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Tonight is R’ art show--she is very nervous. The gallery opening wills last 2 hours--the owners have hired a guitar player and will have food. There will be folks from the art community and R’s friends are supposed to make an appearance. Several of our friends will be there also. It is going to be very cold tonight--at least the snow will not be ( Read more... )

My 15 year old daughter is driving me nuts--she is all worked up about the art show on Friday and now this boy is making things more messy.. The 2 of them can not decide if they are more than friends--I can make that one a simple one to work out--as far as I am concerned they are friends--at my house is ok--at his house is ok as long as one of his ( Read more... )

The girls and I have been going to the local high school basketball games. For the price of admission ($3 for adult and $1 for student) you get to watch a decent game and also have the opportunity of some wonderful people watching. We get to watch the teens in action (some bad-some good) and as for the adults-well some of them act like little ( Read more... )

Wed is R's art lesson, but when I got up this morning there was ice still on the trees and the radio said that 81 was foggy--so I canceled. As a result we had time to sit and the 3 of us ate breakfast together. We sat there watching the new and only bird feeder on the tree, when a squirrel showed up. climbed the tree--hung down from the branch-- ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had a great day planned, but of course this was the day the stomach virus that is going around here decided to hit me and hit me it did--I spent most of the day either in the bathroom or in bed sleeping with my cats. My cats enjoyed having a warm body to be next to all day. The rest of the family enjoyed the day I had planned and left ( Read more... )

let me list the ways that today has gone wrong so far this day ( Read more... )

My 15 year old daughter has had this crush on this 16 year old boy since summer--for the most part their communication has been through ims and sport things and activities at the teen center --of course I have been at most of these functions --now this boy is now 16 and 1/2 and has just gotten his driver's license and for Christmas his parents ( Read more... )

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This is how we (my family and I) handle this holiday--First of all we do no have any contact with any of my family--this is a decision we came to when our first daughter was born--I had to live through their drama and rot--was not going to make my girls do that--that leaves my MIL--who refuses to come up to our house and whose house is so full of ( Read more... )