Playing favorites

Okay so I need to get on my soapbox a little and rant.
Why do some parents play favorites? I mean obviously favor one child over the other? Why do that to children? My husband is a victim of this from his mom. My mother in law favors my brother in law over my husband and always has. Some examples:
**All of this is material things pretty much but still**
1. Take today...Zach's birthday....my husbands birthday is a couple of weeks before Christmas...so his stuff gets kinda blended together (which also bothers me). Zach got just as much stuff as Wes for Christmas and then today my mother in law is buying him a Wii for his b'day.
2. Wes got told he could only go to Northwest Shoals for college. For those of you that don't know Northwest Shoals is a community college in Muscle Shoals, which means that Wes had to stay at home to go to college. He wanted to go to UAH for engineering but his mom absolutely refused. Well Zach got to choose anywhere he wanted to go...and that is anywhere in the US not just Alabama...and as most of you know he goes to Auburn.
3. For graduation from High School Wes didn't get anything. For graduation from college, which came two weeks before Zach's high school graduation, he got a laptop, just a standard Toshiba. For Zach's high school graduation he got a Macbook, money, and a new Honda Civic.
4. Wes has never ever had a new car...his dad sells used vehicles on the side and Wes has always gotten whatever his dad had on hand, and then if hid dad sold it he just gave him the next thing there was. Heck Wes has never owned a car that has less than 100,000 miles on it.
5. I have been hearing from day one from my mother in law how Zach is so much more responsible, and book smart than Wes. Then she thinks that she is doing good by saying but Wes is good with mechanical things.
News Flash to my mother in law....your first born is just as smart as your second born....but you really screwed with his self esteem so much that he just didn't try anymore. And Wes is one of the most responsible people I know. Now don't get me wrong...I don't blame Zach for this....it's not his fault....it's my mother in laws. She doesn't think that she plays favorites, she has looked me in the face and said seriously that she treats her children the exact same. What a crock of bull. She is lucky that she didn't make her sons enemies to each other over this. Oh yeah I forgot to mention that when they were kids Wes was always the one who got into trouble if they fought, not Zach even if he started it. My mother in law's reason? Wes was bigger than Zach and he could hurt him. So what did she think would happen to Wes when Zach threw a GLASS pepsi bottle at his head? Yet again Mother in law says Well Wes must have did something to antagonize him.
I wish this were all me overreacting. You know what's so sad. Wes has gotten so used to this. He actually is pretty big person about it saying that he doesn't care. He might not, he might be used to it, but I am not! It's not about the material things to me. But I do think you should be as fair as possible with your children. I mean I am the baby of my family and I can honestly say my parents treated me and Chris the same. They spoiled us both.
Stepping off my soapbox now. Thanks for letting me rant.

Time for the Ten...Okay make that 5

1. Bought the Mother of All Pregnancy books last night and I am 150 pages into it. Loving it! I am finding out soo much that I either didn't know or was possibly misinformed about. I have just started the chapter where you just find out your preggers and what is going to happen. I have to admit that I kinda only skimmed over the infertility chapter only because that doesn't apply to me at this present time...but it doesn't mean I won't go back to it. I did read some of it however and it is definitely informative. I also like how the author puts some little humorous comments in there :) I found myself reading interesting tidbits out loud to Wes as I came across them.
2. Okay so I feel bad and am hoping that everyone has kinda gone through this. I'm trying to inform myself about breastfeeding and cloth diapering. I have to admit that I'm not totally enthused about it but I am willing to consider it. Of course I am not pregnant yet, but I want to do what is best for my baby. Was anyone else not so gung ho about it at first?
3. I must say that I love cookbooks that little old ladies from a church put together. Wes bought me one from a guy at work that was selling them and they have the good old fashioned cooking stuff in them. Yummy!
4. So I have never really been that big of a fan of Trading Spaces...I just can't seem to get into it for some reason. But the other day I was bored and they had this new kind of Trading Spaces on. The particular episode I watched was a mother in law and daughter in law trading living rooms...um yeah I would never do that! If my mother in law got ahold of my living room it would be mauve and home interior everywhere! That's fine for her but it's not my style at all! Trust me she's tried...I won't budge!
5. Today is my brother in law Zach's 20th birthday....Happy Birthday Zach!
Hope everyone has a fantastic Tuesday!

