Kids This Will Be Our Next Trip

When we went to MNPLS a couple weekends ago we came across a tractor ride. Remember the one I told you that went by our house? Well here was another one. ACCEPT this one wasn't so 'cool' b/c we were stuck in the middle of it. There had to been over 300 tractors. We were in the middle of it all. I was rather irritated b/c after all we had places to get too. But I saw a blog opportunity and mine as well laugh about it. Not that the kids understood but I said this is what we're going to start doing:

Hard to see but it's a tractor pulling this wagon of people I can see the sign already: 'RedNeck Transportation'

I kid you not there was a sign on there that said:

1/2 way $1

All the way $3

Now I don't know where they were going but I honestly can't think of a worse way to get there. It was like the entire family woke up and said lets take a tractor ride!? OK yes it was an organized tractor ride, but none the less....

Then there's this picture. Can you see DH and I doing this some day?? I hope the make a big enough seat for my ars. It could get mighty uncomfortable.

Iowa

I was catching up on blogs that I read and I read the following: Flotsam
I just had to respond to maybe dispel some of the myths but found that thru the comments there was a lot of good to say about good ol' Iowa. This was my response:
I'm from Iowa. Sitting in my old, restored, farm house while my kids are out playing with baby kittens and my husband is talking to the farm machinery guy:) our house sits along the beautiful Loess Hills that line the river. We have a creek that runs thru our land and on real quite days I can hear it. Altho with the wind that seems to be constant, it's not a sound i hear to often.I live in n'west Iowa a part of the state that is always overlooked with central (Des Moines) and Eastern Iowa getting all the 'Iowa' news.Farming is our way of life and difficult as it is, it's pretty good right now.I'm glad you got to enjoy a weekend in Iowa where yes we have vehicles, we don't drive tractors everywhere AND news flash we don't grow potato's. That's Idaho:)If anyone wants to experience farm life at it's best (well depending on the latest drama here b/w chickens, mamma drama with the kittens, kids, etc) look me up and come visit. We'd love to have ya:)

That last part about visiting.... I extend that to all you blog readers:) Seriously. I've had people come stay, I've gone and stayed with people I met thru my work, etc. We're a nice family, abet the drama that follows us, but seriously if you're looking for a not frills weekend/week away, come hang here. There really is plenty to do!!

It Is A New Day

Here I sit when I should be cleaning my house. My cousin from Arizona and his wife are coming to visit. They are visiting my G'parents so they are coming too. I'm looking forward to it and hoping they can see past our messy, uncompleted house.
Miss A is napping. She also was asleep by 7PM last night. During supper she did not want to eat TWO green beans. Just two people. She wouldn't do it. She ran upstairs and a couple minutes later I followed. I put her in her jammies, she tried to tell me she was ready to eat, and I said good night. She actually fell right to sleep. Now this AM she wanted more M&M's (organic ones...didn't know there were such a thing, BTW they are yucky) I told her no and she went upstairs. I found her asleep in bed. SOOO I'm thinking the child is exhausted and I dare bet to say a little constipated. I gave her prune juice a couple days ago, nothing! Anyone else have any other ideas? Apple Juice maybe?? A chiropractor adjustment?

In other news, you should have seen C'man and I trying to round up the chickens last night. Oh wait, here's where they live now: ok guess I don't have them downloaded yet. At any rate, there is this dirt pile covered in weeds. Yeah nothing new for us to have weeds. The chickens like it up in there. There we were trying to chase them out. C'man would climb up in those weeds and I'd sit watch at the bottom with a broom. Dang thing (only one) would run the opposite direction of my broom. EVENTUALLY and that was a long eventually we got him in. Oh yeah, I sent C'man to get Boji to help round it up. Boji didn't exactly know what he was doing, but he did get him out. Now I need to train the kittens to do it too.

This was after we walked thru the bean field trying to find Ethel's kittens. Yeah she hid them on us. You would think we could find them now that they are old enough to meow when called. But Ethel leads us the opposite direction I swear. You can follow her and watch her and you turn your back and poof she's gone. It's like how the heck does she manage to just disappear in all this open space without one of us seeing her.

She did leave one kitten behind and that one is now bunking with the new kittens. Going to be a regular cat farm around here.

Better get going now. What's new and exciting in your lives???

Momma Said....

