New pictures are up

Sorry haven't updated recently, but will eventually get there, just not at the top of my list. So new pictures are up on the picasa website. Check them out. From November, December, and Christmas' that we've had. Let me know if you want copies and of which ones and I'll send you soft copies to print them out if you can't download them. Happy New Year to all and ttys we love you.

www.picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyhammar

Enjoy!

We've survived the first week

Hello all, sorry been so lax in putting an update up, but getting everthing and everybody washed, laundered, put away, homework done, fed, and everything that children entail I've basically dropped into bed at night. Audrey has been a wonderful help in getting things together and done in a timely manner with all of them. Good news is they're adjusting, bad news is that means that the middle one is more prone to tantrums now, but that is the beauty of them having their own bedroom. Can just put him in there until he decides to stop screaming. I go in every few minutes and ask if he was done yet, and just got screamed at, so said ok and left and repeated it until he decided to stop screaming at me. Took a little while but he did eventually stop screaming. He was decidedly unhappy at that moment. Now I'm told by the courts that I cannot discuss anything about any of the court hearings that will identify the children, or possibly harm the case in anyway shape or form, so if you ask, I am unable to give any answers other than we're working on it basically. Hopefully we get everything to happen the way that we want it to go. Good news is that the older two boys have been granted permission to go on the Polar Express train ride in Williams like they have every year for the past 4 years (I think 4 years...). They're so excited to go, they get to go this weekend. They travel to the North Pole, pick up Santa Clause, and go back. Is pretty cool if you ask me. I'm going to look into how much it costs for us to maybe go next year. The kids say it's pretty cool. I'll have to see.

Things are starting to fall into routine around here, which helps alot with the kids. We had JC here to day also, his mom was feeling really bad, she seems to have caught something that isn't looking very comfortable. So I kept him today after picking him up from school for her to get some rest. At this point, what is one more fairly self sufficient kid? But over all everything seems to be going fairly well. I'm glad that I have loving friends and family that are so supportive through this! I know some people think we're crazy  for doing this, but I think that it's crazy not to. Have to give and love as you would want to receive and be loved. With that note I am off to my show and relaxing. Have a wonderful rest of your week.

Love, The Tucson Fennimore Family (and then some).

Addition

So it has come to my attention through me rereading my blog that I have missed giving credit to someone that it is due. Audrey, my deepest and sincerest appologies. I did miss putting out there all the help that you have given me. She has been an angel with helping with bed times, nap times, snack and dinner times, cleaning up after dinner, helping with the laundry. Things that my overwhelmed brain has recognized, but failed to publically ackenoledged. My brain is currently in Tahiti drinking Mai Tai's so I'm currently missing things straight in front of my face. So Audrey, I'm sorry, and thank you for all that you have done for all of us in this time of need.

All my love and hugs,

Tiffany Fennimore

6 kids and counting and death in the family

So this week has been a little interesting. So my girlfriend left her husband Sunday evening, called police on him since he did something stupid, and she had a long night talking with them and such. Come Monday morning she got arrested also (cause TPD is STUPID), and CPS took her kids.... Tuesday we had CPS meeting with her whole family in town (her mom flew in monday night from ND), and I got placement of all 3 boys in my house. We couldn't be more happy about that outcome. I'd much rather deal with having 6 children in my home under the age of 7 then have the boys split up in foster care! CPS is working on long term placement at the grandmothers house in ND, and eventually back to mom, but it takes 2 months minimum to get all the paperwork and such done. But it's worth it for the babies! Thank god for Kathy, she's the grandmother, and she has been here everyday minus today, helping me not only with those kids, but also my own. She's here to help me in anyway that she can. Her other daughter, the kids aunt, is helping me out by getting me some stuff for the kids that is just theirs and not just stuff here that is my kids. I think it is really important that they have some stuff here that is theirs, not just the basic essentials. The kids entire family is rallying together to get them anything and everything they need to be comforatable and for their basic essentials. I am so touched to see a family rally together like theirs has. I know that I have stunned some people with what they're calling my generosity of taking these kids in. I have to give credit where credit is due. My family is my example. My mom, my aunt and uncle that took care of me growing up, and the others that have been an example in my life show me daily to open my heart to people. If you have a friend in need, give them the shirt off your back to help them. If they're close enough, they're family. The kids mom and I have been friends for going on 14 years. We've been watching each others children grow up. I'm aunt Tigger to her boys. She's an aunt to my kids. I am just touched enough that she trusts me enough to take care of her babies. I have been taken in officially by the rest of her family as a part of her family LOL. The great grandparents of the kids have just been wonderful, they got me things i needed for the boys no questions asked, AND I didn't have to go to the store to get them, even better huh? hehehehehehe. So needless to say, I currently believe I have the worlds best husband. He told me when I left for that CPS meeting "Do what you need to do" and I came home telling him, "Honey we're doubling the size of our family tomorrow." He took a deep breath, looked me in the eye and said "Ok, what do I need to do to help you?" I'm not lying when I say I got teary eyed. It was the best thing in the world when my  heart soared from what he said. It proves the metal of the man that I married, and that I knew his true character inside and out. I love him a little more each day, but that was a lot more after he told me that let me tell you!

Now to top this upheveal in our lives, my Great Grandma in bisbee, more commonly known as Nana Horn had a heart attack last week. Just a minor one and all things seemed to point that she'd be able to go home. Unfortunantly her body gave up. She passed away thursday evening around ten fourtyfive at night. She went peacefully in her sleep and just sighed out and never inhaled again. My great aunt donna her daughter said it was a peaceful passing. My only thing is I feel guilty for not going down there in the last two months. I promised her next time I came I would bring the children with me. In September kids were sick, in october she was sick and at the urgent care when I went to come down, and just didn't seem to be up to me coming down. Now here we are in november, and she's gone. I know that those aren't things I have any control over, and that I shouldn't feel guilty that i robbed her and my children of the last time of them seeing eachother, but as we all know, we can't order our emotions to feel the way our logical thoughts think we should feel. I'll get there eventually but it's still too new. With all of this going on, I'm currently in my box as I put it. The feelings are there, but they're boxed up for now, and there they'll stay until the funeral on tuesday morning. I just have to much here to let that out without freaking out the kids, and that's the last thing the 3 boys need added to their own upheaval. But I seem to be doing ok. Not great, but ok. Thats not me just saying it to pull the wool over anyones eyes, but I'm ok with her being gone. She's not in pain anymore, she's not struggling to be alive anymore. She's at peace. And that knowledge and that knowledge alone is enough for me to make it through. I'm touched that my great Aunt Donna has asked Chris to be a pall bearer in her funeral. She's having Grandma Joyce's urn placed into her casket with her. Grandma Joyce was Aunt Donna's twin sister, and my Father's mother. So Nana was my dad's mother's mother. If that makes sense I hope I explained that right, my brain is pretty dead right now.

