According to.....

Jeff Gordon (the whiney racecar driver), I must not be a very good parent. Because, like every good parent he knows, he reads "every book there is" about raising a child. Well, I do read a good book. But, it's not exclusively about raising a child. It's called my BIBLE. I don't need any books to tell me how to be a good parent, because God is leading my way. I pray every single day that He gives me the ability to be the best mom I can possibly be to little Biz. So, I guess I suck as a mom in some peoples' eyes because I don't read up on every single issue there is dealing with children and parents. And I thought I was doing a pretty good job.....

Paybacks

I feel like total crud. I guess that's what I get for making my little kiddos miserable, and making them sit boy girl boy girl..... Hopefully my throat will be less bull-froggish by Tuesday cuz it's not going to be a pretty situation if it isn't!

Girl Boy Girl Boy Girl Boy.......

And the seating chart goes on and on Girl Boy Girl Boy.... my kids HATE it, and I LOVE it. They also get to sit this exact way during lunch, too! The last 3 weeks of school have been horrifying, and I can't imagine what the next however many are going to be like if I don't buckle down and basically make them miserable until they decide to listen. Thank goodness for my 7-8 awesome ones, who unfortunately have to suffer due to the heinousness of their classmates. My worst little boy looked at me after they rearranged their desks and said, "You know, you really do know how to make a class miserable by doing this." And I said, "Well, that's what you get when you make a teacher miserable by being rude and disrespectful." He finally saw the light, and stated that he wouldn't want to have to deal with the things I've dealt with the last 3 weeks, either! Hopefully this will work. I also have other new behavior plans in place to start on Tuesday. If this doesn't work, I'm going to be blogging from a padded room. They'll have to let me have computer access because I'll be there for eternity after how crazy these kids drive me to be! AHHHHHHHHHHH

HUH?

I was talking to one of my friends on AIM this evening. This particular friend just bought a house. It's a really nice house, and he got a great deal on it. While we were conversing, all of a sudden he says, " how do i get the smell of old people out of my house?" I was totally NOT expecting to have him ask me that question, and got quite a kick out of it. I have no clue... any suggestions to help him??

Twitch

Hello, the name's Brianne, but you can call me Twitch. Unfortunately, I'm not crunk enough to be given the moniker "Twitch" like on So You Think You Can Dance (pictured to the left). I earned the name Twitch for another reason. My right eye has been twitch, twitch, twitching for the past 2 weeks... on and off throughout the entire day ALL. DAY. LONG. This is the first time it's ever happened, and I think it has one meaning. I really can't be that stressed, can I? These kids can't be getting to me that much... can they? After only 2.5 weeks... really??? All I know is that I'm ready to give my new addition to my face to someone else. It's annoying, and a total pain in the butt. It's basically driving me bonkers.

It's Raining It's Pouring....

After about 2 months (or maybe longer... seriously) with no rain..... it's FINALLY POURING AND I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!! Thank you, Lord for quenching our dry, crisp ground! I pray that we have more rain very soon!

Weekend Transformation

We live in a small, Southern town. The county is large, and there are a lot of people in the county, but the actual town is relatively small. In our town, we have Old Money, middle class, and poverty stricken people. It's not very often that you see an expensive car... unless it's from the Old Money, or from a family that has someone who works in one of the two colleges in town. Yes, we have 2 colleges.... I don't get how such a small town has two colleges (and they're known nation wide), but we do. As I was saying, you don't see people driving huge expensive cars very often, and unless they are from the two groups mentioned above, we don't have very many preppy people, either.

Anyway, on the weekends, it amazes me and my husband because it's like the rich, stuck up, preppy, I'm better than you are, my crap doesn't stink kinda people take over our little town. Our town has a weekend transformation.... from regular, mundane people to Hollywoodesque people. It's fun to see where the license plates are from, and how many expensive cars are parked along the sidewalks. We always have Lexus, BMW, Mercedes, Land Rover, Acura, and we've even had Bentleys. Our town has a huge name furniture store that has imports from all over the world. It's a really huge business in town, and there are a total of 10 buildings housing all of these expensive imports. It's kinda cool because some of the furniture is in old tobacco warehouses. My grandmother (who lives on the Pennsylvania/Ohio state border) heard someone in a beauty shop say that they were coming down here to go to this particular furniture store. It's a 10 1/2 hour drive. THAT'S NUTS. Why would you drive all that way for FURNITURE? Who would have thought such a small, gone in the blink of an eye town would bring all of these people to buy furniture?? It's quite an interesting thing to see!