Prom festivities

So, this is Kyrie and her date, Bosje. She was happy as a lark and he was visibly smitten with her! This is one relationship I hope they work on. He is such a smart, nice and gentle young man. Tim and I totally approve! 

blast from the past

I got this email from an old friend over the weekend. It seems that the Avalon High School class of 1986 is having a reunion in June. FYI...I left that school at the end of my 8th grade year, but apparently they (I say "they" when in all actuallity it is probably just this one friend) would like to include me in the reunion. Tim and I are thinking it over about going, I need to find out if we can take the girls b/c we haven't taken a family vacation in a long time. This would be a perfect opportunity to take the girls to California.

Is it already Thursday?

I can't believe how quick this week has gone by! Chess will be home tomorrow, I keep checking the local paper's website to see the pictures, hoping to see Chesiney or Abby in one of them...have only seen Samantha and BJ.

Kyrie's first prom is just around the corner...she is so excited and hoping to get her first kiss I think! It has been fun watching and hearing from Sandi about them (Kyrie and Bosha) getting to know each other. Kyrie went over on Easter to hang with them and Sandi said they sat on the porch swing all afternoon just talking and getting to know one another, she said it was adorable! I am so glad to see Kyrie blossom like this, she thought a long time ago that she would never get over being affraid of boys because of things that have happened to her, but here she is being bold and un-affraid with Bosha! God is so good in the healing department! I am tickled pink to see her excited and happy about a boy!

The home visit for the pug adoption is this Sunday, we will be meeting Sam. I hope that it goes well.

I called the Inn yesterday, got voicemail, but left a message. I hope that i didn't sound stupid or overly pushy, I just wanted to know if they received my resume. I SO want to be out of this job that I am in. I feel like I am at the breaking point.

On this episode of Cops.....

I officially met Officer Gandy today. Gandy is his first name, can't remember what his last name is, but I have heard about him, so I knew OF him. Really nice man, doesn't even look his age! And wouldn't you know it, Tim, was in the same Army unit as Officer Gandy's brother over in Hawaii....it figures, Tim knows WAY to many people! Everywhere we go he has either gone to school with someone, was in the Army with someone or workied with some one. It's really weird, he doesn't run into these people in his home town, where her grew up or anything, he meets them in strange and far away places from where he originally knew them!

We got Chesiney off to Washington D.C. last night, no tears were shed, but lots of laughing was done. Tim and I feel that it is our responsibility to make sure we thoroughly embarass our children in front of many of their peers. We hugged her and kissed her an dmade her feel loved and missed, all the while she is turning a deeper shade of red! She takes the embarassing stuff in stride, so it is easy for us to be ourselves around her friends. Her and Abby were very excited to go, although I think Chess was a little nervous about being away from home that long.

Jamie just stopped into town on her way back to Ft Campbell. That grandbaby of mine is just the cutest! I took her outside to feel the grass on her little toes and she didn't like it very much! But she loved looking at the pretty flowers in the yard and chasing after Bailey! I wish I would have remembered to take a picture of her....but alas...I am a forgetfull Granny already! Jamie said Michael's unit announced that they would be home for good in late August....YEAH!! He will get about a month off. I told her she and Michael and the baby should come up so we could take Ashlyn to Kings Island...she will be a year old then and I think she will really enjoy Nickelodeon Splat City!

Well, that is all the news from corn country! Later!

full circle

We have a guest in our home. One that has been here before, but didn't stay long. I am glad she is here, gives me something else to focus on other than my problems and frustrations. When am I going to mature past this selfish state in which I live? I am frustrated and blue about my spiritual state. I know that I am the only one to change it, or allow God to change it.....more later, got a staff meeting to go to.

The meeting

So, I finally get to meet one of the little pugs I am interested in. Sunday the 23rd they are coming to do a home visit and they are bringing Sam. The lady that fosters him right now says that he is the sweetest little thing and that his picture on the website does him NO justice! I am excited! I hope we will get along, although I would still like to meet Danny, he si adorable in picture!

Opportunities

So, today has been a tad bit stressful. But I am managing it. Had some good news today, a friend of mine who was helping me with my resume for this new B&B opening up here had called the owner because she knows her, finally go her to call back. My friend told her about me and the owner was very excited about receiving my resume. (I sent it out today) She told my friend that she woudl call me when she got it, she hasn't hired anyone yet, so it sounds like I might have a good shot at a job. My current boss, who happens to be a friend, will most likely not be too happy that I will be leaving. I have tried other jobs, with nothing being fruitfull, I woudl really like this one to work out. It all depends on how much she is willing to pay. I have potential int he current job I am in, I just don't like working on commision. It is not a motivating factor for me. Maybe it would be if I were the only one making the $$, but I am not nor ever will be. We'll see how this goes!

Haven't heard from the pug rescue people yet. So nothing has changed there. I have not been so good at going tothe Y and working out like I should. am not eating very well either.

Church I am frustrated with, I keep praying for God's will, I keep praying about leaving the church we are in, but God doesn't seem to be moving on my schedule, huh, imagine that.

I go to Arizona the first part of May, am driving with my daughter Ashley back to the midwest. I am really looking forward to that time with her. She is 18 and ready to strick out on her own and I am praying that God will give me words to encourage her with and time to bond a little more before she is fully out on her own.

Kyrie is getting ready for her junior prom, she has a date with Sandi's older son, Bastian, (pronounced Bosha) I think she is beginning to warm up to dating. She really likes him, and I think is hoping this will go beyond the prom.

Chesiney is gearing up to go to Washington DC with her 8th grade class next week. I will miss her, but I think she is going to have fun time. I am praying for their safety!

Steven is still in BT at Ft Sill, he will be graduating in June. We all plan on going out there for his graduation. That is going to be a fun trip! I told the girls that we were going to stop at all of the weird tourist attractions between here and there, they were not too enthusiastic about that. In fact Chesieny said "Do we really ahve to stop at the biggest ball of twine?" I said yes, of course we do!

Ashlyn and Jamie are doing well, they are heading up to her mom's for easter, so am hoping they will stop by. Ashlyn is getting so big! I predict she will be walking by the time Michael comes home on his mid tour leave in May!

That is about all that is going on around here.

A poem

Roses are red,
Violet is a pug,
she is too grumpy
for us too love.

I talked to her foster parent today, he said she was downright viscious with his Greyhound, he was affraid Violet would be that way with Stormy, our Rotti. He also informed me that Henry has an application pending on him so I guess we won't get him either. He suggested Sam. So I went on the website again and took a look, sam would be OK, but I emailed the director back and said I was also interested in Danny. Which one do you think?

Sam













Danny

Danny