its been too long since my last post again. *sigh. what can i say? LIFE IS BUSY!
since mimi started the Advanced Academics Level 4 this school year, she has been working long hours on school work every day in addition to after school activities (and now its school work she needs help on when in the past it was so easy she blew thru the assignments in 10 minutes on her own). the crazy thing is, we HAVE cut back a little this year with Mimi, but still she is doing more than enough to keep me busy: gymnastics, girl scouts, ballet/tap, hip hop, lacrosse, and piano. and add in the fact that ozzy is now old enough (4) to do more: gymnastics, swimming, karate (3 times a week), ballet, soccer, and piano, and he is now at preschool 4 days out of the week, which means i'm in the car a lot more these days! and i'm still leading the pretend room at his preschool. all that makes it rather hard to find much time to keep up with the family blog. which makes me sad because these days will otherwise be forgotten if i dont take the time to write it down.
So, despite Busy Life, we managed to work in a Halloween party, mostly for the preschool kids since Halloween is different for them and scary is NOT fun. i think the advent of Hurricane Sandy blowing into the eastern shore was actually a bit of a help in that area! yes, we did lose power, and yes, it did take extra time to bring back in all the outside decorations and then put them back out again, but it also meant that all schools and activities were cancelled, so it was like having extra time suddenly appear! suddenly mimi had extra time to finish her work, we were home long enough to clean and decorate it and just prior to halloween the power came on, and we were closer to ready than i would have been had the kids had all their scheduled activities!
unfortunately folks up north didnt have it as easy. the pictures of the flooded northern states were very sobering and i was really thankful that conditions here at my house were almost mild in comparison (and we had a working generator!) the kids knew little about what was going on, they just enjoyed their little school holiday, had fun with glowsticks and fireside meals when the power went out, and then the halloween celebration shortly after we were back on the grid. the party was fun and the little guys had a chance to celebrate, unfortunately, there were some scary costumed trick or treaters outside and that upset several of the children. :(
since mimi started the Advanced Academics Level 4 this school year, she has been working long hours on school work every day in addition to after school activities (and now its school work she needs help on when in the past it was so easy she blew thru the assignments in 10 minutes on her own). the crazy thing is, we HAVE cut back a little this year with Mimi, but still she is doing more than enough to keep me busy: gymnastics, girl scouts, ballet/tap, hip hop, lacrosse, and piano. and add in the fact that ozzy is now old enough (4) to do more: gymnastics, swimming, karate (3 times a week), ballet, soccer, and piano, and he is now at preschool 4 days out of the week, which means i'm in the car a lot more these days! and i'm still leading the pretend room at his preschool. all that makes it rather hard to find much time to keep up with the family blog. which makes me sad because these days will otherwise be forgotten if i dont take the time to write it down.
So, despite Busy Life, we managed to work in a Halloween party, mostly for the preschool kids since Halloween is different for them and scary is NOT fun. i think the advent of Hurricane Sandy blowing into the eastern shore was actually a bit of a help in that area! yes, we did lose power, and yes, it did take extra time to bring back in all the outside decorations and then put them back out again, but it also meant that all schools and activities were cancelled, so it was like having extra time suddenly appear! suddenly mimi had extra time to finish her work, we were home long enough to clean and decorate it and just prior to halloween the power came on, and we were closer to ready than i would have been had the kids had all their scheduled activities!
unfortunately folks up north didnt have it as easy. the pictures of the flooded northern states were very sobering and i was really thankful that conditions here at my house were almost mild in comparison (and we had a working generator!) the kids knew little about what was going on, they just enjoyed their little school holiday, had fun with glowsticks and fireside meals when the power went out, and then the halloween celebration shortly after we were back on the grid. the party was fun and the little guys had a chance to celebrate, unfortunately, there were some scary costumed trick or treaters outside and that upset several of the children. :(
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| cathy, mimi, natalie, ozzy, john dominic, colby, caitlin, chloe, cambell, frances, landon, abigail, cat,josh |
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