Endings

It's the last day of school and we're all pretty pleased about this at our house. Tomorrow morning Jamie and I are having breakfast at Tulip Noir to celebrate.

We have a great summer planned:

1. Sam's going to be going to two different kinds of tennis lessons and sleep-away camp
2. Claudia's going to be going to Los Angeles and do a job shadow of a friend of ours who works as a graphic artist at a local tv station
3. Jordan's going to be going to sleep away camp, theater camp and tennis lessons
4. as a family we're going to Atlantic City, NYC, and Texas.

We're not doing a crazy happy last day of school dance, however. This week Jamie and I lost a friend that we've known for nine years to cancer. She was an amazing, wonderful person and she leaves a 10-year-old son. So everything is permeated with sadness at the moment.

Helllooooooooo!!!!!

Hola! Just popping in for a sec before work for some quick bullet items:

1. We found out that Jordan got into a theater day camp for a week this summer and she is thrilled!

2. Jamie was accepted onto the worship associate committee at church which is a very cool, big deal. He got it because he's awesome and the application he submitted was awesome and so he's going to be doing sermons and such sometimes at church.

3. I think I've been elected to the UU district board and I was definitely elected to serve another year as the Social Justice chair at our church on Sunday.

4. I found out a couple of our friends are "cemetery geeks"--they like to walk around cemeteries like I do!

5. Claudia's being slammed with projects and tests in this, the last two weeks of school. What the what?!? But she's working her butt off and doing a great job and has a good attitude about it. Very proud of her!

6. Sam and Jordan and some of their friends had a lemonade stand on Sunday to raise money for charity. Aren't they amazing?!?

7. We have an appointment with a veteranary behavior specialist on Saturday morning. Yes, seriously. The dog has one foot out of our household at this point, but we're still trying. Next up--pet psychic. (ok, not really)

8. Migraines have been greatly diminished but not completely gone. I've omitted caffeine, changed my diet drastically, I'm drinking a ton of water a day, I'm on a maintenance med, I'm using a cpap machine for my apnea and last night I went and got a pair of prescription sunglasses. This week I'm lifting weights and walking and yeah--this has all been pretty drastic but it has made a difference and I hope things will continue to improve.

Reading at bedtime:

Wednesday

And.......we're on day three of no migraine!! Yay!! It's been an adventure. I can hardly eat anything at all, and almost nothing good, so I need to get creative. I went out to lunch today for a birthday celebration at a nice Italian restaurant and had to skip salad, bread and appetizers and just have the chicken. It was kind of distressing but I'll adjust. Jamie's been very sweet and is doing the migraine food limitations with me even though I told him he didn't need to.

Other random things:

Jordan watched A League of their Own three times recently and then wanted to go play baseball so Jamie's been taking her to the park to practice and she's good!

Sammy's really happy to be finished with PE for the rest of the year. (they get out of school next Thursday) and Jamie's been taking her to the tennis courts and she's doing great!

Claudia had a great time at King's Island last Saturday with the band and actually rode a roller coaster!

We have three cookouts/parties to go to over the next two weekends which I'm very excited about.

Ok, so I think that's it for now. I'm off to try sleeping with the CPAP machine. Forgive me for all the shiny happy exclamation points (very tired) and wish me luck!

Ay, yi yi yi!

Hello, everyone! I have been neglecting this blog lately, but no more! I only have a second at the moment, but I have to tell you that Samantha and Jordan have chosen which instruments they are going to be playing next year. Sammy will be playing violin and Jordan will be playing trumpet. This means in our house we have a clarinet player, a guitar player, a violin player and two trumpet players.

I know what you're thinking.

I do!

And I agree!!

Mariachi Band!!!! (coming to a family reunion near you)

We'll be the Partridge Family of the Mariachi world.

Except the clarinet of course. But wait! Maybe I'll insist that they let me join. Isn't there a place in this world for a clarinet player who know almost all the notes?!?