Personal Progress

I am working on my personal progress and I am supposed to ask some mothers that I admire, What they think some important attributes for being a mother are. I would like to ask any women for their opinion. Thank you!


(Carolyn) Carie Wilkinson

Mercy....

So I learned some new things about football today.

1. When one team is ahead by 45 points they stop stopping the clock. (for timeouts and such). They did this today during Jims game when the score was 51-6
at half time.

The third quarter was actually 12 minutes long, WoW.

2. When that team is ahead by 50 points, they stop the clock and call it a game.
They did this today when their was four Minutes left in the game.

Go Seahawks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 57-6 WHOOOOOOO

This is called a Mercy Win or some such thing. Some of the terms I heard were Mercy
Smashing and Mercy Killing.

Jim got put in with 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, and played the next six minutes till the end of the game. The coach called him over at one point to tell him "You got good contact, now drive the feet."

Now Jim says he feels "DANGEROUS"

Go Jim.

This week

Now on to this week. Thomas, Finally, got official word that his application for licensure was approved and he is elligible to sit for the EPPP (the national exam). Now he just has to wait to receive the information in the mail to schedule his test, which he will probably take in December. If he passes that with a score of 500 or more he will then be scheduled to sit for his oral boards in late January or early February.

Jim will be playing the school that we thought he would be going to in football today. All of the rest of the kids are excited about homecomming week next week and are helping make floats for our tiny little parade. They are also happy about getting Monday out of school as it is Native American day in South Dakota. They are also very excited about Halloween, and it is very annoying to me. I guess Thomas has rubbed off on me a little bit. I guess I have rubbed off on him too because for the first time he seems to be getting a little excited about it too. I love living in our small town because this year I get to carry on a hugo family tradition of making donuts on Halloween.

last week

Wow, I was supposed to do this a week ago.

Jim won his game last friday 48-8. Go Jim!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Monday we were getting ready for dinner when someone knocked at our door. (this is a rare happening at our house). It was Cousin Barbara and Uncle Mike. (this is kinda funny because actually Mike is cousins with Tom's dad, -but we call him Uncle Mike- and his wife we call cousin Barbara, It would make more sense to call them both Aunt and Uncle because of the generation difference or maybe have them become honorary Grandparents). They have visited us every year or two since we "found them" on a family history chat board. We all love visiting with them. It was a short visit this time, only about an hour. But cousin Barb took pictures which she will share with grandma Carolyn, and we will look forward to visiting again, maybe someday, we will get to visit them in Colorado.

My Mom thinned out her Iris bed, last week, and sent us some iris for our yard. Danny, Mikey and I planted them yesterday. It was fun.

Thangles

Way back when we lived in Missouri, I was part of a couple of quilt groups at my local store, Merrilee we quilt, One of them was a purple thangle quilt, I did not like to do them one month at a time, so I would wait till I had two or three months worth (sometimes more) and then I would sit down and cut and sew them. Well, I spent the morning cutting and pinning the thangles. (For those who have not seen them thangles are strips of paper with solid and dotted lines, that you pin your fabric to. A light and a dark strip, and then you sew on the dotted lines, and cut on the solid lines, and then when you are finished you have what is called a halfsquare triangle or a square made up of two triangles.) I still need to sew and then cut some more. but the pinning and initial cutting are the hardest part to get done.

I have been more stressed this semester, and Thomas has suggested that I take some time for myself doing something not related to school. I am hoping to make thursday my quilting day, but we will have to see.

WE WON!

Just to let you know,

Jims football team won their game against Parker last night, the score: 48-22.

GO SEAHAWKS!!!!!!!! It was Parkers homecoming.

Jim got to play for his 30 seconds. He says during the Varsity games that is what he gets. He gets more than that during the JV games.

His coach says he is learning the game fast.

GO JIM!!!!!!!!!

License to Drive

Jim and I went to the DMV today. After driving back home to get his birth certificate and after filling out the paperwork, and having his picture taken, Jim is now licensed to drive.

For the next 90 days he can only drive with an adult 18 or over with him. (who has had their license for at least a year). If it is after 10 P.M. It must be a parent.

If he goes back after 90 days and before June 5, 2009, then he does not have to take another test. ( the ones he took in drivers ed. are enough). Then he will get his regular license.

His 90 days are up the week of Christmas, so he might have to wait till after Christmas, but what a Christmas present!

P.S. He won't be 16 till June 20009