Weekly Preview and RECAP

Saturday - Dropped J off with my parents, headed to MM's for LOTR and fun!
Sunday - Yard Work
Monday - WORK 5 hrs, Peach Festival (Bob has to work)
Tuesday - WORK 5, Soccer practice (E,S), Soccer Game (D - away), Pick J up
Wednesday - WORK 5, Soccer Game (E - away)
Thursday - WORK 5, Soccer practice (E,J,S)
Friday - WORK 5?, Co-op, Soccer Game (D - home)
Saturday - Soccer Games (S,J,E - home), BOOK CLUB!

Trying to remember last week - can you say BLURRRR? Lots of soccer details and the ever-present work!

Let's go backwards, shall we? Saturday I woke up far earlier than I would have liked to pick David up from a friend's where he'd spent the night and go straight to meet my parents halfway between our homes to give them James for a few days. Then the other kids and I trekked north to Maryann's to spend the day. It's been far too long since we've had uninterrupted time together. We both did some lesson planning while we watched FOTR and half of TT (Lord of the Rings, in case you're part of the uninitiated). Then M's daughter downloaded (LEGALLY, mind you) a British movie with Robert Pattinson (The Bad Mother's Handbook) and we watched that too. We also made a trip to the discount grocery where I stocked up on goodies. Came home at midnight! Thoroughly satisfying day.

Friday - hmm.... Oh yeah, I had an eye doctor appointment. Guess what? I need bifocals! More on that once they come in. Also had to start a new procedure at work with not enough training. Very stressful. Training coming up on Tuesday!

Thursday - Several kids had practice and David had an away game. Bob took him to that and the team WON! First game they won!

Wednesday - I went to a friend's house to sort soccer uniforms. Suzy went along. This woman has the most ADORABLE detailed murals on her kids walls. The girl has princesses and the boy has Lego stuff. The kids' bathroom is all SpongeBob. She painted it all herself. Took Suzy out for lunch after.

Tuesday - Took David and 3 of his teammates to their away game. Soccer practice happened here while I was off on my adventure.

Monday - Our longtime friends, the Bowmans, are moving to Texas and today was their farewell picnic. Suzy and James are close friends with two of the Bowman children so this is toughest for them. We brought their friends home with us after the picnic and they played the rest of the day with us. David had soccer practice in the evening.

Loving my new phone except for two things. 1 - I talk on it more than I thought I would. Maybe that's because of the newness of it. I had to add minutes already. 2 - I can't use free ringtones!!

Working on planning my Jane Austen class. Northanger Abbey is up first.

Bought David a pair of soccer shoes at Play It Again Sports because his new shoes fell apart during Thursday night's soccer game. Those are the FIRST pair I ever bought new. @@ <--rolling eyes Usually I have been able to find good used cleats, but I couldn't find any for David before his season started. I highly recommend Play It Again Sports; David's shoes are nice quality, barely used (if at all) and were only $9.99. We went to the one on Miller Road in Flint.

Making some plans for fall - Renaissance Festival in Holly (moms only?), Renaissance Festival in Vassar (with kids), maybe the Wolcott Mill Civil War Skirmish, and of course lots of soccer!

Oh, my friend Pam's family welcomed their foreign exchange student this week. He's 15 and from Spain.

Whew - Can I relax yet?

I know lots are waiting for good news, and I wish I had some. But there's no bad news either. There's only this - the judge wants more time to look over Bob's file. He doesn't understand how a college-educated person under age 50 could possibly need disability payments. So, he has however much time he wants to make a determination; lawyer thought it would maybe be 60 days. So, keep up the prayers.

So, it's been one heck of a busy day.

Up at 6, get ready, leave by 7.
Arrive at the hearing office at 7:45. Meet with the lawyer in preparation for the 8:30 hearing.
Find out the video conferencing connection is not working properly and wait.
Find out the judge we thought was on our case isn't; it's been re-assigned.... to a judge who isn't in today. Wait some more to get the original judge in for a hearing. Thus the hearing started late, around 9:30 or so.
Done just after 10, maybe 10:15. Talked more with the lawyer and drove out of there before 11.

Picked up pizza and headed to Maryann's for lunch. We had a couple hours before Emily's eye doctor appointment.
Left David and Suzy at Maryann's and brought one of her kids with us. Got to Em's appt just 7 minutes late. Waited for a while, then went in the exam room with Emily for her indepth exam with the nurse-person. Then she dilated her eyes. Waited some more. Then a different guy measured her glasses. Then we saw the doctor for like 4 minutes. All is well with her eyes. One eye's prescription changed slightly, but he said no need to rush out for new glasses. Made an appt for 1 year.

Finally on the way home and now it's past 3. Arrive home FINALLY and want to drop from exhaustion. But have to clean up house, order RenFest tickets, keep James busy because he's bored without S & D. Find out we have soccer pictures THIS Saturday, find out James' game (wait, GAME? Thought it was practice) for tonight is cancelled - fields are too wet still. They want to have it Thursday. Oh no, Thursday? Then I have to switch Suzy's practice because this is one of only TWO of James' games I could actually watch.
Now I need to make dinner and then take the girls up to their Keepers at Home meeting and trade back kids. I will grocery shop during the meeting so I need to make a list.

See how my mind is racing?? I need another Diet Coke!

The good news is? I wrote more than seven handwritten pages today. Whee!

Animal Encounters, or Getting Buggy

For some reason, our cable service was out last night when I got home from work - no phone, no internet.

The library program was called Animal Encounters. The man read three stories and showed animals to go along with them. I was unaware beforehand that the animals would be mostly BUGS! Ewww! There was a giant hissing cockroach, a humongous millipede, and a South American tarantula, as well as a small alligator. I couldn't look at most of them. I got photos only of the gator - I hate insects. I can't even put my hand on a photo of them, such as in National Geographic, and I have to turn the page fast. Bleh!

The kids got t-shirts at the library as part of the reading program. They just had to read 10 books - NO PROBLEMO! I took a photo but haven't downloaded it yet.

Yesterday my right eye was slightly swollen. Today I woke up with it very swollen. I already had a doctor's appointment scheduled this morning - a routine checkup - so I had the doctor check my eye. He looked in it, touched it, and....wrote me an antibiotic. @@ I wish there were doctors out there who don't write a prescription for every darn thing. I wouldn't have even gone to the doctor for this if I hadn't already had the appointment. I would have put warm compresses on it, which is what he told me to do, and then wrote me the Z-pack. Oh, and come back in 10 days. I don't think so! Unless it's worse, which it shouldn't be.

No word from David. I assume no news is good news! lol I should have asked ahead about mail. Then again, I wouldn't want to embarrass him - the only one getting mail from his mommy. lol

I am now reading the annotated Pride & Prejudice, but I am borrowing the Twilight books from a coworker and will re-read those before Breaking Dawn comes out in a few days. (No, I am not counting down! lol)

Bought a coffeemaker yesterday at the thrift store since our coffeepot got broken.