Two things

Wow, I didn't post anything here in April. I was busy with my class ending and the girls having a week off of school. I have a small break as a project new project ramps up. I have one little project I should work on, but right now, I'm going to blog. I need to enjoy this time because soon I will be very busy.

So the two things I was going to talk to you about was 1, friends (two issues), and 2, the new house. Humor me as I vent...(this is a blog after all).

I have two friends who are bugging me. One of the friends is only slightly annoying, and the other is really annoying. The first friend is nice enough, but everything is about her and her world. I'm fine to listen and discuss her issues 95% of the time, but 5% of the time I have things I would like to discuss, too. (Unrelated, I used to have this friend, and when ever I would talk to her, it would always turn back to me because she would direct the questions at me. I always tried to get her to talk about herself, but she wanted to talk about me--that was a little odd, too.) With this friend, who is always needing my input, I have to literally say, hey wait, can't we talk about X? I'm experiencing this and need your thoughts. When I ask, she'll usually oblige, but not always. Any suggestions?

The second friend issue involves a woman who I really like, but I really dislike her parenting. Her kids are the biggest brats. They are rude. They talk back, they do bad things, sometimes even dangerous things, and she never corrects them, ever.

I'm still seething over my last experience with them. (They were guests at the pool where we are members. They (her kids), for some reason, didn't want my kids to be at OUR club. They said, "Why are they here?" in a loud voice in front of my kids. The Mom didn't say anything.) I like the Mom when she's not around her kids, but I have decided I can't be her friend nor can I hang out with her and her children. When my children hang out with her children they are more poorly behaved. Have you ever experienced this?

The second big topic, the new house. We were going to move last summer, but there were issues with the house. They are still not quite resolved, but almost. The house is going to be fabulous when we move. I'm not complaining, but I do wish we were done with the remodel. I'm getting antsy to move. Remodels take a lot of extra thinking and time and money. Moving is a pain and life will be crazy.

An now a bonus subject, the 3 little girls...The girls are good and I should do and update on them and what they are like now, but I have "the other blog" and I record what we're doing over there. Here's a brief update for here. twok is almost 9. We just celebrated her birthday on Saturday. We'll do something on the day of her birthday, but I'm not sure what. Three-a is loving softball. oNe is quite the little dancer and I'm having a blast dancing with her too. Next year, I'll start taking a ballet class with twoK. I started an adult ballet class after not having danced ballet for about 15 years. I was SORE. It's fun. I am also planning to start horseback riding lessons, too. The girls of been taking horse all year and they've learned a lot; now it's my turn. I have fantasies of someday leasing or owning a horse. MWH is okay with the leasing idea (maybe), but not the owning. He's probably right--owning is a bit extreme.

I think that's all for now. I guess at this rate I'll see you in a couple of months.

My kitty boy

It's been 8 years since my beloved kitty past on--more than 8, actually.

I thought about him on 2/15/2013, the anniversary of his death, but I didn't post about him. I do still miss my boy. One of our new kitties reminds me of him, more so than the other kitties, bu he's not my beloved kitty.  

Anyway, a friend has a kitty with CRF (chronic renal failure) and I am so sad for her.  I just re-read the journal I kept while beloved kitty was sick.  It made me cry, and hence this post.  Not saying much, but feeling better writing about him.  I won't ever forget that boy.

Weird aura

One reason that I have kept this blog, is it to record all of the weird illnesses and auras that the girls and I have had. Now, I need to document that twoK and I both had a cold with a fever recently (2/18). It was a weird cold that started off nice and slowly, and you didn't think it was that bad, and then for a day there is a fever.  Now oNe has it (she's almost better.)

