Teeth

I don't know if it true or not but it does seem so in the case of our kids. J got his first 2 teeth at 9 months (the bottom 2 broke at the same time). S got her first tooth finally at 14 months, R got her first tooth at 7 months. R by far has the worst teeth. And she's the one who always brushes and flosses. We have to beg the others, just to brush their teeth. S's teeth are the strongest. It makes me ponder about the age of the first baby tooth and the strength of them and then the adult teeth that follow. Today R had a cleaning at the dentist and she again has a cavity. I feel so bad for her.

25 years ago

I was in my first wedding, and I was the maid of honor. Happy 25th Anniversary big brother and my sister-in-law. Doesn't seem like it's been that long ago we were driving in the fog, with heads stuck out the window to look at bridesmaid dresses. Hope you have a great day!

Relaxing

Enjoying being off and a few days of nothing to do. Well, nothing I have to do anyway. I could do lots but I am not motivated by anything right now. Enjoying the peace. P was off all weekend, a rare occurrence. He drove J to camp on Saturday, and when he got home we met his Dad for dinner for his birthday (which was in April). On Sunday P and I left the girls to clean their room (which they actually did!) and went to see Star Trek, it was pretty good for a trekie movie. Yesterday P hiked and I made hamburgers and strawberry shortcake for dinner. That's about all the excitement there's been around here.

School's out for the Summer!

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!! The year went by so fast, it seems almost unreal. I will miss the children I had direct contact this past year, and I look forward to seeing them again in Aug. Come Aug. and for 2 years I will have all 3 of my kids at different schools, J a junior in high school, S in 7th grade at middle school, and R in 4th grade in elementary school) that should be fun and challenging for us.

I'm still awake

It must be the excitement of only 6.5 hours left to work in my current contract. But I am working a few days in June which is a workshop on co-teaching. And maybe I'll get some calls to sub during summer school. Tomorrow 4th thru 6 grade will have their award assemblies, and Kindergarten will have their celebration party, which is a little bigger than parties grades 1-3 will have. But first grade has a really fun theme, the kids are going to have so much fun. Unfortunately I don't know what 3rd grade plans are, and because the 2 students I work with are in Kindergarten I will miss S getting her Honor Roll ribbon for the year. I believe her teacher did really well in preparing S for Middle School. S should also get an Art award and possibly a PE one. I hate that I'm going to miss seeing it all for myself. P has to work too :( I think I'll write her a letter and tell her how proud I am of her. I am also proud of R who was on Honor Roll all year, and J almost getting there. He just struggles so with writing, he has from the beginning of his education so that's nothing new. He'll end up with all A's and B's for the year and a lonely C in Language Arts(baring he doesn't totally bomb is final tomorrow)

Yawn..Yawn

I have been so tired the last 2 days. This week at school has been Spirit week, yesterday day was pajama day, a friend suggested that because we are in pj's our brain gives us the signal that we're tired. I'm not sure I buy that since I was sound asleep by 8 PM last night, and I slept completely through the night. A little less than 11 hours of sleep. I would have hoped I had lots of energy all day today. Sadly no, I did not, I'm was so and am so tired, I wish I could crawl under the covers and go to sleep. S went to her 6th grade dance tonight, P is working late and J left with his uncle on a scout fishing trip right after school today. I'll have to be alert enough to go pick S up at 8 tonight. No fair.

I made it

Last night was S's over night field trip. J dropped us off at school at 5:15 PM and helped up unload and load the bus. We unloaded and walked into the zoo with our stuff to the picnic area for pizza. Then we did some walking around, it was starting to get dark, which was weird. Then we picked up our stuff and walked to the tents near the lions. It was way to much for me, I rode on the cart. I was having a terrible time breathing. They showed us more animals up close, then bed, well more like floor. I took J's mat but even with it, it was very uncomfortable. I'm not sure I slept. The girls woke up at 5:30, after everyone was dressed and we cleaned up camp. We walked back to the exit area to drop off our stuff before breakfast. We were given a tour of some other animals, took the safari ride (which in my opinion is not very long, which really seemed short when your feet hurt), we broke up into groups and my group wanted to play in the water, the kids played in both water areas and we saw the monkeys, before lunch, then thank goodness it was 1 PM, after we all ate, and time to pick up our things and head to the bus and back to Sunrise. It was pretty hot walking around, but not nearly as hot as the bus was on our trip back, it was bad. After we unloaded, I needed/wanted to check on my student and the things we use everyday. I'm glad I did because her voice box was not plugged in, her computer mouse was left in the computer lab )she sues one that has only 1 clicker part), she was only taken the bathroom once all day (she's toilet training), and her Mother's Day gifts we worked on in her classroom did not make it in to her backpack. Geez good thing the bus showed up back at school in time for to help her. I'm so tired and my feet hurt so much. I think I'll take a shower and go to bed very early.

Looking good!

My job at R's school is looking good for next year. What's even better is 2 of my supervisors were fighting for me! They told me today all the details from the conversation they had with the principal yesterday. Man did that make me feel so awesome to hear the compliments today!

maybe good news

The paras at my school got their contracts today. It's still not a defiant guarantee that we will have a job in the Aug. and not necessarily at the school we are at, but at least it's more that what we had yesterday! I am praying that my contact will be honored and I'll be at the elementary school R will be at for 3 more years.

It's late Sunday afternoon already...

