Busy week. The two wee ones have started HOOPS. That means Monday and Thursday nights are Tuki's practices. Tuesday and Friday nights are Ve's practices. Plus on Tuesday nights it is also Ve and Tuki's Skating practices. In addition on Wednesday nights Mim attends Youth group at church. This means we (me) are running every night of the week. Tuesdays nights are especially crazy since Ve's skating is at 4:30 - 5:10, then Tuki's skating is at 5:40 - 6:10 and then again Ve's BB practice at 6:30 - 8:00 pm, and I am running on the treadmill during the time they are at practice....busy and tired but doing well.
Report cards came for 1st quarter. On a scale of 1 - 4 (1 lowest and 4 highest), Tuki received all 3 & 4, meaning she is achieving or has achieved grade level expectations, and Ve earned mostly 2's and some 3's. What bothers me most is she earned 2's on her effort. That means she isn't trying as hard as she could. I don't worry about their comprehension grade, as long as they are working at their best. She is not. I have given her until the end of December to earn 3's on effort or she will not complete her basketball season.I want my girls to know that I value athletics, but I value academics more. Mim earned all A's and B's, which I think is pretty darn good for her first year at the high school. She works hard for her grades.
Tonight Mim is at Pam's house helping to clean it, and the wee ones are bathing and getting ready for bed. I am blogging and finishing a literature review that was due Wednesday...only 2 days late, thank goodness the prof has given me an extension. We has parent teacher conferences last night and then again on this coming Monday,
Our neighbors who have girls the same as my two wee ones are moving since their Dad has been moved to another town. Ve and Tuki are emotional about it. They are moving on Nov. 20th so now we wait for our new neighbors.
Zamboni has been neutered and slowly he is settling down..thank goodness
and of course the holidays and birthdays are around the corner!!!
Friday, November 8, 2013
BUSY BUSY
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Mim's 4 years
home was yesterday. It has been a good road and yet at times a bumpy bumpy road. In the good times, I get to see what a sweet girl she is and the woman she will become. She is maturing daily and I think that along with attaching to a new family at 12 1/2 has made it all so hard. We are getting there ever so slowly. I have had to "Let Go, Let God" in all areas of my life but I feel especially with Mim.
When she first came home I had to be involved, protective and on top of all aspects of her life because of her age, her lack of schooling and because of not understanding or speaking English. Many times my family and others didn't and still don't understand, but then again all they could relate to was the rearing of their biological children who never had a major loss of close family members at a young age.My health issues scared us all in thinking yet again my girls will lose their parent, so that set us into another tailspin, but I think we are seeing our way through this as well.
As she matures and is a home longer, the more she seems to settle in and she also is beginning to relax a little. So all in all it has been worth it for her and for me.
It is all a learning adventure and I think just when we get Mim through these years, Ve, and then Tuki will be teenagers...but hopefully I will know better as to what I am doing as a parent.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Wild Weekend
Thursday morning my 1st and 2nd hour went on a field trip to McDill Pond..in sub 30 degree weather. WE WERE COLD, Thursday night I chaperoned a trip to Saw-whet Owl banding. Twenty-four people from school attended and in the time we were there the banding station caught and banded 10 saw-whets and 1 long-eared owl. It was a big night!!
Then Friday night me and the wee ones chaperoned the Halloween dance at my school.
Today we attended the Sectional CC meet, we were able to watch the meet and helped work the t-shirt stand Both boys and girls teams made it to state..
Tomorrow, we are ushering at church in the am and then trick - or- treating is in the evening 4 - 7 pm....
NONSTOP GOING........
I have been tired, cold and stiff from all this activity in the outdoors and into the evening.....so before I started blogging tonight I tried one glass of my homemade plum wine..and I am a little blitzed.....
plus now I am wrapped in my robe I received from my lovely daughters two years ago watching Ghost Buster (love this movie) and feeling TOTALING RELAXED..except for Zamboni's barking in an attempt to get something going with someone...thank goodness he is getting neutered this Wednesday..the boy has been pushing his luck with all of us lately.
I am feeling so relaxed that I think I am going to try some of my homemade pear wine...don't worry I am only slightly relaxed and blitzed, but I must admit it feels good to let go now and then.....
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Weekend update
Friday night Ve and Tuki attended their cousins annual Halloween Party...came home tired but content with much candy.
Mim ran their last race of the season, she didn't PR but she had a good race and a finish that was on a high note.
We came home and harvested pumpkins, cabbage and egg gourds int he rain. Today we are planning to go to church, line the inside walls of the chicken coop with the our 35 hay bales, rake and gather more bags of leaves for the duck bedding, laundry and pull hoses, stakes, lights etc form the garden..and clean the house..I have told the girls we won't have rest time to rest on weekends until we are done winterizing.
Photos from yesterday.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Old and new photos
It's been a while
since I posted. I found a PBS video girl, adopted, that Mim and I watched together. It was about a young girl around 13 that had been adopted into an Arkansas family. It followed her from the time of adoption to post high school and cosmetology school graduation. The young lady struggled with many of the same things Mim does and I imagine many of our black children struggle with living in a family with almost all white people.
It was funny because Mim stated that the family never got upset with her even though you could easily see that the girl was sassy, mean and disrespectful at times. I did point it out to her that it was a film and there is such a thing called editing rights....
Anyway we had a good discussion and she shared that she feels that no matter how good things are she always feels like there is a hole in her heart. I shared with her that is normal and I understand since I have also lost many people and more than likely the hole will never disappear but a person does learn to live with it and still feel happy.
We are also talking about emotional maturity when it comes to me allowing her more freedoms. I have told her that it isn't that I don't believe she can learn (to drive) but rather right now with the behaviors she displays at home I don't trust her decision making skills and that is where I am looking to see emotional maturity...she admitted she does like to blow frequently and enter into a very immature state....
Last weekend we went kayaking and I hope to go one more time before we lose this great weather.
This weekend we have to finish harvesting from the garden and Mim has a CC meet this morning. I am typing this while we wait to go tot he meet.
The wee ones are more than excited about Halloween and a Halloween party next Friday...school is going well for all 3 and that I am happy about
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