Lots of thoughts going through my mind tonight.
Today is #3's birthday, he is 12. We won't see Hubby until Friday, so we won't be doing any real celebrting until then. He did get to open his presents today, and he got to choose dinner. I told him I would make ANYTHING he wanted for dinner, and he chose Burger King. Oh well, at least I offered to make him a dinner of his choice. He did ask for pumpkin pie for dessert. We will do a cake on Friday and a family dinner then.
#1 has joined the swim and dive team for his school. He has practice until 6:30 three days of the week, and I think only until 5 on the other two. I told him he needs to make sure to eat a good breakfast and lunch from here on out. Many days he wakes up too late to eat breakfast, and forgets to take a lunch. I'll get some granola bars or something to send with him for after school and before practice.
#3 and I went to get Harry Potter tickets earlier today, and we are now set for 11:45 Friday morning. We're going to take the kids out of school early for it and make it a day of celebration for #3's birthday.
I think I had a little breakthrough with my school work. After reading, and re-reading, and re-reading the material I noticed a pattern, and a little light went on in my head. I think I am beginning to have a glimmering of an understanding of this stuff now. Of course I could be full of it, and be totally off base, I'll find out next week when we take our mid-term. We were supposed to have it this week, but one of my classmates couldn't be in class so the instructor put the test off for a week.
This year will be the first year in as long as I can remember that we will be having Thanksgiving dinner with only the five of us. We normally go down to my SIL's for dinner, but this year will be different. Hubby suggested we do a ham instead of our traditional turkey dinner. #3 has put in a request for mashed potatoes. #1 has requested scalloped potatoes. #2 has asked for peas. It seems I'm the only one who doesn't have a hankering for anything in particular for dinner this year. I am having a hard time getting into the holiday spirit, my feelings border on apathetic. I'm not sure why, but there it is. Maybe I will get more in the spirit as the week winds down and things get back to normal. Until then I'll stick to my holding pattern of dispassion.
In other news... while still hyper, the pup does seem to be settling down more. She lets us sleep through the night, which has been a very good thing. I can't begin to say how much my sanity has improved since this sleep pattern has started. There was a good chunk of time there when I seriously thought I would go out of my mind with exhaustion. While she does still have periods of spaz time, she is having more and more calm moments. She is also becoming less mouthy. She does need to be reminded to not bite when she gets excited, and she definitely needs continued reinforcement and work on jumping up and keeping down off furniture when told to.
I went in to get my hair trimmed today, and boy was I shocked with how the stylist interpreted "just a trim". It is WAY shorter than I wanted, and I'm not sure if I like it or not. I suppose though, if I look for the good in it, it will dry much faster than it did before. I haven't colored in several months, and boy is the gray showing. I'm much more gray than I remembered. I definitely need to color soon. Very soon. I think I'll see if I can convince Hubby to color my hair for me this weekend.
Today is #3's birthday, he is 12. We won't see Hubby until Friday, so we won't be doing any real celebrting until then. He did get to open his presents today, and he got to choose dinner. I told him I would make ANYTHING he wanted for dinner, and he chose Burger King. Oh well, at least I offered to make him a dinner of his choice. He did ask for pumpkin pie for dessert. We will do a cake on Friday and a family dinner then.
#1 has joined the swim and dive team for his school. He has practice until 6:30 three days of the week, and I think only until 5 on the other two. I told him he needs to make sure to eat a good breakfast and lunch from here on out. Many days he wakes up too late to eat breakfast, and forgets to take a lunch. I'll get some granola bars or something to send with him for after school and before practice.
#3 and I went to get Harry Potter tickets earlier today, and we are now set for 11:45 Friday morning. We're going to take the kids out of school early for it and make it a day of celebration for #3's birthday.
I think I had a little breakthrough with my school work. After reading, and re-reading, and re-reading the material I noticed a pattern, and a little light went on in my head. I think I am beginning to have a glimmering of an understanding of this stuff now. Of course I could be full of it, and be totally off base, I'll find out next week when we take our mid-term. We were supposed to have it this week, but one of my classmates couldn't be in class so the instructor put the test off for a week.
This year will be the first year in as long as I can remember that we will be having Thanksgiving dinner with only the five of us. We normally go down to my SIL's for dinner, but this year will be different. Hubby suggested we do a ham instead of our traditional turkey dinner. #3 has put in a request for mashed potatoes. #1 has requested scalloped potatoes. #2 has asked for peas. It seems I'm the only one who doesn't have a hankering for anything in particular for dinner this year. I am having a hard time getting into the holiday spirit, my feelings border on apathetic. I'm not sure why, but there it is. Maybe I will get more in the spirit as the week winds down and things get back to normal. Until then I'll stick to my holding pattern of dispassion.
In other news... while still hyper, the pup does seem to be settling down more. She lets us sleep through the night, which has been a very good thing. I can't begin to say how much my sanity has improved since this sleep pattern has started. There was a good chunk of time there when I seriously thought I would go out of my mind with exhaustion. While she does still have periods of spaz time, she is having more and more calm moments. She is also becoming less mouthy. She does need to be reminded to not bite when she gets excited, and she definitely needs continued reinforcement and work on jumping up and keeping down off furniture when told to.
I went in to get my hair trimmed today, and boy was I shocked with how the stylist interpreted "just a trim". It is WAY shorter than I wanted, and I'm not sure if I like it or not. I suppose though, if I look for the good in it, it will dry much faster than it did before. I haven't colored in several months, and boy is the gray showing. I'm much more gray than I remembered. I definitely need to color soon. Very soon. I think I'll see if I can convince Hubby to color my hair for me this weekend.