Yesterday was day 1 of my new set of classes. I have been looking over the syllabus's for each class and I'm really excited! These classes have more work involved, which is a good thing. It will give me something to do. I have been so bored with my life that I'm going insane!
I have been chatting on a message board for almost 2 years now, and one of the ladies brought up Christmas. I hadn't really thought about that before that thread had started, but now I am so excited! I am wanting to start making some new Christmas decorations, since the ones that I had previously made were lost in a move. I loved those decorations. Also, I have set up a budget for Christmas presents. I figure this next week I will spend my money on finishing getting derik ready for school. He doesn't really need much since I bought quite a few uniforms when I got my tax money. I'm planning on getting him a new pair of shoes and possibly 1 more pair of pants. Lexie needs some new shoes, dang girl out grew her shoes over night! Once school shopping is finished then I am planning on getting the kids their Halloween costumes. After Halloween is taken care of, CHRISTMAS HERE WE COME! I'm thinking that 20 a week should do me pretty good. I think I am going to either put the money on a gift card so I can do the shopping all at once, or use kmarts layaway option. either way, I would like to be completely finished by December 1.
I also want to start getting ingredients for my Christmas cooking. I found that last year, I'm a dang good candy cook! lol. There are several items that I want to make this year, carmels, toffee, peanut brittle, peanut butter cups, chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and sugar cookies, and rice krispy treats. That should about do it. Anyone hear their blood sugar rising? lol
I don't know how much I am going to be able to accomplish, since I am going to have to do homework, but I think I can do it all... I just won't be able to spend as much time on the computer.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Summer Fun!
Since I was lazy and didn't post anything this summer, and today was a slow day, I thought, ok, I will go ahead and get caught up on what happened this summer.
Last year, Derik was put into "Track 5" which is bascially year round school. When his birthday hit on June 3 (btw Happy Birthday Cindy and Happy Anniversary Rick and Tammy) he was still in school. His school did a track and field day since June 4th was the last day of school for half the school. It was a lot of fun, but unfortunately I had some errands and stuff that I just couldn't put off, so I didn't get to see him run. Made me very sad. After my errands I went to the store and picked up a cute cupcake cake to take, and we passed out cupcakes to the kids at the end of the day.
Here's a slide show of everyone eating cupcakes.
We choose not to do the big birthday party until Saturday. He invited 5 friends, Alex, Xavier, Skye, Hunter and Jeffrey. Jeffrey was the only one that did not show for the party. We had it at Chuck E. Cheese at 10 am on June 6, 2009. I choose this time because it gave the kids double the tokens. We ended up with like 600 tokens. Besides the official party goers, the siblings of the kids also came and enjoyed the party. It was a lot of fun. All the kids had a cupful of tokens (Derik lost his cup a couple of times. lol.) Chuck E. sang Happy Birthday to Derik, and we had the most AWESOME! birthday cake. It was so yummy! It really was a good day!
Here's a slide show of the party.
The next summer event was Lexie's birthday. We choose to combine the official celebration on Rodney's birthday, July 4. I baked the cake. One thing to note, Do not try to do a shell edging with tube frosting. It just doesn't work. Here's the slide show
Our final summer activity was the day that Derik "graduated" from Kindergarten. I was so proud of my baby. There was a possiblity that he was going to have to be held back due to behavorial problems, and he was just having a really hard time with catching on to math. He was very far behind all the other students. After 3 months of stress and hard work, Derik did it! He passed! It was such a proud day! Here are some pictures of the celebration! They sang a cute song that had actions and helped the kids remember how to pronounce each letter of the alphabet. They sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and also sang a song that helped them count to 100. It was so much fun! After the songs, his teacher Ms. Kitchens (yes just the way it looks) handed each child a certificate, and a dvd of important moments throughout the year.
Last year, Derik was put into "Track 5" which is bascially year round school. When his birthday hit on June 3 (btw Happy Birthday Cindy and Happy Anniversary Rick and Tammy) he was still in school. His school did a track and field day since June 4th was the last day of school for half the school. It was a lot of fun, but unfortunately I had some errands and stuff that I just couldn't put off, so I didn't get to see him run. Made me very sad. After my errands I went to the store and picked up a cute cupcake cake to take, and we passed out cupcakes to the kids at the end of the day.
Here's a slide show of everyone eating cupcakes.
We choose not to do the big birthday party until Saturday. He invited 5 friends, Alex, Xavier, Skye, Hunter and Jeffrey. Jeffrey was the only one that did not show for the party. We had it at Chuck E. Cheese at 10 am on June 6, 2009. I choose this time because it gave the kids double the tokens. We ended up with like 600 tokens. Besides the official party goers, the siblings of the kids also came and enjoyed the party. It was a lot of fun. All the kids had a cupful of tokens (Derik lost his cup a couple of times. lol.) Chuck E. sang Happy Birthday to Derik, and we had the most AWESOME! birthday cake. It was so yummy! It really was a good day!
Here's a slide show of the party.
The next summer event was Lexie's birthday. We choose to combine the official celebration on Rodney's birthday, July 4. I baked the cake. One thing to note, Do not try to do a shell edging with tube frosting. It just doesn't work. Here's the slide show
Our final summer activity was the day that Derik "graduated" from Kindergarten. I was so proud of my baby. There was a possiblity that he was going to have to be held back due to behavorial problems, and he was just having a really hard time with catching on to math. He was very far behind all the other students. After 3 months of stress and hard work, Derik did it! He passed! It was such a proud day! Here are some pictures of the celebration! They sang a cute song that had actions and helped the kids remember how to pronounce each letter of the alphabet. They sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and also sang a song that helped them count to 100. It was so much fun! After the songs, his teacher Ms. Kitchens (yes just the way it looks) handed each child a certificate, and a dvd of important moments throughout the year.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Mommy Who???