Ahh yes another post about 'momma said there'd be days like this'. I know I've posted about this in the past but here I am again. Struggling a lot right now with this daughter of ours. Seems it's time for an attitude adjustment for both mom and daughter.
I can no longer think/remember a day, heck even an hour (when she's awake) that there is not some sort of struggle. She screams/fusses/had tantrums on average at a min, 1/hour. I know she knows it's getting to me but trying to ignore it is becoming impossible. Disciplining her however I can think of, time out, swat, no stickers, etc, has no relevance to her. I really love it when we're in the car and she wants to watch a DVD. When I tell her no an all out fit breaks out. C'man covers his ears even. It's just getting to be like a broken record with her. Tell her no she'll make your life hell for a couple minutes. She'll regroup then an hour (if I'm lucky) we're back at it. Can't tell her to go to her room b/c she will and then fall asleep (if it's close to nap or bed time) trust me that doesn't always seem like a bad idea.
She loves it when we're out in public. She will scream her ear shattering screams so that EVERYONE within one mile will gauk at you. Although I'm quite certain many of them are thinking 'ahhh we too remember the days'.
So that's we're I'm at today. It's been a tough couple weeks with her. I wonder if she's not feeling well, ear ache? maybe her back is out? Or something?? or are we going thru another 2 almost 3, stage of life.
Or is it MY attitude?? I often times find in hind sight that maybe my attitude towards her isn't good? She sees and hears me getting ever more frustrated with her.

I did get some comforting words via my facebook and texts letting me know I'm not alone. I'm not sure if they help or not!? I want someone to come walk beside me. To give me advice on what I should do. How I should handle the situations. Someone that is far wiser then me in age and experience. Not sure where i'll find that but it's worth praying for. Speaking of prayer, I did pray last night OVER Miss A. As she laid asleep I knelt beside her bed and prayed over her. I must do that more often.

God please help me in dealing with my blessings. I'm struggling and really could use some encouragement.

Post With Pictures

So this is what's watching me sleep at night:

That's right a coon. It's hiding up in our tree. Seems the last many summers we've had a coon in our tree. Each Summer we think the dog(s) got it but it always returns. I think the coon is cute from this distance but oh my gosh, those things are UGLY! The way they walk all hunched over freaks me out. So with an angle like this you'd think we could shoot the darn thing. I don't like guns and would probably end up shooting the house or something way off target. Then there's the fact that DH nor I really have the heart to shoot it. That being said, it's been a couple weeks since we've seen it. DH says she probably has babies up there?? Oh lovely!!! I have visions of the coon, or it's baby's, falling out of the tree on to my kids heads! Yeah DH said highly unlikely.

In other pictures. About a week ago our small town had a Crusin Night where people brought in there old cars or tractors. My parents were visiting so we all went. It was quite fun for my parents. I'm sure our time will come too when DH and I will say 'ahhh remember that '99 Honda Accord we had?? Oh the memories. In the mean time we share no memories of these cars, but my parents sure do.

My mom would love to buy one and her and dad tool around in it. I wish they would. They need a hobby. BUT i find it highly doubtful it'll happen. Dad is to tight, the car he really liked was my Pastors' Husbands. It was worth $45,000. Dad thought no way, mom thought why not?? I think too why not. My gosh you have the $$ and you deserve it. Even if they did get and old car it would be to hot, or to windy to take it out. Or dad would be to busy with work, yada yada. Or as mom says where would we drive it?? Go get flippin ice cream in it:)

This picture is our dog Boji and this is what happens when Miss A decides she wants to play:

And then there are the 2 kittens that bring much fun to the kids and torture to the kittens. Here's C'man giving 'Henry' a kiss:

Random Updates

Totally random post but this is about all I have time for.
-Made it back from MNPLS early Monday evening. While at the Mall Of America we splurged and got Miss A an American Doll 'Bitty Baby'. I LOVE it as much as she does. They have an entire store there in fact even a beauty salon. That's right, you could bring your doll and get her hair done. Even a little salon chair for her to sit on!! Oh dear me!! Anyone else have girls that have, or have had, an American Girl doll?? Accessories are EXPENSIVE!! I'm hoping to keep my eyes out on ebay and craigslist.
-My niece is visiting. We took her home with us. I'm not sure she's have the 'best' time but it's hard to do much when you have 2 small children that need naps b/c they are horribly crabby from all the weekend fun.
-I now know why we FLY everywhere. DH and I do NOT do well in the car. He goes to slow, hates traffic. I am constantly asking 'what exit?' or 'what's our hotel number?' and the dang TomTom. While that is my friend, it certainly isn't DH's. While trying to find our hotel we pulled over in a city park to get the lap top fired up. A cop stopped too to see if we needed help:) What a disaster it was finding our hotel.
-I hit my head on a water slide that i was supposed to stay lying down on. We, C'man and I, were going to fast so i tried to sit up hoping we'd slow down. Man hitting your head at 30+mph in WATER, is not something i ever care to do again. Then poor C'man hit his head too. It was a mess. Needless to say C'man opted to going down with JoJo and I opted out of those slides completely.

