today our summer program ended on a good note...we had "water fun day", which basically is me with a garden hose and lots of kids with bottles or water guns and we all get soaked...it was very fun...also we wrapped andrew's truck with saran wrap and toilet paper...we made him a huge card which was a fire truck and it was about 6 feet long and each of us had drawn a dalmatian with a red fire hat and then put our names on them, and we sang "for he's a jolly good fellow" and we gave him a yearbook full of summer memories...it was a great day that i thought was going to be so bad...i was supposed to be off at 10 am but i stayed until about 4 pm...
so school starts this coming week, and i am excited to be getting back to teaching!!!...i might go to the fair tomorrow, then at 5 pm our church is having about 10 people get baptized in the columbia river (like my parents did a couple of years ago and i have considered doing)...the fair i mentioned is the "benton franklin fair and rodeo"- it is a 5 day event which draws a total of about 100,000 people...there are lots of animals, food, rodeo, food, exhibits, food, rides, and food...i went on wednesday for work and had a pretty good time, saw some animals, had a bbq pork sandwich, and rode on some rides...the tilt-a-whirl was not a very good one, i went on it twice, then the carousel, and the tornado, i wanted to go on the sizzler, the yo yo, and the ferris wheel, but wasn't able to...the flying bobs looked fun, i went on it a few years ago...i can't believe that i once went on the zipper...that was a long time ago and never again!...
i will update more later, except to mention that les and renee's baby miranda has to wait until she is six months old to have her open heart surgery...more later...
Friday, August 26, 2005
Thursday, August 18, 2005
08/18/05
just an update...matt and kim's new baby sister miranda is having open heart surgery very soon, i think tomorrow, so i ask for prayers for her and the family...also i was saddened to hear this afternoon about the death of a woman i know...she apparently died in a car accident in portland...she is the mom of a hanford choir student and i got to know her this school year...life sometimes doesn't make sense...
Saturday, August 13, 2005
08/13/05
a busy week it has been...i sound like yoda from star wars...actually, it has been an eventful and interesting week, so i will quickly update...
kim got home last sunday from camping at lake wallowa and immediately was ill with flu-like symptoms...konnor made her a doctor appointment on tuesday and we took her in after i got home from work...konnor cares so much for kim and is willing to do a lot for her, including this...i totally appreciate that...so now she is better, but for a couple of days she was very weak, needed to sleep but couldn't, congested, sore, throat and ears ached...i'm sure i am missing some of her symptoms...but she is better and back to her normal life of friends and movies and stuff...she has been babysitting for a family with three kids, and she seems to be doing that really well...last night an unexpected storm came up while she was babysitting so i called a couple of times to make sure she was okay...
matt got home last night from the family reunion in long beach, washington...and it was highly eventful, since the family grew by one person during the reunion (!)...yes, renee and les' baby was born on tuesday in astoria , oregon...apparently the hospital in ilwaco doesn't deliver babies, so they had to go to astoria...which is a very beautiful little town, if i may say so...so now my kids have a baby sister named miranda...so i do congratulate my former husband and his wife on their new addition...i spoke to les on the phone last night and congratulated him...it is kind of surreal that almost 20 years after he and i experienced the birth of our first child, and 17 years after our second child, he is experiencing the birth of his third child...yes, with someone else, but i think that it is meant to be this way, i have accepted it long ago, and i only hope for the best for their family...matt is currently sleeping on the couch, recovering from what was supposed to be a four-day reunion on the beach, turned into about 7 days of "new little sister being born"...
and as for me...well, work this week was busy and less stressful than last week...i got a small glass sliver in my heel last sunday while watching csi, and due to my problems with the doctor appointment/insurance company (which i will explain later), i still have this sliver in my heel and i am concerned that it will become infected, so i am slightly frustrated about that...at this moment i am working on a letter to the insurance company with which i will enclose copies of documentation that will prove that this isn't my fault!...again!...back to non-insurance issues...i am going to SILVERWOOD monday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...yes, obviously i am excited!...anyone who reads this and doesn't know about silverwood- it is a pretty cool theme park/amusement park/water park in northern idaho, by sandpoint, idaho, and it is very fun and i will be there monday supervising kids from my summer work place......so my work schedule is a little different this week...that is okay...i am scheduled off thursday (i never get weekdays off!) and i hope it is because technically this silverwood trip involves overtime...it is at least a 3 hour drive from the tri-cities to silverwood...we leave at about 7 am and return after midnight...last year it was really fun and i expect it to be even better this year...
