Ryan had a successful sports day yesterday. His baseball game went really well, it was a practice game so no pressure. He pitched the first two innings, doing pretty well. He was then put in center field for an inning and played first base the last inning. He went 1 for 2 at the plate. Due to the weather they were only able to get in 4 innings. Dennis and I didn't complain since the baseball game was over at 11 and he had a basketball game at 11:30 back on base. We got there with 5 minutes to spare. He didn't play very well in the 1st quarter, but lit it up for the rest of the game. He scored 17 points!
Autumn had her regular dance rehearsal. Their instructor pushed them harder than normal, she was beat when it was all over. I love when she has a hard practice, she tends to not fight me as much about things when we get home.
We have had a huge storm roll through, so we have been trying to keep dry all weekend. It has rained non-stop since yesterday morning. Hopefully, it will stop by tomorrow, Ryan has a baseball game.
Hope you all have a great week....we are keeping our fingers crossed for orders! Wish us luck!!!!!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Better the second time around
Well, the second time proved to be better than the first. We attempted to go out again and leave the kids without a sitter. (Now, let me remind you ...I can count on one hand how many times Dennis and I have been out since we've had kids.) We set some rules for the kids and decided to go out with some friends of ours to dinner and then to a comedy club. We thought it would be fun since neither of us had ever been to a comedy club and it was free (Terine had the free tickets), so what sounds better, right?
We met Kenny and Terine (a friend from work) for dinner. It was really nice, no phone calls during dinner. So, I thought either Ryan and Autumn had killed each other or they were actually following our rules ;-). I was so proud!!! Dennis kept looking at me as I was eyeing my phone, you know, just to make sure it was still working. Still it never rang. We actually enjoyed adult conversation and dinner for an hour and a half without Ryan or Autumn calling.
As we left dinner, I couldn't get to our car fast enough. I didn't want to call in front of our friends, I didn't want them to think I was paranoid....since they did notice me obsessing over my phone while they tried to hold adult conversation during dinner. So, as we were driving to the comedy club, I called home. I asked Ryan if everything was going alright. He stated that it was going great. I asked if he and Autumn were fighting. He said, "no, we are getting along great". Again, I was so proud of them for getting along so well. I asked what Autumn was doing. He said sleeping. She apparently had fallen asleep about 30 minutes after we had left and so Ryan had full reign of the TV, kitchen....anything he wanted. That would explain why they were getting along so well. I am not sure if Ryan would had volunteered that information if I hadn't asked what Autumn was doing. He is such a stinker. He really wanted me to believe that they were getting along. What a "good" kid....
Tomorrow is Ryan's first baseball game. It is just a practice game, but he is really excited. He has his baseball game at 9 and his basketball game at 11:30. I am not sure how we are supposed to pull it off, but I am sure we will manage.
Autumn only has one hour of dance tomorrow instead of 3, what a relief....
She is having so much fun with all of the dance she is doing. She dances so well....I don't know what she is going to do when we move. She loves this dance company so much and the girls and boys she dances with are great.....Hopefully, she will have the luck of going to another really good company.
We still don't know where we are moving to. We are playing the hurry up and wait game with the military right now. It would be nice to know where we are going. I am such a planner and to know that Dennis leaves in September (even though it is still 6 months away) and we still don't know we are moving to in the summer of 2009 is making me crazy. I am so much of a planner, I have 2 calendars at work, 2 calendars at home, a planner in my car and 2 other planners that I keep with me at all times....and they all coordinate. SICK, I know. I have to know what I am doing and when I am doing it; this not knowing stuff kills me. I guess it would be best if I didn't know that we were expecting orders and then they just appeared, that would be great. But to know that they are coming, you just don't know when, is what makes me ....AARRGGHHH!!!!! Now that I went off on a mini tangent, I will sign off.
We met Kenny and Terine (a friend from work) for dinner. It was really nice, no phone calls during dinner. So, I thought either Ryan and Autumn had killed each other or they were actually following our rules ;-). I was so proud!!! Dennis kept looking at me as I was eyeing my phone, you know, just to make sure it was still working. Still it never rang. We actually enjoyed adult conversation and dinner for an hour and a half without Ryan or Autumn calling.
