Virginia Bound

My baby boy moved to Virginia this week.

Baby...  UGH!  He is 26.

So weird to think he is so far away from me.  It's not like I saw him every day anyway.  I mean he has lived outside of the family for 8 years now..... but I COULD see him every day if I had wanted too with him only being 20 minutes away, and I think that is the point. 

I am excited he is getting to experience new things and new places.  New people and even new food!  He is going to be a family man.... of sorts.  He starts his job on Monday and hopefully he will be a happy camper from now on. 

I want him happy more then I want him 20 minutes away. Crazy how much you love your kids.

Conversations uncensered

Here are some conversations we had while we went to visit Grandma~!

Grandma asked my three kids while driving to the grocery store
"What should we have for dinner?"

They all three, at the same time say, "Chinese food!!!"

 She laughs and clarifies, "No something we can make for dinner."

Tanner says, "oh!  I don't care as long as its something with.... steak.....potatoes.....and gravy!"
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Tanner was rubbing on Grandmas back:  Grandma, your shirt feels like a ruffles potato chip!
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Katie couldn't get Matthew out of bed so we could go to Lawton. 

Katie- Tanner, go fart in Matthews face!  That will get him up!

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Tanner was hollering at his phone while he was playing a game.  (Apparently he was playing the new app he had just downloaded... farkle) 

Me:  Tanner what are you doing!?
 
Tanner:  I'm Farkling all over the place!!
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Matthew - This coffee taste like BUTT!

Tanner takes a sip

Tanner - your right Matthew this coffee DOES taste like butt!

A blog of mine worth revisiting...

Ambitious or Never Satisfied?

Crap! It's that one girl!



I celebrate 19 years with this man this month~!  Where's my damn COOKIE!

Who would have thought a blind date would lead to 19 years?  Miracles happen every day. Here's the story on how it came to be....

I babysat for Mike and Kim.  Mike worked with Dennis.  I had just broke up with Ronnie.  Mike came to pick up his kids and said.... "Hey! I know this guy....."

Mike also told Dennis... "Hey, my babysitter just broke up with her boyfriend... you wanna check it out?"  Dennis was like "yeah, sure why not."

Mike tries to tell me what Dennis looks like:  "He's a really nice guy... He wears glasses and they kinda make his eyes big."  (Oh THAT sounds attractive!)

Mike tries to explain to Dennis who I am:  "She sometimes goes to the Spa and she is blond and tall... Dennis thinks he might know who he is explaining and doesn't like me.  But can't be sure... so he still agrees.

Date Night -  We both go to Mike and Kim's.  Dennis is repeating in his head.. "I hope it isn't that one girl! I hope it isn't that one girl! I hope it isn't that one girl!"

I walk in... and in his mind he says.. "CRAP!  It's that one girl!"

We go to see the movie SPEED.  We hardly speak, he never asks for my number.  We say goodnight.

Cut to one month later.  July 2

I go to spa with a friend that finds a biker more interesting than me and leaves me stranded... I need a ride home... I see Dennis watching me.......Kinda creepy.......  So I say "HI!  you remember me?"
He says "yes."
I say..."Can you give me a ride home?"

He owned a kitchen table with chairs......And the rest is history! 

Our converstations.... what have we become?!?!

Dennis:  Here tastes this.

Raven:  NO!  It's ocean water!

Dennis:  It's tastes really salty!

Raven:  DUH!

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Dennis:  I ate something that upset my stomach.

Raven:    Are you okay?  You feel like you wanna throw up

Dennis:  No.  Just gassy.  I swear I could blow up an inner tube!

Raven:  TMI

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We SUCK at our Parenting Skills!

Matthew could not keep his eyes open.  Here we are in the middle of Hollywood Studios in Florida and he wanted to nap!  He leaned on poles, and on me, and on buildings.  He napped while in line for rides!!  So finally, we stopped for some lunch.  When Matthew was finished he laid his head down on the table.  Pretty soon, we notice him not moving, and for Matthew... that's your sign! He was out cold!

We tried to tell him to get up a few times, but he... of course, didn't listen to reason.  So we walked away.  Yep.  Just got up... cleaned the table off... threw away our trash,  pushed in our benches, which were not light and made some noise, and walked away.  While he laid there..... snoring. 

As we walked off I asked a girl that worked here to inform Matthew he was loitering and ask if he was done with the table. She was laughing but said.... "Really??"  After some small coaxing and perhaps some bullying, she tapped him on his arm... lightly at first.... then more aggressively because he sleeps like the dead, and said.. "Excuse me sir?  Are you done with this table?" Matthew's head went up and he noticed he was alone at the table.  After he wiped the drool off his chin he was like... "no?"

We could see him trying to figure out why he was alone.... People around him were laughing... when he saw us he smile and said... You guys SUCK as parents!  

Soon after we rode the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.... where the elevator brings you up and drops you 13 floors... FOUR times in a row!.... Astonishingly, he was not sleepy after that.  Perhaps we should have done that ride first and saved him the embarrassment.

Ha Ha!