Hanging on a few more weeks

Time flies when you are having so much fun. The past weeks have been filled with one activity after another. If we can just hand on for just a few more weeks, we may just make it.

It’s been a nice adjustment having Chris home nightly. The tension is gone, the fighting almost non-existent and the laughter is constant. Well, except for weeknights and math homework.. Ahh, it brings back memories of me dreading the thought of asking daddy for help because I just can’t get it. Daddy gets frustrated, I start to cry and the night is a total waste. It’s good to know that it wasn’t just me… of course, my dad’s frustration was that I couldn’t get simple long division (in 10th grade LOL), Becca’s dad’s frustration is that she gets confused over x=y-b divided by pi R2 blah blah blah blah – it’s so beyond my comprehension. The other night I sat quietly at my computer while Chris & Becca sat on the bed arguing over Becca’s math homework – something about factoring. I was SO lost and they just got louder and louder arguing over who was right and how a problem was suppose to be done. Becca was amazing with her arguments and I have no clue if SHE was right or Chris was.. it was all foreign to me. They both know not to ask for my opinion because if it’s harder than Algebra 1, I’m a lost cause.

Chris’s main worry is that Becca will end up like him. Though I don’t think he turned out too badly, he seems to think he could have done better. Don’t we all think that about ourselves??? He screwed around his final years in school and he’s terrified Becca is on that same path. He won’t listen when I say I WON’T let THAT happen. Anyway, Becca is kicking butt taking 9th grade math in 7th grade, keeping a 3.5 grade point average and doing it all without attitude- lots of complaining, and temper tantrums but she’s honest about her work. But, like daddy’s should… Chris is worried she’s not giving her full potential. It’s a constant battle which I am seriously thankful I did not have to fight my dad on – he knew I was a lost cause… Becca is not. Anyway, to get off  my rambling.. I’ll finish this lame story… After two weeks of fighting over homework, school work and tests, Becca came home Friday with an envelope in her hand. Her comment to me as she handed me the envelope was, ” I don’t know if this is good or bad, but I was told to give this to you.” UH-OH! Progress reports just came out and she was at 3 A’s 3B’s so I know it wasn’t a scholar ship warning… Referral??? Nah, she’d be crying. So, I open the envelope, unfold the letter and oh goodness, I’m such a baby!! The tears start pouring down my face. Becca was selected to join the National Junior Honor Society! See Chris!!! You don’t have to worry too much, she’s doing AWESOME!  I am so proud of my little girl, even if it doesn’t “look” like it(by daddy’s standards), she really is kicking butt in school. So we find out that there is an induction ceremony on the 21st of this month that she’s asked to attend. No problem right? We’ll be there with bells on… and lots of tissues.

Girl Scouts is wrapping up but at a crazy pace. We’ve got trainings to complete, field trips to attend and parties to organize. The troop is learning how to become program aids, working on their silver award and helping a daisy and brownie troop transition into their next phase of girl scouts. Daisy to Brownie, Brownie to Junior. And of course, they are looking for more and more community service to work on. These girls are wearing me out! But I love it. The girls have really gotten excited the past couple of months and it just warms my heart to see them working so hard for the community.

Let’s see, the schedule for the next few weeks – last night Program Aid training 6-9pm, Saturday Activity for Silver Award 8-5pm, Monday Service team meeting, Wednesday GS meeting, Thursday Service Unit meeting – oops no, can’t hit that, NJHS with Becca (ceremony), Tuesday Volunteer as Chaperon -Field trip to zoo, then in the evening  Junior transition with Brownie troop, Wednesday End of year Party – I’m sure I missed a few activities, our anniversary, Memorial day….. and all this, with just one vehicle – OH THE AGONY! The poor Ranger is in need of some serious work, the alternator died on us 2 weeks ago when Chris was on his way home from work one night so we’ve been living on one car recently. It totall sucks for me because I have a serious case of Cabin Fever. Unfortunately, with us trying to adjust with Chris’s new paycut, it’s difficult to come up with the money to get the Ranger fixed right now -And we haven’t even PAID for the truck yet!!! That guilt alone is killing us! But, if we can just make it through the next 3 weeks, we’ll have the summer to earn the money to get it repaired and get back on track. I’m hoping with the summer months fast approaching, I’ll be able to get this business up and running. I’m giving myself until July1 – if I don’t have anything by then, I’ll be looking for a part-time job at the nearest day care (one I can walk to!!!) Either that, or we’ll be looking for a room mate!

Liz is getting excited about her trip to China – only a few weeks to go! She’s also working hard to keep her grades up. Dad got so frustrated with her “laziness” that he told her if she didn’t make straight A’s on her final report card, she wouldn’t be able to come down to Florida this summer. She’s been working her butt off the past few weeks to keep those grade up at the A mark…Of course, if she’d only done this all year….She called me the other day and told me she’s going to her 9th grade prom, I asked who her “date” was and she said, right now she just didn’t know. There were so many boys to chose from – Uh, is that good or bad to hear from your neice? That girl scares me! I miss her so much… It sucks that I didn’t get to go up to PA this winter and now have to hold off on my June trip – the first since they moved up there. I really hope she gets her A’s!

And on a cute note to end this post….

It’s pretty bad when Chris can’t keep his girlfriends out of sight of his wife… We spent the evening at Chris’s brothers house this weekend and Chris flaunted his new girl friend at me all evening. Every time I turned around she had her tongue in his mouth.  HOW RUDE! She’s cute too -everything I’m not!  skinny, muscular with big brown eyes! It was amazing, she was all over him and just adored him. It was disgusting and I was thoroughly annoyed that she wouldn’t even let me sit next to him on the couch. It almost came to blows!

Of course, his new girl friend has 4 legs and a stubby tail and slobbers! But he’s not particular!!! It’s bad enough when we go out and I’m totally ignored by men, women and children if Chris is around… but I seriously have to put my foot down when a damn dog comes between me and my man!