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Thank God for Unlimited Text Plans

Yeah so once we lost our minds and (as a past Christmas gift) put texting on Kaylee’s cell…you know because everybody has texting.  And if she jumps off a cliff because her friends do….we’d think that was okay too.  (OMG!  I’m kidding….don’t call Children and Family Services!)

I got her the 750 text per month plan.  In my head I’m thinking…that’s a LOT of messages.  There’s no way she can possibly go over that!  Plus, we had an agreement that IF she went over, since she was working, she would pay the overage.  So how bad could it be?

She went over almost 1400.  Messages.  Fourteen hun-dred.   It was about $140.00.  I almost shit my pants when I saw the bill.  I called Alltel and talked with a real nice girl there.  She offered to put her on an unlimited plan and back date it for me.  I had no idea they could do that.  Wow~ talk about good (and generous) customer service!  I put Kaylee on the phone to thank her because that wiped out the extra $140.00.  (Which I was set to actually have HER pay)

When Middle Child got her cell, I put the text (unlimited) on hers too.  Apparently that was smart.   This evening she informed me that she was ‘sleep texting’ at 3:09am.  (She’s a sleep walker, talker, singer, screamer…and now she’s a sleep texter.)  A friend asked her this morning, why in the world she was texting him at 3:09am.  She had no idea what she was doing.  Apparently they were texting in the early evening….she musta been dreaming about it….and the rest is history.

Being a mom is a “fun activity”!

Amor Vincit Omnia

Sounds beautiful, doesn’t it? 

The phrase Love Conquers All (Latin: Omnia vincit Amor, also written amor vincit omnia ) originally appeared in Eclogue X of the Eclogues, a series of poems by Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC). 

Also, the English translation of the Latin Amor Vincit Omnia, a painting by the Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

Oooooo, that sounds b-e-a-utiful doesn’t it?  All romantic-like, conjuring images of days of old, ancient poets and amazing painters of yesteryear! Continue reading

All without leaving the driveway.

Ahhh, I seemed to have passed down to my daughter, the ‘bad driveway driving’ gene.  Today the kids decided to go to the mall.  Kaylee would drive her, her friend and Alan and Middle Child.  So a minute after getting into the car, she comes back into the house.

“Ummmm, mom? I was backing out and got to close to Christina’s car and I sorta, ummm, my mirror, ummm hit her car and my mirror is trashed.”

Me: “Oh, for God’s sake”, then I went out to see.

Well, I got outside and the dangling-by-a-thread mirror was only 1/2 the problem. I said, “Oh my God, look at the side of the car Kaylee!  What the hell were you doing?”

Kaylee: “Oh, ummm that…..(in that teenager kind of way) that’s not bad.”

Me: “Not bad? Are you kidding me? That’s gonna be expensive”

Kaylee: “Nooooo, it’s not that bad. How expensive?”

Me: “Probably about your total savings in your bank account”

So, this week will be fun filled for her visiting auto body shops getting some estimates.  Although she is very upset about it, she is at least mature enough to understand that it was her fault and she is responsible for paying for the damages.  (It’s SO nice when they mature!)

And I really couldn’t yell much, as I’ve had numerous mishaps in our driveways over the years.  Let’s just say that I’ve taken out 2 complete garage doors (pulled off the entire thing including rails) and 3 other times just sorta pulled them a little off the tracks.  But most times those were all Shane’s fault because he left the garage 1/2 shut.  (okay, okay, it was my fault ~ sorta, kinda)

Oh, btw, no damage to her friends car.  Thankfully.

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