As I sit in front of my computer at 3 am searching for something to fill the empty corners of my mind, I think to myself hey its quiet I can blog about some awesome things going on in our lives... Although our job situation is a complete mess and it seems that our lives are falling completely apart right in front of our faces, I realize that God is in control and that's that....

We have been consumed with T-ball for the last few months. My boys amaze me at their talent... Phillip has coached for the last three years and for those of you who know him you know that in its self is a feat... He is a great coach and there is a different side of him that comes alive when he is on the baseball field with those kids and I absolutely love to watch him... Preston is just AWESOME!... There wasn't one game that we played that a complete stranger would come up to me and say wow your son is one great ball player... We played 11 games this year and he hit 20 home-runs... Now some of you may think wait its t-ball and home-runs are no big deal but let me tell you... Preston would hit line-drives or fly balls to the grass over the kids heads... He nearly took his fathers head off more times than I could count... Each and every game that was played I would just be amazed... When he would stand up at the plate he would "BABE RUTH" point into the direction that he was going to hit and DO IT... He turned 5 double plays this season and made countless unbelievable plays on defense... Our entire team was a great group of kids with amazing talent... We watched all of the kids become better ball players and accomplish great things... We are so proud of them... We finished our season in 1st place!... My husband got drenched by several of his players and "ahem" assistant coaches (mainly just Scott) lol... But it was great and I am so proud of all of the team but especially "MY BOYS".....

On May 21st I realized once again just how "BLESSED" I am... My wonderful, very intelligent, sweet, and amazing daughter received awards for outstanding achievement in Science, Math, Reading, and Social Studies.... She is now a 5th grader... Yes all of you who just said no way.. Yes way Melisha Gayle is going into the 5th grade!!! I can't even tell you how proud of her that I am! She is absolutely one of a kind!! I sit here now and remember all the tears that fell from our eyes as time and time we tried for a baby and thought that we would never have one and then here she came!! My my my how blessed we are to be parents of this kid!!! She has one of the sweetest hearts that I know and loves God with everything that is within her... and for that I am blessed...

That same day my sweet son graduated from Kindergarten... Whew that was difficult... As I watched him march into that gym I cried... I have watched him grow into such an awesome young guy... He was voted class favorite and is a complete man's man! I remember when while I was pregnant with him I would pray that God would bless him to be anointed and to be a man's man... Well we all know that God answers prayers!!

For all of you who took time out of your day to read this post... Thank You and I am sorry...lol I know that most of my posts are about a hilarious incident around this house but this time I needed to remember just how BLESSED I am... Also due to the fact that it's the weeee hours of the morning please o please forgive the endless run-on sentences and the horrible grammar that I am sure this post is laced with!!

my crazy life....nothing is ever ever simple!!

Ok so I admit it's been like forever since I blogged last.... My life is insane.... After mom's ordeal with her sickness we then had the holiday seasons and then it went on into the new year... It seems like my days run together and I feel like the world is spinning at such a faster pace than I am going.... Anyways I thought that I would blog about a certain thing that has went on in my house... Back a few years ago I met my biological father's family well my aunts and some of my cousins... One of my cousins I still keep pretty close contact with he is 28 days older than i and we are so much alike it is kinda weird... but I wanted to lay some back ground for this story so here goes... After I met them he and I continued to talk every few days or so and one day he calls and says that he knew I had been wanting a cat for inside the house because we live in the middle of a hay field and we get mice a lot... I said yes that I did want an inside cat and he tells me that his mother-n-law had a cat that she was gonna get rid of because she had gotten a dog and the dog didn't like the cat.. go figure... So i agreed after much discussion with my family i go and retrieve the cat... Well he was HUGE i am talking 13 lbs HUGE... but he was so sweet ... she begins to tell me the story of how when she bought him she had paid for a girl and had named the cat princess bell... The cat lived as a girl for the first 9 months of his life until she took him to the vet to have "her" fixed... well the vet then gave her a very big surprise but by this time the cat was being called bell or princess for short... so we have jokingly called him our homo cat... now that the foundation has been laid i will now tell you what has transpired over the last month or so.... when we got him we changed his name to fat cat.... i felt that he had live a double life for long enough.... well a couple weeks ago fat cat was caught trying to urinate on my brand new bed that i got for Christmas... so he was in quite a bit of trouble... well when i got home that afternoon he had messed on my brand new couch that i had also gotten for Christmas so needless to say he got a pretty good spanking... but all of this is WAY out of his character... so i knew something was wrong... I put him in the kids bathroom with food water and his own litter box... the next morning i went in to check on him and he had blood all over his hind quarter... well i immediately thought oh no he's got the kitty cat cancer... lol so i took him to the vet and they thought as i did that he had the kitty cat cancer... so i left him for them to run some tests on him and the next day they call and tell me that he has the kidney stones... i thought oh my how horrible so they tell me that they are going to cath him and give him meds and he should be able to come home the next day... so the next day i call and well he is still not so good... at this point they are concerned that he may die so they suggest that they continue with the cath and for me to call on monday... so monday rolls around and i call to check on him and they tell me that they have done three caths so far and nothing is working and they will have the dr call me back .... so i think ok they are gonna want to put him to sleep ... so i brace myself for that and more so for the bill attached to the FREE 300.00 cat .... well the dr calls and you can tell that what he is wanting to tell me isnt good cause he has "the tone"... so he goes through the entire spill of the processes that got us to this moment in time and the next words i heard sent a complete and utter shock right to the core of me....

"mrs holcomb he is not well .... everything we have tried has failed up to this point... i am afraid there is only one option.... we must amputate his penis!!!!!!"

well those of you who know me know that i have to find the humor in everything so my immediate response was... so doc what's a sex change running for a cat these days?? well the dr lost it... he just died laughing as did i because i thought there was no way at all that he could be serious... but he was ... after we both regained our composure he tells me that he would amputate his penis and make him like a girl cat on the outside... i was in disbelief... i mean come on this cat lived like a girl for the first 9 mo of his life and now that he has finally gotten to life as a man fate has so graciously given him this card!!! HILARIOUS!!!!

I then tell him that he must figure my bill and call me before i will know if i can do this or not but in the end i had no choice cause they called phillip to get the ok...

As of today i have a decision to make .... do i continue to call him FAT CAT or do i now call him BELL or Princess... because he has no winkie as my son so lovingly explains....