Oh Thursday...how I love you!

So Today will be a good day...well its 10am and its good already... Today at 1pm Stuart has his shots...which I usually laugh at...its so funny..b.c. he is going to be sitting there..having a good time..smiling laughing and then they give him his shots...and out of nowhere his face just screams...like where did that come from???...I may be the only mother in history to laugh at my kids when they get their shots...but an encouraging note..I come unglued when they do get hurt..like at times I try to be one of those parents they say Oh your OK...blah blah blah toughen up...but if I think there is any remote hurt...I baby them!.. I'm their Mommy...thats my job...
Which reminds me...I'm suing Ya Gabba Gabba...Sondra is watching it..and it was dance time w/friends..and she was dancing and then it was freestyle...well she got a little crazy in her dancing...(her father's genes shining through) and she fell on my parents wood floor and hit her teeth!...I thought to myself..I failed...thats like my one goal for her...To let her Clum cloppers (we named her front teeth)  fall out naturally...I flipped her gums around one of her front teeth was bleeding!.. started calling my Mom & Sister...asking them...they said not to worry... if they aren't cracked and don't look like they moved up then give her some Tylenol.. and if one falls out..it falls out... well as of today it looks like we are good! So I have not failed my goal so far...
tonight we are trick or treating in Lafayette...well this year its Jake turn to take Sondra around...who knows.. Jake could sucker me into it.. i love seeing her face and making sure to tell the people thank you...its adorable!~... then Saturday my parents are having a little friends/family get together...really fun..campfire food and stuff... Then on Sunday after church we are going to Spencerville to go trick or treating with Jake's parents...that will be really fun! :)
One Note: Sondra has been really testing me...like if she can't get her way she'll lay on the ground and say her legs are broke and she won't do what I want...I haven't had to use my spanking spoon in a long time..but I think it is time to remind of the consequences... last night I told her to take all her toys to her room..and she started a fit..I grabbed my spanking spoon and smacked it on the table and said Listen up..if you don't get moving..your gonna get the spanking spoon...that made her move..but I looked down at my beloved spoon decorated up w/Sondra's name and initials...and it cracked... w/many suggestions...I think I am going to start using a spatula... wish Sondra luck...one good report...she has not relapsed yet w/her bad word...which makes me a bit sad..I wanted to wash her mouth out w/soap...

Jude, New Shirts, and A Stormy Day!

Although the stormy day sucks...I am happy to report I am in  a great mood..
Yesterday- MY nephew Jude was born finally... he weighed 8 lbs 5 ounces and just shy of 22in. long...I was so excited the whole way up to the hospital!!! I have not got a new nephew or niece in 8 years....and I'm still waiting on the niece part..hint: Kayla/Rick and Rachel/Chris.... Jude was so adorable..I didn't get to hold him long or see him long..but I just wanted  a glimpse and leave the parents alone...the first day with all the people was very...IDK.. its just kind of over whelming...I couldn't tell you how happy I was both times the first night where it was just me/Jake and our baby together alone..w/Stuart I was more out of it...well I was out of it... I can't even remember the day after he was born...I just remember when they all left and the nurse came in and was like you ready to get up?..and I said ya and I got up and it didn't even hurt...so odd...b.c. w/Sondra it burned like hell...but I still moved anyway..w/Stuart I could have gone and ran a marathon after my C/S!...lol..well ok in my head I could have...
So we ordered T shirts for work...and low and behold they are finally here...I am so happy!...I now don't even gotta think about finding an outfit for work...I'm so happy..
SO I came into the office in my new pretty Tshirt... and there are storm warnings..and all.. and then we just sat outside to watch the sky...and then when the storm came through..finally it has cleared up and I am babysitting the kids tonight which should be fun!...they are always a riot and a funny story waiting to happen!
I'll get back to you!
ALSO! Gramps got out of the hospital yesterday!! ... so very happy!
Joie

All is invited to Jonelle's Pity Party...Its my Party...I'll Cry if I want too...