Well it is a quarter after ten, I'm going to head to bed. My love to all and if anyone has any suggestions on scheduleing for 6 kids, routines, or large meals for everyone, I am open to suggestions! Will post again as soon as I can get the time to do so.

Love,
Tiffany and family

P.S. I posted the Halloween pictures http://picasaweb.google.com/TiffanyHammar/200910Halloween#

Today our nutshell was a partially smashed pumpkin

So today looks like it's turning into the most expensive pumpkin patch visit we'll ever do!
Start of day went well, tried to get girls down for a nap early, Sky didn't take one even though she needed one badly. Serena took like an hour nap, then we wen to leave about 11:15, was supposed to meet Sheila and the gang at noon. Needless to say she was running late also so we were going to get there about the same time. We're driving, getting kids lunch in the car, doing alright, get off I-10 and start down I-19 toward Agua Linda farms (nice place by the way), and I feel the car vibrating what seemed to be more than would be normal. I comment on it to Audrey as we're continueing down the way. All of a sudden it got really vibration, and I think in my head, ok there's an exit, I'm going to take it. So I was getting ready to try to merge right in traffic and then shake rattle and roll went the back end of the car and you hear this thunk thunk thunk bang. I was like holy crap what did I just run over? And the back end of the car started to shimmy bad. I of course by that point in time had taken my foot off of the gas pedal and began slowing down and looked in my rear view mirror in time to watch part of my tire fly over the car behind me. I had to get onto the left shoulder of the highway because I was surrounded by traffic. I made sure everyone was ok, and put my head down on the stearing wheel and went "holy crap!" to put it mildly. I was shaking so badly. I got out of the van to go look at the tire and see how bad it was. ALL of the tread had stripped off the tire. Luckly for us didn't blow also. Was still full of air. Let me tell you someone was watching over us today on that one! So I call my insurance company to get the number for road side assistance because the numbers not on my insurance card. I get ahold of his office, explain my situation, and they give me the number, but ironically I"m stranded like 10 minutes from my agents home. His office had called him after they gave me the number, which it was a good thing they did! So I tried the number, no answer three times! So I call his office back, they told me that Dan was going to call me asap. He calls me, he's in his car on his way to come help me fix my tire! One of the many reason I love my State Farm agent! So Dan shows up, with Amy in tow, and changes my tire for me! How lucky am I! So that was our adventure for the morning! We get the donut on the car, and away we go to finish our pumpkin trip (we were only like 20 minutes from the farm by this point, and they kids were so excited to go!) So tomorrow morning after I take Sean to school, I get to go find out how much a new tire is going to cost me on top of having just did a good bit of maitenence on Chris's car, and we're both due for a transmission flush on our next oil change which costs a hundred bucks a piece for Pete's sake!

So we get to the farm, get the kids out and headed to the fun and let me tell you they had a blast! It was so fun watching them go on the tire swings, go through the petting zoo area, climb the hay "castle" they had out, and we bought a pony ride ticket for them too. Pictures pending me getting them on my computer hopefully tomorrow! We even rode the tractor out for Sheila to pick out a pumpkin (we have plenty). The kids loved it and had a blast, and were in pretty good behavior, even Gabriel, for the day that we'd had. Coming home was... interesting with 4 sleepy kids and two worn out adults. Poor Audrey, I thought she was going to kill me ehehhee. We came back home through town off of I-19 due to the tire thing, and towards the end, the kids were all yelling and playing in the back at such a loud volume and I couldn't get them to stop. They'd been stuck in the car for an hour, and they were playing and not fighting at that point in time, so I just looked at her and said "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" and I started yelling and making noises with them too, it was hillarious. She thought I was nuts. But we had fun and that's what counts!

Well it's late here now, I've had a pretty long day and need to get some sleep so we'll catch up with you tomorrow folks. Have a wonderful monday!

The Fennimore Clan

We had a good anniversary

Thank you Sharon, Vince, and Audrey. We were able to go out to chinese food for our anniversary. It was pretty good stuff! Audrey stayed at home with Sean and Serena so we cold go out alone, Sky stayed at Debi's house today and tonight so gave us both a break that way LOL. But tired now and going to go snugggle up and watch an on demand movie with chris.

Have a good night everyone and once again, thank yoU!

Love Tiff and Chris

People can be beyond me sometimes!

Just fair warning, I'm venting so there will be profanity....

I don't get why after you've known someone for 12 years, why all of a sudden over the last, I don't know, year and half or so they have to go dig themselves down into a hole and not freaking talk to you unless you pester them into it. They say "oh yeah, we're still family, we're still friends," but they don't fucking contact you except by text message. I'm sorry, a friendship cannot be fun soley via text message. Some text  messaging is fine, but there has to be some voice contact over the phone, and in person for christ's sake! I understand you're not a big phone talker, I get that, some people aren't. But ok, I'm not going to sit here and try and corridinate schedules via text message because that'll take an hour, vs a five minute phone call. Or when I do try an corridinate something, oh we're busy, oh we can't do that. They only time really in the last year that we've hung out, has been childrens birthday parties, and thats when I've pushed it. My son loves them, I love them, my daughters love them, but it's really starting to piss me the fuck off. I mean, I call her, I text message her, I get a phone call back from her damn husband, not her! Or a text back from her husband, not her. What am I not good enough for you any more? Have you moved onto better friends than I? Do you just not want anything to do with me anymore?? If thats the case then fucking tell me and I'll leave you the hell alone and tell my kids that they're not around anymore. It happens. But damn, just tell me. I mean, I have no problems helping. I've shown that in the past, but you are alienating a HUGE friend. Figure it out. Seriously. Stop hiding in your god damn house, if you need help ask for it, and actually have some contact outside of your house and  of right where you live. It's not healthy! And I am so worried for you because of it that it's not even funny, but I try to get in and I get pushed back out again. I've done the battle for two years now, and I'm about sick of it. I can only take getting pushed in and out of your life so many times before I say fuck it all, I'm gone, regardless of the consequences on my concience or our kids. Get it together, figure out that you have friendships that YOU also have to nurture, not just the other fucking people, or get the god damn balls to say "Go away!"

Ok I'm done now, going back to my day....

Sunday evening

So we decided not to go to the farm today. We've decided to go to Agua Linda farms on Sunday instead. It's 7 bucks per vehicle to park, and then free to get in, do maze, do sack races, do horseshoes, do wagon ride, only thing that really costs money is the Pony ride, and the food. Is a lot cheaper.

