What was I thinking...

ST. Matthew Preschool 2008-2009

2009-05-05T23:15:00.000-06:00

Hey Look...

2009-02-24T20:01:00.000-06:00

I'm blogging again!

Like the new blog?

A little funny...

2008-11-19T07:44:00.002-06:00

At school we have been talking about the first Thanksgiving. Native Americans, Pilgrims, the feast that lasted three days, that sort of stuff. To check for comprehension of the subject, I asked the kids, "So, who was at the first Thanksgiving?" A little girl in the front row raised her hand and said, "I think my Grandma was there." No honey, your Grandma is downstairs. I don't think she was there. I think I need to rethink this lesson and emphasize the fact that this was a LONG time ago a little bit better.!

2008-10-30T13:31:00.004-06:00

Happy Birthday Mom!

2008-10-30T13:31:00.003-06:00

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday dear Mom!

Happy Birthday to you!!!!

We love you!!!

Jen, Eric, Morgan, Andrea and Elmo :)

A good friend told me I suck!

2008-09-18T15:30:00.003-06:00

Nice huh?

Suck at updating my blog, that is.

At least she told me the truth.

Yes, it's true. I suck at blogging!

When was my last entry?

ummmm... MAY

Oh well...

here's to a new school year with better blogging!!!

Elmo is getting old...

2008-05-28T21:43:00.003-06:00

Ok, the last two weeks have not been pleasant. Getting through the end of the school year is always kind of crazy but our dear old dog has added quite a bit to the craziness...
Our sweet little Elmo is getting old.
So I take her in to get some paid meds for arthritis. They prescribe Rimadyl then take blood to check her liver. Don't give her the Rimadyl yet. Liver counts are too high, so they put her on antbiotics for 2 weeks. In the mean time, Elmo eats the entire bottle of pain meds! Yes, my dog over dosed on Rimadyl. She's at the vet for two days given the doggy version of epicak (stuff that makes you vomit) charcoal and IV fluids. Comes home, her liver counts are going down YIPPEE. About a week later, the dumb dog runs after a squirrel and blows out her ACL! Back to the vet we go. She needs a $1600 surgery and her liver counts are up to 900. Let me put this in perspective for you...her original count was 200, after a week of antibiotics it went down to 145, normal is somewhere around 107, and now it is at 900. Where's the emoticon with his eyes bugging out of his head?
What do we do now? It was the worst few days ever! I felt bad she was hobbling around on three legs. They can't operate until her counts go down. Will they go down? What if they don't go down? Are we going to have to put her to sleep? I can't do that! Do we have $1600 to pay for her surgery? Do we want to put her through that? Do we want to go through that? UGH!
After talking with a few neighbors they all said our vet's prices were very high. We even considered taking her to a vet in Door County that our neighbor's mom uses.
Well, after some calling around, my wonderful husband brought Elmo to a vet in Fox Lake who said he does the surgery for $800 and some change. I really need that emoticon with his eyes bugging out! She's on more antibiotics and pain meds and two herbal supplements. And as soon as her liver counts go down, she's having sugery!

Last Days of Spring Break....

2008-03-28T07:11:00.003-06:00

I found this on someone else's blog and it made me laugh.

Who comes up with this stuff?

Hey! Where did it go?

Happy Spring!!!

2008-03-21T17:31:00.001-06:00

We did it!!!

2008-03-05T21:22:00.002-06:00

It's official!

Eric booked our Disney vacation yesterday.

YIPPEE!

I think I'm more excited about it than the kids.

I have been reading every Disney book I could find to plan this vacation.

Obsessed would be a good word for it.

I stayed up until midnight monday reading until Eric said,

"Jennifer go to bed NOW!"

Oops! Didn't help my cold at all.

Then Tuesday night I was up until about 10pm.

Seriously, WHAT WAS I THINKING?

And here we are at 9:30 on Wednesday night

I have a ton of laundry to do and I'm tinkering around with the computer.

