Archive for the ‘Jasmine’ category

Happy 7th Birthday, Memphis!

August 12th, 2008

Ok, this post is a day late. But that’s ok.
I was worried for a few weeks because we’ve been on a tight budget. In fact, we’re behind on several bills. We just barely paid our rent today. Anyway, I wasn’t sure we were going to be able to afford to do anything for Memphis’ 7th [...] Read more »

Memphis was sort of sick the day before. And yesterday it got worse. He’s been coughing and blowing his nose constantly throughout the day. I’ve been religiously giving him medicine every 4 hours and applying Vicks on his neck and chest at night to help him sleep better. It seems to work.
We made the stupid [...] Read more »

Tyler’s Birthday Party

July 21st, 2008

Let me tell ya, my little brother is spoiled. More spoiled than I was at that age. Hell, he has his very own cell phone before he even turned 10. Mom and Nelson take him to all kinds of places, more recently a whirlwind week-long vacation to DisneyLand, Marine World (or was it Sea World), [...] Read more »

Family Time

June 30th, 2008

Marty finally agreed to take a weekend off after several weeks of hard labor for Bart. It’s been difficult for him to take a much needed weekend off because we’re still playing catch up with our bills. I know we’ll get our debt down to nothing soon. I’m so proud of him.
Since it was opening [...] Read more »

“Shut up!”

June 18th, 2008

So me and Jaz were playing an impromptu game of “up and down” with her small John Deere tractor and the wall. Memphis was watching Spongebob in my room.
Jaz was running the tractor up the wall so I said, “Up!” And when she drove the tractor down, I’d respond with, “Down!” We did that for [...] Read more »