DDA Chapter 27
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Good morning, DDA! 
The mad rush to a musical Christmas has begun. Not a lot of time to get on here and chat, but I wanted to check in to make sure everyone was OK.
Debbie - I am glad you are getting a second opinion.
The mad rush to a musical Christmas has begun. Not a lot of time to get on here and chat, but I wanted to check in to make sure everyone was OK.
Debbie - I am glad you are getting a second opinion.
Sorry I haven't been around much lately! However, that should change after Thanksgiving! The high school play (I did the costumes for it) closes tonight! Whew! It's been a ton of work... more than I planned on, actually, but it's also been really fun! The kids have been so grateful, and I've made a ton of new friends! However, I miss "free time". Can't wait to have some of that back!
My brother and his family are coming to stay with us for Thanksgiving and will be here tomorrow, so I've got to spend some time getting the house ready for company. Luckily, I'm not hosting the big dinner! My sister gets that honor, as she has the biggest house! My dad is driving up Wednesday, so he'll be here for our annual pie night! Can't wait!
I have a pie night with Alan's family tonight, so I've been making pies all day today. So far I have a browned butter butterscotch pie, a cherry pie, a pecan pie, and I'm working on a derby pie. That's just for tonight! Then, for Wednesday, I'm making another derby pie, a sour cream lemon pie (Jacob's request), and a pumpkin/pecan pie. If the butterscotch is a hit tonight, I may whip another one of those up, too. It really wasn't as hard as I thought it would be!
Hope you are all doing well. I promise that once Thanksgiving is over, I will come back and post at least once a day! I miss the days when there were pages and pages to read. Oh well. We are all busy with kids going all kinds of directions!
My brother and his family are coming to stay with us for Thanksgiving and will be here tomorrow, so I've got to spend some time getting the house ready for company. Luckily, I'm not hosting the big dinner! My sister gets that honor, as she has the biggest house! My dad is driving up Wednesday, so he'll be here for our annual pie night! Can't wait!
I have a pie night with Alan's family tonight, so I've been making pies all day today. So far I have a browned butter butterscotch pie, a cherry pie, a pecan pie, and I'm working on a derby pie. That's just for tonight! Then, for Wednesday, I'm making another derby pie, a sour cream lemon pie (Jacob's request), and a pumpkin/pecan pie. If the butterscotch is a hit tonight, I may whip another one of those up, too. It really wasn't as hard as I thought it would be!
Hope you are all doing well. I promise that once Thanksgiving is over, I will come back and post at least once a day! I miss the days when there were pages and pages to read. Oh well. We are all busy with kids going all kinds of directions!
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Not much new here. The whole family plus my neighbor kiddos and mom went to see the Christmas lights last night. Our local drive thru park does a ticketed walk through event the first weekend so we checked that out last night. It was a lot if fun to take your time checking everything out. Afterward we all went to Cici's for pizza.
Thanksgiving we're going to Erin's MIL's again. Sounds like her "ham and turkey" has turned into a full meal plus all the sides we're bringing so it should be more than an adequate feast.
Miss Charlotte is six months old today and doing great. She's about 11 1/2 lbs and working in frowning. She had a brief hospital stay last week for respiratory junk but no RSV and she's much better now so all is good. She started turning front to back this week as well. She's a happy baby and doing really well over all.
The girls are very good. Deva's a crazy running constantly talking goofball. She's so full of life and love and laughter. Terra is as crazy creative as ever. In fact right now she's in and out of the house with her club/clubhouse in the works complete with newspaper hat that looks like it could belong to the Pope.
Wish there were better, more interesting things keeping us busy, but it's really just a bunch of work and other mundane stuff. I may have a new charge come in Jan. A friend of Rachel's is due early Jan and I'll watch the baby when she goes back to school. Once I figure out their ting needs ill work on filling the last spot and moving forward there.
Hope everyone else is doing well. Happy thanksgiving everyone!
Thanksgiving we're going to Erin's MIL's again. Sounds like her "ham and turkey" has turned into a full meal plus all the sides we're bringing so it should be more than an adequate feast.
Miss Charlotte is six months old today and doing great. She's about 11 1/2 lbs and working in frowning. She had a brief hospital stay last week for respiratory junk but no RSV and she's much better now so all is good. She started turning front to back this week as well. She's a happy baby and doing really well over all.
The girls are very good. Deva's a crazy running constantly talking goofball. She's so full of life and love and laughter. Terra is as crazy creative as ever. In fact right now she's in and out of the house with her club/clubhouse in the works complete with newspaper hat that looks like it could belong to the Pope.
Wish there were better, more interesting things keeping us busy, but it's really just a bunch of work and other mundane stuff. I may have a new charge come in Jan. A friend of Rachel's is due early Jan and I'll watch the baby when she goes back to school. Once I figure out their ting needs ill work on filling the last spot and moving forward there.
Hope everyone else is doing well. Happy thanksgiving everyone!
PNO4TE
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Good morning, DDA!
Glynis and Tia... Thanks for the updates!
Hope everyone's plans for the upcoming Thanksgiving celebration are coming along. We still don't know what we are doing!
Kristin and her roommate will arrive tomorrow night and leave Friday morning. They have to eat a big family dinner with Ashley's family so I am seriously thinking about some kind of buffet spread here that we can graze on throughout the day. Still thinking...
Glynis and Tia... Thanks for the updates!
Hope everyone's plans for the upcoming Thanksgiving celebration are coming along. We still don't know what we are doing!
Kristin and her roommate will arrive tomorrow night and leave Friday morning. They have to eat a big family dinner with Ashley's family so I am seriously thinking about some kind of buffet spread here that we can graze on throughout the day. Still thinking...
