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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, May 31, 2010 - 12:23 am
Monday's Mission I cleaned at my aunts today and helped her with her shower. Oldest niece helped me because she has a field trip this week and wanted some spending money. The girls came home with me. I'd like to say we had a great time playing, lol, but truth is almost as soon as we got here all four girls (Kota and nieces, including the baby) ran off down the street to play. Dakota has a special friend down the street, a little boy who has just turned 8. He has a couple physical handicaps....er, to be clear...when I say special friend, I mean just that, the two of them have this special, sweet friendship, not that he's special cuz of his handicaps (am I making sense?) Anyways, Dakota met him a few years ago in the neighborhood and then her class was paired up with his class as reading buddies and she got to be his buddy. Then the next year, whenever she saw him in the cafeteria, she'd help get his lunch tray and eat with him and anytime his class had older kids come in to work with them, his teachers would request Dakota. When she graduated from 5th grade, his mom and him baked Kota a cake and brought it down for her to congratulate and thank her. Totally sweet. My oldest niece is just as wild about him and he's got a younger sister and brother my middle and youngest nieces ages so anytime they're outside playing I'm not going to see the girls at all, lol. Yesterday he'd come over to see if Kota could come to a party they were having (she was already gone to her bff's house) so when I told her about it today she grabbed the nieces and said come on, we're going to go over and visit! Darren and I cracked up, got the nieces here and yet we spent most the day alone! Other than checking on them occassionally, turned out to be a pretty quiet afternoon for us. Tomorrow we're planning on keeping the girls most of the day (sis and bil picked up the baby tonight so it's just the two older ones.) Girls have practice in the afternoon and we'll swing by the house on the way for oldest niece to change and grab her gear. We don't really have much else planned for the day, except for Dakota having to fast tomorrow evening for her blood work on Tuesday. I'll probably get some laundry done and Darren had some chores for the kids. All of them have field trips coming up and want some money for them, except for the baby who is saving her money for Harvard, lol.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Monday, May 31, 2010 - 9:11 am
Still marchin' to my own drummer, but at least I'm marchin'. Just washed the bedroom windows and the curtains are in the wash. For the first time in a looooooooong time, I used the little steamer thingy. It worked well getting around and under all that window hardware, a job that is difficult with a cloth and the frame was clean lickety-split as well. Had some steam left, so I blew it onto the taps. I swear, in the commercial they must plaster them with mud or something. There was hardly any dirt under and around mine. After dinner, I got a mountain of laundry to lower, after that - siesta time!!!!!!!!!!! Weather-wise, we had 9C (48F) this morning on our walk which was almost a bit cool for me - almost. Barely in the door and it rained. Now we have bright sunshine again, ergo the windows. On the other side of town, they are wading through their basements and chopping up their fallen trees. We had one heck of a storm this weekend. Wow, Dipo, you are quite the handy woman, eh? Care to teach dh about plumbing? Everytime he announces wanting to do some "repairs" or "readjusting", my heart drops, because I know we will either end up calling the plumber or the water-sucker-upper-truck. War, enjoy those fieldtrip/chores-lovin' kids. Give 'em a quarter for each load and put your feet up.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, May 31, 2010 - 11:03 am
It got over 85 today, pretty warm, some wind, not supposed to be as hot today, only 75 and a little cloudy. I am off until the 8th, with a big list of home improvement chores. Actually, I only have one to get done. I always have a list so if something else gets done great, but my chore this vacation is to stain the cabinets in the bathroom. I don't know if you remember but my last long vacation I grouted the bathroom floor. LOL, Lumbele, I don't know if I fixed or if I just wiggled enough stuff around for the water to stop leaking. I have one of those pull out faucets that is a sprayer. When I was under the sink I noticed that the water was running down one of the connections so I wondered if the faucet was not seated right or something. Anyway, I pulled it all the way out and then had a little bit of trouble getting it to go back into the housing, pulled on it a little to get it to retract, and it seemed like something popped into place. Haven't noticed any leakage since, but then I haven't run the dishwasher yet which may actually be the problem - the dishwasher overflow thingie, LOL. What a plumber I am. I do have to run the dishwasher later today so we shall see.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, May 31, 2010 - 8:53 pm
