Well another nonstop day. It started with carpool and work, where we had a soup fund raiser so I made 3 gallons of taco soup. I love the stuff but my family isn't very fond of it so I never get to make it. I had done most of the work last night after the game... frying burger with onion etc, so when I got to work today I just put it together. It must have been a sucsess because we made a new personal record for the soup fundraiser. The diversity group I am part of at work has two major public services they do throughout the year. The first one is the road home homeless shelter Halloween party. It's a party for homeless children the Sunday before halloween. It's a blast. Anyway, after work I went to Squishies parent teacher conference. None of the teachers had anything bad to say about her! Dang it! I was going to take her home and yell and scream for awhile but now what do I do? Now the girls and I have volunteered to prepare and serve dinner at the same road home homeless shelter we do the halloween party for. So much for a nice quiet family evening. Raina and Squishy are off to do the service project and Reanna is at basketball practice. Randy says she is doing so well. He says she really understands the game. Could I have better kids?
Just a question.
thanks,
Karen
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
a good wednesday
My wonderful husband dug my car out of the snow this morning so I knew it was going to be a good day. Well even though Raina's freshman basketball team lost their game tonight it was still a good game. Raina's team only scored 14 points total and Raina had 12 of them. It was her personal high score and her jersey number is 12. We're going to work on scoring an average of 12 points a game from now on. It was fun to watch. Raina has a cold and was complaining that she couldn't breath but she played all but maybe 5 minutes of the game. She still out hussled all the other girls. I think the freshman coach is happy to have her on her team. I think the sophomore and Jv coaches are pretty happy too. She's so close to being so good. She needs to have some serious basketball time with her dad.... just playing... not being coached... but learning by being schooled.
Reanna brought a friend over after school. When she does that she always seems so happy. I really think bordom is the worst thing for her. She is so happy when she's got friends around her and so angry when she doesn't. Tomorrow I hope she brings the same girl home. For some reason her mom doesn't seem to mind if she spends time over here.
Bert took Squishy out to lunch today. Can I just stop for a second and say how much I appreciate that he does that for her. It makes her feel special. He has been supportive and wonderful about her living here. He is one of the few people that can actually make her feel loved. Tomorrow is Squishy's parent teacher conference and I think she's kind of surprised that I have already scheduled time to speak to her teachers. She's not used to this kind of "under the thumb treatment."
We went out to dinner right after Raina's game tonight. My sister Mary has decided we need to get together as an entire family once a month for dinner at a restaurant just to sit and have a nice meal and laugh together. We really do get along great and it really is a shame we don't do it more often. I met Mary's boyfriend and Mary sat him in between Randy and me and accross from Jon thinking we would all scare the heck out of him. He held his own fairly well. There were plenty of laughs to go around and I think everyone had a good time. Poor Jon could barely keep his beautiful wife from kidnapping the butter dish since we were all telling her to take it. Jon asked the waiter to bring her a to go dish for the butter which did work out better since it had a lid on it, but Jon really thought we were trying to corrupt his wife. Then we started talking about how we hate to pay to get into events to see our kids preform. We do this thing that in the stamping world is called "huffing" You huff or blow on the stamp and it gives dryer ink the ability to be stamped.
We send Raina out to the bathroom and she asks for a stamp on her hand. Now she has the most wonderfuly moist skin and the ink doesn't sink into her hand. she can double transfer a stamp without even blowing on it. Even if the stamp is light and we can get any of the stamp to show up at all then we all ask for a new stamp because we washed ours off.. It just makes sense.
We pay to put them in the sport, pay for their equipment and then they want us to pay to watch our own kids play. It really is quite the money making scheme.
Well Daryl was fabulous. He took all of our kidding and joking and some of it was not pollitacally correct, but he took it with a grain of salt and laughed with us. I gave him the final handshake when I was sure there was too much going on for him to really be listening and I smiled and said, "I killed my grandmother this morning." I love saying that to people and they dont have any idea what you just said and they just let it slide. If it was important, they'll tell me again. Right?
Well it's 10 pm and Randy is soaking his dry skin in the tub and I thought I'd fill up a page about the day. Girls were on time to school. I only had my usual 5 today although we did see a city academy student that lives on our way from emerson to City academy out trying to catch the bus. If we see her in the future we'll stop and offer her a ride.
Today in my quiet time I questioned myself on how will I know the voice of the Lord? Or could I possibly be one of the people he will say," I never knew you." So I talked to Greg and he said prayer and reading the bible is the only way to know that you know Jesus. Work on that one on one relationship until you know Jesus. So that will be the goal of my private time tomorrow.
My wonderful husband dug my car out of the snow this morning so I knew it was going to be a good day and it was.
Reanna brought a friend over after school. When she does that she always seems so happy. I really think bordom is the worst thing for her. She is so happy when she's got friends around her and so angry when she doesn't. Tomorrow I hope she brings the same girl home. For some reason her mom doesn't seem to mind if she spends time over here.