The past week went by fast. Last Monday I went to work with sandals on, on Tuesday and the rest of the week I wore my slippers, my feet felt much better Tuesday on. I see my doctor tomorrow, I'll be able to see what type of shoe I should be wearing. I was so tired all week after working all day. I was thankful for a school fundraiser on Tuesday night at McDonald's and I didn't have to cook dinner. J and his ROTC class helped at a local elementary school Friday night. I said half jokingly picking him up at 9:30 would be past my bedtime. Luckily I got an hour nap and was able to pick him up. LOL Yesterday J had his orientation for working at scout camp this summer. P took him, I felt kinda bad having him, because he had to close both Friday and Saturday night, but I knew the walk from the parking lot to the place were the boys met the leaders would have been hard on me, and the girls would have needed someone to take them to dance so it's not like he would have been able to sleep in anyway. I decided to take yesterday off as a Sabbath day and do all my things I would normally do on a Saturday today. Grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning meal planning, etc. I did really well shopping and have enough dinners and lunches and stuff for breakfasts (for less than $200) planned for at least 3 and a half week. P will have to keep us up to date on milk and stuff I forgot or we run out of, but that's the best part of him working at a grocery store, it keeps me form running to the store and buying things we don't need and saves us money. I am getting another cold or something. It just started yesterday, I just finished the last antibiotics on Thursday, crazy. but so far I've only had a little mucus and it's been clear, sorry TMI hopefully it will stay that way.

shoes

Hurt. Today I wore shoes for the first time since my surgery. I did wear Crocs on Friday when I went to have my blood checked, but I had my feet wrapped, it was tight and pressed a little on my incisions. Yesterday driving the kids around I had my feet wrapped and socks over the ace bandages. This morning for church I wore sandals with a little arch support, I couldn't wait to come home and take them off! It hurt, and it was making me sick to my stomach. Tomorrow's going to be a long day going back to work. Maybe I can just take my slippers?

I wasn't going do it but....

I was feeling good because my blood level was normal, and he asked. This afternoon, I had my blood checked and from where is was pretty low on Monday was perfect today. J asked if we could go get his license. I wanted P to enjoy getting it with him (read in between the line here, then I don't have to wait for hours at the DMV and it would be a special memory for J) J had today's date programed in his brain of 6 months exactly since he got his permit. He didn't have to take the test because of the driver's class he took and it only took 1 hour from start to finish to get the license. Yesterday it seemed like it was only going to be R and I home tonight, it now seems as though all of us be home. P's schedule got changed, he's off at 6:30, J was supposed to help at an elementary school thing (he was off a week, it's next week), and S was supposed to go to a birthday party. She decided to not go because I'd have to pick her up early for dance tomorrow, so she'd rather just not go. That's been the suckest part of dance early on a Saturday morning, it really cuts off Friday night activities early. What's really funny is she had her party on a Friday night went to her classes and came back home before anyone else was awake. Harder to do at someone else's house.

Easter Morning

Happy Easter!

Hopefully pictures will be added this afternoon, time to get moving off to church. I didn't sleep so well last night, between my feet and knee hurting, my coughing, P's coughing and trying to keep a blanket on with out being in trapped in it pillows under my feet, it was a rough night.

Easter Eggs

We did our Easter Eggs today before P went to work, so tomorrow we can celebrate his birthday before he has to go to work tomorrow afternoon, with lunch after the girls' dance classes. He has to close on Easter too, so we'll have to have a quick lunch on Sunday too. My feet are going OK, I've probably been on them too much today since I've had to increase the pain meds. It has codine in it, I am feeling a little itchy, not very fun.

Surgey went well

There was some concern about my knee and how bruised and swollen it is, and my blood being too thin, but thankfully the surgery did happen. My knee is getting a little better, bending just it just hurts. I need to walk to keep the fascia in my feet from tightening up. P went to Fry's to get my pain meds. I feel OK, right now, but I don't want to wait too long before taking something. On to recovery and praying the surgery will take and I'll be able to walk pain free.

All the DBCC women at the retreat

One with our prayer shaws and one with out.

I'm not sure how the week went by so fast

I'm tired, getting a cold (I think, my throat has been sore for days and today my nose is runny and stuffed up) My feet hurt, and my back is messed up again. And today my right knee is a little swollen and stiff from a fall I had last night. Luckily it was at the very end (clean up) of the school carnival. S helped her teacher with face painting to earn a partial scholarship for the 6th grade overnight field trip. Which is a good thing because, we just had to buy her a new retainer, because I didn't know it was in the sink and after I did the dishes when I got home from the retreat on Sunday I turned on the garbage disposal and heard an crunching noise. So not good. Anyway back to the carnival P was off so he kept an eye on the girls while I served snow cones all night. I was supposed to be in charge of the craft table but because of the wind crafts didn't happen. I wasn't sure if maybe the whole thing should have been postponed because of the wind, it was pretty windy. But I'm glad it worked out and is over. The kids had a great time.

Home

I had a fun and Spirit filled weekend with 110 other women from church. I rode up north with 2 other ladies Friday afternoon. It certainly was much cooler in Herber than it was this weekend in Phoenix and man was it windy Friday night and this morning. The food was great, bed comfortable (even though I couldn't fall asleep at all Friday night). I felt very blessed to pray and minister to my small group. P had to go off to work, I got to see him for just a few minutes, and he has to close the next several nights, I think I may see him again on Wednesday night :(

Who Knew?

That you need to have a permit for at least 6 months before you can get a license? J said he knew that, but of course didn't tell me until after the lady at the DMV told us. He'll need to wait until after April 17th to get his license.