9/22

I am leaving on Sunday for a few days in DC. No, it's not a vacation, but a conference. Though I intend to relax as much as possible. Derek will have the kids by himself, so hopefully everyone will still be alive when I get home.

Derek is still having trouble with his knee and the doctor keeps telling him it's normal, don't worry abount it. Yea, right, it's not your knee. He keeps hopeing that in the end this will be worthwhile.

We got rid of the truck and car last weekend and got a 2006 Dodge Durango. THe gas mileage is not as good as the car, but there are other benefits. Like we aren't going to have to have several thosand dolalrs of work done to it in the next two years. It's the little things like that that make me appreciate it.

Alexis earned her next belt at martial arts and oculd possible be a black belt before we leave. Wow! We also got her mid-term grades back this week and she got 3 A's and 2 B's. She is hopnig to get all A's so she can be on the Honor Roll. I am really proud of her and how well she's doing.

Mercedes earned a stripe in martial arts this week so if she keeps it up she should be able to test in November. She's more of a social butterfly than the others, so she is not progressing as fast. THat's alright though, she will get there in her time.

Mason is fine. He had a temperature the other day which was nothing to worry about . He's pretty mobile now so we are busy keeping him out of trouble. He's a happy baby overall and easy to deal with. A lover not a fighter. He got bit at school again, but he doesn't have any after effects that we can see.

Derek is knee deep in school now and grumbling about homework. He's taking four classes, so there's plenty of it. I don't miss that at all.

Shoot, I need to go eat my breakfast and go to work, There is never enough time in the day.

This week in the news

This week was pretty quiet for us overall. A couple of Doctor's appts, but nothing to worry about. I am taking Mason tomorrow to get his ears done (tubes) and Mercedes for a follow up on her ears. I am hoping all goes well. Derek also has his first physical therapy appt tomorrow. I REALLY hope that goes well. He's been having a lot of pain and right now we are afriad it might be infected. Hope not though.

I am going to DC in a few weeks for a conference so I am looking forward to that. No telling how the trip will be though. DC is always a toss up for me. I am hoping it's good though. If nothing else it mixes things up a bit.

Well, Alexis is up, though not compeltely awake. She had a friend spend the night and they stayed up late. Derek made her get up early, probably to be onery. I guess it's a Dad thing, since Dad just to do that to me.

That's about it for us. We lead a pretty quiet life these days : )

Here we go again

Well, it looks like this next week woll be full as well. Mason has two Drs appts, Derek has Drs appts, I have Drs appts. Maybe we should just hire our own private dr : )

As soon as the bruises heal up, Derek should be better. For now though, they are very painful, so he's trying to stay off of his leg. He's more mobile, but nowhere near 100%. He thinks he will be ok to start school on Tuesday, but that will probably be the extent of what he can do for a week or so.

Overall though, I think things are going to calm down. At this point they have too. Not much else can go wrong for us.

On Friday morning, we woke up to about 1/2 inch of water flooding our bedroom, and the kitchen light and vents pouring water. It seems the master bathroom decided to flood. Not fun, at all. THe maintenace guys came right out and did what they could, but they are going to have to come back to fix the kitchen light, and the bathroom and bedroom floors. Plus, we are throwing a lot of things out, and trying to get the smell out. I have an extra 5 loads of laundry too, since a lot of things got wet, upstairs and down.

Work is quiet right now. We are changing duties around now. We have some new people and it makes sense. The boss also wants us to taje on more internal work instead of farming our money out to other people. The return on invenstment isn't there I guess.

Gotta go, Derek needs me.

Long Weekend

Well, it's a good thing it's along weekend becuase it looks like I will be cleaning up the house. I don't mean the normal, laundry, dishes, unpack boxes from the move type of thing, I mean water damage from the leak that started about 0430 this morning and the maintenance guys still haven't shown up to fix (0630). Yea, that just makes my whole day so much brighter.

Other than that, I think we are all fine. Derek got his bandages off yesterday and his leg is still there. I still contend that he is a big baby. He swears he will NEVER have another surgery. Yea, I don't foresee that happening.

I was cruising through my (daily when I am not out-the-door busy) blog reading, and one of them had a really good game (dice Wars). It is not quite an addiction, but it's fun!

I need to go and get the little people off to school.