A Year of Change

Last night the misses went down to give the little dog known as Bunkie, his evening dose of insulin. As she tried to clean off his backside, (he had something stuck on his rear end), he turned around and bit her on the hand. Now he has his shots but those little poodles have small sharp pointed teeth and this was quite the puncture wound in the meat of her palm. Apparently his teeth were stuck in her hand for a while. The oldest boy ran home for some alcohol and bandaids as it was a real bleeder. It’s still hurting this morning and I think I’ll make her call our doctor to see if she’s current on her shots! ( the wife, not the dog) This daily ritual has now turned into a real chore each day as it turns out the dog has to eat before he can have his shot. The problem here is he has been slower to eat each morning and night so now the misses has to walk him up and down the street trying to make him hungry before she can administer the shot. This adds more time to each morning and evening. Personally I think this is all a little much and feel the misses is being taken advantage of but she is steadfast in proclaiming the L.O.L. is 90 years old and needs her help. I guess she’s a much better person than I, but of course we all knew that anyhow. Keeping in this theme, she is supposed to have the day off but one of the girls at works father is getting a kidney transplant today (just found a donor yesterday afternoon) and no one would volunteer to take her shift so she could be at the hospital. Well guess who stepped up, you got it, the misses. Despite having to take Lacey in for her operation, she said she’d go in for four hours from 8:30 am until just after lunch at 12:30 if this would help. The girl at work was so thankful for being able to be with her dad when her went in for the transplant. So, it’s 5:30 (I’ve of course been up for an hour) and I just woke the wife to get her moving so she can make the kids breakfast and lunch, take Lacey to the vet, give the little dog a shot and make it to work by 8:30. I’ve got 3 conference calls starting at 7:30 and ending at 11:30.

Today after school we need to take the oldest to Kohls (a discount department store) to get him some clothes for summer. He desperately needs new shorts, shirts, socks and underwear as he grows out of everything about every six months. Yesterday Aunt B dropped off a couple of rubber ball type toys, one for each boy, as a surprise for when they got home from school. She’s a good Aunt and is always surprising the boys with something, in fact, both Uncle T and Aunt B are very generous to the boys and spoil them at every turn.

It looks like we’re having a bbq at some friends house tomorrow afternoon and then another one on Monday with Grandma and Uncle T and Aunt B. After all, it’s the holiday weekend. Mom works again tomorrow from 7:15 till 2:30 so I’ll probably take the kids to opening day of the neighborhood pool.

I was going through some bills today as we’re desperately trying to get out of debt (you know, it’s a big part of the 2011 family makeover theme, get out of debt, get healthy, etc.), and I was looking at various interest rates and found one card, unbeknownst to me, with a 27.99% interest rate! Now I watch the rates on cards all the time and can’t believe I missed this one. Needless to say I’ll be calling them first thing this morning asking for a rate reduction but will also be making an all out assault on this specific card. As I said a few months ago, how can banks give 2 or 3% interest on your money in their bank and turn around and charge you 27.99% on money you borrow. I can tell you one thing, when we’re out of debt, that’s it. Right now we’re paying for everything in cash (by check or debit card) and if we can’t, we don’t buy it, period. I wish the government would do the same, don’t you?

Since we’ve had no political musings for a while, and I’m kind of on a roll, what do you think about the 20 Billion in aid we’re giving to all these muslim and arab countries that hate us? Personally I don’t think we’re in much of a position to be giving money to anyone. The current administrations argument is we need to keep China from developing a relationship with these countries, I say let them have them. Let’s see how China fares with countries that take their money, say they’ll do one thing and then behind closed doors do another, and really don’t like, care or respect us at all! Ok, I’ll stop now as I don’t want to lose any of you but what a joke our foreign policy is. We think we can impose our will on everyone and buy them with boatloads of money that we don’t have! Don’t even get me going on Obama’s Israel policy blunder this week! Ok, sorry sorry, I’m stopping now.

We’re hoping for good weather this weekend but are supposed to get a little rain mixed in. The misses hand is hurting but she doesn’t want to go to the doctor as she says they’ll have to report the dog bite. Well I’m making her go if I have to make the appointment and take her myself, I mean come on, what if it gets infected? I also think L.O.L. should pay the doctor bill! Told you I’m on a roll.