Chris and I went out to eat tonight for our Anniversary dinner. We went to a new restaurant I'd never been to before. It was pretty good food! I tried their chicken rice soup, had zuccini in it, and it was pretty darn tasty! Chris and I went out for a drive tonight, ended up in Green Valley and that is where the restaurant was. Ironically enough, it was a little north of where the farm is that we're going to on Sunday. The invite for said farm is on FaceBook under my events for those who wish to join us.

Hoping to be able to get up in the morning to go work out, figured if I wait until the evenings to do it, I am consistantly not getting in three work outs a week that I need, so thinking maybe if I get up early, work out, then get through my day I'll be able to get to sleep earlier, and be up and running to meet my day as I need to to be able to get my stuff done. I take an easy/lazy day and not really do much and my house explodes. Like today.... so tomorrow I have to catch back up on my house, i'm sure it'll take me most of the day just to get it back together, not completely straight. Wow that was one heck of run on sentances wasn't it? LOL

Well all, that being said it is nine o'clock and I'm going to try to go to sleep. Hopefully Chris is able to join me soon as he is doing homework.

My love to the family and friends out in the world!
The Tucson Fennimores

Good Morning everyone

It's Sunday morning, and all is well in the Fennimore household so far. Sean spent the night at Jeanne's house last night, Chris and Sky are at Church, Audrey, Serena, and I are here at home. Serena is down for her morning nap, and I'm being lazy and not doing my chores. Alas it does happen that way sometimes. Yesterday was Brian's 7th birthday party at the bowling alley across town. The kids had a blast. Serena face planted it into the raised flooring, and didn't appear to break her nose, but it is swollen. At least not quite as much as yesterday, thank god. It was huge yesterday, as was her top lip. She just made a bee line for the raised area where you actually bowl at, and she didn't realize it was a step up, and just went down like a tree. No hands to catch her or anything, timber down she went. Poor thing screamed so much for like 5 min then was fine. Her nose bled a little bit, but not more than a few drops and it stopped. If it is still swollen in the morning I'm going to take her to the doctor just to make sure she didn't break it, cause if she did it needs to get set back. Serena was so cute because on our way there yesterday, she was sharing her snack with Isabell who was sitting next to her in the van.
That morning, we found a very sweet black kitty in our garage. The evening before I had closed the garage up at about 8:00 and didn't check it since we'd never had anything trapped in there before and I didn't hear anything. Audrey got up, went to feed cupcake and here comes this meowing from next to her feet. She looks down and there is this really sweet black kitty. He's fixed, has no fleas, is a love bug, and was very hungry. We assume that he'd come into the garage to eat the cat food that had been spilled when Sean fed the cats that afternoon and I forgot to clean up. We've put up posts out in craigslist and such, but have gotten only one phone call and the lady came and looked, but it wasn't her cat. So hopefully we find his owner soon, he's staying in Audrey's room during the day since it's been so hot and the garage just boils when it is, then he's in the garage again at night so CupCake and Audrey can sleep in her room with the door open. The cat doesn't seem to mind cupcake, but we don't know how my cats will take to a strange cat around here. Hopefully his owner comes out of the woodwork soon as someone has to be missing him!
The night before, Audrey and I went over to Malinda and Misty's house and went and played a game of Catan and hang out. Chris had gone to bed at about 6 that evening, Audrey and I got the kiddos in bed, and went "You know what? It's a friday night, kids and husband in bed, lets go do something." We called them, and they were good with doing a board game. It was a lot of fun. We played til about 11:15, and then sat around talking til about 2 in the morning. We totally lost track of time. Got home, and to sleep at about 3. So I got like 4 hours of sleep that night, and was surprisingly awake yesterday LOL. By bed time last night, I was bushed let me tell you! I tried going to sleep about 8, but for some reason I couldn't get to sleep til like 11, which sucked. But Chris let me sleep til 9 this morning, so that helped a lot. We're going supposed to go to Buckley farms today for the corn maze and such for the kids. I'm not sure as of yet if we're actually going to go, just to get in and do the corn maze it's going to cost 28 bucks. That doesn't include the cost of any of the things for the kids they have there, or the cost of a pumpkin or anything. I just don't know as of yet. I'm going to talk to Chris about it when he gets home from church. Ah well such as life. It's just really expensive. Misty/Malinda were telling me about another one that is closer, and it's 7 bucks to park per car, and they have free things for the kids to do, it's like 3 bucks a kid to ride the ponies and are pretty cheap too on the pumpkins. Going to talk to him about doing that one maybe instead. I'm not sure yet. We're supposed to meet people at the expensive one at 2. It'll happen, we'll figure it out. I'm going to go not be lazy anymore, maybe, and start cleaning things up. Have a great rest of your Sunday! Love the Fennimore Family.

Wow...

So, it's Thursday evening, watching CSI and Mentalist with Audrey as we try to do every week. I am so bush wacked, but the good news is that I went and worked out today and have improved already, and burned 405 calories this evening. yeah me! Hopefully this'll get me smaller soon, I can't stand this much anymore. I mean it's not the number on the scale, its the comfort with the body. It's hard to be uncomfortable all the time in your own skin unless you're laying down, if that makes any sense. I've had JC all week, which has been an interesting time, not bad, actually pretty good. We've made some progress, and hopefully get to transition them into home life with his mom. Finally joined Facebook, go figure, been fighting it for over a year and finally got sucked in. HA HA. Got to make homemade pizza with the kids yesterday, we went to the store and they got to pick out what they wanted on it. JC helped me make the dough and roll it out, Sean and jc helped with the cheese, i got to add teh toppings, I got deserted at that time go figure huh? LOL but it was fun, turned out pretty good too, needed little more sauce and cheese towards the edges but I know for next time. Serena even liked it LOL. Well I'm heading to bed now, gotta get some sleep before tomorrow rolls around. Sleep well all and have a good night.

My hubby loves me :)

So last night my Aunt Debbi and Uncle John took me out to see the new movie "Couples Retreat." It was a pretty funny movie, I definantly enjoyed it. They took me out for my 27th birthday, and it was nice getting to spend sometime with both of them. Normally I spend time with one or the other, not often am I able to spend time with both of them at the same time and it was really nice. Sean spent the night at his friend Cobalts house, Emma spent the night here, Audrey took the younger two girls to Pizza hut for dinner while Chris was picking Emma up, while I went to the movies. Ok that was a little confusing, did you catch all that LOL. Chris was nice enough to let me sleep in this morning. I woke up about 8:45, debated if I actually wanted to get up or not. Then my girlfriend Angie from Texas called me, and I got to wish her a happy birthday on time this year! We talked for about half an hour, then I dragged my lazy butt outta bed. Chris spoiled the older 2 girls this morning, took them out for breakfast, and then brought donuts back. So Chris spoiled me this morning a little bit too, hehehhe. Audrey was kind enough to watch Serena for us when he took them out and let me sleep. Ok so maybe didn't spoil me with donuts, I just checked them and all that is there is iced and maple bars with sprinkles. YUCK! The things little girls like, shesh. Aw well anyway.

