Today was our first game for Jack's 1st and 2nd grade team. I have to admit that going into the game I did not think we were going to do well. We had a big lay off with the holidays.
While there was definately some rust out there overall the boys did great.
I will only boast a little bit in that Jack was the best player out there for both teams. The boy knows what he is supposed to do with the ball and he definately used his size to his advantage. On more than one occassion he drove to the basket and the kid who was trying to guard him got too close and bounced off Jack like a rag doll. On one of Jacks baskets the kid ran into Jack....fell down...Jack stepped over him and made the bucket. The other team tried 3 different kids on Jack and none of them worked.
What did work was when I sat him out the next to last period. The other team got back into the game then and made a game of it.
I have to admit that I got into the game as well coaching the boys. I am an "active" coach I am finding.
We had fun! And we WON!!!
Tracey is helping me with the boys because I am the only one coaching my team. So she is helping with game day stuff and she helped at practice last week.
At the end of the game I told her..."THAT WAS FUN!" She just laughed and said...YOU WERE HILARIOUS!!!
So be checking out t-lady's blog because I am sure I am going to get it.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Come On Old Girl!
Tracey and I have 3 dogs.
Lilly is going to 12 in March. (Miniature Weenie Dog)
Max is going to be 10 in October (Miniature Weenie Dog)
Maggie- is going to be 3 next month (She is a big girl- Rhodesian Ridgeback)
Anyway, with miniature weenie dogs you can expect their life span to be 12-15 years.
My parents had two miniature weenie dogs and both of their dogs started having health issues at 11. By 12 they were taking 3 to 5 pills a day for bones and joints.
Lilly has been blowing and going.
I have noticed however that Lilly is slowing down. She is so cute and acts so puppyish you forget that she is 12. That is until now. I have noticed in the mornings that she is the LAST ONE out of the pens to go outside to go potty. When it is cold outside she does not even move! This morning I picked her up and carried her to the porch. She walked two steps and went potty right there. She then turned around and wanted back in. When she "hopped" into the pen. Her back legs did not make it. He had to lift one leg...then the other. She burrowed back into her blankets.
At the moment it is warm so she is laying out in the grass on her back and sunning her belly! At first when you look at her you think...CRAP...She has kicked the bucket. But I am finding that she is moving around.
Senior Dogs are alot like Senior People. This is what I have noticed Lilly's daily schedule to be.
6:30- Get up and go outside for a drink. If the weather is nice check out the backyard for any new smells then go potty. If the weather is not nice. Get a drink potty by the back door and get back in the house.
6:35- Breakfast- Eat immediately if mom or dad put goody's in my breakfast.
6:35- Breakfasts- No goody's means breakfast can wait and I am going back to bed.
6:45-Noon- Sleep
Noon-4:00- If weather is nice go outside and find a sunny spot to bake in.
4:00-7:00- Mingle with family
5:30-6:00- Dinner- Again, pace of eating determined by amount of goodies in dinner.
7:00- Take nap either in family room or in pen.
9:00- Bed Time
Lilly is going to 12 in March. (Miniature Weenie Dog)
Max is going to be 10 in October (Miniature Weenie Dog)
Maggie- is going to be 3 next month (She is a big girl- Rhodesian Ridgeback)
Anyway, with miniature weenie dogs you can expect their life span to be 12-15 years.
My parents had two miniature weenie dogs and both of their dogs started having health issues at 11. By 12 they were taking 3 to 5 pills a day for bones and joints.
Lilly has been blowing and going.
I have noticed however that Lilly is slowing down. She is so cute and acts so puppyish you forget that she is 12. That is until now. I have noticed in the mornings that she is the LAST ONE out of the pens to go outside to go potty. When it is cold outside she does not even move! This morning I picked her up and carried her to the porch. She walked two steps and went potty right there. She then turned around and wanted back in. When she "hopped" into the pen. Her back legs did not make it. He had to lift one leg...then the other. She burrowed back into her blankets.
At the moment it is warm so she is laying out in the grass on her back and sunning her belly! At first when you look at her you think...CRAP...She has kicked the bucket. But I am finding that she is moving around.
Senior Dogs are alot like Senior People. This is what I have noticed Lilly's daily schedule to be.
6:30- Get up and go outside for a drink. If the weather is nice check out the backyard for any new smells then go potty. If the weather is not nice. Get a drink potty by the back door and get back in the house.
6:35- Breakfast- Eat immediately if mom or dad put goody's in my breakfast.
6:35- Breakfasts- No goody's means breakfast can wait and I am going back to bed.
6:45-Noon- Sleep
Noon-4:00- If weather is nice go outside and find a sunny spot to bake in.
4:00-7:00- Mingle with family
5:30-6:00- Dinner- Again, pace of eating determined by amount of goodies in dinner.
7:00- Take nap either in family room or in pen.
9:00- Bed Time
Do I want WHAT?
