I am so boring. It's been a couple of days since I wrote in here, and I still really have nothing to say. I never have been very good at keeping a journal or diary though. I'd let weeks go by without making an entry. I only kept up with one diary my entire life, when I was a teenager, but then I started suspecting my Mom was reading it and stopped. I still don't know whatever happened to it. I hope I tore it up and threw it away. Heh.

So, um, nothing much has went on around here. Mackenzie's teacher sent home her behavior report on Friday and she started putting the smiley face things on there. That woman makes me nuts. I can relate to a certain degree, I am as anal as they come, but damn.

Oh, something did happen today. We got a dog. We took the kids to Wal-Mart for them to buy Christmas gifts for each other, and someone was giving away some puppies. We decided to take one. She's a Feist mix, they didn't know what else she is. She's small, only about 6-8 weeks old, and is so timid. We think she was just weaned and taken from her mother, so hopefully she'll liven up. My SIL knows a good amount about dogs and said she looks pretty healthy to her. We went to the pet store and got some shampoo and a harness. They gave us some food with her, but she hasn't eaten any of it. She hasn't drank any water either, but she peed on my carpet so I know she's got fluid in her. Or, rather, it's now on my carpet. Mackenzie has carried her around since we got her, barely putting her down. The dog is gonna be spoiled rotten. Perhaps appropriately, she named it Princess. Ha!

Hunter is off spending the night at my sister's tonight. Not the one I haven't seen in months, but my oldest sister. SHE got a phone call from the rent to own place the other day too. We're both baffled as to why she would give our numbers out when she knows we don't know her address, phone number, or place of employment. But anyway.. Hunter loves to go spend the night with them. She has three kids too, two boys and a girl. Her boys are 10 and 7, and Hunter has a blast with them. My BIL races lawnmowers, so both boys have their own mowers that Hunter gets to ride. [They don't have a blade, and they go no faster than a regular lawnmower when you're mowing with it.]

Shelby is driving me crazy lately with her eating habits. She used to be an extremely good eater, she ate vegetables the best. She was less than a year old and Darrell wanted to start giving her tastes of his cookies, cakes, ice cream, etc. I told him not to, but it's just so fun to feed a baby junk food for some reason, and of course he doesn't have to deal with the fallout when all she wants is 'cookie!' Of course, that's exactly what happened, kids are pretty predictable like that. I don't press her to eat anything, I keep offering healthy choices, but Darrell eats so much junk food and all the kids want it. It makes it harder for me too, because I have almost no willpower when it comes to sweets. If they're not here, no biggie. But when they're here, I eat them. I think part of it is age, also; Darrell isn't entirely to blame. I'll never understand why people want to shove little baby's faces full of junk.

Wow, this was boring as hell. If you made it this far I'll give you a cookie. If you're still awake that is. Heh.