I haven't blogged much, you may have noticed. I have been busy doing other stuff like writing to William, working on William's blog a little, wrapping up the baseball season, getting ready for soccer season, school, vacation, and all that fun stuff. Also, I get really discouraged when hardly any one else blogs, so I boycott mine to punish you who aren't blogging...but that's not fair to my readers like my dad...so here comes a new post!
(it will probably be boring!)
Andrew asks for chicken for dinner every night. I'm out of ways to cook it so that the rest of us like it...Andrew will eat it in any way, shape or form, so usually I just George Forman grill or crock pot it just like that....but I'd rather have it in a casserole or as an ingredient in something. Bradley asked for taco soup the other day, which was fine, and tastes good, but it was 106 degrees that day and taco soup is basically chili and WHO eats chili in the summer, no one! It heats you from the inside out!
Andrew has been bored with the Olympics and all I wanted to do the past 2 weeks was watch the Olympics....and Bradley has been working and has a friend he likes to hang out with, so Andrew constantly asks to have his friends over, but we hardly know any of them, so he usually just plays with Adam and Andrew, his little buddies! They all get along great.
The Olympics were wonderful. So fun and exciting to watch. I lost interest in a lot of it, though, because I really hated NBC's coverage of it all. I know there were many Olympic channels, but I still missed tons of what I WANTED to see. I also really disliked that there was a tape delay, so I knew the outcome before I watched the events, that takes away all the excitement.
I made an e mail friend....she came into my life right at about the point when I was thinking that people my age just can't have or be friends!!!! Us 40 some year old moms are just too busy raising families to have friends. Also, I was really upset with some things "friends" did or said to me, causing me to just be mad at mankind, in general. My e mail friend is William's MTC companion's mom. In his LAST letter from the MTC, in one he mailed to us the day he left, so he was actually gone when we got it, he gave me his companion's mother's e mail address (I asked for it). I wrote to her introducing myself....and she wrote back, she said she ALMOST deleted my e mail, but right as she was about to do it she recognized the last name....barely. She opened it, read it, responded, and we've been e mailing back and forth every day since. I love her!!!!! She's the best!!!!
Andrew had a little visit to the doctor's office after stepping on a very sharp, very dirty nail. All they did, though was clean it up and send us on our way with a handful of NOT sticky bandaids. It swelled up fast and he could not even walk after only 4 hours after it happened, so we had to take him in...and his Tetanus shot was a little past 5 years, so that worried me too. But he's doing fine now...and after the bee attack a few weeks ago and the nail last week, he basically refuses to go out into the back yard anymore.
The Earthquakes are still playing well. They struggle, it seems, all game long, dominating while failing to capitalize, then they make these grand comebacks at the very end of games to either tie or win them just about every time. So thrilling and amazing and UNbelievable. I like being a fan of a winning team! I hope they continue to succeed, surprise, and WIN.
School starts Monday, Aug 20th. Bradley gets his Jr High schedule tomorrow. Andrew has already found out that he's in the 5th grade class we wanted him to be in.
Well, High School Musical is on, I better go watch it...this used to be my favorite Disney movie until they made Lemonade Mouth!
