Becca will be turning 12 on Sept. 11th and I asked her what she wanted. She decided she wanted to dye her hair red for middle school. I have no problem with this at all since I did the same in high school, plus we’d already put red streaks in Becca’s hair in Elm. School.

Some people freak out when you mention dying a 12 year old’s hair, *ahem* Aunt Jackie, but I feel hair is meant to be fun and played with. It’s the one thing on your body that you can cut off and guess what?!! IT GROWS BACK! LMAO. No harm. No foul. Of course I am picky about the TYPE of stuff I put on her hair. It shouldn’t be damaging or make hair frizzy so I go with Manic Panic.  Washes out in about a month and doesn’t change the hair texture at all.

I only dyed the top layer of her hair, the part that was REALLY blonde from all the sun she got this summer.

So here she is! Punk Becca!!!!!

Had to play with the contrast because the flash washed out the color in the pictures so its actually a little more vibrant in these pics than in real life.

Manic Panic is a conditioning semi-permanent hair color fortified with an herbal and protein complex. This unique formula is gentle to the hair and contains no animal by-products . It does not damage the hair and actually has restorative properties adding moisture and “fill” to processed hair.

It’s time for me to catch up  with you all and the easiest way to do so would be in bullet form. YAY!

• Kids are back to school! YAYAYAYAYAYAY! Jase was kinda freaking out today because it was the kids first day back.
• Does it make me a bad mommy that I kicked them out and locked the door behind them only to turn around and see Kyle standing there and saying, “Awwwww, damn!”?
• Kyle is officially underway in his Virtual School Online classes. So far he’s kicking butt and taking names. I print out his worksheets the night before and leave them on his desk so he can get started on them while I sleep in. I’m such a terrific mom! My “Teachers Guide” for his math lessons is as thick as an Orlando phone book.
• I handed said math book to Jase and told him to go for it. I don’t do numbers.
• Getting Kyle’s work station set up has been a chore but now that it’s done it should last him the rest of his schooling life. $400 worth of supplies for 3 kids. HOLY CRAP!
• Ambien does nothing for me. People have said if you stay up in spite of it you’ll be loopy or something. It doesn’t make me sleepy and I can stay up and lucid for hours after taking it. I took it 4 hours ago and I am still going strong. Am I taking it wrong? Is it supposed to be a suppository or something?
  
• I’ve been mentally kicking my brother in the gonads after the comment he left calling me a whiner on my M.I.A post. Then he posted a video of my niece taking her first steps and the ball kicking ceased.
• After a little digging on our county court website I found the guy who owned our house no longer owns it. He’s not said a word to us about it and rent is going to be due soon. Sorry, I’m not paying a person who’s not even on the deed so he has some explaining to do.
• Looking into buying a house, yet again. As you recall the last try didn’t pan out like we’d hoped. We’ve talked to the mortgage lady and she gave us the green light to start hunting. Woot! And that’s the last positive thought I will allow myself until our crap is relocated to the new house.
• Our radiator in our car cracked. Of course it did. Taking it to the shop tomorrow to see how raped we will be and if I should stock up on KY this week.
• Found out my 10 month old cousin has severe brain damage. It breaks my heart thinking about what she and her family will have to go through but I know they will make it. Details are still very fuzzy but I am hoping it’s something she can adapt with and lead as normal a life as possible. If you pray please do so. If you would just like to send some warm, healing thoughts her way then please do that as well.

Update: I leave you with pics of Kyle during his school morning. Becca doesn’t leave til 8:30am for her bus so she put in an appearance.

(No, I do not have any tattoos on my boobs. It would look like a cartoon on stretched silly puddy if I did, so no.)

Today we’re talking tats. Have one? Want one? Too chicken to get one, but still one day dream of having one?

I am scared to death of needles. Really scared. So why do I have two tattoos? Because the needles aren’t that big and you don’t feel a single loooooong jab like you do when getting a shot or giving blood.

It’s more of a scrape feel. Like someone is scratching your back with their fingernail in one place. Then it all goes numb and you fall asleep. What? You didn’t fall asleep during your tat session? Shame on you!

