As the Day Ends

What to say... Today was a long day. It started when Alan got home from work. Anakin had come and curled up at my feet as I slept. He has done that off and on since he was a baby. Like a little cat. Now he's my 6yo. foot warmer with competition from Suki (aka Bitchcat) she is not a kid friendly cat, but she is my cat!

Alan had brought me a starbucks mocha Frappacino. (love those things.) With my morning dose of pain medication because I woke unable to move my arm without considerable pain. Oatmeal was what the kids had for breakfast. They eat alot, it is typical all boy syndrome. Especially Quentin, Ashton and Owen. You would think they never get fed.

We went to McDonalds with a couple of the kids, Salem and Scout. It was fun, sometimes we take some of them a few at a time out for a treat or something. It helps with their individualism. They also get that one on one time. Kids even tho they have siblings, be it one or many need that kind of time. It also lets them know they are special and loved.

We came home to see our sucky neighborhood Maintainence men with what we thought to be our replacement dishwasher for the one that didn't really work the whole time we have been here. But no, that wasn't the case. Instead they play like they do not know what is going on they are just wandering around in the country with 3 working dishwashers.Yes our Slumlord will be getting a call tomorrow.

An episode of old Beastwars got watched by Alan and the kids. (Oh I cannot stand that show still), pain percivered and Alan let me take a nap while he got music going on, and had the kids doing their chores with the normal revolt via the younger kids. (it's mainly Salem on down. It turns into a battle of the wills sometimes, but that's when a parent has to stay firm and let them know they will not just do whatever when our heads are turned.

The Snack cookies Alan brought home from work were great tho.

After my nap me and Alan grouched at each other for a bit, truthfully I grouched because of the pain, and he ignored it. What more could you ask of a Virgo? Then Alan got his nap. My and the kids hung out, I put on Spongebob for Casey and Jody because I promised it to Jody. Then dinner was done.... homemade Hamburger Helper. A big pot full, Mac n Cheese, Browned Ground Beef and Peas n Carrots. (For those who wonder how to feed a large family is alot of homecooking and creativity!!!

Afterwards the pets taken care of and fed. (they get fed more then once a day) Baths, tooth brushing, getting ready for bedtime, cuddling. Watching a goodnight show where the kids slowly are falling asleep. Aside from the oldest 2 or 3. They normally have to be sent off.

Today was a long one. But sitting here and looking at my babies (meaning all the boys) I know that I am doing ok. Life itself may be a little off, but I am still so blessed. I think I will do some meditation and light a thank you candle to the Goddess for the abundance she has given me.

Thanks for those who share my life. Brightest Blessings to you all!!!

OK, Here we go, A day in the life

Sorry I didn't get on last night, but here was our day. Started out with me waking up at 5 and being unable to sleep. The boys started waking one by one at around 7, of course with me having to force the oldest 2 to get up. Before getting them up, I started to get breakfast. I pretended to reach for a paper plate and Jody says "no, that not it." I said, "what do you mean?" Jody (4yo) says, "That's not a bowl Mommy!" We laughed, and I went for a bowl, just to find out that Ashton hadn't done the dishes the night before, so I had to do some of them in order to get some bowls and spoons. You see, when we have a dish that uses bowls they all get used. Same for silverware. Of course we have so many plates that if we broke 10 of them we would still have more then enough, go figure. Yet the bowls and the silverware have disappeared!

Well it gets done, and Ashton is still gonna do dishes.

So we did some reading and such. Then Anakin (6yo.) watched his reading show. Owen and Salem ended up in the corner due to being rude while Anakin was watching his show. So with me having to put 3 kids in the corner, (Ashton the 12yo. would not stop screaming, and putting him in his room isn't a punishment.) Quentin my oldest (14yo.) falling asleep around noon. It was around 1, and time for a mommy break. Time for some music, and quiet time. That lasted 15 minutes if that long. My stress level is at a breaking point, because now they have proceeded to scatter toys across the house, dishes are still not done, and Alan is asleep somehow with Casey doing a hop on pop thing. So I put the 2 youngest into their seats where they have to sit, and watch some Spongebob, good for the young ones, not as much fun anymore for the older ones. (that was my point.) Put them on chores they should have been on, and when all that is in place i wake up Alan.

