OPOSSUM.

Last night Ron and I were fast asleep, Anderson had stayed the last night night at his Nanny's house here in Shawnee. (They are moving back to Denison tomorrow) I took a bendryl so I would rest better, I don't sleep well when Ron or Anderson isn't at HOME. Anyway I hear Bo, this morning at 1:30am..This huge yelp crossed with a bark noise. I send Ron to the door to hush him, which he did.
Ron: Bo you better hush it up RIGHT NOW.
Just about the time he got back to the bed, Bo started it again. So this time Ron goes over to the door, mumbling under his breath the whole way there and throws open the door and hits the light and starts in again.
Ron: Bo. I said you better.... OH MY GOSH. Good job BO. Babe Bo has a possum cornered out here.
Mindee: A WHAT?
Ron: A possum come look.
So I jump out of bed and run over there and sure enough he had a possum cornered with its mouth wide open. That dang thing was frozen solid and was not moving. I am yelling at Bo trying to keep him away from the varmint and the next thing I know Ron comes barrelling out the back door in his under ware and flip flops with a golf club and a big plastic toy bucket.
Mindee: Now what in hell are you going to do with those Ron Duffell?
Ron: I'm gonna throw this bucket on top of it and trap it and call animal control.
Mindee: ... and the golf club?
Ron: just in case...
So he tosses the bucket - his the dang thing, which doesn't move - but misses.
Mindee: alright. Now what?
So I tell him to get a rock and throw at it. He does, hits it right on the head and it moves about 6 inches. I said you are going to have to chuck it. SO I picked up 2 rocks and rapid fire, missing both times but the thing RAN off into the yard.
...so did BO.
I called for him but he was busy chassin' he didn't hear a word I said. Now 2 weeks ago we had a skunk shimmy under our house, last night it was a possum. I LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN YA'LL.
Anyway, after it was all said and done Ron and I laughed our butts off and thought maybe we need to get a gun. (I think a paintball or bee bee gun would work fine)

Gone. Gone. I have lost my power.

I just found out at the most inconvient moment, that I have lost my power. You see Anderson fell out of his swing Wednesday as Ron was mowing the back yard and I was pittling. He fell face first so he had a mouth full of dirt and was really upset. Scared more than hurt. I ran him in and grabbed a cool wash cloth to cool him off and wipe the dirt out of his little eyes, and gave him a bottle of water to get the dirt out of his mouth. After he spit in to the sink about 10 times I saw it was red and scrapped on his nose a little. He was still crying and upset so I thought he just needed a couple of momma's magic kisses.
I leaned in an planted a couple on his nose and with the biggest crocodile tears you have ever seen rolling down his cheeks he said.... "but momma. that doesn't make it better."
I felt like I had been punched in he stomach, it literally took my breath. My kisses were not magic. They didn't instantly take the pain way. What do you do now? I am at a loss I don't know what to do. I knew this day would eventually come, but why now? He is so little still..... So there you have it folks. My once magical kisses have been replaced all the sudden with regular old mommy kisses, which one day when I plant on him instead of saying they don't work he will label as YUCK. I am no more prepared for that day than I was for this one.

Ridin Dirty...

Only in Oklahoma can you get away with riding doubles on a scooter to have Sunday morning breakfast at GOLDEN CORRAL... hahha

Wrecks..Boats..Scooters..Skunks..Sun and Sunnye!!!!

My best girl friend in the whole world came to stay the weekend with me, I was put on a mission to relax her and make her laugh. I feel like I succede. After I got off work at 2:00pm, we went for a much anticipated ride on my new scooter. (Yes we both went...yes at the same time) We were riding along and after a serious of events, we slightly wrecked. Not compeltely, we didn't fall and I was pretty much in control the entire time. Sunnye's flip-flop fell off and I got us stopped about a block up the road. We laughed until it hurt, we cried we were laughing so hard. After our semi near death experience we meet Ron at the house later that evening and went out for an evening cruise, went to the casino to eat dinner and spend a few bucks playing penny machines. Sunnye got soooo mad that she couldn't just walk up to a machine and stick in a penny, pull the lever and WIN BIG! So what did we do instead... took a hand full and a half of pennys, nickles, and dimes to the cashiers cage and SHE counted them and gave Sunnye a whoapin $2. LOL (I thought Sunnye was going to have an anxitey attack when she saw that she acciedently left 2 quarters in her mix of otherwise small change.) Anyway, we played, ate free ice cream and headed to the house to rest up for our FULL day on Saturday.
Friday night late::
Ron and I woke up to the smell of something TERRIBLE, something burning. Ron got up and checked things out, nothing on fire but OHHHH the smell!!! A few minutes later it all came together and I realized what had happened. A SKUNK... A skunk had skimmied into our crawl space under the house, got spooked and sprayed. It was terrible, we made it through the night however I'm not sure how. haha Got up early the next morning and got the hell outta there. I got sick at Mcdonalds, I think from the fumes which we are still fighting... Embarrassing -- YES aweful --YES Lots of laughs --HELL YES!!!
Saturday::
Mostly uneventful. We spent the day at the lake on the boat, swimming, tubing (kinda) and tryin to wakeboard. It was the best girl weekend I have had in a while... I am so happy that Sunnye came to stay and we have vowed to have a weekend mini-vaca EVERY year, at least once a year.

A..B..C..

After Anderson's first week of school there were no tears. He has done amazing, it's so cool to me how God gets you right were you need to be. We were in the car this weekend and Anderson started to rattle off his ABC's, we have worked with him and he knew a.b.c.d.e.f.g.... so I assumed he would stop there and start singing now I know my ABC's -- NOPE. He went straight through! After one week at Liberty he know's his abc's, and he has adjusted better in one week than in six at First Baptist. (Not to say that there is anything wrong with FB Daycare, I just dont think it was for him.) I am so excited for him, he calls it his "WORK" so every morning we get up and I take him to work then leave and go to work myself.....
AHHHH My baby is growing up...

I am going this afternoon to re-join the YMCA and start working out again. I let myself go after some family issues but I am ready to get back on track and get going again. I am going to try and blog about my progress in a way to keep me honest and to stay accountable. I have been embarrassed to say what I am doing and my progress and then if I get off track, I really beat myself up about it. I am hoping to get going again and stick with it... SO...
With a little inspiration from my cousin Mandi, I am "trying something new"