This and That

Lately it seems like I'm posting more about the furry family members than the others.  Galen has stopped hissing  at Jayden for the most part. They are even sharing a toy here.

Galen sometimes eats laying (or is it lying?) down. He has a balance problem and rocks back and forth when he's standing still and sways to one side when he lands after jumping. He's being treated for mites so maybe that's all it is.

Kiara was determined to lick Galen repeatedly and couldn't understand  why Galen didn't  want licked--or sniffed dog style.

She followed him outside still trying to lick him.


There has been stuff going on with the kids but some of it I'm not going to say much about.  Like the child who took off with friends Friday when he was supposed to be somewhere else and wasn't too honest about it. But I think that's going to be a one-time thing. There's too much cool stuff coming up that requires good choices. Or the child who is working with the counselor to have respect for other people's property, bodies and safety. There were four major violations of it in two days' time including injuring a child at school and sneaking to the kitchen to eat a fried chicken dinner a sibling had brought home while that sibling used the bathroom and washed up to eat--only to find the food gone!! The child has a contract with the counselor (and myself, but the counselor helps us keep it all in perspective) so the violations meant a loss of privileges, like soccer. The incidents show the child cannot respect another child's safety and will react in a mean way to confrontations so soccer is just not a good place to be. You cannot attack a child just because he steals the ball. But we will continue working and perhaps basketball in a few months will be possible.

Jessica and I went to eat with Jasmine at school. She was a little bored while we were waiting to get our visitor passes.

Still waiting.

We had Chick Fil A at the outside tables. Jasmine says the sun was in her eyes. That's good because it poured earlier.

Kaleb was passing by, so I took his picture. He is starting to  get second grade figured out.  I'm expecting a great year for him. He's a good reader.

This nameless soup is made from all the left over canned goods sitting in my cupboard.  It has two cans cream of chicken, a small can of rotel, a can of cream style corn, a can of black beans, a can of water and a tbs of bullion. I added some chicken breast too. This isn't a recipe, it's just what has been sitting in the cupboard that I haven't used. I mixed it all together and simmered it. 

I added some velveeta cheese to the top. Everyone really like it except Jasmine and I. There was nothing wrong with it, it just didn't grab me. Anyone have a favorite soup that easy to make and keeps well? With sports starting people are coming and going a lot.

Jasmine has school pictures today, and the twins have them Friday. Adam has a local cross country meet Saturday so we'll get to watch him run. He is varsity. Sometimes the JV run is an open run and anyone there can run with them. If that's the case this time, I have some runners who want to see how they do against the high school kids.

Adam has homecoming this week and the dance Saturday. I grew up in a church totally opposed to dancing, but our church isn't, and the kids just have fun with it. It's well chaperoned (I hope!)

Soccer practices started this week but have mostly been rained out. Thankfully there is another week of practice before the first game. Rick is coaching  Kaleb's team. Jasmine has a coach she had about 3 years ago.

We have several appointments this week I just want to get out of the way. I get to go talk to a dr today about all the fun things they do to you when you turn 50. Oh, yay-NOT. Update-I sat in the waiting room for 40 minutes before they told me the dr was out on an emergency and I needed to be rescheduled. So now I have the initial appt to look forward to again!

What is everyone else doing this week and weekend? Talk to me. Some days it's too quiet on here.