Earlier this week, I was driving, and I had this weird sensation. I got really dizzy when the sun hit my eyes and I was turning a corner. I continued to be dizzy for a couple of minutes, but I was on a fairly winding road, so I figured I was carsick. I thought it was a little odd as I've never been dizzy when I was carsick.  When I reached my destination I was still very dizzy; I had to stop and sit and breathe for about five minutes before I was okay. It really wasn't the carsick feeling. I was just VERY DIZZY. I thought that the dizziness might have been related to my illness the previous week because my ears were very stuffy. But then about half an hour later I started getting a slight headache. I came to the conclusion that this was a weird aura.

I look back over the last month and I realize I've been under quite a bit of stress lately. A family member, I've blogged about this person before, has been visiting on and off for about a month. This person stresses me out. Needless to say I think that my stress level allowed me to get that cold I was telling you about, and caused me this migraine aura. I should also mention, but not go into any detail, that this person's visit caused me some digestive strife. Ah, stress, good times.

At some point...

At some point, I'll probably have to close this blog down... I'm pretty pathetic, but I'm still posting occasionally--at this rate, I'll end up with 6 posts this year. Let's see, little girl highlights that don't make it on the other blog:

Right after we went back to school, we got one very sick child (twoK).  She had a high fever, a sore throat, and a BAD COUGH.  She told me who had coughed on her and I found out he'd been sick over break and gone back to school on the first day, but then he went home later the first day and was sick some more.  When I spoke to him, he confirmed he had had a really high fever.  I don't have a thermometer any more, but twoK felt REALLY hot....

I gave her lots of Elderberry (in case it was the flu), ibuprofen (for the high fever), and chocolate (for her cough).

It all seemed to help. Someday, I'm going to have to do a post on Elderberry, and how it's good for reducing the severity and duration of the flu, but not today.  On another note, it turns out that chocolate is a really effective cough suppressant.

I conducted an experiment when twoK was sick. (I didn't mean to, but it just happened.) She'd coughed for an hour and 1/2 and in desperation, MWH searched the web to see what we could give her.  (I was just about to send him out to a 24 hour drugstore at 11 pm---he was trying not to go.)  He read about chocolate. I gave her about an ounce of dark chocolate (70%) and after about 1/2 hour she stopped coughing and was fine for 5 hours.  After 5 hours, she coughed again. I stumbled downstairs (It was about 4:30 / 5 am) and told her to eat more chocolate.  She slept for another 5 hours.  Go chocolate!

Here's a couple of links for you if you want to know more. http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/QAA352799 

http://www.everydayhealth.com/cold-and-flu/1210/chocolate-a-cure-for-the-common-cough-4924.aspx 

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Here are some posts from FB over the last couple of months that I don't want to forget.

The younger two girls are running around the house holding their breath and narrating about the fish and wonderful underwater creatures they are seeing... They are scuba diving.  Later they are going camping on an island.  #loveimagination

(And yea, this is FB, so I don't post about the times when they aren't so cute.)

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Proud of N for helping her little sister K figure out her Math problems! Helping someone else understand is the best way to make sure you understand. #learning

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I'm currently trying to help the girls learn that the *most effective* way to make a request (for me to purchase something, have a play date, or put an event I need to remember on the calendar) is to email me.

If they email me, I can get the request while on the computer thus upping the chances that I'll be able to (order the item, email the friend's mom, or put the event in my calendar). Slowly, it's working and N is learning. T and K still need more reminders.

Dear Girls,
Please email.
Love, Mom

#heh

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N learned to do the Macarena, today. #heh

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T (age 7) is working on her book report and contemplating if traveling back in time and giving the draft to a past self would get it done faster. Heh.

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A friend from my high school days came to visit.  The girls had a good time.  It was kind of a random thing.  I'm glad she came.

Okay, that's it for now.  That takes us back through the beginning of the year.  The kitties are pretty well documented on the other blog.  The food situation is pretty much documented on the "other other" blog.  If you want to see either of those, let me know.  You can email virtual _ jk at (the big web company that starts with a Y) . com  .  If you're not a bot, and you have interest, you can figure it out.  

