Mystery Girls Club

Our daughter and her friends from school have started a club. It is quite exclusive, all the girls of their class are involved, there are three of them. They solve mysteries and have their own flag (pink and purple stripes scotch-taped to a twig with a real leaf in the corner). Their first mystery to solve was trying to find a hair clip that a younger student had lost at recess. Although the school yard was scoured, no evidence turned up. Our little one hosted a meeting at our house where they took turns carrying around the flag and signed a 'pledge' which said something along the lines of 'being part of the Mystery Girls club and if you quit you will forever be banished'. Ouch - that is harsh!

Why I dig my planner.

I love the pocket in the front, it also has tear away sheets that have a grocery list on one side and menu planner on the other.

These poor rookies never made it past training camp, the momagenda is cool, but thick. The pink one had flimsy pages. Now I'll be so organized!

...and FOUND!!!

I see I'm not the only one who has to have a plan. This post garnered more support than my run-in with Jesse Jackson! The planner was hiding in a basket of school work. I told my friend J when she called and asked what I was doing. I explained I was blogging about the loss of my planner, spending 20 minutes on my poem, rather than looking for it! My other fave is my friend K's kids call her planner, "her leather brain"!

LOST!

My calendar is LOST! I'm freaking out! If I miss something, I am not responsible, I have lost my companion and friend. It took me a long time to find this calendar, I am something of a plannerphobic. I would buy a new planner in November or February, just because my old one did not work for me. I eventually came to the conclusion, that it was not said planners fault, but perhaps, the plann-e (that would be me).
Then you have the whole, school year calendar, the new year calendar or the 17 month calendar (my personal favorite). So I finally found one at Lifeway that I LOVE! It is a spiral Christian mom's plan-it. Then there is the type of calendar: wall, spiral, desk, page-a-day, binders, zippers, locks, tags and barrels - sorry I got carried away. There are alot of choices when choosing a calendar - it is a very big thing!
I got the kids' newsletters from school yesterday and I've since been searching for my planner to input all of the things that are going on for them on it. Lost, lost, lost. Ode to a planner:

I've looked by my toothbrush

and by my phone

oh planner dear, I am so alone.

I looked in the kitchen

and even the freezer

I am such a neurotic pleaser.

I looked in the couch cushions

and under the chair

Are you hiding from me - you better not dare!

It is my mission to find you

because I have to,

It is 10:35 and Thursday and I have no idea what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(reward offered)

Thank you Mr. Jones

A community hero, Mr. J. Eddie Jones past away this week. Here is a picture at his going away reception when he moved to McKinney. He and our son are discussing Mr. Jones' war times. Our son told Mr. Jones that he got to visit an aircraft carrier the previous summer. J.Eddie told him that he needed to visit a battleship. This summer our family had an opportunity to visit the USS Alabama battleship. Our son's first question was, "Is this the battleship that Mr. Jones was on in the war?".

Hectic Homecoming

Thursday night before homecoming was crazy! I was helping a friend prepare lunch on friday for our school, we found out that my mom was rushed to emergency surgery to have her appendix removed and in the midst of preparing 5 lbs of meat and 3 quarts of rice for mexican stack up, our son was running a fever!




All you can do is pray and pray a lot, when all that is going on! We made it through Friday ok and as I was trying to get ready to go to the game, my hubby and kids walk in with those most amazing homecoming mum! I was so surprised, it was a really sweet sentiment - it even said "Supermommy"! I was tired yet rejuvenated, knowing that God is in control of all things. And on a side note: Mums the word!

Silly String!

A pulley for her loose tooth and some pet jewelry too!

This girl is something else! Sometimes, I wonder if she will be a fashion designer or an engineer. She is always working on some project. Here are a few examples of what she came up with when she played with a skein of pink yarn.