Ok I admit I only dozed off with my first one. The second one was on my leg and the damn leg kept jumping around. I had to concentrate to hold it still so the tat tech didn’t screw it up.

I loooove cherries! Before I was GeekByMarriage, I was CherryRebel. Yeah, I know. Shut up. An online friend of mine drew up this tat for me and did the stem in the form of a J like I asked. It’s as close as I will ever get to putting someones name on myself. Unless it’s my kids. I got this one in 2006. Not one word about the Mom Shorts either! I’m a mom, I never wear shorts. It’s the only pair of shorts I own!

I believe if you’re going to get a tattoo and spend all that money you should go big or go home! The tat artist said it was the biggest cherries he’s ever done. The reason I went big and on the outside thigh is because I didn’t want it to have sexual undertones. I have 3 kids and been married twice. There is nothing cherry about me. LMAO.

I got this tat right after leaving my ex husband. It was kind of a big FUCK YOU to him since he wouldn’t even discuss letting me get a tattoo. It’s a symbol of my freedom. I just picked it off the wall so the actual moon has no meaning. The tat itself screams FREEEEEEEDOM!  I regret the placement because I always forget it’s there until one of the kids starts tracing it. I’m like, “What are you doing? Oh yeah! I forgot.”

I wanted all my tats in places I could cover then up if I didn’t want them seen. With all the stretch marks and crap I’m running out of prime tattoo real estate. I’m sure my mother is very happy about that. Lol.

For my next act I’m planning on getting the one Kym helped me to find.

I will probably get this one on my inner forearm so I can look down on it all the time. Haven’t decided if I want it near the wrist or near the elbow. I want to always remember where I’ve been so I can fully appreciate where I am now. To never again make the mistakes of my past.

Sankofa
(sang-ko-fah)

Symbol for the wisdom of learning
from the past to build for the future

Have an ink story of your own? Share it so we can marvel at your awesome! Always wanted a tattoo? Tell us what you would get and where. Blog it and then share your link here. We’ll be like one long sleeve of awesome!

As my most loyal readers have noticed I have not been around much lately.

This is not a slight to the community it’s just that I have been needing to take a step back into real life for a spell. School is upon us and as you know Kyle will be home doing his schooling online. That means momma has to get a work station prepared and figure out scheduling. For all the kids school supplies still need to be bought and last minute preparations need to be made.

I have to make myself deal with one thing at a time or I get overwhelmed and completely shut down. Tarah has been seeing the downturn in my personality and I am sorry for that. I will be back, badder than ever very soon. Taking it one day at a time so I don’t completely lose my mind.

Having ADD sucks ass much of the time and this is why. I hyper focus on something and all else falls by the wayside. With me it’s either hyper focus or no focus. I really wish there were a middle ground. I miss you all and hate having to be away.

I also have chronic insomnia and I am also fighting to get a “normal” sleep schedule flowing. Most of you know it’s been a life long battle for me and I’ve been on the losing end. For the sake of my children I HAVE to get this shit squared away ASAP. Everyone is tired of hearing how tired momma is 24/7 and it’s not fair to them. So I am going to be cutting back on distractions that keep me awake.

Please don’t think I have forgotten about any of you or that I don’t love you guys anymore. That’s not the case. Family first. Cyber family second.

Everything will calm down soon and I will be back to my bubbly, joke bombing self. I still have the last chapter of The Weekend With Kym to post. Details were fuzzy the day after the drinking binge and they sure haven’t gotten clearer over time, so I need to do that soon.

Please just bear with me while my brain shorts out and I have a for real mid-life crisis. What? I’m 30 now and don’t expect to make it past 60 so this IS my mid-life. I don’t feel like I am living as much as I am just trying to survive life.

Send happy thoughts my way as I finally short my life out and try to take control of it for once. Everything with Jase, the kids, and I are fine. I just stopped to take inventory of who I am now and I am not 100% sure I am liking what I see and want to change for the better.

I love you all so very much.

Water Park Shenanigans

After a good nights rest Jase and I woke up raring to go. For once I can thank Mother Nature for something. I have not thrown up since I was 5. My body just won’t let me. LOVE IT!