Tuesday's Mission Ohh, long vacation, I hope you get some rest in there too Dipo! I remember when you grouted the bathroom floor. How many cabinets do you have to stain? That's actually one of the home improvement projects I really enjoy (staining and painting, lol.) I've stained bookcases, dressers, and the bathroom cabinet (we only have one,) along with some tables. Ugh, Lum, I've been doing laundry all day. I think 8 loads, maybe 9. Besides everyones regular clothes, I also did towels, a load for my aunt, and the jackets and coats (since I don't think we'll be using them again for a while.) I got up this morning and Darren already had the kids working. Since they were busy and Darren was doing homework, I decided to scrub the kitchen. Finished that and thought I might as well clean the den and bathroom so I could mop all the floors. Figured I'd leave the living room til tomorrow and asked Darren if after dinner he could clean out the vacuum for me. I knew he'd leave a dirty spot on the carpet doing it and thought if he did it later in the evening I could live with it until the morning. Yeah, he decided to do it right then, lol. So I also cleaned/dusted/vacuumed the living room. A quarter, Lum? LOL, that only works with baby niece, when she helps I pay her whatever change is in my pocket which she then runs and puts in her piggy bank (I keep telling her thats her Harvard fund.) Caleb gets paid $10 for mowing the lawn every week, but he has to do the whole front yard, the side of the house, and then sweep up the driveway and gutters, that's what he was doing this morning and usually takes him 2-3 hours to do it right. Darren had the girls clean out my car this morning. I wasn't expecting much to tell the truth, the three of them together don't have a very long attention span. They came running in to hollar they were done and going to play and I sent Darren out to check to see if they'd done good enough. He came back and told me to come look for myself, I was shocked, lol. They not only cleaned out the car, they vacuumed the floorboards and seats, wiped down the dashboard and interior doors, febreezed the heck out of it (ok, they overdid that part,) and washed the insides of all the windows! The windows are streaked as heck and I'll have to redo them tomorrow, but they tried. I was so impressed I paid them $5 each. Oldest niece got $10 yesterday (she dusted/vacuumed aunts room, collected laundry and trash, dusted the living room, took out the trash and then helped me at my house with dinner dishes and taking out the trash and seperating some recyclables.) Dakota's got her blood draw tomorrow morning at 7, so the kids have their clothes and backpacks laid out, took showers tonight, and should be ready to leave an hour early in the morning. I ran out to the car tonight to make sure her lab slip was still in the glove box and saw that my windows were rolled down. So ran back in to grab my keys, started the car, and had just started to roll the windows up when the car died. Dead battery. I'm so glad I ran out tonight, otherwise I'd have been finding that out tomorrow morning! Darren hooked the charger up and will take it off tomorrow when he goes to work. The girls left the tailgate open, which left one of my lights on all day. Let's see...I also need to run out and pay the water bill, I'll do that after dropping the kids off at school. Need to run by Walmart to pick Caleb up a dress shirt for his concert on Wednesday and then go by the music store for guitar strings since he broke two this weekend. I don't have all that much more planned for the day, except maybe washing the sheets and picking up in my bedroom.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - 8:16 am
Don't think I'll be getting to my bedroom today! Last night was horrible, I tossed, I turned, I heard every little noise, even the little lights from the kids alarm clocks was bugging me. Was still awake when Darren left at 4:15, which totally sucked since I had to be up at 6:30. Got Dakota to the lab, we were done by 7:20 which was good since I had forgotten my drivers license and Caleb forgot his cell phone at home. Ran back home to drop those off and then took the kids to school. They both complained about being dropped off early, which I found strange at the time cuz usually they complain I don't drop them off early enough (I try to time it so they get there 5-10 minutes before the bell.) Ran over to the water company and had to sit there for a few minutes before they opened, then waited in line a bit. Got back to the car, looked at the clock, and thought gee, that seemed to take forever, but went much fast than I thought! Was driving back across town, past the kids school and for a second was very perplexed thinking there were a whole lot of kids getting to school late this morning. Then it dawned on me, lol, school still hadn't started! I dropped the kids off almost a full hour early, no wonder they were complaining! Lack of sleep is messing with my head. I have a couple other errands to run today, but I'm thinking I should probably try to catch a nap before I do anything else.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - 9:47 am
LOL, I think you need a nap! You have already done8 hours of stuff and it is only 10:30. Lets see, I have cleaned up the kitchen, refilled water and soda bottles, taken out some recycling and trash, showered & got made up, and I am headed out to lunch with my sister at 11. Oh and I spackled the spots in the bedroom and bathroom. This afternoon I will sand some more of the top cabinet (oh I have a three shelf cabinet on the wall and a 22x32 vanity that I am staining. The upper cabinet has two doors and a open shelf below) and I will be removing the doors from the top cabinet and the one door on the vanity. Oh, I think my sister and I might move the living room furniture around to see if there if a better layout, I was thinking of putting the sofa at a angle, so we shall try that out. I pulled some chicken out of the freezer last night so I will make that for dinner, and I think I will make a salad - that will give me some nice leftovers. So far a great vacation.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - 2:41 pm
So, great lunch at Marie Callendar's - I had a coupon from the Sunday paper for a free entree. Came with a slice of pie, so I have half my lunch and a piece of pie for dinner, yeah! We rearranged the living room, and it looks fabulous! I was watching HGTV recently and they put the sofa on an angle and I thought to myself, I bet my loveseat would look great on an angle, so we tried it and it did. The kitties are out sniffing away, you would think I got new furniture but it just a new floorplan, LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 12:22 am
