2nd Week December

2nd week December - busy week #1.

Last weekend Tyler was gone pretty much the whole weekend. He spent the night with a friend Friday night, then with another friend Saturday night. All 4 of us went to Guitar Center last Saturday and then we ate at Mazzio's Pizza in Jackson. We got Tyler a new mp3 player for his birthday and he was thrilled with it. I made 3 cakes for his birthday, plus one that Terri made. I made a chocolate cake for him to take to church Sunday morning to celebrate. Then I made 2 more chocolate cakes (one with icing, one WITHOUT icing) for us to have Sunday afternoon. Terri made a strawberry cake and brought it over - it was gooood. Keith, Angela, and Jenifer came over Sunday for football and birthday, and Terri came over with Dustin and Cody. Keith and Rusty held Tyler down and I had the honor of giving him the birthday spanking. He was really having a fit about it until he found out that it would be ME that gave him the spanking, and not Keith or Rusty. He didn't care if I did it, he just didn't want them to lol. Papaw and Mamaw came over and gave him a USM shirt and a couple of LSU shirts, which he has worn pretty much every day since. I took numerous pictures:





















Anyway, Sunday was a really great Saints game. Even I got into it.

Monday - I began day 1 of rehearsals for the 4th grade play, or as I commonly thought of it all week - my week's worth of torture and abuse. I don't know how I did it, but I survived without having a nervous breakdown or pulling out all my hair, and we actually put on a pretty cute show this morning. I spent a good bit of Monday trying to piece my home made Santa suit back together. It has seen it's better days. I made it about 3 years ago with a red sweat suit, quilt batting, and hot glue. It looked much better then. Monday night we had band practice and I was just SO tired. But we still sounded good. Can't wait to hear the new speakers and see new lights next week.

Tuesday - We had a PTO meeting that night and I had my honor choir perform Christmas music at the meeting. I usually do a play at the PTO meeting but the last several years I can't seem to get enough kids to show up to make it worth the effort. So this year I decided to use the honor choir, and to get the PTO to advertise that they would serve refreshments. I had 35 out of 40 honor choir students show up. It was great lol. I begged Rusty to let me use a real guitar for my play on Friday. Just wanted to use that little one we have that he lets Tanner play with. He said NO. It's NOT a toy. So I went shopping for an affordable toy guitar that would be suitable, and found NONE.

Wednesday - I began to get tired. lol. I did a bit of Christmas shopping that afternoon. Several times in the last week or so I have gone to a specific place to get a specific thing and I end up getting the very LAST one they have. I've been lucky. We watched a movie at home, and I didn't even cook anything I don't think. Rusty gave a guitar lesson to a friend of ours who just got his first guitar.

Thursday - Rusty had a change of heart for some reason, and agreed to let me use the real guitar. ONe of our teachers informed me that the PTO had a Santa suit and an elf suit that I could borrow if I wanted. Better late than never. It was much better than my old home made pieced together raggedy thing lol. We watched 2 more movies at home. I tossed and turned all night and had those dreams I always have when I'm worried about a play performance. I always dream that I have all the kids on stage and we're about to begin, but I've screwed up something majorly - like I forgot to bring the music or something. Or the kids forget the words, or the speakers blow out. Numerous things. Usually it's that I have the wrong music, or have no music at all. I got hardly any sleep and woke up with a migraine on Friday.

Friday - the big day. The play went well. My "Elfis" (Elvis) got a little shy on me though and didn't ham it up as much as I had hoped. Tanner was the ham - he was Santa Claus doing the "Twist". OVerall, I think it turned out pretty cute. I should have had Tanner be Elvis. lol. I had promised Tyler a month ago that on Dec. 15 we would go to the movies to see "Eragon". He wants to see it badly because he read the book last year. So we all set out to go to the movies in Clinton tonight. We intended to eat at Applebee's, but they were too packed so we just went to Chick-fil-a. We then waited in line at the movies for 20 minutes only to find out that the dang movie had sold out! Rusty had told me earlier in the day to reserve some tickets just in case - I said nah, they didn't even sell out Star Wars so they won't sell out this one. I got to listen to "I told you so" all the way home. And poor Tyler was disappointed, but he really took it ok I guess. Now we can't see it til next Wednesday because we're going to Dad's tomorrow, have a football game to watch Sunday night, I have bonko Monday, and Tuesday is band practice. Rusty got a Christmas card from Ebay. He's way too darn good of a customer I'll say.

Compare, if you will, the fancy PTO Santa suit and my home made Santa rag :

More pics from the play:

So! It's been a wild week! And it's just beginning! lol. Tomorrow morning me and the kids are headed to Dad's, then to a get together of his side of the family. Then Sunday we'll be driving back home. Next week at work I"ll be putting together the big hour and a half singalong for the last day of school, which is Thursday. I think next Friday morning I might get some sleep. And might get to finish my shopping that afternoon I hope.