This... is my life.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Random

Things that happen in my life get briefly get summarized on Facebook, usually in 20 words or less and I occasionally get tagged in a photo or two, but I feel hard-pressed to find something worthy of blog merit.... I'm just saying. Then I look at the date of the last post and I keep looking at it.. and pretty soon MONTHS have passed since I last added anything here. Pathetic. I know.

So.. for what it's worth....

Here's me.. doing my part for Washington Elementary's Soup-er Art Night! The principal is loving that extra-special scoop of ice cream. I wonder if they knew in advance my Lauber's experience. That wasn't listed under Other Experience on my resume....

Kate and I did a mini-road trip on Friday and Saturday to start the last weekend of her spring break. We went to Cedar Falls IA to see an improv group, coached by a friend of mine, which got to do an opening prior to the musical Avenue Q... so she and I drove out there to see those performances and visit a bit. Just after we got into Cedar Falls, it was starting to rain and we were driving around deciding what we were going to do first when we saw this place. Kate said.. hm.... Zippy's BBQ Shack... it's a SHACK.... food from a shack is always good! Plus, it appeared they were smoking the meat right outside the place. So, we did a quick turn and went into the drive-thru and ordered up some BBQ pork and brisket. Then we headed over the coffee shop parking lot where we were going to meet my friend after a while, and ate the delicious sandwiches while watching the lightning and the pouring rain through the windows of the CR-V!

Here is Zippy's...... next time you're in Cedar Falls... you might have to give it a try. :o)

I know.... I live right there on the edge.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

So, since then.....

We/I have:

been amused by our silly Kali... who loves the simple braided piece of fleece that my co-worker made for her....

been to a Rolling Warhawks basketball game with Austin....

continued teaching children who struggle with issues beyond their control,

watched Kate put her photographic skills to work shooting scene shots for the Fort Atkinson High School play, Moonlight and Magnolias..

and celebrated seven years with our sweet Bailey...

among many other things.....

Hope all is well with all of you. :o)

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Christmas... and on into the New Year.

Christmas came and went pretty quickly this year it seems....

though we did manage to get the immediate family group together with some efficiency this year.

But we are all, apparently, wondering, "Where did it go?"

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Today... a reprieve in some ways...

And so the first snow day of the 2009-2010 school year begins...

Though the snow must be moved, somehow it is a little better to take with a new, auger-style snow blower...

Not everyone enjoys it as much...

Otherwise (since October.. but at least not since July like someone-who-will-not-be-named), the days have been filled with reports, assessments, Thanksgiving with a delicious dinner at my parents' house

visiting and being visted by Kate, a visit from Molly, meetings at school to prep for new students to the program and to monitor the progress of others.... books to read... and now preparation for the Christmas holiday....

Hope all is well in your neck of the woods.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Farmer's Market 2009

If you get your Fort Farmer's Market card marked every week that you make a purchase for the WHOLE summer....you get a t-shirt!! This shows the completely filled card...the combined efforts of this household and one friend with my money (for the week I took Kate to orientation and we drove past the place too early for the vendors... ). SO, the t-shirts should arrive tomorrow for the last Farmer's Market of the season. WOO.. :o)