Friday, January 23, 2009

It's a New Year ALREADY?!

What happened to the end of the last one?! I think it kind of whizzed on by here. Maaaannnnn. Been months since been on to blog and much has happened in Taterville. Soooo here is a condensed version.....

Thanksgiving was relaxing just us eating good food that day and a few days later - house was opened to the after Thanksgiving feast. Friends brought over all their leftovers and added to our leftovers.....YUM! Somehow though we managed to end up with MORE leftovers.....hmmmmm that wasn't really what I was hoping for. I will admit, I was a culprit in the creating of more leftovers. My thing about making sure we have enough eats for all who plan on coming and the drop ins.... weeeeeeellll.....yeah I know, a bad habit of mine. I did reign in the urge to make lots more and only made a little more. All kids who were present played outside - no snow at that time - perfect let's go set off some rockets weather, then back in to make gingerbread house. What a wonderful gooey, but not too messy time. Bruce, brave man that he is, actually went out into the day after Thanksgiving sales madness. You have to understand, my hubby is not one who cares to shop - it's in and out with him. Stick to the list. Me, I wander, check out prices etc. He's the hunter, I'm the gatherer. Mr. Hunter was very succesful in finding some wonderful bargains and gifts. Talk about scoring some brownie points.

December blew in with a few snowstorms. Kids LOVED it. They got new sleds for Christmas and made good use of them. The downside was the sleds had to go back to the store as they started falling apart by the end of the day. Kyle had his first robotics compition. His team did GREAT! The Lego's FIRST Robotics program is an awesome program. The kids learned so much. Bruce was gone for almost a week right before Christmas for a business trip. He made up for it later in the month - by taking me to a belated birthday dinner and a day out with a friend. Christmas day and New Years were both relaxing this year. No major injuries or trips to the ER. New Years Day we opened the house to friends and a few neighbors....bring a fav dish and come for some story swapping, catch up with the years talk and playtime for the kids. It was great fun. We have some new neighbors so it gave them a chance to meet some new folks, and two former schoolmates saw each other again for the first time in years. The kids all had fun running in and out of the house, up and down stairs. We adults, had fun watching the little ones try to keep up with the bigger ones, and the 4 tweens try to loose all the younger kids. Me, I got to have a whole afternoon of baby germs. Well, I had to share the little bugger. Yes, we had leftovers. But not for long. LOL

So that brings us closer to today ...in a condensed version. This month has been interesting. The furnace has gone out twice on us. New house...you would think there would be nothing to fix. YEAH RIGHT! Hopefully the reason for it is now fixed. My computer decided to act goofy then finally make a quick downhill decent so Christmas cards and pics didn't get done. The girls just brought home their report cards today, GOOD JOB, and Kyle's will be out in a few weeks. His school does trimeseter and not quarterly. He is doing good overall...needs to improve in one calss but not a major biggie. His drama coach told him he will be trying out today for Much Ado About Nothing. Says Kyle is so open, funny etc in class.....my son?! No really, he says Kyle comes alive in class, nails his lines, emotions, open mike(improv) . Ok now.... are you sure we are talking about the same boy?!

Sports crazies will start up soon. I'm enjoying the breather as we will be having back to back again starting in March. Soccer and track. Since I just had to buy little mr. big foot new shoes...again.... I'm sure we will be needing to do the same for track and soccer. SIGH. I never knew tween boys could be so darn picky about their shoes.....I thought it was just us gals. LOL I was reminded about the picky girls thing recently when the matched set we have here needed new shoes also......5 pairs - each to try on and a few re-tried..... Kyle gave up saying are you done yet, just pick a pair already, and just pulled out the book he had with him. He had just bought a new one....that book got done by the end of next day. Said , let me know when you are done. LOL

Next Wednesday morning Megan will be going to a hospital in Boise to have a scoping done of her digestive system, down the throat and all the way down to about the first inch or so of small intestine. Hopefully, we will then be able to better help her and her tummy problems. She will be knocked out for it, wish they could do the same for me. You would think that I would be used to these types of things by now. But no, I'm not. I don't like the thought of things being done to my babies - even if for own good, or having them sick and hurt.

The business is having it's ups and downs, as I'm sure many are. I'm toying with the idea of either finding some kind of part time job out of the house or doing something from home to help bring in some extra $. Being stuck with an extra house and the payments for it have left things very tight. If had to do again...would have gone with gut feeling and said no to building the guest house. You want to move with us fine, but go rent your own place. But no, I had to be nice nad say yes. I'm beginning to think that being so nice all the time can be not so good sometimes. LOL On the bright side - we have space for family and friends to visit. Since the girls are in school half day this year, thinking of starting with the school district. They might be more flexible in schedule. Kyle is like AWESOME , you can come teach one of my classes....like drama (where does the child get these ideas lol). I'm not so sure about teaching my own child - and his friends. Just the thought of going back to work after all these years is a scary enough thought - but to be teaching your child......hmmmm.

Natives will be restless soon, need to get some more things done, and remember to pick Kyle up at school later. Today is his Science Olympiad for the after school program.

Unitl next time....may your days be sunny and warm!