wow, nice posts, everyone!
yay!!! ryan and michelle are going to have a daughter and matt and i will have a niece!!!
and the long-awaited post from my grammy (who has had a dislocated shoulder which has been healing for the past month) was the best!!!
dad--please give teresa metzger my love, too--i didn't get a chance to say goodbye to her before we moved--now she must know! that's really great that she is hosting a tanzanian person at her house.
mare- if you ever mention that thing about a cow again, i will personally hurt you! so sick!!! way worse than matt's toe post!!!
happy graduation justin!
mike, hope you get that job--it sounds allllllllsome!
matt and i are going to a block party in pacific beach today, where they close down some streets, have food and stuff, and a bunch of local bands play on different stages. it's the closest we're going to get to cornerstone music festival this year... which, that reminds me, michelle--i can't believe your radio station! how annoying and self-righteous! i'm laughing at how ridiculous they are, but it's actually very sad. i appreciate your form of boycotting, though (with the devil's music:).
23 days left of school! yeah!
too many exclamation marks on this blog!
tracey
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
hello everyone.
tomorrow is thursday!!!
i'm back to reality with seeing my kiddos.
it's been awhile for some of them between spring break, field trips, and my conference last week!
therefore, i will start with quotes from kids:
first off, i was reading a book with a little boy. i forget how the topic came up, but i had asked this peanut if he ever made his mom so sad that she cried.
he said (in a very sad voice), "oh yes.
once mom and i were making brownies and it was a very bad day for me.
so my mom was crying and crying.
and it broked my heart."
and today i was walking down the hall and i heard small running footsteps, so i turned around,
and a little blond peanut came running straight into me with a great big hug!
me: "oh hi keegan!! i missed you!"
peanut: "i missed you! i was just coming out of the bathroom and i was so glad to see you walking down the hall!"
he let go and we had a little conversation. then he hugged me again. then we talked some more. then he hugged me again.
in my head i was laughing so hard! he was so cute and it was fun to get totally unsolicited hugs!
finally, he stepped back and said, "where were you, anyways?"
"i was at a conference last week and the week before that you were on a field trip," i told him.
"oh. i have another field trip, but thankfully, it's not on friday!!! (his speech day)"
and he hugged me again.
did i mention that i love my job?
and did i mention that i have 25 days of school until summer vacation?
matt and i are heading up to chowtown for memorial day weekend!!! we're going to see mare and case in their new life in chowchilla, a unique place to live...
or is it a unique way of life? i can't remember what that sign says now!
by the way, i don't know if i mentioned this on my blog, but a couple weeks ago it was my grammy and granddad's 60th wedding anniversary.
and they are still so in love--such an example and inspiration for all of us who have just started our journey.
-tracey
tomorrow is thursday!!!
i'm back to reality with seeing my kiddos.
it's been awhile for some of them between spring break, field trips, and my conference last week!
therefore, i will start with quotes from kids:
first off, i was reading a book with a little boy. i forget how the topic came up, but i had asked this peanut if he ever made his mom so sad that she cried.
he said (in a very sad voice), "oh yes.
once mom and i were making brownies and it was a very bad day for me.
so my mom was crying and crying.
and it broked my heart."
and today i was walking down the hall and i heard small running footsteps, so i turned around,
and a little blond peanut came running straight into me with a great big hug!
me: "oh hi keegan!! i missed you!"
peanut: "i missed you! i was just coming out of the bathroom and i was so glad to see you walking down the hall!"
he let go and we had a little conversation. then he hugged me again. then we talked some more. then he hugged me again.
in my head i was laughing so hard! he was so cute and it was fun to get totally unsolicited hugs!
finally, he stepped back and said, "where were you, anyways?"
"i was at a conference last week and the week before that you were on a field trip," i told him.
