is grey, my shoulders are hunched over, I've got fat legs, and my arms are all flabby." She turns to Randy and says, "Tell me something positive to make me feel better about myself." He studies hard for a moment thinking about it and then says in a soft, thoughtful voice, "Well, there's nothing wrong with your eyesight."

Sex Education
Coming through the door after school one day, Coleman hollers out...

"Okay everyone in the house, please stand advised that I, Coleman Richard Sterling, have on this date made a complete fool of myself in sex-education class by repeating stories concerning storks as told to me by certain parties residing in this house!"

Sunrise,Sickness, Plane tickets, & Laughs

Thursday morning the sunrise was like a beam coming from the ground it was so pretty. The above picture is from that morning. I didn't use photo shop on it. I thought it was beautiful.

The girls were very sick earlier this week. Miranda started complaining of her throat hurting her and was running a fever last Saturday night. I called Monday morning and got her an appointment at her doctors. Shortly after getting the appointment I noticed a rash and she was itching like crazy. The doctor said she had scarlet fever which was caused by her strep throat infection. We left the doctors and filled her prescription. When we arrived home there were two messages from the kids school saying Sarah was in the office with a sore throat and a fever. She had been there for two hours by the time I got home from the doctors. I felt so bad. She is so shy at school there for she wouldn't ask them for a cover. She laid there two hours cold. As for Miranda I'm sure most of you know how much of a candy addict she is. She was so sick she wouldn't even take a sucker when we were at the doctors. She usually begs for them from the minute we walk in and tries to snatch one if someone leaves the door open where you go back to the rooms. Everyone is doing better know.
Vince bought his plane tickets with help from his parents and there flier miles. He departs on December 31 around 10:45am. He is flying back on February 14th. and will get in around 10:35pm. That will be a long time to be away from him. I'm glad we get to see each other on Valentine's day. I believe this is going to be the hardest part for us being so far apart. I'm hoping to have every thing up here done early so we can move down earlier but I'm also having a hard time knowing I'm leaving everyone here. I'm hoping to get my mom blogging she says she wants to but we have trouble getting her to read her emails.
Below I have but some funny ways to answer the phone when talking to telemarketers. Let me now if you have ever used one of these methods and which one is your favorite. My favorite is #3 and I plan on trying it some time.

Creative ways to deal with telemarketers

1- Answer the phone. As soon as you realize it is a Telemarketer, set the receiver down, shout or scream, "Oh No!!!" and then hang up.

2- Tell the Telemarketer you are busy at the moment and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her HOME phone number so you can call him/her back. When the Telemarketer explains that telemarketers cannot give out their HOME numbers you say "I guess you don't want anyone bothering you at home, right?" The Telemarketer will agree and you say, "Me, either!" Hang up.

- Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.

3- Tell them it is dinner time, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.

4- Tell the Telemarketer you are on "home incarceration" and ask if they could bring you a pizza.

5- Ask them to fax the information to you, and make up a number.

6- Insist that the caller is really your buddy Leon, playing a joke. "Come on Leon, cut it out! Seriously, Leon, how's your mom?"

7- If they want to loan you money, tell them you just filed for bankruptcy and you could sure use some money.

8- If they start out with, "How are you today?" say, "I'm so glad you asked, because no one these days seems to care, and I have all these problems; my arthritis is acting up, my eyelashes are sore, my dog just died..."

9- If they say they're John Doe from XYZ Company, ask them to spell their name. Then ask them to spell the company name. Then ask them where it is located, how long it has been in business, how many people work there, how they got into this line of work, are they married?, kids?, etc. Continue asking them personal questions or questions about their company for as long as necessary.

10- Cry out in surprise,"Judy! Is that you? Oh my God! Judy, how have you been?" Hopefully, this will give Judy a few brief moments of terror as she tries to figure out where she could know you from.

11- Say "No", over and over. Be sure to vary the sound of each one, and keep a rhythmic tempo, even as they are trying to speak. This is most fun if you can do it until they hang up.

12- If MCI calls trying to get you to sign up for the Family and Friends Plan, reply, in as SINISTER a voice as you can, "I don't have any friends... would you be my friend?"

13- After the Telemarketer gives their spiel, ask him/her to marry you. When they get all flustered, tell them that you could not just give your credit card number to a complete stranger.

14- Tell the Telemarketer that you work for the same company, they often can't sell to employees.

15- Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up... louder... louder...louder...

16- Tell them to talk VERY SLOWLY, because you want to write EVERY WORD down.

30 Degrees or 71 degrees?

We have been getting a lot of snow tonight. We are under a winter weather advisory. The picture below is Sarah Playing in the snow about a half hour into the snow storm. Our winter advisory isn't over until 9 AM.

Vince received a call on Thursday with a job offer. He worked most of all the details on Saturday. It is a great job making twice as much as he does now. There is big catch. The job is in West Palm Beach. Vince starts in January. The kids and I won't move down there until the beginning of June. That way they can finish this school year out here. We didn't think changing schools with that big of a move would not be good for them all at the same time. I cried the first night I found out. Mostly because I don't want to move that far away. It will be hard being that far away from our family. I never realized how much of a Mommies girl I was until now. I will be closer to my Grandma Lois. That I'm very happy about. The kids are happy about it most of the time. Coleman is so funny. He didn't want to go at first. Then when Vince told him they had a really good school that they would get to go to he was all for it. Way to go Coleman thinking of education. Sarah wanted to move until we mentioned that she wouldn't get to see her cousins very often. She started crying and said she would miss Samantha way to much. Vince told her we would make sure she gets to see all her cousins more before me and the kids move down. I'm not so hot about how hot it will be in the summers there. Which brings me to the title. Those are the current Temps as of 11:30PM. Of coure the feels like would look like this 19 degrees or 71 degrees. We are going to rent a house from Vince's new boss. At least at first. It's on a dead end road and the elementary is at the end of the dead end. I will blogg more asap.

