Just A Moment To Catch Up!

June 28, 2010

I decided I would take just a moment to catch up on this blog thing today. I still haven't managed to get Dad to take the solos at recital off the camera, so you will still have to keep practicing patience! May I can get him to do it tonight while I watch the Bachelorette....who knows what he has planned!

I went to the diabetes doctor today....we are FINALLY getting everything where it needs to be. It's been a VERY LONG three months. Just some minor adjustments this time. That should make changing things a bit easier. Some days I feel like I have been through the ringer lately while we adjusted everything constantly.

I clipped a bunch of coupons after church yesterday...now I just need to file them and send them to the kids. AND I have some surprises for the GRANDBABIES!!!! YEAH!!!

Cymbre has made a pair of shorts this past week....she still wants to make some more, but we have to stop and make Cooper's for camp. Since Cooper is still not up to par from her staph infection, Cymbre is going to make some for Cooper while I make others. Camp is next week.

Cooper didn't make it to EFY this week...she has been home on the couch for a week with this staph and fungus thing going on, and the medicine made her throw up constantly. Finally got the doctor to give her something to settle her stomach, and now at least she can eat a bit. She still doesn't have much energy, but the infection and fungus appear to be getting better. She has been MISERABLE!!! The EFY people are trying to get her in the San Antonio session, but we have to wait until Thursday to find out if they have a spot....everybody say your prayers. She does have some friends going to that one.

I have been busy getting the curtains done for above the front door to block some of that afternoon sun blazing in, and we got them done and up. Now I just have to paint the wooden hearts to hang down from the middle...it will look GREAT when I get everything done.

Dad is still dealing with Kristin about getting our money back....I knew she wouldn't mail the check like she said she would. Just another lie!

I fixed the elastic in the red dress for Baby Eden to borrow. Now I just have to add it to her next goodie box. Then when she outgrows it, Shyla will send it back for other grandbabies to wear. It's sort of a dress lending library we have going here.

Cymbre is starting to plan her birthday party....she has invitations written out, we just have to decide on the time. Then they will all get mailed. She is excited that she will FINALLY get out of primary with this birthday. She is anxious to be in Young Women's with Cooper. I am glad she will be leaving primary....it's just an unreverent circus in our ward.

I started cleaning out the baskets on the corner of Dad's desk. What a job! I just think people in China add papers in those things! I almost have them down to containable size again though.

We have the dance situation sorted out, and the girls are registered for the summer. Now Ms. Andee will find some time to start working on the solos, and we can get back to the dance routine in the fall. What a mess that has been! The new director seems nice and willing to work with us, so we will see. Kristin seemed nice at the beginning too.

Cymbre's knee is progressing, although when they try harder exercises for therapy, it still gives her problems. Jeff says we are in a holding pattern for a few weeks while she builds up some endurance. To help with that, Dad has been taking her running with him. She rides her bike and carries the water, and he runs. I haven't figured out who is helping who....guess it really doesn't matter though. Her therapist wants me to take her swimming. He doesn't know how much I dislike sitting at the swimming pool!

We skyped Baby Jack the other week, and IT WAS SO FUN! Talked to Eden just the other night...Shyla says she is always babbling, but we haven't heard much.....although she does smile at us now. This Grandma thinks skyping to WONDERFUL! We need to do it again....

Shyla and Russell are moving back to Utah...he's taken a new job. That will make seeing all the grandbabies easier I must admit! I wish they lived closer, but those daddy's have jobs in other states....and we are grateful for that!

I guess my moment has turned into a few minutes....so I guess I will go get busy with something else.

Remember to do something nice for someone today....the Savior will appreciate your efforts.

Love you all bunches and bunches. Give those grandbabies kisses from grandma and grandpa and the aunties.

What Flower Would I Be?

June 22, 2010

So the gnat war stands as follows: Mom one, gnats ZERO! Did you know that vacumning up the gnats when they are mid-flight creates little gnats flying around like lightening bugs in jars, but it's inside the vacumn. Dad will have to deal with that issue later....at least they are not FLYING around the laundry room! I guess that's better than half a lizard....he's dealt with that before too!

Ok, so the kids have been on my case lately because I haven't written a "funny" blogpost in a long time. Maybe it's because things haven't been too funny around here.....duh! However, today as I was throwing away the dead flowers outside....it's gotten to HOT for some of the little darlings, I was thinking about what kind of flower I would be if I was a flower.