-CHICKENS!! Chicken drama resumes. WE moved them to there house last night only to have 2 chickens escape thru a hole and the dog got them. Goll darn it!!! so now we're down to 11!! We still need to do some work in there but at least they are out of my garage!

-Family-well my FIL continues to not get any better?? If that's the right word. They up'd his lithium but like everything i suppose it might take awhile to take effect. My MIL's SISTER was here from Washington state and she left Sunday!! She was supposed to be here THREE weeks!! It was just to much i guess. This all is so frustrating. I'll just leave it at that.

-Met my nieces BF last week. She's a recent grad of Iowa State and is looking for a job. Anyone?? Community and City Planning, or something like that!? At any rate she moved back home. Her BF came to visit her so they came over for supper. Was a lot of fun ACCEPT we watched at least one hour of the B-ball drafts?? I was like you've got to be kidding me?? Of course this is all said in humor b/c i teased about what fun this was...joke joke. DH and I did get a kick out of the two of them. Oh what young love. We laughed at the stories of choosing b-ball tournaments over spending 4 days with your GF, the little jives they took at one another, etc. C'man loved them both and we hope to see them again sometime soon.

-Remember back when i wrote about my FIL and put a note about hoping Megs wouldn't read about it for the first time on my blog, just to let you know she knew what was going on. She sent me a nice email and said that she knew what was going on. Just so any readers don't think how nice it was of me to tell her via my blog!

Sorry for this being so random but that's my life:)

11 Years Ago

DH and I are celebrating 11 years of marital bliss today. hehe. 11 years ago we were busy smiling for pictures, looking better then we ever had, and enjoying the day with many family and friends.

To date we have over come a lot and I know there is more to come. To date we have seen one another thru the restoring of our old farm house, a project that still continues, job changes, infertility, loss of family, adoption and here of recently dealing with aging parents.

Right now we are in route to Minneapolis (i had a bunch typed up but lost it all!!). We are going to take the kids to a Childrens Muesum, go to IKEA, watch my nieces softball game, go to the Mall of America and swim. Our hotel has an indoor water park. We are coming home Monday and my niece will be coming back with us.

I'd type more, but i'd better pay attention. DH is not very good at driving and paying attention:) Plus i'm getting car sick.

As If.....

I need anymore going on in my life! Anyone that has read this blog for any length of time (like 2 posts) is probably shaking there head wondering what's next.

First off, my FIL. As I type this they are @ court finding out if he can be released. I'm praying NO WAY! He's still not the least bit 'stable'. Altho a cat scan has shown possibly the beginning stages of dementia. I'm still sticking with my original thought that that's what he has. Bi-Polar just doesn't appear out of the blue does it? That being said, there are far more 'issues' and it would appear the tendency ans issues, have been there for years and years. My husband and his family had to have been living in utter denial that the things/warnings that have been there for years that things 'weren't right'.

OK back to the point. So we have this cat 'Tinkerbell' that has kittens. Found them last night in our garage with no mamma in sight. You guessed it!! We are now taking care of 3 itty, bitty kittens. I dreamt some of the weirdest dreams last night that dealt with these little kittens and me taking care for them. I called our local vet at 755AM and by 815 we were in the van going to town to get a bottle, milk re placer and a syringe. Oh and we took one of the worse off kittens with us. I was hoping they could show us how to feed them, but the vet was in surgery so we finally left.

It gets better....I'm out in the blessedly HOT/STICKY weather (oh but we are loving it!!) trying to get these kittens to drink/suck whatever just get something in them. 2 of them will NOT stop meowing. Remember when the chicks were quacking non stop? Well the kittens meowing/screeching is just about as bad! So then guess who shows up? the mother cat!! I was so happy to see her and immediately try putting the kittens on her. Her nipples are like nothing! And THEN the worst discovery of all....MAGGOTS everywhere!!!!!!!!!! i about threw up! I ended up giving her a bath by spraying her with a hose, dowsing her with peroxide and then putting her in a kennel and bringing that in to our house. Its obvious she has no milk nor really wants those kittens.

