I am the proud parent of an 8th grade Student Council Reporter! I went today to hear his speech. Wow his voice has gotten deep! Yikes! Another cool thing was the kids I knew wanted me to sit with them. So, there I was, in the middle of a bunch of teenagers listening to my son's speech while all the other parents were on the front row.
We had our youth lock-in on Friday night. I was expecting @ 18 kids........Actual head count.......drum roll please........31 youth! We had a video scavenger hunt, played games, ate lots of food and stayed up all night long! Yes....I stayed up too! Saturday was spent asleep on the couch while my husband kept up with where the kids were. Gave him a chance to watch golf and college football too. He kept saying he was going to the lease but, I am sooooo glad he didn't! I finally came back to life @ 5pm and was back in bed by 10pm.
Progress reports come out tomorrow so we will have some idea how everyone is doing. I don't know if I am looking forward to that or not. Everything coming home looks good so we should be okay.
I finally got the living room finished and am going to order the window treatments this week. As soon as I get it all together I will post pictures. Of course, all this painting has made me want new kitchen cabinets and furniture. All in due time.
Jason's birthday is coming up quicker than I want it to so we are going to sit down and make our list of invitees and what the theme will be.
We are also getting ready for a flamingo fundraiser in youth. I hope everyone who gets flocked has a sense of humor about it!
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Thursday, September 6, 2007
My baby's birthday
I can't believe my oldest is 19 today! Yikes!
We are into our second week of school and everyone has been early every day!!! Hurray!! After last year, I wasn't sure that would ever actually happen. It is really great because the kids are really helping out in the mornings. We pick out our clothes the night before. Well, the 13yo just lets me know if everything he plans to wear is clean. Yes, he will be learning how to work the washer and dryer this fall. :) Most nights we are in bed by nine and only once have I had to wake everyone up. Of course that was the morning after the 13yo had a ball game and nobody got in bed before 9:45pm and nobody remembered to set their alarm clocks!
This morning I was out of bread. I have been setting the bread machine every night so we have fresh bread for sandwiches every morning. I was just going to bite the bullet and give everyone lunch money. Not an easy task when they are at 4 different campuses and because of the different grades, they each have a different cost for lunch. This is when my 1st grader said, "Mom, we don't have to have sandwiches, we can put together a lunch of snacks like carrots and stuff". So, on the advice of a 6yo, we made snack lunches! I love it when the kids help out.
Now that they are back in school, I am working on finishing painting the house. I finally picked out a color for the living room. I don't know if I like the actual color or the name the best! Friendly yellow! Now isn't friendly what we want people coming into our home to think?? LOL! Now if I could just come up with a color for our bedroom.
We are into our second week of school and everyone has been early every day!!! Hurray!! After last year, I wasn't sure that would ever actually happen. It is really great because the kids are really helping out in the mornings. We pick out our clothes the night before. Well, the 13yo just lets me know if everything he plans to wear is clean. Yes, he will be learning how to work the washer and dryer this fall. :) Most nights we are in bed by nine and only once have I had to wake everyone up. Of course that was the morning after the 13yo had a ball game and nobody got in bed before 9:45pm and nobody remembered to set their alarm clocks!
This morning I was out of bread. I have been setting the bread machine every night so we have fresh bread for sandwiches every morning. I was just going to bite the bullet and give everyone lunch money. Not an easy task when they are at 4 different campuses and because of the different grades, they each have a different cost for lunch. This is when my 1st grader said, "Mom, we don't have to have sandwiches, we can put together a lunch of snacks like carrots and stuff". So, on the advice of a 6yo, we made snack lunches! I love it when the kids help out.
Now that they are back in school, I am working on finishing painting the house. I finally picked out a color for the living room. I don't know if I like the actual color or the name the best! Friendly yellow! Now isn't friendly what we want people coming into our home to think?? LOL! Now if I could just come up with a color for our bedroom.
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