As we left dinner, I couldn't get to our car fast enough. I didn't want to call in front of our friends, I didn't want them to think I was paranoid....since they did notice me obsessing over my phone while they tried to hold adult conversation during dinner. So, as we were driving to the comedy club, I called home. I asked Ryan if everything was going alright. He stated that it was going great. I asked if he and Autumn were fighting. He said, "no, we are getting along great". Again, I was so proud of them for getting along so well. I asked what Autumn was doing. He said sleeping. She apparently had fallen asleep about 30 minutes after we had left and so Ryan had full reign of the TV, kitchen....anything he wanted. That would explain why they were getting along so well. I am not sure if Ryan would had volunteered that information if I hadn't asked what Autumn was doing. He is such a stinker. He really wanted me to believe that they were getting along. What a "good" kid....
Tomorrow is Ryan's first baseball game. It is just a practice game, but he is really excited. He has his baseball game at 9 and his basketball game at 11:30. I am not sure how we are supposed to pull it off, but I am sure we will manage.
Autumn only has one hour of dance tomorrow instead of 3, what a relief....
She is having so much fun with all of the dance she is doing. She dances so well....I don't know what she is going to do when we move. She loves this dance company so much and the girls and boys she dances with are great.....Hopefully, she will have the luck of going to another really good company.
We still don't know where we are moving to. We are playing the hurry up and wait game with the military right now. It would be nice to know where we are going. I am such a planner and to know that Dennis leaves in September (even though it is still 6 months away) and we still don't know we are moving to in the summer of 2009 is making me crazy. I am so much of a planner, I have 2 calendars at work, 2 calendars at home, a planner in my car and 2 other planners that I keep with me at all times....and they all coordinate. SICK, I know. I have to know what I am doing and when I am doing it; this not knowing stuff kills me. I guess it would be best if I didn't know that we were expecting orders and then they just appeared, that would be great. But to know that they are coming, you just don't know when, is what makes me ....AARRGGHHH!!!!! Now that I went off on a mini tangent, I will sign off.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Phone calls
Dennis and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary on Saturday. We had a busy day, not technically how I would have chosen to spend my anniversary, but it worked. We first had Ryan's baseball practice from 9-10:30. From there we went back to the house only to split up to take the kids to separate activities, Dennis took Ryan to his basketball game while I took Autumn to rehearsal and dance. By the time we got home it was 4:30....
From there Dennis and I had planned a nice dinner and movie out, while the kids stayed home. Ryan is almost 12 and with Autumn being 10 we thought we were ok, we couldn't have been more wrong. By the time we waited for 45 minutes to get a table, we were starving. So, we ordered appetizers. We were enjoying a nice kid-free conversation when the first phone call occured. "Mom, Autumn isn't behaving." "What is she doing?" "Annoying me!" Now, for those of you that have kids; being annoyed is when you are trying to have a nice dinner with your husband and your kids call....not when your sister takes the tv controller and won't give it back.
I settled that little dispute, while I was enjoying calamari and Dennis was just sitting there (he is a picky eater, doesn't like anything) the phone rings again...this time it was Autumn. "Mom, Ryan is bothering me." "What is he doing?" "He took my Nintendo DS game and I would like it back." "Were you playing that game?" "No, but I want to now." You know as well as I do that the only reason she wanted that game was because he had it..... My final words to the kids were: "Unless someone is bleeding, dying or throwing up everywhere please don't call me. I love you guys greatly and I will give you a call once we are done with dinner. Talk with you soon." I guess I just wasn't clear on the whole, "I would call them". About 5 minutes later when our dinner was being served, my phone rang again. It was Autumn again. "What is wrong?" "Oh nothing, I was just wondering if you could go to Limited Too and buy me a Nick Jonas shirt while you were out." Now, I don't know about you, but this doesn't constitute an emergency to me. Maybe to a 10 year old, but not to me.
