BLUE HUE

This was before the makeup, obviously.

I spent today hanging out with my family for my nieces 5th grade culmination.  After the celebration, we had the bright idea to play with hair chalk and makeup. I got so many compliments on both my hair and makeup today. I had a lot of fun. Thanks Danyell and Amahri and congratulations Ndey.

Really, No More School Buses?

I chit chat on a fairly regular basis with my mother and she told me that they were no longer going to use school buses to transport students throughout lausd. Say what now? Soooo they pretty much want kids to stay in their communities to learn, which would be good, however, many inner city schools don't have enough resources to achieve this goal. Further more, many parents send their kids out of their neighborhood because it's just not safe! So now my little brother has to face an inevitable encounter with gang members going to the neighborhood school, or by riding public transportation to the valley. That's not to say the children shouldn't have their own drive and will to make something of themselves, but when they don't know what's out there for them, they become products of their environments.

 Why are so many resources being taken away from our children? It's like they want people to stay poor and uneducated. Why, so they can build more prisons?  They think that we don't care about our children's future? Is that it? If that was the case, we wouldn't send our kids to other cities to be taught where we know they will actually learn and have the tools to do so!  All I'm saying is stop taking away from our children! They have to run our country later and I don't want any dumbasses in charge while I'm still around! Ok I already know we have some of those, but just imagine how much worse it could be.

Don't Judge Me

Well today I had the pleasure of spending quality time with my my niece and nephew along with my children, of course.  I managed to survive feeding them breakfast without any problems, but lunch posed a problem.  We had to go to the grocery store. I get nervous when I travel alone with multiple kids, including when I just have mine! So, everyone was looking at me walking around with five kids, yes five, wondering if all these kids belong to me. I just laughed inside because I knew they weren't and they all look drastically different.  A few people were brave enough to ask and I just replied they are all in my crew, but they all aren't mine. My niece said they probably think she and my son are adopted, Lol.  For those that  don't know, they are my chocolate drops while the other are a bit more on the vanilla side. Anyway, I noticed something that I didn't expect. A lot of the African American people had a look of shame or disgust on their face. I guess they assumed the whole brewed was mine, which must mean I have multiple baby daddies, and possibly I am on welfare too! Shame on them! And even if they were all mine I'm not asking them to pay for this grocery trip! How dare they judge me as assume I fit the stereotype of a young mom with multiple kids using the system to get by. Now some may ask how do I know they ere making these types of assumptions, well this lady looked at us, scrounged up her face, and walked to another check out line.  The Caucasian people seemed more sympathetic to my situation. This lady looked like she was ready to pay for our food, on second thought, maybe I should have told her they were all mine. Anyway, why are some people so quick to judge and they have no clue what's really going on?  On a lighter note, I wonder if I looked good for being a mom of five?

MOM FILES: My Three Stooges

  I have three wonderful children, 2 boys 7 and 11mo, and a girl 6. They are my everything, inlcuding free entertainment!  There isn't a day that goes by that I don't have a new and exciting story about them.

  My seven year old is a trip. He is obsessed with Michael Jackson. I think he wants to be Michael Jackson! My in-laws bought all the older grandchildren mp3 players for Christmas and I've been tortured ever since.  At first I thought this is such a great idea! The kids can listen to their music and play their video games and not bother me!  Nope, I was wrong. What ended up happening was while he was listening to his beloved MJ, he was also singing it loud and proud for the rest of us to hear as well! His favorite song is Beat It. I now HATE that song! You hear me, hate, hate, hate that song! Oh then the battery died, yes it takes AAA batteries, and I had a tiny peice of heaven for about two days. Then he discovered daddy did buy new batteries and the torturing commenced again! *Sigh* The best part though, is the dancing! Oh yeah, he dances too! But don't ask him to do it, he will shut down real quick!   He watched MJ on youtube so he can soak up his moves and practices daily. Well if he doesn't make it as an MJ impersonator he still has a brain to fall back on.  He is very smart, thought he had tourettes though hahaha. He skipped 2nd grade so I know his future is bright.

 My daughter, oh my daughter. She is very gorgeous and smart too. I think she know's it. she tries to play people. Mmmhmmm, I know her scheme, but it doesn't work on me!  She wants to be the boss, but she isn't ready.  Not for this job!  One day when dropping them off at school, she told the seven year old, who was already at the school entrance, to come back to the car so he could close the car door.  He tried to get out of it, bless his little heart, but she insisted and low and behold he walked all the way back to the car to close her door.  Such a gentleman.  I couldn't believe it!  Then the next day he stood next to the car to wait for her to get out so he could close her door!  Sometimes she is rough like the boys. She loves to play baskeball, but my husband says she can't play in school because he thinks she will become a lesbian, whatever.  Other times she gets a little girlie and wants her nails painted and her lips to be glossy.  I love when she gets girlie, it gives us bonding time! As a matter of fact, we were so bored last night we decided to do our nails at midnight!

  My last child is such a goofball! He always has a smile on his face and I just love it! His entrance into this world was a traumatic experince, which is why I'm not having anymore. He thinks he is slick. Last night he kept trying to get into the kitchen. He would think he has outsmarted me by crawling through my legs and as soon as he is about to touch the kitchen floor, I grab him and put him back in the middle of the living room. And each time we went through this he screamed and hollered while I was putting him back in the living room, but as soon as he would make it past me, he would start laughing. Such a silly kid.  I just want to know why it's so damn hard to change his diaper now!  Doesn't mister smarty pants know the routine by now?  I lay you down, clean your butt, put a fresh diaper on and we're good to go! Oh no, it can't be that simple though. He wants to twist and turn and grab this, chew on that! Drives me nuts!  Sometimes he gives me false hope. He lifts his legs for me and hold them while I'm cleaning him. As soon as that part is done, he tries to escape!  I'm like, hey, I thought we were  working together this time. I guess not!  My sister says, he's an aquarius, they like to explore. I'm fine with that, just not while I'm cleaning up poop! Oh and did I mention his fascination with blackberry's? I wonder business he has?

 Anywho, that is an intro to my entertaining kids. I'm sure the will be the inspiration of many more blogs to come.

xoxo