I like roses when Dad brings them to me, but I really don't think I would like to be a rose since they have so many thorns...that and Bougainville (those thorns are a good inch long) are beautiful flowers. However, because of the thorns, they seem a bit grumpy to me. I just don't think I would want to be a grumpy flower. Those thorns could be scary in a dark alley! And carnations seem a bit wrinkled to me. They have ruffely edges, but I think I want to be something more precise. They must be an old flower....smell good though. Since I don't like being called old, they aren't for me. Poppies are pretty, bright flowers with a dark center, but they can get in you trouble with the law....so count me out of that one too. Although I do know several lawyers, and a judge! There's the dandylions, but people just think they are pests, and they really don't look too much like a Grandma kind of flower. And the marigolds last a long time, but then shrivel up and die way to soon for my liking. And have you ever seen a blue marigold? My personality isn't orange or yellow!
Geraniums are sort of like me....maybe....a little rufflely around the edges, but a strong stem, and come in a variety of colors. I prefer the hot pink one though.....guess that just fits me. Everyone says I look good in hot pink....maybe they are just leading me on though. There's the petunia, but they get so sticky when they are dying back, and I just don't like sticky situations. Call me crazy! The sunflower is a good sturdy flower, but it is always turning it's head to follow the sun, and it seems to me that could cause a tremendous headache....and since I get enough of those...I think I will just leave it at that. And I think that would cause some tremendous wrinkles in the neck, and have you ever heard of a sunflower getting botox? Cymbre has this purple bubble looking flower in her garden, and some bright red pointy things....but neither of those seem to fit me either.....the bubble ones attrack to many bugs, AND I HATE BUGS! AND I am not a bubble head...no big hair for me. The red pointy things look like a flower wearing a dunce cap, and I just refuse to go there. Tulips are wonderful, but they become floppy after a day or two, and I have enough floppy parts anyway! We don't need to go there! Daffodils are cool, but they never seem to have a face....and who wants to be faceless forever. I do like the crinkled edges they have though. But who wants to look in the mirror everyday and have no face? How could I be a recognized famous dance costume designer and not have a face? Pansies are fun, they have faces....but I like to stand up for what I believe in too much to be called a pansy...guess I better keep looking! Daisies are fun, but I don't think I would be able to keep all my petals standing up pretty all the time....I mean, when do you relax your petals? And I think I would want more than two leaves. Two leaves aren't very many clothes for a long stem, if you know what I mean. People are always looking at you. What happens if your petal falls alseep...do you go to flower prison? Is there some sort of terrible punishment? And they sometimes have a funny smell. I don't have a funny smell. I smell like RED DOOR perfume, and what flower would want to smell like a red door? How does a red door even smell to a flower? Dad likes the hybiscus flowers...they bloom all summer and they are really bright and beautiful. However, I don't like to live outside in the heat, and they like the sunshine. Guess that's not a good fit either. Orchids are wonderful, exotic, and VERY tempermental...my kids would say I am some days. Tempermental that is....Zinnias are cool, but there again we have the major petal problems! Maybe I am just not meant to be a flower...maybe being a people just fits me better...and have you ever seen a flower with brown hair, freckles, and wearing glasses?

After all this....why don't you guys get some beautiful flowers and take them to someone today.... it would be a good thing to do.

Remember that I love you....and GRANDMA loves those grandbabies......keep on skyping!

Mom

June 15, 2010



We have finally made the change to a new dance studio....and Ms. Andee is coming with us. She will be teaching the tap classes on Tuesday nights. The girls are thrilled, and it makes my day. I think she will still teach at Koenig also. Ms. Casey also told me she has no obligation to the old studio, so she is available to work on the pointe solos Cooper did last year and wants to finish this year. The director is contacting Mark Goodman about coming to use the studio, and that makes my day too. I have worked so hard to get him to come to Houston! I talked to his wife today, and told her they would be getting a call....of course, he is out of town. However, I will probably get a call from him later.

The girls are hoping to make some new friends quickly. We have also heard through the grapevine there are several girls leaving our past studios...I think that's interesting considering the reasons they are leaving.....

People should really learn to treat their customers with some respect and dignity, and provide equal services to all involved. Then customers will be happy, and might stick around longer. The longer I deal with dance studios, the more I see dishonesty, mistreating, favoritism, and in general disrespect....I just don't know how they expect to run a business based on those principles. It makes me so mad! If I had the money, I would open my own studio, and people would know the rules, there would be no hidden costs, or agendas, and all the dancers would be treated fairly and with respect. So would the parents. I think most of the dance directors think that the parents work for them, when in reality, since we are paying them, they really work for us! And they would do well to remember that when they want to cheat us, charge us too much, and not return money that belongs to us, and treat our kids like crap! And I really hate the "I am in charge, and you have to do what I say" attitude! Get over yourself!

