Catching up!

Wow, I haven't posted in a long time... I'm not going to stress over it, though. Just figured a quick catch-up is in order...

Last weekend, my eye hurt... felt like something in it Friday AM, by Friday night it was painful. Saturday AM called the doc office, was told go to the ER so they could check it out. Got antibiotic eye ointment, and painkillers, and told to follow up with opthamologist on Monday. It was hurting Sunday - when I went in on Monday, (got an 8:20 appt! - YAY!) she said it wasn't healing well, was bumpy - so she smoothed it... rescratched it, basically. But it felt better right away (ok, the anesthetic eye drops might have helped!), and then was healed up overnight. I'm still doing the eye ointment, but other than that, all is good now. But it definitely meant much less computer for a while!!!

Today I have been trying to get this house back in order... last weekend was a loss as far as getting stuff done around here. Today I got the kitchen back in order, got to the dump with a TRUNKFUL of trash, and a BACK SEAT full of recycleables... good to get all that stuff out of the back hall! Now just to take in the two or three bags of returnable cans/bottles, and we will be good!

Teresa had company today, Danny came over to work on their school project together. Sue, Carmen, and TJ came over this afternoon for hot chocolate after they shovelled their camp roof off. TJ, Danny, Teresa, and Phillip played Clue and Life and Rummikube and Shrek Operation - they had a great time together!

I took the boys home, and Bob suggested I bring chinese home for supper. That made supper easy! :) Now I need to fold some laundry, finish picking up the newspaper clutter that I have all over the house .... I was having trouble reading the newspaper, too, but I hate to throw them out without at least scanning through to see important stuff... so I picked up a bunch today, scanned, and tossed. I think there's one or two more in the den, though. But I like to toss them all before I read Saturday/Sunday papers with the ads - gotta get the old ads thrown out so I don't get confused! :)

I have also joined Facebook... so feel free to check it out, and become my friend. :) Main reason I am using it -- because sooner or later the kids will be using it, so I need to know my way around it! But so far, I am enjoying it...

Math Meet pic

Despite all the excitement about the Rambler Revue on Friday night and Saturday night, that wasn't all that Teresa did this past weekend. She also participated in a Math Meet at Gardiner middle school. Their team did awesome!

This is Teresa, between matches - doing the puzzles in my newspaper! Nothing like a little relaxation...

Today I posted a video on YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOCWrI7PJCI

It isn't from the live show, I didn't want to mess with the camera during the show, instead I taped her performance at the dress rehearsal.

If you search for "Rambler Revue" you may also turn up some videos posted by other people!

Rambler Revue

Teresa performed in the Rambler Revue again tonight! It went VERY well, for Teresa, and for all the other performers, too. I think many of them did even better tonight than last night!

Teresa was fun to watch - she did a fun song, the Jonas Brothers version of "What I Go To School For".

It was hard to get photos, since it was pretty dark... here's one...

Now to get everyone rested up and back on schedule... it was another late night tonight, almost 10PM when Phillip went to bed, and 10:30 for Teresa!

Math Meet!

Teresa had a math meet today - so I dropped her at school at 7:00 AM (!!!) so she could ride the bus with the team. I drove separately, it was at Gardiner Middle School, about a half-hour from here.

They did great -- missed on the first round, but it's double elimination, and they just kept on winning after that, right up until they met the same team again, once that team had lost once.

I don't know how these kids keep all this stuff in their brains, and pull it out in time to answer the questions! Math meets are interesting. There are three rounds, each one is different. Teresa was in round 1 & 2 for the first couple of matches, but then in round 2 & 3 in the later ones, so she got to do a little of everything. Only 3 kids at a time are playing, they have 6 on their team, so they swap out.

That's not a bad day... except that last night, Teresa had her first Rambler Revue performance, and has another one tonight... so it makes it a busy weekend. And right now, we're off to church because she's an altar server today. Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Joyce (Grandma's sister) were here for tea earlier this afternoon, now they are headed back south to MA before the snow hits. They came up to go to the Rambler Revue last night!

I will post again later, hopefully with pics of the peformance! But I thought I should post now, since I have missed the past couple of days!

Tree is still up...

It is the Twelfth Day of Christmas, and our tree is still up.

Oh, well, it's pretty!

I managed to get a lot of stuff done around here today. Unfortunately, it's mostly paperwork, and the result is a full trashcan, which doesn't really make the place LOOK much better!

Teresa had her rehearsal for the Rambler Revue tonight, on the stage, even. Phillip and I watched - she's gotten pretty good, with all this rehearsing! I'm impressed! I am looking forward to the show on Friday and Saturday, I think she will do great!

Snow is predicted for tomorrow... Snow, I can handle. Sleet, though, will really be a bummer. I hope that school isn't cancelled!!!!!!

Back to routine!

Today was a good day. It seemed VERY LONG, though, all of us agree. Good to be back in the routine - but hard to get everything done that we needed to!

Kids did get their homework done after school tonight, BEFORE any computer time! :) I got a bunch of things done today, but there sure are lot still on my list!!!

Nothing very exciting to report, I'm afraid...

:)

Do You See What They See?

So, here Teresa and Phillip are looking at the tree with Jubilee Specs - special glasses, like 3-d glasses, except that they make bright points of light look like stars.

They were a gift to us several years ago, and we keep them with our Christmas stuff because the kids love them.




So I had to experiment - see what a picture would look like, if I took it through one of the lenses.

It actually came out pretty well!

Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Teresa got a lot more grown-up type of stuff this year - here's her new jacket! She also got a scientific calculator, a 4GB thumb drive, a new backpack, and some locker stuff - so she should be all ready for school to start! She did get some fun things, too... a bead kit, a drawer/closet alarm, etc..

Phillip of course loves his transformers best. He got Optimus Prime AND Megatron, so he's had a great time with those. He also got a bunch of other stuff, Santa was very good to these kids, and so were their parents, grandparents, and other relatives and friends!

Grammie and Grampie visited with us today, and will be back for breakfast in the morning. We got to do Christmas with them today. I think I got one picture today, maybe I will get that transfered to my computer tomorrow.

2009 continues on...

2009 continues on, and I'm posting again, already!

Today was a nice family day. The four of us played Clue and LIFE, we had a really good time. And then I decided it was too late to deal with making supper, I went out and picked up pizza! We had pizza in the den and watched SPACEBALLS (the movie). Funny stuff! It is amazing how much more Teresa picks up in a movie than she used to... she's definitely getting older!

No pictures today, either... still not motivated enough for that. I will eventually get back to posting photos!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

All four of us stayed up until midnight this time... had gingerale toasts!

First day of 2009 seems to have gone okay. I asked the kids if they have any New Years Resolutions, but they don't. So I'm giving them some goals. LAUNDRY will go into their HAMPERS, and their BEDS will be MADE every morning. So far, we've only missed one day this year! :)

Phillip played HyperDash this afternoon. I did one round with him - but it's too energetic for me! I was going to take a short video, but my camera batteries were too low.

It was a nice quiet day, the biggest excitement has been watching Cartoon Network's marathon of Looney Toons! It's got some great stuff - classics, like the Rabbit of Seville, the original singing frog, Kill the Wabbit... fun to watch!

Might even be a New Year's Resolution to post here daily. Maybe... keep watching!