HealthCare Update ..And Other things..

Basically "It is what It Is" and we have to deal with it. Our local tricare office under no circumstance's will allow us to go to a civilian Orthopedic Doctor.
So now I am calling the specialties clinic every day, to see if we can get Senior an earlier appointment then Mid- December. Today he is taking MAMA BEARS advice and picking up some of that Blue-Emu sore pain rub.  I hope that helps him a bit.

So please" "fingers crossed" and lots of prayers for us.
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Two kids, two different schools...two days of Thanksgiving Luncheons. Which I thought both were on the same day so therefore I missed one of the luncheons. Little ND got in the car with tears in his eyes because his mommy and daddy were not at the luncheon.
OMG---"Was that today? I thought it was tomorrow the same day as your brothers" ?
"Nooooooo !!!!   Every other parent was there"
" Oh holy cow! "
Now I am the worst mother in the world!

This is what happens when schools don't keep proper communication with parents. I was not the only one thinking both lunches were on the same day.

So, Today Senior and I are making it up to him, we are bringing him lunch at school....   : )
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Another community wide garage sale is tomorrow. I am going through every thing. And what does not get sold, gets donated !   I do and don't like garage sales, the economic times trickles down and people want you to just give your stuff away.  It does get frustrating....
We are doing something different with the boys though, we are letting them take charge of what they want to sale and they can keep the money they make.
And kids are funny because now that  I am putting stuff in a staging area, it suddenly becomes important..even though it has not been played with for a year.

Now I must get back to going through closets, and cleaning out toy boxes...  Even Senior is going through his stuff.....

Happy Friday All! 
-JUGM

Over Reactions.....

 

 

As soon as I pulled into the school car line I noticed the news van antenna. "In the name of all things holy", I thought.  "what has happened"  !
I got no emergency phone calls... couldn't be that bad.

I ask around and no one seems to know. The ladies are all oblivious... 

Then I got home, and check the new stations web site and there is the story and it will be on the local news tonight:

Last Thursday, a 1st grader brought bullets. The teacher, instead of confiscating them and making it all an issue. Asked the child to put them back in his backpack and take them home.

On Friday, parents learned of the incident...then the over reaction started. All chaos has ensued and parents want the teacher fired, and their kids moved out of her class. School ends in one month... just put the teacher on administrative leave or something until then...

They suspended a 5 year old for making a gun out of Lego's , this was in Hyannis West elementary in Boston area. In Maryland a 6 year old WAS suspended for a "finger gun" and saying bang. An 8th grade student was expelled for wearing an NRA t-shirt. And please let us all not forget the poptart incident.
 This kid actually brought a bullet, he should be expelled for life! I mean come on now!

My point is, yes it was wrong for the student of that age to have a bullet, and it was wrong for the teacher not to confiscate it AND notify parents. Lets leave it at that. Lets stop this irrational fear of guns, that's all over reaction  like this is meant to do.

People have been saying for months, Guns don't shoot themselves! and for Gods sake bullets don't shoot without guns. If you hit a bullet square with a hammer, it'll explode and yeah it is potentially dangerous. But its not being launched through a barrel at 1000s of feet a second. People actually pulling their child out of school because some kid brought a bullet, these people are afraid of their own shadow and an embarrassment.. 

I have since learned that it did not happen to ND or NWs teachers. I love those ladies and would not want them to suffer through this..

-JUGM

What really needs to happen....

Okay I am going to rant a bit- these are my opinions that I am expressing: 
  
Well in talking with my good friend K the other morning during our morning walk and talk session, we hit on the problem and she was in agreement..More parents need to stop letting Video games be the baby sitter.

The entire gaming industry needs to be revamped,  It all first started with "Dungeons and Dragons" some of us who are old enough to remember- a group of kids got so heavily involved in it, they were actually role playing and killed a person-they were living the game, talking like the game, dressing like the game, they all even renamed themselves with medieval names..

