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Jenny-Fair -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 1:57:51 PM)

We went bike riding. It was miserable. I want a hot tub.



peculiar_lady2 -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 2:05:38 PM)

don't want to have to retype this all, but I wanted to post a link to this post of mine about upcoming events since I have discussed that in here lately....and in case some of you don't read that folder. HERE IS THE POST with great news!!! OK...gotta go get cleaning now...the house is a mess!!!!



cynthia -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 2:17:02 PM)

That is wonderful, Sarah. It's good that things are coming together so well.



PrincessDonna -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 2:21:28 PM)

Wonderful! I was worried about you having to go over to have someone to stay with the kids. SOOOOO glad to hear the news!



2jsmom -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 2:33:07 PM)

That's terrific news, Sarah!



Homegrownkids -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 2:46:34 PM)

After a week of being with my grandma and wondering if she was even going to make it through all she's going through... she is doing much better today!!! SHe is 87, broke some bones, and has double pnemonia (spelling?). On Monday, when I saw her, she looked like she was literally dying. She had to have two surgeries in the last week on her leg, the first surgery failed because her bones are so soft and all the pins, screws, and plate seperated from her bone. Please pray that this second surgery will be a success and that everything will stay in place!!! She is talking more to us today than she has all week and she loves to see Noah. I am so glad that her spirits have been lifted, what a change from what we saw on Monday! Next week she will be moved to a (stinky) nursing home. Pray that she will work hard to recover so she can return to her cute little apartment/room at an assisted living place. I'm hoping to start my return home tomorrow and actually get home on Monday if my grandma keeps doing well and is stable. My DH is stressed with me gone[8D] Glad he enjoys me home, but his stress wears on me! All this time at the hospital is wearing on me too, I really enjoy being here to help, but I am ready to go home, too.



2jsmom -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 2:50:16 PM)

I'm glad your grandma is doing better and hope that she continues to improve. I know the situation with my mom was different because she's just in her late 70's, but there were many times that I thought mom was not going to make it. Now she's back on her own and even helping to watch her great grandkids. I hope your grandmother will be able to make a complete recovery too.



kookookat -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 4:26:26 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: cynthia

What/where is White Castle?


White Castle is a burger place. They are mostly in the midwest I think. In Arizona and California they had frozen burgers at the grocery stores.

Vicki



2jsmom -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 4:28:56 PM)

I just saw your prayer request, Ezri, and will be praying.



cindybode -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 4:40:00 PM)

Ez, I'll pray too.

There are a bunch of us working today, it's not very busy, and everyone brought food. [:D] We are all just sitting on our butts and watching them expand by the minute. [&:]

Annie, praying that grandma feels better soon and that your life gets back to normal asap.

Erin is getting frustrated because 3 people in the past week have mistaken her for Ashley, including my best friend. I personally think it's kinda funny. [8D]



Jenny-Fair -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 4:41:48 PM)

Is Ash's hair red now, or is Erin's black? I don't think they look or sound alike at all, so I find this happening very strange! LOL



cindybode -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 4:43:43 PM)

They both have the same color hair they did when you saw them. I don't get it either.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 4:46:31 PM)

Weird.

Well, Nate and I went to the store and got seeds, but apparently we are really late in the game because I have to make do with only basil as far as herbs go. We did get cat grass, pole beans, sunflowers and lettuce (which doesn't grow well here but will grow well enough to feed his parakeet, which is why we bought it--they can't have storebought, lol).

Brandon is at the library with his spinning friends.

It is such a dreary day today! We have all the lamps on and everything.



cindybode -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 5:54:39 PM)

Heirloom Acres has lots of good, heirloom varieties of seed for a reasonable price.

