Boys...

Boy oh boy! We have boy fever in our house lately. First, Taylor, who has never been into boys, has suddenly developed her first honest to goodness crush. She is new to her school, and doesn't know the boys there very well, and has not been asked to Homecoming. Suddenly, she wants to go. She is looking at dresses and dropping hints with friends about the boy she likes...they are planning on having a dinner or some type of get-together to invite him so that she can spend more time with him. She has gone so far as to tell me that she plans to ask HIM to Dogpatch! Oh, no! It has begun.

Audrey has been boy crazy since birth, so her refreshened sense of boycraziness is no shock. What is more of a shock is how boys are treating her. Mind you, she is in the fifth grade. She told me tonight that a boy at school, who she doesn't like (because he's mean to me, Mom!) told her today that he liked her hair, and he liked her shoes. She told him to leave her alone and walked away, and he called after her, "Baby, come back!" 5TH GRADE!!!

Megan doesn't seem to have been bitten yet this year, so she is currently my only child that I can pretend is still my baby. Augh!

And all the while, I am still living in a very barren desert called my social life. Who'd have ever thunk that my kids would outdo me on this particular topic? Every one of my kids will probably be dating before I get around to it. (sigh) I guess it is just the life of a working single mom!

Adding some "Back-to-School" pics

The Bandwagon

Well, since everyone I know has a Blog, I thought it was time our family jumped on the proverbial bandwagon. Family updates:

Taylor just started high school. Yes, that makes me officially old. She is taking French II MMM(Mother Made Mandatory) and Journalism. She is pretty excited about her new press credentials that she gets to go along with that class, and Mom is pretty excited that she is following in family interests. For those that don't remember, I was the newspaper editor in high school and it is one of my fondest memories of those years. Taylor has also joined the drama club and had her first meeting on Friday. She is still working at Classic Skating and loves it. It is fun to watch her getting more social.

Megan is in her last year of Middle School. She is taking Spanish II MMM. She is also having a lot of fun with her new Theatre class, and is making new friends already in her first week of school. She has recently become a more-than-avid reader. Sometimes, I struggle to get her out of her room and interacting with the family because reading is her preferred form of...well, I was going to say "entertainment" but I think the correct word is "living." Taylor went through the same thing a while back, and she still reads more than most, but she is finally out of her shell, so I have great hopes for Megan as well. Is it just me, or is it crazy that I have two teenagers???

Audrey just started 5th grade in a new school. We have lived at our house for about 5 months, but it is just now that we have found a 10-year-old girl almost immediately across the street that she has become good friends with. She is now definitely a young lady, no longer a little girl. Shock to my sensibilities. She is very into girly things...makeup, dresses, boys. Perhaps having two older sisters that are discovering their girlihood has something to do with that, but whatever the cause, BOOM! It is practically another teenager.

I am still working for US Bank, although I am doing it now with much more enthusiasm than I have in the past. My old boss was fired a little over a year ago and his replacement has been such a breath of fresh air, I actually enjoy going to work. Things are not the best for our industry (small business loans) with the economy in such sad shape, but we are still have more production now than I ever experienced in a full year with the old boss. It feels like their could be a future there, now.

Well, as I am new to this crazy world of blogging and can't think of anything else to write, I will sign off. But I will include a couple fun pictures of our family to spice it up. Bye!