Well games have evolved a lot since then, they are realistic and keep you coming back for more.
You take a kid, that is bullied, he has no friends, he is the loner, both parents work, he comes home from school and  the first thing he does is pick up and turn on the video games. Give him a game console and let him grow up with that..and it becomes his best friend. He starts to believe in it, and believe it is real...he then feels he needs to act that out. The boys who committed these recent killings all had 2 things in common..their age group, and they were all in to video gaming.

 Also, there has got to be more parental involvement in your kids life, and parents need to know what their kids are doing, and care enough about them..You had them, be responsible for them.  I have a friend, her little boy is 8. He has a PSP, A Wii game system and a Xbox... it is all he does, and he looks at my kids like they are from another planet because we don't have all that. We have another friend whos 5 year old is a mental health case, both parents work, he has been raised by day cares, and what does he have at home? Again, a Wii, an Xbox, a PSP, and his own Ipad tablet...Good Gawd No wonder he is the way he is. I love his parents but they use no sort of discipline and he runs over both of them.. I would give anything if they would pull his pants down and wipe his little A-- 

Immediately after BO took his photo op at the memorial service in CT. do you know what the commercial was?  It was for a new game called "Hitman" A kid sees that and plays that, and they think they can do anything. They think they can be that character. You put that in the hands of a kid with some mental issues, who has been picked on and bullied his whole life, and its a recipe for disaster. 
And then there is the whole movie industry..I love the show "Criminal Minds" I watch it all the time..a few weeks prior to the tragedy in CT, they aired a show about 2 brothers, who kidnapped a school bus full of teens, they took them to a warehouse that was set up like a video game, the brothers put shock collars on the kids and made them go through this warehouse killing each other..  Why? Because they were playing out a video game they were involved in using real people.  I did not think much about that episode until this happened last Friday..how scary.

Another thing is, there needs to be legislation on what doctors prescribe for these kids...  You can't cure mental issues by prescribing pills like its candy. They can't just brush the problem under the carpet with pills and tell the parents it will be okay. Because obviously its not.

So my point to my rant is, people are over reacting, the weapon is an inanimate object..the real issue is what is going on with the mind behind it, and all the parameters involved.
Like I said in a comment on another bloggers post..  "where there is a will there is a way, Cain killed Able with a rock" 


-JUGM

You can't see the Elf for the Tree....

 

Our day started with the boys up and searching every where for Herman McCookie. They couldn't find him anywhere...but he was there, right in front of them. Hanging out Incognito among the branches of the Christmas tree. Sneaky little Elf, finally they found him. He has those eyes that seem to follow you anywhere...CREEPY.  I saw the over on Happy Hollow Homestead that Kellys Elf.."Snowball" had a much needed soak in the bubble bath...  Herman stinks,and might need one of those himself soon.
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I bought a small 2ft table top tree. I figured that if Moochelle Obama can have 54 of them in the white house, then I could certainly have another small one on the top of an end table. The boys liked decorating it with mini-ornaments and lights. They said little presents can go under it.  
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We are working diligently to transfer the boys school for next year. The drive will be a bit longer,
but worth it. The school we want them in is A-rated and  non Title-1 - however the leg work I am doing to make this transfer happen has given me a headache. But all paperwork is done, and now it is up to the Principal of the New School we want them at, hopefully he will sign off and accept them. The school also has after school programs such as art and music, the local ones don't do that. and NW loves drawing and artwork. The waiting game for it has begun, it is all in Gods hands now...

The other headache today came from my Dad...he chose to act like a juvenile...and inundated me with nasty emails... He was such a child that he also chose to delete me off his FB friends list...what a "blankety blankety blank".!!!!!!!!!
Yes when the family acts like this, must mean that Christmas is right around the corner.. 

It is now 9pm on Tuesday night, time for my weekly dose of humor and "Doomsday Preppers" on Natgeo.. 

