Busy Weekend

Today was the last day of bowling for the fall season, and the kids picked up their trophy's. Evie got high game of 113 and series of 206 in her age division.
Allard got second place for his age division as well as a pin for his 4oo series.








Lizzy got second place for her divison and most improved player with a 13.76 point average increase.

Evie and Daddy attended the Scout/Sweetheart Dance yesterday evening. The theme was Fun in the Sun. They of course had a wonderful time and forgot to pick up their picture at the end of the night. Hopefully they will bring the leftover pictures to the leader meeting on Wednesday.

Sunday, will round out the weekend with Lizzy going to a Girl Scout Meeting and a Venture Crew meeting and Allard doing a First Aid activity at the Community Center.

Now we just have to get throught till the end of school. (HAHAHA)

The Conquering Hero Returns

Allard arrived home in one piece today from his latest camp out. His troop seems to have a camp out every month. This month he got an event without rain or snow. In fact he made me aware ( two days before he left) that we might need to dry out the tent since it was wet when he last opened it and it got wetter during last months camp out. So it sat in the living room for two days to dry out, lucky for us it didn't have any mold.

Playing with Photos

I have been playing with our old family photos, trying to make copies of photos that I think need to be saved. Some are in bad shape and might not make it many more years. And of course we only have a few pictures of our relatives. My mom had very few that she kept from my side and Jeff has a few from his side. I took a few to the store and had them remade so that we can put them in frames so that they may be enjoyed more. I also have been looking for photos to put with our ancestry tree that I have been working on. I work on this a little bit every day and have gone quite far in some ways. Of course I also need to organize my own photos that I have stashed everywhere. I had started to organize them a few years ago but then stopped and let them get away from me again. Of course work just does not give me enough time to do everything I would like to get done. If only we could get paid for not going to work (HAHAHA).
There is just not enough hours in the day.

Spring Break

The kids have this week off for Spring Break. Not that we are doing anything really. Today they decorated the Easter Eggs that were cooked on Tuesday. And we did a little spring cleaning on the main floor living areas (still more to do). And we have been watching a few movies. Meijer's (where I work) put in a new Redbox and you can rent movies for $1 a night. Last night we watched Twilight, the night before was Hellboy II and Australia, and the night before that was Bedtime Stories and Slumdog Millionaire. This is very handy when you want to see all the top movies that won awards so you can decided if they gave the right movies the right awards.

Jeff has been looking into hiring a professional head hunter, I brought up this last week, because it has been so long since his last job and he has only gotten three calls to see his resume. We send his resume out at every opportunity and this time it went to a company that does business all over the world. This lead came out of an address I found online in Florida. So hopefully we are on the right track again.

It has been 1week and I am still having trouble writing this post. If you know anything about me then you know that I have very little patience with my family and their addictions. I do not want or need to be part of their downward spirals, nor do my children need to be around it. I hate all the conflict their addictions cause and so shortly after moving back to Michigan, with my mom back to drinking again, we had a fight and I cut off contact with her.

Last Sunday, March 29th, I found out that my mom had passed away on Dec 4th and because I had not stayed in contact, no one was able to find me. I am not sure how hard they really tried, they say they did. My old phone was turned off and I had moved a mile away from my house, but I was still in the same town and my new number is listed, my e-mail had not changed. And I can be googled too.

So now all I can say is even if you are so angry (as I was), you should never give up staying in touch with the people you love. I will never be able to know what she might have been thinking in her last days or having her call because she needed my help.