We had to make a store run, so we get Salem (8yo.) his McDonald stuff that was free, and Alan gets me a McRib, I so love. I am hurting due to my disease. I don't leave the vehicle as he runs to the store, so I stay in the van (15 seater church van, yea, ironic I know). He takes about half the boys in, the ones who have been ok, or have money, and left the others and the baby in the vehicle with me.

By the time we get home, and supper is done, and we all scream at Suki (our cat) chasing a field mouse around our house, and harrassing it well before killing it, with kids in tow as close as they could get from the livingroom (My personal opinion being why the hell won't she just kill it?). They are also playing with Salem's new gumball machine. I need to lay down, because I am about to cry I am hurting so bad. (I did cry, and had a breakdown because of the pain). I need help that the Drs. aren't doing right now, or they are doing it at a Drs. pace.

So baths and bedtime stuff gets going on. Aside from the older ones everyone has a bath buddy. Then the two young ones Casey (2) and Scout (18 months) get a bath together normally, sometimes more then once a day. (spaghetti is such fun, as is chili).

End of day, Alan has given me meds and I am falling out as he heads off to work. Quentin and Ashton snuck some tv, and showed themselves to bed.

THE END
Feel free to post, any questions let me know!

Hey, it is me again.

I have decided to utilize this area to do my family postings. Everyone is curious about how we do it, or how a Pagan family with 8 children works. So Now I will use this blog to show you. No holds barred, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I hope I am not in over my head, but we shall see. I will begin the post tonight. Recalling our day, and evening. I will probably have to write a few things down to make sure I remember.

Hope you enjoy!!! If popularity ensues then we will try a youtube blog also. We shall see how that goes tho. For now I am writing it all down tho. Enjoy!!!

WooHoo FearFest 2010 on AMC

I recently got a leak on what will be on Fearfest this year. For those of you who are like me,and follow it, here is the schedual that I got. Looks good to me too! Hope you will be watching along with me and my family!!!

10/18:
8pm - Friday The 13th
10:15pm - Friday The 13th Part 2

10/19:
12:30am - Friday The 13th
2:30am - Night Of The Living Dead
4:45am - The Brain Eaters
9am - Magic
11:30am - Night Of The Living Dead
1:45pm - The Funhouse
4pm - Tremors
6pm - Friday The 13th Part 2
8pm - Friday The 13th Part 3
10:15pm - Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter

10/20:
12:30am - Friday The 13th Part 3
2:30am - Thirteen Ghosts (remake)
4:45am - How To Make A Monster
9am - Movies That Shook The World: Blair Witch Project
9:30am - Funny Games (remake)
12pm - Graveyard Shift
2pm - They
4pm - Thirteen Ghosts (remake)
6pm - Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter
8pm - Friday The 13th Part V: A New Begining
10:15pm - Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives


10/21:
12:15am - Friday The 13th Part V: A New Begining
2:15am - Graveyard Shift
4:15am - Pinata: Survival Island
9am - Backstory: Halloween
10am - Bram Stoker's Dracula
12:30pm - The Shining
4pm - Pet Sematary
6pm - Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
8pm - Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood
10:15pm - Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhatten

10/22:
12:45am - Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood
2:45am - Sleepwalkers
4:45am - Voodoo Woman
9am: Exorcist: The Begining
11:30am - Pet Sematary
1:30pm - Pet Sematary II
3:45pm - Sleepwalkers
5:45pm - Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhatten
8pm - Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
10:15pm - House Of Wax (remake)


10/23:
12:30am - Dead Silence
2:30am - House Of Wax (remake)
4:30am - Blood Of Dracula
9am - The Three Stooges: Idle Roomers
9:30am - The Three Stooges: Spooks
10am - Frankenstein (Universal)
11:45am - Dracula (Universal)
1:30pm - Tremors
3:30pm - Deep Blue Sea
6pm - Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
8pm - Constantine
10:45pm - House On Haunted Hill (remake)


