Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Tribute Tuesday!

Wayne started this thing called Tribute Tuesday... it is a chance to let someone who has made a difference in your life feel special by paying tribute to them! This is my first Tribute Tuesday and I thought I would give it a shot...

I am paying omage today to... MY MOMMY!!! I would be nothing without her! She is the greatest! We don't always see eye to eye, but I know that whenever I have a problem or question, she will be there for me!

When my world was upside down she turned it around for me and let me know that everything would be okay, and wouldn't you know, it was! She always tries to look towards the bright side of things. Of course sometimes I think she is loco, but she wouldn't be my mom if she wasn't, lol!

After moving to Point we've kept in constant contact. Well, actually... even when I was still living with both her and my dad (different houses) we would still talk during the weeks us kids were at my dad's house. Now, we email all the time and talk on the phone almost as much.

I still call her with good grade news and anything exciting that is happening. I call to ask stupid questions, like how to boil eggs, I call to get advice (even when I don't want it), I call to just talk... and she calls to make sure I'm (really Ayden, hehe) is still alive.

Not only is she a great mom, she is a great grandma as well! I stated before that I would be nothing without her... and it's totally the truth!

I love my mom more than she knows!!!

Monday, February 2, 2009

A Sister For The Bean!!!

If you haven’t happened there yourself or through MckMama’s blog (which is how I happened upon it)… you really need to head over to Shelley’s blog and read about her and her family’s journey to adopt a child. They are so close and are trying to raise some money to help their dream come true! They are even hosting a raffle way very similar to MckMama’s recent one!

It was supposed to be over by now, but guess what?! They extended it… if you haven’t already donated and gotten some tickets to win an amazing camera package (or one of two, because I think there is over $5000 donated now!)… head on over! It’s for a great cause and you could win a great prize!

You know you want to!!! :)

Not Me (and not late… yet)

You know the drill… Mckmama’s is the place to go… you know you want to… go get your Not Me Monday on!

I haven’t waited this long to write my Not Me’s in a while. Usually I am all about them on Sunday night and all I have to do is post them on Monday morning, but I wasn’t in the mood to write them last night and didn’t have time this morning, so here I am at almost 4pm… get my Not Me’s done… I could just skip them this week, but it just wouldn’t be Monday without a good dose of Not Me’s, now would it?! I didn’t think so…

So… what did my last week entail of, anything I’m totally embarrassed about and totally did that I am not willing to admit?

I did not sit on my toosh all weekend and watch way more TV than I should have. I had my homework out all over the kitchen table and was taking notes left and right… or maybe I just had my books all over the place not taking notes.

I did not go outside with Ayden and Jay on Saturday and proceed to get into a snowball fight with both of them. I did not laugh when Ayden got a snowball in the face (courtesy of daddy) and I did not try and get back at Jay for it by throwing one at his face. Of course, my aim was perfect and hit him smack in the middle, well does the arm count?!

I do not have the greatest bosses in the world and they did not nominate me for Student Employee of the Year. I was not almost in tears as they were telling me because I am not a sap like that! I do not want the day to come that I will have to leave that job. Okay, so I sort of do because then it will mean I am an audiologist, but I will definitely miss them!

I do not have a session reflection and lesson plan to write tonight and I am not writing my Not Me’s in an attempt to put off the inevitable! My session did not go really well again and I am not totally lovin’ my client. He is totally not the cutest kid ever! Well, maybe he isn’t since Ayden has those shoes filled. I am not a mom who thinks her son is the cutest and I’m absolutely positive moms everywhere don’t think that as well about their own children. Right? Who would?

I am not STILL waiting for my Wii Fit to come! I did not make Jay call the company to see what the heck was up. They did not say some stupid excuse about having troubles with UPS and that it will be shipped by tomorrow. I am not anxious for it to get here sometime this week!

I did not give Jay his Valentine’s Day gift early… I am not like that even after I said that I was going to wait. He did not let me pick out my charm bracelet early so there really wasn’t any reason to give him his gift early. I did not get him new carhart bibs for the winter. He does not love them! Men and their carhart, lol!

