Weight Watchers – Matt is joining me in the Weight Watchers program. I am so excited as I think that will really help me stay accountable, and as he gets older I do worry about the amounts and types of foods he eats…. You can read what he thinks about it here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=172975371 We’re just doing it on our own – not going to the meetings. I’ll let you know how it goes… today went well. I’m hoping maybe this time we can finally stick with it – it was just really hard in summer.

Dane woke up last night with the croopy cough. He is our only kid who has ever really gotten that and he seems to get it at least a couple times per year. I was supposed to go to Bible Study and garage saling with a friend this morning, but I ended up staying home since I wasn’t sure how sick he was. Well, he ended up being active and fine all day… but I still have his humidifier running since it seems to always recur at night. Hopefully that will help him not cough much tonight. I think Matt and I are finally pretty much over our colds. YEA! It’s about time!

So anyway, since I stayed him with Dane this morning my day was all thrown off and I totally forgot to go to school to do computers this afternoon… I picked the kids up afterschool and Christian’s teacher says “We missed you this afternoon…” and I was like… for what? Then she says computers, and I about died – I felt so bad! She said it all worked out, she had another lesson she could teach instead… but still. I told her they should have called me – it only takes me 5 minutes to get there. How embarrassing. I think my schedule just got off since we were home all day. I had even told my friend that I was planning on going garage saling with last night that I had to be back in time to do computers. She stopped by this afternoon after school and found it quite funny that I had forgotten… although she says she did that once too.

Christian got to go to a friend’s house after school, which was great as he is always sad that Ryan gets to do things and he doesn’t. Ryan goes to a birthday party tomorrow morning, so perfect timing that Christian had something special today.

Ryan got his progress report today, it was very good. A+ in Religion, A+ in spelling, B in reading, A in Math and pluses in everything else. I’m good with that! He’s doing great. Christian didn’t get a progress report, but he seems to be doing fairly well as well. Most papers have E (for excellent) on them, except for handwriting which is usually S (for Satisfactory). I have noticed even within the last week that his name is getting better and better. He is able to write it a bit smaller and with more control it seems. He still loves school so that is great! We feel so blessed to have a nice small quality Lutheran private school just 3 miles down the road – we couldn’t ask for anything better.

Dane’s newest thing is play with me, play with me, play with me… He used to be pretty good at entertaining himself, so I’m not sure what happened… but he seems to be taking on the only child characteristics now that the older boys are off at school. Of course we enjoy playing with him, but at some point we have to accomplish something during the day. He’s so cute though and I know these last couple of years at home are going to fly by too fast.

Tomorrow night we get to go to a hayride / appetizer party so that should be lots of fun. The rest of tomorrow is our typical Saturday cleaning day.

Anyway, Matt is downstairs watching a movie and I think I will go get caught up on my recorded T.V. of the week. I have been addicted to the Discovery Health channel lately.

Have a fun weekend!