I'm Soooooooo Cold!!!

I want our very very mild winter back! Thank goodness none of that snow this morning stuck. I don't know if I'm going to make it through too many more winters!

Yes, Carole, we would love to come to Corinne's Hello Dolly musical. Give me the details! I will put it on my calendar tonight! I have gone back to the old fashioned day planner strategy. I would do pretty good if I just looked at it! I picked Emerson up from school the other day and started to head home knowing Carter was staying after for play practice then realized I was supposed to be bringing Lizzy home too! Poor girl. She seemed ok though. I hadn't gone that far but the gates were closed by the time I got back. I'm getting old!

Carole, I looked into the mud camp thing. My co-worker is sending her sons the last session since that is when their friends are going. Which sessions are Corinne and Abby working? I'll have to talk to Jim about Emerson and the summer soon. I've been putting it off although the other day he did mention that he knew I was working this summer. I thought he would try to re-negotiate that point.

Brenda

I miss ya'll!!

work is nice. different kind of busy. one hour is your limit..wake up, drink, get dressed and be gone!!!

Well, not really.. just seems so.

Basketball is over. Angie and I spent last friday night at lindenwood with 10 or so team members.

Basketball and roller skating in the gym, pizza then movies til 3:30A.

they had fun. C and I came home and went directly to bed for 3 hrs.

Then it was off to theatre class. Corinne and co. will have a performance on March 3rd.

Any takers?? She is singing Matchmaker , Matchmaker make me a match from Hello Dolly.

Yes brenda, we would love to came see carter in Alladin. A meanie...so out of character for him!!

Cari how goes it?? how is grant's foot?

We are stuck here for spring break...new job and everyone there with kids will not be working.

Yes , I do know one nurse from my st Francis hosp days.

later

c

Nice to Hear from Ya'll

Julie,

Don't worry about the Christmas cards. I was just kidding. I do think it's becoming a lost tradition though. I generally use a photo we have happened to have taken during the year, but if it gets to November and we don't have one, I do get kind of panicky. The one we took had to wait for Thanksgiving since the playground was by my Mom's house. We had taken a photo there years ago before Emerson was born. It was me, Jim and Carter and the fourth seat was empty. I have always wanted to go back and take one with Emerson filling in the last spot. Finally got the chance. It is the last photo in his "Emerson's Story" book that I made for him showing how he completed our family. He LOVED it.

Glad to hear Parrish is reading. I didn't realize he didn't dive into it beforehand like you do. Carter has actually stopped since he seems to be so busy with everything else. I think I'll make him go to the library again though. He would prefer computer games, I'm sure but once he gets back into it, he'll like it. Thanks for the inspiration!

Carole, Congrats on the new job. Guess our lunches will be a thing of the past. Hope things are going smoothly for you. Do you already know people there?

Work is going well and I'm getting in the swing of running the kids around after school. Carter got a part in the spring musical, Aladdin. He is Jafar, the villian. He was surprised he got it since he's not much of a singer. I've set up 4 voice lessons for him starting next Monday to help boost his confidence. He used to sing well so I'm sure he'll pick it up again. The teacher sounds like a piece of work so I'm interested in meeting her. Definitely a confident woman who doesn't mind telling you how great she is! She has made it quite clear she doesn't put up with tardiness so let's hope for no big traffic jams after school on Mondays! The play is the last weekend of March if anyone wants to come.

So, Carole, are you leaning towards White Station? Those AP stats sound great! Didn't realize you went to the St. Mary's open house. I know you had talked about it though. I think Maria's daughter, Lizzy will be going to St. Agnes. She said SBA was her second choice. Guess we find out all of that stuff come March. Got the letter about registration today for next year for Emerson. He's had a great few last days. Returning after Christmas was not good. I think his teacher was very frustrated with him. She is all smiles lately, thank goodness. I think we'll be doing the parent/teacher conference next month for him :)

Brenda

addendum...really need to watch the spelling and grammar

schnadelbachs

Bourbon street

Hello and Happy New Year !!

i welcomed the 53 rd birthday here in Memphis.

No fireworks this year. Corinne made me a special cake.

Penguins on a white cake with blue tic tacs for water!!

We spent some time in N.O. la. the younger schnadelbach's

finally go to see Bourban street... Juat as we decide er enough for now

some guy walks by in combat boots a tutu and a sequine bra!!

I am now employed full time at East Memphis Surgery Center

at walnut Grove and humphreys....in the same parking lot with

Baptist East, Wendy's and Hampton Inn.

40 hrs 8 -4:30. I will miss having a day off during the week and

more free time in the summer.

this is a good place to be right now...low stress.

working at 2 places was getting harder to do.

Corinne is seeing more playing time on the basketball court.

She is in the women's choir...we just found out that she can

go with the chamber choir to Florida this spring.

