Academic Team

the HDC meet was Saturday, & now the season is over. KJ correctly answered 3 questions! The coach took them to Pizza Hut afterwards to celebrate. I was very proud of KJ for joining the team.
KJ constantly amazes me, he was so very shy when he was young, I remember in 2nd grade when the teachers aid was so excited that KJ got in trouble for talking in class, since they could barely get him to say anything. And he's been in Honor Choir, Drama, & now the Academic Team, all involving getting up in front of people & calling attention to yourself. It is so cool to watch your kids grow & change...

The Spa Party

We ended up with 5 guests...Kate left the party at one point, Kevin & KJ were going to the movies & drove by the park at the edge of our yard, she was sitting alone on a bench, Kevin pep-talked her into going back. Good mom that I am-I was getting the salad supper ready & didn't even know she was gone. The main problem I think was that she had worked so hard on the whole spa theme...& her friends are really more interested in playing babies & house. We muddled thru, everyone ended up with a gift bag of soap, bracelets, & perfume that they made. And I don't think that Katie was any more miserable at this party than she has been at any other....(I hope!)...altho this is the first year she's run away...
I'll do what I always do, the film will come back, I'll scrapbook it, & tell myself what a resounding success it was & get on with my life. Otherwise, I'd be certifiably insane. Somedays I fear I have already reached that point...
Next year she wants to throw a Halloween Birthday Party for her whole class in the basement....

happy birthday, Katie!

Katie turned 9 today. They had a day off school for teachers inservice. She opened one present while I was @ work, then the rest when I got home. She asked 4 Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen dvds...I got a bunch, but not the one she REALLY wanted...so back to amazon.com I go. Baked her requested giant birthday cookie, & the brownie pie for her spa party tomorrow. did massive house cleaning. I think we're ready (as ready as we'll ever be). Kate found more things today that she wants to squeeze into her party. The girls will make their own vial of perfume, friendship bracelets, a scented bar of soap, & their own "brand" of soda pop. We have 4 invited guests (the kits we got make 5.) Will be the smallest birthday party in a long time. Hopefully will be more fun 4 Katie....

happy halloween

spent the day at school, prepping 4 elementary fall festival, ate lunch with katie, helped her get ready 4 costume parade, & worked @ the festival....I think it was the best festival so far, had lots of helpers, & no disasters. {someone did steal the plate of leftover cookies I was bringing home....} katie won the coloring contest!!! she went trick-or-treating & to the haunted house with 2 friends, all the girls wore black & boots. they looked cute. the local gas station had a free BBQ going. the friends & I were rather scared @ the haunted house, kate was a lot calmer than we were. a skeleton touched her "buttocks"....and a witch with a fake knife poked her there. when Scream jumped out of the closet, kate said "hi". she said, "hey, how rude!" when they grabbed her. it seemed like there were about 300 people in that tiny house!
kj had an academic meet.

friday nite

KJ is on Student Council, so had to go the the hayride & dance they were sponsoring tonite. Kate has a friend spending the nite, Kevin took us out to supper. Now the girls are spying on us with their walkie talkies.
Kevin had a dr. appt. today, the dr. told him to take off the walking boot, start walking, using a cane if he needs to to start with, & in 2 weeks they'll see how he's walking. He's in a lot of pain right now. I always found it ironic how I took things for granted every time I had surgery...just getting out of bed was a struggle somedays...picking up your baby...doing laundry...
I think we're ready 4 tomorrow's Brownie Halloween Party.
I slept like a baby last night---took a swig a mite over the stated amount of nighttime Triaminic cough & cold. Kevin said he'd go pick up KJ @ midnite, but he's already sacked out in the chair, so I better hold off on the medicine. His friend Corey will probably need a ride back to his house @ the lake.
He said the Academic Team is talking about dressing up for the meet on Halloween day. He thinks he'd wear the Jamacian hat with dreadlocks & some sunglasses...

and my cold is back....

just what I hoped would happen, of course...
made a Jesse James scarecrow for the Werewolf Woods. KJ has consented to be the Werewolf. Kate wants to have a "not scary" walk thru the woods for the little girls, then a "scary" walk 4 the ones who want to...where KJ will growl & grab someone.
think we have it all ready to go.
the face paint for the school Fall Festival somehow got cancelled....reordered it. it should get here in time...
having breakfast 4 supper-french toast & bacon.
KJ's PS2 is on the fritz.
Kate has a friend over.

today I was thinking

while I showered out at work for my half day...do these things exist anymore?
1. Clairol Herbal Essence shampoo
2. Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific Shampoo
3. Boone's Farm Tickle Pink Wine
4. Heaven Scent perfume (maybe it was Heaven Sent...it was my favorite until I started going out with Kevin, he claimed perfumes & smelly shampoos gave him headaches...)