Something Like This Only Happens to Dumb Girls

Has it really been almost a year since i have stopped in and looked at this thing?  How sad and how scary is that truely???  and how in the fuck do i catch a year up in a post.....

Ok run down time...
jack and i are still doing our happily ever after, thank god... and have recently come back to the foundation of our relationship to renew that.  Still a learning experience every day and i wouldn't pass it up for all the chocolate bars in the world.

Maggie is going to be 4 at the end of this month and starts preschool tomorrow.  It is all very new and exciting!  She makes her dad crazy but I keep telling him that is her job.  she is VERY inquizitive and wahts to know everythign about everything... and everyone.  the girl knows no stranger and to be honest that frightens me a little.

Jack v2.0 is just over a year old.. finally off the breast (the teeth were really starting to wear on me).  Walking a dozen or so steps at a time... of course you can still see the light go off in his head when he realizes that crawling is faster and hits the deck.  His best friend in the world is our dog.... i swear if cassidy didn't know she would be in trouble for getting in his crib she would hop right up there and stay the night with him.

My sister is now pregnant with her first and we are goign like crazy to plan her baby shower.  Ok i am going like crazy bc well it is here in indiana while she is living in texas... so really she is just showing up and collecting presents i am doing the rest.  and talk about hormonal.  if i am like that when i am pregnant then someone needs to kill me.

Speaking of pregnant jack and i are talking about number 3 but i really don't know.. part of me feels like i am not done having kids... part of me is screaming wht the fuck are you thinking..... you just now got to sleep all the way through the night.  Who knows what is really in store for me....

ok i have to run draining the pool today... as always i am gonna promise to update and we all know that is probably untrue... hugz and luv.

now i will spam you with pics.. :)
Maggie and i hamming for the camera.


maggie took this one of me and jack.. yup i am a baby wearer.


poor bored baby, he has nothing to do.. he isn't surrounded by a million toys or anything.

Wow, I really shouldn't be writting here when i am extremly sleep deprived.  Just wanted to thank those of you that took the time to read that verbal vomit i was spitting out last night.... talk about stream of thought typing.  I promise with more sleep it will get better.

Is it possible, could i maybe really keep up with this thing. I am embarrassed that it has taken me this long to even attempt to get any of my thoughts out of me and on "paper". So I will try and smoosh this all out and get something coherent going here.

So we had our big day. Our amazing day, my mother loves to say our blessed day. Jack Anthony left my body and began his own life on June 24th (yes it took me 3 months to slow down enough to type it here). I ended up having my labor induced, bc for some reason my body wouldn't let me just stay in labor, it was stop and start for 2 days. Finally as the doc was trying to send me home from the hospital, I explained to her I wasn't leaving with out a baby. So on to pitosin train. And labor labor labor. Around 8 pm, when i had been in labor for close to 24 hours with out my water breaking, I finally got my epidural. Yeah that was a freakin' ordeal and a half. The anthesiaoligst who was dishing out the needles that night, also felt the need to yell at me and tell me i was being uncooperative. He also yelled at the nurse who was trying to help him, and help me get through this whole thing. And raised his voice at Jack. I strongly think if Jack hadn't had been 100% trying to help me, he would have decked the guy. He ended up stickin' me like 6 times before he was able to get it right. And even then for some reason it didn't work on one side, the left side i could still feel everything. right side nothing... I let the nurses know so they had me roll on my side to try and get it to "float" over. no luck... then my water breaks... yay!!!!!!!! this is the only thing my body had ever done naturally as far as the pregnancy. they attach the internal monitor and about 2 minutes later I have about 3 of my nurses and 2 nurses from nicu in my room. Apparently when ever i contracted the babys heart rate was dropping severly. they infromed me that I may have to have a c-section. From that time to Jack being born was about 28 minutes. they had me knocked out cut into and the baby born. Some how he had wrapped himself up in his cord, it wrapped around his neck 2.5 times and was cutting off his vitals when ever i contracted and my body squeezed him. I honestly don't remember um anything about his delivery, bc they had to knock me out. the epidural wasn't working correctly so there was no chance of them just upping it, or a spinal block. i got the whole trip intibation and knocked out. non the less Jack Anthony came out as perfect as perfect can be. And we were all, still are, very excited and pleased he is here.

