Kristen-Things are still going strong with Drew. She has been experimenting with makeup. Slowly getting better. This last time she did not get any below her eye. She did get some above her eyebrow. Generally three different hair styles before she settles on one before school. Her grades were good. All B's and one C. Kristen has a carnival at TRail Ridge on Friday
Matt-Grades are not what they should be-hopefully he is working on it. He had his second bass lesson. Play practice has started. Tonight he has his 1st drivers ed meeting. Tomorrow we are going out to dinner at Chili's and taking Jen with us. Friday Matt has play practice and Sat he is helping her with a book sale and then they are going bowling.
Randy- obsessed with fishing. He caught 7 on Sunday. We all went over there to the local pond with him. I tried to read while listening to Kristen whine about being bored. The dog was there too. She apparently is afraid of fish. Every time he caught one, she would begin to shake. Matt fished for awhile and then carved Jen's name in a stick. Sabrina did go wading. Not real happy about it and even less happy when we got home and had to hose off the pond scum.
Me-feeling a lot better after getting drugs from the doctor. My bp is a little high so I have to go back in two weeks. I am meeting my mentor at Chilis tonight, so they are all on their own. Then coming home and wrapping presents and baking cake. He actually cares about none of it-only cares about Jen. He has fallen hard! I am so far behind in grad school stuff. Causing a fair amount of stress! I can't seem to stay awake late or get up early any more? Can you say burn out?
Randy leaves 10/8 and will not have to go to Korea. That may be a separate trip or someelse will have to make it.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Update on MattJen and the weekend
Matt has been asked to Jen's homecoming dance and has accepted. He says he is wearing all black-big giant veto stamp on that. This will occur while Randy is in Singapore so I will have to drop off and pick up. I told him he needs to check with me since he must rely on me for transportation.
Camping:Can you say cold, can you say wet(as in the white stuff), can you say mud when the white stuff melted? We camped near chambers lake-9000 elevation and it was pretty miserable.Matt and I both had bad colds going into this weekend and now they are worse. Oh and there is this 19 year old girl there who was kind of hitting on Matt until she found out he was 15.
We got home at 2:30 and the kids showered and went to make up the games they missed from the 1st week of their bowling league(I did not know this league ran until April when I signed them up for it!). Regular bowling is at 9am Saturdays. (Kris will miss it again this Sat since she has a confirmation retreat until 3pm Saturday.) I digress...back to today. Kris had to be at confirmation from 5-7 pm tonight and then Matt had a high school game night from 6:30 to 8:30.
Tomorrow-Matt has one on one play practice where he will learn to talk like a drunk. Can you just imagine what we will be listening to for the next 6 weeks.
I am getting my hair colored Tuesday night. Tuesday afternoon, Randy leaves for California. Wednesday night is parent teacher conferences for Matt. He has been told all electronics disappear if he is not passing everything. Which also includes myspacing Jen.
Camping:Can you say cold, can you say wet(as in the white stuff), can you say mud when the white stuff melted? We camped near chambers lake-9000 elevation and it was pretty miserable.Matt and I both had bad colds going into this weekend and now they are worse. Oh and there is this 19 year old girl there who was kind of hitting on Matt until she found out he was 15.
We got home at 2:30 and the kids showered and went to make up the games they missed from the 1st week of their bowling league(I did not know this league ran until April when I signed them up for it!). Regular bowling is at 9am Saturdays. (Kris will miss it again this Sat since she has a confirmation retreat until 3pm Saturday.) I digress...back to today. Kris had to be at confirmation from 5-7 pm tonight and then Matt had a high school game night from 6:30 to 8:30.
Tomorrow-Matt has one on one play practice where he will learn to talk like a drunk. Can you just imagine what we will be listening to for the next 6 weeks.
I am getting my hair colored Tuesday night. Tuesday afternoon, Randy leaves for California. Wednesday night is parent teacher conferences for Matt. He has been told all electronics disappear if he is not passing everything. Which also includes myspacing Jen.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Matt's birthday celebration
He is choosing to help Jen at a local public library book sale and then go bowling instead of a party. This feels weird-A-my son is VOLUNTEERING at a LIBRARY, B-he is choosing to go bowling(which he will have done earlier in the day) over a party.
