LAST WEEKEND OF SUMMER VACATION

This weekend will be a bit chaotic….one wayward son is coming home…presently he is stationed at Ft. Hauchula Arizona…he is being trained in Interrogation and Intelligence gathering. I am one very proud mom…totally support anything he wants to do… it has been a difficult road tho because both my sons (who are twins) left home at the same time to pursue careers in the army… so it really hit hard at home–

I love it when he comes home–he loves to help his dad out getting things done around the house and then hook up with his friends for fun nights on the town…but then that time always rolls around again and he will have to leave…so I will enjoy the next 48 hours and soak up his laughter and jokes and craziness and then with tears let him go yet again.

At the same time…this is the last weekend of summer vacation for my daughter.. so we have to get everything set for her and her final year of school…senior year should be so exciting for her. Of course her anxiety level is running on high…anxious about what lies ahead. I am just the mom and I am anxious about what lies ahead…but I just know the year will be filled with lots of important decisions and great memories.

Peace!!

Its The Daughter Here!

Hey guys,

My names Crystalyn, and I’m a senior in high school as you already know.  Today was possibly the most craziest bizzare start to any day of my life. Today my overbearing A/C unit started a fire at the outlet. And let me tell you I dont think I’ve ever seen a fire get so big when it came to an outlet. But it was only big because it ate my shelf made from netting that just fed to the fire quite well. If I hadnt woken up to a strange crackling I’d probably be dead by now in the morgue from smoke inhilation. But thank God I’m not. Looks like someone up there really cares about me. My wall is black where it used to be a royal purple and my room smells like soot. I just hope my new wardrobe did not absorb the smell. I’d hate to go to start my senior year off smelling like burnt toast. And weirdly enough when I finished that sentence I went to check on my toast and yep you guessed it. It was burnt. Freaky huh?

Anywho! Onward! This stuff is too depressing and ‘omg’ factor for me. Haha. My brother Eric will be here on Friday and even though most of the time he ignores me and hangs with his best friend William more then me I find myself happy that he’ll be here. It’ll be nice to have him home in a long time. Not everyday you get to have a visit from your Army brother. Eh? Hes most likely going to Iraq and even though mom and dad say one day at a time I cant help but feel something isnt right. I’m not gonna dive into my beliefs and feelings on the war cause I can put up a dang good fight but yeah.

I gotta clean my room. Funny thing? I can find EVERYTHING when its messy.(Okay truthfully? I cant find alotta things right now but when its a normal mess THEN I can find things.) When its organized. It scares me. I’m like Albert Einstein. But yeah okay I guess it could use a good cleaning. But afterwards I am totally throwing my clothes randomly all over the place cuz then it’ll make me feel a little better!

Hey mom! I know your reading this and please dont worry about me when I go out into the world. Yes at times it may be hard for me but you’ve taught me alot. You’ve taught me how to do my own laundry, fold clothes, cook, bake, pay bills online and keep all my doors locked. I’m not an idiot, I wont let a random stranger in and I certainly wont sleep without a weapon near me. But luckily for you we dont have to worry about any of that until I finish college! But really. Dont worry. Everything will be fine. Promise.

Until next time fellow bloggers,

BACK TO SCHOOL

Yes another school year is starting next monday the 17th…this will be a very bitter/sweet year. Bitter because it is my daughter’s last year of high school…she is finally a senior….so sweet for her….but so sad and bitter for me…emotionally I know I am not ready to let her go.

I think right there is where the problem lies….I so want her to succeed and do things in life and enjoy all the possibilities an adventures that are out there waiting for her, but I am also very scared because to me, she is not ready to face the ugliness that is out there. I blame myself. I have protected her, shielded her, her whole life…and now she will soon face alot of serious decisions and harsh reality that I do not think emotionally she is ready for. The one thing I am grateful for is that she plans on attending a Technology school that is near home…so she will still be living at home..so I think that transition will help…but her responsibilites will be large after high school and I do not believe she realizes how crazy that is going to be…again I blame myself.

It has been a VERY busy summer with ordering her school ring and having her senior portraits taken and now ordering our choice of pictures….she already has had orientation and found out she is half a credit short going into her senior year…so I told her to PUSH her guidance counselor (who never told her) to get things settled and make sure she is set to graduate…before anytime goes on with the school year…the high school is overcrowded easily by 2000 students….it will be another chaotic year-crowded and just another number…that is the unfortunate part.

But it will be a year of special privileges because she is a senior so I know she will really enjoy those times….and hopefully have fun with most of what is going on around her…I want her to remember this year with a big smile on her face and wonderful memories…Time will tell and updates will be posted…in the meantime…I think we are in for A LOT of heart to heart talks about what lies ahead. THANK GOD WE ARE CLOSE!

MOTHER’S DAY

Mother’s day has come and gone and it was quite nice to be honest…
I started it off by calling my own mother…She and my father live about 4 hours south of us…they used to live only  20 minutes away but they moved at the insistence of my brother from their house to a duplex that my brother owns so that they do not have to pay a mortgage payment or anything…the only bill they have to worry about now is the electric and phone…financially I am sure this helps them out…but now they live in an area where there is nothing around…they have no friends down there…when they lived closer they belonged to several church groups and associations. Where they live now it is not meant as a retirement area…it is for “yuppie” families…so there is nothing catering to the elderly.

I really miss them…but I wander here…I called them..especially my mom to wish her a BEAUTIFUL day…we caught up on the news for the week…all sounded well…I guess my brother and his wife are taking the folks out for dinner so that is a great way to spend Mother’s Day.

One of my sons, who is stationed at Ft. Hauchula in Arizona, called me for Mother’s Day…it really made my day to hear from him…his twin brother who is stationed at Goodfellow AFB in Texas did not call…but I do realize Army life can interfere in normal every day things…I am sure I will hear from him soon enough.

My daughter who still lives at home…who is just finishing her junior year in high school made me a gorilla candle holder for Mother’s Day out of clay…here is a picture of it:

It has not been fired yet…but I LOVE it…it is adorable…she also made breakfast and dinner for me…and baked a cake….so I was very spoiled…and had a very peaceful day…

I am very grateful to my children…without them I would never know the true blessings of Mother’s Day…

PEACE

A NEW KIND OF BLOG!

My daughter and I decided to try out a new type of blog for both of us…
A mother-daughter blog…where we would blog about anything on our minds …give you our prospective on the world as we see it through our own eyes…and then you get a point of view….a theory…an opinion of two for the price of one…now how novel is that.

We hope that you will stop by often and see what we are up..
We have alot of similiar interests…some being: collecting things, arts & crafts, photography, we both enjoy writing, laughing, chatting the hours away.

You will definitely get to know us only after reading a few entries by us…we are very open, honest, blunt, and tend to just say what is on our mind…Just us in this new venture!

PEACE–