Maggie recently turned 3 and is the total princess of the world. She also seems to have grasped the idea of going potty... this makes me EXTREMELY HAPPY! Changing one persons diapers is enough.. didn't need to be doing 2 of them. Maggie has adjusted pretty well to the whole little brother thing. She loves to snuggle him and give him kisses. And was even good about sharing her room with him, well his crib. he is rarely in the crib still fits in the bassinet so since he is breast feeding i keep him close. Her fave thing to play currently is princess' and she demands that you call her princess maggie or she will not talk to you. Unless she has decided that i am maggie and she is mommy.. and then you have to call her princess mommy.

From someone who swore she would never have children, never get married... it is sometimes really hard for me to fathom the idea that i sit here "married with children". I still don't know how i do it. I have no clue how i survive on so little sleep. I don't know how i don't explode when i hear the question "why?" for the 3827489379287398 time a day. And i still melt when i see maggie sleeping in her bed smiling faintly. There is no way i would trade this life for anything i ever thought i "should" have. I am amazed on a daily basis and i just think there is no topping that.

Ok now on to the pics......



Jack just a few hours old, cute isn't he?



The new family

If you want to see all the pics feel free. http://picasaweb.google.com/keightm/JackAnthonyKoker#

And i will leave you with one of our princess....



Thank you for wading through my babble.

Still pregnant.. not much more to report then that... we are to the point where if i go into labor, they won't stop it. so i am hoping to go into labor.

A morning to myself, what shall I do? I am voting on sitting around in Jammies as long as physicaly possible.

Jack voted on laundry, and cleaning the back room..... so well i am doing laundry and the back room is picked up. He is out doing Daddy daughter day with the Maggers. Which means they are doing all the errands I hate to do. Bank, dry cleaning, all of those fun fun things. I know they went to the bakery to get me a cake for tomarrow. Maggie has been talking about cake for about um 5 days now. That kid is just crazy for a sweet. As can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xz6Zb8jl9s . This video was taken in Feb. when Kala and her daughter were up visiting, so if any of you are wondering who that other kid is, it is Mackinzie. We were on our way to the bath tub when the Maggie noticed pie on the kitchen counter... lol! it old you crazy for sweets, but oddly not that crazy for candy... Has to be some sort of baked good for her.

Tonight we are all going to go to dinner at Yara's with her son aiden. We have done much hanging out with the kids around. So hopefully it will go well. Aiden is like 8 i think, so much older then maggie... *fingers crossed*

Have a great weekend!

Ok this came in my email today and made me spit water on my keyboard so i must share!



Summer Classes for Men at
THE
ADULT LEARNING CENTER

REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED
by Monday, May 26,2008
NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL
OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM

Class 1
How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays--Step by Step, with Slide Presentation.
Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.
Class 2
The Toilet Paper Roll--Does It Change Itself?
Round Table Discussion.
Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00 for 2 hours.
Class 3
Is It Possible To Urinate Using The Technique Of Lifting The Seat and Avoiding The Floor, Walls and Nearby Bathtub?--Group Practice.
Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PM for 2 hours.
Class 4
Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor--Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.
Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.
Class 5
Dinner Dishes--Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?
Examples on Video.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning
at 7:00 PM
Class 6
Loss Of Identity--Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.
Help Line Support and Support Groups.
Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM
Class 7
Learning How To Find Things--Starting With Looking In The Right Places And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Screaming.
Open Forum
Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.
Class 8
Health Watch--Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health.
Graphics and Audio Tapes.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.
Class 9
Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost--Real Life Testimonials.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined
Class 10
Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?
Driving Simulations.
4 weeks, Saturday's noon, 2 hours.
Class 11
Learning to Live--Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.
Online Classes and role-playing
Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined
Class 12
How to be the Ideal Shopping Companion
Relaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.
Class 13
How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy--Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other Important Dates and Calling When You're Going To Be Late.
Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offered.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.
Class 14
The Stove/Oven--What It Is and How It Is Used.
Live Demonstration.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.



Upon completion of any of the above courses,
diplomas will be issued to the survivors.

Just so everyone knows nextel phones will not survive a cycle through the washer and dryer... Just ask my husband.... Looks like i will be getting a new phone for mothers day. Not what i was planning on but well with me being this pregnant we both can't be with out phones.

My stomach has really taken on a life and entinty of its own. We have officaly gotten to the warm up stage as i like to call it. The little one inside of me has decided to train me to its sleeping schedule, i only get to sleep for about 2 or maybe 3 hours at a time. The little one is regularly doing full rolls, that has to be the most amazing feeling. All though not the most comfortable.

I miss my family like crazy lately. Mom and Dad should be back in indiana before the baby is born, but probably not mid to late June. And with gwen living part time here and texas, i feel like i never get to see her. Why did the silly Army have to station Adam in the middle of no where. At least i still have the adoptive family around.... Laura and Yara are the best 2 sisters i could have ever picked....

