A Text You Don't See Every Day

Received this text message from Mason's teacher this morning...

"Hey girl, Mason shoved a rock in his ear but its ok we got it out. He was crying alot he said it didn't hurt though. I think it just scared him. But he's ok!"

Nice.

Waiting

Waiting, waiting, waiting. Waiting for the school to post the list of students that got into the Fall RN Program. Supposed to be posted sometime today. I keep refreshing the page every few minutes. I'm not very good at this waiting part...

In Pictures

Been too busy to blog lately. But here's some pictures to catch up on.

My hubby surprised me this morning with a rose..

Last Thursday, Mike took Mason and Koop to the Ft Worth Zoo and a Rangers game after Mason's appt with his Urologist. (Which went well. All good until next year.)
This was Mason's first Rangers game. Wish I could have seen his face! He has made a habit of watching the Rangers play on TV with Mike. His favorite player is the catcher Saltalamaccia. They came home with huge Texas Rangers Night lights. Way too bright for me, but Mason loves it.


Here's Sam in our pool that we put up. He had a blast while I was filling it up and getting all the wrinkles out. All three boys absolutely love it. Actually all 4 boys...Mike is considering the idea of an in-ground pool someday! :-)


I tried to get some pictures of my boys one morning before church. It didn't work out real well.


And this just cracked me up last night. Before I went to sleep, I went and checked on the boys. Here was Mason. 100 degrees outside, stripped to his underwear, kicked all covers off, but wearing his dang toboggan that his Uncle Cary got him for Christmas. And sound asleep. For some reason it hit me funny. Had to get a pic.

The ceilings in the house are all done. Wasn't too bad as far as cleaning up. I did have to repaint quite a bit though. I painted that Thursday night while Mike and the boys were gone to the game. I gave Sam a paintbrush and he walked along behind me "painting" everything. The house is almost all put back together. I'm finding myself wanting to rearrange everything and get rid of a bunch of stuff. Planning a garage sale I think.

MMM...Fried Chicken

Is there anything better than your mom's home cooking?
We camped out at mom & David's last night while the renovation continues at the house. Mom went all out and fried chicken for us, made my favorite potato salad, and homemade macaroni. Yum. I'm getting hungry again thinking about it. She is also keeping both boys today just to spend some time with them. (Spoiling them is what she's doing.) She will be good and tired by the time we pick them up! Thanks mom! :)
Hopefully we can sleep at our house tonight. The ceilings are supposed to be painted today and then hopefully all the plastic can come down and clean up can begin! It is really going to look good when it's all completed. I just wish we were getting the bedrooms done too, but maybe somewhere down the line we can work on that. Right now, I just want my house back.

A Mess

You would not believe the state of my house at this time! "It will be messy" is a huge understatement. I started to take pictures, but just couldn't bring myself to document that sort of tragedy. And to top it off, they found more water damage to the ceilings once all the acoustic came off. So Mike has called the adjuster to come back and hopefully we can get the other half of our roof repaired as well. Mike and the kids went and stayed in Olney with his parents. There was absolutely no way we could let the boys in the house. Plus all the rooms are quarantined off by plastic. I have a test today, so I just holed up in our bedroom and spent the night by myself so I could get some quiet study time. Didn't bother me until I tried to go to sleep. The sound of billowing plastic is kinda creepy.

A Quickie

Been crazy at our house lately. Both boys were sick at the end of last week. Sam had some strange virus that caused him to run a high fever for 3 days. Them Mason told me he had a "scar" on his throat Friday morning. Turns out he had strep. He didn't get to go to granny's to spend the night, so he was upset. I bribed him by buying him a Star Wars movie, so all is good now. Stayed around the house Saturday while the boys got better. Yesterday, we went to church then lunch. Then luckily, right as we got home, Ira stopped by. He had really good timing, since we needed to move all our funiture out for the celing repair. He wasn't as thrilled as we were about his timing, but he was a trooper and stayed and helped. After all was moved out, we loaded up to go to Dalls to pick up Kooper. I had thought it might be a good idea if we all went with Mike, cause I could study the whole way. Let's just say I've had better ideas. Mason and Sam weren't very good, and it was a long 6 hours. I did get one chapter read from my pathophysiology book. Ugh!
Today they are starting our celing repair. Our home is going to be a wreck for 3 to 4 days. I'm thinking of running home on my lunch break to see the damage.

My First "A"

I am officially back to school and have not had any time for blogging lately. I'm still getting used to my new schedule, new priorities, and new found sleepiness! I'm so used to going to bed right after the kids do, but now that I'm doing homework every night it's more like 10 or 11 when I finally get to bed. And let me tell you, I'm feeling it this morning! So sleepy!
I did get a 92 on my first test in seven or more years. It was a microbiology test. And I'm very proud of myself! Just hope I can keep the A for the rest of the class! My nursing class is completely on line. I haven't quite got a feel for it yet. Seems pretty comprehensive and difficult right now. I am going to take my first quiz tonight and hopefully will feel better about the class after that. Still crossing my fingers and praying for acceptance...the list of new students for the Fall RN program will be posted sometime during the first week of July.

Been a pretty normal couple of weeks around here. (knock on wood) Mike has a story involving Mason and a "pancake festival with George Strait." It's evidently one of those where you had to be there. I've told him he needs to get my password to document his own stories on here. We did get our little pool up over Memorial Day weekend. The kids love it. Especially Sam! I just thought the other two boys were water babies! We didn't get it quite as leveled as we should have, so Mike and I are just praying that it stays up for the summer! Mike also finished almost all of the fence that weekend. We have some privacy now for our pool! Yea!
Mason had a final tball tournament Tuesday night. It ended up just being one game, but they had fun. Mason somehow became the catcher for his Yankees team this year. I think because everyone thinks he's so cute at it. Definitely not because of his skills, lol! During this game he decided to tackle a huge kid making a run for home plate. Looked more like a football move than a baseball move and they both ended up eating dirt. He was okay and shook it off really well. I just couldn't believe he'd jumped in front of a kid twice his size like that! The other kid was whining afterwards even though he was okay. Is it wrong that I was proud of my son?? :) After the game, all the kids got trophy's. They were all so excited, it was so cute! Mason slept with his beside his bed that night.