APRIL
Well, April was an interesting month filled with a lot of the usual and some of the unusual – you’ll see what I mean….never a dull moment with us as always is an understatement.
The month started and Conner went back to school just in time for Jamieson to go off for the month. Bruce and Jamieson pretty much jumped on the place the next night and took off to home to see everyone. We realized it had been nearly 18 months since everyone had seen him and Bruce was feeling the big guilt.
Of course the next morning I got up and realized that the interior light was left on so the battery was flat – good thing Conner had one more day off school. PHEW!! Happy Good Friday to us!!! I still find it a little weird that for such a religious country Good Friday isn’t as big a deal here as it is at home, what with all the meat eating going on! We had a quiet Easter weekend, Conner and I went out for lunch and we spoke to Bruce, Jamieson and the rest of the family on Skype in the afternoon.
The next week was pretty much normal, Conner at school, he had a track meet which was our first track experience. It was fun, just like at home so it wasn’t too different an experience. I spent the week in and out at work and the usual Justin and Jeremy over every day after school. Nothing too exciting sorry! Jamieson had a basketball game on Saturday afternoon which they lost but they did a great job, the other team was HUGE and they were rattled at the start but kept it close in the end and only lost by a couple so it was a great team effort.
Tuesday rolled around and off to the airport I drove…. I was sitting in a gas station waiting for Bruce to call and tell me they were through customs…waiting, waiting….ring ring
Hi Honey, we are in stage 2 customs, the advice I got from the homeland security call center was wrong and I can’t come in because the visa is expired!! PANIC!!!
2 hours later I picked them up with Bruce having to go and pay for their new temporary visa in San Fran in one week. I think we should be thanking our lucky stars on that one.
The nice customs people believed that he was given the wrong advice and they were allowed in.
We continued through the month with a little bit of work for me, Conner had Track training and track meets , basketball on Saturdays which the team was doing really well. We ended the month with Alexie’s (Millie’s daughter) birthday party day (Long day). I got to go into the limo with all the girls. We got picked up at 11.00am but had to pick up around 15 kids….oh boy did that take a lot longer than we thought. 2 hours later we made our way to the bowling alley/ lazer tag place for the actual party. Bruce and the boys met us there at around 2.30pm and the party began. They got to do all the things even though they were soooo late so everyone had a blast it was just Millie and I that were exhausted.
The next week Bruce headed off to pay for the visas a did some appointments while he was in San Fran and our month officially ended with a school furlough day – California lost 22,000 teaching jobs so the teachers union approved 3 furlough days to try and get some more teachers jobs back. Don’t you love a place where the Govt doesn’t care that they are cutting 22,000 teachers jobs, they haven’t approved a budget yet, they put their state workers on Furlough every Friday with more days to come and the politicians take their usual time off because they can!!!!! Conner’s middle school class is already at 41 let’s see what happens after the cuts are in place. SCARY huh??? Those cracks for some kids to fall through are getting wider and wider.
Monday, August 02, 2010
March 2010
OK so late wouldn’t even begin to say how late these are so I’m just going to get down to it.
March, thank goodness for my calendars….
We went out to an ice hockey game with the Cendro’s for Kevin’s birthday which was a lot of fun and a really fast hard hitting (not kidding) game. Another thing to tick of the To Do list…
We started the month with Conner doing his finals, it did fine, not as well as I’d like but it was great in some areas good in others. On a sad note Millie lost her little Pomeranian ‘Chewy’ so she was devastated, so that is never fun watching your friend loose one of her babies. We spent the next few days getting Conner ready for his conference, he was really excited and it was a big jump forward for him and us as parents. Our boy is growing up and going to conferences…..
We did some spring cleaning on the weekend, me inside, Bruce outside. On Thursday morning Bruce and Conner headed off for San Jose, Bruce was going to see some stores on the way back and it was a good father son chance. They emailed me a pic from the place, met a few people and Bruce left so he can start his fun. We received emails and updates with pictures everyday which was fun to see.
While that was going on I had movie nights (Thursday & Friday) so that kept me busy as usual, we got a good turn out and seemed to see the same part of the movie both nights. We got approx 170 people through so that is always a successful event for the PTO. While we were doing that Bruce was I San Antonio for a function with the Soldiers Angels people, doing his usual thing and Jamieson well, he was doing his usual thing, hanging out..
On Sunday we all got into the car early and drove down to San Jose. Conner and his class put together a little show so we could see some of what they have learned and we chatted with a couple of the coordinators’ then headed to the San Jose Flea Market for a look around. Conner was happy and tired; I think it was a successful few day s for him, he was really sad to leave.
The boys had basketball tryouts, we are starting in a new league so that was something new for everyone. We have decided to put Jamieson in Conner’s team and see how he goes with the bigger kids. Out new visa application was submitted, Bruce and I started putting presentations together, him the words me the making it look better!! Conner joined the school track team and they trained every afternoon except for Fridays. Jamieson had an Open house at school so we got to see all his work which is always fun. We ended the month with Conner doing on spring break for a week, Jamieson had a concert at school the boys started their new basketball and did really well. So again another pretty busy month, my work is slowing down at work but picking up with Angels so that should keep me out of a little trouble.
March, thank goodness for my calendars….
We went out to an ice hockey game with the Cendro’s for Kevin’s birthday which was a lot of fun and a really fast hard hitting (not kidding) game. Another thing to tick of the To Do list…
We started the month with Conner doing his finals, it did fine, not as well as I’d like but it was great in some areas good in others. On a sad note Millie lost her little Pomeranian ‘Chewy’ so she was devastated, so that is never fun watching your friend loose one of her babies. We spent the next few days getting Conner ready for his conference, he was really excited and it was a big jump forward for him and us as parents. Our boy is growing up and going to conferences…..
We did some spring cleaning on the weekend, me inside, Bruce outside. On Thursday morning Bruce and Conner headed off for San Jose, Bruce was going to see some stores on the way back and it was a good father son chance. They emailed me a pic from the place, met a few people and Bruce left so he can start his fun. We received emails and updates with pictures everyday which was fun to see.
While that was going on I had movie nights (Thursday & Friday) so that kept me busy as usual, we got a good turn out and seemed to see the same part of the movie both nights. We got approx 170 people through so that is always a successful event for the PTO. While we were doing that Bruce was I San Antonio for a function with the Soldiers Angels people, doing his usual thing and Jamieson well, he was doing his usual thing, hanging out..
On Sunday we all got into the car early and drove down to San Jose. Conner and his class put together a little show so we could see some of what they have learned and we chatted with a couple of the coordinators’ then headed to the San Jose Flea Market for a look around. Conner was happy and tired; I think it was a successful few day s for him, he was really sad to leave.
The boys had basketball tryouts, we are starting in a new league so that was something new for everyone. We have decided to put Jamieson in Conner’s team and see how he goes with the bigger kids. Out new visa application was submitted, Bruce and I started putting presentations together, him the words me the making it look better!! Conner joined the school track team and they trained every afternoon except for Fridays. Jamieson had an Open house at school so we got to see all his work which is always fun. We ended the month with Conner doing on spring break for a week, Jamieson had a concert at school the boys started their new basketball and did really well. So again another pretty busy month, my work is slowing down at work but picking up with Angels so that should keep me out of a little trouble.
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