Wednesday's Mission
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 11:44 am
Hmm, one of the things on my list is to scrub my security screen, it is supposed to be white, LOL. Maybe I will do that later, but I am sort of taking a day off. Hope all is well Wargod.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 11:45 am
Well that mountain of laundry had to wait until yesterday, because I fell asleep on Monday. Still have a couple of very small, special loads, but the big stuff is gone, even ironed. I had changed the beds which always adds to the ironing pile. Dipo, glad you enjoyed your lunch. A girl just gotta have at least a little fun on her holiday. We started angling our couch last year and it works great, makes it looking more "open". War, I hope you got some quality snooze time. Off to the dentist, cleaning and check-up. Hate going there.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 12:40 pm
Oh ugh, Lum, you just reminded me I need to iron Caleb's dress clothes sometimes in the next couple hours. I hate ironing. LOL, last night I pushed it as long as I could, hoping if I stayed up late enough, I'd go straight to sleep as soon as I went to bed. Didn't quite work out, only slept about four hours and the last few minutes I was up I was groggy as heck, so short post last night. Meant to come back this morning but forgot all about it til I saw ya'll posting. No cleaning plans or errands today. Darren has class tonight, Kota has practice, and Caleb has his concert. Kota's practice ends about half an hour after his concert starts so bil's going to bring her to the concert. Him, sis and the girls may come as well if the guitar kids haven't played by the time they get there. I don't even have to cook tonight, they're having a pot luck after the concert (end of year party.)
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 11:50 pm
Thursday's Mission Caleb's concert went well and Kota and oldest niece made it in time to see him. We had a good time, lots of talented kids. Tomorrow is going to be super busy for me. The kids have an early dermatology appointment and then I need to get them to school. It is also aunts banking day (I so did not think of that when I scheduled the appointment, was so worried about working around all the end of year school stuff going on, I flaked on banking.) Then I need to get her Costco shopping done. I should be home with enough time to eat lunch and have Darren walk in the door, lol. Following that, Caleb's staying after school for a jam session with some buddies and their music teacher and Dakota has a game, one of the rescheduled rained out games. I'll probably pick something already cooked or made up at Costco so I don't have to worry about cooking.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Thursday, June 03, 2010 - 7:12 am
Granddoggies day again. We pooped them out already on a long walk. That will hopefully make for a trip-free day.LOL I might tackle the bathroom with that steaming thingy today, or not. We'll see. Between reading War's plans and that walk, I am tired already and it's only 10 a.m.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, June 03, 2010 - 9:40 am
LOL, Lumbele, Wargod is a busy lady! I am on the final stretch for sanding, then I can finally do the staining. I hope after all this work that I at least like the stain, LOL. I am sure I will because it will be darker and that is what I want. Might do a little laundry as well. Finally got through one of my tapes and I am scheduling a facial for Friday or MOnday, except that so far all I have gotten is put on hold, LOL. Off to get some coffee then get started with the sanding.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, June 03, 2010 - 12:36 pm
Heh, well I didn't do all that I planned. Dr's office took much longer than usual and then our appointment took much longer than usual cuz we had a lot to discuss. Was after 10 before I got the kids back to school. Then came home to do the accutane test (have to do that every month before getting the prescription filled.) They wrote the accutane prescription and Dakota's cream for her rash on the same slip, so I have to fill both at the same time. Wouldn't have worried about the accutane today, but she's going to need the cream tonight. Then off to aunts to write her check and to the bank. That took half of forever. Then we decided to hold off on Costco shopping til tomorrow, but still needed a few things at the grocery store. I thought the bank was bad, the store was horrible. I just got home like 15 minutes ago. I'll run to the pharmacy when I go pick the kids up and then can go back after Kota's game tonight.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, June 03, 2010 - 11:40 pm
Friday's Mission Tomorrow morning I have to go to Costco for aunts shopping and mine. Should be a fairly big and long trip. Also need to run by the pharmacy for Kota's meds, they had to order them today. I'm not planning much else. Well, actually I am, but not cleaning or errands. I figured out how to get my pics on a dvd for a slide show (music and transitions included, woo hoo!) and I'll be going through a kajillion softball pics looking for the good ones to use on the dvd I'm doing for the girls on the team. I won't be able to finish this project for a couple weeks (need to wait for the last game, the tournament, closing ceremonies and the all-star ceremony) but hoping if I get stuff organized now when we get to that point it'll be quicker to finish. Caleb's jam session was moved to tomorrow, Dakota has practice, and Darren may end up working very late to avoid working Saturday (may still end up working Saturday but they're going to try not to.)
