Christmas in February

This how you know that you are behind. This year I wrote an annual Christmas letter and actually put it on the web. However, I never sent it to the people in my life who don't check the blog. Since before Christmas, I have been carrying around all of my Christmas cards and envelopes and address book for the time that I have a few minutes to sit down and mail out the letter. Some of the cards have glitter on them and I am opposed to glitter. (So is Ellen Degeneres.)

It is February 3 and I STILL haven't done it. TODAY, I will accomplish this goal and ban the glitter from those cards that has been following me around literally for months. Shameful, how busy I have been.

Bob is on a three week cycle of training sessions in Nebraska. He leaves on Sunday, does training all week, and returns on Friday. It is about a four hour drive.

It always appalls me how much Bob's company makes for Bob's work. Let me stress this isn't Bob getting this much money. For Bob to do training the company is paid $20,000 plus $2000 per person for one less than forty hour week of training. So, this company just spent $26,000 for last week. They will spend more than that for the week coming up and more again the next week. I love Bob and respect his knowledge, but I just don't know if his teaching ability is so much better than mine, that his company is paid more for one week than I am paid for half of a school year. I AM IN THE WRONG LINE OF WORK!

And work, I have been doing. We had a snow day on Friday and I was so grateful. It hasn't been so much my regular job, it has been committees that I either head or am a member of. (Ending preposition-bad, I know) This week we interviewed candidates for a new principal next year. I was happy that we had some good candidates.

Rachel is busy as always. My friend Robin and I went over last night for a skin care party. Rachel had made some very snazzy snacks.

Drew is a flying fool. He has been taking several classes and doing some short cross country flights alone. I think he is taking me up in April on my birthday. I'll have to diet or he says we won't be able to load much gas on the plane. I also told him he would have to pay since it was my birthday. He said it was going to be really SHORT flight. He really thought that after I explained that the last time I went up in a little airplane on my birthday, I threw up noodles ALL over the inside of the airplane. (Note, it is not possible to throw up OUT of an airplane.)

Mike and Ryan are getting closer to their seventeenth birthday at the end of this month. Hard to believe.

Veronica remains toothless in the front. Poor little thing has been having some sadness over the death of her paternal grandmother. It has been six months and she has come to realize the meaning of gone forever. What a hard lesson for anyone to learn.

Cash is moving on. He has a little cart shaped like a lawn mower and he holds on and rolls everywhere. Cash has three teeth now and he is refusing to eat baby food. I had hoped he would eat it longer, but I don't think it is going to happen.

Xena the cat is alive and not enjoying the cold weather. Jack the beta fish is the same. Somehow Veronica's hermit crab came to live here. What an incredibly boring pet!

Have a great week and I am going to "celebrate" the holiday (the old one) by addressing the Christmas letters. Sad, I know.