10/24:
1am - Return To House On Haunted Hill
2:45am - Tremors
4:45am - Corridors Of Blood
6:15am - The Wolf Man (Universal)
8am - Frankestein Meets The Wolf Man
9:45am - Pet Sematary
11:45am - Cujo
1:45pm - House On Haunted Hill (remake)
3:45pm - Return To House On Haunted Hill
5:30pm - Constantine
8pm - 28 Days Later
10:30pm - Jeepers Creepers 2

10/25
1am - Ghost Ship
3am - Exorcist: The Begining
5:30am - Movies That Shook The World: The Exorcist
9am - Movies That Shook The World: The Exorcist
9:30am - Graveyard Shift
11:30am - They
1:30pm - Ghost Ship
3:30pm - 28 Days Later
6pm - Jeepers Creepers 2
8pm - Halloween
10:00pm - Halloween II


10/26:
12:15am - Halloween
2:15am - House Of Wax (remake)
4:45am - Slaughter Of The Vampires
9am - Bram Stoker's Dracula
11:30am - Dracula 2000
1:30pm - Dead Silence
3:30pm - House Of Wax (remake)
6pm - Halloween II
8pm - Halloween III: Season Of The Witch
10:15pm - Halloween IV: The Return Of Michael Myers

10/27:
12:15am - Halloween III: Season Of The Witch
2:15am - Dracula 2000
4:15am - The She Creature
9am - Aliens
12pm - Pet Sematary
2pm - Cujo
4pm - Tremors
6pm - Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
8pm - Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
10:15pm - House On Haunted Hill (remake)


10/28:
12:15am - Return To House On Haunted Hill
2am - Cujo
4am - Creature From The Black Lagoon
9am - Backstory: Carrie
9:30am - End Of Days
12:15pm - Tremors
2:15pm - Thirteen Ghosts (remake)
4:15pm - House On Haunted Hill (remake)
6:15pm - Return To House On Haunted Hill
8pm - Constantine
10:30pm - Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

10/29:
12:30am - Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
2:30am - Constantine
5am- Backstory: Carrie
5:30am - Movies That Shook The World: Blair Witch Project
9 am - The Three Stooges: Creeps
9:30am - Movies That Shook The World: Blair Witch Project
10am - Friday The 13th Part 3
12:30pm - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
2pm - Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
4pm - Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
6pm - Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
8pm - Predator
10:30pm - Predator 2


10/30
1am - Deep Blue Sea
3:30am - Funny Games (remake)
9am - Blood Of Dracula
10:30am - They Live
12:30pm - 28 Days Later
3pm - Predator
5:30pm - Predator 2
8pm - From Dusk Till Dawn
10:15pm - Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn

10/31:
12:15am - 28 Days Later
2:45am - They Live
4:45am - The Brain Eaters
6am - Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
8am - Halloween
10am - Halloween II
12pm - Halloween III: Season of the Witch
2pm - Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
4pm - Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
6pm - From Dusk Till Dawn
8pm - Dawn Of The Dead (remake)
10pm - The Walking Dead (Pilot episode)
11:30pm - The Walking Dead (Pilot episode)

Full Moon, full moon, full moon! Corn Moon!

Guess what tonight is? Yep, as if the title didn't give it away, it's the full moon. Ah yes, full moon, the tie that we all just go outside and absrb some of that energy that is made for us, with us, by the Goddess!
With my boys being so chaotic lately, and I am sure part of that has to do with Mercury being in retrograde, I think they need to run under the moon and let some of that steam off.
Tonight is also the Corn Moon! For those who are not familiar with that, The Native Americans associated this moon with the time corn would bloom. Which of course will be followed by the Harvest Moon!
So take your little ones, or yourself outside, and dance under the moon! Be a God or Goddess i all your glory. Use the energy to help throughout the rest of the month!