I drove to work in a monsoon. [&:]



Jenny-Fair -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 6:50:31 PM)

Too bad you aren't here, Cindy. I have two lifeboats in my living room![&:] The boys decided our current living room furniture was not sufficient to watch a couple movies and therefor they needed something, um, soft, plastic and inflatable? Who knows. I told them they could be a weekend thing but had to be put away by the end of tomorrow!



cindybode -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 7:23:34 PM)

LOL that sounds like something that would happen in my house. Good thing we took our dog home or she'd be in there with them.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 7:31:51 PM)

Brandon now has a flat inflatable on the ground, so he can lay on that, and he has made a lean-to with a PVC pipe, his raft and his emergency blanket. DJ could lay in there, I am sure, lol.

Nate just made his first batch of corn bread...well, it still has to bake, lol. We are having that with our mexican chili beans for dinner, and sundaes for dessert. We have a Monk DVD and a Dr. Quinn DVD and it should be quite a nice evening...other than having to watch it over the refugee camp on my floor!



cindybode -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 7:38:37 PM)

A couple of years ago everyone except my dh got sick with a bad respiratory thing. The kids all wanted to sleep in the living room because it was warmer, so they dragged their matresses out of their rooms. The girls slept on the sleeper sofa and there were piles of matresses, blankets, boys, and dogs all over the floor. My dh told one if his friends it looked like a Red Cross shelter. [&:]



cynthia -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 9:40:21 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: kookookat

quote:

ORIGINAL: cynthia

What/where is White Castle?


White Castle is a burger place. They are mostly in the midwest I think. In Arizona and California they had frozen burgers at the grocery stores.

Vicki

lol I thought it was some vacation spot.

Thanks for the seeds link, Cindy. I may get some seeds from them.



ezri -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 10:21:44 PM)

Thanks for the prayers folks-

I can honestly say I have felt them. No nervous breakdown... yet... CLOSE... but not yet.

I have never planned anything a full year out as a for sure we are going to do A-B-C. Never in 20 years of marriage. Never.

It seems that this year Jerry has been REALLY good about putting upcoming things on "the" calendar. Well so far this year 1 thing has been done with out him and the festival in Black mountain was looking like it wasn't gonna happen but he has friends in places that could back a certain happening up a month so that could happen.

I was told he was shipping out mid September NOW I am being told he will have to attend Annual training with the new unit and guess when that is happening. [:(][:@][:'(][&o][>:][:(][&:][:@][:(] He said he might not have to stay for the entire training period but at this point I honestly believe that someone is checking Jerry's vacation schedule and saying HEY lets schedule something for that week!!!

All I can say is that if he can't swing the first week only I know people in PA. and NY that will all be disappointed but not NEARLY as disappointed as my children who have been plotting and planning for a year.

I have such a screaming Migraine the lights hurt my eyes and I am mildly nauseated. I was told September but I need to gear my brain up for mid July now.

ANY ADVICE SARAH? I mean he is supposed to leave mid September- Was I totally in lala land allowing myself to believe that I'd be able to have him here til then? Should I have told myself to back the date given up by 2 months? I wish I had of. I knew that for an 8 week deployment it was 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after for the pack up, rail head and then the unpack and clean up stuff in AK. I should have known this would be similar and it being MONTHS instead of WEEKS planned accordingly. I feel rather STUPID right now for allowing myself to think my husband was my own until --- date.

~ezri



peculiar_lady2 -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 11:25:30 PM)

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ANY ADVICE SARAH? I mean he is supposed to leave mid September- Was I totally in lala land allowing myself to believe that I'd be able to have him here til then? Should I have told myself to back the date given up by 2 months? I wish I had of. I knew that for an 8 week deployment it was 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after for the pack up, rail head and then the unpack and clean up stuff in AK. I should have known this would be similar and it being MONTHS instead of WEEKS planned accordingly. I feel rather STUPID right now for allowing myself to think my husband was my own until --- date.

nah...you weren't stupid....just hopeful...in a round about way. You know the Army...everything is subject to change, even if orders have been written. Just think of it this way...the sooner he leaves the sooner you can get him back!!! We knew a year out about our deployment and honestly it was horrible because we felt like we were living in limbo for that whole year...preparing for the following year. I would much prefer to not know that far out....get things going sooner...and get the OVER WITH sooner!!!



cynthia -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/3/2008 11:53:13 PM)

I'm sorry, Ezri. That sounds really awful.



