AS ANY NORMAL DAY

Today went as usual, eddie had a interveiw with fedex which he really wants this job so please pray for us. He might be dropping a package off to you! ..lol Leilani is getting lil bit better about her sister leaving for school! But still has some meltdowns. Today we had a mircale happen, I lost eddie's check which we needed for rent and we having looking for 2 days for fit, we didnt need the added stress causing agruments bewteen us. Out of nowhere lei lei walks up and hands me the check! It was god handed it to me and said here calm down. THANK YOU GOD! Tonite we BBQ'D chicken and I made some sugar cookies from scratch for dessert, yum! For tot school tonite we did shape matching and letter reconzing and did it with lei lei too but she wasnt as interested as angelina. I organized all my pictures tonite and sent 130 to costco to print, I WOULD LOVE to catch up with my scrapbooking.

dont leave sissy!

bagpack ..check!

they love eachother..most of the time..lol

funky face girl

JOINING TOT SCHOOL TIME

A friend of mine, jill does so many great and inventive activties with her daughter some are through TOT SCHOOL. The past fews days I've been going through the blogs and website and fell in love with the activities. I got alot ideas and really excited to start on some of them. I printed match the colors and shapes and lamenated them myself last night. Both the girls loved them and we used pom poms for the colors. Angelina's homework tonite was a "FAMILY TREE" I cut out a tree and bought some fake leaves in the dollar section at target,I drew it but dont judge it!..lol and I let her glue it to the paper then she named who she thought deserved a name on the leaves. She placed the leaves where she wanted them with glue, very pushy about me not helping,(meaning I didnt want leaves on the grass! she did..lol) I seen this similar idea tree on jill's blog. I also used the cricuit to cut out 5 inch foam letters for a few other projects coming up, Love my work area!

angelina doing the color chart

lei lei doing her best

close up pic

heres the charts that I laminated

the tree up close

she loved it as you can see lei lei was quite mad at the attention on her sister

foam letters cut out with cricuit "cutting up"

SATURDAY AND NOT SO GREAT SUNDAY

Saturday was ok we spent some time on cleaning , housework and some school work for angelina. We did the memory game by fancy nancy which game was harder but she did great. Today was my mom's 50th birthday she had a party but I decided not to go with lei lei teething so bad she cried and whined all day and ended up being all night too. We did get out of the house for dinner Eddie treated us to my favorite place Lazy Dog's . Leilani was a monster wanted to be held the whole time, none my tricks in the big ol' coach purse worked!
Sunday I woke up around 7am with the worst migraine ever. I slept til around 930 got up made the girls breakfast and got the showered and dressed, I got showered and dressed too, unfortantely it got worse, I took more medicine and locked myself in the bedroom and slept for 3 hours. Eddie fed the girls lunch and put them down for a nap and left me alone thank god. I still didn't feel any better but I had to head over to my mom's to finish the paper work for child support. The girls got to visit with bear which I practically had to drag them home. Angelina got to talk to her dad for a lil bit, soposly he will be picking her up on friday and giving me some money, I wont hold my breath, my migraine is almost gone .

found a match

fancy nancy card game

the cat got lei lei , but she deservedit she bit the cats tail and pulled up the cat by its tail it was tryng to get away from her! shes a meanie!

B is for buttons

AND ITS DONE!

Here's the craft area, I love it! Eddie helped me alot, love you. I've wanted a space like this for years, can't believe I finally did it for myself. I had a budget of $100 but I went over about $55 due to I added the aditional table and a extra shelf. But in all i'm very pleased, I have a couple more ideas but for now i'm done. Well I do need a chair..lol forgot. To explain the space,Our master bedroom is really big and with lei lei's corner gone and moving our bed center with the tv. It gave a good amount of space to work with. Tried to make it versitalle as possible, for sewing, scrapbooking, bow making etc..Its able to seat two people two if needed.

