DDA Chapter 12

[babytrees]

So do you all think Theresa and Glynis are having a grand old time!?!?

I will come back in a bit...I am trying to catch up. BUT....


I HAD A FABULOUS TIME!!

I love you all dearly but 15 minutes in to our time and we were completing each other's sentences. It was like finding a piece of my heart that I didn't know was missing.

 

[yellowfish78]

Jen -- You'll do just fine with your new student today. Here's some extra .

Janet -- you're not whining. Chronic pain of any sort if very frustrating.

Chanon -- enjoy your week! Remember to journal when you have a second as it will seem to fly by. How's the cat scratch?

My BIL's power in Houston was finally restored Thursday night. I can't imagine being without it for that long, and it's been fairly hot in Texas.

I feel like I barely sat down this weekend (other than my bath with margarita's Saturday night) so I'm looking forward to my big clean-out when the boys are gone to the campout next weekend. I hope to get lots done and possibly even catch a movie or something.

Have a great day everyone.

Cat scratch is better - especially after using real Neosporin and not generic. I think it was a different version of Neosporin that is helping it though.
Journal?! Right now I'm trying to see if Mom will stay home until Wednesday...I think the house will be slightly crowded if she came up tonight.

I'm sorry. I didn't realize that anyone else still watched it. Yes, I sobbed my way through the episode. I'm hoping for less sad stories for the final season. There has been too much sadness lately on that show.

I think it's going to be a great season. It'll be sad, but good. I'm curious about all the recaps they are going to do - Dr. Green, Carter, the blond woman who married the EMT and they had a baby together...

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Janet, hope the slip didn't throw your back out completly.

Janet, I hope your back feels better! I have tripped over our cats many times and it definitely throws my back for a loop.

I will come back in a bit...I am trying to catch up. BUT....


I HAD A FABULOUS TIME!!

I love you all dearly but 15 minutes in to our time and we were completing each other's sentences. It was like finding a piece of my heart that I didn't know was missing.

Glad you had fun!
Happy Birthday, Nick!


I need to leave in about 15 minutes to take the cookies to school. When I said I could help at the luncheon I completely forgot I have to be back here to let the housekeeper in, so I hope they don't need me to stay past 11:45! I have Princess's laundry going, I took her to school, picked up the dry cleaning, and went to Target. I am only working today and tomorrow because they are going out of town, so I just need to make sure I have everything done for Princess to go on the trip. Other than giving her a bath I am done with my list for today.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Cat scratch is better - especially after using real Neosporin and not generic. I think it was a different version of Neosporin that is helping it though.
Journal?! Right now I'm trying to see if Mom will stay home until Wednesday...I think the house will be slightly crowded if she came up tonight.


I think it's going to be a great season. It'll be sad, but good. I'm curious about all the recaps they are going to do - Dr. Green, Carter, the blond woman who married the EMT and they had a baby together...

Dr. Green is dead. Not much to recap there! I could NOT think of what blond woman you were talking about! Susan. She married Chuck, the flight nurse. The only EMT I could think of at first was Sandy, Carrie's partner, who died.
I'm glad the cat scratch is healing!

 

[yellowfish78]

I know Green is dead but they could bring back is wife! (And then ER needs to quick flashbacking to him in the "upcoming episodes" at the end of the show...) And yes, I remember Susan now and her quick comeback for a while a few seasons ago too. I really want to see Carter back for more than one episode. And when are they bringing back Sam's son?! It's like she's not even a parent anymore.

 

[triplefigs]

My grandmother died this morning very peacefully. We will be headed to Huntsville, AL on Thursday for visitation and funeral on Friday. Thanks for all your prayers. I know she is in a better place and that she and my grandfather were ecstatic to finally be back together. They had been married for 55 years when he died 11 years ago, and she missed him terribly.

She and my grandfather were the ones who got me hooked on Disney. They took my brother and me every year and we camped at FW. She left me money to pay for our December trip because she knew how much the kids love WDW. It will be a special time for us to remember her and my grandfather.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I know Green is dead but they could bring back is wife! (And then ER needs to quick flashbacking to him in the "upcoming episodes" at the end of the show...) And yes, I remember Susan now and her quick comeback for a while a few seasons ago too. I really want to see Carter back for more than one episode. And when are they bringing back Sam's son?! It's like she's not even a parent anymore.

That was one reason I stopped watching ER. I didn't like her character, and I REALLY didn't like the character of her son. Then the baby-daddy kidnapped them, it was just silly. I saw that episode but I wasn't watching regularly at that point.

 

[my3princes]

Happy Birthday Nick

ER use to be a favorite of mine as well, but like some of you I lost interest when the characters were changing.

Which reminds me of an old one I loved to watch, Knots Landing I never did get into Dallas, but I was glued to the tv every week with this one!

Jen I am sure you will do wonderful today

We had a heck of a lightning storm come through about an hour ago & it is still raining. No work for Gary today, so much for my quiet time at home. Oh well I guess the kitchen will get that much closer to being done. I knew it would take a while, but I have to be honest & say that I am getting really stressed over it.

