A hero has fallen

Many of you may know that Billy Mays has passed on to the great infomercial in the sky .What you may not know is that J idolized him ! He would pause the TV so i could come see the next wonderful thing i could not live with out .He loves commercials ,the one about the purse ,the weight loss pills the acne-be-gone,the mini burgers but his first love was oxy clean! I had not told him that Billy(as we are such fans we can be on first name bases)had died .I was hoping that i would not have to ,but he was on my lap one day while i was surfing the net and the head line said Billy Mays dead at 50 .As he read it you could tell he didnt really get it and i just clicked past it really fast .well last week he came into my room and very irritated said that he had just seen a oxy clean commercial and it was not Billy Mays talking! I asked him to come sit with me and explained that he had died and reminded him about him reading the aol head line then the tears started ,he told me that it made him very sad and he was sad for his family . He was up set because he would not see him on his show and he would not see him all the time on the commercials either, you know how it is when you cant see your best friend again .then a light came on above his head and he asked how old i REALLY was (i tell them i am 99) i told him and he asked how close to 50 that was ,i lied and said very very far away.i understand that when he sits down he thinks that out it will bring up all kinds of things too,but i am still in denial about it myself . I hugged him and told him that we needed to say a prayer for the Mays family because even though he was missing Billy alot and was very sad his family missed him more and they were really sad .He hugged me and i asked him if he thought that he would be ok he said yes then got down and went into his room and cried again .
Now this next part will make the other two men in my life sound cruel but i assure you that only one is being mean ...
daddy and CJ have told him a few times that he could be the next Billy Mays and be on TV too this of course brings up all kinds of things and tears for him and we start it all over again.Yes i have very sternly told them to knock it off ,and reminded them how they would feel if say the driver of a favorite monster truck would die or a maker of say a favorite cigarette would die .so I have high hope that this will put and end to all the Drama they create

theses top two pictures are of CJ and his Golf teacher at his golf lessons he started yesterday

these bottom two are of the "guys" hitting balls with my nephew

Daddy is so happy that he HAS to go to the golf course ,because it is ALL to help CJ better HIS game.

what a great giving dad

90 minutes, GONE!

If you need to know how to waste 90 LONG minutes of your life ,just ask one of my little guys.

He called his brother a dummy .So he had to write sentences.No mother i did not give him so many that it took all of that time to complete them.In my house you have the pleasure of writing one sentence per year that you are . So that does in fact mean that those 6 little sentences took 15 long loud sad torturous minutes to do .

Because i am so tired of the name calling and telling people to go to their room or spanking or any other ways that i can show that i am

"the meanest mommy in the whole wide world"

I decided to let the other brother pick the sentence that would be written .

the choices were

--my brother is a gift from God ---

I will not say hurtful words to my family ---

(or the winner) -I will treat my brother with love and respect

yep those 9 little words took one minute and 6 seconds to write

EACH.

I know that you often need to know how to waste all that extra time you have in your day .SO now you know. just have the meanest mommy in the whole wide world