Only two people have left random list. Come on guys, I know more of you have those thoughts going through your mind. Just spill it in the comment section.
I'm still going through my past posts and taking down book give aways that are long past, empty posts and posts with broken links. I think I have like 977 posts right now. I'm going to post 2008 pictures soon. But so many random thoughts are going through my mind right now I thought I'd just start typing them out and type out the first ten random thoughts that come into my mind. You'll see my mind is a jumbled mess. So here goes.
1. I wish Jessica would make those cupcakes with the cream in the middle. Adam made them Tues night.
2. I haven't been to the library in a long time. I need to get some of my favorite picture books to read to the twins. (I saw the post I'd made of the top 108 picture books) Went to the library Wednesday after having lunch with Jasmine at school.
3. I wonder if the boys are bringing me food from the banquet. Yes, they came in with a plate while I was typing this so Jessica probably won't make the cupcakes.
4. I want to watch Tangled but I need an excuse. Too bad everyone has so much homework. Okay, not Tangled, but going to Brave for the 5th time with a few of the children.
5. I hope Jasmine got a good grade on her oral book report. She got a 94%!!!
6. I can't wait until Adam's first soccer game.
7. The springs where Jessica is scuba diving Friday look amazing. We all need to go sometime.
8. I hope it doesn't rain the day we go to Discovery Cove.
9. I wonder what time Jeff will be here Wednesday. He's supposed to be in between 7&9 tonight.
10. What are the chances that everyone will cooperate for family pictures Saturday?
11--When in the world is my knee ever going to heal?????
Okay, so that's just a little of what is running through my mind while I really should be working on an article assignment I need to finish. Sending it today--7 days early! Hope it's what he had in mind or I'll be starting over!
Your turn. Don't think too hard about it. Just type out the first ten things that come into your mind.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Updates
I was very close to 1,000 posts but when I went back to choose the best pictures, I discovered that some posts were blank due to videos I'd posted being gone or photos missing. Some just said I was adding or turning off word verification. I'm taking those off, so now I'm probably about 20 from post 1,000. Still, it's drawing near so I'm going to be posting my favorite photos from each year and having you vote on them. A lot of you visit regularly but don't comment. Now's your chance. I know who you are, I know where to find
you : ) Please go back two posts and choose your one or two favorite photos from 2007. Or if you've been following the blog for that long, suggest other photos you remember that I didn't choose.
When rereading posts I saw that I'd written a lot about problems with the boys, especially Adam since Jeff was already gone. I was very tempted to take those off, but then I decided not to because those struggles were a big part of our life at that time. Some days it didn't seem he could make a good choice if it was right in front of him. He's come so far from those days and he's really doing so much better at thinking of consequences and choosing things that will help him reach his goals. Perhaps his progress will be an encouragement to another mom whose teen son is walking down the wrong path. Stay firm and consistent, pray a lot, love them anyway and leave the rest to God (and give a good swift kick when needed). Seriously, it's hard to know what to do. Hard to separate the child from the problem. Hard to know when to be tough and when to grant mercy.
I thought I'd give a brief update on each child. Some of it may be repeats from earlier posts. I don't always remember what I've said here and what I've said on facebook.
Tyler--He still does not have a job. He did go to Job Corps orientation. He goes back November 7 for an interview. I don't know what they are looking for or what they'll ask him, but I'm hoping this will work out for him. If it does, he'll be leaving for a while because it's a residential job training program. Rick said Tyler was the only white kid in a roomful of kids. I've heard there can be racial problems at the program. Hopefully he'll be fine. He has three black brothers, but of course the kids there won't know that. He'll have to take a family picture along and hang it up. There were so many years he was the target kid at school because he was much smaller and because of his autism. I don't want him to go through that again.
Jessica--She's in her junior year and at FSU this year. She's in criminology with an underwater crime scene investigation minor. She found her first submerged head last week! They grow up so quickly..... Okay, it wasn't real, but that is what she's training for. Personally, if I found any body part or dead body I'd probably be too busy throwing up to be much good to anyone. Kiara passed beginner obedience class last week but she has a long way to go. She's VERY hyper and really only follows the commands at class where she knows she has to or no treat. I posted her certificate a few posts back, but here she is on graduation day. She does not look too excited to me!
Jessica is trying to decide what to do next summer. She is interviewing for a job at a summer camp. They only interview in a few cities so we need to plan that out. Same city Ty will interview in for his program, but of course not the same day. She will have her advanced SCUBA certification by Christmas and be a couple steps more advanced by summer, so she's hoping maybe she could help with the camp's SCUBA program for teens.
Jeff--He ran at the army ten-miler in D.C. today. He was 119 over all (out of 21,000 runners) and 3rd in his age group out of 300! He ran ten-miles in 57:24. Do the math. That's less than six minutes a mile for ten miles!! He will be home for a few days at the end of next week.
