Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! I hope to take lots of pictures tomorrow as we will all be together.......which is rare anymore.

Emily made a decision and will be going to St. Andrews in Scotland for college. LOTS of emotions behind that for me this week as it was all settling in to reality. I think I want my 2 and 4 year old children back!!

no posts

I haven't posted for over a month. I was really going to be better this year, but I just can't. It is a tremendous time of stress in our house as one has come home from college and one is preparing to leave for college. The family dynamic thing is tense and hard. Lots of people going in different directions. Give me 8 year olds any day and I can parent..........18 and 20???? ugh! You basically have to "stay out of it" and just pray they make the right decisions. Poor Jakey just watches it all.........I also have had two friends lose children this past month. The pain of that is unbearable. The students I serve at school are either in some real trauma or homeless..........how do you convince people who have never had a work ethic to have one? that it can save their lives? I am amazed at the people who expect others to do for them.........we leave next week for St. Thomas and I just hope it is the much needed break we all need.

League Champions

Chris coaches Jake's basketball team..........they have gone undefeated all season and yesterday won the championships..........I put my camera and a fresh battery in my purse........and didn't take a single picture.........ugh!

Feb. Chaos

I don't know why I expect the winter months to be quiet and easier.......life still happens and it is messy as usual. I found myself in a situation this week I hope to have learned from.......hopefully it was painful enough that I did learn from it. I had told a colleague about a situation I was concerned about and didn't know what to think about and this person used that information inappropriately in a "slinging arrows" kind of way for personal gain..............which led to the vice president of another agency calling me to tell me they were firing somebody, a scapegoat in the situation. It all got so convoluted and out of hand...........all because of a concern that was brought to me that I shared with who I thought was a trusted colleague. After 3 hours of phone calls and conversations........and utter exhaustion, this poor single mom with a brain injury will NOT be fired, but what a mess. I had to tell this colleague how out of line she was, but in typical self righteous way of people who do these things............she has it all figured out how it was her "duty"..........anyway.......I also found an administrator in our building to be utterly useless.............which was not a good way to end the week. Here's to no more chaos and a long weekend.

Another Rec.

We rented such a great movie last night that we both liked! It's called "arranged" with Zoe Lister-Jones.........about two young teachers in Brooklyn, one Jewish and one Muslim, going through their families arranged marriages............so cute!

Happiness

I LOVE my life when I am reading a good book..........I have a stack from the library right now......LOVE my library.......reserve the book online, they email me when it is ready for pick up........they even take my suggestions and buy new books when they don't have the one I want........there is something very proper, old fashioned and soothing about going to the library and picking up my books..........can't explain it. Anyway, saw this book in Anthropologie and didn't want to buy it, although now I might because it is a keeper, so off I went to my library.........The Happiness Project..........it is so enjoyable and is full of great information from experts and great minds like G.K. Chesterton who said.............being heavy is easy, being light is hard.............the author even has a blog http://www.happiness-project.com/ . You must read her blog and her book..............great winter project.

Snow!

I saw this on Facebook and thought it was so funny. Not sure anybody in OK thinks it's funny anymore.......we had a horrible winter last year here in Virginia.........hang in there Oklahoma!!!!