I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving. If you are traveling I hope the roads are good to you and you have safe passage there and back.

As you can see I’ve got a new look here at Draco’s Rose. Thanks to “The Woman” Sadie It’s beautiful. I love it. *snuggles her new layout* Things here are of course gearing up for Thanksgiving. We leave for my parents tomorrow and head up to Big Daddy’s Aunt’s house on Thursday for dinner. Back to my parents house for the night and then Black Friday shopping with my Mom and I. Yes it’s insane and we grumble and complain about it. But we get so much done for a lot less then what we would have spent.

For the week of 11/16 – 11/22/08
Weekly Winners is the brainchild of the wonderfully Sarcastic Mom, Lotus

So in my last post I mentioned feeling guilty for something that was out of my control. It’s been in the back of my mind nagging me to talk about it more. I was thinking that there have to be other that deal with this stuff and maybe could give some insight. My oldest…Mister Man. Hasn’t seen his bio Dad in over three months. It’s nothing I’ve done. Not like I’ve cut him off or anything. He’s just missed every visit. Cancels at the last minute, Makes excuses. Or sometimes just doesn’t even show. The usual excuse is money. That if he would make the trip it would take food out of his kids mouths. Um. Last time I checked Mister Man was his kid too! *insert heavy sigh* Yeah this is where the frustration and guilt kicks in. I know deep down there’s nothing I can do about it. Nothing I can do to change it. I can’t FORCE Screwball1 to come see him. But it’s a once a month visit. You would think he would want to see his son. This is where the guilt really kicks in. The Little Prince sees his Dad all the time. (we have a screwy custody schedule and yes I have two kids with two different Dad. Took me 13 years to figure out I deserved a non abusive man :p) So Mister Man watches his brother here come and go and talk about seeing his Dad. Hell Screwball2 talks to Mister Man more then Screwball1 does. I’m at a loss now. Thanksgiving is supposed to be Screwball1’s holiday. But when he tried to change the plans that were already made and I told him no…he hung up on me. Before he even talked to Mister Man. We called back and he refused to answer. That was almost three weeks ago. We haven’t heard from him since. He won’t answer his phone or return calls. Even if Mister Man leaves a message. I am BEYOND frustrated now.

I’ve been trying hard to keep things upbeat here since I saw that when I got down and bitched about something the crickets came out and the silence was deafening. There are so many thoughts swirling through my head right now and I haven’t been able to pin them down to form coherent thoughts or at the very least complete posts. So this is going to be one of those Blog salad randomness posts.

**I’ve been in a major funk lately. There are always things that go on behind the scenes of blogs that you don’t put out there for the whole world to see and that’s the case here just like it is with anyone else. Some of those things are getting to me. Seriously getting to me. To the point that I’ve wondered if I took the blog down would anyone notice? Would anyone care? Not that it’s something I’m going to do just random thoughts I’ve had lately.

**Lori at A Cowboy’s wife posted this week about Cliques. And I see it…all the time I saw it in High school…in college and after that. Even in the pagan classes I took (yes there are classes like that) Much like back then I keep to myself and don’t say much. I read twitter all day long and rarely say anything because I don’t feel like what I have to say is as interesting as everyone else. There are people in the blogsphere that I used to look up to and now avoid which is sad. Hey I’m not one of the cool kids but some of the cool kids talk to me sometimes.

**Have you ever gotten to the point with something that you felt guilty about it even though you shouldn’t because it’s not something you can control. Yeah that’s me lately. All with the guilt and none of the control. (Too many years of Catholicism maybe?)

**Thanksgiving is fast approaching. Feel like this year has just flown by. The next two months are going to be a whirlwind. Is it 2009 yet?

**We found out Chickens don’t bounce this week. I won’t go into all the gory details. Just know it involved a Tyson’s truck transporting live chickens. An escapee chicken and the car behind me (Thankfully I missed it). It all culminated with a very fascinated six year old boy. And me swearing not to eat Chicken for a little while.

**I got a few thing in the mail today to start up my review blog with kinda excited about that. Even some stuff for a giveaway or two!!

So I completely shot NaBlo since I couldn’t seem to get out any pre written posts. Oh well. There is always next year. My parents were here this weekend which is always fun, The kids had a blast. I went shopping with my Mom, my Dad took Mister Man to his golf lesson. He even went on a golf field trip with Mister Man and his PE class on Friday. My Mom and I took the Little Prince to a birthday party on Saturday too. Saturday night we played Chicken foot with the kids. Again they had a blast. Granted the Little Prince let go of a domino a little sooner then he should of and it went flying across the table and nearly hit my Dad in the forehead. After we were sure Dad was okay we all started laughing. Kids went to bed and parents, Big Daddy and I watched a Hall and Oats special after the kids were in bed. My god can that man sing!

All in all it was a good weekend but I just can’t seem to recover. I’m still exhausted. Even with going to bed early and nodding on the couch. I hope I’m not getting a cold or something.

We are heading out the door in a minute to a sock hop/PTA meeting at Mister Man’s school. I’m in a full swing full moon funk right now so I’ll leave you with this little conversation between me and the Little Prince while we were coming home today from school.

Multiple burps coming from the back seat
Me: You sure are gassy tonight
Little Prince: No Mommy…I’m just burping.

…so little time it seems. This week we have a PTA Sock Hop at Mister Man’s school that the whole family is going to. The kids should have fun and hey…it’s a free dinner. My parents are coming this weekend which means I need to prewrite some posts for my blog while they are here. They are getting in about 9:30 Thursday night. My Dad is going on a field trip with Mister Man and his gym glass. They are learning about golf right now. It should be fun and Mister Man is excited that his Poppy if going to school with him. Saturday while Mister Man is at his golf lesson I need to take the Little Prince to a birthday party. I wish it had been the one he went to this week since I know that kid’s Mom and like her. I don’t know this kid’s parents. I’m sure the Little Prince will have fun though. It’s laser tag. What little boy doesn’t have fun with that.

Mister Man’s Birthday is fast approaching. We asked him tonight what “theme” or cake he wanted. He wants a dragon. Yeah this should be interesting. The only Wilton pan that had a dragon was done in 1984. I found it on ebay…but it’s 60 bucks. Yeah that’s not happening. So it’s time to get creative. I’m debating on if I’m going to attempt fondant again. My last adventure with it left me more stressed then I should have been. Hopefully we will get it figured out though. I’m sure with Big Daddy’s help it will come out awesome. Granted if it does I’m sure the Little Prince will be asking for one for his birthday too. The only other thing he’s asking for is Dragon Snot Punch which I made last year. The kids loved it. It was green sherbet, sprite and dry ice. They all through the bubbling and smoking was awesome. Now to come up with crafts for the kids to do.

Blissfully Domestic has an awesome give away up for the Epson Artisan 800. I am seriously drooling over this printer. You just plug the memory card from your camera into the printer and you can edit the picture on the touch screen and then print. All the projects I could do with this thing! So head on over to Blissfully domestic and check out this post to enter.