Mama's out

We all know getting a break is rare... uncommon...even impossible at times when you have children. More so when you have 6 of them, and homeschool them, and your husband works out of town frequently. Well for the first time in many many years I took a weekend off. Went to Dallas to celebrate the birthday of a great friend. I had drinks, sang Karaoke and just hung out and had a great break. I did come away from the weekend with a realization that family is NOT who you are related to, friends are not the people you think they are sometimes. It's disappointing to see someone with a genuine heart who is a fabulous person not have their blood family participate in an important day just out of selfishness and laziness. But I regress, It's the people who stand by you always, who tell you the truth, who won't sugar coat all the bullshit just to placate you, those are your family. That's who matters. If everyone around you always agrees with you and tells you things are great and they never push you to be better, they are NOT your friend at all. RUN.....

But for the first time in decades I totally sang Karaoke... poor poor unsuspecting audience..  

          My sister! Not by blood, but in the ways that really matter. Family is Forever......

On another note this morning all that anyone is talking about is the presidential debate last night. WOW... all I can honestly say is WOW...

They all suck. What nobody seems to get is that the two party system is the cause of this asinine election to begin with. My vote is for third party. Until we get everyone out of the mind set that there are only two options and open up the field to more candidates each time there will never be a change for the better. We are FUCKED no matter who wins this election, so why not at least open the next election up for change. There were good quality individuals who wanted to run but they didn't make the ticket. The TWO PARTY SYSTEM has to go!!!

I will vote for Johnson. I honestly don't fully agree with him. On many issues. and I do think he has a maturity issue going on but lets face it Hillary and Trump have personality flaws that run way way deeper than being goofy.

Dome, Dome, Dome, Dome, Dome..................

So this happened tonight. Been wanting to revamp the yard for the kiddos and add a bit of extra fun. The dome went on sale.. it was meant to be.

It actually wasn't nearly as hard to build as expected. Went up fairly easy. Just tedious but we have 17 years of toy building experience so that probably affects our view on it. It definitely wasn't the play kitchen of Christmas 2003 because that was ridiculous and we slept none at all that Christmas eve. NONE.

But once it was fully assembled all except for the hand grips... we realized our ratchet attachment wasn't long enough. Conversation went like this..

Jason : We don't have enough length its not long enough.

Me: So your part isn't long enough?

Jason: Hey

Me: I guess I better go buy longer parts.

Turns out we did not have the tools to get the job done. LOL To attach the grips required a longer ratchet attachment because the nut needed to be put onto a very long bolt. So off to Lowes I went. I found the aisle and yeah that place was a mess so I had a manager find the damn part. Everything was in the wrong freaking place and no way I would have managed to find it in that mess. Plus we were losing light. Tomorrow is Thursday, so playdate day here at the house. Can't have a half assembled play equipment in a yard full of kids.

So, I get home and as it is getting dark of course hubby immediately asks for this fantastically long new tool I had purchased. Well when purchasing it since its still fairly small I just slid it into the side pocket on my purse. So as anyone would do I cram my hand in to retrieve it. Then immediately since I am a complete dumbass cramming my hand into a small chamber of horrors connected to the side of my bag I yank out my hand and yelp, as now there was a lovely fishing hook in my index finger. Why you ask was a fishing hook in the side pocket of my day bag??  Dude I have no idea... Really honestly who knows. That's just how my life works lol.

But.. it was accomplished- completed- put to rest! Good end to a very very long day. I have a 4am alarm to be able to make it to the gym at 5 and my body was all - you wish this morning soooooo at 3:45 ---WIDE AWAKE. Sleep and I simply aren't buddies. Thinking that's never gonna be in the cards for me.

Aside from this I mostly cooked today! Well and took the children to Legobuilding time at the library. But mostly cooked a ton. Nothing new or exciting was cooked just freezing down to store for days when I am unable to get in the kitchen yet still need to feed the troops.

Stretch it - Stretch it good....

So........... my son poured ceral on the trampoline a few weeks ago. Children came in, it got dark, NOBODY bothered to inform mom. And this happened...

Yup.. that's a huge tear, end to end. How you may ask did cereal do this damage??? Because it attracted an asshole raccoon that's how. I swear if this happens ever again I am trapping a raccoon and I'll be sporting a brand new coon skin hat.

Here you see the first step is accomplished, dropping the broken mat.

Then of course one little nasty hard to freaking stretch spring at a time you assemble it.. running circles around the mat like a big idiot to verify you get even stretch.

We did complete it today. Many curses poured through my mind for that coon as it was assembled. It also got dark. So light was needed. Obviously. So boobie-pod to the rescue. Oh don't act like all you ladies don't use the boobie-pod to mount your phone. Need to make a video of a sewing or editing task or need to shine light down and lack hands to do so or the necessary tripod?? Never fear, just start your camera or tonight turn on the phone flashlight and bam... stick it in between the ladies. Boobie-pod. It's a life saver.

As you can see here.. The trampoline was completed. The video is pretty dark lol. Phone cameras don't exactly make wonderful late night videos. But its cute anyhow. Daddy and the girls playing ring around the rosy.

And tomorrow.. FINALLY the climbing dome.

ALSO, just FYI boot camp is the devil. I have never hurt so bad in so many places is my life. But new goal. Adding 30 minutes daily of heavy lifting. In 12 months.. super guns.. oh it will happen...