The hubby and I went to the Bruno Mars concert! It was great! It was packed in there. The arena was great and had great energy. Fun night!
I continue to be bad at blogging on a regular basis. Heck, I can't even read all my emails and delete them. In addition, I have 85 unread text messages on my phone at this very minute. Most of them are texts with coupons or announcing some deals at various stores like Ma.cy's, Old Na.vy, Pay.less, Fam.ous Foot.wear, etc. I'm much better at reading and replying to texts from friends and my mother! ;)
I'm trying hard to keep up with my life and adult responsibilities all while giving the kids a great life.
The days speed by faster and faster. It is amazing that it is already November. How?! Does anyone have any big Thanksgiving plans? I am going to visit our old town one day over the break to visit a friend who moved out of state but will be there visiting! I hope it doesn't snow.....living back in this hot desert is making me soft.
My daughter is in Pre-K. Didn't we just bring her home from the hospital? This is the last year we will ever have a child in Pre-K! She is still in swimming lessons and gymnastics. After complaining about going to dance class for months and months last spring, we took a break this fall. Now she asks me daily when she can start dance class again. And tennis lessons. lol I need to clone myself and I need about 3 more hours in the day.
My oldest will be old enough to get his driver's license next year. Notice I didn't say he's getting his license next year! lol. He has to prove himself to be responsible enough to operate a car. Right now I have trouble on a daily basis getting him to throw out food wrappers in the trash can and put dirty forks into the sink. Sigh.... teenagers.
This year we have a child in Pre-K, elementary school, middle school and high school! We are busy at the baseball field still watching my 3 sons play ball. Jacob played flag football through the school this fall and loved it. He is already talking about playing it again next year. They haven't asked about tackle football- thank goodness because I'm not a fan. Sorrynotsorry.
The doctor in me is too worried about concussions. It is time for me to renew my specialty recertification next year, which involves taking a lengthy exam. I will have to start studying here pretty soon, which means one more thing to add to the crazy schedule. Sleep? I guess I can sleep when I'm 80! Joshua has started taking diving lessons. He loves it! That kid is fearless! He is a natural! It is so cool to watch him on the diving boards (high dive and regular diving board) and he has only been taking lessons for a month. My oldest son is doing club and high school fall baseball. The coach has them doing strength training too and it looks like it is paying off. He is hitting the ball so much harder. He is also busy doing his sophomore service project thru school...tutoring elementary kids.
Oh well that's all for now. I must go do more laundry and do the dishes and make lunches and.... the list goes on and on!
Monday, November 6, 2017
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Summa time
I have officially fallen into the same downward rarely blogging pattern as some of my favorite bloggers. Only I'm worse because when I do actually blog, I never put cute pictures in my posts- mostly because I can't figure out how to anymore and I don't have the time to really sit down and figure it out!
Oh well. I'm busy with my family. Which isn't a bad thing, right?!
My daughter will be five in two months. Two months, you guys! I've had a daughter for almost 5 years! Our open adoption is going well at this point in time. I keep telling her birth mom we will go back for a visit the next season or the next year, and before I knew it, it's been almost 5 years that she hasn't seen her baby girl. I feel bad. I would be so sad if it was me. She asks politely every so often when we are planning to visit, but she never pressures me. I want to go back in September for her birthday and have a birthday party with her birth family and visit the hospital she was born at. Her birth mom has a new baby....6 month old baby girl who is absolutely beautiful and has the same eyes and smile as Cami! Their baby pictures look similar. I want to go back and visit and get a picture of Cami with all of her sisters. Her birth mom is doing well- I'm so proud of her and happy for her. I would love for Cami to have a sister for her to grow up with on a daily basis in the same house, but what can I do? (Well, I realize we can try to adopt another daughter, but I think we are at the stage in our lives where we are good with our family size.) My daughter is so darn smart. I realize everyone thinks their kid is brilliant, and you are not supposed to say it out loud because it's bad manners right?! lol, but I think I can say it out loud since I had nothing to do with her DNA and how smart she turned out. The things she says and is aware of at 4 years old continues to amaze me. I am constantly asking her, "How did you know that?!" and she just giggles.
