All is Well

As I sit here and let out a collective sigh, I think about this last week without math. I can't believe just how much calmer I am. I'm really enjoying my other classes much more now too. I got my first English paper back which had a nice, big purple "A" on it! He had a few minor corrections marked on it and we had to correct them in class. I really enjoyed doing that too. Made for a shorter class today because as soon as we were finished making our corrections we got to leave. I hope I do as well on my 2nd homework assignment.

Winter has returned!! And, boy oh boy, did it EVER return! We got about 8 inches of snow overnight friday night, it was beautiful outside saturday morning. The only problem with all of the snow was that Em had her first basketball tournament saturday. I won't even go into that right now!

Dinner was AWESOME tonight!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, the band is leaving for All-Star in Alpena. I'm really excited because as you know, 3 of my child_units are in the All-Star band, we get to stay overnight at a hotel with a pool, I get to go shopping while they're practicing, we get to go to Pizza Hut for dinner friday night AND I get to chaperone! I LOVE to chaperone for the band, they're an awesome bunch of people! I just have to remember to bake my traditional "cookies for the road" for the trip up there. It's pretty much an expected ritual now when I chaperone. As I recall, we were throwing them to another car while we were driving somewhere. I do believe the cookie toss was to Ross.....hmmmmmmm. Fun times :)

A couple of the child_units wants me to bake cinnamon rolls, but I really wanted to make a cheesecake....decisions, decisions....perhaps I'll just make both! Or not, who knows?!

I'm out of ideas, besides, it's almost time for Wife Swap....by the looks of it, the wives duke it out at the meeting, woo hooooooo!!

Y'all cuddle up and be warm,
Love Ya :)

The deed is done

Well...it's done...I'm officially down to 10 credit hours. Yes, I dropped my math class...I'm not saying that I'll never take it, I've just postponed taking it. I have to say, since I dropped it, I feel like a huge weight has lifted off of my shoulders!! The teacher expected us to study 12-14 hours outside of class. I'm sorry, but that's just a little excessive! Not to mention that it was a "writing" class....yes...a writing class. I was trying to do my homework the other night and after filling 4 papers, still had to pages of the "writing" assignment to do AND THEN still had pages of equations to do....it was just too much to do with 10 other credit hours of classes to study for and do homework for. Yes, I will take math at a later time, but it'll probably have to be the ONLY class I take that semester! There, I feel better now! Sorry to anyone I have disappointed.

Today was a very yucky day... I was so looking forward to sending the kids off to school and then having the rest of the day to myself....but NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, we had to have freezing rain....school was cancelled!!! No sleeping in, No peace, No quiet.....*sigh* oh well. It's pretty funny that there wasn't school, but dang...the friends sure did find their ways here, lol. They all seemed to have fun later in the evening when they pulled out the Texas Hold'em chips! Boy, did it EVER get loud then!!

I can't wait until thursday....at 9 a.m., the piano guy is going to be here to fix and tune my piano!! WOO HOOO! Christen is especially happy I think since this means she'll be able to resume her piano lessons. I just hope it doesn't cost me my first born child to have it fixed!! Sorry Ben!

Well, I may or may not have school tomorrow so I had better get to bed just in case.

Y'all get your NASCAR hats out, the season is almost back!! Go Ryan-12!!!!
Love Ya :)

Corrections and Revelations

Correction from blog dated Saturday, January 7th, 2006....it was stated that "Math ROCKS" I'm sorry, but this is really supposed to say....MATH SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've come to the revelation that I will never get any kind of degree simply because I can't handle the math. I've only had 2 classes and already I've cried over it. Call me a baby, I don't really care....I am just so frustrated that I can't "get it" that it's causing me physical angst. Everyone keeps saying, "just get a tutor." I don't think there's a person on this earth that could tutor me without becoming as frustrated as me. WHY??? Why can't I understand it??? I can't even sit here and think about it without tears welling up in my eyes. I HATE being a failure, I don't want to appear as a failure to my kids. What kind of example is it to quit? Without this math credit, I can't get a degree of any kind. If I don't keep at it, everything I've done will be a waste.

My head hurts too much to keep thinking about it right now, perhaps I'll post more later.

Y'all say a little prayer,
Love Ya :(

Snow and Hot Chocolate

Oh how I miss the days of childhood when you could play in the new fallen snow all day and then come in for some WONDERFUL hot chocolate with whipped cream (or mini marshmallows if you prefer). It's already snowed about an inch, but I'm afraid it's all in vain. By friday, we're supposed to have temps in the high 40's, those temps aren't very condusive to snow. *sigh* This winter, I fear, has truely left us. My plan is to get at least one snowman out of this winter, and I think today is the day!!!!!! I think he's going to be a smiley snowman too, hehehehehe, it's going to look like something p'd all over it, however, it will just be food coloring!! Yes, I'm going to color my snowman.....how can you have a smiley snowman if it's not yellow?????? Maybe I'll take a pic and post it too...

Did I mention that Christen has glasses now? Yes, she has joined the ever growing league of people in our family that has glasses. Her eyes are actually worse than mine!! She's going through quite a change right now, she lost her two front teeth within a week of each other. This really isn't a big deal since it does happen to everybody, however, she's 9 and this usually happens to the average 7 yr old. She missed being able to sing "All I Want For Christmas is My 2 Front Teeth" by just a few days!!

