Follow Friday Four Fill In

The statements:

1. I can’t believe this year is almost over where did it go?
2. Dumbo is my favorite Disney character
3. If I could go to school I would be a zoologist _
4. December is is a busy month

Fragment Friday and Fill In..

Update on the family: Rick is working on getting a new contract from the DOD with his job.. Another year or more on at NG is great we look forward to it so pray he gets the contract negotiated. Its always stressful same time every year to know whether or not you will have a job following... James is still waiting to get approved for SSI we had a nice talk yesterday we hadn't talked in about two years like that. Its almost like old James. He still seems to struggle with depression, frustration, and just not understanding the world at large. Skylar is struggling with school but pulling in good grades. William is doing better by leaps and bounds always surprising us with a new fascination- this week corn bread- who knew?

Highs and Lows this week... Lows I am still not done decorating one tree and keep tweaking a second tree. Kids aren't feeling tip top and my best friends father passed away she can't afford the funeral and I can't be there by her side as I promised. #sucks... Highs as I said I talked to James I mean we were basically just chit chatting but it was something. I have been selling off some of the extra stuff I don't need which is nice. 

The statements:

1. Sometimes I think I talk too much is that why I ended up blogging?
2. Do you love Home and Garden TV  as much as I do?
3. Black Friday shouldn't be on Thursday. I don't mind shopping on Thanksgiving if I want to go out I can but I think Black Friday should be Black Friday... It also shouldn't end at 11 o'clock like Kohls did this year. 
4. Having my husband close is my favorite thing about long holiday weekends

Snow reminds me of...

Snow reminds me of why I don't live up north and endure more snow. I have very bad Osteo-Arthritis and my Fibromyalgia doesn't like cold weather either. I always said if my husband got stationed in Alaska during the winter months I would own a parka and stay indoors good thing its dark half of the time up there no one would miss me haha. If I lived up north I would be a total snow bird... see you in the Summer haha dang its hard to do that with kids isn't it?

Honestly though when snow blankets everything some of our winters it reminds me of renewal.. Everything for a moment looks quiet and beautiful. Its a time of reflection and renewal because it looks so clean even just for a short time... then eventually all the bad and dirt will be washed away ready for Spring's rebirth.

What does snow remind you of?

Friday November 21, 2014: It's just another day.

Its just another Friday here. Every other Friday (most of the time) my husband has them off. So we typically go on our date if we can afford it. Don't get too excited its just lunch out somewhere while the kids are in school. I am grateful he volunteered that we should go to take care of our Christmas shopping. So we took care of most of our shopping and didn't spend near as much as we used to. I am TIRED of toys. My kids either like being outdoors or on their electronics. There are times when my son wants his hot wheels or his legos but most of the time its electronics, board games, outside stuff. I have their big gifts to get but I didn't get them yet because I have no where to hide them LOL.

My blogger friend Beth and I were talking... Have you read her blog +Beth Applegate ? Anyways she was like I am not sure readers want to read about that. I was like have you seen the insane stuff on the internet? I never know what to blog about. I haven't been getting many comments so I guess I will just take the comments as suggestions. Like Beth I am not sure you want to read about the boring parts of my day? So what say you? Do you want to read about just an average day in the misadventures of my second life?

FFFFF...

The statements:

1. I just ____
2. ___ is _____
3. If I could, I would ________
4. _____makes me_____

My Answers

1. I just need to get this house organized and ready for Christmas. Things keep slowing me down!
2. Is it just me or is it colder now?
3. If I could, I would have more pictures of people that I don't have enough of. I would also write down more memories.
4. William (my son), makes me laugh.

Friday Blog Prompts

Sorry I missed Friday's blog prompts because I had cut my hand and it was hard to type. Saturday and Sunday I try to limit my time online.

Blog prompts for Friday

Blog prompts from Paper Coterie http://www.papercoterie.com. Get a $38.00 credit by using the code BeAThankful

Day three of blog prompts is

Permission to cheat. Today doesn't have to be today. You can write about a conversation from family dinner last Tuesday.

In 10 years it won't matter if it was Tuesday or today. You'll remember you had one of those rare nights when they liked the food, didn't pick at each other through dinner, and didn't make you wonder why you try to do it in the first place.

Review the questions and edit your answers.

Picture:

Date:

What Happened:

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Here are some conversation or sentence starters for your blog

The One Minute Writer

When do you put up Christmas decorations? Do you have them up yet? What do you decorate? Do you have a theme? Do you make any of your decor yourself? Share some stories about some of your Christmas traditions or special ornaments that have been passed down etc...

If you could wake up tomorrow with a new talent, what would you want it to be?

What are 3 things you would like to put in a time capsule?

Who is the most inspirational mother you know and why?

Choose a poem you like. Take the last line and use that in a new poem by you

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Blog Meme's and Carnivals

Four Foods on Friday

Four for Friday

Friday Favorites (Inactive but you can still play on your own)

Milspouse Friday Fill In

Fashion Friday

Fix It Friday

Family Friendly Fridays

InstaFridays

Flashback Friday

Mommy Moments

Photo Friday

Top 5 on Friday

Skywatch Friday





and other random meme's listed here
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Mil Spouse Friday Fill in

By Wife of a Sailor

1. Facebook or Twitter?
Facebook the Twitter world is still a bit confusing

2. Hard Tacos or Soft Tacos?
Soft only

3. Gardening or crafting?
crafting

4. Fruit or vegetables?
Fruit. I love my vegetables for sure, but I love the sweetness of fruit. <~ I agree

5.  Motorcycle or bicycle?
I haven't ridden on a Motorcycle since I was very young. I promised someone I wouldn't ride after a family friend lost his leg to a Harley. I drool over them though... I did ride bikes a lot before moving to Huntsville now I wish I had a bike. We have a bike trailer for the kids, a bike car seat for just William but no BIKES! Maybe perhaps one day I would like a Harley trike :p

