Matt is driving!

Matt had his first driving lesson today. He started out in a middle school parking lot, then moved on to a the dirt road going to Union Res. and then drove home from there. No driveway yet. Go Matt! He did all this with Randy. Tomorrow is my turn. Stop laughing Mom! He will not go down any hilly steep roads like I did all those years ago. At least not yet. He is required to do 10 hours of Mountain driving though. Matt driving in RMNP-shudder. I don't even like driving there!

quickly checking in

Don't have much time. So this is going to be rambling...
Matt got his learner's permit Monday. Matt found out he will be wearing red tights, yellow shirt and a hat with a plume in one scene. His grades are pretty much in the toilet with science being the worst. He still loves Jen and ramen noodles.

Kristen broke up with Drew, but her old boyfriend Trevor, from Mead now goes to Trail Ridge. There is a dance Friday. Kristen is now an aide in the library. She no longer has debate, but now has World War II which she wants to drop because it is so ridiculously stupid. She is in cheerleading club. She knows 3 hand movements and one jump. The poor waif wears my slippers because she has none of her own.

Me? I have two more class weekends and 5 projects. If this does not send me over the edge, nothing will. Every evening until 9pm I am apparently repeating 7th grade. I help Kris with all her homework and then mine does not get done. Did you know that the tiger preys on Moose? I didn't either.

sabrina 2

Well doggie did not get sick, no diarrhea no vomiting, no toxic shock or seizures. Kristen and I slept downstairs to confine her in one area and what did the sweet dog do? Paced and paced, up and down, tried to get on the love seat with Kris, cried all night because she wasn't sleeping in a bed. No sleep for me. If this dog does not get sick, I will be ready to kill her. Just like some people can hold their liquor, my dog can hold her chocolate.

Sabrina

WE went out for icecream. Dog decided she needed a snack. The trash has been fine lately. But, she ate an entire bag of choclate balls filled with fudge, peanut butter or caramel. Since she does not have opposable thumbs, she ate the tin foil that they were wrapped in to look like eyeballs. Only evidence of this is the plastic bag they came in. GRRRRRRRRR. It is not as though she is not getting attention or food.

Life in the fast lane 2

had to leave to go to Kristen's conference. All is well. There was some confusion about whether she should be in lit lab(NO, she should not). She is being harrassed by her partner in tech so after next week she will be an aide in the library for the next quarter. Went to the bookfair at TRMS and spent 35.00. Not much for me.

Matt is pulling his usual, not doing work and hiding undone homework assignments. Busted. He spent the past two days catching up or at least for the most part. Hopefully, he can stay caught up now. Much yelling and tears. Not fun to be the mom or the kid.

Tomorrow night Matt has driver class 6-9, Thursday is his concert, Friday is more play practice. Saturday, they both have bowling and haircuts and then she is spending the night at her friend Emma's and Matt has his dance with Jen.

Sunday, we are doing Nothing!

Next Monday matt has play practice, Tuesday another bass lesson, Wed more driver class, Thursday picking R. up at the airport. Friday-Sunday, I have class again and then 10/23 we take Matt for his learners permit and picking up a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

Life in the fast lane

Let's see...life has been busy as ever. No rest for the weary.
10/8-7:30took Randy to the airport to catch a flight to Singapore. Yes, he made it safely. I was more nervous about it this time due to what is going on in Korea.
8:30-arrived home with breakfast from McDonalds. This satisfied the beasties for about 10 minutes
The day went downhill from there.
Both kids were irritable and fighting with each other all day(typical of post Randy departure)
Fought with Matt to do late science homework. Fought with Kristen to stop talking back. Kristen had confirmation. Took Matt to old country buffet and then to Borders. My stomach hurt the rest of the night. After that, picked Kristen up and went to Walmart for groceries. Kids fought about who got to sit in the front. (remind you of anything?)
Got to go...to be continured

Matt does laundry

Now that Matt is 16, a decree has been made that he do his own laundry. Lesson 1 was tonight:
Whites do not include grey,tan, blue or black
Socks will not get clean if they are still halfway inside out.
No going downstairs to the computer while working on laundry.
What the difference is between medium and xlarge loads of laundry
It is not necessary to fold t shirts before putting them in the washing machine.

Matt's birthday, bowling date, class ring, I want cake

Matt's birthday:We went to Chili's and took Jen with us. Apparently she is a vegetarian. Did not seem to be a problem that she was surrounded by carnivores. Matt got an mp3 player that now has become melded with his body; some books, a rammstein t shirt, a penn state t shirt, a mighty ducks jacket. He got money from Leon. He started driver training class last week. 10/23 Randy and I will be taking him for his permit. Bring on the prozac. Stop laughing mom.

The date: It seemed to last an eternity for me. We were at the library for him to help her tear down the book sale at 3pm. Approx 5pm they got to the bowling alley and we went to starbucks. At 6:30 we realized we would have to retrieve them and did so. They both had a good time apparently. Next up: the dance 10/14. Matt wants to go paintballing that afternoon, but am undecided.

Matt came home with class ring forms yesterday. Very confusing and very expensive.

WE never made Matt a birthday cake. So Kristen decided last night was time. Unfortunately, she grabbed the wrong box. She made a yellow cake mix. Since we all agreed peanut butter icing would be wasted on a yellow cake, she put cream cheese on it. Tonight we will be reicing it with probably choc. She found cream cheese alone does not spread well on cake. Kitchen is still a wreck from the cake making and the maid being too exhausted to do anything about it and yes Heidi, I still have not done anything about this problem.

Sabrina

She must be the only dog on the planet who burps after drinking water.