I go downstairs to smoke. Yes, I’m a smoker. In my defense I am a polite smoker. I put my cigs out and throw them in the trash I don’t throw them in someone’s yard. If non-smokers are outside near me I move away and find a spot downwind. Hell, I do that around smokers too. I don’t smoke in hotel rooms even if they are smoking rooms out of respect for Jase. That being said I’ll now move on.

Kym and Dani had to buy new swimsuits so we all agreed that we’d head to the water park around 11am. I put on my new swimsuit and nearly had a heart attack! I hadn’t tried it on in the store and I was just now realizing it was VERY low cut. I just knew I’d be flashing some kids by the days end.

Jase and I headed over to the Subway next door since the park was an hour drive away. We walked in and I saw a table full of men in uniform. I had forgotten we were in a military town until then. Mmmmm, Hello men in uniform. RAWR!!!

We ate and Jase went up to the room while I sat outside waiting for Kym. I’m typing away on Twitter when I hear, “Hey, Baby! How much?” Shocked, I look up to see Kym and Frank laughing at me. Not missing a beat I held up four fingers and said “Five Dollas!”  I text Jase to come on down as they park their van.

We load up and begin to follow Frank as he leads us to our doom, I mean day of fun. The A/C in our car was being all sluggish as the blower failed to kick on. OMG if I could sweat I would have been as soaked as Jase. I did start getting a little hot around the collar as we took some back roads to our destination.

Let me explain. There were warning signs on the side of the road. No, they were deer or even bear crossing signs. Hell, I would have settled for a Rhino crossing sign. Nope, this road was peppered with TANK crossing signs. FREAKING TANKS! Jase and I just knew Kym and Frank were driving us out to the middle of nowhere and leaving us for dead in the middle of a bombing range. I began furiously Twittering to people that if they don’t hear from us in an hour to please call for help. At least someone would know what happened to us and could let our families know.

That didn’t happen but something almost as bad did! I got a text from Kym saying that if we won Cranium again that night that Frank wouldn’t make with the freshly baked cookies we’d been promised. Ain’t that some shit?! I texted back that we would not be intimidated but we so totally were! We wanted fresh, hot, gooey cookies!!!!

We got close to our destination and began seeing signs for the park. Frank turns and leads us into a residential area. Jase and I were going, “Fraaaaaaaaaaaank?! This doesn’t look like a water park, Fraaaaank!” Thank goodness he couldn’t hear us or cookies would have been a moot point. We do a U-Turn in someone’s driveway and as Frank is driving past us there is a total sheepish grin on his face and Kym is pointing at him like a maniac.

We pull into the park complex and see it’s a municipal park with soccer fields and all that jazz. It was a small water park and that was PERFECT for me. The less of a crowd the better.

The tickets were sooo cheap! $10 a person?! Score! We walked around looking for a sitting space and wound up at the pool side next to the diving boards. We applied Jase’s SPF 10,000 so whitey wouldn’t fry and jumped in to hang out. Poor Dani was about to burst out of the top of her bathing suit so Kym used a hair pin to wrap those bad boys up.

The kids splashed and kicked and pretty much hung all over the adults. Frank told us that he could not swim that the Army only trained him in ways to not drown. Um, one would assume that meant they taught him to swim. Apparently not! Something about making your pants into a floatation device. Ummm, don’t you have to know how to tread water while you’re making water balloon pants? Highly suspect, the Army.

The crowds thinned out a bit so we decided to go get some lunch and Dippin’ Dots ice cream! I braved the Dippin’ Dots reg. ice cream until Dani bought me the sherbet kind I didn’t know existed! I LOVE YOU, DANI! It was like a Popsicle explosion on my tongue!

We decided to hit the lazy river and did about 20 laps in that. It was fun and wish I could build one around my house. They had waterfalls and buckets dumping water on your head to keep you awake. Trying to stay together as a group was near impossible due to the currents and other people dragging us along with their inner tubes.