It’s now 6:30 and the oldest is up and Mom’s making breakfast so time for me to hit the showers and get ready for the day. We hope everyone has great plans for the weekend and has a great time. Get out and enjoy it while you can and God Bless,

p.s. Grandma Dixie, call you daughter and straighten her out as she doesn’t really listen to me.

Mom had some bad dreams that woke me at 11:56 pm and I couldn’t get back to sleep. I’m not sure how long she was up but I’m sure it was a while. She also tends to talk in her sleep sometimes which is how I’m alerted to her needing to be woke up! We’re all up now with Mom in the shower as she’s back at work today and the boys and I are watching some tv and playing on various computers (the boys, not me).

It’ll be 77 degrees today and we’re all really excited. The boys are planning on wearing shorts to school, first time all year! Grandma came over for dinner last night and I’m sorry to say, she will not be going to Durango and Telluride with us, we’re all disappointed but don’t want to push her into it. I told her she could just send her credit card instead and we’d take pictures of us with it at restaurants, shops, attractions, etc., so she could feel like she was there. Not sure if that’ll fly. Just for kicks, the misses and I drove up to Evergreen yesterday to check out the 35 foot 1989 Airstream trailer we found on Craigslist. Boy did it need some work, kind of gross inside. Now we’re not really planning on buying a trailer or rv of any kind (no $), but it’s fun to look.

Aunt Robbie commented yesterday (where are the rest of you?) that she was going to go to NY this summer and needed some miles, I told her we could help get her some cheap. That should be a fun trip for her but she should go before it gets too hot and sticky.

I think we’ll bbq this weekend and need to get our plans figured out. Anyhow, today we need to keep it short as lots to do so I need to sign off now. Sorry for such a brief post today but gotta go.

Almost forgot, the oldest brought home his Yearbook yesterday and it looks like Grandma and the youngest made it in as did the oldest and I,  and there’s lots of other pictures of both boys throughout. (it helps when your Mom is on the Yearbook committee)

Stay safe, stay out of trouble and God Bless, gotta run for today.

It’ll be a bit cloudy today but we have sun in the forecast for the foreseeable future, yea! This is also good news for those in the mid west as if we get sun (and no rain) they get sun and no tornados. Most if not all of the bad storms intensify as they come over the rockies and hit the warm air from the plains. By the time they get to Kansas, Oklahoma and other mid west states, they’ve gathered up so much strength that they become very dangerous. Yesterday after watching the news seeing the new round of storms in Oklahoma, I told the misses to call her mother as Aunt Myrna lives outside of Oklahoma City. Thankfully she’s ok and told Grandma Dixie she just went to her “hidee hole”. The misses says that when her husband built their house, her reinforced it with extra concrete and rebar. I’m sure glad we don’t live there! Grandma Dixie (from Oklahoma as you all know) says the most surreal thing is that after a tornado, none of the trees have any bark left on them. Anyhow, everyone needs to say a prayer for these people as many have lost loved ones or their homes and all of their belongings.

It’s almost summer! You see it officially kicks off around here as soon as the kids are out of school which is really this Friday. They do go for a half day next Tuesday but nothing gets done. Actually little gets done this entire week, lots of fun and games and just killing time. This summer we’re making a point of exploring our great state. We’re planning on heading down to the Durango and Telluride area which is very beautiful with lots of history. Not to mention that Ralph Lauren, Tom Cruise, Oprah and others all have ranches and homes there! It’s not easy to get to as it’s about a 7 hour drive to this part of the state. I think I can do it in just over 5 hours but the oldest one yesterday suggested we leave at 3 in the morning so he could sleep and we could arrive by mid morning. This way, according to him, he won’t waste a whole day in the car! Yesterday I suggested Grandma go with us but I think she thinks if she accepts the invitation, she’ll have to pay for everything! I told her she could leave her credit cards at home and then she laughed saying she wouldn’t feel safe without them. In all seriousness, I think she’d rather just stay home with Popcorn (her little Bijon) but we’re going to try to convince her to join us anyhow. She’s coming for dinner tonight so we’ll talk more then. (you see the misses and I need a babysitter to go with us so we can hit the town and leave the kids, and who better than Grandma!)

