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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Time Flies

The past two weeks have flown by. I guess that's a good thing, but my house disagrees. Although I did get it picked up for the most part today...there are still piles of laundry waiting to be folded and a floor that should be vacuumed, but I settled for sweeping the obvious dirt away.

So the diet. Hmm. I kind of took a break without meaning to. Last week's weigh-in I had gained .6lbs. Not a big deal. This week's weigh-in, I had lost a pound, so I'm down 15.4lbs from where I started. And I haven't really gotten back to it. I have a goal of losing another 15 pounds...or at least 10. But my heart isn't there right now. I did have to buy a new pair of pants for work last Saturday and when I put them on for work on Thursday, they were already too big. So I am still seeing results, just not on the scale. My plan is to start again tomorrow. I'd say right now, but it's just not realistic with plans to go out tonight.

Work is good. The school part of work is starting to calm down a bit. The kids are finally starting to "get it" so it's not quite as stressful as it had been. I have one child who tests me on a daily basis, but I knew that was coming when I agreed to take the class. And the school office job is great too. I enjoy seeing tangible results each day, being able to check things off as I finish them. I also enjoy being around the kids and not having to be in charge of them. All in all I have a good balance right now.

Other news - Katie finally lost her tooth last week. If you remember it first wiggled the night before school started and she hung on that thing for 49 days. Oh the trauma! And Kyle seems to be finally getting the idea that he has to stay on the field for the soccer game. He has moments where he really gets into it and goes after the ball and then the other 75% of the time he is wandering aimlessly or playing in the goal or chasing his friend Gavin. But he did stay on the field today.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Scrwles

I just came over to my laptop to check email, look at Facebook, etc. And the page loaded on Internet Explorer says, "Sorry, Page not found." Right before we left for dinner tonight Katie and I had been talking about her upcoming presentation at school and she said to me, "I knew it, I knew there'd be a squirrels.com!" And I was thinking, probably and I'm a bit curious to know what is on there. And a bit nervous that she walked over and typed that in. But as you can see by the title of my post, she actually typed in "www.scrwles.com". So glad that squirrels hasn't been on the spelling test yet!

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Last Night

As I went to bed last night, I reached over to my nightstand to turn off the lamp and found a little green sticky note. Katie had been drawing pictures and leaving notes all over the place yesterday and it kind of exasperated me because she used about 50 of them before I caught her. She also exasperated me yesterday by not listening the first 5 times I would tell her to do something. Oh and she wanted to take her puppy (stuffed animal) in the car but we couldn't find Kyle's so we had said no animals in the car so of course that led to a meltdown by both of them...so once again, exasperated. I know there were more times - it seemed like we really struggled yesterday to just relax and enjoy the day. Despite all of the meltdowns and exasperation the note said, "You are the best mom evr." My heart melted.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Birthday Extravaganza

Katie turned 6 a few weeks ago and apparently I forgot to acknowledge the event on here with pictures! Oops. We had quite an eventful day with Bungee Trampolines at the mall, a trip to Build-a-Bear, dinner at Johnny Rockets and even more entertainment at Mountasia. What a night! Originally I had planned to take Katie and her cousins to the mall for the jumping and Build-a-Bear on a different day but the schedule just worked out better to do everything in one day. We had a great time.

Joel and PopPop getting ready to race

A Dog Cake for a Dog Lover!

Happy Birthday Katie!

Friday, July 3, 2009

Vroom, Vroom

Last weekend the kids went to a birthday party for Kyle's friend Noah. Noah's grandparents had come down for a couple of weeks from Minnesota...on a Goldwing. Guess who had their first motorcycle rides?