So I feel like I take two steps back and one step forward sometimes. I get the house picked up, things put away, and then BOOM, tornado times three comes through, and occassionally times four comes through... laundry lays there folded, waiting to be put away, and alas I can only do so much at one time. Once I get caught up on it all, again, I've devised a plan to make it a little easier for me.  Laundry in washer every night, moved to dryer when wake up, folder and put away later that after noon after baby wakes up from nap. That combined with deciding which days to do which things in the house that have to be done weekly. Rather than Saturday is day to clean all the weekly crap, cause we all know that never happens, do like Monday is for mopping the floors, tuesday is and friday is dusting, weds is cleaning bathrooms, and of course there's the daily chores, vacuming, dishes, picking up counters, putting things away, getting kids to pick up toys, cooking dinner, cleaning cat boxes (chris does this one cause he loves me), cleaning up spills from the kids. All the usual things that come with kids and life.

So the kids are all excited because we got them a new sandbox, it's shaped like a frog, but big enough for two of them to fit in. Sky and Serena play in it a lot together. I was lucky enough to find it on craigs list for twenty bucks, and then it needed a few bags of sand which aren't that expensive at the local Ace hardware store. They're cheaper than HomeDepot or Lowes for a lot of things. I went to lowes again to make myself a tool to be able to pack down the ingredients in my cooking gift jars that I am making for Christmas presents. They're pretty cool because I mix the ingredients, and such, and include the instructions, all they have to do is dump the ingredients in a bowl, add the few things that are wet that are needed, like eggs and such, mix it in a bowl and bake and there're ready to eat. They are pretty too look at too, so it makes it nice. I was able to make a pretty nice gift basket for Sean's school for their Holiday Raffel, it had a large jar of brownie mix, two types of hot cocoa, and two mugs, it was pretty. I also gave them like a bath set, with scented salts, lotion, and body scrub with a diffuser to match. Was all very nice. But alas they get to go out in the world and be enjoyed by people I will not know.... LOL. Well I'm going to go off now and get dressed, and play with the chillins. Oh did I mention I get to go to another 5 year olds birthday party at a blow up jungle jim place called pump it up... headache city I'm sure. I'm taking alieve before I leave.

My love to all and we'll update again soon, hopefully!

I painted it myself :)

Sean learning to ride his new skate board.

Sky in my mom's old sweatshirt going to decorate for halloween

"cheese" says it all...

Kids cuddling under blankets on a cold morning.

wow it's been awhile

So I keep telling myself I need to sit down and wrote a blog post to keep everyone up to date, and here we are now a month later. Shesh I'm horrible :)! Ok so here goes.

Sean is now officially 5, and he had a few birthday parties, and got some pretty cool things for his birthday. He got a Nintendo DS Lite system, with a couple of games with it. He also got a docking station, a darth vader skin and lightsaber stylus kit, car charger kit, carrying case for things, and screen protectors. He got some star wars action figures, and some marvel comic action figures. He thought they were totally cool! He also got a Ben 10 and Bakugan (sp?) shirt and short outfits. Spiderman backpack, and a camera with changable spiderman face plates. He loves to take pictures.

Along with his birthday, mine came around also. I like to just think about his, but alas mine is the day after so we have to remember mine also. LOL. So Chris and i went out for dinner, and then I got to go to Bed Bath and Beyond. I got a new bed set for our bed, It's pretty :). Has the comforter, two sets of sheets with pillow cases, two pillows, and 4 pillow shams... have to get the right pillows for those though. I also got some collapsable measuring cups, spoons, and funnel. They're pretty cool! Along with this, I got two pie plates (I'm going to try to bake pies), a new cutting board (mines nasty), a bigger cooling rack that will hold the two loaves of bread I make at a time, and a shower shelving unit. One that brases against the roof kind. But here is the best gift of all...

On September 29th, my girlfriend Kim went into labor. We all headed off to the hospital, and things really started rolling at about 10 that night. We went through til about 2:30 or 3 when she got the epidural. We then got some sleep (or at least I did), until 7. Apparently they came in and broke her water at lik 5:30. I vaguely remember that happening, but alas, I was passed straight out. So at 7, she tells me that she thinks things have changed. We get her nurse in, call her mom to come to the hospital, and she was finally at 4.5-5 cm dialated. We finally hit 9 cm at 11, and ten at pushing at 11:40ish. The baby Telana Jade Anne was born at 11:55 am, weighing in at 6 lbs 10 oz and 18 inches long. She's so cute but tiny! It was a miraculous thing to witness a new life coming into this world. Johnny's grandmother and I helped hold her legs while she pushed, and Johnny and her mom helped to support her shoulders and back. She did a beautiful job! Can't beat pushing for only 10-15 minutes of pushing by much! I just can't put into words how miraculous it is. I mean it's intense when you're the one giving birth, but to be witnessing it, especially when you've been there since the test came out positive is totally cool!

I was so proud of Sean last week at school, on Monday he had a spelling test, his first ever. He got 100% on it! Not only did he write it once but he did it like 3 times for each word lol! He did so good. I'm so proud of him. Tonight he's out with Jen and her boys going to go watch G-Force at the cheap theaters. Sky is sitting here on the couch with us watching the end of Willie Wanka and the Chocolate factory. Poor Serena's got a head cold going on, she's got a sinus infection so she's on antibiotics.

Sharon and Vince came down for the weekend in the middle of the month, and it was a blast while they were here. The saturday they were here Chris took the older three kids with them to Funtastics and they had a blast apparently. That was they day that we did my girlfriend Kim's baby shower, hence why i wasn't there :). Sky got some good time with grandma and grandpa, she loves them to pieces, always asks to talk to them on the phone. And of course, they have no problems talking to her, they love it too. Sky also loves to talk to Keaton, and to see pictures of Keaton, from baby on. It's hard to believe that he's only a year younger than her. It seems like there was so much of a time difference but there really wasn't. Aaron and Katie, (my brother-in-law and his wife), are expecting again in Feburary, and just found out that they're having a little girl! How exciting is that, they've got one boy, and now one girl! Mom seems to be doing well and is healthy and hardy. Congrats to Aaron and Katie!