I have not been asking Jay if he has talked to JT about the possible duplex every time he gets off the phone with him. I am not already imaginarily packing our stuff and telling my blog and boss about this possible move when I know so many concrete things about it already!

I am not excited about the Monster Truck show this weekend and then Chuck E Cheese afterwards. I am not crazy for taking my family to Chuck E Cheese on a Saturday night because that is not the busiest night of the week (probably anyways) and we will not have a mega blast like last year! My best friend is not accompanying us on this trip because she doesn’t live in Green Bay where we happen to go. And because we see each other ALL the time, why would I want her to come with us?

What did you NOT do this past week?!

CIAO! LOVE ME!

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Addicted!

I am SO addicted to creating new blog layouts that it isn’t funny! I love being creative that way since it has been ages since I have gotten out my actual scrapbooking stuff and done some of that. I have done a few digital scrapbooking things, but not a whole lot on that front either. I suppose instead of changing my layout so often, I could be making those?! Probably… or not, lol! Ah, they say change is good and if all I am addicted to changing is my background, I suppose that is okay!

Jay found out yesterday from his friend JT that his friend Aaron bought a house. Aaron just so happens to live in the cul-de-sac of duplexes that Jay and I looked at a couple of months ago. Well, not the insides or anything, but the outsides. Aaron told us that the duplexes were a rent by month type thing and owned by more than one person so it would be hard to see when one would come available. JT said though… that they were pretty nice on the inside and Aaron was paying less than we were. So, if Aaron bought a house… that means he has to move and of course someone will have to move into his duplex… you thinking what I’m thinking?!

My mind is already rolling! Which of course is probably not a good thing because then I get my hopes up and it all goes kapooy! I told Jay to get a hold of JT who would get a hold of Aaron (although Jay could probably also call Aaron himself because he knows him as well, just not as well as JT) and see what the deal is. If we were to consider moving, I would want to walk through Aaron’s place and see if it would work for us. All I know for sure is what it looks like from the outside, that it has a two stall garage, and has two levels and a finished basement. Also, if we were to consider moving, we have to give 60 day notice at our current place. I’m assuming it will take a few weeks to close on Aaron’s house… and JT thinks Aaron will probably be in the duplex for another month yet.

Goodness goodness… I am already getting excited about this prospect and know nothing about it! It’s kind of like a waiting game that I don’t want to play! I’m mentally packing, thinking about how great it would be to use the basement as a toy room/office, wondering if it has one bathroom or two, is there a dishwasher, where would Ayden go to school then? I’m trying to think realistically here because I don’t want to get my hopes up (oh wait, I think they already are).

The duplexes are located more towards Plover which would add about 10 minutes on to our drive to school, but it is doable. Actually, it would put Jay that much closer to his work. They are also duplexes, which means… we only have to worry about ONE neighbor! Aaron’s one actually has a pretty decent yard for Ayden as well and the cul-de-sac is pretty quiet and located right next to a great sidewalk area (something we are missing here). However, it would put us farther away from the pool, river/beach area we go to, and the big blue park. We would also have to find a different school for Ayden to go to, but that is okay as well. I’m already envisioning moving during spring break, ah… stop doing that!

Anyways, that is my semi exciting news for today…

Otherwise, it was a pretty quiet day on the home front. Jay and Ayden went outside to play again because the weather was so beautiful. I decided to stay inside today. Wasn’t really in the mood to go out. Actually, I was quite surprised that Jay took Ayden out. I was totally expecting him to tell him that he didn’t want to (a normal occurrence in our house, which is kind of sad), but they had a GREAT time outside and it gave me a little down time. I’ve been thinking a lot about some things and it hasn’t really been leaving me in that great of a mood. Jay and sort of noticed it too and I’ve tried to push those thoughts from my head, but it only works for so long.

