Funny Things My Kids Have Said

Sorry Karen I had to read yours and add mine! I was laughing so hard when I was reading some of the HILARIOUS stuff that my nieces and nephews have said. So here I am adding mine.

Here in Arizona when you get food stamps they come on a credit card type card with numbers and your name on it, etc.... one day I had misplaced it and I asked the boys if they would help me find it.

David: "Um mommy what is food stamps?"
Danny: "Isn't it a stamp with food on it?" ROFL!!!

My grandmother has Dementia and up until about a month ago she was living right next door to my mom and dad and they took care of her. David loved to go over and visit with "great gramma". He really loves her and loves to talk to her and show her stuff. Anyway a couple of years ago my mom came home from over there and was laughing so hard and asked me if I wanted to know what my son had sad.... I was nervous... lol. and the story went like this
My grandma came walking into the room with her walker....

David: "Great Gramma, what's wrong with your legs?"
Grandma: "Oh I guess they're just getting old"
David: (puzzles for a bit) "Oh.... like your face?"

My dad had been talking on the phone when my mom was trying to tell us by the time he got off she was laughing so hard she couldnt talk. So I told him what David had said... in comes more laughter.

One day I was getting ready for my cousin Kendra's baby shower when she was pregnant with her son Jackson. I was wrapping up a little outfit for them. In walks Danny.

Danny: "Mommy, who is that baby clothes for?" (he was like 3 or 4 at the time)
Me: "They are for Kendra's baby"
Danny: "Oh where is he?"
Me: "He's still in Kendra's belly"
Danny: (gets this strange look on his face, pops his eyes out and in a crazy voice): "SHE ATE HIM?"!!!!!
Me: No Danny that's not how it works.
David: "Mommy you ate us when you were pregnant"
Me: "No david and Danny that's not how it works and I'm not ready to explain it to you" ha ha ha ha

Miss Grinch has been humbled

I could have definitely been called a Grinch this year. I had NO Christmas spirit for most of the season. I had nothing to give my kids, no money to get them anything... I was depressed beyond belief. My children are so amazing though. I told them from the get go that we may not get a whole lot for Christmas this year and you know what? they said "Okay mom, we know you're having a hard time" can you believe that? I have got the most amazing kids!!!!! So anyway we went to go visit my grandfather up in Safford and they gave us a gift card at walmart. They wanted me to spend some of it on me but I spent EVERY dime of it on my kids. Then my parents asked me what I wanted and I told my mom that all I wanted is for my kids to have something for Christmas. So my parents helped me buy some presents for my children... they didnt have to... but they did ( i love my parents so much!!!!!) Then I was starting to get the christmas spirit.... and then yesterday was the most humbling day for me. I was sitting at my computer working on a christmas project for my mom and dad and I hear a knock at my door.... cautious person that I am (one would call it paranoid the other would call it cautious) looked out my peephole and I didnt see anyone there. I opened the door and there were 3 wrapped christmas presents... one for me and one for each of the boys. Then something was telling me "Go check your mail". So being sick as sick can be I didnt want to but I heard it again "Go check your mail". I opened my mail box to find 2 christmas cards... one from a cousin and his beautiful family and the other from "Secret Santa" with 5 $20 bills inside it saying "God Bless You". I cried like the bawl baby that I am and realized that there are amazing people in the world. I don't know who the secret santas were.... but I send the most heart-felt thank you to them from the bottom of my heart. Merry Christmas everyone! I love you all!!!

Hindsight

Ok I will edit the quote that I read and put one of my own words that is rated G that I found about Hindsight and it is soo true... especially in my case.

"Hindsight is a vindictive little witch that preys on the nostalgic"

Ok.... Now I Can Breathe!!!!!

Now that all of the crap that I was going through is overwith I can move on with my life and look forward to the future, with much more ease and determination! First item that I have to take care of though is getting some CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!!!!!! When you are under as much stress as I have been the last few months, christmas spirit is really hard to come by. But then when you stop and think of what the TRUE meaning of Christmas is... it makes it easier to get that Christmas Spirit!!!