Adam--If you've been reading the blog, you know that last week he went to Montgomery and took the ASVAB and had his physical. He signed his contract for the Marine reserves, still planning to go to college but also be in the reserves. If he gets an ROTC scholarship, he would not be in the reserves. Adam has a few more weeks of cross country. He tried out for soccer last week and thinks he may have made it this time. The final results are tomorrow. Soccer and cross country overlap a couple of weeks, but the coaches have been good about working with the kids that are in both sports.
Jasmine--She is holding her own at school. It's getting tough. We are starting her project for history fair. We aren't doing dance this year because she is going to try city basketball. She's in city soccer and may try out for the school team. It's very competitive and I'm not sure Jasmine is that intense about it. She just likes being on a team. She'll start basketball soon. She played a little this summer and that's all the experience she has.
Kaleb--He is playing soccer. He has days where he's an angel at school and fun to be with. And then he has "other" days. He had a good ending to last week, so I'm hoping that will carry on through next week.
Kayla-She is pretty much recovered from having her tonsils out. We go for her follow up tomorrow and if the doctor says it's okay, she going back to school.
Kind of a long post, but that's our updates for now. Now it's your turn to go back and vote on your favorite pictures of 2007. Look for 2008 soon. You can vote anonymously if you don't have an account and word verification is off for now. If you don't see your comment post right away, make sure you've pressed post comment. If it goes to spam, I'll catch it and okay it. I am getting tons of spam now that word verification is off.
PS I've had about 15 or so book give aways in the past and I had to take those down because someone would read about it 12 months later and be upset that I wouldn't send them the book!!
you : ) Please go back two posts and choose your one or two favorite photos from 2007. Or if you've been following the blog for that long, suggest other photos you remember that I didn't choose.
When rereading posts I saw that I'd written a lot about problems with the boys, especially Adam since Jeff was already gone. I was very tempted to take those off, but then I decided not to because those struggles were a big part of our life at that time. Some days it didn't seem he could make a good choice if it was right in front of him. He's come so far from those days and he's really doing so much better at thinking of consequences and choosing things that will help him reach his goals. Perhaps his progress will be an encouragement to another mom whose teen son is walking down the wrong path. Stay firm and consistent, pray a lot, love them anyway and leave the rest to God (and give a good swift kick when needed). Seriously, it's hard to know what to do. Hard to separate the child from the problem. Hard to know when to be tough and when to grant mercy.
I thought I'd give a brief update on each child. Some of it may be repeats from earlier posts. I don't always remember what I've said here and what I've said on facebook.
Tyler--He still does not have a job. He did go to Job Corps orientation. He goes back November 7 for an interview. I don't know what they are looking for or what they'll ask him, but I'm hoping this will work out for him. If it does, he'll be leaving for a while because it's a residential job training program. Rick said Tyler was the only white kid in a roomful of kids. I've heard there can be racial problems at the program. Hopefully he'll be fine. He has three black brothers, but of course the kids there won't know that. He'll have to take a family picture along and hang it up. There were so many years he was the target kid at school because he was much smaller and because of his autism. I don't want him to go through that again.
Jessica--She's in her junior year and at FSU this year. She's in criminology with an underwater crime scene investigation minor. She found her first submerged head last week! They grow up so quickly..... Okay, it wasn't real, but that is what she's training for. Personally, if I found any body part or dead body I'd probably be too busy throwing up to be much good to anyone. Kiara passed beginner obedience class last week but she has a long way to go. She's VERY hyper and really only follows the commands at class where she knows she has to or no treat. I posted her certificate a few posts back, but here she is on graduation day. She does not look too excited to me!
Jessica is trying to decide what to do next summer. She is interviewing for a job at a summer camp. They only interview in a few cities so we need to plan that out. Same city Ty will interview in for his program, but of course not the same day. She will have her advanced SCUBA certification by Christmas and be a couple steps more advanced by summer, so she's hoping maybe she could help with the camp's SCUBA program for teens.
Jeff--He ran at the army ten-miler in D.C. today. He was 119 over all (out of 21,000 runners) and 3rd in his age group out of 300! He ran ten-miles in 57:24. Do the math. That's less than six minutes a mile for ten miles!! He will be home for a few days at the end of next week.
Adam--If you've been reading the blog, you know that last week he went to Montgomery and took the ASVAB and had his physical. He signed his contract for the Marine reserves, still planning to go to college but also be in the reserves. If he gets an ROTC scholarship, he would not be in the reserves. Adam has a few more weeks of cross country. He tried out for soccer last week and thinks he may have made it this time. The final results are tomorrow. Soccer and cross country overlap a couple of weeks, but the coaches have been good about working with the kids that are in both sports.
