Yes, um well maybe if they say we must!!!!!!!!
yep that is the general concensus.
Ole Isaac cannot make up his mind, although i thought trying to crash the convention was a good one!!
So we wait to hear if friends and family will make the journey northward.
C played more volleyball in one week than she had played in 3 weeks last yr.
The hutchison game was WILD. There is a line judge on each end of the court on opposite sides...so they can look down the line and watch the baseline.....well the fellow on the opposite side of the court ruled on a ball and the ump/ ref took his word///the sparks just kept flying.
the varsity ended up winning but the wshs coach was repremanded.....
hopefully we will NEVER see them again the (refs)
3 more games this week...cannot wait to see what pops up next.
My 35 yr high school reunion is sept 15th. amazing!
my 9 yr anniversary is sept 12th...kevin's b.d. awesomely amazing!!
later, c
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
We're ALMOST back to school
School starts for Parrish on Tuesday, Belle on Wednesday. It will be nice to have more of a schedule, but I have enjoyed this summer. Belle is starting at the 'big' school in Manchester (the public elementary/middle school). I say 'big' because it has around 450 kids from PreK to eighth, but it's big for us. I will admit, I am the one having a hard time with it. I am going to miss having her a quarter mile from home. Manchester is a 20 minute drive. It's kinda what you get when you live in almost the middle of nowhere, Brenda are you nodding your head? Although I am sure that the development has really moved out your way.
I am working, we absolutely can't afford for me not to. It is such an interesting (to say the least) situation that I could write an entire book. I am basically a house cleaner/personal assistant/etc. for a reclusive multi-millionaire genius inventor who lives in a hunting shack on forty acres with more ammunition, guns and provisions than you could imagine. Guess where we're going if the shit ever hits the fan? I have done several commercial landscape designs for one of the US Lawns branches in Connecticut this past month, hopefully more will follow. I will also work at the mountain this winter I think - my eighth season. Can you believe it?
I've had a pensive night. I read this quote from Christopher Hitchens which I love and aspire to:
THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS
THERE ARE ONLY STUPID ASKERS OF QUESTIONS t rothschild
…YOU GOTTA KNOW WHEN TO HOLD 'EM
KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM
KNOW WHEN TO WALK AWAY
KNOW WHEN TO RUN… k. rogers
A GOOD TITLE FOR A COUNTRY AND WESTERN SONG-"VALUEJET TO MEMPHIS"
So, I started my own quote list on my computer...I think you should too, not to be bossy. I love quotes. I wish my dad had, but he said them so often, I feel like they are a part of me. Those and his favorite songs.
Sending lots of love to you all...
I am working, we absolutely can't afford for me not to. It is such an interesting (to say the least) situation that I could write an entire book. I am basically a house cleaner/personal assistant/etc. for a reclusive multi-millionaire genius inventor who lives in a hunting shack on forty acres with more ammunition, guns and provisions than you could imagine. Guess where we're going if the shit ever hits the fan? I have done several commercial landscape designs for one of the US Lawns branches in Connecticut this past month, hopefully more will follow. I will also work at the mountain this winter I think - my eighth season. Can you believe it?
I've had a pensive night. I read this quote from Christopher Hitchens which I love and aspire to:
| My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, anyplace, anytime. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass. |
Not.even.close.to.this
But, it made me remember the list of quotes that aunt found on my Uncle Tony's computer after he died three years ago & how awesome it was to have. There are thirteen pages of them, I reread them tonight - These are some of my favorites, actually most of them are my favorites, but I can't cut and paste forever and really...how much do y'all all want to read? He was a helicopter fighter pilot in Vietnam, so many of them are related to that. But they are intermingled so much with my dad. So many of them are his favorites...some are attributed to him. They were both wonderful, loving, great men apart but together they were SPECTACULAR. I miss them.
GOD IS MY CO-PILOT. HOWEVER, I'VE FOUND FROM PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE THAT MY CO-PILOT LEAVES A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT OF IT UP TO ME sign in a ready room at whiting field
I WILL FIGHT NO MORE FOREVER chief joseph
THERE ARE ONLY STUPID ASKERS OF QUESTIONS t rothschild
KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN AND YOUR TURNS UP wish for a combat helicopter pilot
…I SHALL BE TELLING THIS WITH A SIGH
SOMEWHERE AGES AND AGES HENCE:
TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A WOOD, AND I-
I TOOK THE ONE LESS TRAVELLED BY,
AND THAT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. r frost 1916
recently found underlined in a text book from 1960
KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM
KNOW WHEN TO WALK AWAY
KNOW WHEN TO RUN… k. rogers
PEOPLE WHO SAY "THAT BEING SAID" ARE USUALLY ASSHOLES FULL OF SELF-SERVING SHIT
rothschild
j, s, & t rothschild while waiting in atlanta for a valuejet to memphis
(on the way to my wedding....)