I have back up tho in helping. It's called K-Dee, our dog:) Watching her very carefully, she thinks they are puppies, she will give them a bath! Beautiful. If only i could get her to produce milk! Momma kitty is still hanging on in the kennel and seems to be coming around. Not sure how long she'll make it to be honest. I'm giving her antibiotics but not wanting to drop $100 + in to her I'm hoping it'll work. (she's just a farm cat that someone dropped off at another farm)

Kittens are sleeping outside in a safe place. We have another cat, Tinkerbell's sister, that is due for kittens too any day. I'm so hoping she'll have them SOON and we can put these 3 on her.

There you have it!! As if I need ONE MORE FREAKIN THING TO DO!!!!!!!!! My mom nicely said that God has away of putting things in our lives when we may need it to distract us. I think there is some truth to that and that's what these kittens are going to be. Once they figure out this bottle thing, or I do, it will be much better. Can you believe I almost typed FUN!

Off to the pool we are going.

Updates

I wish I could post that things are going just great with FIL, but I can't. The docs aren't even talking Bi-Polar anymore. He would try to trick the docs/nurses in to thinking he took his meds, he still gets very angry and yeah it's all just SUCKING!
There's so many questions and NOTHING is clear. It's so flippin complicated. I'm sorry Megs if you had to find out via my blog. (I advised that someone call you b/c I didn't want you reading it here).
In some ways the family has grown together but in more ways it hasn't. Things have been said, relationships are strained, and who knows what will continue to evolve in the next week, month or even years to come. Whether someone is in the right mind or not, when hurtful things are said, they are not forgotten.
I feel that spouses/family have been put on the back burner and while that should be OK, it isn't to the extent that we've felt it. Myself in particular has been working very hard at keeping life 'normal'. Luckily, DH isn't around consistently as in some days he's here when the kids wake up, go to bed, lunch, supper, etc but then other days, like here of lately he's gone from dawn till dusk. The 1030PM, 230 AM calls are gone as well as the all night babysitting, 4AM trips to the Casino, and operating on less then 4 hours of sleep, are also gone. I'm frightful that it will all return if my FIL is released Monday. He is great at convincing others (not family members) that there is 'nothing wrong'. He can talk with the best and manipulate you with you not even knowing.
I think my MIL is an enabler and I think the man needs to sit in his room and think about things. Family has been by to visit him (playing lots of cards) non stop and I just don't think he's even had time to reflect on his behavior.
He's been asking to see our kids but I just will not allow them to see him. C'man is way to sensitive for one and will ask lots and lots of questions. He'll wonder why papa isn't at the farm, why he's in the hospital and I just know he'll talk and talk (ie, dwell and dwell) on it. Then there's the other patients in there. Like the lady walking in and out of rooms saying 'I'm just going to kill myself, know one will care'. My FIL says he hates being 'with the crazies' and will often yell/mutter at her to go away:)
That's the low down. Tomorrow is Father's Day. We have no plans of going to see FIL. If DH chooses to go, that is fine. We aren't even going to my parents like we have for years and years. We are going to celebrate it just our family. I'm HOPING to go to a local water park. We also are going to try and attend a new church.
Again, thanks to those who have left comments and emailed me. I REALLY appreciate it and if anyone has any expertise medical issues, (does that make sense?) please contact me.

Prayers Please

I'm not sure when I'll be posting again. Our family is going through a lot right now. We are dealing with so much and I'm not even sure where to begin. I wasn't going to even post about it, but you know, I'm going too. I need to. My 'followers' as well as my closet readers, have got to have some sort of knowledge that could help us get thru this.
My FIL is currently in the hospital with what is believed to be Bi-Polar. He is 80?? years old. The signs have been there for years but as I'm learning, some families just do not communicate or want to see the signs. It's been a very long road, over 50 years, and it finally has come to a head. But not with lots of hurt feelings, frustration and bitterness. Sleepless nights, early AM calls and all night 'baby sitting' by my husband and his brother. He finally is in the hospital, has been since Monday AM and DH JUST called and said he has taken his medicine. Before he was throwing it behind his bed, trying to dissolve it in his hand and just refusing to take it. He had to be committed. It's just amazing what I've learned about DH's family and even DH. I can honestly say that he is handling it better then I'd ever imagine. He's talking openly with me, we've stayed up till after midnight almost every night this week, talking. He has such a sense of relief to finally have this come to a head. I had no idea how much anger?? he had been repressing for years, or maybe even embarrassment? over his father and his behaviors.
Some of those behaviors are very very strange and I'm not completely sure they have to do with Bi-Polar. That's why I'd like to email someone that knows a lot about this. My husband's family has been talking to a Psychologist but yeah, just need a real life persons thoughts rather then this doctor. Who is very qualified no doubt.