What a great birthday party idea!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Attitude Determines Success

ADS is an acronym for Attitude Determines Success, the basketball camp that Katie attended last week with some of her friends from school. She LOVED it! And I loved that the focus was on good sportsmanship first and then skills second. Our good friends teach the camp so I know she was in good hands. I was just surprised by how much she got out of it. On Friday they did a demonstration to show the parents what they had learned during the week. It was reminiscent of my junior high and high school basketball skill drills. And I was happy to see that those 5,6,7 and 8 year old girls (Katie being the only 5 year old since her birthday is this week) actually learned some skills. She even managed to get herself into the "Two Minute Club" which only four or five of the girls completed - doing wall sits for 2 minutes! There's NO WAY I could do that now. The rest of the group made it into the "One Minute Club".

We Can Pass!

Dribbing one ball with Amy

Preparing to dribble two balls at a time with Madigan

Around the legs

Wall Sits with Amy

Two Minute Club!

Saturday, June 20, 2009

School Shopping...in June

A friend passed on an email this week about a school uniform sale this weekend at Land's End and so the shopping for school clothes begins! I guess it's probably good to spread it out over the next three months so it doesn't hit us all at once in August. Gone are the days of spending $10 on an outfit from Target or JC Penney! I know I'm cheap, but as a teacher I know that you don't send your child to school in good clothes! I'm sure I'll be able to find some cheaper alternatives to Land's End here and there as we get closer to school but for now Katie is ready to go to school for 3 days...if she wears the same skort all 3 days. I decided it was only smart to buy the things that were actually on sale AND could be worn in the first two months of school AND equaled less than $60 because that is all I am prepared to spend on school clothes that can't be worn for two more months at this point in the summer. Maybe next month I'll add in a little more... So like I said, she has three new polos and a new skort arriving in 4-7 days via free shipping. Now that I think about it...I should have just bought 5 polos and waited on the skort. Oh well. If anyone has any khaki or navy shorts, skorts or pants they would like to pass along in a size 6 as well as any logo-free polos...feel free to send them my way! And if you need school uniforms let me know and I'll forward the email on to you...free shipping and up to 40% off.

Monday, June 1, 2009

The Graduate

These are fairly anti-climactic because it was really a "you had to be there" moment, but I figure I'll share them anyway. I still haven't downloaded the video. Those clips might prove to be a little more interesting. But here are the photos from the Kindergarten Celebration last week.

The Sharks

Today at T-ball practice we had a make-up picture due to several kids being absent when the professionals took the team photo. So I had my camera there to capture the afternoon. Here are the Sharks:

Katie and Griffin with silly hats

Rounding Third

Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard
And of course we can't forget Kyle! He and Beck had a great time this afternoon playing superheroes.

Notice the red waistband under his shorts? Officially in Underwear now!

not sure what he was doing here, but love the tongue sticking out

peek-a-boo!

and thanks to MckMama, I have finally figured out the correct settings for the blurry background!

Friday, March 20, 2009

Back to the Bazoo

Whew! What a week. We have been fighting illness in this house all week. All four of us have headed to the doctor and my pharmacist asked how I was doing and I for the first time in almost a year croaked out "I'm sick. These are actually for me this time." The bad part of it is that the combination of medications that I am on has been causing me sleepless nights which coupled with sick children has made for a crazy few days. I have been an emotional basketcase for the past two days to the point of near exhaustion. I told Derek today that I feel like I have a newborn at home again. Kyle has been waking up at all hours of the night for almost a week now. He finally told me last night at 2am that it was his ear that hurt. And yes, he has an ear infection confirmed by our Pediatric PA this afternoon. And we got Katie some heavy duty cough medicine since the one she's been on for 2 weeks doesn't seem to be doing the trick. Hopefully with the new medications they will get some rest so that I can get some rest.

Yesterday we headed to the zoo (after I had only 2 hours of sleep the night before). And this time around Kyle corrected me and said, "it's not the Bazoo Mom, it's just the ZOO!" Oh, thanks for setting me straight on that one. It was a gorgeous day and we had so much fun. 6 adults were herding around 10 kids ranging in age from 1 month to 12 years. It was great; for the most part they paired off and stayed that way so we just had to do head counts before we moved. So here's the pics: