First Day of School

  

Today is the first day of school for the 2011-2012 School year!

Logan is entering the 8th grade at MMS!

Emi is in the 5th grade at EES!

               

Have a great year in School!!

Hello....nice to see you again!

Wow!


I haven't blogged in a LOOONG time! Lot of reason, Lots of excuses.....None that I think that I am even going to discuss today. I am going to let the past go and start fresh!


I logged on today, and really enjoyed re-reading the the entries that I had posted...back in 2009 and 2008! So, I've decided to begin again. I hope to be more regular with it. Hopefully!


I may go back and put a few things in to fill in the last 2 years where I didn't write anything. Just little updates on some of our adventures, but nothing too in depth.


Right now, I feel a little scatterbrained! I have lots of things that I want to say, but not sure what to talk about! I don't enjoy feeling that way!


In all honesty, the past 2 and a half years, have not been that great. Sure there have been some really great moments, but also a lot of negative times. A lot of that has come from my own hands. Being a step-mother is a lot of WORK! I've had a lot of frustration to deal with after the kids moved in with us. And I've noticed that about the time I quit writting was when the problems began and I wasn't enjoying myself or my life. At All! At times I have felt depressed. Mad. Angry. At myself. The kids. Jody. And at life in general!

Ok! Enough of that!!! As I said, I am going to try not to dwell on the past 2 and a half years.


Life has it's "Up's and Down's!" Time to Start fresh!!

Facebook~Year in Status~2010

I don't know why, but I enjoy seeing the "year in status," it's a fun way to see what was going on during the year in one small condensed version!

Changes

After a difficult 2 years, Will has decided to move back to his mother's house.


I honestly feel that this is the best for everyone. I love Will very much. But it was quite clear that he was not happy living under our roof, and unwilling to accept the rules that we set in place.


I hope he finds what he is looking for. And I hope that a small amount of peace is found in our house.

Dance Recital

Yesterday, Emi had her first dance recital. It was so good!! She did such a great job! She loves to dance. And she was soo nervous right before she went on. She had two dances. Hip-Hop and Acro.

We've been discussing the possibility of her trying out for the competition dance team at the studio. We wanted to wait and see how she did at the recital, before actually making the decision of if she could try-out of not. What if she froze? Or got to scared to even move?

She wants to try-out so bad! So as soon as she was done with her second dance and came to sit with us to watch the rest of the recital, she turns to me and asked of we had decided yet. LOL!! I told her, "Nope, we still have to talk about it." She asked me several more times before she went to bed.

We did decide that she could try-out. She was thrilled! She is going to try-out for Hip-Hop and Jazz. And we should know within a few days of her tryout.

Good Luck Emi!!

School Rant

UGH!!! These schools are so far from being consistent!! Wills school is the worst one. They introduced this new policy at the beginning of the second semester. They call it "Every Assignment, Every Time." This policy is suppose to give the kids who are failing to turn in their homework, a second chance to turn it in, but with a penalty. The day it is late they are suppose to be given a form to bring home to the parents to sign and receive a max grade of 75%. If they fail to do that, then they are assigned Saturday School.

Well I loved the ideal of this program. Especially for Will! He is horrible at doing homework. And he didn't like the sounds of this program. So it scared him into doing what he was suppose to do...for a while. Then he started to screw up again. I caught him with a few of the forms, that he didn't have us sign. Then I found out that on one of the forms he forged Jody's signature. I went round and round with the school to get to the bottom of that.

Anyways...the reason I say the school is not consistent is because they truly did not seem like they wanted to give Sat School. It was one of those we want to do this, things...but then they didn't keep it up. I feel like I was let down by them. He ended up being punished for the forgery. But then I was informed that there wouldn't be any more of those forms for the rest of the school year. Oh, and Logan is going to go there next year too! I hope that they keep the policy. They just have to be consistent with it!

Ugh! There was something else that the school did that wasn't consistent, that I was going to rant about.....I can't remember it now! I just have not been happy with either of the kids school. I truly could go on and on........

Thirty

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I'm 30!!!

I can't believe that I am now 30.....I miss my 20's!!! LOL!!