Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Disney World

Now that I have posted about the drama part of what has been going on in my world, let me tell you about our Disney trip. The only person that did not know that we were going to Disney was Keigan. Someone had told her we were going on vacation, but they didn't tell her where, when or with who. That's fine. She thought we were going to Arkansas to see family. I woke her up at 3 in the morning and told her that someone had come into our house and they left something for her down stairs. She got up, came down stairs and found Stormy, her elf, sitting on the little table in the entryway. She had Keigan's award from school (because she would be missing the last 2 days of school) and a letter telling her that she was going to Disney World and that her Aunt Carla, Uncle Todd, and cousins Josh, Kaylee, and Jenna were going too. She was so excited. We left about an hour later, around 4 am. I had already had everybody's bags packed, loaded and ready to go.
We made it to Destin Fl around 1:30 that afternoon and we played at Henderson State Park for a few hours. It was AWESOME! Out of the way, but still awesome! We finally left there and headed on to Orlando. Not sure what time we got there, but I know it was late. We got a hotel just outside of Disney and got some rest while we waited for the rest of our party to get there which would be the next afternoon. The next morning, we drove around and then went to Downtown Disney. It's pretty cool. There was a place to eat there that I wanted to go to, but due to the extra kid we had with us, it just wasn't in the funds. It was some sort of Dinosaur place. Other than that it is mostly shopping there. We didn't buy anything. lol. Everybody had already told us that it was way cheaper to buy Disney stuff from the local Wal-Mart, but we honestly were not looking to buy anything anyway. We also noticed that there was plane flying all over Orlando pulling a banner that read "WARNING: Gay Day @ Disney June 7th"

Friday was our first day of Disney and we spent it at Epcot. I personally think it was boring for the most part and I probably would have enjoyed this park better with no kids. I would have liked to have walked around and went into the different "countries" but the kids were not into all that. lol. The coolest thing there was Test Track. You design your car and then 6 people are loaded into a car and you are off to test drive. Really cool. If you ever go, I don't think I would do a fast pass for this ride because you miss out on some things, from what I have been told. So...get there early and just wait in the line. Totally worth it.

Saturday we were off to Hollywood Studios. This probably would have been my favorite day had it not been such a shitty day. Keigan started having a serious itch attack due to being so hot and having eczema. This sent me on a wild goose chase looking for some sort of itch cream or something because she left hers at home...in Texas. I went to about 5 different stores, nobody had anything and they finally sent me to First Aid, or tried too. It just so happen that it was Star Wars day at this park and they were about to have a parade with all the movie stars and all that shit. Not to mention there were 87 billion people there, dressed in full costume. Do you realize how many Star Wars freaks there are in this world? I damn sure didn't! Anyway, so I am trying to get to first aid and I can't because of all the parade shit that is about to take place. I try going out the way that some cast members told me to go and some security bitch would not let me, even after I explained to her 4 times what I was trying to do....and the whole time I can see the first aid station. She told me that I could not go to first aid, that I would have to wait about an hour. This sent me over the edge and I cussed her out and told her just how much of a rude fucking bitch she was and I went back to the store that told me to go and explained to them the whole thing that had just taken place, so the lady there sent 2 cast members to first aid for me, but the people in first aid said the could not send any sort of medication back with them, that we would have to come over there....By this time I am very fucking hot....in every sense of the word. It's like 300 degrees, and I am beyond pissed off. The last tells me not to worry, that she will call first aid and have them come to us. I instantly though, "Oh, thank God!" About 10 minutes later the paramedics show up with a gurney and a medical bag, and heart monitor....Ummm, really?!?! I explained to the medic what was going on that I was so sorry that they had called an ambulance out there for this, that if I had known that is what they were doing I would have just left the park and went to a Walgreen's or something. He said not to worry, it wasn't a problem at all, that they already have sub stations in the park due to the mass amounts of people there for this ignorant Star Wars shit. He said he could take me anyway that he needed in order to get us to first aid. YAY! We get over there and they give Keigan some Benadryl. This stuff usually wires my kids....Not today! With in 15 minutes Keigan was knocked out. Seriously. She was holding on to my shirt, walking behind me, sleeping. We sat down for a few minutes and she was dead to the world. We did get to ride some rides though. Tower of Terror, and Rockin Roller Coaster....bad ass rides.

Sunday we headed over to Animal Kingdom. Everybody that we had talked to before going on vacation, and even a lot of the people at other parks, said that Animal Kingdom sucks. Well, I will tell you that it DOES NOT suck. We had a blast at this park. This is where the the Mt. Everest, Kali River Rapids, the Safari, and so much more cool stuff is. The Tree of Life...AMAZING. The 4d movie "It's Tough To Be A Bug" super cute. We had been told that this park would be 20-30 degrees hotter than all the other parks, but it wasn't. It was 20-30 degrees cooler I think.

