The DDA Trouble Free Zone Part 18

[PNO4TE]

Ok, here is Katie, Daniel, & Sophie yesterday with Santa in NYC.

absolutely terrific, Anne Marie!

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Photo time

Here is Riley. He loves the holidays. He was laying in a wreath that I had put up yet.

Hunter's Project

Deb-
The picture of Riley is adorable!
i love hunter's project!

 

[Tammi67]

Deb - tell Hunter the house looks great. I especially like the itty bitty wreaths hanging on the front of it.

 

[my3princes]

I finally had a productive day. I now have the outside decorations 99% done. I have also got about 80% of the inside ones done. I definitely need to get rid of a few cob webs that I encountered while decorating

Hunter and I got his project well under way which is good as he still needs to write the paper.

Chris came home from work with a big smile on his face. He said that he couldn't help but smile as he drove up the street and saw our house all decorated. I even got the Mickey wreath hung up

Tomorrow I need to work on the Cub Scout awards for Wednesday night, Colby has school which will give me a few minutes to shop. I have weigh in tomorrow night so if will be another busy day and hopefully just as productive as today.

 

[PNO4TE]

I listened to my daughter.

Tell Alyssa that Mrs. H is proud of her!

 

[tinknme]

Tell Hunter I love his house!

Photo time

 

[Tammi67]

Tell Alyssa that Mrs. H is proud of her!

Ok, I will.

 

[PNO4TE]

How was the concert, Elin?

It went really well. We had a fairly good sized audience considering we were vying for people with the American Boys Choir also in town in concert tonight. The power went out on stage again as we were performing our last selection, a piece entitled, "O Magnum Mysterium" by Morten Lauridsen. Exquisite piece possibly enhanced by the dim lighting, but it certainly made it very difficult to perform since we don't memorize our music.

Next time we go out for lunch (or a weekend dinner!) we will go to Olive Garden so you can get your chicken parm.

 

[Tammi67]

Didn't you have a problem with the lights going out the last time you performed at Dodd?

 

[my3princes]

I'm glad to see that we posted quite a few pages today. Now the vacationers will have some good reading when they get home

 

[Tammi67]

I think I'm going to bed. Have a good evening!

 

[Blueeyes101817]

im headed to bed too..goodnight

 

[PNO4TE]

Thought I would post some pictures of the tree in living room. It is not our Disney tree. That is in Kristin's room and I will take pictures of it later. I collect Santas and have many ornamnents as well as figurines. Only a few fit on the new slimline tree I bought last weekend.

 

[PNO4TE]

Didn't you have a problem with the lights going out the last time you performed at Dodd?

and this time there was absolutely no reason for them to go out!

 

[PNO4TE]

I think I'm going to bed. Have a good evening!

night, Tammi and Jen!

 

[PNO4TE]

Well, I see that photobucket is not resizing my pictures very well! Sorry about that if you have dial-up!

 

[my3princes]

Thought I would post some pictures of the tree in living room. It is not our Disney tree. That is in Kristin's room and I will take pictures of it later. I collect Santas and have many ornamnents as well as figurines. Only a few fit on the new slimline tree I bought last weekend.

That is beautiful. Can't wait to see the Disney one too.

 

[PNO4TE]

That is beautiful. Can't wait to see the Disney one too.

Thanks, Deb. I am SO glad you have a high-speed connection!

 

[PNO4TE]

OK, it is time for the news and then bed. Have a great evening, DDA friends! See you in the morning.

 

[tmfranlk]

Okay this morning it is around 18-20 degrees. DS18 told me his heater in his car does not work.

My dryer want dry my clothes and don't have money to fix it right now.

I am behind in my work. BUT I HAVE WORK and that is a good thing.

We don't have the money to buy a christmas tree and the one we had broke.

It sure is a funny thing this MONEY business kind of like men You can't live with it and you can't live without it.

and the biggest thing:

DS6 who we have custody of asked me who his real dad is. When he was 4 months old his dad, my brother, was killed in a car accident. I started babysitting him while his mom worked afer that. Finally things in her life got so out of hand (men, drugs, etc) that I asked her for custody and she let me have him. She comes to see him about every 2-6 weeks. Never a set time just whenever she remembers she has a child. What gets me is he ADORES her.

Well he has been saying things lately about me not being his real mom. (He calls me mom and his real mom by her first name.) We have both explained to him that she had some things going on in her life and it was best for him to live with me and he seemed okay with that. BUT now he wants to know who his real dad it.

We did not intentionally not tell him about my brother but he started calling DH dad and we just never really knew how to deal with it so we thought when he got old enough we would sit him down and explain it. By old enough I was thinking in his teens. NOT.

He asked me on the way to school if his real moms latest man friend was his real dad since she was his real mom. SO TONIGHT we will have a talk with him. I sure hope he can understand this and deal with it okay. My heart just breaks for him because his real mom, although she loves him, she does not want the responsibility and it is already hurting him that she gave him away.

If you all have any advise on how to handle this just post away.

Well that is my update. Hope everyone has a great week.

No advice, I'm sorry to say, but I do want to send lots of and that everything goes okay with tonight's talk. It's a tough thing to understand for anyone, but for a sweet boy so young... I know that you and DH are the best things for him and that he knows that too.