Good mommy bad student
Last night I helped Matt study for a math test. He said it really helped. His father was too busy. He eventually came up and helped but not until after Matt and I got help on line. I then took Kristen to the store for posterboard. My homework-not so much done. Today I spent all day at the Denver Public Schools bookfair. Fantastic speaker, Steve Layne if you ever have the chance, dont't pass him up. We are picking up Matt's bass tomorrow.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Matt and Kris go to the doctor
Today was checkup day and yup you guessed it-they both needed shots. Kristen did not even notice hers. Matt pulled his out the first time, but I was relentless. The second time they were successful. Matt said the needle was 7 inches long. Just found he got a part in the school play in November. The play is Macbeth did it and he plays the part of Ralph. He tried out for Juanito.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Matt's music video
Matt and his friends Scott, Matt and James want to make a music video of them sword fighting-they are not a band-they plan to dub in music. I explained he can only legally use 30 seconds of any one song(copyright). He is now rethinking this-knowing that I will never allow him to break this law-part of the librarian code.
Matt
Matt and I are here while Kristen and Randy went camping. I have numrerous class projects to work on and Matt has activities scheduled. Took him out for Chick parmisian last night and he remarked it was a long time since it was just the two of us. He is a different person. He says he thinks he is too competitive with both Randy and Kris. Anyway, these are some of the things he talked about:
His friend Scott has made a cd of anti school songs(all hits when I was in school)
Matt loves Twisted Sister, Pink Floyd, ACDC, Black Sabbath. I asked him if he listens to Alice Cooper-he says yes, he really likes her-which proves he has not listened to HIM!
He also would like to get Marine corp tattoos on his arms. Doesn't want to join the Corp-just wants the tattoos-not too sure he realizes needles are involved. He won't be doing this while I am supporting him that is for sure.
I miss my girl, but she is off having fun with her Daddy, who by the way leaves for Singapore on 10/8. There should be a California trip before then.
His friend Scott has made a cd of anti school songs(all hits when I was in school)
Matt loves Twisted Sister, Pink Floyd, ACDC, Black Sabbath. I asked him if he listens to Alice Cooper-he says yes, he really likes her-which proves he has not listened to HIM!
He also would like to get Marine corp tattoos on his arms. Doesn't want to join the Corp-just wants the tattoos-not too sure he realizes needles are involved. He won't be doing this while I am supporting him that is for sure.
I miss my girl, but she is off having fun with her Daddy, who by the way leaves for Singapore on 10/8. There should be a California trip before then.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
This week
8/22- I took a day off to spend with the kids so we went to Casa Bonita. Picture of kids inside eating and picture outside in front of the fountain. Magic shows, cliff divers, kind of hokey but fun. Next we went to the gokart track in Boulder and afterwards got blue rasperry slurpees.
8/23 1st day of school. Matt is a sophomore at Skyline and Kristen is a 7th grader at Trail Ridge. I was so concerned about Kris(my guilt and knowing how shy she can be) that I was awake from 1:30 on. She did great. She loves her classes-her electives are technology where she will learn how to build a website and do video editing, Debate, and band. She has even made a friend before lunch time.
Matt's electives are German and orchestra. His comments-his math teacher could not be any more boring;his biology teacher irritates him. The picture of him wearing his hunley shirt backwards was taken before he left for school. The other pic is Kris before school.
8/23 1st day of school. Matt is a sophomore at Skyline and Kristen is a 7th grader at Trail Ridge. I was so concerned about Kris(my guilt and knowing how shy she can be) that I was awake from 1:30 on. She did great. She loves her classes-her electives are technology where she will learn how to build a website and do video editing, Debate, and band. She has even made a friend before lunch time.
Matt's electives are German and orchestra. His comments-his math teacher could not be any more boring;his biology teacher irritates him. The picture of him wearing his hunley shirt backwards was taken before he left for school. The other pic is Kris before school.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
The most wonderful time of the year
It is back to school time in Colorado. They both go back in 3 days. One is completely ready and has been for a week. The other not so much. He does at least have a backpack, legal pad and pens. High schools don't give out a supply list until the 1st day. He has IMP math, US history, English, Biology, German, and Orchestra and a study hall. Don't know what Kris has yet.
Kris has decided she likes to sew! Sewed three dog toys this weekend.
Three of us went to see Accepted this weekend-not even worth a rental.
Went bowling today or the kids did. I read a chapter in my fundamentals of Collection development book. I decided to sign them up for fall bowling leagues every sat at 9am. It might help them connect to other kids in the neighborhood and keep Matt too busy to hang out with his ninja sword fighting friends.
I am taking Tuesday off to spend time with them. The plan is to go to Casa Bonita in Denver. Here is the link.
http://www.casabonitadenver.com/
Cooking-I made banana pancakes Saturday morning and tonight I am making stuffed peppers.
Kris has decided she likes to sew! Sewed three dog toys this weekend.
Three of us went to see Accepted this weekend-not even worth a rental.