Bert took Squishy out to lunch today. Can I just stop for a second and say how much I appreciate that he does that for her. It makes her feel special. He has been supportive and wonderful about her living here. He is one of the few people that can actually make her feel loved. Tomorrow is Squishy's parent teacher conference and I think she's kind of surprised that I have already scheduled time to speak to her teachers. She's not used to this kind of "under the thumb treatment."
We went out to dinner right after Raina's game tonight. My sister Mary has decided we need to get together as an entire family once a month for dinner at a restaurant just to sit and have a nice meal and laugh together. We really do get along great and it really is a shame we don't do it more often. I met Mary's boyfriend and Mary sat him in between Randy and me and accross from Jon thinking we would all scare the heck out of him. He held his own fairly well. There were plenty of laughs to go around and I think everyone had a good time. Poor Jon could barely keep his beautiful wife from kidnapping the butter dish since we were all telling her to take it. Jon asked the waiter to bring her a to go dish for the butter which did work out better since it had a lid on it, but Jon really thought we were trying to corrupt his wife. Then we started talking about how we hate to pay to get into events to see our kids preform. We do this thing that in the stamping world is called "huffing" You huff or blow on the stamp and it gives dryer ink the ability to be stamped.
We send Raina out to the bathroom and she asks for a stamp on her hand. Now she has the most wonderfuly moist skin and the ink doesn't sink into her hand. she can double transfer a stamp without even blowing on it. Even if the stamp is light and we can get any of the stamp to show up at all then we all ask for a new stamp because we washed ours off.. It just makes sense.
We pay to put them in the sport, pay for their equipment and then they want us to pay to watch our own kids play. It really is quite the money making scheme.
Well Daryl was fabulous. He took all of our kidding and joking and some of it was not pollitacally correct, but he took it with a grain of salt and laughed with us. I gave him the final handshake when I was sure there was too much going on for him to really be listening and I smiled and said, "I killed my grandmother this morning." I love saying that to people and they dont have any idea what you just said and they just let it slide. If it was important, they'll tell me again. Right?
Well it's 10 pm and Randy is soaking his dry skin in the tub and I thought I'd fill up a page about the day. Girls were on time to school. I only had my usual 5 today although we did see a city academy student that lives on our way from emerson to City academy out trying to catch the bus. If we see her in the future we'll stop and offer her a ride.
Today in my quiet time I questioned myself on how will I know the voice of the Lord? Or could I possibly be one of the people he will say," I never knew you." So I talked to Greg and he said prayer and reading the bible is the only way to know that you know Jesus. Work on that one on one relationship until you know Jesus. So that will be the goal of my private time tomorrow.
My wonderful husband dug my car out of the snow this morning so I knew it was going to be a good day and it was.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Well, today was a typical Tuesday. We had a hard time in the morning getting ready for school. I don't know what it is about Mondays but no one wants to get up on Mondays to go anywhere. But for some reason by Monday afternoon we're all in a great mood. Then comes the terrible Tuesday. For some reason it is harder to get up on Tuesdays then it is on Mondays. Tuesdays are grumpy. Tuesdays are angry. Then it doesn't help that Raina has basketball at 3:30 and another game at 7 pm. The hard part of that is the game thats in the middle of her games. If we were early enough to make it to the first game before they started to charge to get in then we've saved ourselves $15 or $20 just by being early. Well the East High leopards kicked some Highland ram butt this evening. JV, varsity and sophomore all won and they were all good games. I don't know how Raina did in the jv game but in the sophomore game she scored 6 points had a couple of steals and a couple of nice blocks.
I didn't get mad enough to hit any of the refs but some of the highland fans were throwing things at me while I was taking pictures. I gave them an evil glare and told my husband if they continued to throw things at me he was going to have to defend my honor and beat some respect into them for me. That escalation moment never occured.
Squishy put a pork roast in the crock pot and peeled some potatoes to boil for mashed potatoes so even at 9 at night we still had a lovely family dinner. Girls are in bed and we're waiting for another snow storm to hit the city tonight with 6 or 8 inches.
Good night family and friends.
We love you.
I didn't get mad enough to hit any of the refs but some of the highland fans were throwing things at me while I was taking pictures. I gave them an evil glare and told my husband if they continued to throw things at me he was going to have to defend my honor and beat some respect into them for me. That escalation moment never occured.
Squishy put a pork roast in the crock pot and peeled some potatoes to boil for mashed potatoes so even at 9 at night we still had a lovely family dinner. Girls are in bed and we're waiting for another snow storm to hit the city tonight with 6 or 8 inches.
Good night family and friends.
We love you.
just starting to blog
OK, this is my first attempt at blogging and I'm very excited about this. This can be a journal for everyone to read who is interested in the day to day lives and struggles of my family. I know I have family and friends who live far enough away that they don't know all the stuff going on in our lives every day. I've also wanted to keep a journal of sort where people can know what's going on and I can have a record of what's up in the russell household. It will be so much fun to see if I'm really the only one that cares what the scores to the basketball games are and if I'm succeeding in my journey to raise responsible Christian children. So here we go.... brand new journey.
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