Well that's all I've got to say for now, so I'm going to go head off and get something to drink!

Our love to all!

Tiffany and Family

In San Diego!

So, Uncle John and I have brought the kids to San Diego for my grandmothers 78th birthday tommorow. We went to the beach this morning and had a blast. I've posted, or should say in the process of posting the pictures to my picasa site now. It's been a tiring day, and I'm going to head to bed. We've had loads of fun though! 6 am comes so early.... here's to hoping the kids sleep in! (yeah right,,..)

Love to all!
Tiff and Kids

P.S. Yes I miss my hubby hehehhee

Pictures are up

I have given up on getting the birthday pictures edited and such before posting them. Both parties are now posted. i'll be rearranging them a little in the next few days so that they are sequential. Please visit my website to the right saying Picasa Pics 1 and they will be listed there. Just as a warning, there are aprox 180 for Sky and Emma, and 200 for Serena. Not all are best of quality, but if there are some you see that you would like a digital copy of, please feel free to tell which row, and how many over and I'll be happy to send to you!

Love to all,

Tiffany

The Tuesday of another week

Hello all friends and family,

We had a pretty good weekend with Emma this week. We got to do some pretty fun things. Saturday was jam packed. We had my friend Emily's daughter Kayla's first birthday party in the morning, came home, took a nap. After they all woke up, Chris got to hang out with Emma for a little while, while I took the younger three to Malinda's house for Nick's birthday party (he's my psuedo nephew). Fed them dinner there and hung out and let the kids play. Got them home, bathed and in bed. Then went to Kareoke for Lisa's birthday at 9. Got home later than I like to admit, but it was fun! Got a video of Audrey singing, but the music was up way louder than her singing so can't hear her very well. My vertigo seems to have been getting better, until I smacked the car door into the left side of my jaw. Let me tell you that sucked! Oh and last night, as Sky is telling everyone, mommy fell butt first into a full bathtub. I was sitting on the edge of the tub, putting the bubbles in, Sky asked for a hug all nice and sweet, so I turned the other way (while still sitting on said tub) to give her a hug, and apparently I turned to quickly. I lost my balance, yes while sitting down, and fell in butt first. Hey, at least I was sitting! Audrey came running when she heard the bang and they the ow come from me. When she ran in she stopped, and busted up laughing after she asked if i was ok. I can't be mad at her because it was pretty darn funny! Chris (the rat) took a picture of it, he says he'll send it to me so I can keep the copy of it.

Sean is doing better in school with keeping his hands to himself. He has to sit at a table by himself for the moment, that way he stops trying to play and actually do his work. He doesn't seem to be having any learning difficulties or anything like that, he's just more interested in playing than working. He'll concentrate when he wants to, and does do it, which is the good news. I took Sky and Serena to the Zoo yesterday with my girlfriend Jen and two of her boys, Joey and Tommy. I posted the pictures on my picasa website if anyone is interested in seeing them. There are quite a few cute pictures in there.

I have updated my blog here (as you may have noticed), and gotten access back to my previous blog (from Sky as a newborn), and the link is to the right. It's full of pictures of Sean, and the top is mostly from when sky was about a month old and younger. If you want to see them, feel free!

Our love to all, I'm going to go dive into the pictures I got in the mail today!

Tiffany and family

Explination of terms

So it has come to my attention that quite a few people don't know what vertigo is so here is a text book explination:

Benign positional vertigo (BPV)-or simply vertigo-is a disorder of the inner ear. You feel a sudden sensation of movement or spinning when you move your head or hold it in a certain position.
The inner ear is located within your skull and consists of the cochlea, a chamber shaped like a snail shell, where sound is transformed to nerve signals for the brain, and 3 semi-circular canals that function like a gyroscope, relaying information about head position and movement to the brain.
The semicircular canals contain fluid and special sensors that, when disturbed, inform the brain of a change in head position. It is thought that when you have BPV small particles become dislodged within the inner ear and then bounce around when your head moves, triggering faulty signals that your head is still moving even after it stops. This sensation of movement or imbalance when you are not moving is called vertigo, the primary symptom of benign positional vertigo.

So in laymans terms it means it feels like I'm sitting on the deck of a ship when i'm sitting, laying down, or walking around. It's been interesting. I get to take a pill to try to stabalize it, but will take time for it to heal. Fun Fun!! LOL. Well I'm out.Tiffany

So um yeah... so I thought the dizzyness of this weekend was from the pain meds, apparently not. I apparently have benign positional vertigo. That was my gift from the surgery. Better than merca or something like that though! So I feel like I'm on a rocking boat... put me on medicine to help it, but if it doesn't go away, i get to go to physical therapy. Gotta love it.

Oh and from my last post of Serena climbing on the couch, gess what she did??!! She climbed on it yesterday, stood up, bounced off the back off it and walked, yes walked, right off the couch and then realized what gravity is as she landed flat on her back (not sure how that happened but it did!). She's having to learn the hard way to stop walking off of things. She was just fine, just scared the crap out of herself. *shakes head* My kids seem to have to learn the hard way, remind you of anyone?? LOL Well staring at the computer screen is not helping me much, but I do have new pictures posted at my website for picasa. I also have some posted for the pics we did as a family at Reid park the address is as follows(this one has over 200): http://picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyfennimore/ReidPark#

There is one that has about 55 in it and that is as follows: http://picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyfennimore/ParkIMOrdering#

Check em out, they're pretty cool!

Love, peace, and chicken grease all, I'm going to bed.

Post Operation update

Hey all,

Sorry that I havn't updated since the Surgery, but been a little out of it hehehehe. Drugs were my friend. I'm still on some pain killers, but it's better than it was even yesterday. Hopefully won't need any more by tomorrow morning so I can take care of chillins. But I digress. So I spoke with my OBGYN Dr. today (the one that did the surgery), and he explained to me what is going on. All I can say is thank god that I started my period two days before the surgery or they wouldn't have found this. So I don't have endometriosis, nor are things fused together. The reason I am having the pain is as follows (if your squemish you might not want to read it): I am bleeding heavy enough now that it is backing up in my uterus, and rather than exiting through the cervix and vagina like it is supposed to, it is causing it to go also out my fillopean tubes and the blood is collecting in the rectouterine pouch (it's the sac, or free space, between the rectum and the uterus that is formed by a folding of the peritoneum). That is what is causing me the major pain and discomfort during my menstrual cycle. He's putting me on yaz to try and decrease my amount of flow, and to regulate it off of the 5 week cycle it's been on. We're thinking that has something to do with how heavy my period has been since it has never been as heavy as it is now.
Gotta love it, each of my children has given me a gift from their birth.... Serena's gets to be this.... shesh. But not going to go into that. I'm just happy that today I am doing a lot better than I was yesterday. Unfortunantly Chris was unable to return to work today to take care of me and the kids, well mostly the kids. Tomorrow I should be up to going back to my daily activies, alibit slowly. So here's to hoping right! Well gotta go catch the baby again, she's climbing the couch again *sigh*. Yeah babies!

