It has been awhile

We've have been through quite a bit since my last post. However, I'm not ready yet to disclose to the world all the dirty details of our lives. We have to learn to deal with things first.

That being said, we'll move on.

This weekend was quite full for us. Saturday I had a Tupperware party. The first I've ever thrown, but I can tell you they have changed a lot since my Mom sold Tupperware. Now, you cook! We had eight adult women, two kids under 10, one tween and three teens! The dogs were happy...they were getting all kinds of attention. I think Hank was too excited (and hot); he tossed his cookies once on the floor right between Stephanie's feet and none of us noticed. Poor baby! He hasn't done that in awhile.

Sunday was another family reunion. It was good, but again people just like to eat then leave. I remember when I was little (younger than Chloe) it would be an entire day's event! You would eat. Talk. Eat again. No one wants to stop and smell the roses anymore...not even for family. I feel like I don't know most of them. Well, honestly, I don't. I think it is very sad.

This week should be a bit calmer. Last week was crazy. I didn't know John had asked off for last week (it wasn't on my calendar), so when he told me the middle of the week before I just looked at him. We have missed so many days for school. I told the girls we may have to make up a few weekend days. We are going to have to get used to doing our school work when John is actually home. Not sure how we'll manage that task, but we need to work on it.

Our schedule this week has been thrown off by other people. Master Mike decided to have taekwondo graduation on Wednesday (rather than Thursday) at the other location. And Thursday night we are having an instructor's training class. Yes, we'll be gone three nights this week for taekwondo.

Then the theatre contacted me about our homeschool group's viewing of the play this week. The theatre had other schools cancel and change their times, so our group was all that was remaining, less than twenty people. They wanted us to come another day. Fine. We changed days, but my cousin and her boys couldn't come that day. The boys were so excited about seeing the girls again, third time this week, that we are planning on still seeing them on Thursday though we have not worked it out yet as to who is going where.

We enrolled Jesse in Level 2 of her animation class last night. She'll start in January. Her final grade for Level 1 was an A. We were so proud. She learned so much and she was looking forward to being in class with a few of her former classmates in the spring. I'm glad we could work it out for her.

Now, I have papers to grade.