That being said, should I happen to not post for awhile, it's b/c of exhaustion. He gets out Monday and we honestly do not know what could or is, going to happen. His threats were we've seen nothing yet. Not sure what to expect but also hoping that the medicine(s) will start working and these thoughts/threats will becoming nothing more then just that.

Dreary, Rainy Day

Why can it not rain during the night. I tell you the weather here in Iowa has felt more like March then June. It's been very rainy and cold. We have yet to be to the pool and my garden is growing lousy. Today, Friday, it has been raining since 1030 AM. Prior to that it was drops here and there. We still managed our play group at the park, at least the kids got some exercise in.

On our way to the park, I noticed a sign for a tractor ride. Ever heard of them? Bunches of old tractors go on a tractor ride through out the country. They started coming by our house @ noon and at about 3 was probably the last time we saw a couple. It was really a lot of fun. Just wish it wouldn't have been raining. Those poor guys (and some women) on those tractors were just soaked. Rain gear or not, they were soaked. C'man and I did watch about 10 of them at the end of our driveway. Otherwise we just waved from our front door.

Here's some pics:

The best was the green tractor pulling the red one. I thought it was a John Deere, which is what we drive. DH later informed me it was some other kind of green tractor. I thought green = John Deere. None the less, it was a fun time.

Tonight, if it stops raining, we're going in to a nearby town where there is a tractor and car show. Just something to do more then drewl (how the heck to do you spell that!?) over them:) We may meet up with another family for supper. BUT it has to stop raining.

Saturday I'm selling my purses in the park where a kids day will be going on. I hope to get rid of MOST of them! Heck I'd love to sell them ALL but that's not possible. I'll be offering $5 off, have a large bag of 1/2 price ones, and then my facebook fans get an additional $2 off:)

I hope to do really good.

OK well I guess this is a wrap.

And Then There Were Three

Really?? Can this really be my life? You all seeing how freakin crazy my life is? Well it just got crazier.
This afternoon I was staining windows in C'mans room. Something I have put off for oh....6 months?? I HATE it. But anyway, I'm finishing up and in drives my BIL with ducks in the back of his truck. I couldn't get my staining gloves of fast enough, wondering what the hell he was doing. (sorry but that was exactly what I was thinking)
If Miss A hadn't been napping AND i wasn't upstairs, I'd yelled and jumped out the window. I rushed downstairs, thru the house, muttering 'oh NO you don't' or 'what the hell' I get out there to see him walking with THREE DUCKS and ONE BLACK CHICKEN.
Being held by there feet he says: 'This is ALL I HAVE LEFT'.

'Excuse me?? Pardon me but what are you doing with them HERE?? I HATE ducks. I even want to hate these chicks.'

My 14 yr old niece was with him or I'm most certain I would have been freaking out more. THEN my brain kicks in and I have a suggestion.
I tell him 'I have a deal. You can keep them here IF you go get that building I'm going to make in to a chicken house down at the neighbors'

He grunts, groans, mutters something and I say 'seriously they are not ALL going to stay in my garage. I'm not cleaning up after 3 ducks on top of my already messy chickens'.

He tells me DH can go get the building. I reply ahhhh Haaa that's the problem. He won't/can't/to busy/ and I want it NOW:)

He leaves and if I had a stick I'd been shaking in the air as he left. THREE stinken ducks quacking and it's driving me fricken nuts.

Oh wait, there's more. I get this idea to list them on this free recycle website as well as on facebook. Well guess what, I have a taker. My lovely Jen. I tell BIL of my new founded home for them and he replies: 'I don't think so, I'm taking them back as soon as I figure out what's killing them'

DRATS!!!!!!!!!

Not sure how many days that means but 5 hours later and I'm still going crazy listening to those things quack. Did I mention yet how annoying they are??

