DDA Chapter 6

[PNO4TE]

Elin,
You were on my real life list & I got a "microsoft has to close down" message. My pc crapped out & then I did the list again. I told you I have no brain anymore because I was looking at pictures from October when I made my list...I didn't forget that I met you!

By the way....

We go on the Disney Cruise THIS month!!!!!!!!

 

[UP Disney]

Happy April Fools Day to the citizens of the Upper Peninsula! I think it may have finally stopped snowing. However, it was snowing just an hour ago.

 

[tinknme]

Vicki these are beautiful pictures! Sorry April is starting out like this for you though.

Happy April Fools Day to the citizens of the Upper Peninsula! I think it may have finally stopped snowing. However, it was snowing just an hour ago.

 

[UP Disney]

Vicki these are beautiful pictures! Sorry April is starting out like this for you though.

These are from my back sliding glass door showing my deck and back yard.

 

[tinknme]

Wow, I would love to have that view from my back door!

These are from my back sliding glass door showing my deck and back yard.

 

[babytrees]

When I walked in the house tonight, Kristin called. She had been fitted for her cap and gown and hood and was ordering her graduation announcements. Now, I know that I have been very proud of both my daughters' academic accomplishments, but sometimes I wonder about their common sense. She will follow in her sister's footsteps and graduate Magna Cum Laude. But she didn't think it was important enough to put on the announcements. Luckily she had not hit the "SUBMIT" button to place her order! They will now say:

The Board of Visitors,
the President and the Faculty
of
Virginia Commonwealth University
announce
Kristin Marie H*
is a candidate for the degree of
Bachelor of Fine Arts
in
Theatre Performance, Magna Cum Laude
at the Commencement Exercises
Saturday afternoon, May seventeenth
Two Thousand Eight
one o'clock
Raymond Hodges Theater
in the Singleton Performing Arts Center​

I don't know how I missed this last night Miss Elin. You must be very proud of your girls.

 

[UP Disney]

Wow, I would love to have that view from my back door!

I have to admit, we have a very nice yard. Our house is on 5 acres. The barn you see in the back was our horse barn. She died of old age a couple of years ago. Her pasture is actually behind the barn.

The evergreen trees you see in the first picture were planted by Chuck & I when we first moved here. We own as much yard behind those as what you see in the backyard.

 

[babytrees]

beautiful pictures Vicki...though I am sorry Mother Nature decided to play the prank today on you.

Janet-in all of the hubbub yesterday I forgot to say how much I like the color you picked for your bathroom and I love the rug!! You've got some handsome boys (from what I could see of them )

 

[my3princes]

Gary put new flooring down, but I found a rug at Menard's that I just had to have lol. It does not really go with the floor, but it goes well with the color of the walls. I also bought a few more decorative items yesterday after work, that are not in the pictures. I love the way our bathroom looks now!

It looks great. It must feel great to have the mess disappear

So I really think that my frustration with Emma's soccer coach has hit an all time high. Yesterday's game was a horrible experience all around.

Emma's team lost , which honestly, was not at all because they didn't play hard. Emma's team is part of a county wide system. Each soccer club has it's own divisions-1, 2 and 3. Div. 1 are the girls who are great competitive players, Div. 2 the next level down and Div. 3 is more the girls who are playing for fun. When we first got team assignments Emma was Division 3. However, in the spring there are only a handful of clubs that do soccer. So there are only 2 divisions county wide. That means that all the girls on Emma's team are Division 3 material playing against girls that are at a higher skill level. I fully believe that it is the club's responsibility to have mixed up the Division 2 and 3 girls so that the overall teams would be better matched. They didn't and we didn't find out we were Division 2 until 2 weeks after practices started. I think we have a long road ahead of us. What really infuriates me is that I think that the girls are at an age where confidence in any and all aspect of their lives is very important. If they are continually at a disadvantage it will not do them well in their confidence levels.

Then there is the whole coach issue- The girls have 2 jerseys, white and blue. In the clinic seasons the teams had reversible shirts, blue and yellow. Blue was home and yellow was away. We were not at our home field so Emma left here in her white shirt. Well we guessed wrong! When we got to the field and realized we were wrong, Eric went to the coach and let her know. Her snarky response was "that we were to have brought both shirts. Eric was at practice on Wednesday night and heard no mention of this. It was not in her email that she sent out! She lacks communication skills to say the least. Eric ended up taking off his shirt and giving it to Emma to play otherwise she would have sat on the side the entire game.

Then at the end of the game as snack was being passed out she very clearly and loudly was speaking to another mom about how it was very rude of me to assign everyone a date and so on and so forth. I sent her an email after the confusion last week and apologized. I mentioned to her that the way I handled snack was the way it had been handled on Emma's teams in the past. I can't see why it was needed for her to bring it up at the game. What more does she want from me? I want to email her but at the same time I am feardul that if I send her something that it will make it a rough season for Emma. I told her in my last email that I would not be team mom but she seemed to ignore that fact as she sent out one with her snack list and to contact me if anyone was interested in filling the last 2 available dates.

So should I just let it go? Next year we decided we are switching to a different soccer club, there is just too much drama here!

I think I'd look for a new team this year. It seems that the season is just starting and I could not deal with that. I know that I couldn't bite my tongue through an entire season. It wouldn't be fun for me or the kids.

Gary & I went furniture shopping(well just looking today). I am so excited though! I found the living room furniture I want & the dining room table I want Best of all, Gary agrees

Hopefully within the next 4 - 6 weeks I will have it!

