ABOVE THE TREE TOPS

FLYING THROUGH THE AIR.....

Flying through the air with the greatest of ease......

 

Nathan had a track meet yesterday, it was cloudy, windy and soooo cold.  I stood around and waited for almost 1.5 hours before his race was called.  But I wouldn't have missed it for the world!

He ran the 400 hurdles and came in 3rd in his heat,  about 45 minutes later he ran the 100 hurdles and came in 1st in his heat.  Not bad for only having raced 1 other time!!!

       

Catch them while you can....

Those moments, the shoulda, woulda, coulda moments.  The ones that you look back on 5, 10 years from now and think "If I only took the time when they asked" 

It is few and far between these days that our kids want us to do anything with them.

I went to the movies with Nathan a few months ago, just  him and I.  We went to see an action movie, got there early to get good seats.  All was fine until the theater started filling up.  Nathan sunk down in his seat, I think cause he was embarrassed to be seen with his MOM ( not that anyone payed attention to us).  After the movie was over he said "never again mom, will we go to the movies by our selves"!  I guess at 14 it is uncool to go with your mom.

Eleigh had a Father Daughter Dance with Girl Scouts recently and was very excited to have David go with her all dressed in a suit and tie. I believe it was definitely one of those MOMENTS to catch.  Before we know it she too will think it uncool to do anything with mom or dad.

 

"I got them all cut"!

Did you get a hair cut?  No I got them all cut!!!LOL

I am soooo thankful when a new sport starts for Nathan.  This happens about every 6 months.  In September it was High School soccer.  He had practice everyday for 2 weeks before school started and about the 2 day he was begging me to get his hair cut! woohoo!!!!

Now 6 months later track has started and let me  tell you I was counting the days until he asked again!

 

SO MUCH BETTER! (in my opinion!)

Does your family or anyone in it resemble a cartoon strip?  Like Family Circus, For better or Worse, or even Garfield?  Mine does, well Nathan does.  ZITS...... Have you read it?  It's about a high school boy and his parents and all the trials and tribulations that go along with having a teenage son.  I almost always go "OMG that is soooo Nathan" when I read the weekly cartoon!!! 

This one so hit home with me I just had to share....

 

Nathan will have a decent breakfast each morning, sometimes he eats and eats and other times it is just a bagel.  He needs to munch all day during school so his lunch usually consists of snack type foods, plus he doesn't like to "eat" lunch at lunch time, he likes to socialize.  But when he comes home LOOK OUT!  He will eat everything and anything he can find.  This not only happens during the school week but the weekends as well and they are 10x's worse.

 We have a pantry in the house where I keep all the good stuff!  Cookies, chips, pop-tarts etc... and Nathan helps himself!  I will go into the game room on a Sat. morning and find wrappers all around the tv area.  When we had soda in the house (the kids only get soda on Friday nights) I would find the empty cans in the pockets of the pool table, Nathan thought he was being sneaky!  And I won't get into what I have found under his bed when cleaning!!! 

Well.... let me tell you.... I had had enough!  David and I solved the problem of my anytime binger!! We put a lock on the pantry door!  If Nathan wants a snack, other than the healthy stuff in the fridge, he needs to ask!  He eats a lot more apples than before!

I use to be sooooo organized.

  When I left the house to go to work, I knew what the day would bring.  I would have everything figured out the night before.  What I was going to wear, what the kids were going to wear and have for lunch, what we were going to have for dinner (and even meals planned ahead for the week).

Now that I work from home, and I don't have a "set" schedule of things that need to get done, like getting dressed (I stay in my PJ's way too long) or picking out the kids clothes the night before, being that they are old enough to do it themselves, I don't feel the need to organize the night before anymore, which lends itself to being dis-organized in every other area of my day and night.

 My days have certainly NOT become less busy or require me to be less organized, it is actually the opposite.  We are always on the go with school meetings, Dr's appts, soccer, boy scouts and girl scouts to name a few.  But with all these things that need to be scheduled I am finding myself more and more scatterbrained than ever.  I should plan ahead.... with shopping for groceries or planning a weeks worth of meals since we are always eating on the fly! But I don't!   And this has caused me to be rushed and harried when I need to have a plan, a system, a CLUE!  

With all that being said..... The other night  David and Nathan had a Scout meeting so Irushed to get dinner ready.  I re-heated some leftovers for David and Nathan and I put on some pasta for me and Eleigh. She decided she couldn't wait for the pasta to cook so I made her some oatmeal.  While the pasta was cooking I went downstairs to watch the news and told myself I have about 5-7 minutes before it is done....... I began to notice a burnt smell upstairs..... I didn't remember cooking anything in the oven....  I ran upstairs thinking Eleigh is cooking something...... BUT NO..... looking at the stove I remembered I had put on the pasta to cook.  1 and 1/2 hours ago!!!!!!

 

WHO DOES THIS?????  WHO BURNS PASTA!!!!!!

 

Not only did i NOT have dinner, I ruined a good pot!

I really need to get organized!

 

1. a list
2. a menu
3. a calendar
4. a plan!