Home again home again jiggity jig ....

Well ... there is no possible way I could catch up with one post ...and it's after midnight ... and ... I've been off line except to check emails at the library since July ...

So for now ... suffice it to say ... we have a brand new computer ... in our house .. and functioning ..and we are back in cyberspace! WHO HOO!!!!

Lots has happened ...
Long story short ..finished the 450 sweat equity Habitat hours ..but we're not building yet ... long story ... not sure when I'll tell it ... yes, we'll be building, but it will be a while.

Kids are doing fine. Benjamin is 14. That's all I'm saying about him.
Samuel, 16, has his driver's permit and gets to drive only when I'm in a really good mood ;)
He took his pre SAT and pre ACT tests in October. The scores came out last week. He scored a 25 on the ACT and a 740 on the Reading on the SAT and 620 on the Math ... next year when he takes it officially ... after a year of pre AP classes, he should score even higher! And can you imagine how high they'll be at the end of his senior year? :)
He's decided he wants to be a foriensic pathologist. I knew it ... I've known it forever ... I knew it'd be that or a lawyer or a pastor ... he says the pastor will still happen no matter what he does. He wants to be a working pastor (his mentor works as a math specialist and pastor's a small church).


My health ...let's not go there and say we did.

My mom had knee replacement in October, it was an awful experience ..she had an allergic reaction (complete with tongue swelling) to the lortab and then didn't have ANY reaction to the morphine ..including pain relief ... and then needed a blood transfusion ..then we had 2 loverly days of hallucinations while she was on darvocet (DARVOCET????????yes, Darvocet, morphine effected her like tylenol and Darvocet sent her into never never land ...go figure)
After the surgery, she could not get better, and after 2 months she was still very sick ..they finally figured out that she had Celiac sprue ...great ... my grandmother had that ... ICK ...
She's now 20 lbs underweight ... my mother who 3 years ago was 112 lbs overweight!
Tuesday ..she is having her hip replaced. It's either now, or don't do it at all because it won't be replaceable ... and she'll have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair ...
My sister and I are really looking forward to the experience ... NOT.

I am teaching Sunday School now ... a ladies class ... wow .. me teaching.

There is tons more I have to share, but that's the short version ...

Looking forward to getting caught back up ...