We were up too late last night and the kids were definitely showing it today. Emma wants a hamster and Gage wants a rat terrier dog, like Friday in the movie Hotel for Dogs. I told them both they are sure welcome to have them as soon as they have their own homes! I'm so tired of taking care of animals and amphibians that there is no way in the world I will buy any more! They just don't get it.
Gage's basketball team did pretty good this morning. They made quite a few baskets, but because they don't keep score, I don't know how many points they had.
We finally got my car cleaned out. It was so terrible that I couldn't even stand being in it! It was almost as bad as the "Mom my Ride" van!
It's been pretty boring around here because I can't think of anything else to blog about.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
First day of spring break
We had a pretty low-key sort of day today. We did take a little trip to Barnes & Noble and had some fun looking at books and buying too many of them! I have a weakness for books as many of you know and when Gage or Emma comes asking if they can have a book, it's hard to say no. I also found a new book out by John Grisham. He's one of my favorite authors and it seems like it has been a long time since he's had a new book out. It's called The Associate.
We got to eat supper at my favorite place, China Garden. I always order the same thing and so do the kids. I love having leftovers for lunch the next day. I'll have to make some macaroni and cheese so the kids won't want their leftover Chinese food! :-)
It was a nice day here today. Nice days = melting snow. I can't imagine how long it is going to take to melt all of this snow. I'll bet we still have some of these big drifts around in May.
Gage has been wanting to learn how to play chess. I have never learned how and have never really cared to. I guess it has always intimidated me. I didn't even know that Scott knows how to play chess until not too long ago. Gage has a DS game that has chess on it and he has been learning how to play. Today while we were at B & N they had a No Stress Chess game that Gage was wanting. You can play it 2 ways, like real chess and the no stress way. The no stress version has cards that you draw that tell you which chess piece to move and it shows you how those pieces move. After you play it awhile, you begin to memorize the moves each piece can make and eventually will get to where you can play the real game. I was amazed at how much of it Gage already understands! Of course when we were playing he didn't tell me of some of the rules until after I either lost a piece or he won. LOL! He was teaching Emma how to play and it was funny listening to them. He was quite astonished when Emma took his queen!
Gage has a basketball game in the morning at the YMCA. All of his games start at 8:30 so there will be no sleeping in on Saturdays for a few weeks. I did get to sleep in until 9 this morning though, so that was nice.
We got to eat supper at my favorite place, China Garden. I always order the same thing and so do the kids. I love having leftovers for lunch the next day. I'll have to make some macaroni and cheese so the kids won't want their leftover Chinese food! :-)
It was a nice day here today. Nice days = melting snow. I can't imagine how long it is going to take to melt all of this snow. I'll bet we still have some of these big drifts around in May.
Gage has been wanting to learn how to play chess. I have never learned how and have never really cared to. I guess it has always intimidated me. I didn't even know that Scott knows how to play chess until not too long ago. Gage has a DS game that has chess on it and he has been learning how to play. Today while we were at B & N they had a No Stress Chess game that Gage was wanting. You can play it 2 ways, like real chess and the no stress way. The no stress version has cards that you draw that tell you which chess piece to move and it shows you how those pieces move. After you play it awhile, you begin to memorize the moves each piece can make and eventually will get to where you can play the real game. I was amazed at how much of it Gage already understands! Of course when we were playing he didn't tell me of some of the rules until after I either lost a piece or he won. LOL! He was teaching Emma how to play and it was funny listening to them. He was quite astonished when Emma took his queen!
Gage has a basketball game in the morning at the YMCA. All of his games start at 8:30 so there will be no sleeping in on Saturdays for a few weeks. I did get to sleep in until 9 this morning though, so that was nice.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Spring break
Tomorrow starts our spring break with our first day off of school. There will be no school on Monday either, so we're hoping for a nice, long, 4-day weekend. It's looking like the weather is going to warm up a bit, so that will be nice. I am ready for some nice weather; however, I hate the mess that comes with it. It will be a prolonged mess this year since it will take forever for all of this snow to melt.
Apparently I didn't do so well in the American Idol contest that Warford Orthodontics is putting on. They posted the results for week 1 on their website. There are 3 people tied for 1st place and 5 people tied for 2nd place. I'm in the 2nd place bunch. However, there are only 13 people that voted this week. I may need to consult with some of you American Idol fans! First place wins an Apple iPod Touch and 2nd place wins an Apple iPod Shuffle. I already have an iPod Shuffle, so I would like to get the iPod Touch! :-)
We don't have any big Spring Break weekend plans. I'm so tired today that all I want to do is nothing. Maybe I'll have a little more energy in tomorrow. A girl can always dream, can't she?
