Awww!

Awww, isn't my Phoenix such a sweetie-pie? Snuggling with my feet! Sweet girl!

A Whole Lotta Love!

This blog gets no love, peeps! No love at all! And why the hell not, you ask (you didn't, of course, but let's just pretend that you did, okay? Okay.)? Well, I'll tell you--it's laziness! Pure, simple and completely unabashed laziness! I'm one lazy individual and I shan't be denying it. Plus, there's never really anything all that exciting going on, you know?

Let's see, let's see...

There's baseball, of course, but that's almost at an end (at least for this season). Hmm, last time we spoke (figuratively) our young spritely fellows (aka the Mudcats) were at 4 W 4 L and ironically, they're in somewhat the same position now with 10 W 10 L 1 T. Tonight is their last game of the regular season before playoffs and if the gods are smiling, we'll triumph and end the season winning more than we've lost. Wishes of luck are greatly appreciated. After playoffs, we're baseball free (much to Cameron's dismay) until late August when we begin practice for Winter Ball.

What else? Oh yes, Mother's Day. It was good. We were flat-ass broke and couldn't afford to do anything but that's okay, it was good. My Cameron bought me a sunflower from school and made me a cake. Lovely. The day itself was spent BBQ'ing and swimming (which I, sadly, could not) at Christie's.

There's school life for Cameron to contend with as well. And honestly, it's been awful. Cameron, my sweet child, tends to be lazy, this I know, but he's not done too shabby (3 B's and 2 C's on his last report card) or so I thought. Apparently his teacher strongly disagrees with me--he's not a straight A student and best I can tell, that somehow offends her sensibilities. In our 3 face to face and 1 phone conference I've explained countless times that Cameron struggles with his ADHD and dyslexia (writing (especially neatly) is particularly hard for him) but she just doesn't listen or care or agree (I'm not sure which perhaps all 3). Though he's been tested (trust me, I know, I paid for it because the insurance would not) she very strongly disagrees with the psychologists diagnosis of ADHD and chalks up all of Cameron's struggles with his work/behavior to carelessness and laziness. But, ironically, when she's telling you what those struggles are, it's classic symptoms of ADHD she's describing so I don't get it, you know? This last month has been particularly hard (she's been shuffling him to different classes instead of letting him stay in his own) and I've asked Cameron if he'd like me to go in and talk with her but since we're so close to the end of the year, he's asked me to please not interfere. That, my friends, is a very hard thing for me to do.

Other than regular day to day stuff, there's not much else going on.

Suck, sucks, sucks!

It's Monday!

And for reasons that elude me, especially considering I went to bed before 11:00 last night, I'm crazy tired today. Monday's suck hard to begin with and being tired on top of the suckiness just makes it that much more suckier. You follow that?

When my last post ended, the Mudcats were 3 and 1 but alas, a few bad games were played wherein our lovely players did not have their heads remotely in the game and so, we lost. Pity, that. Let's see...

5th Game, we lost. Mudcats 4 - Muckdogs 8.

6th Game, we lost. Mudcats 2 - Rock Hounds 13.

7th Game, we lost. Mudcats 7 - Indians 10.

8th Game, we won. Mudcats 7 - Sidewinders 1.

We're now 4 and 4. All 4 of our losses were to a National team. And I don't know whether they're intimidated by them or it's something else but every time we play a National team (which is not typical until the play-offs but there were a lack of teams in both leagues this year so we're playing each other), our team has trouble getting started and by the time we pull it together, winning is pretty much impossible.

What else? What else?

OH! Cameron had his first sleepover this weekend! I was nervous, nervous, nervous! but he had a great time and as much as I fretted, I'm not thinking it was at all necessary. My baby is growing up on me. So sad.

I have some kind of strange area on one of my ankles and no one can figure out quite what it is? Bug bite seems to be the most common suggestion but it's been there for over two weeks so I'm not sure if I agree with that suggestion. Weird.

And that's really it, not too much going on, same ole same ole, you know?

What's up?

