The days just keep getting busier!

I was looking at my calendar for May...its almost filled up between my school, kids activities and Ben's doctor appointments. I am so ready for alittle bit of a slow down but it doesn't look like I'll get one until mid June. Its good to be busy but there are somedays I feel like I don't know if I'm coming or going. We all go through that though.

I have my second test today in Anatomy. It was suppose to have been yesterday but class was cancelled. Its another big test over 3 big chapters. After class I'm going with one of my friends to the doctor. She has been having some problems lately and went for a regular check up. Come to find out that she has some fibroid tumors and her uterus is the size of a cantelope!! So they are going to do an ultrasound and biopsy and she wants me there for the results.

Justin has a field trip to Tybee this morning. Its a bit nippy out there right now but it looks like it will be a good day for them. He is so excited :) They can only get their feet wet and they will have a picnic out there. Good luck to the teachers with a bunch of 2nd graders! lol

Matthew has something going on almost everyday next week, alot of it is pertaining to band. He is getting quite good on that trumpet and was picked for honors band :)

Caitlin is gearing up for the end of 8th grade. It seems like yesterday that she was just starting school. I can't believe she will be in high school....lol I'm getting old. Ben reminds me that 34 is not old though but I look at my kids and its just amazing how much they have grown.

Have a great day :)

Hard day today

Today would have been my dads 83rd birthday and my parents 35th anniversary. (Yes I have older parents, mom was 40 when she had me and dad sas 48) Its hard to believe that its been almost 10 years since he passed away. It seems like yesterday that he would pop over to our house when we lived in Kansas or we would go for a walk and end up at my parents house. Time passes so quickly but the memories never fade. I can always remember mom baking his favorite cake on this day....german chocolate with vanilla ice cream. There are so many things I wished he could have seen. Justin never met him since he was gone when Matthew was barely one. I know he would have been so proud of Ben and would have loved to see me go back to school and seen how our kids are doing. He is watching us from above and is with us in our hearts though. I love you dad and miss you so very much.....happy birthday

Vidalia

Yesterday in Vidalia GA was the annual Onion Festival. My friend Myriam wanted to go check it out so all of us hopped into the truck and off we went. It's about an hour and a half from here. We were all expecting to see nothing but fields of onions, of course we all weren't sure what fields of onions looks like but we seen fields,lol. They have an onion factory that we checked out and had to buy a 5 pound bag of the sweet tasty onions. I wasn't brave enough to sample the onion fudge....none of us were. They even had an air show that we watched and an arts and crafts festival. Some of the items Myriam and I seen we knew we could make at home, famous last words. Did you know that the "in" thing now is to have a purse made out of those capri sun juice boxes?? It's amazing what people can come up with.
It was fun and now we are all going to go see the seafood festival the first weekend in May right here in our own lovely Savannah along the riverwalk :)
I love this time of year....

I'm back :)

My computer is fixed! It was the hard drive so Ben and I decided to take a trip to Best Buy. I was expecting to be there for hours but we were in and out in under an hour, miracles happen! We even got a really good deal on it, more memory and faster speed with a 50 dollar rebate :) I even got a Bon Jovi CD, greatest hits, gotta splurge every once in awhile and hey its Bon Jovi!

The kids are taking their Georgia CRCT tests this week. For Caitlin and Matthew it means if they don't pass these tests they don't move on to the next grade. It will be that way for Justin next year. Talk about pressure on these poor kids. I mean its a good thing to make sure all of the kids know what they need to but its almost on the brink of stressing all of them out. Not a good thing!

Ben starts his cortizone shots in his back again this week. It sounds like in about 3 months time he will be going back to get re-evaluated on whether or not they will medically discharge him. The whole thing just scares me, but I know somehow it will work out.

I took my first Anatomy test last week and made a 90 on it! Whew!! That class is really kicking my rear.

Have a great day :)

Real quick

Thanks for all of the congrats. I'm having computer problems at the moment so I'll try to check in when I can. Hopefully they will be fixed soon and then I can be back at full swing again.
You all take care, group hugs and I miss you :)

Happy April!

After a few weeks of nonstop rain it feels wonderful to have seen the sun shining outside yesterday! Our yard is so wet and I'm getting in the mood to plant flowers now. We had 80 yesterday and it felt so good.

We went to Alabama this weekend to help celebrate Ben's grandma's 87th birthday. There were about 29 of us all together. The kids had a blast playing with their cousins and it was good to see everyone again. We were planning on leaving Friday and being back Sunday but it poured rain all day Friday and there were severe storms the way we were going so we waited until early Saturday morning. I'm exhausted needless to say. Its not a long trip but with the time change then you add daylight savings time into the mix, yawn!

Yesterday I started back to school after my spring break flew by. I had to endure the bookline but it wasn't all that bad this time. Anatomy is going to be, hmmm, interesting is a good word. About 2 hours of homework and studying each night is what our professor said. I'm glad it's the only one I have left to take this quarter.

The kids are already making summer plans. I have to remind them that they still have school. Moms no fun! lol