Good morning, everyone! Well, it's closing night, and I'm so glad!!! Hopefully, life will slow down.
My brother and his family arrive tonight, and my dad gets here tomorrow. We have our second pie night tomorrow night, with my side of the family, so that will be fun!
Right now, the weather is really good, and I'm just crossing my fingers that it stays that way through the weekend. We just want to be able to send the kids out to play while we get Thanksgiving dinner on. I'm responsible for stuffing/dressing, candied yams, salad and a pie. Should be fun!
Have a great day, everyone!
My brother and his family arrive tonight, and my dad gets here tomorrow. We have our second pie night tomorrow night, with my side of the family, so that will be fun!
Right now, the weather is really good, and I'm just crossing my fingers that it stays that way through the weekend. We just want to be able to send the kids out to play while we get Thanksgiving dinner on. I'm responsible for stuffing/dressing, candied yams, salad and a pie. Should be fun!
Have a great day, everyone!
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Hello Everyone!!
Long time since I popped in. Life is busy and the new job has me running. It's been a really good fit and the move to the new building has given me a chance to take a leadership role (no pay increase, but maybe that will come later) I've only been here 9 weeks so having positive comments from the top is certainly boosting my self esteem. Maybe this is just what the doctor ordered in my life. Chris and the boys are well. A 3 boys got straight A's last quarter. Nick recieved the Outstanding student of the quarter award for his Computer Technologies Class. That is fabulous since computers is what he plans to major in in college. He has also been asked to apply to National Honor Society and the FBLA. We are very proud of all of them.
Varsity bowling starts next Wednesday and Nick just got a seasonal job at Kohls so that will add more to his schedule as well as Hunter's (bowling) and of course it will fill all of our Saturdays for months to come.
Long time since I popped in. Life is busy and the new job has me running. It's been a really good fit and the move to the new building has given me a chance to take a leadership role (no pay increase, but maybe that will come later) I've only been here 9 weeks so having positive comments from the top is certainly boosting my self esteem. Maybe this is just what the doctor ordered in my life. Chris and the boys are well. A 3 boys got straight A's last quarter. Nick recieved the Outstanding student of the quarter award for his Computer Technologies Class. That is fabulous since computers is what he plans to major in in college. He has also been asked to apply to National Honor Society and the FBLA. We are very proud of all of them.
Varsity bowling starts next Wednesday and Nick just got a seasonal job at Kohls so that will add more to his schedule as well as Hunter's (bowling) and of course it will fill all of our Saturdays for months to come.
DDA!
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I'm thankful for all my DDA friends. Love you guys
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Things are super busy here. Between work, kids activities, decorating, shopping, wrapping and so much more. I have a to do list that seems longer than any amount of weekends. Oh well, I'll keep plugging along. Judging by how slow this thread is I'm sure that you all are super busy too.
Have a fabulous week
Have a fabulous week
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I hope Richie surgery went well
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Good morning, DDA!
There's not a lot going on, but tons going on... you know?? It is that mad rush to Christmas here and that includes a whole slew of recitals that are starting up on Saturday morning.
We are holding it at our library theater which is usually not a problem. However, this weekend marks the 150th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Fredericksburg and there will be thousands of union and confederate "soldiers" encamped all over our town and canons and guns and pontoon crossings and speeches and.... you get the picture. I can't wait to hear our students' pieces mixed with the sound of canon!!
There's not a lot going on, but tons going on... you know?? It is that mad rush to Christmas here and that includes a whole slew of recitals that are starting up on Saturday morning.
We are holding it at our library theater which is usually not a problem. However, this weekend marks the 150th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Fredericksburg and there will be thousands of union and confederate "soldiers" encamped all over our town and canons and guns and pontoon crossings and speeches and.... you get the picture. I can't wait to hear our students' pieces mixed with the sound of canon!!
tmfranlk
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It'll be a whole new dynamic to recital day!! Sounds like a fun event though. Wish we were closer.
Things are about the same here. Basic Christmas prep but trying not to get to crazy. Mom's 2nd knee replacement is Mon so we've both been trying to get the shopping/wrapping done before that. Charlotte is getting tubes out in her ears on Tues and will have an overnight hospital stay since she's so little. Kristi has also shared the surprising news that she's pregnant so she's battling her usual awful morning sickness.
We're going with a lighter school load for the month so that's helping. Lots of reading, math games and partaking of the arts while we enjoy the busy season, plus it lets me get caught up on curriculum creation before the new year. Add it some major house purging and we're keeping busy.
Hope everyone else is well!
Things are about the same here. Basic Christmas prep but trying not to get to crazy. Mom's 2nd knee replacement is Mon so we've both been trying to get the shopping/wrapping done before that. Charlotte is getting tubes out in her ears on Tues and will have an overnight hospital stay since she's so little. Kristi has also shared the surprising news that she's pregnant so she's battling her usual awful morning sickness.
We're going with a lighter school load for the month so that's helping. Lots of reading, math games and partaking of the arts while we enjoy the busy season, plus it lets me get caught up on curriculum creation before the new year. Add it some major house purging and we're keeping busy.
Hope everyone else is well!
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We're busy here too. Between work, school sports, club sports and rec sports the kids are always on the run and we hit as much as possible. I am so thankful that Nick is driving as he is a huge help with transportation. The Varsity bowling season kicks off on Saturday so they are excited about that. We also need to fit in Colby's concert next week. This time of year is always stressful and this year is no exception.
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Here is a link to all the things going on here this weekend. I told you it was a big deal!
http://fredericksburg150.org/events-calendar/
http://fredericksburg150.org/events-calendar/
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