Hannah Montana

Wednesday night was a big night for my 8 year old! Her biggest sister got her Hannah Montana tickets for her birthday! No, we did not pay an outragous amount of money for them. It just so happens that when I bought the cd, Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus, it had a card about the fan club, MileyWorld. You got a month free, so we signed up. Of course I forget to cancel before the 30 days were up, so we are in it for a year for thirty bucks! A few months later we got an email with a presale code and a presale date for Ft Worth. On that day, my daughter went online and bought four tickets, easy as pie. Being the "starving" college student that she is, she wanted to sell two of the tickets. The day of the public sale she put them on ebay for a 24 hour auction. She sold the two tickets for a bargain price of $350. Now I would not pay $350 to take my daughter to a concert, but considering what others have paid, that's pretty cheap I guess.
So, the plan was my 8 year old and I would go to the concert. I must admit I was pretty pumped! I love Hannah Montana! It's a cute show! Well, one day a few weeks before the show, my (ok, i'm sick of saying their ages, let's just be real and use names!) Ally and Kate and I were sitting having dinner. A Jonas Brothers song came on and Kate (15) said something about it. Ally replied, "They're going to be at Hannah Montana, you know." Kate was excited to hear that! Ally turned to me and asked if I could drop her and Kate at the concert. I thought that was so sweet. Since Kate WAS the baby and now Ally is, Kate can be a little resentful, but at the same time she probably is Ally's biggest protector. I was more than happy to drop them at the convention center.
After dropping the girls at the concert, I parked the car in a garage near a movie theatre. I could pass some time here! So I bought a ticket to Martian Child. Afte consulting with Laura, (21) I went to see Lions for Lambs. The movie began and so did my phone! Michelle (17) texting to see if I was OK, ("what are you going to do by yourself during the concert, mom!?") and Kate calling because she can't find her seat. Laura needs to know how long cookie dough can keep in the fridge, Ashley (19) did Ally wear the HM tshirt I bought her (no), Kate found her seats, the Jonas Brothers are singing, etc...I had no idea who Tom Cruise was! I left. Went to the bookstore instead. Wander around in there for a while. I love books! I would have sat in the car reading my current book, Empress, but I forgot to bring it. Moved the car closer to the arena. Went into Mi Cocina (I hate going places alone! Especially restaurants!). Ordered a Margarita and some quesadillas. Of course at this moment I got a text that Miley is singing her last song! Slurped the 'rita, stuffed half the quesadillas in my mouth and walked a 2 blocks to meet the girls. They were so cute walking down the street together! They had a blast! I'm glad they went together!

Why

Why am I writing a blog? and why do I call it "you have how many?!"? Well, as for why I'm writing a blog, I'm not real sure. Why I'm calling it that, well I have 5 daughters. That's right, 5. And yes I do know what causes it! It seems I spend much of my life answering to people as to what it's like having 5 children. My husband's yearly company trip, attended mostly by career women whom either have the token one or two, or just have their fabulous career, is so much fun! All the other women seem to think all I can talk about is how many, who's watching them and oh, it must be so hard. Guess what! I can talk about current events, politics, religion, movies, books!! Anything!! But they just stare at me like I'm the freak show! Thank God for unlimited alcohol! Yes, I am the sideshow! The girls are older now, for the most part. The oldest is 21 and a senior in college - YAY!! Next one is 19 and a sophomore. Then theirs the 17 year old senior in high school and then a 15 year old sophomore. We were cruising right along! Oh, how young and energetic we would be when the kids are grown!! Oops! Along comes #5, an 8 year old second grader! Oh, well. We'll still be kinda young. Not feeling so young about now, though. I won't lie and act like our house is a bubbly, happy, fun all the time place, but it's not so bad. Exept for the more than occasional fight over clothing and of course the three weeks when almost all of us are pms'ing, it's a pretty cool life!