Let's Try This Again

So I’ve decided to give blogging another try. I figure now is as good as time as any to get back into it. A friend of mine commented on one of Brody’s pictures on facebook several months ago, “You should start blogging again. You might be able to help someone that is going through the same thing as you.” I hope that I can. I’m hoping that since we only have about 45 days of school left until summer break, I will be more successful at keeping it up-to-date…for a little while anyways.

I guess I should kind of back track and update things over the last couple of years and before we had Brody since the last time I blogged was January 2010! And let me just apologize ahead of time because this will probably be all over the place trying to remember things.

Well, let’s see…Makenna finished her first year of pre school in the beginnings 3yr old class in May of 2010 and then her second year in the busy bees 4yr old class in May of 2011. She loved every minute of it and did very well. Had the circumstances with Brody been different she would have moved onto to pre k this year but I chose to have her tested to start kindergarten a year early and she satisfied the requirements for that. This has been a blessing for us because all day kindergarten was only like $90 this year compared to $1200 in years passed, it keeps her busy and she has her own life I guess you would say, and she can just ride the bus to and from school which is so great! She has done so very well having completely missed pre k and me not doing what I had intended on doing with her the year leading into kindergarten. All year long she has either tested at or above grade level (a great thing in and of itself but especially since she started a year early). In the beginning she had some issues getting used to the new rules and way of life at school, but she’s adjusted well since then.

In the fall of 2010 she played in her 2^nd season of soccer and I might add her last!  J She just never really got all that interested in it, I had to chase that wild child ALL OVER THE PLACE, and it just wasn’t happening. But that winter she played basketball and did really well with it. She also played tball in the summer of 2011 and did pretty decent with that as well. She played basketball again this winter and just started tball for the 2^nd time in the older age group. I really do feel if she is going to succeed at a sport it will be one of these two if not both. She is just so strong I know once she learns to swing the bat correctly she’ll smack the tar out of the ball. And with basketball, the first time she shot the ball she had perfect form and we didn’t even show her. Now, dribbling on the other hand…that’s another story.

One night in April 2010 I had the biggest scare of my life (well, to that point at least). I had just put Makenna to bed and was doing a little picking up when I heard a loud BOOM in the baby monitor (yes I still use one in her room…do you think she will notice it taped under her bed when she’s 16?). I just stopped and waited and listened and then she started crying. But, I had heard her cry a lot worse and nothing be wrong with her so I wasn’t expecting too much when I went into her room. I opened her door and could see blood shooting out of her head through the dark!!! I flipped her light on only to see this hole in her head (see my facebook for pictures heather hogg curtis). I’m being serious, you could actually see into her forehead. I grab her and stick her in the bathtub, hand her a cloth and tell her to hold it tight to her head. Meanwhile, I call Chuck who was away at guys night (BLAH) and proceeded to shout something similar to this in about 3 seconds: MAKENNA FELL AND HIT HER HEAD AND THERE IS A BIG HOLE IN IT AND YOU NEED TO HURRY UP AND COME HOME I’M TAKING HER TO THE HOSPITAL! <> Then I called my mom to come and go with me. A neighbor said that they saw mom driving about 100mph in a 30! LOL! After the doctor cleaned the wound you could see all the way to her skull YUCK! No stitches required, just some glue and a bandage for a couple of weeks.

As far as Chuck and I go…Chuck and his business partner, well, let’s just say things weren’t working out there, so in the summer of 2010 Chuck left and started working for a small paving and asphalt company for about 6 months and then moved onto a bigger company. I’ve still been teaching full time and in the summer of 2011 I finished my final 2 classes for my plus 30 (and that was after Brody was born)!!! Although I feel like I’m insurance poor and I can’t even tell I got a pay raise from all of the different insurances I have. BLAH! Nothing really exciting going on in our lives (well until January 2011 but that’s another blog)…we did celebrate anniversaries 3 and 4. I can’t believe in 3 months we’ll be celebrating our 5^th one and in September we will have been together for 9 years. PHEW!

My brain is tired and I really can’t think of anything else that happened over the last 2 years regarding just the three of us…if I do, I’ll make a post. I’ll try to make a post soon of pictures over the last couple of years.