MUCH RANDOMNESS!

This week is going to be horribly busy. The best part about it, I will get to spend the majority of it outside enjoying the beautiful AUTUMN weather.

I love Autumn!!!!! It is my favorite time of the year. I have been burning the Pumpkin Spice candles as fast as I can buy them. They are diffently my favorites. We are sleeping with the windows open tonite, love to curl up in a nice heavy quilt to stay warm.

I have 3 trips this week on the bus. Tuesday, I take the 8th grade football to Eudora. Nothing better than being bundled up at a football game on a chilly fall evening. Wednesday, I am taking a group to the Nelson Atkins Museum, they have such a beautiful park, think I will endulge myself in a walk. Thursday, I am taking a group of elementary kiddos to Kalidescope, then if they are like all the other groups, we will be picnicing in a park somewhere.

My grandma had her pacemaker put in today. Everything went as planned and she will return home tomorrow. Now we just have to get her through the recovery from the surgery. If only we can keep her from over doing it?

We are getting ready to return to Roaring River in a couple of weeks. We have to go get our last fishing trip in before the season ends. I can't wait to get away. It is such a pretty drive this time of year through southern Missouri. The leaves should be at their coloring changing peak. I will have lots of pictures to share.

Not much else going on. Just lots of hours on the bus for me and lots of hours of playing in the dirt for Adam. Hope everyone has a WONDERFUL week. Get out and enjoy the GORGEOUS weather! I know I will!

Who decided my life is a sitcom?

So we got past the poop problem yesterday.
Last night I had a trip and on the way out of the lot on the bus we were stopped and told we weren't allowed to leave our buses once we arrived at the football game. Evidently, the football players placed a snake on the other teams bus when they were here last Friday night. Since the Freshman & JV was playing on their field, the school received word that the opposing team was "laying low" to return the prank. THAT IS ALL I NEEDED, was to have a snake planted on my bus. So I spent the entire evening sitting on the bus.

SO THIS MORNING.
I was driving down the highway and I heard racket coming from the back. As I look up in my mirror I see one of my little boys doing a "tuck and roll" somersault over the back of his seat, while he is screaming. I see everyone gathering in the aisle of the middle of the bus. I ask them what is going on.......yep you guessed it, more excitement. Evidently a child came on the bus with a FROG. LMAO. It had gotten loose on the bus and landed in the seat that is now childless....he somersaulted to the seat behind him. So I get on the radio and tell them my location and that I was pulling over due to having a frog loose on the bus. Of course, I am the butt of all jokes now...first a pooping child, now a frog. I just wish my bus was equipped with a video camera, because we could have won money off the somersaulting, screaming children. It was quite hilarious. So to get the frog off the bus, one of my older students chased it between the seat and the wall, so I had to dig it out.
If tomorrow has anymore excitement, I will have to start writing a book. LOLOLOL. It shall be called "When is it appropriate to poop on the school bus.".

Hope everyone has a good day!

So....what possesses a person

I got up this morning and my first thought was? UGH! It is Monday, but it is going to be a great day.

I went to work and it started out good. Drove my route, the kids were pretty quite. Made my first two drops at the high school and middle school. Then as they say, "Poop Happens." I MEAN LITERALLY. I was pulling away from the Middle School and had 2 more stops to make, I still have about 10 kids on the bus. The kindergartener behind me says she has to use the restroom, I tell her to hold on, we will be at the school in no time. On the way out of the parking lot, she lets out a blood curdling scream. I stop the bus, obviously in a panic. I ask her what is the problem. She tells me, and mind you I am not joking......"I am pooping in my hand". As you can imagine, I throw the bus in park, jumped up and sure enough she has her hand down her pants...HOLDING ON. I about died. I had kids gagging, hollering gross, more gagging, and you guessed it more gagging. I, being the dumb one asked her,"what are you planning to do with that?" LOL. She said, "I don't want it in my underwear." Then I had to laugh, because sometimes poop is just as funny as farting. Don't ask me why? So I get on the radio and explain that I am having a student that is having an issue and I needed to go around the other buses and get straight to her school. Then my boss comes on and asks if everything is alright, I tried not to laugh, and said yeah, but I will need an administrator to meet my bus at the school and I would explain everything to him when I got back to the lot. So you can now imagine the comments I am getting from everyone. One of the drivers has been driving for 16 years and this is a first for something of this nature. Of course, it would happen to me. LOLOLOL
As I was leaving after my morning route, I told them, if the rest of this week is going to be as "shitty" as it now, I am taking off. LOLOL. They are getting such a kick out of it.