I got a few more things ready for my speech session tomorrow. Had to print a few things off… Think I am all ready to go with that. Have my first group meeting in the morning before hand, which means I have to leave for school an hour earlier. Kind of a bummer…

Remember how I said a few posts ago about how I know Ayden has some speech errors, but nothing I thought he would need speech therapy for. Well, we got his progress report (yeah, they get progress reports in 4K, I know, right!?!) and all in all, his teacher said that is doing pretty great, but she has some concerns about his speech. She stated that at some times she cannot understand what he is saying, as well as some of his peers that he doesn’t interact with a lot. She wants to discuss this with us at the upcoming parent teacher conference.

Because I am around Ayden the most, I am the one who can understand pretty much everything he says, thus my thinking he was moving along pretty fine. However, it does concern me that his teacher isn’t understanding him fully, as well as his classmates. And I know that if that continues, it could become a problem in the future with other kids making fun of him. I am going to see what his teacher suggests at the meeting. We might want to consider getting him evaluated for it and determine if therapy is needed. I know that students can get speech therapy through our clinic for free, however I do not know if that extends for their children. Also, if the school suggests and evaluation then they might incur the costs. I’m pretty sure the eval would take place through the university. Okay, I’m not pretty sure, but assuming so because I know that Ayden’s center has one of our supervisors come to his daycare/school to do therapy with children. In any case, I only want what is best for him and if they suggest it, I’m all for it. It is not going to hurt him any… I’ll keep you updated!

CIAO! LOVE ME!

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Durable Computer!

Thank goodness for the durability of computers these days, specifically my current laptop. It took quite the trip today… from the table top to the floor! And… it still works perfectly (or so has been).

I’ve had it on the kitchen table for the past couple of days and plugged into the wall. And the cord just so happened to run along the floor at the wrong place, the place where we walk past ALL the time! I know I had it coming, I was just asking for it by leaving my computer where it was, I was just hoping it wouldn’t happen. Or maybe wasn’t thinking at all. So, Jay was the unlucky one who caught the cord with his foot and took the computer on it’s first trip (and I’m hoping the LAST one)! Needless to say he went crazy after it fell trying to make sure it worked and everything. Quite the scare, but like I said, everything seems to be fine!

We did some shopping today at Kohls. They were having a sale and Jay wanted a new winter coat. Columbia on sale for $60! Couldn’t pass it up! He also got some socks and I got Ayden two new books for his Tag Reader. He didn’t seem too enthralled with them right now, but oh well.

The weather was absolutely gorgeous outside today as well! We just had to take advantage of it and went outside to play in the snow for about an hour. Even Jay joined us! We climbed the mountain, we threw snowballs, we dug forts, we slid down on the inner tube! It was so much fun and I wish that the weather in the winter was like this more often!

We also played the Wii tonight as a family! Ayden and I played archery, Jay, Ayden and I played curling, Jay and I played bowling… and now I am relaxing. It was a day of doing pretty much nothing, well at least school wise! Once again (like last weekend) I did not open my school bag or even think about it today. But, because I got my lesson plan done on Thursday night, I don’t have much in the way of that to do. I need to finish preparing for my session though on Monday. Still a little nervous, but last session went well so this one should too. However, Monday night I will need to do both a reflection and lesson plan because they will be due on Tuesday. That is a little more work that I would like in one night… but it is definitely doable!

Oh wait, I did do a little bit of school work today. Jay and I did some music quizzes yesterday and I did a few more today. They are very easy and short and thought I would get a head start on the whole class. I have 14 quizzes done, only 21 more to do! But they are only like 5-10 questions each and not timed or anything, actually rather easy and then 5 small projects to work on. First one due the 11th of February so I have a little time yet.

Tomorrow will probably be much like today… just chillin’ at home and getting some homework/clinich stuff done. Next week is monster truck show, then ice fishing, then going to see Wicked in Green Bay, then possibly going to see Stomp in Green Bay. February is going to be quite the busy busy month!!! Well at least on the weekends, but it will make it go fast and then it’s March and Spring Break, however we don’t have anything planned as of yet. Probably won’t be doing anything either… lackage of money, but that is okay. Someday we will get a vacation…

CIAO! LOVE ME!