Finally....

I am finally finding the time to write something on here! It has been hectic to say the least!

Here's a quick catch up:
THE BABY'S HERE! One of my best friends is adopting a brand new baby! I am so excited. I started crying when I heard the news. They will make THE best parents and they have been waiting and trying for soooo long both to have a child biologically and to adopt--years and years. The hospital where they are is letting them have a room to stay in with the newborn so they get to stay with her day and night! We are all praying that they come home safely in a few days. I can't wait to see them and hug them. There, I'm crying again!

Michelle's flute recital was just awesome. She is such a wonderful musician. I sure hope she gets to do something with her music at the college level. She just has too much to pick from! She will have to get very good at time management -- that's for sure!

Jessica is busy, busy, busy with high school. She is making a movie, scrapbook & presentation for English class over "The Lord of the Flies." The scrapbook is very cool. I hope I get to see the movie they did! And of course, you know they are swimming in regionals in a week-and-a-half or so.

I went to the "Strip Club Meeting" last weekend. It was fun! My fabric strips are gorgeous and..... are you ready..... already cut for the quilt!!! I also have my black background fabric almost completely cut!! I just want to sew!!! I also organized my sewing table and some of my area. I need to do mucho more work on this! Gotta get goin'.

My organic students take their first test today! I sure hope they do okay. sigh sigh sigh.....

Wasie

Super Swims!

Jessica (oldest daughter) swam in her district meet last night!
Dropped 3 seconds on her 200 free and 19 secs on her 500 free! Plus her 400 free relay made 4th place and is going to regionals.
GO JESSICA! GO JESSICA! GO JESSICA! GO JESSICA!
We are very proud!
Not bad for someone who could not breathe 13 months ago!
LOVE YOU!

Mid-Week Crisis

Well, it's Wednesday. Will we make it to Friday??
Let's see what do we have to do:
Grade lab reports
Make slides for class on Friday
Take Michelle to Physical Therapy for Shoulder
Take girls to swimming on Wed & Thurs
Get ready for lab on Thursday
French Horn lesson today
Write quizzes for Friday

Time for any sewing or knitting??? AAARGH!!

Cookies, Cookies and More Cookies!

The Girl Scout Cookies for our troop have been ordered! F I N A L L Y! It took long enough. Not too impressed with that online system. I think it still needs a little work. I had to enter everything twice--it didn't save the info the first time! Shannon said that it just didn't like me. Thank goodness I only had 4 girls' orders to enter plus the booth sales. Shannon had 2 girls to enter. We were both on the phone at the same time trying to get this done last night! Too funny. Anyhow, I ordered 756 boxes aka 63 case of cookies!! Anybody want some cookies??? Hope I can find a place to put them when they get here!

Took the girls to swimming early this morning--7 am on a Saturday! They did not want to go! Michelle had gone to the movies last night and promised that she would get up to go this morning anyways, and Jessica stayed up and watched a movie. They were both v e r y g r u m p y ! AARGH! I don't like that. They want to go and work on things, but then if I get them up, I'm the bad guy. I suppose some day they'll understand.

Dr. Shannon told Michelle she could try to swim today. She is recovering from a small shoulder injury. I hope it goes okay. I am a little nervous about it. I will feel better when I pick them up and she tells me it did not hurt at all! She is supposed to take it easy and Coach Greg is going to watch her stroke closely. I hope and pray this is not the sign of things to come. I'm certain she will do lots of kicking today!¡!

Tomorow is the big flute recital. Michelle is playing a lovely flute piece entitled "Hungarian Serenade" and our good friend Pam is her accompanist. Michelle is also accompanying another flutist, Maria who is younger than her. Shannon is playing also. So it should be lots of fun to hear everyone play. It is in a large chapel at AC. Let you know how it goes.

Wasie

It's Friday!

Yippee! It's Friday! I survived yet another morning of 3 whole hours of talking nearly nonstop to a multitude of students--some of whom actually interacted! Unfortunately for the general chem bunch, I had to give the gen ed assessment pre-test. I hate that. I feel like they may not feel like they know anything. I just kept stressing that when they retake it later at the end of the semester then they will truly feel like they learned something this semester! Also, a poor grade on the pretest does not impact their grade. Plus I will give them extra credit points from the post test-- they will like that! Students always like extra credit!

Anyhow, I signed up for the Strip Club!! Oh my! That sounds terrible! It is a FABRIC strip club! It is meeting at The Quilt Asylum on Jan 28 and you get a packet of FABRIC strips that are precut for you. So you are ready to sew!! Sounds FUN to me! AND very clean! What better place than the Quilt Asylum to have a Strip Club--too funny. I can't wait to go and get my strips--all batiks--my fav-or-ite fabrics!

I am working on running down the battery on this laptop so it can be calibrated. You just gotta do it! It was updated and now ya gotta calibrate it which means using it until it is totally used up! Sounds weird doesn't it. I'm just glad computers work! Yea for Apple! I've been using Macintoshes since the original 128k all-in-one macintosh and have NEVER regretted it! Best computers out there.

Well, I better do SOME grading of the quizzes today!

Wasie