So, I started my own quote list on my computer...I think you should too, not to be bossy. I love quotes. I wish my dad had, but he said them so often, I feel like they are a part of me. Those and his favorite songs.
Sending lots of love to you all...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Full speed ahead
Wow!
2 weeks into school and I am in shock!
Crazy schedule.
School make the paper in the WRONG way.(Julie see CA sunday for Goeff Calkins piece)
Volleyball games that last 4 hours.
ok, when we were kids my mom worked , got FOUR children from home in the morning to school ANDevents after school while my dad traveled each day from sunup to sundown to
work. I cannot remember missing dinner AND staying up late to do homework.
Corinne has 4 games this week. 2 at the high school, one at st benedict,(will do my best to get there brenda) and one at hutchison.
BUT WAIT ....saturday is a tournament!!!
On the day the freshmen play (with the j.v. and Varsity) it can be a 4 hr stint. fr play best 2 of 3, j.v plays best 2 of 3 but Varsity plays best 3 of 5!!
The girls must stay for all 3 teams to cheer them on. C and I got home at 8:45 last night. she said she did not have any homework...rare occasion.
whew!!
Kevin is signed up for algebra 1. welllll he had decide it is too much work so he wants out!!
"it takes too long to do the homework, mom!!
and all the other kids had ms beck and are really ahead of me....SO, catch up, stay after school!!
he has not had a decent math class in 3 yrs. finally some real homework like c has had for the past 3 yrs.
need to go wake the troops.
later,
c
Friday, July 27, 2012
Howdy
Glad you had a good vacation, Carole. BTW, I saw on the St. Benedict calendar that the Freshman Volleyball team plays White Station on 8/22 at home. That's Corinne's team, right? We'll plan to be there if that's the case. Let me know.
Headed to KY lake (only two hours to the part we're going to) with our friend Genie and family this afternoon returning Sunday. Then I plant to drive to my Mom's with the boys on Monday. My brother and his wife will be there. I considered making Jim drive back with our friends on Sunday and just heading to Indy from there, but I think it will be too complicated. What's another 2 hours on the road anyway? The van just turned 350,000 miles. Go Dodge!!
Jim wants to go to CA before school starts. Once I get back from my Mom's it may be a possibility. Fed Ex employees get major discounted airfare with Delta and Air Trans (American once you've been there longer). We had forgotten about that. You do have to fly stand by though. The travel agent said it may take two days since there are four of us, but she was confident we would get there (and back). Jim thinks it sounds like an adventure. If I can just tone down my control freak personality, it would be fun.
Off to clean the pool and go to the grocery to stock up for the weekend. Enjoy!!
Brenda
Headed to KY lake (only two hours to the part we're going to) with our friend Genie and family this afternoon returning Sunday. Then I plant to drive to my Mom's with the boys on Monday. My brother and his wife will be there. I considered making Jim drive back with our friends on Sunday and just heading to Indy from there, but I think it will be too complicated. What's another 2 hours on the road anyway? The van just turned 350,000 miles. Go Dodge!!
Jim wants to go to CA before school starts. Once I get back from my Mom's it may be a possibility. Fed Ex employees get major discounted airfare with Delta and Air Trans (American once you've been there longer). We had forgotten about that. You do have to fly stand by though. The travel agent said it may take two days since there are four of us, but she was confident we would get there (and back). Jim thinks it sounds like an adventure. If I can just tone down my control freak personality, it would be fun.
Off to clean the pool and go to the grocery to stock up for the weekend. Enjoy!!
Brenda
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
checking in
hi again,
we are back!!
a driving marathon it was. charleston/jekyll island/navarre beach.
we left on friday the 13th...true to its name...it STORMED on the way to atlanta, so we stopped
outside birmingham.
saturday we finally made it to charleston. Lots of history and LOTS of walking, despite the fact that they have a free trolley system in the old sections.
we ate seafood...not superior like N.O.,la but pretty good.
we visited the Yorktown carrier, Fort Sumpter, Magnolia plantation ( it has a swamp with many many alligators. Keith took K and C to the aquarium while I went to a museum.
The last day we took a walking tour ( we were his only clients that afternoon!!)
got to see and old theatre that had been a hotel, and a REALLY old church.
beautiful wood and tiffany glass.
Corinne and I found time to get some shopping in too.
jekyll island was hot and had many mosquitoes waiting for us.
another private tour of a wooded area .this guy had props...maps and animal specimens as show and tell. Next on to the turtle preserve/hospital. Then on to the water park...we were there ~2 hrs and had to evac due to a water spout over the bay/marsh area.
we dressed and drove on to Navarre beach by way of Jacksonville.
we stopped to eat dinner at a hole in the wall. GREAT fried shrimp...20-25 huge shrimp on the two platters.
navarre was relaxing...sand and more sand.
