Tuesday, January 8, 2013
My New Car
Meet Zeus
Sunday, January 6, 2013
I'm Back
Welcome to 2013 (a couple days late)! I plan to post this year 3 times a week: Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday so hold me to it!
The start of the new year has already been news filled for our family. I started out on December 29 buying a new car. After 3 hours in the car dealership we made a deal on a White Pearl 2013 Subaru Legacy. With the All Wheel Drive I hope that I no longer get stuck in our street when we have heavy snow fall. It is so much quieter to drive then the Elantra it is amazing.
Then on January 3 we traveled to Cedar Rapids to get a Bearded Dragon for Campbell. He wanted one for Christmas but since you can't wrap and animal and keep it like that for 3 days with out food we had to wait until after Christmas. Then our local PetSmart has been out of Bearded Dragons since then. Zeus joined our family and is settling in rather well. He is about six inches long and skinny. (I'll post a picture shortly) They say these are very social and after seeing one in the Pet store I do believe it.
Friday I took my friend of mine to Rochester MN for her last Chemotherapy session. Such a sad reason to get together but the trip was fun! I love when you can visit for longer than 5 minutes. She had to be up there at 7 so we left our house at 4:30. I was more awake than I thought I would be at that time. I think I shocked Dana too. Today there was a fundraising picnic dinner for her. It was heartwarming to see the crowd of people that come out to show their support when you are hit with something like this. Community is truly a blessing.
So I hope the rest of my year brings as many joys as this week has. See you Tuesday!
The start of the new year has already been news filled for our family. I started out on December 29 buying a new car. After 3 hours in the car dealership we made a deal on a White Pearl 2013 Subaru Legacy. With the All Wheel Drive I hope that I no longer get stuck in our street when we have heavy snow fall. It is so much quieter to drive then the Elantra it is amazing.
Then on January 3 we traveled to Cedar Rapids to get a Bearded Dragon for Campbell. He wanted one for Christmas but since you can't wrap and animal and keep it like that for 3 days with out food we had to wait until after Christmas. Then our local PetSmart has been out of Bearded Dragons since then. Zeus joined our family and is settling in rather well. He is about six inches long and skinny. (I'll post a picture shortly) They say these are very social and after seeing one in the Pet store I do believe it.
Friday I took my friend of mine to Rochester MN for her last Chemotherapy session. Such a sad reason to get together but the trip was fun! I love when you can visit for longer than 5 minutes. She had to be up there at 7 so we left our house at 4:30. I was more awake than I thought I would be at that time. I think I shocked Dana too. Today there was a fundraising picnic dinner for her. It was heartwarming to see the crowd of people that come out to show their support when you are hit with something like this. Community is truly a blessing.
So I hope the rest of my year brings as many joys as this week has. See you Tuesday!
Thursday, October 13, 2011
School happenings
I love hearing bits and pieces of conversations from the children when I drop the boys off. Mostly I hear them at Jamison’s because I walk in with him.
Picture day came to preschool and we spent the night before deciding which colorful t-shirt we are going to wear. We decided on the green one with a dragon after much debate.
When we walked in on picture day we see all the little girls wearing their prettiest dresses. Then our friend Andre comes in behind us and he is wearing dress pants and an argyle sweater vest. Another little boy is wearing dress pants, button down shirt and a tie. He looks at Jamison and says “Jamison it is picture day what are you doing.” Jamison says “I’m going with this look.”
Today we walk in and hear “All I heard yesterday was Jamison, Jamison, Jamison.” I can’t see who is talking or who they are talking to. I look at Jamison and say “That better be a good thing or there had better be another little person named Jamison.” (Sunday School has a little girl named Jameson.) Linda the teacher says “It’s a good thing.” The mom turns and said “Yes my girls really like Jamison and they want him to come have a play date.” Jamison said “I could come over after school today. How about that?”
I have to watch him all the time with those little girls.
Picture day came to preschool and we spent the night before deciding which colorful t-shirt we are going to wear. We decided on the green one with a dragon after much debate.
