My 2 Kids For Him

• May. 8, 2008 -

Dd's piano recital was tonight. Yay! One more thing off our countdown to summer freedom.:) Everyone played really well tonight. I thought I'd share a video of dd's 2 pieces she played. This first video was a duet she played with another girl. And this is sad, but right now I can't remember the name of it:) And this next video is her 2nd recital piece which I can't remember the name of it either:)) I'll try to come back and edit this post tomorrow with the name of the pieces. Anyway, you'll notice my camera (or me) kinda lost the subject that was being videoed for a few seconds:)) I was managing 2 cameras at one time. And a picture of dd with her piano teacher and her trophy she earned through the points system. She was actually only  5 points away from winning the 2nd place trophy. Hope you enjoy the videos. We came home to a bad hail storm and are currently still under a tornando watch. Here is what was on our deck to give you an idea..... I'm going to watch the weather for a few minutes. Good night:)

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• May. 4, 2008 -

Well, as of the last couple of days, my blood pressure readings are finally showing normal numbers. After about the first 5 days my Dr. doubled the dose and that seems to be working. We've been super busy, but things are drawing to an end. The only thing left is piano recital and dance recital. A few weeks ago was dd's homeschool choir performance. And last weekend I endured another dance competition. I say endured because I left my house at 6:30 am and returned at 10:00pm. And dd only had to dance ONE time. We had to wait until awards and then it was 1 1/2 hour drive home....in the rain at night I might add. I felt I had heard enough music and seen enough dancing to last me a lifetime:) Yesterday we spent the day at the lake with our church outing. It was a beautiful day, but my kids are suffering from all the pollen they inhaled all day yesterday. The sunburn is nothing compared to the allergies:(  My ds atayed in the canoe practically ALL day long. Needless to say, he went to sleep as soon as his head hit the pillow last night. Dh and ds got up at 6:30 to get there early and fish, but neither one caught a thing. Here is dd in the back paddle boat....she didn't want to attempt the canoe after seeing someone flip theirs two times....and yep, it was the same person both times:) We're back into babysitting full swing.....well full swing is 2 days a week for us:) Here is dd doing piano practice with her little helper....Isn't he a cutie. He loves the piano. And lastly ds's baseball season has come to an early end:(  We let him quit. Something we've never let our kids do before. They know if they ask to do something, they don't ask to quit. For some reason ds was very unhappy with ball this season. He had made this clear to us over and over and I told him if after 2 games he still felt the same he could quit. I told him this thinking he would love it once the games started and not mention quitting again. But I was badly mistaking. We tried to encourage him but we didn't feel we should make him play as unhappy as he was. Last season he absolutely loved it the whole time...never complained from the beginning to the end. Well that's what has been going on with us. The next 3 weekends will be busy too. And our homeschool conference is in less than 3 weeks now! Yay! I can't wait.....I'm still undecided on next years curriculum and hope to make a decision by then.

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• Apr. 19, 2008 -

• Apr. 10, 2008 -

We are looking so forward to being finished with school for the summer. Each day gets harder and harder to sit and do our work. At this time of year we seem to get slack in many areas of school. And testing....not looking forward to that either. The test arrived in the mail today so it will be happening in the next week or so. I just need to figure out a time frame when we can have 3 days with no distractions to complete them. Although I am excited and very much looking forward to the state homeschool convention in late May. This is such a busy time of year for us. With everything coming to an end for the summer comes with all the year end recitals/performances/competitions and the extra practices that are thrown in. Not to mention ds's baseball started 3 weeks ago @ 3 practices a week. After the month of May it should only be ball for ds and piano for dd and that will be a nice break:) Last weekend dd was in her first competition. She is taking a clogging competition class this year and she has really enjoyed it. We had to drive 2 hours for the competition, which turned into 3 hours coming home due to rain and several wrecks= very slow moving traffic. Here are a few pics from the competition.We are still trying to figure out how they did the awards, but they won the trophy for Gold. It was High Gold, Gold, Silver, then Bronze. They were given points and the points range determined which trophy was awarded. Dd has had many dance recitals, but the competition stuff was new to her and she really had a good time. They will be competing again the end of the month.

