One day... When I have a house I am going to have a beautiful back and front yard... With a vegetable garden... ^^ The only thing good I ever got from my dad was a green thumb and how to use it ^^

My dad wanted a green thumb. he tried hard for it too. I'm still trying to earn mine. Our garden will be much larger this year. We've already started our seedlings. So I'm excited. We'll just have to make sure to get it going when the seeds are ready instead of being lazy and putting it off so much like we did last year. I think we transplanted a month late so our harvest was late. ^^;; Oops!

You can look up on line what is the last day for threat of frost I believe plant the day after that. It is usually very late spring for us that we have the last threat frost (darn it it is something similar to that but it is called something else) you can also check out your areas growing season...

My dad and I have natural green thumbs though I have a problem with outta sight outta mind... My poor indoor plants have all died... Except the fern... Which has been through HELL and is still kicking... I personally think the cold that we had for a bit did the more water needy plants in first... But I didn't help by putting them in my bedroom window and forgetting to water them since October >.>* By the time I remembered them mid October they had already died! TT.TT

I've kept an orchid alive for a year. It's the plant Scott and I are measuring our green thumbs by. We bought it in a damaged pot, and the plant wasn't looking too good. We've since seen new growth on it, repotted it, trimmed the roots and dead things off and are patientally waiting to see what it does next. I want it to flower. SO BAD. Seriosuly I would like nothing more than to have a flowering orchid in the house! Alas, I'm still waiting. They're relatively low maintenance though, but that's also a problem you're supposed to water it once or twice a week but since it's not daily like my other plants I tend to forget it ^^;;

Set a two days a week to water it... Time it with something else like a two day class or something LOL... That is what I use to do...

All of my plants are rescue plants (except the ones I had in my garden those were full price O_o) most I bought for $1 or less that is the shape the plants originated in... The plants that died are annuals that I figured would not survive another winter (not that I helped them T_T) They have been alive for a little over a year each which is good for a plant that is meant to die of in the winter time ^^ The fern has been with me three years... When I got it it was about 2 inches tall and almost all of the branches (are they branches???) and leaves were crispy and brown and the soil was dry as a bone... It has a decorative foil cover on its pot and the foil nearly covered the plant... There was a small patch of VERY dull green near the bottom of the plant but no new growth. They were charging 25 cents for it and I bought it as an experiment. It took me about 6-7 months to get it back to having green branches (all of them were new cause I cut off the dead cause it has a tendency to drag on an already suffering plant...) ... The first new growth happened a year after I purchased it and if FINALLY started to thrive and grow... Then I had Sean and I neglected it >.> for months... (by that time it was about 5-6 inches tall) when I finally got back to it it had about 2 inches of brown crumply leaves and branch and I cut it back and started to bring it back to health.. By the end of this summer it was about 8 inches... And still is as it has a water reservation ability (the dulling of the green in the leaves and branches...) It can last about 2 months with VERY little watering... But if it is watered regularly it gets a BEAUTIFUL lush green to it... It is just now getting its green back from the holiday neglect of being stored in my bedroom lol... I want to go fish out some more plants to fill my 3 other now empty pots... I'd love to find neglected mini roses (they are very abundant after Vday!) again... But they get big soo fast and need to be transplanted outside within a year...

And Eyeyeye!!! Sean is being a pain... He is throwing tantrums about drinking water... He is so stubborn I swear... He won't drink anything until he gets milk with dinner time ><;; I know he needs milk but he needs water too ><

My kids do that too. So I just put cups of water on the table and if they're thirsty they'll drink. And they won't get another cup until that one is empty. ^^; I'm such a mean mommy.

Took one quiz today, looking forward to reading the rest of Candide and taking the next quiz early this week so I can get on with whatever the next assignment is. I hate it when teachers don't post the whole assignment list at once! I liket o know what to plan for!

Need to get my theatre appreciation stuff done though. haha. But I do know that the soonest my transfer will be is Sunday since the donor has to go back in tomorrow. ^o^ My IP's had called me before Yale today and were saying that talking to the doctor on Friday they were informed that if she went in today and all was well my transfer could be friday! D: They made me change Scotts leave to NOT include friday so I was freaking out until they called. I'm excited though. In a week I could be getting pregnant! A week! How exciting is that??? My IP's also offered to take me around New York if I flew up early. I have to be there by day 3, but we're hoping for a day 5 transfer which would give me two days in the city to run around and have fun, no kids, no baby in my belly. Totally excited for that. There's so much to do in New York, I don't really know WHAT I want to do. LOL. But regardless I'm totally excited! My doctor wants me to take 3 days off after the transfer though. So I'll be staying at my IP's house in the Hamptons for those days. To ensure that I don't run off and start picking up the kids haha.

Oh that is exciting ^^ I'd love to visit new york (just in the spring or summer time I think) I'll be thinking baby thoughts for you Mellie...

As for Sean he can drink from a glass but he isn't a pro yet... So I don't leave them around... But he does have a tippy cup all day long and normally it takes him a couple hours to drink his milk cause he doesn't like the cold that much...

