Saturday, October 10, 2009

I'm here, I'm alive, I'm drowning... Figuratively of course. There have been many days when I have wondered what on earth possessed me to go back to school... then I go up to the kids school and am reminded of my reasons behind all the madness. And, as if being a full-time student (17 hrs) and a mother of 4 kids, the kids were all sick one week, possibly the flu, and I made it to only one class and one test that week. I'm still trying to play catch up.

But it's late (or should I say early), so I'm off. A stack of homework awaits my attention... after sleep of course.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Update to Update

I found a link to the Odessa American's story about Hadassh. http://www.oaoa.com/news/reading-32244-queen-points.html

Oh, and did I mention that it is the 3rd year in a row that she has had the most AR points in the school?

Update

So much time has passed since my last post.



The kids and I got chased out of our house by a hard cold snap at the end of January. Ronnie came home from Tyler, found out we didn't have hardly insulation left in the attic. Then the company he worked for went under, so he had plenty of time to do some work to the house. Our living room is gorgeous!



I have finished my first semester back in college, and on the Dean's List no less. I'm taking another class this summer. After Ronnie's job went the way of almost all the other oilfield jobs, I worried about how to pay for school and if I would ever be able to finish. Oddly, more financial aid has since been applied to my account.



The kids finished school quite well. Kimberly showed marked improvement over the beginning of the year (my little Energizer bunny). Michael made the A honor roll, commended performance on both his TAKS tests, and did exceptionally well in the AR reading program. He was knighted. Hadassah made 1st division on her viola solo, A honor roll, commended performance on both of her TAKS tests, and she was crowned queen in the AR reading program. I will try to get the pictures off of Ronnie's computer and post them. Stephan will start PK-3 at Austin next year with Ms Richter (Kimberly's teacher from PK-4 & Kindergarten). Hadassah was accepted into the AP program at Bowie. She will continue to study viola in Bowie's orchestra and is going to try tennis this next year.

Hadassah was also nominated by her teacher for the National Junior Leadership Conference in Washington DC. She will be attending the Discover Medicine & Science conference at Johns Hopkins University July 6-11. We have only one more tuition payment, airfare, and incidentals; so, we're still trying to raise money for her. Speaking of, I have spent enough time on here... I have to get busy and nudge her along as well.

See you all later!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Memories Made & Memories to Make

I mean to write, I really do, but life happens.

The kids go back to school tomorrow. Already?!? Where did the Christmas holidays go? For that matter, where did 2008 go? I guess they weren't kidding when they said time goes faster the older you get, but then why does my 12 year old say this year (oops, last year) went by so fast? She's not old.

Speaking of my children... what's up with them? Hadassah is 12 and half-way through her last year of elementary. Her teacher nominated her for the National Junior Leaders Conference, and the one she chose to go to is Discover Medicine. We're thinking about junior high... has it really been that long since she was sitting in Grandpa's lap drawing little circles in the blanks on his crossword puzzles?

Michael is already 8. I know it couldn't have been that long ago when he was born, and we had the twins come live with us... at this very age! Michael even starts taking the state standardized tests this year, which of course, he should have no problem with. Wasn't it just yesterday though that he started kindergarten at Austin?

Kindergartners... I already have another one of those as well. I was just holding Kimberly trying to get a view from my hospital window of the July 4th fireworks being set off at the end of the Rangers' game. She's already in kindergarten.

Then, there is Erin Dominique (peace, belonging to the Lord) who went to play with angels and Grandpa, on his birthday. That does seem like ages ago though.

Of course, I can't forget little Stephan. My baby boy, who apparently isn't going to stay a baby either, is going to be 3 in only a few more months. My little jellybean, isn't so little anymore. He'll probably even be going to pk-3 next school year.

They grow up so fast, but I have so many memories (as I'm sure you all do), and I'm looking forward to many more memories to come. However, it is late, so I'll just have to write another post on everything that is happening around here.