Not Everyone's Mama

That would be my son.

My SIL’s favorite holiday is Halloween.  She goes ALL out.  I enjoy it too, but I’m just not as creative as she is.  If you haven’t checked out me being a smart alec for Jordan’s school costume, see yesterday’s post.

Now that Jordan and my niece Taylor are teenagers (or almost… in February… in Jordan’s case), they can get out and do more fun things, according to my 7 year old at least.  Because you know, there’s nothing fun to do when you’re 7…. or 4…. or 2.  (I had very ticked off children last night who thought they should go too.)

Shelley has been having a blast dressing Taylor up as the freaky girl from The Ring and having her stand at the edge of the street just staring at cars.  It is funny.  Drunk people at the town bar pee their pants.

That’s not right of me is it?

Last night, Taylor called and asked Jordan if he wanted to go scaring.

He got his black robe on and went with them.  Shelley had her (make up) way with my son.  That scab falling off of his forehead actually was stuck to his head, this was when he came home and was taking it off.  If you haven’t seen Taylor dressed up as the girl from The Ring, see it here.  My sister in law seriously is good with make up.

They stood in front of the haunted house the high school kids were putting on and just stared.

They were told they were scarier than the haunted house was.

Makes a mother so proud.

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Remember yesterday I posted about Jordan’s school assigning Halloween costumes (after I bought one that he wanted)?  And how I wasn’t bitter at all about having to put out more money on another costume?

He was assigned Elvis.

His Halloween costume is the grim reaper, kind of sorta.  He was going to turn it into a zombie, but he liked the costume alone, so he’s going as a mass of black more or less.

The assignment was supposed to be current and creative.

What do you think?

It’s hard to create Elvis’ pompadour when you’re working with a mohawk and your combs are all missing.

My sister in law and I can’t stop cracking up.

Taylor (my niece) was assigned a police officer.

Wait until I have pictures of her.

Let’s say she’s kind of a zombie police officer.

Sweet!

We’re waiting for calls from the counselor questioning the sanity of our family.

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I’m just sayin’.

After I bought Jordan his costume, I found out the school assigns costumes.

Jordan got assigned Elvis.

I’m not bitter about having to go out and spend more money on another costume or anything.

They said to be creative AND current.

I think I did a good job with both of those requirements.

(Yes, I am a bit morbid.)

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Pato bought 4 pumpkins and left me alone with 4 children who all wanted to do it themselves.

Fabulous idea you say?

I was cursing him when I was done.

Only took 3 hours for me to gut and carve 3 pumpkins and for Jordan to do his own.

And I did it on a night when I swear it could have snowed.

Outside.

Leecey’s witch.

Nano’s  unrecognizable one. I was trying to disguise the coloring. It is a ghost.

Kat’s 2 ghosts.

Jordan’s – the evil looking jack-o-lantern.  He did it all on his own.

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Finally. After a long time of begging anyone to help, we have a diagnosis….. Or a few for Jordan.

Jordan was diagnosed with ADHD a long time ago. As he has gotten older, many other things have surfaced. I haven’t gone into a lot of detail here because he is almost 13 now and I don’t want to embarrass him ever. It revolves around a lot of anger, a lot if negativity, always negative, never listening. In fact, my opening comment to his psychiatrist yesterday when he asked how Jordan was doing was, he is fine as long as you don’t ask him to do anything.

After meetings with therapists, 22 pages of paperwork, and now his psychiatrist, we finally have answers.

Jordan started the session with just ADHD and ended it with ADHD, ODD (oppositional defiance disorder), impulse control problems, anxiety, and possibly depression.

Now, you might think this diagnosis would depress me. It was the opposite. I felt relief. Finally we have a plan. We finally have a path in place to help my son.   For a long time I have been so frustrated, begging someone to listen to me, to help me help Jordan.

The possibly depression diagnosis is because sometimes anxiety can show depression symptoms, we are treating the anxiety first to see if that helps.

He upped Jordan’s concerta to 36 mg from 27. Eventually he will be upper to 72 because of his weight. That should help out at school immensley. He also put him on guafacine for the anxiety.

That though is the band-aid. He has a therapist he meets with once a week to get to the bottom of everything he is feeling and a remedial therapist he meets with once a week to teach him coping skills.  He also will be seeing the psychiatrist once a month to monitor meds and his progress.

I also am pushing for an IEP at school. He is incredibly intelligent but learns in a different way.  He doesn’t have the focus other kids have. He has been tested for the gifted program but that always holds him back.

I know being bullied Ian’t the only thing that caused this, but it contributed a lot. He’s dealt with severe bullying ever since he started school, from bite marks on him, to being jumped, to death threats. I just want to shake those kids’ parents who didn’t think their kids do anything wrong and say, look, look what your child’s actions did to my kid, my sensitive, bright, friendly kid. May your child never go through what they have put mine through. Evil cretins.