My Love to all and ttyas

Tiffany

Survived another first birthday

So, Serena is 1... we had her first birthday party today. Thank god it was not as nuts as last months party. I don't think I would've been able to handle that! So Serena had fun, she slept in for her nap, and she had a really good party. Didn't melt down or anything. I think thats the first time I've seen a one year old's birthday party without a melt down! Here is a pic to show you how much fun she had. Hopefully I get to upload the rest tomorrow.

Included in this post will be embeded us singing happy birthday to her, and her starting into her cake. it is a 3 minute long video, but worth it, it's cute!!

I'm tired, and heading to bed now after waiting for everything to upload and such. Hope you enjoy it!



Taking tastes of the cake....

What it looked like after she got ahold of it!

Ok... if you're reading this and there is no video, you've caught me before I've uploaded it. Ment to Saturday night, but it's a quarter to 11 and it's only about 1/3 of the way uploaded to you tube, and I'm way tired and need to go to bed. I'll get it up in the am!

Here is the video now!

Sean's First day of school

Isn't Sean so handsome? This is his first day of Kindergarden. My little boy is growing up so fast!! Seems like not that long ago that he was just a small bundle in my arms. But he had a good first day of school he said he had fun, and thats the important thing right? LOL well all, hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Dr. Updates

So I went and did my ENG test at the ENT office yesterday. It was to test my inner ear and make sure that it is working correctly. Let me tell you, that is one trippy test. Your sitting still one minute, and the next you feel like you've just spun in circles and all they've done is put water in your ear! It was not something that I would say was enjoyable. But apparently mine is working "in what appears to be normal paramaters." What ever that means. As for my allergies, I did the first part of the testing, and I am never seeing their allergy nurse again in that office. She was a rude you know what! So I am being refered out to a allergy doctor to get the rest of my testing done. So I got a copy of my records, and the allergy test I did on monday was not in there, so I called this morning, and medical records is going to flag her to find out why they're not in there. She's going to call me back and let me know. She suggested that I call her and I told her I am never speaking to that lady again. Such as life. But I have that doctors appt on Monday at 3 pm. Have my ultra sound this afternoon at 1. Hopefully that shows ok. Should know next week on it. Will keep everyone posted as I go through, have a great friday!!

It's been awhile

Hello to the world out there! Sorry it's been so long since I've updated my blog.

Skylynn has now turned 3... and is she loving it! We had a birthday party for her and Emma on the 12th when my inlaws were in town. We were even lucky enough for my brother and sister inlaw to be in town with their son Keaton. Family is a good thing!So I sent out all the invitations that I normally do with the kids parties, and this time, not only did almost everyone RSVP, but they also showed up! There was, counting kids and all, like over 50 people in my house I swear to god! It was nuts. But the girls made out like bandits and they had a blast! Here is their cake picture.
















Aren't they cute? I'm going to post their birthday party pictures up on my picasa website as soon as I get the chance.
While my inlaws were in town, we did pictures at Reid Park on Monday, and it was... interesting. But we got them done, and I think we got some cute pictures done! Here is the link to see it.

http://picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyfennimore/ReidPark#

If you check it in the next hour or so, they may not all be in there, because I'm working on uploading them after I finish this posting. Then we did pictures at Penny's for the kids birthdays and such. We got some cute ones there also of the kids in groups and individually. When they come in at the end of the month, I'll scan them in for everyone to see.

Serena is now walking everywhere. She had started to walk at the very begining of July, and now she's damn near running! She's so cute about it too, she walks up to you with both hands up at smiling and then grabs your leg and gives a big old hug. It's amazing how quickly once she started, that she was walking everywhere, was like at the most, 2 weeks from start to competent. Skylynn is doing well, she seems to not be getting sick currently, she's been doing well on her medicine, not having to much stomache upset from it. She's growing again right now I'm fairly certain, or just finished growing. Sean is getting excited about school. We just got his room and teacher assignment today in the mail! He keeps asking how much longer til school starts and how long is he going to be there. We get to get his school supplies now, and I'm having him go with me. His grandmother in tx is getting his new school clothes and lunch box for him, which I deeply appreciate mind you!, and he's already got a backpack, and some of the supplies, so we only have to get a few things.

Update on my health issues... I'm still having the equilebrium issues, and the ear pain. The ENT thinks maybe escellation of allergies, so doing alergy testing in two sessions, and doing a inner ear test on Thursday. Hopefully this'll give us some answers. I have also been having some pain issues of a womanly sort only during that time of the month. The pain has been pretty diabilitating and only happens when I have to go to the bathroom at that point in time. It's been pretty strange. Only started happening after I had Serena. I thought maybe was my womanly parts having to get back in the habit of my period, but with each consequential period, the pain has been getting worse during the evacuation point in my day. I mean it's rediculous, even passing a small amount of gas was a paramount experiance. So I finally made an appt as Chris noticed as I started crying this last time and was gasping in pain while going to the bathroom. So you know when your husband has noticed this very personal experiance, that it's a lot worse than you thought it was. So I went to the OBGYN yesterday. He's fairly certain that I have endometriosis, which apparently you can get at anypoint in time as a woman. Its either that or I have scar tissue attatching my uterus to my colon which is a slim chance. So I have pretty much two choices as it seems to be getting worse. I can do shots for six months that make me basically a menopausal woman for that point in time, with no gaurantee that it'll clear it up, or I can do laproscopic surgery, where they can look around, and fix the problem in one step with a few days recovery time. I've told my Dr. that I'd rather do the surgery thank you very much! Is messing with my body for a much shorter amount of time and problems than messing with the hormones, cause we all know how well I react to medicine.... LOL. I also get to go for an ultra sound on Friday to make sure it's not Cysts, though he's fairly certain they're not, but have to double check anyway, and to make sure things are where they belong so to speak, inside of my pelvic region. As soon as I know when they surgery will be, I'll update everyone.

