Creations

10/12/2009, 6:51 PM

We have been busy. How's that for the understatement of the year.

Veronica is practicing every Saturday, for her part as a little doll in the fight scene in the Nutcracker. She will be in four of the twelve performances in November and December. Here is the e-mail I just sent out about it:

Veronica is performing as a little doll in the Nutcracker!

We've had a lot of requests for more information, so here's what we know:

Veronica is performing on these dates:

Saturday, Nov 28th at 7:00 pm

Thursday, Dec 3rd   at 7:00 pm

Saturday, Dec 12th at 2:00 pm

Sunday,   Dec 13th at 2:00 pm

We are going to see her

Saturday, Nov 28th at 7:00 pm

We would love to see you there.  Tickets are $10, $20, and $30 at:

https://boxoffice.mesaartscenter.com/Online/seatSelect.asp

Let us know that you are going, so we can look for you. 

I'll let you know if we plan something afterward. 

See you there!

The weekend before last, we had a going away party for our cousin going into the Navy. It was a big family party with lots of extended family we haven't seen in a loooooong time. Plus, we made new friends too.

He left for the Navy Wednesday, and now he's in full fledged boot camp.

So many family members came for our cousin's party, we took the overflow. Matthew's dad, his mom, and her two sisters stayed the week with us. Cousin Vivian was the event coordinator:

Monday - overnight in Prescott

Tuesday - shopping in prescott, come home late

Wednesday - shopping in Phoenix, abondigas (mexican meatballs) for dinner

Thursday - casino and enchiladas for dinner…

Only, Thursday didn't quite work out that way. We woke up Thursday morning to find out Tia Nicha wasn't feeling well. By the time I got home from work at the school, it was clear Nicha needed to go to the urgent care. By that evening she was checked into an ER. No casino and no enchiladas for dinner. Her kids drove in from Tucson and stayed with us on and off the rest of the week until Tia Nicha was checked out Saturday.

She wasn't the only one sick. At our grade school, 15 % of the school was out sick. That's roughly the equivalent of two grades. One fourth grade class had 10 kids attending. One day we were so low on substitutes and students that we blended a kindergarten class into the other four classes.

Both Veronica and Paige have had the fever, plus almost every kid on our block, plus almost every kid who stepped into our house. This flu this year is so absolutely contagious. Our school has a high amount of swine flu too. Every day, kids are telling me their brother or sister has the swine flu or that kid just got back from being sick w/ the swine flu. Thank goodness we are on fall break this week. Maybe now our school will get a chance to clear out the viruses.

We had Paige's birthday party Saturday. We didn't really get the chance to prepare for it until Friday. We made the cake, bought the pinata, and set up the decorations. I took Veronica to her practice while Matthew stayed with Paige to wait for the guests. By the time Veronica and I got back, the party was on.

We played stick the flower stickers on the Hello Kitty poster, hit the pinata and the limbo. My castle cake was a hit, everyone ate all of it.

Sunday we said goodbye to all of our company and by the end of the day our house was sooooo quiet. We enjoyed visiting with all our company over the last week and a half.

Today, we worked on getting back into the normal swing of things. We woke up later since there is no school and waved goodbye to Matthew when he drove off to work.

Halfway through the day, we got a call from ABQ. Matthew's dad checked into the hospital today. He's ok, however Matthew decided to drive there, and I agree with him. He came home from work and packed while I made dinner. He ate and kissed the girls goodbye. Right now, he's on his way there.