Nothing new....

Nothing new to report. We have only a week and half until summer......WHOOHOO!!!
I am happily typing, and it is sooooooooooooooooo quiet! The boys are visiting their Papaw and Mamaw, and I have to say I am BORED! I know, I am happy to be bored. However, it is just so damn quiet! I would pay for this quiet some days, and today I managed to get all my work done so fast and early. Now, and for the last few hours, I have been wandering from room to room with nothing to do!

I have a big trip coming up and I am so excited. I will be visiting a very dear childhood/lifelong friend, along with another lifelong friend. It will be my first "by myself trip" in over 13 years. A decade seems so long, but in actuality it seems just like a few years. This is the scariest part to me. I said to Coach the other day, I don't care much for my thirties. While I am more content with myself, it is like.....gotta go this kids are pulling up....to be continued.


Okay, so backt to what I was saying. I feel like I am in limbo. I am not young, and I am not considered older. Yet, I don't feel any different. Weird.

Really...more than a year!

So, yes, it has been OVER a year since my last post! I am really trying to understand how these other mommies find the time to post so diligently!

I guess, that is another shortfall of my mothering skills?

I can't remeber what happened yesterday, nevermind the last year of my life.

So, here is short version (for posterity, I guess).

We still live in Sparta, Tn....I know, WOW, two years in one place! Reed had a fantastic Kindergarten year and a fantastic teacher. He is growing into a fine young man, still BOUNDING WITH ENDLESS ENERGY! He is almost through his first grade year, and yes, another amazing teacher. We are so lucky for him to have such amazing women guiding him through his daily struggles with being still and quiet. He has made the all A or A/B Honor roll each six weeks. So, we really can't complain to much about his incesent talking! He played soccer (he was actually good), baseball (he is not actually good...if I am being honest).


Tate is 4, and he has even more energy than Reed....and HE NEVER STOPS TALKING....EVER! He is truly sweet child, but will drive you crazy. He started pre-school this year, leaving a most wonderful babysitter, Ms.Jan, but he is doing well. He played (read picked the grass, and climbed trees) this year. I am not sure if sports will be his forte? However, who can judge a 4 y/o's atheltic ability. He adores Reed, and vica versa. For brothers, they have their squables, but all in all they absolutley LOVE each other.

Tracy is still coaching football, and for those who know him, LOVING every minute of it. His team did well, and we are hoping with 19 returning upperclassman we should do even better this year. We live, breath, eat football around here, but none of us would have it any other way!

As for me, I am still teaching at the local middle school. I really do love my job, as well. I am currently teaching an elective STEM. It has been so much fun to watch the students get excited about learning. It makes "working" so bearable! I am still teaching spin classes and am looking forward to the summer so that I can spend more time hanging with the kiddos.


Well, for a year that was pretty darn the short version!

I will try to post more....I have a heck of a friend, Terri, she is an awesome blogger! I look forward to her posts. She is so elequont with her words, her posts are always touching and reflective. I envy her ability to love being a mommy so much! Yes, I said that. If I could, I would make myself more like her. She makes it all look so effortless and FUN at the same time. It is really amazing to be around her!

Off to cook Easter dinner.......
BTW I miss you Jay....today more than any other day of the year....we buried you 12 years ago today. The time has passed by so fast, but today the reminder is bearing down on me. I find it hard to enjoy today, it is suppose to be a happy day, celebrating the resurrection of Christ. All I can ever think of is...I watched them put you in the ground today in that pine box....and that twinge of pain will never leave me! I love you....I miss you....I look forward to the day I can see you again

OHHHHH it has been way to long

As I was talking to my mother today....I realized I have basically fallen off the face of the earth, as it relates to my blog......I just can't seem to find the time....but I am missing out on journaling the craziness that is my life!

So let me set the stage.........between the time between Thanksgiving and Feb., Tate or Reed has had some sort of sickness, either ear infections, or the stomach bug, or a cold....it has been a regular General Hospital around the Malone homestead! And GOD love snow days, but geez 12 in two months is a bit much for even me........I just absolutely LOVE to sit around and enjoy a cup of coffee (or maybe 5) and watch it snow in my frumpiest clothes! However, this has not been good for my waistline....as I also do not get out of the house to work out!