It's time...

It's time to get my hair cut!! I was talking with a family member and she commented on how my hair was growing. Without really thinking, I responded with, yeah, and I hate it every second of the day. I hate the way it looks and how it feels.

Hrm. How do I really feel?

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Despite the fact that they just got new toys, the girls are fighting over cardboard boxes on the day after Christmas. I love it.

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I need to do my new year's resolutions. I don't think I did any last year. I was so busy. I think, I resolved, offline, to work less. I really have since this summer. I'm waiting for a new project to start at work. It was supposed to start in September. We're still waiting. Since we didn't get the money in 2012, and since the money is coming from a federal agency, we figure we might be waiting until the fiscal cliff is settled, fixed, or resolved. I'm not sure what the correct term is, I am pretty sure it is annoying that our government can be so lame to get into situations like the fiscal cliff.

I'm fine to work less, right now. I'm still teaching this year and having fun doing so, so until I get too busy, I'll keep teaching. I *hope* they figure out what's going on with our project before I get asked if I'll teach next year. If I'm working on the project, I don't know how I'll be able to teach and work at the same time. If I'm not working on the project, then I'll want to teach.

Oh, yea, back to resolutions. I was going to do some. There aren't that many of them.

1. Drink more water. I drink a lot of hot tea, but I should drink more water. I will make sure I do so. (Easy resolution)

2. Add one more strength training class a week. I currently do 2 most weeks. Eventually, I'd like to get to 5 or 6 a week, but we'll take it one more per week. If I get to 3 for most weeks, then yay!

3. I'm trying to figure out if I can "dance EVERY day" in 2013. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays I already dance. Can I add in practicing just (a minimum of) 10 minutes a day? Would that count?

That's all I can think of right now. I'll make another post if I think of more.

Highlight of my day

Being on the phone listening to a meeting while trying to 1) make lunch for my girls and 2) answer an email all at the same time.

We took a trip

We took a trip... Love the back of the head shots! My little girls. I'll tell you all about the trip later.

i forgot to tell you

I forgot to tell you about the homemade twix bar experiement.....

The date mixture that you put inside is YUM, but it should be made in a food processor, not a blender.  I tried to make it in my blender and there wasn't enough to get blended properly.  This resulted in a tragic accident and me needing to buy a new tamper for the blender.  I am still thankful that nothing more than the tamper was damaged.  I was stupid!  

I didn't measure my PB and added too much to the rice crispy mix so they weren't as crispy as I think they should have been.

They were sweeter than I liked (dates are VERY sweet--that's why they call them nature's candy), but the girls really liked them.  We even had a friend over (age 8) and she loved them. I find that my kids usually like the concoctions I create for them, but other kiddos often don't.  I tend to create very NOT SWEET treats.  (We don't need the sugar and you definitely can get used to less sugar and enjoy the other flavors in treats.)

Will I make them again, um, yea, probably.  They took more time than I wanted, so I might try a different treat....  I may remove this post, modify it a bit, and post it on "another blog" not the family blog with all the pictures, but a recipe blog for healthy, vegan recipes.

Which shirt?

Where I get my hair done, we change into smocks and hang up our shirts in the bathroom.  One of these shirts is not like the other (mine).  Heh.  I thought it was a fun picture.  

No School Today

Crazy weather, but that's not what's keeping us out of school today.  It's a teacher learning day.  I'm thrilled that I'm working less right now.  Because I am working less, I got to stay home with the girls this morning.  We had one play date at our house (Three-a) and one play date away (oNe), and another one this afternoon (for twoK).  I baked some healthy stuff, too. Later today, I hope I can get the time to make homemade twix bars.  Don't they look YUM????

P.S.  twoK's folliculits is getting better!  Whew!  No oral antibiotics have been taken thus far.

Folliculitis is going to push me over the edge...

