She hasn't changed so far...and with some luck and happy days, she won't change for a while. I don't think I could handle an eyerolling, attitude-wearing, know-everything-that-mom-never-did thirteen-year old. She is still my best friend, and still thinks I'm cool. (After all, I took her to see LOTR for the second time...I won't mention that it was my FOURTH time. I'm such a Ring nerd.) We like the same music, the same clothes, the same things. She's smart and funny and so much like me that it's almost been like watching myself grow up.
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. With luck and love, maybe it won't. posted by Steph at 5:47 PM[edit]
1.18.2003
So, I just got done seeing The Two Towers for the third time. Yeah, I'm such a fantasy nerd. What can I say? I do love fantasy...and seeing it on the screen, done so well, is almost as good as reading it. (Though, I gotta say, Peter, that you could have had Faramir be closer to the book!!)
So we got past all the sick in the house. The Beast was sick yesterday and you should have heard the moaning and groaning. I swear. But anyway, I'm hoping he's the last one sick. I'm the only one left and I can't AFFORD to get sick. (The house would fall down around me if I did, yanno.) So orange juice is the drink of the week for a second week in a row.
And we have Monday off. The Beast's brother, The Bear, is going to be coming to supper on Tuesday night so my day off is going to be a flurry of preparations for that. We get to see him so rarely, after all. (And that's fine by me. Grr.)
All in all, life in the shire goes along about how it has for the past hundred years.....um, what? Oh, yeah...wrong story. But just about the same as here. It's COLD C-O-L-D like freeze your butt off cold outside. NOT at all what I'm used to. I'd be happy if we could skip January altogether and get to spring already.
Shouts to my new reader! Glad you're around!! posted by Steph at 9:38 PM[edit]
1.15.2003
Life can be really fun when everyone is skipping merrily along. When everyone's happy and well, and the weather is warm and sunny. The world is Utopia for a while.
And then, kids get sick. The weather gets cold. Friends have to make tough decisions. Other friends decide to desert completely. Life no longer feels as much a Utopia as it does just hanging on.
I won't elaborate on some of that (because some of it is painful) but things happen. All three of my kids have been sick, one after another. I hope I'm not next! But the root result of that is that I have had to miss work to stay home with them.You deal, you go on, you take lots of garlic pills and orange juice. (yes, Jono, I did get garlic. Thank you for telling me about this stuff.)
Seems like we're supposed to be getting snow here sometime on Friday. (Snow? In Hotlanta? Ludicrous.) If it does snow, all of Atlanta will shut down because people here simply do not have clue one about how to drive in the snow. Even still, it means I get to sleep late on a school day. (heh.)
As for tough decisions, you know I'm thinking about you. And you know who you are. (Mainly because you're my only reader. Heh again.)
In current move news, we've done some research and we know that we're going to be living in one of two school districts, close enough to one of four schools. All four of these middle schools have orchestra programs in them so that my almost teenage daughter will be able to continue playing her cello. It gives us at least a way to narrow down the huge amount of options we'd have, moving to the fourth largest city in the nation. posted by Steph at 5:57 PM[edit]
1.10.2003
Wow. Talk about a whole month going by, whoosh. And five more months speed by in the space of a blink.
I lost interest in blogging for a while. My darling friend Jono posts every day, and they're almost always good. He has a lot of wonderful content and he has a slick site to boot. Me....this is just a journal. Once in a while there will be a gem or two, but for the most part, what you'll see here is my kids, my students, my husband, my mother, housework, schoolwork, and the rest of life as a mother and a preschool teacher. I'm nothing special, I promise you.
Oh, five months did accomplish something. It seems more and more likely now that we will be moving to Houston in the summertime. It's really not bad if it happens. We'll be four hours away from my family, which is just about right...they can't just pop in, and it's not a forever drive for us like it is now. (well, eleven hours isn't forever but with three kids in the van it sure seems like it.) I haven't a clue what John will be doing there...he explained it to me but it went clear over my head and off into the stratosphere. Long as he brings home a paycheck and doesn't go to war, I'm happy.
OH! And Booyah for the Steph, who got a new computer from Santa Claus this year! Completely out of the blue though I've been hinting for months that I wanted a new one.
Well, here's to hoping that I'll be a bit more steady and consistent this year.
Peace to all. posted by Steph at 12:08 AM[edit]