Back to real life with me, have a family room that needs to look less like a disaster zone, and a kitchen that needs cleaned.


a pic of maggie and gwen at gwens wedding :)

Ok so wow 2 posts in one day... lemme tell you i am on the roll... ok really maggie is being really quite and i have the wind open and the breeze is coming in and it is REALLY nice... and then ofcourse my phone has to ring....

Let me start this by saying, we do not have the best relationships with Jacks 2 older daughters (one natural, and one foster care). There is some bad blood that went down between them, something to do about when the girls went back to live with their mother. there are about a million different versions of the story.... but anyway we only hear from the girls when they need something. Or when one of them feels the need to tell on the other for something. No calling to see how things are, or coming up to visit, if there is not promise of money involved.

Well today Kris calls bc she needs money. I ask why and can not get a direct answer... during the conversation i do find out that the boyfriend was arrested for contributing to minors. But when i ask if the money is to bail joe out she won't answer me, just changes the subject back to how poor she is and blah blah blah....


well i hate to say it like this but i have too.. she needs to get off of her lazy baby makin' ass and get a JOB.... Since Jack and i have been together she has had 2 children, 1 more on the way (which by the way she hsan't told us about yet, her sister did). IN that same time she has had 1 job for um about 2 months..... We have given her 2 cars, so she can go and get a job and such. Both of them she has either let someone else drive and wrecked or she ran with out oil and blew the engine up. And then ofcourse got pissed off that we couldn't pay to fix it.

Don't get me wrong i understand helping your family out, but where do you draw the line. Where do the kids get old enough that they realize that they have kids and they need to be not only responsible for their own lives but for those of their children. I often find my self sitting at the computer just staring in disbelief, at myspace or where ever kristina or kala have chosen to blog or voice their opinions about what a horrible dad they have. Or what an ogre i am, or even better the blog post that mentioned that I should get a job, bc we couldn't afford to send kristina 500 dollars right before christmas. I am sorry girls but we are not made out ofmoney, and we do also have our own bills. I can not afford to pay ours and yours.

thank you for reading the rant... i think i will nap now.

Yes this is yet another confession from the bad lj'er. I am not sure when or wher i lost my taste for blogging, but it just kind of went away. some days I do miss it but most, well honestly I don't even think about it. Ofcourse some days it is hard to think of anything other then what is right infront of you, or in my casse some days what the heck is going on with my stomach.

So to catch you all up in no praticular order.....
*my sister got married.
*my daughter flashed the wedding photographer her panties repeadatly at the wedding.
*jack and i found out that his oldest daughter is pregnant again with her 4th child. (gives you all time to clmb back in your chair after falling out)
*my sleep is all messed up.
*Ultrasound tech says the baby in tummy is boy, doctor says it is a girl, and from the pictures she would not have given us a conclusive answer. *sigh*
*i want to move, i hate our house.
*if we are to move i need to go back to work full time.
*i rarely get to watch grown up tv any more, bc i have a new found appreciation for quite.
*maggie is officaly in a big girl bed.
* i have a mad and crazy girl crush. mmmmmmmm girls.

Well i am off, need to get ready for my doc appointment. Hope all is well in all of your worlds. Drop me a line or a comment sometime!

i can't promise you that i will update more, but i can tell youthat i may think about trying to.

I may be alive... but i am a bad bad lj'er....... Things are going long as expected around her. Still pregnant.. Almost 30 weeks along now... 30 out of 40 not a bad deal right?? WEll it depend on who you are on that... i am FREAKING out!!!! I am sooo not ready or prepared for this yet. I guess since well when i had maggie, i didn't have anything else going on.. my whole time was spent obsessing about her coming. Well now almost all of my time is still obsessed with her but this time it is potty training. Which by the way is an experiment in and of itself.

I havne't even gotten the baby stuff out yet to look and see what we still need to get. I think today i may just have to sit down and make a list. Jack is home today so I will make him go out and drag everything out of the storage in the garage, and go through it.

Ofcourse Maggie will want to help. And so will Mackinzie... oh yeah i havne't mentioned that yet... my Step daughter and her daughter have moved in with us momentairly for the 3rd time in a month... yeah i am losing my head.... and it is going fast!!!!

Ok need to chase someone....

By the way, we are having a boy :) Jack is VERY VERY VERY excited. His name will be Jack Anthony . Yes john i know it isn't frank or anything like that. sorry!

