I'm baaaaaaack! It's a new month and I purpose in my heart to post more regularly. All month long I have purposed. But I'm for real now.

How rude of me........I missed saying "Happy Birthday, Reese". It was March 4th. Thanks to all of my family that contributed to the care package. He was so surprised. So many fun goodies were included. I have a thank you card all ready for him to fill out. That's as far as it has gotten. I'm not writing it for him!

I hope to have Easter pictures to post. Next week already. Last Sunday, Palm Sunday, the Sunday School children (all 5 of them) marched around the sanctuary waving palms as the congregation sang "The Palms". I think they were cute. I couldn't really see since I was playing the organ and had to concentrate on the song. It's not an easy one for me to play. But Easter Sunday I get the week off. Rose Marie is playing and I picked some good Easter hymns for her. "Up From the Grave He Arose", "He Lives" and something else I cannot remember. But it's a joyous one. Last Easter she played and neither of the above songs were chosen. The ones she picked were not very joyous Easter hymns. But this year I am large and in charge and things will be done right.

Three cheers for the Silver Medal winners!

I am proud to announce that Morgan and his good friend, Molly, took the Silver in the Two-Man Bobsled Race at the Kindergarten Olympics held yesterday at Nativity BVM High School. The photos are courtesy of Stephanie, Molly's mom. Some of the events included jumping over mats, crawling under chairs, stepping in as many rings as possible and "ice skating". Reese and I were unable to attend because of work, but Morgan's grandparents were there to cheer him on. They said he ran fast and jumped far, as can be seen by his flushed cheeks. He loves to be on the move. All of the participants received a green medal for good sportsmanship. This was a wonderful time for the children. I know Morgan and his classmates practiced hard for many weeks prior to this event. They have gym class every Monday, but missed many classes because of school delays/cancellations, most of which happened on a Monday.

Morgan having fun with his cousins. Most of the time, he was outside playing with Nathan, but I managed to catch a couple of shots inside.

The weather cooperated yesterday. I got to go home to visit and exchange the Valentine gifts. We had a nice time. Once we finally got started. I wanted to leave at 11, but it was more like 11:30 before we were heading out. Then I stopped at the bank and everyone in front of me had a long, involved transaction. I should have waited, but thot it would save time since I was going past the bank........Anyway, Morgan had a great time. He played with the other boys and Shanda the whole time he was there. Except when I forced him inside to eat his PB&J. We got home at 7pm. It was a lot of driving for me, but worth it to see all the girls again and for Morgan to play with cousins. Looks like the next time will be March 30th for the meals.

Happy Valentine's Day!

It is a happy day. School was not closed today, just a 2 hr delay, and I am finally able to get out of the house. Yesterday was cold and rainy. Didn't go anywhere except to shovel ice. Last night was very windy and seemed to dry up most of the water. So here I am. Able to leave the house and what am I doing? Sitting inside posting the blog. I do believe I am messed up.

Hope to see some of you on Saturday around 1:30pm. I just received confirmation of the time. I'll bring my little boy and my box.....which I have not opened...or peeked in...but did shake gently...and smell.

The tire got fixed and I was back at home by 10am. Plenty of time to do my dirty job for today before I picked msb up at 11:45. Early dismissal because of the snow. It is supposed to get bad this afternoon. My dirty job was to clean out msb's coloring book cupboard. He gets coloring books and pages from everywhere and I have been shoving them onto the pile to get them off the pile on the bar. I have way too many piles. It was to the place where I couldn't fit another sheet on the pile. Time for a dirty job! I would really be ahead if I could do a dirty job every day.

It sure is cold out! This morning, it was 4 degrees when Reese left for work at 6:30am. School was delayed for 2 hrs and it warmed up to 9 degrees by 10:30am. Cold and windy. I do not hate many things, but I do believe one of them would have to be winter! I do not know if it got up to 20 today, but it is back down to 12. Supposed to snow tomorrow afternoon. Where is spring??? Reese picked up a nail in his tire somewhere over the weekend. Don't know if it was in Mt Carmel on Saturday or at work today. Anyway, weather permitting, I have to take it down to be fixed tomorrow. Love doing that kind of thing.

