So it’s begun - Mom I want this - Mom I want that.  I can’t even try to remember what each of them wants, so I’ve already started their lists.  I’m sure they will just keep growing as we get closer to Christmas - it never seems to end.  We still have 2 birthdays before then and even those two girls are already making their lists. Jesse wants Nikon rifle scopes - which I’m positive he will NOT be getting.  He;s really been into guns and army stuff latley.  Kinda makes me worry about him doing something like joining the Army when he gets big.  He’s 6 - I SHOULD NOT EVEN BE THINKING ABOUT THAT YET.

Can certainly tell its fall. My skin is itchy and flaky and driving me insane.  The air is getting more and more dry and I can literally feel the moisture being sucked from my pores.  I dread this season - just for that reason.  My kids also suffer from dry skin - the girls especially.  We need to invest in some sort of humidifier this year, before I itch myself into oblivion.

Anyone wondering how to lose weight?  I know a few people have started diets lately and for them it’s going great.

So we rented movies again - this time one of the kids got The Simpsons Movie.  I havenn’t watched it yet but I heard the kids laughing as they were watching.  My Mom bought me Hard Candy - which is a MUST SEE.  The girls from Juno casterates a man for being a Pedofile. It rocks.  So we’ve just been hanging out watching movies all weekend.  Which is fine with me, we never go anywhere as a family and do stuff - might as well watch some movies as one.

Jaiden has been bugging me again about the  best acne treatments.  She’s just worried about not fitting in if she ever gets zits.  I can understand how she feels but HOLY COW - it sure gets annoying.

So we’ve upgraded - again.  Jesse’s been on akick to get his puter ‘just the way he wants it’.  Upgrades have been happening for about a month now. First a new case, then a new OS, new video card , now a new hard drive. Now he wants a new monitot, a full screen 20inch monitor.  That would be awesome but I think he needs to slow down a little bit.  Watch, next he’ll want something like a micro sd or something.

We’re getting closer to Jaiden’s birthday party - I can tell by how snotty she’s getting.  She still does her chores as told and tends to listen when she wants something but I have to deal - she’s the best listener in the house.  Jaymi’s going thru her 9 year old bullshit - I don’t wanna and you can’t make me.  I remember going thru this with Jaiden - I actually went to my Mom’s and asked what they did when I went thru that.  “oh you never did’ is what Mom tried telling me - YEAH RIGHT- OKAY.  I htink every child goes thru it one time or another right?

It’s everywhere. My oldest daughter is a preteen. She came to me a few weeks ago and told me she was scared. Scared of older girls at her school asking her to smoke. They haven’t but was scared they were going to. She then joined a group to help her deal with the peer pressure that surrounds her. I’m not worried a whole lot, I’m sure she’ll find her own little way to deal but the fact she came to me and said she wanted to join this group, I was proud of her.

We stop at the Gas station almost everyday after we drop off the younger kids at school. The stations is always filled with teeny boppers waiting to go to school, all sittin there chuggin Red Bulls and different kinds of energy drinks. I overheard one (really young looking ) girl asking her friend if she brought the weight loss pills.  Flabbergasted I looked at these girls, who couldn’t have been more than about 13 or 14 - both of which were stick thin.  At home I asked my oldest if she’d ever taken those kinds of pills.  Nope, she hadn’t and no one had ever asked her to.  None of her friends had either. Whew.  Thinking of all the different scenerios of peer pressure I told child she could come to me with anything and we’d find a way to handle it together.