Sleepless in Lowell

I'm not dead, I didn't move to Mexico, I wasn't kidnapped by aliens, and I didn't fall off the face of the earth. I'm right here!

Sorry, once again I've been away for a while. I can't describe how crazy busy my life has been lately. Keeps things exciting though!

So, let me give you an update. First, my kids. I'll start with Jason! Lowell played Greenville Friday night and kicked their butts. 57 to 3! (Sorry Kathy). This was such an exciting game and the score really doesn't reflect how hard the Greenville team played. They really gave our kids a run for their money and it was a very exciting game.

I'll go on to John next because Friday night was Youth night at the Varsity Game. So, John got to go to the game and all the Flag football and Rocket football kids lined up and made the tunnel for the Varsity players. It was cool! The little kids loved it. Then at half time Scott took Johns team, along with all the other little kids, out onto the field and they all got announced! It was really cool. John loved it. All five of the boys on Johns team were holding hands as they ran across the field. John was so excited when he saw me in the stands waiving to him. It was a pretty cool thing.

Ok, Jourdan! She had an incident in science with Mr. Strajc. It's a really long story, too long for my blog, but in the end I had her put in the other science class, met with the principle and the superintendent of Lowell Schools, and I'm getting a copy of this teachers employment records under FOIA! In a nutshell, he screamed at Jourdan and called her a liar in front of the whole class. Then, he yelled some more and told her that she was going to have afterschool detention. Well, that didn't happen and I'm making a formal complaint against this asshole for verbally abusing his students! She's out of his class and doing super!

Little Sami starfish is walking. She is walking all over the house. She has been taking steps for about three weeks now, but she is walking all over and getting into all kinds of trouble. Ok, not bad trouble....but she's into stuff. Little stinker. She is so funny because I always ask her if she wants "this". So now, she'll hold something up and say "this". And yesterday, she said "stinky". Well,she was beyond stinky! Ugh!

So, my little baby girl is walking and even though she says "stinky" she will not say "mommy" and she will not sleep all night long! Do you think I'm going to have my hands full with this girl?

I don't want to forget Scott. HIs diet went good, and did I tell you that he lost 30 pounds and won his contest???? I think he won about $400! Well, it bought him a bumper for his truck. Yeah, that's what I did today. I had to sit around and wait while his bumper got replaced for $480! A $480 cosmetic fix! That's what we needed to do a couple months before Christmas, yeah...uh huh!

I better leave that alone, I'm not happy about it! Not even a little.

All that leaves is me. I've been beyond busy at work. I'm doing an internal audit of all our accounts for the last year...well, all the way back to Jan 2007. So, I've been busy. Plus I just turned in a 26 page mediation project that included two mediation hearings that I had to mediate. That was a really tough project. So, I got that taken care of and I only have 3 weeks of class left, and two more big papers. Then I'm done and maybe I can take a deep breath, relax, and get more than 6 hours of sleep.