May I Please Be Excused

Ok. So I like my children to be polite. And well behaved. And have good manners.
So everytime they finish a meal-meaning they have cleared their plates and want no more additional servings they have to ask the adult at the table "May I please be excused?" and only after being given permisssion may they get up and remove their cup and plate from the table.
The girls were just finishing up dinner, and Jessie finished first and asked if she could be excused-her plate was clear-so I said yes and she cleared her place and went to her room. Not two minutes later do I hear "may i please be excused" again.....but it's not Nina's voice...I turn t Trin and I go "What did you say?" and she says it AGAIN! I'm quite sure she has no idea what the majority of the words in that statement mean but she has recognized that, collectively, they represent the completion of a meal-b/c her plate was CLEAR.... and I said "are you finished? no more?" and she said "finished" and gave me her plate and spoon.
my big-big girl.

Tony Toni Tone

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh....what is up, what is up?
Hmmmmm......
I got to see my fetus. It's so small....but I saw the heartbeat and had a "moment", lol. God I am a sensitive bitch. There's just one in there, thank the lord. Now Van can stop with the "triplets" jokes. I'm 159 lbs....which isn't so bad considering I average like 170 when I'm not pregnant. My midwife....is....well she wasn't mean....or rude....or a total bitch or anything.....but I could tell that she was judging me. Judging the fact that I was poor....and unwed....and......colored. And the whole racial thing it SHOULDN'T be an issue this day and age but dammit.....this place was huge. It was MASSIVE. At least 30 examination rooms. And baby pictures EVERYWHERE. On every spare inch of wall space. And none (that I saw) were black. Now maybe they gave the ethnic babies their own "special" wall-I'm not saying I combed the entire place....but I know what I saw and I know how I felt. But....it's either this....or some neighborhood hospital like St. Mary's or Elizabeths or Norwegian again.......and those spots are too fucking niggerish-I have insurance now dammit-my baby deserves some good prenatal care.
Whatever. We'll see where this goes.

I start 10 hour days at the job next week and yes thats long and I'm already pregnant and tired-but it means an extra day off-and that means an extra day-at home-with my babies-so it's worth it.
I'm fixin to buy a car soon. So hopefully that will aid in the "missing Ashley" syndrome. I just hate to drive that wreck of a truck ANYWHERE.....you never know about it and it wastes so much gas! So I never go anywhere. But if I have a car that works..........you see where I'm going with this don't you?lol.

Anywho.....
I know I haven't posted anything blasting the cow lately but the heifers been behaving herself. I myself am making an effort to be civil. It's not really my nature-cuz once I hate you-I hate you-and there is no coming back, but I've got alot of balls in the air and a bun in the oven and I'm needing all the good karma I can get r/n. I am trying to focus my chi into an all postive energy mass-whatevertf that means.....

My b-day is creeping up.....I'm not doing anything. I have no plans. I will have no money. But whatever-i'll be off-so thats cool. I'm considering getting a sixpack of that SHARPS shit. The "nonalcoholic" beer.....so maybe I can pretend this is a "normal" 21rst birthday.

Alrighty....I have laudry to do. Peace out nyckas.
And remember. Stay white.

I REALLY wanna know. I do. Seriously.

Now let me see...hmmmm.....would you rather......

know it all or have it all

have sand in your shorts or water in your ear

be the sandcastle or the wave

own a ski lodge or a surf camp

kiss a jellyfish or step on a crab

have a great job in antarctica or be flipping burgers in Tahiti

overthrow a dictatorship or lead one

have one song playing in you head forever or have to say "like" before every sentence

write the worst book in history or record the worst song

have one wish granted today or three wishes granted ten years from now

give up your computer or your pet

always have exact change or know the right time

have the stars in your eyes or eyes in the back of your head

be able to hear any conversation or take back anything you say

end hunger or hatred

publish your diary or make a movie about your most embarrasing moment

eliminate one emotion or invent a new one

live in a world without color or without music

be able to read minds or solve everyones personal problems

get even or get over it

be a dog named killer or a cat named fluffy

be stranded on a desert island alone or with someone you can't stand

be ambidextrous or multiligual

smell good or look good

give bad advice or take it

never be sick or never be sad

get to rename every street or rename yourself

be forced to lie to your best friend or tell the truth to your boss

It's Like Woah

    So I was bored....and I started workin on my baby registry @ Target. It's not so much a gift registry as a "shit-i hope-i-can-afford-by-the-time-the-critter-gets-here-and-ogod-please-don't-let-it-be-twins" wish list. I'm not having a shower this time. It was too much fucking work last time. I don't know anybody that has the motivaion to throw one for me.And honestly-I don't have enough people that like me to have a decent amount of people there. Yup.So yeah. but I'd thought I'd share the list...just in case anybody knows someone who's really rich and generous and has a soft spot for indigent, pregnant, mulatto females.




