I am wondering how long my blogging is going to last. None of my friends are really in to blogging. Only ma soeuer Becky. She is probably the only one who reads this besides me. C'est la vie.
Anyway - this blog is going to be short.
Amber - gave a talk in primary yesterday about how excited she is about getting baptized this July. Yes, my baby really is almost 8 years old now.
Jarom - bought yet another Kirby gameboy game this past Saturday. He is REALLY obsessed with Kirby. The coat of arms he is making for himself even has Kirby on it. Kirby with a flaming sword. Doesn't get much better than that, does it?
Cameron - has almost brought his Quest grades up high enough that they just might have to let him stay in Quest. I think that 8th grade will be easier for him. Especially if he gets a math teacher that speaks English clearly.
Meagan - is performing in a dance concert this Wednesday. She and 3 of her friends coreographed a dance together. I hope it turns out well. Meagan has not had a lot of time to practice with them between swim team and sewing an elaborate Elizabethan dress.
David - went to the doctor for a physical last week. He was ok except that his liver enzymes were really high. High enough that the doctor asked him if he had started drinking alcohol. The doctor wants to see David again in 4 weeks. I asked him if the doctor had given him any suggestions of how to lower his enzymes - besides joining Alcoholics Anonymous.
Me - I am hanging in here. I worked full time Friday and today. I am trying to cope with an EXTREMELY annoying co-worker. We'll see how it goes. My friend Anna told me she would have been fired months ago if she had to put up with he-who-shall-not-be-named. Okay, I give in, his name is Andy. Maybe I am glad my husband doesn't go by his middle name (Andrew). Odd, I never thought of that before. I am SOOO glad Georgia will be back at work tomorrow because I can go back to working part-time. That, and Georgia is just so cool and funny - she's one of the best things about my job. I am getting healthier, but still not well enough to work full time all the time.
Jetta - I just have to write about her because she got a bath and a shave on Saturday. She looks and smells so much better! I got her leash out on Saturday so we could take her to Bark Avenue (Kailien's dog grooming shop) and she got so excited she was going to go somewhere, she was jumping all over the place.
Okay, for me, this was short!
Now for a really short DEEP THOUGHT:
"I'd rather be rich than stupid." - Jack Handy
Monday, April 24, 2006
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Week 3,000,000
Okay, it's not really been that long since I last posted, but it seems like it.
I was reading thru the "Week 2" post that I wrote almost 3 months ago, and how things have changed! Those funny noises the suburban was making? $2,000 later, they're fixed. We had to get the whole rear axle rebuilt! If we had driven it even a week longer, I don't know if the car would have even been salvagable, so thank God for small favors, I guess. I don't even want to talk about what the Dynasty has been up to. Let's just say our cars have been revolting lately.
David and I have a theory that if you have 2 cars parked next to each other in a driveway, they somehow communicate to each other. How else could our cars always seem to be breaking down at the same time?
Meagan's knee is pretty much on the mend. She doesn't complain about it hurting her and that's a relief. Meagan signed up for High School about a month ago(scarey that she's already old enough for High School). She wants to be on the swim team, so the coach suggested she be on the West Valley Fitness Center Swim Team. She's been doing that for about a month now. Fortunately she chose a sport that the orthopedic surgeon says is GOOD for her knee!
Meagan decided she absolutely HAD to make a dress for the Shakespearian Festival the 9th Graders are having next week. Guess who got to help her make it?
Meagan, I have to admit, is pretty handy, but she hasn't sewn much before. That is probably my fault, but let's not go there . . . Anyway, making an Elizabethan dress with a fitted, lined bodice, a split overskirt, a chemise and an underskirt is a bit of an undertaking for a beginning sewer (is that how you spell that? it looks like sewer - ie, where the toilet leads - seamstress then?) - and sewing all that in a one week period - especially when that week just happens to be the week before taxes are due - is a bit much! Did I mention the dress has grommets and braided trim? We did get the dress done - at 2:45 am the morning it was due. All told, it took us 32 hours to get the entire dress done. Before we started the dress, Meagan wanted to go in to fashion design and costuming as a career; now she is not so sure about that.
Meagan and I still aren't quite back to normal yet. I will have to post a picture of the dress when I get one. One bright note: Meagan's teacher loved it so much she gave her 100 points of extra credit. I have to say this much for Meagan - she actually did about half of the sewing on the dress. Of course, if she hadn't, I wouldn't have finished it for her, so am I rather impressed that she (and I) stuck it out. BTW, David put in all 18 grommets in the dress. He is an excellent grommeter (or whatever you call that), so if you ever need any grommets put in cloth, you know you to call.
I have been so involved with Meagan and her dress and the cars breaking down and taxes that I don't even know what the other kids have been up to. Aren't I a bad mom? Actually, I do know that they all spent spring break with their Aunt Kailien grooming dogs. I guess it's just as well, since I had to work anyway.
I do know that Cameron has been working on a shield for his Shakespeare project. He's in 7th Grade, not 9th Grade, but he's in Quest, ie, the gifted and talented program. All of Quest is working on 9th Grade cirriculum this year, so he gets to do a Shakespeare project. Cameron - and his dad - are making a big wooden shield with the Vernon coat-of-arms on it. As I was looking a stylized wheat sheaf last night for Cameron to put on his shield, it hit me: our coat of arms is a gold shield with a blue horizontal band on it and 3 golden sheafs of wheat. How ironic is that??? I'm incredibly allergic to wheat.
I told David this morning that I never should have married him because of my wheat allergy. He said, "OK." I said, "I'm just kidding!" He said, "Hey, it's better than squashed roses." To which I replied, "What do you mean, squashed roses? They're squashed morning glory."