Lacey our lab has had her tooth extraction postponed until Friday. It seems they scheduled us for the operation today but the doctor had the day off. We had already started giving her the prescribed antibiotics and arranged to take her in and pick her up but now this all needs to be moved back two days.

We need to find a little extra cash and get to the store to buy the oldest one some new clothes. He’s grown out of just about everything he owns but this has turned into a treasure trove for the little one. He’s thrilled to get all his brothers hand me downs and covets some of the special shirts very much. I don’t remember getting any hand me downs as I was the oldest. Anyhow we have to get him some new duds, shirts, shorts and jeans, as he’s over 5 feet tall now. In fact both boys have grown a lot. It’s hard to see it when you see them everyday but those of you out of town would sure be surprised at how much they’ve grown, even in the past month!

Mom and the little one just came down and Mojo is climbing the window outside howling for his mother who he thinks is Mom. This is a daily ritual played out between him and her. I just made her get off the couch and go console him so he’ll stop whimpering. This dance is played out every morning culminating with doggie hugs and him coming in to join the family. Problem is as soon as he comes in, he usually wants right back out. I think he just wants to know he has the freedom or power to do and go wherever he wants. He usually snatches a kids toy or some socks and heads to the door trying to escape hoping no one will notice what he has in his mouth.

Well that’s all I got, as they say. It’s now 6:30 and time to start thinking about the day. There’s a pizza party at school today and favorite book day as well. Post a comment and let us know how you’re doing or better yet, what you’re doing this summer. Life is short, get out there and do something before time passes you by and you regret it.

Take care and God Bless,

Up early again this morning, I just fed the pups and am having some coffee and then I’ll be off to the gym. I enjoy being up this early as it’s so quiet and peaceful. Then you turn on the news and there it is, tornado’s, volcano’s, murder, infidelity, war, stealing, (by governments and people), mixed in with other assorted bits of bad news that has little to no bearing on our daily lives. I’ve always said, a channel that just shows good things happening is really needed.

Oh well, with bad news all the time, you kind of get desensitized to it all. Imagine if you had been in a coma since 1960 and just woke up! You would be stunned to say the least, enough said.

I just took a break to go to the gym for an hour to clear my head and workout. It’s now 6am and time to wake the misses. I swear, everyone in the family (except me) would sleep until noon if they could. I’m thinking of loading up the family for a mini trip to Mesa Verde or Santa Fe in a couple of weeks. I can get hotel rooms (since no one bought us an Airstream yesterday!) with points and the kids have been studying native americans so they’d get a kick out of the old ruins at Mesa Verde. I went there as a kid and have never forgot it. We need to do something to kick off the summer fun so if anyone as any suggestions (like buy us a freakin Airstream!) let us know. It’s supposed to be in the 80’s this weekend so maybe summer is here, let’s hope so. Half of our garden was destroyed by the rain and hail so we have a little bit of re-planting to do.

Hard to believe that there’s only a couple of days of school left. The oldest brought home his CSAP test scores (some worthless costly government mandated test for all kids) and he’s proficient or above in all areas. The youngest then proudly proclaimed that he’s a level 20 reader, which is 2 levels above where he should be at the end of first grade. Looks like we’re not that bad of parents after all, ha! Who knew! We (or I) need to go to Barnes and Noble today and get their Bridge Books (summer school books) before they’re all sold out. We don’t want to let them lose any of the knowledge they’ve learned over the summer!

The holiday weekend is fast approaching, need to make some plans. Mom works again today and Thursday and Saturday and then has about 6 days in a row off! This is good news as she’ll be around for the last day of school next Tuesday and the first few days of summer vacation. Tomorrow Lacey (our yellow lab) goes in for her tooth extraction, I’m sure she’ll be fine and we need to get it done but I’m not happy about another $250. I think a person can get a tooth pulled for much less!