My back has been feeling much better till this morning. I stepped on Mia's tail(she is black & it was dark)& when she moved it made me slip. Not good, I feel like such a whiner

I hope your back is better

I know Green is dead but they could bring back is wife! (And then ER needs to quick flashbacking to him in the "upcoming episodes" at the end of the show...) And yes, I remember Susan now and her quick comeback for a while a few seasons ago too. I really want to see Carter back for more than one episode. And when are they bringing back Sam's son?! It's like she's not even a parent anymore.

I hope they bring back Geoge Clooney and his family too. I've been watching ER since the beginning. It's the end of an era.

My grandmother died this morning very peacefully. We will be headed to Huntsville, AL on Thursday for visitation and funeral on Friday. Thanks for all your prayers. I know she is in a better place and that she and my grandfather were ecstatic to finally be back together. They had been married for 55 years when he died 11 years ago, and she missed him terribly.

She and my grandfather were the ones who got me hooked on Disney. They took my brother and me every year and we camped at FW. She left me money to pay for our December trip because she knew how much the kids love WDW. It will be a special time for us to remember her and my grandfather.

I'm sorry for your loss, but it sounds like she is in a better place. It was so wonderful of her to leave you money for your trip. Maybe you could get a brick or plaque for her.

 

[my3princes]

Thanks for all the Birthday wishes for Nick. I'll show him when he gets home.

I got the kids to school, got fingerprinted then hit 3 town clerks office to obtain new birth certificates and marriage licenses. The birth certificates that Chris, My Mom and I had were on pink paper, not the required safety paper. I think I have all the documentation in place now. I'm putting it all in a folder so that I don't have to search for things. Does anyone know if we will need our BC at each port or just on embarkment and disembarkment in Miami?

 

[babytrees]

Happy Birthday, Terry!​

I am so sorry I missed your birthday Terry!!

Hope it was fantabulous!!

 

[Tammi67]

Denise - I'm sorry for your loss.

Deb - Carry your BC with you when you are off the ship. If there is an issue of something, who knows what, you will be able to prove your citizenship. Also, I believe you need to show it when getting back on the ship, maybe, I think.

 

[babytrees]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday, Nick!!

Welcome to the teen years!!

 

[babytrees]

silly work!! I caught up, finally!!

Karen-glad Watkins is just a carrier. I hope the clean up doesn't take as long as they think.

Deb-WOOHOO!! on a cruise!!

Elizabeth-I hope things with your mom settle soon...it can't help the recovery process.

Denise-I am sad and happy to hear of your grandma's passing. Sad for those left behind and so happy for her...just think of that reunion

Jen-I am sorry about the stop breathing issue. We always had to sing 100 bottles of milk or put the soundtrack to Sister Act to get Cassidy to calm down in the car.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Denise - I am sorry to hear about your grandmother!

I heard a rumor from another mom at school today. She says Science Fair isn't mandatory at the high school! IF that's true then I will be infinitely pleased!
I also heard that Reading isn't mandatory in 8th grade if your child scores high enough on the TAKS test. Gee. He made a perfect score last year, think that's high enough? Hopefully he will do well again this year. There was some speculation that it MIGHT not be mandatory for 7th grade, but nobody was sure how that might work. It wasn't offered to us as an option NOT to take it for 7th grade, even with a perfect score on the 6th grade test. I should hang out with the other moms more often. Never know what I might learn!

DS has to turn in his project proposal for the stupid Science Fair on Wednesday. The day after tomorrow. I have been busting my brain to come up with a project but I can't think of anything. Remember there has to be a research paper (2 pages, minimum 5 resources) so that complicates the whole matter. I have one project that we MIGHT do. I guess I should see if there is any way to compile a research paper on it.

 

[babytrees]

Since I am at work I'll give a brief (pictureless....for now) report of my weekend.


I got up at o'dark thirty on Friday. Got myself ready and said goodbye to the girls (Cassidy in person and Abi to the darkness of her room). We go to the airport with me only screaming at about 6 cars scissoring in front me, scaring the bejeebers out of me.

It took about 5 minutes to go through security even though I got my bags checked twice....don't I feel special?? At the gate (B8) a young lady asked my to make sure it was the gate for Salt Lake City. We then got to talking, she missed her flight even though she was sitting RIGHT there, the night before. She was headed to Great Falls, MT and back home to Lewistown. Well, that's where Jim's family is from so we were discussing the "small world". It made that hour and a half rolleyes go quickly!!

Other than I was sitting in the same row as a grumpy gus the flight was uneventful...we even made it into Salt Lake 15 minutes early. So I called Glynis and she hadn't made it to the airport yet. After checking to see where I was going I headed to passenger pickup where 3, count em 3, gold mini vans went by. A quick phone call to Glynis and she and HER gold mini van were then located.

"What do you want to do?", "Anything!!" (this was the theme of the weekend).

