Rodeo

I attended my first rodeo in over 4 years and you know what.  I freakin miss it.  It was one of those small rodeos where you are at least familiar with the people who are participating in it and one or more of your family is actually in it.  Well thats the type of rodeo I was at it was a benefit rodeo for one of our family friends who has cancer :( so there was no prize money and all in good fun.  I do have to say that that is the best kind of rodeo.  The friend we were staying with has numerous pets; horses, dogs, and a goat.  This goat follows you around like a dog and is free to wander the yard at will.  HE WAS awesome!  So I have now decided if I ever get back to the country besides the a dog maybe a miniture goat would be fun.

Update....So the girls are here and so far (I have only spent a little bit of two nights with them) its been pretty nice not nearly the terrifing experience I thought it would be.  However I am now coming up on days off after being away for the better part of 3 days so we will see if it still goes pretty smooth.  However I am now child free for a while so currently its a i'm so tired that I just want to go home and sleep but not too sure I want to actually go home in case things have taken a turn for the worse there and I go home to a mad house.  Any suggestions?  No...well i'll just suck it up then and put on my big girl panties.

Writing prompt: When you realized your child was growing up.

Writing Prompts:

1.) A moment your realized your child was growing up.
I think the first time it really hit that he was growing up was when he suddenly announced "Mom i'm tired I think I'm going to go ahead and go to bed."  That was the first time I didn't have to fight him for bed time.  In fact since that time the tantrums at bed time have happened few and far between.  Tonight was a fight just because he was in trouble and couldn't watcha movie.  Other than that every other night he has put himself to bed.  I guess another time was when he announce that he was going to go camping and Grandpa and J.R (the dog) were the ones who were going to take him.  Its been a fixation ever since.  He will go see Grandpa this weekend so we had to let him know that a camping trip would be a grand idea, and that my son even offered up his tent for Grandpa to share.

Writing prompt: The simple things

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The Prompts:
1.) The simple things…
Sometimes I miss the simple things.  When did everything get so complicated? 
  I remember a time where a day outside the house building forts in the woods were the best days whatever you could find to create a roof and walls was wonderful.  Now it seems to keep my boyfriends kids happily occupied they need the newest Modern Warfare or whatever that game is called for the X-box. 
  Thats when I thank god for my 4 year old.  Since like me he spent the majority of his 4 year old life living in the country and up untill we moved to where we are now his best friend was a horse, and the dog provided hours of entertainment by bringing the ball to him to throw what little distance he could. 
  Even now living in the city where we can easily go to a swimming pool or go to a park with water that shoots up from the ground the best thing ever is going to Grandpa and Grandma's once a year where he can see the horses and play with J.R. the dog who is always thrilled to have his playmate back.
  Proof that sometimes no matter how hard you think you have to try to make their days full of endless entertainment and memories its sometimes the most simpliest of things that are remembered.  Whether its the image of one little boy in dusty wranglers and a straw hat rolling in the dirt next to the dog or him looking at the horse saying go away even though he is in the horse pen playing in the water trough.  Never mind the fact that hours before you took him to the state fair when asked what the best part of the day was the response is "playing with J.R."  These are the memories that stand out the best and will stick with a person long past the time that this was a daily or even yearly thing.

I'm avail national

I have now been official made avail national.  Meaning I am able to go off district to one of the other fabulous places that may be having large fires.  We couldn't do this when all those fires were happening in Texas and New Mexico now that things are dead is when we have been told the rotation can start.  We have watched the steady parade of the different engine crews going back and forth but thats all we can do is watch.  Oh well there is fires up north now maybe just maybe I might luck out and get to spend at least a week to 14 day max off district.  If luck is against me then I will be here till I'm off rotation in approx 1-2 weeks.  Any one spot the good news yet?  Any body? Any body at all?  I may get to let my boyfriend have his time with his girls without my son or myself which might be for the best since he hasn't spent any long amount of time with them in a while. 

Reading material

I am currently reading the first book in the potential Beyonders series and I am about to move into the last audio book in the Pendragon series.  If any one is reading this I am interested in hearing about any books audio, paper, or electronic that you can recommend.  My cousin gave me the Sookie Stackhouse series or I think that's what it is does any one know if they were any good?

The bloggess

For anyone looking for an intersting and hysterical read try this link.

http://thebloggess.com/2011/06/and-thats-why-you-should-learn-to-pick-your-battles/

She provides a very funny encounter on how you should learn to pick your battles.  My boyfriend says it sounds like something I would do because I found it so hysterical and he was not amused.  So I think he is now waiting for me to pull a similar encounter when he says I dont' think you should buy that.

Today is a new day.

I have decided that I will now try to keep my blog updated.  We will see how long that last since I have also promised myself I would go on a diet as well as work out for an hour every day.  Neither of which has happened.  Life has thrown a few curve balls lately and as always it has been expertly dodged the bad ones so lets hold our breath and see if I can keep on doing it. I have now moved in with my pretty great if I do say so boyfriend who between him, his kids, and my own child keeps me on my toes.  His older three are coming out at the end of the month and we will see how this initial meeting goes.  It is the first time we will be meeting and I already have the impression that they hate my guts....so more to come on this interesting , or as I call it completely scary make it or break it, meeting.