I think the wife is in the shower but better go check as she has a knack for falling back asleep. I also need to get some breakfast going, maybe some eggs and toast. Bacon’s pretty much off the list as we used to microwave it and now are too lazy to cook it the old fashioned way and clean up all the grease that gets all over the stove. Oh well, maybe we’ll lose a few pounds!

The littlest one just came down politely asking if he could watch a kid show. Of course I said yes as we’re almost afraid to let them watch the news. So here comes Phineas and Ferb, one of my favorites too, so time to sign off.

Enjoy your day, be thankful for what you have and go out of your way to do something nice for someone, it’ll make you feel good and the World will be a better place for it!

God Bless and take care,

What a weekend, it was full of exercise and good times for the boys and I and culminated with our oldest ones championship football game yesterday that determined who plays for the title on June 5th. The team we played, we had played before, and beat. However they were really tough and it took overtime for us to pull out the victory. The game shouldn’t have been that close except a few questionable calls kept them in it. The first was when the ref let them “do over” a play after the other team was offsides and fumbled the snap. I’ve never seen anything like this, our offense was running out on the field and then stunned when the ref made this call. The second and more obvious blunder was after we threw for a touchdown with about 3 minutes left in the game. This would have put us up by two scores but after our player caught the ball and the celebration began, the opposing coach decided to yell at the ref, who was 40 yards away, telling him our guy was out of the end zone. Now these are 8 and 9 year old boys and the field has no lines but a few orange markers along the side lines. Anyhow the ref runs from 40 yards away, after all the players had run off the field, and lets the opposing coach show him where he said our player was. To everyones disbelief, he disallowed the touchdown! In other words he totally let the other coach make the call, and by the way, our guy WAS in! So the game ends with the score tied and the other team, by virtue of a coin toss, got the ball first. Each team was awarded one possession and they were on offense first. As it turns out (due to karma of course) we stopped them on 4 downs and scored on our first try with the ball. In the end all worked out well but it could have been really a bad ending to a great game due to the other coach essentially cheating, as everyone knew his delayed protest of our player being in bounds was a desperate last ditch attempt to keep his kids in the game. Lucky as I would have probably started saying something had we lost!

We arrived home around 3:30 and the boys played outside while I made dinner and did some laundry. Mom got home at 6:15 and we all sat down for baked potato’s, chicken and salad. The boys had a slice of blueberry pie which in hindsight was too much sugar right before bed but what are you going to do! Earlier in the day I let the oldest run some cherries up to my Moms that she wanted me to get at the grocery store. I had picked up two packs but when I got to the register I noticed it was $24 for cherries! I was stunned at the cost of two small, probably 1 pound bags of cherries. Anyhow I put our bag back and just picked up one for my Mom. $12 for a bag of cherries is too much of a luxury for us right now.

Mom’s in the shower and she leaves in about 30 minutes at 7am. I’ll need to get the kids up and fed and dressed and take them to school as she starts work at 7:15. It’s supposed to rain a bit today (again) and continue for the next 2 days. It sure is getting old but we can’t complain with tornado’s and floods everywhere else. The World didn’t end Saturday (thankfully) but there’s a lot of unusually bad weather everywhere this year. I have a big week of work with the holiday weekend coming up. Lacey goes in Wednesday to have her cracked tooth pulled and we still have no microwave, no surprise there!

Surfing around on the computer, we found a vintage 1964 Airstream trailer for sale on line for under $10,000. Now if you don’t know what an Airstream is, think back to the 60’s or go Google it. You see and old rv or motorhome is just an old rv or motorhome, but an old Airstream, it’s just vintage cool! It’s just a dream but boy would we like to have that! Can you see the four of us tooling down the highway pulling our shinny aluminum vintage trailer! It has 60″ colors inside and is really cool!  Maybe you all should pitch in so we could come visit you this summer, ha ha! Oh well, it sure is fun to imagine driving around the country in this thing.

Time to jump in the shower as it’s now 6:40. The oldest one is up and Mom is headed to Bunkie’s for his morning shot, I forgot she needs to leave earlier to do this. Hope everyone has a great day and until tomorrow, God Bless everyone.