So, needless to say; once dinner was over we ran to a sports store and then we went home. We had a full 3 hours without the kids for our "anniversary date". When we got home, the kids had the nerve to ask us why we didn't go to the movies while we were out. I know you are probably thinking that they are only 11 and 10, but you must realize that my children are incredibly mature so I typically don't worry about leaving them home especially since we live on base. This time though I wish I would have hired a sitter.
This morning on my way to work I got another phone call: "Mom, I just want you to know that we broke something, but we weren't playing with a ball or anything. We were just fouling around." Now, my first thought of course was that they were playing ball in the house only because that was Ryan's first defense. Then he proceeded to explain to me that it wasn't him it was Autumn's fault. He made her mad and she broke my clock. I am not a crazy person, but I wonder how my clock happen to get broken as it is hanging on the wall. They both decided to try to stick with the same "no ball involved" story with: "we know what we did was wrong and we won't do it again, we are very sorry for breaking your clock." They wouldn't tell me how they broke it though, finally I made them put me on speaker and they both got to tell their story. Come to find out, Ryan made Autumn mad so she threw my exercise ball at him, missed and it knocked my clock off the wall breaking it.
I am very blessed with having kids who at least know the difference between right and wrong and will admit when they have done something that they weren't supposed to without us even asking. Kids are great!!!!!!!!
From there Dennis and I had planned a nice dinner and movie out, while the kids stayed home. Ryan is almost 12 and with Autumn being 10 we thought we were ok, we couldn't have been more wrong. By the time we waited for 45 minutes to get a table, we were starving. So, we ordered appetizers. We were enjoying a nice kid-free conversation when the first phone call occured. "Mom, Autumn isn't behaving." "What is she doing?" "Annoying me!" Now, for those of you that have kids; being annoyed is when you are trying to have a nice dinner with your husband and your kids call....not when your sister takes the tv controller and won't give it back.
I settled that little dispute, while I was enjoying calamari and Dennis was just sitting there (he is a picky eater, doesn't like anything) the phone rings again...this time it was Autumn. "Mom, Ryan is bothering me." "What is he doing?" "He took my Nintendo DS game and I would like it back." "Were you playing that game?" "No, but I want to now." You know as well as I do that the only reason she wanted that game was because he had it..... My final words to the kids were: "Unless someone is bleeding, dying or throwing up everywhere please don't call me. I love you guys greatly and I will give you a call once we are done with dinner. Talk with you soon." I guess I just wasn't clear on the whole, "I would call them". About 5 minutes later when our dinner was being served, my phone rang again. It was Autumn again. "What is wrong?" "Oh nothing, I was just wondering if you could go to Limited Too and buy me a Nick Jonas shirt while you were out." Now, I don't know about you, but this doesn't constitute an emergency to me. Maybe to a 10 year old, but not to me.
So, needless to say; once dinner was over we ran to a sports store and then we went home. We had a full 3 hours without the kids for our "anniversary date". When we got home, the kids had the nerve to ask us why we didn't go to the movies while we were out. I know you are probably thinking that they are only 11 and 10, but you must realize that my children are incredibly mature so I typically don't worry about leaving them home especially since we live on base. This time though I wish I would have hired a sitter.
This morning on my way to work I got another phone call: "Mom, I just want you to know that we broke something, but we weren't playing with a ball or anything. We were just fouling around." Now, my first thought of course was that they were playing ball in the house only because that was Ryan's first defense. Then he proceeded to explain to me that it wasn't him it was Autumn's fault. He made her mad and she broke my clock. I am not a crazy person, but I wonder how my clock happen to get broken as it is hanging on the wall. They both decided to try to stick with the same "no ball involved" story with: "we know what we did was wrong and we won't do it again, we are very sorry for breaking your clock." They wouldn't tell me how they broke it though, finally I made them put me on speaker and they both got to tell their story. Come to find out, Ryan made Autumn mad so she threw my exercise ball at him, missed and it knocked my clock off the wall breaking it.
I am very blessed with having kids who at least know the difference between right and wrong and will admit when they have done something that they weren't supposed to without us even asking. Kids are great!!!!!!!!
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