(pictured: Ren, Dani, Drew, Scott, Jonah and Ben at Jonah's baptism)
The kids have been out of school officially a week now...(is THAT all??) and all is very busy here. I have daycare 4 days a week, so we are a full house now--and fuller still in July when I start my newest student (will he be 3 months old?). By September I will have 4 students a day (5 months, 12 months, 16 months, 2 1/2, 3). Sound like fun? The life I choose.....
ANYWAY...
Jonah has camp this week and next, and then not again all summer. Drew is participating in several (6 or 7) all-day camps through the teen center and will be boogie boarding, mountain biking, rock climbing and canoeing in different parts of NH from the white mountains to points south. I wished it were more than 7 days, but thats all he was interested in.
I still have hopes that Drew and Adrienne will both be taking music lessons/tutoring this summer. Drew will start either the trumpet or clarinet and Adrienne is tossing around the idea of joining the percussion ensemble as well as band/marching band/ orchestra for the HS.
Thomas has moved on from my care, (almost 3 weeks ago) and is in a new foster home awaiting their adoption of him. They seem to really adore him, and though the first 10 days or so were very hard its recently felt very much around here as it did 9 months ago before he came. Strange how that happens, isn't it? I am attaching a picture of me with him on his 'last day.'
We have had some animal changes at our house.....our oldest cat Seuess got out over a month ago after being very sick for the last 2 months. We figured he had decided it was his time to 'go' and made the decision not to look for him too hard when he didnt come home at the end of the day. 3 WEEKS went by without a Seuess sighting, when suddenly there he was! I was very concerned about the other animals, and decided not to let Seuess back into the house. He stayed around for 2 days (we were feeding him outside) but then he left once again. Around that same time, Kit-Kat (Mangus) started to show signs of a urinary tract infection. We ended up having to take him to the Kitty ER (5 hours, was it Joe?) and I had to make a very difficult decision about how much $$ I was going to spend to make him well. We tried to make a good decision, and they did flush his bladder and give him some meds to take home. He seemed to perk up right away, and was feeling better Sunday, Monday--but when I woke this morning he was bleeding again. Not sure what the prognosis is for our youngest cat now. Meanwhile the middle cat seems to be scooting around the house nervously. He lost both his mates within a short-time afterall, and likely wonders if he is next. Silly kitty!
The ki
ds are very excited to be hatching chicken eggs this month. We were given 11 chicken eggs from the Stone family farm last weekend, and we just happen to have an egg incubator (what? doesn't everyone?) that was given to us from a retiring kingergarden teacher three years ago. We are not sure how many eggs are going to hatch, and are just waiting, waiting, waiting (ohh, and turning, turning, turning) to see. 19 more days, right kids? How long we keep the chicks depends on the CATS, the DOGS, and as Ren said, "how long until they lose their chick cuteness and start to be ugly chickens." Then we'll drive back to the farm and given 'em back! (What a perfect arrangement!) Thanks 'Grampa Stone'!!
Last month I got a new deck, and am really happy with the work that was done. Now I am going to tackle getting laminate hard-wood put into the playroom (I think thats the best use of my $) and some painting. It sure is hard to keep up a large house! Yuckers!
Other than that, we all need to get to the dentist (note to self) but are all very well. We are looking forward to using these fridays off to camp (even day trips?) and get to the beach more than we did last year. I can DEFINATELY find things to fill all my days, so I have to make the EFFORT to get these guys places to make those memories!
We went to see GET SMART last night.....maybe not so much for kids under 12 because of some violence (showing people being shot, though not bloody) and language (several more than necessary)....but the kids thought it was funny and even I laughed out-loud here and there which is almost unheard of for me in movie theaters.
Jonah has camp this week and next, and then not again all summer. Drew is participating in several (6 or 7) all-day camps through the teen center and will be boogie boarding, mountain biking, rock climbing and canoeing in different parts of NH from the white mountains to points south. I wished it were more than 7 days, but thats all he was interested in.
I still have hopes that Drew and Adrienne will both be taking music lessons/tutoring this summer. Drew will start either the trumpet or clarinet and Adrienne is tossing around the idea of joining the percussion ensemble as well as band/marching band/ orchestra for the HS.
Thomas has moved on from my care, (almost 3 weeks ago) and is in a new foster home awaiting their adoption of him. They seem to really adore him, and though the first 10 days or so were very hard its recently felt very much around here as it did 9 months ago before he came. Strange how that happens, isn't it? I am attaching a picture of me with him on his 'last day.'
We have had some animal changes at our house.....our oldest cat Seuess got out over a month ago after being very sick for the last 2 months. We figured he had decided it was his time to 'go' and made the decision not to look for him too hard when he didnt come home at the end of the day. 3 WEEKS went by without a Seuess sighting, when suddenly there he was! I was very concerned about the other animals, and decided not to let Seuess back into the house. He stayed around for 2 days (we were feeding him outside) but then he left once again. Around that same time, Kit-Kat (Mangus) started to show signs of a urinary tract infection. We ended up having to take him to the Kitty ER (5 hours, was it Joe?) and I had to make a very difficult decision about how much $$ I was going to spend to make him well. We tried to make a good decision, and they did flush his bladder and give him some meds to take home. He seemed to perk up right away, and was feeling better Sunday, Monday--but when I woke this morning he was bleeding again. Not sure what the prognosis is for our youngest cat now. Meanwhile the middle cat seems to be scooting around the house nervously. He lost both his mates within a short-time afterall, and likely wonders if he is next. Silly kitty!The ki
ds are very excited to be hatching chicken eggs this month. We were given 11 chicken eggs from the Stone family farm last weekend, and we just happen to have an egg incubator (what? doesn't everyone?) that was given to us from a retiring kingergarden teacher three years ago. We are not sure how many eggs are going to hatch, and are just waiting, waiting, waiting (ohh, and turning, turning, turning) to see. 19 more days, right kids? How long we keep the chicks depends on the CATS, the DOGS, and as Ren said, "how long until they lose their chick cuteness and start to be ugly chickens." Then we'll drive back to the farm and given 'em back! (What a perfect arrangement!) Thanks 'Grampa Stone'!!
Last month I got a new deck, and am really happy with the work that was done. Now I am going to tackle getting laminate hard-wood put into the playroom (I think thats the best use of my $) and some painting. It sure is hard to keep up a large house! Yuckers!
Other than that, we all need to get to the dentist (note to self) but are all very well. We are looking forward to using these fridays off to camp (even day trips?) and get to the beach more than we did last year. I can DEFINATELY find things to fill all my days, so I have to make the EFFORT to get these guys places to make those memories!
We went to see GET SMART last night.....maybe not so much for kids under 12 because of some violence (showing people being shot, though not bloody) and language (several more than necessary)....but the kids thought it was funny and even I laughed out-loud here and there which is almost unheard of for me in movie theaters.
Thats all for right now!
Ta-Ta!
1 comments:
boring up date ? what the boy gets baptised and its boring? man where is life going hes not 8 yet is he? man how time flys , whish i had known more about it. ow well so you going to be able to come out hear?
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