Why can't Johnny tie his shoes?

OMG! How did I let this motherly duty slip by unnoticed? I bought the kids new shoes yesterday and came to the realization that JC (who's 9 yrs old, starting 4th grade in the fall) doesn't know how to tie his shoes. Come on, this is something he should've learned in kindergarten. This last year he had shoes with Velcro, but I know he's had laces before and I thought he knew how to tie them. This morning as we were getting ready to run to the store, I had to demonstrate how to tie shoes and then made him do it. It took a couple tries but he did eventually get his shoes tied. He's a smart kid, he has a lot going on in that head of his, but some how the simple act of tying his shoes confuses him. I guess that's something we're going to have to practice this summer.

Surprise on her report card

I got the kid's report cards last weekend. JC did well, as expected. I was surprised by Funky Princess's though. I thought for sure her final math grade would be a D or worse, but somehow she managed to pull off a C-. Still not a grade I'm very happy to see, but not as bad as I was expecting. Everything else looked good with A's & B's. She's going to Sylvan 3 days a week all summer so hopefully we can boost that C- up to at least a B next year.

Close encounter with a monster

We were on our way to drop JC off for a play date when up on the side of the road there looked like a piece of rubber or garbage We got closer and I realized it wasn't garbage, it was a monster turtle. This thing was huge, at least a foot wide and a very crabby look in it's eye. We stopped the car to look at it from the windows because nobody wanted to get close to it. Then went on our way. When we came back almost an hour later, it was still there. So I ran home and grabbed the camera.

I know it's kind of hard to tell how big this thing is from the pictures but trust me I wasn't getting close enough to it to measure it. As I walked up to take the pic, it started to turn towards me and gave me a chilling stare. I stood about 6 feet from it and used the zoom to get in close. Funky Princess stood a few feet behind me and was nervous the whole time we stood there taking pics, she didn't want to get any closer. As we were walking back to the car I told her the turtle was chasing us and she took off running, scared that this giant turtle was going to catch up to her.

I've seen turtles like this around here every now and then but this is the first time I've been able to photograph one and I don't know what kind it is. Considering the hole it dug, I think it was laying eggs.

Very annoying

With in the last week we've been getting these strange phone calls that when you pick up there's a computer listing numbers. The first couple times I had no idea what it was so I just hung up. Then last night we got one of those calls at 11 pm. Hubby checked the caller id and all of these calls are coming from the same number. This morning when I got back from the gym I checked the messages and there was another call like this. Since it was on the voice mail I listened to it and learned somebody was trying to text to our landline. After farther investigation I learned the number belonged to one of Funky Princess's friends. I told Funky Princess to ask her friend to stop trying to text our home number, if she wants to talk then just call.

Ms. Thompson?

Funky Princess's teacher has called me Ms. Thompson on more than one occasion. I haven't been Ms. Thompson for 12 years. Her teacher has never known me as Ms. Thompson, and the weird thing is I still answer to it.

"I've been doing some thinking..."

These will be the last words I utter before Hubby strangles me to death, because he knows it involved some heavy lifting, or major digging, or just hard work in general. A few years ago I decided to do some landscape projects and we got most of it done, but there's one project that needs some finishing and another project that hasn't been started yet. I think he's stalling on that one because it involves more work than he wants to do.

After work today I ran up to the garden center to get a couple of tomato cages and looked at all the cool things they had there when I ran across several Obelisk Trellises. I thought they were really cool and started to think where I could put one in the yard. As of right now I don't have a spot for one. I have a small sun garden with an arbor arch that has a climbing vine on it already, so I can't really stick it in there. But if I were to expand the garden, which I've been thinking about anyway I could put it on the other end.

"Oh, Hubby! I've been doing some thinking...."

Great Job!

JC has been working on an animal research project at school for the last couple months. He had to do the research, write a report and put together a display. He did everything by himself the only thing I helped with was printing pictures for his display. I was so impressed when I saw it, he had really put a lot of work into it.

I impressed with a lot of the displays I saw on Friday. You could tell the kids really worked hard on their projects.