Or horseback riding...
or the special dance classes we're doing this weekend
or the two birthday parties this weekend
or the Halloween thing we went to Friday night
or gymnastics
or violin, trumpet, or piano lessons
or girl scouts
or regular dance class
or ice skating lessons

Seriously, we're too busy right now.  Three-a just gave up gymnastics and I say, WHEW!  When oNe gave it up, I was sad, now I'm just relieved--one less thing to do.  twoK is still taking.

On the twoK note, twoK has folliculitis on her little bum.  I'm sure she'd be embarrassed to have me writing this on the web, but hey, I'm not posting pictures.  I'm cleaning the little lesions 3x a day and putting antibiotic ointment on them.  The doctor wanted me to do oral antibiotics, but I think we can beat it with just topical.  I'm not a big fan of oral antibiotics.

We're also soaking in epsom salt and putting hydrogen peroxide on them to clean them.  Good times.  I've gotten faster at treating them in the last 24 hours.  We'll hope that she's better within a week.

I danced 3 hours today.  I'm pretty wiped out!  This post is a reflection of my exhaustion!

On the germ theory note, did I record that oNe had a cold along with me?  It's such a weird cold.  I was wiped out for more than a week.  I think I've finally kicked it--it lasted about 10 days...

Sisters...

(Cue the song...Sisters)

Over the weekend, we had a moment where both MWH and I were slapping our heads and saying "REALLY? You guys are asking me to deal with this inanity (and insanity!)?"

We were leaving a festival and Three-a had stayed outside to play.  twoK had come in and had gotten a balloon from the clean-up process.  Three-a was upset that she didn't get a balloon.  twoK offered her hers.  So sweet.  twoK gets a point there, but Three-a was too tired and NOTHING would console her.

Moving on...

twoK LOST points because she would't go through the haunted house at the festival that oNe had worked on.  oNe was so MAD at twoK.  The only thing that would console oNe was to have twoK scoop the cat litter boxes for oNe's week.  I think scooping the litter box is a valid punishment for someone who broke a promise.  twoK had PROMISED oNe she'd go through the haunted house and she didn't.

I want the girls to know that they can count on their sister(s).  For the most part, the girls are good sisters, but like all sisters there are MOMENTS or even days and weeks of difficulty.


(Hey look, a blog post JUST about the girls.  Whoa.)

Eh...

(Started the post at the end of September)

It seems I'm only kind of back.  That's okay.  I'm doing this for me and for the girls' to read in the future; if other folks want to read along, great.  If not, you probably don't even miss me when I'm gone.  It's all good.  I keep "the other blog" up and post pictures on nearly a daily basis over there.  This is the "private" more inner thoughts blog.  (And it's not that inner-thought-y any more.)  It's a place to keep all the stuff that I don't want to put on the other blog though.

The girls are almost in a rhythm at school and I'm almost in one with my class.  I keep debating on whether I'll teach again (if they want me) next year.  I don't know.  The chair of the department changed and s/he may not want me.  I'm about to get really busy at work (within the next few weeks I'm guessing) and then I may not have time.

(10/13)

Okay, I am really, really bad at blogging over here.

Important update:  I didn't have a cold on our anniversary.  I've had a cold many times on our anniversary.  I do have a cold now (got sick on Friday, but started Zicam on Thursday so it's not too bad).  I hope I'm better by Monday.  (This is another important feature of the blog... record of illness.)  (Three-a had a cold 9/29) and maybe two already this fall (she's still coughing or coughing again, I'm to sure which).)

What else?  The girls had conferences at school this week.  oNe is doing really well.  She's turned into an overachiever but she worries and stresses too much.  My goal is to help her learn balance.  And since I'm so good at balance (hahahaha) it should be really easy for me to teach her.  (Again, hahahahahaha.)

twoK is super smart, a super good reader, but not super motivated.  I guess I should say, she's not consistently motivated.  Some days, she's on and other days, she's in a terrible funk. (Seriously.)  I am trying to figure out what motivates her.  Right now, she's super motivated by her Halloween Costume.

