Carolyn vs. Carie

Carolyn has decided that she wants a shorter name to write than Carolyn so she and Tom have decided that as soon as we get to South Dakota, we will start to call her Carie. Please note that there is only one "r" to help differentiate between her and Aunt Carrie and Carrie Aunt. Thank you and Love to all. Lillie and Carie.

Merry Christmas!

I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

We let the kids open presents last night so they can get up and play with their presents without waiting for everyone else to get up. Jim was the first to get up (at 6) to watch his collection of Ernest movies. I did not get up till almost 10 a.m.

Everyone had fun opening their presents and more playing with them.

Thanks to all.
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

P.S.

I will probably be to busy moving in the next few days to post but I will try. If not I will post as soon as I can after we get to S.D.

Love ya, Lillie and family.

Mail Call

Please don't send letters or other mail to this address yet I just found out that I will have to get a PO Box as the USPS does not deliver mail to this part of town.

New Address

Well it's finally official. No we were not able to buy a house, I have to work some magic with a very large student loan debt before I can finance a home. We do however finally have a new address it is 241 North 7th street, Emery, SD 57332. We will continue to look for a house and consider financing options but for now this is home. It is a nice old Victorian house. It is big enough for the family and is right next door to the friend who convinced me to apply for the job in South Dakota. I told him that he would pay for his treachery (evil laugh)!!!!! He is looking forward to having the kids around.

My grades

I have my final grades:
Communication A
Composition A
Keyboarding A
Pre-Algebra ND I am a bit disapointed in this, but I can do better next time
Spanish C Again a bit disappointed in this, but my personal tutor moved
during the semester. And it was harder to study by myself.

all of these together give me a 3.40 gpa. WOW, my first semester in more than 15 years. I am excited for next semester.

Though I am having a hard time getting ahold of Mitchell Tech.

Love to you all, thanks for all the support.

Lillie

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Thomas, I LOVE YOU !

LILLIE

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Thomas, I LOVE YOU !

LILLIE

I'm Done.

Hello,

I just got home from my last final! It was for my English Comp. class, I stayed after so I could find out my grade. I got a 14 1/2 out of 15. She also gave us our class grade so we can figure our final grade. My class grade is a 90%. The only other grade I know so far is my Communication. It was my first final. In that class I have an A. My other classes were spanish, prealgebra, and keyboarding. The keyboarding one was kinda hard, simply because I had spent the previous two hours doing my math final. And I was stressed enough with it that the numbers kept going blurry, so I had to work and rework each problem, so I could be sure that I had done my best. For keyboarding, after the written portion, we were each supposed to take 2alphabetical timings and two 10-key timings, after doing six timings and not getting less than 8 errors, I asked her if she would watch me do the alphabetical technique, part so I could just be done, I could not even type the abc's, I told her that I had just finished my math final, and I was all jumpy from it. She told me not to worry. and that as soon as I did a 10-key timing, that I did not have to turn in, I simply had to do one then I could be done for the night and good job. I did this and quickly left.

I will know my final grades monday morning, but now I can focus on the move.

I did go today to sell my books back and to get the little boy's birth certificates. It is a relief to have finally done this.

The Relief Society is scheduled to come and help pack Sat. I still have an avalanche spot to attack before then and I want the office ready to stack boxes in as we get them done.

well, I will write later.
love to you all.

Lillie

Math test

I got my homework quiz back today, I got 10/10 the homework quiz she gives us a piece of paper with the chapter and the section and then the individual problem number and if we did it, we copy it down. This is the first one where she did not give us the problem too. so there were a couple of kids in my class who did not even get to attempt to do the problem, as they did not have their homework done.

I got my math test back too, it is the best I have done on a math test this semester.
I got a 75% on it. I think I am ready for the final next Tuesday, we will still have another day of review, and I had my home teacher come over to give me a blessing. So all I need to do is take deep breaths, and relax, it will all come back to me.

love to you all.
Lillie

It is December

Wow,I can't believe that we are in December. I have so much to do before the move. I am trying really hard to focus on school, yet, I have to do other things too. I am excitied that my first final is on wed. the 5 and the next one is the 7. I have asked my home teacher (Lex Palmer) for a blessing before then.

I stopped thinking about finals this weekend long enough I went through about 10 boxes of clothes and thought I was done then Jim reminded me there was still a wall of boxes in his room. and Carolyn has some under her bed. I also emptied out my fishtank on friday and took it to my friend marci's house, her kids have been asking for a pet. she does not want anything four legged. I told her that fish are the perfect pet. I am greatly comforted toknow that my fish are going to a loving home.( I keep reminding myself they are just fish). any way her kids are excited about finally getting a pet.

Marci has a little boy named Michael, and while she spells it different than we do, It made me wonder there are several Mikels at church, so with a bit of internet research,(thanks echo) we found out that the number 0ne boy name in 2003 was Mikel, with several variations on the spelling. it even included our spelling as one of the variations.

Jim went to a Christmas party with some kids from his seminary class, and they gave him two rolls of duct tape and a note book to write a book, titled "5000 use for duct tape" One of the boys gave him a duct tape tie, he tried wearing it to church, but one of his leaders told him it was not appropriate to pass the sacrament in a duct tape tie. he had planned ahead for this and had an alternate in his pocket.

Echo had her YoungWomen in excellence this week and I talked to my last teacher and left before class started, I was still late though. (i thoughtit started at 7, it actually started at 6) maybe next year.

The younger girls have their Christmas musical coming up at school, though I will have to missthis one completely as it is right during two of my finals.

Thats all for now.

Mom and Dad I am glad you made it home safe and sound. (thanks Marvin)