Well, got off the subject, back to Tate....so, I am diligently finishing my Ch. 2 for my doctoral work, and Tracy is anxiously awaiting the Super Bowl kickoff.......just a sec....got to go check on why Tate is running water in the bathroom...........ok I am back, no big deal just thirsty!
Anyway, on Sunday at kickoff....Tate says, "Mommy, I have a hotwheel up my nose". I respond with you can't fit a hotwheel up your nose, and he says I have wheel up my nose. YES, he has a hotwheel wheel up his nose. So, as many smart parents would say, just blow it out. Well, that works for 3 y/o who can blow their nose, all he does is suck it up farther! Now, we get to go to the ER.....so we load up in the mini-van, and off we go at kickoff to dislodge a wheel from the genius three year old's nose!

Well, almost 4 hours later, a sedative for the toddler, a very weird, but sweet ER doctor with mad nose picking skills and we arrive home for the last play of the super bowl.........

I love being a mommy!

A new home.....a new team.....a new beginning

So, here are the two newest Sparta Warriors. We are, or should I say have been moved and well settled in now for over two months. It is a nice place to live, with so many kind and friendly people....just as most small towns are! It reminds me so much of Dickson.....so I guess I really did come back home? The boys are doing well, Reed will start Kindergarten in two weeks from tomorrow. We are all very excited for him, he asks each day if it is time to go to school yet?

We have found a great lady to care for Tate while I return to work, so that is a godsend. He actually starts for half days tomorrow. I know I am more anxious than he will be scared! He and I have never spent very much time away from one another since I have been the sahm for three years. I know he will cry and that truly breaks my heart, but with a two houses to take care of we don't really have any other choice. So, right now I will say, "Lord, please allow our house in Ardmore, Tennessee to sell, Amen". I did get a great 8th grade Language Arts teaching assignment here in Sparta, that I am tickled with and grateful for!!! Even with two houses, we may actually be able to put a bit back into savings.....so not all is so bad!

The football season is off and running, with a scrimmage last week and another this Thursday! We are very happy with our new family of coaches and their families. Everyone is as excited as we are for the season to kick off! We are having our first family get-together this Friday....so I am excited....I love company!

So, first full day with Coach gone.....wow this is nice...lol..and hehehe. No we do miss him, and hope he is settling in well at our new home. I need to be packing the kitchen, but I wanted to update the Coach that all is fine and the boys and I are having a better half of the day with no tantrums so far......but I haven't made them come in yet....so I won't hold my breath.

Oprah show on Motherhood

Did anyone see Oprah's show on Motherhood? It was quite interesting and comforting! I am glad I am not the only self-proclaimed terrible mother! These other moms were brutely honest, and that is refreshing. I am glad to know I don't have to feel bad about feeling like I want to run away (very quietly) so they won't hear me and follow! So, thanks to all you honest mothers out there!
But one thing that struck me funny, was when "the Oprah" said, "but you all knew that was how is was going to be".....Well, actually no I absolutely did not know it would be like this! I did not know that I would feel guilty ALL the time, whether I worked or stayed at home. No, I did not know I would really hate my husband most of the time, then hate myself for hating him. No, I did not know I that I would sometimes hate my kids, and yes then hate myself for ever let myself feel that way for a child I carried in the womb and then brought into this world. No, I did not know that I would NEVER get time alone again. No, I did not know that I would always compare myself to every other mother in every situation. No, I did not know that it would be THIS HARD.......I could honestly go on and on about listing things I did not know. So, no Oprah, I did not know that is would be like this..........but I also did not know just how much I could love another human being either.....so go figure

Just a Tuesday Morning

I blog so little these days, busy packing boxes and working on class papers. I had a few minutes this a.m. to say all is well here in Ardvegas........busy getting ready for our move to Sparta. The boys are eating breakfast, and I am having that first cup of coffee of the morning. Dash is underneath me sniffing.....little pain probably is about to pee in the floor.....this potty training of the dog is really getting on my nerves....ughhh

About to be off to the gym, and then back home to vacuum and work some more on this praxis paper....yeah for me!

Coach is out of town so it will be quiet here today and tonight....