If you want to see what I'm talking about (or perhaps even your very own stunning family coat of arms) just go to
and enter the last name you are interested in. BTW, the squashed morning glory/roses are on the "Young" coat-of-arms, if you were wondering.
Now, just so Jarom and Amber don't feel slighted (like they're ever going to read this). Jarom wants to make a shield like Cameron is, and Amber wants to make a dress like Meagan. Amber couldn't wait, so she tried sewing a dress all by herself. It didn't work out so well (but then, she's only 7 and has never sewn before). I took pity on her and told her that in a few weeks - after I have recovered from Meagan's dress - I will help her sew a dress. Now I just have to decide if I dare to let her use the sewing machine.
Cameron, Jarom and Amber just got back from Kailien's. I overheard Jarom telling Meagan about his highlight of the weekend. Jarom said, "We had a silly string fight in Kailien's backyard and we sprayed silly string ALL over the place. She didn't even make us clean it up." Come to find out, they used 53 cans of silly string. (Kailien told me that part.)
Ok, that's probably wwaayyy too long for a blog, so I'll finish with a Deep Thought:
"If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that." - Jack Handy
I was reading thru the "Week 2" post that I wrote almost 3 months ago, and how things have changed! Those funny noises the suburban was making? $2,000 later, they're fixed. We had to get the whole rear axle rebuilt! If we had driven it even a week longer, I don't know if the car would have even been salvagable, so thank God for small favors, I guess. I don't even want to talk about what the Dynasty has been up to. Let's just say our cars have been revolting lately.
David and I have a theory that if you have 2 cars parked next to each other in a driveway, they somehow communicate to each other. How else could our cars always seem to be breaking down at the same time?
Meagan's knee is pretty much on the mend. She doesn't complain about it hurting her and that's a relief. Meagan signed up for High School about a month ago(scarey that she's already old enough for High School). She wants to be on the swim team, so the coach suggested she be on the West Valley Fitness Center Swim Team. She's been doing that for about a month now. Fortunately she chose a sport that the orthopedic surgeon says is GOOD for her knee!
Meagan decided she absolutely HAD to make a dress for the Shakespearian Festival the 9th Graders are having next week. Guess who got to help her make it?
Meagan, I have to admit, is pretty handy, but she hasn't sewn much before. That is probably my fault, but let's not go there . . . Anyway, making an Elizabethan dress with a fitted, lined bodice, a split overskirt, a chemise and an underskirt is a bit of an undertaking for a beginning sewer (is that how you spell that? it looks like sewer - ie, where the toilet leads - seamstress then?) - and sewing all that in a one week period - especially when that week just happens to be the week before taxes are due - is a bit much! Did I mention the dress has grommets and braided trim? We did get the dress done - at 2:45 am the morning it was due. All told, it took us 32 hours to get the entire dress done. Before we started the dress, Meagan wanted to go in to fashion design and costuming as a career; now she is not so sure about that.
Meagan and I still aren't quite back to normal yet. I will have to post a picture of the dress when I get one. One bright note: Meagan's teacher loved it so much she gave her 100 points of extra credit. I have to say this much for Meagan - she actually did about half of the sewing on the dress. Of course, if she hadn't, I wouldn't have finished it for her, so am I rather impressed that she (and I) stuck it out. BTW, David put in all 18 grommets in the dress. He is an excellent grommeter (or whatever you call that), so if you ever need any grommets put in cloth, you know you to call.
I have been so involved with Meagan and her dress and the cars breaking down and taxes that I don't even know what the other kids have been up to. Aren't I a bad mom? Actually, I do know that they all spent spring break with their Aunt Kailien grooming dogs. I guess it's just as well, since I had to work anyway.
I do know that Cameron has been working on a shield for his Shakespeare project. He's in 7th Grade, not 9th Grade, but he's in Quest, ie, the gifted and talented program. All of Quest is working on 9th Grade cirriculum this year, so he gets to do a Shakespeare project. Cameron - and his dad - are making a big wooden shield with the Vernon coat-of-arms on it. As I was looking a stylized wheat sheaf last night for Cameron to put on his shield, it hit me: our coat of arms is a gold shield with a blue horizontal band on it and 3 golden sheafs of wheat. How ironic is that??? I'm incredibly allergic to wheat.
I told David this morning that I never should have married him because of my wheat allergy. He said, "OK." I said, "I'm just kidding!" He said, "Hey, it's better than squashed roses." To which I replied, "What do you mean, squashed roses? They're squashed morning glory."
If you want to see what I'm talking about (or perhaps even your very own stunning family coat of arms) just go to
Links
and enter the last name you are interested in. BTW, the squashed morning glory/roses are on the "Young" coat-of-arms, if you were wondering.
Now, just so Jarom and Amber don't feel slighted (like they're ever going to read this). Jarom wants to make a shield like Cameron is, and Amber wants to make a dress like Meagan. Amber couldn't wait, so she tried sewing a dress all by herself. It didn't work out so well (but then, she's only 7 and has never sewn before). I took pity on her and told her that in a few weeks - after I have recovered from Meagan's dress - I will help her sew a dress. Now I just have to decide if I dare to let her use the sewing machine.
Cameron, Jarom and Amber just got back from Kailien's. I overheard Jarom telling Meagan about his highlight of the weekend. Jarom said, "We had a silly string fight in Kailien's backyard and we sprayed silly string ALL over the place. She didn't even make us clean it up." Come to find out, they used 53 cans of silly string. (Kailien told me that part.)
Ok, that's probably wwaayyy too long for a blog, so I'll finish with a Deep Thought:
"If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that." - Jack Handy
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