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, June 04, 2010 - 12:32 pm
That sounds really cool WArgod, have fun. I have finished off the sanding, removed the knobs so now it is time to stain!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, June 04, 2010 - 1:37 pm
Well, I stayed up too late with it last night, but I think I'm making good progress. Normally I do the girls scrapbooks, but that's not something I can do for every girl on the team, just Kota and niece. The dvds are fairly cheap, the biggest cost is time and I've got plenty of that. The girls have played a great season and I have a ton of pics, it's more fun to share them, lol. Sis and I did Costco shopping, took us two and a half hours. Dropped everything off at her house and then came home to unload my groceries. I've now got everything put away and meat split up. Still need to split up nuts and pretzels and put the boxed stuff into their plastic containers, but that's it. Also got the menu made up for the next couple weeks. I took an allergy pill earlier and I think it's kicking in, I'm feeling so groggy and flakey right now. Really hoping Darren gets home by 3 cuz I don't want to have to drive.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, June 06, 2010 - 3:24 pm
Staining is done! And I love how it looks. Of course no matter how careful I try to plan and how careful I am I figure out stuff I should have done to make the job easier. I accidentally got stain on a little of the wall around the edges of the cabinets (should have used my painters tape), dripped onto the tile floor (should have covered the whole thing with newspaper instead of just closely around the cabinet base), forgot to wear my rubber gloves so I have a few stains on my arms and nails. Oh and it didn't even occur to me that the paint brush would hit the underneath part of the marble vanity top (not really worried about that, I wiped off as much as I could get and you really can't see it unless you sit on the floor. The can says that it has to dry for 6 hours then to sand and put on another coat, but I don't really want it to be any darker so I think I am done. I did clean out the fridge some more and I went and got a coffee and some lettuce this morning so I can make salad for dinner. Oh and I swept my master closet, cleaned the bedroom screen and the window fan so I could set that up - did that yesterday. Hopefully, I can put the bathroom back together before I go to bed, and I want to do some laundry tomorrow. I want to change the sheets, but haven't gotten around to washing the the others. So I guess in the morning I will grant myself another Starbucks, pull the sheets off the bed and do all of them, then remake the bed. Hope your plumbing issue is taken care of Wargod!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, June 06, 2010 - 9:00 pm
Monday's Mission Woo hoo on getting the bathroom done, Dipo! Wear the stain on your arms and nails as a badge of honor, got it from staining your own stuff! Plumbing issue is resolved. Wasn't as bad as Darren thought either. A couple years ago the water main busted open and that was a huge mess. I had water shooting over the house into the backyard, Darren was already at work, and I couldn't get the damn main shut off. Luckily one of the neighbors saw me out there, 8am, soaking wet and freezing, struggling with it and ran over to help me. That time it took two days to fix, the pipe had a crack almost as long as my arm and Darren and his buddy had to dig up a good portion of the yard to even get to all of it. Today it was in the same spot. Darren was getting ready to leave, started to pull out of the driveway and saw the water seeming out of the yard. When he dug it up, he saw the pipe wasn't broken, where they had joined two pieces together the glue had given out or something and the pipe popped out so he was able to just redo it all. We think, though, it may have been leaking for at least a week. The dirt was completely wet when he started digging, he wasn't even having to use any real stregnth, just pull up gobs of mud. When he turned on the water later, I realized we haven't had very much water pressure in the house for the last week or so. We've got the low flow toilet and the thingies on all the faucets for lower water usage and I'm used to not getting a bunch of water pressure. Dawned on me when I was washing dishes, I did notice last week for the first time the sink seemed to take a longer time to fill up, but kind of dismissed it at the time. I really don't want to see my water bill this month. But, it's all fixed now. He'll fill in his hole in a day or two once he's sure the pipe is holding. I'm still doing laundry and put off several chores today though. Tomorrow I'm going to get those done (cleaning the bathroom, cleaning the kitchen, mopping) and then Kota has a game in the evening. It's the kids last full day of school this year and I want to get as much done as possible. They have minimum days Tue and Wed and Thursday is Caleb's graduation.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, June 07, 2010 - 10:23 am