Went bowling today or the kids did. I read a chapter in my fundamentals of Collection development book. I decided to sign them up for fall bowling leagues every sat at 9am. It might help them connect to other kids in the neighborhood and keep Matt too busy to hang out with his ninja sword fighting friends.
I am taking Tuesday off to spend time with them. The plan is to go to Casa Bonita in Denver. Here is the link.
http://www.casabonitadenver.com/
Cooking-I made banana pancakes Saturday morning and tonight I am making stuffed peppers.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Ramblings
I have really been a slacker about posting....
Here is the update on everyone!
Sabrina....
-has horrible breath because she keeps eating the onion and zucchini leaves from the garden
-apparently loves coleslaw and asparagus
-has been banned from Kristen's bed(see the Kristen update)
-is glaring at me as I type this
Kristen
We redid her bedroom last weekend-she has a purple desklight, trashcan and bedding set.
She is a little neater and does not want doggie on her bed at all. We moved the dog bed upstairs. Kris has turned into quite the teenybopper. She loves reading "those" magazines, has pictures of several of her favorites on her wall and is emailing her favorite fan letters and has "chatted" with some of them online-not too sure I believe it was really them, but she does so, so I am going with that. She loves email. Sent me 11 emails that she needs a new belt. She is listening to adds on TV for sales and concerts. Who IS this child?
Matt
Matt is addicted to email as well. He gets several emails a day from his intended,Jen. Last weekend he went camping with Randy down to the Cumbres and Toltec. They had a great time. Tuesday he gets his schedule so then we will go back to school shopping for him. Denial will no longer be an option. He spends far too much time playing computer video games, but then again, Kris monopolizes the TV to watch her teen idols. Matt totally does not understand this. Ah the joy of having a boy and girl this age.
Randy
Still working for Ranoda. Still fishing when he has the time. In fact, he and Matt are going late this afternoon. Kristen and I will go shopping for the elusive belt and sneaks. Rumblings of a potential trip to California and Asia. His Indiana boss is contemplating moving out here.
Me
I got my grades for my summer classes-A's in both. In fact my young adult lit class, I got 100%. That gave me the push I needed to get textbooks ordered for the fall. So here we go again. I can do this. Work is good, I am loving my job, but missing "my" library if that makes sense. My boss is great-I consider her a friend as well as a boss. I am working a few hours today to get one last part of my presentation put together for the all library staff meeting at M.M.S. Going out there to set up was like being in the Twilight zone. They are turning our Target into a Supertarget, so I am missing it bigtime. Walmart just is not cutting it. Kmart is awful and the closest Shopko is in S.D. Tomorrow I will take the kiddos to a movie-probably Zoom with Tim Allen.
Here is the update on everyone!
Sabrina....
-has horrible breath because she keeps eating the onion and zucchini leaves from the garden
-apparently loves coleslaw and asparagus
-has been banned from Kristen's bed(see the Kristen update)
-is glaring at me as I type this
Kristen
We redid her bedroom last weekend-she has a purple desklight, trashcan and bedding set.
She is a little neater and does not want doggie on her bed at all. We moved the dog bed upstairs. Kris has turned into quite the teenybopper. She loves reading "those" magazines, has pictures of several of her favorites on her wall and is emailing her favorite fan letters and has "chatted" with some of them online-not too sure I believe it was really them, but she does so, so I am going with that. She loves email. Sent me 11 emails that she needs a new belt. She is listening to adds on TV for sales and concerts. Who IS this child?
Matt
Matt is addicted to email as well. He gets several emails a day from his intended,Jen. Last weekend he went camping with Randy down to the Cumbres and Toltec. They had a great time. Tuesday he gets his schedule so then we will go back to school shopping for him. Denial will no longer be an option. He spends far too much time playing computer video games, but then again, Kris monopolizes the TV to watch her teen idols. Matt totally does not understand this. Ah the joy of having a boy and girl this age.
Randy
Still working for Ranoda. Still fishing when he has the time. In fact, he and Matt are going late this afternoon. Kristen and I will go shopping for the elusive belt and sneaks. Rumblings of a potential trip to California and Asia. His Indiana boss is contemplating moving out here.