i often wonder whether anyone actually reads this blog...i hope that it is an interesting, unusual, often bizarre, sometimes frustrated and frustrating look at the every day life of a person who is, i think, interesting, unusual, often bizarre, sometimes frustrated and frustrating...i still think my loyal follower in california is the only one who ever reads this (hi, sumo)...
well, matt has awoken and is walking toward me mumbling something un-understandable...so i will go now and relax and rest and catch up on laundry, dishes, and other important household stuff...hope it is a good day for all...later
kim got home last sunday from camping at lake wallowa and immediately was ill with flu-like symptoms...konnor made her a doctor appointment on tuesday and we took her in after i got home from work...konnor cares so much for kim and is willing to do a lot for her, including this...i totally appreciate that...so now she is better, but for a couple of days she was very weak, needed to sleep but couldn't, congested, sore, throat and ears ached...i'm sure i am missing some of her symptoms...but she is better and back to her normal life of friends and movies and stuff...she has been babysitting for a family with three kids, and she seems to be doing that really well...last night an unexpected storm came up while she was babysitting so i called a couple of times to make sure she was okay...
matt got home last night from the family reunion in long beach, washington...and it was highly eventful, since the family grew by one person during the reunion (!)...yes, renee and les' baby was born on tuesday in astoria , oregon...apparently the hospital in ilwaco doesn't deliver babies, so they had to go to astoria...which is a very beautiful little town, if i may say so...so now my kids have a baby sister named miranda...so i do congratulate my former husband and his wife on their new addition...i spoke to les on the phone last night and congratulated him...it is kind of surreal that almost 20 years after he and i experienced the birth of our first child, and 17 years after our second child, he is experiencing the birth of his third child...yes, with someone else, but i think that it is meant to be this way, i have accepted it long ago, and i only hope for the best for their family...matt is currently sleeping on the couch, recovering from what was supposed to be a four-day reunion on the beach, turned into about 7 days of "new little sister being born"...
and as for me...well, work this week was busy and less stressful than last week...i got a small glass sliver in my heel last sunday while watching csi, and due to my problems with the doctor appointment/insurance company (which i will explain later), i still have this sliver in my heel and i am concerned that it will become infected, so i am slightly frustrated about that...at this moment i am working on a letter to the insurance company with which i will enclose copies of documentation that will prove that this isn't my fault!...again!...back to non-insurance issues...i am going to SILVERWOOD monday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...yes, obviously i am excited!...anyone who reads this and doesn't know about silverwood- it is a pretty cool theme park/amusement park/water park in northern idaho, by sandpoint, idaho, and it is very fun and i will be there monday supervising kids from my summer work place......so my work schedule is a little different this week...that is okay...i am scheduled off thursday (i never get weekdays off!) and i hope it is because technically this silverwood trip involves overtime...it is at least a 3 hour drive from the tri-cities to silverwood...we leave at about 7 am and return after midnight...last year it was really fun and i expect it to be even better this year...
i often wonder whether anyone actually reads this blog...i hope that it is an interesting, unusual, often bizarre, sometimes frustrated and frustrating look at the every day life of a person who is, i think, interesting, unusual, often bizarre, sometimes frustrated and frustrating...i still think my loyal follower in california is the only one who ever reads this (hi, sumo)...
well, matt has awoken and is walking toward me mumbling something un-understandable...so i will go now and relax and rest and catch up on laundry, dishes, and other important household stuff...hope it is a good day for all...later
Friday, August 05, 2005
8/05/05
sorry it's been so long since i updated, but i have been busy working and working, oh yeah, and also doing some work...angie has been on vacation so i have kind of been the "boss", so some added responsibility and stress, but it mostly suits my type-a personality fine...actually, i am not as "type-a" as i used to be, but still some remains...
i am tired since i just got home from work a few minutes ago, so i will hopefully update with a longer journal entry sometime this weekend...things have been going allright, kim is camping and will be home sunday, matt might go out of town for a family reunion on his dad's side in long beach, washington next week (lucky!), and i will stay home and work, but at least we have fun field trips, tuesday, swimming as usual, and wednesday, ice block sliding...it is so much fun, and i think i blogged about it when we went last year, so if you want to know about it, look in my archives during august or maybe july 2004 and i wrote about it there...
later...
i am tired since i just got home from work a few minutes ago, so i will hopefully update with a longer journal entry sometime this weekend...things have been going allright, kim is camping and will be home sunday, matt might go out of town for a family reunion on his dad's side in long beach, washington next week (lucky!), and i will stay home and work, but at least we have fun field trips, tuesday, swimming as usual, and wednesday, ice block sliding...it is so much fun, and i think i blogged about it when we went last year, so if you want to know about it, look in my archives during august or maybe july 2004 and i wrote about it there...
later...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)