At any rate, we will get to still do solos with Andee, and our duet....and the girls are very excited about that.

Cymbre is going to basically sit out this summer, just dancing here at home to try to get the foot and knees working better....those dumb tendons just don't want to work yet. So the foot doctor told her to just dance what doesn't hurt, and leave tap for a while.

Tomorrow is the put away costumes in storage day....I always love to get them all sorted out and put away. It seems that they just hang around all year....and I love to get a fresh start.

Cymbre and I went to the dentist....I don't need anything, but she has a chipped front tooth (who knows when it broke off....but the dentist is going to fix it. And no, we haven't beat her!), and she has a ridge in a tooth that is coming in that has a little cavity, so she has to get it fixed too. The dentist said the tooth would have gotten the cavity no matter how much she brushed her teeth just because of the shape of the tooth and how her gum lays over the ridge while it is coming in. GREAT! He said the one on the other side will do it too....

Cooper managed to get her contacts in rather quickly tonight....I think she enjoys them....they seem to make a difference in how she sees to dance, so I guess it's doing what she needs them to do. We are waiting to get her 90 day supply hopefully, later this week.

Guess that's about all the news for tonight....I'm glad some of the stress is taken care of finally....

Everyone remember to serve someone else this week.....I love you.

Mom

ONE MORE DAY!!!!

June 1, 2010

TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR THIS YEAR.....I AM SO EXCITED!!!!

I am SO TIRED of making school lunches every day...tired of the routine, up early, school, homework, dance, bath, bed day after day...tired of that stupid alarm going off at 6 am....tired of driving to school everyday just to sit in the parent drop off line FOREVER...tired of all the busy work projects teachers think up, and just plain tired!!

I guess you could say, we are totally ready for a long break at our house....

We are planning a quiet summer, I HOPE! Girl's camp, and EFY for Cooper, Summer dance classes for both of them, working on solos and the duet with Ms. Andee, and then a 2 week visit to Papa's house right before school starts, and then in September, a trip to Mark Goodman's master tap university. Also in there somewhere will be friends, a trip to Harwin street for jewelry, and who knows what else....sewing, scrapbooking, jammie days, swimming, making strawberry jam, JUST BEING LAZY....doing what we want to do when we want to.

Gary and Jean were here for the Memorial weekend, and we went to the aquarium on Monday. It was really fun, and we all decided that Baby Jack would have really thought it was neat. We even got brave and petted a shark, a crab, some prickly thing, and something else which I can't remember it's name. Dad saw his tigers, which were just laying there until one decided to show us his tonsils....and then we went for Pizza Hut buffet for lunch. Gary and Dad got a lot of little repair jobs done, and Aunt Jean took the girls shopping at Penneys. Everyone came home with something, even the great neice and nephew. I just have to get everything in the mail.

Cooper has been promised that she will return to school without her braces on her teeth....she is SO EXCITED. She has also earned her Young Women's medallion, and will receive it this Sunday.

Cymbre has her new glasses, and they are really cute....a purple frame....and she is feeling better now that she can actually see again out of the eye that was injured. It will always be more blurry than the other one, but we can deal with that....we are just grateful that she can see again. It fades in and out, but has always returned in about an hour, or if she just bumps her head very slightly....that's interesting to me. Dr. Lee told us it would probably do that for the next year or so.

Cymbre's knee has really progressed, and we may be attending our last physical therapy session this week.....that will be great. Jeff will send her home with the exercises she has to continue to do, and then if something happens, we will return to the doctor, and probably for more therapy. Those muscles have really responded well the last three weeks. THANK GOODNESS...she could use a bit of good stuff happening instead of the constant pain and suffering!

I showed off my grandma key chain again today...to Martha Herrera.....she is SO JEALOUS! She want's one too, but I told her she needs grandbabies before she gets one. Sister Mayo is totally jealous of my Grandma Brag Book too. I think I just may have the upper hand in the Grandma department for now anyway.

Just a few more weeks, and Cymbre will be done with Primary...she is SO READY!

Well, I have the curtains cut for above the front door to slow down the sunshine from coming in all afternoon....then maybe the air conditioner won't have to work so hard. So I think I will go iron them, and sew in the hems. Then Dad has to get his ladder out to hang them up....they are just going on a tension rod.

Guess that's about all the news for now....Grandma needs to skype the grandbabies again....

Go out there and do something totally unexpected for someone today....

Love you.

Mom