In case you didn't know

I'm pregnant again. 14 weeks now, due in July.
I need to keep up better on the posts.
So here's how it goes..... I still have not told anybody, aside from me, hubs, my oldest, ex, because he lives with us sorta, and online friends. My coven knows too.
So here's something I would like help with..... First off, How to tell the family. Being my mom, my sisters, etc. Now I am not overly concerned about my sisters, but I need to tell my mom soon. Though I keep figuring out a way of putting it off. It's kinda nice to have a secret anyway. I talk to my mom on the phone weekly, but tend to see her maybe once a month or so.
Last time she was pretty accepting, I think maybe she has figured out that I do have my own beliefs that I stand by. My family is anti-abortion. I respect that, I feel that for myself, but am not against anyone else having choices and taking them.
What my family is not, is anti-tubal. Now I am, again for me, if someone else feels it's right for them, well then go right on ahead! I just cannot see doing that. My theory of it is.... getting fixed, well I'm not broken. When I leave this world, I want to leave it in tact. While there are many theories of what happens after death, I like to take them all in stride and say, what if they egyptians were right? Now I am stuck in an afterlife, similar to my regular life, but unable to function correctly because I had these unnessisary surgeries on my body.
OK, call me crazy, but I feel we're made this way for a reason, and I want to keep in tact as much as possible. I am not against lifesaving techniques, or the occasional quality of life proceedures, even tho I have stopped getting surgeries for my disease because it hurts alot either way, and it comes back. (That's another blog post tho).
So, how to tell the family? I wanna get creative, because me being pregnant, well that's like saying, hey, we're having pancakes for breakfast. Meaning it's not unexpected. So I wanna make it fun. Now I could wait for u/s and send out cards, HA! I could get a comedic shirt. I did something like that last time, and it said, the rumors are true, I'm pregnant again. I could just take the wait and see approach. Used to work when I seen family more, but I don't see them as much now. I'm running low on ideas... help me out! Oh yea, one time we did use the kids to announce it. LOL.

Family recipes are more then just recipes

I was making Brown bean soup last night, and it got me thinking. I got this recipe from my mom, who got it from granny. I don't know who granny may have gotten it from or if it started with her. I was cooking with my son tho, and remembering talks with granny and my mom. I was telling My 10yo budding chef, who luvs brown bean soup BTW, that Granny used to fix tons of brown bean soup, potato soup, Chicken Noodle soup and put them up for the winter. Breakfast type things were Oatmeal, grits, rice cereal. It was Winter cooking. They would cook more then enough for the family in one sitting, especially because the meal was on the cheaper side. Stews and soups were winter meals, and an easier way to keep a big family fed over the season.
It also made me think that spending time with granny always led to stories. The only way you could get a recipe from granny was to cook with her. Because asking her for recipes you would always get told, a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. Granny never measured anything, she always had everything in her head, never wrote it down or anything. I learned alot of what I know of homemade cooking from my mom, who gives vague recipes of what to do.
Recipes were not always written down, and sometimes it was just a right of passage. Kind of like deer hunting to a young man. My son proceeded to ask me, well, why don't you write them down? It would be so simple too, to write it down and make sure it is not lost or anything. But if I did that, then I would be breaking a tradition of learning. A family recipe tradition of helping out and watching, paying attention and story telling. Yea, the recipe would be written down, then anyone could use the recipe.
Recipes in my family tho come with stories and memories. The types of things that you cannot write down. When youask for a recipe and Granny would say, come here, I'll show ya. Or my mom would say, well, we're having it tonight if you wanna help.
Now granny passed on a few years back. Some recipes I missed. I may never know how she made her cornbread, the only kind I liked, so sweet and tasty, and it melted into the chili, which I can cook. Not literally, but the flavors, kinda like a ham sandwich when you add cheese. The ham sandwich was good before, but the cheese added something that completed it. But at the same time, I will try, for those kids of mine willing to listen, to cook family recipes with them, and teach them, sharing stories and memories as we go along, and making a few memories of our own.