Apparently I didn't do so well in the American Idol contest that Warford Orthodontics is putting on. They posted the results for week 1 on their website. There are 3 people tied for 1st place and 5 people tied for 2nd place. I'm in the 2nd place bunch. However, there are only 13 people that voted this week. I may need to consult with some of you American Idol fans! First place wins an Apple iPod Touch and 2nd place wins an Apple iPod Shuffle. I already have an iPod Shuffle, so I would like to get the iPod Touch! :-)
We don't have any big Spring Break weekend plans. I'm so tired today that all I want to do is nothing. Maybe I'll have a little more energy in tomorrow. A girl can always dream, can't she?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
In case you didn't know..........
This is a note to my dear, loving husband.
Dearest Scott,
Perhaps you didn't know, despite being printed on our monthly water bill AND being talked about on the local news, that it is actually illegal to shovel your snow into the street. I understand that you aren't the one who takes care of paying the bills each month, so I will let the fact that you probably haven't read that slide. It is also possible that you were traveling the nights that they have mentioned this on the local news each winter for the past 6 years. I suppose it is also possible that you weren't listening the past 6 winters when I have possibly mentioned this little piece of information.
Don't get me wrong, I am quite grateful that you attempted to remove the snow from our driveway in the 45 minutes you had after getting home from work, eating supper and getting to the airport to catch your delayed flight to Minneapolis last night. While you were out there working up a sweat in the below-zero wind chills, I felt quite loved.
There is actually one more reason, that I am now aware of, why you shouldn't shovel your snow into the street at the end of your driveway, other than the fact that it is illegal. If you happen to be driving an FUV (family utility vehicle) instead of an SUV (sport utility vehicle), it is quite possible you might get stuck! I'm not sure what would have been easier. Shoveling the driveway myself, trying to heave the snow over the 5 foot (or perhaps even taller) snow drifts on either side of the driveway or shoveling the snow from beneath our FUV that is buried, in snow, at the end of the driveway? I wasn't feeling quite as loved this morning as I was yesterday evening. You might not have been feeling the love this morning either.
However, I don't want to worry you, because I actually was able to get our FUV removed from the pile of snow it was stuck in. Thankfully, on the one day (out of maybe a handful of days) that I decided to drive the kids to school, we were out the door early enough to have time for a little "fun in the snow". We were also early enough that we were able to flag down the neighbors so Gage could catch a ride to school with them in case our "frolic in the snow" might take too long. Unfortunately we broke the law a second time as there was only enough room for Gage to sit on the lap of his 9 year old buddy. I'm sure that was a fun, and memorable, ride to school. I do believe that Gage probably enjoyed that, perhaps even more than Erik did.
So, in case you didn't know that pushing the snow to the end of the driveway (a.k.a. in the street) was illegal, and bothersome to those who drive FUV's, now you do!
With much love,
Stacy
Dearest Scott,
Perhaps you didn't know, despite being printed on our monthly water bill AND being talked about on the local news, that it is actually illegal to shovel your snow into the street. I understand that you aren't the one who takes care of paying the bills each month, so I will let the fact that you probably haven't read that slide. It is also possible that you were traveling the nights that they have mentioned this on the local news each winter for the past 6 years. I suppose it is also possible that you weren't listening the past 6 winters when I have possibly mentioned this little piece of information.
Don't get me wrong, I am quite grateful that you attempted to remove the snow from our driveway in the 45 minutes you had after getting home from work, eating supper and getting to the airport to catch your delayed flight to Minneapolis last night. While you were out there working up a sweat in the below-zero wind chills, I felt quite loved.
There is actually one more reason, that I am now aware of, why you shouldn't shovel your snow into the street at the end of your driveway, other than the fact that it is illegal. If you happen to be driving an FUV (family utility vehicle) instead of an SUV (sport utility vehicle), it is quite possible you might get stuck! I'm not sure what would have been easier. Shoveling the driveway myself, trying to heave the snow over the 5 foot (or perhaps even taller) snow drifts on either side of the driveway or shoveling the snow from beneath our FUV that is buried, in snow, at the end of the driveway? I wasn't feeling quite as loved this morning as I was yesterday evening. You might not have been feeling the love this morning either.
However, I don't want to worry you, because I actually was able to get our FUV removed from the pile of snow it was stuck in. Thankfully, on the one day (out of maybe a handful of days) that I decided to drive the kids to school, we were out the door early enough to have time for a little "fun in the snow". We were also early enough that we were able to flag down the neighbors so Gage could catch a ride to school with them in case our "frolic in the snow" might take too long. Unfortunately we broke the law a second time as there was only enough room for Gage to sit on the lap of his 9 year old buddy. I'm sure that was a fun, and memorable, ride to school. I do believe that Gage probably enjoyed that, perhaps even more than Erik did.
