For a fun time...

Sons of the Republic is playing at Bennie's Bar in Longview this Saturday at 9:00.

Summer School

We're into our second week of summer break here. Before the school year ended, I had such awesome plans for Jackson's "educational" summer. We were going to:

1. Work on phonics and reading
2. Polish up addition skills and move on to subtraction
3. Improve writing skills
4. Make frequent trips to the library
5. Limit video game and tv time

So far, this is what Jackson has learned:

1. how to breathe through a scuba regulator
2. that he loves to skinny dip
3. it's much more fun to be thrown or pushed down the slip n slide than to do the work yourself
4. nothing fun happens in this house before 10am

He has done one math worksheet, which he aced. I'm not giving up, but I need to get a move on!

Look on the bright side...

I've been messing around with the blog. I'm trying to make it a place that I will be motivated to come often. I put some thought into the title...didn't want anything too generic or goofy. I came up with this one because I think it pretty much sums up my attitude about most things in life. It will remind me to be optimistic, and maybe it will work for you too.

P.S. I'm trying to teach myself how to make a new {photo} header for the blog in PSE. If anyone out there has any pointers, I would be deeply grateful!

China Part 2

So, we're in the car today running errands when we had this quotable conversation:

jackson: ya know what? (I hear this about 253 times a day)
me: what Jack? (I say this about 253 times a day)
jackson: Ironman has rocket boots
me: cool
jackson: yeah, really cool
me: I think I would like a pair of rocket boots
jackson: me too! I'd fly straight to New York City and get a big New York pizza! Then I'd fly to China and get a Chinese dinner for you and dad
me: VERY COOL!

NOTE: this ended up being a very long (mostly one-sided) conversation in which Jackson tried to decide if it would be possible for him and his dad to build a pair of rocket boots

Trip to China

Jackson is constantly suprising me by some of the things he says. I thought it would be amusing to you too:

jackson- "mommy, I want to go to China"
me- "really? me too!"
jackson- "yeah, but I don't like their food"... "or their english"

I rated this one as his "quote of the week". Right above the one where he yells (at a church swim party in front of our pastor, several kids & their parents), "Mom, can I go skinny diving again?"

Kindergarten Graduate

We're enjoying our first official Summer Monday. Jackson is so happy that school's out, which suprised me a bit. He loved Kindergarten and never once complained about going to school. He had perfect attendance the entire school year.

Today dad took us to lunch and we spent most of the afternoon being lazy. Tonight's movie night. Dad & Jack are going to see Iron Man while mom and the girlfriends check out Sex in the City! Now that the pace has slowed considerably around here, I'm going to make an effort to keep this thing updated.