Did You Know

That bubble wrap will keep three year olds entertained for at least 20 minutes? I found that out this week. And if you've never worked with three year olds, 20 minutes+ is a long time. I got a haircut today. It always feels so good to get the split ends off. And I love getting it washed with salon shampoo. I can't stop smelling it. Well it's finally rained enough that we can go watch fireworks. Hurray! I feel like I had something I was going to blog about but now I just can't remember what it was. I'm sure I'll remember just as soon as I log off the computer. I want to take a vacation. I know it still a ways off, but I do have two weeks off work around Christmas time and I want to take a vacation then. But a lot of times I have ideas that never happen. So for now I'll just keep counting down the days until Kentucky. Which, the countdown is in the thirties now. Very very exciting. I just can't wait to watch a certain someone go down the slide in his bright green innertube. You know who you are. Well I think that's all for now. I hope everyone is doing just swell.

The librarian tonight is really pretty

That's just an observation. I really didn't plan on posting about her. But guess who was in Athens today?!? President Bush came for a visit. See, we have a nuclear power plant here in town and one of the units was started up last month after being shut down for 22 years. So he came to congratulate everybody on a job well done I guess and to promote his ideas of why nuclear power is a good thing or something. But he might have called it nucular power. But I didn't get to see him. Somehow the Apostolic Christian Preschool didn't make it to the top of his places to visit list. But he drove past Mark's house on the way to the plant and on the way back to Huntsville airport and Mark saw him through the window. Umm...... I ate a whole box of strawberries today. But I was just so hungry. And they were just so good. So I just kept eating them. I'm leaving tomorrow hopefully after the kids fall asleep for Taylor. Very exciting. The past couple of times I travelled I wasn't alone. I'm kind of looking forward to it. Me, my music, my Mt. Dew and the open road. Except for in Nashville and St. Louis it probably won't be so open. But I did find some 80's hits CD's in the library that I'm going to check out and take with me. I'll bet the pretty librarian is the one scan them and tell me when they're due back. Okay that's my news for the day. Have a good one.

It's Raining!

Do you know why it's raining? Because I left my car windows down last night. I mean really- in the middle of the worst draught on record and I leave my windows down for one night. And it rains. But I'm not complaining. Except for now my car stinks very much bad. So the new kid showed up that really was supposed to come. And I think he's a lot cuter than the one we had for 15 minutes. His name is Darian Tyrell Kirby. But they call him Ty for short. Which proves my point- again- that everybody down here has two first names. So we have about 6 1/2 weeks until Kentucky. I am so very excited. I was very bored last night so I started calling random people. Sometime you may be one of those lucky ones if I have your phone number. Just you wait. Okay I need to go. I'm on my break and no computers were free for a long time. But now obviously I have one but now I need to go back to work. So you all just have a lovely day.

Daryl Howard

Yesterday this guy comes to the preschool in the morning to drop off his little boy. I knew we were probably going to get a new little guy so I thought nothing of it. The dad just dropped him off and left which is very unusual for the first day, but Daryl seemed to be doing fine. Well then Melissa started looking through his paperwork and realized that he was at the wrong place. After several phone calls she finally got ahold of the dad and he came back and got him. He was supposed to go to Loving Arms, but then later we found out that he stopped by the kitchen and asked Miss Barbara how to get to Tender Care. So hopefully Daryl got to wherever he was supposed to be. He was really cute, but he was into absolutely everything the whole 15 minutes we had him so maybe I'm glad he was going to Loving Arms. Anyways, Girl's Camp was this past weekend. And, as usual, was great. I've never had a cabin full of girls that stuck together as much as this one did. It was great how much they all got along. And my lovely co-counselor Alexis just made camp even better. The theme was being sold out for Jesus. I think it did me more good than it did the girls. I don't have anything going on this weekend which makes me happy because I feel like I need a weekend just to breathe for awhile. But then next weekend it's up to Taylor for Jenae's wedding. Which will be thrilling I'm sure. Even though it can be hard to see close friends get married, their weddings are usually the most fun. Lessseeee.... oh- you all can pray for rain for us down here. For real. Maybe I think about it more being a farmer's daughter, but really- we need rain. All the cattle farmers are selling their cows because they can't afford to feed them and we're having the worst draught on record (since 1890 something) and they had a pretty bad one too, last year. And unless it rains anytime soon it looks like we will not be having any fireworks displays for July 4 this year. Which truly is a tragedy. So if you think about it, you can pray that God sends some rain down here. Well I think that's all my news. I need to get some stuff done for my kid's Father's Day presents. We're making cards that look like shoes and putting their footprints on the inside with this poem: Here is my little footprint, One day it will fit your shoe, I watch what you are doing, Because Daddy I want to be like you. Touching, isn't it? Okay, tootles!

