Its almost here!

College football starts this week! Thursday to be exact. So from Thursday into January it will be all about college football at our house. Ricky has been waiting on this week since......well, the end of last season. He has been able to tell me how many days for about 8 months now. I don't really claim any team. I feel like I know so much about Alabama but that's because my hubby tells me something new everyday. I promised that I wouldn't claim to be a Bama fan but I guess will have to do a silent Roll Tide. Don't tell Ricky cause I don't want to hear the whole I knew you would, I knew one day you would get smart. I just love to see a good game. I don't care if it's two small colleges as long as its a good game I'm all into the game.

We've been looking at tickets on eBay. We found some really good deals for the Tulane game on September 6Th but that is the day that we are going to six flags with the Honda world. We are going to be home in time to watch the game but I don't think we can make it to Atlanta and then to Tuscaloosa for the game. Can we? :)



I'm looking for some recipes for Football food. Something besides just chili. It gets old by about the 3rd game. If you have a recipe or suggestion comment me of email me!

Cleaning out

I have spent the last few weeks cleaning out.I have cleaned out Regan's clothes, the kitchen and some of my clothes. Today I took off about 10 bags ans 2 diaper boxes full of stuff. I was a little sad because the donation boxes that were just a few miles from our house were taken away sometime last week But we have a thrift store in Alexandria and so they will find LOTS in the morning. I even realized when I got home that I had forgotten some things so I'll stop by tomorrow with more stuff.

In this process I have went through all the clothes that I have been buying for Regan for this Winter. Oh my! The kid has too many clothes. 20 pair of pants, 40 or so shirts,10 fleece pullovers, 6 jackets, 2 thick and 4 thin and even 2 snow suits!! We of course live in a place that only has had a dusting of snow since he was born. But hey we're ready! Maybe I can convince Ricky to go to the mountains during the winter to get our money's worth out of the snow suits! Actually I still have most of the tags on the stuff and the most expensive thing was a Ralph Lauren Polo sweater that was 4.88!! Got to love the thrift stores!!! I am having more trouble now finding pants. Kids in 3T and 4T are rough on their jeans!!


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We have only 6 more pay checks till Christmas! YIKES!!! We have been trying to buy some things since the end of December last year but man I'm behind!! I've been looking for some cute crafty things to do this year. Be ready for something cheap people but its a tight year but we're trying.


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Speaking of cheap.. I love my good gas mileage car. I'm still getting about 38mpg which I love. I did find some gas in Ohatchee at 3.52! Woohoo! I was excited. I sure do miss the days of .99 a gallon but that's just the way it is.
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Regan has a new favorite snack. Frozen grapes. My mom has been freezing them and Regan will sit down and eat them like crazy. He brings the bowl and asks for more please (well signs for more please)
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I know this has been a crazy post sorry! Thanks for reading!

Please don't go see the Movie Tropic Thunder

I have received so many emails about the movie Tropic Thunder with Ben Stiller in it. The reason for the emails is for the way the movie portrays people with disabilities. It make constant jokes about "retards" and even has started producing shirts about never going full retard. I just posted about this subject a few days ago so I won't waste time with it today. If you want to know more go to www.patriciaebauer.com for more info about the movie and the planned boycotts of it.

Time to take temps!!

I'm pretty sure that I'm all excited for nothing but I am excited! I have been wanting/hoping/praying/trying to get pregnant for over two years now. Its been a long road of disappointment. I've told you all that I have PCOS which prevents you from ovulating and so this medicine is supposed to control the horomones that will help me ovulate. Anyway long story short its been a month and now I'm starting to track my temps so that I can see if I've started to ovulate! I'm hoping that it works. I'm so so so tired of not being pregnant. It seems like the whole world is pregnant and I want to be happy for them but it's also depressing! Anyway Wish us luck!!

The "R" word and others

I love to spend time on Myspace and look at others profiles. I just can't seem to get over the number of people who use the "R" word and other offensive sayings. I have to admit that before I had Regan I didn't think much of it. I probably even used it.

When Regan was just a few weeks old I heard the "R" word and it just killed me. I took it to heart and I started crying. No it wasn't aimed at my child, me or anything that I had a part of but just hearing it hurt.

Since that day I have went through many stages about THE word. A few months there I would cry when I heard it, then I went through the stage of ignoring it, I think the next stage was to laugh it off and then say how it bothered me, then I went into the angry with who ever said it. I remember Ricky saying something to some teenagers one time and they just looked at him like he was crazy. I have stopped shopping at a certain grocery store because the cashier said it twice while checking me out, once about the bags and then about the register. I was in my not saying anything stage and just vowed to never return to that store and I haven't. I was apart of an email group of SAHM and they had a often made a joke about who needed to be on the short bus that day. I finally got fed up. Wrote the group a email and then left it. I loved reading from the group but just couldn't sit there and feel the pain anymore.

Ya see, I know that my child is considered "retarded" he is slow, he develops at a slower pace than his peers, he doesn't talk, he doesn't know his colors, he isn't a typical child in so many ways. But when people make it a joke to have the struggles that Regan has faced and will face I don't think its a laughing matter.

If your a parent and you have taught your child the short bus jokes and encouraged the use of these demeaning words I wish you could for one moment feel the pain of knowing that one day your child is going to say that towards my child and then I'm going to have to explain to my children what that "joke" meant. Better yet I'll let you come to my house and look in my child's eyes and tell him why you allow a joke to be made out of his struggles. For now I'm going to make sure that I teach my child not to make fun of others who weren't raised with consideration of others and respect for people with different abilities.