Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Nothing much to write about today. Just another normal day for us. The afternoons (after 6:00) have been so nice the last few days. It's been cool and breezy. The girls and I have played outside in the driveway the last few afternoons. Tonight we went to Wendy's to get a frosty after supper and then sat outside and ate them...well I ate mine, the girls were too busy so theirs went into the freezer until we came in.
Nathan is gone this week. He left on Sunday going to Miami and will be in just to spend the night Friday night and then he flies out to Panama City on Saturday morning and will be gone until Wednesday. I'm not very happy about it! :( It's out of his control though. He is attending sales meetings put on by Mercury. I told him before he left last Sunday that I was not happy about it at all and that I'm so tired of him having to travel so much. I'm sick of being here by myself all the time. I know it's not his fault. He doesn't like it any more than I do. He told me that he guessed he could find a new job and I could go back to work and then he'd be home more. I perked up real quick and said "I'll get used to it!" :) ha!
Taylor has learned to spell a new word. "But". She thinks it's hilarious. I guess she learned it from a classmate at school because it's not one of the sight words they're working on yet. She came home from school the other day and said "Mom, I learned to spell a new word!" I asked her what word it was and she said "B-U-T, ha ha ha" I just looked at her like I was confused and I said "What's so funny about that?" She said "YOU KNOW, BUTT!" ha! I explained to her that "B-U-T" does not spell the same word as "hiney". I used it in several sentences to show her. She said "OH!" But she still thinks it's funny to spell it and say it.
I think Emma is still trying to run the show at her school. Sunday her teacher told me that all of the other kids noticed her not being there last Friday and she said it was so funny how one by one they all asked where Emma was and why she wasn't there. Today she told me that they were sitting in circle time talking about something and Emma said "Wait a minute!" She stood up and held out her hands by her sides with her palms down and said "I tink we need to cwean up dis mess, wite now!" She's getting so bossy. I don't know what I'm gonna do with that child! I think she might have said that because of the talk I had with her before school this morning. On Monday when I picked her up, her teacher told me that Emma was mad at her right now because she had to get on to her earlier. Emma had taken her arms and swept them across a table knocking everything off into the floor. Her teacher said "Emma! Don't do that! You need to help me pick this up right now." Emma said "No I not" and she said "Oh yes you are, get down here and help me right now!" SO this morning I told her that she'd better not tell Mrs. Warrington NO again and that if there was a mess that she'd made, she'd better pick it up. I really got on to her about it and kept telling her that she'd better clean up her messes or she'd be in trouble when I came to pick her up. ha!
Pray for me this week while Nathan's gone. Pray for him too. Also, Nathan's papaw is having eye surgery tomorrow to remove a cataract. And his Memaw goes back for a brain scan on Monday and she sees her doctor next Thursday. At her last appointment the original brain tumors had shrunk but they found more that weren't there before. She remains in good spirits and seems to be feeling well...or at least she does over the phone. I know she hides how she really feels and doesn't tell us what's really going on. Just remember to keep her in your prayers.