Jasmine--She is holding her own at school. It's getting tough. We are starting her project for history fair. We aren't doing dance this year because she is going to try city basketball. She's in city soccer and may try out for the school team. It's very competitive and I'm not sure Jasmine is that intense about it. She just likes being on a team. She'll start basketball soon. She played a little this summer and that's all the experience she has.
Kaleb--He is playing soccer. He has days where he's an angel at school and fun to be with. And then he has "other" days. He had a good ending to last week, so I'm hoping that will carry on through next week.
Kayla-She is pretty much recovered from having her tonsils out. We go for her follow up tomorrow and if the doctor says it's okay, she going back to school.
Kind of a long post, but that's our updates for now. Now it's your turn to go back and vote on your favorite pictures of 2007. Look for 2008 soon. You can vote anonymously if you don't have an account and word verification is off for now. If you don't see your comment post right away, make sure you've pressed post comment. If it goes to spam, I'll catch it and okay it. I am getting tons of spam now that word verification is off.
PS I've had about 15 or so book give aways in the past and I had to take those down because someone would read about it 12 months later and be upset that I wouldn't send them the book!!
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Outside Fun
It's cool in the morning but up to 80F by afternoon. We've tried to take advantage of it by getting outside, but that's hard to do with all the homework and such. Last Sunday afternoon and for a while yesterday we got out the pogo sticks, scooters and skateboards. If you see the kids wearing jackets, it's not the weather, it's the gnats!
If you didn't vote for a picture or two on the last post, please go back and vote. And look for the next year's pictures soon!
Friday, October 19, 2012
My Dilemma/2007
I am nearing 1,000 posts according to my counter. I decided that for post 1,000 I'd go through my old post and repost my favorite pictures. Uh huh. Right. I went through just 2007 last night and already had over 20 favorites. And there were really a lot more than 20 that were favorites from that year
So I thought maybe I'd start and post a year at a time. You can leave me a comment and tell me your favorites from that post. Then for the 1,000 post I'll post the ones that get the most votes.
In January of 2007 we chose the twins to adopt so you won't see many pictures of them because they didn't come home until 2010. However, Jessica, Jasmine and I visited in May and we all visited in August.
Some of the pictures aren't favorites because they are cute, but because of what they symbolize such as the picture of us with the twin's birth father and aunt.
So here are the photos from the 2007 posts. Leave me a comment of which one or two are your favorites.
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Marines, Orthodontist and more
A busy time here as the older kids make life decisions and also there's a lot coming up in our schedule.
I just got back from taking Jasmine to the orthodontist for her intake appointment. They did full X-rays and impressions. She wasn't too excited about the impressions.We are waiting on approval and then she'll get started with her braces. It's a bit more complicated since she was a cleft baby and some teeth are out of place.
Tomorrow night is soccer for Jasmine. Saturday is soccer for Kaleb. It's also fall festival at Jasmine's school.
Tyler is in Tallahassee at the Job Corps orientation. I really, really hope this works out for him. He's been at loose ends for five months now.
Jeff goes to run on the army ten-mile team in D.C. this weekend. He's coming home to visit next Wed or so. We plan to get a family portrait even though we had one for the church directory March 2011. With all the changes coming up for the older ones, who knows when they'll all be home together again.
Anyone else have a cleft child who got braces? A child who went to job corps or the reserves?
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| Jayden is enjoying some quiet time while Galen is outside. |
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| Kiara passed, but she sure doesn't listen well! She can follow the commands if and when she wants to! |
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| Kayla is still on liquids and very soft foods. |
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| Tyler and Jessica went to a pumpkin extravaganza at Ty's church. There was lots of food and free pumpkins. Jessica drew the Mocking Jay from Hunger Games on this huge pumpkin. It's a lot bigger than it looks in the picture. |
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| Adam got home from Montgomery last night. He signed the contract for the Marine Reserves and will got to boot camp next August. I thought he started weekends now, but he doesn't do that until later. He is supposed to go to physical training three times a week. That is going to be a challenge since he's in cross country and has tried out for the soccer team. Soccer results are tomorrow. He feels good about it because a lot of last year's soccer team graduated last May. He didn't make the team last year. |
I just got back from taking Jasmine to the orthodontist for her intake appointment. They did full X-rays and impressions. She wasn't too excited about the impressions.We are waiting on approval and then she'll get started with her braces. It's a bit more complicated since she was a cleft baby and some teeth are out of place.
Tomorrow night is soccer for Jasmine. Saturday is soccer for Kaleb. It's also fall festival at Jasmine's school.
Tyler is in Tallahassee at the Job Corps orientation. I really, really hope this works out for him. He's been at loose ends for five months now.
Jeff goes to run on the army ten-mile team in D.C. this weekend. He's coming home to visit next Wed or so. We plan to get a family portrait even though we had one for the church directory March 2011. With all the changes coming up for the older ones, who knows when they'll all be home together again.
Anyone else have a cleft child who got braces? A child who went to job corps or the reserves?
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