Maybe I am alone on this one. I went to a Sonic this morning and I got a fruit smoothy for breakfast. They are tastey and about the only thing that I could swallow this morning. More on that some other time. Anyway, I order a fruit smoothy and the guy asks me if I want FRY's with that? What the heck? It is 8:15 in the morning?
A. Why would I want frys at 8:15?
B. Who thinks to themselves? I would like a fruit smoothy and some frys?
A. Why would I want frys at 8:15?
B. Who thinks to themselves? I would like a fruit smoothy and some frys?
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Has This Ever Happened To You?
Here lately it has been a struggle to keep the kids out of the kitchen. They are getting back into the habbit of sneaking food out of the kitchen. We have squashed this in the past but it seems to be coming back. The thing that really irks the crap out of me is that they sneak stuff and then when it comes to meal time they just pick at it.
So Tracey and I have really been cracking down on them. We allow healthy snacks but we have a set snack time on the weekends and then the kitchen is CLOSED! PERIOD. The kids of course whine about it from time to time but that is JDHTEACH LAW. Not up for discussion.
I do most of the cooking in our house. I enjoy cooking for the family. I don't mind the kids helping with preparing the food. I enjoy teaching the kids.
Tracey always gets the kids in the kitchen when she is baking. Caroline especially loves baking.
What irks the crap out of me is when I am cooking and they keep trying to eat WHILE I AM COOKING. This leads to the same thing as snacking....meal time becomes picking. Then they want to leave.
By golly we are going to sit down together as a family and eat dinner and talk to one another about our day.
Well when they start snacking or sneaking into the kitchen I run them off. When I tell them to leave the kitchen this is the expected answer I should hear.
YES SIR. That is it. Nothing else. When I hear BUT I.....(insert excuse) My blood preasure rises quickly. I don't care what you are doing. If I tell you to leave the kitchen...you leave the kitchen.
Well tonight I hear Jack in the kitchen shuffling and I tell him he needs to leave. I start getting the 'But I...stuff and I tell him again...Jack, I told you to leave and that is what I expect you to do. But Dad...
I said DAMMIT! And I got a spatula and I just started walking toward him. His eyes got huge and he left quickly!
I look over and the dish that I was making was starting to scorch and he was just moving the pan off the burner.
HI! I am Daddy Dumb Ass! I felt horrible but I had REASON based on his past. I got the silent treatment from Jack for most of dinner.
I tried to explain to him why I did what I did but he wasn't ready to hear it.
Have you ever jumped the gun on handling a situation with your kid? If so, what did you do?
So Tracey and I have really been cracking down on them. We allow healthy snacks but we have a set snack time on the weekends and then the kitchen is CLOSED! PERIOD. The kids of course whine about it from time to time but that is JDHTEACH LAW. Not up for discussion.
I do most of the cooking in our house. I enjoy cooking for the family. I don't mind the kids helping with preparing the food. I enjoy teaching the kids.
Tracey always gets the kids in the kitchen when she is baking. Caroline especially loves baking.
What irks the crap out of me is when I am cooking and they keep trying to eat WHILE I AM COOKING. This leads to the same thing as snacking....meal time becomes picking. Then they want to leave.
By golly we are going to sit down together as a family and eat dinner and talk to one another about our day.
Well when they start snacking or sneaking into the kitchen I run them off. When I tell them to leave the kitchen this is the expected answer I should hear.
YES SIR. That is it. Nothing else. When I hear BUT I.....(insert excuse) My blood preasure rises quickly. I don't care what you are doing. If I tell you to leave the kitchen...you leave the kitchen.
Well tonight I hear Jack in the kitchen shuffling and I tell him he needs to leave. I start getting the 'But I...stuff and I tell him again...Jack, I told you to leave and that is what I expect you to do. But Dad...
I said DAMMIT! And I got a spatula and I just started walking toward him. His eyes got huge and he left quickly!
I look over and the dish that I was making was starting to scorch and he was just moving the pan off the burner.
HI! I am Daddy Dumb Ass! I felt horrible but I had REASON based on his past. I got the silent treatment from Jack for most of dinner.
I tried to explain to him why I did what I did but he wasn't ready to hear it.
Have you ever jumped the gun on handling a situation with your kid? If so, what did you do?
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Just Talking Here
Here lately I have been feeling pretty good. Well good for me. I am quickly approaching the one year anniversary of my transplant. This is important to me. You see the first time I went through this process I was my own donor and I was in remission for 11 months. Then the cancer came back.
I feel pretty good now but there is not a day that goes by that I don't think at least once about cancer. It can be something very simple as just playing with the kids and I am reminded of the times that I have been taken away from them on extended periods of time and how much that sucked. It could also be that on most days something on my body hurts. It is mainly joints, ankles, knees, shoulders, neck and my back....Holy cow my back is a mess. Anytime I sit on the floor to be with the kids I am reminded of all of the bone marrow biopsy's I have had because I can feel those pressure points when I sit.
99% of the time I never say anything to anyone. This is because A. Who wants to hear me bitch daily. B. I don't want to come across as wanting or expecting special treatment.