**Unrelated my grams is doing fabulous and might even be relased on Monday i'm so happy.**

MY SCRAPBOOK PAPER SORTED BY COLORS/ AND PRINTS

THE TOP OF THE MAIN DESK

ALL ORGANIZED CRAFT STUFF

ONE SIDE OF THE SECOND TABLE

THE OTHER SIDE FOR SEWING, AND MY CIRCUIT(made able to sit on either side of the table)

MY SHELVES FOR ALL THE SMALL STUFF

FIRST DESK FULL VIEW

WHATS BEEN GOING ON THE PAST FEW DAYS (WED-FRI)

I've been full force working on my craft area. Meaning a couple trips to joann's, ikea and big lots to complete the transformation. My day goes by so fast now that angelina is in school we get up, eat, shower, dressed, clean up, drop her off, do errands etc.. pick her up then naptime, dinner, clean up, homework (bath sometimes) tv time, then bed. Were on the letter ''B" this week but been lagging on school projects due my extra time as been going to the craft area. We did sorting and counting on wed, thursday we read and today we did the memory game which she found every match! I have a few new projects for the girls coming up and can't wait to do and share :) Wednesday unforgetable moment: Lei lei being drawn on head to toe in permanent black marker! fun for me to clean As far as Thursdays: I ran out of gas heading to pick up angelina, I thought it was something serious called AAA, Unfortantely I was running late AAA took forever and I couldnt get ahold of anyone to pick her up! I felt like a horrible mother. We made it before 5pm which is the cut off! I remember several times my mom being late and its a horrible feeling didnt want her to feel that way ever..bleh.

NEW PLACEMATS

SLEEPING BEAUTY ACTUALLY TOOK A NAP!

INKED UP ALREADY

MEMORY GAME

ON TO MY PROJECT AND A NEW EDITION TO THE FAMILY

Today I started my craft corner the table and two of the shelves are up and started going through everything and organizing. LOTS OF STUFF! Eddie took angelina to school and picked her up so I could focus on this project. Well with lei lei causing messes everywhere and backtracking me, I got only lil bit done. Tonite for angelina's homework we did reading, two books which is always a hit with both girls. We got a knock at the door tonite our neighbors below had a kitten said it was a friends and they couldnt keep him. Knowing that ours was lost, she brought him to us. He's so sweet and playful and not shy at all, loves playing with the girls already. He's box trained and real clean, perfect for us :0)

GOLDEN EYES

HE'S LIL CHUBBY

REMEMBER PUSH POPS? THESE ARE THE LOW FAT VITAMAN C VERSION..LOL

CAN I JUST WAKE UP AGAIN

First thing I hate mondays, but I woke up ok this monday, with things to do. First breakfast, went normal, then bath time which is in the day went sour. Leilani went poop in the bath tub and decided to smear it in the tub. So with the help of eddie we got the kids re bathed and I bleached the whole shower/ tub and counter and toiet, I know I know I didn't have to bleach everything but the bath just felt 'DIRTY' to me. After the girls were dressed and I was showered/dressed. It was time for angelina to go to school, I dropped her off by myself, so I could go to ikea for my craft area project. Plus some alone time was much needed. I got there and went straight to buy soda, due the damn heat wave. And realized no wallet?! Of course ran to the car, checked, eddie he didnt answer. Now I'M ROYALlY PISSED. URGH. I drive home to find my wallet in another purse which I dont use, meaning lei lei did it! Since I wasted so much time driving back and forth I had to wait to go to IKEA due to angelina getting out of school at 4pm. After we picked her up we all headed to ikea and I did some shopping til I ran out of my
project money :( I got a few of the basics I needed some shelves and brackets, desk, a few organizing things. A good start. I did start cleaning out the walk in closet of all my craft stuff and starting organizing and eddie put together a couple of my shelves and my desk.

SUPERSTAR!

DON'T ASK WHERE HER SHIRT IS..

A VISIT FROM BEAR AND MOM (SUNDAY)

On sunday my mom brought bear over to visit which we havent seen him since aug.31. She also came over to start all the paper work for child support for angelina. I'M SO SICK OF HIM, never had so much anger or hate for someone, I KNOW hate is such a strong word, but that is how I FEEL. I was only asking for 300 to start, he couldnt do that, kept LYING AND LYING. Worst thing to do to me is LIE. But thats ok beacause with a judge he will ended up paying all back child support ..3 1/2 years to us and and double what I was asking for..Plus if he doesnt pay they will suspend his liscence and take away he property he has in his name, also I will get all future tax returns til he is caught up! SO to you JESSE...I'LL GET THE LAST LAUGH! (OLDIE SONG) "catch you on the rebound"...I've been pushed to this point of breaking and I'm done! Poor angelina is the only one suffering she hasn't seen him in over a month, sad thing is she doesnt ask for him either now. OUCH.
On to better and postive moments bear had a blast with the girls, they made a huge mess playing camping with the tent, I made lunch and snacks for them too. We miss him so much.