Today turned out OK after all. We were to meet Rebecca in Mt Carmel at 12. When Reese and Morgan left basketball practice at 10:30, it was snowing and 33 degrees. I was afraid we wouldn't be able to meet her. However, I thought and thought about it and it went up to 34 degrees then 35. So we decided to try it. If it got bad, we would just turn around. The roads were fine. We found Matucci's with no problem. Wonderful food. We ordered garbage pizza (pizza with everything on it). It even had shrimp on it. It was great. Morgan got a plain cheese pizza and ate 2 pieces. Rebecca, Reese and I ate 2 slices each then split the rest. She was going back to Lewisburg to meet Barry after his meetings and then they were heading home. It was great to see her again. I got my Valentine presents in case the weather does not cooperate next weekend for me to go down home. Blue eyes, she has your lyrics. Yea. They turned out great!

Today is Souper Bowl Sunday. No, it's not a typo. Today, we collected cans of soup to be given to the Pottsville Soup Kitchen. So many people celebrate Super Bowl Sunday with tons of food, we wanted to share a little of what we have with others.

So. Now that I have shared with others, I can plan my own Super Bowl party. Harold is coming up to watch the game. I made deviled eggs and we are having sharp cheese, ring bologna, cheese sticks, chips, crackers, yogurt, applesauce and popcicles. Yum! The last 3 healthy items are for Morgan.

Tuesday is Fat Tuesday. I will be spending most of the morning delivering donuts that people ordered from Morgan. I have to take some down to Reese at work, drop some off to the pastor, some to Janet, some to Harold. I think I will then be so tired and hungry I will have to eat the entire dozen we ordered for ourselves! Seems only fair...

And the next day it rained! And is still raining. School was closed today because it was around freezing and the sidewalks were very bad. Had to find things to entertain a little boy. We put a LEGO helicopter together. Only missing 2 pieces. But we found them later in the day. He helped me move the sofa out to rescue a few of his 'guys' that had fallen and couldn't get up. How does all that stuff get under the sofa? I'm ashamed to name the things I found under there, but I will anyway. A raisin, mini M&M (yellow), gold fishie, lead from a mechanical pencil (that was Reese's doing), an army guy's leg and more. We had grilled cheese and peanut butter crackers for lunch. I said to Morgan, "If I have 6 crackers, now can I split them evenly between you and me?" He said "Three for you and three for me. I know that three plus three is six!" Such a little guy to know so many things. Now he is playing color by number on the computer while I'm trying to work since I couldn't go to work today. Right. Working. That's what I'm doing. Just after I get this finished. And finish talking to catchme.

But I am an angel! Really I am. See??? Morgan showing off before the Christmas play on January 6th. They were all very cute and well behaved, with that one exception.

Can't believe it is the 22nd of January already. Happy 40th, Blue Eyes. Hope you enjoyed your big party. Sorry I couldn't be there. Maybe next time you turn 40. haha

10:30 and I should be in bed. But I'm not. I'm playing on the blog. Which no one ever reads. Hey Blue Eyes, did you finalize that list of songs yet? Hurry, hurry so I can catch Catch Me and she can burn the CD before we get any older. Oops. Too late. I fixed some typos in the previous message and look at that ...... we are already 2 minutes older. O well.

Check out this pic. Morgan put this together all by himself. The first time, he asked me for help. Then he was playing and not watching where he was going and he knocked it over. He got out the directions and put it back together. Amazing what they learn.

2008! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We had a fun time. Morgan stayed up to watch the ball drop in Time Square for the first time this year. Usually, he is in bed long before the ball drops and we just sneak in and give him kisses as we whisper "Happy New Year". This year he stayed up and had all his favorite snacks: chips, yogurt, oranges, juice and Ritz crackers. We took Mom-Mom and Pappy to Ruby Tuesday for dinner, then went home to wait until it was time for the party. We played carnival games on the Wii, Pappy came up and we played some more. Then it was time to drag out the snacks and watch the crazy people in Time Square. Nice to watch from home! We got cleaned up after the party and were in bed by 1am. We slept in until 10:30! It's been a long time since the little guy let us sleep late. But tonight it is early to bed - school and work tomorrow. Vacation is over. It was fun, but it will be really nice to get back to some sort of schedule again.

Morgan is an angel for the school Christmas Program. Can you imagine how sweet it would be to see 11 more of these little children all angelic and singing "Silent Night" and "Go Tell It On The Mountain"? May not happen, though. They are calling for major snow. School is cancelled today because of the sleet. It's been a while since I had to entertain Morgan for so long. But I am managing. With the help of coloring books, computer games and Old Maid cards..... The Community Christmas Concert has been re-scheduled for Sunday, December 23rd. It was set for this Sunday, but they have too much faith in the weathermen and are expecting snow.

