A WHOLE week off!!

Today starts our Thanksgiving break! We are pretty happy to all be off for a whole week. (Ok Chris has to work, but somebody has to!) I am thankful for so many things! Just about a week ago I was home and the kids were playing and Chris was home and I just looked around and thought what a blessed life I live!

Here is my top 10 list of things I am thankful for:

1. For a God that loves me unconditionally and offers me much needed grace everyday

2. A husband that loves me and spoils me and adores his children

3. A son that makes me laugh and loves his mama!

4. A daughter that has a heart of gold, and shows it to everyone she meets

5. A job working with 22 kids that I look forward to hanging with (on most days)

6. A church that has a humble pastor and a desire to serve others

7. A really cool mom and dad. My mom spent last weekend herding cattle! Who would have ever thought?!!

8. A sister that is my best friend.

9. A few close friends that actually seem to like to hang out with me, or they just fake it really well.

10. A week off to eat and eat and eat, and sleep and sleep and sleep!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

A President I can REALLY get behind!!!

I know the election for our country took place on Tuesday, but another election took place today in our little town of Sachse, in our little neighborhood, in our little school, in a little classroom on the 3rd grade hall and I think our big boy (and girl) politicians could learn a thing from the new class president of room 304. This president is as kind hearted as they come, but has a real gift for keeping everyone organized and in line. She is as honest as the day is long and has nothing to hide, she even tells on herself sometimes. She ran a positive campaign, with no smearing of the other candidates,

on a side note

that would have been kinda funny to have smear campaign on a 3rd grade level:

"have you seen Mary play dodgeball, is that what you want for president?"

or "Mary can't deliver the goods, see I brought extra dessert in my lunch for everyone."

or "Let's pull out report cards and see whose got the experience for the job"

Sorry that's my dark side coming through.

Anyway, I think room 304 has it down. They took a vote and everyone came out with smiles as they ran off to the swing set to play.

Catching our breath...

Well tennis has ended, baseball has ended, the weather is cold/cool and it's getting darker earlier. All these things are helping me to feel like I can take minute and catch my breath from 2 months of going, going, going. Don't get me wrong, I have post baseball depression, and I really miss watching Jessica swing that racket and pound that tennis ball, but basketball is right around the corner so this down time is definitely momentary.

So in my catching up I am actually doing my housecleaning schedule this week

Yes, I have a schedule:

Monday: kitchen

Tuesday: bathrooms

Wednesday: laundry

Thursday: dust/vacuum/sweep

So since the maid hasn't shown up EVER, and I am pretty sure she won't exist for me til I have enough money to pay for college and since that little thing called the stock market is, well, struggling, all that may never happen, so I figured I better suck it up and get to cleaning. As you know today is Tuesday, I don't like Tuesdays in my cleaning schedule, loathe is a better word. Mondays I can handle, Love Wednesdays, Like Thursdays, but loathe Tuesdays. I was cleaning the bathroom today and was wondering if this thing really works.

Does anyone know? I wouldn't want to spend the money unless it could buy me a few Tuesdays between cleaning. Let me know if you have tried it.

I started to be concerned about something when I cleaned my shower, there is so much hair in my bathroom that either:

A. I am going bald (rogaine for women?)

or

B. This fella is secretly coming to my house and using my shower.

I am not ok with option A or B.

What have you been up to?

So it's certainly been awhile since I posted, over a month! So sad, I am sure I have lost all 3 of my readers! I am pulling my calendar out to help me remember what I have been up to.

Ran my 10k, surprised myself that I did it since I only gave myself 2 weeks to train for it

Father-in-law came for a visit while waiting for the electricity to come back on at his house in Houston.

Jessica has been taking tennis lessons, first lesson she beat the tar outta the tennis ball like she was hitting a line drive to center field, by the last lesson she was learning to take a little off the ball.

Joshua's has played lots of baseball games, the boys are having a good season.

Chris went to Atlanta for a conference. I was jealous.

I had 22 parent conferences in one week. Yikes.

We went camping on what was probably the best Texas weather weekend we will see all year.

Ok I feel that I was busier than that but that's all I can think of...

I will try to do a little better at this blogging thing.

today

Yep, that's me today, stuck inside because of rain...

Signs of Fall

It's still hot and sunny around these parts, but there are a few signs of Fall around here:

1. Fall baseball began today. LOVE IT! Love it even more when we win 9 to 1. I know I am a terrible sport. Joshua got to be the catcher today. He's about to throw down to 2nd in this picture. So fun to watch!

2. Chris is firmly planted on the couch, remote in hand flipping between college football games. Trying to watch the Aggies til he gets too disgusted and then promptly punishes them by changing the channels.

3. Jessica already trying to decide the biggest Fall question of them all: What am I going to be for Halloween?

4. Motivation to run sets in. I actually signed up for this race today: http://www.tourdesfleurs.com/ I thought this race was in mid-October and that I had plenty of time to build back up to 6.2 miles, oops it's in two weeks!! Can you "cram train"? I will let you know that answer to that on Sept. 20.

5. Life begins to settle into a routine, gone is the spontaneity of summer, here is the routine of Fall.

Gotta go run! Literally!!

First day pics

I thought I would be able to post a first day pic last Monday, but we got a new camera and it wasn't downloading on to blogger for me, something about a bmp vs. a jpeg. Whatever, Chris aka superman fixed it for me. It's fun to play the helpless female when it's convenient!

We all made it through our first week of school. Joshua had a great week and Jessica did too! I like my new class. My teacher friend across the hall said on Thursday, "Do you feel like you have already been in school for a month!!??" YES!! It was weird how you fall back into old habits so quickly that I didn't actually forget everything this summer!