IT'S HOMECOMING!!!!!!

GO ARROWS! GO ARROWS!!! I just love homecoming weekend. Even though I am no longer in high school I still have a lot of school spirit. I miss being in high school just for this weekend alone. I am the flag corps advisor and get to march in the parade with the girls and it always brings back a FLOOD of memories. I was in flag corps in high school and all my friends were in the band. I still to this day find myself looking for them in the trumpet, saxaphone, and trombone areas. Silly, I know. I am leaving work today at 12:00 to partake in all the festivities.

GO ARROWS!!!!!!

Dancing with the Stars

Anyone that has followed my blog for very long KNOWS I am addicted to Dancing with the Stars. I have never missed a season and every season I hate watching Edyta. I know she has a rockin body which was said to me by someone last season but COME ON, cover up a little bit. Well, this year I will be able to let Brooklyn watch it with me because Edyta won't be on there with her barely covering anything outfits because SHE GOT VOTED OFF LAST NIGHT and I think she was a little peeved about it. Don't get me wrong, I think she is an awesome dancer but I just wish she would cover up a little more. So, Edyta and Jeff Ross are the first casualties in this season. I'd like to see Cloris Leachman be the next to go. She is funny but disruptive, can't dance, and vulgar. That is my opinion. If you have others, feel free to share them but I am entitled to my own opinion.

In a funk.......

Do you ever have those days where you are not in a good mood but not in a complete bad mood? I don't know how to explain it. I just feel numb today. I get this way once in awhile and am never sure what brings it on. I don't know if its the weather, being busy ALL THE TIME, tired, fed up or just plain don't feel like being in a chipper mood lately. I have been having problems with headaches lately and am going to the chiropractor so maybe that would help. So, sorry, nothing witty here to say and I hope this cloud of funk lifts soon. I hate feeling like this.

If you could choose.........

What era other than today would you live in? I would choose the 1950's when sock hops and the great music were alive and filled every gymnasium in America. Where poodle skirts were on every rack in stores and kids still gathered at the local soda fountain shop to sip fountain soda and have ice cream. When all the great classic cars were not just saved for car shows but in everone's garage and cruisin' was the next best alternative of past time for teenagers. I love all the music from then and wish I would have owned a poodle skirt and saddle shoes. So tell me (without getting all politcal and stuff, this is just for fun) what era would you choose and why?

Look what's just around the corner!!!

Why I love Fall:

-the changing colors of the leaves

-wearing my fav. jeans and a sweatshirt and that's all you need

-football

-Pumpkin Patch

-playing in the leaves in the backyard

-hay rides

-harvest parties

-baking with the kids

-enjoying the last little bit of beautiful weather before winter hits

10 YEARS!!!!

Today is Craig and I's 10th wedding anniversary. I can't believe how fast the time flies by once you have kids!!!! I have the greatest husband in the world. He doesn't mind hanging with the kids to let me go hang with my friends once in awhile. He loves me regardless of all my faults (and that is a long list!). He is a wonderful, loving, caring, thoughtful, patient, loyal husband. He is a wonderful father to our children and a Godly man. What more could a girl ask for? This weekend I am singing in our choir dinner/variety show and I am singing My Guy. How appropriate because nothing could get in between me and my guy!!! The only sad thing is he is gone all weekend with the men and boys of our church at the annual Royal Rangers POW WOW and I will be busy with Bravo all weekend. So we don't even get to celebrate our anniversary at all. Maybe we can go for supper one night next week. Happy Anniversary honey! I love you so much!!!

Let us NEVER forget........

I still get an eerie feeling in my guts when I look at that first picture. I will never forget where I was at when I was watching that plane coming right at the other tower. I had just gotten to work and didn't know anything about the first plane attack but I will never forget the sight of that other plane and the feelings that went with the attack. To this day, I still feel so sad on Sept. 11th which is hard to be happy for my anniversary tomorrow. I understand how those who lived through Pearl Harbor still have that gut wrenching, sickening feeling on Dec. 7th all these years later. God Bless America.......land that I love!!!!

BRAVO!!!!!

No, I am not cheering for something or someone. That is the name of our variety/dinner show that our choir performs every year around this time. We have a dinner (Italian theme) catered in and the choir members serve our assigned tables that night. We also sing and dance during supper and then have a HUGE show after dinner. This year the theme is Blast from the Past. We are singing songs from the 50's, 60's, and 70's plus have a few skits from the Mickey Mouse Club. I am singing a solo and its the song My Guy. I have a few fun little things that I will mix in there but am excited to do it. The whole thing usually lasts for 2 hours but is WAY fun!!! I know one of my fellow bloggers is going to be there so that will be fun to see Frazzled Farm Wife again. The show is always sold out which is nice and everyone has a good time. Its fun being involved in stuff like this and wish you all could be there to see it. Its truly a BRAVO experience!!! I will try to post pictures from it!!!!

This is me.....

without makeup!!!!

I took this picture when were in Sioux Falls last weekend at the zoo. I thought it was hilarious so I got out my phone, snapped the picture and sent it to my sister and Kristi with the same message. I thought it was pretty funny but that's just my weird sense of humor!!!!

When do you let go?

**UPDATE** I did let her walk to school today with her friend Nick and they made it A okay!**

As a child I remember once I reached the third grade I was responsible enough to walk with my little sister to school each morning. We lived only a short distance from the school and had one certain route that we took each and every day. I was also able to stay home every day that following summer by myself. Granted we had an elderly neighbor lady that lived next door that could check on me through out the day but nonetheless, I was home on my own. I remember thinking how grown up I was!

Now I am the mother of a third grader and thinking that she is way too little to walk to school on her own and there is NO WAY I am letting her stay home by herself next summer. Am I holding on too tight or just being a sensible mother? I am finding it hard to let go and let her grow up. I still want to have control over where she is at, who is with her, and what she is doing. It scares me just thinking about letting her walk to school. The trouble is starting tomorrow I have flag corps practice every morning now at 7:00 am and Craig can't drop her off at school at 7:40!!!! Do I let her walk the 4 blocks to school or try to figure something else out?! HELP!!!! At what point in your childs life do you make the decision to let go and let them grow into the person they are meant to be?