Birthday Girls...

Katie turned 13 on October 4th, and I turned, uh...31 today. Yeah, that's the ticket. 31. Uh huh.. really.

Keri baked us a chocolate layer cake, using her mad baking skillz! It was very tasty. Having two teenagers has made me reflect on what it's been like raising these two hoodlums I am lucky enough to call mine. I think Andy and I are really lucky- they are, for the most part, very sweet girls. Katie decided that I needed a tattoo yesterday, and proceeded to use magic markers to give me one...a lovely heart on my back. I feel so...dangerous....LOL!

Well, that's it for now. It's been a long day!

Monday night

Well, we made it through Monday. It's going to be a crazy week. In between my class, Keri's speech team practice and band practice and Katie's soccer game on Wednesday and first swim meet on Thursday, it doesn't look like we'll be eating dinner as a family anytime soon. Not that we are much different from most other families. We are all so overprogrammed. But there I go longing for the days of sitting in front of the fireplace singing songs and telling stories. Oh, wait...never mind, that was Little House on the Prairie. That half-pint, she sure got herself into some scrapes, didnt' she?
Katie's rock family is still growing. I hear she took some of them to school, and now her friends want her to make rock critters for them. If only we could get her to put that much energy into homework!

Top Picture: Katie with Maxwell Shoshone1566 and Marjorie Stewart Baxter

Bottom Picture: Keri doing her English homework

Saturday, September 27, 2008

I'm supposed to be working on a paper for class right now, but I am easily distracted as I ponder what it is that makes a culturally effective counselor. I'm sitting here with Keri, who is doing much better concentrating on her homework than I am. I'm trying to be a good example, really I am, but thinking is so hard right now. Katie is working on her rock family collection - it's pretty cool. She's decorating rocks- giving them faces with googly eyes, hair, accessories and even names. Her two favorites are Marjorie Stewart-Baxter and Maxwell Shoshone 1566 . I'm not quite sure where those names come from.
Last night was Katie's birthday party - she doesn't actually turn 13 until October 4th, but I won tickets to Coco Key Water Park that were only good last night. It was a good time, and we had a total of 6 extra people sleeping at our house last night. Needless to say, in between Keri and her friend Ashley using the blow dryer at 11 pm, and Katie and her posse watching Napoleon Dynamite until midnight, I'm just a little fried today.