Ahh...The Craziness Continues

So I got another email from our landlady yesterday. She forwarded an email she had received earlier in the day from our lovely upstairs neighbors. It basically said, "hey, have you talked with the Fosters about our complaints? We haven't noticed any changes in their behavior." Let me tell you...I blew my top. I have purposely not been home much at all this week during the day, and the older kids and I have been out after school daily for a few hours, basically coming home to eat and go to bed. I sent this nice email to our landlady telling her that I was very angry about all of this, that I saw the neighbor outside the night before and he had said absolutely NOTHING about too much noise to me personally, that I am miserable in my own home and it isn't fair to my kids or myself, and on. She phoned me back and was so very nice. She agrees with me completely that the complaining borders on the asinine as we are quite at night and they are complaining about everyday noise that I can't control due to the house. Apparently we are not the first that they have complained about and she is as tired of it as I am. She said she would let us out of our lease early if we felt we needed to move, which I think I will do as soon as we know where we will be going. There is nothing worse than paying $4000 a month in rent and feeling like you can't even breath in your own house for fear of pissing off the crazy neighbors. Wade, being a bit more diplomatic than I, went upstairs to speak with them. Their main complaint?...they like to sleep in on the weekends and we are up too early for them. They said it was too loud yesterday morning. Daniel and I were up at 8:30 getting ready for church as everyone else laid in bed until after 9:00. I know we didn't make that much noise. Like the landlady said, they sold their home and moved into an apartment. What the heck do they expect?

Well, onto a lighter note. Kade had his Christmas band concert last month. I didn't get any great pictures as my camera flash wouldn't compensate for the darkness. Someone took this one and posted it on the schools newletter page. Isn't he so handsome?

Celebrity Sightings

So, to date have seen...Nick Nolte, Kim Catrell, and today I saw Steven Speilberg. I think I may have also seen George Eads of CSI and Neil Patrick Harris, but it could also have been a couple of guys that just looked a lot like them.

BTW, I hate living in LA. It sucks and so do our neighbors.

What's Wrong With this Picture?

I know I have utterly failed to teach my kids anything about cleaning up after themselves when I am on my hands and knees cleaning the floors, after having picked everything up and asking them to help, and kid #1 is on the phone talking to a friend telling me she can't do anything because she has to finish her homework, kid #2 is playing on the computer, kid #4 is sleeping and given a pass as he is only 2, but kid #3 walks by me hard at work, pats me on the head and says "hey there Cinderella." I must have been channeling her really well...

Psychotic Dreaming

Wow, I had one strange dream last night. I posted the whole of it on The Lackey Legend if you want to read about it. It ended up with these two boys overlooking a field as far as you could see of totally spherical boulders each with a severed head on it. They represented everyone one of the boys had ever known. Now, I don't know what my psychie is trying to tell me, but after 2 weeks of vacation from school and attempting to keep my house semi livable while all 4 are home, I'm pretty sure I'm going a bit crazy. Add to that the fiascoes my two year old keeps creating and you can only imagine that I should pretty soon be having a complete and total melt down.

Merry Merry Christmas & Knottsberry Farms

We had a very nice Christmas and even had some visitors that day from Idaho and Alabama. We'd like to say "thanks Santa" but much more importantly thank you baby Jesus.

Daniel has learned to sing "Jingle Bells" over and over. Not the entire song, just "jingle bells, jingle bells." And he loves to say "Christmas" especially when he sees the pictures from that morning. He was a little freaked out by visiting the mall Santa, but likes to see pictures of him. Yesterday at KnottsBerry Farms on the log ride he waved to all of the animatronic elves. I have to say they all looked a bit creepy, not at all up to Disney standards. But the roller coasters were most excellent. Jacob even did this crazy water ride one all by himself.




Our hands down favorite was the Accelerator. Similar to Wicked at Lagoon, but longer and more twists/turns. Jacob was upset as he was too short for this one and the Silver Bullet.

I Ain't No DumbDumb

So, mean ole mommy is trying to cut me off again. Last week while I was sick she nursed me when I wanted, but now that I'm better, Noooooo. So, knowing that it is a night time snack only, I took her hand and walked her to the bed. Hey, I know how to work it.

Dreading the drive

Ever have those days when you just dread all of the running around you have to do? Now imagine doing it in LA's traffic. It's horrible. Thurs I literally was in and out of my car from about 11:00am to 10:00pm. I would pick up one kid, drop them where they had to be, and run (well drive) to the next stop with the next kid, and so on and so on...and so on. Between, "mom, I forgot something at the library," and "mom, I left my bassoon at school, I have to have it for my concert tonight," and "mom, I forgot something else at the library," and "mom I'm done with track," and "mom, I'm hungry", and "I need something at Staples for my school project," I never thought it would end. Today will be another one of those days. Sigh