He did get milk for lunch, cause I caved, he was just unbelievably grumpy Y_Y;; he perked up after I gave it to him... He is so odd... If he doesn't get a certain amount of milk by a certain time he is such a grump! I am going to give him water when he gets up from his nap though. He needs some water in his system >.< and he can have it for dinner too... He'll get his next cup of milk before bedtime *puts foot down*

I give the kids water a lot. I'm tired of paying for juice. lol. It's expensive! D: but soooo good. They get one cup of juice a day and two cups of milk. the rest is water. At least its supposed to be. Sometimes they get more juice since I or Scott forget if they've already had some. ^^;;

I'll survive the cold. I think I'll just tell them I want to do tourist-y things and see what they come up with. xD I wanna go see a play. >.>

I just counted, I have 10 bruises on my thighs from hormone injections. *sigh* In two weeks I'll probably have a black and blue butt since the type of shot I take changes.

Hey, everyone. ^^

Hey Clair (:

How are you? What's up? ^^

Doing homework, slow going homework. But I gotta get it all done. Gotta get it done. @[email protected]

Hello Clair!

Sean gets 3 cups of milk and 1 cup of juice the rest is suppose to be water but he nurses the milk for a long time some days... and he knows if he just waits THIIS much longer he'll get milk!

Melody was like that for a long time. Until I just stopped giving them the milk/juice until the water was finished. xD She's learned to drink her water. She used to drink a little, then pour it out. All that got her was another FULL cup of water that she had to drink before she could get the next drink. So even if the other two got juice she was still stuck on water. I'm such a mean mommy. ^^;;

Its not mean... I just don't deal well with his crankiness and he is still at the age where milk carries a lot of his nutrition so when he doesn't get it there is a visible change in his personality and tolerance level. He is getting to the pick toddler stage of eating too so I don't want to take away his milk just yet... Not until he eats better...

He got really upset about breakfast for some reason today >.> I pulled out the cereal and he cried... It was weird cause he was fine before that... I pour it into his bowl and set it in front of him and he was fine again... Then I pulled out the milk to put in it and he started crying again... I don't get it ><

**cries** school is starting to worry me now!!! Just started my math class and it is the same teacher I dropped last semester ><;; she was really rude and acted like the financial aid issues I was having were my fault >.>

Well, you're not having the financial aid trouble this time around right? Hopefully that will make things better.

No I'm not but it doesn't stop me from worrying... I love math but she is like a slave driver it feels like... T_T;;

lol. typical teachers.

I've finished some of my reading for today...but the kids are still up and talking. I put them to bed...but they're refusing to sleep. It's so hard to concentrate! D:

Hey, sorry... Menewsha has been acting up for me lately.
Couldn't reply again last night.

It doesn't help that the online class site has changed to yet another site... This is the 3rd time since I started college... >.> This one is MUCH less user friendly then the last there is crap hiding EVERYWHERE >.>;

I haven't gotten much reading done at all >.>; Sean was a terror most of the morning until I put in my old "Little People" cartoon... He sang and danced for 30 minutes while I walked circles in the house not really knowing what to do but fearing if I sat down I would be all to content NOT to do anything... Then we went to the store at nearly noon and the poor guy was hungry and tired though the whole trip...But my head was most of the problem with my own head... I couldn't think straight for ANYTHING... If I had a picture of what my head feels like right now it'd probably look something like what the boys' room looks like at its worst with blankets hanging from beds all the dresser drawers hanging out, laundry everywhere and toys everywhere and anything that is meant for organizing toppled over....

Dillon and I apparently are both feeling the same way though... Except he was literally running circles at work TRYING to get stuff done but he was slammed and apparently managers and (soon to be) assistant managers are above having to clean, or stock, or work register... Today made him conclude that he was going to apply for the position that he was offered on Thursday for maintenance...

Alright girlies, wish me luck! When I come back I should be pregnant!

WOOOOT! :D Good luck, Melody. :heart:

YAY preggers mellie! Joo can... er not do it!

:lol: We knew what you meant, Jaz. :)

I look forward to having my own some day. :D

Hi I'm Covet
I'm 30
I have a 13 yr old boy
He was planned (unconventional I know but save your judgements..) I finished high school, went to college, got a healthcare career - just haven't finished college yet :( I've travelled to foreign countries, taken my son to a few different states, really thoroughly enjoyed bringing him up to be an honest, free thinking, self-realized and conscientious young man. I'm so proud of him!! I cut back to working 4 nights a week, six hour shifts, so I have more time with family and to return to college and finish. Then I will buy my own home, and one room will be used for my counseling office. I've got the downpayment saved for. Unlike some very lucky people, I cannot stay at home with my child and go to school full time though I dearly dearly wish I could!! More than anything!!! :'(

For my next child, I'm going to a sperm bank. I have fully considered everything. I have waited 13 years for Mr. Right Father.. and no luck. This way I can get pregnant safely, raise the child myself, and continue my life. When the baby is 18 s/he can contact the bank to find the identity of the father. Later on, I will adopt my 3rd child. Hopefully I will fall in love with someone and they will be a great help to the family and a good parent to my children.. but if not.. they have me.. and my big, loving, close family. I do have a boyfriend now, and he's making lots of fancy promises and wants to move faster than I'd like, but I'm taking it slow and he must prove with actions.. I've learned to see thru trickery and really rely on myself. So if it happens, cool, if not.. I'm gonna be alright!