Kaelyn was too adorable with her yellow life jacket on sitting in Kym’s tube. She looked like a figurehead on a ship or like Kate Winslet in Titanic. She was so freaking cute screaming, “To the side, Momma!” as they went through the waterfall. All the boys took turns playing bumper tubes with us. Man, they had us laughing!

Everyone got out of the Lazy River and I saw Frank watching the big tunnel slides. He dared me to go on so I couldn’t say no. Jase and I grabbed our double inner tube and headed up the stairs. There were two lines. One for the tubers and one for the ones going down the smaller single rider tubes without a floatation device. Frank said he heard me screaming, “AGAIN, AGAIN” as we came out of the tube. Of course since the non-tube side of the line was moving faster we went that way next. Jase took the white open top tube down and I took the enclosed blue one. Total darkness enveloped me and I went shooting like a bullet and hit the water so hard that when I Came up I had no idea where I was or which way to go. The lifeguards were screaming “THAT WAY!”

Frank and Kym finally grabbed a double tube and headed up. I missed them coming out and I kick myself for it. I believe Frank even went down the dark bullet tube. I tried the white open one and ended up getting stuck as my shorts were not swimsuit grade. I ended up having to scoot down the tube with my feet. LMAO.

We packed it up for the day and headed home. When we got closer to the hotel that was on Frank Cochran Drive I texted Kym to make sure we were supposed to take a left on Frank’s CockRing. What? I giggled! Fine be that way. Don’t laugh, it was funny to me and that’s all that counts!

The plan was to shower and change and meet up at Kym’s for more gaming! You really don’t want to miss this next one. It may involve some Queen, some Hotel California debates, and a ton of laughs. Same Bat channel, Same Bat time!!!!!

If you live in southern GA northern FL you have to visit Splash In The Boro!!

Part Two: Drunken Gaming Night One!

Part One is here!

We left off with the rest of the group bailing out to go home and take care of their bundles. *Big Bad Frown* That left Kym, Frank, Dani, Jase, and I to our own devices. Maybe we should have had a chaperone. Nah!!!!!!!!!

I went to the bathroom and when I came back there were 4 laptops on the table and each person hiding behind the screen. This made me laugh so hard I was glad I had just gone potty! Damn addicts. Oh wait, where the hell is my laptop? Jase has it? GIMME!!!!

I believe we all got our drinks and settled down to the kitchen table to play Cranium. Jase and I feared this game because we are social phobics and a lot of this game is all about standing up and making a fool of yourself. We made a pact to try and avoid the Star Performer category as much as possible.

Frank, Kym and Dani started out with some Mike’s HARDER Lemonade. This of course prompted me to crack some Viagra jokes. I had to pause for a moment to make sure everyone would laugh or it would have been very uncomfortable for me to be the only dirty minded pervert. I was ecstatic to see they were of the same mind as I am when they all busted a gut. Jase and I settled in with our Captain Morgan Rum and cokes.

Kym and Frank were KILLING us at Creative Cat modeling clay and drawing. Jase and I owned at Data Head and Word Worm. Useless trivia, that’s us!

Frank got the first Sculpturades of the evening where he had to sculpt the clue out of clay.

I giggled before I handed the clue to Jase so he could giggle at what the clue was. Then he handed it to Frank and reminded him that there were children present in the home. Frank’s eyes got big as saucers and then he smirked. I believe I saw some manly eye rolling going on as he set out to sculpt his shuttlecock. Yes, we are all in our 30s and still giggle at shuttlecock. You wanna make something of it?!

The funniest part was when Jase and Kym had to get up and act things out. Jase would just stand there and point at Kym and make some hand gestures. We totally robbed them during those. Kym was throwing herself to the floor and rolling around and Jase was just standing there with two fingers held out. Frank guessed Stuntman from Kym’s clues and seeing Jase’s two fingers and how he was trying to make himself short like Kym I guessed Stunt Double and stole it! Just like Jase to make the woman do all the work. LMAO!

Kym had her chin resting on Dani’s shoulder at one point and Dani was all like, “Ouch that hurts!” Kym pointed to her chin and asked Dani what that bone was called. Dani matter of factly blurts out “Mastodon! I mean Mandible!!!!” It was too late she done shot herself in the foot in the eyes of everyone. Mastodon was the weekend buzz word!