Happy Halloween! Happy Birthday Annie! Boo! Did I scare you??? Morgan was Spiderman for Halloween. He wore this to the Story Time party, School party and trick-or-treating. Isn't he adorable?

Morgan scored the first goal of the game this season for the Blue Dragons (the tiny little guy in blue with his leg up for a kick). And now tomorrow is the last game. It's been a crazy October. Run here, run there, never stopping anywhere. Hopefully November will be a little less nuts. Planning on going down to visit the family for Thanksgiving. Where will we eat? Can someone tell me?

I'm working on getting pictures together of our trip to the Renaissance Faire in September. It was so much fun! We stayed from 11-8:30. Opened and closed the joint! So much to see: juggling, stilt walkers, knife throwers, sword swallowers, the Royal Falconer (the Queen's own cousin, ye know), pirates, a human chess match, jousting without armor and the Queen. And lots of food: taco salad, soup in a bread bowl, kettle corn, pizza. It was a nice day. Got a little cold after the sun went down, but we were prepared with jackets in the truck. It was nice. We took Morgan there a few weeks later. He really enjoyed it. He played some midevil games and won a plastic sword. Poked lots of people with it, too, until we took it from him.

Well, the profile photo is on there for now. What a runaround to get it to stay. Wonder how long it will last?

Nothing in the month of July. What? Was I busy or something. Guess so. More later. I promise.

Hot - Hot - Hot

Not complaining. Remember so long ago when I was so tired of being cold? I do. I can handle the heat. Doesn't mean I have to like it........Pour it on, I say.

Tomorrow is the last swim class. Guess I should take the camera tonight if I want any pictures. Tomorrow's may be canceled due to a storm.

We spent a Day Out With Thomas last Friday. It was fun. Nice day. A bit windy, but not too hot. Morgan had a good time. Just the right weather for ice cream, which he had. They had a cool new thing this year - A Thomas made of Legos. He was pulling a scene of the Island of Sodor made of Legos. And, of course, a legos table. Morgan's favorite. Then we played mini golf. Another of Morgan's favorites. It's all about the little guy....

Happy 5th Birthday, Morgan. Last Monday...Well, yes, I've been busy. Crazy busy, you may say. Reese and I took off Monday for Morgan's birthday. We ate birthday donuts (see photo), had lunch at Wendy's, played a round of mini golf (Morgan got a hole-in-one on #16), played outside with his new pitcher/batter/soccer net, had cake and ice cream and opened presents with the grandparents and swim class at 6:30pm. Loooooong, hot day. With no nap for anyone. Morgan crashed very quickly that night, as soon as everyone stopped calling to say happy bday. Which he really enjoyed.

Swim class last night was cancelled due to the storm. We got rain, finally. The grass looks better already. Just wish we could share with others. Today is windy and a little cool. Just enough to keep the windows open. Tomorrow, we are spending the night in Lancaster and going to the Day Out With Thomas on Friday. It will be our third year going there. We'll have the weekend to rest up from our vacation. That's always nice.

Who is that handsome young man in the tie? That would be our little guy. He graduated from Pre-K last Thursday, May 31, 2007. There were 22 at graduation -- 12 in the morning class and 10 in the afternoon class. It was a very nice service. They sang lots of their favorite little songs and each one went up the mic and said their name, age and what they want to be when they grew up. Morgan wants to be a policeman. For now.....

We had to go to work after graduation, but after work we took Morgan to the circus. It was just a little circus at the fire company, but he liked it. There were little cats that jumped really far and through hoops. He liked them. And the 11-year-old juggler. And the zebras that tried to escape. And the clown who cried on the audience when the ringmaster threw away his radio. And the lady who had 50 hula hoops. She looked like a slinky with that many hoops around her. Then we went to the block party and ate pizza and he rode on some of the little rides. It was a long, hot day. But I think we all had fun.

Saturday was his birthday party. We had 8 kids at the party and some adult friends. The kids played mini golf and then had lunch and ice cream. Morgan blew out the #5 candle and then we hung the pinata. We got the pull string kind, much to the disappointment of the older kids. I think they all had fun. Fortunately, the Waffle House was air conditioned. It was very hot outside! I know I'm tired. Still. But, it's summer vacation and time for more fun. Wheeeeee!!!!!