Oh well, there are worse things I could be doing...

I'm off to read some more of my Disney books and do a little laundry.

Who am I kidding, I'm going to read!

This one's for you Mom...

2008-02-29T09:57:00.005-06:00

Last night was morgan's fourth grade concert. Grandma wasn't able to go because she's been feeling a little under the weather. It was a combination of songs, poems and little skits done by the entire fourth grade! It was actually pretty cute! There are quite a few budding actors and actresses in the class.

In the first picture Morgan is in the second row from the top, third or fourth one in from the right. In this one she's in the center of the picture.

And here's the grand finale...

Morgan was only supposed to do one solo poem. But her friend had gotten herself so worked up over it that her mom called the music teacher and tried to get her out of it. Well, the music teacher suggested she have someone help her with it. I'm not sure if Kayla asked or Morgan volunteered but they were both up there and did a great job!!!

How appropriate...the poems title is Fear!

Proud Mommy Moment...

2008-02-10T08:31:00.000-06:00

A couple weeks ago Morgan tells me, "Mom I'm in the spelling bee." Now I have just read the note from school saying that they were having a Spelling Bee in the classroom. "Oh, thats nice." I tell her. Then the next day at school, one of the Moms says to me, "Congratulations on Morgan making it to the School Spelling Bee!" Uh, what? "Yah, Morgan and (her daughter) are the classroom finalists going to the School Spelling Bee!" Ok, this is where I smack myself in the head. OH! That's what she was talking about!
Morgan has this bad habit of not giving me ALL the information about something. Most likely she's been thinking about it all day. But when it finally comes flying out of her mouth there is SO much info flying around in that brain of hers her mouth can't keep up with what her brain is trying to process! Thus, I end up with bits and pieces that don't make a whole lot of sense to me. Or I think that's all there is to it when there is really a lot more. Like this time.
Fast forward to last week. I get an invitation to the CQ School Spelling Bee! Get sub, hope boss isn't too upset with me and I show up (with Grandma) at the school. I didn't realize how nervous I would be!
I have got to tell you, I was SO proud of her! Out of 12 kids she made it to the last 5!!! Her word was infomercial. I don't even know how to spell it! She hesitated about half way through the word, lost her train of thought and spelled information. Oh well! There's always next year!
Good Job Morgan!!!
I have to get the pictures off my camera and I will post one here!

I've been tagged...

2008-02-02T22:22:00.000-06:00

So, here's the deal for those that I Tag!
The Middle Name Game!
These are the rules:-You must post the rules before you give your answers. You must list one fact about yourself for each letter of your middle name. Each fact must begin with that letter. If you don't have a middle name, just use your maiden name. After you've been tagged, you need to up-date your blog with your middle name and answers. At the end of your post, you need to tag one person for each letter of your middle name. (Be sure to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged and need to read your blog for details.)

Ok, my middle name is DAWN. Nice and short. Thanks Mom! :)

D-Dianne My Mom!
A-Artsy I love all kinds of arts and crafts projects. Andrea my daughter.
W-Wedding My wedding was one of the best days of my life! People are STILL talking about it 11 years later.
N-Noodles One of my favorite foods.

I am going to tag...
marnie
paula

Bad, bad blogger...

2008-01-27T15:17:00.000-06:00

I know, I know! I'm a bad blogger! This year, instead of freaking out over shopping and presents and decorating and parties and, and... (freaking out here) I decided it would be better to focus on the important things. Enjoing our time together, focusing on the real meaning of the holiday... Who am I kidding! I got caught up in all the gifts, shopping and trappings of the holiday season and completely forgot about my blog!

We really do have a ton of stuff going on from October to January!
Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, more birthdays and holidays!

Starting in October:
8-Picking out all 48 of our pumpkins
9-12-Jen jury duty
11-Nana's Birthday
20-Morgan's Cheer Competition
26-Dad's biopsy
30-Mom's Birthday
31-Happy Halloween!
There were also a ton of football games, Andie started Young Rembrandts, Innisbrook sales...

