That is NOT black cat...

Just a quick update.  We had the celebration for Girl Scouts last Saturday.  My sister-in-law and I volunteered to HELP with our troops booth...ended up we ran it entirely-our troops 'leader' never came back.  Sandra and I just took turns going around to the other booths with our troop so we could get pics with the kids.  At one point, I had to leave our booth unattended because Kaitlynne got very sick.  She was fine afterwards, tho.  I could go into more 'Girl Scout Drama', but I won't...LOL!  She had a good time, for the most part.  I did, too...was fun playing with the other girls.  My friend, Cindy, runs a troop so we got to see her and her daughter, too.

Sunday was apparantly 'zoo day' at our house.  Kaitlynne went outside to play and came back in the house with a damn SNAKE!  Now granted, I like snakes...had them as pets...but I do NOT want her grabbing wild snakes and thinking it's ok!  I got so mad because I was so scared that she had done that...I'm still not positive what kind it was!  Our cat, Butters, had caught it and she went and grabbed it.  It was about a foot long or so (young).  She dropped it by the shoe pile, and it went behind it.  My husband (not-so-much a snake person...lol) called me, so I got it out with the litterbox scoop!  LOL!  Ended well, thank God.  Later that evening, I went out to the back porch and opened the screen door for the cats to come in and eat.  I went back inside, and then back out to the porch to look for something.  Alex asked me which cats were out there eating, so I say, "Butters, the 2 kittens, and black cat".  Just as I say it, what I thought was black cat turned around and it was a possum!  LOL!  I was like Holy Sh*t, there's a possum out here!  I knew we had one (I've seen it out eating in the yard before..and we do live in the sticks, afterall), but not on the porch!  The dang cats were just standing there like nothing!  I'd shew them out the door, and they'd run back in.  Anyway, ended up that we had to move a bunch of stuff off the porch to open the pathway to the door again to get him out.  After doing that, he just walked away (after he had tried to eat my broom and showed me some WICKED looking teeth!).  Of course I had to get a pic ofit first, tho!  All turned out well again, but it was an adventure! 

The rest of the week has been pretty uneventful, I guess...hard to remember all the things that go on :)  I went to the school this a.m. for an IEP meeting I called-I wanted Kaitlynne to start receiving extra services for math.  Luckily, the staff agreed w/out too much fight (hard to schedule it in there when they spend 95% of their day doing required FCAT preperation...I'm still pissed Crist got elected governor-he loves the way the education system is running.  He's obviously an idiot...).  Kaitlynne made me proud today (yet again).  Altho she is struggling so much with math, she has brought her grade up from an F at the beginning of the year, to a C now!  She doesn't know that yet, so I'm going to surprise her with doing something special this weekend with her.  I think we'll go see 'Happy Feet' :)

Anywho, not much else happening.  Did get to talk to my friend, Steph, yesterday (after 2 years of no more then the occasional email).  I hope things work out for her soon...she deserves to be happy and treated like the good person that she is.

Alex is behind me playing with Brandon and saying, "Dear Journal:  I have the greatest husband ever...".  He thinks he's joking, but he's right...I do.  I love you, honey!