Next month I will have a child in 10th, 7th, 4th and Pre-K. What the heckie?! How did that happen already? I will lose my sh*t and become a blubbering mess a year from now when my baby is heading off to kindergarten! So emotional! For now I'll enjoy her last year before official school starts. This summer has been so busy. Lots of camps and Hawaii and my 2nd son made the Little League All Star team! He was the new kid in town since we moved her last year and he made the team! It was so fun and the coaches were amazing and the kids were great. We lost last night to our old district which is so ironic. We ended up 4th in the state! That's cray cray! 4th! We are a small district, and to field a team that good with a small pool of players is incredible! :) Another mom told me there are 118 little league All Star teams in my state, which gets narrowed down to 14 after all the district tournaments. So then the 14 district teams play at the state tournament which is a double-elimination tournament. We made it to the top 4! Our old district won again tonight, so they play in the championship game tomorrow night! Whoever would have thought I'd become such a crazy baseball mom?! ;) School starts back up in a week and a half. I still have back-to-school stuff to do.....like get backpacks! I tried to get them new Un.der Arm.our backpacks (their favorite) in June, and they didn't have any out yet!
I haven't blogged because I've been busy with my family, but also there hasn't been anything super interesting to report. The BIL and I have made up lol so no drama there. It's been nice actually. I don't need the extra stress. His daughter (technically their cousin, but in name only) still pretends my kids don't exist but I've given up my crusade to get everyone to acknowledge how truly wrong this is. My kids don't care. One day they finally told me they don't care at all if she ignores them or not. Out of the mouths of babes. Honest to a fault. I was like, "What?!?!" So as it turns out, I've been wasting so much energy on trying to get her to have a relationship with her cousins, and it was all for nothing. At least my kids don't care and their feelings aren't hurt. Speaking of cousins, my darling nephew is getting baptized next month and I'm going to be his Godmother!! I'm so excited! My brother is the Godfather to 3 of my kids. The BIL is the Godfather to my 4th kid- ironic..... (and he is not the Godfather to the kid he and his wife and kid ignored.) Today one of the in-law's relatives sent me a friend request on Facebook.... I just had to laugh because after the drama happened a few years ago, I found out she was talking smack about me. I haven't accepted her request....
It is so hot here. We are just trying to get thru the summer without melting away! HA! Cami had her dance recital last month....it was a tap dance to Splish Splash....OMG it was so cute! She did great and was so darling up there on stage! She is really into gymnastics and is doing well. Josh loves doing flips- front flips, backflips, roundoffs, cartwheels anywhere and everywhere including the baseball field (YIKES!) so he wants to take a boys' gymnastics/NIN.JA class when school starts. These are the 3 things he keeps bugging me to let him do: baseball club team (which he already does), boys' gymnastics class, and piano lessons! He is an interesting kid! Zack is a high schooler/ typical teenager who wants nothing to do with his parents. Sigh... this too shall pass! HA! ;)
All 4 kids had a good school year considering it was our first year down here after we moved last summer. Big changes for all of us and they handled it well. Academically they did well (Jacob made the National Junior Honor Society and got straight A's all year! His school is really hard and an A is 94%. A 93% is a B!!!) Zack got inducted into Key Club - it's a service organization. They all made really nice friends this year, and so did I! :) I asked them last month who wants to move back to our old town and none of them raised their hand!
Wishing everyone a great school year this fall, and to those who aren't in school or have kids in school at this time, sending wishes for the next season of life to be great!
Oh well. I'm busy with my family. Which isn't a bad thing, right?!
My daughter will be five in two months. Two months, you guys! I've had a daughter for almost 5 years! Our open adoption is going well at this point in time. I keep telling her birth mom we will go back for a visit the next season or the next year, and before I knew it, it's been almost 5 years that she hasn't seen her baby girl. I feel bad. I would be so sad if it was me. She asks politely every so often when we are planning to visit, but she never pressures me. I want to go back in September for her birthday and have a birthday party with her birth family and visit the hospital she was born at. Her birth mom has a new baby....6 month old baby girl who is absolutely beautiful and has the same eyes and smile as Cami! Their baby pictures look similar. I want to go back and visit and get a picture of Cami with all of her sisters. Her birth mom is doing well- I'm so proud of her and happy for her. I would love for Cami to have a sister for her to grow up with on a daily basis in the same house, but what can I do? (Well, I realize we can try to adopt another daughter, but I think we are at the stage in our lives where we are good with our family size.) My daughter is so darn smart. I realize everyone thinks their kid is brilliant, and you are not supposed to say it out loud because it's bad manners right?! lol, but I think I can say it out loud since I had nothing to do with her DNA and how smart she turned out. The things she says and is aware of at 4 years old continues to amaze me. I am constantly asking her, "How did you know that?!" and she just giggles.