I have had a lot on my mind... one...i hate one uppers...i may even be guilty of this..but I'm really going to be self conscious about this... and a one upper is a when you tell somebody something and they have to respond tell you how they did that better or how something all together better... IDK..you get it though right... or you get my annoyance with it...
So Jake has open mats tonight which I'm starting to dread this time of year... this time of year when wrestling starts to begin... don't get me wrong Wrestling fans...I love my AE Mustang's wrestling team just as much as the next one...i love the boys know which weight class they wrestle...what they are good at and what not...love the parents.....but my husband is a assistant coach and what that means to me is... he don't get home anytime before 6pm ?..not sure exactly like a pregnant woman forgets the pain from delivery I do the same with wrestling so I am excited for it to start again......And our weekends are full of wrestling tourneys w/now 2 small kids but you know the weekends isn't bad b.c. we can leave whenever we want and It gives me time to spend time with friends and stuff..but it sucks through out the week b.c. Sondra goes to bed at 8pm..so it don't leave much room for them 2 and Sondra more than ever needs her Daddy Me time..and for a family as a whole...when shall we ever have dinner together..I always joke that during wrestling season I'm a single Mom.....and I know there are single moms out there that will disagree and think how dare she make that comparison but your not writing this blog...and thats my little Ole opinion of my situation.....one good thing is...we have our family day on Sundays..which is solely devoted to being together...and nothing will get in the way of that...and if so... beware of my heaping fire of wrath.. lol.. but I would beware....its one thing for me to fight for his attention...but not for my darlings...

Also.. its just the time of year...I have started to make my Christmas budget...and look at it and wonder...how will it ever work... lol.. some way some how..it can work.. Stuart really won't need anything but I'll have to get him one gift..he isn't going to remember it..and his Aunts & Uncles..are there to spoil him... :)...but with Sondra.I've gotta up my game...she is into Opening up presents!...so volume is what counts...but I don't want to get her all kinds of cheap chintzy stuff...so I'm starting a list..and really going to shop around...last year after thanks giving me and Melissa went to ToysRus to watch the craziness...well I might have to be apart of that craziness.. lol.. this year though...I'm taking my video camera.. haha..hopefully we do go..

I've also gotta get some creative ideas for this weekend...Jess has been wanting me to take pics of colt..and while we are doing that all 3 of them are gonna get pics together..and then I'm gonna try and get a quick family pic of me Jake and kids...we don't have a new since Stuart was born..and I really don't want to spend money to have someone take a bad one..lol..not that mine will be good..b.c. I have 2 kids...that already I know teachers will be begging me to get them heavily medicated to sit still in school...and a husband that his version of a smile....I won't even describe it...lets just say teeth are never involved... and then me... I see myself in pictures and go... who is that girl..where have I ever gone.... we were looking at old pictures over the weekend...and so many people said look at you and Jake... you guys were so young and skinny.... after about the 2nd one...I thought I'm not old..that was just a what maybe 4 or 5 years ago...so I'm just over weight and young... thanks :).....sniff sniff ..pity party for me ..
which leads to another topic....dieting... we are supposed to be "wanting" to start a diet...well I am..but seriously- I don't need one more thing to worry about doing...i see old pics of me and think man I looked good...and want to look that way...but.. I must not care about myself enough..b.c. I haven't followed through with losing weight in a long time..i didn't keep any weight on from Stuart..my legs are actually smaller but my midsection is another story...to be my weight before I had Sondra....I need to lose 18 pounds... and with Sondra..I took it off..and then got happy and didn't bother to continue what I was doing... I need to find a happy medium...I wanna be that girl again...but is it worth forfeiting the time? I will promise though I'll be doing a lot of swimming this winter...being in a house with 2 kids won't work...so we'll be swimming and spending time w/Grandpa Kenny..plus Stuart has to be a fish just like his big sister Sondra...and Sondra this year needs to give up her floaties and swim like a big girl.....  
I think I have rambled on enough...and pitied partied myself out..sometimes it just feels good too... you'll hear from me again..maybe this week...and also pray for my Grandpa Kenny he is in the hospital for a few days...he has bronchitis...which is making it hard for him to breathe..He will get out in a few days docs have said..
much love
Joie

Awkward Speedway Encounter ;) & My Potty Mouthed Daughter-"like her mother" Jake would say

