Oh, I do. Yes it is true it has been well over a month since my last post and I think that I am at least nominated for this year’s BBA (Bad Blogger Award). So if you are on the judges panel VOTE for me! Wait…. I guess I should be hoping you don’t vote for me.
Anyway there has been lots going on and some things that couldn’t really be blogged about at the time. You know sort of like when the guy on the television show says “come closer to the set …. just between you and me…” That type of thing.
THE KIDS:
Bubs has started going taking gymnastics classes on Saturdays and is loving the class and the effects on his upper body strength. At first he was doing this to keep conditioned for the upcoming wrestling season. Now I am not so sure. I think that he may just stick with gymnastics. He let his dad cut his hair THIS WAS A HUGE DEAL! And yes I did a victory dance once that first cut was made. I was so sick of seeing him twitch his head to get the hair out of his eyes. I will have to post pictures later. I am running a tad behind on things this morning. He took his standardized test for the district and I am happy to report we had another successful year of homeschooling.
JJ is keeping very busy with her gymnastics classes as well. She should be getting her invitation to level 4 this week. Level 4 is the first competitive level. It is also and increase from an hour and a half a week to TWELVE hours a week of practice. She is turning is to quite the young lady these days. I look at her and see her changing and it amazes me at how grown up she is becoming. Her braces are doing their job, thank goodness, and she will actually show her teeth when she smiles now. She also took her test and did very well with her first year of school at home.
Nina will also be receiving an invitation to level 4 in gymnastics….. HOWEVER we feel she could not handle the 12 hours of practice a week so we are going to let her go to pre-team which is only 2 days a week 2 hours a night. That seems much more doable for her. I was worried about how she would do on her standardized test this year but she really surprised me and did quite well.
Moe (the monkey) had to put his super boy strength and climbing ability to good use so we…..put him in gymnastics as well. I figure if we were already there, why not. Tonight is his first “big boy” class. Up until now he was in the mom and tot class. I almost teared up when I realized that last week was my last week helping him in his class. He loves his teacher/coach Ms. Marcia. He looks forward to his class each week and gets rather upset when he realizes that sometimes we are going to the gym for someone other than him. *grin*
Rodi and I have been quite busy planning for the house and looking at the future. We put in a really good garden and surprisingly things are growing quite nicely. We are going to have WAY too much squash, considering I am the only one who likes it. We planted 9 rows of sweet corn, way too many onions, lots of peas, cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, carrots, lettuce, potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, and watermelon. We have already picked most of the peas and as we shelled them and prepared them to be frozen we of course had to taste a few….yummmy! My grape vine is looking great and I think we will be making some jelly this year. Our apple tree looks great too. I wish I could say the same about the peach tree.
Rodi has been helping our neighbor with her fields and it has been so great for him to be out there on the tractor again. Our herd of Zebu has increased by one and we now have another heifer named Whisper. She is very sweet although a bit leary of the 2 legged creatures who are constanly hold out their hands wanting her to come towards them.
Are we staying in the Navy or getting out? Well folks is looks as if we are staying in. We did the resume thing even a really great interview. Then Rodi had Dr’s appointment and well lets just say there a few upcoming surgeries on his knee that will be keeping us livin’ the Navy life. We just didn’t think saying yes to a job and then saying, by the way the doctors don’t know how I am still able to walk and if I were a few years older a full knee replacement would be their recommendation, would be a great impression to make. This fall/winter he will be having another surgery on his knee. This one will require 30 days at home non-weight bearing on that leg with 4-6 more weeks after that 30 days of no weight on that leg. Total recovery time will be 9 months. UGGHHHH! Why are we waiting until the fall/winter….simply put, Rodi would go nuts if he were laid up like that all summer long. We are now having to make choices as to where we would like to go after his surgery as he will not be able to stay on the ship (something about stairs *sigh*). I will let you all know more about that when I know what is going on.
I hope you are all having a great day and didn’t fall off your chairs when you saw that I had posted something.