Me
I got my grades for my summer classes-A's in both. In fact my young adult lit class, I got 100%. That gave me the push I needed to get textbooks ordered for the fall. So here we go again. I can do this. Work is good, I am loving my job, but missing "my" library if that makes sense. My boss is great-I consider her a friend as well as a boss. I am working a few hours today to get one last part of my presentation put together for the all library staff meeting at M.M.S. Going out there to set up was like being in the Twilight zone. They are turning our Target into a Supertarget, so I am missing it bigtime. Walmart just is not cutting it. Kmart is awful and the closest Shopko is in S.D. Tomorrow I will take the kiddos to a movie-probably Zoom with Tim Allen.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Friday, July 21, 2006
Back in the routine
The kids are back and getting back into a routine. Not arguing about chores as much so that is a good thing. Kristen is swimming and Matt is playing his nascar game while I am trying to pull things together for my class this weekend. NO camping this weekend since Randy was as sick as a dog yesterday and is still not 100%. Kids and dog are happy about that. Next year we will have to come up with a camping compromise. Choc cupcakes gone, jelly krimpets are down to one back. Matt has requested scalloped oysters so we will have that on sunday and banana cake with banana rum icing if I can find banana rum. I remember Heidi making this when we got back from the Bahamas and I have loved it ever since. Living room needs to be vacuumed since a puppy hair explosion. She likes the toy Kristen got her but hates the squeaker noise.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
My day by Sabrina
Mom always complains about me waking her up so since I heard her tell DAd, I always wake her up by 7, I let her sleep. Besides, the froggy pillow is soooo comfy and I have all this room now that I pushed all of Kristen's clean clothes off the bed. Mom and DAd left after they gave me an early dinner of some new yum-a-liscios dog food. I want more of this and drat they shut the pantry door...but what have we here, the bag with the picture of this delectable stuff...I will just sniff it...oh no, my tooth seems to have nicked it a bit...what the heck....RIP!!! the bag is in shreds but there are some tasty morsels remaining. YUM! Oh, I just noticed the pizza box fell over. Pepporini and mushroom-my favorite! I will just clean this up for them. Oh dear, in my haste to clean this up, I seem to have shredded this box. What to do, what to do. I think I will take a nap on the loveseat to ponder....ZZZZzzzzzzz
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Three Weeks since my last blog-oops
I guess I have been busy.
Ok here are the inane things on my mind right now:
Personal DVD charging cords fit a Compaq laptop(will not charge it, but will fit in the same slot)
DMV in Colorado lives to create hassles for people in Colorado
I am so ready to be done with grad school
The words fried and pickles do not belong together on a menu-neither do cajun and tortellini
No one should be allowed to shoot off fireworks after 7/4 and scare Sabrinita.
We own way too many DVD's
I have a SCARED dog trying to sit under one of the high chairs at the computer counter. Not a good idea when I am sitting on one
5 months to graduation day-Yippee!
The giant ananconda type snake living next door still breathes life.
Will I ever remember my sister's home email address? Nah-why oh why did she switch....
The pit bulls on all sides of us have been having an all day conversation about how much they hate the latino music that has been playing.
TTFN
Ok here are the inane things on my mind right now:
Personal DVD charging cords fit a Compaq laptop(will not charge it, but will fit in the same slot)
DMV in Colorado lives to create hassles for people in Colorado
I am so ready to be done with grad school
The words fried and pickles do not belong together on a menu-neither do cajun and tortellini
No one should be allowed to shoot off fireworks after 7/4 and scare Sabrinita.
We own way too many DVD's
I have a SCARED dog trying to sit under one of the high chairs at the computer counter. Not a good idea when I am sitting on one
5 months to graduation day-Yippee!
The giant ananconda type snake living next door still breathes life.
Will I ever remember my sister's home email address? Nah-why oh why did she switch....
The pit bulls on all sides of us have been having an all day conversation about how much they hate the latino music that has been playing.
TTFN
Saturday, June 17, 2006
The job
Well in case you did not know, we now have comcast cable high speed so you will be able to reach us on our home line.
I am posting this on my ibook which is connecting wirelessly to our highspeed connection. The job has been overwhelming, fun, challenging, exciting all at the same time. The 1st thing my boss did was give me this laptop which did not have a wireless card. It is a G3 laptop so wireless cards are no longer made. I found one for slightly over 100.00 on ebay which the district techs installed for me yesterday. This will enable me to work from home as well as access any wireless network in any school I will be in.
Connie, my new boss is wonderful. So far we get along great. We have a lot in common. In fact my second day on the job, she came over to pick up a cable that I had in my laptop bag that she needed and we sat out on the front porch for two hours getting to know each other while drinking a beer. Yes, I actually finished a beer.
