{"id":3806,"date":"2011-09-06T08:42:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T12:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2011-09-06T08:42:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T12:42:17","slug":"random-tuesday-thoughts-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/2011\/09\/06\/random-tuesday-thoughts-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Tuesday Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"Stacy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If it’s Tuesday this must be Random Tuesday Thoughts. It used to be brought to you by Keely <\/a>at The Un-Mom but she’s taking a hiatus. Okay, it’s been a really long hiatus but Random Tuesdays still rock on with help from Stacy<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Stacy<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m really sad that summer is over.\u00a0 Although I like fall, and the beautiful foliage, it also means winter and freezing cold weather is just around the corner.\u00a0 The older I get the more I wish I lived in a warmer state.\u00a0 Two months of really nice weather every year is not enough.\u00a0 That must be why old people go to Florida, they’ve just had enough of the cold.<\/p>\n

I found out today that my son is becoming a smart, responsible teenager.\u00a0 I guess it validates your parenting skills when they are put in a situation where they need to make a good decision.\u00a0 Today my oldest was going to go to his new girfriends house.\u00a0 He told me today where she lived.\u00a0 Not to be all “judgy”<\/em>and stuff, but the neighboorhood she lives in is not a neighborhood I would ever want my kids hanging out in.\u00a0 I reluctantly dropped him off, even though I wasn’t pleased at all.\u00a0 Within an hour and a half he called me to pick him up.\u00a0 Without asking any questions I did.\u00a0 In the car he told me how the kids were smoking, playing with fire, and one kid even told him that he knew where they could get some “weed”.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of staying there and pretending to be “cool”<\/em> with them, he told them he was walking to the store, and then he called me.\u00a0 He was really upset and couldn’t believe the things the kids were doing.\u00a0 I was very proud of him for making the right choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Buying school supplies for 2 kids in middle school is very expensive.\u00a0 So far it’s cost $81.00, and Thing 2 just brought home another list asking for 3 binders, yeah that’s okay, I’ll shell out another $20 or so.\u00a0 Thanks….<\/p>\n

Yesterday I brought the boys to the beach, and on the way home Thing 2<\/em> is in the back seat holding a bucket of water containing 2 starfish, and a bunch of snails.\u00a0 Now of course I have a cup of 2 dead starfish, and a bunch of snails!\u00a0 There’s always a cup of something dead sitting around.\u00a0 This spring he caught like 200 tadpoles, the next day, dead.\u00a0 This summer he caught a bunch of frogs, and a snake.\u00a0 All would sit in a tank on the table.\u00a0 At least the frogs and snake he let go before<\/em> they died.<\/p>\n

Elle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today is the last day of summer vacation for my kids. I am soooo not ready for all the rushed mornings, the papers that need to be signed and the homework. This morning I thought about it and realized that our oldest daughter started kindergarten in 1989 and our youngest son will graduate in 2020. I’ve been doing this since the last<\/em> century! By the time J-Man graduates, I will have been doing the whole school thing for 31 years! Yes, you read that right, 31 loooooooong<\/em> years! I guess that’s what happens when you have another baby when your oldest starts college.<\/p>\n

I planned on sending J-Man to school in shorts tomorrow. We usually are still having hot summerlike weather for the first couple weeks of school, but right now they are predicting it to be cool and rainy. He has outgrown all of his pants from last year and I only bought a few pairs of new shorts and short sleeve shirts. Of course! So now I’m thinking I need to run out after work to get him pants. We’ll see. It’s not like it’s going to be that<\/em> cold.<\/p>\n

Right now both kids are on my bed playing the Pac-Man app. Remember when you actually\u00a0had to go to an arcade\u00a0to play it?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which makes me realize that I wish I had a\u00a0real Skee-Ball game in my basement. I guess we’d need at least two or there would be constant fighting.\u00a0Ooh! Look!<\/a> I can get one!<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to join us for What The Hell Wednesday tomorrow! Seriously, what the hell are you waiting for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If it’s Tuesday this must be Random Tuesday Thoughts. It used to be brought to you by Keely at The Un-Mom but she’s taking a hiatus. Okay, it’s been a really long hiatus but Random Tuesdays still rock on with help from Stacy . Stacy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ISGQ-Zo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}