The very exciting thing that I have right now, is that I'm at day 3 of not smoking at all... YEAH!!! I'm glad about this, but do occasionally miss the moments of just getting away for five minutes, but I'm doing that in my room now with a book instead. I've begun getting a routine down here in the house, get up, shower, dress, get kids dressed, collect clothes, strip sean's bed if necessary, start laundry, vacume, empty dishwasher, load with breakfast dishes, run errands if need be, get baby down for nap 10:30, then sky down at about 11, move the laundry to the dryer, then they sleep til like 1 or later. Right now I have Sean for that time, but in a few weeks he'll be in school. I'm able to do my sewing projects or my scrap booking at this point in time. It's been nice, I've been able to keep the house clean, do some projects that have needed doing like cleaning my room, and had time with the kids. But other than that been staying at home it's been nice.

With this,I've been at it long enough, i'm going to head off now! Have a good one!

Middle of the night….

It's now midnight, well a bit after but that's ok

Sean is miserable. He doesn't want me to hold him anymore, he's running a fever, he won't drink anything, he won't take a popsicle, won't take jello, won't take ice cream, won't take anything. I've been up with him all night, he doses off for a little while, wakes up crying/choking. This totally sucks. I feel helpless, and I can't make my little boy feel better. I'm glad I got a good nights sleep last night or I'd be pretty bad off right now. He doesn't even wanting me touching him right now, hence the typing of a blog while sitting next to him while he watches Dora Saves the Day! I just don't know what else to do. I've been making him take small sips, and small bites of jello when he won't take a sip of anything. I know he has to keep hydrated, along with keeping his throat and mouth moist. I've had to basically force him to do the liquids and the jello for the last 2 ½ hours as he's been awake. He went to sleep so nicely and woke up chocking and gasping for air which is scary for everyone involved! So now we've been up for awhile, through the buzz of the codine, and now got another dose, and I'm hoping this one helps! I just feel useless right now. I can just imagine what it would be like without the codine in him. I think this is miserable, that would be even worse!

Well I'm going to go see if I can get him to drink something now. Wish me luck! My love to all.

Here are some pics to brighten the day

Sean is doing alright tonight. Poor thing, after Emma got here, he was so excited and started playing around with her, growling and hissing playing tigers, I tried to get him to stop but they were just so excited to see eachother. Well needless to say, after we got them calmed down his throat started hurting again, so I gave him his antibiotics and then his pain meds. The pain meds I think burned his poor throat after he did that, so about 5 minutes after I gave it to him he started crying so bad that his throat hurt and he wanted me to make it better! I don't think I've ever felt more useless! Chris took him on his lap while I got him some ice for the bag that ties around his throat, and some ice cream. "just plain vanilla" he says :( God it was horrible, I started crying myself! Got him calmed down, and the ice cream and ice seems to have helped, and the drugs have kicked in so he's kinda out there now, but feeling better at least! Thank goodness for that! Hopefully the night goes smoother now that all the girls are in bed. We were snuggling on the matress on the floor in the living room watching the first Narnia movie, and he relaxed enough for me to get this out really quickly! Hope you guys enjoy the pictures as much as I do.

Skylynn was being a little diva, she picked out the hat, necklace, bag,and sandals to go with her dress that morning. She was so cute! Sean was outside drawing shapes and such with his chalk, and Serena was just into as much as she could be, including riding the teeter totter with Sean and Sky! Hope you enjoy them. If you want any of them to print out, just let me know and I'll email you the .jpeg so you can get a good picture!

Our love to all, and thanks, Tiffany and Family

Sean’s Surgery

So Sean had his surgery this morning, and all went well. He impressed everyone with how well he did! He only got nervous when the doctor showed up to take him back. The anesthesiologist told him what was going to happen, rather than me, which scored big points with me, cause I know Sean wanted to know. So he went through it fine, didn't even cry when he woke up! I was so proud of him, he did so well. We went to Walgreens afterwards, so aunt Jen could pick out a toy with him because he was so brave and did so well. He got a play-doh fun factory thing. Nice quite toy. He got a few fish too since his frog died, and I figured that he could have a new pet and would make a nice thing for after he got home. Audrey was kind enough to get the fish and stuff while we were out. She also got him a Star Wars and Star Trek toys. The star wars is a R-4 unit that has a remote, and the Star Trek one is the transporter with Mr. Scott. And he got the Beethoven movie. She spoiled him J. But it's been a pretty good day so far. He's been bouncing off the walls since we got home. He's so hyper, just wants to play. I gave him some of his Tylenol with codine in it to start keeping ahead of the pain. But you can't even tell I gave it to him almost half an hour ago. I'm waiting for it to kick in! He's even more hyper than he normally is today too! He was all excited because he got to have yogurt and ice cream for lunch. It'll be an interesting day, and it looks like it'll be even more interesting day as it goes on but I'm just glad that he's doing as well as he has. Every time he starts to relax, he pops himself up and starts moving again, I think he's trying to keep himself awake, it's cute, but it is tiring to keep telling him to laydown and relax every few minutes. Ah well such as life huh? Well I'm going to go get him something to drink now. Have a wonderful day!

 

Love everyone, Tiff

Did my CT scan today

So I went and did my CT (CAT) Scan of my sinus cavities today. They did it with no contrast at least so my mouth didn't taste funky for hours afterwards so that's good news! They said my Dr. should have the results end of this week, beginning of next. I'm praying for the end of this week as I want to know what's going on. I got to look at the pictures after they took them it was pretty cool. Now I couldn't see anything on them of course, but hopefully the doctors see something on them! I'm tired of the ear pain, the dizzy spells, the nausea, the headaches, and now I'm getting the pain my face again. I just want to know what's going on, and then have a course of action to follow to get it taken care of! It's making it difficult for me to take care of the kids, which kills me. Chris finally convinced me to let the kids go to Debi's house yesterday so I could get some rest. Have to admit it did help me some. I've been taking my vicodine, and it's gotten to the point now that I can take one of them, it takes the edge off of the pain, and I'm not completely tipsy. Which is not good, means I'm either getting a tolerance for the medicine, or the pain is that intense… Not sure which, or little of both. So Sky's wart on her foot is doing better, seems to be almost completely gone, Serena now has a diaper rash that seems to be getting worse with the Nystatin on it. Hopefully it gets it under control tonight or I have to call and make her an appt tomorrow. Sean's surgery is Friday. I'm nervous about it. I know that it's no big deal, getting tonsils and adenoids out in this day and age is a normal and quick procedure, but those of you who know me, know I play the what if game in my head. I have to be there at 7:15 in the morning, which means that I have to be out of the house by 6:45 without taking the kids to Debi's house. Not sure if I'm going to take them or Chris. I don't want him to be stressed trying to take them to Debi's house and back home again make it to work on time. I'm going to put him in his pj's and going to take his cupcake doggie, and his star wars blanket. I'm just worried that he'll be in so much pain I guess, and that I won't be able to help him through it. Jennifer is going to be there with me, lending me a little anti-freak out support J. Chris wasn't able to get the morning off from work, so he gets to sit here at home worrying while he's working. But all will turn out ok. I have faith in that. Well gotta go run to the store to get milk and such. I love you all and ttys.

