The House

As per request from one of the few readers of this blog, I will give an update on the house plans going on next door. Yes, we have been building our house....for quite a few months now. It is now at the stage where the inside is being worked on. In the next couple of weeks, the finish work (meaning the trim, doors, closets, and door frames) will be done. Somewhere in there the siding should be getting on the outside too. Then comes the best part..painting! Actually, I am not looking forward to that part at all because Randy and I will be doing all the work to save money. So, the next time I write about the house, I will probably be complaining about it! Once the paint is done, it is time for all the final things. That is when the cabinets, flooring, and bathroom things will go in. The builders gave us an estimate of being done by February or March. I am going to guess March (and probably the middle of it) so as not to get my hopes up just yet!

Blog Worthy

So, I sent out a Christmas letter stating that I was going to start using this blog that I set up over a year ago. Here we are in the full second week of January and I have yet to write. The problem is, I feel like there is nothing "Blog worthy" to write about right now. Of course, when I wasn't really doing this thing, I had all sorts of stuff I could think up to write....now my mind is blank. It seems like when I read others people's blogs they write when they have something really funny, important, etc to write about. I've got nothing. But I decided since I did say I would do this, I better go ahead and give it a try. So, here goes with my first official post this go around (hopefully to not be followed by the last very quickly!) I don't even know if anyone will read this, but I guess it is worth a try, right?!

Today at K's school they had what was called an AR Parade. They have this program where when a child reads certain books, they can take tests on them and earn points. If you have gotten to 60 points by today, you were able to participate in the parade. Since this is our first year in a "all day" school day, we have not been in the AR program before and this was all new to us. K and I have worked hard to get his points (which really isn't hard to do when you have a kid who LOVES to read) mainly so we could see what this parade was all about-not to mention the cool prizes you get at different point levels! What it is, is the kids who have reached this milestone, get to wear their special shirts, run through the halls with the principal, and give high fives to all the other classrooms full of kids who are standing in the halls cheering them on. Pretty cool if you're a kid in the parade right?! Well, K loved it. He had a big grin the whole time he was running. As they came around the last corner he was about out of breath from all that running, so I guess we can say he got his exercise fo

r the day! I sure am proud of him and all he has do

ne with his reading so far this year. He is currently at 103 points...almost double what he needed for the parade! GO K!