Busy

I haven't posted much this week I feel like I've been going non-stop.  My oldest son is in 2nd grade and on what they call a "modified calendar." It's just like year-round.  He goes for 9 weeks than gets 2 weeks off.  This is his first year at this school/on this calendar.  He is currently on week 1 of track out.  I still have class every morning so he's been going to my neighbor's house to play with her boys (same calendar but different school) while I'm in class and of course Hayden still has preschool every morning as well.  So instead of picking up Hayden and coming home to get homework done, I'm picking up Hayden and coming home and having to referee between the two boys because heaven forbid they play nicely together (they do on the weekends!)

Next week Deqlan will be out again but I will be on fall break starting after my morning class Wednesday :-) All that is standing in my way is two quizzes and one test.  I have to do amazing on the test (it's for Biology) and I currently have an F in that class.  I have to get a C in every class this semester or I don't qualify for Financial aid next semester.  All of that stems to having a really rough year last year.  When my Aunt passed in September I didn't put as much work into my Math class that I was taking online so I failed it (turns out I didn't need that class anyways-what a waste of money) and then Spring semester I had to drop a class when we found out CJ would have to go through radiation treatments (I'll post about his medical issues next week when I have a little bit more time!)

Deqlan has three baseball games next week (Tues-Thurs).  They have to make up a rain out from the first game of the season.  He loves playing baseball but its frustrating for me to watch the coaches kid who has no clue what hes doing continuously get to play 2nd base while Deq gets stuck in the outfield every game.  I hate baseball politics even though I've been around it my whole life.  Especially after practice on Sunday where he was at 2nd the entire practice.  They lost their game Tuesday night which was hard for them since it was their first lost.  They hadn't played a game in almost two weeks but the boys didn't listen to their base coaches which cost them two runs. 

I have lots of laundry that needs to be caught up on and I'm a little concerned that my dryer is starting to go.  I really hope it's not because we aren't planning on replacing it until we can afford to replace the washer as well (I want front loaders!)

Time to get the boys up and ready for the day

xoxo,
Megan

Who Are You??

I saw this on a couple of different blogs yesterday and decided to join in the fun.  Hopefully this will help me gain a few more friends out here in the blog world :-)

Who are you?  

Do you blog, too? Leave me your link!  I want to follow you!

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What is something we have in common?

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Scarf Swap & the weekend

I participated in Meredith @ The Tichenor Family's 4th annual scarf swap.  I was paired up with Mary Adelaide (who actually doesn't live far from me!)  I got my scarf in the mail Thursday & wore it Friday :-)

Not the best picture but it was taken at 6:30am before my husband was up to help :-) Its a very pretty blue and green knit infinity scarf from Old Navy.  Love it!! Thank You so much Mary Adelaide!!!!

We had a fairly busy weekend which we haven't had in a few weeks.  Saturday the boys had league in the morning and then a birthday party to go to that afternoon (it was 3 hours long) I was ready to get to my parents for dinner and relax!!! Yesterday morning I woke up not feeling well so I took it easy in the morning before I headed to the grocery store.  Deqlan had baseball practice for two hours yesterday afternoon-they normally only  have one hour practices but it was absolutely gorgeous out so it didn't bother me too much.  Then me and the boys headed to my parents for dinner while CJ went and bowled.  We normally go with him but I have a Spanish test this morning so I wanted to stay home and study-not that much studying actually got done!

I should be out of class a little bit early today so I need to run some errands (UPS store to ship my fall swap package that I forgot at home Friday!, Old Navy to try some skinny jeans-we'll see how that goes, Target & the bank).  I really want some cute shoes for fall-boots and loafers/flats-but am having a very hard time finding cute affordable ones that actually fit my feet.  I have ridiculously wide feet which makes shoe shopping next to impossible :-(

I'm off to get a bit of studying done before I wake up Hayden.  We don't have to be out the door quite as early for the next two weeks.  Deqlan is tracked out so I don't have to get to his school at 8:10 to wait for them to open the doors :-)

Have a great day everyone!!

Angels

One year ago today my aunt passed away from complications caused from a brain surgery. It's been a long and hard year since she passed and I wish she had been here to help talk me through everything. She lived in New Hampshire and I hadn't seen her in almost 9 years but we were still incredibly close. I was her only niece. I wish she could have met my boys. She loved them & talked to her friends about them ALL the time. They sought me out at her visitation to make sure I knew how special we were to her. I knew today was going to be tough but I didn't realize how tough. I've been in tears all morning.

Hope you are enjoying heaven Auntie Sue. I know you are looking down on us!!