-JUGM

50s Friday

My day started off by helping Senior, and trimming palm trees for two of our clients. We had to rent a long pole saw, and he had to climb a ladder, I got to do the clean up job.  : )  . I was okay until I suffered an on the job injury and got a scrape on my ankle. I wonder if my boss carries workers comp?

But, as luck would have it, I had to break off ( DARN IT ! )  because today was the 50th day of school. The 1st graders celebrated by dressing like the fifties, and having a root beer float social.ND wore rolled up blue jeans, and white T-shirt. I spiked up his hair and tucked the shirt in. That lasted about 20 minutes. So yours truly got to help. I wore rolled up jeans, bobbi socks, a flipped up collared shirt, and scarf tied round my pony tail. Also for kicks, I donned a pair 50s era reading glasses, that are from my antique eye wear collection. The kids got a big kick out of the glasses, and had fun trying them on.

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After school it was off to the Navy Commissary. Good Lord I love that place..deals every where!. Today they had a special of Zaterains Rice Mixes. The Beef and the Cheddar Broccoli for .75 a box. I stocked up and adding them to our food supply. They are both super yummy and make for a great meal all by themselves.
Some people are hoarders, of different things. Some people though go to the extreme and you can't walk through their house. I guess you could say I am becoming a food hoarder. When I buy things, now I buy in a big quantity, It use to be 1 or 2 of something, now I find that when something is a good deal, I really stock up. I think we all should do that, if you do it frequently and start setting the extra items away, You will realize that you have a stored food supply. When and If that emergency happens, at least you will have something to eat, instead of being like those poor souls who are running out and finding empty grocery store shelves. Remember: GROCERY STORES ONLY KEEP ABOUT A 3 DAY SUPPLY ON HAND...and if there are no delivers being made, guess what?  Yep that's right! Your out of luck.

Okay so there you have my advice for the day.  : )  Now go out and start prepping !

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 It is suppose to get down in the upper 40s here, Senior is making us a fire in the pit tonight. I love just to sit out there at night and look at all the stars, and find space junk with binoculars.
Tomorrow is Saturday, can't wait as it is going to be a fun adventure. But I can't tell you about it now, wait until I post about it. Okay so have a good Friday night, relax and enjoy it! 

My Friday; Monday....

The morning began with Senior and I both sleeping through the alarm clocks. When I do finally stumble up it is after 6am, and little ND is all ready dressed and ready to go. You can always tell what day of the week it is in my house by the rush of energy in the mornings. I as well, am ready for friday, that means we get to sleep in for the weekend.
 I look at the dinning room table, and my current scrap book project, knowing I need to bust my fanny on it-it's a baby album for a friend, baby is all ready 4 months old, need to get it to her at some point before her daughter graduates high school.

I get to the kitchen turn on the coffee pot, and wishing for an IV so I can just inject it right in to my blood stream. I then notice NW all ready up and ready to go...wow it is a Friday, normally I am having to raise my voice and turn the lights on his room just to get him to roll over.

They both bounce in to the kitchen, I am still yawning and half a sleep. Ruger begins his whine to go out, I open the back kitchen door to the sun room and that is when all the bells and whistles go off.... I forgot to disarm the blankety alarm!.. Kids scream, NW is holding his ears,  I run to the control panel to shut it off, Senior stumbles out of our room.."What the ---" 
 Well, at least my impromptu security alarm drill works..  : )

The company calls...they clear it out.

Time to go to school, boys in car, I forget my cell phone inside..go back in and get it..  I get back out to car, crank it up--"Oh blast" ! I say, I had forgotten to get cash from Senior so I could pay my chaperon fee for NDs upcoming museum field trip. Go back in side, wake Senior back up.... 
Finally we can leave for school. The morning is foggy, thick, you could cut it with a knife. As usual there is some nut that does not have their lights on.

Drop kids off, go back home. crawl back in to warm bed. Maybe if I go back to sleep, and re-wake up. I can start my Monday..errrr  Friday over again.....  : )