Now November:
2-Grandma and Grandpa's Anniversary!
4-Morgan's first Cheer Competition of the year
9-Chestnut Corners Bowling League
10-Grandpa's Birthday!
10-11-Blue Harbor Waterpark with the Evans' family
13-Manners class (Cancelled Kayla was sick)
14-Morgan did the After3 Program at school (It was magic, I think)
15-Andrea and Morgan Teacher Conferences (they are both doing very well)
20-Pastor Moritz's Birthday (I was in charge of his birthday lunch at school)
21-25 Thanksgiving Break
24-Max's Barmitzva (how DO you spell it?)
25-Tyler and Becca's Party
26-Cleaning Ladies came today!!!
29-Gerrie and Jen get food poisoning!
30-Preschool is closed (see above) 16 other teachers in Day School are also absent!
30-Neighborhood Progressive party (which Jen missed due to events from Nov. 29)

Dum da dum dum December:
1-Billy Joel with Evans
7-Andie's Kid Party (Coco Key waterpark)
8- Eric Hart's 40th Birthday Party (Eric in MI)
8-Sean's Birthday Party!!!
9-Andie goes to Rachel's birthday party
11-Manners Class at the Library ( yes they went. no, they were not happy about it)
12-Andie goes to After3 program at school (magic?)
12- Jen has Preschool Christmas Pagent tonight
13-Elina has staff Christmas party (which Jen missed due to migraine)
13-Jen goes to ER for week long migraine
14-Bowling (which Jen misses because of week long migraine)
15-Andie's 8th Birthday Party (Monkey party)
19-Andrea's Eighth Birthday!!! (how did that happen?)
20-St. Matthew PTO Turkey Luncheon
21-Christmas Break for Jen, Morgan and Andrea
22-Haircut Jen :)
24-Christmas Eve at Oma and Opa's
25-Christmas Morning at home then to Grandma and Grandpa's for dinner
27-30-Go up North
31-New Years Eve at home (made it to New York's NY)
Other hi-lights: Uncle Matt gets new Jeep, 16year old girl smashes into Uncle Matt's new Jeep 2 days later while trying to drop off Andie's birthday present, 16 year old girl lives a block away from us!

January:
1-Happy New Year!
2-Girls get to try out new roller skates
2-Lunch @ shop with Daddy
3-Andie gets tooth pulled
7-All girls go back to school
9-Poker night for Eric
11-Happy Anniversary Jen and Eric! (11th)
11-Bowling
13-Elmo gats a bath @ Petsmart
16-Preschool Info Night at Ela Library
18-More poker for Eric
18-Go to Rogan's for pizza and DS
20-Indian Princess meeting @ Thackray's
21-MLK Jr. Day No school
21-Jen's eye exam (I am OLD) Kristie's birthday party
22-Girls don't have school Jen does (Rachel watches girls)
24-Andie Field Trip to HS to see HSM!
25-Jen AEYC conference
25-27-Jen goes scrapping @ Hotel Indigo
26-27-Indian Princess Campout (everyone comes home sick or in pain)
26-Jen comes home early from scrapping
28-Girls will be staying home today because of camping out in January!
31-Registration/Open House @ St. Matthew Preschool!

Whew! I told you there was a lot going on...

Top 3 for today...

2007-09-09T18:35:00.000-06:00

Here are todays top three...

1. I uploaded my very first card for the www.Linnecards.com Design Team!!! Gotta love Doodlebug!!! 2. We finally finished Morgan's room! Poor kid, her room has been torn up since her birthday August 1st. She had some very lovely 1980's Laura Ashley wallpaper that I swear was super glued to the walls. It's not completely finished. I still have to order new blinds and curtains but at least she can sleep in her room again!3. I bought chocolate marshmallows at Walmart. OMG! They are so good!!!