Next month I will have a child in 10th, 7th, 4th and Pre-K. What the heckie?! How did that happen already? I will lose my sh*t and become a blubbering mess a year from now when my baby is heading off to kindergarten! So emotional! For now I'll enjoy her last year before official school starts. This summer has been so busy. Lots of camps and Hawaii and my 2nd son made the Little League All Star team! He was the new kid in town since we moved her last year and he made the team! It was so fun and the coaches were amazing and the kids were great. We lost last night to our old district which is so ironic. We ended up 4th in the state! That's cray cray! 4th! We are a small district, and to field a team that good with a small pool of players is incredible! :) Another mom told me there are 118 little league All Star teams in my state, which gets narrowed down to 14 after all the district tournaments. So then the 14 district teams play at the state tournament which is a double-elimination tournament. We made it to the top 4! Our old district won again tonight, so they play in the championship game tomorrow night! Whoever would have thought I'd become such a crazy baseball mom?! ;) School starts back up in a week and a half. I still have back-to-school stuff to do.....like get backpacks! I tried to get them new Un.der Arm.our backpacks (their favorite) in June, and they didn't have any out yet!
I haven't blogged because I've been busy with my family, but also there hasn't been anything super interesting to report. The BIL and I have made up lol so no drama there. It's been nice actually. I don't need the extra stress. His daughter (technically their cousin, but in name only) still pretends my kids don't exist but I've given up my crusade to get everyone to acknowledge how truly wrong this is. My kids don't care. One day they finally told me they don't care at all if she ignores them or not. Out of the mouths of babes. Honest to a fault. I was like, "What?!?!" So as it turns out, I've been wasting so much energy on trying to get her to have a relationship with her cousins, and it was all for nothing. At least my kids don't care and their feelings aren't hurt. Speaking of cousins, my darling nephew is getting baptized next month and I'm going to be his Godmother!! I'm so excited! My brother is the Godfather to 3 of my kids. The BIL is the Godfather to my 4th kid- ironic..... (and he is not the Godfather to the kid he and his wife and kid ignored.) Today one of the in-law's relatives sent me a friend request on Facebook.... I just had to laugh because after the drama happened a few years ago, I found out she was talking smack about me. I haven't accepted her request....
It is so hot here. We are just trying to get thru the summer without melting away! HA! Cami had her dance recital last month....it was a tap dance to Splish Splash....OMG it was so cute! She did great and was so darling up there on stage! She is really into gymnastics and is doing well. Josh loves doing flips- front flips, backflips, roundoffs, cartwheels anywhere and everywhere including the baseball field (YIKES!) so he wants to take a boys' gymnastics/NIN.JA class when school starts. These are the 3 things he keeps bugging me to let him do: baseball club team (which he already does), boys' gymnastics class, and piano lessons! He is an interesting kid! Zack is a high schooler/ typical teenager who wants nothing to do with his parents. Sigh... this too shall pass! HA! ;)
All 4 kids had a good school year considering it was our first year down here after we moved last summer. Big changes for all of us and they handled it well. Academically they did well (Jacob made the National Junior Honor Society and got straight A's all year! His school is really hard and an A is 94%. A 93% is a B!!!) Zack got inducted into Key Club - it's a service organization. They all made really nice friends this year, and so did I! :) I asked them last month who wants to move back to our old town and none of them raised their hand!
Wishing everyone a great school year this fall, and to those who aren't in school or have kids in school at this time, sending wishes for the next season of life to be great!
Monday, March 6, 2017
March 2017
Well, it's a new year (it's been a new year for a while!) and I missed January and February's posts!
I am really sucking at blogging. I am so busy with my new life in my new city and don't have as much free time anymore. We are in a big city now, and I spend a lot more time on my behind in my car driving the kids around town.