Monday was a very long day, for many reasons. Today was Magic Kingdom day. Started off that when we got out to my car to leave, it would not start. Had to use the roadside service from my insurance. Somehow the battery cable had come off the post? Anyway, got the car started and we were off. It was fucking hot! We spent a few hours at the park and then left to eat lunch and then we went back. When we went back, the daily Florida storms were rolling in. It did not stop us. We jumped on the tram and we were back at it. There is so much to see at this park. Hell, there is so much to see at all of the parks. You really need to get at each park when it opens, and try to take a day off in between each park. Don't get a park hopper because you will miss so much. There aren't a whole lot of thrill rides at each park, but there is still so much to do. The park was open until 1 am and we stayed there all night.

I don't even want to get into the whole story, but we had 5 day tickets to Disney and we wasted a whole day. We were going to go back to Hollywood Studios for the 5th day, but when we got back to the hotel at 2 am after Magic Kingdom, Dawson had a break down, tempers went crazy, and so we just decided to leave the next day, or same day, how ever you want to look at it. We left about 4 pm Tuesday and got home around 6:30 Wednesday morning. We had a great ride home, even after all the drama. I would redo the ride home a thousand times over if I could.



Side Note of things to know:
1. Although they frown upon it, you can take a small softside cooler (like the ones on wheels that you can get at Wal-Mart) with snacks and drinks.

2. If you do not want to take a cooler, take a backpack with snack and water. That is what we did, and I will tell you that we carried 32 bottles of water in the backpack each day almost and we drank every single bottle. That saved us a hundred dollars a day just on water. DISNEY DOES GIVE OUT FREE CUPS OF ICE.

3. Get the My Disney Vacation app on your phone. You can set up your fast passes with it, and it has maps of all the parks, plus will tell you wait times and everything else you need to know that is going on in the park that you are at.

4. Rides that you must ride...Tower Of Terror, Rockin Roller Coaster, Mt. Everest, Test Track, and my mind just went blank.

5. Make sure you do every 4d movie thing. They are great!


What's been going on in my world....

Okay, let me go back to May 5...I was at a softball game watching my niece play her last game of the season, when I got a phone call from another niece that lives in Austin. She said she just wanted to call and let me know what was going on with her mom (whom was my best friend for many years) and her younger sister. She said that she had been on the phone with her mom and she could hear her 15 year old sister in the background screaming and yelling and cussing out their mom and when she said something to her mom, that is when mom told her some stuff that had been going on and if anybody found out then people would go to jail. The 15 year old and the moms' boyfriend who turned 40 that day, had been having sexual relations for a while, and the mom knew...I was informed that CPS and the local authorities had been notified and they were on the case. I then contacted the Liberty County Sheriffs office to find out what was going on and that is when I was asked to come up and give a written statement as to what I was told and by who, and I was asked if I would be willing to take in any of the children in house that would be possibly removed. I agreed that I would take on 2 of the 6 kids. I know, 2 of 6 doesn't sound right, but the other 4 kids, I don't know. They are the boyfriends' kids.
Once I get out to LCSO, they have me write out my statements, they wait for the statements from Austin PD to be faxed over and they contact CPS and let them know that there is a family member there that is willing to take on the moms' 2 kids if need be. The LCSO runs the name of the mom and finds out that she has a warrant and so then they decided they would go out to the house right then. By this time it is like 11 at night. They go in and arrest the mom and only one of her children is there, and the other one is at his Nana's house. They take the 15 year old into custody as well and bring her and her mom to the jail, where the mom is booked, and the child is released into my protective custody by CPS. The boyfriend still has no clue as to what is going on. He has no clue of the allegations made against him.
All of this takes place on a Monday. By Friday I still have no real word as to what is going on, and I am told that I need to come up to the jail and get a power of attorney for the child so that I will be able to get her back in school seeing how I live nowhere close to where she was going to school. So I do that and then I had to go withdrawal her from school and then got her enrolled in the school over here. She started the following Monday since it was late on Friday when they got everything done.
Tuesday I had to have her back in Dayton for a forensics interview and then it was back to just a normal life pretty much. The mom was sentenced to like 36 days in jail or something for the warrant on a probation violation.
We did the best we could to adjust to a new child being in our house. We got her a cell phone since both of my kids have phones. We tried to make her feel just like one my kids. She had strict rules with her phone, but the same rules as my kids. No passwords on anything without me knowing. No clearing the texts or call history and I have all the log-in info for any and all social media. She was to have no contact with anybody from Dayton other than her Nana, and if and when her mom got out of jail, she could talk to her from my phone and that was it.
Well, mom got out of jail a few days sooner than expected and after being out for 24 hours she finally called me. We talked for 2 hours and then she talked to her daughter....for 10 minutes and had to go because her boyfriend was calling. The same boyfriend who has been getting blowjobs from her 15 year old daughter for who knows how long, and she knows about it...yeah, she is staying with him and he is still oblivious as to anything that is going on. FUCKING IDIOT! Whatever...a couple of days goes by and the child asks me if she can call or text her mom from her phone and I told her no, that she could call her mom from my phone. She never did.
June 4, 2014 we left for a surprise Disney vacation. The 2 older kids knew about it, but my youngest didn't. By this time I guess it's going on almost a week since I have talked to the mom. Just the one phone call, 24 hours after she got out of jail...with each passing day I am getting more and more pissed off. I have this poor child (so I am thinking) asking me daily if I have heard from her mom, that she misses her mom and she doesn't know why her mom isn't contacting any of us...
Well, we go to Disney, which I had bought our tickets back in March, so obviously I did not have tickets for her...we get her tickets (thanks to my sister-in-law and brother-in-law) and we spend a day in each of the 4 main Disney parks. Having an extra kids with us at the last minute caused us not to be able to do everything that we wanted to do, which I won't go into all of that, but....We had 5 day passes, but we decided to come home a couple of days early so my husband could get back to work since he doesn't get vacation. If he doesn't work he just doesn't get paid.
We got home about 6:30 in the morning on a Wednesday and that afternoon the child went to stay a couple of nights with her Nana. When I dropped her off with her, I found out some stuff. Found out that she had been talking to everybody she was told NOT to talk to. I took her phone away and told her she would never get it back. She said she just misses everybody, especially her mom and little brother and she just wants to be with her mom, but that she knows that probably is not an option, but that she doesn't want to stay at my house. That was all I needed to hear. I am not about to try to make her stay somewhere she doesn't want to be. Yes,  I have power of attorney, but I have zero legal rights to her and can not stop her from leaving. Plus I know how she is. When she gets pissed off, she likes to put her hands on people and they will not fly in my house. I will beat her ass like a grown woman. Period. So if I were to make her stay here it would only be a matter of time until she blew up and I would probably end up in jail....injury to a child or some shit.
All I can say is, she got a free trip to Disney World, took joy from my kids first ever Disney trip and is back home with the sick motherfucker who is molesting her! She knows that coming back into my home is NOT an option anymore.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Death