Well now they are in there own cage. Remember how chickens will peck to death an animal that is wounded, well that's what they are doing to the one duck. Oh and another duck had it's eyes poked out by this varmet! I'm told that the scene in the chicken house was awful. Whatever animal is doing this has NO mercy. They found chicken pieces up in a tree, above the garage, and who knows where else. What amazes me is know one heard this!? When DH and I lived over there we heard right away if something was in the chicken house.

They are kind of thinking it's a Wiesel?? I have no idea what that is but it sounds awful b/c they are known to bite the head off AND suck the blood out. How awful is that!!!!

That's my story for today. I tell ya, if I had the time, I could blog a story about every day. Inevitably there is always something. I'm heading off to bed. I have to go laugh myself to sleep b/c I still can't believe this is my life!

Tomorrow is C'mans Bible School program. I can't wait:)

Good Night Moon

We, DH was able to go too, started our reading program Tuesday night. To be honest, it was rather dry and boring. I remember back in the day when I took a babysitting class as well as in school, being taught how to read a book with expression. The lady talked to us about that, how to have your children snuggle with you when we read books increases there chances of staying put and allowing them to choose the book. All of this was already going on in our house. With the acception of DH reading with no expression and very loud (LOL).

That being said, we did get lots of freebies. Everyone walked away with a door prize, we got a great supper and the kids had fun. Well Miss A didn't want to leave DH's side but C'man will have a blast when he gets to go. There are over 9 boys and Miss A is the only girl! The boys are all real close to C'mans age. We, or rather I, will continue to go back. Needless to say I'm fairly sure DH won't be returning. It's something fun, and different, for us to do not to mention that it's one less night I have to cook supper.

The give away book this time was Good Night Moon. How many of you have heard it? Read it? HAVE it?? If there is someone who does NOT have this book, let me know and I will mail you the copy I got. We have 2 copies already and C'man LOVED the book. Miss A thinks it's ok but would much rather read Fancy Nancy.

Leave a comment and I'll get in touch with you.

C'man is at Bible School up in my hometown. It's just Miss A and I. Tuesday night we have this Storyteller Program. Not sure what it'll be about but it includes supper AND childcare. It's a 5 week session and it's provided thru a grant our County got. I'll have to report how it is at a later date.



Here's some pictures tho of the last couple weeks:


These are from Memorial Day weekend when we went to the Lakes and when to Arnolds Park. We got season passes this year. I'm sure there will be many more pictures of times spent at this great park!

Gonig Batty

After my last ranting post, I am feeling better:)

Now on with life. As you can probably tell from reading my blog, there is NEVER a dull moment around here. That proved true once again on Monday. Early Monday AM I woke up to DH standing beside my side of the bed with a tennis racket in his hand. He woke me up out of the most beautiful sleep to tell me there was a bat in the house!

About one hour later the bat was lost. Our day began as usual with breakfast, blah blah. ACCEPT that today we had to be on the road by 730AM to get C'man to Bible School at my parents town. We were running pretty close to schedule TILL....the bat came back. It chose to reappear while DH was buckling up the kids. I was standing at the kitchen table doing a last look to make sure i got everything when out of the corner of my eye I saw the bat trying to dive bomb me. I flew under the kitchen table so fast that I gave myself a floor burn. In the preceding minutes I screamed and screamed, and well you get the idea. Needless to say the more I screamed the more the bat flipped out. DH never came to my rescue till i finally made a run for the garage. I told him 'bat, the bat back' i was so out of breath. He never heard me scream but the dog did and she was flippin out b/c she KNEW the bat was back.

I sent DH up to get diapers and i made my way out to the van. But not before venturing in to get my coffee of which DH kept making me think the bat was back. I was so freakin hot i could have taken a cold shower. I HATE/DESPISE bats. A couple hours later DH reported he had got the bat. It was hiding on top of our cupboards and was peaking over the edge at DH.

DH laughed so hard at me, but that's OK b/c i have never laughed so hard as when he is trying to swat a bat. It can be 2AM (like it always seems to be when they come out) and I can laugh so hard that i darn near pee my pants. It's something I should catch on video but never will b/c I know I'd get whacked with the tennis racket if the thing came near me.

We don't get them very often, like maybe once/year if that. But what a horrible experience when we do. I will NOT let him sleep upstairs. He must stay on bat patrol for a couple nights. Of course DH prefers the couch over the bed any ol' day so he's not out to much.

Do you all get bats? Any stories??