Erin made it back to Mobile after her Mardi Gras trip to New Orleans. I saw several pics of her on Facebook with large cups of kool aid looking like she was having one heck of a time......not sure if ice and a straw were the only other ingredient in her kool aid?

She called me when she got back and told me her head really hurt and she had been crying the night before. She is only three weeks out from having surgery on her skull and apparently going to New Orleans having handfulls of beads chucked at her head all weekend wasn't the smartest move. She didn't get a whole lot of sympathy from me.

She was cleared to resume soccer after 3 weeks. She was unable to run due to the pain. From what we can figure, whenever she does something that causes increased blood flow to her scalp, it causes unbearable pain. She can feel her pulse in her scalp when she runs. Sadly we have decided it would be best for her to listen to her body and take the spring season off.

Shannon has hit a new low and had a 19% in her marriage and commitments religion class. Dave told her to please, please bring her grade up because she is causing problems in his marriage and commitment because his wife is a raging lunatic because her daughter is flunking religion. She texted me today to let me know she has brought it up to a 55%. I'm thinking about having a pizza party to celebrate......maybe buy her some new clothes? She keeps asking to go prom dress shopping.......Hellooooooo a 55% does not even give cinderella a glass slipper much less a new dress.

Kelsey and I took a road trip to Cincinnati this weekend for soccer. It was nice to get away but there is no place like home. I cheated on my diet a tad. Next to the soccer fields was a Mello Mushroom, Erin took us there in Alabama, I am not much of a pizza fan but Mello Mushroom pizza is awesome. I decided that August is a long way to wait until I am back in Alabama. I was tired of eating powdered food anyway.

Erin called me today and asked if Kelsey was having boy troubles? I said, "not that I know of why?" She said, "oh Kelsey's tweets on Twitter are usually sad because of some boy or another and Shannon's tweets are usually about how much she hates her parents especially you." Fabulous...I am so in tuned to my girls.

Lauren has another date with a new guy. She stalked him on facebook and took a pic of the computer screen and texted it to me so I could see what he looked like. The creepy stalker girl in the reflection taking a picture of the picture was hilarious. She didn't even notice her reflection in the picture when she sent it to me. Her job is going well and she is loving NYC. She's got guts...No way could I leave my comfort zone.

Shannon's defrosters quit working....I drove her car to QT tonight to pick up Kelsey. I drove the whole way by memory, defrosters are kind of important. I guess Shannon was too busy studying to notice her defrosters were broken?

Woo Hoo Kelsey got her license today. She flunked on her birthday but passed barely today. She got a 73....3 points away from failing. We told her it didn't matter, whether she got a 73 or a 93 she still gets to carry a valid drivers license. I called State Farm immediately after I hung up with Kelsey. We have 4 drivers now with just 2 cars. They weren't sure which car to put Kelsey on. She asked if she could do a little research and call me back. I pictured her hanging up and popping a bottle of champagne....surely the whole office will be getting a raise now that the Murphy's are adding another new driver. I wonder if they made a spread sheet to pass around to place a bet on how long it will take Kelsey to crash in to something? She called me back to tell me my new rate....let's just say the insurance on the jeep alone is similar to what the actual car payment was. Funny...I paid the jeep off today! Even though Erin is listed as a part time out of state driver, she is listed on my car. Shannon is listed on the jeep and we will not qualify for the Steer Clear driving discount due to Shannon's accident. Apparently the discount isn't per kid it is per car. When I got off the phone with State Farm, I texted Erin and Shannon and recommended that if they ever decide to have children it would be best to space them at least 6 years apart so they can afford their car insurance. I then said.....scratch that, become lesbians and get a cat.

Maggie has been on house lock down due to her lack of effort in school. She has worked really hard these last couple of weeks. I checked one of her English papers and changed all of her answers. Imagine my surprise when she got a 50%. She couldn't wait to tell me when she got home from school.....again, I am just here to be a trophy wife. This Seven kids thing just happened. So now it may take a little while longer for her English grade to go up.....5th grade is hard.

The girls had the father daughter banquet tonight. The picture above is of sweet little Shannon completely annoyed with Kelsey during the photo shoot.The girls looked really pretty and their date was gorgeous!

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Last week was very stressful. Erin's surgery went well but it was emotionally draining. She is back in Alabama and starting to feel better. She was insistent of flying back to Alabama on Saturday, she could barely walk she was so weak. I would have preferred she stayed home a few extra days to get her strength back but what do I know??

I was able to get a special pass to go to the gate with her and the airline provided a very unfriendly escort to push her in a wheel chair. I was randomly selected by TSA agents for a pat down and special screening. It made me feel extremely safe that the one person they randomly selected isn't even boarding a plane? Erin was in a lot of pain and was really crabby. I texted her boyfriend after she got on the plane and warned him.

By Wednesday she was finally starting to feel a little better. She has a fellow nursing student that has been helping her wash her hair and will take her to the Doctor to have her stitches removed. That makes me feel a little better...I feel pretty helpless being so far away from my baby.

Shannon and Kelsey have been as busy as usual. They have the Father daughter banquet this Friday and Kelsey has sophomore dance on the following Friday. In true Kelsey fashion she hadn't even thought about what she might wear to either event. I had to pick her up after soccer practice at QT to meet her ride. I brought Ryan with me so we could head to the mall after picking up Kelsey to get his new shoes as well as try to find Kelsey a dress. The only shoes Kelsey had with her were her soccer spikes and her hair was a little disheveled. That is not unusual for Kelsey....she tends to resemble a "hot mess" quite often.

We hit every shoe store in the mall until Ryan finally found the shoes that he wanted. We tried a few stores for Kelsey and found a dress that we liked. Actually I am not sure if she really liked the dress or the $5 hideous fuzzy purple slippers that she found. I told her I wouldn't buy them unless she found a dress, I wasn't waiting in line for 10 minutes just to buy a pair of ugly slippers. Suddenly the dress that she found to be OK became adorable so she could get the slippers.

She had Shannon pick her up at the mall and take her back to school for the teacher talent show. As we were standing outside waiting for Shannon she asked if she could have money for food. She had spent the night at her friends house. Her friend doesn't eat breakfast and she buys her lunch instead of brown bagging it. Kelsey had no breakfast or lunch and then had soccer practice, she was starving. I said "Why didn't you ask Shannon to bring you something from home before she picked you up?" (I just spend $300 at the grocery store) She looked at me like I was crazy and said,...."Do you actually think I would eat anything that Shannon touched?" How silly of me...I thought you were hungry?

When the girls got home Shannon came in my room to let me know how the talent show was and to tell me that she used the whole $40 I transferred in her account for gas. She was appalled because Kelsey tried to talk her into only getting $3o and using the rest for McDonald's. I let Shannon know how much I appreciated her integrity and reminded her to polish her halo before she went to bed.