That's just how I pictured you!

and we had three newborns and an 18 month old I used a pre-packaged curriculum for first grade. We moved on next year to what we really wanted to use and we all survived.

The other night at around three in the morning I was thinking that if I had a baby bottle on my nightstand instead of a glass of water I could drink half asleep without pouring it all over myself.

When I'm a grandma I want to build a house/barn with an indoor arena. Stalls down one side and you'd be able to look out on the arena while in the bedroom loft. (There's one like this down the road from us). Tammy, I've driven a little skid steer dozer. It is fun.

And they all had to go.

I hate being crowded and uncomfortable, and who wants to do a bunch of work on an old house?

It seems I realize a lot lately that the children will be grown up soon. While I obviously want them to grow up and have lives, it really saddens me too. And hopefully it will remind me to enjoy them being around and underfoot while I still have them here. And while I know it takes time to aquire wisdom, I sometimes wish I knew what I know now when I was 20.

You are pretty brave to look in this cold weather. I barely stuck my nose outside today, and when I checked on the horses I just drove by the pasture in the nice warm van. Wouldn't a huge indoor arena with climate control be just heavenly?

He was on his way to our home to give the girls their lessons when we got a call from the State Troopers that he had been in a wreck, and asked them to call us to let us know he wouldn't be there. Today we found out that he had pulled off because he felt unwell, was taken to a hospital where he died of an aneurysm. He was such a good teacher. Our house was in between the town where he worked and the town where he lived, so he came by here to make it easier for us. He was able to develop a real love of the piano in my youngest dd, who wanted to quit before he became our teacher. He always had jokes to tell the children, and they were very fond of him. He was a great motivator. Our girls played well before they studied with him, but their playing just took off under his tutelage. So sad, his poor wife will be lost. And for his many students there will be no replacement.

and hoping everything works out.

Can't see it.

How do you link your blog by just the name and not the URL? And how do you delete a post so I can get rid of the test post? When I hit delete nothing changed.

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What can I say, I'm an idiot when it comes to computers.

And I'm a computer idiot.

With five years left to go. One in college, one in 9th, three in 8th.

Hello, anyone there?

User CP in the top left hand corner and click on avatar picture. Then you should be able to load it. I can get the avatar to load but not the profile pic.

And I can't run for chocolate. Maybe some rum will help.