It seems like the past couple of weeks have been so tragic. I know several people who have been in killed in tragic accidents, and it has had me thinking. Thinking about the what ifs, and so much other stuff.
The one that is bothering me the most is the loss of a very good friend's ex husband. Yes, I said ex. They were married for years, and while I will not blast her person business, I will just simply say that she went through hell with this man. She already had a son when they got together, and he loved that little boy as his own. It is the only dad that boy has ever known. Her son was named after HIM, and they later had 3 beautiful girls together.
When she got the courage to divorce him, it wasn't because she didn't love him anymore. Not at all. In fact, she still loves him, and right now she is devastated, and not only mourning the loss of the father of her children, but a lover and long time friend.
He also was engaged to be remarried in June and has 2 more little boys. My heart hurts for his girlfriend, and those two other babies as well. What is bothering me right now is that there is all this talk on Facebook about donating money to help the girlfriend and their 2 boys out, but nobody is saying shit about my friend and their 4 kids! This bothers the hell out of me, yet I know it is none of my business. I am smart enough to know that death brings out the worst in so many people, and people become greedy. It is crazy.
Like I said, my friend is devastated and she is not wanting to talk to anybody. I am very worried about her.
Please keep this family not named in your prayers!

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Before and after

Here is a before and after....a year later...from my gastric sleeve surgery. Almost 100 pounds gone! I'm super excited, yet I still want to drop about 20 pounds, and then I will be going to the plastic surgeon!

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Kolton's Cake Smash

I went and took pictures for my pseudo grand baby, Kolton. He was not real pleased with having his pictures taken, but out of 145 shots, I did manage to get like 24 great shots...or at least I think they are great.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

I suck at keeping up with this thing now.

So, I have the blogger app on my phone, and I start blogs all the time, but never finish them so I just delete the draft and tell myself, "Oh, I will write another one soon" and it never happens.
I have tons of shit to write about, but I have fucktards that read my shit, and I wish I could block them, yet don't really know how, but at the same time, I couldn't give a shit less what they think about what I write.
I know that I have said it countless times, but I am really trying to make more of an effort to keep up with this. I would say I would try to do at least one post a day, but that probably isn't really going to happen, so I will say at least once a week. Maybe sometimes more, but....

So much has been going on lately, yet right this moment all I can think about is that my baby is becoming a young woman...or has? She started her period for the very first time last night while she was at her dads house, and she didn't tell anybody, so she had to call me from school this morning and of course I went and picked her up and she spent the day with me :-) Ugh, am I really ready for this shit?!?!? Two kids with raging hormones....HELP ME!!!!