Peace Offering?

Lil'DD served her in school suspension yesterday as punishment for ditching last Thursday. Today his her first day back at school and I'm so nervous wondering if she's going to class or out screwing around. She SAID she was going to class, but who knows, right?

Anyway, I just have to believe in her I guess...

DH left again yesterday for another week up working near Memphis. Oh I love the quiet house and waking up to an empty bed in the mornings... I cannot tell you what peace I've been getting from these work trips of his. Badly needed after 10 years of yelling.

Jaye. Val. I've been thinking the past couple of months about packing up and moving out closer to my Mom. Arizona in fact, because I don't think I'd go back to CA for much of anything. Now, don't get so excited, I'm not talking about next week, but sometime within the next year or so, if I can put all the pieces into place. If things get any worse with DH, it will definitely be sooner rather than later, but I've been watching the housing and job market... anyway, I'm looking at the Kingman area which I know isn't too terribly far from you. Just thought I'd put it out there. There's a whole lot more to it than this but that's all I'm ready to talk about right now.

Hope you're having a good week...

That didn't last long...

Peace? Did I just post that a few days ago? HAH. Not in my lifetime.

Not sure if I mentioned or not, DH was gone all week, up in memphis.
Sunday right after he left, the washer broke. It took until today to get the repair man out, still don't know if it will be fixed or not. Then Tuesday, put Lil'dd's wet from the rain shoes into the dryer, and the dryer broke. UGGH. Not fun

The high school principal called yesterday and asked if Lil'DD was with me. She hadn't attended her 5th or 6th period classes and they didn't know where she was. I immediately stopped processing information at that point. I may have even stopped breathing. The rest of the day is actually somewhat of a blur. ...it seems the principal had called Lil"DD out of class yesterday to award her with some special roses that were being given to the top students in some of the classes. When they couldn't find her, they called me. I went to the school and met with the princiapl. She didn't show up for her 7th hour class either. My heart & mind were in overdrive by that time, typical mother worry. So I went out to the parking lot to the regular place I pick her up and waited. I was 17 month. I figured she'd be along shortly.

At the regular time she comes bee-bopping out of the school building with her book bag, smiling and says "Hi Mom. I gotta pee..." I asked her where her flowers were. "What flowers?" she said... I said, "The ones they tried to give you in 5th, 6th and 7th period classes today."

You should have seen her face. You know that BUSTED look teenagers get before they get it all back under control and start lying to you? Yeah, that one. She went there. And looked me straight in the eye and lied, saying, "I was in the bathroom throwing up." ...Oh honey. First of all I'm not stupid, and second... this lying is only going to make things worse...

It took her a little while to come around, but it turns out, a group of kids has been sneaking off to the park every day to hang out and smoke cigarettes. MY BABY. Needless to say, I'm ticked off at the little one right now. Sure, she'll be 18 this year and I understand that she's going to do pretty much whatever the hell she wants, but she needs to at least make wise choices when doing it, right??

SO... this morning, we went to the principals office for our big pow wow. She fessed up to ditching and where she was at. The principal gave her roses from yesterday and told her she's suspended for ditching school. The principal did not address the twenty-two freeking times she's skipped class and nobody notified me. Only the three classes missed yesterday. Oh well. It's not a perfect world. At least they caught her and maybe we can fix this thing before the problem gets any worse...

Thank goodness it's Friday.
I dont' think I can stand any more fun this week...

Peace... and, well, Peace.

I said my peace to Ms.Blue and dropped it. I'm not going to push or nag.

Then the funniest thing happened. Thursday night she and I were visiting with all of our friends and she dropped her bomb on them. They pushed and nagged for about 3 hours. They squawked and talked and reinforced everything I've said from thirty different angles and by the end of the evening had her planning a wedding in October of 2009! Aren't friends wonderful? ...I think mostly she just needed to come home and be reminded the she is loved.

Ok. So that disaster is now under control.

Then yesterday, DH had to go out of town for the week. The company he works for had a warehouse taken out in the tornados last Tuesday and he had to go in with the team of engineers to tell the cleanup crews what product can be salvaged. SO...He's gone for the week.

30 minutes after he left, my fancy-smancy high dollar washing maching broke. The warranty went out 3 weeks ago. I've never bought an extended warranty on anything on my life. EXCEPT...for this paticular washing machine. I loved it so much when I bought it that I couldnt' stand the thought of anything happening to it. So I've been trying all day to arrange for the warranty work so I can wash clothes again.

Taking off early today to drive over to big city and take Ms.Blue to the airport.

I think I forgot to tell you that two weeks ago, Mr.Blue put on his first two stripes and caught up with Ms.Blue in rank. They are both A1C now. (Yep, proud mamma here)

Ok. I think that's all. For now.
Have a good day.
oh! Jaye. I'll try and come and catch up on your blog tomorrow. It's crazy at work!!

No and Hell No.

Just got back late last night from 4 days in Peachtree City< GA. It was heavenly.
Ms.Blue flew in yesterday a couple hours before we got home for a week's leave.

I'm turning 40 tomorrow. (Thursday)

Late last night, road weary and confused and having had to change time zones again, Ms.Blue dropped a bombshell on me. (she's 20 now...)

Mom. she said.
No, I'm not pregnant. She said.
We want to get married in March. she said.

Next month. she said.

She isn't acting like a woman in love.
She hasn't told me this is the man of her dreams.
She isn't saying he's the one she wants to spend the rest of her life with.

She said. I'll get 1200 more a month.

Oh No.
Hell No.

I am so not liking this right now.