Overview Of April

April has been a kick ass month. My birthday was amazing all around. VIP circus tickets, a pandora bracelets with charms, candles, lotions, flowers, money, tons of facebook wishes, time with my family and friends. I LOVED IT~!~~~~ Steve and I are doing soo much better. Jake keeps asking for a sibling :/ We're just not ready for another baby yet. Maybe soon but we want to get married first. But right now we're still working on a car through mi works and then working on buying our first house. It should be sometime this year so I'm excited. I am also now riding the city bus to work and it feels amazing to be independant of needing a ride from people who mistreat you. Now for my kids. My older "adoptive" children are all doing extremely well. Mikey and Walid are both working. Mikey is also going to college and Walid just got a new 2012 Fusion! I am soo proud of them. Zainab is working full time and holding down the fort while Mike is going to school. They celebrated thier 4 year anniversary this month. Paige is going to school and focusing on academics right now getting ready to graduate. Paige and Walid will be celebrating thier 1 year anniversary in June. My youngest adopted Austin is being a teenager :) What else can I say? He's staying out of trouble and working on school. As for my monkey, Jacob <3 He is doing very well when he applies himself. He can blow threw math pages liek they're nothing IF he wants to. He is defiant (oh joy) and constantly wants things his way and will not budge. He has been grounded and had privledges taken away alot lately. His dad is now getting involved with the behavior modification process of grounding and holding up my punishments liek this weekend he will not be going to his dads since he had a bad schoolweek and his dad is also talking to him over the phone and explaining his behavior can not continue. I mean he actually hurt my feelings this week. I started making him breaskfast and leaving him a little note and the 2nd day I did it, he ignored the note threw it on the ground and ate COLD pancakes before steve could even warm them up bc he wanted to do it before he did his morning chores. Hes supposed to feed the animals before he eats b/c he likes to NOT feed the animals at all. He's just being a rambuncious 7 yr old.... is he 18 yet? :D Still fighting with DHS for the car program AND bridge card they keep messing with my paperwork its not even cool. I hate my job but it pays the bills so I suffer for a little bit longer. Love Always, Nickie