I am so happy the time has changed back to where I can get an "extra" hour of sleep. Alright, so I don't get the "extra" sleep except for the first night, but I like to think I will be getting more. I don't get to excited about it getting dark earlier, but hey! I guess I can't have everything! Work was pretty stressful last week, so it's been nice to totally just veg out this weekend. I'm not sure what's going to become of some things, but I am trying not to worry as much as I was last week. I know things will work out somehow. This must just be another painful learning experience! Thankfully, the homefront has been quiet for the time being. Preston and I spent the day taking Hunter Safety class. Well, Preston took the class, I just sat in the car for 5 HOURS reading a magazine and thinking! Yes, you heard me correct I sat in the car for 5 HOURS while Preston was taking the class. Rich took him the day before, so he actually sat in with him. I, however could care less about hunting and fishing, so I sat in my car and read my magazine. It was kind of nice actually having time to just sit and read. I am happy to say that Preston passed the Hunter safety class with a 100%! My mom had made a pumpkin pie when we got home, so Preston and I went and had our Sunday dinner with my parents. We even got sent home with our own pumpkin pie!! My most favorite thing in the world!! I do think Preston's pretty excited that he's going to get to go hunting with Rich. Actually, I think he's much happier that it's Halloween and he's going to go trick-or treating tomorrow!! Preston and I have been watching "Family Guy" tonight. What an inappropriate show! I realized when Preston moved in there is very little that is appropriate on TV. Fortunately, I don't think Preston gets a lot of the jokes on "Family Guy", so that's a good thing!! Still bothers me there's nothing but crap on TV most of the time. I never really noticed it before, but having a kid in the house does change everything!

Well, we had our last football game this weekend. Sadly the boys lost, so they only won one game this season. I have to say again, that this has been a positive experience for Preston in that he got to meet some new friends (I got to know some parents), and he learned a lot! He wanted to wrestle next, but it's to expensive. I tried to get him to play basketball, but I don't think he's going to. Maybe it's better we just concentrate on grades this nine weeks. Not that what he made was bad, but I think he can do better. Interesting how I'm now saying that!! Actually, we had a really fun weekend! Sat night after the football game, Preston and Rich played a competitve game of Monopoly. I was way to tired, so I snoozed on the couch. After about 3 hours of playing, Preston beat Rich!! It was really funny and I congratulated Preston on his win. Sunday Rich thought he needed to have a rematch, Preston again beat Rich!! He owned both Park Place and Boardwalk, with several hotels. Rich landed on Boardwalk, which made him have to pay Preston dearly!! It was a really fun way to spend time with Preston.

Saturday is Preston's last football game. Tonight was their last football practice. I can't say I'm actually "glad" about it all being over, but it will be nice to have more time in the evening for other things. One of the things that we will be concentrating on more will be school grades. Tomorrow is the end of the first nine weeks. Way hard to believe that we have had Preston in our home for that amount of time! Seems just like he just moved in with us!! It's been fun to see how our lives have changed since he has come to live with us. There have been so many blessings with Preston living with us that I wouldn't have the time to list them all. Crazy how your life really does change when you bring a child into you home!
Unfortunately, this weekend isn't going to be that great. We are having a yard sale of all my grandma DeWeese's things this weekend. As I told me mom, I'm trying not to get to emotional about it, but it's hard. Not only are we having the sale at her house, but also my dad's sisters are going to be here this weekend and they are going to finish going through all my grandma Tharp's things. At least I will be getting pictures out of both deals, but both their anniverseries (of their death's) are coming up the next month to 6 months. Also, at least I will have Preston to keep me busy with things of his going on this weekend. Kind of helps with not having so much time to dwell on the saddness of missing them.
I do wish I could be with my friends at the camp retreat this weekend. I had REALLY wanted to do that, but circumstances ended up preventing me from being able to do that. I'm sure those who attend will have a great time. I do plan to attend next year if there is one. For now I must go to bed. It is WAY past my bed time and Preston has been barely making it to school on time because of me! Poor kid...lol!!

I think my depression has sort of come back. There's so many things that are really bugging me right now. I told my mom the other night when we were doing some "girl talk" that I feel like a failure. Not sure why I'm feeling this way, except that things at work haven't been going to well lately and that really stresses me out. Plus the fact that when I work late I feel guilty about leaving Preston for so long. My parents are of course great about helping me out with Preston and Preston has been very mature about the whole thing, but it makes me feel bad. Not sure what to do on that end, but am considering options. Rich and I also have our struggles just like any married couple, but it always seems to be over the same thing. And, in the end I'm always the one who ends up feeling bad and like nothing has gotten accomplished. I think also that the one year mark of my grandma is coming up and that is bumming me out. My aunt's are going to be here this weekend to go through the rest of her stuff that was in storage, so it will be nice to see them again. It's just such a sad thing though to go through somone's things after they are gone. We are also having a garage sale of my other grandmother's things this weekend, so that doesn't make anything easier. Crazy how life hands you a lot at one time, yet I know that this will be another thing that I will get through!

What a crappy week!!

I'm so bummed!! I was supposed to go to see my camp friends again this year, and it's not going to work at as I had planned! For one thing, I just don't have the money to do so this year. For another thing, Preston has a game the weekend of the retreat and it will be his last game. I hate to make him miss the last game. Don't get me I LOVE going to the game, and I could have pulled him this last game or left him home with Rich. However, I really wanted him to come with me and I don't want him to miss his last game. Hopefully my friends will understand. I really love going to the retreat and seeing everyone and catching up on what's going on in each others lives. I've tried to share a few camp memories with Preston, you can't get the full picture of what this camp means to me unless you have the experience of going. Hopefully next year he will get that experience. I am going to bring him sometime. I think he would like it.
I went to my Grandma DeWeese's house tonight. It was the first time I had been there since she died. The family is picking out things that they want that belonged to Grandma. How do you do that?? Everything in her house has something that was unique about her. I tried to pick out things that would continue to last a long time. My feeling has always been that as long as I get pictures of her, that is going to be good enough. My aunt assures me that I will get pictures to last me!! I did find some things that I will be able to put in my house and look at. I'm glad I got the chance to go look at things and I will have a couple nice reminders of her. I still miss her every day!

The Honeymoon is offically over!

Rich and I had our "first" challange of being parents the other day. I got a call from the principal that Preston was in his office. My first thought was "is he ok?" I quickly figured out that Preston was alright, but that he had been involved in the teasing of another boy. Unfortunately, this was not the first time, but the first time of me hearing about. I have to say that when I got off the phone with the principal my first thought was to ground him for 2 weeks with nothing but his bedroom to spend time with. Not that this is the "worst" thing he could have done, but I have NO tolerance for kids who are mean to other kids!! Most of it has to do with my own personal history I know, but now that I work as a case manager this is a big thing that is worked on with most of our kids. Fortunately when evening came and Preston and I talked I had cooled off a lot!! I am happy to say my conversation with him that night went very well and he handled his consequences without getting angry!! I was pretty proud of him for handling it well. Hopefully, he will also learn something from this and not do it again!!
Rich has started working at Walmart. I really haven't gotten to talk with him much about how it's going. The hours he's working are evening so when he gets home I'm in bed. When I am getting up and at work, he's sleeping. I don't think I have seen him more than 10 minutes so far this week. Tonight he has the night off and so I hope we can spend some time together. I think he is liking his new job, but until I talk to him I don't know. I'm anxious to know though!!