Morgan started Daisy scouts. And I'm knee deep already! I'm the Cookie Mom this year. WHAT??!! I'm officially crazy. I'll be taking care of all the ordering, money, planning show and sells, huh?? what was I thinking? I'm a little crazed about the whole thing. Why do I always jump in with both feet? Why do I feel like I have to be in the middle of everything? Whose curse is this? Sorry. I'm calmer now. I think Daisys is going to be good for Morgan. Morgan has trouble with letting her friends do things their way, or by themselves. hmmm...sound familiar? So I'm hoping that this group environment will help her to learn that everyone has an opinion and you need to let everyone have their turn. My whole problem with that statement, is that Morgan is like me. It takes her two seconds to see graphically in her mind, the best path to follow to attain a goal. So while all these mealy little kids around her are trying over and over again and restarting, she's already most of the way to the answer. I'm going to assume that's a good thing and foster it. Definitly going to figure out how to keep the school and groups from squashing it. How could you do anything but protect this?
I have been craving Jose Peppers for several days now. For those of you not from KC, its a pretty good Mexican place down here. There is one near work so I mentioned it to a couple of co-workers on Tuesday. They said, we'll if you can wait until Wednesday, I'll go. So I decided I could suffer through and wait for company. I do so hate eating alone! This guy Joe asked if it would be okay for him to invite a couple of people. I said, Sure, No problem. The more the merrier, right? Wrong. I was the last one to arrive at what I was now calling my party (cause I has started the whole thing with my craving). I brought two of my co-workers with me. I arrived to a table of 7 people already there and I added 3! And who is sitting in the middle of the mess? That's right. My boss! Who would invite my boss? Don't get me wrong, but my meal was still very good. I recommend the Pollo Magnifico. But I guess I didn't feel as free to speak my mind or as free to sit a little longer with him there. Kind of put a damper on the lunch hour!So, I'm back at my desk, thinking I should have left that last bit of rice on my plate when my phone rings! Its my good friend, Corey. She wants to meet for supper. You'll NEVER guess where she wanted to go!! Ok, I guess you can. Jose Peppers! So I'm thinking, ahh, redemption! I can now go, enjoy the food and company and sit as darn long as I want to! And I did!So, I ate Jose Peppers twice today. Loved it both times. The Chicken Monterrey burrito is good as well! But I think I liked the Pollo Magnifico better!
I'm sitting here wondering how much to tell. If I say too little, you will be confused and ask questions that I don't want to answer. If I say too much, you will get curious and ask questions that I still don't want to answer.
So, I will fall back on the kids! They are doing well. Growing like weeds. Morgan loves school and is very good at it. The only thing her teacher has had to say at all about her that wasn't positive was that she has to remind Morgan every once-in-a-while that she is the teacher, not Morgan and that Morgan should let her friends do their work the way they want to, not the way that Morgans wants them to. I've been told she's a lot like me. I don't see it!
Shawn is struggling with normal little boy things. He doesn't want to sit still and listen when the subject bores him. His teacher bores him. So he gets into trouble with her some. But the rest of his teachers adore him, so I'm not real worried. I think this teacher is just crotchety. He's bright, just bored!
Mark will be finishing up his Associates Degree in a couple of weeks! Then he is switching schools from Baker to Mid American Nazzerene to finish his Bachelors. It will be months shorter and thousands cheaper to change schools. So he will start there later in October.
We are looking forward to Fall. We are going to hit one of the local pumpkin patches this year. I love doing that. It is so fun. And then I get to carve a pumpkin or four and roast pumpkin seeds! YUUMM Morgan is starting Daisy Scouts next week. So we are going to be selling Girl Scout Cookies later this year! Shawn is already starting his Popcorn sales. So I'll be hitting you all up for that soon!
I am here. I am busy at work and home. Work is killing me. I have work enough for two or three people, but can't get help. I think they are setting me up to fail. I'm thinking about getting my resume updated. But I don't know what I want to do. Mark wants me to go back to school. But I'm not sure I want to do that either. We'll see. We are trying to finish up some projects here around the house. We are not as happy with our neighborhood or school as we were when we first moved here. So there may be a move in our future. But I'll keep you posted on that too. I'm not really willing to take a big hit on our house just because the housing market is in suck a slump.
I think that bring you roughly up to speed. More later!
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