Family Update

What is up.

Well, both girls are doing well at school. Gabriella's teacher and I spoke on Friday and Ms. Deb said Gabriella is doing well, she is attentive, does what she is told, and participates well with her classmates in the classroom. The only issue they are keeping an eye on is she is pretty shy and keeps to herself on the playground. Sydney is doing well at school. On Tuesday she gets to be one of the announcement speakers for her class. All the school children K-5 will see her on the tv and she will tell them about the ice pop party they get for being a very good class, well behaved in the hallways and stuff.

The girls went to Athens to our friend Andy's house for his daughter's 6th birthday party. The kids had a blast, they played on the two water slides, saw a magic show (Joyce's father was in from Pittsburg) Joyce is Andy's wife, ate supper, and had cake. Needless to say they did not want to leave. Joyce's mom does face painting so she painted all the kids. Not to suprising here Syd wanted the ice cream cone on her arm and butterfly, Gabby got the ice cream because it was PINK.

G is doing very well at school. She is teaching some lower grades and having to adjust. But, she is a fantastic teacher and will do well.

School is going well for me as well. We are four weeks into the school year. Which means I had better have my grades done very soon. Today I had a old student of mine from 2002 stop in to see me. He was a very tough kid to teach, very low reader, behavior issues, and low grades at school. I can't remember the number of times I made him angry for pushing him. He is now 18 and about to get married, he is going into the Marines in six months and he got his GED after dropping out of school. He also told me he is reading a lot now and that helped him with his GED. He wanted to come by and say thank you which made my day. It is nice to know you made a difference in at least one student's life. He is turning out to be an all right kid.

Not much else is new. The girls are going to the zoo with the youth group next week. Gabby has never been. Sydney has softball tryouts next week and the old coach emailed me seems like I might be coaching my own team this fall, Syd has also joined Girl Scouts which I have always wanted he to do. Gabby will be starting dance again in Sept. the studio she was going to has moved and will not be ready till mid Sept. We have been thinking about gymnastics, there is a nice place up near my school.

Got to run... See what happens when you don't write for seven days..

Love to all