I actually made two dresses successfully!!

So I actually was able to make two dresses from scratch successfully in the last day and a half!! Mom came over yesterday, showed me how the patterns work, and got me started. Finished Emma's dress this afternoon about 2, and then made Sky's this evening! They are to cute. They're coordinating dresses hehehhee

Here's the pictures! All I have left on Emma's is the shoulder straps and the bottom hem, and I need her to be able to do that, and for Sky's I need to put the zipper on, and do the same as Emma's. But I think that they're just darling!

Continuation of Open Mindedness

So I know that I have an open mind, and I know that sometimes it pisses a lot of people off, but what I don't get is those that are stuck so far inside of what they think is the "Godly" or right thing that they don't see the truth plain as the day on their faces! They're judging people. Something, per the bible they don't have the right to do! They're saying you can't do this, you can't do that, you'll have your judgment on judgment day. That's fine, but don't rub it in their faces that they're the minority, don't deny them any rights that you yourself enjoy, let them make their own choices as God has said every "man" that is created has that choice. The choice to make their own decisions and actions in their life. Step out of your close minded religions and look at the world. Really look at it. Man kind has always had the choice in what that person does or does not do in their life. Some say that we have a destiny pre-ordained in our life, but ultimately the choices that we make alter that destiny on a moment by moment basis. God has not said that if you're straight you'll go to heaven, if you're gay you'll go to hell. God has stated repeatedly that He loves each and every one of His children regardless of what they've done in their lives. He forgives murderers and rapists. Us as a society shun these people (I know I do), and those that are in the majority of religious aspects also spout that God forgives them, and they aren't judging them. It's those that cannot accept the fact that we are human, and therefore fallible and DO judge people that give the religious factions a bad name. I am not speaking just of Christians, there are also many other religions in the world that also spout don't judge, they say they don't, but at a glance, at a learned misdeed, the judgment is immediate and takes a lifetime to change. That is human nature. As we work on ourselves we can work on this, but usually in the zealousness of the "Godly" mindset a lot of judgment is passed and never is the responsibility assumed that they passed this judgment on their fellow man as God has decreed them not to!

I know that I have had a few things in my life go wrong, I've not made the best choices in the world, I know I've judged people, and everyday I try to not do that. I try, but I'm not perfect, so I still do some judging and I try to make atonement for me when I can. Let us truly live in our society as all men are created equal. Wouldn't that be nice? That we actually live by what we profess is what the backbone of our civilization and as our country. Why do we have to beat a section of our society down into the ground and then go "oh look, I've mistreated you, here let me lend you a hand up and stab you in the back as I do it?" We've done it countless times in our history as America. Now we're doing it to another section of our community. Our Gay Community! We're saying "yeah you have the same rights as us straight people, oh but wait you can't have the same rights as us, you can have some of them, you can live together, love each other, if you're able to reproduce ONE of you can be the parent of the child you have, but you can't get married. You can have insurance together, you can call yourselves what ever you wish, but you can't be recongnized by the law (which is supposed to be separated from "church") as an actual couple because the "church" doesn't recognize the same sex marriages. They only recognize the one between a man and a woman. But some of these churches recognize the marriage of a man or a woman to God Himself…. Explain that one to me! Ah but alas different tangent! So we can recognize the "sanctity of marriage" as between a man and a woman, which puts the separation of Church and State OUT of the water btw, or we can realize that we still don't have the separation of church and state and do this and allow these people the right to do what they wish with THEIR lives. Their lives do not directly change yours or influence your life if you do not have someone of said minority in your life. If you do and you call them your friends, STOP being hypocritical and support them in their happiness as a TRUE friend would do! Believe what you want to believe, but DO NOT shove it down other peoples lives. Don't make what you believe be the governing factor in what someone else should believe or the way someone else can live their life.

Please just open your eyes to the world and use your common sense people!

And with that I'm getting off my soap box again. Have a wonderful weekend.

Movies

This was the cup she pulled from the dishwasher, was too cute not to share!



This was playing pop goes the weasel with the kids!

Contriversial Subject: Gay marriage, I'm for it....

So my point has always been, if two people love eachother, why should they not be allowed to make a life long commitment of that love regardless if they're male and female couple or not? Why do we as a "society" think that marriage has to be man to woman? For centruries mankind has had the gay and lesbian groups in our midst, they used to be accepted without a problem. Now that we've become "civiliazed" it's no longer accepted. Well as a society, we now "no longer have issues with the gay population" but we refuse to "allow" them the rights that we all share of marriage as straight people. I do not believe that is an accurate way to think of things. As our society grows around us, we close our eyes to the things that are right and the things that should be accepted around us. The "outsiders" as many believe they are, (I personally don't) should have the same equal rights that the straight people do! We tell them we don't discreminate, we don't hate you, but you can't have the same rights that we do. How is that equal rights? Explain that to me!

I understand that this country was created under mans conception of God. I have no problems with this. God has nothing to with the rights of a person in our courts. That has been proven time and again in our judicial system. Leave God outta this. He has no reason to be in it. God does not like to be used as a standing stone in conflict! Many wars have been faught in the name of God, which I'm sure he doesn't appreciate, this is just another type of war that is being faught in His name. Get over it people! The gay and lesbian community is in our world. If you don't like it, go stick your head in the sand already. They aren't going anywhere. Let them have the right to say this is the one that I love, and this is the person that I am going to spend the rest of my life with. Let them marry. We straight people have the right to do this, why not them? All because both are men, or both are women? Whats the problem? If our society conforms to the idea (as it should) why would it "Corrupt our children and society if we allow this" as I read in a friends blog.

Sorry if I went on a rant, but this is a subject I feel VERY strongly about. The gay community has had a strong background in my life, and there aint a damn thing wrong with either my sister or I! We're both married and have children. Where does it say that if the mothers are gay the children will be too? Well I hate to break it to you, but I DON'T believe them as my mother was, my aunt is, I grew up in that community, and neither of us is!

I'm going to get off my soap box now. Ya'll have a good night. I welcome responses and messages.

My love to all

Tiffany

Happy Mothers day!

I realized I forgot too post this picture to show what Audrey did with the kids for Mother's day. Sky's shirt says Happy, Sean's says Mothers, and Serena's says Day. It's cute, she did the kids standing together in a picture with a home painted picture frame for me, it's the picture on top. It was so sweet :)

Hope everyone has a good weekend!