Juel's Journal

Today...

Maegan has a bad cold, she's okay during the day but at night, oh the coughing. Poor kid. I wish I could make it go away for her, I know she's miserable when she's just content to sit on my lap with her head on me, quietly. I was up most of the night with her last night, but for now, she seems to be sleeping fine.

After school, we took Mikyla for her allergy shots, then we had to go by K-mart and get her some socks (has to be those little anklet things only) and a couple of turtle neck shirts for them to wear for school pictures. We got in there though, they had a ka-zillion Halloween costumes, and once the girls feasted their eyes on those, that was it, they just had to buy one. They're as cute as can be, and were 30 percent off, so I'm not gonna grumble too much.

(Photos compliments of Mom)

Don't think Maegan doesn't know what's going on. While I'd left her in the car with Dippy, I knew it wasn't fair not to get her one since Mik and Mal were getting one, so we picked out the closest thing to a chick coming out of an egg that Sarah mentioned wanting for her. At Mom's later, we went to take Nick the one we got for him - the 2 older girls went to try theirs on. Maegan came straight to me, got hers out of the bag and dragged it in the other room with them, to Mom, to have her put it on for her too. She knew.. how that kid knows things like that I'll never know, but she does. :)

Now Sarah had told me she wanted Mallory to be a sandwich. I'm not sure what kind of sandwich, but that's neither here nor there, they didn't have a sandwich costume, and when I reminded Mal that that's what she was supposed to go as, she insisted "NO! I wanna be a unicorn!" So that's what she got. Cute one she is, too, isn't she? :)

Once Mikyla's eyes landed on this Genie costume her mind was changed from being a pickle (to go along with Mallory's sandwich) to being "Jasmine" the princess. I think she'll be a little cold for Halloween, but it's what she wanted.. still, it's cute. :)

Nick made me a sign to hang at the front door yesterday.. "No Politicians! Beware of Dog!" *laughs* I loved it! I detest it when they come door to door to leave their little cards, promise the moon and walk away thinking they just won another vote. I think they need to stop that shit nowadays, especially when they come a-knocking on a door where there's a house full of children. There's too many nutcases these days out there to open the door for anyone you don't know, and here they come, vote for me, vote for my son, vote for my Aunt Josie's next door neighbor's cousin. Blah blah blah.. now they know to stay away, thank you Nick! Anyway.. I saw this suit and just knew he had to have it and I'm glad I got it too because he really liked it, and it looks SCARY on him too! :) Now, this wolf suit of Nick's.. caused some internal turrets to come creeping about. I'd gotten his seperately from the girls, so that I'd have a seperate receipt for it so that if he didn't like it he could take it back to trade it. The price was $24.99, with 30 percent off. I didn't have anything else, just the one costume. When I walked up to the register, there was a stench there, and the teller (a guy) was spraying the area around himself with this can of air freshener. Still, it was stinky. I didn't comment but just waited to pay and get out of there.. but then he rang it up and said my total was $42 and some change. I said noway.. and he said uh huh, he said the hands to the wolf suit were 24.99 too.. *laughs* I said Mister, look on that cardboard, it says wolf mask, hands and robe. it's a set. He said ohhh well someone put a tag on the hands too.. I said well I'm not paying double for that, take the hand charge back off.. so while he was doing that I said.. "It stinks up here." He turned red from the neck up, and nodded, "yes, it does."

I.T.
You farted your brains out and that's why you charged me double for one wolf suit.. you have no more brains with which to think...

He knew I was thinking that too.

I wanted to get Joel the cutest Care Bear one, it was blue with the little rainbow on the tummy, it would keep him warm and it was just precious, but Bonnie told me she had his suit a few days ago so I didn't want to step on her toes. I'll mention it to her tomorrow and see what she says. She promised me some banana pudding and I don't want to do anything that might make her change her mind about sharing it. :)

From what I hear Papaw is doing fine, the nurses just love him and he's going to be going into rehab for a couple of weeks.

Mom is doing good too. I'm pretty proud of her. She's got her own reading group in the class now, and bless her heart, she can't skip going anymore, because she's obliged to be there for her group. She just stays half a day, but one little boy was asking for her yesterday afternoon, he said he wants her back, that she's his favorite teacher. That made Mom feel like a million bucks. I think that's cool. :)

I forgot to call Dad tonight to tell him a story. He likes stories. First of all I couldn't think up a good one, but I'll have one for him tomorrow. I'm going over there for breakfast tomorrow, and if I play my cards right, I'll still be there for dinner, so that'll give me plenty of time to think up one. I hope she's making roast. Or a ham. Or chili.. or spaghetti, or cabbage rolls.. or... *coughs*

Okay, I've babbled enough.. I'm off to get some sleep. G'nite world!

Posted by juel at October 11, 2006 12:10 AM