So glad the plumbing issue wasn't too big a deal, but darn, the water bill. I got all the drawers put back in to the vanity and cleaned up all the newspapers I had put down. When I put the drawers back I realized I had missed a two inch piece of the vanity edge. I couldn't see it because the pop-out drawer (that I hate and what the heck are they for anyway)was hiding it, when I closed that I could see it, so I quickly stained that. Oh, and I need to put the knobs back on. I don't think I like them anymore, wasn't that fond of them to begin with they are shiney gold. Guess I will have to start looking around for new ones but I am not sure what color, maybe that burnished brown color. I love how it looks, don't love the smell though. So the house is cleaned back up and it is time to start the laundry.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 07, 2010 - 11:20 pm
Tuesday's Mission The stain smell is horrible! I like the burnished brown color for hardware, Dipo. I tend to like the darker colors though. Girls had a game tonight, they won 2-1. Last night I took Kota to the batting cages and she ran into one of the girls from the high school team that put on the softball clinic a few weeks ago. The girl spent quite a bit of time with Kota giving her tips on batting and bunting yesterday. I'm pleased to say, Dakota listened very well, lol. On her first turn at bat, she laid down a perfect bunt. This team (most of them now) know Dakota is a power hitter, and the coach had moved his girls back when she got up. She had them so confused with her bunt that she managed to make it to second base on it. She was so tickled when she got home, kept giggling about how she's the slowest runner on her team (she's got a lot of stregnths, running isn't one of them) and made it to second on a bunt and they really messed up that play. Her second time up she hit a triple. She scored the only two runs for her team, made two outs at home, hit the triple, assisted in quite a few more outs, but it was that bunt she kept talking about and giggling over. I got some cleaning and laundry done today, but not as much as I wanted to. Darren came home and got the swamp cooler up and running. He'd done the window cooler in the living room Saturday, but had left the one on top of the house since we only use that when it's really hot at night. Last night was really, really hot. I'm not sure what I'm doing tomorrow. I promised to spend the morning/early afternoon with baby niece since her sisters are spending the night this weekend. I'll pick her up when I drop the kids off at school and take her home when I pick them up. We're going to play, maybe go to the park (depends on how hot it is,) and do some chores, but mostly play.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, June 08, 2010 - 9:37 am
Hahaha, love that Dakota suckered them with the bunt. I did the sheets yesterday, did a little work in the hall closet organizing, pulled out my box of paint supplies and determined that the stuff in there is not what I need. So, I will pile it up with the stuff I need to take down to the storage unit and get the paint that I do need, LOL. I need the bathroom and bedroom paint to touch up the spackled areas. While doing the laundry I took out some recycling and trash, have one more load of laundry, maybe tonight, and I will be finally able to change the sheets!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, June 08, 2010 - 10:22 am
LOL, that was just the best bunt, she probably won't be able to get away with that again. We had a change of plans. Oldest niece is getting an award at school tomorrow so the baby will be coming over then instead of today. Worked out for me, I woke up with a headache and just don't feel like doing too much this morning.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 12:24 am
Wednesday's Mission Tomorrow baby niece is coming over for the morning. I may or may not end up at the school for an awards assembly. Dakota is supposed to get an award for honor roll and another for perfect citizenship for the whole year (earlier this week, she got to go out to lunch with her homeroom teacher and a handful of other kidlets to recognize the fact that they had gotten no demerits at all.) When he handed out the letters today to invite parents to the awards assembly, there wasn't one for Dakota. Checked his list and her name wasn't on it. He was trying to get it fixed (she did earn the awards) but not sure it could be done in time for the ceremony. He's supposed to call me in the morning if they get it fixed in time so I can be there to see her get them. Those perfect citizenship for the year awards are pretty hard to get! Darren's taking on half a day tomorrow and then Thursday and Friday. Caleb's graduation is Thursday and he was taking off for that, decided to go ahead and take Friday as well and the half day tomorrow. Caleb's going for his 8th grade field trip tomorrow and won't be back til around dinner time. Dakota has a half day and then practice later in the afternoon and Darren has class. That's pretty much gonna be our day.
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