I mean, who wouldn't be!

I told her if she doesn't stay super motivated and out of her funk, it is going back to the store.  We'll see.  I hate "bribing her" but I keep hoping that if she is acting happy, at some point, she'll just be happy... The whole "fake it 'til you make it" approach.  I think, being happy is better than being sad, but as I said, I'm still trying to figure out how to internally motivate her.  I'm spending more time in her classroom this year, and I think that's going to be good for her.  

Three-a is super smart, a SUPER memorizer, but a sight-reader, not a phonics reader.  Her current teacher's "thing" is to teach phonics and make sure her 2nd graders have a good grasp of them.  I feel a little sad that Three-a isn't going to be in the top reader group, but I know that teaching her the basics will give her a better grasp on reading.  (Or will it?)  I have mixed feelings.  I think is she weren't such a darn good memorizer, and so good at understanding concepts, the phonics might help her, but she's GOOD.  I'm not arguing with her teacher on this one, though.  I don't think it will hurt, and it might help.  We'll re-visit this at the end of the year.  (If I remember and if I'm still blogging.)

I plan to spend time in Three-a's class helping with technology.  Woo!  My favorite!

Work, for me... I'm teaching and the new project at work hasn't started yet.  11/1 is the new, "soonest" date that we have.  I'm guessing we'll be going by 12/1.  It's all good.  I really enjoy teaching and it makes me excited to do the work that we'll do.  This year, it's worked out well to get to teach first semester without much working.... I don't know what I'll do next year, but I'm not going to worry just yet.

I'm guessing, when puberty starts, I might start blogging here again.  We'll see.  For now... who knows...  (Leave me a comment if you still read occasionally... I think most of you have a link to "the other blog.")  

Back

Here we are at a beach visit.  We had gone to a fun touristy spot and then stopped at the beach to run around for a little while.  We didn't stay long.  Hopefully, we can have a beach day before it gets too cold.  

OMG, it's September.  I can no longer pretend school isn't going to happen because it is.  The girls start their 4th week on Monday.  For my class it's just week 2.  How's it all going?  For them, it all seems good.  For me, nothing bad, I'm just overwhelmed with all I have on my plate, plus anxiety about the things I'm doing--teaching causes lots of anxiety.

oNe has a male teacher for the first time and she seems to really enjoy her new class.  She's doing well.   She's extremely motivated.  I'm hoping it stays this way!  TwoK has the same teacher as last year.  She's doing well, but says she HATES math.  She is getting a tutor to hopefully help her see math is fun and make sure there aren't any problems.  I don't think there are, I think she's decided it's not girlie enough for her. Three-a has one teacher who has a great reputation and a new teacher (they are co-teaching).  I guess the "new teacher" is really a fairly experienced teacher new to our school.  I'm hopeful that Three-a gets a little more discipline in class.  I feel she needs a firmer hand.  

Three-a has learned she can get away with "stuff" by being cute and the youngest child.  Yea, it's partially my fault, because for a long while, she never did anything wrong and she never needed any discipline... Now, she's not listening a lot of the time and she has ATTITUDE.  She's always been independent.  She's always been mischievous, but she's really getting a bit defiant. It's not a bad time to put more structure in her life.  She's 7.  She's got a lot going on in her little head, and now is a good time to make sure we have good habits forming. 

Okay, there's more, I'm sure, but I should go work on my class.  I only have about 45 more minutes of peace and quiet before the girls are up.  

2 big things...

Back to school was today.  Sigh, the summer is over.  I'm not quite "back" to work yet.  I went in today, caught up with a couple of people, and then decided to go home so I could be there at pick up for the girls.  Yay for a short day!  The nanny was there at pick up, too, but that's fine.  I didn't know if I'd be busy or not.  Better two people for pick up than zero!

The other big thing... It's my blogoversary!