It's OK

• to be annoyed that my husband never came to bed last night.  Last he said was "I'm going to get a drink do you need anything?" I responded with no can't promise I'll be awake when you come back up "can I change the channel" and I woke up at 4:45 this morning to the tv on the channel I fell asleep too with my husband LOCKED in the bonus room...wtf
• to be thankful that Wednesday night labs are short nights (like an hour instead of 3!!)
• to not want to go bowl tonight...my heart just isn't in it right now
• to be dreading Spanish this morning (I really want to stay home but we have a test on Monday so I need to go!!)
• to wish tomorrow never comes.  One year ago tomorrow my aunt passed away from complications due to brain surgery.  Her surgery was in July and she had swelling on the brain causing two strokes and multiple seizures.  Her body just couldn't fight it.
• to not want to come home after class because that means I have to help finish cleaning out the garage (which was horrible now that I see all of the trash CJ found!)

Long days

• I knew going into the semester that I was going to hate Monday and Wednesdays.  I underestimated how much I would hate them.  I woke up this morning ready to be back in bed tonight after class :-(  I am ready for the semester to be over even though we still have 12 weeks left! I am so ready to not be taking night classes!!!
• I wasn't confident on the quiz we took in Spanish on Monday and my grade showed, I got a very low B.  I shouldn't be upset about it but it is my lowest grade I've received in that class.  She drops the lowest quiz grade at the end of the semester so I just need to make sure to do better on the rest of the quizzes.  We have a test Monday so I will be studying for that all weekend!!
• Deqlan was supposed to have a baseball game last night but due to some crazy storms and tornado warnings it was cancelled which means he doesn't have another game until next Tuesday.  The coach is going to try to get a practice together for Sunday since last Sunday's got rained out.
• Speaking of the tornado warning yesterday.  Right after CJ left to get Deqlan from school my brother called to tell me a tornado was spotted in the town next to us (where Deqlan goes to school) and was heading in our direction.  We don't live in big towns and we are right on the border of the towns so Hayden and I headed down to the half bath to have a light show since we had no power.  Thankfully nothing hit us and there was only slight wind damage.
• We were only without power for about an hour and 15 minutes.  Any longer and we would have been heading to my parents ( 4 miles up the road & they had power)
• Today's high is only 67...which means I had to go searching for jeans for Hayden to wear.  Thankfully someone bought him a pair for his birthday and they fit so he was good to go.
• I have to leave early this morning to go put gas in my car and hopefully by then the accident on the highway I take to school will be cleared up.  Traffic looks miserable out there right now-thankful I have an hour and fifteen minutes before I'm on that road!
• I hope everyone has a great day!!!

Love,

Megan

Randomness

• Hayden is going back to school today :-) That one day to stay at home and rest with Daddy really did his body good.  Hopefully he's on the track to kicking this cold!
• He's super excited to get to stay at school for Lunch Bunch today & tomorrow.  Which means I get an extra 30 minutes to get some things done in town :-)
• One of the things I'll be getting done today is shopping for my Fall Swap partner Jess @ Pretty Physicist (you should go visit her!)
• Of course I said I would do homework at a nearby restaurant while he was at Lunch Bunch but there's always tomorrow ;-)
• Deqlan has a baseball game tonight but it's supposed to storm (pretty bad) off and on all day today.  I hope it doesn't get rained out...I can only go to Tuesday night games :-(
• I took my first Biology test last week and was completely unprepared for it.  I knew going in I wasn't going to do well and I knew after I finished I had failed and sure enough I bombed it.
• Yesterday was the first quiz in Spanish that I didn't feel confident about and that annoys me.  I understand the stuff in class for the most part and then I get home and just feel lost! I will definitely be working with my dad this weekend on it for our test Monday!
• I feel like the kids fresh out of high school in my Spanish class have royally pissed off our teacher and for that she's been giving us a crap-load of homework.  Grow up people.  
• I'm hoping my financial aid refund comes in this week...I could use that extra money to get some things done!
• My Birthday is in 3 1/2 weeks :-) Which means that my brothers is in 9 days and I have no clue what to get him.  I already got my Mother-in-law's present for her birthday that's in 11 days.  And then my dad's is 6 days after mine and my sister in law's is 4 days after his.  See I need my refund!!!
• Hubby is still on vacation this week.  He's supposed to be organizing the attic and cleaning out the garage-he did nothing at all yesterday even once I got home to watch Hayd.  He better get to work today.  He'll have to do the attic since it's supposed to rain!

Love,
 Megan