So I go to Speedway Monday Morning because I gotta have my sweet tea for the day...and I had 2 teas in my hands for me & my aunt...and I set them on the counter...and the first words out of this cashier girls mouth was.."Wow- looking at you- I would have never guessed that you would have a tattoo."... I thought to myself.."what the hell??"... i was kind of speechless...like was I supposed to explain why i have them..or explain people aren't what they always seem to be...or maybe the "don't judge a book by it's cover" line..I don't know..it was awkward...honestly..I want more...if I'm ever in LA I will get a tattoo by Kat Von D... awesome!...she does really awesome animal portraits and I'm just waiting on the right person to do a Tattoo for my Mystery... When I'm done having kids completely I'm getting some kind of family tree tattoo..can't picture it..but I want something to that extent... and all this talk of tattoos...it probably will freak Jake- his/mine family out.. b.c. I don't know...it just would...they don't understand it...they are "bookmarks" marks of pride in my life that I care to carry with me...my 1st Tattoo was my honeymoon tattoo of Jake's name and our anv. date...I was/am so proud to be his...and I want everyone to know it....this girl is taken...my 2ND my bible verse "proverbs 22:6:... it marks my entrance into motherhood...got it a few months after Sondra was born- it reminds me that if you put the work in now ...it matters down the road...and my 3rd tattoo my Gram's initials... I was/am so proud of that precious lady...she left such a legacy in us it is not even funny...why I can cook..its b.c of her...my spiritual family tree - people who led the people that lead me to Christ...she is a part of it...i only wish I can at least be half of what she was for me as a Grandma... b.c. this lady gave me so many memories to share forever and ever with my own children/grandchildren...she showed me how a grandma is supposed to be...and gave me such a great example of how to be that..
I had a really funny story to tell you guys too... man this sucks...OHHH.. now I remember... Sondra has a bit of a potty mouth lately... now... growing up when I got a little bit older I got in the habit of saying piss...Its in my everyday langue... its not even a oops sorry thing when I say it..its just a word...when me and Jake started dating...and he would always be like watch your mouth..lol.. BC to him that was a bad word...and my explanation would be piss is not a bad word..but it certainly isn't a "pretty" word...that was my mom's description of that word and for suck too... lol.. and to me that makes complete sense...well Sondra has never ever said it until a bout 3 or 4 weeks ago and I swear she says every Sunday..the first time she said it was when she was w/my mom and she mad her cat mad and mom says something about don't make that cat mad...and she says..ya "I sure pissed that cat off!"....my mom was speechless...she went into the whole your not allowed to say it..blah blah blah..i thought it was taken care of..we assumed she said it b.c. the day b4 she was with me jess and Kayla..and I will admit Me & Jess probably said it a lot..(thats Jessy's word) and so the following week I have watched my mouth not said it... the following Sunday...we are at my parents again...we get in our car and pulling out and Jake says something about saying by to Bambi the mule and she says NO!..I'm not gonna piss Bambi off..I don't piss her off...and I immediately start saying No you don't say that..and I thought she got the picture...well we didn't even get down to the corner to the grave yard..she says Well I don't piss of Bambi but I do piss snot off...and Jake couldn't take it..he pulls over int he parking lot of the grave yard...and opens up her door and gets right into her face and got the message through...or so we thought...well..this Sunday..Schwartz are over to see Sondra's Pony..and Sondra and Cara are driving Daisy...and I see Sondra come up the barn crying..and I say Whats wrong..she says..I said a bad word..and I said really??...What did you say..she her response is.."I don't even want to say it Momma"..and she says...something about the cat word...and so I think she is catching on...I just don't think she knew which word we were telling her not to say...so... I think she gets it..and so now I'm now prepared to wash her mouth out with Soap if she says it again... and honestly..I don't blame her..she has heard and didn't think twice about saying it..and that is why she knew how to use it..and let me just Point out..I never said it to her or stuff like that... like she has heard me talking to someone or something like that..I would NEVER say "Sondra your  pissing me off" or anything like that... I'm not a perfect parent ...but I will never talk to my children like that...just wanted to share this story with you b.c. 1. all kids say a bad word and 2. I'm sure she'll have another bout with a bad word 3. and thank God she said piss and not a worst word... I can live with Piss...   so pray for Sondra...hopefully she doesn't have a relapse and gets her mouth washed out...!