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My cat has the patience of a saint, I tell you.

Monday, I laid down for a nap because I was feeling like doggy doo.  I laid the little two down with me(for those new to my blog, Alyce is 4 1/2 and Nano is 2 1/2).  Obviously, as you’ll find out as you read further, I passed out fell asleep first.

Two HOURS later I woke up to my oldest (12 1/2) coming in from school.  I heard him say, NANO! WHAT IS ALL OVER YOUR HANDS?

Then I heard a little voice saying, Nano did it.

Jordan said, ALYCE!  IT’S ALL OVER YOUR HANDS TOO!

He walked further in the house and I heard OH MY GOSH! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

I rolled out of my coffin sick bed, stumbled to the office area, where I just about died.

My poor black and white cat.

Now, I didn’t grab my camera, though, if I was a true digiscrapper, I totally would have, but I felt so bad for my cat I couldn’t waste time.

Damon, my sweet little cat, was covered in yellow.  Not one piece of clean fur was on the cat’s body.  Not even the part he was desperately trying to clean.

I moved on to the kitchen.

I seriously had to stop and breathe.

A whole 18-count carton of eggs smashed all over my kitchen floor.  On my table, on the carpet in the family room, as I walked back out, I noticed more in different spots on my carpet in various rooms.  Egg shells scattered here and there.

Went back out to the office and looked at Damon, looking at me, like you gave birth to them, I didn’t.

Now I understand why you had me neutered.

Seriously, who just sits there and lets kids rub egg all over your fur?

My cat.

I should be thankful that my cat has a very pleasant disposition.

Jordan attempted to pick Damon up under his pits, so as not to cover himself in egg, and took him to the shower.

Lucky us, our cat runs TO the shower when he hears the water come on.  I’m not joking, this is a different day, but I have proof:

You don’t know how many times I go in the bathroom to find the cat in the shower with Jordan, or the girls, or attempting to get in the shower.  Swear, he has fresh water all day long.

Damon didn’t mind the water part at all, but he wasn’t fond of the shampoo, and Jordan has the scratches to prove it.

When the poor thing got out, he escaped from the towel, looked at me like, thanks, I now have NO dignity, and went to lick himself dry.

It gets better.

I was doped up on cold medicine when Pato got home from work.

I went and sat outside for a bit, thinking maybe the cool air would clear up my coughing.

Nothing abnormal happened.

I went back inside and went to bed.

Got up in the morning, opened the door to check the temp, and who comes shooting in the door?

Damon.

He snuck out past me when I went out the night before and spent the night prowling I’m assuming.

So thankful she turned out to be a he and he is neutered and up to date on his vaccines.

I felt so bad.

He probably thought he’d take off for my brother’s house and live with their cats after the whole egg incident, and then changed his mind because it was too cold, then no one opened up the door for him.

I’d feel worse if he hadn’t tried to escape again last night and tonight.

He has not learned his lesson.

Patience of a saint that cat has.

He’s probably wishing some nice old couple without children had adopted him now.

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1 John 4:1-2 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God

Mine was good.

I think.

I’m trying to remember.

Yes, it was good.

Saturday started out with Kat having a soccer game a couple of towns over.

They lost.

Pato said one of the girls played dirty.  She did. She was pushing everyone out of her way.

Then we went to a festival for a new church in between us and another town.

It’s called Fusion Church.  I really liked their pastor and his wife.  But, though having a church that was closer would be awesome, I couldn’t bring myself to change.  I just love my church too much.

So, anyway, my whole family went minus Jordan (dad’s weekened), my sister’s family, who had to work, my niece Taylor (who had a show choir thing) and my brother’s girls (it wasn’t his weekend).  I love spending time with my whole family.  We haven’t done it nearly as much this summer.  Everyone on the go with the kids as they have gotten older and involved in more things.  I really need to just make more time for my family.

Katiana, my niece Cambria, and my sister in law, Shelley

(love love love how Cambria is wearing her hat, she does that on her own.)

Kat and her butterfly face paint.

Shelley, Josh, and Cambria

The horse drawn carriage

Leece getting her face painted

Leecy and her face paint – it’s not incomplete.  She only wanted blue.

Pato and Nano – you can’t tell we live in Iowa can you?  Probably not, there’s no corn.

Then we went home, I wanted a nap…. that I never got.  Pato took the kids shopping for dinner.  We ate, I went to bed.  It was all good.

Sunday we got up and went to church.  It was an amazing service.  It always is, but there was an extra something yesterday.  Like, angels were there praising God along with us.  It was just amazingly powerful.  I was moved to tears a couple of times.  AFTER I took Nano to the nursery and made him stay for the first time.

