It's been a while... too long...

Wow. Last post was 1/22. That's too long....

Let's see if I can remember. It gets hard now that I'm getting older to remember back more than a week or so.

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We think Adam will be going to a new preschool next year. Yeah! I think he likes the school he's at now but it is designed more for learning challenged kids. this kid is anything but learning challenged! He's really quite clever too. He woke up about 2:45 in the morning on Sunday wanting to go get a book downstairs and read it! So, we hear him get up and first Betsy puts him back in bed, then I hear him and he's 2 steps down the stairs. I catch him, shoosh him back to bed and then 5 min. later he does it again. Only this time he decides to close our door first!! By the time Betsy gets up he's one step from the bottom. She gets him back into bed and promises that *dad* will read the book tomorrow. So.... lo and behold, 6:38 he comes barelling in our room ready to go downstairs and very first thing out of his mouth is i want to read that book about cars and trucks and things that go. I start reading... he takes it away and flips through until he finds the page with all of the trains on it. He stares at that for about 15 min. and then the book is pushed aside. If I would have known that I would have let him read it !!

Henry was a little sick. Had to take him to the doc office on MLK Jr. day. He had a major ear infection and a slight bout of croup. Lucky us.... 2 kids with tendencies toward croup. Now we know the drill though so it should be easier (in a way). Adam got it really bad as a baby (before we knew what it was) and had to go to the ER a few times. Not this time !! Henry also is getting a set of chompers. About 1/2 of one top big tooth, 1/3 of another and two more up top poking through. You can tell it bothers him at times. Hate to give him so much meds but not sure what else to do....

Started class last week (part of the reason for not posting). Finance class is about 75/25 college-age students. 35 people or so stuffed in the room. Professor is from Israel and he's got a bit of a thick accent but he's pretty easy-going so it shouldn't be too difficult. Operations Management professor is a grizzled old vet. Nearing retirement. He put us in teams on the first day and wouldn't you know... I'm in a team with 3 ladies - 1 from Bulgaria, 1 from Turkey, 1 from El Salvador. First class we're supposed to present our definition of management. We're all talking about it when Turkey and Bulgaria start a war about how European management is different than American management!! Long story short, Turkey pulls me aside after class, asks me what to do and then drops the class due to a "scheduling conflict". Whew! I wasn't looking fwd to playing peacekeeper for a whole semester. So next class we get a new person... another girl... exchange student from Mexico!! This will be an interesting class.

We had one day when it snowed really heavy wet stuff and lots of trees and branches broke off due to the weight of the snow. We lost a couple of limbs from a huge pine tree I can't stand. Wish the whole thing would have fallen because it would have fell on the powerlines and the power company would have had to come and remove it. Maybe I can get them to subsidize some of the cost of removing it this spring.... So far though it's just been cold. Real cold.

Scary thing at work .... a good guy who I chat with about stuff often had a heart attack while shoveling snow. I guess he pretty much realized it and they got him to the ER in time. Just put a couple of stints in and he'll be ready to go back to work in a couple of weeks. Didn't even have to open him up. Amazing! Weird thing is he's about my dad's age and same thing happened to my dad about 3 months ago.

Let's see... what else? Ecomony is in the tank and I hope we get those tax rebates they're talking about. We could sure use the cash.
I've been refinishing (sand/seal/prime/paint) some cabinets at home for Betsy.
Patriots are in the Super Bowl! Awesome. We moved here in 2000 and since then the Pats won in 01 and 03, Red Sox in 04, and now Pats in 07. Titletown USA baby!

I'm sure other stuff has been going on. I'll add more post if I can recall... Better get to work for now and stop goofing off. I need to post some pics on this thing.