PrincessDonna -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/4/2008 8:14:19 AM)

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All I can say is that if he can't swing the first week only I know people in PA. and NY that will all be disappointed but not NEARLY as disappointed as my children who have been plotting and planning for a year.


Can you make the trip a different time? I'm sure Russ and Lisa would let you, and Sandy and I could still come over. Not the same, but...

((((((((((((((((((((Ezri))))))))))))))))))))



ezri -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/4/2008 10:19:39 AM)

Just to clarify- This is not a get him to Iraq get him home sooner type scenario... he is not leaving mid July for Iraq. AT = Annual Training. NORMALLY 2 weeks long but they are scheduling 3 weeks this go round because of the deployment. The unit he is going with is a Traditional National Guard Unit. One that meets once a month and 2 weeks(3 this year) a year. They have a full time core but it is a tiny number of folks.

We won't even mention the fact that his current unit is doing AT for one week in the middle of June- No... and we won't tell you that it is in some fancy hotel in Charleston SC (He is personnel they are doing long range troop planning type stuff. Sit in a conference room and chat about numbers during the day). Nope not at all. [8|] He has tried- he can't get out of it. He has asked to be allowed his own car for the trip(He could take me with him that way) Nope can't do it- cost of Gas. Carpooling in the government vehicles. If he were "someone else" you know- "not who he is" and not "Having to be the example" then he could say FINE I am driving my car anyway- see ya there! but No.[&o]

If they make Jerry do all 3 weeks of the AT then he will be gone from mid July thru August 9- when he called to tell me this I heard the August 9 date and freaked. Of course him calling me and telling me our summer plans and last hoorah had effectivly been trashed as if he was at a drive thru window ordering a frosty and a fry at Wendy's did not help at all either.

As for some other time- there is a list the length of my left leg that has to be done before he leaves. IF I am seriously looking at him not being "My Own" from mid July on then it isn't all gonna happen. He has been talking about my dental work "If we can get it done before the end of July we are gonna pay out of pocket." Uh well Dear, that July has been moved to JUNE. Meaning I will be spending some of the last real weeks with my husband with gaping holes in the back of my mouth. If it wasn't so dire a need(bone loss is horrid on the one side and getting to the point where much longer we won't be able to have a good saddle for the partial to sit upon.) I would say forget it.

He got about half his "gear" yesterday- to include brand new never been worn by no one else Body Armor. The last time he was issues such items was in Alaska and it was so "USED" that we were sewing buckles back on. He is out doing his qualifying today. M-16, 9mm, and another lighter version of the M-16 (I forgot the acronym folks[sm=icon_smile_faint.gif]) He waited til I left yesterday to bring the gear in. I guess he knew I'd double freak on him. [&o]

Anyway- he has not said anything about AT to the kids until he knows for sure that he can/cannot get out of the 3rd week.

~ezri



peculiar_lady2 -> RE: May Flowers!! Homeschool Chat! (5/4/2008 12:50:30 PM)

quote:

Just to clarify- This is not a get him to Iraq get him home sooner type scenario... he is not leaving mid July for Iraq. AT = Annual Training. NORMALLY 2 weeks long but they are scheduling 3 weeks this go round because of the deployment. The unit he is going with is a Traditional National Guard Unit. One that meets once a month and 2 weeks(3 this year) a year. They have a full time core but it is a tiny number of folks.

yeah I understood that....but I still look at things like scheduling changes as "the sooner he goes the sooner he can check that one off and be back"

quote:

We won't even mention the fact that his current unit is doing AT for one week in the middle of June-

our anniversary is in the middle fo June, and most of them have been spent with him being gone to some kind of AT or field exercise. I joke that it was amazing he showed up to the wedding itself...lol



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