To Disney!! after the performance

Thursday night was open house at White Station High School.

Not the over the top that st Mary's put out but impressive just the same.

2200 students!! 5 languages 48 AP courses ?? or hrs available.

Kevin is tall...almost as tall as me!!

he has that boy smell requiring deodorant. somewhat of a hairy upper lip too.

He intends to tryout for the baseball team in 2 weeks.

I tried to tell him to find out what they do for conditioning and get started!!

we mourned to loss of LSU to Alabama... actually we mourned the no show of the coach and quarterback.. b/c that is what it seemed happened. and really want to know what happened to the person that consistently called bad plays.

well so long to the football season for the saints... they had a good run.

nuff for now

c

I couldn't do Christmas Cards...

Brenda, I am so sorry.  No Christmas cards came out of the Isaacs house this year.  The thought of trying to get a picture was overwhelming.  Next year I'm gonna get one in the summer....I hope.

We had a nice Christmas. Gennie was (and still is) here.  I didn't have to work nights which made me super-duper happy and we just hung out and had fun. 

I just got back from Atlanta to celebrate the first of my high school girls turning 40.  Also to spend time with Erin.  It looks as if Todd's cancer is speeding up alarmingly fast and they heartbreakingly had to answer the question from their six year old "Is daddy gonna die?".  Ugh.  Cancer just sucks.  I think we can all concur on that.

Belle started horseback riding on Friday, she goes during school for an hour lesson.  So that along with piano lessons and skiing has keep her pretty busy.  Parrish is still spending lots of time with his girlfriend Shannon, doing some snowboarding and finding ways to prove how disgruntled he is.  He is becoming a voracious reader (finally!!!YEAH!!!) and favors the authors of the beat generation - Ginsberg, Keroac, etc.  Not my cup of tea, but he is also reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood which is one of my favorite books.  It gives us something other than his messy room to talk about.

Beginning a New Year

Hello ladies,

I see everyone has been as busy as I have....or you've just lost interest. Too bad the Memphis Moms couldn't get together over Christmas break. Hope Grant is feeling better, Cari. Hope you enjoyed N.O. Carole.

Hey Julie, hope you had a great Christmas. Mom came down so she could be with the kids the first week of break. She stayed until 12/27 which was nice. We did a little bit of shopping on Monday 12/26. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm off this week which is very nice.

I have some returns to do, but actually did pretty well buying this year. Carter only asked for one thing (a Wii game that I had Mom get him) so all he got from Santa was mostly clothes. I told him if he didn't tell Santa what he wanted, Santa brought what he thought he needed. The jeans worked out great, Cari. I ended up getting Levi's 514 which are a slim cut (not skinny jeans though.....I couldn't get myself to purchase those for him). They look pretty good on him, but you were right.....it does seem to make him look even skinnier. I think we need to get him in some type of muscle building camp over the summer to see if we can beef him up. Still waiting for that eating frenzy to take hold that I always hear about with teenage boys.

Unfortunately, Carter's dog, Scruffy passed away on Christmas. We do not know why. He was perfectly fine the night before. We spent the morning in the house opening presents and the boys took a chew bone out to him that Santa left in his stocking around 10. I noticed that he didn't run up to them like he normally does. Carter walked the bone out to him. He took it and walked down the driveway, laid down and started chewing so I didn't think too much about it. That afternoon we went next door for dessert and he didn't come along like he usually does. Again, thought it was odd, but he seemed to be enjoying laying in the sun on the sidewalk so I didn't think too much of it. When we came back he had moved to the front of the garage, but was dead. I guess he must have gotten into something early in the morning or late the night before. Needless to say, I felt pretty bad about it. I've never been that crazy about the dog. He certainly had his problems, but dying at only around 5 or so years old just doesn't seem right. We had a hard time burying him because Jim and I both expected him to jump up and be fine. I wish I had checked him during the day when I thought he was acting odd. Don't know that it would have helped but it would have made me feel better. I don't feel like a very responsible pet owner, that's for sure. It's really odd coming up the driveway and not seeing him running up to greet me. Pets just break your heart, don't they?

Carter had four teeth pulled yesterday as part of his orthodontic work plus an additional 2 baby teeth that were no big deal. He bounced back amazingly fast. He was fine by the afternoon and eating like nothing had happened. I know Jim was really dreading it. He had he same thing done and had a very bad experience when he was a teenager. Luckily, that wasn't the case for Carter.

Emerson had a great Christmas and we enjoyed a couple of weeks of pretty good behavior. Had a bad day today, but hopefully those will diminish. His behavior is so connected to sleep. We've started putting him to bed earlier and I think that really helps. It may be a 7:30 night tonight though.

Hoping you guys get a chance to post soon. I would love to catch up. Hmmmmm I don't seem to have gotten Christmas cards from any of you. Am I just old fashioned?

Brenda