Post by Honeylioness on Oct 5, 2009 15:04:56 GMT -5
05 October 2009
It stinks being sick - I have had this blasted cough for over a week now, a remnant of the cold bug Anne brought home with her from school a couple of weeks ago. As a result I had nothing planned for this past weekend except to try and feel better and hope to make a dent in the mounds of paper that seem to multiply on my desk when I am not looking.
However, even the torrential rain cannot hamper teenage girls intent on shopping it seems.
Anne and her friend Bianca convinced her father to drive them to the Mall after school on Friday with the idea of seeing a movie as well. I was under the impression he would be picking them up also - but alas, I was the one who got the 10:00 pm call to please come pick them up.
After Saturday morning's chorale practice they again wanted to head up towards the Mall - although what new items would have been delivered overnight I have no idea. I think it is both an age and a temperament thing. I never did care all that much for malls, not even when I was Anne's age. I have always preferred quirky second hand or junk shops, places where I could get clothing cheap and then alter or embellish it to make it uniquely my own. Now, when I do venture to step inside a mall I count the seconds until I can once again escape. It is just sensory overload that swamps me and makes me long for the quiet of sewing or working in the garden.
However, I do understand the draw for a modern 17 year old, especially when she has a friend to hang out with. So off the went again on Saturday after Bianca got off work. Then from the Mall they walked the half mile to the Roller Palace to skate before Bianca's father was once again pressed into chauffeur duty.
This Thursday evening I am bringing Anne down to Carolyn's house where she will camp out on the floor after gorging on pizza with a bunch of other students, then it is off to meet the tour bus to Niagara Falls for the weekend.
I wonder what she will think of the Falls and area. Odd, I am a New England native and I have never been to Niagara myself.
Well, have to run. Leaving work on time today then an early dinner and off to a "parents" meeting for her Choral group.
Pictures from her Niagara Falls trip:
s25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/honey36_/Anne%20T%202009-2010/Niagara%20Falls%20Oct2009/
06 October 2009
Poor Anne. I came home today and was starting to assemble my documents for the condo board association meeting when it occurred to me that it was a bit TOO quiet upstairs.
She is feeling lousy and came straight home from school and crawled into bed. Just feeling achy all over, her head aches and she says her throat is bit sore. What timing. She is to leave in two days for the trip to Niagara Falls. So I made her something to eat, got her some juice and she has gone back to bed.
No swimming for her tomorrow, I think the chlorine would do nothing positive for her throat. Hopefully I can pamper the germs away ... or at least try.
The meeting of parents and guardians of the Spindles Choral group last night was an ..... interesting .... experience. The kids do have several major competitions and festivals coming up which I was able to get more information about - which was very helpful as teenagers tend to only "remember" things the night before.
04 November 2009
It is very quiet in the house last weekend - Anne is off with two other YFU students who live nearby - Maeva & Yui. They had their Halloween party and sleep over down in Mansfield on Saturday.
I had worked out a plan with the other family that I would drive them down and they would pick them up. And then the brake lines on my truck blew out on the way home from work. Thank God it did not happen while I had the girls in the car on the Interstate. And Art graciously adjusted his plans to not only drive them down but pick them back up.
Anne is going in costume as an Egyptian lady. We had run to the Mall on the Sunday before to re-load her texting minutes and she wanted "just a minute" to look at costumes. I should have known that "just a minute" actually means "I need to look at everything in several stores more than once before I can make up my mind - this will take at least an hour"
FINALLY after much angst and debate and vacillating back and forth with themes a costume was procured and we could flee the confines of the Mall. At least I could flee - teenage girls seem to never tire of the place.
I will post some pictures as soon as she gets them to me.
Let's see - what else have we been up to?
The weekend before we had gone to the last day for the season at my favorite pick-you-own fruit farm and brought back about 20 pounds of pumpkins and 25 pounds of apples. Hmmm, I need to post those as well.
I have really fallen down on the job the last few weeks!!!
