Weekend Post

I don't log into Moodle for one day and theres several messages from Ms. Smith and one from Ms. White in BIG BOLD RED LETTERS to check my email about classes this week. Will someone tell me what happened? How does a power outage effect Moodle?

Dakota and Cassidy were out of school on Friday for some doctor appointments. I checked the mail on Saturday and in the box sat one of those red letters that come from the School Board about unexcused absences. Do you know that they start sending these letters out at three unexcused absences.   I hadn't had the chance to turn the doctors excuses in yet! The school is out for Spring Break this week. I don't think I think this new system they have! I know its there to keep the parents informed; but when you have four kids that go to three different schools and they are calling with announcements, they are calling when an assignment isn't turned in or their are tardy to class. I get a two calls for each, one on my cell phone and then one on the house phone. Most of the time I can't make out what the COMPUTER is saying. I can get the same information off of JPAMS and I check it frequently. I think the parents should get to chose what they want to be called about whether they want to hear about the announcements, or the next fundraiser or when the school event is.


Jim started replacing the floor in the kitchen this weekend. He ripped up both the carpet and the lineleum (we had both in the kitchen) because the metal trim that connects the two was coming up and couldn't be nailed back down again. We were tripping over it and hurting our feet on it so it needed to come up. We thought it was going to fairly easy. After taking up the carpet we found out it was going to be just laying more linoleum back down. We live an older house so of course there were many layers under the carpet, it had a big bow in the floor that had to be fixed first before the new linoleum could down. He worked on it all day before he had to leave to go to Lake Charles this afternoon. It looks a lot better. He got the floor fixed. He will be out of town the next few days so he'll finish when he gets back. I can't wait!  Hurry Home Honey!

Texting Teens

I had never been to this site before. They had several interesting articles. I wonder why the hyperlinks are not underlined? I chose this article because between the both of us we have three teenage boys and a girl that is getting there fast. The oldests are constantly texting, even the thirteen year old goes to bed texting. They sleep with their phones! Every morning when i go in to wake them up for school, I find it in the bed. I suppose they just like the feeling of knowing that it is with them while they rolling around on it sleeping. Other than being anoying at times, having to watch it; I wonder is it really hurting anything?


http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/03/20/teenagers_send_60_texts_every_day_according_to_new_study.html

The Sleep Over

Last Thursday was my daughter's eleventh birthday. I kept putting off  the actual planning of the party off because I wanted to hold on to her last days as a little girl as long as I could. She is the last of my babies growing up.  She is growing up so fast. Come Thursday I really hadn't had anything set into stone as to how her birthday was going to go. I knew she wanted to go skating and have some friends spend the night. I asked her if she wanted me to come skating with them and of course, she didn't. So that is what we did. I paid the way for her and four friends to go to Hot Wheels on Friday and skate from 7-11 and then brought them back home with us after it was over. I told her brother Dakota that he could lock his door before going to bed. It was five the next morning and I could still hear them giggling from the other end of the house.  The weatherman had forecasted rain all weekend. Thank goodness he was wrong and the rain held off for Saturday; they were able to get out and not be trapped inside. I was so glad. I should have had a set time for the parents to come pick them up. I kind of figured at least one would end up spending the whole weekend; but not all of them!  They all ended up staying until Sunday! I was glad I stocked up on chips, dips and snacks because other than cooking hamburgers on Saturday thats what they had to eat. Although I was glad for them to go, so I could get my house back in order, they really were no trouble. I went to bed at my normal time and Cassidy had a birthday that she will never forget. 
  

Aggravation

I was aggravated this evening upon getting home from the grocery story and dumping the cookies into the cookie jar only to see that they didn't even fill it half way up. I would have had to buy at least another bag to get even close to the top! Again today, I put gas in the truck the same amount I always put in which usually gives me a half a tank dissappointed to find out it didn't give me that. If I wanted to buy 2 bags of cookies or put $70.00 in gas in my truck at one time I would; but I shouldn't be made to!!