Did anyone see the Colorado sky last night? It was about 8:30 and I was on my way home from work to make my way to L.O.L’s to administer Bunkie’s shot.  I couldn’t believe how truly amazing the night sky was. The clouds looked like Michael Angelo had reached out of the heavens and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel right here in Colorado. The background of the sky was a silver blue, the clouds were soft and fluffy colored with indigo on the bottoms that faded upward to a steel grey mixed with lavender and topped  off with a  thin stripe of rose….words can not describe how beautiful the night sky was.

After I went to work the “guys” had a great day together.  Dad took them to Boulder to the Farmers Market for veggies, multi colored popcorn, and of course a homemade blueberry pie.

The next stop for the boys was an Antique shop that carries old Navajo jewelry, rugs and pottery, a minor history lesson on Native Americans and the beautiful art they created. Then it was time for lunch, so the crew came in to buy hot dogs and buns for a picnic in the front yard.

The kiddos played outside after they returned home…from 1:00 to 8:00 with only a small break….10 minutes or so…then it was time for “Movie Night” with Dad.  The feature film was Gulliver’s Travels with Jack Black…and from what I understand it was quite funny.

Durring the kids playtime outside our oldest stuck up for one of the younger neighbors…you see another neighbor boy that is also 9 was picking on the 7 and 4 year olds…shooting them with nerf guns, throwing hard balls at the youngsters and just all around being mean. Our oldest told him to stop a few times and finally got right in his face and said, ” Hey, it’s not okay to pick on kids that are younger than you and you may not shoot girls, especially little girls ever”. His dad and I are quite proud of his sense of fairness and of course his grammar.

Anyway, tons of fun was had by all and they were quite wiped out when I got home. Our youngest…the usual early bird is still asleep and it’s almost 2 hours past his usual wake up time.

Today is the first flag football playoff game for our oldest, I am sad to be missing it and hope to be off next Sunday to watch the second playoff game. I guess he was throwing beautiful spirals in the front yard yesterday…I am sad to have missed that as well, but we need the extra $$ right now and I did make all of the field trips…hurray. I’ll have the mister film the game for me.

I am off to give the shot and then home to make breakfast and head out to work. Have a great day..

God Bless

LLF

Good morning…our youngest climbed into bed with us at midnight and proceeded to squirm, kick and flop around until 5:50a.m. when he exclaimed,”Mom, I am starving”. At that point I got up and put our little man in front of the boob tube with an “organic pop tart”. Not the best breakfast, but there is nothing artificial and no high fructose corn syrup. For those of you that are not familiar with high fructose corn syrup it is proven to damage the body….although corn producers are trying to now call it corn sugar…still bad…and of course the companies can say pretty much anything they want about their product until someone sues and proves otherwise. Anyway, google high fructose corn syrup and read for yourselves… Whole Foods has gone as far as to ban any product with high fructose corn syrup from the shelves and that is a pretty big statement.

We had an awesome “Day in Denver”. We started out at Larimer Square and began our scavenger hunt for historic buildings. Our group was small…just our son and one of his friends…the perfect size group…the Mister, myself and two boys…great ratio of parents to boys. We made our way down to the Oxford Hotel and treated the boys to Brunch and hot chocolate. After our tummies were satisfied we headed to Union Station. The kids had booklets to fill out along the way with questions about the buildings and what they noticed about architecture….we had 17 buildings to see on our tour. We finished off with the Capitol walking up and down all the stairs including the 61 steps up to the Dome. The views from the top were 360 degrees of pure Colorado beauty. We popped our heads in to see if the Governor was available to meet a couple of third graders, but he was out of the office….maybe he was touring NREL with V.P. Biden….Anyway, we made a quick pass through Civic Center Park to answer the last questions in the kids booklet…totally disgusting…urine on the steps and as sad as I feel for the homeless people residing there…maybe a tree would be a better option. We made our way over to the Library for drinks and snacks and sat outside to enjoy the weather and crane watching…major construction was going on across the street with 3 of 4 cranes all working at the same time….very interesting for 9 year old boys!! We then made our way back to the bus for a not so quiet ride back to school….needless to say all of the kids had a great “Day in Denver”.

