Weekly Wrap-up - October 4

Hannah left to go home this week. I started putting the house "back in order" this weekend, but I really miss all the crafty stuff in my living room and my BFF cousin hanging out to talk to and watch trashy reality TV with. I do, however, think that Lucky is happy to have her pillows back on the hearth. She has laid there so much since I got it put back together.


John was still in Austin working for the State Guard this week. He loves being down there. Maybe some day they will have the budget to hire him full-time.  On Saturday, they had the change of command and John was glad to be there for that. General Rodriguez actually gave him a shout-out in his farewell speech for his work on the toy drive.

After the Changing of Command, John was coined by the Senior Enlisted Advisor of the Texas Military Forces.

Jacob had two tests this week - he now has a 104% in his history class. (It's a history professor, not a math professor LOL!) After a rough start in his online web programming class, he got an 88.5% on that test. He had some problems doing the online class where all you do is learn out of a book (like his father, he is a visual, hands-on learner) so I am tutoring him, means I am learning HTML code, too. Watch out people - I may just start designing websites. (Who am I kidding? When would I actually have time for that??)


We got a wonderful thunderstorm on Thursday. Ok,  not so wonderful for the person in Frisco whose house caught on fire because of lightning, but wonderful because September was one of the driest in history and we're already in a drought with Stage 3 water restrictions. I was at work at SLA in my little office in the center of the office (no windows). Larry and Amy were out so their doors closed and I didn't even know it was raining! I saw an FB post by my friend Brenda where she had videoed the storm at her house. I hurriedly opened Amy's door and it was SO dark - seemed almost like night. I stood at her window and watched the golfers try to get undercover, the rain come down in sheets, and the trees blow like crazy. I had watered our backyard tree the night before. The last time I watered the tree it also rained. Looks like there is no raindance at my house - just water the tree.





John was at the Austin mall on Saturday and saw this site. Please Dillards, let us get past Halloween before the Christmas decorations go up!!!






We ended the week with a very special event. Janice Scott was the librarian at Jacob's elementary school (Curtsinger). She is one of the sweetest, most gentle ladies I know. He absolutely adored her and I know that is where his love of reading was really sparked. This year Frisco ISD opened Janice Stahley Scott Elementary School!

 Jacob and Ms. Scott

Jacob and Ms. Boyce

We went to the dedication today and saw so many of my old Curtsinger buddies and some of Jacob's old teachers, as well as his principal Debbie Boyce (couldn't ever be a better one!). It was a very nice ceremony, and never the one to crave the spotlight, in true Janice Scott fashion, she was humble and praised the students and staff of the school as well as recognizing a gentleman who was there who had served at the Battle of the Bulge (90 years old). We toured the school, visited with people, and were amazed at the size and the technology. Not surprisingly, the book fair groupies Renee (and her all-grown-up kids Kate and Tony), Jenny, Kathy, Margaret, and me pretty much made a beeline to library where we visited and expounded on how huge and nice the library was. As Jacob would see things, he would say "back in my day..." (i.e. "Back in my day we didn't have projectors in the ceiling - our teachers wrote on those plastic sheets that were on those projector machines that you had to keep focusing." "Back in my day, we didn't have big flat screen TVs that they could do presentations on." "Back in my day, the computer lab was in the middle of a pod, not in a class of its own.") It was a nice day and made me realize how much I miss the times back at Curtsinger. But time moves on and seasons change so we just need to feel blessed with the life that we lead today.