What I will be doing....I am responsible for end user support for the Horizon library automation system, updating and maintaining the media services website, overseeing the grant writing process for my department and all the libraries, training, coordinating and running professional development opportunities and developing library policies and procedures for the 22 elementary and 16 secondary schools. I attended a grant writing workshop in Colorado springs and will be taking a two credit grant writing class in the fall through Emporia. Also I act as a liason between media services and the technology services. It has been a LONG two weeks since I had class last weekend. I work from 6:30 -5pm Monday through Thursday until August. So far I have not figured out a good balance between home and work and school. Yesterday, I took the kids to the pool and went to Borders. Today the kids and I are going up to Crystal Rapids in Loveland which is a wave pool. I will not be swimming, I will be doing the reading I need to for my Management of Information agencies class next weekend. Doggie has a camp reservation and Kids and Randy will be going camping.
I am posting this on my ibook which is connecting wirelessly to our highspeed connection. The job has been overwhelming, fun, challenging, exciting all at the same time. The 1st thing my boss did was give me this laptop which did not have a wireless card. It is a G3 laptop so wireless cards are no longer made. I found one for slightly over 100.00 on ebay which the district techs installed for me yesterday. This will enable me to work from home as well as access any wireless network in any school I will be in.
Connie, my new boss is wonderful. So far we get along great. We have a lot in common. In fact my second day on the job, she came over to pick up a cable that I had in my laptop bag that she needed and we sat out on the front porch for two hours getting to know each other while drinking a beer. Yes, I actually finished a beer.
What I will be doing....I am responsible for end user support for the Horizon library automation system, updating and maintaining the media services website, overseeing the grant writing process for my department and all the libraries, training, coordinating and running professional development opportunities and developing library policies and procedures for the 22 elementary and 16 secondary schools. I attended a grant writing workshop in Colorado springs and will be taking a two credit grant writing class in the fall through Emporia. Also I act as a liason between media services and the technology services. It has been a LONG two weeks since I had class last weekend. I work from 6:30 -5pm Monday through Thursday until August. So far I have not figured out a good balance between home and work and school. Yesterday, I took the kids to the pool and went to Borders. Today the kids and I are going up to Crystal Rapids in Loveland which is a wave pool. I will not be swimming, I will be doing the reading I need to for my Management of Information agencies class next weekend. Doggie has a camp reservation and Kids and Randy will be going camping.
The GRADES
The Good:
Kristen's
A Tiny Raft(science elective) A
Reading B
Band A
Health B
English B
Math B
PE B
Pups and Patterns(math elective) A
Science B
Social Studies B
Way to go Kristen!
Now for Matt-
Orchestra A+-Yeah Matt
The Bad:
PE C
English-C
Social Studies C
Science C
The Ugly:
German-D Comment: Assignments not completed
Math D-
Matt's grades are unacceptable to us since we know this is not his best. He was awarded appropriately based on the amount of effort he put into it. He did however pass onto 10th grade so this is the bright spot.
Kristen's
A Tiny Raft(science elective) A
Reading B
Band A
Health B
English B
Math B
PE B
Pups and Patterns(math elective) A
Science B
Social Studies B
Way to go Kristen!
Now for Matt-
Orchestra A+-Yeah Matt
The Bad:
PE C
English-C
Social Studies C
Science C
The Ugly:
German-D Comment: Assignments not completed
Math D-
Matt's grades are unacceptable to us since we know this is not his best. He was awarded appropriately based on the amount of effort he put into it. He did however pass onto 10th grade so this is the bright spot.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Here Fishy, fishy
While I was at class all weekend, Randy, Matt and Kris went camping and fishing.
Kristen caught 4 fish and Matt caught 3 and Randy caught one. Delicious trout for dinner tonight.
Kristen caught 4 fish and Matt caught 3 and Randy caught one. Delicious trout for dinner tonight.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
How can this be???
Matt had a dentist appt today and the hygenist said his back teeth look good, but he is not brushing his front teeth?! Does he have to be a nonconformist in every aspect of his life? You would think the toothbrush would hit those front teeth at least accidentally once in a while. Today was the first day of finals. Three more days for me at Mead. Yeah!
Monday, May 29, 2006
Weekend update
Kristen's party was a success, but ended up being two hours too long in my opinion. Went into work for two hours afterwards to ward off an attack by Tori the terrible. Started working on what amounts to an annual report of the state of the library today. Randy and Matt ended up coming home last night due to high winds and went back for the camper this morning. Kristen and I went to the pool while Randy worked and Matt "studied" for finals. Randy and Matt caught 5 trout so we had baked trout with lemon and butter for dinner. yum. Kristen was pretty grumpy the rest of the day. Post birthday let down I guess. Randy is still working at 10pm and I heard him mention on the phone to Singapore those dreaded words " If I fly there.....". Tomorrow night Matt has a dentist appt and then I am meeting classmates for coffee at 7:15.
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