Dad went to the gym this morning. I’ll take a run when he returns…then I am off to make 7 more invitations for L.O.L.’s 90th birthday party…Grandma, Uncle T. and Auntie B. yours are on the way…Saturday June 4th at her house from 2-4. We will get the critters…little boys included a walk this morning.

I work today and I think Dad is taking the boys to Boulder and then I don’t know what the plan for the day is….I am sure it will be something fun.

The youngest is still starving, so I am off to make a smoothie, flat white eggs and toast….here comes the oldest….have a great day!!!
God Bless
LLF

Today’s the big field trip. Mom and I both arranged for the day off to be Team leaders for our oldest ones group. Before we get to the days activities, I have to tell you about the littlest ones performance in the 1st and 2nd grade play last night. All the kids were dressed up as dinosaurs and sang and performed for about 25 minutes. The youngest was smack dab in the middle of the whole group giving us a good view. We arrived about an hour early and were still about 6 rows back in the crowd. There we so many people I’m sure it violated some sort of fire code. We managed to record the performance on our dvd recorder and have to get everyone a copy. The littlest one was so cute bopping back and forth singing songs and acting out his rehearsed hand gestures with a foot tall dinosaur head on top of his head which was part of his full body costume. All you could see was his little face sticking out signing away. 5 minutes into it, it was getting really hot in the gym. Between songs all the kids were fanning themselves, it’s a wonder no one fainted. Anyhow it was a great show, one of those magical moments in a parents life that you’ll always remember, and we were really proud of him.

Now to the Day in Denver. The oldest is having a mini fit right now as we’re out of Honey Nut Cherrios and he has to have the ones not coated in sugar. We need to nip this mini event in the bud so it doesn’t ruin the day. We need to be at school by 8:45 and should be home by 2pm. We have a map that we follow that takes us through many of the most historical buildings in downtown over a 4 hour period. It should be some good exercise and very entertaining, for kids and adults. This event goes on rain or shine and thankfully the sun is out right now, let’s hope it holds out as we can’t handle anymore rain.

Our yellow lab goes in for a tooth extraction next Wednesday. Yesterday both pups went in for shots and check ups (to the tune of $250!) and we have about another $250 coming up with the coming procedure, but what can you do, you have to take care of your pets. Still no microwave and we’re slowly adapting to life without the modern convenience of instant heat. Who knows how long we’ll go without getting this fixed, I’m betting on early 2012 before we’re back up and running with a wave!

Mom starts her marathon work week tomorrow, I think she works 8 out of the next 9 days, so much for part time. Yesterday she put in another 2 hours cleaning L.O.L. house (that about 5 hours this week) as her house is full of dust and clutter and Mom makes $15 per hour. It’s a win win for both as L.O.L. gets some long overdue cleaning and company and the misses gets a few extra bucks which always helps. I’m glad L.O.L. suggested this as the wife would have probably ended up cleaning anyhow to help her out, for no money.

The oldest is still melting down which isn’t a good sign, must not have had enough sleep. Time to go as we leave in less than an hour. I’m so sick of seeing the news consumed with the french guy who supposedly assaulted a hotel worker and Arnold who fathered some love child while married, what in the hell is going on. I know this stuff happens all the time, but the media just milks every situation for all it can. There’s many more pressing issues the World faces rather than sex scandals, give it a rest already. Just my opinion.

So until tomorrow, take care and God Bless,

Yesterday was quite the weather day. We had hard rain that turned to hard hail, some wind and a bunch of flooding around the neighborhood. It started right when the kids got out of school at 12:15. I was standing outside waiting for them at 12:10 and by the time the bell rang at 12:15, we had to run for the truck. When we got home it was coming down so hard that we all got soaked trying to move some plants (the ones in containers) closer to the house. Then the hail started, and it kept going for a good 30 minutes. After the hail we had about a 15 minute break and then the rain was back. I had to grab a shovel and go dig some trenches to divert the water away from the house. There was so much water the ground couldn’t soak it up anymore. Finally this morning it’s dry, however it’s supposed to start up again around noon. This whole system is supposed to move out by Saturday. They say this is the wettest May on record and I think we’ve had about 5 or 6 inches so far. Oh well, at least things should grow when it all stops.