I am alive, baby still on the inside, we have a cold. And i miss my friends :(. but in other news my mom is already home for christmas so that is nice. and as long as the doc doesn't mind me being in the car for a long time we are going to drive down to GA to see Gwen graduation mid jan.

Maggie is totally n love with HO-HO as she calls santa... but she doesn't even understand that he brings presents. it is kind of cute.

God all i want is some fresh fruit salad, with blueberries, and strawberries, and bananas, and well everything! someone come make me some salad.

Why didn't any of you remind me how much "fun" I am while pregnant???? Or how much time i spend puking. I think baby x, is making me puke more then maggie ever did! it is really insane, if you ask me. This time around I am seeing a new doc, and she did some tests. My progesterone is low :(. So I am on a supliment once a day until my next appointment. Oh yeah i am also on pelvic rest..... read no sex or orgasms for kaytm. This also until further notice :(. sorry i am just whining1 but i am sad/happy. sad for the difficulties happy bc well there is a baby in me. We shall see what happens.

So if any of you still read here. I found out recently that Jack and I are expecting baby number 2!!!!!!!! *JUMPS UP AND DOWN SQUEEING*. I am due in the end of june, so i am still very freshly preggie. Jack and I are both very excited, and well maggie, is maggie....... she just looks at us and says "fish". I guess that is what i get for calling her nemo the whole time she was in utero! I will keep you guys updated.

As some of you know the wireless card went out on my laptop. So on July on july 26 I packaged it up , and sent it off to the spa (repair).... And they tell me that i will have it back with in 12 buisness days.... I confrirmed teh 12 buisness days with them multiple times. So when on monday i get and email telling me that they have changed their mind and i will not see my laptop till Setp 17th?!?!?! I hit the roof... and started the chain of calls. The first guy is an ass on the phone with me, but esculates my incident to a case manager, and tells me that I will get a call back Monday night. So when I don't get a call, i called yesterday morning... Talked to Sandra who was very nice... and she told me that it normaly takes 24-48 buisness hours to get a call back.. So i tell her that is unacceptable since they set the expectation of last night orginaly and i wasn't accepting her answer (starting to really get furious here, second expectation they set and fell through on)..... so she calms me down some and sends an email to my case manager. telling me if i don't hear fromt hem by 3 or 4 to give them a call back. So i was nice and waited till4.. and called back.. and started to get the run around again... from a guy who barely spoke english.... at this time i am totaly livid.... and yelling.. mostly bc he keeps intrupting me. he just keeps telling me that i have to wait 48 some odd hours.. i explain to him i am not getting off the phone till this is resolved.... finally i end up talking to hismanager.... who puts me through to someone in case management..... Who at first is a total bitch to me... but finally worked it out... as of right now they are putting my dead laptop back together for me, and sending it back... it will still work with cat 5 cable. and she is putting together a new laptop together for me... which will take about 10 days she says. So that is where we sit and we will see what happens.

As far as the new laptop they are swtiching me from a compaq pesario, to an hp pavilion. And i think through my anger i hear her say that she has about $2400 to work with, so we will see waht happens. She swears taht in no way shape or from i will be downgraded. So keep your fingers crossed for me.

Bunch of crap going on right now.. but i don't want to be negative! so right now i will jsut let you know that my birthday has started almost a month early. And the first prezzie has arrived.



yay for hello kitty sewing machines!

had the whole family here for a bit.. now just back to having mom and dad in town. so yeah that is my life.... here are some pics :)

Here is the WIP photos of the inveeeesible (yes i pronounce it like that everytime i say it) shawl.

This is the first photo on 6/25/07. I casted on about a week earlier but hadn't found the groove yet.




6/27/07 the day of the invasion of ducks... and allergy attacks but that is another story for another day. we show some progress.... and i am starting to hit my stride.


This was this morning 7/2/07. Notice we can no longer see my monitor on the laptop. that makes me soooo giggly and happy it is insane! I could never thank my SP 10 pal enough for sending me the Charmed Knits book! it is so awesome any yummy! and i love this shawl!


My new kitchen utensils. My friend Brian sent this on to me when he saw Jack the other day. :D how cute are they? My spaghetti strainer had a smiley... the ice cream scoop has a odd body form and smiley that is hard to see. And my veggie peeler has boobs! Oddly enough the boobs make a good thumb rest! thanks Bri!


Did you think you were getting away with out a maggie pic??? this is how maggie would like to spend her sunday mornings. Sitting on her safari truck, in a diaper reading her toy catalog. That is the way to start the perfect day.