That's great. I'm glad you are having such success with your remodeling

 

[UP Disney]

Our house was a Wausau home - panelized construction which means the walls were built in a factory and they were put together on site. The house was closed in and water proof in one day. The inside still needed to be completed. Chuck did the plumbing. I did the wiring. I did the insulation. Chuck & I did about 50 percent of the drywall. It got to be too much for him since he was also working full time so we had someone finish the drywall. I was between jobs at the time. We also had someone do the flooring & painting.

We built our breezeway and garage a few years later. We built the barn. Chuck & my dad put in the fence posts for the horse. Chuck & I put in the fence. We have slowly been finishing the basement ourselves as well.

 

[Tammi67]

By the way....

We go on the Disney Cruise THIS month!!!!!!!!

YIPPIE!!!! (One for each of you )

 

[Tammi67]

Happy April, All!
I despise April Fool's Day, so I hope nobody decides to play any jokes on me.

I woke my kids up this morning and told them that school was canceled.

 

[UP Disney]

I woke my kids up this morning and told them that school was canceled.

My mom woke us up once and told us we were late. We raced around getting ready and when we got to the breakfast table she said "April Fools". We were so mad. She had gotten us up at the regular time.

Today, saying school was cancelled would not have been an April Fools. Everything is closed in the area. I mean everything! This was one of our worst snow falls all winter.

 

[tinknme]

Thank you Theresa!

Janet-in all of the hubbub yesterday I forgot to say how much I like the color you picked for your bathroom and I love the rug!! You've got some handsome boys (from what I could see of them )

 

[my3princes]

When I walked in the house tonight, Kristin called. She had been fitted for her cap and gown and hood and was ordering her graduation announcements. Now, I know that I have been very proud of both my daughters' academic accomplishments, but sometimes I wonder about their common sense. She will follow in her sister's footsteps and graduate Magna Cum Laude. But she didn't think it was important enough to put on the announcements. Luckily she had not hit the "SUBMIT" button to place her order! They will now say:

The Board of Visitors,
the President and the Faculty
of
Virginia Commonwealth University
announce
Kristin Marie H*
is a candidate for the degree of
Bachelor of Fine Arts
in
Theatre Performance, Magna Cum Laude
at the Commencement Exercises
Saturday afternoon, May seventeenth
Two Thousand Eight
one o'clock
Raymond Hodges Theater
in the Singleton Performing Arts Center​

Very nice announcement. Tell her that we are all proud of her accomplishments

Our house was a Wausau home - panelized construction which means the walls were built in a factory and they were put together on site. The house was closed in and water proof in one day. The inside still needed to be completed. Chuck did the plumbing. I did the wiring. I did the insulation. Chuck & I did about 50 percent of the drywall. It got to be too much for him since he was also working full time so we had someone finish the drywall. I was between jobs at the time. We also had someone do the flooring & painting.

We built our breezeway and garage a few years later. We built the barn. Chuck & my dad put in the fence posts for the horse. Chuck & I put in the fence. We have slowly been finishing the basement ourselves as well.

Sounds familiar. Our house is a modular home. The whole thing was built in a factory and came to us on 4 tractor trailer trucks. They put it together in one day and we did all the button up ourselves. We did the roof, siding, plumbing, drywall, painting,...well you get the point. We did have a friend do the electrical as he is a master electrician and it made since for him to do it. We also had the furnace installed and the heating connected. We also built Chris's shop from the ground up. Now it seems that we are doing much of it again

I woke my kids up this morning and told them that school was canceled.

I can beat that. We got a call from the school at 6:09 AM with a 2 hour delay, but they made sure to say that it was NOT an April Fool's joke It seems that everything froze up over night and it wasn't expected to get that cold.


Stephanie...come out come out where ever you are We miss you around here

 

[tinknme]

Well the bathroom is not messy

We are now trying to decide/agree on wall colors for the kitchen, living room, & dining room

It looks great. It must feel great to have the mess disappear


That's great. I'm glad you are having such success with your remodeling

 

[tinknme]

I woke my kids up this morning and told them that school was canceled.

 

[my3princes]

I managed to get Hunter's room together yesterday. It took me the better part of the day and I was nearly late for work. Lots of little touch up and finishing things that took longer than I expected. I still need to paint his door and closet doors, but I bought a paint gun and don't want to load it until I have all the doors ready to paint. Hopefully later this week. Right now none of us have doors on our rooms.

If I get a chance later I will post some pictures, but I need to get ready to bring Colby to school. I am doing laundry today and will grocery shop while Colby is at school since we have NO food in the house.

My next goal is to have Nick's room (which I haven't started yet) completed by next Monday night. Sounds easy except we are out of town for the State Bowling tournament this weekend.

 

[Tammi67]

My mom woke us up once and told us we were late. We raced around getting ready and when we got to the breakfast table she said "April Fools". We were so mad. She had gotten us up at the regular time.

Today, saying school was cancelled would not have been an April Fools. Everything is closed in the area. I mean everything! This was one of our worst snow falls all winter.

I can't see your winter pictures from this computer, so I'll have to remember to check them out tonight when I get home.

 

[UP Disney]

Sounds familiar. Our house is a modular home. The whole thing was built in a factory and came to us on 4 tractor trailer trucks. They put it together in one day and we did all the button up ourselves. We did the roof, siding, plumbing, drywall, painting,...well you get the point. We did have a friend do the electrical as he is a master electrician and it made since for him to do it. We also had the furnace installed and the heating connected. We also built Chris's shop from the ground up. Now it seems that we are doing much of it again

We planned on a modular but with the pitch of the roof we wanted that wasn't possible. Our roof hangs out over our front porch so it is taller than a regular house roof. Because Chuck was working and we were living in a motel until the house was finished, we had the contractor do all the outside work. We did it all for our breezeway and garage and could have done the house.