The Pagan Mom Blog

I know I haven’t blogged in awhile on Saturdays but here I am. I totally OWE everyone the opprotunity to check out todays special blog. Cattails.me: The crazy stops here…every fifteen minutes is one I hold dear to my heart. Slight disclosure, I totally hang with the author of the blog. So call me biased if you must but seriously she writes with such raw passion that I am left with jaw wide open and wishing I was only 10% as eloquent as her. Sometimes I am left with a serious stitch in my side from laughing really hard, other times I am reaching for the tissues, and yet others I am nodding my head yelling “I get you sista!” So please, check her out. You won’t regret it!

Tax time is in full swing. Yesterday was absolutely exhausting. When we got home and fed kids pizza that we picked up along the way, I checked my Farmville and then laid down. I think I was asleep by 8:30. The good thing is that my hours are going to fly through the roof. When I had stepped out to pick up lunch for us from Subway, 6 people came by and dropped off their info for their returns. The boss looked at the growing stack and asked me if I was sure I didn’t want the part time temp to handle the administrative aspect. I am sure, I really want the hours. So this morning I am ready to go to work and get cracking. But. Kids have a 2 hr delay due to the sleet coming through. So I have to wait. Now I am waiting to hear from the school. Given that the kids keep missing days and they have already taken Good Friday as a makeup, they are now discussing starting to use Spring Break. They are going to call parents and see what they want. I am sure we can figure out my answer…….take the Spring Break days. Those have always been a pain for us. But I doubt that it will happen. I think more parents will vote for the use of Saturdays (which my kids will not want lol). Saturdays wouldn’t affect us much because Alex will still be home. Kyle usually stays and works from home on Saturdays so that  can come to the office.

With regard to the knitting classes this weekend, Kyle and the kids will go down with me Sunday as long as it isn’t snowing. No matter what if it snows I am not going. But Sunday it’s not supposed to and it’s supposed to be above freezing which means melting. And Sunday is the designing class which I am really thrilled about.

Tomorrow Claire gets her glasses….finally! It’s been almost a full year since she had a pair. Hopefully next month I can buy a second pair for her so that in the event she breaks a pair she has a backup. I also need to get a new pair for me because I haven’t been seen in two years. I am afraid Alex needs glasses as well, so I need to get him checked.

In other news, Megadeth is coming to Asheville in March. YAY! They are bringing with them Testament and Exodus. Talk about a blast from the past! I am totally going, friend of mine got our tickets already. Shinedown will also be coming April 1. Not too sure about that one. Tickets go on sale Friday and once my friend finds out how much they are we will talk about it. I really can’t afford it if it’s more than $40. We will see.

That’s about it in my exciting life. I need to check my farm andget ready for work. What are you all up to today?

How is the weather by you??? It began to snow here yesterday around 3-ish. At 5:30 it looked like this:

It’s dark right now (5:50 am) so I can’t see much to see if we accumulated more overnight like the were calling. I also need to check weather channel again, last night they were saying it was going to snow all day long today.

So I am snowed in and not too interested in going anywhere. Perfect day to catch up on my blog reading. And since it’s Saturday it’s time for me to share with you the Blog Of The Week! I wish I had theme music for that slight announcement, lol.

Bringing Up Salamanders is so amazingly wonderful! I first met her on another blog when we consistently kept showing up in the comments and then responding to each other in the comments. Before you knew it we were visiting each other often. My fave thing about her is that she is in another country. This means she is on a different calendar than the pagans in the US. It’s a nice reminder of what else is out there. And her blogging about her son is simply adorable. Sometimes i just want to fly on down to Brazil and hug him to death. He is such a sweetie! Nadia has this vibrancy about her that I am so jealous of. Even when times are hard she has this life force that is so strong and remains positive. So if you need a new pagan blog to read or you want to see another slice of life, hit up her blog. You won’t regret it!

So this Christmas present of mine. It got here on Saturday at our office. I went in that evening to get some things done (ie get more hours) and there it was. I unpackaged it and bawled like a big baby. Then I left it at his desk. Then I got mad. I found not one but TWO bills in my name that were NOT paid on and due the 15th. I checked the bank account and he paid our cable bill and his credit card bill. The same credit card he just got reinstated even though I have been fighting with him for two years now to get rid of it (this is the second reinstatement). I was livid. Now I had taken some money out of our account Saturday cause I took the kids out to see a movie with some friends of mine. I spent the weekend really angry but nothing compared to yesterday. Sunday evening I did take the kids to McD’s which I should not have done. I spent a wee bit too much this past weekend. And I did it out of anger. Not my most mature moment. I have to own up to this because this is a part of the ensuing drama for this week.

Let’s start with the hubs coming home yesterday. I was here at the house because lil man vomited overnight. I spent my day knitting scarves I was hired to make and writing articles over at Associated Content. So I wasn’t working in the office but I was still working. First he walks in with the dreaded box and said “Were you waiting for me to wrap it?”. I said, “No”. He stands there with it in my face. I stare back. Finally he says “Well take it then”. Isn’t that just so romantic and sweet…….take it then. GAH! Anywho I respond with “No, just keep it”. We are surrounded by kids so I am picking my words carefully because I refuse to get into a knock down drag out in front of them.  So he gets huffy but doesn’t push me further. Smart man, if he does push too much I don’t know that I can continue holding back. But then he makes another mistake. He hands me my paycheck, which he had marked as “for deposit only” because he tried to go to the bank and deposit it. THAT pissed me off. Even when I have taken his check to the bank I always have asked him about any cash back, I never just make a decision to deposit all of his money. Hm wait, I take that back….there was one time I did it but that was because he was in a meeting and I didn’t have time to wait for him to stop socializing to find out and I figured we could just go back and get some money out for him. Ok so anyway here we are bickering about money. And yes he is yelling about the money I spent over the weekend. I clamp the mouth shut. I wasn’t going to say that it wasn’t wrong but what was behind those lips were my frustrations on how I have been busting butt trying to make extra money AND how he has suggested once that “maybe I could apply at the BP” and how he is always pushing for ME to get back into school to work towards  MY CPA license. That will take me at least 4 years before I can sit and test. He can test now. But you don’t see him doing it do you? NOOOOOO. Course not. It’s all up to me!

And ya know, instead of coming and talking to me about the money situation last night when kids are asleep, he spent all night in his bedroom talking on the phone with a friend. He does that every night now. If he isn’t on the computer playing whatever current RPG he is into at the moment. What really kills me is he could know everything all at once if he actually came by this blog. He knows it is here, he knows the site, and he doesn’t bother. I can only surmise that he just doesn’t give a flying fuck and is convinced I won’t leave. He is in for a big fucking shock!

Oh and guess what! We are doing one of those fucking bank loans for our taxes. Yea, those same bank loans (aka rapid refund) that I advise not using unless your about to lose your car or home……yea. ANd you want to know why? Because he said to me “I want to catch up on daycare”. Really? That credit card is so much more important than paying our sons’ daycare? Wtf does PRIORITIES mean????

Ok, sorry. I really had to get alot of that out. Considering I really am trying to keep the kids from hearing some horrible fight and I need him to actually be a freaking man and come to me for once……we aren’t getting anywhere.