The boys did their homework and then watched a movie while I worked. Mom arrived home from her Open House around 2pm. It was a pretty good afternoon and evening with not a lot going on. I woke up early today and made breakfast for Mom and the boys. The littlest one and I picked up some cinnamon rolls yesterday at the store so I threw those in the oven around 6:30 while I made some “flat white eggs” and set the table. Our microwave finally bit the dust. It was starting to go on by itself and we were afraid it might blow up or something. Then it just quit altogether and lost all power. Funny as it’s only been one night and a morning, but we really had become dependent on it. We’ve all gone to it at least 2 or 3 times only to remember, it’s gone. How would we do with no power if we can’t get along without a little microwave, probably not too well.

Mom’s off to the vet for shots with both dogs and I’m waiting for the Door Company to get here as they’re installing a new deadbolt and fixing the weather stripping from when they put in our new backdoor a few months ago. Then I need to run to the distributor to meet with the General Manager and pick up some samples. Tonight is the World Premier of the youngest ones first grade play. I think we need to be there at 6 to get a good seat and it starts at 7. Then tomorrow is the oldest ones field trip which is “A Day in Denver”. The kids are all split up into small groups and paired up with parents and they have a guide book “guiding” them through all the historical places in downtown Denver. The bus leaves about 9:45am and returns to school around 2pm. I hope it doesn’t rain as Mom and I are leading a group. I also volunteered to be one of two emergency contacts meaning I drive our car and stage it and one end of town and then if anyone gets sick or hurt, they call my cell (if there closest to me) and I drive them back to the school. Hope no one gets ill so I don’t have to leave in the middle of the day.

Uncle T has a lot of work going on down at his house. I can see new sod going in but am not sure of what else he’s doing. Whatever it is I’m sure it’ll be nice.

Yesterday I had my annual physical (hadn’t been for 2 years this time) and thankfully I’m in great shape with no problems. You never really know how you’re really doing until you get the results of your blood tests that show all the numbers of what’s going on inside your body. Looks like I’m good to go for another year. Everyone out there needs to make sure you stay up on your check ups. Better to go in regularly than wait until something gets so bad you have to go in.

Well time to go, I have to finish up early today for the big play so I need to get moving. Hope everyone is doing well and that you all have a great day.

God Bless,

Good morning…it rained in the late afternoon yesterday and through the night with more to come today. The good news is everything is lush and growing well without much attention. We had a brief thunder storm accompanied by a few flashes of lightning which are two of my favorite things during the month of May

The boys have early release today and that means Dad will have to pick them up at 12:15 and try to occupy them for the rest of the day until I return from the open house I am doing from 11-2. I am sure that they will come up with something fun…La Crosse, Football, Tag…depending on the weather.

I didn’t get my whole run in yesterday, so I will double it today. I did get the house clean…minus the destruction zone under the boys bed. I also finished two rooms thoroughly…top to bottom…walls and floors included at L.O.L.’s…I’ll try to do some more at her house today or tomorrow.

The boys chose dinner last night. English muffins with poached eggs, bacon, and good old white american cheese melted on top. At least they ate…the oldest had two and the youngest ate one….reluctantly…because his brother showed him the yellow part of the egg. The yellow part of the egg is something that the youngest will not eat…so, for you aunts, uncles, grandmas, and friends that may need to prepare eggs for him… he only eats flat white eggs at this point in his life. That means you spray the pan with pam, separate the the egg so only the white ends up in the pan..cook, flip and serve. I sneak the yolk into his french toast,, so it doesn’t go to waste.

The boys played outside for almost 2 hours after dinner and fell asleep fairly easily. The youngest once again slept the entire night in his own bed. Hurray!!

When the boys were leaving for school yesterday we think our missing kitty came home. Memorial Day weekend will mark 2 years. Anyway, Dad yelled in to the house that Budley had returned…I immediately ran out of the house to see, and I think it may be Budley…a little bigger…maybe from being an indoor cat down the street and living the “High Life”. She is gone today, but I hope she returns today. I’ll say another prayer for my kitty to return if that is God’s plan. You’re all welcome to join me.

I have to make breakfast for the masses…have an enjoyable day

God Bless
LLF