15-07-19

Evan presidents list. Evan showed me his invitation to participate in the special event for students that made the President's list. 
Tyler report card. Tyler had been asking about his report card. He came to me last night and said, "My dad found my report card for me." 
Shawn work with Chris. Shawn went to work with Chris Saturday morning, to film a wedding, and spent Saturday night with him. 

14 10 03

Been in L the whole time.  Daddy got tickets for a play for us to see while we were in Vero. He said, "You'll go in through the door and make a right and then go straight to L." When we laughed, he told his that he had specifically requested tickets in L, just so he could say that. During intermission, Kathi, Barry and I were together on the patio, waiting for Daddy to rejoin us. When he didn't come, we went back inside. He said, "I've been in L the whole time!" 

100 times more dinner with Kennedy.  On our way home, we talked about stopping by the FloraBama, but also by seeing about having dinner with Kennedy and John. We were on a route closer to the FloraBama, but Barry said he'd 100 times more rather have dinner with Kennedy. Neither one worked out.

Tyler running back for a hug. Our first day back Kristen was still set up to pick Tyler up. Tyler was saying bye from the hall, and I didn't want him to miss his ride, so I didn't ask him for a hug. He took a few steps, and then ran back to give me a hug.

Not setting my writing timer today. I'd gone to a lot of trouble to carve out the days away from work. We got home a day early, and I decided to use that day for the "Writing Day Each Month." It was pretty wonderful to settle in here without having to set my timer.

I wrote something that made my daddy happy! I spent that day writing a letter to the granddaughters, to go with the jewelry I brought home for them. I emailed it to Daddy and he said very nice things about it. 

 And thank you for your continuing efforts in finding and sharing family history.  It shows your love for family and helps to bring generations together.

   The attachment you sent is excellent and I found one misspelled word to let you know about, but now the download seems to have disappeared.  I will try to find it and the word.  You have created a really meaningful presentation for your granddaughters. 

Love,

Daddy

Found it:  Last paragraph, first page.  Open toed heels.. I think you meant open toed shoes.  

14 09 22

We had a good time at Goodtimes.

Noah: "We don't call it 'Goodtimes for nothing,"

Brittany worked, and Skyler was sick.

Angela and Ryan came and we all sat out on the pool deck and talked and played Phase Ten. She said it was fun to just come and hang out for a little while. Tori was here last weekend and couldn't make it back. Kennedy kept in touch, but was busy wrangling with her washer and dryer. She said she thought she'd be in Mobile today, and that she would probably get to stop by.

Blake and said he was going to try to come. Morgan was in Atlanta. Amber came after while and sat out by the pool with us. I was glad Beth checked to see where Zak was --- turns out his truck is broken and he needed a ride, so she went to get him. He sat with us for a while, too.

When Evan sent a message last week, he was sick, so I guess he was still sick Sunday. Faith and Daniel didn't come, but Michael was here. He said he'll be playing the drums at a game this coming Thursday.

Noah was here, as were Shawn, Tyler, and Willo.

Noah has become a French Toast fanatic, Kim and John said, now that he can eat eggs even if they aren't in baked goods. He gave lots of hugs and pat-pat-pats.

It was the smallest group ever in the pool, and for most of the afternoon was just Willo and Rodney. She is all about her Uncle Rodney. She said his name so many times Sunday that she really was saying it more clearly by the end of the day.

Beth played Phase Ten with us. Most of the rest of the kids stayed inside, playing the video games, I think. Barry was inside.

Chris went to get Faith, Michael, and Daniel, and while he was gone, Willo started saying that she wanted to swim. She was dressed in her shorts, but no shirt. Beth told her she needed her bathing suit, and Willo told her that she was wearing her "silly suit."

She took her shorts off and asked again. I told her we needed her swim pull up. She said, "Please let me swim in this pull up." I told her would mess up the pool, and I thought we were done with the conversation. But....we weren't. She solved the problem by removing it.

14 09 17

Tyler took a school shirt, just in case.

Got caught up on weekly work in the office ... finished Tuesday's work by the end of Tuesday. Maranda is doing well on the weekly tasks, and she and Heather are accessing the project list. So, yay!

I'm almost caught up on the laundry.

14 09 12

This morning, Tyler talked about how much he liked sour things. He said that none of his teachers (3 of them) could leave a lemon in their mouth for ten seconds, but that he could. I asked if they had a contest or something. He said they hadn't, but that his teacher acted like she didn't even want to do it at all. He said the only time he's ever (made the face we make when we bite on something sour) is when he put two warheads in his mouth at once.

Beverly was with me on the sofa when Shawn poked his head out of his room. Beverly said hey, and you know how much I love you, and he came to give her a big hug and sat in her lap. :-)

14-09-10

Barry said he likes listening to Beverly and I laugh and talk while we clean up the kitchen.

He and I took a walk last night.

Tyler likes to talk about science.

14 09 09

Fun conversations at the dinner table, with Beverly, JA, Chris and the boys.

Chris went and got Willo Saturday afternoon and she spent the night. She ran through the house, looking for everyone.

14 09 05

I keep on getting excited when the door opens because I think it's Tyler. Kim and John got Noah out for an early dismissal and brought him here about 2:00, since Noah was staying with us while they went to Brian and Jamie's wedding. I got Noah set up, and the got back to work, which involved going in and out of the house several time.s Every time I came in the door, Noah jumped up from the sofa. Finally he said, "I keep on getting excited when the door opens because I think it's Tyler."