I am very grateful for the loving family and friends that I have that prayed for me in my times of need. I truely felt the love and prayers of everyone on our behalf.

I Dont know about you guys but I am ready to have the holidays done and overwith! I just don't have the Christmas spirit this year! I want to! I really do... but every time I even think that the holidays are almost here I just cringe and just wanna scream! With all of the drama and bad luck that I've had going on in the past few months... I'm just ready for Thanksgiving to be here and done and ready to get the Christmas season overwith and ring in the new year that will HOPEFULLY bring us better luck!

Happy Holidays

Ready to get Thanksgiving done and overwith and onto the Christmas holidays! Have had enough drama this year... especially the last month or two to last me a lifetime!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

With all that I've got going on in my life I can still be thankful for a lot of things. I am so THANKFUL for a loving and forgiving Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ who knew I would mess up again but they still love me. I'm thankful for loving and forgiving parents who love me no matter what problems I've brought and bring into their lives. I'm thankful for loving and forgiving family & friends... who love me enough without question to pray for me in my times of desperate hours. And mostly I am thankful for my children for whom without them I would not be here today. I'm thankful to be alive. I'm thankful for my apartment that is warm in these cold winter days. I'm thankful to have food on the table for my children, clothes on their backs, warm coats and beanies for their heads for the winter, a car to get them to and from school, etc... I'm thankful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm thankful for the Atonement and for what it means to me. This is starting to sound like I'm bearing my testimony here. lol. Anyway for all that I have to be Not thankful for I definitely have MORE to be thankful for and I definitely have many blessings to count. Happy Thanksgiving everyone I love you all!

Thanksgiving

Well it's almost Thanksgiving! My brother's ex wife and I are going to get together and have a single mama's thankgsiving (with my kids in tow of course). I'm very neutral when it comes to their divorce. I am not on his side and I am not on hers... and I try to be supportive of both. I know they both were not angels and both did things to hurt the relationship.... I stink at relationships and know that I did things to contribute to the demise of my relationship with the boys' dad but I wasn't the bulk of the problem. She has been there for me through a lot of the problems in my life and I in turn have been there for her as well. But anyway she texted me this afternoon and told me that she wants me and my boys to spend Thankgsiving with her since my brother will have the kids for Thanksgiving this year. I know my mom and dad are going to have LOADS of fun with my brothers family!!!! I loved Disneyworld! I got to go there when I was about 14. What happened was, my dad had to miss my 8th grade graduation, due to a business meeting in Minnesota, and at the time families could travel with the employees when they had business meetings. At the time, I was totally bummed that my dad was going to miss my 8th grade graduation so it turned out that he was going to have to go to Florida during the summer, and my uncle Gerald was going to have to go too.... so.... what was awesome is that my Uncle Gerald, Aunt Judy, My Cousin Angie (whom I've always been pretty close with) my Dad, my Mom, and I all got to fly to Florida. We went to Disneyworld and to Universal Studios Florida. It was sooo much fun! WOW! I went off the track there for a bit. Anyway Thanksgiving will be good. My mom and dad deserve a vacation they've been through a lot with me and with my grandma who has pretty severe dementia (like alzheimers).... so they are going for a couple weeks and will be back a couple of weeks before Christmas!

Nowhere To Go For Thanksgiving

Well here we are coming up on Thanksgiving.... and me and the boys have nowhere to go to spend the day.... so what we are going to do is we are going to go to Tucson sometime in that week and go to Texas Roadhouse (our fave place to eat) and spend the day at the zoo (if weather permits) or to the movie theatre. My mom and dad are going to DISNEYWORLD with Jason & Karen! How exciting!!!! :D Our turn for Disneyland will be soon! Hopefully next October is what we are "planning". So anyway no turkey, potatoes, the fixings and pies for us this year! We're getting STEAK!!!! Best steak in the world though!!!!! Their mashed potatoes are so good!!!!