Keith went fishing...caught a sunburn.
we got back home sunday night.
We all had our moments, but on the whole we enjoyed the trip.
Corinne has volleyball each morning then choir camp.
kevin goes to choir camp 1/2 day
next week is their last hurrah then AUG 6th is school.
sad that it has passed so fast.
Julie I am so sorry for your friend and the family.
I also am assuming thane has a new job/territory.
Glad you are able to stay near Dartmouth for Belle.
r u working or not?
Brenda we too are feeling out of touch with family.Our big Italian family spent EVERY weekend with my mom's family on sat and dad's family on sunday when i was growing up.
I am rather envious of my mom's brother's kids...they see each other several times a week, go to church together and their kids go to school together!!...even better Keith has a brother in the same town and HIS children see my cousins' kids at school and church.
Keith's nephew went to a prom with my cousins' daughter.
my dad's family goes to church and school with this crowd!!
my kids are missing out on a lot of family time.
That was one of the reasons we went to florida during this trip.
Keith's brother was already there and his sisters and dad and other brother planned to be there.
A big thankyou to cari for watching the Lizard and going to get
more crickets!!
goodnight
c
we are back!!
a driving marathon it was. charleston/jekyll island/navarre beach.
we left on friday the 13th...true to its name...it STORMED on the way to atlanta, so we stopped
outside birmingham.
saturday we finally made it to charleston. Lots of history and LOTS of walking, despite the fact that they have a free trolley system in the old sections.
we ate seafood...not superior like N.O.,la but pretty good.
we visited the Yorktown carrier, Fort Sumpter, Magnolia plantation ( it has a swamp with many many alligators. Keith took K and C to the aquarium while I went to a museum.
The last day we took a walking tour ( we were his only clients that afternoon!!)
got to see and old theatre that had been a hotel, and a REALLY old church.
beautiful wood and tiffany glass.
Corinne and I found time to get some shopping in too.
jekyll island was hot and had many mosquitoes waiting for us.
another private tour of a wooded area .this guy had props...maps and animal specimens as show and tell. Next on to the turtle preserve/hospital. Then on to the water park...we were there ~2 hrs and had to evac due to a water spout over the bay/marsh area.
we dressed and drove on to Navarre beach by way of Jacksonville.
we stopped to eat dinner at a hole in the wall. GREAT fried shrimp...20-25 huge shrimp on the two platters.
navarre was relaxing...sand and more sand.
Keith went fishing...caught a sunburn.
we got back home sunday night.
We all had our moments, but on the whole we enjoyed the trip.
Corinne has volleyball each morning then choir camp.
kevin goes to choir camp 1/2 day
next week is their last hurrah then AUG 6th is school.
sad that it has passed so fast.
Julie I am so sorry for your friend and the family.
I also am assuming thane has a new job/territory.
Glad you are able to stay near Dartmouth for Belle.
r u working or not?
Brenda we too are feeling out of touch with family.Our big Italian family spent EVERY weekend with my mom's family on sat and dad's family on sunday when i was growing up.
I am rather envious of my mom's brother's kids...they see each other several times a week, go to church together and their kids go to school together!!...even better Keith has a brother in the same town and HIS children see my cousins' kids at school and church.
Keith's nephew went to a prom with my cousins' daughter.
my dad's family goes to church and school with this crowd!!
my kids are missing out on a lot of family time.
That was one of the reasons we went to florida during this trip.
Keith's brother was already there and his sisters and dad and other brother planned to be there.
A big thankyou to cari for watching the Lizard and going to get
more crickets!!
goodnight
c
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Another Week Has Passed
Hey Ladies!!
Thanks for the updates (minus Cari, of course). She is still reading though. I did actually spend the afternoon with Cari last week. It was good catching up. The boys will get together one day this week as well. We had planned on seeing a lot of each other this summer but last week was the first. Once we got our calendars together we realized June was out of the question!! School will be upon us shortly so July seems to be it for this year! My boys don't start back until 8/16 which seems kind of late but I'm not going to argue about it.
Emerson did well in his first week of swim lessons. There are only four boys and the other three are almost always late, so he gets individual attention for about 5 minutes or so each day. Why you would spend $80 on lessons and show up late is beyond me. I heard one mother say it is just hard to get up (the lessons are at 9:45)!! The lessons continue this week as well and I have Carter signed up for a jazz/rock band camp at St. Benedict. We will be spending the mornings in Cordova then go home after dropping Carter off just to go back three hours later. Oh well, the life of living in the boonies!!
I had forgotten Carole was headed for Charleston and texted her to meet us at the drive in on Friday night. She was already headed out of town. We didn't end up going, but did go on Saturday night to see Ice Age. It was actually chilly. Hard to believe after over 100 degree weather previously. I would like the heat wave again myself. Let us know how it went, Carole.