An embarrassing moment...first in awhile!

So uh yeah feeling like a fool right now. I will say though that it's not completely my fault...but it is. So I left earlier to run some errands....setting the alarm on the way out. Gone for about an hour. Come home and all I could think about was my lunch. Let's just say I forgot completely about the alarm.
Well about 10 minutes after I get home my cell phone starts ringing. It's my mom. ADT had just called her at work saying our house alarm was going off and they couldn't get ahold of us. I was like Huh? I am standing in my living room, no alarm is going off. And noone had tried to call the house either. Then I remembered I had set the alarm before I left...and I hadn't disarmed it when I came in...but what was weird is that nothing was going off...it is not a silent alarm....but it was going off at the adt center...so I think we have a messed up box at the house. But they had told mom they called our house and noone answered but that part isn't true because our phone didn't ring once and we have caller id and it wasn't on there either. So I am confused. I am going to call ADT to tell them about our malfunctioning box. And I am also going to check to see that they have our home number right. They asked my mom if they should call the police and she told them she'd call them back because she didn't know if it was for real or not. I told her next time to tell them to call the police. Better be safe than sorry.
Next time I'll try to remember I had set it. But still if the box had been working right then I would have known. Oh well :)

This site has some really cool stuff on it!

I have a new find on the internet. And since some of you are really good at making things you might find this interesting. I'm going to try a new linking procedure that Colleen told me about. Anyway check out this site! Etsy
Okay for some reason it didn't quite work...I wanted the link to say etsy...Colleen I did like what you sent in the email but I must be doing something wrong...hmmm?? Oh well still check out the site everyone :)

Update: Whoo hoo Colleen I figured out what I did wrong! Yeah me since I am so technologically challenged lol!

There is nothing like......

getting woken up at 3am by the tornado sirens! Next my telephone is ringing and it's my mom telling us to get up because according to the radar bad weather was heading our way! So me and Wes and Savannah spent the next hour in the master bed closet with the radio and pillows and blankets. Fun times. Poor Wes still had to get up and go to work at 5:30 so I bet he is tired today. Hopefully tonight will be more peaceful.

10 on Tuesday

1. I cannot seem to shake this stupid cold!
2. Run Run as fast as you can to the theaters to see 27 dresses! Possibly one of the best movies ever!
3. I think Savannah my kitty is preggers.
4. I'm not a huge NFL watcher but I did watch the Superbowl. That was a really good game.
5. I think I am going to check out Dave Ramsey's stuff.
6. Auburn plays there A-Day game on March 29 so of course I am wanting to go. Wes can't go because he will be in an outage at work at that time...50 straight days of 7/12's. My brother in law said I could go down with him. He is co-oping this semester so he isn't currently down there. But he told me I could go with him to it. I want to but I also don't want to cramp his style lol :)
7. We officially booked our Disney vacation. June 28-July3. Can't wait!
8. We rented the movie The Comebacks on Friday. Um yeah...not really worth it.
9. I have decided that if my first child is a boy that we are going to do the nursery in a vintage football theme...using Auburn and Tennessee stuff since we are a house divided...and yes this idea came from me not my hubby....weird huh :)
10. Trying to figure out Valentine's plans. It's next week!
Getting 10 today was rough. Hope everyone has a great Tuesday!

A few photos for Friday

First of all Wes' new pride and joy...yet I can't really get a great picture of it. hehe don't you just love those kind of commercials that is displayed here...

Next is my cross stitching project..however it is really hard to tell what I have done...like I said the pattern is already there I am just filling it in...I have the whole border completed except for outlining so I am excited about that. It's a good boredom activity for me.

And finally I caught Savannah sticking her tongue out!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!