Week-Before-Going-Away Party...

Coworker gathering @ the Mexican restaurant.  Hilarity ensued.  and for once, I wasn't the only one and I wasn't getting that boss-look in my direction.   Gotta love it when times change, eh?

Balloons, yummy sweet tea, cake, lots of laughs and jokes and silliness.  And kids were welcome to this one, which was awesome (this according to my two chickens in attendance).  There are definitely things that I will miss - people and opportunities.  Moving on to different things, just another few steps in a different direction.

This was brought up at the gathering - by ChickenLittle (as if I expected any different from her regarding brother dearest)...
CL:  My brother put a note on a car at the beach that parked behind my Aunt's van.  The person parked too close to the back of her van and she couldn't open the back door. *pause*  He wrote, "bumper humper" on it and put it on the person's car.
Everyone:  laughing of course
Me:  *blank stare* uhhhh...
Boy:   HEY - that's not ALL it said...it wasn't really a BAD note.
Me:  *blank stare accompanied by an internal wish to be elsewhere*

General synopsis -  No, we can't tell that they're your kids....no similarities at all *laughter and cackling erupts*  I'm thinking that was probably sarcasm...right?  Probably.

Got the families...check
Got the love...check
Got the ceremony..check.
Got the kids...check.
Got the lawyer bill...??what??

What indeed.   I guess it's just one of the zillion things I'll learn from.   I can pass along the information to whomever asks for advice.  Seriously.  I could write a novel...well, a short story really.   Or maybe make a booklet.  "when you're just being stupid and when you need to run", it's like an advice column, such a helper I am. 
And the really crazy thing?  My situation and custody issues weren't even the worst that I have heard of.  I thought they were bad enough - definitely bad enough for me. And definitely anything that the kids had to be involved with was too much in my mom-opinion.  People can be nasty and people can be evil.   Some for "good" reasons I guess - (I had to come up with a 'for example') --- for example, if someone is doing ugly/evil things, it's totally okay to let them know that it won't continue as long as you are on watch.  I'm okay with that.   I don't, however, agree - nor do I practice - being evil and nasty just to BE evil and nasty.   I believe that there is bad karma associated with that kind of behavior. 

So now that the "worst" is over, we go to the next phase.  Which is the to-be-moving phase.  We will be with the other half of our now blended family.  

It's about time!!  I know that's where my heart has been for a while.  Soon I will be able to say, "Peace at last" and actually be living it.  Me, my man, and our chickens.  And if that gives an idea of the kind of upheaval our lives have been for so long (at least mine and my kids)...the fact that I am overjoyed at the thought of sharing a house and doubling the occupants...it is my idea of chaotic bliss.

Apparently blog posting in a timely fashion just isn't my thing.   Where have I been?  Well. Lots of things have happened I guess.  A brief synopsis of things...

  6.9.12 Beautiful Day for a wedding at the beach

The blending of families, represented in the sand ceremony

  The Siblings...

 Attack kisses :)

 The family together :)

This post shall stand alone.  I shall add, separate from this update of awesome-ness.

May...Uno

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo...the first of the month again. I've neglected the blog...again. You know it's an endless cycle of neglect, really it is.  So, I think I've just decided to stop apologizing for it, because we ALL know it'll just happen again (and again and again). 

The scrappy place where scrap-minions go to chat and share...challenge day!!

Journaling challenge::  Journal something "dirty".  Did your mind just go to a mud puddle, or did it go "there"?? I can't comment on whether there is anything wrong with you either way.  

So, meet  

"my STUD MAN" 

 And the second challenge::  The ATC for the month has the theme "RENEW"...

when I had originally picked this theme (and I picked them way in advance) I thought that "renew" would be something more ... delicate, spiritual...something else.   However, I went with 

"To Do 

RENEW"

Because sometimes we have to renew from a standpoint that may not be pretty, shiny and "new", it may be finding new uses for things...trash-to-treasure?  or finding a new use for something in a way not originally intended.  (I'm sticking with the last one because it almost sounds like I know what I'm talking about HA).

APRIL FOOLS!!!!

Okay so technically that was yesterday. BUT because my name is April and because it's MY FLIPPIN MONTH (I called it), I am therefore excused from all wrong doings this month. :) SOOOOO over at my new scrappy home, my Journaling challenge and ATC challenges were due April 1st. So HAHA...I posted today.

The ATC Challenge has a THEME for the month of April: "Take Flight" -- use birds, butterflies, fairies...whatever...so MsGracie became a fairy --(the GRACE-ful) flutterby :)

Journaling challenge was to choose one of the following:

1. RHYME your journaling. Mine was kind of cheesy - but that doesn't make it less true.

or
2. Use the following:

peace.

it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise,

trouble or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still

be calm in your heart. (unknown)

and for that layout, I used a pic of stevie (from our cruise) --BECAUSE that really cool PEACE quote is actually from something that I had given him back when we had first met. TELL ME THAT ISN"T THE COOLEST THING.EVER.

Something to do...

Because it's Tuesday.

Lynn and I were playing online a bit tonight :)

This is the layout that I had tried to post in February and Blogger ate it and never regurgitated it anywhere LOL. LOOK AT THAT BOY'S FACE!! So cute...Random 1997

I have so missed this whole scrapping business ! :)

Things that make you go ... Hmmmm...

I had a whole post.

Where did it go?

that irritates me beyond any further words that I could possibly type here.

until tomorrow. *sigh*