School

It is 10:00 and the kids just left for school. here in South Dakota there is something called late start. When you get up in the morning, you turn on the TV. and watch to see if you have school, or late start, or if school has been canceled.
Today, the TV said 2 hour late start. Yesterday, Thomas was not well, he turned on the T.V. and was watching the early show when down at the bottom it was talking about school closings it said late start,so we told the kids they could go back to bed. I went to school. Right after my first class got over at 9:50, Tom called me to tell me that school was cancelled due to the bad storm that was supposed to be on its way in, and to be extra careful as I drove home after my noon class. i went to my 10:00 class, but then went to talk to my 12:00 instructor and told her that I was going to skip class since school was canceled for my kids and I did not want to get stuck in the storm. She gave me my assignment and told me to hurry home. What a great lady.

Today we woke up, woke up the kids checked the TV, sent the kids back to bed, sent Tom off to work and at 9:30 woke up those still in bed, and then sent them off to school at ten.

Mikey gave me a great big hug when I told him he gets to stay home with mommy today. and told me he likes Mommy days.

Now I am hoping I can get some school work done while my boys are helping me.

Lillie

Tom's Grandfather

We got a phone call yesterday, telling us that grandpa kirby died. To those who loved him, my prayers are with you. He no longer is held back by his earthly body, he has no elderly pains and he is with is wife Marion, whom he loved and took care of for many years.

I want to say to him, that Tom and I have been married for more than 15 years and we still like to sit next to each other on the couch, at church, or simply whenever we can.

For those of you who don't know, When we had been married for 2 days and were returning his cake plates, and tiers, we were sitting on his couch talking with him, and he asked us to scoot apart becuase we were making him uncomfortable as we would not want to sit next to each other a year from then.

Any way, we do still sit next to each other and we still enjoy it. Especially after a long day of work and school, and kids.

Lillie

Danny, Jim and Carie

Danny stayed dry last night!! We have been working on this seriously for a week. For two night he has stayed dry! The daycare ladies told me to tell them what I was doing with him, and they would do it to. Yesterday, when I went to pick him up, they gave me the diapers and wipes he had not used yet. and told me good job. I thanked them for their help. Danny stayed dry all day yesterday. with only one accident the day before. Tom told me that I am a "mean mom" since Danny's treat was to get a drink of water out of a "joke"cup from Dixie, everytime he went potty. I laughed and said I was simply refilling his water level in his body, to ensure he would need to go potty again. Tom laughed and told me good job. I love that we are done buying diapers. Interesting thought: We have five boxes of wipes plus two refill packs floating around our house.

Jim started Drivers ed. this morning. He is excited, so am I. It will be after school and on saturdays ending in the middle of March. He will not start his driving hours till school gets out in the middle of May.

In South Dakota, at the age of 14 kids can get their license though they can only drive during certain hours of the day.

Carie got 100% on a spelling test yesterday.

Here's the News

We have lived here for a month now. I think I am as unpacked as I can get before we get more shelves. I unpacked a box of lotions and one with towels today. I also made curtains for my living room. The curtains clash with the couch, but I am planning on recovering it with denim. They will look good together. I even made a little curtain to cover the window on the front door, they all look really nice.

Tom hung most of our pictures today. It really helps me to feel moved in to have the pictures up. Another bonus to hanging pictures is that there is no longer a big huge box, (we managed to find a box big enough for all the pictures)sitting on the edge of my computer room. He also found my spoon rack in the picture box, and hung my spoons. (I can't find the new spoons we bought during the move, which is probably a good thing since my spoon rack only has room for one more spoon, and we bought more than that). I will keep looking.

The girls got to go to sleepovers last night. Katie went to the home of a friend from school, the other girls went to The Smiths from church, ( the branch pres.) they have three girls (and a boy-17) the girls all had a lot fun.

We are looking forward to church tomorrow, It will be the first sunday since we got here that we are all well.

still cold

I noticed on Chet and Liz's blog that they have a weather spot. I thought it was cool and asked Thomas to put one on our blog, he also renamed it.

I think it is interesting that we are colder right now than Chet and family who are in Alaska. right now, it is 1 degree with a "real feel" of -25. WOW!! We are going through Propane rather fast, and I have the temp set at 66.

Echo Play Tag Too

names I go by: Echo, Gecko
2 things I'm wearing right now: Pink hospital socks, a Pooh bear sweatshirt
2 thngs I want or have in a relationship: a boyfriend who can deal with my dad and my brother, to be sixteen so I can date.
2 fave things to do: imagining, reading
2 things I did last night: read and imagine.
2 people I talked to last: Dad and Jim
2 things I'm doing tomorrow: Spelling Bee, School (oh reading and imagining).
2 longest car rides: Utah to Missouri, Missouri to Utah
2 fave holidays: Christmas, 4th of July.
2 fave drinks: Kool-aid and Root Beer
2 things about me you may not know: My birthday is 5 days after Christmas, I've read Pride and Prejudice twice.
2 jobs I have had: Reading and Imagining (I've done some babysitting too)
2 movies I could watch over and over: Esther and the King and any movie while I have a book in front of me.
2 fave foods: peanut butter, home made bread
2 places I'd rather be: the library, in bed


Aunt Niki and Joanna Tag you're it

Cheater Tag

I think that it's cheating to tag your spouse but since my wife's motto is "cheat to win" I guess I'll have to play along. (especially since I have been trying hard all these years to get her to adopt this motto.)


2 names I go by: Drew, Tom (recently I get called Doc alot which is kinda cool)
2 things I'm wearing right now: Pink shirt, my really cool christmas knife (thanks Brian)
2 thngs I want or have in a relationship: A wife who understands the need to have airsoft wars, and someone who belives in me when I loose faith in myself.
2 fave things to do: shooting, reading
2 things I did last night: Talked to my family on the phone, watched movies with the kids.
2 people I talked to last: My brother David, my Dad, and Barbara Palmer(thats 3, but I never was much good at following directions.)
2 things I'm doing tomorrow: Group therapy and individual therapy.
2 longest car rides: England to California(as a kid, we rode a plane part of the way), Utah to Missouri after visiting family for Christmas
2 fave holidays: My birthday barbeque at the Palmers and Super Bowl Sunday.
2 fave drinks: Coca-Cola, and Cock and Bull Ginger Beer (Egg Nog at Christmas time)
2 things about me you may not know: I am a member of the Tri-M Music honor society, I can teach you how to beat the polygraph.
2 jobs I have had: Bouncer at Lamar's, I worked security for Karl Malone
2 movies I could watch over and over: Tommy Boy and Necessary Roughness
2 fave foods: Red Meat and White Meat (other colors are OK too).
2 places I'd rather be: Elk Hunting, Chupin' Mate con mis companeros (even if we were doing it in a war zone). (It's an Argentine thing).


Karl and Emily consider yourself Tagged