Teenagers and Cell Phones

I don't know how we have survived this far having raised four teenagers. Thomas is going on 18 and Abigail will be 13 on her birthday this coming Valentine's Day. It is a little sad tho because that means our six children are almost all grown up. We did the unthinkable and got Abigail a cell phone for this past Christmas. You should have heard the groaning and complaining from Thomas and Catherine. "I had to wait until I was . . . to get my own cell phone." For one thing life was different when they were 12 years old. Now that Abigail is in the 8th grade she sometimes goes to friends homes to work on projects and it is so much easier to keep up her with her own phone. I don't have to do to her what I put her Dad through all those years ago when cell phones were unheard of. I would look up the number where he was going and call and ask the clerk to page Perry Coghlan. He just hated to hear his name over the loud speaker. Last summer I'm sure I drove Thomas crazy like his dad when I needed to talk to him and called all his friends to find him. Even tho we did without them in the past it is so much easier with them.:)

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Revised Feb. 25th

January was a busy month. We put away Christmas decorations, cleaned the preschools and jumped into a new year. The theme in January is always snow, we haven't been getting any outside so we decorated with snow all over the insides of our two schools. The kids made paper doily snowmen, paper plate snowmen, had snow ball fights with paper snowballs, and painted snow scenes with chalk. The weather just wasn't cooperating with temperatures in the 70's but we imagined it to be cold enough for snow. Well we probably wished a little too much as it got cold the third week of January and stayed cold for a month. We actually got two snow days in the first three weeks of February. It did wait until the day after Valentine to give us our second snow day and the kids were sooo happy.
It was great because we had planned a birthday party for Abigail our youngest daughter at Pump It Up in Cool Springs on that day, and by 9 am the roads were cleared. We had a fun afternoon with her friends from school helping her to celebrate her big day (it was really on Valentine but with all the Valentine activities we celebrated the day after). I'll try to post some pictures of Byson (our 9th grandchild) enjoying the big slide with his mom.

Week One

The first week of the new year has past and it was back to work for me. God has really blest our preschool's we only have 2 openings at our second location left. We are excited to begin the new year with a full house (almost). We will have a full schedule with Valentine parties, Easter egg hunts. Then it will be time for our annual spring program. This year at our second preschool we will be having a kindergarten graduation too.

Back to Normal

Another day of work. Our sweetie is back and Catherine is at work and I get to dress him and take him to her when he wakes up. His Deluxe Jumperoo is waiting for him to get a good workout and I can't wait to shower him with kisses. All the teachers at our #2 school was soooo excited to see him yesterday. They all said he had gained a ton of weight. He really looks like a little rolly polly sausage. He still has the same twinkle to his eyes tho. He still remembered grandma. He didn't cry once when I took him from his daddy at the airport. Abigail can't wait until she gets home from school to spoil him a little.
Thomas is busy working on his senior thesis, and looking for a job. He has to get his passport this month for his senior trip to England. What a busy second half this will be. Well gotta go and get ready for work. I'll try to post pictures of our sweetie tonight.

Blogger Nighmare

I'm sure everyone is familiar with the new version of blogger. Well, last night I was typing away and when I took a break and came back to type some more it asked me if I wanted to switch to the new version of blogger. I clicked yes and my husband's gmail account came up and asked for his password which I promptly gave and clicked enter. It was only then I realized I was signing up with his email and not my own. I tried to stop it and I tried to change it after it went through but no way would it change. I tried to look up how I could email the site to ask them to change it and could not find a way to do so, finally I gave up and turned off the computer. Tonight I was able with Kim's help to add myself as the administrator of my blog site but I cannot find a way to delete him as administrator. I just want myself listed as the one on my blog site. If anyone knows a way to do so please post a reply to help me.

It is only 5 hours away when our little sweetie pie will be home again. We just can't wait. I will kiss him over and over again. Catherine, Marcus and Byson will be leaving to come home in just 2 hours and Thomas and I will be at the airport with bells on our toes to get them. I still have to wrap his presents and get his little bed ready to come home. It has been over three weeks since he has seen us. I hope he hasn't forgotten us. Just give me a few minutes with him and he will remember grandma. I have the Christmas tree waiting for him. He has a free standing jumper waiting for him to try out tomorrow. I just can't wait.

Our Christmas Tree