He always cries just going down the nursery stairs, so, me being the mama whose heart is easily broken, always holds him and entertains him during the service.  He was rolling on the floor when I said, that’s it.  You’re going to the nursery.  I met a woman on the way down who helped me through leaving him there.  I needed that strength.  I truly did.  She helped me walk away from him when he was crying so hard.

I picked him up and they told me he cried off and on but did good.

He said, mama someone made fun of me.

I said, how did you know someone made fun of you.

They said, I make fun of you.

Alright, we have a parrot over here.  To be fair, Jordan has been bullied a lot, but obviously, someone is picking up on that.  I’m pretty sure another 1 or 2 year did not walk up to Nano and say, hey!  You!  I make fun of you!

Then we were off to Jordan’s game.  It was in the town that Pato works in so I stopped to pick him up, hoping he’d be on break.

At this point, my nerves were wearing very thin.

My girls were hitting and biting and fighting.

It was fabulous.

I walked into Pato’s work and said, I am leaving our daughters with you.  He disagreed.

He couldn’t get off until 2 so we went back to Jordan’s game.

I was a little irked at Jordan because he was in as goalie and he wasn’t diving for the ball at all.  He let an easy goal go by him.  I told him that if he actually played soccer like he knew how, that I would give him back his x-box cord.

Lucas went in as goalie.

Left there, stopped by Kat’s best friend’s house.  Her mom had a bird cage for me.  Woodstock’s cage is not small by any stretch of the imagination, but it is not nearly as big as the other birds’ cages.  Today is going to be move Woodstock into his new mansion day.  Hope he enjoys it.

Came home, made tater tot casserole sans tater tots.  I guess that would make it ground beef with a bunch of extra stuff mixed in and cheese on top.

Seriously, do I have to remember everything?

I suppose if I am the one at the grocery store I should.

Jordan said it was actually good.

The girls were not fans of the fact that I used regular green beans vs French style green beans.

Cuz it tastes so different.

Whatever.

Then I put children to bed and sat down and freaked myself out with Paranormal Witness.

Freaky.

Very very freaky.

It just appeared on my DVR shows the other day.  Jordan’s all, it’s just like Ghost Hunters mom.

After watching it…. um, no, it’s not just like Ghost Hunters son, in fact, you are not ever watching that again.  Mom is, but you’re not.

I love paranormal shows.  Probably because of what I explained in this post.

Chuck – Against All Odds – Am I Evil?

Sometimes it’s just nice to know I’m not the only one out there, you know?

Though, if I dealt with stuff like what happens on Paranormal Witness?  I’d be on my hands and knees thanking God for this gift, but please take it back.  I don’t want it.

Then, I went to sleep.

That was the extent of my weekend.

How about yours?

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I have been using Google Chrome FOREVER.  I love it.  It’s my favorite browser. 

It started crashing on start up.

I cried.

Not really.

I was seeing this message constantly:

I’m all Whoa!  Chrome, you’re really starting to tick me off.

Seriously, searching and searching for days for a solution. (Which, most revolved around opening Chrome and changing your settings, removing your add ons, etc – hello, Chrome is crashing at start up.)  I was using Mozilla Firefox in the meantime, but you see, I love using Social Moms, right?  It wasn’t working with Social Moms.  It wasn’t working with any site that I needed to log in to Facebook with.

Speaking of Social Moms –

Go ahead and like them, I promise, you won’t regret it.  So much fun!  Great info!  Awesome people!  Plus, you easily earn rewards for saying $$$, Amazon gift cards, etc.  They are fab!

Back to my saga, Firefox was totally cramping my style.

I’m a mom blogger.

I do giveaways.

I live for Facebook.

How am I supposed to go about business as normal if Firefox wasn’t letting me do  business as normal.

I was desperate enough to try Internet Explorer again.

I haven’t used IE in YEARS.

Years I tell you.

I had just opened it up, not even typed anything into the search bar yet…. I’ll admit it, I was scared, like you haven’t heard IE security horror stories … when I came across this site – Google Chrome Keeps Crashing How To Fix It.

I would like to marry the author of that article.

If I wasn’t already married?

Maybe he’d take my left arm in gratitude?

This was the fix –

1. Completely exit from Google Chrome
2. Go to the Start menu > Run.
3. Type in either of the following directories in the text field and press OK.
   • Windows XP: %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data
   • Windows 7 or Windows Vista: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data
4. Rename the folder called "Default" in the directory window to "Backup default."

I’m running Vista, so that was the one that worked for me.

Easiest fix I have ever done on my computer I think.

Opened up Chrome and Whoa!  No more crashes.

Thought this might be helpful because one of my FB friends was having the same problem.  It there are 2 of us, surely there are more.

We should start a club.

People who love the author of that article.

And think he is like the most fabulous thing since white bread.

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