My apologies for the long period between posts. I've been so busy with the kids, though Syd and Shabree have been in school this past week... though we DO plan to home school them this year, in case that didn't go through (we are going through www.k12.com) we wanted to make sure they didn't fall behind in school, should they end up going there instead. Jerry was kind of hoping they'd want to go to school, because it gets him up earlier in the morning, and it's so much more quiet without them here. But they all continue to want to home school, so home school we shall do.
Shabree's birthday was pretty good. She bought a bike with her money, she got a bike she can grow into. It was a little more expensive, but I told her that it would last longer. She was really nervous about spending 80 dollars on a bike, instead of 50. However, she LOVES her "big bike" It's a 22 in bike, so it IS big. Syd is riding Shabree's old bike (because she busted up the tires on her bike) so I expect that Syd will also get a new bike for her birthday... as well as Sammi. Sammi's doing pretty well on Shabree's old bike...except that it falls over occassionally because the training wheels are too large for it and "Jerry rigged" Actually, we bought some training wheels from a garage sale that should work (but then I think the old bike might need new tires, not sure though... I guess we'll see... Jerry needs to put those training wheels on). We didn't do much the day OF Shabree's birthday, because we'd gone on John's on Jerry's birthday on Monday, and then on Saturday we were planning on going swimming, though it turned out that there was a swim meet, so we went on Sunday instead. On Friday, Shabree's actual birthday, we went up to Lodi to see Kim, and Shabree got her birthday presents from her, and then from us at home. We also had Shabree's favorite food... hot dogs, and she wanted chili, so we had chili dogs. Shabree had FOUR hot dogs! And THAT is why we don't normally buy hot dogs, she eats too many of them at once. She had two before we went to Lodi, and two after we came home.
Swimming on Sunday was fun... oh, I almost forgot, we went to Hometown Buffet for dinner on Saturday, it was only 20 dollars for all of us because we had buy one get one free birthday coupons, WHOO, and the kids were 99 cents each. YEA! So we saved a lot of money. We actually did that about 3 times this month, but since it usually costs us around 50 to take everyone to dinner, we did really great only spending 20. Like 3 dinners for the price of one! LOL.
I'm trying to think what else happened this month. Except for the birthdays, it's been fairly quiet around here. Fairly! I got a Wii from my mom for my birthday, and the Wii Fit from Jerry, so I've been using it to help me lose weight. I'm down about 15 pounds from where I started back when Jerry was diagnosed with diabetes and we decided to go on a diet together. Of course, HE loses 3 pounds a week without exercise, I have to work my butt off to get 2 pounds a week off. Sigh. Men. They don't know how good they have it! Anyway, he only has about 15 or 20 pounds to go before he gets down to where he wants to be, 175, where I still have something like 60 pounds to get down to the 150 I want to be, and the Wii says I should be 140! I haven't seen 140 since I was about 12 years old! The last time I saw 145, I was 18... so I think MAYBE I could get down to 145, but I'm FINE with 150. I thought I'd ask the doctor what she thinks.

Well, I left the computer for about 3 hours, guess I should post.