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Life is just moving right along here. I truly enjoyed my vacation time of doing nothing. It felt so great to just not have to be on the move and work and just shut down for a week. I needed it badly. But all things have to come to an end and Tuesday it is back to the drawing board for me.

The biggest news here is that my daughter got engaged to her high school sweetheart 2 weeks ago. It caught me by surprise to be honest. And as a parent you question the decision they made, and wonder if it is the best for them. So the best laid out plans change. She will be moving out to Colorado in the fall to join him, seeing he is stationed there and continue school next spring there. I have come to grips with this slowly. And I had to realize that ..well ..mother here didn’t do anything different then she is doing at that age. My wonderful mother reminded me of that when I told her the news. But I am happy for her. and hope for the best, which parent wouldn’t.

Our little Teka has been diagnosed with diabetes. I have been cooking her food and have been giving her supplements since her diagnosis, but her sugar level is just not going down. I am going to try one more thing with her and hopefully that will help on getting her levels down.  If it doesn’t I will have to make the very hard decision on having her euthanized. I know Ayla will be heart broken and so will we, if it comes to that.

My Son has submitted his application to graduate from MSU next year. It seems like it’s been forever since he started College, but this journey is coming to an end and now makes me feel a lot older then I want to be. 

Hot flashes are the pits..and that is all I got to say about that.

Been cooking and baking a bit more trying out some new recipes and old ones, but I had to tone it down a bit, there aren’t enough people in this house to eat it all, and I don’t want to get to a point were they can roll me everywhere. 

Reconnected with some old friends I grew up with, back in my hometown on Facebook. It is a shame when you have to ask ” Who are you, and how do you know me”. But by all rights it’s been 24 years since I left Germany, so it is understandable.

Anyway like I said in the beginning, Life just keeps on moving and so is this day. So I better make the best of it. Till the next time folks. 

 

 

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I have a funny Story to tell you all. If you know me from Twitter, you know that I have a weird sense of humor and my kids have inherited that also.

So with me being on Pain killers, some heavy duty ones I might say, the kids are just having a ball with me, because apparently when I sort of wake up, after I take them and have fallen asleep, I forget what dimension I am in. I apparently have greeted my kids several times like I have not seen them for a year or so, have agreed on letting them hold wild parties and funky sleepovers. Buying things for them, and have had conversations with them that include forcing them to eat Brownies. If I see a youtube video about me like that on the Internet, they better run and hide really good.

Well with that also comes that I am not exactly on top of things and that includes getting my daughter up in the morning this week to go to school. I either sleep to good, and not hear the alarm clock or do what I did yesterday. And that is the funny Story.

I got a new Skype phone from a friend and I played around with it and found that it had an Alarm on it. So I set the Alarm for 6:30 am to get my daughter up for school. And I wanted to see if it worked and how it sounded.

Well 6:30 came and the Alarm went off, I heard it, got up and went out to the Living room turned it off after I found the right button, and went back to bed and to sleep. All the while thinking oh that Alarm clock sounds great. You see where I am going with this?

So next I wake up with my Daughter hovering over me, and going : Thank you for waking me up. It is 7:14 am, I had no time to wash my hair, it looks all icky, and Beth is going to be here soon, and I won’t have time to eat my Breakfast. You want the rest of my toast? All the while I am laying there wondering what the heck is going on? What happened? Did I miss something?

So all confused I got up, while she was grabbing her Backpack and mumbling out the door, that Life is just weird and she is hungry and wants to finish eating her Breakfast.

She got home in the afternoon with her boyfriend, and my Son and his girlfriend walked in at the same time also and the fun began. I told them all what a start to the day I had with my daughter just hovering over me and all. All of them were laughing, my daughter was denying that it was that bad. She asked that when I got up and turned the phone off, if I didn’t realize why I got up at 6:30 am? That I just got up for no apparent reason? I said, no I got up and was excited because the Alarm on the phone worked and that it sounded nice and went back to bed. Well you know that everyone was cracking up with that answer, which is true. So everyone was asking why she doesn’t set her Alarms and get up when they go off, and she said, she sleeps trough them. She tried that before and it doesn’t work. That the only thing that wakes her up is her Moms voice saying: Alex, rise and shine Sweetheart. Time to get up. Isn’t that sweet?

So this morning, I really had the intention of waking her up. I set 2 Alarm clocks, honestly I did. Well I got woken up by my daughter saying: Are you ever going to wake me up again? I don’t know what happened. I do not recall hearing any alarms or anything.

But I did go and make her toast with jam on it, so she could have breakfast before her ride came to pick her up, and I gave her kiss on her forehead and wished her a wonderful day. So I did not fall that much out of her good graces for today.

Today’s kids…

Twice a year here in Michigan, the public school system has a Student count day that determines how much funding the school gets from the State for each pupil. Every year we get a reminder by phone or by the Principle at each school that your child attends to make sure your kid attends school that day.
So some schools, throw Ice cream parties, pizza parties and various other things now to lure the kids into school that day. It is really sad to think that you have to coax the kids into school by throwing a party. Whatever happened to Parents giving their kids the riot act and letting them know they have to attend school at any day of the week that school is in session? No ifs and buts about it. Unless the child is sick or there is a emergency it is acceptable not to attend. My kids know, if I get a call from School that they missed a day, bet your bottom dollar that I will personally escort them from class to class and it will take only 1 time of embaressment for them not to do it.  The example that is being set to the kids by their own Parents for not enforcing the school attends rule, and allowing this to happen will only continue later in their life when they are supposed to be productive members of society and hold a job. Easy come, easy go.

So many kids nowadays don’t understand or recognize the fact, that a Employer has this unlimited pool of people to choose from that need jobs. Just Friday at the beginning of our local high school football, we had kids from the Band stand in the end zone, because they arrived late at School and were punished by not being able to perform in the pre-game performance. We had 2 boys that disagreed with that punishment and decided to walk out and go home. I asked one of them if he thought that later in life when he has a job if his late arrival would be acceptable to his Employer? His answer? Not if you call first. Hold it there buster, you don’t understand even with a call ahead of time it is a strike against you, and if you do it another time you will loose your job. The sad part is, that Parents will go and side with their child, even though you are trying to teach this child responsibilty and hold him accountable for his actions which all of us have to do in our lifes. And then they act all amazed and in shock come time for Parent-Teacher conferences, when they find out that their child is failing because of his attendence of class or missed assignments. Hello!!!! You let this happen, now accept the fact that you screwed up and fix it. Don’t make it someone else’s problem like the school, and accuse them of not making your child attend school or get his work done. You are the Parent now be one. The school is not a babysitting service, the school is there for your child to learn.

Welcome to a generation that needs Ice cream socials and Pizza parties to be motivated to attend school. Wonder what they will need later on in life to go to work…