On the way to the planeterium, Glynis showed me some wonderful architecture and the drug park. The Catholic Cathedral was beautiful. . The planeterium was wonderful, well worth the price (free ). After finding the car AND parking garage exit....after 10 minutes of going around and around we were ready to make our own exit . We then decided we were just hungry enough to find lunch.

We went to Hires Big H Restaurant....had wonderful food, drinks and horrible service. At some point Alan called Glynis and invited himself to supper....he said to make sure I was comfortable on Sunday...we decided it was that he didn't want to eat at home!!

We then went to Salt Lake Square were we saw wonderful pieces of architecture and heard enough of the organ recital to be satisfied but we decided we couldn't be quiet for any longer than 5 minutes. The Tabernacle has to be the most beautiful, acoustically, performance place.

After The Beehive House (which I accidently kept calling the honey house) we decided to go check into my hotel. We had breezed through all of my must sees and decided to try a new spot Gardner Village. OH MY GOODNESS!! that little village was amazing!! Glynis and I found our happy spot...a beautiful Christmas shop! The village was decorated for Halloween and we had fun just browsing.

As it headed toward supper time we went to The Training Table and stuffed ourselves once again. Alan took our picture together so that we would have proof for you all. He left when we said we were going to go get ice cream.

Don't ask me how but ice cream became Ikea An hour later we come out of Ikea and I went back to the hotel to go to bed.

Friday was awesome and 15 minutes together we were finishing each other's sentences, we have so much in common. We also decided that Cassidy doesn't get any choice...she is either staying in state or going to the Univ. of Utah.

 

[mommykds]

Denise,
I am sorrt to hear of your grandmother's passing.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Wow! The House defeated the bailout. Wasn't expecting that!

 

[tink2020]

My grandmother died this morning very peacefully. We will be headed to Huntsville, AL on Thursday for visitation and funeral on Friday. Thanks for all your prayers. I know she is in a better place and that she and my grandfather were ecstatic to finally be back together. They had been married for 55 years when he died 11 years ago, and she missed him terribly.

She and my grandfather were the ones who got me hooked on Disney. They took my brother and me every year and we camped at FW. She left me money to pay for our December trip because she knew how much the kids love WDW. It will be a special time for us to remember her and my grandfather.

I'm sorry to hear of your loss, but it sounds like everyone is very much at peace. Travel safely, and enjoy your time with your family.

Since I am at work I'll give a brief (pictureless....for now) report of my weekend.

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It sounds wonderful! You know that pictures better come as soon as you're home, right?!




The girls and I went to the most adorable pumpkin patch/farm today. They had "scenes" made of pumpkin people (similar to those on Main Street @ WDW, but more homemade of course!) that depicted fairy tale scenes, etc. I took some pictures of those, but virtually none of my girls who just slept because it's too doggone hot! It's nearly 90 again today.... ugh!

I have decided that I need to find a new playgroup though . The one we've been crashing belongs to a dear friend of mine, whom I love seeing. The rest of the women are fine as well, but they've been "together" for about 8 months, their kids are all around a year old (which won't matter in, say, 2 or 3 years ).... I came home more sad than relieved. I'm brainstorming now, but very few of my friends have kids, especially around the same age. The ones that do are working. I think as soon as Kyle's moonlighting we'll hit gymboree (we were going to wait until after Christmas, but I'm bored with our house! ).

Speaking of which, Kyle did his first 8 hours of testing today, and has about 6.5 more tomorrow. Please keep him in your prayers. I really feel like he's not prepared for this, but what do I know. This licensing exam is incredibly important, though!


I hope the rest of you are doing well. Thanks for keeping it somewhat low key while we're busy!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Jennifer - Princess found her play group (the one I don't like, because the moms are "cliquey" and the group keeps getting bigger and bigger) through an Early Childhood PTA. Have you asked at church if any of the other moms want to start a group? When I taught Gymboree there were classes called "1+2" that were designed for moms with twins or moms with 2 kids REALLY close in age. Do you have a local Moms of Multiples group?
The best play groups we have had were one my first charge was in that formed from a Gymboree class. There were 7 or 8 kids max, and not everyone showed up every time. That one rotated houses. We met weekly for about 2 years, then the kids all went to preschool and it was too hard to coordinate everybody.
The other one was 4 nannies with our charges (and DS) that also rotated houses. That one lasted 2 or 3 years, but since it was all nannies it got complicated at the end. The bosses had more babies, one family moved kind of far away from the others, and eventually 2 of the families didn't need the nannies anymore. DS and my charge would occasionally see the twins my friend nannied after that, but we never did get another group together.
The one Princess is in has probably 14 families, and most of them have 2 kids. The thing that chaps me is that they won't "close" it, they just let it get bigger! There is NO WAY I would ever host anything at the house because there are TOO MANY people. And half of them are total strangers to me because they have added so many new ones.
Princess prefers to play with her classmates, so I don't worry if we miss play group.

 

[PrincessLeighsDaddy]

Theresa, sounds like you and Glynis had a wonderful time!

Here are a couple of pictures of Leighanna today from her "Dress like a star" day. Not too glamorous, but it was all I could come up with. She still did win an award.