When I was writing about our doctor visit on Friday, I forgot about the funniest thing Lexie did. I allowed her to walk all over the waiting room because there were just way too many kids there playing to keep her pinned in my lap. She was really enjoying herself too. She saw 3 babies (little girls her age or older) and she kept giving them kisses. One little girl just cried and cried and cried. She was really not fond of Lexie's "love". lol. Another little girl was sick, so I tried really hard to keep her away, but lexie was very adament that she slobber all over that one too. The final little girl was a little older, and didn't have any problems with lexie kissing her (man, I hope this doesnt' mean that my daughter is going to be a kissing fool. I just might have to go purchase a shotgun. lol) Anyway, as I was sitting there watching both her and Derik play, Lexie walked up the lady sitting next to me and just flopped on her, like she does to me at home. The lady was like.. ok, and stroking her head. I'm saying, Lexie come to mommy, but Lexie just kept laying there, like hugging the lady's lap, and she'd look up and then lay back down... did this for a couple of minutes. Then something made her turn her head towards me, and all of a sudden I got the biggest smile from her. It was almost like, "hey, there's my mom!" then she looked at the lady she was laying on, then back to me, and all of a sudden it clicked for her that this lady was not mommy! She didn't cry, but for a few minutes it was almost like she didn't care who mommy was. I was just laughing as hard as I could because her face was just priceless! It was a total shock that this other lady wasn't me. lol
Today, we got up and went to church. I don't want to make too many new changes, but I do think that this needs to be something that we continue. Derik is getting the interaction with other kids again, which I'm hoping is going to help the running off issues. (I don't remember if I've posted about this yet, but I will soon). I would also like to start practicing the piano again, too. I'm hoping next sunday Lexie won't freak out on me when everything is over and I can spend 20 minutes or so practicing. It's been a long time since I've played the piano. It will also give the kids time to run around and just have fun (I plan on using the Young Women's, Relief Society or Primary rooms for practicing. That way I can close the doors and just let the kids play. I wasn't able to really get too much out of the lessons or sacrament. Part of the reason I couldn't focus on sacrament is because the speaker is a really REALLY boring speaker. He use to teach the Gospel Doctrine class and would almost put me to sleep each week. That's pretty much what happened in Sacrament. Also, Derik and Lexie were attacking each other. Today was the first time she really started giving Derik kisses. I Loved watching it, Derik on the other hand, was not so fond of receiving her kisses, even though he gives her kisses all the time. lol. Even though I didn't get to pay too much attention to the lessons, it still felt really good to get out of the house and go to church. Next week I'm hoping the kids cooperate better so I can take some pictures of them in front of the Chapel.
After church I came home and put the finishing touches on my research paper. YAY! 2 classes done, a whole bunch more to go! I start my next set of classes tomorrow. I really hope these classes actually challenge me. Yes, easy classes are nice, but I really hate that feeling of unfulfillment. I expected these classes to actually have real assignments, nope. The only real "hard" part of the courses was that I had to make sure I had at least 2 substantial postings on 3 different days. The discussion questions consisted of 2 150-300 word responses each week, and then usually one assignment that was again around 300 words... not very hard. I was expecting at least a 3 page essay each week. I was prepared to write a 3 page essay each week, so finding out that the work wasn't that hard at all... was kind of a let down. Here's to hoping that my next set of classes are more fun. OH, and some of the discussion questions weren't questions that were easily converted into conversations. Many times each person wrote pretty much the same thing. So trying to respond to these questions and make them interesting, was really hard.
Today, we got up and went to church. I don't want to make too many new changes, but I do think that this needs to be something that we continue. Derik is getting the interaction with other kids again, which I'm hoping is going to help the running off issues. (I don't remember if I've posted about this yet, but I will soon). I would also like to start practicing the piano again, too. I'm hoping next sunday Lexie won't freak out on me when everything is over and I can spend 20 minutes or so practicing. It's been a long time since I've played the piano. It will also give the kids time to run around and just have fun (I plan on using the Young Women's, Relief Society or Primary rooms for practicing. That way I can close the doors and just let the kids play. I wasn't able to really get too much out of the lessons or sacrament. Part of the reason I couldn't focus on sacrament is because the speaker is a really REALLY boring speaker. He use to teach the Gospel Doctrine class and would almost put me to sleep each week. That's pretty much what happened in Sacrament. Also, Derik and Lexie were attacking each other. Today was the first time she really started giving Derik kisses. I Loved watching it, Derik on the other hand, was not so fond of receiving her kisses, even though he gives her kisses all the time. lol. Even though I didn't get to pay too much attention to the lessons, it still felt really good to get out of the house and go to church. Next week I'm hoping the kids cooperate better so I can take some pictures of them in front of the Chapel.
After church I came home and put the finishing touches on my research paper. YAY! 2 classes done, a whole bunch more to go! I start my next set of classes tomorrow. I really hope these classes actually challenge me. Yes, easy classes are nice, but I really hate that feeling of unfulfillment. I expected these classes to actually have real assignments, nope. The only real "hard" part of the courses was that I had to make sure I had at least 2 substantial postings on 3 different days. The discussion questions consisted of 2 150-300 word responses each week, and then usually one assignment that was again around 300 words... not very hard. I was expecting at least a 3 page essay each week. I was prepared to write a 3 page essay each week, so finding out that the work wasn't that hard at all... was kind of a let down. Here's to hoping that my next set of classes are more fun. OH, and some of the discussion questions weren't questions that were easily converted into conversations. Many times each person wrote pretty much the same thing. So trying to respond to these questions and make them interesting, was really hard.
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