School starts back on Monday. I'm not sure how I'm feeling about this semester. I've really enjoyed just hanging around the house and baking. I've certainly made my fair share of cinnamon rolls the past few days....they're rather yummy too, if I do say so myself. I also baked a Blueberry Cheesecake. Oh My!! It was SINFUL! But, I suppose that I'm only going on Mondays and Wednesdays again so I do have time to keep baking on my off days, well, that's if I'm not dying trying to do my math. Yes, here I go again about the math. I'm sure y'all know that I'm hopeless at that subject. Or at least I've talked myself into being hopeless. My backpack weighs a ton right now and I don't even have my spanish books back in there yet! My math and government books are terribly heavy and I have 2 books for english and 2 for spanish. I still have to get my folders in there and notebooks. I'm glad that thing has wheels!! It's kinda funny, I've already broken my New Year's Resolution right here in my blog....I resolved to not let math get me down, but alas....I've failed. Ok, I'll start again right now.......Math ROCKS!

It's 12:18 pm and Alex JUST got up.....I'm sure he's been awake in there for a while, how could you not be when there's so much other noise going on in the house???? I shoulda brought in a couple of the kittens and let them loose in his room, he sure would have gotten up then!

Oh my gosh!! I watched a show on CMT last night, perhaps some of you have seen "Cowboy U"?? This is the WORST group of people that I have EVER seen in that group, they couldn't even get a horse to walk. One chick let her horse keep going to the corner and then couldn't get it to move or back up. The poor horse OBVIOUSLY didn't like how hard she was pulling back on the bit. One of the other girls didn't even want to get dirty when they had to catch a greased pig....they saw them p'ing and it really just grossed them out......whimps!!!!! After Survivor, I would love to give Cowboy U a try. I'm sure I would die, but dang, it would be so worth it!!!! I wonder if that show has a resident chiropractor? Yup, just to ride the horses would make it all worth while!!!!!!!!!

I've just read over this post....wow....a bunch of nothing. I supposed it doesn't matter though, this is, after all, just a sort of therapy anyhow....right?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, still snowing........I think the time has come to construct a smiley snowman :)

Y'all try something new today, perhaps updating blogs!
Love Ya :)

Where did winter go?

Ok, who took winter and when are they gonna bring it back? Rain, mud and grass just aren't what you picture when you say "Happy New Year" on January first.....but, that's what we get! We did get that little blast of winter the other night, but that melted off pretty much the next day, I do have to say however that it was WONDERFUL snowball snow....nice and packy!! I just took a peek at the weather site and they're calling for an inch of something tonight, ice pellets, freezing rain, snow mixture, and then another 2-3 inches of snow or something on Monday. I guess there's still hope in sight for winter after all :)

Oh yeah....Happy New Year by the way!!! Can you believe it's 2006 now?!?!?!?! Where did the years go?????? I got in contact with my best friend from elementary school, it was wonderful catching up with her. We talked about the kids we went to school with together up until 6th grade (I moved from Frederic to Gaylord after 6th grade). It was pretty interesting to find out how some of them turned out. She became a vet, mainly for horses, which doesn't surprise me one bit, she always loved horses. She has 2 boys, David who is 16 and Daniel who is 6. I guess we have a little bit in common there, I mean, Ben is 16 and D is 6....I just happen to have 3 others inbetween!!

WOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, the child_units go back to school the day after tomorrow!!!! **dancing for quiet joy** I think I shall spend my quiet time going over some spanish and math so that I'm not completely way behind when I go back to school on the 9th. I have some spanish cd's to listen to that go along with my workbook so that should work out well. I'll just pop the cd into the dvd player and listen to it while I walk on my treadmill....either that or I put in Phantom of the Opera and walk...either way it's all good! I really do have to study up on my math though. I'm so worried that this next semester is going to be really rough. 85% of the people that took it 2 semesters ago, failed :( They changed the way one of the classes are, but I really can't take the extended class because it's an extra day a week and I really can't do that. I'll just have to study extra hard I guess. I just hope that I can find the help if I need it. Nobody seems to believe the anxiety that I feel towards math. Sure, I got an A, but I worked my butt off for that A, it was the hardest thing for me to do! *sigh* I just pray that I can get through this last math class, get the ONE credit I need and be done with it!

Wouldn't it be cool to become a language teacher? I think that's what Sarah should do. She has such a knack for German, it seems to come really easily to her. I would love to get more into Spanish and teach it, or at least tutor it. I don't know what it is about Spanish, but I love it, probably the same way that Sarah loves her German. Another language I would love to learn would be Italian. It's kinda close to Spanish in the way that the grammar is set up, a lot of similarities in words too...maybe someday. I think I have the "attitude" needed to speak Italian :)

Now that everybody is in bed, I think I shall go and watch a movie now.....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the peace and quiet with NO child_units fighting and arguing and kicking and yelling and well, you get the idea!

Y'all SMILE---it makes them wonder what you've been up to,
Love Ya :)