So, in case you didn't know that pushing the snow to the end of the driveway (a.k.a. in the street) was illegal, and bothersome to those who drive FUV's, now you do!
With much love,
Stacy
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
I LOVE MELATONIN!
I need to go to bed. Since the time change I have not been wanting to get out of bed in the morning. It's still fairly dark and it's great sleeping weather! So, I'm going to blog quickly.
First of all I LOVE MELATONIN! Man, it's like a miracle drug. Although it's not actually a "drug". I gave Emma her 1/4 tablet tonight and she was asleep 30 minutes later. She actually took the pill willingly tonight too. We talked about it this morning when we were eating breakfast. I wanted to know how she felt. She said she felt awake and not tired feeling. It seriously is a miracle that Emma is going to sleep so easily. Unfortunately we still had a little battle this morning over her hair because she had pictures at school today. She won. I did it like she wanted and told her if they turned out bad I just wouldn't buy them. After talking with Emily on the phone this morning, I decided that I would buy them and I will be sure to tell the story in her scrapbook! Hopefully it didn't look as bad during the pictures as it did when she got home after school. Her hair is just so slow growing and her bangs are not long enough yet to stay in her ponytail. That's how she always wants to wear it now, then we use barrettes to keep the sides up. The barrettes slide out of place and are often just hanging by a few hairs when she gets home and I just didn't think that would be the best hairdo for pictures. However, I just thought about it being the class photo day as well, so if she has bad hair, all of her classmates will enjoy the picture as well! :-)
When it comes to contests, I am in! I don't know why, but a contest can motivate me like nothing else. I needed to get into the Biggest Loser weight loss challenge at school but I didn't rank high enough on the totem pole to get asked to enter. Warford Orthodontics is having an American Idol contest. I enjoy watching American Idol, but sometimes I forget it's on because we don't watch too many things on Fox. I didn't forget it was on tonight though because I am all over the contest. :-) The winner gets an iPod touch. Tonight we had to vote on 1) who we think is going to win the contest 2) the 4 idols we think will be in the top 4 3) the 6 idols we think will be in the Top 6 4) the idol(s) we think will get voted off and 5) the 3 idols we think will be in the bottom 3. They will be doing this every week until the show is over and whoever has the most points at the end wins. I just emailed my choices and I hope I earn a lot of points tonight. As I said, it only takes a little competition to get me motivated. Thanks for your help Kysa! I'll share the iPod touch with you when we visit! :-)
We got 3.75 inches of snow. Thankfully I got Scott to shovel it before he left on his overnight trip to Minneapolis. His flight was delayed quite a bit and he didn't get there until just a little while ago. The interstate has been closed from Jamestown to Fargo and there have been many other roads closed within that area. We didn't get hit quite as bad as they did. Gage was THRILLED to death when we were on our way out of the school and it just dawned on me that I had driven to school this morning. We all enjoyed our ride home in the blowing snow with negative temps!
I haven't heard from Mom, Dad or Jari Jo yet as to whether her test went okay or not. Jari Jo forgot her cell phone and I don't think Mom's was on? I called tonight to see if they were home, but I'm guessing they stopped off for more pie at Perkins and a pit stop at the casino. At least that's what I'm praying they did!! If they did that, it means Mom must not have been feeling too bad. Give me the update Jari or Mom, whoever reads this first! Love you all!
Sorry. The post wasn't as quick as I thought it would be!