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• Apr. 3, 2008 -

I was just over at Letitia's blog reading her hysterical vacation story and thought I'd share mine:)  I believe it was the summer of 2002 when we took a four night camping trip to the beach. We had a decent size travel trailer and invited our good friends (I'll call them Sue and Tom) to come along and try out the world of camping. Our 2nd day there (actually our 1st full day) the 8 of us were riding our bikes back to the camper after swimming. Dh decides he wants to pass up the 4 kids and rushes forward with great speed only to be brought to a dead stop.....but in a very bad way. When we were leaving the pool, I placed his towel on his handle bars and told him to put it around his neck.....he didn't. The towel fell and wedged between the front tire and fender bringing him to a dead stop. He went airborne, doing a flip in the air, and landing on the back of his neck/head. We all quickly ran to check on him expecting to see a lot of blood, but there was only a small amount behind his ear and LOTS of scrapes all over his body. He wasn't getting up and kept sitting there like he was in deep thought or something. During this episode, Tom had stopped his bike and threw it to the side so fast, he messed up his bike. As he was checking on dh, his wife Sue almost faints thinking about how dh is going to be  like a vegetable and I'm going to have to raise the kids alone. So Tom leaves dh's side to take care of  Sue. Someone took dh back to our camper in their golf cart and suggested we take him to the hospital and get him checked out. They had to take dh's bicycle apart to get the beach towell out. It was like completely wedged in. My dh kept asking questions like when did we get there and lots of questions about his business....the same questions over and over. Dd (who was 8 at the time) kept asking if her dad was "going crazy":). So Tom and I left to take dh to the hospital while Sue stayed back at the camper with the 4 kids. I might add that it rained the remainder of the day, so she was confined to the camper with 4 energetic kids. We first thought we'd try a First Care center because it was closest (traffic was terrible that day) but they said they didn't have the equipment needed to care for him so back to the van and on to the hospital. All the time dh kept asking the same question about his employees getting paid, etc. When we arrived at the hospital the waiting room was full, and Tom went in and told them we had a head trauma so they took us on back. All the nurses and the Dr. thought dh had been in a motorcycle accident...that's how bad he looked. After the dr. checked him over he began this list of things he was going to do. He would be giving dh shots to numb the scaped areas that needed to be cleaned out (full of lots of dirt and tiny gravel), an xray on the right leg, a cat scan to check the brain, and much to our surprise...he was calling in a plastic surgeon for dh's ear. A chunck was missing from behind his ear. (The dr. had jokingly asked if we brought the rest of dh's ear with us) This couldn't be stitched up without looking deformed so it would need plastic surgery. Dr. walked away, dh went to the restroom, I'm trying to take all this in, all the while remembering the fact that we had no insurance, and I began to hyperventilate (which is something I'm known to do only when really in pain). Now, Tom, who has taken care of dh, taken care of his wife when she was about to pass out, called out to the nurses for help. But they gave none:) Only asked if we needed a paper sack:) I kept telling myself everything was going to be ok...I had to pull myself together. It took the plastec surgeon most of the day to get to the hospital. In the meantime, everything checked out ok with dh. He had a brace on his leg and lots of bandages covering his wounds. When the surgeon arrived we were asked to return to the waiting room. Later they came to get us.....on the way back to see dh, I'm thinking his ear would be all bandaged up.....wrong....they had his whole head bandaged up. I almost lost it when they pulled his cutain back. You could see nothing but a small portion of his face. Not a time to be laughing, but it struck me as really funny. The kids decided to call him marshmallow head. The rest of our vacation he wasn't able to go the ocean or pool with us. When we would go out, people would look him over from head to toe. Picture him walking around with the leg brace and head wrapped up......it was funny just watching people look at him:) He wasn't able to bend his leg, so Tom had to pull our camper home. You would think they would never camp again, but soon after returning home, they went out and bought them a travel trailer. Everyone always tells us not to let dh on a bike:) (Most know that he also has flipped a 4-wheeler while going in reverse!).

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