Then I decided to try to hurt myself. I decided to go buy a bicycle this morning and go for a ride. OMG....who needs exercise? JEEZ! I will be hurting for days and I only rode it around the block twice. WOW. I will keep trying to up my time on it, but not guarenteeing ANYTHING. LOL. I have to do something to get the weight off and I thought riding a bicycle was a good idea. WHAT WAS I THINKING????? HAHA

So today is my birthday....but not such a good day

I spent all day yesterday stuck in bed. I was fighting a horrible sinus infection. We had plans last night but had to cancel them. I was up most of the night coughing, blowing my nose, taking meds, etc. etc. I dozed off about 1:00am, at 1:45 the phone rang. As you all know, you know something is wrong. It was my mom, they were taking my grandma by ambulance to Olathe Med. They had already pulled over once behind the ambulance, as the paramedic had to get into the ambulance with them because Grandma stopped breathing. They left the paramedic's vehicle sitting on the side of the road and he continued the ride in the back of the ambulance. They got there just behind the ambulance, as they went full lights and sirens. No way of keeping up with that. So we followed not to long behind them. They already had her on a ventilator, she wasn't breathing at all on her own. They put her in ICU and as of this evening, that is where she remains. They know she is in congestive heart failure, she has blockage to her kidneys, she has COPD, and Empezema, just to name of few of the diagnosis we received today. Once they got her to ICU and hooked up to the machines, her blood pressure bottomed out. They aren't so sure she did suffer a stroke at the time of the blood pressure issue. We won't know that until they start weaning her off the ventilator. So we are taking one day at a time. Also, to go along with it all, Grandpa can't take care of himself at all, so we are having to split between the hospital and their house to have someone there at all times to help with daily chores, or to make medical decisions.
As for Jack, our lifelong neighbor, we stopped by this evening and he is still hanging on. He has a very strong heart. The family seemed to be in pretty good spirits and seemed to have life planned out for when the time comes.
As for my life, not sure if I am coming or going at times. I just wish I would stop passing myself along the way.
I will say, I am sure I won't forget this birthday ever. Doesn't even seem like my birthday, but it is just another day in life I guess.
Hope everyone has a better week than I am having!

Rain Rain Go Away...

Will it ever stop? I am tired of the rain.
Guess I am just lucky I don't live in the south, with the hurricanes and all.

Now I am fighting a stinkin' cold from being out in the lovely temperatures and the rain. UGH!

Not doing much, didn't go to work this am...didn't figure I needed to be driving the bus when I can't hardly see straight and can't breathe through my nose. Kinda hard to keep blowing my nose and drive. LOL.

Don't have much planned for this weekend either.

Hope everyone stays dry and enjoys the weekend.

SAD day

Our lifelong neighbor Jack had a stroke 2 weeks ago. He was doing pretty well with rehab and all. Last Friday morning he again suffered a VERY severe stroke. Once back at the hospital they found out that he has cancer of the liver and pancreas and parts of the tumors are breaking off and causing the storkes. His family made the decision on Monday evening to bring him home in the care of Hospice.

I went out after route this am and spent the morning with them. It was the saddest thing ever. He has a dog that is best friend, and the first thing I see when I walk in is the dog laying on the bed curled up next to him. Instantly my eyes filled with tears, as they are now typing this. :(

The dr. has told the family he will only live about another week. He is completely unresponsive to all noise and even the dog. His son doesn't think he will last past a couple of days. Which after having been through it with my grandparents, he is probably right. The cancer is a very aggressive form of cancer and moves VERY fast. I didn't go through the cancer stages with my grandparents, but in the stages of Hospice care, he is failing very fast.