Noah's Ark

Could Noah build his ark today?
If Noah had lived in the United States today the story may have gone something like this:

And the Lord spoke to Noah and said, "In one year, I am going to make it rain and cover the whole earth with water until all flesh is destroyed. But I want you to save the righteous people and two of every kind of living thing on earth. Therefore, I am commanding you to build an Ark."

In a flash of lightning, God delivered the specifications for an Ark. In fear and trembling, Noah took the plans and agreed to build the ark. "Remember," said the Lord, "you must complete the Ark and bring everything aboard in one year."

Exactly one year later, fierce storm clouds covered the earth and all the seas of the earth went into a tumult. The Lord saw that Noah was sitting in his front yard weeping. "Noah!" He shouted. "Where is the Ark?"

"Lord, please forgive me," cried Noah. "I did my best, but there were big problems.

"First, I had to get a permit for construction, and your plans did not meet the building codes. I had to hire an engineering firm and redraw the plans. Then I got into a fight with OSHA over whether or not the Ark needed a sprinkler system and approved floatation devices. Then, my neighbor objected, claiming I was violating zoning ordinances by building the Ark in my front yard, so I had to get a variance from the city planning commission.

"Then, I had problems getting enough wood for the Ark, because there was a ban on cutting trees to protect the Spotted Owl. I finally convinced the U.S. Forest Service that I really needed the wood to save the owls. However, the Fish and Wildlife Service won't let me take the 2 owls.


"The carpenters formed a union and went on strike. I had to negotiate a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board before anyone would pick up a saw or hammer. Now, I have 16 carpenters on the Ark, but still no owls.

"When I started rounding up the other animals, an animal rights group sued me. They objected to me taking only two of each kind aboard. This suit is pending.

"Meanwhile, the EPA notified me that I could not complete the Ark without filing an environmental impact statement on your proposed flood. They didn't take very kindly to the idea that they had no jurisdiction over the conduct of the Creator of the Universe.

"Then, the Army Corps of Engineers demanded a map of the proposed flood plain. I sent them a globe.

"Right now, I am trying to resolve a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that I am practicing discrimination by not taking atheists aboard.

"The IRS has seized my assets, claiming that I'm building the Ark in preparation to flee the country to avoid paying taxes. I just got a notice from the state that I owe them some kind of user tax and failed to register the Ark as a 'recreational water craft'.

"And finally, the ACLU got the courts to issue an injunction against further construction of the Ark, saying that since God is flooding the earth, it's a religious event, and, therefore unconstitutional.

"I really don't think I can finish the Ark for another five or six years."

Noah waited. The sky began to clear, the sun began to shine, and the seas began to calm. A rainbow arched across the sky.

Noah looked up hopefully. "You mean you're not going to destroy the earth, Lord?"

"No," He said sadly. "I don't have to. The government already has."

Happy Thanksgiving

I every one has a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Ageing Cartoons

Updates all around

Before I start I would like to say it is only a couple weeks early with the Christmas theme.

The kids have been doing well in school. They both got all A's and one B on their report cards. This is the first year Coleman has grades for science and social studies and others like that. Although here recently I have been having trouble getting Cole to bring his homework home. He forgets it at school at least once a week anymore. I'm not sure what to do about this. He will remember part of it but not all of it. He has had a lot of homework. Over the last three weeks he has had three book reports due. Sometimes I think their homework is parents homework with all the crazy projects they have to do. They time lines not long ago and I made Cole do his his self( I helped pick out the pictures) because this was his homework he is to learn from it. When I was at the school for his parent teacher conference I noticed Coleman and one other were the only ones done by the kids. What do you guys think about this kind of stuff? I'm just not sure.

Last Thursday was my nephew Zeke's 1st Birthday. I was glad we made it. I went with the kids. They had a good time. I have never seen a 1st Birthday cake destroyed so well. The cakes were made by my sister Brandee. She is so creative. I love seeing pictures of her latest creations. When it was present opening time Zeke wanted to play with the kids and not open but his sister Avril was all about the presents. She is one of those that makes you feel good about your present because she gets so excited. Below is a couple pictures of Zeke with the cake at the beginning and end. There are more pictures on flickr.

Saturday night I went to the kid's school carnival. We all had fun. Every year each classroom makes up a basket of a theme the class picks. This year Coleman's class picked candles and Sarah's class picked snacks. Each kid brings something in for the basket and in the middle of the carnival they stop the games and auction them off to the highest bidder. The money that the basket is sold for goes to that classroom. It really helps the teacher with supplies and new books. During the auction I ran Miranda home she was getting to be a handful. She does that the more tired she gets the less patience I have. Below are a few pictures. The boy in my picture pick is Hunter a little boy that lives in our trailer park. Sarah and him are good friends. His parents weren't going so I brought him with us also. I know I just like punishing myself by adding more kids. After coming back from dropping Miranda off I was talked into running a game. So we didn't get out of there until they were cleaning things up. Coleman loved it things that were 25 prize tickets when we got there were only 5 prize tickets at clean up go home time. The kids made out with all kinds of little goodies.