Christmas was nice. Although we all kept saying that it didn't really feel like Christmas because it's so warm here in Phoenix! I had another birthday after Christmas (already?!) and Josh turned 9, Jacob turns 12 this weekend, Laney the crazy dog turned 3 last week.... we celebrated my dad's birthday this weekend, and he is pushing 70 next year! Z will be 15 this summer (say whaaat?!) and Cami will be 5 in September. How did that happen?! Since she has a September birthday, she will do Pre-K next year. The director of one of the preschools we looked at said she thought she would pass the test to start kindergarten early (this fall), but we decided to wait. Z is the youngest in his grade, and it shows. Josh is a January birthday, and that is much better.
We went to the Suns vs. Cel.tics basketball game yesterday. It was a great game! The Suns tied it up with about 4 seconds left in the game. The Cel.tics got the ball and I figured they'd make a last minute basket and they'd win. There were SO many Cel.tics fans at the game...green shirts everywhere and they all stood up in front of us during the last 2 seconds, and so I missed the lasts play. All of a sudden, everyone started screaming and cheering and the crowd went crazy..... apparently, the Suns stole the ball from them and made a 3 point shot at the very last second and won with a buzzer-beater shot!!! It was so exciting!
The 3rd quarter of the school year is almost over. Fastest year ever! My kids have all had a good school years so far in their new school in their new city. I'm so proud of them. It's tough to move and make new friends. They were so brave. Dave and I have made new friends here too, and are enjoying hanging out with them. My kids are at amazing schools. We narrowed down the choices, and the kids ultimately picked which schools they wanted to attend, and they made good choices. Whew. J & J are doing Little League baseball now, so we are busier than usual. Z has a fractured humerus around his elbow and growth plate separation. (Say whaaat?!) He has been banned by his physician from throwing anything for 3 months. That puts him around May 17th. Practically all of spring baseball season. Kind of crushing. Now he gets to go to physical therapy and hopefully they can work their magic and get him to be able to extend his arm again. He is busy with school. He has tough classes (3 honors classes) and his school is hard. He used to be able to coast through school before and get straight A's. Not so much anymore. He has to work hard now! However, that's what we wanted for him... a challenging school with a rigorous curriculum so he wouldn't get bored. He likes his high school and wants to stay there. He has made some nice friends. Next year, he wants to take 2 honors and 2 AP classes. I told him maybe to slow down a bit and pace himself! He is also taking photography which will be a good class. He is taking summer school.... not because of remedial reasons. People often look at me like he failed a class when I tell them he's taking summer school! Not so. Not so at all. The vast majority of kids at his high school take summer school. Overachievers! And plus they have to take 7 classes a year to graduate (the public schools in our state are usually 6 classes a year and senior year is 4 classes and the kids are done at noon!), and they take a religion class every year. So kids usually take summer school to get ahead in math or open up room in their schedule for more electives or a 7th hour advanced PE class or a study hall. He is hoping to take a study hall in the spring to spend more time studying for his 2 AP tests in May. I can't believe I'm talking about sophomore year already!
Jacob got inducted into the National Junior Honor Society in January! I'm so proud of him. He is doing so well at his new school. It is a very hard school. Lots of work and homework. An "A" is 94% and a "B" is 93% Not an "A-" !!
Josh is doing well in 3rd grade. He is also making his communion and confirmation at the end of April. (In AZ, they make these sacraments in 3rd grade.) My dad is going to be his sponsor! My brother was Z's sponsor and my mom was Jacob's sponsor. So it's my dad's turn! lol ;)
And Z will probably be Cami's sponsor because he will be 19 then and old enough to be a sponsor.
Cami loves, loves, loves gymnastics! Really loves it. She does NOT, however, love swimming lessons. But I tell her "Girlfriend, learning to swim is a necessary part of life...especially when you have a pool in your back yard!" She has her dance recital at her new dance studio in June.
I'm doing ok. Tired. So tired all the time- I need to sleep more and come up with how to make there be 26 hours in the day! I'm having fun hanging out with friends and family. Trying to get back to working out.
Cami has a new baby birth sister. She is 2 months old. I cannot believe she is 2 months old already! She is so cute. I'm not surprised....her birth mom only makes cute babies!
Happy 2017 everyone.
I am really sucking at blogging. I am so busy with my new life in my new city and don't have as much free time anymore. We are in a big city now, and I spend a lot more time on my behind in my car driving the kids around town.
