It's a sad day...

My poor poor treadmill. The poor thing decided to stop working after 36 long minutes of running this morning. I have had this treadmill since Jordan was about 5 months old. (So about 7 years) It's like a friend of the family. The kids have done some pretty neat up side down tricks on it over the years. I remember Jordan getting on it when he was 11 months old and walking on it (he was my early walker). It has put up with some serious fits from me and has been there with me through a lot of ups and downs (weight wise that is). Greg is going to do his best tonight to try and figure it out. (mainly because I don't want to have to spend the money on a new one.) SIGH.........

Who knew?

Who knew that movies and the webkins would grow to be so liked by me this week. Unfortunately, Mikayla has contracted some "bug" that has knocked her out. She is on day 4 of fevers. I am definitely one of those moms that really tries to control tv/video/webkin time. I do appreciate the value of imagination and playing with inatimate objects. But, when one is sick and has a lot of fevers, I have to say that I love our dvd player.

So far today, we've had the Spiderwick Chronicles for Mikayla and now Barbie Diamond Castle for Isabella (although all three seem to be enjoying it). Check back with me tomorrow and I'll let you know how many we end up watching today!

Date Night with Family

It just doesn't happen often enough. A great date with siblings and their spouses. We had the priviledge of hangin' out with Greg's brother and his wife tonight. We went out to dinner and then got to go to Starbucks and play games for a couple of hours. Their company is so wonderful. We laughed and laughed. There were a couple of times where Matt would say something profound, like "These were made in Nicaragua by many midgets" speaking of a blueberry scone of course and I would lose it laughing. Now, don't be offended, you had to be there. But it was really funny. Matt is so good for that. I always get great delight watching Greg and his brother hang out. The two of them are amazing and Denise and I are two very blessed women. Speaking of Denise, she is one special lady herself. Thank you to you both for such a great date night and time to relax and have fun. Love you guys.

Teacher Conferences

Today was Jordan and Mikayla's teacher conferences. When we arrived Jordan's teacher was finishing up with the student's family that was before us. So we waited in the hallway. Jordan's walk to read teacher, Mr. Heagle, came out and I got to talk one on one with him for a bit. Then it was time to meet with Jordan's teacher. Mrs. Whitehead is wonderful. She is kind and soft spoken. It turns out Jordan is doing a fantastic job. He has become quite the little "techy". Whenever there is a problem with the computers in Jordan's classroom his teacher asks him to go and take a look and 99% of the time he is able to fix it and get it working again for the students. He is the go to kid for class and I couldn't be more proud of him. This just thrilled my socks off. We chose to go ahead and homeschool Jordan for Kindergarten because his birthdate was just past the cut off date (by days). Everyone warned me that it could end up not being a good thing emotionally. So today was a checkpoint for us to see how things are going. I am happy that he is thriving.

Then it was Mikayla's turn. Her teacher unfortunately was running about 30 minutes behind. He had looked at the wrong day and didn't have any of the student's stuff ready for today. So, it didn't quite go as I had thought it would. It was more a fly by the seat of your pants kind of conference. Not bad, just different than I had expected. Mikayla is my helper bee. She loves to help others. She is definitely a first born which is shining through in her desire to be in charge and keep people in line! Oh, the joys of being nine.

Both kids are doing great. I am so pleased with them. There are things that they are doing well, things that they can focus on, and ways that they are growing by leaps and bounds.