The buzz started setting in to all of us but when Kym, Frank, and Dani switched to rum and coke, it was ON! They had only had well rum before so they were scared of trying it again but we converted them without a problem. Thank goodness Frank freaked at the liquor store and bought the biggest bottle they offered. At first I was like, “DAYUM How much do these people think we drink?!” Since they joined in the bottle was going fast!

Dani refused to play Cranium with us but she kept us totally entertained with the cracks she was making and the mock sibling rivalry she and Kym engaged in.

Jase really started feeling his groove and did an awesome job correctly guess which LOTR dwarf names didn’t belong on the list. I had to draw freaking COMPOST. I just knew we’d never get it but when I drew a garbage can then a flower bed Jase totally nailed it!!! It was a Club Play so both teams had to try and draw compost. Tricky! We won the game and had bragging rights for the evening.

It was time to play Uno Flash and Dani played and Frank’s mom joined in as it is her favorite game. If you haven’t seen this new version of Uno I highly recommend it!

It has a base and everyone gets their own light/button. Instead of going around the table in a predictable fashion the lights make it totally random. When it hits you, play or draw then press your button within 4 seconds to end your turn. If you don’t you have to draw 2 cards. When someone plays a +4 you never know who will get slammed with it. It just might be the one who played the card and they screw themselves. If someone plays a SLAP card you must hit your button as fast as you can. Last one to hit the button draws two cards. When you play your last card you must hit your button to end the game.

So we begin and right away Jase starts having to draw all kinds of cards which prompted him to let out a few choice words. It was when he yelled, “FUCK ME SIDEWAYS!” after his button once again failed to register during a SLAP session that Kym and Dani lost their shit! They were laughing so damn hard we had to pause the game. Kym was leaned over, her face hidden behind Dani and she hung on for dear life and laughed her ass off! Their antics send me off the deep end and I couldn’t see because my big cheeks were blocking my eyes when I laugh.

They finally settled down but by this time their gazes were glassy and I realized that Kym and Frank were even more lightweight drinkers than I was. I have never found anyone I could possibly drink under the table. Dani was doing an awesome job because she’s a total lush, I mean coinsure. That phrase was said often and with gusto!  Jase was becoming more outgoing and laughing and carrying on and that made me happy. I tried to be a little more reserved because I have a horrible habit of snort laughing when I am drinking. I didn’t want to become cannon fodder for the other drunken people in the room so I kept a low profile.

In case you don’t know, Georgia is infested with gnats. Biting ones. Since people had been going in and out of the house all day a lot of them came in to say hello and to fly straight up my nose every chance they got. Fucking gnats!  I was scared to blow my nose because I didn’t really want to see the colony of gnats that had set up shop in there. Gross!

Back to the story!

I won the first game and Kym vowed I would never win another. Frank was of course being his charming self. Cracking jokes all over and making me almost pee myself. Their whole family has the best smiles I have ever seen! They give me the warm and fuzzies when one is directed at me.

Frank’s mother had to leave and Dani became my BFF in such a short time as we have the same sense of humor. Watching Dani and Kym bicker made me long for a sister or for them to at least adopt me!

During the second game things got really loud and fun. Jase demanded the board be switched around because his buzzer wasn’t working right. Kym went out only to forget to hit the button to end the game. She had to draw two cards for her mistake. She said, “Well, I won’t be making that mistake, again!” Of course 30 minutes later she went out again and you guessed it! She didn’t hit the button to end the game and got SCREWED. Now mind you, Dani realized right away both times that the button was not hit and thus she was just waiting for the buzzer to go off to declare Kym officially SCREWED! I love her for that because the rant that came out of Kym’s mouth was enough to make ME blush! Yeah, sailor mouth me! We all cracked the hell up and Dani had a field day teasing Kym about it. Kym and Dani went into a heartfelt rendition of “This is the game that never ends.”