Christmas was nice. Although we all kept saying that it didn't really feel like Christmas because it's so warm here in Phoenix! I had another birthday after Christmas (already?!) and Josh turned 9, Jacob turns 12 this weekend, Laney the crazy dog turned 3 last week.... we celebrated my dad's birthday this weekend, and he is pushing 70 next year! Z will be 15 this summer (say whaaat?!) and Cami will be 5 in September. How did that happen?! Since she has a September birthday, she will do Pre-K next year. The director of one of the preschools we looked at said she thought she would pass the test to start kindergarten early (this fall), but we decided to wait. Z is the youngest in his grade, and it shows. Josh is a January birthday, and that is much better.
We went to the Suns vs. Cel.tics basketball game yesterday. It was a great game! The Suns tied it up with about 4 seconds left in the game. The Cel.tics got the ball and I figured they'd make a last minute basket and they'd win. There were SO many Cel.tics fans at the game...green shirts everywhere and they all stood up in front of us during the last 2 seconds, and so I missed the lasts play. All of a sudden, everyone started screaming and cheering and the crowd went crazy..... apparently, the Suns stole the ball from them and made a 3 point shot at the very last second and won with a buzzer-beater shot!!! It was so exciting!
The 3rd quarter of the school year is almost over. Fastest year ever! My kids have all had a good school years so far in their new school in their new city. I'm so proud of them. It's tough to move and make new friends. They were so brave. Dave and I have made new friends here too, and are enjoying hanging out with them. My kids are at amazing schools. We narrowed down the choices, and the kids ultimately picked which schools they wanted to attend, and they made good choices. Whew. J & J are doing Little League baseball now, so we are busier than usual. Z has a fractured humerus around his elbow and growth plate separation. (Say whaaat?!) He has been banned by his physician from throwing anything for 3 months. That puts him around May 17th. Practically all of spring baseball season. Kind of crushing. Now he gets to go to physical therapy and hopefully they can work their magic and get him to be able to extend his arm again. He is busy with school. He has tough classes (3 honors classes) and his school is hard. He used to be able to coast through school before and get straight A's. Not so much anymore. He has to work hard now! However, that's what we wanted for him... a challenging school with a rigorous curriculum so he wouldn't get bored. He likes his high school and wants to stay there. He has made some nice friends. Next year, he wants to take 2 honors and 2 AP classes. I told him maybe to slow down a bit and pace himself! He is also taking photography which will be a good class. He is taking summer school.... not because of remedial reasons. People often look at me like he failed a class when I tell them he's taking summer school! Not so. Not so at all. The vast majority of kids at his high school take summer school. Overachievers! And plus they have to take 7 classes a year to graduate (the public schools in our state are usually 6 classes a year and senior year is 4 classes and the kids are done at noon!), and they take a religion class every year. So kids usually take summer school to get ahead in math or open up room in their schedule for more electives or a 7th hour advanced PE class or a study hall. He is hoping to take a study hall in the spring to spend more time studying for his 2 AP tests in May. I can't believe I'm talking about sophomore year already!
Jacob got inducted into the National Junior Honor Society in January! I'm so proud of him. He is doing so well at his new school. It is a very hard school. Lots of work and homework. An "A" is 94% and a "B" is 93% Not an "A-" !!
Josh is doing well in 3rd grade. He is also making his communion and confirmation at the end of April. (In AZ, they make these sacraments in 3rd grade.) My dad is going to be his sponsor! My brother was Z's sponsor and my mom was Jacob's sponsor. So it's my dad's turn! lol ;)
And Z will probably be Cami's sponsor because he will be 19 then and old enough to be a sponsor.
Cami loves, loves, loves gymnastics! Really loves it. She does NOT, however, love swimming lessons. But I tell her "Girlfriend, learning to swim is a necessary part of life...especially when you have a pool in your back yard!" She has her dance recital at her new dance studio in June.
I'm doing ok. Tired. So tired all the time- I need to sleep more and come up with how to make there be 26 hours in the day! I'm having fun hanging out with friends and family. Trying to get back to working out.
Cami has a new baby birth sister. She is 2 months old. I cannot believe she is 2 months old already! She is so cute. I'm not surprised....her birth mom only makes cute babies!
Happy 2017 everyone.
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