"oh. i have another field trip, but thankfully, it's not on friday!!! (his speech day)"
and he hugged me again.
did i mention that i love my job?
and did i mention that i have 25 days of school until summer vacation?
matt and i are heading up to chowtown for memorial day weekend!!! we're going to see mare and case in their new life in chowchilla, a unique place to live...
or is it a unique way of life? i can't remember what that sign says now!
by the way, i don't know if i mentioned this on my blog, but a couple weeks ago it was my grammy and granddad's 60th wedding anniversary.
and they are still so in love--such an example and inspiration for all of us who have just started our journey.
-tracey
Sunday, May 04, 2003
wow, great song mike!!! what instrument(s) did you play?
and mare, if you get a second, i'd like to hear a copy of chantal's new one--i love the lyrics for that song you posted a few days ago (about time).
we had a PERFECT night last night!!!!! matt and i drove up to LA last night, where our friend chelsea was on business. we hung out at santa monica and venice beach (where muscle beach is and the cool outdoor bball courts are from white men can't jump). venice beach had a very cool and extremely long boardwalk, which i would love to see during the summer sometime--but it was sprinkling, so no one was out yesterday. then we picked chels up at marina del ray at her hotel. we went back to santa monica strip for dinner at this cool place called gaucho grille and talked like maniacs. for those of you who don't know, chelsea and connell got the heck out of dodge (BG) and moved to manhattan, where they have similar stories of being blessed by the lord with jobs, apartments, and everything else!!! it was so great to be with a friend who is just like family. and to be able to talk all night long!!!! we missed connell, who was back in manhattan--but a visit is brewing for the end of summer....
mare, matt said you guys could have us up for memorial day weekend? we thought about traffic and all that and figured it wouldn't be bad if we left at like 7 am on saturday (the 24th) and then drove back monday afternoon (the 26th). what do you think?
happy birthday emily!!!! hope you had a great one!!!
michelle, never say never about cornerstone festival! we might all go back with our kids someday!!! remember how many people had kids and little babies there? but it was so much fun! your memories were right on! my favorite part was lounging on the air mattress with you and mare way out at the other end of the lake and having people call to us from shore on bull horns, telling us to come back in. to which we responded by (the first time) giving a wave and nodding and (the second and third time) just looking and turning over to our stomach or back. then they pulled out the big guns and sent a canoe of people out after us. to which we responded by fake paddling back to shore.
farewell friends.
tracey
and mare, if you get a second, i'd like to hear a copy of chantal's new one--i love the lyrics for that song you posted a few days ago (about time).
we had a PERFECT night last night!!!!! matt and i drove up to LA last night, where our friend chelsea was on business. we hung out at santa monica and venice beach (where muscle beach is and the cool outdoor bball courts are from white men can't jump). venice beach had a very cool and extremely long boardwalk, which i would love to see during the summer sometime--but it was sprinkling, so no one was out yesterday. then we picked chels up at marina del ray at her hotel. we went back to santa monica strip for dinner at this cool place called gaucho grille and talked like maniacs. for those of you who don't know, chelsea and connell got the heck out of dodge (BG) and moved to manhattan, where they have similar stories of being blessed by the lord with jobs, apartments, and everything else!!! it was so great to be with a friend who is just like family. and to be able to talk all night long!!!! we missed connell, who was back in manhattan--but a visit is brewing for the end of summer....
mare, matt said you guys could have us up for memorial day weekend? we thought about traffic and all that and figured it wouldn't be bad if we left at like 7 am on saturday (the 24th) and then drove back monday afternoon (the 26th). what do you think?
happy birthday emily!!!! hope you had a great one!!!
michelle, never say never about cornerstone festival! we might all go back with our kids someday!!! remember how many people had kids and little babies there? but it was so much fun! your memories were right on! my favorite part was lounging on the air mattress with you and mare way out at the other end of the lake and having people call to us from shore on bull horns, telling us to come back in. to which we responded by (the first time) giving a wave and nodding and (the second and third time) just looking and turning over to our stomach or back. then they pulled out the big guns and sent a canoe of people out after us. to which we responded by fake paddling back to shore.
farewell friends.
tracey