We all did our fair share of friendly smack talking and I LOVED IT! It was so freaking comfortable to be around them and not have to watch what I said or did. Now that’s my perspective. Frank and Kym might be secretly saying to each other, “Don’t let those pale assed freaks into this house ever again!” I can’t say I would blame them but I would be heartbroken.

I believe Frank won the second game and all the while Kym was lamenting on how she should have won and how much bullshit it was that she missed it twice and kept the game going on to become the longest Uno game in history. I cannot argue that.

In the tallying of the final scores for game two it came to Jase and I’s attention (via Kym screaming “ARE YOU DEAF?” at Dani) that we underwent a secret name change. Even though our names were written on the same piece of paper from the last game Dani had written our names down as Chase and Jennifer. Guess what our names were the rest of the weekend?

As everyone dispersed from the table Dani tripped but wouldn’t own up to it. I soooo saw that shit go down! She stumbled and almost fell on her face. SCORE! Kym and Frank walked us to the door, albeit a little sideways walking was going on between the two! It was adorable, our little drunk friends leaning on each other, supporting each other. Now that’s love!

As we were getting ready to head out to the hotel we heard Kym and Frank at the door and Kym telling him that he better take her to bed, stud!

So of course that prompted Jase into a fit of giggles and for him to quote the Top Gun lines:

Carole: Hey, Goose, you big stud!

Goose: That’s me, honey.

Carole: Take me to bed or lose me forever.

Goose: Show me the way home, honey.

We get to the hotel and realize we’ve made a horrible mistake. No, the hotel wasn’t bad. In fact, it was the nicest one I have ever stayed in! It gets 5 stars from me!

No, our mistake is that we left our laptop at Kym’s!!!!! So at 2am I call her and tell her we are headed back to get my baby. She giggles and tells me to come on and don’t get lost!

We picked it up and went back to the hotel and fired it up. Guess what I found!? Kym had already drunk blogged! She’s done this once before and it was awesome! Since I was there for this one it made it all the more special and funny!

Stay tuned for Water Park Shenanigans and Drunker Gaming Night!!!!

Part One Introductions & BBQ!

Don’t miss the next installments. Drunken Gaming and Water Park Shenanigans, followed by More Drunken Gaming, in which Frank and Kym almost pass out at the table!

When Kym had the idea to do a weekend meet up for GA/FL bloggers, I asked Jase if we could go and to my surprise he said YES! I immediately contacted Kym and told her we’d be coming; only she wasn’t sure if she’d be able to host it because her A/C had blinked out… AGAIN! Luckily it was fixed before Friday so I jumped on Priceline.com and bid on a hotel in her area for 2 nights. As luck would have it we got the hotel closest to her for only $55/night. Regular price was $80!

I cannot begin to describe the mass of butterflies I felt leading up to Friday. I was happy to see everyone else was freaking out too; it made me feel less of a freak. I kept having a dream that I walked in, everyone pointed at me and laughed, then I melted into a puddle and evaporated!

Thursday night we had a horrid storm and lightning hit our cable line. No internet and the local channels were a big fuzzy mess. We had to stop by the cable place for a new cable modem Friday morning before we headed out so I was freaking out that we wouldn’t make it to Kym’s in time for the BBQ.

Of course, our GPS directed us to take the back roads through a ton of tiny towns with a billion stop lights! We finally made it to an interstate and hauled ass for GA.

Jase let me out of the car in front of the house we thought might be Kym’s so I could check. I was so damn nervous walking up to that door that I didn’t even notice Jase take off and circle the block. I kept chanting, “It’s ok. It’s ok. It’s ok.” I heard music and kids screaming, “THERE’S ANOTHER ONE HERE!!!!”

BOOM! The door opens and there is Kym in all her Diva glory! I was star struck for a minute then I hugged her tight and did not want to let go. She was my safety net because I was scared to face all the other adults there. LMAO. If I get this all wrong forgive me. I was so nervous everything is a blur for a few minutes.

After Kym politely disengaged my body from hers I turned to see Carrie smiling big and bright at me, so I made my way over to her, carefully trying to avoid stepping on her babies. She was the one I knew was just as scared of me as I was of her but that fear melted away instantly. She was adorable!