We have considered Jack and his wife Fritz grandparents since we were born as they too have considered us grandchildren. I guess I have just never put the thought into losing any of my grandparents, at least not at the rate I am going. This will be the 4th one in the past 4 months. I know they aren't biological, but if you have ever had that "special" someone you consider family, you understand where I am coming from.

I just can't believe it is all happening. I just wish someone would wake me up from a bad dream. I understand life is life and things happen for a reason, but dang, does it really have to happen all at once?

CHICKEN RECALL.....it will give you the pox.

So Addie went to preschool yesterday after mom had noticed that she was covered in spots on her face and hands. They went ahead and took her to school anyway. The teachers noticed it and told Samantha. So they got home and mom asked Addie what she was doing. Addie's answer to Grandma.

Addie: Grandma, my teacher said I ate chicken and got the pox. I haven't even ate chicken....

The girl is only 4 years old.

LOLOLOL. I totally had to share that. She doesn't have the pox, just had bug bites or a rash. All clear today.

Here is another good one.....

On Friday I picked her up from preschool and was greeted by the teacher. She proceeded to tell me that Addie wasn't listening very well in circle group that morning and when she was corrected her answer was a huge yawn followed by her saying that she was sooooo tired, she didn't get any sleep the night before because she had to cook her mom and dad dinner, fold their laundry and do their dishes. The teacher said all she could do was laugh.

That just made it obvious to us that Luke and Sam must have said something the night before in a discussion about cooking, cleaning and laundry. LOLOLOL. Their ears may be small, but they hear everything.

Miss Addison is too smart for her own good. LOL. But we still get a good laugh every time something comes out of her mouth.

WHOOO HOOOO!!!!!

We finally bit the bullet today and bought a laptop. We decided for our birthday's, instead of trying to determine what to buy each other we would just make the purchase. So I went today WITHOUT the intent of buying, but after calling Adam with the price, he told me to go ahead and bring it home. So here we are....also purchased a wireless router, so we are "mobile". Throughout the entire house. :P

It is so nice to be able to sit in my own recliner, watch tv and play on the computer. LOL.

Garage Sale.....COMPLETE

So we made it. Saturday was pretty slow.

The only thing fast about it was us running around the front yard pulling the plastic over the tables, everytime it would start to rain. Which was SEVERAL times thoughout the day.

We ended up staying open until about 3pm. Was only suppose to be until noon. But with the rain and all, we kept having people pop in, so we just left it sit.

I made $260.00 with my stuff. So one would say it was a good two days, OR I just have a lot of CRAP. LOL

Nothing exciting happened, as the day before we had the "kung fu fighters". Oh well, it is all over with and I am done for another year. HAHA.

Hope everyone has a GREAT week.

GARAGE SALE...GARAGE SALE....GARAGE SALE

Day one is now complete. What a day. We stayed fairly busy for the most part. Only had one item broke by a customer...but she INSISTED on paying for it anyways. I wasn't worried a bit about it, I had it in the sale to get rid of, so either way it was gone. LOL.
Had one parent that didn't seem to give a care about where her kids were or what they were doing. They were "kung fu fighting" with swim noodles in my front yard for goodness sake. HAHA. Glad nothing got broke during that. :)

Tomorrow is another day. Only half a day though. We will have fun. Enjoy your weekend!

We made it back home. :(

We went out of town this past holiday weekend, for a much needed vacation. We went to Roaring River in Cassville, Mo. Why, you ask? Trout fishing. It was so nice to get away and relax in the cabin and either go to the river fishing, or doing nothing. We have been so in need of getting away. Alot has went on in the past 4 months and we didn't realize how bad we needed to get away.

Now, we are back to the same ol' routine. Believe me, we could have stayed there a couple of weeks and it wouldn't have bothered either of us. ;)

Not much else going on. Still trying to relax away what is left of this holiday weekend.

Get to go to the local DMV in the morning to attempt to sort out a problem with the title on my new car. Who knows, I may have to pack up afterwards and get away again. HAHA.....you all know how the DMV works, makes some wonder where they actually come across their employees at times. LOL

Hope everyone has a joyous week ahead. Only 4 work days though!