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Well, here it is with summer's end drawing near. I hope you have all had a great time with your boys this summer and gearing up for the autumn. My oldest son, Billy, will be going to college in a week and a half. A week and a half!!!! Oh, my gosh, it doesn't seem possible. For his graduation, I put together a DVD of still photos and excerpts from videos from the past. I'm really glad I did it, but it was very emotional for me to go back through all of those memories. At least he will be going to college very close by (only 15 minutes) at North Carolina State University. He is so independent and so ready to go, but I know I will miss him terribly.
The past four months have been a blur as we've been doing all the 'stuff' you do to get set to graduate and to go to college -- It was also a blur because my middle son, David, 15, had a great first year in high school, but he had a really tough Honors World History class second semester; I ended up having to go through some of the stuff with him to help him study. (Just ask me about the Peloponnesian and Persian wars or the Renaissance - ha!) He played summer baseball with his new high school (reassigned to another school after his freshman year -- back to the school that my oldest son went to for one year before he was reassigned - long story). David will be taking Driver's Ed next week. My youngest will be 9 on Monday-- a lot going on.
Okay, so much for the New Year's Resolution of updating my blog regularly!! Has it been that long??
To be honest, I've been overwhelmed lately with so many passwords and user names for my oldest son's college applications/College Board pages and my middle son's high school Blackboard and Span sites, that every time I would think, "I need to update my blog," I'd draw a a complete blank on my user name and passwords. And yes, I knew they were listed in my desk in the bottom of a drawer, but the thought of digging through all those papers to get to it, made me sick to my stomach. Sounds ridiculous, I know, but sometimes you just get brain overload, and that's what was happening to me with all of my sons' stuff.
Here are links to two great articles - one an article by NY Times reporter Lisa Belkin written in 1999 when she found out she was going to have another boy and one from Belkin's blog Motherlode, also on the topic of having another boy. Enjoy!
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E3D71E3FF936A15754C0A96F958260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=11
- great article by NY Times reporter/Motherlode blogger Lisa Belkin about wanting a daughter
Happy Holidays, everyone! And I wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe 2009!
We had a rather eventful Christmas morning. I went upstairs after we opened our presents only to find some strands of what I thought was wrapping paper. I was about to ask who had wrapped up something and left paper lying on the floor when I noticed the paper had chocolate smears on it -- and suddenly I realized Fenway, our 4-year-old long haired dachshund had eated the chocolate bar I'd placed on top of my mother-in-law's present! And it was a big chocolate bar!
Hope you are all ready for the holiday season! As usual, I am not. Still have shopping to do.
Recently, I've been involved in fighting our high school reassignment; our area in our fast growing county was reassigned to anothe high school for next year, meaning that this would be the third different high school our students would go to in five years. Crazy. My oldest son started at one school and was reassigned the following year to a new school where he is now a senior; my middle son started his freshman year at the same school as my older son, but was reassigned for next year. Our group thinks we have things worked out and that the Board of Education realized that our reassignment had to be changed because our area has been hit with reassignment four times in eight years, while other areas have not been touched. We'll see what happens. But when you get involved in something like that, that is pretty much all you do for a few weeks -- emails and writing letters and phone calls. Time to get back to my real job.
I have to have my next book ready for my agent to submit to publishers in January! More on that later.
One holiday boy-related note -- each year I have each of my three sons pick out a gift for someone their age