The view from my window.........bathroom window that is..............is of my back yard and beyond...........beyond being the high school parking lot.................T. and his friends are in that crowd of kids......................and E. is walking the path home......................wish I had a better camera and a great zoom lens!
It's the end of the day..................and this haggard and tired looking woman needs a picture for her blog. The cast she usually uses complains that she herself is seldom in the pictures. Well, there she is, trying to keep that other chin from showing.
J. is on the far right...........last one on the second row.
Even Dad's have to study sometimes. Especially if it has to do with work and benefits and all that kind of thing. I wonder if he studied this well in high school or college?
Today the sun was shining in honor of the start of Spring Sports. The boys Lacrosse team had a great turnout....hope they all last. Tonight we had to go to DAS to get everybody new cleats, socks and other lacrosse things. I spent a fortune! Even E. was excited as she has a new, young, talented coach.......who played at Notre Dame and CHS. T. is number 24 in this picture.
This crew is all ready to watch the Oscars. Sunday night, homework is done (I hope), and the weekend is over. These guys will find any excuse they can though to celebrate something.....even a TV show with movies most of them haven't seen........
8 CHS wrestler's got to go to Regionals today. T. , his best friend Harrison and one of the boys I work with, Tyrone, were in that lucky group. The Orange County High School gym was packed. The wrestling was incredibly sharp.........of course it's regionals.............but I got bleacher back and butt, so after 3 hours headed out....................Chris is still there cheering on the Black Knights!
J. can always be counted on to come check on you and see what you are doing. He is very curious and has lots of questions and thoughts.......................even on a quiet Friday night.
This is My Space............no, not the web site, it's where I do my computer work, tv watching, reading, sleeping, checkbook balancing.......sometimes..... Some studies say you should only sleep in your bedroom and nothing else. Your bedroom should be associated with sleep and then you will relax when you are in there and will sleep better. That may be true, but for me it's a place to be comfortable and warm. Sadly, it is never private as Chris comes in and is very loud and loves the tv on or the kids need something constantly..................but for now, it's the closest thing I have to quiet and comfortable.
This scar doesn't show up well in the picture, but several years ago J. had a UPJ obstruction and had to have the ureter cut and refastened to his kidney. Since then his kidney has been hyper extended and we have to go back to UVA Hospital for a yearly check. We are thankful for Dr. Roth and his staff, as some states don't even have a pediatric urologist and people have to travel quite far. We just go up the street. That being said, it's a pain to go and get the ultra-sound, sit and wait, see the Dr., sit and wait................and today was the worst..................but, I know this is important, so we go. I was under the impression J. would probably go yearly or so for the rest of his life.............but today they were so impressed with how things looked they released him forever.......We went to lunch to celebrate and J. missed a whole day of school.......his first this whole year. It was worth it!
This is where she lives...................and the stance she takes if you enter with a camera.
T and J snuggling last night............you can tell J loves his brother........
T. was sick last week and now I am.... He has been sweet to come and visit with me while I lay here........feeling like I'm dying........he doesn't miss his text messages though....as you can see.
He is 3rd in the district, but 1st in the house... He can conquer his brother and sister.
But this one really tried to get him, and got a wrestling lesson while he was trying.
The 2 videos below give you a snippet of the noise in our house all Sunday afternoon.
Is it Jackie O? or just a wanna be?..........or is it just the glasses? ............NO! instead of a guest blogger, it's a guest picture of my sister from the beach last summer.............little princess!!!
It's the night before Wrestling Districts and these 2 guys are relaxing and waiting for dinner.........steaks on the grill...........and chocolate cake.... I now have the bad head cold everybody else has had..........and am doing nothing the rest of the weekend.........after J.'s basketball game tomorrow that is.
This picture was taken last Fall at E.'s confirmation at church. We all look happy and like we love each other...........which we do, but don't always show it. Happy V. Day!
This is what J. and I made this afternoon for our family .................after we started making them, he decided he wanted to take some to his class tomorrow.........thankfully, I had a smaller heart cookie cutter to make the dough go farther.
T. hurt his neck wrestling.......therefore the ice.......E. went snowboarding yesterday, youth group last night..............and school all day....she is out of it.....................E.P. looks raring to go do something.....
T.'s buddy Justin moved a few years ago to Norfolk......we ALL cried.... T. has 2 friends I love like my own boys...........Justin and Harrison. I was so sad to see Justin move, so am happy whenever we get the chance to visit with him. He showed up today while T. was asleep in his incredibly messy room..........Justin walked in and said "looks like some things never change".. I hope they will always be friends........they just left to go eat at the Riverside...........their favorite hamburger place we always took them.
I wonder who he is talking too? It certainly isn't his Mother!
I took my friend Sheryl to Panera for her birthday when who do I see? My daughter with her Young Life leader having lunch........She looks much happier in this picture than the previous one I took.
T. and E. were nice enough to come to J.'s basketball game.............but E. isn't happy about having her picture taken.
If I am sitting on my bed relaxing.......on the computer or watching T.V., this is the monkey child that comes in and is practically on top of me if he is bored or nothing better is going on..................or like tonight....he needs to go to bed.
It really was pretty, but in Virginia it's hard to get the big sky effect that we get in Oklahoma. The weather has been unusually warm, but today was a bit colder. The sky looked like Spring though.
This scene plays out at our house often..........a Sorry game going on. Usually it is Chris, Me, and J. It can get quite competitive for such a simple little game.......
What a fun surprise to see a picture of T. in the Newspaper in the Sports section this morning.
