Homecoming mums and garters...

Several people have asked what Homecoming mums and garters are...

Texas tradition is what they are :)

and the louder, bigger, and more loaded down with crap they are?

The more the boy loves you....lol...

or the more your momma and daddy love you....lol....

The more bells the better.....

KD usually wears 2....one from us on the left shoulder?

and the one from the "boyfriend of the week" on the right shoulder....

I have made lots this season because this is what I am doing for extra money right now...

I have always made KD's so I thought why not make some money doing it :)

Here are a few samples...




The picture of all the orange ones? They are all KD's..... Those are wrinkled and I HATE THAT....(ask KC) but they were in a box for the move....and boxes crease the ribbons.... The biggest one in the middle? it is from last year...It lights up....has little christmas lights all around the mum and has a battery pack on the back....

It is also tradition to hand them on your wall in your room...KD's walls will be full soon...lol...

Traditionally.....anything younger than 9th grade gets a shorter (24 inch ribbon) single mum.....

Starting as a freshman and sophomore you normally get a single mum ...... with 36 inch ribbon...

Juniors get a double mum......

Seniors get at LEAST a triple mum sometimes 4 or what is called an over the shoulder which usually has 6 mums on it....and a senior mum is ALL WHITE and silver for us...some schools it is all white and gold....depending on your school colors....


This mum is for a neighboring town.....


These two for a local private school....

As you can see..Mums are HUGE business in Texas... HUGE.... :)

A day in the life....

My first :real: post in my new home....

I should be cooking the tacos that my family requested for dinner...but ehhh...maybe in a minute...lol.

I sent them to buy taco shells and lettuce....that should buy me some time :)

So I am jobless again....well technically I am a stay at home mom again...

And that is the hardest job ever I believe...

I have been doing laundry and cleaning house for 3 days....ughhh it never flippin ends does it...

RW's hours have changed at work and good lord is that going to be difficult to get used to...He has gone from 2 - 11:30 to 6 to 6...

I cant sleep like that....cant do it...

Last night I stayed up until 2 am....crawled into bed with music on and my bedside lamp on and read a book till I passed out.....Normally he comes home around midnight and gets on his computer and plays his RPG game and talks to his team members on coms...and thats the sounds I go to sleep to.....not so much anymore...Let's hope that this new shift does not work for them....lol...Cause I cannot go to bed at 3 am and get he kids up for school and then stay up all day..I need my sleep...all 10 hours of it...I like to be in bed by 10:30 or 11:00..MIDNIGHT at the VERY latest....

Those of you from my aol journal just saw homecoming pictures of KD and B....They still arent dating but I think they are moving towards that :) I hope so anyway... :)

They both seemed to have a really good time at the dance....and the football game....

I still have mums to make for two more schools in the area over the next two weeks.....That seems to be neverending...

On aol shutting down our journals?

I dont have much to say on the subject except that it is REALLY crappy....someone said it best when they said AOL was terminating our leases with 3o days notice....I just opted to move and be done....

I sure hope they can "migrate" my journal like they say they can...I am going to be SO heartbroken if I lose ANYTHING....

Off to finish the tacos....

Have a blessed day.....