By the way...

Did I forget to tell you about the evening spent at the hospital while one of Leslie's sons got staples for the gash in his head? That was on top of the baseball parent meeting and the Girl Scout community meeting. "c" is fine and as rowdy as ever,but I think that Leslie is looking for a whole lot of bubble wrap...

Long time, No blog...

It has been a while. The end of one year and the beginning on the next are always VERY busy for my family. September starts the ball slowly for us. My brother's anniversary is in September.

Festivities begin to pick up in October. Heather's birthday, my neice's birthday, my sister's anniversary, her and her husband's birthdays, and let's not forget the Fall Carnival at the school. Halloween is in there as well. I always have good intentions about costumes for the kids. We try to have a theme. One year Aaron was a knight, Lauren was a princess (of course!) and Alex was a baby dragon (which was also perfect). Another year, Aaron and Alex were two of the Musketeers and Lauren was a princess. Hmm.. I sense a pattern. This past year Alex was a bat and Lauren was ... a fairy princess. Aaron stayed home and handed out candy because Clark had to work late. We then go through the candy and set aside about one fourth to keep and put out the rest for the Halloween witch to trade in for books and toys.

Next comes November. Our anniversary is the 6th. Then there is Thanksgiving and the after Thanksgiving sales. This month is not so bad.

December is the crazy Christmas month. There are parties at school and gifts for teachers to say nothing of the family. New Year's is always good for a late night.

January starts out with my and my Mom's birthdays. Then there is my nephew's birthday and my friend's son's on the same day as Clark's. The month ends with Alex's birthday. The Super Bowl is here as well.

February has my parent's annversay, Lauren's birthday, my brother's and his wife's birthdays. Don't forget school Valentine's parties and for the family.

I think that gives you a general idea of my world the last few months.

But now, let's be specific. Alex turned FIVE this year. It was hard for me. I really remember him being so little just a few weeks ago. We had a Safari party. We made a tree out of crumbled paper sacks on the post in my front room. We also had a cave made from wardrobe boxes. Yea, Clark and Aaron. The kids made binoculars from toilet paper rolls and we went on a safari to find stuffed animals to collect stickers in our field journals. My friend made the cake to look like a mountain with a stream and everything. There were cupcakes that had wild animals on them. It was very loud and crazy and a lot of fun.


Lauren had a Pixie Hollow party. For those of you who don't know about Pixie Hollow, this is where Tinker Bell lives with her fairy friends. The jungle tree became the Pixie home tree with a little fabric and silk flowers throw in. We made wings for the fairies and vests for the sparrow men. (boy fairies who take care of bugs and stuff). My same friend made a sheet cake that looked like it had Pixie Hollow on it right down to the tree.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and Alex has a party. I think that I will help his teacher to make handprint valentines in the shape of "I love you" in sign language. These are so neat. The next day is Lauren's party and I have been asked to bring sandwiches. I think that I am going to cut them out in the shape of hearts.

In the meantime, Heather has been working a whole lot as well as taking classes and playing hockey. We hardly get to see her anymore.

Aaron is working on a paper for the History Fair about whether or not the Alamo could have been won. I am very impressed with the work he has done.

I am going to go before the next school board meeting to talk about what our school district is doing or not doing for the children who are color blind. I am very frustrated by the responses I am getting from the administration.

Clark continues to work long hard hours and is looking for another position. He is on the Little League board as well as coaching Aaron's team. Lauren has decided to take ballet this year instead of baseball. Thank you, Barbie.

I think that brings you up to date with my world. Now I am falling into bed.... o.k after one more load of laundry and dishes, getting backpacks ready for school, finding both shoes in the pair, covering kids back up and making sure that Alex is not sleeping on Aaron. Then maybe bed!!

Love to all my friends and I hope that your families appreciate you as much as I do!!