Have a great week!

Where does the time go

2007-09-03T07:53:00.000-06:00

YIKES! Where has the time gone? My last post was from the beginning of July and here we are the beginning of September! Well, what I think I'm going to do is a little recap of our summer over the next few posts...

We had a blast on our trip to the Dells with the Rogans! The kids all get along SO well and Laura and I well...She's just the best!!! We love you guys! Thanks for the great trip! The girls are still talking about it!

Huge Bummer! I lost all our pictures from that trip! I can't find them anywhere!

Ok, I just found them. Couldn't tell you where they were, but I found them!

This one is from dinner at MooseJaw. The nachos were so good!

Tucker hamming it up for the camera.

My little Sean! Isn't he adorable?

We are off...

2007-07-10T07:01:00.000-06:00

The girls and I are off to Wisconsin Dells with some friends of ours. Four kids and two adults should be a ton of fun!!!!! But we just wanted to say goodbye to Daddy! Bye-bye Dadoo! Bye Dad! We love you! We will see you Thursday afternoon...

Just wanted to leave you with this...

We are back...

2007-06-25T12:49:00.000-06:00

Well we finally made it back from Mexico. Why does it always seem like it takes longer to get home? It was wonderful!!! Too blasted hot at times...thank God for air conditioning! The first picture is the hut we would sit in by the pool. Great views and a pleasant breeze!

Here is the path to the beach...

The ocean...

This is the other side of the pool. There were at least 3 more pools just on the property we were on...

Well, it was fun while we were gone but it's nice to be home too. :)

Now for the deprograming of the children...

2007-06-12T20:14:00.000-06:00

Today was the first day we got to go to the public pool. The girls have been asking since March when they could go. They had a blast!

I had lost them for a while in the pool and when i saw them again they were running towards me. I was afraid something had happened. But Andie burst out in a huge grin and said, "I went down the big slide!" HUH? Really?!? I have got to see this! So with a little girl on each side of me (and my camera in my hand) I got to see this...

Andie went down the slide all alone! Without me! No talking about it! No negotiating! No whining! Ladies and Gentlemen this is a first! You know what? That wasn't the only first of the day. If you look carefully at the first picture in my post there are TWO little girls smiling. Two real smiles. As some of you know my Andie has not been real keen on smiling lately. Like for the last year and a half. I'll have to post her latest school pictures... but that's for another time... My little girls are growing up (sigh). It makes me feel so good when something like this happens. It makes me feel like I am doing something right and these kids might just turn
out alright after all...

2007-06-11T15:35:00.000-06:00

Since I am completely blogger illiterate (and spelling challenged) I have to add my pictures in another entry instead of with the post... Here's the pool. Bargain of the century $40. Thanks Mom! :) Here's to warmer weather!

You gotta love the smell of Coppertone in the morning!

2007-06-11T15:07:00.000-06:00

Eric came home this morning to put up the pool for the girls. AWWW so sweet! They were SO excited! We went out for lunch with some friends, ran some errands (I finally got my Mary Jane Crocs!) and when we got home they got to go in the pool. Not before I doused them with the sunscreen. Don't want anymore burnt little bodies! They smelled so good! They lasted about a half hour before they started begging me to put some hot water in the pool. Well, sorry girls you're going to have to wait for Mother Nature to warm things up...

Well, it's official!

2007-04-30T15:08:00.004-06:00

Both my girls can ride a two wheeler! Friday we took the bikes down and Morgan took off on hers after two years of trying. We were talking to a neighbor about new windows (that's a post for another day) and Eric nudged me and when I looked up Andie was riding around the cul-de-sac all by herself!!! YIPPEE!!! Now I just have to get the pictures posted!
Ok, I guess I don't have any pictures...Bad Mommy!

2007-04-28T21:45:00.000-06:00

This is my first post on my new blog and I don't know what to say, so I'll show you one of our Easter pictures.