Monday, Monday

Today was donation day. I almost forgot to have my donations outside for pick-up. I had to scramble to get them together. Got rid of quite a few things, including an old rocking chair from DD's college apartment. We weren't using it and it was just taking up space. Got rid of some clothes, books, games, boring stuff.

The weather is warmer today!!! But tomorrow it's supposed to rain, boo! I'm just praying for a warm-ish sunny day on Friday when we're in College Park for the Univ. of MD baseball game. DS is going to be bat boy and I'm hoping to get some good pictures. It certainly won't be fun if the weather is bad.

Here's another shot from the team meeting day. Oh, and that's Testudo, the Terrapin!

Susan.

The Old College Try

So last night we spent HOURS looking at and discussing colleges for DD and her BFF to attend. We (the BFF's mom and myself) are trying to map out a few local-ish schools to tour during spring break. We've narrowed it down to some Virginia schools (VA Tech-long shot, Radford-more reasonable, JMU-semi-long shot), and in NC (Western Carolina-shoe-in, and East Carolina-reasonable shoe-in). The MD schools (Towson, Frostburg, Salisbury, UMD-long shot) we can tour any time. DD would like to check out WVU, too. I think that's reasonable and it's not too expensive, considering it's out-of-state tuition. Of course the girls want to be together and they want to be on the cheer team for whatever school they go to. So that means not going to a "sucky" school that has "lame" teams, 'cause who wants to cheer for lame-sucky teams? And then there's Dad who wants her to attend an in-state school so he can make better use of our pre-paid tuition plan. You can use the money anywhere, but he wants to stay in-state. I'm not sure about that.

Today is SAT prep class for DD and maybe a haircut, and DS has a church retreat AND a 3 hour baseball practice that he'll fuss about. He does like to play baseball, but he HATES practice. It's a constant battle. I don't want him quitting BB because he hates practice. I want to try to make it up to the LSS today, but I don't have much hope for that. Maybe tomorrow.

On to dishes and laundry (how come I do the SAME things over and over and over again EVERY SINGLE DAY?).

Snow Day?!?!

So it snowed last night. More like it iced last night. We really don't have much snow, it's just a thin coating of ice. But now, 11:30 a.m., it's melted. However, they (you know, "they") say that we're going to get another hit later today. I guess that's why there's no school today. At least the kids have found something to do. DS went with his friend to the indoor pool until 2:30. Yeah!! DD went with DS's friend's sister (a/k/a her best friend) to the movies. Peace and quiet for three hours.

Jane Austin

Apparently I'm Elinor Dashwood! Who'da thunk it? Actually, not being as familiar as I should be with Jane Austin's works, I'm not really sure who Elinor is.

Try it out!

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Eclipse!

Here's my take on the lunar eclipse last night. We could see it quite well through the whole process. Very nice. DS was very interested. We got out the binoculars and tried to use the telescope, but it didn't want to cooperate. We could see the little star on the left (I forget what it's called), but not Saturn.

Bad Blogger!!!!

Weeeeelllllllllllllllll, so the blogging didn't go so well in December. Maybe now that it's 2008 and well into February, I'll do a better job. I can't believe it's almost March! My baby turned 13 last week!!! I can't believe all my kids are over the age of 13. He didn't want a party. So we just did the family thing. He wouldn't even let me bring cupcakes to the basketball team. I didn't want to force the issue.

Just doing the ordinary things lately. I'm trying to find more interesting recipes for dinner. I HATE the same old thing. Pioneer Woman always makes her dishes look so great, but I have very picky kids, and sometimes am short on time. I want to have dishes that I could prepare ahead and freeze. Anybody have any ideas? Let me know.

Okay. Today is laundry, vacuuming, typing, maybe I'll get to scrapbook today. Who knows? I did go to Borders yesterday and get the new Making Memories, Creating Keepsakes and that new Computer Techniques 2 book. Can't wait to play with that one.

On Sunday we went to the University of Maryland for the "bat boy" meeting. My boy will be a bat boy for the team on Feb. 29th. He's not very excited, but I sure am. I think this is such a great opportunity to be exposed to this level of baseball. I practiced taking some photos with my new lens while the team was scrimmaging. Turned out pretty decent. Gotta play around with the camera some more. I included a sample above. It was a great day for photos, not too sunny, not too dark. I'm having the hardest time with those darn basketball pictures. The lighting is just horrible in those gyms. Although the other parents thing they're great! (Another sample above).

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