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I Can't Sleep!!! grrrr!!

It is after one in the morning and I cannot sleep a wink! My brain is tired but my eyes are wide awake! Maybe I just have way too much on my mind right now. Sleep is impossible when I have too much on my mind. Its not that I don't want to go to sleep because I really really do, I just can't, and it is driving me batty!!! I want to be able to blog whatever is on my mind but my mom always tells me not to write about negative stuff... Ok I thought this site was about journaling and speaking your mind and feelings? I mean correct me if I'm wrong here. And besides... How can I not write about negative stuff when that seems to be all around me these days?! I know I brought a lot of it on myself, but some of it is not my fault. I've been a little peeved lately with all that has been happening and I need to express it. Ok so all of you know that at the end of July, the boys' dad and I had came back together... And at first it felt right... Well I felt ok with my decision I should say because it had seemed that he had changed sooo much and I tried to convince myself and everyone else that things would be different this time and they were... At first! I kept thinking "gosh if people would just give him a chance to prove how much 'he's changed'" well I have to admit now that he was just playing me for a fool! He hasn't changed he's stiil the pathetic guy that once again has hurt and confused me and once again, confused and hurt my children (emotionally). All he knows is how to hurt and manipulate people so that he can have his way. Well I am no longer the enabler! I am my own self! I am lori welker, gosh dangit and I will prove to him, to everyone and myseld that I am a woman worth more than that and I WILL get over this roadblock in my life, I will be a better person for it, I will move on and I will find someone who loves me and my boys unconditionally and even if I don't find someone I will still be ok and I will be the best mom that I know how to be because god gave me these boys for a reason and even though I'm tested on a daily basis I wouldn't trade them for anything else in the world and I love them so much! They are the reason that I am going to be making sacrifices in my life (ie the syrgery, etc...). I want to live for me but most of all, I want to live for my children!!!

Gotta Love My Dad's Sarcasm!!!

I once got my dad a t-shirt about his sarcasm. If you get hurt he'll say "Well how did that happen?" and you tell him and then he says "Well don't do that it'll hurt". LOL! I've grown to appreciate my dad's sarcasm over the years and yes I did it.... I started using the same stuff on my children! :D Here's an example. I had my nails done about 2 weeks ago and then I got tired of messing with them and took them off myself. BIG MISTAKE! I got a big huge crack down the middle of my fingernail from side to side. And it hurts so bad. IN COMES MY DAD with the sarcasm!!!!! ha ha! Anyway I have to go for now but will write another blog soon!

New to this blogging thing!

Ok so the only place that I have ever blogged at is myspace and even then it wasn't very much so here goes. Let me start by telling you about myself. My name is Lori Welker. I am a single mom of 2 boys named David and Daniel. David was born March 25, 1999 and weighed 6 lbs 14 oz and was 19 inches long. David had to be born by emergency csection because his head got stuck in my cervix. David was diagnosed with a mild form of autism. David is in the 4th grade and is almost 5 ft tall! Dan was born December 22, 2000. He weighed 10 lbs and was 22 1/2 inches long. He was born by cesarean as well. Danny is in the 2nd grade and is amost mirror image of their biological father. I am 31 years old. I was born on February 19th 1977 and was adopted by two of the best parents anyone could ask for. I have 2 older brothers who each have 2 daughters and 2 sons. My oldest brother's oldest daughter just turned 16 so I'm kinda freakin out about that. Let's see I am a reunited adoptee. I found the woman who gave birth to me as well as two siblings. I have no desire to find the man that helped her create me or his other children. I am a survivor of Domestic Violence. The boys' father is not a very nice person sometimes and can get pretty beligerant and mean. I have kicked him out of our lives once and for all. I once daw a picture that said "I would rather be lonely than live with a psycho for the rest of my life" and its true. Anyhow I will write some more about me when it is not so late. So until next time....