Friday

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein

I saw this on another blog here and they said it speaks to them like the education system. It has the same meaning for me. I have had my own struggles with my daughters education and her rights. As a child I was stuck in an alternative school (children that are in danger) not because I misbehaved but because I had gotten my head shaved and had a major surgery (One required the other.) I was the one who was treated with kid gloves when all I needed was a teacher that could do their job not stuck in a room by myself with a load of work. Children need to be taught not handed paperwork to do. I get the whole Teachers are in high demand and under paid. I get that... But dealing with the princess and her school(s) I have began my own struggles with just simply getting what we pay for. The school is more focused on who pays taxes (I live in a different county than the school so they don't collect taxes from me), BUT her being a Military Child brought in extra money to the school as I am sure there were moneys set aside for IEP which what do you know they put her in! Kindergarten year I fought with the school over speech problems. Yeah my little girl has speech she is missing most of her teeth. They basically told me without proper speech she can't learn to read which by the way she was supposed to learn in the non mandatory Pre K program that I would have to pay for. So they would just hold her back, several security issues coming out of this public school that mostly military families attended btw.. They weren't at all Military friendly IMO. Then 1st grade year. I liked the teacher at first she had an impressive resume but I noticed the princess wasn't learning anything. she constantly had work sheets after worksheets... (Yes they do ask for money for paper!) They gave the princess a test that she would have to read all by herself and no help at all from teachers... she failed. DUH of course she can't READ! Still in speech (showing improvement) they wanted to submit her to more testing. I was apprehensive and started doing my own research. I started asking my own questions. During one of the very few Parent Teacher Conferences the teacher was concerned about how The princess was coloring. The princess really doesn't color that often. She doesn't really draw either. She goes through phases and spurts. Well we live in Alabama and we see a lot of Tornado's which we didn't really see in our former home. So the princess became paranoid of Tornado's and House Fires so that's what she would draw .. black swirly clouds... the teacher didn't approve. WHO the CRAP are you to not approve of whatever creativity my daughter has or hasn't gotten! She only had spelling homework every week every day... We asked where is the math etc? Teacher said no worries she is doing it in class. After winter break rolls around and the teacher sends home an email saying that she was going to put the princess on a retention list when she sent out the progress report the next day.  she told me not to mention anything to the princess about it. Again WHO THE CRAP ARE YOU LADY? I wasn't appreciative and if there were signs of trouble shouldn't we have had more than one or two Parent Teacher Conferences the only conferences we had were regarding speech. Both my husband and I were blind sided by the school and had to endure several more incidents from the staff that were just completely uncalled for. I talked to some people that were not associated with the school system or the military I got prices for testing etc.. After much pushing I agreed to have her tested for learning disabilities. Her biological father and I both have them so I knew it was a possibility but I didn't want her labeled if she was "fine". I pushed the superintendent and the principle to not retain her and I told them I would fight it or pull her out all together. I did fight it until I just prayed about it and realized if the idiot teacher with the beautiful resume didn't give her the building blocks to succeed in second grade maybe retention was for the best. I had very grown up talks with Skylar during this time and at the time she thought it was also a good idea to do a "do over". My husband was retiring from the military and we really had no idea where our lives were headed and big uncertainty. I didn't need to put this on my daughter and her education as well. I decided that we would home school during the summer and see if things improved and have her retested in the Fall. The principle and superintendent told me I would be in the teacher picking process for the coming year and that the superintendent would personally handle it as well as put a friend of Skylar's in her class to avoid the social stigma. Fall came and we were over looked Go figure but after a rocky start things are going better where she currently is. She is almost caught up with the second graders and confidently learning finally.

After so much tension on my husband and I arguing about the future of our princess when in a time when we didn't need the stress we are now working together to give her the best education.

Last month I watched Waiting on Superman. It explained a lot about why this is happening in our school systems and how our children are being left behind with very few life boats to save them (reminds me of the Titanic). Its an awesome movie if you would like to sit down and watch it. I encourage you to do so..

Five Question Friday

1. Do you have any nicknames and if so how did it come about? Bella came from a show in the 90's I believe it was called Young Ameicans the character  in the show was strong willed. I wanted to name my daughter that (Realize my only daughters name is Skylar) Then I started using the screen name Bella Poet and people just started calling me Bella. My old friends from way back when always called me KK which was my initals.



2. What is your birth order amongst your siblings? Natural sisters I am the baby, between natural and half I am the middle. Adopted siblings I am the youngest



3. In a movie of your life, who would play your significant other? Brian McNamara or Drew Fuller



4. What is currently your favorite song? Lead Me



5. Are you saving your money for anything right now? Big or small purchase? Car, Fence, House Decor, Clothes

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Milspouse Friday Fill In

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Thanks again to Wife of a Sailor for coming up with this!



1. If you could be a fugitive from the law for whatever reason, what would your crime be? Kidnapping

2. How long do you think you will be a military family? Once a Military Family always a Military Family. My husband was in the Military for 24 years. He had his first marriage and two children before myself and children came along 3 years ago.

3. What’s your favorite recipe? Hungarian Goolash and cinnamon tea cakes

4. What would you want your last five words to be when you leave this life? I love you very much.

5. Where do you hope to retire? We are here in Huntsville.