hello

I know it has been awhile since my last post. I have been crazy busy! I haven't had time to update. The kids and I should be moving to Murfreesboro this weekend. We are moving into a VERY small apartment, but I can make it work. The will still go to school here and I will work in Lebanon, even though I will find a second job down there for weekends the kids are not home. Its actually 10 minutes shorter to go from the apartments to my uncles in Brush Creek then it is from Defeated to his house< but this way I get to be near family. Next September I am going to go to the TN Technology Center down there for LPN classes. As of right now the plan is for the kids to stay with Stephen for that year< but I am already struggling with the idea so my brain is working overtime trying to figure out how to go to school, work and keep my kids with me.

Anakin has the flu right now, which has me out of work until he is better. Which completely does not help my situation at all! The girls are all good. We just celebrated Jade's 11th birthday on the 15th!! She is also a cheerleader this year! I don't think I have mentioned that! I cant wait until games start and I get to go watch her cheer! The best thing about it is that she HAS to keep her grade up or the principle pulls them out! They got report cards today and Ms. Woodard called all the girls in to check their averages! Starla is doing great in school and loving it! There is not much to update on her...I feel bad about that!

Piper gets her own little paragraph this time because the last couple of days have been big for her. She lost her very first tooth! (Which reminds me...hold on...I gotta go let her put it under her pillow!) Ok, im back now...lol. So her very first visit from the tooth fairy will be tonite, as long as I don't forget! lol. The other major thing happened last Friday. Every week the girls ride bus 23 to my uncles house Monday through Thursday, I am always there before the bus. On Fridays they ride bus 27 to their dads house, but this past Friday I got a call from Stephen saying Piper did not get off the bus. I was already in Smyrna at that time, and honestly I wasn't that upset, I figured she had gotten on bus 23 and all he had to do was go to my uncles and get her. So he said he was going to call the school, I said I would call Uncle Joe. When he called me back he said the school had no idea which bus Piper got on. Still, at this point I was still pretty calm. I told him I was calling transportation because they could make sure Piper was on bus 23. It took the guy at transportation 10 minutes or more to reach the bus river. I could hear the radio in the background, when I heard the bus driver come back and say "Piper White is not on my bus", that's when I lost it. I almost went off the road, I couldn't breathe, I swear my heart stopped! By this point I was almost at my sisters in Lavergne, I felt so helpless and was way to upset to drive back! I couldn't do anything but wait! Almost 10 minutes later the driver of bus 23 came back and said "I have Piper, she didn't answer when I called her name before". I was SO pissed! Shes 5 years old and terrified of that bus driver because he yelled at her for eating on the bus one day. He should have pulled the bus OVER and looked for her! Of course a 5 year old hears their name yelled across a bus, they are gonna think they are in trouble and not answer! Does common sense not tell you that? The driver took her back to Uncle Joes and Stephen got her there, She was a little upset but ok. I on the other hand, it took me at least a good hour to stop crying and longer to calm down completely! I felt like I was going to be sick, and truth be told(maybe TMI) I did dry heave a couple of time, but I hadn't ate nothing that day so there was nothing to come up! I DONT ever want to feel that again! I hope no parent does!