The EbbTide

This has been a tough week for us.

We have had it all.  The highs and the lows….the week began with a discipline issue at school with our eldest, his first official…then mimi had a heart cath on Tuesday.  Got great results – all clear….to be followed by the death of her brother…from a heart attack of all things!  Then another discipline issue at school with the eldest…twice in one week.  It has just been one thing after another…all week long.  Of course we have had the normal “work stress” that goes with this time of year…. where is March 1?  Get here please!!!

Tomorrow, we are going to the early games – basketball and little man’s soccer….then hitting the road to the funeral in Alabama.  It is really sad, it is the third funeral this week for the country baptist church in rural  Greene county.  Al’s uncle was 74, seems young to me by today’s standards.

Sincerely hoping that your week was filled with the sunshine, could you send some our way?  We sure could use it.

If you’re interested, I’ve stared logging my learning process while writing my first application in Symfony, a web development framework.

My trials and tribulations can be found on the Tech-Recipes blogsite

continuing the Saturday athletic tradition, D is starting another soccer season. He seems to really enjoy this sport.

A good kickoff, other team defended well.

Just like that, we’re down, 1-0.

I’m glad to see D playing all over the field, but he (and the rest of the team) are playing a bit passively.

2-0 now.

End of 1st quarter!

D is out for the 2nd Q.

At the moment, this game closely resembles tennis; both teams are kicking to each other over the midfield circle….until somebody breaks free, and its 3-0.

D is in at goalie, just had a good save. Make that 2! 3rd time was the charm, now 4-0, and halftime!

Wow, nice kick, unfortunately wrong team. 5-0.

I think D may be getting tired, he’s stared kicking the ball out of bounds. of course, as soon as that is said, the ball was kicked off the head of one of our players, bounced towards D, he fought it through the goalie and into the goal! 5-1.

D has corrected me, final score was 5-3.

D is currently playing this week’s game. I am helping coach this season.

I have noticed a couple of things. Some days, the ball just will not go through the hoop. Kids at this age just don’t understand some fundamentals. they can do well in practice, then totally forget when the game starts.

Upward rules dictate that all players must play. (practical rules say when 5 show up, everybody plays the whole game) This includes the guy who refuses to pass the ball and desperately needs to ride the pine for a while.

Our team tries hard, gives a lot of effort. Great kids. Just don’t call any of them Michel.

Now for the 2nd half….

It has been a long week. Productive and busy – another typical week for me in February.

We had a great time on Thursday at International Fair at D’s school. It is one of the enrichment activities that they do every year. Each grade studies a country then they set up a booth/display for the whole school. The countries that they learn about are Mexico, China, India, France, Italy, Brazil and Egypt. The children dress to represent their country, do activities and have meal that reflects the countries cuisine. Third graders have Italy, so D was thrilled to learn about making pasta and having spaghetti and Italian Ice for lunch today. A was very impressed with China and the red room where the kindergarteners ate their Chinese lunch today. He is really looking forward to being in kindergarten next year and going to the same school as his big brother.

This weekend promises to be a busy one. D has a basketball game and two soccer games. A has one soccer game. Hard to believe it is time to begin soccer again!

Black is the first book in Ted Dekker’s Circle trilogy. This book is a little odd initially. Thomas, our protagonist, is constantly shifting between realities, when asleep in one, he is awake in another. One world is familiar, the other, a strange land where good and evil are distinct, clearly separated. This volume sets up a big good v. evil conflict manifest in the next books.

Amazon Link: Ted Dekker – Black

Today has been a weary Wednesday.  I have been putting in a lot of hours for work – both at work and at home.  I have also been battling “the crud” for the past couple of weeks.  Better than the flu that my friends seem to be contending with…but tiresome all the same.  Knew I had a deadline coming up, found out today that my deadline is about 2-3 days earlier than I thought it would be….um, okay.  Gulp….ahem, sleep is over-rated you know.   So there you have it, this morning I was ahead of schedule a few days……….but tonight as I go to bed, I am a little behind where I would really like to be  I foresee a late night  tomorrow night.

The boys are good.  They had a typical day today so that is all good.  School, playtime, dinner,  playtime, homework, self created art for the younger one, pick up toys and off to bed.  Yep, they had a good day.

Not too sure about my better half.  He picked up the kids, fixed dinner and dealt with homework so I could dial in and work from home.  He IS the GREATEST and I am blessed beyond measure.

Stay tuned………….tomorrow night we are going on a World Adventure.

Going with the Flow…..day by day.

Well, I am FINALLY trying my hand at “blogging”. Bear with me as I learn to do this. I have been wanting to join the “Bloggers” for quite some time. Guess what my hang up was? I could not think of a good “title”. How typical is that? Lame, but true.

What will I be blogging about? My favorite things to discuss are my children and scrapbooking. Work is a means to provide for the necessities as well as the fun things. I am fortunate to have a good job that I like most of the time. It is like any other job with highs and lows, but I won’t be talking about work much. It is there and it is a part of who I am, but it is not the most important part.

I guess I should introduce myself. I am a working mother of two, married to my best friend of twelve years. We have been blessed beyond measure with family, friends and jobs. We have two boys ages 8 and 5. Two dogs compete this menagerie that we call our family.

Going with flow….day by day….