Well, here we are at the end of another not so productive or exciting vacation......no big deal...I find as I get older, I don;t crave the have to be on the go excitement like I used to.....I'm very content to be at home with my family...maybe taking an occasional day trip......I like sleeping in my own bed, because at least I know who's been there....:)
So this week we have paid the car taxes for 2008/2009, so we are good to go for a while....my van now has a legal tag before the expiration date of the old one...we just have to get it inspected, but our choice of a garage to do that at is apparently closed for vacation....just for the record, we chose it because it has done the work on both vehicles recently, so at least if they tell me something needs done, I can believe it. That's ok, I can hit them on a day off next week, if I have one....store manager going on vacation now, so we'll see....
Overnighted copy of Ben's birth certificate to him in CT, so he will have it when he gets on the plane in NY in a couple of weeks to come home...The airline said since he is underage he does not have to have a photo ID, but the birth certificate could be helpful just in case there are questions...I am slowly putting his room back together after cleaning it inside and out a few weeks ago in search of his student ID....that in and of itself is a tale of sheer frustration and just complete astonishnment at the things I found....nothing illegal or contraband, but petrified sandwiches, pop bottles/cans, and all sorts of clothes.....just the short list.....I have to put pillowcases on his pillows and get the 10 loads of clothes I washed put back in his room....he gets to sort the boxes and totes when he gets home---we took 3 big hefty bags of trash out of there and 2 big bags of pop cans.....Shellie helped and as bad as her room gets--at least it's just junk...she was pretty disgusted, too.....
The girls and Ron and I went to see the 6th Harry Potter movie, and if you are a Facebook friend, you already know my opinion.....It really was not a bad movie, but if you are looking at it through the eyes of one who has read the book several times, it is a disappointment. There was so much that was cut out....personally I would rather it have run an hour longer and shown the parts that would have tied it together better than have a shorter version and miss so much....Chris and Ben saw it the weekend it came out, and they were disappointed also...there were no apparation lessons---vital in the next movie----no funeral for the headmaster...the look into Voldemort's past was nowhere deep enough to explain his origins.....just for starters...but we did have fun as a family....
I haven't watched the news at all this week...so other than the blurbs across the top of my computer screen, I have no clue as to what has been going on.....this is my de-stress week....I have noticed that the "cash for clunkers" program that the govt and the car dealers have been hyping so hard the last week is going to be shut down for lack of funds......ok, duh, who did not see that one coming....even I who will drive a car into the ground before even considering trading it in was thinking about checking it out......I mean heck, I only got a one year sticker for my license plate because who knows if it'll last that long--the thing is a '99, which makes at at least 10 years old, depending on date of manufacture...Ron's truck, a '98, is actually 12 yrs old b/c it was made in '97.......
And the rain continues to fall.....I set the alarm this morning so we could get up and drive to Parkersburg to hit the big craft mall and surrounding quilt stores....but with the raifall we have had overnight and into this morning, we cancelled that....maybe try again tomorrow, or maybe just head for Jackson, OH for Guhl's later, who knows........I've got one more vacation in about 3 weeks, so maybe try then before school starts the 26th....
Chris and I had a talk Tuesday morning about the whole college thing....he is adamant that he is not even applying to Marshall, but he did stand up to his dad on the whole AP class thing...his dad wanted him to drop the AP classes this year so he could get his GPA up by taking easier classes...Chris told him he has already got the books, done the summer reading and was not dropping the AP courses..he had already pared his schedule so that he could concentrate more on his AP classes instead of trying to pass other stuff too.....and he told his dad that he already carried a 3.8 pretty consistently, which is a damn good GPA for how he has struggled at times....He is aware that his GPA is no guarantee of college money, but he also knows that dropping back to a "normal" schedule would not help either---colleges look at the courses you take, not just the grade in them......
Shellie finished her pastel pink quilt top Wednesday, and I got it quilted last night, jsut have to bind it today....she also has helped me finish the red/white/blue pinwheel quilt....she sorted the blocks into rows for me to sew, which really did decrease my time in doing it....I didn;t have to take the time to sort between each row---I just sewed it the way she handed it to me......it is definitely colorful......now I have a quilt to make for her out of hot pink/black/assorted other colors...more in tune with the tween she is becoming.....she is at such a funky stage---she is very much a little girl, but she tries to emulate the older girls--at least to the degree we let her.....there is a lot about her older sisters we don;'t even let her know about, but the nail polishes and stuff is fairly harmless....we try to watch her music-Kate is real fond of sharing her Ipod with her, and I have to stop her and question what is actually on the player......but the tyring to be older stuff is fairly normal....we just try to stop the worst of it for the moment......at least Ron and I are united in what we will allow and what we won't and that will be a big help as she gets older and tests her boundaries further....
Shellie has been a pretty good kid this week...she misses her brothers a lot, so I have made sure she has talked to at least one of them, if not both, each time I do. She likes to play with the neighbor girl who is in her grade at school, so they spend quite a bit of time floating between the two houses.....I like to see her have a girl playmate....her cousin Erin and she don't get a whole lot of time together, and most of the girls around here, while nice, are a little older and either don't have the patience to deal with the younger girls or already have their "set"...yeah you know how that goes....they all get along, but.....Amber is a nice girl...she and Shellie both have that "I want to play what I want to play" mindset at times.....and both sets of parents are about equally matched in what we expect of our kids behavior-wise....and how we get there.......
well, the sky is finally starting to lighten, so I guess I'll go to WVdot and ODOT to see how the roads are and then go wake my hubby up to see what he wants to do.....
later, gators.....
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