IF TONI HAD A BLOG

I got this from my dear friend Toni today.

If I had a blog, today I would write: Today for about the 35th time in my life, I was able to wish my friend Dee "Happy Birthday". Being the kinda friend I am I wanted to be the first. At 7:20 am I called her and said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY" . And instead of a laugh or a thanks, I get "Your waking up my kids!". Now prior to calling I did put some thought into it and I think, Marty gets up early for work and the kids probably have to be in school by 8:00am or around then, Dee works at 7:30 so they should all be up now, it's Dee's Birthday and they are all probably up giving her a Birthday cup of O.J.to get her off to work. Right?... Wrong! I ask "what time do they get up?" Dee replies "7:30". Now I'm thinking if I had just waited a mere 10 more minutes, my nearest/dearest/oldest friend would have been happy to hear from me instead of being perturbed of my waking her kids up a measly 10 minutes early. The good news is, I have learned from my mistake and will not do it again next year. I will try instead next year to wish her the last "Happy Birthday" she hears for another year. Problem is I'm kinda stressin about what time the kids go to bed! My luck 9pm and I will be calling at 9:10.

The Pioneer Press

For those of you who do not or have never lived in the great city of Chicago, we have a local paper called he pioneer press. Each area has there own, for example, mine is called the Harlem/Irving Times.

Long story short... Yesterday, I am sitting at footbal and this one mom hands me the paper and says, "check it out" it was from the Parade on Sunday. Right there on the cover was the Vikings boat and they actually got close enought so you can see the kids. Guess whose mug is right there in the middle?

MICHAEL AUGUSTINE CASEY

As soon as I can log on the the site, I will try to download the picture.

Storms

Jessica's daughter Sam is so afraid of storms. I always thought that was strange because Sharon(Jess' mom), Toni & Jess were always doing scary things. Living with ghosts, hanging at the graveyards and what not. So for Sam to scared was weird to me.

Now I know what Jess goes through with Sam. Mary Jo has officially become afraid of storms. We have a doozie of a couple of 3 days ahead of us due to IKE.

I was going through some pictures and found 2 pictures I took one morning.




I am sure this weekend will bring more cool shots.

New Toy

We just could not resist. The best toy we bought in a long time.

Holds 100 cd's and you can change them out if you get bored. How cool is that.

ARE YOUR READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!!

Well it has arrived, opening day for the NYA Football league. They really go all out for this day. It was pretty cool. The boys had a blast. First we started the day off at 8:30 a.m. to the head of the parade route where we decorated the floats/boats and cars.




Then at 9:30 the Parade left the bank lot and off to Norridge Park we went.



Had a little Pep Rally.



The "A" team played at 12:00 so we sat around and watched that game then....it was GAME TIME!






We lost 12 - 0. They played a good game and we will get them next time.

My 2 FAVORITE FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Toni is too funny

Okay, every day I get to work & immediately check my e-mail for something from Toni. Toni send me the funniest stuff. I actually crack up at my desk. My co-workers probably think there is something wrong with me but I could care less. She is H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S.

Today I get to work and.....NOTHING :( so I e-mailed her to see whats up. She told me to give her a chance. Now I know whatever I get back is gonna be good because I have now challenged her.

Here is what I got:

There was these to beautiful ,thin, high teenage girls. They used to love the guys. Somehow they ended up with the ones with some teeth missing, reeked like tolly, no job, no money, no cars (or junk cars if they were lucky) no prospects, plan old white trash. Regardless without there boyfriend's meeting any kind of standards (well none had acne anyway) these girls ALWAYS had a good time. Hanging out in a gas station (the owner ended up shot in the face) hanging out in a dingy apartment playing sorry with a loser who probably jacked off the minute they left. Or hanging out in another apartment playing darts in another loser's apartment who probably jacked off when they left too. Skipping Thanksgiving with their family's to go to the neighborhood drug dealers house who told them about "putting an ice cube in their box". Staying anywhere overnight even the lake just not to go home drunk to their parents. I would love to see how those 2 turned out. I wonder do they still hang out. Do they have family's that BBQ together now. Do they still reminice (how do you spell that damn word) about the days they were just stupid? I hope they do because nobody could ever understand or get all the jokes that came out of those years that were in reality a damn joke when you look back on them......

Now some of you are probably like.."what the heck does that mean?" Well there are only a handful of people that can understand it & I am happy to say they are my bestest friends!

Football Season is upon us

This is our 3rd week of football practice. I am so proud of my boys. They are playing tackle football at Norridge park. We are officially a part of the Norrige Youth Association.

My theory is to put my kids in every sport that is offered and then let them decide which one they want to do after they have given them all a shot. I know it sounds crazy and you are probably thinking...no wonder she has lost all control.

They have 4 teams in this league. Bears, Packers, Cardinals and Vikings. We are the Vikings. We actually have kids on the team we know, kids we go to school with and some new kids that are really great kids with really great parents.

I am glad I put them in this. I hope they like it as much as I do. I like my new found friends.

GO VIKINGS GO!!!