first dive meet of the summer ‘08 season

The boys did wonderful.
Keigan Michael came in 2nd, in the boys 9/10 category.
Denver came in 3rd in his very first competition in the highly competitive 15 and over category.
Corbin came in 2nd in the 15 and over category.
I like this part of the summer. I like watching my children do their ‘thing’ at the [...]

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it’s a new day

What a nice day.
We’ll have a swimming lesson for Keara and swim team practice for Denver and Keigan Michael, later this morning. I’m going to get a couple of hours of housework in, so that’ll make me and the house feel better LOL. We might have time for some free swim time, this afternoon, but [...]

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first swim meet last night

My younger three children all took part in the first community pool swim meet of the season tonight! We have been members of this pool since the summer of 2002. All five of the children are still active in the pool, most of the time.
Keara joined the swim team in late [...]

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“we don’t want to play with you”

To give a little background to today’s blog entry.
1. I’ve been very upfront, I hope, about my struggles with housekeeping. Sadly, I am a “Messy”, living in a “Cleanies” world. As a matter of fact, I’m a lifetime member and current president of the Messy club. A messy is a poor [...]

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i have to be more diligent!

This is shameful!
I purpose to at least blog daily, then 13 days go by before I write a single thing *sigh*.
We’ve been busy. Not more than normal busy, just family busy. The days seem to just fill up, and before I know it their gone. The worst part of all that is, [...]

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Well, it’s been about a week, maybe more, since I was here. There is much going on. I am making slow progress towards reclaiming my home. I don’t think I mentioned that I am a Recovering Slob. I got to SLOB anonymous just about everyday, so that helps. It is [...]

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