Ophelia's good week

Ophelia had two pretty good days this week. The biggest is that her artwork went school, county and is going on to state in the Reflections contest. Gavin's photograph won first place in the school grade. We went to the ceremony and Ophelia was thrilled to get a medal. Now all three are planning on entering in all the catagories next year :)
The next day she brought me her IOWA test scores (let me interject that although I am very happy I do not like all of the testing that students do. They should be learning subjects, not how to test)
ANYHOW, she scored in the 97% overall with a 94% in math and 98% in science. (she also has a 99% in reading). She scored 88% in Language Arts, imagine if she could spell :)
If she can just pull up her report card up it will be awesome! Going to find a way this weekend to reward her!
Okay, just my happy mommy post.

Chooooo Choooooo!

Kat came down to do the vendor mart at the school with me and as she completly understands (cause she says she knows what she's getting into when she is dealing with me) our day took a different turn. We decided the mart was not what we wanted to do about an hour into it so we packed up and headed to meet my parents up in Chattanooga where my mom was taking a conference. I haven't been there since I was a little tyke and after just too few hours I know I definately want to take the kids back. It is an adorable little town with plenty to see. We only explored the Chatt. Choo Choo and had some Mongolian at the aquarium area. Anyhow, can't wait to get back up there and see what there is to see!

October

October flew by way to fast. This is one of my most favorite months of the year. Flu took away most of the good parts but we did manage two of our favorite activities, Halloween (of course) and the Zombie Parade. We also hit the L5P parade for the first time and it was alot of fun. I don't think the kids have ever had so much candy. Ophelia, my first masterpiece, turned 11 this year. Wow, I am over half way finished raising her! I hope that I have done a few things right. She is getting so big and I am so impressed with her ability at everything she works at.


Halloween this year almost failed us but despite the rain we braved the neighborhood. I loved both of the girls' costumes. Viva is a mad scientest and Ophelia was Cleopatra. Gavin was a bleeding chest and mast but he was with his friend so I don't have any pictures of him :(



Well, that's about it in a nutshell I suppose. Looking forward to trying to get stuff done this month and making the best out of what is left of the year.

Where was I heading???

I seem to have one fatal flaw...I take up too many, well, ideas. I want to create so badly that my fingers itch. But alas, paralysis takes me over and I have done nothing. Well, nothing but buy materials. I have the makings of so many awesome projects your head would spin. Am I knitting? sewing? crochet? paint? montage? magnets? bags? 3D? making furniture? Where is the little angel that can take away all of my problems and free some of my time while at the same time give the energy and motivation to bust out some work?
Even if I did have all this free time how would I spend it?

He had it coming...

me singing: He only had himself to blame.
If you had been there,
If you had seen it!
I bet you you would have done the same...
Viva: I wouldn't....only if they had been doing the spread eagle.

Civics Class 101

Today Ophelia and I flexed our civic muscles and joined a counter protest against Westboro Baptist Church. Who are they you ask?? You can find them at
www.GodHatesFags.com
and read this little snippet from my friend Randall's blog
"OK, Westboro Baptist Church, lead by the Rev Fred Phelps. They are a cultist ,extremist Christian organization that originally hated just "fags". And at first they wanted to save them, that was about 1993. They shout things unsuitable at funerals, once only those of homosexuals and people who die of AIDS. Now that hate has come to include Jews, ... Read MoreIsrael, and America. They believe America is the last stand, that it is here not Israel that the lord will return and because America is run by fags and jews and about everybody else is going to Hell. Now they protest soldier's funerals, and notably Corretta Scott King. We were protesting hate, A lot of the people were gay Christians and they didn't want them there with the message they had about God's love or hate. They offended a lot of people, I mean people were doing double takes in their vehicles. We had truckers and construction workers, not known for their support, honking for us. They were dragging the American flag around on the ground
It was obvious only a few minutes that they were not the brightest stars in our sky. Someone from our camp yelled something across the road and one of theirs (albiet a teen) yelled "Stop judging us!!!" :) :) Good thing I wasn't drinking anything. Another time someone from us yelled "Jesus was a jew!" And someone from them: "No he wasn't! The jews killed Jesus!"
Apparently they don't inform theirs to well. I made sure Ophelia knew exactly what was going on and by the second stop she was making her own poster.

Amazing Ukraine artist

She is on Ukraines Got Talent. Someone sent me this link and I put it to the side for a couple of months and was amazed when I actually watched it. Definatetly worth it.