For me, it's all about Little League Baseball these days. If we're not at practice, we're at a game but while it does take up a lot of our free time (especially considering Drew's an Assistant Coach), it's a good thing because it's been very (very) good for my Cameron.


Cameron's team is the Mudcats. Practice started sometime in the beginning of February, Opening Ceremonies were held on Friday March 6th (where we won 1st place in the "Skills" competition--YAY!) and our first game was Tuesday March 10th (we won that one too!). The Mudcats are currently 3 and 1.


1st Game, we won. Mudcats 10 -- Scrappers 7.

2nd Game, we won. Mudcats 8 -- Storm 2.

3rd Game, we lost. Mudcats 7 -- Marlins 8. (Note: While we did lose this game by 1 run, it was (as yet) the best fricken' game we've had, it was very challenging, the Marlins are a GOOD team and we held our own so we didn't so much mind losing this one. Plus, my Cameron recieved the game ball and that rocked!)

4th Game, we won. Mudcats 12 -- Thunder 7.

It's been an awesome season so far and more than that, it's been so wonderful for Cameron, he's happier and more secure with himself than I've seen him in a long time. Good stuff. Our next game is this coming Saturday and me, who generally likes no sports, can't wait!

Aside from that, there's not much going on. Really.

All this clutter...

... is just not good for those closet OCD-ish qualities I posses.

It's driving me batty! Batty, I tell you! Sigh.

It's been a bit of a while, huh?

Wow, so like December 2nd is the last time I really updated this thing. For shame. But, honestly, nothing much ever really changes.

Much to my (and his) dismay, Drew is still not working but he did get a call from someone wanting to subcontract some work to him and that's a good thing. I'm still working and, thankfully, we're managing to keep our heads above water.

Cameron is doing good, he's growing up way too fast for my liking but a lot of the problems he's been having over the last few years have calmed down. He still struggles somewhat with school and homework can be incredibly frustrating for all of us but there's been so much improvement in that area, it's really hard to complain. This afternoon is his second guitar lesson and so far, he's really enjoying it. And baseball, he had try-outs last Friday and the teams were picked Monday so we're taking him to the ball field tonight to meet his coach and teammates. The try-outs were very frustrating for him, he's never actually played with a team, just with friends for fun, or been critiqued by coaches and such and he was incredibly nervous so he didn't do as well as he'd hoped but he stuck it out and I can't tell you how incredibly proud of him I am. We celebrated his 9th birthday in early December and though we weren't able to throw him a big party like he wanted, we did have a nice family party and he had a wonderful time.

Christmas was much better than I expected it to be. In the beginning, I was so busy being stressed about money (and the serious lack of it) that I wasn't looking forward to it at all but somewhere along the line, I put the worries aside and just enjoyed myself. And it ended up being the best Christmas we've had in a long, long time.

My mom and I threw an "all girls" slumber party for Christie's birthday earlier this month and it was a BLAST! We had such a good time! We did fun girly stuff (each others make-up, hair, etc.), you know, kind of like a "Night at the Salon" type thing. We're thinking of having another one sometime soon, only this time, it'll be a "House Marathon" instead. Fun.



The animals are all wonderful! Drew built this amazingly beautiful cage for my Handsome Jack as a Christmas gift to me and he bought me a baby Uromastyx, we named him Rock, he's such a cutie. We bought Cameron his own beardie for his birthday, he named him Drago, and he's been so good with being responsible for his care (we help, of course). Remy is finally perking up, he's been in semi-brumation for months and has spent most of his days napping. Harley is growing up so fast, he's such a little chunk (a very loveable one). Mushu is getting big too and we've been busy working with him because he's still extremely skittish. Terra and Rex are the only ones, at the moment, that still need lots of extra work but they're coming along and Drew's busy building them a new enclosure as we speak and I'm thinking all the extra space will go a long way to getting them more active.

Aside from all that, there's not much else going on.

P.S. I got new glasses so the old ones (circa 1999) are FINALLY toast! Yay me!