Sondra on her first pony Daisy-Bob

Oh MY Friday~

Oh Friday...I have been patiently waiting for you! Although the beginning of the week was kind of sad...I did get see some great family...I always love getting together with them..wish we would do it more often..
So Its been one full week since I bought my iPod touch...and oh how I have fallen madly in love with it...it satisfies my want for a smart phone. Jake annoyingly likes the games on it and tries to steal my little piece of heaven from me... I have my music on it...games..neat cool apps....books...just everything...even a period planner app that tells me when my next period should arrive..I gotta find an app to remind me to take my birth control and then it would be complete.... lol a period planner... I laughed and thought I'm gonna download that and then I looked to see what it was and thought... wow that is kinda useful..lol 
I have a "busy" weekend....tonight...have to be home or somewhere in front of the TV to watch the reds!!!... Jake's real love... so we will probably watch at my GPA Kenny's... then sometime this weekend I gotta go to the store b.c. funny me thought man I'll make lasagna for Sunday dinner...i still got to talk to more people to bring the other stuff...but gotta get to the store to get the stuff i need to actually make it.. I'm excited..I love Sunday dinner..and anything Italiano makes my day..well any that i like... 
Also Saturday.. Sondra will be meeting her new pony Daisy-Bob my parents got at the Mt. Hope Sale..she originally wasn't going to get one..but since this summer and all her riding...Mom&Dad thinks she is ready...I'm so excited...b.c. this is her first Very own pony...I can't wait to see her riding around on her making memories... everybody that has a horse remembers their own first pony... Mine was a white Shetland pony..I named him Mr. Logan b.c. Wolverine was my favorite X men character and thats his real name...  we got him from Mr.Begg from Wagon train...this pony was so stubborn..I remember my first year at fair I took him in barrels and the arena had really deep mud b.c. of all the rain that year and he started acting up in the arena..rared once or twice i finished the patterned was upset..and at the time and my age this older 4h boy..who I had a absolute crush on.. rode over and told me what a great job I did for making my pony finish..and some other stuff every older 4h person should tel to younger kids that aren't doing as well as they would like or think they should be doing..and as he rode away..I was happy and saying "Why thank you Mr. Logan"... 
And for any inquires why her Name is going to be Daisy-bob... because Daisy is her actual name and Sondra for the longest time has said she was naming her pony Bobbie b.c Jake use to have a spotted draft horse named Bobbie..so she thinks all her horses should be named Bobbie...and her Grandma the softie...will allow it.. its like Colts one pony we had...her name was supposed to be Dolly...but Colt wanted her name to be alligator..so they settled for Dolly-Gator..and I know you think that sounds funny..but thinking about it now..it would sound funny if we just said Dolly.. lol.. 
Well This is LONG...sorry... Got a lot to say..Stay tuned...I'll be posting a pic of Sondra with her Pony and her big FAT smile..she will have... I'm thinking I'm gonna bust out the video camera too.. 
Much Love
Later

Short and sweet

So I was in Greenville Monday & Tuesday..Jake's Grandpa did pass away...he had a very nice service where the kids and family shared memories of him...he was one interesting man and hearing the stories about him makes Jake...make sense...if you can understand that..Grandpa always wanted a Great Grandson Clum boy that would carry on the Clum name...so when Stuart arrived..the pressure was off and Grandpa Clum had at least one Clum boy in the 3rd generation...
although its Wednesday and midpoint through the week..I Have not been feeling good lately..and my throat hurts from coughing so much..so tonight..I'm gonna do the bare minimum mommy stuff and hope Jake picks up the slack... i'll update you later ;)

Happy & Not happy about Friday..

So....its Friday and I am happy that it is Friday..but not.....Jake's grandpa has had a stroke and he is not doing good..and its unexpected...he has been a pretty healthy guy... so its a surprise...
Jake & my Cousin Sam and one of her friends are on their way to cinci for a red's game... Jake's big love...we have already been to a reds game this year b.c. usually a salesman gets Jake tickets... but I told him I didn't want to spend all day or night at a game w/out the kids... I'm just not ready...and that is a big issue with me I will someday explain...but better with Sondra...but Stuart...can't lose me just yet...
Tonight me and My sister in law are going to go get our nails done..I'm excited bout that~... I've always wanted to and I thought why not... i got my Babysitting money I'm gonna do it!...
Hopefully this weekend goes good..and keep Jake's Grandpa & family in your prayers..