First of all I LOVE MELATONIN! Man, it's like a miracle drug. Although it's not actually a "drug". I gave Emma her 1/4 tablet tonight and she was asleep 30 minutes later. She actually took the pill willingly tonight too. We talked about it this morning when we were eating breakfast. I wanted to know how she felt. She said she felt awake and not tired feeling. It seriously is a miracle that Emma is going to sleep so easily. Unfortunately we still had a little battle this morning over her hair because she had pictures at school today. She won. I did it like she wanted and told her if they turned out bad I just wouldn't buy them. After talking with Emily on the phone this morning, I decided that I would buy them and I will be sure to tell the story in her scrapbook! Hopefully it didn't look as bad during the pictures as it did when she got home after school. Her hair is just so slow growing and her bangs are not long enough yet to stay in her ponytail. That's how she always wants to wear it now, then we use barrettes to keep the sides up. The barrettes slide out of place and are often just hanging by a few hairs when she gets home and I just didn't think that would be the best hairdo for pictures. However, I just thought about it being the class photo day as well, so if she has bad hair, all of her classmates will enjoy the picture as well! :-)
When it comes to contests, I am in! I don't know why, but a contest can motivate me like nothing else. I needed to get into the Biggest Loser weight loss challenge at school but I didn't rank high enough on the totem pole to get asked to enter. Warford Orthodontics is having an American Idol contest. I enjoy watching American Idol, but sometimes I forget it's on because we don't watch too many things on Fox. I didn't forget it was on tonight though because I am all over the contest. :-) The winner gets an iPod touch. Tonight we had to vote on 1) who we think is going to win the contest 2) the 4 idols we think will be in the top 4 3) the 6 idols we think will be in the Top 6 4) the idol(s) we think will get voted off and 5) the 3 idols we think will be in the bottom 3. They will be doing this every week until the show is over and whoever has the most points at the end wins. I just emailed my choices and I hope I earn a lot of points tonight. As I said, it only takes a little competition to get me motivated. Thanks for your help Kysa! I'll share the iPod touch with you when we visit! :-)
We got 3.75 inches of snow. Thankfully I got Scott to shovel it before he left on his overnight trip to Minneapolis. His flight was delayed quite a bit and he didn't get there until just a little while ago. The interstate has been closed from Jamestown to Fargo and there have been many other roads closed within that area. We didn't get hit quite as bad as they did. Gage was THRILLED to death when we were on our way out of the school and it just dawned on me that I had driven to school this morning. We all enjoyed our ride home in the blowing snow with negative temps!
I haven't heard from Mom, Dad or Jari Jo yet as to whether her test went okay or not. Jari Jo forgot her cell phone and I don't think Mom's was on? I called tonight to see if they were home, but I'm guessing they stopped off for more pie at Perkins and a pit stop at the casino. At least that's what I'm praying they did!! If they did that, it means Mom must not have been feeling too bad. Give me the update Jari or Mom, whoever reads this first! Love you all!
Sorry. The post wasn't as quick as I thought it would be!
Monday, March 9, 2009
Grace
Today has not been one of my most graceful days. This morning after the kids were at school and before I had to go to work, I was going down to the basement to put a load of clothes in the dryer. On my way down, I took a tumble. It was dark and I thought I was at the bottom, but I had one more step to go. Oh man did that hurt! Thankfully I landed on my knees instead of my face, but it was close. I totally jarred my neck and my back and have been quite sore this evening. I was most upset about burning the knee of my pants. Apparently there was quite a bit of friction between my knee and the concrete floor! Thankfully there is no hole because it's one of my favorite pair of pants. Maybe I can take a black sharpie marker and color it back to black instead of the brownish-gray color it is. I have certainly not been known for my grace! It carried on through until tonight while we were playing volleyball. Thankfully we won 2 out of 3 matches, but it wasn't because of anything I did, that's for sure!
Gage had basketball practice after school and then we had our last gymnastics class of the session. I decided not to sign neither Gage or Emma up for the next session of gymnastics. I have Emma signed up for spring soccer and I'm sure the 2 would end up overlapping, like basketball and gymnastics have for the last 3 weeks. She isn't very happy with me because she really likes it. She said to me, "But Mom, I want to get good at it like those big girls!" I did feel bad, but I think we'll be okay waiting until the fall sessions to start back up.
Tonight after supper, I could tell it was going to be "one of those nights". Emma was being a little obstinate and I just knew she was never going to go to sleep. I have been asking Scott to read about melatonin use in children for a couple of days without much luck. I decided that I would split the 3mg tablet into fourths. Scott was confident that wouldn't do anything and she was being a booger about taking the medicine. She said she would take it if I took some. Well, knowing I had volleyball tonight, I knew I better not. Since Scott was so confident that a fourth of a pill wasn't going to do anything, he took one so she would. We put the kids in bed and I read to Gage while Scott read to Emma. When I came out of Gage's room and peeked into Emma's, it looked to me like she was having a hard time keeping her eyes open while Scott was reading. She was out like a light within about 20 minutes after taking the quarter of a pill. Okay, I've been worried about it and wondering if I should. However, it worked so well that I want to give this stuff a try. I'm going to link a few of the sites I've read for you to look at so you can give me your opinion. Click here and here and here and here and here. I'm sure you won't have enough time to read all of those, or maybe you could do your own seach about melatonin use in children and let me know what you find. I don't know why I feel like I'm doing something illegal because Emma's pediatrician suggested we try this and I trust her whole-heartedly. I'd just like someone to do a little reading and give me your opinion. Scott read a little this evening after Emma went to sleep so easily, but he didn't specifically read about it's use in children. Maybe he did while I was at volleyball? Or, maybe the quarter of a pill he took to get Emma to take hers had him out like a light as well? Maybe I'll start slipping a little melatonin into everyone's supper? :-)
Tomorrow morning my Mom is scheduled for her cardiac stress test. Please know, Mom, that I am thinking about you and praying everything goes well. I know it will. I wish I could be there. Let me know how it goes. We'll be home after school and have no activities planned for the evening. We love you!
