Recipes

I would like to remind you guys about my recipe blog:

http://runningthroughmeadows.blogspot.com/

I havn't been posting much here, but the recipes are churning out now with the help of Emealz.  It's worth every penny!

How's school?   Princess seems to like it though she's feeling pretty overwhelmed by the prospect of once again attending an advanced math class, potentially picking up the violin (dare we?????), learning cursive, attending activity days with her younger youth group at church, and joining a program called Girls Rock! that our friend started at another school on post.  This program includes self esteem workshops and a fitness program culminating in a 5k race called the Turkey Trot.  I'm proud of her for tackling all of these projects!  She's packing her own lunch with an eye toward healthy living, choosing water over gatorade and apples over chips.  She's still reading quite a bit, winning an award from our post library summer reading program.  She was 2nd place out of all the readers for most pages read, at a staggering 6,700 pages!  A medal with her name has taken up residence on her desk. 

Tag.... oh, Tag.  After getting over the shock of landing in the class with the teacher who "makes everyone write a lot" has settled back into being a pleasant goofball.  He wants to do basketball this winter, so there's some scrambling involved with getting a physical right when everyone else and their cousin is getting one.  I'm hoping that some more consistent, fairly challenging physical activity will show us if his asthma is progressing or not.  At his physical we found that his right eye (the one that turns in) is doing pretty badly.  So back to ophthalmology he goes and I just pray he won't need surgery.  He has been asking for contacts though.  He might end up with them sooner than we hoped, depending on his prescription, any diagnosis, and prognosis.  sigh.

Pebbles is FINALLY in pre-K.  She had a conference last Monday followed by a staggered entry day on Thursday.  Tuesday is her first day of consistent class and she has long given up hope at going regularly.  She doesn't believe anyone when they say that soon she'll go every day.  She's making more friends at church and we're trying to get her more time with them.  She is so eager to spend time with them that she didn't want to come home even after 5.5 hours at a friend's house on my first day of classes. 

Frieda has a new hobby of stuffing toilet paper down the bathroom sink.  We've gotten pretty good at applying Drano and the plunger to that poor sink, and I'm having a hard time being firm with her without making her fear hand washing.  She is now 100% potty trained and doesn't even use one of those crazy seat adapters.  A friend watches her during my daytime classes which is an enormous relief to me.  I was terrified at the thought of leaving her with a stranger.  She has a couple of little Chihuahua's and a young son, tons of toys and a park just down the road.  She's happy to come home at the end of the day but very happy to be dropped off as well. 

My classes are going well.  I greatly like my Sociology professor who is equal parts keen observer and humorous guide.  The schedule is a little crazy but that was totally expected.  I'm still loving my new meal planning strategy (obviously, if you look at the recipe blog) and still very slowly losing weight.  Slow is ok though, as long as the scale keeps going in the right direction! 

Man continues to be kept busy at the office, continues to read whatever self help book his therapist has given him, and has acquired a very strong following of people in a game called Aion.  He is what is called an Abyss leader, or a general who plans and executes strategy to help the "good guys" win territory.  There are literally hundreds of people who look to him for leadership in this fairly complex game.  He wasn't promoted there officially, no one hired him, he just sort of naturally took that position after demonstrating a clear understanding of the rules and terrain, making successful suggestions, and slowly becoming recognized.  So, all of that keeps him pretty busy.  We havn't heard back from the medboard people yet, but we have hope that he'll be able to start an internship soon, which may actually lead to a job as a civilian.  There are no many unknowns at this point that we aren't making plans of any kind. 

So there's our craziness.  Maybe I'll get around to pics at some point as well.  ;)