The Rest of the Story

Okay, I have no excuse for my absence.  We did find the Thunder Shirt about a month after it went missing and Abby happily wears it when it storms.  It was velcro attached to a girl's clothing.  I knew it!  I kept saying "look in your drawers!"

We have been crazy busy with the girls.

The oldest, aka Miss Brunette, is the photo editor for the yearbook and has gone to almost every event at THS.  She is also busy with NCL and preparing for NAU in the fall.  She wants to major in education.

The youngest, aka Blonde Girl, has taken high school by storm.  She is in marching band, which took 7th place in the Super State Band Competition in their division. She is also in soccer, chorus, concert band, photo club, drama club and was in the play, "The Little Mermaid,"  In addition, to all of that she is in NCL and completing her last year of confirmation.

Luckily all of BG's activities are not at once.

Love Man is good and continues to like his job.  He is an avid hiker and yesterday hiked 9 1/2 miles.

I am the same and trying to keep up with my job, NCL, the family and house.

We have added no new pets.  We still have the three dogs and the cat.

A Private Investigation

The Thunder Shirt is still missing.

We have looked everywhere for it.

It has a lot of velcro on it and it has to to stuck to something.  I don't know.  I figure, the minute I buy a new one, the other one will turn up.

Rain Day

We did not have school today due to extreme rain.  Phoenix does not have great street drainage as it rains
6 - 8 inches per year.  The girls have NEVER missed school due to weather.  They look at me vaguely when I try to explain to them what a Snow Day is.

We had our Rain Day.  We went and watched someone get rescued when he tried to drive through a washed out street.  This is a reoccurring problem in our neighborhood.  This is the second rescue we have watched since the Monsoon Season began.

I believe this is why Arizona has a Stupid Motorist Law.

And So It Goes

Tonight is the first high school football game.  Blonde Girl is going with the band as they go to the away games.  Miss Brunette is going as it is an important game and she is the photo editor for the yearbook.

And, I don't want to alarm you - but the thunder shirt has gone missing.  I washed it and it was with the folded laundry.  I am spending time tomorrow searching for it.  It also rained and poor Abby followed me around the house while I searched the drawer where it lives and the basket by my bed for that stupid, very helpful shirt.

Happy Labor Day Weekend.

Ta Da!

We did survive the summer break.  Miss Brunette continued her work as a life guard and is going to be one of the head guards next year.  Blonde Girl became a certified life guard and will hopefully continue to pass the swimming instructor class, the swimming test, etc. and be eligible for the best summer job ever.

BG also attended lots of band rehearsals and is now at school at 6:30 in the morning four days a week.

My school starts tomorrow.  We have done our room, the home visits and made it through our Open House.

Whatever His Name Was

Woke up to a dead Beta fish.

Funny, I can not remember his name.

Blue.  Indigo.

The girls were fine with his untimely death.  Better than with some of our other dearly departed Betas.

Thunder Shirt to the Rescue

Sam and Abby during fairer weather.

 It rained last night and thundered quite a bit.  I got up to get Abby her thunder shirt and she followed me and stood while I pulled it out of the drawer.  She then held very still while I pressed the velcro down.  She is still wearing it this morning.

I am not sure how much rain we got.  It seemed pretty dry this morning.