Gage had basketball practice after school and then we had our last gymnastics class of the session. I decided not to sign neither Gage or Emma up for the next session of gymnastics. I have Emma signed up for spring soccer and I'm sure the 2 would end up overlapping, like basketball and gymnastics have for the last 3 weeks. She isn't very happy with me because she really likes it. She said to me, "But Mom, I want to get good at it like those big girls!" I did feel bad, but I think we'll be okay waiting until the fall sessions to start back up.
Tonight after supper, I could tell it was going to be "one of those nights". Emma was being a little obstinate and I just knew she was never going to go to sleep. I have been asking Scott to read about melatonin use in children for a couple of days without much luck. I decided that I would split the 3mg tablet into fourths. Scott was confident that wouldn't do anything and she was being a booger about taking the medicine. She said she would take it if I took some. Well, knowing I had volleyball tonight, I knew I better not. Since Scott was so confident that a fourth of a pill wasn't going to do anything, he took one so she would. We put the kids in bed and I read to Gage while Scott read to Emma. When I came out of Gage's room and peeked into Emma's, it looked to me like she was having a hard time keeping her eyes open while Scott was reading. She was out like a light within about 20 minutes after taking the quarter of a pill. Okay, I've been worried about it and wondering if I should. However, it worked so well that I want to give this stuff a try. I'm going to link a few of the sites I've read for you to look at so you can give me your opinion. Click here and here and here and here and here. I'm sure you won't have enough time to read all of those, or maybe you could do your own seach about melatonin use in children and let me know what you find. I don't know why I feel like I'm doing something illegal because Emma's pediatrician suggested we try this and I trust her whole-heartedly. I'd just like someone to do a little reading and give me your opinion. Scott read a little this evening after Emma went to sleep so easily, but he didn't specifically read about it's use in children. Maybe he did while I was at volleyball? Or, maybe the quarter of a pill he took to get Emma to take hers had him out like a light as well? Maybe I'll start slipping a little melatonin into everyone's supper? :-)
Tomorrow morning my Mom is scheduled for her cardiac stress test. Please know, Mom, that I am thinking about you and praying everything goes well. I know it will. I wish I could be there. Let me know how it goes. We'll be home after school and have no activities planned for the evening. We love you!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Spring forward
I have not been too springy today, that's for sure. That one hour of lost sleep feels like 8! I think I am going to make this short and see if I can make up for that lost hour tonight.
They are calling for 6-12 inches of snow here in the next 24-48 hours! As if we don't already have enough. I get to work in the library all this week, so am excited about that. Juanita is back but Jan is in Mexico with her hubby this week so I get to fill in! It's a short week with our spring break starting on Friday. We'll also have Monday off. What a spring break! They should postpone it until it actually feels like spring!
I did not give Emma the melatonin tonight. I was reading about it on several different web-sites and it appears to be controversial when given to kids who don't have neurological impairment, such as autism, or even ADHD. Has anyone ever heard about this controversial subject? If you have, I'd like to hear what you know about it. Apparently there haven't been any long term studies melatonin and normal kids. As I understand it, it shouldn't be given for long periods of time, just a few weeks to get them into a normal sleep/wake schedule. She was having problems getting to sleep tonight which makes me want to give it to her to see if it will help, but I don't want to give it to her if it's going to have any harmful effects. What's your opinion?
They are calling for 6-12 inches of snow here in the next 24-48 hours! As if we don't already have enough. I get to work in the library all this week, so am excited about that. Juanita is back but Jan is in Mexico with her hubby this week so I get to fill in! It's a short week with our spring break starting on Friday. We'll also have Monday off. What a spring break! They should postpone it until it actually feels like spring!
I did not give Emma the melatonin tonight. I was reading about it on several different web-sites and it appears to be controversial when given to kids who don't have neurological impairment, such as autism, or even ADHD. Has anyone ever heard about this controversial subject? If you have, I'd like to hear what you know about it. Apparently there haven't been any long term studies melatonin and normal kids. As I understand it, it shouldn't be given for long periods of time, just a few weeks to get them into a normal sleep/wake schedule. She was having problems getting to sleep tonight which makes me want to give it to her to see if it will help, but I don't want to give it to her if it's going to have any harmful effects. What's your opinion?
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