I'm Hungry

So that really has nothing to do with anything that I might say this time around, but with this continuous gnawing going on in my belly it's all I could think of. I feel like I've hardly had time to sit down and breathe since Memorial Day weekend. We went up Friday night for the Gridley invite which was really really really really good by the way. Except Gab didn't come and I left her a voicemail telling her to and she didn't listen to me. But she's going to eat supper with me tomorrow night so I guess I can forgive her. Bekah came back with us Sunday evening and she's going back up with me tomorrow. I'm going back for girl's camp. I'm getting excited. It took me awhile to get into it this year, probably because we were really unorganized for awhile. But we (meaning me and Alexis Gasser my co-counselor) finally kind of got a few ideas thrown together and now that I'm leaving tomorrow I'm really excited. So I have to tell you all about my tricycle accident. It actually happend the Friday before Memorial Day but I never got around to writing about it. I was having a race with a couple of the boys and the first lap around I went at a very controlled speed and they totally smoked me. (I had my feet on the back and was using it like a scooter.) The second time around I wanted to win so I went as fast as I could. And then I heard the boys come up behind me. Realizing that they don't quite grasp the concept of not ramming into people I turned to see where they were while I was trying to get over. Well, that didn't turn out so well. I went over the handle bars and skidded to a stop on my right side. So I have a bump on me elbow bone a bump on my knee bone and about five bruises running down my leg. But the boys thought it was cool and wanted to know how I did that flip so I guess maybe it was worth it. But I was definitely sore for a couple days. All right the gnawing is getting worse so I'm going to go.

MISS SARAH!!!!!!!!

Brady just peed on me! That was the day that welcomed me back from a really great weekend. Mom and Dad got down here Friday afternoon and we went out for supper. Saturday we went up to the Tennessee Fellowship Center around noon and waited for people to show up. In the afternoon we had the auction for the fellowship center and preschool. By the way, did you know they're not making Leman mints anymore? There were some bags of mints on the auction and at first I thought how pathetic, but then I found out that they weren't going to make them anymore. All the bags went for about 20 bucks a piece. Most expensive mints ever. The only thing I bought was a Purdue blanket. I'm not sure why I bought it. But I did. Now in our house we have U of I clothes, a Purdue blanket and Auburn pillows. So we look like we're all smart and went to big universities. But remember looks can be decieving. Supper, singing and Andy Stoller speaking Saturday night and then a really short game of Dutch Blitz before we realized we were exhausted. We had 7 girls at our house. We filled the fellowship hall with air mattresses. Sunday church and then volleyball and pizza for the young group and then back up to TN. More singing, more supper, Herbie Knochel speaking, more singing again, then some more snacks then more volleyball. Oops, my shoe just made a noise that sounded like a fart but it really wasn't I promise. Anyways, it was a good weekend. Yesterday we went to Sarah and Kerwin's to see Melissa's sister, brother and their friends off. Then we ended up staying until the afternoon before we went to Doris's house where the kids swam and we had lupper. Then we went back to Sarah and Kerwin's to play games but ended up watching a documentary about JFK. I didn't get into it until about 10 minutes before we left. Oh well. This morning was really hard to get up. But I have survived the workday and even the gym. Now I'm ready to go eat supper and crash for the night. Everyone needs to come down next year for Memorial Day. Mark your calendars.

Welcome to our graderashin

That's what one of the kids said last night at our graduation. It turned out really cute. During all the practices we were so stressed, thinking it would never go. Cause they were terrible during practice. But when there's lots of people there, they freeze up a little bit and they did a really good job. Tylan and Devin both faceplanted on the risers. Tylan and Devin also both unzipped their gowns in the middle of a song. The first time we tried on gowns Devin says "Is that my dress?" (southern accent remember) Half my class got ahead of the other half during one of the songs and it sounded like a really bad round. I spent pretty much the entire time glued to Devin except for when they were up there singing and the one time I wasn't glued to him I got a "GRAB HIM" look from his dad. But, sorry, I'm not going to jerk your kid around in front of all these people. I'll wait till they're gone and then I'll jerk him around. Eric the fat kid got ticked off at me when I wouldn't let him sit in my lap. Seriously, my legs go numb when he does. But they all just did a really good job. It wasn't as eventful as our Christmas play, though. Brady didn't come. Miss Doris started singing "Praise God from whom all blessings flow....." I mean, Brady almost burnt his house down last weekend. That's the kind of kid he is. So even though he would probably have spiced things up a little, it was a blessing that he didn't show. And speaking of Miss Doris, yesterday was her last day of work. Graderashin was her last responsibility as a preschool employee. And as she was leaving, she totally squealed her tires. And Mike yelled out "She's retired!!!" It was pretty funny. Really funny actually. Tomorrow night we're going to the annual rodeo that's in town. I really wanted to go tonight but Mark made some feeble excuse why tomorrow night would be better. Either way, me and Melissa still want to go so he may as well have gotten it over with tonight. It better not rain tomorrow night. Okay my hands are tired of typing for now. Y'all have a good one.