back together for the day

aftermath mess after sharing peanuts

SEEING GRANDMA

We were so lazy today! Took forever to get us up and dressed and fed..lol Today we headed to grandma's hostpital for the first for us, with her being out of ICU. First thing we went to the wrong one! she's been in now 3 different ones. She looks so much better her eyes lit up like fireworks with tears streaming down, probibly not because of me, when she seen the girls! The girls ran to her and showered her with kisses and hugs and lots of love. They mis their grandma so much. Leilani lasted about 3.5 seconds til she was tearing up the room and pulling plugs and hoses, this girl, I swear! Eddie took her downstairs to run around while angelina and me visited grams. Angelina talked mostly about school and her friends and her ipod and and her new clothes for school. She had alot to catch up on. After we left we headed to dinner which the kids got to pick and of course they picked McDonalds..bleh. We let them play for lil bit too. We came home to my mother in law at our door, shes having some troubles at home so we will spending a couple of nights. We sold leilani's bed, so my project its on its way to becoming a reality :0)

APPLE PIE AND CAPTAIN MORGAN

Today angelina has been in school a week now. Im so proud of her! Tonite we had a family dinner at our place. I spent most of the day cleaning and cooking. I went all out in the food dept. due they haven't had my cooking. my menu was :
appetizers: parisian salad and breaded four cheese ravioli's with marinara dip
main course: spaghetti ragati with a famous meat sauce( famous in my head..lol) with fresh stuffed french bread with a homemade stuffing of butter, garlic, salt, itlalian clintro parmesean cheese and mozerella cheese.
Dessert: homemade mini apple pies with french vanilla ice cream (thanks jill)
Theyed loved it ..like LOVED LOVED it kinda made me blush and asked to take some home.
Our guests were uncle tay tay, eddies mom and dad and lyn and visna.
Uncle tay tay is my fav he is so worldly and funny, also he can be so cheap but rock a rolex(its real) lol he brought 100 proof captain morgan..he said " life can't get any better when you have family, apple pie and captain morgan"
We had a great time and we cleaned up and I'm off to bed.
heres some pics wish I would have taken more but i was busy!

bread ready for the oven

there almost done1

the family

she love's her lolo

TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY

My grams is better and moved out of ICU! All the prayers worked! thank you if you prayed for her. I woke up in the worst mood and my back was killing me. Eddie took angelina to school by himself and picked her up he also made dinner and did the dishes, woo hoo! A break for me, I got a great guy, well when they want to be ..lol We stuck to schedule and the kids are settling in bed with a movie. I turn it off around 830. Tonite for homework eddie traced the letter "A"again then we did we did the "A" with colorful puffs and a alligator. Miss lei lei is been nothing but a brat today tearing things up, getting into things, urgh all day just a monster my nerves are shot. spanking, time out, the corner isnt working..HELP ME. This girl literally goes for one thing to the next while your cleaning up the last mess! I have family dinner I'm doing at my house tommorrow, so hoping she will act right tomorrow.

my music girl (only 15 minutes though..lol)

MESSY FACE..SHIRT MIA

ART PROJECT FOR TODAY

LETTER TRACING

GLIDING INTO OUR ROUTINE

Starting Monday we started a new routine, so far its been great! Bedtime is earlier, we do homework after dinner. Leilani is getting into her routine with angelina being gone, lunch and naptime has changed. We sometimes do baths at night most of the time its in the morning, due to hair is easier to deal with when its clean and wet. One of angelina's teacher is being lil bit bitchy with me but I'm biting my tongue since angelina loves school so much, I think its a race thing, some people are so lame. Her homework is somewhat free range so I'm starting with letter "A" and doing something with the letter all week. We do 30 minutes a night. Monday was painting ,Yesterday we did tracing the upper and lowercase A, today we did naming things starting with A and sounding out the letter. We also decorated the letter "A". Poor lil lei lei is lonely while angelina is gone so starting tomorrow I will be doing just lei lei activities while angelina is gone. We headed to the dollar tree for a few things for homework activities, so many things you find there! But it all adds up in the end..lol oops. I organized some of their supplies, but more to do plus some organizing of the house and changing things around for projects coming soon!

Working on the letter "A"

BOX OF GOODIES

MY OH MY ALL THE CRAYONS

MARKERS/ PENCILS/GLUES AND SCISSORS

OF COURSE A PIC OF THE SCHOOL GIRL!