When we walked in on picture day we see all the little girls wearing their prettiest dresses. Then our friend Andre comes in behind us and he is wearing dress pants and an argyle sweater vest. Another little boy is wearing dress pants, button down shirt and a tie. He looks at Jamison and says “Jamison it is picture day what are you doing.” Jamison says “I’m going with this look.”
Today we walk in and hear “All I heard yesterday was Jamison, Jamison, Jamison.” I can’t see who is talking or who they are talking to. I look at Jamison and say “That better be a good thing or there had better be another little person named Jamison.” (Sunday School has a little girl named Jameson.) Linda the teacher says “It’s a good thing.” The mom turns and said “Yes my girls really like Jamison and they want him to come have a play date.” Jamison said “I could come over after school today. How about that?”
I have to watch him all the time with those little girls.
Monday, September 12, 2011
My Personal Best
I finished a ½ marathon on Saturday. I averaged 16 min per mile and finished in 3 hours and 34 minutes. This is a personal best. Of course, this was my first ½ marathon so any time would be my personal best. Now I know some are looking and saying that’s not very fast but I was walking not running and I think darn good. So keep any negative comments to your self unless you have completed one and you did better than I did. No even if you did complete one, be quite and let me ride on my personal high! Next year I will do better than 30th place. I have a goal for next year of finishing in the TOP half not the bottom. Do you want to join me?
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Conversation with Jamison
I came home from Girl’s Night and asked Jamison how school was here is what he said.
“Mama, I have the girl I am going to marry and it isn’t Ella.”
Me “She’s from Preschool?”
“Yes.”
“What’s her name?”
“I don’t know her name.”
“You don’t know her name? Then why are you going to marry her?”
“She asked me to and I like her so I said yes.”
Don’t we wish life could be this simple?
“Mama, I have the girl I am going to marry and it isn’t Ella.”
Me “She’s from Preschool?”
“Yes.”
“What’s her name?”
“I don’t know her name.”
“You don’t know her name? Then why are you going to marry her?”
“She asked me to and I like her so I said yes.”
Don’t we wish life could be this simple?
Monday, August 15, 2011
Great Accomplishment
This weekend our family became part of the Guinness Book of World Records! It was a long hard road to get there but we did it. I am so proud of our never give up attitude.
Here is how we did it. We drove to the ice rink on Saturday at 10 a.m., where we sat visiting and checking out a couple snakes for an hour. During this time, about 650 more people joined us. Then at 11, we sat through the best part of Chemistry class. You know that part, where you mix things and they bubble out of the test tubes. Or, they explode we even saw fire balls in the air thanks to Hydrogen and Carbon dioxide mixed with a little heat. For the finale, they combined Nitrogen, a giant garbage can and 2,880 ping pong balls to give us a bang followed by an shower of ping pong balls.
Since there was, only around 650 people we thought our chances of winning one of the 5 Ipad 2s that they were giving away were pretty good. At last, we are still without the elusive Ipad not that they didn’t get extremely close to our numbers they were only 11 away from my number and 3 from Jamison’s. If they would have just been dyslexic and called 2087 instead of 2078 we would have one. Make sure you buy the book so you can see us in there under the Largest Chemistry lesson given. Thanks, Grout for an entertaining morning.
Here is how we did it. We drove to the ice rink on Saturday at 10 a.m., where we sat visiting and checking out a couple snakes for an hour. During this time, about 650 more people joined us. Then at 11, we sat through the best part of Chemistry class. You know that part, where you mix things and they bubble out of the test tubes. Or, they explode we even saw fire balls in the air thanks to Hydrogen and Carbon dioxide mixed with a little heat. For the finale, they combined Nitrogen, a giant garbage can and 2,880 ping pong balls to give us a bang followed by an shower of ping pong balls.
Since there was, only around 650 people we thought our chances of winning one of the 5 Ipad 2s that they were giving away were pretty good. At last, we are still without the elusive Ipad not that they didn’t get extremely close to our numbers they were only 11 away from my number and 3 from Jamison’s. If they would have just been dyslexic and called 2087 instead of 2078 we would have one. Make sure you buy the book so you can see us in there under the Largest Chemistry lesson given. Thanks, Grout for an entertaining morning.
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