God I'm tired. Can you tell I'm tired? I'm working 8 days straight thru this week-to afford SOME of the crap on my list. Yeah right. To pay off some of these past due bills-so we can move. Or maybe-get a car that has a LESSER chance of bursting in to flames at any given moment.oooooo-or beds--we are short two whole beds in this household. But(thanks to yours truly-momofthefuckinyear) we're no longer in dire need of clothes that fit for the children. I got nina like 5 new pairs of 10/12 pants-so she can stop squeezing herself in to the 8's. And Jessie has inherited the 8's plus another two new pairs. The 6's have been permanently removed from their wardrobe. THEY DON'T FLOOD ANYMORE-THANK YOU LORD JESUS. So....I got SOMETHING accomplished this weekend. Yay. Trin's a massive, massive child. And, quite frankly, I'm sick of it. She's not even two yet-but she wears a 3T-4T in pants. And she wears her sisters shirts! If put a 2T shirt on her (which I have-cuz mommy gets tired and sometimes we run low on laundry 'round hurr) her belly hangs out. It looks like a sports-bra.lol. I know. I know.
You know-she walks just like her dad. I watch them walk together and they just....have the same....gait. I dunno. And I don't knoe if it's imitation or if their just built the same so it's natural. Sometimes Jessie will walk like her mom-but it's not natural-it's just subconscious imitation. Cuz her mom is all fat and she's got all this wieght in the front of her so she walks almost....hunched over kinda....imagine the stance of Mr. Burns with the body of Comic Book-Guy. There ya go. It's not cute-cuz Jessie is the farthest thing from fat this family has got. lol.

I'm so tired. But it's ok. This state is only temporary-tho it feels like forever.

I'm tired. But I'm happy. And I smile still. So don't worry.

Here's some things that make me smile. Maybe they'll make you smile too.

My baby when she sleeps

My girls when "it's all good"

Van's Manwife and his ridiculously old dog

Kisses!

My hungry, hungry hippo.

When cars drive through  our friends' bedroom-and the police don't believe us when we call-cuz we're in da hood.

This buffet of manliness




That is all. Carry on.

(if you can't see the pix-you're not trying hard enough)

My Kid

Not only did she just PEE all over my floor-but during and after the act-she had the nerve to clap.

My name

These are the most popular baby names from 1985

Rank	Male name	Female name
1	Michael	Jessica
2	Christopher	Ashley
3	Matthew	Jennifer
4	Joshua	Amanda
5	Daniel	Sarah
6	David	Stephanie
7	James	Nicole
8	Robert	Heather
9	John	Elizabeth
10	Joseph	Megan

These are for 2005

Rank	Male name	Female name
1	Jacob	Emily
2	Michael	Emma
3	Joshua	Madison
4	Matthew	Abigail
5	Ethan	Olivia
6	Andrew	Isabella
7	Daniel	Hannah
8	Anthony	Samantha
9	Christopher	Ava
10	Joseph	Ashley

PLEASE****NOTE**** THAT ASHLEY IS STILL IN THE TOP 10 20 MICKEYFICKIN YEARS LATER-SO STOP HATIN ON MY NAME. YES-IT IS COMMON(AND WHITE-SHUTHTEHELLUP)BUT IT IS POPULAR SO THAT MEANS IT MUST BE LOVELY. ASSHATS.


Anywho......
whats the baby's name gonna be....some people are superstitious-like if you tell people the baby's name before it's born it'll DIE-OMG! But I don't believe in such nonsense...
If it is a boy it will unquestionably be Verlander Thompkins III-I don't have a choice-so don't bitch and moan to me.
But if it's a girl I have more options.....I'm leaning hard towards Anck-Su-Namuhn Druj Thompkins(yes, I'm fucking serious, thankyouverymuch) but I also like Nafia Elise; Princess Laya; or Ashlita Mia....
My name is so common and generic it has given me a complex....lol. i want my kids names to be different and memorable ya know....it sux to be "whats-her-name"....plus thats such a fucking kick-ass part of having a kid-YOU GET TO NAME IT! Ahhhhh.....it's the little things......

THIS IS WHAT MY BABY LOOKS LIKE!

Your Body
Your waistline may begin growing this week, though you're probably not yet showing. If you press your abdomen, you may feel your enlarged uterus. It's about the size of a softball. 

 

Your Baby
Your embryo is about 8mm long, and an ultrasound done now would detect the tiny thumping of the heart. Although all your baby's major organs have formed, they are not fully developed or functional yet.

Did You Know? Women who have already had a child have weaker abdominal muscles and ligaments than those having their first baby, and they usually begin to "show" far earlier. It's as though the belly says, "Oh, THIS again!" and flops and pops!

Twins? It's hard to tell this early, but pregnant women carrying multiples often have the following early symptoms: A faster rate of weight gain Faster growth of the abdomen and increased itching on its surface A feeling of heaviness in the pelvis or vagina A greater tendancy to retain water Varicose veins Increased fatigue

For Dad To help reality settle in and make mom happy, try to accompany her on the first prenatal visit. Turn the day into a celebration with a meal out at her favorite restaurant.

"If there is a measure of good parenthood, it could be when your children exceed your own achievements." Tom Haggai