I did decide to say "screw it" this weekend and do some physical labor when I gutted out a small bathroom in our house. It was nice to take my mind off of the current physical me and go back to what I used to do physically. I put in about 5 straight hours with only a couple of breaks. It was not all that hard but I will say this TOILETS ARE NOT LIGHT!! But I yanked that puppy out with ease as far as lifting it.
This morning I totally paid the price for it. I could not get out of bed until about TEN. Big reminder of the current physical me. But a hot shower and some movement got the kinks out.
I was going to work on it some more today but I took the day off from it. I figured two days in a row and I would down for the count. I will go in tomorrow and do a little more.
Now if my back, neck, knees, ankles, and hips will get with the program I can make some progress.
Thanks for listening to me bitch!
I feel pretty good now but there is not a day that goes by that I don't think at least once about cancer. It can be something very simple as just playing with the kids and I am reminded of the times that I have been taken away from them on extended periods of time and how much that sucked. It could also be that on most days something on my body hurts. It is mainly joints, ankles, knees, shoulders, neck and my back....Holy cow my back is a mess. Anytime I sit on the floor to be with the kids I am reminded of all of the bone marrow biopsy's I have had because I can feel those pressure points when I sit.
99% of the time I never say anything to anyone. This is because A. Who wants to hear me bitch daily. B. I don't want to come across as wanting or expecting special treatment.
I did decide to say "screw it" this weekend and do some physical labor when I gutted out a small bathroom in our house. It was nice to take my mind off of the current physical me and go back to what I used to do physically. I put in about 5 straight hours with only a couple of breaks. It was not all that hard but I will say this TOILETS ARE NOT LIGHT!! But I yanked that puppy out with ease as far as lifting it.
This morning I totally paid the price for it. I could not get out of bed until about TEN. Big reminder of the current physical me. But a hot shower and some movement got the kinks out.
I was going to work on it some more today but I took the day off from it. I figured two days in a row and I would down for the count. I will go in tomorrow and do a little more.
Now if my back, neck, knees, ankles, and hips will get with the program I can make some progress.
Thanks for listening to me bitch!
The Saint of Anger
I thought I might have this playing in the second grade sunday school classes as background music as the kids enter. Hey it is about a SAINT!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Well It Almost That Time
Well it is almost time to go back to work. We still have a few days. So what am I going to do while Tracey is putting away Christmas?
In July we had our hotwater heater go out. It caused water damage in one of our living rooms. We fixed all of the damaged to the walls and the hardwoods. One of the bathrooms off of this living room was damaged. We got the flooring out but that is all we did. Since July this bathroom has been closed off.
We were planning on remodeling this little half bath this summer. It is in need of updating.
So I finally have pretty good energy and am ready to take on some good manual labor. Over this weekend here is what I plan on tackling.
1. Take out all electrical.
2. Take out the toilet. _Put towell in hole
3. Rip out the countertops and cabnet.
4. Start getting the wallpaper out. Hopefully finish this.
What I plan on doing?
1. Texturing Wall- Once I take a Home Depot Class
2. Painting Walls- I am thinking a shade of in the tan or sand family
3. Tile Floor- Again something in the TAN or SAND family- Slight Contrast to the
wall but not too drastic. Again..need a class at Home Depot
4. Install Teardrop sink- With silver fosset- Not shiny but dull finish.
5.- Might need some help on some minor plumbing help from dad.
6. Install new toilet- Elongated.
My time frame is to have all of this done by the end of school.
I know this sounds like a long timeline but due to money constraints I am going to be doing alot of this by myself so it is weekends and nights.
Wish me luck. I will take pictures before during and after and post.
In July we had our hotwater heater go out. It caused water damage in one of our living rooms. We fixed all of the damaged to the walls and the hardwoods. One of the bathrooms off of this living room was damaged. We got the flooring out but that is all we did. Since July this bathroom has been closed off.
We were planning on remodeling this little half bath this summer. It is in need of updating.
So I finally have pretty good energy and am ready to take on some good manual labor. Over this weekend here is what I plan on tackling.
1. Take out all electrical.
2. Take out the toilet. _Put towell in hole
3. Rip out the countertops and cabnet.
4. Start getting the wallpaper out. Hopefully finish this.
What I plan on doing?
1. Texturing Wall- Once I take a Home Depot Class
2. Painting Walls- I am thinking a shade of in the tan or sand family
3. Tile Floor- Again something in the TAN or SAND family- Slight Contrast to the
wall but not too drastic. Again..need a class at Home Depot
4. Install Teardrop sink- With silver fosset- Not shiny but dull finish.
5.- Might need some help on some minor plumbing help from dad.
6. Install new toilet- Elongated.
My time frame is to have all of this done by the end of school.
I know this sounds like a long timeline but due to money constraints I am going to be doing alot of this by myself so it is weekends and nights.
Wish me luck. I will take pictures before during and after and post.
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