Then I see Trish and I hug her gently. After all, she was PUPO at this time so I didn’t want to knock anything loose! We stood around the table and talked and laughed and I asked a ton of questions about her transfer.

Shit! I forgot Frank! How could I forget Frank?! I hugged his neck after I turned Kym loose. He is even better looking in person, ladies! And OMG can that man cook! The scent of his BBQ hit me before the door ever opened and my stomach did a dance for joy and that pissed off all the butterflies that were still firmly implanted there. Oh yeah, Jase was beside me by this point.

As everyone settled down and relaxed Jase and I stood eyeing the food. I had not eaten at all in anticipation of this feast so I was sooooo there! Jase had to wipe some drool off his chin a few times and I thought about asking Carrie if he could borrow one of her kid’s bibs. Jase loves food.

I got to talk to Dani, Kym’s AWESOME sister for a while. She was so funny with all the kids climbing in her lap every few minutes. You could tell that she loved those kids with all her heart and soul. More on Dani later. BWAHAHAAHAHA!

A few minutes later Calli, Captain Adorable, and Calli’s mom came walking in. It was love at first sight. Big smiles and big hugs all around. Let me tell you, W is even more adorable in person if you can believe that! Calli had brought her dog too! The one I fell madly in love with was her mother! She was the sweetest, kindest woman and had a fabulous laugh. We talked for awhile and I thought, “Damn she makes me homesick for my mom!”

I could tell Calli was a little overwhelmed by all the people there. It was Romper Room with all the kids running around. I held back a bit and let everyone else go up to her and chat for awhile. Okay I will admit it, damn it, I was star struck again!

I finally saddled up to her while she was sitting on the couch and we talked about babies and some of the surprises you might find in a diaper once they start teething. I was happy to set her mind at ease even if I did do it accidentally!

Kym sat at the kitchen table talking with us and her sister and doling out pretzel sticks to the kids. She started sticking said pretzels to her bottom lip and acting like nothing was amiss as I laughed my freaking ass off.

It was time to eat!!!! Don’t worry we fed all the babies first and Jase and I had a great laugh over Carries babies shoving baked beans up their noses! I miss those days! How Carrie cleaned up those kids and those high chairs I will never know. The chairs were spotless when she was done and I didn’t even see her do it! Maybe she’s a nose twitching witch?!

So yes, food! Jase and I rushed up to the counter and grabbed our plates. There were Tequila Lime ribs, BBQ ribs and chicken, mac and cheese (homemade of course!) pasta salad, lettuce salad, and my fav Baked Beans with ground beef. I died and went to heaven with every bite. We had some of Frank’s Lemon Lovers White Chocolate cake, Jase and I don’t really enjoy lemon but OMFG please give me another slice of THAT! It was the best cake EVAR!!! Of course, Frank just smiled and blushed as we raved on about his mad kitchen skillz. I don’t think he actually realized how freaking awesome he is!

Sadly, people started to trickle out leaving Kym, Frank, Jase, Dani, and I to begin our Drunken Gaming night! I wish I had more time to spend with Trish, Carrie, Calli, and her family. There will be other meet ups very soon though!

For those who were there. If I acted rudely or didn’t/did something you didn’t like please know I didn’t mess up on purpose. Sometimes I just don’t think or I get overwhelmed and kind of shut down. I beg your forgiveness!

As I said, a lot of it was a blur due to nerves but the next installments will be crystal clear because Jase will be co-writing it with me so we miss no details! STAY TUNED!

Since I was out of town and did not do the drawing on the date I stated I have decided to have a runner up winner as well. My way of saying “Sorry I screwed the pooch!”

I want to thank you all so much for helping get the word out about Heaven Scent Boutique. Tarah thanks you!

First up is our Grand Prize winner of 1 tub of Heaven Body Frosting and a $20 gift certificate.

Mrs. Ellen Moore!!!

The runner up winner of a $10 Gift certificate is *drumroll*

BadAssGeek!!!!!!!

Winners please DM me on Twitter so I can get your prizes to you!!!

THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE!!!!