Julie, sorry to hear motherhood is being so hard on you lately. Hope it all works out with Parrish. Where are you considering boarding school? I'm assuming Thane changed jobs or at least territories. Wasn't he in the Atlanta area previously? I had it in my mind you were considering moving back there but that may just be my old mind showing its age. It is refreshing to take vacations away from hometowns. I do not think we will be going to Virginia to visit Jim's family this year. I invited them down here instead and his Mom, Sister, and her two boys came. We had a blast. His sister hadn't been here for 11 years. His Mom came with her husband fall 2009. I just got tired of going there at least once if not twice a year for the last 27 years. Besides, the vacation budget is just about at zero! I am sorry to hear about Todd. Obviously your trips to Atlanta were not vacations. I know what you mean about the death thing. I think it comes with our age (although you are a lot younger than I am). I have just one uncle left plus my Mom to represent my parent's generation and obviously no grandparents, great aunts, uncles etc. Then when you throw in someone as young as Todd it just makes it worse. I think we just have to look at our kids to help us out. I told my boys to live close to each other and have as many kids as they could (perhaps the Catholic school exposure will help on that front) :) I only have two cousins and we are not close. I hope that is not the case for their children. They have quite a few cousins but they are spread out between Texas and Virginia so they aren't close either. Jim's sister's kids are the closest in age and we do see them the most so hopefully they will keep in touch as they get older. Jim and I were discussing how families used to stay in close proximity to each other years ago but that is no longer the case. We blame college. You meet people from different areas and obviously receive opportunities to move other places to be successful so that is what you do. So we're back to spending vacations visiting family instead of finally making it to see the Giant Redwoods in CA. (Oh well, maybe next year).
Keep on Keepin' On!!
Brenda
Thanks for the updates (minus Cari, of course). She is still reading though. I did actually spend the afternoon with Cari last week. It was good catching up. The boys will get together one day this week as well. We had planned on seeing a lot of each other this summer but last week was the first. Once we got our calendars together we realized June was out of the question!! School will be upon us shortly so July seems to be it for this year! My boys don't start back until 8/16 which seems kind of late but I'm not going to argue about it.
Emerson did well in his first week of swim lessons. There are only four boys and the other three are almost always late, so he gets individual attention for about 5 minutes or so each day. Why you would spend $80 on lessons and show up late is beyond me. I heard one mother say it is just hard to get up (the lessons are at 9:45)!! The lessons continue this week as well and I have Carter signed up for a jazz/rock band camp at St. Benedict. We will be spending the mornings in Cordova then go home after dropping Carter off just to go back three hours later. Oh well, the life of living in the boonies!!
I had forgotten Carole was headed for Charleston and texted her to meet us at the drive in on Friday night. She was already headed out of town. We didn't end up going, but did go on Saturday night to see Ice Age. It was actually chilly. Hard to believe after over 100 degree weather previously. I would like the heat wave again myself. Let us know how it went, Carole.
Julie, sorry to hear motherhood is being so hard on you lately. Hope it all works out with Parrish. Where are you considering boarding school? I'm assuming Thane changed jobs or at least territories. Wasn't he in the Atlanta area previously? I had it in my mind you were considering moving back there but that may just be my old mind showing its age. It is refreshing to take vacations away from hometowns. I do not think we will be going to Virginia to visit Jim's family this year. I invited them down here instead and his Mom, Sister, and her two boys came. We had a blast. His sister hadn't been here for 11 years. His Mom came with her husband fall 2009. I just got tired of going there at least once if not twice a year for the last 27 years. Besides, the vacation budget is just about at zero! I am sorry to hear about Todd. Obviously your trips to Atlanta were not vacations. I know what you mean about the death thing. I think it comes with our age (although you are a lot younger than I am). I have just one uncle left plus my Mom to represent my parent's generation and obviously no grandparents, great aunts, uncles etc. Then when you throw in someone as young as Todd it just makes it worse. I think we just have to look at our kids to help us out. I told my boys to live close to each other and have as many kids as they could (perhaps the Catholic school exposure will help on that front) :) I only have two cousins and we are not close. I hope that is not the case for their children. They have quite a few cousins but they are spread out between Texas and Virginia so they aren't close either. Jim's sister's kids are the closest in age and we do see them the most so hopefully they will keep in touch as they get older. Jim and I were discussing how families used to stay in close proximity to each other years ago but that is no longer the case. We blame college. You meet people from different areas and obviously receive opportunities to move other places to be successful so that is what you do. So we're back to spending vacations visiting family instead of finally making it to see the Giant Redwoods in CA. (Oh well, maybe next year).
Keep on Keepin' On!!
Brenda
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