I started blogging right after Three-a was born.  It was crazy, and I wanted to remember the craziness.  I was so sleep deprived that I knew I wouldn't remember it. These days, I sometimes always am a lame blogger, but I enjoy looking back at the archives.  I hope in the future, the girls will enjoy the archives, too.  I have a family blog and they love to look at it and reminisce.  It's super fun to watch them read those posts.  I don't have them on this one yet as this is still "my place" to vent.  I rarely use it, but just in case I want to, it's still mine.

Okay, it's late and I'm tired.  School again tomorrow.  Only 179 more early morning wake ups before next summer.  Bleh. I'm depressed.

Summer

You are almost over, sweet summer.  We will miss you!

Week 9: Noooooo!

I don't want summer to end; unfortunately, I don't think there is anything I can do to stop it from ending.  I took a lot of time off work this summer.  At first, it was hard because I'm not used to having time off.  Now, I'm down with it.  I don't want to go back.  Monday, I have to go back to work.  (Wahhhh!)  My supervisor (:waves to PS) understands how hard it will be to come back.  I'll do it to work with her on a fun project (for the next 5 years!) and then we'll see what happens.  (I'm sure there will be something else fun.)

After the laid back experience of this summer, I hope I can take a decent amount of time off next summer.  It's been super fun!

Back to the documentation of this week. My brother is visiting.  We played with him a couple of days.  We did touristy stuff on Saturday and yesterday, which was Wednesday.  On Sunday, we took him to a fun (I hope he had fun) party with our wonderful friends (:waves to PS).

Today, oNe and I went to a dance class together.  I love going with her right now.  When she gets nervous, she holds my hand.  How SWEET is that???  I wonder when she'll out grow doing that.  I'd love it if she didn't.

What else... Monday we went swimming with a friend and Tuesday I pretty much finished my syllabus for my class (so I worked while the girls hung with the nanny).  Tomorrow, we find out our girls' teachers for the years!  Fingers crossed.  (I found out about oNe's teacher; it's fine, good teacher, not the "best" but not bad and more importantly, she has a good friend in the class!!!  Now just two more to go.)

On another note, I haven't talked much about our current nanny, but she's super. She started off as a babysitter two years ago and she's been gaining responsibility and working more and more. She was just out of high school two years ago and now she is so much more grown up.  It's wonderful.  I'm documenting here that we've been very lucky for the last two years in the babysitter / nanny department.  I hope it continues.  I should give nanny a nickname...  NannyC is all I can come up with right now...  I'm putting this down right now because a friend just texted about how she needs a new nanny.  Nannies can be wonderful or NOT.....  a good nanny is hard to find.  We are lucky right now.  We had our share of nanny issues in the past.  Thank goodness when you find a wonderful nanny!!

Week 8: Please don't end!

Oh Summer, how fleeting you are.  Is that what makes you so sweet?

Of course I wanted to blog more, but of course I didn't; of course, now I can't remember what other things I wanted to put on here so let's just record the highlights of last week.

All the girls went to the dentist.  The receptionist scheduled their cleaning appointments one after another instead of all at the same time. Two hours were spent in the office.  I was not a happy camper.  Neither were the girls.  I will always check to make sure we are scheduled in parallel and not in series.

I have the girls' start of school outfits.  Woo. I bought them online a while ago.  But of course, it can't be that easy.  Three-a decided she didn't want the one I got.  It had been so long, I figured I should return the outfit to the store to make sure they'd take it back (instead of sending it back).  I am happy to report that we had a fast, successful trip to the mall.  I haven't been to a mall in a LONG TIME.  I haven't missed it.  However, this last week, we went in, returned the items, found pants that the girls love and left.  We did this in under an hour.  The best thing was that though the store didn't have oNe's size in the pants, they ordered them for me and are shipping them to my house (free of shipping charge) since they were out of stock in the store.

We still need to get school supplies.

