Welcome back Julie!

A girlfriend who is a Junior!!  Wow, must make Parrish feel pretty good :)  I can't even imagine Carter with a girlfriend let alone an "older woman"!!  I just got back from shopping with a friend and her almost 15 year old daughter who is best friends with the girl we carpool to school with.  We were talking about having this girl go to some of the Carter's school dances since the school she goes to is so small, they don't have any.  They were talking about having the other girl fix her up with a guy friend from school so she could go and I said why doesn't she just go with Carter?  (unless of course she didn't want to) and she said it would probably be better to go with Carter since at least she would already know him.  I'm sure it would be a group thing so its not like they were really on a "date" or anything. Then we mentioned how she would be older and she said it would help Carter with his "man card".  (Never heard of that before).  It was fun shopping with them.  I was trying to figure out what her tastes were by pulling out things and asking her if she liked them. Most of the time, she would say "ewww".  She did end up with two dresses, a shirt and two skirts.  I think that was a successful day!

We had all gotten rooms at a local Holiday Inn last night for a "staycation" night.  Jim had wanted to take the train to New Orleans yesterday morning, spend the night, and come back today.  Just thinking about that wore me out so we went with the one night in a local hotel thing instead.  It was fun.  They have a real nice pool and hot tub.  We walked to Hooters earlier in the evening (kids eat free until 6 pm) then hit the hot tub and just hung out.  Next time we will need to bring Carter's friend Mason with us.  I think Carter would have enjoyed it more.  He did hang out with the girl I went shopping with a bit.  She has a little brother that gets a long great with Emerson so they had a great time.  He ended up spending the night in our room so they even had a "sleep over".  

Took Emerson to his new school on Friday.  He was very clingy and had a melt down Friday night telling me he didn't want to go to school there.  Bought his uniforms yesterday and he seemed excited about it.  Jim will be dropping him off until he starts his job because I know he will just play me with the crying and clinging.  (I'm such a cold mom).  I know most of it is just an act but it still gets to me (maybe I'm not so cold after all).

 

Told my bosses I wanted to go part time in January.  They are brainstorming trying to figure out how this is all going to work. We've discussed working from home in the afternoons and I said I would consider it but now that I have I don't think that will work since I'd end up working until 6 or 6:30 to put in the time.  I really don't think the owners would go for it anyway. Oh well, we'll see.  They don't want me to quit so hopefully something will work out.

Julie,  I went to the link about your friend, Erin's husband.  My cousin's best friend just had the bead liver treatment as well. How odd.  I had never heard of it and now know of two people who have had it.  I do not think she has had the second 1/2 done yet.  The first one was successful and has bought her some more time.  His blog was right, it is not a cure but a chance for longer life expectancy.  

Brenda