14 09 03

Schedule is running along well this morning.

Tyler, talking to me in the car this morning.

Had a good lunch with Virginia.

14 09 03

Tyler turning off the lights. Every morning, I remind him to turn off the lights in their bedroom. This morning, he said, "I already turned out the lights!" 

14 08 28

Text from Angela, accompanied by a picture: "Humming Birds have been checking out my feeder and pink hibiscus lately! I wasn't fast enough to snap a picture w him in it but hopefully he will keep coming back like our little humming bird friend did  (smile)"

Ryan and Barry talking. Really quite a while. Working together on some kind of a project for Ryan ... power washing. Comfortable with each other. 

Facebook Email from Kennedy:" Due to an unfortunate (but awesome) schedule mishap, I get to take drawing AND PAINTING this semester!!!!! I'm so excited and I love my art teachers! I did find out that I actually do have to take Drawing 3: The Figure though...

I'm not too thrilled about that, but I figure I have awhile before I need to worry about that. Hopefully some of my art from this class will be back on the walls and you can come see them! I love you both and hope you're having a good week!!!"

Swimming with the boys. I finished Thursday in the office without a lot of ... or any that I knew of... Wonderland Friday panics. Still an enormous load of things to do. Still a slew of undone things in the household sector --- like getting the phone line checked .... but no scary Thursday night thoughts. After "tea and the news" I asked Barry what he wanted to do, and he said, "I think I want to go get in the pool." I told him to get Tyler, because Tyler would love that. I had to hang up some jeans, but that didn't take long. I put on my bathing suit and joined them, but I sat in the rocking chair at the\\\\deep end of the pool. A few minutes later, Chris and Shawn came out and joined them in the pool. I sat in my rocking chair. I rocked. I settled. The evening temp was nice. The stars came out. The boys --- all four of them --- laughed. The had competitions ---- who could hold their breath the farthest, who could do jump the highest, who could do the most spectacular dive, could Tyler catch them? I tried to take a picture of Chris diving, to use for his contact picture in my phone, but just couldn't get it. So I got him to come to the deep end of the pool where the light was. "Be still, " I said. "It's hard to be still when you're treading water," he laughed. I just settled. I just enjoyed. 

Miss Belinda to Beverly: "You know,  you have a very willing heart. " Miss Belinda has a very sick son. He is mentally and physically overwhelmingly handicapped and cannot do anything for himself. The doctors have told her that he has reached the end of his life expectancy. She told Beverly that when she was at the hospital the night before, she at least did not have to worry about about the stacks of things that had not been done, because they had gotten caught up on everything. I think that is because Beverly is such a willing helper, and said so. Beverly said, "No, it is because of her work, but she did say the nicest thing to me. She said, "You know, you have a very willing heart." 

So Tori and JA have a thing about meeting famous people. Her contribution last night was to tell him that when she walked into (?) she saw herself .... a picture of her on the brochure for the Computer Science department. She told Beverly that she went ahead and grabbed one. :-) 

We pulled the wedding dresses out, and found the sixpence that Barry put in Beverly's shoe. 

14 08 21

Tyler was chosen for Safety Patrol!

14 08 07

10 08 07

Looking for the crossing guard.

14 08 02

Tyler, wine cooler

And then back at the table,  reading.

Tyler, to me as we came in the house, back from breakfast at Waffle House: "And if you ever want me to go to sleep, just put me in the wine cooler." I had no idea how I could fit him in a wine refrigerator, as most of those seem to have very narrow shelves, and while I was trying to sort that out, he said, "You know, 'cause wine coolers help you sleep." 

Laughing, hugging him, I explained that wine coolers are something you drink, not something you get in. And he said,"Why would they call it a cooler?" 

~

He has some summer reading to do, and since Chris and Shawn were both gone, and he had a couple of hours before John came to pick him up, I told him there were two ways to handle deadlines, and talked about the times when things have gone wrong for me by waiting till the last minute, and told him that I thought he should take his book and sit at that little red table outside, and read for an hour, although he didn't need to read for an hour all at once -- read and swing and back to reading, which is exactly what he did. 

14 07 28

All the boys were somewhere else on this Saturday night. We called Holly to come to bed with us, but she went to their room, looking for them.

17 07 28

Tyler has fun in the pool, getting his hair wet and flipping it back to look like Elvis. Here, we were going for Doctor Spock. 

14 07 11

So....this is Tyler. Eating a bowl of cherries. All by himself. Really wishing for some company, I think. 

14 07 12

Mr Wonderland. Barry had to go to the tag office about the tags for the electric car and the dune buggy. They have a new manager now, and after she had talked to him for a minute, she said, "Your Mr. Wonderland, aren't you?"

Barry put my chair together AND got it to the writing shack for me. 

He did a lot of things for getting ready for SSS... Cleaned the sugar glider cage without my asking, and went through his box of miscellaneous stuff.

Barry and Tyler watching tv

14-07-09

Did a document in Excel. Actually, Virginia had created it, but I was able to figure out how to edit it. I had never done that before. 

Mark said he admired what we'd done with the business.

My pretty fingernails!

The boys did a good job on the kitchen last night.

Morgan said that she missed grocery shopping when she was in Rome.

We are going to have almost everybody here for Second Sunday Supper!

Virginia and I laughed together after work yesterday.

Tyler said his shoes fit him.