My brother is here visiting.  Today we're going to go to a nice garden to walk around and see all the pretty flowers.  This coming week, we'll do some other fun things.  Look for a more exciting post for week 9. (Yea, we'll see.)

I am STILL working on my syllabus.  I wanted to change some things.  Of course, I had to go through EVERYTHING and determine what worked and didn't.  I hope to finish by this week.  #teachingisatimesuck

Totally unrelated, here's a super inspiring video. http://now.msn.com/watch-a-disabled-vet-make-an-incredibly-inspiring-recovery?_p=1b05ffda-4ea0-4e1e-8532-9863b2e33167 I am posting it here because FB SUCKS.  I posted it in FB and now they are switching me to Timeline and in Timeline, you can't see all your previous posts.  I had to google to find it. Grrr.  Timeline is ugly and its mother dresses it funny.

Week 7: OMG the summer is ALMOST OVER

I'm thinking of making this the new picture for the top of the blog, but I don't actually have time to futz with changing things.  Look how big they are!  Look how blonde they are!  (I had NOTHING to do with that.)

The picture was taken last week we went to a local little amusement park.  It was too cool to go to the beach.  The girls are big enough to go on all the rides all by themselves and they LOVE it!  This visit was the first time Three-a could go with her big sisters on some of the rides.  She had so. much. fun!

OMG, the summer is almost over.  It's August.  NOOOOO!  I don't want summer to end and fall to begin.  Okay, I do want a regular schedule, but I don't want to have the pressure that comes with fall.  I also want it to stay (warm); I like the temperature it is.  

Sigh, I guess fall is good.  I'm sure I'll be fine by mid-October.  I know it's going to be hard going back to work and school.  I told you I took most of the summer off.  It's been so good.  I haven't gotten as much organizing done as I wanted (I need a deadline!) but, I've gotten to hang with the girls a lot.  I think it's been good for me and for them.  The organizing will always be there.  My little girls won't be little forever.  

So what did we do this week?  Sewing camp for twoK and oNe.  They made some more fabulous stuff.  We had two play dates for Three-a. One play date was a bike play date and her bike is on its last legs!  We decided to get her a new bike for her birthday.  She's SO excited.  Now, we need to go shopping for a new bike for Three-a.  On her birthday she turns 7!  How is that possible?  (The blog turns 7 shortly after that, too.  Maybe I won't forget my blogoversary this year.)

On Tuesday, MWH's car got hit... Ugh.  Fortunately he's okay, but now he has to deal with getting it fixed and all the fun that goes along with that.

I feel like there's more I should record, but it's late and I'm tired.  I'm going to go watch Heroes with MWH.

Summer Week 6: Movies, babies, doctors, a day at the beach, and being a bum

Summer continues at it's lazy, but quick moving pace.  It's crazy!  On Monday we had Apple Camp, for twoK and oNe.  Then, we went to visit a friend in "the city" and meet her new (now 2 month old) baby, to end the day, oNe and I went to our dance class.

Today, Apple Camp, again, a doctor's appointment for oNe.  She has a nevus sebaceous and we wanted it looked at by a dermatologist.  It all looks good so we wait.  We can have it removed, or just wait and watch.  oNe would rather wait and watch.  I'd personally like it gone, but it's her head so we'll let her have some input.

Tomorrow, we have an eye exam for all the females in the family (check-up x 4!) and then a good teacher-friend (Ms. W) is coming over to play and learn on the computer.  oNe and twoK are going to show her what they learned at camp.  Super cool!

On Thursday, MWH and I are going to hang out, sans kids!!!  Date afternoon!  Woo!

For Friday, the plan is a trip to the beach, or somewhere fun.

Finally on Saturday, twoK and oNe show off their movie creations at Apple Camp (then gymnastics).

Someday, I'll do work again.  Heh.  For now, I'll be a bum.  (I need to finish up a paper review and my syllabus.)