Halloween Pictures:
s25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/honey36_/Anne%20T%202009-2010/Halloween%202009/
Assorted October Pictures:
s25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/honey36_/Anne%20T%202009-2010/October%202009/
It stinks being sick - I have had this blasted cough for over a week now, a remnant of the cold bug Anne brought home with her from school a couple of weeks ago. As a result I had nothing planned for this past weekend except to try and feel better and hope to make a dent in the mounds of paper that seem to multiply on my desk when I am not looking.
However, even the torrential rain cannot hamper teenage girls intent on shopping it seems.
Anne and her friend Bianca convinced her father to drive them to the Mall after school on Friday with the idea of seeing a movie as well. I was under the impression he would be picking them up also - but alas, I was the one who got the 10:00 pm call to please come pick them up.
After Saturday morning's chorale practice they again wanted to head up towards the Mall - although what new items would have been delivered overnight I have no idea. I think it is both an age and a temperament thing. I never did care all that much for malls, not even when I was Anne's age. I have always preferred quirky second hand or junk shops, places where I could get clothing cheap and then alter or embellish it to make it uniquely my own. Now, when I do venture to step inside a mall I count the seconds until I can once again escape. It is just sensory overload that swamps me and makes me long for the quiet of sewing or working in the garden.
However, I do understand the draw for a modern 17 year old, especially when she has a friend to hang out with. So off the went again on Saturday after Bianca got off work. Then from the Mall they walked the half mile to the Roller Palace to skate before Bianca's father was once again pressed into chauffeur duty.
This Thursday evening I am bringing Anne down to Carolyn's house where she will camp out on the floor after gorging on pizza with a bunch of other students, then it is off to meet the tour bus to Niagara Falls for the weekend.
I wonder what she will think of the Falls and area. Odd, I am a New England native and I have never been to Niagara myself.
Well, have to run. Leaving work on time today then an early dinner and off to a "parents" meeting for her Choral group.
Pictures from her Niagara Falls trip:
s25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/honey36_/Anne%20T%202009-2010/Niagara%20Falls%20Oct2009/
06 October 2009
Poor Anne. I came home today and was starting to assemble my documents for the condo board association meeting when it occurred to me that it was a bit TOO quiet upstairs.
She is feeling lousy and came straight home from school and crawled into bed. Just feeling achy all over, her head aches and she says her throat is bit sore. What timing. She is to leave in two days for the trip to Niagara Falls. So I made her something to eat, got her some juice and she has gone back to bed.
No swimming for her tomorrow, I think the chlorine would do nothing positive for her throat. Hopefully I can pamper the germs away ... or at least try.
The meeting of parents and guardians of the Spindles Choral group last night was an ..... interesting .... experience. The kids do have several major competitions and festivals coming up which I was able to get more information about - which was very helpful as teenagers tend to only "remember" things the night before.
04 November 2009
It is very quiet in the house last weekend - Anne is off with two other YFU students who live nearby - Maeva & Yui. They had their Halloween party and sleep over down in Mansfield on Saturday.
I had worked out a plan with the other family that I would drive them down and they would pick them up. And then the brake lines on my truck blew out on the way home from work. Thank God it did not happen while I had the girls in the car on the Interstate. And Art graciously adjusted his plans to not only drive them down but pick them back up.
Anne is going in costume as an Egyptian lady. We had run to the Mall on the Sunday before to re-load her texting minutes and she wanted "just a minute" to look at costumes. I should have known that "just a minute" actually means "I need to look at everything in several stores more than once before I can make up my mind - this will take at least an hour"
FINALLY after much angst and debate and vacillating back and forth with themes a costume was procured and we could flee the confines of the Mall. At least I could flee - teenage girls seem to never tire of the place.
I will post some pictures as soon as she gets them to me.
Let's see - what else have we been up to?
The weekend before we had gone to the last day for the season at my favorite pick-you-own fruit farm and brought back about 20 pounds of pumpkins and 25 pounds of apples. Hmmm, I need to post those as well.
I have really fallen down on the job the last few weeks!!!
Halloween Pictures:
s25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/honey36_/Anne%20T%202009-2010/Halloween%202009/
Assorted October Pictures:
s25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/honey36_/Anne%20T%202009-2010/October%202009/